Chapter 51 Silent Leaf · Part 1
“Captain Elus, our ship has been taken control of!”
Even though the Time Shuttle had activated all its engines, there were simply too many vines from underground, and they had completely wrapped around the entire ship, leaving it utterly immobile.
Elus’s reaction, however, was just as decisive.
“Senior Isumi, you take command of the ship. Princess Cécile, Candelle, follow me and break through!”
A dark light flashed around Elus, and she transformed into her maiden form. With lacquer-black long hair and eyes like fiery flames, it seemed Elus intended to make the ship continue forward by cutting through these vines.
“Received orders. Please be careful, Captain Elus.”
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Elus led Cécile and Candelle out of the ship, and at the same time, the vines entangling the ship were becoming more and more numerous.
Although Cécile’s long sword quickly severed several vines, these vines were like broken reeds, and new branches quickly grew from the wounded areas.
Cécile judged at a glance:
“These vines seem to be nourished by the Sea of Ice Lava.”
“Sister, how is that possible? Didn’t we defeat that guy yesterday? How could she grow so much in a single day?”
At the Ice Rock Fortress, Candelle had once fought those vines while riding on Princess Cécile.
But thanks to her unparalleled demon race body, these vines had not caused her any damage whatsoever… However, today, these vines had completely changed their appearance.
Not only had their regeneration ability increased by a level, but even when Candelle severed them with a wide-range blood attack, the vines seemed to absorb her energy to grow new ones.
Fighting like this was like rowing against the current; no matter how hard they paddled, they couldn’t move forward at all.
After only a moment of thought, Elus understood the current situation:
“No, if this continues, we’ll be dragged into a protracted war. We need to catch the leader… Candelle, throw me over.”
“Throw me over?”
“I want to go face that person. It was my fault she escaped last time. And this time, I won’t let her get away so easily.”
Elus smiled coldly, and Candelle understood her plan.
The power of the Blood Race was extraordinary. If Candelle exerted her full strength, she could completely throw Elus to the Hall of the Throne in the City of Ruins.
But doing so would also mean Elus would lose their support.
“Lady Elus… do you really have to do this?”
“I said, there’s nothing to fear! The enemies are just a disorganized rabble, I just need to push them over.”
“I… I understand!”
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City of Ruins, Hall of the Throne.
Seeing the black-haired girl rushing towards her from a distance, Silent Leaf felt no fear; instead, she burst into a sinister laughter.
“Haha, hahahaha! Elus… you truly rely on your martial prowess and rushed over? But unfortunately, I… am not the same person I was yesterday!!!”
Silent Leaf walked down from the throne, smiling.
Although her body and build were still much the same as before, her deep green beautiful hair had almost turned pure black.
Silent Leaf’s pupils, which were originally suppressed with a hint of brightness, were now as if completely destroyed, containing only endless madness.
From a distance, Silent Leaf looked like a completely different person. Or rather, her temperament now bore some similarity to General Castor.
“My, die…”
The girl sneered, and as her magic power fluctuated, many hideous and twisted plants grew on the floor of the Hall of the Throne.
They were like giant sickles, waiting for Elus’s arrival.
“Hmph, a mere trick!”
Looking at the traps awaiting her, Elus neither dodged nor evaded. Instead, she secretly concentrated and formed a lacquer-black blade in her palm.
Leveraging the impact force that crossed a thousand meters, the girl severed all these twisted vines with a single sword strike.
“Take this!”
Then, Elus lightly tapped the ground with her toes, her entire body transforming into an arrow shot from a bow, directly slashing towards Silent Leaf’s body.
It could be said that Elus’s entire attack flowed like water, with not a single redundant movement. The goal was to achieve a one-hit kill, to cut Silent Leaf in half.
However…
“Tree Life Technique!”
Although Elus’s black sword did cut the target, at the same time, Silent Leaf’s body transformed into a tree branch!
*Rip!*
The lacquer-black sword intent was unstoppable, but what it severed was merely a scattering of wood chips.
“Haha, Elus, what are you chopping? How embarrassing!”
Silent Leaf’s body reappeared, but this time she was on the other side of the hall.
“Hmph, still using this move? But unfortunately, you’re not my only target.”
Facing her opponent’s taunts, Elus didn’t rush… and then, completely ignoring Silent Leaf, she quickly attacked towards the end of the hall!
Originally, although the black-haired girl appeared to be intending to kill Silent Leaf, her true target was the control center hidden behind the Hall of the Throne.
Elus had already guessed that Silent Leaf had become so powerful in such a short time by borrowing the power of Hanyuan.
And with her state of mind, she definitely wouldn’t be approved by Hanyuan. She must have been using some device for assistance… So as long as she destroyed that device, the current Silent Leaf would definitely be forced back to her original state, and the Time Shuttle would be freed from the entanglement of the vines and sail into the City of Ruins!
“What?”
“Hmph, you’ve fallen for my trap.”
This maneuver of feinting to attack the east while striking at the west was employed by Elus masterfully. Everything happened in a flash… The girl successfully broke through the wall and entered the hidden room!
But the scene that followed stunned Elus.
Because in the room…
There was no device for drawing the power of Hanyuan.
What appeared before her were only a complete set of terrifying torture instruments.
Metal constraints that secured the waist, metal rods with electrical shock devices, injection devices as thick as maces, and metal leg bindings covered with countless fine needles.
As well as a metal hood that covered the brain, seemingly designed solely for tormenting people.
“Haha, as expected of Elus! You even fooled me with this feint!”
Laughing heartily, Silent Leaf slowly walked in.
“You… you pest…”
“But unfortunately, the power I possess now is not the borrowed power of Hanyuan. It is my own power, manifested from pain?”
“!”
“This set of torture devices x800 is the ultimate crystallization of the Apocalypse Independent Kingdom. Elus… die for your foolishness!!!”
Silent Leaf laughed heartily, and the entire space was completely covered by her power.
