Chapter 3: Encountering the Black-clad Bishop Again! (3.5k)
“Too strong! Are these reinforcements sent by Dragon Country to help us resist the demons?”
“No, not human, this is… a Blood Clan!”
Seeing the shredded bodies filling the sky, both the humans and the opposing [Snow-liking Beasts] couldn’t help but change their expressions, one with joy and the other with sorrow.
“This Blood Clan member must not be provoked! We need to find an opportunity to leave this place!”
If not for being bound by the blood moon in the sky, the Snow-liking Beasts would have long thought of escaping. The two Initial Stage Battle King Snow-liking Beasts that were next to the lord-level Snow-liking Beast were now trembling as they looked at the silver-haired girl before them.
They could feel that the energy casually emanating from this small body was enough to destroy anything below the Battle King level.
“Rats over there, how long are you going to hide?”
Ignoring everyone’s thoughts, Su Jiu bent down, looked towards the corner of an alley, and her faint voice, like a sudden clap of thunder, resounded through the sky!
As Su Jiu’s cold shout echoed through the fortress, a wave of gray energy fluctuations appeared in the alley, and then the walls on both sides of the alley were burst open.
“Swish! Swish! Swish!”
A hunched figure, dressed in the black attire of the church, slowly emerged from the void. With a few flickering movements, he appeared floating in the air only a dozen meters away from Su Jiu.
“Blood Clan—you interfering in matters between demons and humans, isn’t that against the rules? I am a Black-clad Bishop of the Ancient God Sect. I hope you won’t get involved in this matter.”
The thin old man in the black church attire stared at Su Jiu with cold eyes, while the white felt on his shoulders was blown by the wind and snow, looking quite imposing.
“Black-clad Bishop? Heh heh… just a mere Elderly Black-robed Archbishop like you?”
Su Jiu chuckled softly. If she hadn’t undergone a series of upgrades and reached the High-Rank Battle General level, she might have feared him a little. But now, she wasn’t afraid. Not to mention that the opponent looked like a High-Rank Battle King who was at the end of his rope—and she also had the Shiyu Order on hand, which was specifically used to suppress these members of the Ancient God Sect.
“You didn’t use rules to defeat that [Snow-liking Beast], you must not have reached the High-Rank Battle King level, right?”
The thin bishop narrowed his eyes, staring at Su Jiu, and grinned with his sharp teeth, a greedy glint gradually appearing in his eyes. “If I sacrifice a Blood Clan of your advanced bloodline to the Master, I can definitely live for another ten years! Heh heh, and with the Blood Clan’s arrogant nature, you must be alone.”
With that, he slowly approached Su Jiu in mid-air, his sharp teeth constantly moving. His terrifying appearance was somewhat similar to the Black-clad Bishop who liked human skin that Su Jiu encountered at the auction.
“So what if I’m alone?”
However, Su Jiu’s eyes did not show a ripple. She then touched her black ring, and a token appeared in her hand. The token seemed to sense something, and the blood-red luster on it became more and more intense.
“A Black-clad member of the Ancient God Sect!! A High-Rank Battle King expert, that Blood Clan little girl is in trouble… I didn’t expect the Ancient God Sect to also want a piece of the pie amidst the chaos. I’m afraid she’s in dire straits.”
On the fortress walls, the black-clad officers saw the suddenly appearing Black-clad Bishop and their expressions changed slightly. They had clearly sensed the terrifying aura of the thin bishop.
“This is… an identity token of an expert from that organization?! She’s not just a high-level Blood Clan.”
However, the next moment, Commander Akas seemed to have discovered something. His eyes were fixed on the token in Su Jiu’s hand. He had had the honor of participating in diplomacy with Dragon Country, and the person he interacted with also wore a similar token, and that diplomat was not just a diplomat…
The other party was also an elder of Dragon Country’s most mysterious organization, with strength almost approaching the level of a War God who could walk freely. Just sitting there made him gasp for breath.
“Commander Akas, what does that organization mean?” Not far away, Lu Si turned her head and asked confusedly. Did this girl from the East who delivered the message have other identities?
“Dragon Country, Night Watcher! You are an Elder!!!”
Before Akas could explain, a hoarse shout came from mid-air, filled with a hint of panic. It was the thin bishop. He stopped his footsteps, his yellowed eyes staring at Su Jiu in panic, and said in a deep voice:
“Doesn’t Dragon Country adhere to the principle of not participating in the wars of other countries?!”
The thin bishop could feel a suffocating sensation spreading throughout him. This was definitely not an illusion. He estimated that his strength had been forcibly suppressed by at least ten percent.
Even without suppression, there was no possibility of success in a confrontation with a Night Watcher Elder.
“The Ancient God Sect and demons are not within the scope of war treaties. Resisting demons and building a community of shared future for mankind has always been what Dragon Country upholds—I ask you to go to your death!”
With a light laugh, Su Jiu casually hung the token on her waist, raised her head again, and shook her scythe. The scythe emitted a soft hum, as if a swarm of butterflies was rushing out, as if eager to sever the enemy before them.
“Even with the Shiyu Order, the opponent’s strength must not have reached High-Rank Battle King. I can’t feel any aura of rules from her—”
Hearing Su Jiu’s words, the eyes of the thin bishop flickered, and a fierce look flashed through his eyes. He kept analyzing himself, and then a yellow wing appeared behind him, clearly indicating he was a Bloodline user with avian bloodline.
“Wait… she’s not wearing the Crow Feather Attire, and I haven’t heard of Blood Clan members becoming Night Watcher Elders… this token might belong to someone else, she shouldn’t be my opponent.”
Immediately after, he clenched his palm, and silver-white light flickered, finally transforming into a long sword surrounded by black and white stripes, which he held firmly in his hand. At the same time, he stomped on the void, and a gray and white halo appeared at his feet. Under the gaze of many, his figure strangely disappeared.
“Is this the power of rules? The difference between ordinary Battle Kings and Battle Kings with rules is indeed very large.”
Seeing that the thin bishop had disappeared just by the appearance of the halo under his feet, Commander Akas’s expression changed slightly, and he even turned a little pale.
“Is that all… As expected, you’re old.”
In mid-air, Su Jiu’s eyes shone with white light, and her mental power instantly covered a radius of ten meters. Then, the corners of her mouth under the mask curved, revealing her small fangs—
“Found you.”
Then, she suddenly raised her scythe and swung it out extremely quickly, like lightning, hitting the void beside her. Where the blade’s edge passed, a phantom figure instantly appeared. The black and white long sword, wrapped in gray and white energy, collided fiercely with the scythe in Su Jiu’s hand.
“Clang!”
Where the two met, white mist and golden energy waves suddenly surged out from the point of contact, and the surrounding space was distorted by the impact.
“How is this possible!? How did you find me? And the strength of a Blood Clan shouldn’t be this great!”
A gust of wind surged, and the thin old man’s figure also reappeared. His arm was deformed from the blow, and he let out a muffled grunt from his throat. He was actually sent flying back more than ten steps.
“Such strong mental power!! Your mental power is Demigod Level, this is a Blood Clan’s mental skill!”
Suddenly meeting Su Jiu’s eyes, as if understanding something, the thin old man’s face was filled with fear.
After this brief exchange, he suddenly felt that the token did indeed belong to her. But now there was no turning back. The current situation was like riding a tiger, difficult to dismount.
If he ran away now, without sacrificing a large number of people, his serious injuries would definitely kill him.
On the city wall, Akas and the others cheered when they saw Su Jiu gaining the upper hand in a head-on confrontation with a Black-clad Bishop, with an unconcealable shock in their eyes—
Black-clad Bishops were not ordinary people. With their strength, they could even be high-ranking officials in some first-class forces. Now, they were being beaten by a girl who looked like she was in her mid-teens.
Of course, no one really believed that someone who could defeat a High-Rank Battle King was a university student or anything. It was obvious that she had maintained her youthful appearance.
“This is the Night Watcher who guards the vast Dragon Country’s nights, isn’t it? If our country had a few more such experts, why would we be in this situation because of Yela?”
After Akas and the others exchanged glances, they could see the excitement and the subtle envy in each other’s eyes. Even if she had maintained her youthful appearance, she couldn’t be over forty years old. Such an expert was a once-in-a-lifetime encounter.
“Your strength is much weaker than I thought, even weaker than that Professor—Xianyue!”
Su Jiu looked at the horrified thin bishop with a smile. Her scythe danced lightly, and a shadow of a crescent moon appeared above the bishop’s head, as if announcing his death.
“Only if you can catch me first!”
Hearing Su Jiu’s words, the thin old man’s face immediately turned somewhat ashen. He looked up, then quickly formed a hand seal, and a flapping sound came from behind him. “Swish!” With a movement, he completely disappeared into the sky filled with [Snow-liking Beasts].
“Avian bloodline users are indeed fast when they escape, but it’s a good opportunity to test the tracking function derived from the String Moon Swordsmanship after reaching High-Rank Battle General—as long as the target is injured by the swordsmanship, they can be locked onto if there is sword qi within their body.”
Looking up in one direction, Su Jiu smiled faintly and swung her scythe towards the direction she sensed. It was like an old farmer plowing the fields, with afterimages appearing. The blood-gold butterflies shot out like shadows, their speed shattering the void and causing huge explosions.
“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!!!”
“It can’t be this fast! You’ve hidden yourself…!!!”
Under the watchful eyes of countless people in the entire fortress, a black shadow wrapped in gray and white energy was wantonly cut into two halves by those slashes a thousand meters away. A miserable cry echoed throughout the entire fortress, and seeing this, anyone could understand that Su Jiu’s strength had crushed the opponent.
After confirming the opponent’s death, Su Jiu flew over and collected his corpse. Then she looked at the [Snow-liking Beasts] in the sky, which were almost dealt with by the soldiers. She then dispersed her suppression, allowing those [Snow-liking Beasts] to escape.
Hunting the same type of demon too much at once is not advisable. If too many of the same type of demon are lost, the opposing demons will continuously surge, which is detrimental to border defense and Magic Crystal acquisition.
Seeing that everything was almost handled, Su Jiu flew down to where Lu Si, who was waiting for the video, was. She needed to get her pen back. This pen had not been used at all, and she could still use it twice.
“Can the video really get through? Nearly half an hour has passed.” Knowing there was no danger now, Lu Si tightly gripped the communication pen in her hand, leaned against a corner, lowered her head, and occasionally kicked her heels.
Su Jiu greeted Akas and the others and waited quietly beside her. Time ticked by, and everyone seemed to be waiting with a tacit understanding.
The little girl looked at her mother and didn’t dare to make a sound. She just looked at Su Jiu with admiration, like a little fan girl. Seemingly unable to contain her impatience, she suddenly tugged on Su Jiu’s clothes and asked excitedly, “Sister, are you the great hero who came to save our Aers?”
“I… don’t count, do I?”
Hearing this question, Su Jiu was slightly stunned, but the faces of those who sacrificed themselves for peace flashed in her mind. Among them were doctors, reporters, chefs…
Did she count as a hero?
Most likely not? She was just doing what she could.
Facing Su Jiu’s answer, the little girl was stunned for a moment. Her young eyes blinked, and she tilted her head and asked, “Do you need someone even more powerful than you to be called a hero?”
“Strength has nothing to do with the word ‘hero’…”
Shaking her head, Su Jiu was about to answer when the video lit up.
It was a forest, and on the other side of the video was Jialuo, who looked a bit disheveled. He looked over blankly, put his hand on the virtual screen, and suddenly said:
“Lu Si, is that you?”
