Chapter 286: Thorn Blade
Kurei easily captured several fleeing soldiers all at once.
Although he pretended to be loyal to the country on the surface, after a bit of intimidation, they quickly revealed the whole truth.
Here’s what happened.
Aijue refused to be mobilized to the Imperial City and got into a fight with the young general assigned to Yunshui City.
The two initially clashed in Yunshui City.
Miroi, that’s the name of the general.
After being driven out of Yunshui City, Aijue, filled with hatred, along with the malicious Wishcaster, killed Miroi and his friend Makar on the road leading to the Imperial City.
Not only that, they even pretended as if nothing had happened while heading to the Imperial City.
However, good and evil have their consequences, and unfortunately, this matter was discovered by Gexisi, the commander of the Imperial City defense.
She happened to be out on business that day and witnessed Aijue killing the two.
Afterwards, Gexisi reported this matter to her superiors.
Based on the existing intelligence, the higher-ups came to a conclusion — the terrifying demoness that has been wreaking havoc in the Imperial City lately is none other than Alna!
Gexisi received orders to handle the situation but found it difficult to track down their whereabouts.
At this moment, she realized that someone was assisting the two murderers.
After a thorough investigation, she discovered the person behind it — Meida.
And Meida had just been found not long ago in a monster lair.
The answer was obvious; Meida had already been controlled by the demoness.
So, she used the defense force’s power to directly raid Meida’s territory.
However, the key figures had already evaporated into thin air.
Even after interrogating the subordinates, no one knew their whereabouts.
The Imperial City was quickly sealed off, but the terrifying demoness’s killing spree continued,
with both time and place showing no patterns, leading to the conclusion that they hadn’t left yet.
Today, Gexisi was also troubled about how to eliminate this group of harmful villains.
“…This is absurd. Qichen doesn’t know how to comment on it anymore.
Kurei had already wanted to take action halfway through hearing this.
However, these soldiers were innocent, so he could only let it go.
Since it was a bit troublesome, he simply left them in the middle of the road.
After all, Mo Se’s speed was definitely faster than theirs; by the time these soldiers rushed over to report, it would be too late.
Seeing Lan Chen silent, Kurei gently patted her back, comforting her, “Miss, don’t worry. The general will have heaven’s assistance; if he doesn’t back down even when facing the souls within, how could he possibly have an accident over this?”
“Thank you.” Lan Chen nodded.
Cough, actually, she was worried about Alna; the other one was whatever.
……
Based on the existing intelligence, at least Alna and Aijue hadn’t encountered any problems yet.
As for Meida… it seemed that because he saved him in the Spirit King’s Forest, the identity of the Wishcaster became connected to him.
This seemed to have involved him.
Without Meida, Alna and Aijue might have already been in trouble.
What to say… hopefully, they could hold on a little longer.
“Miss, there’s someone ahead!” Kurei’s keen eyes spotted something off from a distance.
“Mo Se, stop for a moment.”
This time, they couldn’t recklessly show their token like before.
However, there was no telling if someone in that group had seen Alna in person, and that head of golden hair was quite eye-catching.
Though there were means to transform, Hedy’s body might be more dangerous here, and the Swift Shadow Wolf couldn’t communicate with NPCs or talk back in its true form.
“Mo Se, if you see us running later, just take us away immediately, okay?”
“Woof!”
“Good, good! Then let’s go!” With a flick of the large antennae, Lan Chen and Kurei moved towards the distant crowd, one in front of the other.
……
One minute later.
Lan Chen used Blink + Elemental Horn Blink to return, and her palm was already sweating from the grip.
Behind her, a brilliant blue blade of light sliced through the air, narrowly whizzing past her side.
It was just a fist’s distance away.
The Sacred Demon Beetle, as agreed, ran over ahead of time and carried Lan Chen onto its back.
“Kurei!”
“Coming!” The adjutant swung his axe with all his strength, pushing back the troublesome opponent in front of him and charging towards Mo Se.
With a heavy stomp, he jumped onto the beetle’s back.
“Go!” Zane shouted.
Fortunately, she reacted quickly; otherwise, she would have been killed by the enemy on the spot.
On the beetle’s back, Zane carefully examined the information she had just scanned.
Thorn Blade · Gexisi (Leader level Boss):
Rarity: Diamond level
Level: ??? ??? ???
Health: ??? ??? ???
Physical Attack Power: ??? ??? ???
Physical Defense: ??? ???
Magical Defense: ??? ???
Skills: ??? ??? ???
Description: Growing up in the Imperial City, this genius girl is determined to eliminate evil and protect the good. At the age of 15, Gexisi’s master left for distant lands due to hatred and resentment. Since then, Gexisi became the renowned Thorn Blade of the Imperial City.
Not good… a diamond level boss.
Thankfully, the moment Zane saw the name, she became vigilant; otherwise, they would have definitely failed to escape.
Huh!
Suddenly, she heard a strange sound.
What…
Looking back, she saw a large hole torn open in Kurei’s chest, with blood gushing uncontrollably.
His health was… 197643/300000, could it be true? 100k health just vanished like that!?
“Miss… are you okay?” He didn’t look at the wound on his chest but instead asked first.
“Worry about yourself first… seriously.”
Wish — Blessing!
Wish — Spirit Heart!
Voice of Healing!
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A warm magical sound floated near the wound, and the moment it fused into Kurei’s body, nearly 20k healing popped up, staunching the bleeding and transforming the wound into a scar.
The cooldown for Spirit Heart is 10 minutes, while the cooldown for Voice of Healing is 2 minutes, meaning it will take at least a dozen minutes to fully restore his health.
Rather than sitting still, Kurei stood up.
“Patients should honestly rest; don’t be reckless…”
Zane’s words were cut short when she caught sight of a pair of purple-banded shoes.
Looking up, sure enough, there stood a knife-wielding girl with a mix of purple and red hair, wearing a short white fitted skirt, already on the back of the beetle.
“Did you buy a ticket to get on the ride!?”
“Hmph, demoness, you’ve harmed so many innocent lives; I won’t let you escape.” Seemingly unable to understand the nonsense of the golden-haired loli, Gexisi coldly snorted.
Kurei pointed his sword forward, retorting, “Someone like you is worthy to protect the common people!? You can’t even tell right from wrong! If anything happens to Lord Allen or Lord Alna, even if I die, I’ll fight you to the end!”
Kurei, well said! Zane gave a thumbs up in approval.
“Oh? Clearly wielding an ominous sword but unexpectedly has such spirit. In that case… let me introduce myself; I am called Blade of Lilith, Li… Ahhh—!!”
As Gexisi stepped forward and assumed a combat stance to launch her attack, the Sacred Demon Beetle expanded a purple shell all over its body, sending her flying.
It’s the Demon Armor!
“Big sister, you talk too much!” Zane couldn’t help but say.
