Chapter: 49. So You Were Here!
“Aunt Ailer! Are you in there?!”
“Yes, Aunt! Are you there?!”
“Miss Timani?! What are you calling her Aunt for?!”
“Huh? I called you that because I heard you say it… No, why are you calling her Aunt?!”
“This is…! Tsk, I am not obliged to explain this.”
“Well, you don’t have to get all angry out of nowhere, okay?!”
“What do you understand?”
“A bunch of odd tempers… Hey, can the Demon Princess really not hear this?”
Upon hearing this, Livra hurriedly walked over to check the situation.
She had just said to call the Princess, how did the two end up arguing?!
Livra took out the blueprint Xue Fei gave her before, quickly turning her little head and listening closely in different directions.
Aside from the sound of the cold wind blowing the falling snow, and the morning calls of the polar birds, there were no other noises.
“Is she asleep… or is the voice not loud enough? But that’s not right, according to the information given by Teacher Shaya, it’s indeed in this direction, and the barrier doesn’t have any gaps. She should still be inside. Lord Xialet, it seems we need to break through with brute force after all!”
“Eh? No clever trick up your sleeve this time?”
“Trying something after all is just for show; success in fighting relies on strength. I often scold myself for just having brains without strength!”
“……”
Indeed, your awareness is quite high. With that line, I can’t even tell if you’re boasting or belittling yourself, or scolding me for being brainless.
Xiya smiled wryly and shrugged, then suddenly, her momentum changed abruptly.
Seeing her like this, Timani knew that this trusted card of Aulus was finally going to get serious.
By the way, this was Timani’s first time seeing Xialet in a serious fighting state.
“Can you cut through it?”
“A wide-area slash won’t work, but if I compress the strike to a plane… Hmm, I can try.”
With a fluid motion, she pressed down the sword hilt to draw the Holy Sword.
The sword flew, spinning halfway and sweeping past the silver hair used for disguise, cutting through as if wind-blown leaves touched snow, glimmering with golden light.
“Alright, Hero, just strike already. Stop with the fancy stuff.”
“This is just charging; it’s not fancy. Please don’t belittle the sword techniques of the Light Family.”
Xiya’s deep blue eyes gradually turned golden.
The concentration of magic in the air was originally dispersed, but when sliced by the sword blade, the Holy Sword Siletra’s ability to integrate magic would activate, and with the vast amount of magic originally possessed by the sword combined with the magical essence from the natural air, it would concentrate at one point to create the strongest and most powerful killing blow.
Livra was already standing far enough away.
But she blankly stared at her finger, which had been cut ever so slightly, realizing she might have been accidentally injured again.
“Princess Livra, please stand back. This technique will emit sword energy in all directions and could be dangerous.”
“Then you could at least let me stand back before using it?!”
As she complained, Livra hugged her head and moved further away.
Timani held one arm across her chest, flapping her dragon wings and retreating slightly.
The slight emitted sword energy wouldn’t hurt her, but she didn’t want to damage her new clothes.
The build-up was complete.
【Liaohua】
——Zhi!
Like glass being struck by a blunt object, the sound resonated as Xiya swung her sword horizontally.
The golden magic enveloped an invisible slashing strike, dividing the air before them into clearly layered sections.
Timani’s flame had vanished at the very moment it met the golden barrier.
And Xiya’s slash emerged from the other side of the barrier.
——It penetrated and severed.
“Wow, indeed impressive. Uh… wait, Xiya, aren’t you worried about slicing the Demon Princess in half too?!”
“Xue Fei said that even if Miss Ailer was cut into three pieces, she could still regenerate, so it’s fine.”
“How much do you trust her… sigh, fine, but… is this the end of it?”
Xiya completed the elegant motion of sheathing her sword, exhaled softly, and closed one eye to carefully observe the thin, paper-like golden light that had been severed.
Xiya always felt it wouldn’t be that simple.
If it were just that, Ailer shouldn’t have been trapped inside.
A premonition is often that accurate.
The severed cross-section was so small that it couldn’t reveal what was inside. After waiting a few seconds, the golden light barrier did not dissipate despite being severed.
“…?”
Like jelly she once ate in her previous life, the barrier surged in response to the severed area, moving briefly before automatically reconnecting itself before collapsing.
Returning to its original state.
“Tsk.”
This is troublesome.
Timani sighed in irritation, realizing that they were encountering the worst-case scenario.
——This is a sealing magic with self-repair abilities.
Equivalent to combining the highest level sealing magic with the highest level perpetual restoration magic, as long as the magic supply is sufficient, it would never dissipate due to attacks.
Not only does it require a massive amount of magic reserves, it also relies on the intricacy of magical manipulation.
This sounds easy to say…
But in terms of practicality, aside from a certain freak she encountered recently and the elders of the Fire Dragon Clan, she really couldn’t think of anyone else capable of using magic of this caliber.
Could it be that the mastermind behind this matter really is those people…?
In her mind, crimson vertical pupils suddenly appeared.
The mourning voices of her parents dying on the iceberg echoed in her ears, and thinking of those wings symbolizing death, Timani felt a chill run through her body.
Are they coming back again… Clearly, I haven’t even gone to the Fire Domain, and they…
“Miss Timani? Miss Timani!”
“Huh?! What’s wrong?”
“What do you mean what’s wrong? Don’t space out! Listen to me, since the sealing magic can self-repair, try to slash out a larger plane; you take advantage of it not having recovered yet and use fire to break it open, at least have a look inside!”
“Oh… okay!”
Since I can’t do it alone, let’s try teaming up.
Xiya tightened her grip on the sword, and Timani surrounded herself with fire.
“I’ll count to three, and then Miss Timani, you use the strongest fire magic possible to attack the hollow created by the slash. Three… two… huh?!”
The golden glow vanished.
The flames extinguished.
The Holy Sword lost its luster.
Because the core within had left the sword body.
A blue-haired loli with bare feet looked up at the sky’s magic array, her hair fluttering in the cold wind, just like the spirit of the snowfield, looking very cool.
“Sister Siletra? This is a crucial moment… can we discuss this and have you wait a bit before coming out to play…?”
“We’re not coming out to play.” Siletra glanced disdainfully back at Xiya with a small finger pointing to the top of the sealing magic in the sky, i.e., the circle suspended in the sky, “I’m here to tell you, with your few little kids’ abilities, you can’t break this magic.”
“Little… kids?”
Timani knew the Holy Sword’s true form only looked young, but being called a little kid by someone who looked like a child still felt very odd.
Siletra rummaged in her arms and pulled out the fish she had caught for Xue Fei.
Xiya was just confused about why Siletra suddenly had something in front of her chest; it turned out to be this.
Putting the ice-cold fish on the snow beside her, Siletra stood up and puffed out a breath of warmth, looking up at the sky again.
At this time, Xiya also realized she was indeed not here to fool around.
Because she knew—this was a task given by Xue Fei.
“Sister Siletra, do you mean our plan is not feasible?”
“Of course not, because the real sealing place is at the top of that magic array. You’re just randomly hitting the bottom; what’s the use? If you really want to save someone, you have to shatter that donut on top.”
“That’s a magic array.”
“It looks similar, but how should I put it… the magic concentration of this donut is probably ten times that of your father, which is a bit exaggerated.”
“Why is my father a unit of measurement…”
“Because we know that kid’s strength isn’t bad in the Aulus Kingdom, saying it like this helps you understand better.”
“Well, indeed, but it feels uncomfortable to hear it this way.”
It’s clear enough.
Xiya knew her own strength, comparing it to her father Ecklight was a 60-40 split; it was hard to say she could defeat him.
Although the concentration of magic doesn’t represent actual combat power, if her father deployed a defensive magic with ten times the magic, there was no way for Xiya to break through his defenses now.
And the defensive capability of that magic array at the top was at that level.
“High-level races… indeed interesting. I’ve never encountered something like this; born in the Aulus Kingdom and have never seen a high-level race. Now reborn, I still haven’t seen one.”
“Never seen? Then what am I?” Timani pointed at herself, feeling somewhat offended.
“……”
Okay.
Siletra suddenly realized that her regret seemed to have been compensated.
Isn’t this seeing one? A high-level race.
Let’s put that aside for now.
Siletra walked barefoot left and right, observing the magic array’s position, showing no fear of the cold.
“This thing, even if it’s from a high-level race… it must be the work of someone capable among them; it doesn’t seem to have any flaws. Well, then there’s no helping it! This is something Lady Xue Fei entrusted to me; seeing how anxious you all are, it’s already dawn, and there’s no time left, so I’ll take action myself.”
The little one might not be without great energy.
The magic of the Holy Sword Siletra has maintained the barrier between the demon race and humanity for about a thousand years, so how strong her magic is, Xiya naturally understood.
But…
“But Sister Siletra, didn’t you say your magic after being reborn is still unstable…?”
“Yeah, I haven’t regained my peak abilities, and the magic I can summon isn’t much, but… to offset that magic, the cost may be a week’s slumber.”
“A week?!”
“Ugh…! So noisy, what’s wrong with a week! Isn’t it just sleeping a bit longer? It’s fine… phew, it’s fine.”
Her small feet had previously felt warm against the ground, but now they were trembling uncontrollably.
Siletra was afraid of magma, afraid of the past when her family betrayed her and it became a point of no return.
At the same time, she was also afraid of deep slumber, because she once was trapped in a dark night without consciousness for a thousand years.
Unknowingly, Siletra had awakened from a thousand years of slumber, and many things were beyond her knowledge.
——For example, she had been feeling very sleepy these last few days; clearly, she didn’t want to sleep every day, but her sleeping time kept increasing.
So these days, Siletra had been stabilizing her magic in the Holy Sword, searching for the reasons therein.
She doesn’t know much else.
But every time she used magic, it would increase her sense of fatigue a bit.
So… she was somewhat afraid.
But if she continues to be useless… always retreating into the Holy Sword to rest, Lady Xue Fei would slowly forget about her…
【You can only jump in to be of any use! The whole family can only survive this way! If we all die, what meaning is there in you living on your own! With this ability, why don’t you act? Could you not be so selfish! We also want to live! It’s all your fault! Why did you have to be such a freak! Can you save us, please!】
The desperate shouts of her family once echoed in her mind, truly noisy.
Even knowing that it was completely wrong, Siletra found it difficult to forget the bloodshot eyes and resentment.
Lady Xue Fei wasn’t that kind of devil; Siletra knew very well.
But on the flip side… if she does nothing, she would certainly not be liked.
Who asked the people around Lady Xue Fei to be so outstanding?
She didn’t want to be ignored by her; she also wanted to appear in her line of sight.
In fact… she was quite envious of everyone.
Anyone could see that Siletra was trying very hard, despite saying fearless lines, her voice had already begun to tremble.
Just as Siletra was enveloped in golden light, preparing to hover in the air…
“Miss Siletra! Can I borrow this fish from you for a bit?!”
“?”
Siletra’s cold sweat dripped down in an instant, her gradually fading consciousness being pulled back to reality.
She saw Livra picking up the big fish she had placed on the ground, a determined look on her face as if she had come up with an idea.
“You…?”
“I have a method I want to try!”
“You… you’re also here? Princess of Aulus, right? I didn’t see you earlier! Were you hiding? As expected, the Aulus royalty is quite dark; I couldn’t find anyone!”
“Wuuu, that’s too unfair! I was clearly standing right behind the whole time!”
