Chapter: Chapter 315
With a rumbling sound, the massive city walls could no longer block their path. Bai Ling took the lead, sword in hand, and charged into the city, followed closely by Leticia and Xiao Ya.
Upon entering the capital, Leticia’s senses instantly pinpointed a spot of immense brightness: a grand structure located at the city’s center. Leticia’s intuition told her that what she was looking for was there.
“Go there, quickly!” Having determined her target, Leticia immediately called out to Bai Ling, knowing that with Miss Bai acting as a mode of transport, she could reach the location swiftly.
However, there were still guardians within the city. Although in many ways, these two guardians were more accurately described as invaders.
“You’re actually this fast…” A multicolored light flashed, and Zi Meng appeared before the three. With a wave of her hand, countless strange creatures materialized on the previously empty street.
Then, snow began to fall from the sky, and a white-haired girl emerged from the snow.
“Roar, old friend,” Leticia murmured softly upon seeing the white-haired girl. This girl had clashed with her no less than three times.
And now, this person had reappeared, blocking their way, which was rather annoying.
“Bai Ling, Xiao Ya, can you two keep these two occupied?” Leticia asked the Bai sisters, who had already positioned themselves in front of her. “I’ll head straight to the city center.”
“Leave them to us. Actually, I think I can handle them alone. But are you sure you don’t need protection?” Bai Ling replied without turning her head, exceptionally confident in her current strength. She wasn’t afraid of a two-on-one fight.
In truth, Bai Ling would be fighting two on her own, as Xiao Ya lacked significant combat power. She could only rely on her magic-nullifying physique and decent physical abilities to brute force her way through. Against enemies of higher levels, her performance would be significantly worse.
Receiving an affirmative answer, Leticia flashed a brilliant smile, “Don’t worry about me. What kind of problems could there be here? Besides, Qibala is at the palace, so it’s very safe.”
Actually, she thought that statement was pointless. Were there traps here? Even if there were, could they defeat her? Even if she were defeated, she could simply re-enter the dream from the real world.
Lives in dreams were not valuable. Leticia felt she could be reckless.
Leaving that remark behind, Leticia immediately changed direction, planning to take other routes to the city center.
Before Leticia set off, Qibala had cast several weight-reduction spells on her elder sister through the pendant. Otherwise, with Leticia’s short legs, it would have taken her a day and a night to reach the palace in the city center.
Feeling her body suddenly become lighter, Leticia’s confidence grew. At this speed, she was sure she could reach the grand building in the city center within an hour and unveil its mystery!
“Don’t think you can escape!” Seeing that one of the three was trying to slip away, Zi Meng immediately commanded her monster army to intercept.
“Your opponent is me!”
Before Zi Meng could issue her command, the sword light from Bai Ling forced her to focus entirely on dealing with Bai Ling. In the face of this enemy, any distraction would lead to disastrous consequences.
Her frontal confrontation with Zi Meng did not consume all of Bai Ling’s energy. She could even spare a hand to provide some support for her sister.
Compared to Bai Ling’s dominant position, Xiao Ya’s fight was more perilous. Although most of the white-haired girl’s attacks were effectively countered by Xiao Ya’s physique, Xiao Ya struggled to deal with purely physical attacks.
After finding that her ranged attacks were ineffective, the white-haired girl changed her strategy. She condensed a slender ice shard, wielding it like a sword, and engaged Xiao Ya in close combat.
In fact, the girl’s close-combat skills were not very strong. Compared to Xiao Ya, the only advantage she had was the ability to use magic to enhance her physical abilities, and the extent of this enhancement was not very high.
She was an ice elemental witch, not a type like earth or wind that could directly increase defense or speed.
Moreover, her greatest advantage in close combat was her immortality, which allowed her to trade blows without taking damage.
However, against Xiao Ya, this advantage was completely nullified.
Because Xiao Ya was too weak, managing to block the girl’s ice shard with her sword swings was already a stroke of luck. Hitting the girl’s main body was still somewhat difficult.
If it weren’t for the need to guard against the sword energy that occasionally slashed from the adjacent battlefield, the girl would have already captured Xiao Ya by now.
Thus, a very delicate balance formed between the four. Zi Meng, relying on her constantly regenerating monsters and her nearly infinite magic power, barely held off Bai Ling’s attack.
The white-haired girl suppressed Xiao Ya but was unable to quickly capture her due to Bai Ling’s support from the side.
If the battle continued like this, the final outcome would likely be Bai Ling defeating Zi Meng first, and then decapitating the white-haired girl with a single strike.
After all, the difference in strength between Bai Ling and Zi Meng was greater than the difference between Xiao Ya and the white-haired girl.
Moreover, Bai Ling was currently in a state of normal attacks; she hadn’t used any skills, and she was completely suppressing Zi Meng with pure basic attacks. This already indicated that among the four present, she was the overwhelming powerhouse.
As for why she wasn’t using skills, there were two reasons. The first was that Lethicia had only asked her to stall for time, not to kill quickly. The second was that her intuition told her that if she killed quickly, things would develop in an unfavorable direction.
Influenced by these two reasons, Bai Ling decided to only suppress and not kill. If she were to get serious, Zi Meng would be defeated in a short amount of time.
Miss Bai’s combat power was that formidable.
Under her deliberate indulgence, the battle entered a stalemate. At this point, Leticia, relying on the magical amplification from her good sister, finally reached the foot of the palace, panting.
Even with the magical amplification, running still consumed stamina. Leticia’s condition at this moment could be described as close to death.
These past few days in the dream world, she hadn’t rested once. She was either on the move or spectating fights. Had it not been for her strong spirit, she would likely have collapsed by now.
Fortunately, it was all about to end soon. She had reached the final hurdle.
The palace gates were tightly shut. Leticia walked step by step to the massive doors, which could only be described as majestic. She reached out and placed her hand on the doors, then gently pushed.
This gentle push should not have had any effect, but these doors were not meant to be moved by brute force.
Perhaps sensing that the person pushing the door was Her Majesty the Empress, with a series of mechanical sounds, the doors were actually pushed open by Leticia.
The moment the doors opened, something as bright as a torch appeared in Leticia’s senses. Without a doubt, this was what Leticia had been searching for from the very beginning.
Fixing her direction, Leticia, with her body already feeling heavy, quickly ran towards that location.
The interior of the vast palace was like a labyrinth, with various paths branching out in all directions. Countless rooms were situated along the corridors, tempting passersby to open them.
But Leticia’s goal was exceptionally clear. There was only one place she needed to go, and she wouldn’t spare the things on the way a single glance.
After several minutes of searching, Leticia finally reached the very center of the palace. There, she saw her sister.
“Sister!” The black-haired girl lunged into Leticia’s arms, almost causing her to lose her balance.
In Qibala’s current memory, she hadn’t embraced her sister for nearly a hundred years. At this moment, she could no longer suppress the emotions surging within her, burying her head in Leticia’s meager chest and crying out loudly.
The moment she threw herself into her sister’s arms, she knew that the sister before her was the real one. Although her sister had become much weaker, this was undoubtedly her sister.
“Alright, alright, don’t cry. I’m back, aren’t I?” Leticia stroked her sister’s fluffy head, a look of helplessness on her face. From her perspective, she had only been separated from Qibala for a few days, and that amount of time wasn’t enough to accumulate so much emotion.
After all, the Demon King’s neglect was notorious. She was probably the only one who would abandon her sister for years without care.
At least Bai Ling would inquire about her sister’s situation, she just didn’t have time to accompany her. But Leticia had completely vanished without a trace.
“Hmph, Sister must have important matters to attend to, right?” After crying for a while, Qibala released Leticia. She knew that the crisis had not yet been completely resolved and that her sister had many things to do.
“Yes, where does this direction lead?” Leticia nodded, pointing in the direction of the object she sensed and asked.
Qibala answered without hesitation, “That’s the main hall. Another sister is sitting there.”
Another her is sitting there? It seemed that all the key points were there.
“Hurry and take me there.”
Led by her sister to the outside of the main hall, which was sealed by a colorful barrier, Leticia looked at the black-haired girl inside the hall and fell silent.
The girl sitting on the throne with her eyes closed looked exactly like her. Let alone Qibala, even she herself thought it was her.
Why were there two of her in this world? Questions filled Leticia’s mind, but she knew what she needed to do now.
Guided by an instinct from the depths of her heart, Leticia reached out and gently touched the colorful barrier.
The colorful barrier rippled. Leticia’s fingers passed through the colorful barrier without any obstruction.
“How is this possible… I tried many times before, and this barrier should be indestructible,” Seeing this, Qibala’s eyes widened, and disbelief was written all over her face.
“It seems only I can enter here,” Leticia took a deep breath. “Let me see what kind of trickery is going on here.”
With that, she stepped forward.
The moment Leticia entered the colorful barrier, the Leticia sitting on the throne suddenly opened her eyes.
Unlike Leticia’s black eyes, the Leticia on the throne had extremely peculiar colorful eyes, resembling a palette.
“You’ve come…” A phantom voice emanated from her mouth. “Then, she should be coming too…”
“What did you say?” Leticia wanted to ask more clearly, but the girl on the throne didn’t give her the chance.
After uttering that cryptic remark, the girl suddenly transformed into a beam of colorful light and entered Leticia’s body.
Power surged from within her body.
Leticia looked at her hands in surprise. This feeling of her body being filled with power was amazing!
However, was her strength what was attracting her? That felt wrong.
She had come here to destroy this dream, not to regain her strength. In this dream, did having strength or not make a difference?
Soon, she understood why she had suddenly regained her strength.
This was not a free lunch. This power also brought an enemy, a terribly troublesome enemy.
A sword pierced the void, hovering silently ten meters away from Leticia. Then, a pair of hands grasped the sword.
The white-haired girl appeared out of thin air in the main hall. Her blood-red eyes stared at Leticia as if she were looking at a dead person.
This time, this person genuinely wanted to kill her! Lethicia’s heart pounded an alarm. From the girl’s gaze, she knew that this encounter was different from the previous ones.
This time, if she lost, she was truly done for.
Could she win? Lethicia’s first thought was this.
When facing others, she would definitely not be so afraid, but this time was different, completely different.
In her heart, she didn’t believe she could win.
The girl didn’t give Lethicia time to compose herself. The moment she appeared, she was already holding her sword and charging at Lethicia, raising her sword and swinging it down mercilessly.
“Ice Shield!” Lethicia’s pupils contracted, and she immediately crossed her arms, summoning a shield of pure white ice.
The outcome of the clash between the shield and the sword was decided in an instant. The long sword, imbued with stellar power, cleanly sliced through Lethicia’s ice shield, tore through the girl’s thin clothes, and left a crimson wound.
Stumbling back a few steps, Leticia clutched the gash, her expression extremely solemn.
She couldn’t win. She really couldn’t win.
Although it was a defensive spell used in a moment of urgency and couldn’t be compared to normal usage, being easily broken through still made her feel powerless.
She really couldn’t fight.
