“Truly, unpleasant…” Without even deigning to glance at the beastman who had already disappeared into the starlight, Bai Ling slowly sheathed her sword, her voice flat in a way that made one’s heart palpitate.
Even Yin Ya, an ally, was somewhat stunned. She realized she had underestimated the strength of this white-haired girl. To have utterly annihilated a minotaur with a single sword strike – even the strongest warriors of the great tribes couldn’t achieve such a feat, could they?
This white-haired girl was a level stronger than the strongest warriors of the great tribes… wouldn’t that mean she had reached the level of a God-Chosen Warrior?
Such a powerful warrior held sway even within the Royal Tent!
Was her appearance in her small tribe a blessing or a curse?
After Bai Ling’s decisive strike that killed the minotaur, the atmosphere in the area became heavy. Bai Ling closed her eyes, her hand resting on her sword hilt, and a faint killing intent prevented the remaining two beastmen from making any moves, lest they suffer the same fate as the minotaur.
A powerhouse capable of killing a minotaur with a single sword strike would likely only need one strike to dispatch them both.
After a long while, the somber atmosphere was broken by another girl. A black-haired girl in a white dress silently appeared behind the white-haired maiden. Her presence dispelled the unsettling atmosphere, and it seemed even the starlight above slightly dimmed its radiance due to her appearance.
“What happened? Did someone upset you?” Leticia looked at the scene before her, bewildered. Two beastmen who lacked humanoid features, Yin Ya sitting on the ground with her arms crossed, and Bai Ling holding her sword with an unhappy expression. One glance was enough for her to grasp the general situation.
It was likely that these beastmen had clashed with Yin Ya, pushing her to the ground. Then Bai Ling emerged, and somehow these beastmen managed to offend Bai Ling, leading Bai Ling to lose her temper and kill one or more of them with her sword. This was probably how it happened.
“They just killed someone.” Bai Ling opened her eyes and cast a cold glance at the two beastmen standing frozen in place.
“Killing people isn’t… wait, killed ‘people’?” Leticia was about to say that killing was a rather normal occurrence for beastmen, but then she remembered that killing beastmen and killing ‘people’ were different matters to Bai Ling.
Bai Ling wouldn’t interfere with beastmen killing each other; that was considered their internal affairs. However, if beastmen killed ‘people’, then it was a different story.
Bai Ling was very diligent in protecting humans. If someone had killed a human without her knowledge, it would have been fine. But if someone killed a human and was caught by her on the spot, things would become interesting.
Even if that person was ninety-nine percent at fault, did these alien races who did the killing not bear even one percent of the blame? When it came to protecting her own, Miss Bai was quite unreasonable.
And she indeed possessed the strength to be unreasonable; might makes most people shut up.
“Yes, I wouldn’t mistake it. That should be a human corpse. Not only did they kill someone, but they also used many torturous methods before killing him.” Bai Ling gritted her teeth and spoke in a low voice, suppressing her killing intent to prevent herself from losing control and immediately killing the remaining two beastmen.
That way, she wouldn’t be able to get any information.
“Alright, I’ll go and inquire about the situation. Those two have been scared out of their wits by you, so they shouldn’t lie.” Leticia hadn’t expected there to be such a reason behind Bai Ling’s anger, but since things had come to this point, the most important thing now was to appease this human nuclear bomb.
Taking small steps towards Yin Ya, Leticia asked, “Can you still stand up?”
Yin Ya managed a smile that looked uglier than crying, “My legs are weak.”
The minotaur’s shove hadn’t caused her much harm. Although the minotaur was unreasonable, his actions were somewhat measured; he wouldn’t directly offend Yin Ya, the heir of the tribe, to death.
The reason Yin Ya was still sitting and unable to get up was still thanks to Bai Ling. The sword light just now was too terrifying. Where else had this country girl Yin Ya seen such a grand spectacle? She was directly so scared that she couldn’t stand up.
“Alright, then have those two beastmen over there come here, and bring the corpse too.”
“Understood.”
At Yin Ya’s call, the two beastmen, already intimidated by Bai Ling’s power, obediently followed Leticia’s instructions, bringing the corpse with them.
With the help of the human-shaped translator Yin Ya, Leticia spent considerable effort gleaning the general course of events from the two beastmen. The matter was quite simple: the human who was killed was a slave of the minotaur tribe leader. This slave had found an opportunity to escape a few days prior, which caused the leader considerable humiliation. Thus, the leader dispatched three minotaurs to hunt down this human.
How could an abused human escape the pursuit of three beast warrior in this situation? In just two days, the human was caught and brutally murdered by the minotaurs. As for the corpse, they intended to clean it up and bring it back to claim credit.
“Tsk tsk tsk, the beastmen are still as barbaric as ever,” Leticia remarked, poking the poor human’s corpse with a stick. She didn’t know how to comment on this matter. With beastmen on one side and humans on the other, she, a demon, had no reason to get involved. “You beat her to death.”
“She still tried to resist after being caught…”
“Don’t explain to me, I don’t understand and I don’t want to listen.” Leticia directly interrupted the beastman’s explanation, not even letting Yin Ya translate. “Do you have any other human slaves in your tribe?”
She thought this was what Bai Ling would care about.
“No more. The price of human slaves is very high. Compared to slaves who can’t even work properly, it’s more cost-effective to buy beastman slaves with strong bodies.”
“Then, do you know where this human slave came from?” Leticia continued to ask.
“No, we are not the leader’s confidants, so we wouldn’t know such things.” The beastman weakly argued. Such private matters wouldn’t be discussed in public by the leader.
After asking a few more questions, Leticia concluded her inquiry. She cast a cold glance at the two beastmen, then turned back to Bai Ling and reported everything she had learned to Miss Bai.
While Leticia was speaking, Bai Ling’s expression grew increasingly grim, and her killing intent almost escaped her control several times.
“Hmph, I’m going to kill them, and that tribe’s leader too.” But Bai Ling still held back. After listening to Leticia’s explanation, she looked at Leticia and slowly voiced her thoughts.
Was that seeking her opinion? That was some progress compared to before. Leticia patted Bai Ling’s shoulder, “Do what you want to do. I can’t really comment on this mess, but I will support whatever you decide to do.”
Letting the wronged have their revenge and the enemies settle their scores. Leticia had no enmity with these beastmen, so she wouldn’t say anything else.
If Bai Ling wanted to kill, then let her kill. What could the beastmen say if they were killed? The reason was quite sufficient, wasn’t it? Who could say anything against Bai Ling seeking revenge for her own kind?
“However, I think killing the leader should be discussed at length. At least wait until my injuries have recovered more or less,” Leticia added. If Bai Ling directly rushed to their lair and killed the main culprit, then things would become quite lively afterward.
Those beastmen who wanted to avenge their leader wouldn’t care about how strong you were. These somewhat dim-witted beastmen would easily get hot-headed and disregard more important matters.
These guys were indeed weak; a few hundred of them tied together likely wouldn’t withstand a single sword strike from Bai Ling. But constantly killing like this wasn’t a solution. Bai Ling could handle it alone, but what about the Yin Ya tribe, who provided them with lodging?
Would other tribes hold a grudge? The beastmen weren’t smart; they could easily consider the Yin Ya tribe as accomplices to Leticia and Bai Ling.
At that point, if their attempts against Bai Ling failed, would these beastmen divert their target to the beastmen of the Yin Ya tribe?
It was highly probable.
Dragging the Yin Ya tribe into this for that reason would be rather ungrateful. Even with Leticia’s thick skin, she couldn’t do such a thing.
They had already indirectly brought disaster to this tribe. To have it happen again now would be truly difficult to comment on.
“Yin Ya, would there be any problem in killing these two beastmen?” As a precaution, Leticia sought Yin Ya’s opinion.
By this time, Yin Ya had gotten up from the ground. Hearing Leticia’s question and looking at Bai Ling, who could draw her sword at any moment, she flinched and covered her eyes. “As long as it’s done cleanly, it’s fine. I don’t know anything; I didn’t see anything just now.”
“Okay.” Leticia turned to Bai Ling. “If there are no remains, there will be no problem.”
*Clang…* Before Leticia could finish speaking, a crisp sword sound echoed in everyone’s ears.
The two beastmen’s faces hadn’t even shown any signs of pain before they were swallowed by starlight, leaving no trace in this world, just like the minotaur who had left earlier.
This level of cleanliness in disposing of bodies – Bai Ling, you’re truly not a good person!
While thinking this, Leticia knew it wasn’t the time for such thoughts. She sighed and looked at the human corpse on the ground, saying softly, “This corpse needs to be dealt with too, otherwise later…”
“I know, I’ll handle it.” Bai Ling didn’t sheathe her sword as before; instead, she walked to the deceased with her sword and stopped.
A beam of starlight, guided by her, descended from the sky and sprinkled upon the corpse covered in scars.
Bai Ling closed her eyes, her lips moving as if conversing with the dead. With her movements, the corpse on the ground gradually assimilated into starlight. After a few minutes, the corpse turned into specks of starlight that drifted into the distance.
“I hope she can rest in peace. I will send the killer to hell.” Sheathing her star sword with slow movements, Bai Ling gazed at the sky, her voice lingering.
“She must be satisfied knowing that you personally handled her remains. Alright, let’s head back.” Leticia shook her head, walked to Bai Ling’s side, and cupped Bai Ling’s face in her hands. “Those people won’t escape. Before that, you still have to take care of me.”
“I think you don’t need my care very much, though.” Bai Ling leaned down and picked up Leticia. “I originally thought you would stop me.”
In Bai Ling’s impression, Leticia had always disliked causing trouble. Killing these three beastmen was basically equivalent to making an enemy of that beastman tribe. Although it wasn’t a threat to them, it was still troublesome.
But Leticia had unequivocally sided with her, even encouraging her to kill all these beastmen.
“You’ve already killed one, so are you going to let the other two go? Use your wooden brain. You’ve already blocked the path of peaceful resolution, so I can only help you clean things up.” Leticia reached out and tapped Bai Ling’s forehead. Who told Bai Ling to directly kill a minotaur?
Killing one and sparing two would be worse, might as well kill all three to ensure the message never got out. Afterwards, if anyone asked, the three of them would just adamantly claim they hadn’t seen them.
Without evidence, who could fault them?
“That guy tried to make advances on me, and I couldn’t help myself.”
“Then he deserved to be killed. Let me tell you, when you encounter something like this, don’t hold back. You are the strongest human. No one among the beastmen can withstand your sword. Don’t give them face, just strike them down!” Hearing that the minotaur tried to make advances on Bai Ling, Leticia immediately felt that guy died too comfortably. If she had acted, that guy wouldn’t have died so easily.
“Even the leader of the beastman tribe?”
“Haven’t you killed one before? Wasn’t the previous lion-head killed by you? Did the beastmen dare say anything?”
“That’s true.”
Hearing the two girls’ voices growing fainter, Yin Ya, who was still standing there covering her eyes, cautiously moved her hands away. Finding herself alone, she shivered in fear and quickly ran back along the path she came to catch up.
Fortunately, Bai Ling wasn’t walking very fast this time, so Yin Ya soon caught up.
“I’m a bit worried that those three beastmen might have left some marks on their way. If that tribe tracks them here and finds the tracks broken, there might be quite a bit of trouble,” Yin Ya weakly voiced her concerns to Leticia.
“That’s easy to handle. After daybreak tomorrow, we can sneak over here and make some disguises, shifting the blame for their deaths onto someone else.” Leticia stated that this wasn’t a difficult matter; she was good at framing others. “Does your tribe have any tribes you’re enemies with? Might as well use this opportunity to get revenge.”
“Ah?” Yin Ya was dazed. Her pure little brain wasn’t filled with schemes and tricks like Leticia’s. After a long while, she finally reacted, “Yes, yes, quite a few!”
