Chapter 58: Chapter 58: Separated (Part Two)
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Sandora loved battle, a fact every Xyrin Apostle recognized. For a powerful Empress who could single-handedly conquer one-tenth of the Empire’s territory, the title of Battle Song Princess was well-deserved.
But now, Sandora longed for world peace.
After waging continuous wars for tens of thousands of years with no hope of victory, even the Battle Song Princess developed a severe aversion to combat.
Unfortunately, no world could ever be completely peaceful. As long as the world existed, conflicts were inevitable. If this world happened to have intelligent life, such conflicts were likely to manifest as battles.
Now Sandora faced a particularly troublesome battle, one she could not avoid because the adversary was the Empire’s old rival, something Sandora had been fighting for as long as she could remember.
Sandora stood on a grand wall made entirely of giant stones, with lead poured into the gaps and enchanted with various fortifying magic. The hot wind swirled around her, blowing her golden hair into a brilliant and dazzling spectacle.
In front of her were countless demonized creatures, giant beasts, demons, magical beasts, fake dragons, and even true dragons, all mixed together like a surging black mud tide. Yet all had been completely corrupted by the Abyss’s aura, losing their original wills. Black mist rose from them, making them even more violent and insane. Their skin became dry and cracked, their breaths polluted, and their deep growls merged into a single sound that thickened the air as if it might solidify. Countless pairs of blood-red eyes reflected Sandora’s slender figure, but it was this slender figure that kept millions of demonized creatures from making any reckless moves below the wall.
They tensed their muscles, powerful magic waves compressed to the brink of losing control because they knew the enemy in front of them—
Was their natural enemy!
Behind Sandora, a middle-aged man with messy brown hair clad in heavy armor rested his hand on the longsword at his waist. Surrounded by a faint golden fighting spirit, he displayed the strength of a Sword Saint. While observing the movement of the monster army below, he cautiously asked the two girls who suddenly appeared on the wall, “Mysterious ladies, may I ask who you are?”
This man was General Kulans, the Supreme Commander of this human fortress known as the Northern Crown. A few days ago, scouts reported an abnormal gathering of demonized creatures. Having dealt with these monsters for twenty years, General Kulans immediately judged that a massive attack was imminent and made defensive preparations ahead of time. Now it seemed his judgment was correct. The monster army arrived as expected, but just as the battle was about to break out, two girls in strange attire suddenly appeared on the wall. If not for the absence of demonic aura from them, General Kulans would have almost ordered an attack on them!
Lin Xue had a hard time recovering from the shock of the monster siege. Swallowing her saliva, she said to Sandora, “I really admire you Xyrin Apostles for always fighting these things. If it were me, I’d have been disgusted to death long ago.”
“Not these things, we are fighting the force that controls these monsters.”
As Sandora spoke, a sky-blue, luxurious war robe flowed over her body. She turned her head to the middle-aged general behind her, who was on high alert, and said, “You are admirable. Though your individual strength isn’t much, you’ve resisted the Abyss’s force with numbers and willpower for so long. But from now on, we’ll let the Xyrin Empire handle these creatures. We’re professionals at dealing with them!”
“What did you say… oh, War God above!”
Feeling belittled by the girl in front of him, Kulans instinctively wanted to retort, but the scene that appeared before him cut off his words abruptly.
Countless ripple-like waves appeared in the air, then a thousand warriors with peculiar equipment filled his sight.
These warriors wore heavy metal armor all over, emanating energy fluctuations he couldn’t comprehend, equipped with gigantic, bizarre weapons—no, not equipped, dear heavens, those weapons were integrated with them!
“I don’t like battles very much now,” Sandora’s voice carried over with a mechanical tremor, “but I must admit, sometimes violence is the most effective way to resolve problems.”
Hovering thousands of warriors lifted their massive weapons simultaneously, the low hum of energy flowing spread an oppressive feeling across the entire battlefield.
Sandora raised her right hand high, saying loudly, “Today—”
The monster horde below surged like a tide!
“We shall once again—”
The giant weapons in all the warriors’ hands started to glow with blinding white light!
Meanwhile, in a distant big forest.
I watched the little one crying in front of me and felt utterly bewildered.
The little thing in front of me that I had made cry was a creature I’d never seen before but that often appeared in human legends—a Forest Elf.
Of course, due to different versions of legends and translation issues, they had many other names, like little fairy, little sprite, flower fairy, forest spirit, little elf, life elf, big dragonfly… uh, ahem, just pretend you didn’t see the last one.
The creature was only the size of my palm; ignoring her size, she looked like a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl. She had long, waist-length green hair and emerald-like green eyes. Her fair skin had a delicate pink hue. After a thorough observation with my 1.5 vision, I concluded that if her peanut-sized face could be magnified, it would undoubtedly be a face of calamity-level beauty. She wore a green one-piece dress of some unknown material, barefooted, floating about half a meter in front of me. Behind her, two pairs of green, translucent, dragonfly-like wings fluttered rapidly, scattering a sparkling light.
A pure natural green creature.
This unknown life-form stayed about half a meter away from me (probably considering it a very far and safe distance). She cried with sadness and grievance, her voice as clear and pleasant as a spring. Every time I made a slight move, she’d shudder all over, pause, then continue crying.
Here’s what happened.
After being separated from Sandora and the others, I had found myself in this dark and eerie forest. I then sensed a different, peaceful, and delightful presence nearby and decided to use the Xyrin Space Cannon to clear a path.
Good news: When I reached the end of the path I created, I indeed found a sunny, enchanting forest clearing like a paradise.
Bad news: Due to my lack of control over the Xyrin Space Cannon, about one-fifth of that paradise was reduced to ashes by me.
While I was lamenting the loss of that small burned patch, this mysterious little one appeared.
She stared blankly at the scorched ground at my feet, then burst into tears.
In the following half hour, I used all my reasoning and observation skills to finally discover a small piece of charcoal at my feet.
Judging by its shape, it had been a plant.
And after another half-hour of attempting communication with the miniature girl as best I could, I finally understood one thing: That small piece of charcoal used to be her home.
I carefully spoke, and the little one instantly shuddered and flew back about five centimeters in fear. But she was clearly unwilling to move far away from her former home, so she stopped there and continued crying.
I really couldn’t comprehend the thought process of this little one. Was she brave or timid?
Rubbing my head, I sincerely apologized. Though it was accidental, burning her home to ash right at the start was inexcusable. Besides, seeing such a cute little creature cry in front of me made me feel really bad.
Although I apologized, the little one showed no signs of stopping.
“Little one, as long as you stop crying, I’ll do anything for you!”
Really, anything, as long as you stop… if you keep crying, I might start crying, too!
With persuasion again proving futile, I finally decided to use my trump card.
As my connection with the Xyrin Mother Star strengthened, I also mastered many skills that only Xyrin Apostles could possess, such as—the Different Space Storage System.
Most Xyrin Apostles would use this different space as their personal arsenal, to store their absurdly numerous and forbidden weapons, Single Soldier Fortresses, and those non-sentient base-level soldiers under their command. For example, Pandora’s personal space constantly held two fleets of heavy battleships, Sandora’s personal space stored three fleets of Xyrin Heavy Guards and about half a ton of various snacks. As for my personal space…
I waved my hand, and a shiny object appeared in my hand, accompanied by a peculiar fragrance…
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