Chapter 89: Black Death: Sliding on the Knees【VIP】
[…How did Adlon react to this? ]
In the gorgeous and bright garden dream, Yaris's consciousness stood in the moonlight, looking at his brother tenderly, the consciousness's unique pure white form revealing a faint blue.
"He was stunned, as if he hadn't expected me to bring this up so suddenly."
"Yes... Even though everyone sees that civil war is inevitable and that our brothers will eventually embark on the path of rebellion, as long as that day hasn't officially arrived, they will choose to play dumb... And you took the initiative to make everything clear."
The consciousness spoke softly, walked behind Xiao Yun, and placed its long, slender fingers on his shoulder.
Your shoulders are a little stiff, can I massage them for you?
"This is the dream passage..."
【Relief that directly affects the mind is more effective than massage on the body.】
The fingers of the consciousness body sank into Xiao Yun's shoulders, bringing soft comfort to every cell.
“This feeling…”
Is it comfortable?
"It's very comfortable...but won't this be harmful to your body?"
[No, when my consciousness enters your shoulder, the happiness your mind feels from this action will also enter my consciousness... and be transmitted to my body...]
"But I'm still worried that doing this will cause harm to your body."
【It doesn't matter……】
Yaris's consciousness smiled happily, and his chin gently rubbed against his brother's shoulder.
[You weren't injured when you fought against the Assassin's Order, were you?]
"'The Assassin's Order'..."
Xiao Yun felt an inexplicable bitterness on the tip of his tongue.
【What's the matter? 】
"I feel so sorry for them... ruthlessly abandoned by their ancestors from other galaxies, they find themselves in a strange, hostile world where survival is impossible. Even the simplest breath can cause poisoning, yet they are forced to take up assassin work just to survive..."
Life is like this. No matter how many hardships we encounter, we want to survive. Survival is the instinct of life.
"Um."
Xiao Yun suddenly thought of the information provided by the captive before his death: "Who do you think the 'Emperor' is? Edmund? Or -"
Although the "Assassin's Order" only cares about money, they also have their own rules. If a client places an order and then finds someone else to place a duplicate order, they will be angered.
"So the 'Emperor' is Edmund?"
【It could also be someone other than Edmund and Him.】
"Others? Who could it be?"
[It's impossible to tell for now, but judging by what happened tonight, the next few days in Dalavia will be very busy... More and more magicians targeting you will enter Dalavia...]
"Why?"
Because you are special.
The consciousness pulled out its hand that was inserted into Xiao Yun's shoulder, hugged him from behind, and placed it on his heart.
Your body contains a vast energy comparable to that of a star... This energy, initially insignificant, has grown ever stronger, so powerful that any mage seeking power will inevitably covet you... They wish to possess you and the power within you for themselves... They firmly believe that by obtaining this immense energy comparable to that of a star, they will be on par with the gods...
"Do you want it, brother?"
[…I just want you to be with me.]
The conscious body spoke softly, seriously reminding his brother.
The monster that appeared in the night sky of Dalavia tonight is a magical synthetic lifeform. This type of lifeform typically has a lower-than-average IQ, relying on natural brute force or other special abilities... Don't engage it head-on unless you've found its weakness and are certain of victory...
"I know. I'll be careful."
The simultaneous appearance of at least four different demonic forces in Dalavia deeply disturbs me... I'm worried something even more dangerous will happen next...
"Don't worry, the power in my body will help me defeat the enemy, and-"
【And what? 】
"I have you. You are my lucky star and the driving force that keeps me moving forward."
[…Do you really think so?]
"certainly."
Xiao Yun lowered his head and folded the translucent hands of the consciousness: "Let's work together to turn the world of our dreams into reality."
"Um……"
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The battle between "Three-Eyed" Godalu and the flower demon Miranda resulted in the complete destruction of half of the street. Although the local Ted citizens evacuated and fled immediately after receiving the news, many people still lost their homes and even loved ones.
The sad people dared not speak out, and watched from afar as the demons, tired from the battle, lay down in their own transparent barriers to rest.
"Why! Why do we have to suffer like this!"
"The Black Death isn't over yet, and now here come these terrible monsters... What have we done wrong?"
"I heard..."
"What's the reason?"
Rumors?
"What's that rumor? The lizard monster by Lake Lilia?"
“…”
As if a mysterious switch was turned on, Dalavia raised her head and looked towards the Winter Castle high above.
That, and—
…
"Mr. Lucien!"
Adlon looked terrible when he appeared in front of Xiao Yun again. His face was haggard, his cheeks were shriveled, and there were deep dark circles under his eyes. He looked extremely tired and helpless.
He held Xiao Yun's hand tightly and pleaded earnestly, "After thinking about it all night, I, I have decided to ask you for help... You may think I am shameless, but I have... My only request is for Dalavia... No matter what, I hope Dalavia can survive this nightmare safely..."
"Adlon—"
"Please don't be so quick to reject me! Just listen to what I have to say!"
Adlon looked at the relaxed Xiao Yun with a broken heart. "I don't mind sacrificing all of Dalavia and myself for the peace and health of the Western Continent, but that doesn't mean the Dalavians have no right to live... Especially now, having just weathered the long night of the Black Death and about to see the dawn of victory... I was rude in the matter of your brother. Please forgive my stubbornness, arrogance, and old foolishness, and help me and the Dalavians..."
"Adlon, you were born a year later than our father, so you're far from being senile enough to use words like 'senile'."
Xiao Yun said helplessly, exposing the cunning trap hidden in Adlon's words.
“…”
Adlon smiled awkwardly and continued, "I do have a strong prejudice against your brother, but my prejudice against him is more like the resentment of a man who cannot get the love of his life... If he were a girl, I would probably love him even more than I love Adrian, hoping that my son would become a knight of the Lord and make up for the shortcomings of their father... But he happened to be a boy, and a most special child who was chosen by the oracle to be the high priest at the age of fourteen... I can't accept this fact. I can only belittle him, hate him, and laugh at him. This is the meaning of my life and the satisfaction of my aching self-esteem..."
"If my brother were a girl, he would be the most beautiful girl ever born on this planet since the existence of humans..."
Xiao Yun spoke frankly.
Although Adrian is an upright young man with dignified conduct and excellent in all aspects, and is the future Lord of Dalavia, if he wants to pursue the beauty of the Holy Family——
"I know... I know that if Yaris were a girl, Adrien wouldn't be worthy of her at all, but as a father... children are always especially adorable in the eyes of their parents, aren't they?"
Adlon smiled awkwardly. "I now realize that no matter how many dark secrets are hidden behind Yaris's birth, and no matter what you and Yaris intend for Dalavia, you are the only force that has come to our aid after Dalavia was struck by the Black Death. This is an absolute fact. We must respond positively to your kindness and compassion."
"If you think about it carefully, Yaris is actually a very lovely child, beautiful, well-educated, and elegant. Although his unique upbringing inevitably makes him a little spoiled, arrogant, and looks down on others, he has never bullied or abused others because of his uniqueness... If he was born into a normal, happy family, he would most likely be carefully cared for by his parents and siblings from birth, and grow up to be nestled in the arms of a doting husband—please forgive me for using this word, because I really can't imagine him marrying a woman and having children."
"I understand how you feel."
Xiao Yun bluntly replied, "Although it may be a bit rude to say this, if my brother marries a woman, it will be very difficult for her to become his wife. Not only will she have to endure the fact that her husband is prettier, more delicate, and more popular with men than she is—all these things that hurt her self-esteem—but she will also have to live with him like a mother caring for a baby. My brother has so many bad habits that he's like a child who hasn't grown up."
"I didn't realize this until recently..."
Adlon echoed.
Xiao Yun knew that he had to compromise with him and show goodwill to him due to the pressure of reality, and he did not truly agree with him and his brother.
but--
"...Now the situation is critical. We can only rely on the power of you and your brother to rescue Dalavia from the terrible threat! Please! As long as you brothers can save Dalavia, I can let my son officially inherit the title before the end of this year and become the new generation of Dalavia Lord!"
Adlon solemnly promised: "I don't care about the future of the empire! I only hope that my land and people can survive this disaster safely! Not only me, but everyone living on the land of Dalavia has a similar awareness!"
"Yes, Master."
Haras said seriously, "Most Dalavians don't care how long the Yula Dynasty's rule will last. Many of them don't even know the current emperor's name. They just want to live, to live healthily and happily on this land."
"Okay, I think I understand what you mean."
Xiao Yun pretended to be calm.
Hearing this, a serious look appeared on Adlon's haggard face.
He held up the jeweled staff representing Dalavia with both hands and handed it to Xiao Yun: "—Take this staff. Including me, the five thousand knights of Winter Castle and the twenty thousand troops within Dalavia are at your disposal at any time and will carry out any orders you give unconditionally!"
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Xiao Yun walked into the neighborhood that was devastated by the battle between "Three-Eyed" Godalu and the flower demon Miranda, and saw a large number of houses and buildings that had collapsed and broken due to the impact of the battle. The citizens of Ted were afraid of the demons and could only gather in front of the ruins of what used to be their homes and shed tears silently.
"What on earth do you want to get from this!"
Xiao Yun shouted at the two demons who were resting in the transparent barrier.
Miranda opened her charming eyes upon hearing this and made a seductive gesture towards Xiao Yun: "I can leave at any time, as long as you give me the energy to bloom beautiful flowers."
"impossible!"
"Then we shall—"
Miranda flew out of the barrier and told Xiao Yun with a wicked smile, "After yesterday's battle, the three-eyed monster and I have decided to temporarily form an alliance. We will work together to capture you first, and then decide the winner. The winner can eat you."
"That's right."
Godalu echoed this, the third eye on his forehead flashing a strange light.
"You can make me extremely powerful, even surpassing my master, but if I can't capture you, all my plans for the future will become an impossible dream."
"First catch you, then assign you."
Godalu and Miranda said in unison.
"Wait a moment!"
There was a loud noise in the sky.
Immediately afterwards, the strange and ugly monster face fell from the sky to the ground and turned into a short and fat black dwarf.
The black dwarf licked his snake-scaled cheek with his forked tongue and demanded fiercely, "I want to join your alliance and cooperate with you. I won't participate in the distribution, I just want to take his 'Golden Blade' afterwards!"
"Who are you? Why do you want my 'Golden Blade'?"
Xiao Yun questioned.
The black dwarf raised his head and spoke eloquently, "'Rhinegold' was originally mine! When my master left me, he forged it into the 'Golden Blade' and left it to me! But you colluded with those pointy-eared people of the Ya tribe to steal my things! And you shamelessly declared it your property! Damn human! Damn pointy ears!"
"Don't believe the black dwarf's nonsense!"
Godalu, who also harbored greed for the Golden Blade, immediately exposed it: "'Rhine Gold' comes from a higher dimension, a treasure that belongs only to the gods! Even if its master possesses power surpassing that of a thousand-year-old 'Death Sage', he cannot forge 'Rhine Gold' into a 'Golden Blade'! Because that is the realm of the gods!"
"My master is God!"
The black dwarf was furious.
"I am--"
"Do you dare to speak His true name in public, allowing Him to sense your presence, respond to your call, and prove your identity?"
Miranda echoed Godalu.
"I--"
"So which god's offspring are you?"
Xiao Yun asked.
The black dwarf was silent for a moment, then shouted, "My creator is Ya! The Most High Ya! Ya created me at the last moment before she fell into deep sleep, so she doesn't remember me and can't respond to my calls... I am a poor child, abandoned by my own creator the moment I was born..."
"Ah~ That's such a coincidence~"
Miranda looked at Xiao Yun and commented scathingly, "It turns out that Ya not only likes to create beautiful pets like you and your brother, but also occasionally molds an ugly black dwarf. Lucien, can you sense the attraction of blood in this disgusting thing?"
“…”
Xiao Yun was silent.
He knew instinctively that the black dwarf was lying.
The black dwarf was neither Ya's creation nor had any connection to the previous owner of the Golden Blade.
Upon hearing this, the black dwarf smiled with ulterior motives and sarcastically said, "An exquisite pet with impeccable beauty certainly makes the gods very happy, but creating an unprecedentedly ugly thing and letting the most disgusting dwarf toy with the most beautiful master - the overly strong contrast between beauty and ugliness is simply too interesting! It's so enjoyable!"
(This guy is so filthy.)
Xiao Yun thought angrily, and before he knew it, the "Golden Blade" was firmly in his hand.
The black dwarf continued chattering.
"...I like beautiful things. Every time I go to a brothel, I'll lie on top of the most beautiful woman or man there, licking their smooth skin and admiring their expressions of unbearable pain but having to endure it. What interests me most right now is who is more delicious, you or your brother. Of course, as a gourmet, I won't make a comment easily, because I enjoy both the lively and passionate flexibility and the softness that melts in my mouth. I'll hug you one by one and make you scream continuously under me. I—Ahhh!"
The black dwarf screamed in pain.
One of his eyes was pierced by the "golden blade".
"Shut up! Disgusting!"
Xiao Yun shouted angrily.
Miranda saw this and gloated, "Such a handsome man like Lucien will soon be in bed with the beautiful Queen of Flowers, while the ugly and wretched toad can only croak beside him!"
"Bah! Your roots are covered in gnarls, uglier than my face!"
The black dwarf cursed, and pale flames rose behind him.
Miranda chuckled, "These things mean nothing to me."
“But it can make everyone unhappy.”
The black dwarf looked at the black magician: "You laughed just now, you are laughing at me too!"
"Isn't your behavior ridiculous?"
The third eye on Godalu's forehead flashed with a chilling light. "Of the three of us, you are the most disgusting and the one who deserves it the most. I even considered teaming up with the young master who was supposed to be my prey to kill you!"
"you--"
As soon as the black dwarf uttered a complaint, Miranda's wings pierced his back.
"I'm sorry, but there's only one Lucien. We don't even have enough for ourselves, so how can we possibly add you?"
"Then you will—"
A malicious smile appeared on the black dwarf's face.
Then, with only one eye left, he endured the severe pain and let out a strange scream.
Dadada——
The air vibrated continuously.
The city, already in a state of panic due to a series of strange events, suddenly fell into even greater anxiety.
People unconsciously looked up at the sky and saw that the clear sky was occupied by a large group of Pegasus that suddenly appeared and were as dark as dark clouds!
Thousands of Pegasus galloped fiercely in unison over the city of Teide. The sound of their hooves was louder than the chimes of the temple clocks, spreading repeatedly in the air, oscillating freely, and causing—
(Oops! It's resonance! Sound wave resonance!)
Realizing that a catastrophe was about to strike, Xiao Yun looked at the black dwarf sternly and said, "Stop your magic tricks immediately!"
"They're not a magic circus, they're magical horses I've carefully trained to bring disaster! If they gallop around the city five times, cracks will appear on the surface of the city buildings. If they run ten times, large buildings, including clock towers, will inevitably crack! The city will collapse at the sound of horses' hooves! Just like the catastrophe that destroyed the Eternal Empire six thousand years ago! No one can stop it! No one—"
The black dwarf suddenly couldn't continue.
Because his throat was also pierced by the "Golden Blade".
"Since you refuse, I will end your trick in the simplest and most straightforward way!"
While retracting the blood-stained lightsaber, Xiao Yun announced coldly.
“I…I…”
The black dwarf's body trembled and fell down.
As early as when his eyes were pierced, the unique dimensional properties of "Rheingold" had caused irreversible damage to his body, and now even more -
"--ah!"
After a rapid and angry roar, the black dwarf died completely.
The magic horse that was galloping wildly over the sky above Ted City disappeared in the next second, and the sky was so clear as if nothing had happened.
(Yaris said that most magic tricks are illusions that are so real that they are indistinguishable from the real thing, and the fastest way to resolve an illusion is to resolve the person who created it!)
Xiao Yun muttered to himself.
Miranda and Godalu showed disbelief.
"This, this actually works... It's incredible..."
"No wonder the master wanted it, Your Highness, and also wanted it... They really... really..."
"Okay, it's time for us to officially start!"
Miranda's body slowly rose up, and the two pairs of wings that served as weapons unfolded in their full, gigantic form.
"Lucien, we need your strength. Your strength will make us stronger and stronger!"
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