Chapter 154 Avenging My Beloved: The Braizman Empire
After obtaining the coordinates of the Wind Market from the Flower Fairy, Xi led his human-like subordinates away from the Land of Sin. He did indeed lead his men towards the Wind Market for a while, but as darkness fell and the demons found places to sleep, he tore open a spatial passage and teleported all the sleeping demons to human territory.
The battle-hardened demons woke up almost immediately after being thrown into the spatial tunnel, realizing they had been transported to a completely unfamiliar place. They got up in a daze, staring at each other in disbelief.
Raising her hand to erase the traces of spatial fluctuations, Xi Yi looked up and met Lan Jiao's gaze, who looked speechless: "What are you trying to do?"
Xi turned her head to look at the human village with its scattered lights in the distance, pointed at it, and said with a smile, "What else can we do? Of course, we're avenging our beloved!"
"Revenge? What revenge?" Blackfoot also looked towards the human village in the distance. "Those humans? Should we kill them?"
"Let me go! I'm fast and good at killing! Nobody's allowed to take it from me!" Shan immediately became excited.
Bluehorn punched Shan, knocking the reckless guy to the ground, and then continued to question Xi: "You didn't get the lord's permission, did you? Does she know you went out to avenge her? I mean, will she be angry if she finds out? I quite like the Land of Sin, and I don't really want to go back to the Demon Realm to eat lichen."
Blackfoot also became alert: "Will the Flower Fairy be angry? Your Highness, I want to drink sweet soup, and I don't want to eat lichen either."
"I also like sweet soup! But my favorite is still nut candy!" Shan, who had been knocked down and was lying on the ground, shouted loudly, "Let's sneak over! The Flower Fairy won't know!"
Blue Corner remained silent.
Xi kicked Shan in annoyance: "I would never lie to Shuxin!"
"Don't worry, Shu Xin won't be angry. She'll only praise me. Just look for this mark." Xi flicked her finger, and a noble badge formed from illusion magic appeared in mid-air.
Bluehorn glanced at the ornament unique to humans. It was an exquisitely crafted shield shape, with numerous engraved patterns. However, the main subject of the pattern was the silhouette of a human warrior wearing armor and holding a longsword. A dragon shadow was also finely carved on the longsword. The dragon shadow, as red as blood, was wrapped around the blade. Clearly, it was a red dragon.
Throughout human history, the red dragon has always been associated with words like "evil" and "ominous." The red dragon shadow on this shield-shaped emblem most likely represents the great feat of the human warrior wielding the longsword in slaying the evil red dragon. This made Bluehorn, who has some red dragon blood, look rather complicated.
The true red dragon, being a pure elemental life form, naturally exists only in the Elemental Demon Realm. It is impossible for them, like these hybrids born in the elemental storms, to simply pass through the dimensional portal and directly descend into the material plane in their true form. Therefore, the one killed by humans could only be a red dragon projection that was summoned by humans themselves and generated under the interference of the world rules of the material plane.
It was like breaking a mirror and then thinking you'd killed the person in it. Bluehorn remarked with a touch of irony, "Humans are really interesting."
Xi nodded in agreement, waved the badge away, and walked toward the distant village: "Let's go, let's go, we have to get back before the harvest month, we need to hurry."
After invading the villagers' dreams and searching, Xi quickly found a clue—the village chief of this remote village had seen the badge in the big city, or more precisely, he had seen the intricate and elaborate patterns on the badge, which were embroidered on the curtain of a tall carriage.
Xi told Lanjiao to wait where he was, as he was going to gather more information. Before leaving, he asked Lanjiao to disguise the demons as a caravan so he could lead them into the human cities.
Bluehorn perfectly completed the task assigned by Xi. When Xi returned a few days later, she saw a respectable caravan in the same spot—a powerful caravan selling high-level magical beasts.
The forty-odd fierce-looking guards were all demons in their true forms. The dozen or so demons who were most likely to be exposed were covered from head to toe and were responsible for acting as mysterious merchants. The remaining forty-odd demons were driven into cages by Blue Horn and transformed into their original forms to directly act as high-level magical beasts.
Xi was very satisfied and generously promised, "When we get back, I'll ask Shuxin for some nut candy for you!"
Bluehorn was also very satisfied. The other demons were easy to deal with, and she had also managed to persuade Blackfoot. The most difficult one was Mountain, who started fighting with himself. It took her a lot of effort to knock him unconscious and put him in a cage.
Leading the arrogant demon-style caravan, Xi swaggered into the city.
Bluehorn noticed that among the row of flags hanging on the city wall, the tallest and largest one was embroidered with the silhouette of a dragon-slaying warrior, and it was radiating obvious magical energy fluctuations. It seemed that the emblem was a magic circle.
Just as the city lord was about to hold a banquet, Xi offered to present the city lord with a rare two-headed demon wolf, and successfully obtained an invitation.
It has to be said that the human race's magnificent castle is much more impressive than the river elves' flower castle. Bluehorn looked around and found everything interesting, from the rows of bright magic gas lamps decorated with gold and silver threads under the eaves, to the huge clock carved from a single piece of magic crystal on the wall, and the magic airships with melodious songs floating above the castle.
The village they first saw had only a few households lighting candles at night, but this castle was completely different. As far as the eye could see, there were bright lights everywhere. Even though it was already night and the high and distant sky above was as black as ink, the castle, which was bustling with voices, was as bright as day.
The servant leading the way on the side had a respectful expression that revealed a hint of fear. He couldn't help but steal a glance at the tall and strong female mercenary behind him, but he didn't even dare to get a clear look at the hem of her clothes before abruptly looking away as if he had been electrocuted. He had walked this road to the banquet hall countless times, but he had never felt that the road was so long as he did today.
Finally, the person was led to the front of the banquet hall. The servants hurriedly stepped back, watching with awe as the strong female mercenary dragged the animal cage into the hall with one hand.
His gaze fell on the enormous two-headed wolf in the cage. Even though it was unconscious, its two heads still looked ferocious. The servant couldn't help but shudder and took another step back. Finally, he looked at the young master walking in front of the mercenary with great envy.
The handsome young man with short, curly blond hair was also dressed in a well-made mercenary uniform. However, he was fair-skinned and slender, which made him look out of place, like a child wearing an adult's clothes. The servant thought to himself that this must be a noble young master who had read a couple of adventure story books and was now out playing as a mercenary.
The city lord thought the same thing. He chuckled and took a sip of wine, pondering how to find out the young master's identity and background. If he had heard of him, he would invite him to stay for a couple of days and see if he could persuade him to leave a few more magical beasts behind. If he was a minor nobleman he had never heard of before, then he would gladly accept this powerful mercenary group and this batch of high-level magical beasts.
Beautiful and enchanting music flowed through the banquet hall, accompanied by melodious singing drifting in from outside the windows. The quiet conversations in the hall seemed to become harmonies embellishing the atmosphere. The air was filled with the refreshing scent of magical essential oils. The distinguished guests were well-dressed and composed, raising their glasses with smiles. They nodded to acquaintances, and everyone appeared elegant and gentle.
When the screeching sound of wheels rolling over the floor reached everyone, they turned their gazes in slight annoyance.
The female mercenary who could drag the metal cage with one hand was indeed brave, but the nobles had seen even more powerful warriors. Their gazes swept over her and landed on the two-headed demonic wolf inside the cage.
Even from a distance, the powerful magical aura of the demon wolf, so strong it almost made one breathless and tremble, still wafted over. Its magnificent fur, seemingly formed from moonlight, shimmered with a mesmerizing magical glow. Not to mention, this was a rare mutated demon wolf with two incredibly imposing and majestic wolf heads. Just imagining such a demon wolf appearing in their collections made the nobles breathe heavily with excitement.
The city lord raised his cup with immense pride, indicating that this was a gift for him!
As he sipped his wine, he wondered if it would be better to make the whole wolf into a specimen and display it in the courtyard. After hesitating for a moment, he decided it would be better to cut it into pieces. The fur could be made into a cloak, the wolf head into a pendant, and the flesh into a potion. He would clean and process the skeleton and then place it in the courtyard.
"You are Grand Duke Alex? You have royal blood from the Bratzmann Empire, right? It is said that Emperor Bratzmann was a holy warrior who once slew a red dragon?" The arrogant young master standing next to the beast cage asked with great curiosity.
Frowning slightly in displeasure, the city lord decided that regardless of whether he had heard of this impolite brat's family background, he would still acquire his mercenary group and magical beasts.
Suppressing his anger, the city lord replied kindly, "I am glad you have heard of my ancestors' reputation. My grandmother was indeed born in the Bratzmann Empire, and I was indeed granted the title of Grand Duke of Alex. You look somewhat familiar. Are you the youngest son of Duke Dennis? We met at the ceremony of the God's Birthday, do you remember?"
Holding his wine cup, the city lord waited for this impetuous young man to reveal his family and background to refute him. The other man did speak, but not to him. Instead, he raised his hand and slapped the beast cage, saying happily, "That's right, Shan, bite him to death."
The two-headed demonic wolf, which had been unconscious in the beast cage, suddenly leaped up, its blood-red maw lunging at him. The city lord activated the defensive array almost immediately, but everything went black before his eyes, and he completely lost consciousness.
The magic barrier had just taken shape when the wolf's left head snapped open and bit down, followed closely by the right wolf. Blood splattered onto the magic barrier and then flowed onto the gleaming floor as the barrier collapsed. The middle-aged man, still wearing a kind smile, was severed in two by the wolf's jaws.
In the brief yet prolonged silence, the subtle sound of blood flowing could be clearly heard.
Amidst the gentle music, a piercing scream suddenly rang out.
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