Malevolent – Chapter 15 – Important News, But Unfortunately Cannot Be Transmitted

Meanwhile,

In the abandoned area where the eastern part of the Veiled Domain bordered the Westivian Covenant, a gray fighter jet spewing sparks staggered across the sky, desperately trying to flee from the Veiled Domain.

“Lord Westantine! Terrible news!! Miss Lianna, Miss Lianna, she’s been killed!!”

Inside the cockpit, a black-haired man with a blood-smeared face and in a wretched state was anxiously shouting into the communicator.

“We don’t know who killed her! When we found her, her body had been twisted into a mass of rotting flesh!”

“And, the, the, the most important thing is… Lady Lianna’s corpse was, was eaten by that monster, by Gaia Lobir!!”

This officer named ‘Colin,’ filled with anxiety, stuttered out what he had witnessed several dozen minutes ago.

As he spoke, everything he had seen at the border of the Veiled Domain once again flashed through his mind like a slideshow.

After learning that Lianna and her daughters had suddenly lost contact at that location, Colin’s team of more than twenty people quickly arrived to search according to their employer’s instructions, determined to bring back Lianna and her daughters.

However, after resisting the corrosive miasma and locating Lianna’s aura, Colin witnessed a scene that would haunt him for the rest of his life.

…

Countless black mud surged like a tide,

Sweeping everything around it, emitting the stench of decay and putrefaction.

They quickly gathered, transforming into a horrifying giant mouth. Then, the mouth suddenly opened, mercilessly devouring Lianna’s corpse. Her beautiful hair, muscles, and bones rapidly dissolved under the black mud’s corrosion, leaving behind only emptiness and decay.

After a series of twisted convulsions, the black mud began to squirm in mid-air, the sludge-like liquid gradually solidifying, starting to form a vague human shape.

The outline gradually became clearer,

And slowly transformed into Lianna’s form.

Though it was the same flawless figure, it emanated an eerie aura. That once beautiful face appeared again, but became pale and lifeless, with eyes flickering with hollow light.

In the moment when those eyes swept over him, Colin felt an unprecedented suffocating pressure, as if his soul had frozen solid.

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After that,

Countless black ice spikes erupted from the ground around ‘Lianna’ as the center, piercing Colin’s colleagues almost in an instant.

If Colin hadn’t immediately sensed something wrong and used the emergency transport device to teleport back into the fighter jet, he would likely have ended up like his team captain and the others, skewered like hedgehogs.

…

Even now, the scenes of Gaia Lobir devouring Lianna and his comrades’ tragic deaths still haunted Colin’s mind like a nightmare, causing this young officer to remain unable to calm the fear in his heart, and he continued to report everything that had just happened through the communicator.

The Divine-Graced Maiden had been killed, and then devoured by the Terran Malevolence.

The Terran Malevolence had even transformed into Lianna’s form!

This was no small matter!

Taking on Lady Lianna’s appearance, what did that monster intend to do?!

Although his mind had no answer to this question, an ominous premonition had already spread like a virus in Colin’s mind. He only knew that this information must be conveyed to the Westivian Covenant’s government, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

Colin, in his tense emotional state, had even forgotten his original purpose for coming to the border.

Unfortunately,

No matter how urgently Colin called out, the crucial intelligence he had acquired still couldn’t be transmitted.

Staring at the series of failed transmission messages, Colin angrily and resentfully punched the display screen,

“Damn it!! This won’t transmit either?!”

As he spoke, Colin desperately looked out at the gloomy sky outside the fighter jet.

Damn signal interference, how could it be so strong?

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They were already so far from the Veiled Domain, how was communication still impossible! Could it be that the communication equipment had been damaged after being affected by the Terran Malevolence’s attack?

If that was the case,

He could only rush back and report directly to Lord Westantine.

Of course, that was just wishful thinking.

Colin had no confidence in returning alive. He continued to anxiously stare at the projection radar, and occasionally glanced through the glass behind him, at the giant bird-shaped Corrupted Beasts that had broken through the miasma and were pursuing him.

Looking at those giant birds with wingspans of several dozen meters, the despair in Colin’s heart was understandable.

He wasn’t even a Divine Martial Realm cultivator, how could he hope to pilot a half-destroyed fighter jet against four Crimson Hex Tier Corrupted Beasts?

Death was certain…

There was no hope in fighting them. Therefore, Colin could only frantically press buttons, sending distress signals.

“Someone, someone, someone!!! For f*ck’s sake, send someone!!!”

As the Corrupted Beasts drew closer, Colin’s button-pressing and screaming became increasingly hysterical.

Just when Colin was almost despairing,

The static noise constantly entering his ears suddenly stopped, and from the communicator that had remained silent came an unfamiliar but extremely composed voice,

“Sergeant Colin, we have successfully received the message you just sent. The intelligence you provided is very valuable.”

Upon hearing these words,

Colin was delighted to discover that on the projection radar, apart from the four Crimson Hex Tier Corrupted Beasts, a white dot suddenly appeared from the front, rapidly approaching him.

This,

This is?!

The rescuers’ missile?!! I’m saved!!

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“That’s, that’s great?! You, you finally responded!!”

In an instant, overwhelming excitement spread through Colin’s heart. If he hadn’t already exhausted too much energy, Colin would have had the urge to cheer wildly.

However…

Before he could enjoy the relief of escaping death for long, the piercing alarm suddenly emitted by the fighter jet cut off his high spirits.

The next moment,

The expression on Colin’s face froze. He discovered in horror that… the missile racing towards him wasn’t aimed at the Corrupted Beasts pursuing him, but was coming straight for his fighter jet.

At the same time,

A message that Colin found incomprehensible and cryptic was transmitted from the communication device:

“However, this kind of intelligence is better kept from the people of the Westivian Covenant. So, I apologize, Sergeant Colin.”

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“Huh? Who, who exactly are you…”

Suddenly, the hope of survival that he had barely obtained shattered once again, and despair like a tidal wave abruptly dragged Colin into the deep sea.

The next instant,

Amidst Colin’s angry and resentful curses,

His fighter jet was directly hit by a gray missile, erupting into brilliant flames in the high sky.

“Boom~”

—

At the same moment the fighter jet crashed,

In a villa somewhere in the Westivian Covenant,

In a dimly lit living room, an elderly white-haired man sat quietly on a sofa, dressed in a well-tailored black suit, his face solemn, his features displaying authority and coldness. His eyes were as deep as bottomless abysses, calm and full of insight, as if they could see through anyone’s heart at a glance.

An elegant, classical silver walking stick stood quietly beside him, its handle exquisitely carved, glimmering with a faint luster.

Although his posture was elegant and composed, that sense of pressure was an unavoidable heaviness, making the atmosphere of the entire room unusually tense.

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And this cold-faced elderly man was now silently staring ahead, staring at the signal receiver that had long lost its signal and was continuously emitting static noise, as well as the shattered white crystal cores one after another beside the receiver.

When the last crystal core shattered, the old man’s gaze turned ice-cold.

Because,

The shattering of each crystal core represented the death of one of his subordinates.

And the shattering of all the cores meant that all the subordinates he had sent to the border of the Veiled Domain had died.

“A bunch of useless trash.”

The old man coldly muttered.

At the same time, the old man’s sharp gaze slowly swept behind him, to the man who had been standing behind the sofa with his eyes closed for a long time,

“Crowell, you and Hein go find them. You must bring back Lianna and those little girls.”

Hearing this,

The man slightly opened one eye, tentatively asking:

“What if Lady Lianna doesn’t cooperate?”

“Doesn’t cooperate?”

A trace of contempt flashed in the old man’s eyes:

“She is no longer that Divine-Graced Maiden who could command the winds and the clouds. Without the Augury Force, she is nothing. If she doesn’t cooperate sensibly, then kill her, and just bring back that most important ‘Sacred Stone’ from her body.”

“Yes, Family Head.”