Malevolent – Chapter 0.1 – Prologue (Part 1)

Crimson Sovereign Year 1998

“As the President of the Westivian Covenant, I hereby proclaim. Ailiya-Lingyuan, in recognition of your outstanding service during the Battle of Wishaven. The Council has decided to bestow upon you the title of ‘Celestial Augur Knight.’ From today forward, you are the sixth Celestial Augur Knight of our Westivian Covenant.”

As these words of declaration came from the middle-aged man’s mouth.

At Covenant Square,

Several rows of fully armed soldiers raised their weapons in perfect unison, while the massive, imposing mechanized armors behind them simultaneously pointed their giant cannons toward the sky.

“BOOM!!”

With a deafening roar, the honor guard completed a synchronized volley, expressing heartfelt congratulations to the newly promoted Celestial Augur Knight through traditional ceremony.

After the salute ceremony concluded, this most closely watched investiture ceremony in history officially came to an end.

Tens of thousands of people beneath Covenant Square instantly erupted into passionate cheers. Everyone directed their admiring gazes and fervent eyes toward the screen displaying the silver-haired young woman who knelt before the President with striking grace.

Of course,

Not just the hundred thousand people within Covenant Square, but throughout the Westivian Covenant, those watching the ceremony broadcast on television spontaneously burst into excited cheers. Almost everyone’s heart overflowed with joy and excitement.

This emotion was unprecedented, soul-stirring.

At a time when Yao Xing had been largely consumed by corruption, and humanity was forced to confront the Trinity of Malevolence and countless Corrupted Beasts, the emergence of a new Celestial Augur Knight was undoubtedly a tremendously inspiring event!

After all,

The Celestial Augur Knights were the pinnacle of human society, the ultimate fighting force that perfectly unified Spirit Power with physical form.

Where ordinary human warriors or even armored mobile units couldn’t contend with Crimson Hex Tier Corrupted Beasts, a Celestial Augur Knight could single-handedly combat hundreds of these city-destroying monsters simultaneously.

The birth of a new Celestial Augur Knight meant for countless people that they had gained another powerful protector.

Not to mention,

This Celestial Augur Knight named ‘Ailiya’ was the eldest daughter of Lady Lianna, one of the seven Divine-Graced Maidens of the past, and now the bearer of the Sacred Stone.

During the Battle of Wishaven, Ailiya not only slew the Vassal of the Abyssal Lord but even forced back the will of the Abyssal Lord herself, sweeping away decades of despair and fear accumulated in people’s hearts and presenting hope before them once again.

After witnessing these miracles, people had, from the bottom of their hearts, connected Ailiya, this nineteen-year-old young woman, with the savior.

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This is why the people’s cheers were so fervent.

……

Among the cheering crowd, a white-haired elderly man resembling a butler was carefully wiping away tears of excitement with his handkerchief. Afterward, the elderly man put on his monocle and gazed excitedly at the silver-haired young woman on the ceremonial platform.

“Miss Ailiya, you have finally, finally become a Celestial Augur Knight. Master, you can finally rest in peace.”

Miss Ailiya, she will surely lead the Lingyuan family… no, lead all of humanity to drive out the corruption.

To eradicate the Trinity of Malevolence!

Master,

I hope you will bless Miss Ailiya.

……

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While everyone was cheering jubilantly, in a certain building in Zer, the capital of the Westivian Covenant,

Bathed in the brilliant sunlight,

A woman in white was excitedly watching the television mounted on the wall. After taking in the beautiful and gallant figure of the new Celestial Augur Knight on the screen, the corners of her mouth couldn’t help but curl upward slightly as she let out a silver bell-like laugh.

“Hehe~”

The woman’s laughter was melodious.

But,

Hearing this laughter, a certain man let out a contemptuous snort from the bottom of his heart.

“Hmph, what’s so funny?”

Staring intently at the face of the woman in white, Fisk questioned her with a tone full of hatred.

Hearing this,

The young woman in white temporarily shifted her attention from the television and turned her gaze toward Fisk.

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As she turned around, the figure of the young woman in white fully appeared before Fisk’s eyes.

She was a slender young woman,

Looking no more than seventeen or eighteen years old.

Her medium-length pale blue hair fell casually over her shoulders, with slanted bangs that just brushed over her eyelids.

Emerald eyes, clear and bright, with curved willow-like eyebrows and long lashes that trembled slightly. Her skin was fair and flawless with a hint of rosy glow, and her thin lips were as delicate as rose petals. Her face was perfect, like a treasure carefully crafted by the goddess of creation, captivating the soul of anyone who beheld her countenance in an instant.

However,

After taking in such a beautiful face, Fisk’s expression revealed nothing but hatred and fear.

Because apart from her beautiful features and perfect figure, countless indescribable, horrifying flesh-like organisms had somehow grown from the young woman’s back. These bloody, shapeless organisms continuously grew and twisted, transforming into tentacles covered in barbs and claws resembling those of demons and beasts…

On these claws and tentacles grew numerous gaping maws with razor-sharp teeth, as well as one bizarre crimson eye after another.

These eyes blinked repeatedly, focusing their empty yet bloodthirsty gazes entirely on Fisk.

Faced with hundreds of eerie eyes staring at him, Fisk’s very soul trembled incessantly.

Naturally, he wanted to struggle, to escape the lock of these eyes.

But since his entire body had already been firmly pressed against the wall by those extended tentacles and claws, Fisk was rendered completely immobile, utterly powerless to escape their visual lock.

Now, for him,

Perhaps the only thing he could do was to direct his murderous gaze toward the monster disguised as a human before him.

“The birth of a new Celestial Augur Knight must be a major crisis for you all, right? What’s there to laugh about, you monster!”

The moment these words left his mouth,

The blue-haired young woman shook her head with a smile,

“It’s not a crisis. For me, this is wonderful news worth celebrating.”

“Huh??”

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After seeing the sincerity and joy in the young woman’s eyes, Fisk’s brow couldn’t help but twitch slightly,

“What nonsense are you talking about?”

“It’s not nonsense. My daughter has grown up and become successful. As a fath… no, as a mother, shouldn’t I be happy?”

With fingers interlaced over her chest, the blue-haired young woman spoke with an expression of happiness.

“W-what?”

Hearing this, Fisk’s brow couldn’t help but reveal throbbing veins as anger continuously spilled from his eyes, even overwhelming the fear in his heart.

The enraged Fisk exerted all his strength to let out a ferocious roar,

“What kind of joke is this! Don’t think that just because you’ve disguised yourself with Lady Lianna’s appearance, you’ve actually become Lady Ailiya’s mother!! You’re just a damn monster, aaaaaaah!!”

With the roar,

A pale golden light suddenly burst from Fisk’s right arm, which was being restrained by a blood claw, destroying the claw that held his flesh. After using the blessing power he had kept as his trump card, Fisk’s right arm briefly regained freedom.

Then, before those nauseating flesh could regenerate,

Fisk directly infused all his Spirit Power into the divine artifact—Yuanyin.

“Die, you monster!!”

In the next instant,

Fisk’s longsword plunged directly toward the blue-haired young woman’s left eye, ultimately piercing through her head. In an instant, blood splattered everywhere, with crimson liquid continuously flowing from the blue-haired woman’s pierced eye socket. As the divine artifact penetrated, a massive amount of purification power targeted at corruption suddenly poured into the blue-haired woman’s body.

Did… did I succeed?

A glimmer of joy flashed in Fisk’s eyes.

But soon, this trace of joy was swallowed by an indescribable chill.

Because,

The next moment, under Fisk’s astonished gaze, the massive amount of purification power that even Malevolent Deity Vassals would find difficult to withstand was absorbed by the young woman after entering her body without causing any disturbance. Meanwhile, the young woman’s blood-streaming eye began to gradually distort…

And finally transformed into a horrifying mouth with five or six rows of sharp fangs, suddenly biting down on Fisk’s divine artifact.

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Then,

“Crunch… crunch, crunch…”

With crisp sounds, this divine artifact—Yuanyin—that had accompanied Fisk for decades, was chewed into pieces by the blue-haired young woman’s ‘eye’ and completely digested by her.

In an instant,

Unprecedented despair completely enveloped Fisk.

Bottomless Hex Power,

A physique unafraid of purification power,

And even the ability to devour divine artifacts…

Without a doubt,

The being before him was absolutely not merely some Vassal of a Malevolent Deity.

At this moment, Fisk finally recalled his sister’s bold and outrageous guess before the mission…

Taking in a sharp breath, the exhausted Fisk spoke with a trembling voice.

“Gaia Lobir… Terran Malevolence… you monster… why, are you here?”

“Gaia Lobir?”

Faced with this question, the blue-haired young woman tilted her head and spoke with slight displeasure:

“I don’t like that name. Besides, I’m not the Terran Malevolence anymore; I’ve resigned.”

“W-what??”

“Now, I am Bai Lianyue, little Ailiya and the others’ mother~”

Translator Note

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