Chapter 71: Roland City’s Terrifying Night (Part 2)

The hotel where Yan Siyu was staying was right next to the city wall, chosen specifically to facilitate escape, and was about two kilometers away from the City Lord’s Mansion.

Given Lin Lei’s speed, without making any loud noises, it took only a minute to reach the hotel.

Upon arriving outside the hotel, he did not enter through the main door but leaped directly through a second-floor window, coming into Yan Siyu’s room.

But the scene inside the room horrified Lin Lei!

Yan Siyu did not welcome his return with a smile; instead, she was lying on the bed, clutching her chest, her body curled up in pain.

Her face was pale, her forehead covered in fine beads of sweat, and her lips trembled slightly; it was obvious she was enduring immense pain.

Despite this, she did not make a sound, just enduring it silently, her eyes slightly open as she gazed at the window, waiting for Lin Lei’s return, and only after seeing his figure did she close her eyes in relief.

Lin Lei scooped Yan Siyu into his arms, gently patted her delicate, jade-like face, and asked anxiously, “Siyu, how are you? What happened?”

At the same time, Lin Lei had the System start checking Yan Siyu’s body.

“Is… is that you, Lei? My chest hurts so much, it feels like it’s shattering.” The brainwave message Yan Siyu transmitted was extremely weak, and the voice ringing in Lin Lei’s mind was intermittent, as if it could cut off at any moment.

Lin Lei’s heart began to sink; he had just experienced this process himself—it was the Energy Dimension attack the System had mentioned. Could it be that the previous attack was area-of-effect?

Just then, the System’s inspection results came out.

“Target Yan Siyu has encountered an Energy Dimension entanglement attack…”

Before the System could finish speaking, Lin Lei irritably interrupted it: “Can you suppress it?”

“Yes, this action is an external operation and requires the Host to pay 5 points of Level 3 Strengthening authority. The suppression effect will last for five hours. Proceed with suppression?”

“Start!” Every second that passed meant another second of pain for Yan Siyu, so although Lin Lei hated the System for taking advantage of the situation, he agreed without hesitation.

You get what you pay for; at least the System sold absolutely genuine goods. As soon as Lin Lei confirmed it in his mind, he felt the body of the girl in his arms, which had been tense from pain, relax, and her tightly furrowed brows smoothed out.

But this immense pain had consumed too much of Yan Siyu’s mental strength; as soon as the pain was relieved, she nestled in Lin Lei’s arms and fell into a deep sleep.

The two delayed for a while, and outside the window, a commotion had already begun; there were city guards holding torches everywhere, searching.

The assassination of the City Lord and the death of an Energy Controller were definitely major events, enough to shock the entire Montokas Star.

Waiting any longer would only make the situation worse. Lin Lei picked up Yan Siyu and leaped down from the hotel’s rear window.

There were also two patrolling guards here, but before they could sound the alarm, Lin Lei moved forward like lightning, extending a hand to slap each of them. He directly smashed half of the skulls of these two unlucky fellows into fragments, killing them instantly.

The hotel was right by the city wall, and Roland City was only a lower-tier city; the wall wasn’t very high, perhaps only about ten meters. Running at full speed, Lin Lei could easily leap over it.

Moreover, he didn’t need to worry about hurting Yan Siyu, because even in this situation, her Protective Force Field still existed, sufficient to protect her from injury due to inertial recoil.

Running at high speed, Lin Lei leaped up from the base of the wall, stepped on a rock crevice four meters high, and then used force to launch his body into the sky, his height surpassing the city wall.

Just as Lin Lei was about to land on the city wall, a violent shout suddenly came from behind him: “Demon of the Abyss, be purified!”

In the next instant, Lin Lei felt the scalp on the back of his head starting to tingle, his hair stood on end, and a violent palpitation rose in his heart.

Needless to say, an incredibly powerful energy must be gathering behind him, enough to destroy him!

Lin Lei immediately activated the System’s Emergency Mode; this was no joking matter, it was a matter of life and death.

“System, getting outside the city and teleporting back to the Sky Shuttle is the top priority!” If he didn’t say this, the System would definitely turn back to kill, and perhaps it could kill the attacker behind him, but with his body energy exhausted, Lin Lei would be left inside the city with no way to live.

“Beginning extraction of 20% of Host’s body energy to activate Subspace evasion of attack! Energy consumption is 1.0 Energy Level per second!”

Subsequently, the figures of Lin Lei and Yan Siyu began to blur and fade, and then, a lightning attack as thick as a water bucket, ferocious like a giant dragon, passed through the space where Lin Lei had originally been.

The electric dragon lost its target and struck directly onto the city wall, vaporizing the ten-meter-high, five-meter-wide wall, and leaving a scorch mark thousands of meters long and bottomless in the ground!

The scorch mark even glowed faintly red, showing how high the temperature inside was.

Only then did Lin Lei have time to look back, only to discover that the one who launched this earth-shattering lightning attack was an elder wearing a long robe with white hair and beard, and looking at his relaxed manner, he could definitely do it a few more times.

The System displayed his information:

Saint Anthony (Montokas Star B-rank Energy Controller)

Height: 185CM

Weight: 75KG

Wisdom Level: 12

Body Energy Level: 8.0 Standard Energy Level

Comprehended Energy First Dimension: Disintegration; Second Dimension: Aggregation; Third Dimension: Chaos; Fourth Dimension: Order!

Controllable Energy Upper Limit: 50000 Standard Energy Level

Instant Energy Upper Limit: 5000 Standard Energy Level

Capable of launching area-of-effect Energy Dimension entanglement attacks.

He was indeed a powerful person; an attack of this 5000 Energy Level, if it had struck the former Galaxy Flight, would have been enough to bring that big fellow down in one hit.

At this moment, Lin Lei’s body was under the System’s control; after evading this attack, the System fished him back out from Subspace. Only two seconds had passed, but it had consumed 2.0 Energy Levels of Lin Lei’s energy.

He was not out of danger yet, so upon returning to the ground of the Four Space-time Dimensions, Lin Lei began to run wildly and sent a teleportation signal to the Sky Shuttle.

That terrifying elder behind him had caught up again; he was Saint Anthony! He had a deep hatred for Lin Lei, so how could he let him escape easily?

Another wild lightning dragon began to gather in his hand, targeting Lin Lei, who was running with Yan Siyu in his arms.

Lin Lei glanced back and was instantly terrified out of his wits; this damned old man deserved a terrible death! At this critical moment when teleportation was about to begin, if a powerful foreign energy interfered, it would be enough to turn Lin Lei into a deformity upon returning to the Sky Shuttle.

It might even make Lin Lei lose a leg or an arm or something during teleportation, which wouldn’t matter much, as medical science in the interstellar era could regenerate them; what he feared was losing key parts like the brain or heart, which would be a tragedy.

“System, Emergency Mode, counterattack, give him a hard one!” Being beaten without fighting back was not Lin Lei’s style. Since they were already outside the city, Lin Lei risked injury and unconsciousness to teach this old fellow a lesson!

The System immediately began extracting Lin Lei’s body energy; it never did things recklessly, but every time it made Lin Lei feel like he was dying.

Saint Anthony saw the demon in front of him suddenly stop, turn around, and raise his arm toward him.

“What’s the situation?” Saint Anthony did not stop condensing the lightning in his hand, but he raised his guard in his heart; he had been illustrious all his life and didn’t want to fail in a small place like this.

Just as this thought turned in his mind, he felt a pure black lightning-like attack striking toward him; the energy contained within was not very high, but it carried an aura that could destroy and swallow everything.

Saint Anthony did not dare to be careless and directly blasted the giant lightning snake, which he had condensed mostly, toward it.

But something bizarre happened; the white lightning, originally shining with blinding light, was assimilated as soon as it touched the black lightning, and then it all chopped back toward him.

Saint Anthony was shocked; he didn’t even dare to open an Energy Shield, fearing it would be assimilated by the black energy as well, so he chose to teleport and evade immediately.

But he wasn’t fast enough! His entire right arm was blasted through by the black energy and completely annihilated, while behind him, another long black scorch mark formed.

This time, although the total energy was lower, because there was no city wall to block it, the damage caused was similar to the first, and it was heading toward the inner city, which was simply a disaster for Roland City! The entire city was split in two! Flames immediately raged unbridled through the city.

Now Lin Lei was extremely weak; his body’s Energy Level was down to 1.0, just enough to hold Yan Siyu.

“Tell me, your Demon name!” Saint Anthony was also quite injured; losing an arm and a small half of his shoulder was a very serious injury for an old man, so serious that he could not continue to launch attacks.

Demon? So this was what the natives of the Andromeda Galaxy called the intelligent beings of the Galaxy. Lin Lei smiled provocatively at Saint Anthony, and then, his body slowly faded under the Sky Shuttle’s teleportation beam until he disappeared.

Saint Anthony turned around to look, only to see that more than half of Roland City had plunged into a sea of fire; most of the city’s houses were made of wood and were very flammable; once the fire started, it was difficult to extinguish.

The great fire in Roland City burned all night, reddening the entire sky; the fire lasted for three whole days before extinguishing due to a lack of combustible materials.

By this time, Roland City had become ruins, and more than half of the city’s residents were killed or injured.

The history of the Main Plane of the Andromeda Galaxy recorded this disaster: “Sacred Calendar Year 10452, a burning Demon descended from the sky, Roland City was destroyed, and Archmage Saint Anthony battled him and was heavily wounded!”