Volume 3, Chapter 97 – Annoyed Shuoyue

From the moment the barrier shattered and the Abyssal Demon swarms began their massive invasion, Miss Mengxi had sensed that something was slightly off.

Specifically, it was that these Abyssal Demons seemed to possess reason.

Hmm, it wasn’t that they were intelligent, but rather that their behavior appeared rational, as if they were being used as marionettes under remote control.

The Abyssal Demon swarms, which were supposed to attack all living creatures regardless of gender or age, had only targeted the imperial army, the diplomatic missions of various major factions, and some of the powerful adventurers in the city after entering the metropolis. As for the ordinary people fleeing in all directions on the streets, the Abyssal Demon swarms didn’t pay them much attention.

It wasn’t simply because these civilians had no magic power or battle aura within their bodies; rather, it seemed they were being intentionally avoided. Unless an individual took the initiative to attack the Abyssal Demons out of fear, they would not suffer a counterattack.

The other people who were running away were almost entirely unaffected by the Abyssal Demons’ attacks, though they were scared out of their wits by the swarms flying overhead. At most, they died in building collapses or stampedes.

The diplomatic missions of various factions, including Bishop Nick and his party, were indeed surrounded by the Abyssal Demon swarms, but these demons gave off the feeling that they were merely putting on a play. Even though hundreds of Abyssal Demons surrounded these missions, only a dozen or so actually rushed forward to fight while the rest simply stayed in place to watch the show.

Rather than wanting to eliminate these ambassadors, the Abyssal Demon swarms seemed more interested in making them feel afraid?

…

Aside from this, the Abyssal Demons performed many other strange maneuvers. If one calmed down to observe, honestly, it wasn’t hard to notice.

In short, besides launching a fierce assault on the forces of Sky Dome, the Abyssal Demons didn’t get serious in any other aspect, which was completely inconsistent with their usual habits. For instance, what about behind her?

While thinking, Mengxi leapt diagonally forward.

“Boom!!”

Accompanied by a loud explosion, a deep blue Annihilation Cannon shot suddenly came from behind Mengxi, instantly blasting the house she had just been running past into fragments. After dodging the attack, Miss Mengxi glanced back thoughtfully at what was behind her.

Currently, eight Abyssal Demons were ‘pursuing her relentlessly’, occasionally firing an Annihilation Cannon shot to make their presence known. Among these eight Abyssal Demons, there were even three terrifying existences at the peak of the sixth tier. Without using a Divine Miracle, Mengxi, who was currently only at the mid-rank of the sixth tier, would find it impossible to deal with these monsters.

However, in the face of such a chase, Miss Mengxi maintained an air of calm and indifference.

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This was because Mengxi knew that these Abyssal Demons had no intention of getting serious with her. The attacks launched at her were nothing more than a bluff. They clearly could have activated a continuous bombardment, yet they chose to fire the Annihilation Cannon one shot at a time. The firing speed was also unusually slow.

She could dodge them with ease. Moreover, even if she were hit, the power likely wouldn’t cause her any real damage.

‘How strange…’ Miss Mengxi couldn’t help but sigh inwardly.

Even though she attracted a lot of hatred from Abyssal Demons as the Chosen Maiden, these creatures were merely chasing her without launching any threatening attacks. Furthermore, Mengxi could judge from the eyes of these Abyssal Demons that these monsters indeed harbored intense killing intent toward her.

So why weren’t they attacking her seriously?

As expected, these Abyssal Demons must be under someone’s control, to the point where they could not act according to their instincts. And the only ones capable of controlling Abyssal Demons were high-ranking existences at the demon king tier.

‘Is Sister Yumo the one controlling these Abyssal Demons?’ Mengxi couldn’t help but wonder.

When it came to a demon king tier existence who could command an Abyssal Demon swarm yet would prevent them from attacking her, Mengxi could only think of that gentle black-haired girl.

‘Does that mean… Sister Yumo is the one behind this attack?’

However, after observing the details of the movements of the Abyssal Demons behind her for a moment, Mengxi dismissed her own guess.

‘No, it’s not Sister Yumo…’

If she sensed carefully, the Abyssal Demons behind her clearly wanted to attack her. The much more powerful Annihilation Cannons in their maws had already charged several times, showing an obvious intent to kill her. But for some unknown reason, every time the charge was complete, the Abyssal Demons would disperse the energy.

Then they would charge again, and disperse again.

Repeatedly.

Clearly, this swarm of Abyssal Demons—or rather, the controller behind them—was in an extremely conflicted state, hesitating over whether or not to actually attack her. Although the opponent hid it well, Mengxi still saw through their mindset thanks to her keen perception and rich experience.

If it were Sister Yumo, she wouldn’t attack her at all. Therefore, the controller was clearly not her Sister Yumo.

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The one who launched this large-scale offensive and controlled these Abyssal Demons should be another demon king tier existence. But shouldn’t other demon king tier existences hate her? They wouldn’t possibly hold back.

Could it be a demon king tier that Sister Yumo knows? Someone who came to help her? But didn’t Sister Yumo betray the Demon God? In such a situation, how could Sister Yumo still be on good terms with other demon king tiers? How strange…

The more she thought about it, the more confused Mengxi became. The silver-haired girl narrowed her beautiful light purple eyes slightly.

‘I always feel like Sister Yumo isn’t just a simple demon king tier…’

But regardless, while the monsters behind her had no intention of getting serious, she had to hurry and find Sister Bai. If her guess was correct, Yuan’er’s appearance would likely attract Sister Yumo, just like before in Windward City.

She had to move fast to prevent Sister Bai and Sister Yumo from coming into contact.

At that thought, the holy magic within Mengxi erupted further, transforming the girl into a silver-white meteor as she sped toward the capital prison in the southern district. The nine Abyssal Demons behind Mengxi pursued her tenaciously, continuing to launch ‘attacks’ using the Annihilation Cannon or various claws and bites. Their ‘perseverance’ was truly touching.

Unfortunately, Mengxi was fully concentrated on accelerating and could no longer be bothered to pay any mind to the Abyssal Demons behind her.

At the same time, in the middle lake area of the Deepwinter Forest tens of thousands of miles away.

“This woman?! She… she’s just ignoring me! Bastard!!”

Sitting cross-legged on a giant rock and controlling the Abyssal Demon swarm from afar, the little Shuoyue couldn’t help but pout. Seeing how Mengxi disregarded her attacks and even ignored her entirely, she puffed out her cheeks and clenched her small fists, punching the giant rock beneath her over and over.

She directly beat the seventh tier tortoise magical beast, which had been disguised as a giant rock, until it was dizzy and fell unconscious.

The surrounding water-attribute magical beasts were also terrified by the slight release of Shuoyue’s power, standing frozen and trembling in place. They were deathly afraid of offending this little demon king tier ancestor and being annihilated just like the neighboring Mizuraku Fish Clan.

Initially, while staying in the Deepwinter Forest to watch the house, Shuoyue had followed Xiao’s instructions to control the Abyssal Demon swarm and launch a principled attack on Sky Dome. As far as Shuoyue was concerned, she wished she could kill all those foolish humans helping the Chosen Son and the envoys from various factions, turning Sky Dome into a dead city!

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However, considering that Mommy didn’t like such indiscriminate slaughter and adding Xiao’s persuasion, Shuoyue had abandoned her original plan of an indiscriminate massacre. (Of course, in the end, it was mostly because she was afraid of the feather duster.)

Thus, under Shuoyue’s control, the Abyssal Demon swarm mainly concentrated their fire on the Sky Dome garrison that Xue Tian’ao was so proud of. As for the civilians and envoys of other factions, she only needed to awaken the fear of Abyssal Demons in their hearts, killing a few stubborn ones only when necessary.

Just as Shuoyue was methodically executing the plan, she discovered the running silver-haired girl—the Chosen Maiden.

Shuoyue detested this woman immensely. Despite being Mommy’s enemy, she had been clinging to Mommy every day lately. It was because of her that Mommy had left the forest! She was the reason Shuoyue couldn’t snuggle with Mommy more!

‘I hate her! I hate her! I hate her to death!’

Although she couldn’t kill that woman while Mother was in Sky Dome, couldn’t she at least give her a good scare? Wasn’t she supposedly very impressive? Then Shuoyue would take her down a peg. Ideally, she would make her lose face in front of the crowd.

‘Hehe.’

With this in mind, Shuoyue had excitedly sent an elite team of Abyssal Demons to play with Mengxi. However, after all her hard work, the expected expression of panic never appeared on the Chosen Maiden’s face. Even when facing the attacks of several sixth tier Abyssal Demons, the silver-haired girl’s expression remained unchanged, showing no fear whatsoever!

Recalling the scenes from just now, Shuoyue couldn’t help but roar in annoyance.

“Why isn’t she afraid at all!”

Could it be that her act of faking the attacks had been seen through? No, that was impossible. She had acted so convincingly. How could she have found out?

‘Ugh, I hate her!’

Failing to see the Chosen Maiden suffer, Shuoyue waved her small hands in annoyance again. Terrifying waves of Shadow Essence expanded with every movement, causing the sky above Ice Soul Lake to suddenly crack. The tortoise-shaped magical beast, which had barely regained consciousness, was once again bathed in Shuoyue’s power fluctuations and had the honor of being shocked into unconsciousness once more.

Fortunately, after a moment of venting, Shuoyue’s mood gradually returned to calm. Otherwise, the creatures near Ice Soul Lake would have likely suffered a mental breakdown.

The reason she calmed down was mainly that other Abyssal Demons within Sky Dome had reported more important information. Compared to scaring the Chosen Maiden, the events currently unfolding in Sky Dome were more interesting to Shuoyue.

Thinking of this, Shuoyue sighed helplessly and withdrew the Abyssal Demons chasing Mengxi.

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“Forget it, I’ll teach you a lesson when I have the chance later.”

‘For now…’

Slowly closing her blue-gold eyes, Shuoyue’s main consciousness returned to the battlefield of Sky Dome. Through the vision of two seventh tier Abyssal Demons, Shuoyue discovered a unit of several hundred people assembled outside the royal palace.

‘What’s this? Do they want to support Xue Tian’ao?’

‘Heh, not a chance.’

At the same time, outside the Sky Dome Royal Palace.

Gazing toward the Grand Arsenal Hall and watching the golden energy and black light constantly erupting from within, the Vice Commander of the Royal Knight Corps, Kashulu, drew the longsword from his waist. He took a deep breath to calm his nerves and looked back at the hundreds of knights behind him.

“Move out.”

Having received the order from the Vice Commander, this urgently assembled unit charged grandly toward Xue Tian’ao’s location, prepared to help His Majesty confront the unknown assassin. However, the very instant they received the command and took their first step, tens of thousands of purple Annihilation Cannon rounds filled with destructive power suddenly tore through the air, striking at the unit from all directions accompanied by the torrential eruption of Shadow Essence.

?!!

Eh?

“Boom!!”

In an instant, purple light went wild as flames rose to the sky. The Royal Knights, including Vice Commander Kashulu, were swallowed by the fire before they even understood what was happening.