Volume 1, Chapter 72 – Anger

Translator Note

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Within the sea of blazing flames, the snow-white giant wolf could not help but let out a wail of agony under the scorching of the extreme heat.

“Sis-Sister!!”

Inside Fort Garros, watching the world-shaking explosion in the distance and hearing her sister’s cry of sorrow, Li Yu, who had always shared a deep connection of body and soul with Li Mo, immediately showed a look of intense worry. Although she had not been struck by the crimson energy, her heart felt as if it were being scorched by the searing flames, causing her incomparable pain.

Because the crimson energy was too thick, she could not sense Li Mo’s condition, so the gray-haired girl grew increasingly uneasy and involuntarily clenched her fists tight. After mobilizing her power to construct a wind wall around Fort Garros to block the incoming heatwave, Li Yu turned her head in extreme anxiety to look at the black-haired girl behind her.

“Mother!! Sis, Sister, she…”

Li Yu’s voice already carried a hint of crying, and her emerald eyes were covered with a layer of moisture. However, Li Yu’s plea for help did not receive a response from Yumo because at this moment, after seeing Li Mo swallowed by the crimson energy, Yumo had fallen into a strange silence. Her scarlet eyes silently gazed at the center of the explosion.

To be honest, Yumo’s heart was quite complicated.

In the beginning, Yumo had only intended to cultivate these demon king tier existences as high-level experience packs for the Main Character Group; six demon king tier beings would be equivalent to six dungeon bosses. After defeating all six bosses and gaining enough experience, the Main Character Group could then challenge her, the final boss.

However, while raising these demon king tier beings, Yumo realized that demon king tier Abyssal Demons possessed emotions and were not as mindless and bloodthirsty as ordinary Abyssal Demons. At the same time, as time progressed, Yumo’s feelings for these little ones grew stronger. Being called ‘Mother’ by them every day and watching them grow up step by step, Yumo gradually came to regard these demon king tier existences as her own children.

No mother would want to see her child get hurt, much less want them to be killed, so Yumo had actually been very conflicted about whether or not she should let these children deal with the Main Character Group in the future. The trial mission given to her by that mysterious woman back then had been troubling Yumo for quite some time.

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But now, as she watched the snow-white giant wolf she had raised with her own hands be swallowed by a sea of fire and heard her child’s painful groans, the question that had made Yumo so conflicted found its answer.

‘I am not willing!’

As expected, she was still unwilling to see her own children get hurt!

The only one who can hit or discipline these children is me! No one else is allowed! Let someone else be the dungeon boss! She didn’t want her children to be experience packs!!

Taking a deep breath to stabilize the restless emotions in her heart, Yumo looked at the gray-haired girl who stood before her with a face full of anxiety. She couldn’t help but use her finger to wipe away the tears at the corner of the girl’s eye and rubbed Li Yu’s small head, comforting her softly.

“It’s okay, your sister is fine. She just suffered some burns.”

“Is… is that true?!”

Hearing her mother’s words, the unease in Li Yu’s emerald eyes dissipated slightly.

“Yes,” Yumo nodded.

She had long ago placed Shadow Essence inside Li Mo’s body for protection. Unless an existence beyond the norm attacked Li Mo, that girl would be fine; at most, she would suffer some injuries.

“Go dispel the flames and bring your sister back. Use this to treat her while you’re at it.”

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As she spoke, Yumo took an exquisite crystal bottle out of her spatial ring, and what was contained inside was none other than the Tears of Nature.

“Mhm! I understand!”

After taking the crystal bottle from her mother’s hand, the burning-anxious Li Yu impatiently spread the wings behind her back and transformed into a streak of emerald light, rushing toward her sister’s location!

After watching Li Yu depart, the gentle expression Yumo used to comfort her began to gradually fade, replaced instead by a bone-chilling coldness. Then, the black-haired girl slowly raised her head and looked toward the horizon.

At this moment, another steel meteor wrapped in purple light streaked from afar once again at an extraordinary speed! Staring at the approaching steel meteor, Yumo’s scarlet eyes narrowed slightly.

Not only did you blow up my daughter, but now you want to kill the female lead too?

‘Since you want to find death so badly, then fine…’

In this instant, a dark smile slowly appeared on Yumo’s face, and a grim killing intent rarely seen before surged within her scarlet eyes.

On the other side, on the Anqi Mountains south of Fort Garros, watching the world-shaking explosion in the distance, seeing the crimson flames shooting into the clouds, and feeling the scorching breath blowing toward them from afar, the tens of thousands of troops from Windward City and various fortresses suddenly felt a chill down their spines. They stared at the sky-piercing red light in utter terror.

Even Marquis Xiumu, a Sword Saint powerhouse, was no exception. He had entered a state of complete shock. Although he had guessed the power of this thing long ago, he hadn’t expected it to be this terrifying! At this moment, he understood why the Royal Family had dared to be so aggressive toward the Red Lotus Leaf Empire and the Ashurmos Church recently. It turned out they had developed this thing?!

But how on earth did the Crown Prince research such a terrifying weapon? Recalling the blonde man he once saw in the imperial palace, Xiumu still felt a sense of lingering fear even now.

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“No, don’t think about that first. What’s the situation with that demon king tier?”

Hearing Xiumu’s words, the knight commander Sikta, who was beside him, shook his head helplessly.

“The aftershocks of the explosion are too strong; the griffin scouts in the sky simply can’t fly over. It’s impossible to confirm Snow Devourer’s current state. The only thing that can be confirmed is that the Magic Fission Bomb hit that giant wolf directly.”

“I see, is that so.”

“Yes, Marquis. Do you think… this weapon can blow Snow Devourer to death?”

Regarding this question, Xiumu hesitated slightly.

“I… I’m not sure. After all, I don’t know exactly how strong the demon king tier is. However, after being blasted like that, even a demon king tier existence would be heavily wounded, right?”

“That should be the case.”

Xiumu looked forward thoughtfully. Although he found the Royal Family’s act of attacking Snow Devourer and Bai Yanluo together very incomprehensible, after this round of explosions, the Abyssal Demon horde would likely retreat, right? After realizing that the crisis in the Northern Frontier might be resolved because of this, Xiumu couldn’t help but heave a sigh of relief.

However, right at this moment, a knight beside him suddenly let out a panic-stricken cry.

“Marquis, there… there… over there?!”

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The knight’s exclamation made Xiumu frown. Feeling that something was wrong, he hurriedly turned his head and followed the knight’s gaze toward the high sky. The people nearby did the same. Then, in the next instant, everyone’s expression changed drastically! Terror suddenly began to spread frantically in everyone’s hearts, proliferating through the army like a virus!

In the high sky, a familiar scene was playing out once again. A steel meteor wrapped in purple light suddenly burst into everyone’s field of vision, and the direction it was falling toward was precisely Fort Garros!

Recalling the previous large-scale explosion, Xiumu’s eyes suddenly shrank, and he bit his lip hard. If this Magic Fission Bomb landed on Fort Garros, then all of them would be within the range of the explosion’s impact! Xiumu really didn’t know if this weapon could kill a demon king tier, but if it hit them while they were defenseless, Xiumu was certain that the vast majority of the soldiers behind him would surely lose their lives!

With a heavy heart, Xiumu suddenly turned around and did his best to issue orders to the soldiers behind him!

“Quick, retreat!! And activate the magic barriers! Fast!”

The roar, containing powerful battle aura fluctuations, instantly pulled everyone’s consciousness back to reality! The various knight groups hurriedly began to evacuate and tried to open defensive magic! However, compared to the speed at which the steel meteor was falling, their speed was practically at a snail’s pace.

Facing the purple light that fell unexpectedly, they had no time to retreat, nor did they have time to construct a defense. Everyone could only watch with terrified and helpless eyes as that steel meteor plummeted rapidly toward the ground.

“It’s… it’s over…”

Xiumu gripped the hilt of his sword unwillingly. Right at this moment, this nearly desperate old Marquis’s eyes suddenly shrank, and he unconsciously revealed an expression of disbelief.

Just as the Magic Fission Bomb was about to have an intimate contact with Fort Garros and release its world-destroying fury, a strange crimson light suddenly flashed inside Fort Garros. Along with the flickering of the red light, a sky-blotting swarm of blood-colored butterflies suddenly surged out from within the fortress…

‘What… what is that?! Butterflies?!’