Chapter 148: Decisive Kill

Chapter 148: Decisive Kill

Lily, who had run all night, was still full of energy. She didn’t even feel hungry, as if her body hadn’t used any energy at all. This was a change she had seen in Bran. After the Fairy pulled Bran into the Spiritual World, Bran’s need for food and drink gradually decreased. He said it was because his body had become pure, and Mana had taken over.

She didn’t know why the Fairy favored Bran differently. She also wanted to enter the Fairy’s Spiritual World, but the Fairy never answered her request. She had even felt resentful about it. Now she realized it wasn’t that the Fairy wouldn’t help her, but that she wasn’t suited for it.

Her World was the earth beneath her feet, the sky above her head.

An excitement she couldn’t hold back made her whisper softly to herself, “I’ve finally caught up to you, my dear little brother.”

The blood trail had reached its end. Looking at the dense, rising and falling Insect Swarm before her, and at the figure charging recklessly through the swarm in the distance, Lily let out a sky-shaking roar that drowned out the deafening buzz of insect wings.

The people engaged in the fight heard the roar and felt their spirits lift. This also made their attacks unconsciously grow a bit stronger.

A small group of insects rushed out from the swarm and closed in on Lily. They excitedly rubbed their hard wings, making a sharp, grating noise. Watching and waiting from the rear, longing for battle, had made them irritable. This girl arrived just in time; they needed an outlet.

Twin blades fell into Lily’s hands. Facing the insect group, she couldn’t help but remember Bran’s bragging. He had gestured and talked about how he had cleared the bee swarm with one slash each.

She really thought he was boasting back then, until the blade light flashed, shimmering several times before her eyes.

Let’s compare then!

Lily slowly walked forward, letting them surround her, letting them gradually shrink the space, until one insect tentatively struck out with its first claw.

Blade light flashed. There was no dreamy starlight shimmer, only dazzling, blinding light. When the light faded, the insect’s corpse lay shattered on the ground…

She didn’t stop walking and gradually sped up. How could just these on the outskirts be enough? She needed more. She still had to eliminate the King leading this Insect Swarm.

An Insect Swarm of this scale must have a King. Only then would the swarm behave so orderly. She needed to find it, and then kill it.

A storm began to stir from the rear of the Insect Swarm. At first, the swarm didn’t react much. How much power could one person have? But this storm was expanding, accelerating, deepening. A region at the rear had already started to fall into chaos, and the chaos was still spreading.

A squad of the swarm’s elite was dispatched there. They moved like a counter-current, passing through the swarm and pouncing towards Lily.

Well done! This was the moment she had been waiting for. As this elite squad got close to her, she began to move, like a butterfly fluttering and dancing over the heads of the insects. It seemed like she could be swatted down easily, but whenever a hand rose to strike, the butterfly fluttered away with the gust of wind.

Only this butterfly was deadly. Every beat of its wings, every rise and fall in its dance, cost a life.

Alone in such a vast Insect Swarm, how much of a wave could she stir up? And she didn’t want to stir up too big a wave right now. What if a wave too big scared the Insect King away?

Good, help had arrived. Those chasing her were her best helpers. Driven by her movements, the Insect Swarm became completely turbulent.

She kept changing direction, testing the swarm’s reactions. More and more elite joined the chase. The swarm gradually gave up attacking the others and began to focus all its efforts on dealing with her.

Heavy Axe, covered in blood, and the remaining members of his clan retreated back to the cave entrance. Freed from the chaotic melee, they finally had a chance to observe the battlefield. Then they were all a bit dumbfounded; they only saw a young girl floating back and forth within the Insect Swarm.

“We have to help her!”

“Don’t go and become a burden. You can’t help; none of us can.”

Heavy Axe stared at Lily’s figure with some emotion. Was this the youth of the Northlands today? He wondered how his daughter Angie was doing in the Castle?

Someone saw flames spouting and whirlwinds rising within the Insect Swarm. These attacks, which had caused them so much trouble, disappeared without a trace when they neared the girl.

“What is she!?”

“She’s a Wizard, Bran’s Sister,” Heavy Axe explained casually, still staring.

“No wonder!” Then curiosity lifted. “Who is more powerful, her or Bran?”

“Of course it’s Bran—” The automatic answer started to become uncertain as he faced the scene before him.

Could Bran do this? No one here had seen Bran in action. Although Bran’s deeds in Northland City had spread to every corner of the Northlands, could he charge into such a massive Insect Swarm without care like Lily? They say he’s a very aloof person…

Out of gratitude, they naturally leaned more towards the girl before them. As for Bran, better forget it…

So finally, someone chose a side: “Of course the Sister is more powerful. Right, guys?”

Heavy Axe found this sentence grating. She had survived until now entirely because of the Battle Axe Bran made for her. During her life-and-death struggle, that pair of Battle Axes had even become connected to her Bloodline. After fighting until now, they still didn’t have a drop of blood on them; the surfaces were still mirror-bright. They were truly divine weapons.

These Battle Axes suppressed the abilities of Magical Beasts. Without their abilities, Magical Beasts were just lumps of rotten flesh in her eyes. It was a shame. If only they had had a few more weapons made by Bran, the casualties wouldn’t have been so severe.

She grunted. “Shut up! What time is it to be arguing about this?”

The scolded ones quieted down.

Soon, Heavy Axe, who was watching the battlefield intently, suddenly clapped her hands and said in a low voice, “Found it!”

…

Yes, found it! Lily had found the Insect King. She charged fiercely in that direction. This time, she held nothing back. With a roar, the Mana around her solidified into a physical form, directly smashing a bloody path through the Insect Swarm.

The guards around the Insect King were not few, and they were the elite of the elite. But they served no purpose. At this moment, they were no different from the ordinary insects—they were either thrown aside, shattered, or turned into pulp.

Amidst the fearful, grating sounds of the Insect King’s hard wings, Lily crashed heavily into its body—smashing it to pieces. Then her blade light flared again. This time, holding nothing back, she stirred up a true storm of blood and flesh.

Seeing this, Heavy Axe couldn’t help but shudder. To avoid scaring the swarm, to find the Insect King, Lily had been hiding her strength all along.

Before the others could snap out of their shock, Heavy Axe stomped her foot, grabbed her Battle Axe, and charged towards the Insect Swarm again. It was time to beat the drowning dog…