Volume 2, Chapter 22 – Once More, The Seven Deadly Sins Activate!

Though some players intended to attack Tianyin, to her, who was preparing to use the power of the Seven Deadly Sins, it hardly mattered, even if she noticed them.

What worried Tianyin more was the thought that if Xiaomengyao found out she possessed such immense power, would she think Tianyin had been deceiving her all along?

No. The most important thing right now was to escape the danger of being wiped out by the players. As for that matter, she would deal with it afterward.

Finally, Tianyin made up her mind. Her eyes grew firm with resolve.

『Hey, Samael…』

Since she had decided to take action against the players, Tianyin suddenly thought of something before moving.

「What is it, Xiaoyin? Is something wrong?」

『Samael… do you need a weapon?』

As she spoke, Tianyin opened her inventory. Though invisible to everyone else, in her eyes, the inventory appeared clearly, and there, resting quietly inside, was a gleaming golden knight’s longsword.

…

While Tianyin was speaking with Samael, Mengyao, who was warily keeping watch around them, noticed several sneaky guild players drawing closer to their position.

Though they were still at a distance, due to her recent job change and their time spent traveling through the wilds together, constantly facing ambushes, Mengyao had developed a sharp intuition for hostility. She immediately sensed that those players meant no good.

Clearly, they were coming with ill intent.

Among those players, three were warriors, two were mages, and two were rangers.

Even though there were no priests, assassins, or thieves among them, the pressure Mengyao felt was much heavier than that from the wild monsters they had fought before.

After all, fighting ordinary monsters and fighting in PvP were fundamentally different things.

“Master… no good, Master’s still dazed behind me…”

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She didn’t know why Tianyin had suddenly gone into another trance, but Mengyao knew that at this moment, the only one who could protect her Master was herself.

So.

Absolutely…

Absolutely…

Absolutely, I have to protect my Master… I must…

In that case, the only thing left to do…

Was…

“Grab Master and run for it!”

That thought flashed through Mengyao’s mind in an instant, and in the very next second, barely within a single breath, she moved at lightning speed, lifting Tianyin into a princess carry and sprinting away!

Yes. Though she was just a small loli herself, Mengyao lifted the dazed Tianyin into her arms, princess-style, and started running for her life.

Honestly, the sight of one little loli carrying another in her arms was… strangely cute.

“Uh..?. what’s going on?”

The players who had been ready to attack were dumbfounded. None of them could immediately process what had just happened before their eyes.

“Idiot! She’s trying to run! After her!”

A ranger player realized what was happening, shouting in frustration as he put away his bow and charged ahead to give chase.

“Yeah, quick, chase them!”

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Snapped out of their stupor by the ranger’s call, the other players hurriedly joined in, sprinting after Mengyao, who was still running with Tianyin in her arms.

Though Mengyao’s sudden action had caught them off guard and bought her a bit of time, the battlefield around them was in chaos, with players swarming from every direction.

As she ran, Mengyao soon realized, there were players everywhere.

Not only that, but there were far too many of them. The moment others noticed that she and Tianyin were being chased, more and more players, those who couldn’t get NPC kills, joined the pursuit just for the fun of it.

Meanwhile, Tianyin, who had been speaking with Samael, finally came back to her senses.

It was only then that she noticed her body was moving rapidly.

“Eh? What’s going on?”

She asked in a daze, only to look up and see her disciple’s cute, flushed face right above her.

“Xiaomengyao, your face is so red…”

Tianyin, completely unaware of the situation, tilted her head in confusion.

While Tianyin snapped out of her daze, Mengyao puffed her cheeks angrily.

Even though she was still running, thanks to her hidden knight-class lineage, her stamina was far higher than that of an average player. So she had managed to carry Tianyin for quite some time without being caught.

That said, even if they weren’t in immediate danger, being caught was only a matter of time.

After all, as a loli, Mengyao was painfully aware of one unchangeable fact, short legs.

On one hand, she knew getting caught was inevitable; on the other, Tianyin’s blank, innocent face as if she had no clue what was happening made her want to scream.

‘Damn it, Master! You’ll pay for this later!’

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Mengyao puffed her cheeks in frustration but still explained their current crisis to Tianyin.

“Master, just look behind us and you’ll understand…”

“Behind us?”

Tianyin blinked in confusion but still turned her head to the side.

That one glance made her jump.

“Ehhhhh?! Why are there so many people?! What are they trying to do?!”

“What do you think they’re trying to do, Master?”

“…”

Tianyin had spoken out of pure shock, but after Mengyao’s retort, she quickly understood the danger they were in.

They had been marked by the players as targets to be eliminated.

「Oh my, oh my, Xiaoyin, with so many players chasing after us, this just means we can take care of plenty at once~」

Samael’s voice echoed softly in Tianyin’s mind.

“Ah… yes… that’s true, isn’t it…”

Tianyin muttered under her breath.

“Eh, Master, what did you just say?”

Mengyao, still carrying Tianyin, hadn’t quite caught what she said, but before she could ask again, Tianyin didn’t repeat herself.

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Instead…

“Xiaomengyao, you don’t need to run anymore~”

Her soft voice was clear this time, and Mengyao heard every word.

Yet she didn’t understand at all why Tianyin would say something like that.

“Master, do you even know what you’re saying?”

“Of course I do, Xiaomengyao.”

Tianyin’s tone was calm, eerily calm.

And in that very moment, Mengyao realized her body, which had been running, suddenly stopped.

She couldn’t move.

And Tianyin, who had been in her arms just a second ago, now stood before her.

Not only that, the silver-haired girl’s gemstone-like eyes now glowed with an abnormal light.

One eye remained its usual color, but the other shone with a chilling crimson radiance.

In her hand, she held a golden knight’s longsword.

“Master…”

For a moment, Mengyao could only stare, lost and speechless by the sight before her.