Volume 2, Chapter 53 – Slammed Into the Dirt

She split a fortress in half just because it was in her way?

Even if the Abomination could believe that, no one else would ever think that sounded like a reasonable explanation. No matter how you looked at it… it just gave off the feeling that she was making up an excuse to brush things off.

“So… just because it was in your way… you split the fortress apart…”

Having more or less realized that the girl before it possessed the strength of a Throne-class being, the Abomination, though known to be one of the more hot-tempered Legendaries of the Graveyard, still had a brain.

So, faced with this girl who clearly wasn’t someone to provoke, no, to be exact, someone he wasn’t even qualified to be her opponent, the Abomination felt not only powerless, but deeply uneasy.

After all, he had just offended a Throne-class being…

A Throne… within the entire Graveyard, aside from the Grand Duke Sargus himself, only one other being could claim such a title, the Frost Dragon Ysera.

And the reason Ysera possessed Throne-level strength traced back to the dragon race itself.

The dragonkin had existed since the dawn of creation. Though they no longer appeared before mortals, the dragon race remained one of the most powerful species in existence.

According to what the Abomination knew, the Frost Dragon Ysera had actually been a young dragon abandoned by her own kin, picked up by the Grand Duke of the Undead several thousand years ago…

Just imagining that, even an abandoned hatchling of the dragons could grow to become a Throne, was enough to show how overwhelmingly powerful the dragon race truly was.

“…Ah, well, whatever. I’m in a good mood today, and I still have things I want to do, so I won’t bother with you for now…”

As the Abomination sank into thought, Tianyin’s voice suddenly reached his ears.

For a moment, the Abomination thought it must have misheard.

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But when it raised its head to ask, it realized that the girl who had been in the sky before it was gone.

All that remained was a stretch of thick clouds.

“Uh… she’s gone… gone?”

For a while, the Abomination just stood there, unable to accept what had just happened.

It was far too strange.

It had just been foolish enough to attack a Throne-class being, yet instead of being punished, she had simply decided to let it go and leave first.

“…”

Though it was still confused about why a Throne had even appeared here in the first place, its limited mind simply couldn’t make sense of why Tianyin had suddenly left.

“Well, whatever. Not getting punished is already lucky enough…”

Muttering to itself, the Abomination finally noticed that because it had rushed off to fight Tianyin, the massive undead army that had come with it was now far behind, separated by quite a distance.

“In any case, let’s put the search for that outsider aside for now… the most important thing is to return and report this to the Grand Duke…”

As if realizing something, the Abomination shook its head.

The plan to capture the outsider with the growth-type divine artifact would have to be abandoned for the time being.

But just as it was about to take its first step to leave, it suddenly sensed something.

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Not far away, a girl it had never seen before appeared.

“Xiaoyin… wait for me…”

The voice that reached his ears was anxious, almost desperate, calling out as if searching for someone.

The Abomination, irritated from today’s events, was in no mood to deal with anything else. But despite its foul temper, it had lived for hundreds of thousands of years and knew better than to stir up new trouble right after crossing paths with a Throne.

Still, despite wanting to avoid complications, its gaze instinctively turned toward the girl who had suddenly appeared in the distance,

And in that instant, it felt the unique aura belonging only to a growth-type divine artifact emanating from her body.

“It’s her… the outsider I was looking for just now?”

Its bad mood vanished instantly, replaced by delight.

It now understood, today, even though he had encountered a Throne-class being, the day wasn’t without its rewards.

Because the one possessing the growth-type divine artifact had just appeared right before its eyes.

“Don’t blame me for this. Blame yourself for running right to me…”

The Abomination’s twisted mouth stretched into a cruel grin, the stitches along its face pulling as its massive jaw opened unnaturally wide.

Its enormous body began to move toward the girl, slow, but with each step closing the distance by dozens of meters.

“Xiaoyin…”

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Hearing no response, the girl’s voice grew heavy with sorrow.

Just moments ago, she had been terribly worried about Tianyin, even ready to draw the Abomination’s attention to save her.

But then, Tianyin had done something unbelievable, effortlessly deflecting the Abomination’s attacks with movements so simple it almost looked easy.

Relieved and overjoyed, the girl had wanted to reunite with her.

Yet just as she pictured the scene of them meeting again, she realized Tianyin hadn’t even noticed her.

Only now did it hit her.

From the very beginning… Tianyin had completely ignored her.

“Of course… Xiaoyin is an NPC. In the end, she’s still an NPC. She’s not like us players at all. Maybe… she’s already forgotten about me.”

Her mood sank even lower as that thought crossed her mind. Her once-beautiful face twisted with a sorrowful expression.

But to the Abomination, all of this was meaningless.

The outsider’s sadness meant nothing to it.

The only thing it cared about was the divine artifact she possessed.

“Capture you alive… then strip the artifact from you.”

It knew that these growth-type divine artifacts were soul-bound. But the undead, especially the liches, had many ways of dealing with souls.

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Slowly, it drew closer and closer to the girl.

It was already considering how best to capture her and prevent her from killing herself to respawn.

And then…

A small, delicate figure suddenly appeared right in front of it.

Just that adorable, perfect face, that soft silver-white hair, those crimson eyes.

The Abomination felt an overwhelming sense of discomfort.

It wanted to ask, “Why are you back again?”

But her sudden reappearance left it so startled that it couldn’t even form words properly.

Before it could react, a tiny hand moved lazily toward it.

“Don’t let me see you again~”

Boom!

The Abomination was slammed straight into the ground, half of its upper body still sticking out of the dirt.