Volume 4, Chapter 52 – Sudden Situation

While she said those words that made Lucifa feel exceptionally warm, Tianyin’s gaze was firm and earnest.

“Got it? I’m not the kind of person who just casually chooses to abandon others at a moment of crisis!”

“Muu… I… I got it…”

Lucifa answered Tianyin timidly, her eyes shimmering with tears.

At that moment, the main gates of the City Lord’s residence were pushed open, and a knight girl with long golden hair tied into a ponytail, a face full of heroic spirit and a sharp, solemn gaze walked in.

“Fisiel!”

Seeing who it was, Tianyin naturally called out the knight girl’s name.

“My liege!”

The moment she saw Tianyin, the knight girl gave her the proper salute a knight should offer her liege.

“Most of the troops stationed at the Northern Fortress have already been moved into Eden City. Fisiel has not failed her mission.”

“Eh…”

Fisiel’s strictly businesslike attitude left Tianyin at a loss for words for a moment, but fortunately Xingyu Muxi smoothly picked up the conversation from the side.

“That’s good. But for the next few days, the city defenses of Eden will have to trouble you, Fisiel. By the way, why haven’t I seen Fischerna?”

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“You mean the Headless Knight?”

Toward Xingyu Muxi, Fisiel felt a natural respect. After all, Xingyu Muxi’s abilities were obvious to all, and as an upright knight, Fisiel held this outsider, Xingyu Muxi, in great admiration.

“She hasn’t entered the city. She’s only stationed her forces in the forest near Eden. After all, if an undead army marched into Eden it would cause panic among the beastmen, so the Headless Knight decided on the spot not to enter the city.”

“So that’s how it is… that was my oversight…”

Xingyu Muxi had not really considered what kind of impact Fischerna’s identity as undead would have on the residents of Eden, but since Fischerna had thought of it herself, there was no need to dwell on this small oversight.

“Not at all. The governor handles countless affairs every day, a few small oversights are inevitable… However, I’m somewhat puzzled. Why did we suddenly have to gather the troops back? Did some incident occur?”

Even though she knew in her heart that as a proper knight she should not press for answers in front of her liege, Fisiel still could not set aside her concern for the safety of the Northern Fortress, so she took the risk of overstepping and asked directly.

In response to Fisiel’s question, Xingyu Muxi did not show any anger at the Knight Princess’ overstepping.

On the contrary, Xingyu Muxi remained rather calm.

“Based on the information we’ve obtained so far, I’ve roughly inferred that beings from the Inferno will be attacking Dawn in the near future, and calling you back was so we could deal with the Inferno’s assault as soon as it began.”

“Inferno? Wait… why would an Inferno army come looking for trouble with Dawn?”

The knight girl was a little puzzled.

However, just as Xingyu Muxi was about to explain, the sky over Eden City suddenly turned the color of blood. At the same time, from that blood-red sky, massive meteors wrapped in flame began falling toward Eden.

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「This is bad… I didn’t expect the people from the Inferno to have already arrived, Xiaoyin!」

As Tianyin saw with her own eyes the moment the sky above Eden changed, Samael’s voice rang out in her mind at the same time.

『Got it… Samael!』

The same blood-red color began to spread through her pitch black pupils, and the next second, Tianyin’s figure shot straight toward the sky like an arrow leaving the string.

“Fisiel… it looks like the Inferno’s attack has already begun… The situation is urgent. From here on, I need you to take charge of the entire situation in Eden.”

“Understood! Eden will never fall while it is in my hands!”

The Knight Princess understood how urgent things were. After slapping her armor to show her resolve, she left the City Lord’s residence without looking back.

After watching Fisiel leave, Xingyu Muxi felt her own heart sink.

She had to admit, all this had come far too suddenly.

The reinforcements had only just been garrisoned in Eden, and the Inferno’s assault had already begun like this, out of nowhere.

Even the ever-confident Xingyu Muxi was struggling to react.

“But… why did the Inferno launch its attack directly on Eden City…”

Xingyu Muxi was deeply puzzled, but this was not the time to ponder why the Inferno’s attack had begun so abruptly. The urgent task at hand was to deal with the Inferno’s assault first.

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“I’ll go help… Xiaoyin…”

Expressionless, Xiaobingxue looked toward the sky. As her ice-blue pupils appeared, the air began to crystallize into snowflakes. The next second, Xiaobingxue flew straight up after Tianyin’s figure.

“We should hide for now… At the very least, we can’t drag them down during the battle…”

As the calmest one, Xingyu Muxi understood after taking in the situation that battles of this level were not something players could intervene in at all, so she led Xiaomengyao and Lucifa away to hide.

Lucifa also wanted to help Tianyin, but when she thought about how she still did not even know how to use the power of Pride, she gave up on the idea of helping Tianyin.

Even so, while she herself could not help Tianyin, Lucifa knew Mihiel and the other Fallen Angels would definitely take action and lend their aid.

“I hope they can drive those people back…”

Unable to do anything, all Lucifa could do was silently pray in her heart.

Of course, how could Xingyu Muxi and Xiaomengyao not feel the same way?

……

At the same time, high up in the sky, Tianyin, who had completely handed control of her body over to Samael, was already busy dealing with the gigantic meteors falling from above.

Even though their diameters were absurdly huge, under Tianyin’s attacks they were turned one after another into fragments so shattered they could not be any smaller.

「A meteor shower of this level looks very powerful, but in the end it is just an area-of-effect skill attack. Dealing with it is still quite easy.」

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Samael seemed to have her own ideas about how to handle a meteor shower.

『If that’s the case, then the one who cast this meteor shower should be a rather weak existence, right?』

Tianyin spoke with Samael in her mind.

「Not necessarily, Xiaoyin. To cast a large-scale attack like this, an ordinary mage or arcanist would need a very long chant, and while chanting they have to stir up the elemental power of this world. Once they stir up the elemental power, it is impossible for me not to sense it… But this time, the meteor shower came far too suddenly…」

『Suddenly…?』

Tianyin had a very bad feeling.

At the same time, elsewhere in the sky…

“So it’s you, little brat. Last time in the Inferno, Heavenly Father was there to cover you. This time I’ll see where you think you can run!”

An enormous figure abruptly appeared in Tianyin’s field of view. What hit her first was the ice-cold gaze in those huge vertical pupils.

“B-Black… Dra…gon…”

“It’s me. Hahahahahahahaha, I can feel that your body also holds Original Sin power, so before I catch Lucifa, I’ll take your power first!”