Volume 6, Chapter 26 – There’s Killing Intent!

Very quickly, Tianyin rushed to the sky above the battlefield, but to her great surprise, she did not see any trace of Julius or Orgum on the field.

“Eh, how come they’re not here… Forget it, I’ll deal with these enemies first, then talk about it later…”

Although she was puzzled as to why she could not see Julius and Orgum, Tianyin also knew now was not the time to be puzzled. After all, Dawn’s army was still down below.

『We need to finish this quickly. Once we save these people, we can ask about Julius and Orgum’s whereabouts!』

「Mm.」

After voicing the thoughts in her heart to Samael, Tianyin took out the knight’s sword from her System Inventory.

A strange, bewitching purple instantly flooded her pupils, and as the color of Tianyin’s eyes changed, the aura around her body also became incredibly dangerous.

Boom—!

The sound of air being torn apart suddenly rang out, and as that sound echoed, a blood-red streak of light appeared above the battlefield like a falling meteor, tearing through the sky in the blink of an eye.

Right after that, the blood-red light crashed with a boom into the very center of the fighting on the ground.

“What happened!”

“What was that!”

The battlefield, already in utter chaos, became even more chaotic. The ones closest to where that beam of light had fallen were almost all Minotaurs from the Underground World.

So, at the instant the light slammed down, nearly hundreds of Minotaurs who had gotten too close were swept up into the air by the air current stirred up when it hit.

“What was that?!”

At the very rear of the army, the Minotaur commander who had been commanding the troops to slaughter Dawn’s army from behind also noticed this sudden scene that had taken place on the battlefield.

Of course, because he was too far away, with a Minotaur’s level of intelligence, this Minotaur commander had absolutely no idea what had actually happened on the battlefield.

“General, a little girl appeared where that red light landed!”

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Very soon, while this Minotaur commander was still thinking about what that beam of red light had been, the latest report came from the front line.

“A little girl? Hm? Are you saying that beam of red light that just landed was caused by a little girl?”

“Y-Yes, General, that is exactly what the reports from the front say. I also double checked several of them, and everyone says it was a little girl… And that little girl is now on a killing spree… A lot of our kin have already been killed by that little girl…”

“A little girl? Hahahahahahaha, how is that possible? Just how strong can a mere little girl be?”

However, the Minotaur commander clearly was not very willing to believe this report that had been passed up.

As for the part about a little girl being on a killing spree, the Minotaur commander obviously did not take that to heart either.

“Ridiculous. Since when can a little girl open a slaughter against our Minotaur race? Is that little girl some kind of innately gifted Mage?”

“N-No, General… that little girl does not seem to use magic. She is using a sword…”

“Using a sword? And a little girl at that?”

Hearing this, the smile on the Minotaur commander’s face grew even brighter.

“Making a fuss over nothing… Isn’t she just a little girl who can swing a sword? What is our Minotaur race best at? Aren’t we best at close combat? So what little girl are you talking about, how did such an utterly unreliable report get passed up to me?”

“But General… it is true, absolutely true…”

“Enough, stop talking. Whether it is a little girl or not is hard to say from here. I have to go personally. I want to see for myself whether the one going on a killing spree really is a little girl or not.”

It had to be admitted that this Minotaur commander was very confident in his own Epic-tier strength.

He had no idea that his strength, in Tianyin’s eyes, was just something to be killed in a single blow.

At this moment, ever since Tianyin had descended onto the battlefield, the originally one-sided situation started to change.

Dawn’s army, which had been heavily outnumbered, began to gain the upper hand once Tianyin arrived. In just a few minutes, a vacuum with not a single enemy in sight had formed around Tianyin.

“It’s my lord!”

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“My lord has come to save us!”

“My lord!”

“Ohhh, it’s my lord!”

Very soon, with the pressure suddenly lessened, the Dawn soldiers present all noticed Tianyin’s presence. After seeing her, the Dawn soldiers let out excited shouts that lifted everyone’s spirits.

Compared to the rising morale on Dawn’s side, the Minotaur army’s morale on the other side silently wilted.

Of course, the main reason was still Tianyin’s presence, because in just a few minutes, hundreds and thousands of Minotaur soldiers had already died to the sword in Tianyin’s hand.

“Everyone, don’t get too worked up. The priority is to deal with these enemy troops first. As for cheering, leave it until after we wipe them out.”

Tianyin was rather calm. Compared to Dawn’s army, which had let down its guard unconsciously because of her arrival, Tianyin’s focus was still firmly on the Minotaur horde in front of her.

“My lord is right. Let’s finish off these damned Minotaurs first!”

“Come on. With my lord here, we can definitely defeat the enemy army!”

Very quickly, the battlefield became completely one-sided.

Of course, the reason the situation on the battlefield had been turned around was largely because Tianyin had taken action and dealt with most of the Minotaur soldiers.

“General… the situation is not in our favor!”

When the Minotaur commander finally arrived on the battlefield from the rear, the sight that entered his eyes was his own army being beaten by Dawn’s army so badly they were running for their lives.

“What is going on? Wasn’t everything fine just now? How did the situation change so quickly?”

“General… it was that little girl… Look…”

Following the direction his subordinate was pointing, the Minotaur commander very quickly saw Tianyin, whose little hand held a sword as she moved through the battlefield like there was no one there, cutting down Minotaur soldiers as easily as one would harvest leeks.

“Hiss… it really is a little girl… What is going on, since when are human little girls this terrifying?”

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Faced with this scene, the Minotaur commander could not help but suck in a sharp breath.

But surprise was one thing. As the highest commander of the army, the Minotaur commander was not going to be scared stiff by Tianyin’s strength that easily.

Of course, whether he would still be able to stay calm if he knew Tianyin was not even trying when she dealt with these Minotaur soldiers was another matter entirely.

“Where are the Dark Elves? Have the Dark Elves cast weakening spells on that little girl yet?”

Very soon, the Minotaur commander came up with a countermeasure for dealing with Tianyin.

According to the Minotaur commander’s thinking, Tianyin was a melee fighter. She should not be able to withstand long-range attacks.

However, that was only how he imagined it.

“General… those Dark Elves all ran away the moment they saw that little girl. They knew something was wrong…”

“What did you say? They all ran away?! How dare they?!”

Hearing this, the Minotaur commander was so depressed he almost coughed up blood.

“What is wrong with those Dark Elves? Do they only know how to run whenever they see someone strong?”

He was furious at the Dark Elves for fleeing. However, anger aside, the Minotaur commander also knew now was not the time to pursue the matter of their escape.

The most urgent problem was how to deal with the little girl who was slaughtering everything in sight and cutting down Minotaurs like chopping vegetables and melons.

“Tch, at this point I can only step in myself… Bring me my great axe.”

Soon, his subordinates brought his great axe. Once he took it, the Minotaur commander felt a surge of confidence for no reason, and there was a hint of cruelty in his gaze as he looked toward Tianyin.

“Hmph, a mere human little girl. I want to see if you can still keep jumping around later.”

Leaving those words behind, the Minotaur commander felt as if a war god had descended into his body. His desire to kill Tianyin burned even stronger.

“Hm? Such a faint killing intent.”

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On the other side, Tianyin, who was moving unhindered across the battlefield, suddenly furrowed her delicate, pretty brows.

「Well… I feel it too. After all, the Minotaurs around us no longer have any will to fight, so this killing intent is quite obvious…」

『Wuu, Samael, you feel it too? But honestly, while the killing intent is strong, the person it belongs to doesn’t feel that strong.』

「Mm… but just in case, Xiaoyin, you should still be on guard…」

Tianyin agreed with what Samael said. Since they had reached a consensus, Tianyin did not hesitate and swung her sword several times toward the direction the killing intent was coming from, drawing on the power of the Seven Original Sins.

Boom—!

Boom!

Boom!

Several blood-red sword lights flew toward the Minotaur commander. Before the Minotaur commander had any idea what was happening, the blood-red sword lights had already pierced through his body one after another.

Very quickly, the life force in the Minotaur commander’s body began to dissipate, and his body gradually turned into faint motes of light that vanished into the void.

Of course, Tianyin’s full-strength swings did not only kill the Minotaur commander. In that instant, she also took the lives of several hundred Minotaurs.

“Hm… the killing intent disappeared. If I haven’t actually taken out the source of that killing intent, then maybe the owner saw my attacks and decided to retreat on their own.”

With the Minotaur commander’s death, the killing intent naturally vanished. From start to finish, Tianyin had no idea what had really happened, so she simply voiced her guess to Samael.

「Xiaoyin… since the killing intent has disappeared, there’s no need to pay any more attention to it. Right now, the priority is still to finish clearing out this Minotaur army here. The longer we drag this out, the more likely it is that something might have happened to Julius and the others…」

『Yeah, I know…』

Tianyin nodded.