Volume 6, Chapter 27 – Seles!

About half an hour passed. After a hard fight, Tianyin finally finished dealing with this large Minotaur army.

『Phew, finally done… Handling such a huge Minotaur army really was not easy at all… By the way, Samael, there were quite a lot of Minotaurs here, right?』

「Mm… even with a conservative estimate there were seventy to eighty thousand of them, and we cannot rule out that the real number was higher than that. Xiaoyin, and this is only one Minotaur army at most just a vanguard force…」

『I see… That means we are going to face even more enemies next… Well, there is no need to overthink it now. When the time comes I will just step in and fight.』

When it came to facing enemies, no matter how many there were, Tianyin’s thinking was, in the end, very straightforward.

After all, Throne-tier combat power was not just for show. When she ran into a massive enemy army she could just crush them head on with pure strength.

“My lord!”

Once this Minotaur army was wiped out, Dawn’s troops on the field began to sweep the battlefield.

While they were cleaning up, the highest ranking commander among Dawn’s troops here, a Half-beast whose strength only seemed a little higher than that of an ordinary soldier, walked over.

“To receive my lord’s personal aid and rescue, we truly do not know how we should thank you enough…”

“Mm… no need to be so polite. We are all on the same side. If I see something like this happening, of course I will not just stand by.”

“My lord is too modest. You are the ruler of the Faction. For a dignified Faction ruler like you to personally come and save us common folk… we are honestly thankful from the bottom of our hearts…”

Just as this Half-beast officer said, although Dawn’s troops here were indeed a part of Dawn, in the end they were only the least noticeable existence within Dawn.

And Tianyin, as the Lord of Dawn, had personally taken action to save them from their crisis.

While Tianyin herself felt this sort of thing was only natural, in the eyes of these ordinary people, her act of coming to save them was enough to move them to tears.

Even though Tianyin looked like a tiny little girl with no sign of having grown up in the eyes of outsiders, in this world where everything was measured by strength, Tianyin as a Throne-tier was originally a lofty existence that must not be offended.

“Alright…”

Tianyin also felt that saying anything more would not change their attitude, so she could only nod to show she accepted their thanks.

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However, Tianyin was not only busy receiving their gratitude. She was very clear in her heart that the real purpose of this trip was to look for people.

“Right… Since you have withdrawn from the front line, you should know about the general I appointed most recently, Julius, and the general previously in charge of the battle line, Orgum, right?”

“Y-Yes, my lord. On the front line I had contact with General Julius in my daily duties. General Orgum also seemed to be at General Julius’s side.”

After hearing Tianyin’s question, the Half-beast officer hurriedly and respectfully reported all the information he knew.

“Hm? You mean Julius and Orgum are both still at the front line?”

Hearing this answer, Tianyin could not help feeling her eyes light up.

“Yes, my lord… Our unit withdrew from the defensive line where Lord Julius and Lord Orgum were stationed.”

“Mm… so that means Julius and Orgum really are still holding the line… Mm, this information came at just the right time. Thank you so much~”

Having obtained clues related to Julius and Orgum, Tianyin felt very happy.

The Half-beast officer who had been personally thanked by Tianyin looked completely overwhelmed by the honor.

“Being able to ease my lord’s worries is this subordinate’s greatest honor…”

“Alright, alright, hurry and pull back for now. I still need to make a trip to the front line, so I will stop chatting with you here~”

Seeing the Half-beast officer standing there so respectful made Tianyin feel a little uncomfortable. Of course, she could not show that discomfort on her face.

So after getting the information she wanted, Tianyin decisively said goodbye to the officer. After saying goodbye, she flew off in the direction Dawn’s army had retreated.

『Samael… it looks like Julius and the others really are at the front line. Still, whether it is Julius or Orgum, those two really don’t care about their own lives at all… They are the highest commanders here, yet instead of staying safely in the rear, they run off to the front line… They are just making people worry about them for nothing.』

She was happy to have news about Julius and the others, but Tianyin did not really approve of Julius going to the front line in person.

「Pfft… Xiaoyin, you are one to talk. When have you ever not gone into battle yourself? The power of the Seven Original Sins is very strong, but that does not mean you can just charge in without thinking…」

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In response to Tianyin’s complaint, Samael threw it right back at her without mercy.

『Ehehe… I am a Throne after all… I am very strong. I used to be a bit dumb, but I am not going to trip over the same place twice…』

Tianyin first tried to muddle through with a silly laugh, then used a very firm tone to show that she had grown a lot.

「I hope so…」

Samael replied to Tianyin’s answer in a rather helpless tone.

Soon, after Tianyin traveled for a little over an hour, she finally arrived at the front line that the Half-beast officer had mentioned, the place where Julius and Orgum had been.

However…

To Tianyin’s surprise, what was supposed to be the front line had now turned into a battlefield full of devastation.

“Th-This… what happened here?”

Tianyin’s eyes opened wide. She found it hard to believe the scene in front of her.

Everywhere she looked, aside from weapons, armor and military supplies scattered on the ground with no one to pick them up, all she could see were traces of battle that could only be left behind after a chaotic melee.

For some reason, as she looked at this battlefield, a bad premonition suddenly rose in Tianyin’s heart.

She did not even know how to describe this bad premonition. It only made her mood grow heavier and heavier.

“What exactly… happened here?”

Her head felt a little dizzy. Even though she was already a Throne, Tianyin still suddenly felt as if she could not breathe.

『Hey, Samael… where is Julius? Where is Orgum? And what about the troops stationed here?』

『Why can I not see a single person?』

Tianyin descended from the sky above the battlefield to the ground below. After landing, other than the sound of her own footsteps, she could not hear any other footsteps at all.

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「Xiaoyin… if I am not wrong, this place went through a major battle not long ago…」

『A a major battle… but even if it was a major battle, as long as the opponent was not multiple Legendary enemies or a Throne… with Julius’s strength, there should not… should not be such a scene, right?』

She did not want to believe it, but the devastated battlefield before her still told Tianyin that Julius and Orgum very likely had met with disaster.

「Xiaoyin, don’t think like that. What if Julius is not dead yet? If they ran into a powerful enemy, then even if he could not beat them, with Julius’s strength he should at least be able to escape, right?」

At this moment, Samael was much calmer. When Tianyin started to panic, Samael began to analyze the possibilities for her.

「Maybe Julius and the others retreated to another place. In that case, the fact that there has been no word from them would make sense. Their own lives would be in danger, so how would they have time to contact the rear.」

『Mm, mm, what you say makes sense, Samael. With Julius’s strength there is no way he would die that easily. Maybe he really did just retreat to somewhere we don’t know yet.』

Tianyin raised her little hand and wiped the corners of her eyes. Her expression became firm again.

「Then let us search this battlefield carefully first. We might find traces Julius left behind when he retreated~」

Seeing Tianyin’s mood improving somewhat, Samael immediately proposed a suggestion that sounded reliable.

And Tianyin accepted and agreed with this suggestion.

『Mm, then I will search carefully.』

However…

After a thorough search, not to mention finding traces left by Julius and the others when they retreated, Tianyin could not even find a single strand of hair.

『Julius and the others will definitely be fine… but Samael, why have I still not found any traces at all?』

「That’s…」

To tell the truth, that earlier suggestion was only a possibility Samael had reasoned out.

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Since it was only a possibility derived from reasoning, it naturally could also turn out to be false.

However, feeling the heavy disappointment in Tianyin’s heart, Samael suddenly did not know how to speak to comfort her.

「Things like this… I…」

Just as Samael was hesitating over what to say, a girl’s voice suddenly rang out. It was extremely familiar to Tianyin, and at the same time it instinctively made her feel repulsed.

“Meeting again… we are meeting again.”

The girl’s voice was not unpleasant at all. On the contrary, someone hearing it for the first time would instinctively feel that a person with such a voice must be very beautiful.

In fact, the girl who spoke really was very beautiful and very pretty.

A slender waist, delicate features, snow white skin.

Under her soft long hair, a pair of pointed ears were especially eye-catching.

The moment she saw the girl, Tianyin recognized her.

A Dark Elf.

No.

That was…

“Seles!”

Looking at the Elven girl who had appeared before her, the strange purple in Tianyin’s eyes began to spread.

Her towering killing intent also started, from that very instant, to pour out beyond her control.