Volume 6, Chapter 39 – Ambition and Purpose

Without anyone noticing, the sky had already grown unimaginably dark.

The darkened heavens, paired with that blood-like color, gave off an indescribable sense of eeriness and at the same time made everyone’s heartbeats speed up on their own.

Danger.

The instinct to survive was warning every soldier present who raised their head to look at the sky. Shocked as they were, each soldier’s face was also turning deathly pale.

“Crap, there’s someone up there!”

As a demon, Bagh was the first to notice the tiny, almost invisible figure of Tianyin standing in the sky.

The moment he spotted that silhouette, Bagh immediately shouted a warning to the people around him.

Only then did Bagh realize that even without his warning, the Minotaur soldiers and even the generals at his side had already all fallen into a state of total panic, completely at a loss.

“You guys… are a bunch of useless trash!”

He cursed under his breath, seething with hatred. Since the army around him had already fallen into chaos, Bagh had no intention of organizing a retreat for the entire force.

After all, as a demon, the first thing he ought to do in a crisis like this was take care of his own safety. Faced with this enormous army, Bagh’s plan was to use them as bait to draw the attention of the powerful figure in the sky, then take the chance to escape.

“Hmph, in the end it really is more important to save my own skin!”

Once the idea was set in his heart, Bagh immediately moved to put it into action.

However, just as Bagh was about to act and flee this place, Tianyin, high up in the sky, finally swung down the sword in her hand.

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BOOMM—!

A sound louder than rolling thunder rang out from the heavens.

Right after, a massive blood-red sword light fell straight down from the sky.

Carrying an irresistible might, the blood-red sword aura, in Bagh’s eyes in that instant, was like a huge mountain pressing straight down from above.

He was going to die.

Just from seeing that enormous sword aura descending from the sky and sensing the almost tangible aura of destruction on it, this despairing thought rose in Bagh’s heart.

His hands and feet went ice cold.

At that moment, no matter how cunning he might be as a demon, there was no way to deal with the attack falling from above. Faced with a strike far beyond what he could imagine, in the face of such overwhelming power that drove despair into one’s bones, any scheme or trick was completely useless.

When absolute power was brought down before someone who only knew how to plot in the shadows, no matter how that person struggled, it would all end up as nothing.

Just like Bagh, that despairing demon, every soldier around him, upon seeing that blood-red sword aura in the sky that nearly blotted out the sun, was filled with nothing but hopelessness.

At the moment when Tianyin swung her knight’s sword to unleash that strike, far away, Yunchou, who was still in a standoff with Andrew, subconsciously turned to look in the direction of Dawn.

“That level of power of Original Sin… at a time like this, she has finally fully mastered the power of Original Sin then…”

In Andrew’s nearby camp, the leader of the Academy, the Throne-tier Antonio, already so weak he was on the verge of collapse, also turned his clouded eyes toward Dawn.

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“Teacher… what’s wrong?”

Andrew, seated beside him, sensed his teacher’s sudden distant gaze and immediately rose to his feet to ask.

“That is… the aura of the Undead Grand Duke…”

The frail old mage spoke in a trembling voice, words that left Andrew’s heart shaking.

“But… apart from the Undead Grand Duke’s aura, I also sense another presence…”

“I imagine that one should be the Undead Grand Duke’s successor then…”

Struggling to speak, Antonio slowly drew back his gaze from the direction of Dawn. Then he turned his eyes toward Andrew standing right in front of him.

“You are my only disciple… also the disciple with the greatest talent I have ever seen.”

“I do not care whether you are an outsider from another world… or whether you harbor other ambitions.”

“After you inherit my Throne-tier power… what I want, what I need you to promise me, is only the prosperity of the Academy.”

Speaking in a languid tone, Antonio slowly closed his eyes.

“Disciple… remember, Throne-tier power does indeed stand at the peak of the world, but having Throne-tier power does not mean you can do whatever you want.”

“You must understand that in this world there is no strongest, only stronger. And the path of Arcane… has no end…”

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That day.

From the moment Tianyin’s sword fell, the Academy’s Throne-tier, Antonio, was declared dead.

And as Antonio’s only disciple, Andrew, who was a player, officially became, after Yunchou, the second Throne-tier player.

Of course, when Tianyin swung that sword, it was not only Yunchou and Andrew who reacted. Deep in the underworld, the Fortress Emperor who was busy forging also sensed Tianyin’s overwhelming aura at that moment.

“Hahahaha! Good, little one, you finally have the right to call yourself a strong one!”

Rumble—!

In Tianyin’s sight, the moment she swung the sword in her hand, the massive sword aura fell toward the ground like a meteor.

In an instant, it slammed straight down into the earth.

The blood-red sword light engulfed the entire army of a million below, its range of coverage so wide it almost included the entire plain.

Without a doubt, the million-strong enemy force that had just stepped onto the plain was struck head-on by Tianyin’s single indiscriminate attack. Under that enormous sword aura, countless weaker soldiers became souls reaped beneath Tianyin’s blade.

Of course… Although the area covered by Tianyin’s strike was vast, in truth the number of people who actually died from this move was only a few thousand.

“Phew… as expected, an attack of this level cannot deal that much damage. But killing a few thousand was a bit beyond what I expected.”

Looking at the chaotic enemy ranks below, Tianyin could not help sighing.

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「Xiaoyin, your goal was never really that army of a million down there, was it?」

『Mm… it really wasn’t those troops below, Samael.』

Samael’s words made Tianyin’s lips curl in a somewhat proud smile and she let out a soft laugh.

『Another trait of the power of Sloth is that it lets me control my Original Sin power with exquisite precision, and that sword strike I just spent so long charging, its target really wasn’t those enemies down there~』

Tianyin had no intention of hiding her plan from Samael.

On the contrary, once Samael asked, Tianyin honestly laid out her aim.

『Samael~ what I’m really after is just this grassland~』

「The grassland?」

『Yeah, the grassland.』

As she spoke, the ground on the grassland below began to crack at high speed, inch by inch.

『My goal is to sink this grassland, then turn it into the burial ground for this army.』