Volume 4, Chapter 8 – The Handover

“Tch.” An air of severity flashed across her face. Edith’s tone instantly became vicious.

“They came so quickly to die.”

“Who?”

Yisi subconsciously opened her Omniscient Map. About two hundred meters away from the carriage, a group of light points were fighting with the light points representing the black-clothed assassins. In terms of numbers, the enemy had twice as many people as Edith’s side, and their average level was also around level 10.

“There’s no time to explain to you slowly. Give me control of the body. I want to deal with them personally.” Controlling the Magical Fairy’s body, she landed at the same height as Yisi’s eyes. The grace on Edith’s face vanished, replaced by hatred and killing intent.

“Traitors must die.”

This must be Edith’s family business.

Yisi didn’t really want to get involved. Edith’s matters should be handled by Edith herself. Furthermore, with Edith’s arrogant personality, even if Yisi offered to help her finish it quickly, she wouldn’t agree.

However, things never develop as people imagine.

A light point appeared on the Omniscient Map, rapidly approaching the carriage. Without waiting for Edith to agree, Yisi grabbed Edith and hid her in her bosom. She then took Gungnir from her storage, deactivated the defensive barrier protecting the carriage, and, in a throwing motion, plunged Gungnir into the ceiling.

Bang!

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The sound of breaking wood and clashing metal rang out one after another. Amid a horse’s neigh and scattered dust, the carriage’s ceiling was mostly destroyed. Broken wooden boards flew in all directions, and the ground was smashed with a deep pit by a large rock.

If one looked up at the sky at this moment, they would see a vampire riding on a wyvern with a wingspan of about five meters. There were also remnants of stone fragments on the wyvern’s claws.

Wyvern Knight.

This was the capital that allowed the Pescia Territory to contend with the Giants of the North, and it was also the reason why the Pescia Territory could rank among the top three of the fourteen vampire territories.

A vampire’s wings could not support flight, so without learning flight magic, they could only rely on external objects to soar through the skies. Wyvern Knights were the cream of the crop among them.

Although there was a huge difference between a wyvern and a True Dragon, as wyverns could neither drag heavy objects for too long nor had strong magical abilities, and their wings were easily pierced by strong crossbows, wyverns were still the undisputed best mounts.

Their flight speed was faster than [Flight] magic, and their mobility was also superior. During wartime, they could serve as the main force on the front line, striking the enemy from the air, or as elite units, outflanking the enemy to carry out sabotage. They were a military branch with high investment and high returns.

Even the Pescia Territory, which was exceptionally wealthy and had abundant military power, had less than 100 Wyvern Knights. Nine-tenths of them were stationed on the northern defensive line to monitor the movements of the dragons and giants.

Three such Wyvern Knights appeared at once. Correspondingly, besides the carriage Yisi was in, two other carriages were destroyed by rocks dropped from high up, all turning into a pile of shattered wooden boards.

Confirming the status of Camilla’s trio via the Omniscient Map—they had not been affected—Yisi felt relieved.

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“What are you doing? Give me control! Or it will be too late!”

Struggling out of Yisi’s hand, Edith once again floated in front of Yisi.

“There are wyverns outside. With your ability—”

“Put away your pity. I’ll handle my own matters.”

Being told that, Yisi withdrew the thought of driving the wyverns away. Taking advantage of the moment before the Wyvern Knight swooped down on the carriage, she took a deep breath and closed her eyes. Like she was meditating, she focused her consciousness in her spiritual world, slowly lowering her control over the body.

Understanding Yisi’s intention, the Count’s eldest daughter no longer urged her. She controlled her body to land on Yisi’s shoulder, and her soul re-entered her original body, beginning to try to take control. For both of them, this was the first time trying this. A full five seconds passed. Yisi could even hear the sound of the fighting outside getting closer and closer.

The Count’s eldest daughter still couldn’t take control of the body. She was only repeating the result of trying to manipulate it and then being suppressed again. If Yisi had to describe her current feeling, it was like watching a caged beast continuously hit its cage.

Just relaxing her control over the body was not enough; her spiritual power was too strong.

Yisi frowned.

If I can’t weaken my spiritual power, my only option would be to lower my control even more, but I’m already restraining myself so much from thinking about my body that I don’t know how else to lower it. No, what if I did what Edith did and condensed my consciousness in my mind, becoming an illusion?

With a “let’s try it” mentality, Yisi condensed an illusion in her mind. Following that, a faint feeling of falling enveloped her consciousness. When she came to her senses, her surroundings had already become the dark environment that Edith had been in before. Her intuition told Yisi that as long as she withdrew the consciousness standing here, she could immediately regain control of the body.

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Of course, if she were to regain control of the body here with a testing mindset, Edith would definitely see it as Yisi toying with her. To make it easier to observe the battlefield, Yisi focused her mind on the nearby Magical Fairy. Following that, with a faint pulling sensation, her perspective changed again, and Yisi entered the Magical Fairy’s body.

Just as Edith had said, the Magical Fairy also had human-like five senses, and they were even more sensitive.

“Level…”

“The level was still 427.”

So it transfers with the soul.

Yisi turned her gaze to her original body. Since the Magical Fairy was only the size of a human’s palm, her current body appeared quite large. In addition, Edith still seemed to be getting used to the body; her body was just sitting quietly in the carriage with its eyes closed.

“It turned back into a vampire? Well, that’s to be expected.”

After all, the Count’s eldest daughter didn’t have a skill like [Second Form Awakening]. After her own soul left the body, it would naturally return to its original form.

“Onee-sama!”

“Miss Yisi!”

Camilla and Refina’s voices rang out one after another from outside. Both their voices were filled with urgency. Camilla, in particular, directly entered the carriage—and her gaze immediately landed on Yisi, who was floating in mid-air in the Magical Fairy’s body.

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“Camilla, it’s me. I’ve temporarily handed the body’s control over to Viel. Let’s go outside first.”

“O-okay, Onee-sama.”

Viel was a name only Yisi and Camilla knew. Although Camilla didn’t know why Yisi had changed into her current form, for Camilla, as long as she knew this was Yisi, everything was fine.

Stretching out her hand to let Yisi stand on it, Camilla glanced at the Count’s eldest daughter, who was sitting in the carriage and had just opened her blue eyes.

“Don’t forget this body still belongs to Onee-sama.”

“Of course I remember, my little sister.”

Answering in an equally impolite tone, Edith, who had just taken control of the body, stood up, picked up Gungnir that Yisi had placed on the side, and casually weighed it in her hand.

“It feels a little different from before… Is it my imagination? No, now is not the time to think about these things.”

With a cold huff filled with killing intent, the Count’s eldest daughter jumped out of the carriage after Camilla.

“Let me see what you’re capable of.”