Hail the King - Chapter 113: Before Dawn Light Novel Pub
Hail the King
Chapter 113: Before Dawn
Before dark, Fei rode the big black dog back and forth and did a lot of things.
Within an hour, he was like a hard-working little bee, continuously shuffling around the city, seeing everyone he had to see, giving orders that a king must be giving, and arranging everything that needed to be noted.
When the sun set, Fei finished all the preparation he thought he needed to make, and then came a second time to the Holy See Church which he rarely visited.
In the secret chamber at the backroom of the church.
The light was already very dim, and on the black iron lighthouse on the right side were hundreds of white candles, making the atmosphere a little supressing. Fei sat in front of the white stone statue of the Trinity right after he came in, and he closed his eyes to think for half an hour. In front of him, priest Ma Zola and Knight Luciano both had a surprised look on their face, bowing in respect towards Fei. Their foreheads were covered in sweat, and they didn't even dare to take big breaths.
Finally, Fei opened his eyes.
Rubbing his slightly painful temples, Fei looked at Zola and Luciano with a big smile and finally said, "I have some very important things that I need you two to do for me immediately!"
"Your Majesty, please tell us, and we will die trying to serve you!" The two finally sighed with relief and said.
"You don't have to die, I just hope that you two can use the church's channels to secretly help me acquire a batch of one-star to three-star level energy scrolls. I also need a magician's practice notes… It must have the five energy elements and five magic elements. As for the cost of the acquisition, just take it from those 10,000 or so sorcerer stones I've deposited at your place… For payment, you can take 100 stones out in advance as my thanks for your effort!"
"Your Majesty! Please don't! You've already rewarded us 100 sorcerer stones, which is equivalent to two year's worth of salary. Besides, working for you is our honor, so we really can't accept any more rewards from Your Highness!" Zola responded very quickly as he immediately kneeled under Fei's feet. "It's just that… according to Zenit Empire law, tier 6 subsidiary countries cannot own three-star scrolls. Although the church is not scared of Zenit Empire, it cannot freely violate its laws. May I inquire as to the reason Your Highness is purchasing them for…?"
He really didn't dare to take Fei's magic stones anymore.
Last time, they had already received 100 stones from Fei, which was equivalent to their total salary plus the total wealth they desperately plundered from the citizens in two years. Those 100 magician stones already made them scared to the point of sh*tting their pants, and if they took any more, then Zola would feel that they were not taking money into their pockets, but rather coupons to a faster death.
Therefore, Zola ignored all the eyes Luciano had been giving Zola and quickly refused.
This guy was also a clever man like Oleg.
Fei naturally saw the sketchy things going on between the two people, but he didn't have time to play guessing games. After he told them their job, he directly stood up and started walking out of the room.
As he walked out, he said, "As for the use of these scrolls… you don't have to ask more. You guys just have to secretly acquire them for me… As for the reward of 100 sorcerer stones, humph, the things I give will not come back to me. Since you guys don't want this wealth, then just throw it into the ocean!"
Zola suddenly became dumbfounded.
"Yes, yes, yes… we will take it, take it! Your Majesty, please rest assured, we will do everything in our power to acquire the scrolls and notes you need as soon as possible…" he could only say so.
Fei went to the secret chamber's door and suddenly thought of something. He stopped walking, turned around and asked, "Oh right, one more thing. Are you guys going to tomorrow's ceremony?"
"Of course, we will represent the Holy Church to send the god's blessing for your ascension!" How could they possibly not go? In Zola's and Luciano's eyes, the upcoming crowning ceremony at the Pinnacle of Eastern Mountain was definitely another God-given opportunity to suck up to Fei.
"I will give you guys a little suggestion. If you want to live, then you better not go!"
After Fei finished, he directly left the Church.
Zola and Luciano all stood at the same place, looking at each other. They didn't know what King Alexander meant. Could it be that His Majesty did not want to see their not-so-handsome faces during the ceremony, or… Zola thought with his head down, but when he remembered Fei's facial expression when he said it, Zola suddenly realized something.
…
After leaving the church, Fei directly flew back to Chambord City's palace.
The dark night gradually engulfed Chambord City. When the palace was quiet and the beautiful fiancée Angela and blonde loli Emma were smiling in their sweet dreams, Fei sat on the King's Throne quietly by himself, waiting for the dawn's arrival.
After midnight, Fei had another four hours to enter the Diablo World.
He entered [Assassin Mode, used half an hour's time and beat the first map's last two mission.
After completing everything, his assassin character reached level 17.
Now, Fei's [Assassin Mode]'s battle strength in real life was around the intermediate 3-star level. If coupled with the variety of stealthy skills, then maybe he could go against beginner 4-star elites. Although the chance to beat them was small, it would be very easy to run away.
Then, Fei exited [Assassin Mode]. In front of the 3-D holographic projection screen, he chose the last class he didn't touch – Amazon. Fortunately, after Fei selected the Amazon class, he got a change of outfit and didn't actually turn into a tranny.
On the Rogue continent, in the dark night, the crazy massacre began.
All the monsters and demons cried and fell under the arrows of the first male Amazon in history.
After two and a half hours, the time limit for the day arrived, and Fei left the Diablo World.
At this moment, he had already completed the first map [Rogue Encampment]'s first five missions, and only one last mission was left in the first act to kill Andaliel, and the male Amazon warrior Fei's level also reached 16.
Getting to level 16 in just two and half hours was definitely the fastest leveling speed he had achieved after his reincarnation. This was probably related to the class; after all, ranged attackers like the Amazon were more efficient at killing monsters and had advantages over melee-ranged classes like the Barbarian.
Four hours passed, and there were only about 3 hours left before the sun would begin to rise. This was the darkest time before the arrival of dawn.
Fei was making his last preparations for the upcoming ascension ceremony.
At the same time, there was an unseen undercurrent hidden in Chambord City. A large number of lights went out in the city, and all the troops on the city wall quietly withdrew. In addition to the silence of the back mountain, if listening carefully, one could notice waves of dense footsteps and rapid breathing. People tried to minimize their sounds, quietly retreating to the shabby temporary camp on the other side of the Zuli River outside of the city under the organization of the Chambord city soldiers.
Although the citizens didn't know why they had to leave their home in the middle of the night like thieves, this was King Alexander's order, so they could only carry it out carefully and not bring too much trouble to Brook who was executing the evacuation task. Brook originally did a lot of preparation on how to persuade the citizens, but he never would've guessed that he wouldn't need to use it.
Of course, not everyone was obedient.
Some big merchants and nobles under their leader Louise the Viscount firmly grouped up, righteously rejecting Brooke's demands and directly refusing to fulfill the orders of King Alexander. When Brooke reported this to Fei, Fei just smiled without any care and let them do whatever they want.
There were still two hours left before dawn, and the palace started getting busy.
The servants began to prepare for the big ceremony, transporting the cumbersome rituals and sacrificial offerings towards the Pinnacle of Eastern Mountain. Angela and Emma were busy too, and the herald Bast didn't even sleep at all and just stayed at the palace, constantly checking over the planning of the ceremony.
At this moment, Fei switched to [Assassin Mode].
The next moment, Fei and [Black Whirlwind] turned into a cloud of smoke in the vastness of the night, rushing towards the direction of the back mountain. In the blink of an eye, Fei used the God skill [Summon] and summoned the mercenary Elena and her sisters in the stone hall. He also cleared out the inventory from all his characters. Besides weapons, he prepared enough potions and other potentially necessary items for himself, and then he called Peter-Cech and the one hundred iron army soldiers to his side and gave out a mission.
The 20 stone bridge warriors also received their mission. Some of them followed Fei to accept the crowning at the Pinnacle of Eastern Mountain, and the rest were left in the city to defend the palace.
After making the arrangements, Fei brought 10 muscular men who were still a little green back to the palace, picked up Angela and Emma and the others, rode the King's golden carriage, and started heading towards the Eastern Mountain with his followers and servants.
There was less than half an hour left until dawn.
It would take at least half an hour to get there, and as the future king of Chambord City, he had to follow the tradition of the land of Azeroth to officially accept the crowning when the sunlight first hit the crown.
Therefore, he had to leave in advance…
…
At the same time.
Warden Oleg was also making the last preparations at his place.
He was the lead commander selected by Fei to maintain the order at the ceremony, and he had to be present. Such an important task filled Oleg's heart with both excitement and anxiety. In fact, he was so busy most of the night that he didn't sleep for more than half an hour. If it wasn't so that he could maintain an adequate level of energy during the ceremony to better serve King Alexander, maybe Oleg wouldn't have even let himself sleep.
Luckily, he didn't have to take many servants and followers like Fei, so even if he left a little later, he could still get there before Fei.
"Hey Donny, hurry and bring me that magical robe I bought with 100 gold coins three years ago… I must wear it during the canonization and not embarrass Alexander His Majesty in front of those damned foreign envoys."
In the stone hall.
Warden Oleg smiled in front the mirror, making some final adjustments while shouting towards his servant without even looking back.
"Donny… Donny, you bastard, why are you still…"
Oleg turned around and saw that the person beside him didn't move. He was about to swear but suddenly realized something was wrong. This person was not Donny, but instead was a mysterious person, with his whole body shrouded in a black cloak. As for his servant Donny, he was lying on the ground motionlessly, as if he was in a deep sleep.
Who is this guy?
When did he come in?
Oleg just felt his soul escaping from his body through his butt.
After accepting the modification of the [Hulk Potion, Oleg's strength had already drastically improved. With his 1-star foundation, he was already one of the elites in Chambord City. However, someone had actually invaded his place and stood this close to him, and he didn't even notice. Cold sweat brushed down Oleg's forehead!
This was an expert.
He was no match.
Ayyyyyy two chapters for last week.
Hail the King
Chapter 114: Assassination
"Who……Who are you?"
Oleg felt a chill down his spine.
Although he didn't show any reaction on his face, and just stared at the mysterious black cloaked person nervously. He peeked at the gate on the side and calculated the possible escape paths as he slowly moved backward, reaching for the sword that was hung beside the bronze mirror.
Oleg's fighting ability was better if he had the sword with him. He was confident that he was able to defend against this mysterious intruder for a few seconds, alerting the guards with the noise. Once the guards heard noises in the room, they would come check. With their assistance, Oleg's chance of escaping out of here alive would be much higher.
The time seemed to freeze.
His finger had already reached the cold hilt of the sword. Oleg let go of the breath he was holding and finally grasped onto his sword.
He drew out the sword and positioned it in front of his chest. The light reflected off of the sword and lit up the floor in the room. Oleg was more confident, and look on his face became less timid. As he was about to yell and call for help…..
"Take me to the peak of the East Mountain, I will let you live!"
The intruder raised his/her hand and chanted a series of obscure spells that Oleg wasn't able to understand. A great amount of magic energy appeared around the intruder who then pressed the space in front of them with their hand. Five dark red chains made from fire shot out of the five fingers and immediately straggled Oleg's arm and sword like five flexible snakes. The chains then slowly spread and restrained Oleg's entire body.
Oleg who had the energy of a one-star warrior and the physical strength of a two-star warrior was simply captured and controlled by these flimsy looking fire chains.
The black cloaked intruder suddenly shook their fingers.
This simple movement caused an enormous change.
The fire chains that bound the sword instantly brightened up. "Si.." The sword that was made from quality iron was melted instantly and spilt onto the ground, formed a puddle of molten metal…….
"If you dare to resist, your bones and flesh will just be like this sword!"
"Who……Who are you?" Oleg had lost the courage completely. The strength of the two parties were on two completely different level. The intruder was at least a four-star fire attributed mage.
Oleg only asked that question because he was angry of the situation and wanted to know who was behind all of this. Who knew that after the intruder heard the question, the person hesitated a little, but they surprisingly took off the cloak. The face was only barely visible under the light of the fire chains, but Oleg was able to tell who it was.
"This is not possible……How could it be you?" Oleg's eyes opened big and wide, as if he saw an undead creature: "This is not possible……this is not possible……"
"Now you are willing to take me to the peak of the East Mountain, right?" The Intruder put the cloak back on and hid into the dark again. The voice sounded calm, but Oleg could feel the anger and hatred: "If you are not going to take me there, I still have methods to get here. However, it would take more work, but you will die!"
"I will take you there!"
Oleg's legs felt shaky and he surrendered.
……
……
Chambord Castle faced mountains on three sides and a river on one side. The terrain was very hard for outsiders to get into.
The steepest East Mountain was especially important to the Kingdom. All the former kings rested there after they passed away. The royals, nobles, soldiers and heroes who sacrificed their lives to protect the Kingdom also rested there. This symbolized that all their brave souls would still protect Chambord Kingdom for the years to come.
The terrain of the East Mountain was very significant. It was very steep, and there were only two ways to get to the top of the mountain. One of the path circled around the mountain twelve times. There were, in total, three thousand one hundred stone stairs that led to the peak of the mountain, as if it was a path to heaven. The other path was more dangerous. By relying on the big iron nails that was struck into the body of the mountain, an iron chain was connected on them and formed a climbing rope that led to the "heaven". It was for people who were very powerful; they would get to the peak a lot faster this way.
Fei and his followers were only able to use the first path. After more than an hour, they finally reached the peak.
What they didn't know was that before they got to the peak of the mountain, two figures, one possessing a pair of dark fire wings, sped up the chain to "heaven" – to be more accurate, it was a figure who was dressed in a valet uniform and dragging a bald fat figure as it rushed up the mountain with the help of the iron chains.
It was about less than half an hour from dawn.
When Fei, Angela and the others arrived on the peak in a magic floating carriage, almost everyone was there; the emissaries and princes from more than twenty kingdoms, Chambord's guards who here to protect the ceremony, priests and knights from the Holy Church, and of course, the Royal Coronation Legion from Zenit Empire.
Elder Princess Tanasha's magic carriage was parked in front of the altar for a while. She arrived at the peak of the mountain long before Fei, but she didn't appear in front of the crowd and only stayed at her carriage. Female warrior Susan and Knight Captain Romain guarded the carriage with more than two hundred fully armoured cavalry knights.
Although the East Mountain was very steep, the peak of the mountain was a very flat surface; it was about four, five squared kilometers. There was an altar located in the middle of the flat surface; it was about six yards(m) tall and ten yards(m) in diameter. This was the King's Altar that all of the 250 affiliated kingdoms of Zenit had. It was the place where all the kings were canonized and became the official ruler of their kingdoms. Fei would be canonized by Tanasha who represented the Zenit Empire on this King's Altar when the first stream of sunlight shined on the peak of East Mountain.
Beside the King's Altar and on the side of the cliff, there were sixty-six stone warrior statues that were all holding swords. They were all thirty, fourty yard(m) tall. They had realistic expression on their faces, being gigantic and majestic, representing glory, justice and the numerous warriors and heroes who served Chambord.
The emissaries, princes and their servants were spread out around the altar.
The dozen "stone bridge" warriors such as Drogba and Barrack and Lampard arrived a long time ago, guarding the altar with more than twenty soldiers.
"Your majesty!"
Warden Oleg quickly walked up to Fei and saluted; however, his legs were slightly shaky.
A middle-aged valet followed him tightly. Everyone knew that the person was Oleg's valet. Although they were not sure why this fatass brought his valet to the peak of East Mountain, this action wasn't restricted and their minds quickly moved onto something else.
"Start preparing!"
Fei nodded emotionlessly, and signaled Oleg, who was the primary manager for today's ceremony, to start preparing. Since Fei specially ordered Head Minister Bast to stay behind, Oleg was surprising appointed. It was outside of everyone's expectations.
Ton of sacrifices were moved onto the King's Altar, and the preparations were slowly and steadily under way.
Fei stood on the mage carriage and glanced around. Except Thrace Kingdom's emissaries, who were all murdered by mysterious powerful assassins, the emissaries from all other kingdom came. Fei saw Prince Modric from the Lake Kingdom. This blonde guy looked fabulous as usual, and was the center of attention wherever he went.
After feeling Fei's stare, Modric politely smiled and nodded at him.
Fei nodded back and continued to observe.
There were about five hundred people on the peak. Except the two hundred cavalry knights who were here to protect Elder Princess Tanasha and the two hundred plus people from all the kingdoms, there were less than sixty people who belonged to Chambord, and most of these people were servants who couldn't fight at all. Fei was focusing on the emissaries and the cavalry knights the most. From his Barbarian Mode, he had vaguely felt a great amount of danger. But he couldn't tell where the danger might come from or who might cause it.
Finally, the dark sky was lighting up.
The golden sun was about to rise over the horizon and light up the peak of East Mountain.
Elder Princess Tanasha stepped up King's Altar under the protection of Susan. The guard behind her held up a silver plate that was covered with a layer of red silk. A crown that was made from golden vines and branches was placed on it. It was the King's crown that the Zenit Empire was about to bestow on Fei.
Fei waved his hand.
The servants who had no fighting abilities got off of the altar uniformly. After that, they headed directly to the path and left the peak of East mountain.
There were only about twenty people from Chambord who were still on the peak.
This surprised everyone. All the emissaries started to chit chat among themselves, and a surprised expression appeared on Tanasha's face. That was all Fei could do. Although he sensed danger, but he didn't know where it came from. The only thing he could do was to keep less of his people on the peak. If stuff actually happened, the casualties would be kept at a minimum.
The first stream of golden sunlight finally lit up the peak.
At was time.
It was this moment……
The Elder Princess held up the King's Crown in her hand. According to the Empire's tradition, when that stream of sunlight passed through the clouds and shined the crown, and when the ancient oath and blessing from the God of War was made, Fei would be officially crowned……
When everyone's attention was on the stream of golden sunlight.
At this moment.
No one noticed the hate filled expression that suddenly appeared on the middle-aged valet who was behind Oleg and never spoke once since he arrived on the peak.
Hail the King
Chapter 115: Death Trap
The middle aged valet's finger quickly shook and a short chant quickly shot out of his mouth. A bright red light shined on his body. The entire King's Altar suddenly became hot, and the people who were around the altar had to look away because it was too bright. A sword made from fire suddenly appeared in the mid-aged valet's hand and he thrusted it toward Fei.
All of this happened in the blink of an eye.
The people who were around the altar didn't even have time to react. It was very quiet; no one screamed or gasped.
The mid-aged valet was behind Fei. Fei wasn't able to sense this sudden sneak attack at all. The scorching hot fire sword drew a bizarre arc in the air and was about to cut open Fei's back and pierce through his heart……
But –
At this moment, the situation changed.
Fei's body suddenly tilted toward the right side strangely. This action seemed unconscious, but Fei perfectly dodged this life threatening attack. The fire sword strike missed.
Until this moment, the emissaries from all the kingdoms just realized what was happening. They were shocked as they all gasped subconsciously.
The guards, such as Drogba, who were standing closely to the altar reacted faster. They yelled: "Protect the king!" as they drew their weapon and was about to charge up the altar……But after a few steps, they all stopped. They were confused, seeing that their king was waving at them, telling them not to come up.
Fei's right hand had grasped the fire sword.
"Four-star fire attributed mage? Who are you? Why do you want to kill me?"
Fei's Barbarian gloves appeared on his hand. It was a pair of silver magic gloves. It gave Fei 21 armour, and reduced the fire attributed and lightning attributed magic damage by 25%. With the help of the gloves, Fei was barely able to grab the sword that was made out of fire. From the magic sensation that Fei felt from the sword, he was sure that this valet had just advanced to the four-star mage rank…… But the problem was that, he didn't recognize this person. Why would this person assassinate him? Could it be……this person was ordered by someone else?
After missing the sneak attack, the mid-aged valet let go of the fire sword and rushed back.
"How did you dodge that?" After the person had escaped to a safe distance for a mage, he asked with surprise.
He couldn't figure it out. How did Fei dodge the attack that was sneaky enough to kill a god. To prepare for this attack, he practiced numerous times. He meditated for ten days and ten nights continuously to accumulate his magic power, and used many precious magic items to shorten his chanting time to increase the suddenness of the sneak attack…… But who knew that the operation that was impossible to fail had failed in the end. There was only one explanation – Fei knew beforehand that he was going to sneak attack.
The middle aged valet had an surprising expression on his face, but he didn't panic and try to escape.
It seemed like that he didn't mind the fact that he was surrounded by a lot of guards. He must have a plan B or was trying to calculate the chances that he could attack again.
Of course, he was also waiting for Fei's response.
But at this moment, something unexpected occurred
Suddenly, the sword pierced through this mid-aged valet's left shoulder.
Drip, drip. Drops of blood dripped onto the ground.
The mid-aged man was shocked, and suddenly realized something. A deep roar came out of his throat. He swung his hand backward and a few fire chains appeared out of nowhere and whipped at the person who was holding onto the sword. "Hiss-" after a deep painful cry, Warden Oleg flew backwards and puked a mouthful of blood.
The person who sneak attacked the middle aged man was this fatty who acted dumb.
"It's you?!"
The mid-aged man shouted angrily. He didn't need Fei's explanation anymore, he instantly understood why Fei was able to dodge his sneak attack – It was obvious, this fatty who seemed scared and surrendered had tricked him, and used a method that he wasn't aware of and notified Fei beforehand.
"Of course it's me. Who the fuck are you? How dare you order me around!"
Oleg laid on the altar, and puked out more blood. However, a proud expression appeared on his face. He laughed as he scorned at the mid-aged valet: "Hehe……it is unexpected, isn't it? I……cough, cough, I'm no longer that old timid Oleg who was afraid of death……Cough, cough. Mister Bazzer……Cough, cough. You made a mistake from the start. You handled me the old way…… Cough, cough, cough. I'm willing to die for King Alexander, why would I betray him!"
Oleg was severely injured, he would puke a mouthful of blood before he could finish a sentence. But fortunately, after the transformation that the [Hulk Potion] put him through, his body was tougher than normal one-star warrior. That's why he was able to survive under the full attack of a four-star mage.
What he said surprised a lot of people.
The four-star mage was Bazzer.
The former Head Minister of Chambord. The most wanted criminal who committed treason.
Fei frowned.
He was only able to pick up a few things from Oleg's eye contact before the ceremony started. He knew that this middle aged valet wasn't on his side, and he should pay more attention to the valet. He never would have thought that this person was Bazzer who had disappeared for a long time. This former Head Minister obviously used some trick and changed his look and appearance. But after some detailed observation, Fei was able to draw some parallels between Bazzer and the valet in terms of body size and temperament. However, no one knew that this guy was a four-star fire attributed mage.
The series of unexpected incidents had created a lot of noise among the people who were around the altar.
The first stream of light had travelled through the clouds and shined on the peak of East Mountain. The best time to crown Fei and announce his official status had passed by. The emissaries and princes from other kingdom stared at the altar in surprise. On the altar, Tanasha, the Elder Princess of Zenit Empire had placed the golden crown back on the silver plate that a servant was carrying and backed off a little. She looked at Fei as if she was watching an interesting drama.
Fei stared at Bazzer as he slowly let loose of the power inside of him.
"Since this guy appeared voluntarily, I should take the opportunity and execute him. Otherwise, if he really wanted revenge, a four-star mage's damage to Chambord would be catastrophic."
At the same time, Bazzer was thinking fast as well as he covered his wound with his hand.
After feeling the power level that Fei had, he knew that he couldn't successfully kill this damn king today. He was frustrated. He didn't expect this to happen after he advanced to the four-star rank and the level of preparation he underwent. It looked like his plans needed to be delayed again……
"I didn't expect you to become such a loyal dog." Bazzer stared at Oleg who was lying behind him. It seemed like he made a decision. A series of chants quickly flew out of his mouth, and his body grew hotter and hotter as his power level became stronger and stronger. It seemed like he was showering in a cloud of fire.
He suddenly shouted at Fei. "Die!"
The fire around him burnt violently as he charged.
It looked like a smaller sun rose on the King's Altar, bright and hot.
Everyone thought Bazzer had no escape and gave up his own life by igniting his core magic essence to kill Fei. Fei thought the same. As he prepared himself to take Bazzer's attack head on…… Who knew that after a few charging a few steps, three roaring beasts made out of pure fire jumped out of Bazzer's body. The direction that these fire beast went wasn't toward Fei……
The target was Elder Princess Tanasha!
"Hahaha, Alexander, I will kill this woman. I will see how you explain this to Zenit Empire…… The entire Chambord Kingdom including you will die under Zenit's anger. Hahaha!"
Bazzer laughed crazily.
He dared to attack the Princess of the Empire?
Everyone was shocked.
This was the attack of a four-star mage who ignited his core magic essence, it wasn't something that Susan, the three-star warrior could defend against. The three fire beasts shot at the Elder Princess and left a trail of flames in the air. They easily absorbed the blue flame energy that Susan put up to defend.
Fei was scared for a moment.
He subconsciously used Barbarian [Leap] and jumped toward the Elder Princess…… He had to save her. If her highness dies on the Peak of East Mountain at Chambord, Chambord would vanish under Zenit's anger.
At the same time, Bazzer chanted another spell.
A pair of fire wings appeared on his back as he rushed toward the exit of the mountain – the [Chain to heaven]. Like a meteor, he instantly passed by all the emissaries. Although he was injured by Oleg, and his magic power was almost depleted after the two full attacks, he was still able to rely on the [Chain to heaven] to escape as the peak of the East Mountain was thrown into chaos. After that, he would still have chances to mess with Fei.
As the distance to the cliff and the [Chain to heaven] was shortening, a smile appeared on Bazzer's face.
"Alexander, just wait. I will be back, you won't be able to sleep and rest peacefully ever again! Hahahah!"
He jumped and was about to get away.
But –
"Poor bug, how dare you attack her highness!"
At this critical moment, a cloud of purple flames appeared in front of the Elder Princess followed by that shout. A beautiful slender girl was in the flame. Her face didn't even change expression as she casually pointed at the air. The three fire beasts instantly vanished into thin air without any signs of resistance.
Unbelievable!
The fully attack of a four-star mage was wiped out this easily.
The next second.
The purple figure flashed and appeared in front of Bazzer who was about a hundred yards(m) away.
"Don't even think about escaping after attacking the princess!"
The girl in purple struck her strange short sword down, and the invisible energy smashed on Bazzer. He screamed as a terrifying wound appeared on his back; the blood spurted out of like a water fountain……
That wasn't done.
After that, a blue crystal arrow was shot from the direction of King's Altar; it accurately pierced through Bazzer's back. A chilling energy instantly surrounded Bazzer's body. In a cry, Bazzer's body frozen as it fell off of the cliff and disappeared into the cloud!
It was Fei who shot the arrow. After converting to Amazon Mode, the frost magic arrow dealt a ton of damage.
After getting severely injured, Bazzer couldn't survive after falling off such a high cliff.
Fei lightly sighed.
It seemed like everything had passed and the danger was gone.
But the next moment, his sense of danger was triggered like never before! Something unimaginable happened –
A bright, eye catching sword appeared out of nowhere and pierced at Elder Princess Tanasha's skull from above.
Two bone chilling blade appeared out of nowhere and struck toward Elder Princess Tanasha's waist; one from the left and one from the right.
Three death-calling metal arrows were shot from the crowd around the King's Altar and was aimed at Elder Princess Tanasha's head, throat and heart.
A pair of iron claws ripped through air, appeared behind Elder Princess Tanasha and thrusted toward her back; poison was applied on the claws as the tip of the claws glistened with a blue light.
A cloud of orange energy flame flashed by and a strong figure crawled out of the rock on the King's Altar beside the princess. The person had a sharp chopper in his hand and swung it at the princess's legs.
Five strikes appeared at the same time and was about break through the princess's body.
Any one of the strikes would take her life away.
It was obvious. This was a carefully planned assassination.
A death trap!
Hail the King
Chapter 116: A Sword's Sudden Arrival
Everything took place in an instant, and it tested everyone's reflex.
No one expected an assassination would suddenly take place targeting this young king during this crowning ceremony, and just when everyone was still digesting what was going on, something even more incredible happened-
The assassination of Elder Princess Tanasha.
Has this world gone mad? Someone even dares to target Her Highness? And, the first shot was already six merciless attacks.
That bright sword light that fell from the sky, carrying peerless force. It was just a brief silver flash, then one man one sword as if suddenly tore apart the dimension and came out head first, the sword and its wielder were wrapped in a silver flame. The friction between the edge and air even creating flashing sparks. The giant force that arrived with this strike directly pushed away the female warrior Susan, and the vulnerable skinny elder princess was deadly locked on by this terrifying force, not even able to move a finger. Her beautiful soft hair loosely danced in the sword's breath…
This assassin from sky was at least at the 5-star level's strength.
And the left and right blade light that suddenly appeared also exposed the other two assassins' location. These were two very strangely designed yellow curved blades, and the blades' bodies were engraved with strange inscriptions. Waves of light blue flames flashed passed the blade, its wind slicing through the air, mercilessly charging towards the Elder Princess's soft waist. The soft and fierce contrast at this moment was extremely clear, as if before the blade could touch that blue cloth, the Elder Princess would be sliced into two by the blade's wind, like a helpless doll.
The handles of these two yellow curved blades were held in two assassins of almost identical look, height, hair and clothing. Same expression, same coldness, and same murderous intent…. These two wood energy type assassins were at least above 4 star-levels of strength.
For a weak woman who didn't know martial arts at all, carefully arranging three master level assassins was already being a bit too cautious. But in addition to the sword from above and two blades from side, the pair of white steel claws coming from behind was also carrying a force that was in no way inferior.
That pair of claws was completely forged in white hundred-folded steel, the dense ferocious barbs covered the assassin's hand and part of his arm, bringing endless fear from just looking it at. It was directly going towards the Elder Princess's heart from behind, and without a doubt, if hit, the Elder Princess's weak and thin body will directly turn into a pile of meat and bone fragments.
Besides that, there was more.
There were those three silent white feather arrows, and a sharp white Zhanmadao (TL: literally horse chopping saber, go wiki it) in the hand of an yellow orange shadowy figure that suddenly came out from the ground…
Up, down, left, right, front, back.
Five types of sharp weapons.
Six relentless assassins.
All this, in a moment formed a death cage.
Every assassin's strength was shocking, all the weapons all had locked onto the Elder Princess, making her feel like an ant under the pressure of a million-pound rock. Not to mention moving, she couldn't even breath. Her scattering long hair became fixed in the air, the space of one-meter radius around her as if became solidified, even the fine dust floating in the air also quietly became still.
And the most terrible thing was, at this time, beside the elder princess, there was not even a guard or a meat shield.
The female swordsman Susan was already in danger and forced away by the fallen sword force, that girl in purple clothes of unpredictable force was hundreds of meters away from the scene due to chasing Bazzer earlier. The blonde baby face knight captain Romain was leading about 200 knights guarding the carriage below the king's altar…
People started panicking but all had no time to save her. Some people were scared and closed their eyes, as if they already saw the vulnerable princess's body getting torn apart by the six sharp matchless breaths…
At this moment, Fei was the one closest to the Elder Princess.
Right now he was in the [Amazon mode, and a 16 level Amazon warrior was only equivalent to an intermediate three-star warrior, which was basically useless right now, and the female swordsman Susan's experience is the best proof. Now the strongest character Fei has [Barbarian mode]. A level 21 barbarian under full equipment and [Purple Blue Duo Sword, Fei can rival the strength of an intermediate four-star fighter.
But, not to mention that there was no time to immediately change class right now, the most important thing was, Fei could clearly feel the terrifying strengths of the four assassins, especially that sword from the sky, it was a strike with no counter. Fei didn't doubt at all that even if he took the Elder Princess's place in fully equipped barbarian mode, he still won't be able to take that strike.
But, time was pressing.
The body's instinctive response exceeded the speed of the central nervous system processing information.
Under the instinct of an Amazon fighter, Fei almost subconsciously reached out his hand. A golden ball of light flashed, and a golden long bow appeared in his hand. He gently pulled on the string, and six sharp arrows flashing electricity immediately appeared above the string, and then Fei let go…
This series of actions were all done in one breath, like a mirage.
Pew pew pew pew pew pew!
Six sharp arrows shot out piercing through the air.
The arrows' bodies were pitch black, producing a harsh scream and waves of silver electricity as they cut through the sky.
The bowstring sounded once, yet 6 arrows shot out.
Moreover, the directions of those arrows were actually all completely different.
The first arrow went for the eyes of the strongest assassin that came from the sky.
The second and third arrow went for the space on the left and right of the Elder Princess, so if the wooden elemental assassins with yellow curved blades move even a bit forward, their waist will run into the long arrows covered in electric current.
The forth arrow went to the fastest one out of the arrows that were going towards the Elder Princess's forehead, throat and heart.
The fifth arrows shot past the Elder Princess's neck to the throat of the owner of that pair of white sharp claws.
The sixth arrow went for the back of the head of the assassin that just came out of the ground with his Zhanmadao.
Such arrow technique, it could be called miraculous.
Amazon warrior's long bow skill [Strafe].
It can shoot out multiple arrows at once, and also accurately target the arrows to different directions, dealing a good amount of damage.
This was the first high class arrow skill Fei learned in [Amazon Mode].
This was also Fei's pinnacle performance under [Amazon Mode].
Fei didn't expect these six arrows to eliminate all the assassins, he just hoped that the arrows could slightly delay the opponents' movements, allowing them to be slightly distracted and thus gaining time for himself, and also fight for time for the purple clothed girl hundred meters away to come back to help.
The six arrows magically shot out, and Fei immediately switched to [Barbarian Mode, and without any reservation he instantly went berserk and charged forward. At this moment there was no time for him to think if he could make it or not, or if he's match for those 6 assassins. Save the Elder Princess, this was Fei's only choice. No matter what, he couldn't let the Elder Princess die on the King's Altar of Chambord City.
But, Fei was still too slow.
The first arrow didn't have any affect. That five-star elite's surrounding force energy directly shattered the magic arrow into powder, dissipating into the air, not giving that assassin the slightest trouble.
The two arrows that went for the assassins with yellow curved blade also encountered the resistance of their surrounding force energy, finally exhausted and fell to the ground right before piercing into the assassins' waist.
The long arrow that was shot at the assassin with sharp white claws behind the princess, was repelled away as the assassin swung his right arm, and that left arm is still going towards the Elder Princess's heart.
However, the arrow that was shot towards the three large white feather arrows took effect.
This arrow miraculously hit the tip of the first arrow, and after a sound of "ding", sparks appeared, and the first arrow was tilted with its back hitting the second white feather arrow's body, and then the second one hit the third… The three white feather arrows' course instantly changed, missing the Elder Princess…
The sixth arrow that was shot towards the assassin below, it actually hit that target. It's just that a blood flower bloomed at his back, and that tall and big assassin actually endured the severe pain and his hands still tightly held onto the Zhanmadao, mercilessly swinging it towards the Elder Princess's legs…
The six assassins' reactions were all different, and it demonstrated the difference in their strengths.
The whole process happened within a second, and many people are still in shock.
And right now, Fei was only 10 meters away from the Elder Princess.
The situation, has come to the deciding moment.
Death has gently gripped the princess by her graceful neck. All it needed was a pinch and everything will become a foregone conclusion. The Elder Princess that possessed great power right now was like a helpless little girl… and this carefully planned assassination, will become a classic in the history of assassination.
And the consequence will be, the whole Chambord City getting buried along with the Elder Princess.
The female swordsman Susan desperately rushed forward, the knight captain Romain rushed towards the King's Altar, the purple clothed girl hundred meters away, her stature flashed…
Time.
Right now, time is the most critical factor.
If someone could appear right now to block the assassins' attacks… Just when everyone was already in despair, Fei actually did something that made everyone feel strange…
He suddenly shouted to the air in front of him…
"Still not coming out?"
Ding ding ding ding ding ding!
As if answering Fei's raging roar, a series of crackle-like sound suddenly appeared in everyone's ears, and they just saw countless sparks appearing about half meter of range of the Elder Princess. These sparks that formed as if is an invisible cage, firmly knocking the assassins' weapons away.
A sword.
A very normal long sword.
This sword incredibly appeared in front of the Elder Princess's body.
The firm but gentle sword's breath conquered the air around it, tightly blocking all the fatal blows delivered by the assassin.
Hail the King
Chapter 117: Aww You Can't Kill Me Anymore
One white cloth and one broad sword.
When the flying sparks disappeared, one man and one sword proudly stood in front of the Elder Princess.
This was a very ordinary-looking young man, not tall nor short, not fat nor skinny. He was clothed in a coarse cloth robe, a budding beard on his face, and linen colored hair gently pulled to the back of his head with a rope. If this young man was placed in the sea of people, no one would look at him twice… Of course, if one must say that there was something incredible about him, then it would be the pair of bright eyes like stars in a dark night on his face.
If someone looked at that calm yet peerlessly domineering force in his eyes, he would think that this was not a man that was standing before him, but rather … a God of War.
The long sword in his hand was very normal. It was covered with large and small cracks, and even a little rust. Even a farmer would think it was too rusty, not to mention using it to kill… But, Fei saw very clearly, that rusty sword that looked like it could break into pieces anytime, just now released an incredible sword breath, completely shutting out all attacks from these terrifyingly powerful assassins, not even letting through a trace of pressure.
An incredible performance.
This guy just quietly stood there, not saying a word, yet it was better than saying anything.
The five cold-blooded assassins were forced back, taking a five-point star formation, surrounding this young man and the Elder Princess. It was clear that they were shocked by this young man's power, and that was why even the most cold-blooded and relentless assassin actually showed a slight shade of fear on their face, and became hesitant to strike again.
This young man, one man and one sword, was emitting the pressure of a mighty army.
He stood there, expressionless. Yet it was like an eternally insurmountable wall, shielding all the storms for the Elder Princess behind him, as if nothing in this world could hurt her again.
The scene was a bit suffocating.
The purple shadow flashed, and the unparalleled beauty purple clothed girl Ziyan returned to the Elder Princess's side.
The situation was weirdly silent.
That young man didn't talk, and no one actually dared to speak.
Just at this moment, suddenly –
Puff puff!
Everyone all watched in disbelief. Suddenly, the two identical blade assassins on the sides of the Elder Princess, the assassin that got shot on the back by Fei and that white clothed assassin with sharp claws, they all suddenly opened their mouth and spouted out blood, as if they encountered some hidden injury.
The only normal one was the assassin that wielded a sword.
But in the next second he suddenly felt a chill on his chest. He looked down and horrifying found out that the robe in front of his chest was cut open by the sword's breath, revealing the white shirt underneath.
The five cold-blooded assassins' faces all lost color.
At this moment they finally realized that during the exchange of blows earlier, that young man not only used his rotten rusty sword to block all their attacks, but also imperceptibly struck back with his sword's breath, leaving them with hidden wounds. The injury just started acting up, and the assassins finally noticed.
As for the arrow master that hid in the crowd shooting cold arrows, his technique was way too strange. Shots were silent, no one heard the bowstring ring, and that was why there was actually no one that could find out where he was really hiding.
Just at this moment, the assassin that used the sword suddenly thought of a legend.
He suddenly felt a chill from his tailbone all the way up his spine, and asked in shock, "You… you are [One Sword]?"
When this question was asked, Fei almost could clearly hear everyone on the top of the Eastern Mountain take a deep breath, hearing the name of [One Sword] was as if hearing something incredible, and the way everyone looked at this young man also changed.
"This name sounds a little familiar… I seemed to have heard it before." Fei slightly hesitated.
The expression on this young man's face was still placid, and to be precise, his eyes didn't seem to be focused at all, as if he was kind of distracted, looking at the ocean of clouds in the horizon, not caring about the five cold-blooded assassins around him at all. He didn't even look at the sword-using assassin that asked the question, as if this elite fighter was just a wooden pole, not even qualified to enter his eyes.
After the short silence, the young man finally withdrew his sight.
Surprisingly, his eyes ultimately landed on Fei, patiently taking a few looks at Fei from up and down. His eyes were like lightning, and Fei suddenly had a feeling that he was stripped naked in front of the large crowd. That young man's eyes contain indescribable breath of vicissitude, as if it accommodated the sun, moon, and stars, yet it seems to also be able to observe the finest details, expose all that's concealed.
Fei knew, this was the embodiment of strength of both sides.
This ordinary-looking young man with bright eyes, his strength already reached a height that Fei could not imagine. If the two were to fight right now, even at Fei's most powerful mode right now, he still won't be able to take one hit from him.
"How did you know? The young man suddenly asked.
Fei hesitated for a second, and immediately understood what he meant. He's asking how did he detect his presence earlier and yelled.
"I guessed." Fei answered.
The young man was a little surprised for a moment.
This expression was the first expression besides calmness he had after appearing on the King's Altar. But very quickly, he resumed his calmness, took a deep look at Fei and didn't say anything.
Fei shrugged.
He told the truth, he did guess it.
Fei already knew that the Elder Princess was preparing for something. Plus, at that moment when she was surrounded by the assassins, the Elder Princess's expression was way too calm. All the people around her were either panicking or worrying for this vulnerable woman, but only the Elder Princess that was in danger herself didn't change her expression at all. She still carried a touch of a smile on her face, not even glancing at the swords and blades coming at her.
Then, there was only one possibility –
She had nothing to fear.
The Elder Princess wasn't worried about these assassins at all; she had a way to deal with them.
Fei thought about it back and forth, and it became really simple as to why this woman had nothing to fear – there was either a piece of magical equipment on her with an incredible defense, or there was a powerful super elite hidden around her.
And that was why Fei shouted as an attempt.
Who knew, this shout actually did call out a young master that stunned everyone on the Pinnacle of the Eastern Mountain, who reversed the whole situation with his godlike sword skills just by making an appearance, instantly saving the situation at stake.
Then there was another brief silence.
"Paris, come out, I know you came here."
With the slightly hoarse voice, the Elder Princess finally spoke. He took a little step forward and stood side by side with the young man. That pair of clear ocean blue eyes swept past the crowd as she calmly spoke, without any emotional turmoil, as if talking to an old friend.
"Hehe, Sister Tanasha, long time no see, you still look sick like usual haha!"
A sweet female voice passed out among the crowd, then a ray of silver light flashed. Everyone saw a graceful white figure appear beside the sword-using assassin. She was in a white robe with her golden hair casually draping over her shoulder, with a dewdrop-stained red rose in her hand. The contrast between the white robe and the red rose gave people a very strange feeling.
"Too bad, I did not think that sister Tanasha could actually convince the famous [One Sword, hehe. Looks like we won't be able to kill you today now~"
The woman with the rose looked to be in her twenties. With picture-like eyebrows, an infinitely arousing deep smile on her face, the word "kill" from her mouth was much more like flirting… This was a hot woman with peerless elegance.
Princess Tanasha coldly smiled and didn't say anything.
But Fei could clearly see the princess's beautiful eyebrows frowning in that instant. Clearly she was very disgusted by this woman and didn't want to say even one more word.
"Who's this slut?"
Fei stood beside the Elder Princess and suddenly whispered to her. Although his voice was very light, but it was also clear enough to pass to the ears of the people around them. His Majesty obviously did this intentionally.
Sure enough, the word "slut" drew a smile onto the Elder Princess's face, and that white robe red rose woman still kept her smile while she glanced at Fei, but the murderous intention hidden under the seductive smile made Fei's heart skip a beat.
"I'm scared of you? With this pro big brother here, you can bite my little chicken chicken? (TL: Chinese slang for dick)
Seeing that the young master with a rusty sword standing not too far away, Fei suddenly felt full of confidence, quite provocatively staring at that woman. His eyes even scanned the woman's chest for a bit with a little malicious intent, and fully showed his look of disdain – really small, B-cup max.
This light glance might have touched the sore spot of this woman named Paris, and her eyes suddenly became sharp.
Very soon, the knight captain Romain brought the 200 knights and charged up to the King's Altar, completely surrounding the five assassins and Paris, the swords and spears are dense like the forest, flashing silver with a chilly atmosphere, all pointed towards these 6 people.
The balance of win and loss had clearly tipped to the Elder Princess's side.
And the most important weight on this balance was naturally the ordinary young man holding the rusty sword. His superior strength allowed him to stand out like a crane among chickens, even him alone could easily kill everyone at the scene…
But don't know why, Fei suddenly felt a bit puzzled. Is this slut named Paris retarded? Since she was about to lose, why didn't she remain hidden but actually dared to come out to the light?
Just at this moment-
"Princess Tanasha, my promise to you has been fulfilled. See you never."
The young man with the rusty sword suddenly opened his mouth, said something that no one understood, and before everyone can react, he already disappeared from the King's Altar, leaving not a single trace behind… He actually left…
Ayyyyy, and that's the regular chaps for this week.
Hail the King
Chapter 118: I Shall Let You Live
Fei was a bit surprised.
For a moment, Fei wanted to slap 【One Sword】who had really left in the face and ask, "Are you f*cking dumb?" He really left in this tense situation after dropping a line. "Would you die if you stayed here a bit longer?" Fei thought.
As the powerful 【One Sword】calmly left, the Eldest Princess' chance of winning dropped significantly. Fei could almost see the Goddess of Victory suddenly changing stances and flirting with the other party.
Paris, who was in white and holding onto a rose, was delighted. The smile on her beautiful white face got brighter and brighter. She slowly picked the petals off of the fresh rose one by one and released them to let the wind blow them away. It seemed so natural, but Fei felt an unprecedented cruelness from Paris' actions.
"Hehe, I heard a long time ago that【One Sword】owed First Prince Arshavin His Highness a favor and promised to strike once for Sister Tanasha……. It looks like the rumor is quite true. This is unfortunate, Sister Tanasha. 【One Sword】would only strike once for you. He will only block our attack once for you…… Hehe, it looks like I still have a chance to kill you!"
She was holding onto a petal-less rose; she was smiling like a naive girl. Her white dress was flickering in the wind, but the stuff she said gave everyone a chill. This girl was like a combination of a demon and angel, like a sweet poison.
"You can try!" The eldest princess' response was short.
It was as if she knew beforehand that 【One Sword】would leave like this. Her pure, ocean-like eyes didn't show any negative emotions. She was still frowning. However, Fei could clearly feel that the reason why she was frowning wasn't because she was worried about her situation, but rather because she didn't want to talk to this girl called Paris anymore. It seemed like the eldest princess was deeply disgusted by Paris.
"Could it be that this b*tchy Paris seduced eldest princess's man?"
Fei rubbed his chin and thought jokingly.
At this time, the golden morning sun had already rose above the clouds and got rid of the coldness on the peak of East Mountain. Looking from afar, the clouds flowed and twisted around and looked magnificent. Some mountain peaks were visible above cloud bed, and this was the most picturesque scene that one could see at the peak of East Mountain.
There were less than twenty people from Chambord who were still on the peak.
The strongmen such as Drogba and Barrack held their huge weapons tightly in their hands and guarded around the King's Altar. They kept glancing around the crowd and the princes; they knew that there was still a hidden archery assassin in the crowd. This kind of hidden assassin was the deadliest. No one knew when they would shoot out the silent lethal arrow, and no one knew who the assassin was going to target……
Lampard and the severely injured Oleg guarded Angela and Emma tightly with a few servants. These two girls were the weakest people on the King's Altar. They were defenseless in front of these mysterious assassins.
The atmosphere became very weird.
Although the eldest princess had more people on her side and enjoyed a numbers advantage, she didn't have a high chance of winning.
【One Sword】only injured the five assassins he struck earlier, but they were still able to fight. On top of that, there was a hidden archery assassin and this girl Paris whose real power and strength were still a secret. In terms of people who were star warriors or mages, eldest princess would lose to Paris significantly. Those two hundred fully armoured cavalries were mostly non-star ranked, and they would be negligible in high level battles.
Paris had a teasing expression on her face, as if she wasn't going to rush the decision.
This b*tchy girl glanced around, and everyone who met her eyes felt like she was flirting with them. Finally, her eyes landed on Fei. As if she found an interesting prey, she giggles as she gave Fei an flirtatious blink, "Little King, I can feel how tensed up you are. Hehe." She pointed at the eldest princess who was standing beside Fei and said, "How about…… if you kill this woman, I will let you live. Deal?"
After she said that, Fei immediately became the center of attention.
"This deal…… isn't fair." Fei rubbed his chin and laughed, "Let's change it up a little bit."
"Oh? Say what is on your mind?" Paris' smile got even brighter as the rose in her hand slowly dried up.
"Old hog, how about this. If you lick my toes, I will let you live," Fei said seriously.
Paris' expression finally changed.
"Little King. You will pay for your arrogance…… I know that maybe you are not afraid of death, but……" Her smiled was still bright, but her voice got really cold. She suddenly turned her head and looked at Angela who was being protected by Lampard and Oleg. Her expression became really cruel, "I guess that girl is your woman. Right? What a beautiful girl, classy and majestic, pure and innocent, as if she is a goddess who has fallen into this dirty world. Little King, think about it. If she was ruined by a dirty, smelly beggar and was sold to the cheapest brothel at Zenit Empire and touched by numerous disgusting men everyday, would she still look this pure?"
Fei's expression got cold as well, "Bitch, you could try."
People who were close to King's Altar felt the temperature suddenly dropped right after Fei said that.
The atmosphere was breathtaking, as if thousand-pound rock was tied to the ceiling with a hair string and disaster would occur any second. Everyone was holding onto their weapons, and sweat slowly wet their palms. They could all hear their heartbeats, but none of them knew if their heart would still be beating the next second.
"Haha, I'm just joking. You are such a humourless man. Hehe."
As if Paris was neuropathic, she suddenly started to laughed again out of nowhere. It made it seem like Fei was naming calling and swearing at someone who she didn't know at all. She looked back at the eldest princess.
"Sister Tanasha, aren't you curious at all? Aren't you curious about why God's Item【Inspection】didn't sense them?" Paris was like a little troublemaker who was showing off her latest invention. "A total of five assassins were able to get away from【Inspection】's scan and easily get to you. If 【One Sword】didn't suddenly appear and save you, you would be dead by now."
Tanasha immediately ignored her provocation.
Paris didn't get mad at all. She smiled as she explained further, "I guess you must recognize this item."
A sky blue sphere suddenly appeared and spun above the tip of Paris' index finger. The sphere seemed transparent and had many symbols engraved on it. A blue mist slowly came off of the sphere, as if it was an ultrasonic aroma diffuser, but the mist soon disappeared in the air. The sphere might have seemed like a kid's toy, but when it appeared, everyone felt like something was injected into their bodies, and they felt very uncomfortable.
"【Sky Screen】!" The purple dressed girl yelled in surprise.
"Hahaha, Sister Tanasha, you probably didn't expect this. Emperor Yasin already gave the God's Item【Sky Screen】to Dominguez His Highness. It looks like even the Emperor doesn't want you to live anymore, so unfortunate……" Paris licked her lips with her red soft little tongue.
The eldest princess sighed, "Hilton-Paris, God's Item【Sky Screen】doesn't mean anything. If you want to use it to mess up my mind, then I would be disappointed in your progression after fighting with me for so many years. You really don't know what father's intentions are…… Nevermind, you don't have to test and probe me with this boring chatter. I'm sure Dominguez did a lot of preparation for today's assassination. You must have a lot of hidden cards, quickly draw them out. We will see if you can help him get rid of me, the nail in his eyes."
"Hidden cards? Hehehe, my hidden cards will be only used at the last moment of course…… Hahaha, Sister Tanasha, try to handle the cards that I hide first……" Paris was still smiling, but as she said the last word, her face dropped and the smile disappeared from the beautiful face. A shocking, chilling word came out of her mouth as the wind fluttered her white dress –
"Kill!"
As the sound was still resonating in the air, the situation changed –
The five assassins who were standing still moved immediately. The assassin who was using a sword struck at the Eldest Princess who was standing four yards away from him with full force.
At the same time, the assassin in white who was using a pair of metal claws disappeared from where he was standing and appeared behind the eldest princess and aimed at her back.
The two assassins who looked exactly the same attacked as well, but their target wasn't the elder princess anymore. It was Fei who was beside the eldest princess. The two strange-shaped yellow blades were in front of Fei's face in a fraction of a second.
An orange-yellowish flame flashed by and the tall and tough assassin dived into the King's Altar.
Boom! As most of the people were surprised by that, the King's Altar collapsed, and the two hundred cavalries on the King's Altar lost their formations and went into a chaos……
The five assassins cooperated with each other intimately; they divided up the work in an instant.
Hilton-Paris moved as well. Her body drew a series of afterimage in the air as she targeted
Angela.
Ayyy, we r digging into the bonus queue now~
Thank Donovan M, Sajja S, Van T. for this bonus chap lol this took awhile
Hail the King
Chapter 119: The Wind Blew up a Girl's Skirt.
"Die!"
Fei's hands grasped into the air and a pair of purple and green swords appeared in his hands. Although there weren't any fancy energy flames, the pure physical strength of a level 21 Barbarian exploded and shook everyone on the peak of East Mountain. The dual swords turned into two shiny shadows and accurately hit the two yellow blades.
Tink, tink!
Two clusters of sparks appeared in the air like magnificent fireworks.
In terms of strength, the level 21 Barbarian was way stronger than his opponents. The impulse from the collision of the weapons sent the yellow blades back with their owners. The two assassins were really surprised. They would have never imagined the amount of strength that the little king had; they didn't sense any energy on the king after all.
After Fei blocked the attack, he stomped on the ground and initiated Barbarian【Leap】and chased after Hilton-Paris quickly. At this moment, Fei no longer cared about protecting the eldest princess; his own fiancée was under great danger.
That b*tchy women was very fast. She got to Angela within seconds.
"Fuck off!"
A blue and red energy flame flashed as Lampard and Warden Oleg stood in front of Angela and protected her. Lampard was a three-star warrior. Under his full power, the blue flames grew and burnt around him wildly. It even covered up Angela and Oleg inside of it. The black sword on Lampard's back started shaking. He gripped the hilt and drew it out forcefully. Splash! In a loud water splashing sound, the blue energy flew out of his sword and struck toward Paris like a huge tidal wave.
Oleg was weaker. However, he still endured the pain and struck his sword with all the energy inside of him. The red energy was like a rope and whipped at Paris.
Paris had a cold smile on her face. She pressed down at the air as she was still in mid-air.
Boom! Boom!
The blue energy tidal wave and the red flame energy whip disappeared instantly. Lampard and Oleg were hit severely by something invisible. They both coughed up a mouthful of blood as they were knocked off of the King's Altar.
Both of them couldn't defend against Paris' single strike.
They didn't earn any valuable time for Fei.
A white shadow flashed by them and appeared behind Angela.
A soft and thin hand lightly strangled onto Angela's swan-like neck just like how it held onto the rose. Paris smacked away Emma who was trying to jump up and help Angela easily and smiled at Fei who was charging at her. She didn't hide her playful look at all. That made Fei's heart sink to his stomach.
This woman captured Angela within seconds.
"Let her go!"
Fei had to stop five yards away from her. He put away the set of purple and green swords and stared at Paris sharply, as if his stare was a lethal frost arrow. He couldn't wait to nail this bi*tch in the head.
"Hehehe, are you nervous?"
Paris's smile was still very flirtatious, and her face was very seductive. She didn't mind the coldness in Fei's eyes at all. One of her hands was still on Angela's neck, and the other hand slowly combed Angela's silk-like black hair. Her movement was very intimate, as if she was helping her girlfriend get ready for a big night.
"Little king, do you still remember my words? Hehehe, your woman will be ruined by the lowest beggar and sold to a dirtiest brothel and be a prostitute for the rest of her life…… What do you think? Are you scared? Heartbroken? Angry? Hahaha, Little King, kneel down like a beggar. Kiss my feet and beg me. Maybe I will spare you!"
Fei's heart sunk even more.
This woman was crazy.
She gave back what Fei said to her, word by word.
Obviously, the reason why Paris attacked Angela who posed zero threat to her was because of what Fei said earlier…… This woman was beautiful, unparalleled, and one of a kind. You would think she would have a graceful, goddess-like temperament. However, she was also stubborn and crazy to the max. Normal people couldn't even imagine nor understand it. She wanted an eye for an eye, and was even more cruel than a demon. She had a teasing expression on her face. She slowly applied more force onto Angela's neck and caused the girl in her arms to suffer from pain and lack of oxygen as she enjoyed Fei's anxious movements.
At this time, the peak of East Mountain had turned into a living hell.
The assassin who used a sword didn't get too much out of his deadly strike; it was blocked by the purple-dressed girl. It seemed like they had a similar level of power. They fought as the different attributed energies mixed with each other and their bodies were nowhere to be seen. All that could be heard were the sounds of weapons colliding.
On the other side, the assassin in white who was using iron claws was battling with Knight Captain Romain. The assassin's movements were very tricky and unpredictable. It felt like his claws were able to tear up the space and could attack from anywhere. Knight Captain Romain who had a baby face and always had a smile on his face used a wide two-handed knight's sword. His style was very different from the assassin. He only used simple and straight forward fundamental attacks such as the slash, chop, sweep and cut. Although they were simple, they were extremely effective. He blocked all of the attacks and was even able to keep the assassin three steps away from the eldest princess.
The dual assassins who used the yellow blades didn't chase after Fei; they turned around and attacked the eldest princess.
At this point, there were no more star ranked mages nor warriors to protect her. However, the two hundred Zenit's cavalries demonstrated their iron will and character. None of them backed off. They yelled as they charged in front of the eldest princess and surrounded and protected her in the middle. They literally built a great wall with their flesh and bones. Even if they were going to die, they would die in front of the eldest princess to protect her. The scene was very tragic.
The two assassins became enraged. Although they were way stronger and more powerful than the cavalries, every single strike of theirs only beheaded a few soldiers….. When faced with an iron army of fearless warriors, they couldn't get close to the eldest princess in a short time……
The King's Altar made from huge white stones was damaged from the foundation by the earth attributed star warrior. It started to crack and break down. Large pieces of stone started flying around and the spider web-like cracks on the ground got wider and wider. Many cavalries fell into the crack and died instantly after stones hit them in the air.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Sharp arrows were shot out quietly. With the dust and chaos as their camouflage, they pierced cavalries' foreheads, eyes, throats and hearts…… The assassin who was still hiding in the dark took away a life with every arrow, as if he was the real grim reaper.
An expected scene appeared around the King's Altar.
The princes and emissaries from other kingdoms also started to fight.
People such as Prince Layo from Shanui Kingdom, Prince Boyou from Luna Kingdom, Emissary Yaley from Chata Kingdom, and representatives from a dozen other kingdoms all did one thing when Paris yelled the word "kill". They all tied a red ribbon onto their arms, and then drew their weapon and attacked the people around them who didn't wear the ribbon.
"Kill the eldest princess, His Highness Dominguez will reward you heavily!"
"Bastards……die!"
"Kill Tanasha, don't let anyone live. Don't let anyone from the Royal Coronation Legion leave here alive!"
"Hahahah, kill, kill all these dumb emissaries and guards!"
The golden sunlight had a hard time getting through all the dust on the ground. The peak of East Mountain had really become a living bleeding hell. Weapons were struck at each other as broken limbs flew everywhere. The blood spilled onto the ground like a rain, and screams and cries resonated on the peak and echoed in the sky.
The two hundred people were divided into two groups.
The ones who had a red ribbon on their arms definitely knew this would happen. They were prepared and reacted quickly. They sneakily attacked, were tightly organized and got the advantage in a matter of minutes.
The ones who were here purely to congratulate Fei on his coronation ceremony were taken by surprised and suffered severe casualties. More than half of them were injured or killed in a few moments. They tightly gathered around and struggled to defend themselves. However, they were faced with tough enemies; they were like a small boat on the ocean and could drown any second.
Fei glanced around and quickly knew what was going on.
The coronation ceremony had turned into a battleground for two superpowers. This was the source of danger and conspiracy that his intuition sensed before. Although Chambord didn't have anything to do with this fight, it was chosen as the unfortunate host and its extinction was decided for a long time ago.
"What are you hesitating for, little king?"
Paris smiled at Fei, as if all the blood and screaming was unrelated to her. "Come here and beg me, crawl here……kneel down. Hehehehe, I might really let you go."
Fei looked at Angela.
The beautiful girl was like a lonely lily standing in the blowing dust. She was a bit pale, but her expression was staunch and valiant, and not a single sign of fear was seen on her face. Her sky blue dress was stained with drips of blood that were blown here by the wind, and the dress soon lost its sky blue color from the grey, brownish dust.
This dress was designed by Fei before the ceremony. It was specially made for Angela. It was majestic and unique, and it outlined and highlighted the girl's intriguing beauty.
Fei rubbed his hands together.
And at that moment, a strong wind blew by and it blew up the edges of the girl's dress. It exposed a portion of her white, smooth, jade-like legs, and that enchanted and calmed Fei at the same time.
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Hail the King
Chapter 120: Really Dead?
"Ah? Come on madam, just go and kill the princess. Why are you holding a grudge against me?" Fei thought in his mind. He really wanted to say it to this crazy Paris. He thought this woman's real mission was to kill the eldest princess, so why would she come and mess with his woman.
"Let Angela go. I will swear with a king's honour to not get involved with your business."
Fei stared at Paris' flirtatious eyes and then stated his offer.
It was obvious that this woman didn't hold Angela purely for the grudge. This mission of assassinating the eldest princess took a long time to prepare and refine, but Fei who was equivalent to a four-star warrior popped out of nowhere near the execution date. In other words, Fei's improvement speed was so fast that it outpaced Paris' ability to deal with the change. There was no record of anyone advancing to a four-star ranking from three-stars in a matter of few days.
If this happened in any other situation, only a four-star warrior would not be enough to grab Paris' attention. However, in this case, she had to do so.
In this assassination mission, both parties, Tanasha and Paris, were battling on an iron string above ground. They had to carefully calculate every step and every possible factor. Before the Coronation Ceremony, both of them reviewed their own plans and thought of every possibility that may destroy their strategies. The two smartest women from Petersburg knew that in this dangerous battle, any small change could instantly change the outcome. It was like dancing on knives; any failure would result in immediate death.
The background to this mission was quite simple.
Using the Chambord Coronation Ceremony as an opportunity, eldest princess Tanasha used herself as the bait to attract the attention of the evil Paris, and Paris immediately sensed Tanasha's intention and planned accordingly to Tanasha's plans. The two most famous women in the capital of Zenit Empire wanted to use this opportunity to kill each other and increase the chance of the men who they each supported to get the throne in the future. Due to the time constraint, this would likely be the last match; the winner takes all. From the numerous battles they had, they already had a great understanding of each other's power, abilities and resources. At the beginning, both were at a subtle balance. It was like they were playing cards and they had similar hands. But if one party suddenly got an Ace out of nowhere, then the result would be obvious.
To be able to fight with Tanasha who was nicknamed the Goddess of Intelligence, Paris wasn't just a pretty girl. Instead, she was quite smart and moved with calculated steps.
When she appeared on the King's Altar, she was able to push Fei's emotions and figure out his weakness in a few sentences – the only way to control Fei, the person who she and Tanasha didn't take into account, was through controlling this girl called Angela.
Therefore, when their side attacked, she didn't attack the eldest princess, but surprisingly chose Angela who was defenseless.
Paris succeeded.
At least from the look of things, she had complete control over this fight. She used minimal resources and restrained this unexpected "change". King Alexander had not helped the eldest prince out too much in this fight. As time passed by, the balance was slowly tilting towards the assassin's side.
This was a scary woman.
Fei just vaguely understood Paris's intentions.
Therefore, he spoke and stated his positions.
However –
"Hehe, little king, if I don't let her go, you still can't help Tanasha out. Why would I let her go? Just because you said so?" Paris was a little surprised. She didn't expect the king to sense her intentions this quick. However, no matter what happened, she wouldn't let Angela go. Instead of trusting those promises and oaths, Paris who had experienced many dark sides of humans preferred complete control in her own hands.
Paris' answer took Fei by surprise as well. He thought she would at least consider his proposal.
The current situation was bad for both the eldest princess and Fei. It could be said that they were on the same boat. If the assassins killed all the star warriors on the eldest princess' side, then Fei would not survive this as well.
Fei frowned.
"Alexander…… At this moment, Angela who was quiet suddenly spoke. Her voice was so calm that it was scary. "Listen to me, Alexander. If you can, please kill this woman and get revenge for me and Emma……" After that, a stream of blood started to slide off of the edge of her mouth. Her beautiful neck lost all strength and her head lowered softly. Her body collapsed in Paris' arm; a beautiful girl stopped breathing and passed away in the bright sunlight.
"Angela!!!!!!"
Fei roared as he felt like his heart was ripped in half. He stomped on the ground and his body shot out like a cannon as the ground under his feet caved inward. The purple and green dual swords turned into a blade storm and moved toward Paris crazily. The intent was clear, die!
Paris was shocked. She didn't think that the girl in her arms was so determinate and would commit suicide by biting her own tongue. Although she was a little suspicious, after feeling the heart in the girl's body stop beating, she felt something indescribable as a female. She sighed and lightly pushed Angela's body toward Fei.
"I will return her body…… I didn't plan to kill her."
Paris' shook her body and she disappeared from the spot, but her words got into Fei's ear clearly. It was rare for this cruel and dominating woman to explain herself; this might be an exception for her as well.
Fei put away the dual swords and hugged his lover's body.
"Blacky!!" Fei yelled.
"Bark, bark, bark, bark!!"
A loud barking noise broke the tragic howling atmosphere at the peak of East Mountain. Under the surprising stare of many people, an enormous black dog rushed to Fei's side. Fei placed Angela's corpse on the dog's back, and the dog barked back and quickly turned into a black tornado and disappeared from the peak of East Mountain after Fei patted it on the head.
"Die!"
After seeing Blacky carry Angela off the mountain, Fei felt a bit less restrained. He turned around and glanced at the people who were still fighting. After locating the two yellow-bladed assassins who were massacring Zenit's cavalries, he jumped up as he summoned his dual swords and chopped down with full force.
Boom!
A loud noise resonated on the battlefield and dust was sent into the air. The two assassins didn't have the chance to dodge the attack. All they were able to do was block it with their blades. They immediately felt an unstoppable force coming off of the collision. Their knees were not able to handle it, and they were forced to kneel to counter this force. The result was shocking; the lower half of their bodies looked like they were nailed into the hard ground. Blood spurt out of their mouths as if it was water.
After the attack started, Fei didn't stop. He didn't hold back his force and moved with his murderous intent.
He aimed his kicks at the two assassins who had not gotten up yet in the chest. The kicks were so fast that it broke through the air, and the sound was so loud that the two assassins knew that they would not survive if the kicks landed. In extreme fear, the two of them positioned their blades in front of themselves to protect the vital spots around their chests. However, Fei's great force kicked them out of the ground, and they flew off the broken King's Altar.
"Get the f*ck out!"
After kicking away the two assassins, Fei forcefully stomped the altar, and numerous cracks appeared under his feet like a huge spider web. The mostly destroyed whole altar started to shake. The huge force that Fei applied to it went through the structure and was sent into the ground
The next second, the orange-yellowish energy flame flashed. The earth-attributed star warrior who was hiding underground and sneak attacking people screamed as he rushed out of the ground. Fei's stomp was very on point. The force directly hit him under the ground and almost instantly killed him. He had almost lost his ability to fight, and he was just running away…….
Unbelievable Strength!
Unimaginable performance!
The eldest princess who was under the cavalries' protection was shocked by this scene as well.
Fei who was extremely enraged had demonstrated an unbelievable fighting ability. The physical strength of a level 21 Barbarian was fully utilized. Powerful strength could demolish all tactics and techniques. When faced with this level of brute force, the star warriors didn't even have time to use their energy techniques and show off their skills. They were severely injured and had to back off.
In an instant, three assassins had lost their strength and were no longer threats.
The situation on the battlefield changed drastically.
Paris initially joined the assassin who used a sword and fought with the purple dressed girl. They tried to get through the girl's purple flames and get to the eldest princess. But after seeing this scene, an angry and anxious expression appeared on her beautiful face. She ditched the purple-dressed girl and aimed her attacks at Fei.
The green energy that was visible in her hands was pushed out; her movements were so soft that it looked like she was reaching out to her lover. But the energy immediately transformed into a gigantic green bird. It opened it wings, cried loudly and flew toward Fei. Its wide wings were as sharp as knives. With craze in its eyes, it covered the sunlight and dashed toward Fei.
The path that the gigantic gird took was completely destroyed. The ground was cracked, and the corpses were blown into the air.
Fei laughed with a crazy expression.
He used both Barbarian Skills -【Bash】 and 【Double Swing】 at the same time, and his purple and green dual swords turned into a blade storm and went head to head with the gigantic green bird.
Finally, the bird and the purple green dual sword collided.
Boom!
The whole mountain started to shake from this collision.
The huge impact created an air wave, and it swept through the peak of East Mountain, and people who were close got blown away like weeds. Not a single person was able to remain standing till under this strong pressure. Chipped stones, dust, blood, and weapons spun in the air and created a strange tornado. In a radius of 10 yards from where Fei and Paris stood, everything seemed to gradually decompose and turn into debris.
It was a beautiful, breathtaking storm.
Hail the King
Chapter 121: The Terrifying White Haired Master.
A beautiful and horrifying death storm.
Although Paris was powerful, she was pushed back by the force from the collision like a falling leaf in an autumn breeze. She had to admit that she still underestimated this little king's true strength, although she was very careful.
As she flew back like a leaf, her mind quickly calculated and planned the next move. Her pupil suddenly contracted. She saw two flashes of light that were emanating a murderous aura. Under the cover of this beautiful storm, a purple and green light were shot at her; one aimed at her heart and one aimed at her throat.
Impossible.
That little king had brutally held himself up against the huge force from this deadly collision. Moreover, he moved so quickly after that. Although his body was covered in wounds, his determination didn't get affected at all; his goal was still to kill her. His body was perfectly parallel with the ground as he dashed towards her. His body spinning in the air and the purple and green dual swords flashing in a lethal bladestorm.
Paris immediately felt a sense of great danger.
The murderous intent in Fei's eyes had almost materialized. It created numerous red marks on Paris' white skin, as if a knife had dragged across her body. The chilling, deadly sensation instantly tore open Paris' mental defence, and paused all her thoughts.
After seeing the layers of green energy walls that she setup fail to block the dual swords, her expression finally changed drastically. An unprecedented scared expression appeared on her beautiful face as she turned her head around and screamed a name –
"Murphy!!!"
Boom – !
Before she could finish screaming, a figure appeared in front of her and threw a punch slowly.
This punch gave people a very strange feeling.
It seemed like it was ultra-slow. Everyone could see the angle and trajectory of the punch clearly. They were even able to see the symbols and inscriptions on the black ring that he was wearing on his finger clearly. However, the punch was fast as well. In an instant, the punch had connected onto the swords.
The punch had literally reversed and messed up both time and space.
Tink!
The punch accurately hit both the purple and green lights at the same time.
An unstoppable force exploded onto Fei's swords which started to bend and strain in Fei's hands. The impulse was soon passed from the sword into Fei's hands, forearm, and shoulders.
Crack, crack – !
A chilling bone breaking noise sounded. Blood spurted out of the pores on his arms, as if it were a layer of blood mist around him. His clothes were immediately stained by the blood. Like a doll that was ditched by someone, Fei flew back for more than twenty yards before he could stop. A stream of blood dripped off from the edge of Fei's mouth.
A master!
Fei was shocked.
The person who suddenly appeared was the most powerful person that he had seen in both the real and Diablo World. The strange force that entered Fei's arms and body had destroyed and tore Fei's bones and muscles apart, as if there were many mini-explosions in his body. The unbearable pain almost made Fei howl loudly.
He immediately took out a bottle of 【Normal Healing Potion】and chugged it.
The injuries in his body quickly recovered.
However, Fei wasn't relieved at all.
The force that entered his body didn't disappear. It was still continuing the destruction of bones and muscles that the healing potion healed. The potion was only able to fix and heal the injured body parts, it wasn't able to get rid of the dangerous force inside of him.
He took out another potion, it was a bottle of 【Full Rejuvenation Potion】.
This potion could restore 100% of the health and mana in the Diablo World, and it also helped with getting rid of some negative effects…… As soon as the purple potion went down his throat, the force that was inside of him got weaker immediately. Soon, the effect of the potion and the deadly force cancelled each other out.
Fei didn't attack again.
He quickly switched to Assassin Mode, and disappeared in this dusty, misty environment. At this point, the peak of East Mountain was hazy. The dust and the bloody mist obscured the people's visions. This was the best environment for assassins to show the world what they could do.
A tall strong white haired and bearded man stood in front of Paris.
This was the person, Murphy, who had blown Fei away. He was one of the Trump Cards that Paris had and was supposed to attack and kill the elder princess at the most critical moment. However, when Paris' life was under great danger, she had no choice but to pull him out to defend her. This secret trump card was exposed.
After blowing Fei away, the old man Murphy didn't chase and try to kill Fei with the advantage.
He put his hands behind his back. Two golden light beams shot out from his eyes and broke through the layers of dusts and blood mist like a searchlight. It seemed like he was scanning around and was trying to find something…… A solemn expression gradually appeared on his face.
Paris who was standing behind him saw something else. She saw two deep, bloody wounds on the elder's fists. The wounds were about one to two inches deep, and his white bones were visible. Blood slid off his fingers and dripped onto the ground.
This discovery scared Paris one more time.
Murphy was already a six star warrior. He had metal attributed energy, and that made his body almost indestructible. His fists were like the hardest weapons that ever existed, but they didn't have any advantages over Fei's dual swords…… Paris felt increasingly chilly as she thought about it more. If Murphy wasn't here, then her throat and heart would definitely have been pierced by that attack.
"Murphy, kill him as fast as you can!"
Paris spat the words out from between her pearly white teeth. She was never this worried. Although she had more trump cards and more plans, but the ability that this little king had shown made her a little uncomfortable. The women's sixth sense, her intuition told her that she might had ignored something, but she couldn't grasp it.
"He disappeared!"
The master warrior Murphy glanced around the peak of East Mountain, and couldn't find where the little king was hiding at. He couldn't sense where Fei would be at all: "I can't find him!"
"What?"
Paris couldn't hide the surprise on her beautiful face. This little king was able to hide from the gaze of a six star warrior. It seemed like an impossible miracle told in stories and legends that were passed around by the travelling poets. This woman quickly thought of a solution: "Just start torturing and killing the guards and soldiers from Chambord, we will just force him to come out on his own!"
Paris was a master of understanding and playing with people's weaknesses.
But –
"Paris, if i'm not wrong, it seems like everyone from Chambord…… is dead already."
Murphy glanced around the the Peak of East Mountain again, and gave Paris an answer that made her very frustrated. This beautiful woman had not experienced this hard situation for a long long time. She felt powerless in this situation, the same feeling she had when her adopted father locked her in the dark basement sixteen years ago.
"Damn it! Forget about him…… I will keep the star warriors on their side busy. Just kill the elder princess first!"
After she said that, Paris dashed into another battleground, and helped the assassin who was slowly falling into a disadvantage as he fought with the purple dressed girl. Murphy on the other hand dashed towards where the elder princess was.
Boom! Boom!
With every step he took, the energy surrounding him grew stronger. Soon, the mountain started to shook, as the energy was too powerful.
The cavalry knights who surrounded the elder princess quickly sensed this danger. With less than a hundred men left, they divided themselves into two groups. One group closely guarded the elder princess and another group charged at the whited haired Murphy with courage; they wanted to use their bodies, their lives to stop this terrifying six star warrior's advancement – although they might only stop the man for one second for each life that was sacrificed.
However –
Boom! Boom!
Murphy was still getting closer to the elder princess. He simply threw out punches at the Zenit soldiers who charged at him, and the men who tried to block Murphy's path were blown apart before they could even scream in pain. The strong metal attributed energy instantly crushed all the bones of these cavaliers into pieces, and evaporated all their blood. They were like snowflakes during a hot summer day, disappearing in seconds.
This was a truly powerful high ranked star warrior.
Ordinary soldiers couldn't even get close to him within 10 yards (m), let alone stopping him.
Although this was reality, the cavalries charged in one after another.
The soldiers' honour suppressed the fear in them.
Unfortunately, bravery and courage couldn't change anything when faced with absolute strength and power.
In a blink of an eye, more than fifty bravery cavaliers were gone. Their weapons and armour were all crushed into dusts along with their bodies, bones and blood. They had forever disappeared from this world.
Murphy was still approaching the elder princess step by step.
He was in a critical distance from the elder princess. She was in great danger. When Murphy threw out the twenty first punch, the formation of cavaliers who were protecting the elder princess was already falling apart.
The death of their colleagues and friends didn't faze them at all but Murphy's fists were a different story.
WIthout commands nor shouts, the rest of the cavaliers divided themselves into halves again. About twenty five cavaliers continued to guard the elder princess, and the other 25 charged at Murphy, like moths flying into a flame. The path was soaked in the blood of their colleagues.
Boom! Boom!Boom! Boom!
It was the same punches, and it was the same silent deaths.
The brave sacrifices of the cavalries seemed way too cheap; it was not effective at all.
The white haired elder was less than thirty yards(m) away from the elder princess.
Among all the twenty five cavalries who charged at Murphy, there was only one who was still alive. An impatient expression appeared on Murphy's face. He punched out again and that man instantly disappeared from the world.
There was nothing that could stop this white haired murderer.
Murphy's eyes locked onto the elder princess. He believed that he could turn this Goddess of Intelligence of St. Petersburg, who was feared by many people, into a bloody pulp.
But, at this moment –
It was a fist.
It quietly travelled through the blood mist of the last charging cavalries. As if it got pass through the limitations of time and space, the fist instantly landed on Murphy's chest.
Puff – !
Blood was spurted, and it stained Murphy's white beard
He flew back uncontrollably like a bullet.
Hail the King
Chapter 122: Oh, That Was All Fake (Part 1)
"Oh, no…"
Seeing the white-haired master Murphy getting blown away like a rag sack, Paris in the distance let loose a desperate roar. She consecutively dashed forward a few times in the air like lightning, and caught him right before he violently collided with the ground.
There were two shocking dents on the chest of this white hair old man – a pair of fist marks.
These two fist marks were 4 to 5 centimeters in depth, deeply printed on the white hair master Murphy's chest, and one could clearly see the ridges of the knuckles. The violent force didn't leak at all and was all directed into the Murphy's body, almost completely destroying this sharp master's heart and meridians. Large mouthfuls of blood spewed out from his mouth like a spring. Under Paris's two arms' support, this grand master that was just massacring the enemies now could barely stand in place.
Ten meters away.
That staggering figure of a knight that was almost drowned in the sharp energy waves, now actually straightened up his body and stood in place.
A strange smile appeared on his mouth, and as he took off the T-shaped protection helmet on his head, exposing sharp chestnut color short hair, a handsome face, a straight nose, and angular facial contours appeared in the panicking pupils of Paris and Murphy. This warrior was not too big, one could even say he was a bit weak-looking and skinny, but his body was filled with a characteristic military iron blood breath. He gently stood there, instantly giving people the oppressing atmosphere of facing millions of troops.
"Ar… His Royal Highness Arshavin?"
After seeing the face of this knight, the white beard white hair master Murphy and flirtatious woman Paris's face all suddenly became pale, and the shock expression surfaced.
The dignified Elder Prince of Zenit Empire, [God of War] Arshavin actually appeared in person?
How's this possible?
Paris clearly remembered in the information they received before, his highness should be in the imperial camp right now…. Damn it, at this moment, who could be the person that's at the [Iron Blood Heroes] camp in the emperor capital? Paris was very smart, she almost immediately thought of the other possibility – very clearly, that Arshavin His Royal Highness at the Royal Camp was just a substitute used to cover their eyes and ears!
This was the final kill!
This was the joker card up the sleeve!
Who would've thought that the dignified Elder Prince actually didn't mind to lower his position, be personally disguised and quietly mix into the Emissaries Group, come to Chambord City early, and then deliver a surprise attack at the critical time, easily seriously injuring the enemy's grand master, reversing the entire situation.
The person that should not have appeared, appeared.
Then, everything was changed.
And at this moment, Fei that was still flowing and drifting around in the dust in [Assassin Modric] also became dumbfounded after seeing this scene, because he recognized this skinny and weak-looking chestnut-color short hair warrior. If he didn't remember wrong, on the first day the Zenit Emissaries Team arrived at Chambord city, this warrior's identity was the Elder Princess's carriage driver.
At that time Fei's Barbarian level just reached level 16, his feeling was not very accurate, and he just vaguely felt that this driver was a pro, but he never thought that this pro was actually m*therfcking high like a hundred-floor skyscraper.
And, from Paris and Murphy's exclamation just now, Fei also finally knew that the chestnut-colored short hair warrior had another distinguished identity – the Elder Prince of the Empire Andre Arshavin, that man who would likely inherit Emperor Yaxin's throne and rule the Zenit Empire, and the man known as [Zenit's God of War].
This discovery completely shocked Fei.
Today, the things that took place at the top of Eastern Mountain were way too incredible. Famous figures appeared out of thin air one after another, and unexpected events took place one after another… All Fei could do was shake his head, as he noticed that he was still a little too lacking when compared to how these big figures planned strategies.
"Paris, you should tell them to stop."
Arshavin looked at them with a confident smile.
But his face didn't have the slightest joy of accomplishing something. Although this woman in front of his eyes once helped that not-so-friendly younger brother of his and brought him countless times of troubles and almost unbearable losses, and before this, he had dreamed countless times of killing her… But, now that the life of this woman was really firmly grasped by his hands, Arshavin suddenly had a little bit of feelings.
Such a perfect woman, unfortunately she couldn't be on his side…
Paris quickly calmed herself, she sighed and gently waved her slim arm.
The entire battlefield instantly quieted down.
In fact, after Elder Prince Arshavin appeared, many people already consciously or unconsciously stopped this now-seemingly-meaningless fight, especially after seeing those two fist marks in front of Murphy's chest. Almost everyone on the top of Eastern Mountain instantly realized, at this point, the outcome of this battle was actually already predetermined.
In the Zenit Empire, Prince Arshavin was a legend.
This prince of under 25 years old had already leveled his fire element energy to the 6 star level, where the energy could take physical form that was as sharp as blades, recognized as the Zenit Empire's number one young talent within hundreds of years. In addition to his powerful strength, he was also a master of the art of warfare, experienced in battles, and bathed in blood for six years, during which he achieved a number of prominent military awards. The [Iron Blood Camp] was also as invincible, known to be undefeatable, and was the ranked one elite division of the Zenit Empire, enjoying the reputation of being the [Whip of the God of War].
If it was normal circumstance, the older generation's Murphy could still contest this Zenit God of War, but after being caught off guard, he had been seriously injured with his meridians shattered, leaving him at the edge of death. But, Arshavin was only slightly injured when trying to resist the gold energy storm earlier, and now he still had about 70 to 80% of strength. Relying on his own power, right now this Royal Highness really had the ability to control the remaining battle.
As the two sides stopped fighting, the dust in the air also gradually settled.
Residual limbs and blood-soaked mud covered the battlefield.
Around the King Altar, the expressions of the survivors were a bit different.
There were clearly more people with red ribbons on their arm. They previously had control of the battle, but now their head count had completely no influence on the outcome of this battle. A six star elite like Arshavin could instantly crush them into slag with one finger. The people of Shanui Kingdom, Luna Kingdom, and Chata Kingdom immediately revealed the expression of fear and despair.
And the emissaries of countries that suffered horrible losses due to the surprise attack were all overjoyed, and some people even cried.
As Paris waved her hand, the crowd became separated very orderly.
After a burst of cautious footsteps, the assassins all stood behind the devil woman Paris, and the those with red ribbons all stood on Paris's side in despair. At this moment, although they couldn't feel more regretful about their actions, it was still useless. This is a suicidal gamble, and standing on the wrong side of this assassination operation basically declared the end of their lives and the country they represent.
And on the other side, the few innocent survivors were still frightened, as if they were small chickens that had found their mothers in the face of an eagle. They stood trembling behind the Elder Prince and Princess. In the crowd, the little prince Modric of Lake Kingdom was covered in injuries, but he also luckily survived.
The group ultimately divided into two.
The atmosphere was terrifyingly oppressing.
At this moment, Fei came out in his delightful footsteps and a big smile. He switched to [Barbarian Mode, it's just that his body had some light injuries, and the King's robe which he wore to this ceremony is already torn into pieces. The soft leather lining underneath also had bloody openings。 His face was covered in blood, leaving out only a pair of black eyes. Fei was completely covered in blood, almost looking like just a blob of blood standing upright, leaving behind a bloody print everywhere he stepped.
Such injuries, it was simply miserable to the point that people could cry sad tears from seeing this.
Everyone that saw this scene were all suspecting, would this little king just drop to the ground to go see Jesus in the next moment. What's more sad was, the entire Chambord City, except for this unlucky little king that had his crowning ceremony screwed, all the guards and officials are all dead. Lampard, Drogba, Oleg, and Barak and so on, all their dead bodies lied quietly on the periphery of the ruins of the King Altar, fresh blood stained the stones and soil under their bodies…
"Ah, Alexander, it's great to see that you are still alive!"
Hail the King
Chapter 123: I want to Feel Happier!
Everyone at the top of Eastern Mountain almost vomited and fainted. This little King's tone and word choice was a little too rude. How could this represent the demeanor of a small Royal Family? It was more like a flustered gangster!
Could it be that he lost his mind due to what happened today?
It was no wonder since at his most proud and glorious moment, a catastrophe occurred. Not only did the crowning ceremony become a big joke, but even his fiancée and loyal men were all killed on the spot. If it was anyone else in his shoes that was dealt such a huge blow, they would probably have coughed out blood and died; even going mad would be a better result.
Modric laughed and said, "Alexander, even if you faked death and escaped, what can you do? Did you really think you could save anything right now?"
He proudly smiled, and then suddenly smudged his face with his right hand.
After a burst of blue flashing ripples that gave off a trace of wood magic energy, a layer gradually spread out and his face completely changed. It was no longer the gentle blonde smiling prince of Lake Kingdom, but rather someone unfamiliar to Fei.
"Wood elemental illusion magic?" someone exclaimed.
"He's [Butcher] Sandro… a knight commander under His Highness Dominguez! I've seen him before…" someone exclaimed as he recognized this unfamiliar face.
Hearing someone calling out his name, Sandro's arrogant expression bloomed even brighter. "Hahaha, Alexander, now you should know why I would help Ms. Paris. Do you now understand why these two people are still alive?"
Behind Sandro stood two people that should have been dead.
The muscular earth elemental warrior Hershzen and Okocha. (TL: might have been previously translated as Aobina my badddd)
The former committed suicide by taking poison after he failed his assassination attempt on Fei and was chased around, like playing Whac-A-Mole back to the hotel he was staying at. The latter was massacred along with his guards at the hotel they were residing in by some mysterious figure.
But now, they were both alive and sound.
They had proud and mocking smiles, and their eyes were filled with resentment when looking at Fei. It was this little king that they originally overlooked, which left them with no choice but to "die" once, and it almost screwed up Dominguez's big plan.
"I get it now. On that night, it was you that passed on the message in advance to the Thrace Kingdom emissary group and let them create the disguise that they were all annihilated and that Prince Okacha was killed. You also found someone to replace Hershzen's death and deceive me, right?" Fei's sudden realization showed on his face.
"You are not that stupid," Thrace Kingdom's Prince Okocha sneered and advanced a step.
"I was wondering how someone could kill over 200 people that quickly. I didn't even sense it outside a thousand meters. So that's what happened…" Fei touched his chin as he said, "However, you guys are really cruel. You actually killed that many of your own guards just because you were afraid that I might find out something… You guys are really f*cking worse than animals."
"Afraid of you? Idiot, you really overestimate yourself. Her Highness Paris just didn't want to disturb the Elder Prince so she purposely threw out this smoke array." Okocha looked at Fei as if he was looking at an idiot and laughed disdainfully, "Little King, you should worry about yourself. Chambord City is destined to be erased off the map today. Your people will all die and turn into ash, and they will be thrown into the lake with you to feed the fish!"
After being called worse than an animal, Okocha's face turned dark.
No one expected that at this moment, Paris unexpectedly took a step forward, smiled and said, "King Alexander, I have to admit that you are a genius with great potential. If you swear to work for His Royal Highness Dominguez, I can let you go today, and even your Chambord City can be saved. You can continue to be your King, and I can also promise you that in two months after the Imperial War Practice, Chambord City can be promoted to a tier 3 subsidiary kingdom."
"Hahahahaha…"
Fei patted his thighs and laughed with tears almost coming out. "You old granny, are you offering a meal out of pity mixed with contempt? Could it be… hehe, could it be that you are scared?" Then, before waiting for Paris to reply, Fei suddenly looked ruthless, without even a trace of a smile left on his face. He stared angrily and pointed in disdain as he shouted, "Go f*ck yourself! Dominguez can go f*ck himself too. F*ck your tier 3 kingdom; if I want something, can't I just grab it myself? Since when did I need to ask you arrogant b*tches for charity? Today, as long as I'm not happy, no one can f*cking think about leaving this mountain alive!"
This speech left everyone on the mountain dumbfounded.
Even the Eldest Princess, [God of War] Arshavin and Paris couldn't close their mouths.
After all these days of stress that were supressed in his heart, plus everything that happened on the Eastern Mountain today, Fei simply wanted to let it all out.
He directly placed his two hands on his waist and started swearing with spit flying everywhere.
"What dog sh*t King demeanor, what dog sh*t royal family etiquette, all of you can f*ck off to the side. That's right, you guys are the big people; you guys are all bosses, and just one fart from you guys can blow away my Chambord City. You guys want to kill each other, and I can't control that, but can you guys not just all come to my territory and start f*cking each other? You want to eliminate my kingdom and kill my people? Alright, that's fine. Hehe, today I will let you big figures see what it looks like when a small character like me goes crazy."
Right after he finished swearing and before everyone could react, Fei suddenly flashed, and in the next second, an after-image appeared in the air. While moving at high speed, he reached out his two hands and grabbed something in the void, and after a purple and green flash of light, the Purple Green Duo Swords appeared in his hands.
"Hahaha, I will take some interest first."
Fei laughed and swung with both hands. The duo swords drew two beautiful rainbows in the air and roared towards Modric and the other two people.
On the top of Eastern Mountain, nobody could have expected that in such a disadvantaged situation, this mad little King would actually dare to attack first.
Seeing the purple and green swords coming, Okocha and his guard Hershzen sneered and pulled out their weapons to counter. They were four star warriors like Fei, so obviously they were not afraid of this 2v1 situation and even charged up to take on Fei.
But…
Roar!!!
An earth-shattering roar sounded in the ears of these two men. Then, the huge sound wave also incredibly penetrated their bodies, deeply shocked their souls. In the next second, they didn't know where their endless fear came from, but like a free-flowing river, it unstoppably rushed to their hearts and instantly magnifying their pupils and made their bodies stiff…
Then, the sharp flaming flash arrived.
Puff~
Two blood springs erupted from the two heads that flew into the air.
Bang! Bang!
Hershzen and Okocha's headless bodies twitched and fell to the ground.
No one could have guessed that with just one move, this seriously injured little king that looked like he could die any second would take the heads of two elites at the same level.
Si~
It was completely quiet until waves of people breathing in cold ear could be heard, breaking the instant of silence on the Eastern mountain. Everyone felt a chill from their asses all the way up to their spine!
Waaaaa~
Waves of sharp, yet hoarse calls could be heard.
Far in the depths of the mountains, countless huge swallow birds flew through the magnificent golden sea of clouds. They stretched their wings and came flying like a dark black cloud. The bloody taste of the top of Eastern Mountain allowed them to feel the temptation of delicious food.
"Hehe, this time I'm feeling a little happier!"
Fei raised his feet and used the bottom of his shoe to rub off some of the blood on the swords. Then, he comfortably stretched his back, kicked the two dead bodies beside his feet, revealed two rows of big white teeth and laughed, "You guys are really dead this time, right? Haha, why don't you stand up and play dead again and let me see again?"
"Ahhhhhh!!!!!"
[Butcher] Sandro seemed to lose his soul. It was like someone had shoved a spiky mace up his ass as he kept on screaming and running. This so-called [Butcher] has the gut of a mouse; he was so scared that piss and feces almost shot out of his pants. He climbed and rolled behind Paris. How was he in any way similar to that arrogant person that successfully took down the two main fighters on the Eldest Princess's side?
Qiang! Qiang! Qiang! Qiang!
As for Fei, he was like a gangster and didn't have the demeanor of a master at all. He smiled and banged the two magical swords in his hands. Not masking the arrogance in his eyes, he said, "Hey, old granny Paris, I want to feel happier. What do you think should happen?"
Hail the King
Chapter 124: Like killing a chicken.
"It looks like we all underestimated you. You hid pretty well." The flirtatious Paris smiled. Her dressed fluttered in the wind, and a portion of her legs were exposed; they were white and smooth, and dazzled like jades. She said, "Alexander, my prior promise still holds true. If you are still willing to work for His Highness Dominguez, I will ignore everything that has happened, and you can still get everything you want in life…… even if you want me!"
After she said that, a charming blush appeared on her white face. Who had ever seen the beauty's blushful expression? This beauty controlled one of the two superpowers in the empire. Under the golden morning sun on the peak of Eastern Mountain, numerous men began to unconsciously nosebleed. Even Arshavin, [Zenit's God of War] looked somewhere else; he didn't dare to stare at her face.
However –
"Yuck! Granny, you're already so old. Why are you still here flirting with people? It is not your fault that you are ugly, but harassing people is wrong. Do you think I never saw any women before?" Fei glanced at her disdainfully.
The crowd had to admit that Fei's mouth was very vicious.
What he said made Paris angry instantly. Other people almost burst into laughter.
Although Paris wasn't a cute loli, every part of her body was mature and charming; she was so beautiful that it would be hard to find a woman that could compare. Numerous nobles wanted to obtain her heart, and there were rumours that even Emperor Yasin had a good impression of this beauty. Now, Fei was addressing her as an old granny, and dismissing her attempts at being flirtatious; Paris who was always graceful and calm was so mad that her face turned pale.
"How dare you, die!"
The assassin in white who was behind Paris yelled and suddenly disappeared, as if he dissolved into the air. There wasn't even an afterimage or ripple in the air. Obviously, this dangerous assassin had turned invisible and was preparing a lethal sneak attack.
However, Fei giggled and stood still. He held onto the purple green dual swords like he didn't see anything happen.
Be careful, this is the metal-attribute energy [Space Break Stealth Technique]!"
The purple dressed girl who was sitting down and meditating to heal up opened her eyes. The purple flame energy surrounded her, but a tense expression was on her pretty face. After seeing King Alexander acting so arrogant, she couldn't help but warn him.
Fei smiled as he gave the girl a thankful look.
At this moment –
An invisible layer of space suddenly appeared in the cold air like an exotic ghost flower blooming on the surface of water. A transparent claw broke through this ghost flower and instantly appeared in front of Fei. It was so fast that it was beyond human reflex, and it pierced through Fei's chest like lightning.
Blood started dripping.
It slid off the white iron claws that had back hooks and fish-like scales.
The assassin in white slowly appeared in front of Fei inch by inch. A proud and ferocious smile was on his face; people could sense his cruelty just by looking at him. He twisted the claws that he stabbed into Fei intentionally; he enjoyed the begging and desperate look on his victim's face.
The crowd couldn't help but gasp.
The hope that just appeared in the heart of followers of the eldest princess quickly shattered. Some people were secretly swearing at this little king, "This dumb pig, so arrogant……" On the other hand, the people from Shanui Kingdom and Chata Kingdom who were wearing the red band were delighted. They looked at Fei with disdain and sympathy; as if they were looking at a clown that messed up his trick.
"Can you still…… be that arrogant?"
The assassin in white slowly turned his arm and stretched his fingers that were in the king's body; this way, he could let this opponent feel the pain and desperation of life energy leaving his body slowly. Although this little king's body was so tough that it even scared him as it felt like his claw were stuck in a piece of iron, it was no use. He could tell that his claw had destroyed the major energy pathways in the little king's body and locked down the little king's energy.
But –
"You stupid donkey, of course I can be more arrogant!"
When he heard Fei say that, the assassin in white felt a chill in his bones. He immediately felt something was wrong. When he tried to gather the energy inside of his body and tear up his opponent's body, he suddenly saw a purple flame flash. His right arm felt cold; his entire right arm was chopped off and was left in Fei's body.
Blood spurted out like a fountain.
The assassin in white was terrified. His body started to shiver as he wanted to escape despite the unbearable pain he was experiencing. Half of his body was turning transparent; he was about to dissolve into the air again. However, Fei wasn't going to let him go that easily. Fei's right hand struck out and grabbed onto the assassin's head.
"Hahaha, want to escape? Too late now!" Fei laughed out loud.
The assassin in white felt a huge, unimaginable force pull him out of his stealth state like a carrot; it felt like he was tied to a magnificent mountain, and the mountain was falling from the sky.
"No……"
He screamed desperately. He stimulated all of his four-star warrior metal attribute energy and tried to shake off the hand that was grabbing onto his head. However, the hand endured through all the effort that the assassin put up to escape. The assassin roared as he struggled, but he couldn't get away. The hand suddenly pushed down and both of his knees couldn't handle the force; he instantly kneeled down in front of Fei.
To the crowd, it seemed like the assassin kneeled down after a light push by the little king who was dying. The assassin's knees smashed onto a huge rock and cracked. Everyone could hear the sound of bones breaking. It was clear that his knee bones were shattered into pieces.
Fei slowly licked the blood that was on his lips. This action made the assassin tremble even more; Fei looked like a bloodthirsty demon from hell.
"It's now my turn. Let me ask you, dumbass. Can you still be that arrogant?"
A sharp green sword was placed by the assassin's neck; it was so sharp that it had cut into the assassin's neck a little without applying any force.
All of the assassin's courage disappeared.
He started to shiver uncontrollably. As an assassin, he had tortured and killed numerous people using his claws; he had nicknamed himself the representative of the Grim Reaper. But when he was so close to death, he was scared like a little girl as he begged, "Ahhhhhhh, no, please…… spare me……please……"
But before he could finish, the green blade had begun to cut into his skin.
He could even feel a cold sensation passing through his skin, muscle, blood vessels and bones. He wanted to struggle, scream, beg for forgiveness, and whine……However, the cruel demon in front of him didn't give him the chance. The process was slow and long. He even felt the blade cutting through his neck. Then, he saw a body without a head and blood spurted out of his neck……
He saw a headless body in a white cloak falling to the ground, and the blood stained the soil.
That was his body.
The crowd was stunned.
Although they had seen numerous enemies and peers die in front of them today, the scene still shocked their nerves, especially when Fei slowly beheaded the assassin in white who was a four-star warrior, a warrior that could dictate their lives. Fei beheaded him as if he was a chicken. The spurting blood dyed the color of the sky and the sun red.
The crowd felt the anger of this king.
Unbearable anger.
Even the eldest princess and Paris who were calm and collected changed their expressions. They asked themselves, "Did I wake up a demon by accident?"
Scavenging birds that surrounded the peak of Eastern Mountain like dark clouds had also felt the murderous intent coming from this one person. They called in a high pitch, but they were scared; they didn't dare to land onto the ground.
Except for the bird calls, the only sounds on the peak of Eastern Mountain were the sounds of breathing.
"Oh? Killed another one. Eh, I'm feeling a little bit better."
Fei cleaned the blood off his blade by using the bottom of his shoes. He rubbed his chin in satisfaction as he smiled; the people could see his pearl white teeth. The detached arm of the assassin was still stabbed in his chest. As he moved, he frowned as if the pain caused some inconvenience for him. But what he did next even scared everyone on the peak of Eastern Mountain.
Fei grabbed onto that arm and pulled the iron claw with back hooks on it directly out of his body. Pieces of flesh and blood were stuck on it; there were even white pieces of chipped bones. If it was any other person, the amount of pain would make them faint, but they didn't see any painful expression on this little king's face.
This movement immediately gave some people a chill.
"Ahhhhh! Demon! He is a demon!"
Among all the emissaries on Paris' side, a guard suddenly cried as if he saw an undead demon. He turned around and rushed away as if he wanted to escape this living hell. But after he ran for four or five yards, something unimaginable happened.
Boom! Splat!
A series of white and extremely bright lightning strikes appeared from the ground. The enormous current travelled through the guard's body, and he was turned into a large piece of black charcoal.
"God! That …… is lightning magic trap!" Someone yelled in surprise.
A big smile appeared on Fei's face. He didn't hide his proud expression as he said, "Hahaha, that's right, it's a magic trap. Do you guys think that I don't know how to do anything except play dead? Hahaha, the entire peak of Eastern Mountain is filled with magic traps. If anyone dares to move, he or she will be turned into a piece of charcoal just like that dumbass!"
Hail the King
Chapter 125: I have to talk to my wife
After Fei said that, the people on the peak of Eastern Mountain were terrified.
Magic traps were not simple things that anyone could get. Only mages who were at least four star ranked could create them. On top of that, it would take a lot of magic power and a ton of precious magic materials. The reason why they were so rare was that the success rate was very low. However, once a magic trap was created, its power could not be underestimated. If it was used properly, it could deal the same kind damage as a full strike of the mage who created the trap.
According to legends, moon and sun ranked warriors and mages had been trapped and killed by powerful god tier magic traps. According to even more ancient tales, the magic traps that were set up by the mages at the demi-god level had killed even immortal gods during the war between the gods and the demons.
Plus, anything that had something to do with the word "trap" was closely related with things that were mysterious, cruel, sudden, sneaky, evil, tricky, and more. Genius mages had invented all kinds of unthinkable magic traps. Among the top assassinations on the Azeroth Continent, nine of them had to do with magic traps.
Therefore, after hearing Fei say that magic traps were placed around the peak of Eastern Mountain, everyone got scared, including the eldest princess and Paris.
But soon, some people got back to their senses.
"Impossible, how could you afford so many magic traps? You are only a level six affiliated kingdom. Don't even think about placing magic traps around here. I don't think you can even afford one magic item if you sold your entire Chambord Kingdom."
"Haha, yeah. You placed magic traps around the peak of Eastern Mountain? Who are you trying to scare?"
"I think he is a little crazy……"
"After getting injured so severely and bleeding so much, this little king is about to die. He is losing his mind. He doesn't know what he is talking about……"
The princes and emissaries from Shanui and Chata Kingdom made fun of Fei one after another. They were trying to please Paris, but they were also trying to boost their own courage. They were really scared by Fei's prior actions.
"You bunch of fools. If you don't believe me, you can go and try it out!" Fei sneered.
These magic traps were placed around the peak of Eastern Mountain after he switched to [Assassin Mode]. There were at least 50 to 60 of them. They were all fire and lightning attribute magic traps. Although they used up a lot of Fei's mana, they were relatively easy to set up; they didn't cost any precious magic materials at all. This didn't follow the understanding of the people on Azeroth Continent, but none of them knew.
"Hahaha, I will try!"
Some people were less cautious. It was a one star earth attribute warrior who spoke. He was the henchman of Prince Layo from Shanui Kingdom. After getting the prince's approval, he walked out and headed to the exit. He was sly; he didn't choose the direction that the poor guard who was turned to charcoal chose. He headed in another direction.
However –
Wooosh!
After a few steps, a cloud of burning fire appeared under the ground. It swallowed this arrogant guard immediately. After a few screams, he turned into a pile of ash in the fire. His one star warrior energy didn't help him too much. He was almost instantly killed.
The red flame was very demon-like; it was burning as if it could ignite the air. After the guard was burned to ash, his weapon and armour were burnt into a pot of iron liquid and soon evaporated. The temperature of the flame was so high that it was definitely a real magic flame.
"How could it be???"
"Damn, it really is a fire magic trap……"
"Oh my god, so is everything he said true?"
Immediately, the princes who were laughing at Fei the most shut their mouths. They stared at the magic flame as if it was from hell. "So there are actually magic traps. This little king was honest……" they all thought.
Prince Layo from Shanui Kingdom was especially dumbfounded. He was planning to test the route himself to prove Fei wrong; fortunately for him, he suddenly decided to let his personal guard test it first. Otherwise, the person who was burnt to ashes would be him.
Fei sneered as he glanced around; his expression told the people on Paris' side that he didn't view them as threats.
Paris had realized something by this point already. Her pretty eyes scanned the ground inch by inch, but human eyes weren't able to detect magic traps; she couldn't even detect it with her special energy searching technique. That was the scary characteristic of magic traps – before they were triggered, people couldn't find them without special techniques.
Paris waved her hand at the assassin in yellow. The assassin who was using a blade understood the signal. He jumped up as he swung his blade; a dash of blue water attribute energy that was six or seven yards long left his blade and flew toward one direction.
Boom! Boom!
Brawl! Brawl!
Many magic traps that were five or six yards away were triggered as the dash of energy passed through them. In an instant, clouds of burning fire and dashes of lighting appeared out of nowhere and started to head over to the assassin. The assassin used his water attribute energy and created a shield around him. However, the power of the lightning and fire was so strong that the shield made from the four-star warrior energy shattered. He was injured and backed off messily.
At this point, everyone on the peak of Eastern Mountain realized the situation that they were in.
That scene clearly proved everything the little king said. Although this king had a bloody hole in his chest that was almost see through, he in fact did secretly place numerous highly damaging magic traps around the terrain. With these many traps, people who were not at the four-star rank could never get out of here alive.
Many people had a strange feeling – if this little king was not severely injured, he would become the only winner of this gigantic conspiracy and fight.
"Don't worry, I have an idea. We have to capture him first. He must have saved a safe path for himself to get out."
[Butcher] Sandro who previously disguised as Modric quickly thought of a strategy. After seeing that Fei was injured and was having a hard time standing up straight, he felt this was the best opportunity for him to gain merit in front of Paris. He immediately rushed out of the crowd and aimed at Fei.
Paris' expression changed, but she didn't say anything.
She realized that she was no longer able to see through this little king. She had never felt this perplexed and this shocked in her life. Before she made any decisions, she was willing to let [Butcher] Sandro test Fei again.
[Butcher] Sandro was fast.
He was a four-star fire attribute warrior. As he sprinted to Fei, he moved his hands and red fire energy in his hands transformed into a roaring fire dragon. It flew towards Fei with all of its power and might.
Fei lighted swung his body to the right and dodged this lethal strike.
The next moment, he did something that almost made Sandro collapse –
With a slight flip of his hand, a bottle of red potion appeared in his palm. He chugged it down and the scary injury that was caused by the iron claw healed quickly; it was so fast that the healing was visible to human eyes. Strands of muscle and flesh squirmed and knitted themselves together, and the see-through hole on Fei's body closed. In just ten seconds, the injures on Fei's body had fully recovered and he had returned to his peak condition.
[Buchter] Sandro's face turned ugly, as if it was slapped by a pair of dirty shoes hundreds of time. The only reason why he was brave enough to attack Fei was because he saw that Fei injured; who would have known that this would happen.
The scene of Fei beheading the assassin in white appeared in Sandro's mind; the assassin in white was much stronger than him. The [Butcher] was terrified; he ignored his honour and pride as he turned around and tried to escape.
However, Fei would never give him the chance.
Fei hated this guy who loved cosplaying and sneak attacking other people. He stomped his feet and Barbarian 【Leap】 was used. He turned into a shadow and chased after the [Butcher]. His fingers grabbed at Sandro's shoulder like an iron hook.
"Hahaha, baited! Die!"
As Fei's fingers was about to touch Sandro's shoulder, Sandro stopped escaping, turned around, and laughed proudly. His fists instantly aimed at Fei's head; Fei immediately sensed danger.
The energy surrounding the fist had a heavy and firm feeling to it. It felt like these two fists could destroy anything in their way. This wasn't the power that a four-star warrior could have.
'Haha, I knew it! Predicted!"
At this critical moment, Fei suddenly stopped his chase; somehow, the inertia was gone. His body froze as if time was paused. Fei easily dodged Sandro's planned sneak attack. He then grabbed onto Sandro's arm and pulled him towards himself. The huge force made Sandro lose the control of his body as he flew towards Fei.
"Impossible, how could you……"
Bam!
Before he could finish, Fei's left fist had already blown up his head.
The red blood and white brain flew everywhere. It would give anyone who watched nightmares. The [Butcher] Sandro who had injured two top-tier warriors was killed without having the chance to beg for mercy.
Fei reached down and picked up two silver rings off of Sandro's corpse.
He found out a long time ago that this [Butcher] had a mysterious weapon that was like a magic item. This weapon could increase the condensation of warrior energy and instantly increase the damage of an attack. It was the best weapon for sneak attacks. It was because of these two silver rings that the [Butcher] could injure both the purple dressed girl and Arshavin, the [Zenit's God of War]. Otherwise, he could never injure either of them even if he sneak attacked.
After kicking away Sandro's corpse, the demon-like smile appeared on Fei's face for the third time, "Ah, another one. I'm feeling even better!"
The people on Paris' side were going crazy.
Acting weak!
This was the very definition of pretending to be weak!
Who could have thought that this little king had this mysterious healing potion that could speed up recovery that quickly? They didn't expect a high star ranked warrior on their side to die under Fei's feet again.
Under the golden morning sun, the peak of Eastern Mountain had turned into something else.
Four headless corpses laid around Fei; there was Hershzen, Okocha, the assassin in white, and Sandro. Everyone felt like they were having a crazy nightmare. "What is happening? How could this little king kill three four-star ranked warriors and a five-star ranked warrior this easily…… Is the God of War joking with us? If this is a nightmare, please let this nightmare end soon!" they thought.
"Take back these magic traps, and I will not hold you accountable for everything you've done!" Paris stepped up. The smile was no longer visible on this beauty's face. Her cold expression was attractive in its own ways. She stared at Fei and sighed unwillingly, "You win, you are the winner today. I would never have thought that the death match between Tanasha and I would end like this; we have each put so much effort into this. I still can't believe you are the final winner….. However, I'm sure that you understand the current situation. Except for the two four-star warriors and myself, there is also another five-star warrior. Even if you have a lot of magic traps set up, the most you can get is both sides being severely damaged; you can't get out of here alive as well!"
Only Paris knew how unwillingly she was when she said that.
There were two assassins who used yellow blades; they were both four-star warriors. The assassin who used the sword was a five-star warrior. Paris herself was also a four-star warrior…… From her perspective, they still stood a chance even if they had to fight with Fei head on; the worst that would happen would be losing more than half of her people.
But she also knew that the situation had gone out of her control. The situation was weird from the start. This little king had shocked her numerous times in the last hour. What worried her most was that the eldest princess had not shown her trump card yet. Therefore, Paris decided to compromise; the arrogant king was slowly pulling out his trump cards, but she had no more cards to pull out.
However –
"Haha, granny, you are finally giving up?" Fei smiled at this beauty in front of him. He thought seriously for a moment and answered as he rubbed the back of his head, "Eh, I have to talk to my wife first!"
Next, he did something that really broke the last string that was holding the people on the Eastern Mountain's mind together.
Hail the King
Chapter 126: Witnessing the miracle
"Biu……"
Fei placed his fingers around his mouth and whistled loudly. The whistle travelled with the morning wind.
Then –
Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof!
In response to this whistle, a series of crisp barking noises sounded under the peak. It was strange, yet familiar.
While the crowd was confused, the black dog that was so big that its mother probably couldn't even recognize him appeared on the peak of Eastern mountain. Of course, the appearance of this dog itself wasn't surprising, but a flower-like girl was riding on the back of this dog and smiling at Fei.
It was…… the little king's fiancée Angela.
Everyone on the peak of Eastern mountain was shocked and couldn't move their eyes off the beautiful girl who was smiling at Fei like an angel. Fei on the other hand was laughing crazily like a retard. The golden sun lit up Angela's body, and the crowd felt like their IQs were lower than ever, as if they were tricked by a kindergartener.
They could no longer view everything from a normal perspective.
"What is going on?"
"How is this possible?"
Although it was chaotic during the fight that broke loose earlier, most of the people saw this valiant girl commit suicide when she was controlled by Paris just to let her lover make the right decision. A lot of people were moved by that scene; even the cold-blooded Paris was touched, and she gracefully returned Angela's "corpse" back to the little king. Yhe little king was enraged and even killed off a lot of star warriors on Paris' side in revenge……
But how could they explain the current situation?
What was going on?
Why was this girl who should have been dead now healthy and alive and riding this dog?
Paris was the person who was the most shocked to see this. She thought that she had seen a lot of conspiracies and traps and tricks after working for Dominguez for many years, She felt that she would no longer be surprised by any tricks, but as soon as Angela appeared alive and healthy, there was an undisguised shock on her face. "How could this be?" she thought. She clearly remembered that she had felt the girl's heart stop beating; this kind of biological sign of death couldn't be forged or faked…… But why did the girl reappear in front of her alive and well?
Under the dull stares from the crowd, the big black dog acted "coquettishly". The dog put on a catwalk and walked around in a strange pattern before it arrived in front of Fei. Then, it put on a "personable" smile as it bent its knees and kneeled down in front of Fei.
Angela grabbed two large water bags and jumped off the black dog right away.
"Alexander, here is the stuff you wanted…… How are Emma and Uncle Lampard?" Angela wasn't used to this scene at all: blood flowing everywhere, limbs and internal organs laid around, and on top of that, the stares from men who were wounded and almost naked. She was disgusted; after handing over the two water bags to Fei, she hid behind him.
However, this pure and pretty girl immediately remember something. She carefully took out a sky-blue suit and handled it to Fei with a blush on her face. "Alexander……Eh, I found some clothes for you when I was in the kingdom with Blacky……. Your clothes are ragged……
"Ah, Angela, you are so thoughtful……" Fei wanted to make some people nauseous, so he intentionally held onto Angela's white smooth hands and lightly rubbed them as he glanced at Paris provokingly.
WTF?
The crowd on the peak of Eastern mountain felt like they were going to pass out. "Watch the time! WTF? In this serious situation, how could these two find the leisure to cuddle and talk about their romance…… Be more serious! We are talking about killing people here!" almost everyone thought in unison.
Fei's original blue suit had already turned into a "beggar style" wear during the battle; it hung loose on his body strip by strip, hanging by the threads. His nipples and body were completely exposed. Without giving it too much thought, Fei ripped the clothes off his body, and his hard muscles were completely exposed.
The lean, strong muscle and his tall figure were dyed in a golden color by the sun. His perfectly proportioned body, the blood on his face and his hair, the blood dripping sword…… At this moment, Fei looked magnificent! He looked like an invincible God of War; the people who were looking down at Fei felt inferior at this moment.
Both the eldest princess and Paris squinted their eyes; no one knew what they were thinking about at this moment. As for Angela who had fallen for Fei, she didn't hide the love in her eyes in the slightest. In this river of love, she had already sunk to the rock bottom.
Fei handed over the old suit to Angela and said, "Kept it for me. I will wear it later……" As he said that, he patted the black dog whose tail was wiggling like a windmill. This beast was so smart that it immediately understood Fei. It jumped up and started its catwalk in a strange pattern; it was obvious that it was dodging the invisible magic traps on the ground. Soon, it had brought back Lampard's, Drogba's, and Emma's corpse in front of Fei.
The crowd was perplexed. They didn't know what trick this little king was trying to pull off.
Perhaps some people had already guessed it, but they couldn't believe it.
Only Paris and the eldest princess stared at the black dog carefully. They memorized every step it took and the safe path around the peak.
During the whole process, the people from both sides remained quiet.
People minimized the noise they made and stared at the king carefully. They knew that whatever action the king took would affect their chances of survival….. At this point, even the dumbest person knew that the control of the situation had shifted from Paris and the eldest princess to this little king who was ignored by most at the beginning of the day.
"You shall witness a miracle…… Hahaha!"
Fei laughed as his pearl white teeth were visible to everyone. He couldn't keep a straight face on…… There was no way that he would stay low-key anymore. He was the deciding factor in this fight, and everything was under his control; why would he remain low-key?
The king looked at the crowd in a provoking manner, especially towards Paris. After that, he opened the water bags and poured the water over the corpses' face.
People who guessed what was about to happened already screamed in surprise.
Paris frowned very hard; she felt powerless, a weird kind of powerlessness. She didn't know whether she should laugh or cry.
Of course –
"Cough! Cough! Cough!"
Lampard, who was covered in blood, coughed and got up as he wiped the water off of his face. His reaction didn't feel like he had been revived from death; there was no hesitation or confusion. He drew out his long black sword, used his energy to dry up his clothes, and stood behind Fei as he glanced around the peak of Eastern mountain.
Lampard's chilling reaction proved the guesses in everyone's minds.
Everything was planned!
Splash! Splash!
The water continued to pour.
However, the crisp water sound gave people on the peak a chill.
This was because a moment later, all the "corpses" had opened their eyes. Among them, a black-haired man rubbed his butt and said, "Ah, damn! These rocks are hard. My bones are about to break! It is so tiring just lying on this ground……"
Seeing the guards of the little king wiping the blood off their faces and their bodies and showing off their unharmed faces and armour, the crowd was silent. These guys weren't dead! These honourless guys didn't even get injured. All the terrifying wounds and blood were painted onto their armour and face using blood from the real corpses……
Someone behind Paris finally couldn't take the reality. After seeing this, he went crazy. His eyes lost focus as he drooled. He only said one word, "Impossible……Impossible!
……Impossible!"
The eldest princess sighed and lowered her head.
Arshavin, [Zenit's God of War] and the purple-dressed girl who were meditating to speed up their recovery were deeply shocked as well. Their energy that surrounded them fluctuated vigorously and they almost lost control of it; if they did lose control, their energy could have exploded and killed them……
Paris' eyes were almost glued onto Fei's face, and her flirtatious eyes opened to their max. She looked like she was staring at her lover who she hadn't met in years. The unimaginable expression on her face was so hot that it could melt through iron.
Even the assassin who used the sword was silent the whole time while gripping onto the handle of the sword tightly; his fingers turned white.
This had to be one of the most ironic scenes they had experienced in their lifetime.
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Hail the King
Chapter 127: Give you a chance (1)
Both the eldest princess and Paris chose Chambord, a remote little kingdom, as their battlefield without talking to each other. They had never even considered the citizens and the king of the kingdom in their planning. In their eyes, these people were like ants. Therefore, there was no such need–to be honest, even their subordinates didn't treat Chambord like a kingdom, but rather like a piece of land that belonged to the Zenit Empire. They didn't respect Fei or his people in the slightest.
In the minds of many people, as soon as the kingdom called Chambord was chosen as the battlefield, the kingdom and its king Alexander had been considered a tragic joke. It was only going to be a minor accompaniment to whoever won this lethal battle in witnessing the glory of the winner. Its destiny was to fall with the loser and turn into a pile of ruins and bones and end up in hell.
Under the law of the jungle, no one cared about the cries of the weak.
However, what people were seeing contradicted all of their understandings.
The party that they labeled as powerless and weak didn't cry. Instead, it used its barbaric fists and palms to smash many proud and arrogant faces into pieces. Then, it used its dirty feet and kicked these people into the gutter. It forced these people to suddenly swallow their shame and shock!
Who was the clown?
It definitely wasn't the little king who was standing in front of them.
Who was the ruler?
It definitely wasn't themselves like they thought it was.
The morning sun was turning a bloody red color, and the peak of Eastern mountain had never been this chilly before.
"How is this possible? How did you do it?" The cold-blooded beauty asked with her shaking voice; she asked the question that was on everyone's mind.
"It's easy! Pretending to be dead…… it's nothing too technical……" Fei said as he poured the last bit of water onto Emma's face. Emma was the last corpse that was still lying on the ground. She was smashed in the chest by Paris and was somewhat injured. Fei helped Emma who was semi-conscious get up as he continued. "Hehe, powerful and influential people like you guys only look up at people above you or on your level. Would you pay attention to garbage like us?" Fei threw a question back, but this question quickly shut people up.
They didn't even care about the lives of Chambord's people to begin with. They treated them like dirty bugs, without giving any respect. During the fierce battle, no one wasted their time to see if the people from Chambord were really died or just faking their deaths……. That was their blind spot, caused by their error in judgment.
However, Paris wasn't dumb. She refuted as she frowned and pointed at Angela and Emma who were standing behind Fei. "Impossible. I clearly felt that her heart stopped beating. In terms of this little blonde girl, I smashed her right on the chest……"
Fei glanced at Paris as if he was looking at an idiot as he swung a delicate female chest armour in his hands. The armour that was made from refined iron had a concave mark of a palm on it. "You are right; if it wasn't for this chest armor, this little girl would be dead. I was very scared when you did that to her!"
The crowd was surprised.
No one expected this barbaric king to pay this much attention to details. This king wasn't cheap at all, as he even armed one of his worthless maids to the teeth. It was reasonable that this girl could survive under a strike from Paris with the help of this thick armor.
Paris was the only one still shaking her head.
She knew that the real reason wasn't this simple; however, if this bastard wasn't going to disclose it, she couldn't get anything out of it even if she tried.
Until now, Paris realized that she could no longer understand or see through this king. "What kind of person is he? An idiot? A genius? A hero? A liar?" Paris was very confident in her instincts and was confident that she could see through a man in a few seconds after meeting him, but the truth was that she thought she understood Fei about three or four hours ago. However, she had to throw out all the comments she made about him and redefine who this king was. For a while, she couldn't find the right word to describe the king.
Under the stares from the crowd, all the people from Chambord who participated in this battle at the peak of Eastern mountain had revived. Gradually, many people were able to tell that these people entered a "fake death state" by utilizing some kind of magic potion; they were able to "revive" after getting stimulated by the cold water……However, they still couldn't accept the truth after seeing all the corpses lying around. Did this mean that all the powerful star warriors from both Paris' and the eldest princess' sides died and the people from Chambord who were destined to die were not harmed?
"Haha, let's talk about it. How do we want to deal with these bastards?"
Fei really wanted to shame his enemies, and there was no better way than by doing this. He casually sat down on a rock that was about one yard tall as he crossed his legs and pointed at the influential people like Paris without worry as he asked the guards around him.
None of the guards from Chambord were nice, especially from how they acted.
"Easy! Kill all the men and keep all the women……Hehe!" Golden Taurus Knight Drogba laughed obscenely. If it wasn't for Emma who gave him a deadly stare, he would have definitely said something appropriate for kids.
"Eh, it's at Your Majesty's discretion," Barrack said after Drogba. He was very loyal to Fei.
"How about we hand them over to the eldest princess?" the short guy Essien seemed dumb, but he was intelligent.
"……" Lampard didn't say anything. He simply gripped his huge black sword tighter.
"Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof!" The big black dog barked at Paris viciously.
Fei didn't say anything. He chewed on a grass root he got from somewhere and smiled at Paris.
His joking demeanor made the people on Paris' side really angry.
"It is a bit too early to celebrate, don't you think? King Alexander, I have to admit that you have shocked me again, but unfortunately…… Do you think that by restraining us here, you have controlled everything? You are too naive. Hahahaha…… Look at your kingdom from here. Listen carefully!" After she said that, Paris recovered from her huge shock; the flirtatious smile that could excite any man came back on her face.
As if it was trying to prove Paris right, five to six huge lines of smoke raised to the sky. People on the Eastern mountain could clearly see some buildings in the kingdom caught on fire. They were burning very quickly. They could also hear crying and screams vaguely.
The people from Chambord were shocked.
Confidence was restored back to Paris as a big bright smile shined on her face. "Hehe, this is quite sad. I just remembered that I set up a dozen bandits before I came to the peak of Eastern mountain. Alexander, if you take back the magic traps and let us leave, I might be able to stop them before they rob and kill all the nobles, including your palace……"
After she said that, she didn't continue. She just smiled and looked at Fei.
She was very confident. Although Fei used the strategy of faking the deaths of his people to control the situation on the peak of Eastern mountain, that did not mean he would be the final winner of the day. Paris had one more card that could help herself and her troops back out of the peak of Eastern mountain safely.
After hearing her words, the princes and emissaries from the various kingdoms had regained hope. They were arrogant again. Paris was definitely one of the two most scary women at St. Petersburg. She still had a hidden card all this time. A lot of princes and emissaries couldn't stop but to make fun of Fei –
"Haha, little king, why don't you destroy all your traps right now. Otherwise your kingdom will be turned into a pile of ruins……"
"If your kingdom is destroyed, then you will become a nobody, haha!"
"You are lucky enough to dodge a disaster; it would be smart to know your limits!"
"Alexander, is it worth more to show off or protect your citizens? Your citizens are crying and screaming; you consider yourself a generous and kind king, so won't you think for them?"
These words were from people from Shanui Kingdom, Luna Kingdom and Chata Kingdom. Prince Boyou was the one who was yelling the loudest, as if he was the one in control, not Fei.
Fei's expression changed, but he didn't panic.
He turned around and looked at the eldest princess Tanasha, and this [Goddess of Intelligence] seemed to understand. She sighed as she lowered her head. She didn't say anything, but the swordswoman Susan shouted, "Alexander, you can't let them go! Kill them right now……"
Fei sneered as he looked at Arshavin, [Zenit's God of War].
"If you help me kill this woman, I promise you that I will grant you three castles that are way larger and more prosperous than Chambord. You will still be a king under Zenit Empire!" Arshavin said.
Fei humphed coldly, but he didn't respond.
Hail the King
Chapter 128: Blood and Sword
Hearing Fei immediately refuse his request, [Hidden at Snowpeak] slightly frowned and no longer spoke. He was someone with few words; these types of people were usually persistent and tough, and the things they decided would not be changed even if nine giant dragons tried to pull the words back.
However, silence didn't mean surrendering.
While channeling a crazy amount of energy, [Hidden at Snowpeak] Dani's swords began ringing as it turned longer and clearer; it was breathtaking. Lower star level soldiers became dizzy and started vomiting, while other people couldn't help but cover their ears tightly. The blade was buzzing at an indescribably terrifying frequency, almost turning into a ball of dazzling silver light under the golden sun.
[Hidden at Snowpeak, White Robe Long Sword.
Among the young generation royal family elites in the 250 subsidiary countries in Zenit Empire, Dani was definitely a first-class figure with his five-star strength. Even though Fei displayed a whole set of barbarian equipment and his power began skyrocketing again, he still didn't dare to let his guard down.
Fei adjusted his breath and tightly held the purple and green twin swords.
The atmosphere was oppressing, and there was a brief moment of silence before the storm.
At this time, the most powerful elites on the peak of Eastern Mountain that had the most complete reservation of strength, now began a life and death duel.
Suddenly!
Whew!
The sword is out!
No trembling cry, no energy rushing around like crazy, no earth-shuttering, and not even the dust on the ground flew. The two shadows' speed already exceeded the perceptual limit of the human retina, and the people suddenly noticed Fei and [Hidden at Snowpeak]'s locations had already quietly switched.
Then, a burst of crisp clashes of metal blade and sword exchanging blows finally passed into everyone's ears.
A whirlwind brought up the dust on the ground, drowning the crowd's attention.
Dust fell.
Then, blood spewed out from Fei's shoulder, turning the mysterious armor on his body red.
Those people on Paris's side began cheering at the same time on the Eastern Mountain, but very soon, [Hidden at Snowpeak] Dani's clothes began turning red in areas as well, and his figure began crumbling, unable to stand firmly.
Struggling to turn around, [Hidden at Snowpeak] looked at the countless small wounds that suddenly appeared on his body, and a desolate bitter smile appeared on his pale face, "You win, but, Your Majesty Alexander, I beg to you to let Ms. Paris go!"
With the sword supporting his body, blood began crazily surging out from the countless small wounds and very quickly moistened the stones and soil nearby. The crowd audiences finally saw very clear. It turned out that just at that instant both sides' figure clashed, Fei's purple and green duo swords already left countless small wounds on the [Hidden at Snowpeak]'s front chest, arms, legs, abdomen.
Everyone was in dismay. Holy shit, in that instant that couldn't even be captured by the naked eye, just how many strikes did this little King deliver, in order to cause such surprising injuries on a master like [Hidden at Snowpeak]?
Just at that moment, some people have begun to sympathize with this Tier 1 Nadeko Kingdom's prince. The rumor says that he chose to give up his place because he fell yin love with Paris, and he had been in seclusion on a snow mountain peak for training. Presumably, this time it is also because of Paris that he decided to become an assassin. Unfortunately, this might be the end of this hero's path, not only couldn't he save the life of his love, he might not even be able to survive.
Heroes treasure heroes, maybe this little king should grant [Hidden at Snowpeak]'s last wish, right?
But—
"I've told you before. Your sword can only save yourself. Her life will be decided by herself." Fei shook his head, then brutally refused, "You survived one round, I allow you to leave alive!"
[Hidden at Snowpeak] slightly hesitated.
He laughed once bitterly, left a trail of blood-dripping footprints, slowly walked past Fei, and returned back to behind the cold-blood demon girl Paris. Then, he never talked again, just tightly holding onto the long sword covered in blood.
During this process, Paris didn't have any reaction.
Her eyes were fixed on the rolling sea of clouds in the distance, not even looking at [Hidden at Snowpeak] once, as if this man in front of her eyes is now completely unrelated to him.
"My turn now?" Paris looked back at Fei calmly, "How many strikes do you want me to take?"
Fei shook his head, with a quite strange smile he said, "You are not my match, so you don't have to fight me. Although some people want to kill you to eliminate future troubles, but I just need you to do one thing for me, and I can immediately let you leave the Eastern Mountain unharmed."
"Oh, what can I do for you?"
Fei turned around, walked towards the king altar ruins, Paris and others looked over with puzzled eyes, and they just saw Fei slashed a few giant rocks with his sword, and retrieved something from below. Light and delicate design, full of stained blood, yet still exuding golden glory under the sun, flowing a different kind of noble and gorgeous scent.
That's the crown of the king.
This crown which should be placed on Fei's head by the Elder Princess who represents the Zenit Empire, and the crown represents honor and power, symbolizing the identity of aristocracy and recognition of all gods. However, the series of events that took place interrupted Fei's coronation ceremony, the guard that was holding the crown was also killed in the battle, the King's Crown was also stained with blood and buried under the gravel
Fei gently waved off the dust on the King's Crown, then returned to Angela's side. He put on the brand new set of sky blue King's robe Angela prepared for him. One hand holding the duo swords, one hand holding the crown, Han looked at Paris and said, "You crown for me, and I will let you leave the Eastern Mountain."
After those words came out, all the people's face suddenly changed color.
"Crazy? Alexander are you crazy?" The female swordsman Susan snapped, "You actually let a conspirator that attempted to assassinate Elder Princess and Prince, a shameless woman without the slightest sense of nobility honor to perform the ceremony for you, do you know what you are doing?"
"You are mad, you shouldn't do this!" The princes and emissaries on the Elder Princess's side also started talking.
"Alexander, I think you know very well, what kind of meaning this action entails." [Zenit Empire God of War] Arshavin's eyes slightly narrowed, the thin body revealed the murderous scent of iron-blood battlefield.
"Of course I know what I'm doing." Fei didn't care about the threat inside Arshavin's tone at all and sneered, "I just want the enemies to bow, to willingly put on the crown for me!"
Letting the enemy put on the King's Crown for him?
The Eastern Mountain top suddenly quieted down.
These seemingly plain words, actually leaked out a domineering breath. Through the ages, in the continent of Azeroth, there hasn't been a king that was crowned by the hands of an enemy, nor was there any king that can do it!
The Elder Princess's sky blue pupils slightly lit up, but, there wasn't the slightest resentment.
Fei walked to Paris's side step after step, handed over the golden crown that's still stained with blood, "Surrender to me, place the King's Crown for me, then I will leave you a life and let you leave."
"What if I refuse?" Paris suddenly started laughing, reaching out her hand to gently brush her hair that was made a little messy by the wind.
"If you refuse, I'm afraid that there will be one more female ghost on the Eastern Mountain of Chambord City!" Fei's smile looks extra bright under the golden morning sunlight, but the murderous scent inside the words also made Paris's heart shake.
A breath of wind blew past.
The cold-blooded demonic woman Paris finally reached out with her slim hands, and under the gaze of everyone's eyes, she gently took over the golden King's Crown. Peerless beauty, shining crown, blood stain, morning bright sun, chilly wind, this is a scene that will eternally be carved onto the souls of everyone on the Eastern Mountain. Paris lowered his arrogant and stubborn head, highly held up the bright King's Crown, and placed it solemnly on the winner's head.
No flowers nor fireworks, no cheers and screams.
What's here was the Altar ruins, dust in the wind, broken limbs all over the ground, bloody soil and black birds that were flying in the sky that symbolized evil.
This was an unprecedented crowning ceremony.
Looking at this scene, all the survivors of the Zenit Royal Emissary group lost all color on their faces, angry but helpless. Without question, this Chambord city's little king was already dissatisfied with the Emissary Group, so he used this way to not only cast the unique glory on himself, but also give a big slap to the face of Zenit Empire.
"God bless the king!"
Chambord City's people all kneeled on the ground, witnessing the birth of another King of Chambord City.
There was no scepter in Fei's hand. Wearing a blood-stained golden crown on his head, stepping on the broken ruins, carrying two swords that dripped with blood.
Blood and swords!
This was the main theme of this new generation's King of Chambord City.
Paris stood with complicated expression in front of Fei. She looked blankly for a bit, then carried the [Hidden at Snowpeak] who's covered in blood, and flashed in a very strange path, and disappeared from the Eastern Mountain. Fei didn't chase, he knew that this woman observed the path that the big black dog took earlier and remembered the places without magic trap, and that's how she could leave this easily.
But what Paris didn't know is, Fei could have easily changed the location of these magic traps under [Assassin] mode. But he didn't do it.
Seeing Paris and [Hidden at Snowpeak] abandoned them and left by themselves, the emissaries and princes of Shanui Kingdom, Chata Kingdom and such all suddenly became speechless due to fear. The two assassins with yellow curved blades also wanted to follow the escape path taken by Paris, but were stopped at their original place when Fei's two swords startled.
"Did the king, I, allow you guys to leave?"
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Hail the King
Chapter 129
Fei's words had made those princes and emissaries kneel onto the ground.
Luckily, the purple and green swords didn't transform into a blade whirlwind and blow towards them. Fei pointed at the two blade assassins and said, "Like before, use your weapon to save your own life. Win and live, lose and die!" Then, his body flickered as he reappeared in front of the crowd of Chambord city people, pointed at the beautiful mercenary Elena and then said, "Your opponent is her!"
This was Fei creating an opportunity for Elena.
The beautiful mercenary gradually came out from the dark into the light. She will be controlling some real power so Fei needed to let Elena demonstrate her strength in front of Bast, Brook and the other old leaders and acquire a certain amount of achievements. That will make it easier for her to integrate into the Chambord City's leader community and receive everyone's recognition.
When Elena walked out with her long bow, the two blade assassins slightly let out a breath. They knew that they were no match for the little Prince, but this vase-like woman in front of their eyes didn't seem to be that powerful, so there should be no problem to win over her if they cooperated.
The battle soon started.
With a light roar, the assassins made their move.
These two people, one had a blade in their left hand, one had a blade in their right hand and both were dressed identically. One left and one right, the two transformed into two sharp blade lights, and the chilly blade breath shot directly towards Elena.
Bang bang bang bang!
Just when everyone was worrying for this beautiful archer with a slender figure, a series of rapid bowstring quiver sounds went off and four bright blue ice flowers rushed through the air. No one saw when Elena pulled out her arrows, as the arrows magically appeared when those pretty hands were placed on the bowstring.
The frost arrows exuded a chilly aura, as if it was about to leave a trail of ice through the air, sharply whistling.
No one could describe the speed of these four arrows, and those two assassins who were in the air had no choice but to take on the arrows head on.
Kacha kacha!
The sound of ice breaking came and the two blade assassins staggered back.
Layers of thin blue ice already began spreading on their body, and their movement instantly became slower.
This was frost bolt.
No one expected that this pretty girl was that quick with her arrows, and also that accurate, mercilessly occupying the absolute advantage with just one strike.
The blade assassins' wood style energy storm from their bodies instantly shattered and melted the layers of ice.
But only they knew, right now their stiff and chilled bodies were still troubling them.
Both of them were beginner four-star elites, even their strengths as an individual weren't below Elena. However, they were both injured quite seriously from before, causing their strength to drastically decrease. In fact, it was because of this reason, Fei was confident to let the pinnacle 3 star level Elena fight these two people.
After one move, both blade assassins fell into an extremely passive position.
Elena simply didn't give those two any opportunities for close-quarters combat. The bowstring kept on ringing off, and in the air, "pew pew pew pew" frost bolt arrows ran down like heavy rain towards those two assassins. As someone that had long been battling devils and monsters in the Diablo world, Elena's grasp on battle rhythm and opening even has far exceeded those two blade assassins.
During that moment, the entire Eastern Mountain top was full of a dense chilling breath. The running blood on the ground froze, the dead bodies were covered by a thin layer of blue ice, and those with weaker strength were already close to getting hyperthermia. Fei stood in front of Angela, Emma, and Bast and changed to [Sorcerer mode] to channel magic and keep the temperature warmer around them.
Those people that were spectating this battle, at the moment already forgot to breath.
After three minutes, the sky-covering blue arrow rain finally stopped.
The two blade assassins didn't get hit by even one arrow.
But, they have lost.
Because layers of blue ice already completely covered their body. The two were actually directly frozen by the chilling breath of the frost bolt arrows, turning into ice men in a giant piece of ice. Their bodies from top to down were covered by ice of at least 50 cm thick, and they had long since stopped breathing.
Pa pa!
Elena shot out last two arrows.
They were not frost bolt arrows.
Just normal ones.
The two giant ice pieces that contained the two assassins were shattered into pieces, including the two assassins' body. Their body were completely invaded by the cold and had long became extremely fragile, so after one simple knock, they turned into pieces.
Until this moment, the surrounding audiences were horrified to realize this peerlessly beautiful female demonic archer didn't even move a single step, just stood in place and killed the two beginner 4 star level blade assassins.
Such terrifying rhythm control and battle talent.
Even elites like [Zenit's God of War] Arshavin and purple clothed girl Ziyan that were desperately channeling their energy to self-heal raised their eyebrows and remained speechless. Even they were put in that position, they probably wouldn't have better control of the rhythm of the battle.
When Elena withdrew her longbow and gently stood behind Fei, everyone's mind just returned to their body.
Another elite!
Chambord city actually had an elite of such a level?
Where did she come from?
Even some people on the Chambord City's side haven't met Elena before, and they were all surprised to see such a beautiful magic archer. Only the prison official Oleg knew a little insider information, and right now this fat ass's mouth was opened up to an "O" shape, thinking that thank god he had been paying quite a bit of respect to this madam. She's really an elite that could kill people without blinking. Two lively four star elites were turned into a ground of shattered ice between the twinkling of an eye.
When the two assassins of the highest strength died, the remaining survivors on Paris's side suddenly lost their spirit, just like homeless dogs.
Some people even knelt on the ground and started begging for mercy.
"Only the brave can walk down Eastern Mountain alive today, hum, dare to disturb my f*cking ascension ceremony, you guys are really courageous huh? Today I will give you guys an opportunity, now, take out your courage from an hour ago, no matter who you are, as long as you can win one match, you can leave here alive."
As Fei's words finished, the newly promoted Taurus golden knight Didier Drogba stood on the field like a giant.
"Me, let me go first!"
Seeing that the opponent they had to face was not the Fei that instantly killed a five star level elite, nor the demonic female archer with incredible strength, an one star level warrior quickly ran out before his companions. Anyone with the slightest strength could see that this muscular giant sent out by Chambord city this time only looked a bit ferocious, but there's almost no energy fluctuations in his body, so he didn't seem to be some expert.
Many people saw the chance of survival, but unfortunately this clever warrior rushed to the front and got the opportunity.
Qiang!
The warrior pulled out the long sword on his waist. Even when facing a weak opponent, he didn't dare to slightly overestimate the enemy.
And other people just looked at this warrior with envy.
But soon they weren't jealous anymore.
The emotion turned into deep fear.
They saw the warrior grin as he pierced the giant's shoulder with the sword, but this giant with long hair acted as if he didn't feel anything, and just smashed the warrior's head like crushing a watermelon. Everyone felt a chill down their head. Very clearly, this giant carried forward the king's sturdy combat style, not even frowning after getting his shoulder pierced by a sword, and just took the one star level warrior's life with a backhand punch.
Is he still a human?
Could everyone in Chambord City be a group of people that didn't care about death?
Everyone heard the sound of their teeth clapping shivering.
Bang bang bang bang!
Drogba pulled out the sword and threw it onto the side, then licked his lips, landed a few punches on his wound, causing blood to spew out, a grinning and excited look appeared on his face, as if he couldn't feel any pain, he shouted, "Who's next? Come on! Hahaha!"
The group of people in front of him all got so scared that their legs got soft.
"You, get the f*ck out!" Drogba pointed at a muscular Shenhua Kingdom's guard.
This guard walked out trembling, as if driven mad by fear, suddenly roared crazily, then he started waving his broadsword like a windmill and started charging over like an injured beast.
Bang!
Still one punch.
This time the guard's sword didn't even get Drogba. This fool actually pretended that he's not good at dodging, but who knew he actually dodged instantly when the sword came, and his punch shattered the guard's head.
This guard originally has one star level strength, it's just that his psychological quality is too bad, already been scared half dead. Plus, Drogba already went through [Hulk Potion]'s enhancement, his body size and power far exceeds normal people's expectation, and plus this guy's cunning as hell, actually instantly killed the guard with one punch again.
Seeing red and white brain fluids dripping on Drogba's fist, everyone felt a chill rushing up their spine unstoppably.
Too brutal, too violent, too cruel!
Han couldn't help but have a stream of black lines going down his forehead, why is this Drogba guy so obsessed with crushing people's skulls? This is too abnormal! He needs to let this guy change it up a bit, otherwise it will affect Chambord city's healthy and friendly image!
"You, get the f*ck out!" Drogba's finger pointed across from him.
A disgusting smell came, this unfortunate fool that got pointed were scared to the point where feces and urine flew right out, and he directly collapsed onto the ground.
Five or six minutes passed, 4 and 5 warriors got their skull crushed, their bodies just casually lied beside Drogba. There's only about 3 more blood holes on this guy's body, still bleeding, but they are all not lethal, and there's not the slightest pain showing on Drogba's face.
Fei saw that's enough, this fool's shown off enough, so he waved and had him come back.
The one that took Drogba's place is this Capricorn Golden Knight Pierce.
Everyone thought that after the madman who likes to crash other people's head finally left, there would be someone normal from Chambord City that continues to fight. But, after ten more minutes, seeing the pile of minced meat beside Polo Pierce, everyone became lost in despair.
This white hair man is even more mad.
Doesn't matter who the opponent is, he just shouts "Hail King Alexander, Excalibur!" Charges, then the opponent would be divided into pieces mysteriously and turn into a pile of minced meat, this is really too terrifying. This white hair muscular man as if can unleash an invisible blade force, unstoppably sharp, cannot be stopped at all by armor, shields, swords, blades. Seeing the grounded meat and shattered weapons on the ground, everyone has the feeling of wanting to cry.
A guy that likes to crush skulls left, and here comes a guy that's into dividing bodies!
Is everyone at Chambord city all this mad?
All enemy kingdoms' princes hugged into a bunch and are all shivering and crying.
The third one that stepped into the battle is Brook.
This man's at least a bit more normal, unlike his comrades earlier. But the enhancement Brook got through the [Hulk Potion, his strength grew crazily, and people with strength of one or two stars is completely no match for him. After defeating 5 opponents in a row, he successfully finished his mission.
Fei is purposely giving his men opportunities for real combats, allowing them to gain the experience of one on one fights, in order to better prepare them for the upcoming Zenit Empire War Drill.
Of course, he also wanted to demonstrate Chambord City's strength in front of the Elder Princess and [Zenit God of War] Arshavin.
Very clearly, Han's goal was achieved.
As the princes and guards on Paris's side got mercilessly cut down by Chambord City's warriors one by one, the Elder Princesses, Prince Arshavin, and the others' eyes went from the initial anger and unhappiness, to shock and deep thought. Chambord city's strength has already far exceeded their expectation, and there are also some mysterious factors inside that they can't see clearly. At this moment, even Arshavin who was initially displeased with Fei privately letting go of the cold-blooded devilish woman Paris, now has no choice but to set aside the negative emotions and reconsider the future relationship with this Tier 6 Kingdom.
At the end, the only enemies left on the Eastern Mountain top are the princes of a dozen kingdoms.
These princes do have some strength, but how can these spoiled bitches get used to this kind of scene? They have already started hugging each other and cried for mommy.
But at this moment, Fei once again made a surprising move. He sent his father-in-law Bast who doesn't have the slightest battle energy or magic strength.
"Could this old lady-like man who can't even walk steadily be an expert too?"
[Zenit God of War] Arshavin couldn't feel the slightest power from old white face Bast, not even physical power. He even thought that this old white face's strength already reached the level that even he as the six star elite can't detect, so his face suddenly became serious.
But who would've thought…
Cough cough cough*
This old handsome man cleared his throat, pulled out a tally book and said not so fast nor slow, "Alright, according to my careful calculation, this time you disturbed the king's crowning ceremony, destroyed property, stepped on plantation, delayed time… Um, in total caused 230 thousand empire gold coins worth of damage. If you are willing to double the price as compensation, my king is unparallelly kind and generous, he's willing to let you guys leave alive!"
Arshavin who was in the process of healing himself sprayed out a mouthful of blood.
Elite.
Indeed an elite.
But an elite at bargaining.
But these words were as if sounds from heaven to these shivering princes. Those people saw this old white face like an amiable white bearded sage descended from Heaven, almost wanted to crawl over to hug this old handsome man's leg and cry out loud.
"Pay, we will pay! King Alexander is unparallelly wise, great, and generous!"
For the princes, Bast's words were like sending firewood during winter. As long as they could live, who cares about how much they pay? Although the amount was a bit too exaggerated.
Almost encountering no resistance, the princes all scrambled to sign the compensation agreement with Bast, and in the blink of an eye, Chambord city received close to 800 thousands empire gold coins of "war repayment", and made a staggering wealth.
This time, even the intelligent Elder Princess felt a bit incredible.
That easily… and that hug sum of money was now in his hands?
In the past, many people guessed that with the little king's cruel personality, these princes will inevitably meet their doom. Who would've guessed, he actually used this method and took care of everything. Thinking about it, even the [Female Wisdom Saint] Elder Princess felt her eyes lit up, and couldn't help but clap on the inside for this brilliant move. This would not only avoid hatred between kingdoms, but also gained a huge sum of money to develop Chambord city! This was definitely two birds with one stone!
She had a stronger feeling that she shouldn't underestimate this little King named Alexander.
Very soon, guards came and drove these princes off the mountain like dealing with beggars, and Prison Official Oleg took them into the [Little Black Room] in the city. Before those kingdoms send over their "battle repayment", these princes would be detained as hostages until the compensation was paid to Chambord City.
The sun has already risen on most of the sky, and the temperature had become slightly warmer.
The Eastern Mountain top now only had the Chambord city and Elder Princess's people.
Approximately two hundred elite knights were reduced down to only 20, knight commander Roman and female swordsman Susan were all injured, the purple clothed girl Ziyan and [Zenit God of War] Arshavin were even more heavily injured, and they could only sit on the ground and channel their energy to self-heal.
This is supposed to be a moment of victory, some knights were even ready to cheer…
But-
The atmosphere doesn't seem to be as cheerful as they imagined.
The Elder Princess bowed her head and didn't speak.
And Fei just stood there in place, quietly looking at the Elder Princess and Arshavin. The expression on his face was for sure not joy and obedience, nor respect or smiles…
But… indifference and disgust.
His eyes were even colder than he looked at Paris and the others.
Two in one chapter~ The author said himself.
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2 bonus chaps are ready and already emailed to all the donors in queue. Early access is also available for patrons on our post page. They will be released in a few days after some final editing.
Hail the King
Chapter 129.1: Bunch of Madmen
Fei's words had made those princes and emissaries kneel onto the ground.
Luckily, the purple and green swords didn't transform into a blade whirlwind and blow towards them. Fei pointed at the two blade assassins and said, "Like before, use your weapon to save your own life. Win and live, lose and die!" Then, his body flickered as he reappeared in front of the crowd of Chambord city people, pointed at the beautiful mercenary Elena and then said, "Your opponent is her!"
This was Fei creating an opportunity for Elena.
The beautiful mercenary gradually came out from the dark into the light. She will be controlling some real power so Fei needed to let Elena demonstrate her strength in front of Bast, Brook and the other old leaders and acquire a certain amount of achievements. That will make it easier for her to integrate into the Chambord City's leader community and receive everyone's recognition.
When Elena walked out with her long bow, the two blade assassins slightly let out a breath. They knew that they were no match for the little Prince, but this vase-like woman in front of their eyes didn't seem to be that powerful, so there should be no problem to win over her if they cooperated.
The battle soon started.
With a light roar, the assassins made their move.
These two people, one had a blade in their left hand, one had a blade in their right hand and both were dressed identically. One left and one right, the two transformed into two sharp blade lights, and the chilly blade breath shot directly towards Elena.
Bang bang bang bang!
Just when everyone was worrying for this beautiful archer with a slender figure, a series of rapid bowstring quiver sounds went off and four bright blue ice flowers rushed through the air. No one saw when Elena pulled out her arrows, as the arrows magically appeared when those pretty hands were placed on the bowstring.
The frost arrows exuded a chilly aura, as if it was about to leave a trail of ice through the air, sharply whistling.
No one could describe the speed of these four arrows, and those two assassins who were in the air had no choice but to take on the arrows head on.
Kacha kacha!
The sound of ice breaking came and the two blade assassins staggered back.
Layers of thin blue ice already began spreading on their body, and their movement instantly became slower.
This was frost bolt.
No one expected that this pretty girl was that quick with her arrows, and also that accurate, mercilessly occupying the absolute advantage with just one strike.
The blade assassins' wood style energy storm from their bodies instantly shattered and melted the layers of ice.
But only they knew, right now their stiff and chilled bodies were still troubling them.
Both of them were beginner four-star elites, even their strengths as an individual weren't below Elena. However, they were both injured quite seriously from before, causing their strength to drastically decrease. In fact, it was because of this reason, Fei was confident to let the pinnacle 3 star level Elena fight these two people.
After one move, both blade assassins fell into an extremely passive position.
Elena simply didn't give those two any opportunities for close-quarters combat. The bowstring kept on ringing off, and in the air, "pew pew pew pew" frost bolt arrows ran down like heavy rain towards those two assassins. As someone that had long been battling devils and monsters in the Diablo world, Elena's grasp on battle rhythm and opening even has far exceeded those two blade assassins.
During that moment, the entire Eastern Mountain top was full of a dense chilling breath. The running blood on the ground froze, the dead bodies were covered by a thin layer of blue ice, and those with weaker strength were already close to getting hyperthermia. Fei stood in front of Angela, Emma, and Bast and changed to [Sorcerer mode] to channel magic and keep the temperature warmer around them.
Those people that were spectating this battle, at the moment already forgot to breath.
After three minutes, the sky-covering blue arrow rain finally stopped.
The two blade assassins didn't get hit by even one arrow.
But, they have lost.
Because layers of blue ice already completely covered their body. The two were actually directly frozen by the chilling breath of the frost bolt arrows, turning into ice men in a giant piece of ice. Their bodies from top to down were covered by ice of at least 50 cm thick, and they had long since stopped breathing.
Pa pa!
Elena shot out last two arrows.
They were not frost bolt arrows.
Just normal ones.
The two giant ice pieces that contained the two assassins were shattered into pieces, including the two assassins' body. Their body were completely invaded by the cold and had long became extremely fragile, so after one simple knock, they turned into pieces.
Until this moment, the surrounding audiences were horrified to realize this peerlessly beautiful female demonic archer didn't even move a single step, just stood in place and killed the two beginner 4 star level blade assassins.
Such terrifying rhythm control and battle talent.
Even elites like [Zenit's God of War] Arshavin and purple clothed girl Ziyan that were desperately channeling their energy to self-heal raised their eyebrows and remained speechless. Even they were put in that position, they probably wouldn't have better control of the rhythm of the battle.
When Elena withdrew her longbow and gently stood behind Fei, everyone's mind just returned to their body.
Another elite!
Chambord city actually had an elite of such a level?
Where did she come from?
Even some people on the Chambord City's side haven't met Elena before, and they were all surprised to see such a beautiful magic archer. Only the prison official Oleg knew a little insider information, and right now this fat ass's mouth was opened up to an "O" shape, thinking that thank god he had been paying quite a bit of respect to this madam. She's really an elite that could kill people without blinking. Two lively four star elites were turned into a ground of shattered ice between the twinkling of an eye.
When the two assassins of the highest strength died, the remaining survivors on Paris's side suddenly lost their spirit, just like homeless dogs.
Some people even knelt on the ground and started begging for mercy.
"Only the brave can walk down Eastern Mountain alive today, hum, dare to disturb my f*cking ascension ceremony, you guys are really courageous huh? Today I will give you guys an opportunity, now, take out your courage from an hour ago, no matter who you are, as long as you can win one match, you can leave here alive."
As Fei's words finished, the newly promoted Taurus golden knight Didier Drogba stood on the field like a giant.
"Me, let me go first!"
Seeing that the opponent they had to face was not the Fei that instantly killed a five star level elite, nor the demonic female archer with incredible strength, an one star level warrior quickly ran out before his companions. Anyone with the slightest strength could see that this muscular giant sent out by Chambord city this time only looked a bit ferocious, but there's almost no energy fluctuations in his body, so he didn't seem to be some expert.
Many people saw the chance of survival, but unfortunately this clever warrior rushed to the front and got the opportunity.
Qiang!
The warrior pulled out the long sword on his waist. Even when facing a weak opponent, he didn't dare to slightly overestimate the enemy.
And other people just looked at this warrior with envy.
But soon they weren't jealous anymore.
The emotion turned into deep fear.
They saw the warrior grin as he pierced the giant's shoulder with the sword, but this giant with long hair acted as if he didn't feel anything, and just smashed the warrior's head like crushing a watermelon. Everyone felt a chill down their head. Very clearly, this giant carried forward the king's sturdy combat style, not even frowning after getting his shoulder pierced by a sword, and just took the one star level warrior's life with a backhand punch.
Is he still a human?
Could everyone in Chambord City be a group of people that didn't care about death?
Hail the King
Chapter 129.2: Bunch of Madmen
Everyone heard the sound of their teeth clapping shivering.
Bang bang bang bang!
Drogba pulled out the sword and threw it onto the side, then licked his lips, landed a few punches on his wound, causing blood to spew out, a grinning and excited look appeared on his face, as if he couldn't feel any pain, he shouted, "Who's next? Come on! Hahaha!"
The group of people in front of him all got so scared that their legs got soft.
"You, get the f*ck out!" Drogba pointed at a muscular Shenhua Kingdom's guard.
This guard walked out trembling, as if driven mad by fear, suddenly roared crazily, then he started waving his broadsword like a windmill and started charging over like an injured beast.
Bang!
Still one punch.
This time the guard's sword didn't even get Drogba. This fool actually pretended that he's not good at dodging, but who knew he actually dodged instantly when the sword came, and his punch shattered the guard's head.
This guard originally has one star level strength, it's just that his psychological quality is too bad, already been scared half dead. Plus, Drogba already went through [Hulk Potion]'s enhancement, his body size and power far exceeds normal people's expectation, and plus this guy's cunning as hell, actually instantly killed the guard with one punch again.
Seeing red and white brain fluids dripping on Drogba's fist, everyone felt a chill rushing up their spine unstoppably.
Too brutal, too violent, too cruel!
Han couldn't help but have a stream of black lines going down his forehead, why is this Drogba guy so obsessed with crushing people's skulls? This is too abnormal! He needs to let this guy change it up a bit, otherwise it will affect Chambord city's healthy and friendly image!
"You, get the f*ck out!" Drogba's finger pointed across from him.
A disgusting smell came, this unfortunate fool that got pointed were scared to the point where feces and urine flew right out, and he directly collapsed onto the ground.
Five or six minutes passed, 4 and 5 warriors got their skull crushed, their bodies just casually lied beside Drogba. There's only about 3 more blood holes on this guy's body, still bleeding, but they are all not lethal, and there's not the slightest pain showing on Drogba's face.
Fei saw that's enough, this fool's shown off enough, so he waved and had him come back.
The one that took Drogba's place is this Capricorn Golden Knight Pierce.
Everyone thought that after the madman who likes to crash other people's head finally left, there would be someone normal from Chambord City that continues to fight. But, after ten more minutes, seeing the pile of minced meat beside Polo Pierce, everyone became lost in despair.
This white hair man is even more mad.
Doesn't matter who the opponent is, he just shouts "Hail King Alexander, Excalibur!" Charges, then the opponent would be divided into pieces mysteriously and turn into a pile of minced meat, this is really too terrifying. This white hair muscular man as if can unleash an invisible blade force, unstoppably sharp, cannot be stopped at all by armor, shields, swords, blades. Seeing the grounded meat and shattered weapons on the ground, everyone has the feeling of wanting to cry.
A guy that likes to crush skulls left, and here comes a guy that's into dividing bodies!
Is everyone at Chambord city all this mad?
All enemy kingdoms' princes hugged into a bunch and are all shivering and crying.
The third one that stepped into the battle is Brook.
This man's at least a bit more normal, unlike his comrades earlier. But the enhancement Brook got through the [Hulk Potion, his strength grew crazily, and people with strength of one or two stars is completely no match for him. After defeating 5 opponents in a row, he successfully finished his mission.
Fei is purposely giving his men opportunities for real combats, allowing them to gain the experience of one on one fights, in order to better prepare them for the upcoming Zenit Empire War Drill.
Of course, he also wanted to demonstrate Chambord City's strength in front of the Elder Princess and [Zenit God of War] Arshavin.
Very clearly, Han's goal was achieved.
As the princes and guards on Paris's side got mercilessly cut down by Chambord City's warriors one by one, the Elder Princesses, Prince Arshavin, and the others' eyes went from the initial anger and unhappiness, to shock and deep thought. Chambord city's strength has already far exceeded their expectation, and there are also some mysterious factors inside that they can't see clearly. At this moment, even Arshavin who was initially displeased with Fei privately letting go of the cold-blooded devilish woman Paris, now has no choice but to set aside the negative emotions and reconsider the future relationship with this Tier 6 Kingdom.
At the end, the only enemies left on the Eastern Mountain top are the princes of a dozen kingdoms.
These princes do have some strength, but how can these spoiled bitches get used to this kind of scene? They have already started hugging each other and cried for mommy.
But at this moment, Fei once again made a surprising move. He sent his father-in-law Bast who doesn't have the slightest battle energy or magic strength.
"Could this old lady-like man who can't even walk steadily be an expert too?"
[Zenit God of War] Arshavin couldn't feel the slightest power from old white face Bast, not even physical power. He even thought that this old white face's strength already reached the level that even he as the six star elite can't detect, so his face suddenly became serious.
But who would've thought…
Cough cough cough*
This old handsome man cleared his throat, pulled out a tally book and said not so fast nor slow, "Alright, according to my careful calculation, this time you disturbed the king's crowning ceremony, destroyed property, stepped on plantation, delayed time… Um, in total caused 230 thousand empire gold coins worth of damage. If you are willing to double the price as compensation, my king is unparallelly kind and generous, he's willing to let you guys leave alive!"
Arshavin who was in the process of healing himself sprayed out a mouthful of blood.
Elite.
Indeed an elite.
But an elite at bargaining.
But these words were as if sounds from heaven to these shivering princes. Those people saw this old white face like an amiable white bearded sage descended from Heaven, almost wanted to crawl over to hug this old handsome man's leg and cry out loud.
"Pay, we will pay! King Alexander is unparallelly wise, great, and generous!"
For the princes, Bast's words were like sending firewood during winter. As long as they could live, who cares about how much they pay? Although the amount was a bit too exaggerated.
Almost encountering no resistance, the princes all scrambled to sign the compensation agreement with Bast, and in the blink of an eye, Chambord city received close to 800 thousands empire gold coins of "war repayment", and made a staggering wealth.
This time, even the intelligent Elder Princess felt a bit incredible.
That easily… and that hug sum of money was now in his hands?
In the past, many people guessed that with the little king's cruel personality, these princes will inevitably meet their doom. Who would've guessed, he actually used this method and took care of everything. Thinking about it, even the [Female Wisdom Saint] Elder Princess felt her eyes lit up, and couldn't help but clap on the inside for this brilliant move. This would not only avoid hatred between kingdoms, but also gained a huge sum of money to develop Chambord city! This was definitely two birds with one stone!
She had a stronger feeling that she shouldn't underestimate this little King named Alexander.
Very soon, guards came and drove these princes off the mountain like dealing with beggars, and Prison Official Oleg took them into the [Little Black Room] in the city. Before those kingdoms send over their "battle repayment", these princes would be detained as hostages until the compensation was paid to Chambord City.
The sun has already risen on most of the sky, and the temperature had become slightly warmer.
The Eastern Mountain top now only had the Chambord city and Elder Princess's people.
Approximately two hundred elite knights were reduced down to only 20, knight commander Roman and female swordsman Susan were all injured, the purple clothed girl Ziyan and [Zenit God of War] Arshavin were even more heavily injured, and they could only sit on the ground and channel their energy to self-heal.
This is supposed to be a moment of victory, some knights were even ready to cheer…
But-
The atmosphere doesn't seem to be as cheerful as they imagined.
The Elder Princess bowed her head and didn't speak.
And Fei just stood there in place, quietly looking at the Elder Princess and Arshavin. The expression on his face was for sure not joy and obedience, nor respect or smiles…
But… indifference and disgust.
His eyes were even colder than he looked at Paris and the others.
Two in one chapter~ The author said himself.
Here are two regulars for the week.
2 bonus chaps are ready and already emailed to all the donors in queue. Early access is also available for patrons on our post page. They will be released in a few days after some final editing.
Hail the King
Chapter 130: Greedy, Rogue-like Old Bastard
Intelligent people like the eldest princess and Arshavin understood where this little king's anger came from.
There were the ruins on the peak of Eastern mountain, the smoke and the fire in Chambord Kingdom. Except for Paris who was the main cause, people like the eldest princess and Arshavin were to blame as well. If the eldest princess didn't choose Chambord as the location of the death match, Chambord wouldn't have had to experience all of this.
Arshavin didn't say anything. He looked serious as he pushed his fire-attributed energy to heal his injuries.
Even Susan, the swordswoman, felt the hostile attitude Fei had towards them. She held onto her weapon tightly and guarded the eldest princess with Knight Captain Romain and the rest of cavaliers who had survived. They were afraid that Fei might lose his mind and attack the eldest princess. The one who had the most indescribable feeling was Knight Captain Romain. He didn't even consider this young king as an enemy during the conflict in the celebration ceremony more than ten days ago. He didn't even have the will to fight Fei because Fei was so weak. But now, when Fei stood in front of him again, he suddenly realized that he was no longer a match to Fei.
In terms of individual strength, Romain couldn't win against Fei even if he gave his best.
However, as a knight captain, Romain's biggest strength wasn't individual strength, but rather commanding troops and military strategy. If he had a full team of two hundred cavaliers, he was confident that he could defeat Fei directly with one charge. But now, it was wise to admit defeat.
The atmosphere suddenly became more intense compared to the initial bloody fight.
"Wah-wah-wah-wah-!"
Hundreds of blackbirds that survived on rotten meat were attracted to the corpses and blood on the peak of Eastern mountain and weren't going away. They cried and screamed, and made the people on the peak of Eastern mountain more anxious and annoyed.
Boom!
Fei suddenly punched up at the sky.
The air exploded as the force was sent up to the sky. In the loud explosion, visible air waves rose to the sky, and the crowd of birds couldn't fly away fast enough. Forty to fifty birds exploded into blood mist as they sensed the danger and screamed. The real danger made the huge carnivorous birds realized their situation, and they quickly fled away.
Tink! Tink! Tink! Tink!
The cavaliers and the female swordswoman all drew out their weapons from their waist as they were scared; they were planning for the worst.
"Ok, this is better… Eldest princess, I didn't mean to scare you!"
What Fei just said relieved the cavaliers and Susan. It looked like this man had thought everything through. However, the eldest princess was the only one who wasn't concerned at all from start to finish, as if she already knew that Fei would make this decision. Her blue, ocean-like eyes reflected the sunlight, and a rare smile appeared on her face. She lightly nodded, "King Alexander, thank you for everything today!"
Fei smiled back and didn't say anything more.
To be honest, Fei didn't underestimate this woman since the beginning.
Although everything seemed like it was he who was the hero and saved the eldest princess from danger, Fei had a strange feeling. Even if he didn't come out and defeat everyone, this eldest princess probably still had cards that she didn't pull out. If she pulled them out, all the danger would be resolved. However, there was no way for Fei to know what kind of cards she had. What he knew was that this thin woman who looked sick was too calm from the start, as if she was only a bystander.
Fei switched to [Assassin Mode] and quickly swept out the invisible magic traps.
The peak of Eastern mountain was severely damaged. The main structure, the King's Altar, had officially became a ruin. More than half of the huge statues that represented all the historical kings' and heroes' glory were also destroyed. There was a mess everywhere. Quickly, more than a hundred [Iron Troops] of Chambord received the signal, and they arrived at the peak of King's mountain under the lead of Fernando-Torres and Peter-Cech. These soldiers were carefully picked out by Brook and Cech for Fei. They drank the diluted [Hulk Potion, and their bodies were restructured. They were all strong; they could easily lift stones that weighed a thousand pounds. The process of cleaning up the mess was fast, and that gave the influential people from Zenit Empire a good impression. The twenty or so cavaliers that survived the entire event were shocked yet again. They now understood that the King of Chambord was a monster, and the soldiers of Chambord were monsters, too! They couldn't even take on one soldier with all of their strengths combined.
The old handsome Bast smiled as he appeared in front of the eldest princess with a book in his hand.
"Your Highness, we are very sorry to disturb you during this ceremony. However, Chambord had suffered huge losses this time… Also… Eh, a portion of the damages were caused by the Royal Coronation Legion. We, hehe, could you help Chambord out by applying for some grants from the Finance Minister of Zenit for us?… After all, Chambord, along with our king, has paid a high price to protect Your Highness…"
Susan and the cavaliers also bit their tongues. "This gay-ass guy dares to ask for compensation from the eldest princess?" they thought to themselves.
However, even the eldest princess, the [Goddess of Intelligence] couldn't come up with anything in a moment to counter this old handsome man who was graceful and polite like a noble, but also greedy and picky like a merchant. She couldn't yell at him, nor could she ask the cavaliers to shoo him away. Finally, she couldn't escape her fate, like the prince from Shanui Kingdom, and signed a contract and proposal for financial support from Zenit Empire after being softly forced into it by Bast.
His father-in-law had accomplished his task, yet Fei was standing in front of Andrew-Arshavin, [Zenit's God of War]. This famous military commander probably didn't check his daily horoscope before leaving the house. The carefully prepared exit strategy didn't work, and he was sneak attacked and nearly died in this remote kingdom. His reputation would definitely suffer a hit after this event.
In fact, losing some reputation would not be the most significant incident.
His severe injury would be a lethal blow. Currently, the capital of Zenit was in a chaos. Emperor Yassin, who had the control of the empire for 60 years, was getting weaker every day, and he and second prince Dominguez were the two candidates who people thought were most likely to inherit the throne. The fight between them was entering the climax. Second Prince Dominguez was a very smart and courageous opponent, and he had support from a lot of ministers and nobles. Arshavin knew that his injury would bring him and his supporters a disadvantage against Dominguez. If he couldn't heal in time, he might lose this fight for the throne.
However, his injuries wouldn't recover in half a year.
[Butcher] Sandro's energy that entered his body was refined and empowered by the two mysterious rings that Sandro was wearing. The energy was very explosive and direct. Arshavin still couldn't oppress it after he withdrew all of his six-star warrior energy back into his body. He was only able to calm that stream of energy down and prevent it from damaging his body. After he got injured up until now, the healing that was done was minimal. He couldn't find a way to get rid of that explosive energy in his body.
The purple dressed girl who was in her own purple energy flame was in a similar condition to Arshavin. A thin layer of sweat had appeared on her pretty face. She was frowning as the healing wasn't as effective as she hoped.
"Hey, girl. Thanks for notifying me beforehand!" Fei walked to the purple dressed girl and handed her a small bottle of 【Rejuvenation Potion】 as he smiled and said, "This might help you."
The girl looked at Fei with a confused expression.
She saw Fei's smile that was brighter than the sun and hesitated a little. But after she thought about the moment when she notified Fei about an assassin sneaking up on him and the huge wound on Fei's body healing up after Fei drank a potion, she decided to take the potion and chugged down the slightly warm liquid.
An indescribable sensation immediately rose in her body. The explosive energy was instantly suppressed by the effect of the potion. As if snow met hot water, the energy disappeared in a few seconds.
The purple energy flame also flashed and returned to her body. After she checked her condition, she found out in surprise that most of the injuries she suffered had healed. She could probably return to her peak condition after a month of resting.
"Thank you, King Alexander!"
The girl bowed. Maybe she didn't notice, but her attitude toward Fei had turned from disdain to curiosity and friendliness. even the way she addressed him had turned from "savage" to "King Alexander".
Fei just smiled.
He turned around and walked to Arshavin. After dropping off another half bottle of 【Rejuvenation Potion】, he jumped on the big black dog with his fiancée Angela and left the peak of Eastern mountain without saying a word.
If Arshavin was smart, he wouldn't hold a grudge against Fei and would try to win Fei over to his side. Even the cold-blooded woman Paris and the second prince Dominguez who was behind her would probably try to win him over as well.
Actually, letting that woman go wasn't because he was touched by her beauty, nor was it because he was touched by swordsman [Hidden at Snowpeak] Donny's firm love. He did so because he was considering Chambord's future.
Hail the King
Chapter 131: The Heartwarming Times
It was the best for survival if they were stuck in a slit between two superpowers.
If Arshavin and Dominguez were two tigers, then Fei would be a baby wolf that still needed to drink its mother's milk. Before the two tigers had determined a winner amongst themselves, they wouldn't have to energy to deal with Fei even if they were very unsatisfied with him, just in case they pushed Chambord and Fei, who had huge potentials, towards their competitor and gave them a growing help and advantage. This wasn't a hypothetical situation; the strength that Chambord and Fei had demonstrated in this fight had put themselves in the eyes of the superpowers.
Fei was thinking from this perspective, and that was why he let Paris leave.
Fei could only get time and opportunities if the pot of water was muddy and unclear. If he helped Arshavin and the eldest princess defeat Dominguez's core strength, the pot of water would become clear and he wouldn't get the time and opportunities that he needed.
The road down the mountain was bumpy, and the long stone stairs were like a magnificent white road to heaven.
The autumn wind blew; it was warm, but not hot. Fei played with the black hair of the beauty in his arms; it was the first time that they were so intimate together. [Black Tornado] leaped down the stairs, but its back was very stable. One of Fei's hand was on his fiancée's slender waist, and the warm, smooth, ecstatic feel of her skin and dress was relayed from his hand to his brain. The light fragrance also filled the air around him, so every breath he took was very enjoyable. Fei didn't suppress his desires, but his mind was very calm; it was a very peaceful and warm feeling.
"Angela, your performance today was great. I was also fooled by you…" Fei got close to the girl's ear and whispered, "You did bite your tongue, didn't you?"
The girl was definitely not used to this intimate treatment. Fei felt her body slightly shivering, and her white face and neck blushed. However, the girl nodded in response to Fei.
"Does it still hurt?" After Fei said that, he couldn't believe that something so dumb and novice came out of his mouth; he thought that he was a love expert when he was on still on Earth.
However, Angela felt her lover's care. She slightly shook her head and said, "It doesn't hurt anymore… It was all healed by the potion that you gave me…" The scenery in the mountains was very pretty and relaxing. Angela was slowly getting used to this close contact. She leaned comfortably in Fei's arms. "Alexander, am I very useless? I was caught by that girl, and also ruined your plans…"
"There's no such thing! Didn't you fool that aunty?"
"Hah… She is not an aunty; that girl is very young and pretty!"
"She is nothing compared to my Angela." Fei felt that he was slowly recovering his love expert knowledge. He could say something sensual without blushing.
"But I feel like I'm very useless… If I could be like that girl who was an archer, then I could help you much more. That would be great if it came true!" A woman's intuition was sometimes scarier than the terrifying magic in this world. Angela laid calmly in Fei's arms and murmured as the wind fluttered her silky black hair. "Alexander, you know that girl, right? Can you tell me more about her?"
Fei realized that he couldn't overlook a woman's thoughts.
"She is from a world far away. She is a valiant and brave warrior…" Fei didn't try to hide anything. He started to tell Angela about Elena's story, but he changed the concept of the Diablo World. "Her homeland was under attack by demons and monsters. In order to protect her home, friends and families, she had to step on the edge of life and death every day, and she saw numerous of her sisters and family members die under the claws of demons and monster. It was a dark time…"
Most women were emotional creatures, especially crystal pure and innocent girls like Angela. They became passionate and empathetic very easily. Near the end of the story, Angela's eyes were red as she was about to tear up, "Elena is so great…"
People could never get enough of warm and peaceful time like this; Fei was no exception.
Under Fei's quiet command, the big black dog didn't hurry and return to Chambord Castle. Instead, it wandered around in the Eastern mountain.
Although Chambord was at the edge of Zenit Empire and was remote, the scenery and terrain were very picturesque. The yellow falling leaves flew around the mountain like butterflies. [Black Tornado] could easily jump to places that ordinary people couldn't get to. Angela quickly got out of her negative mood and started to enjoy the beautiful view she was seeing.
If the big black dog, the smart third wheel, wasn't here, this would be the first time that Fei could actually spend some quality alone time with Angela since he first arrived on Azeroth Continent. This heartwarming sensation made Fei feel like he was with his first love on Earth. Although the girl in his arms wasn't as intelligent as the eldest princess, nor as sexy as Paris, nor as valiant as Elena, nor as stylish as the purple dressed girl, her kindness, gentleness and innocence made Fei feel like he had a harbor in this cruel and unfamiliar world. With Angela in his arms, he felt like he owned everything he wanted in this whole world.
Fei loved this feeling, and he treasured it in his heart.
…
It was already passed noon when both of them returned to Chambord Castle on the big black dog.
The citizens who were withdrew from the castle were slowly, yet continuously returning to their homes. Fei saw fifty to sixty soldier-like foreigners tightened on a long chain, locked in front of the number one noble family's, Viscount Lousie's, mansion. These guys were down and dispirited; they were guarded by more than twenty Chambord soldiers. Fei's father-in-law who had just earned Chambord a fortune, and military leader Brook came out of the mansion as Fei passed by.
"King Alexander!"
The soldiers saluted to Fei as they saw him coming. They didn't hide their respect and admiration that they had towards him.
Fei waved as he responded to their salute.
"Your Majesty. Viscount Louise… His whole family is dead. It's too cruel. None of their bloodline was kept alive." Brook pointed at the chained fake nobles and said, "It's because of these emotionless bastards. Except for Viscount Louise, they also attacked the other few noble families and large merchant families. Most of these families were massacred. Except for some servants and maids, nothing was left alive. They robbed a large amount of money and valuables and were trying to get treasures out of the castle… But when we came by, they were already captured by someone; they were all knocked out. I just ordered the soldiers to tie up these bastards. I was waiting for Your Majesty to come and make the final decision."
Hail the King
Chapter 132: Bylaw Enforcement Officer
Fei gently nodded.
He knew, these foreign warriors were the bandits that the cold-blooded, devilish woman Paris was talking about. Originally, in Paris's plan, Chambord city wouldn't have the slightest strength to fight back. Waiting after she successfully assassinated the Elder Princess at the Eastern Mountain top, she would kill Fei and the others on that mountain as well, then rob all the wealthy, noble, and royal families in the city, destroy the city, massacre the other citizens, and completely erase Chambord city from the map of Zenit. That way, the shocking assassination of Elder Princess will no longer have any witnesses nor leads for the investigators sent by the Emperor, and the robbed wealth could be used to strength His Highness Dominguez's army.
Such means was already very familiar to Paris, as if she had done it for many times.
The legend said that on the land of Azeroth, there were kings that would bring his men and pillage because he was too poor, so Fei was not very surprised that Dominguez, as the second prince of the emperor, established a group of robbers to plunder wealth for him. Although real aristocracy did exist, most of them were dicks but also liked to brand themselves.
Fei, for a second, thought about the time he saw fire and smoke rolling into the sky when he was at Eastern Mountain. He still felt a bit uneased and he asked, "Um… Besides Viscount Louis and his big businesses, were there any damage to the rest of the city?"
"The palace was also attacked, but the enemies were fought off. As for other places, there weren't any attacks…" Brook asked with a little suspicion, "What's strange is, these guys seem to know exactly how the city's strength and wealth is allocated, so they didn't attack the normal citizens' houses at all!"
Fei laughed out loud, "They are experts in rubbering and murder, it would be strange if they can't even figure that out… Haha, break the arms and legs of all these people, chain them up and keep them in the [Little Black Room]. If someone comes to redeem them, let each of them go for 100 gold coins. If no one comes to redeem them within a month, throw them all to the lake to feed the fish!"
"Yes Your Majesty!"
Brook was very efficient with taking care of things, and very soon, those 50 to 60 foreign fighters had their arms and legs broken in screams and were taken to the [Little Black Room].
"Your Majesty's methods, indeed are… clever ah!"
Bast who had been silently looking at the Viscount Louis's palace, suddenly let out an exclamation, and the way he looked at Fei became unprecedently serious. This old handsome bro who rarely showed emotion besides that time he was bitten by the big black dog, showed a very complicated emotion in his eyes. There was doubt, there was relief, there was surprise, and there was also… a trace of fear.
Fei just slightly smiled, and didn't say anything else.
He knew what his father-in-law was referring to.
That's right, the destruction of Viscount Louis and some of the wealthy families, was indeed part of Fei's plan.
In fact, it was at as early as on the first leadership expansion meeting after defeating the Black Armor army, Fei already clearly knew that the old aristocratic groups with Viscount Louis as the leader will not be used by him. They would have definitely become a cancerous tumor for Chambord City's future. Fei could not let this kind of thing happen, so from that time, he had already began thinking about how to remove this rotten meat from this "fresh meat" of Chambord City. And then after these people frequently blatantly went against Fei's orders in public and committed many acts that damaged the kingdom and the people, Fei finally had the intention to kill these clans to completely wash them away from the Chambord City.
This was the [Cleaning Plan] that Fei had been planning for a long time for.
Fei's original plan was to let Elena and other female rogues wash away this bad meat, but when the storm was about to arrive, Fei's prejudgement of the danger quickly told him, there was no need anymore.
This Eastern Mountain Assassination was a very good opportunity.
It was a chance to borrow someone else's knife to kill.
Although Fei didn't know in what form the danger will arrive in, it didn't stop him from making some arrangements in the big picture. Fei told the citizens inside the city to temporarily move to the encampment near the Zuli River, Viscount Louis's clan and the others didn't listen, and that played right into Fei's hands. Fei didn't force them to retreat at that time, but allowed them to stay. Indeed, things progressed as Fei expected, Chambord City indeed was attacked, and this "borrow someone else's knife to kill" strategy worked perfectly.
Now, the old aristocratic forces in Chambord city were completely swept clean by Paris's people.
Then the loot of the robbers on Paris's side also went into Fei's hand. At this moment, all the old aristocratic clans and wealthy families didn't have any heirs left, so according to the empire's law and Chambord City's tradition, this wealth was all added to the royal bank, and turned into the royal family's wealth. To Fei, everything happening at the Eastern Mountain today was just a staggering money-making trip. Wait until the poor princes that joined this assassination plan were redeemed by their fathers, and wait until the promised financial support agreed by the Elder Princess gets implemented, the wealth accumulated at Chambord City will far exceed the total wealth of the past two hundred years.
And more importantly, Fei purified his "revolution army".
From now on, Chambord city was truly Fei's kingdom, and there won't be anyone that dared to openly go against his orders, nor will there be people that secretly carried out sabotage activities in the dark. Fei turned himself into the only voice inside Chambord city, and the following series of development plans can now be implemented with assurance.
Time flew, and soon, the vast night shrouded Chambord City.
…
…
On the second day, Zenit Empire's emissary group left Chambord City.
[God of War] Andre Arshavin already left without saying goodbye to the host Fei, and left Chambord City right away with a army of elite soldiers. Although this trip back to the empire was likely to be very dangerous, but considering that the secret of him leaving St. Petersburg was already leaked, time was pressing. Emperor Yaxin's health was worsening every day. The storm clouds and winds changed mysteriously in the empire city and as the eldest prince was most likely succeed the throne, if Arshavin continued to stay here to recuperate, then his competitor Prince Dominguez might take this opportunity and eliminate his disadvantage at the empire. So as dangerous as it was, Prince Arshavin must risk it and head back.
Fortunately, that half bottle of [Vitality restoration potion] Fei left him already healed most of his injuries.
Surprisingly, as the indispensable military adviser of Arshavin, the most trustworthy think tank, Elder Princess decided to temporarily stay in Chambord city.
But these were not Fei's concern.
For Chambord city, the change has finally come – the military and political reform plan that waited an entire month for, finally began to be implemented.
After Alexander was officially crowned, the first King's order was finally issued under everyone's expectations.
This was an order regarding the military –
Chambord City formed two large legions –
The Saint Warrior Legion.
And Chambord City's Bylaw Enforcement Legion… Also, known as the Bylaw Enforcers.
If saying the first name was pretty acceptable for the leaders of Chambord city, then the latter name "Bylaw Enforcers" simply tested their imagination. Maybe they will never know, because this was another instance of Fei's gross hobby of being an otaku exploding again – maybe to Fei, this was a reminder he gave himself, telling himself, what kind of world he lived in before. (TL: Bylaw enforcers have a negative connotation in China because they usually abuse their power and f*ck with citizens)
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Chapter 133: 9 Ministries, and the Bronze Code of Law
Before Fei reincarnated, he was just a third-rate college study without much talent, nor did he have any extraordinary experience. So, towards Chambord City's restructuring, he couldn't put forward any constructive comments. Saint Seiya and the Bylaw Enforcement divisions were all based on his stupid hobbies. These were the military power on the surface of Chambord City. If you wanted to draw the clear line between the two, it would be that the Saint Seiyas were more like the imperial guards from the old dynasty eras, the body guards of the King, responsible for the security of the palace and executing certain commands from the King. And then the Bylaw Enforcers were the regular army, other than managing the country's regular tasks and military operations, it still carried the city management responsibilities. After all, Chambord City was still too small at the moment, and there was no need to raise a more detailed system.
Of course, what everyone didn't know was that Fei originally planned to form another power – a troop that he planned to name the "Secret Service" shadow troop, used to execute some missions in the dark. In a sense, the existence of this army was necessary. Kind of like the group of bandits under that cold-blood demonic woman Paris's command. But, Han noticed that there was no people with talent in that area at the moment in Chambord City, so he temporarily gave up.
However, Fei mastered the Diablo World's [Assassin Mode, proficient in camouflage, infiltration, assassination, poison, traps, and other skills. As long as he could find the right people in the future, this army will be built sooner or later.
That way, counting the Secret Service that has yet to be developed, then Chambord City's military system was divided into three.
The highest commander of these three military systems was the King himself, so they will report directly to the King.
Fei clearly remembered Chairman Mao's words from past life, "Politics comes from military power!". That's why he tightly grasped the military power in his own hands. Such a way was also in line with the habit of the monarchs on the continent of Azeroth. So many people only felt that the name of the new military system was a bit strange, but whether it was Bast, Brook and the others, or the peasants, they all showed full obedience to King Alexander's new orders.
And as for the administrative system reform outside of the military, although Fei had received many suggestions in the past month, there was no beautiful plan that stood out in his eyes. Bast also got a few more white hairs from being so sad, and in the end, Fei had no choice but to do it himself. He simply once again shamelessly plagiarized the wisdom of the past world's wise people, and brought Tang dynasty's Three Departments and Six Ministries to the Land of Azeroth.
In the name of King, Fei completely abolished the past system of having the Head Minister in full control of the political system, and instead set left and right prime ministers and a Censorate to divide up the previous head minister's power. Under these three, there were the Ministry of Rites that was in charge of the Kingdom's rituals and traditions, the Ministry of Personnel that was in charge of promotion of personnel, the Ministry of Justice that was in charge of the law and the prison, the Ministry of Defence which was in charge of the logistics side of the military system, the Ministry of Works which was in charge of construction, and the Ministry of Revenue which was in charge of the treasury.
This was a version of the three departments and six ministries that was modified based on local conditions.
Fei changed and simplified a lot of this cumbersome system, and also modified many functions of the six ministries. For instance, Chambord City's Ministry of Defence had its power greatly reduce. In the ancient dynasties in China, many dynasties' Ministry of Defence could directly control the military, but Chambord City's Ministry of Defence was only in charge of the military's logistics. But anyways, this was a detailed and clear plan. The Three Departments and Six Ministry System could last for many decades in the past feudal dynasty, condensed from the wisdom of innumerable wise people, it should probably be enough to keep this small Chambord City in order.
Such a series of changes, for a small Kingdom like Chambord, was for sure absolutely ground-breaking.
Seeing Fei proposing the new administrative system reform program, Bast became silent for a long time.
Though the Eastern Mountain battle had just ended, this old handsome man originally thought that he already had a clear grasp of this future son-in-law's capabilities, but, when the facts showed in front of his eyes again and again, this old handsome man was still shocked.
Bast was born in a once glorious and arrogant aristocratic family, and was educated by a very complete and strict ancient aristocratic education system. This is why this old handsome man could always gracefully show an elegant aristocratic temperament. Then, due to certain reasons, his family lost its power, and Bast had no choice but to wander in the cruel world with the Angela who was still in infancy. When they came across Chambord City, they were adopted by the kind former King. Then in order to show gratitude and also in consideration of finding a good destination for his daughter's future, he arranged the marriage for Angela and Alexander. At that time, Alexander was still small, and everything seemed normal, but who knew that the Alexander would grow up to become a retard…
Bast had regretted this, but due to the glory of the nobility and the old king's kindness, Bast could not get those words of regret out of his mouth.
Then the Old King passed away, and Bast's attempt to keep the idiot Alexander's throne could be described as painstakingly. Two months earlier he swept away all the treasures of the royal family. The outsiders only knew that he ran away after selling his daughter, but only Lampard knew, this old noble actually abandoned all his dignity to go to Zenit Empire to beg for Alexander's King's throne. He exhausted all wealth and suffered enough embarrassment and finally got to see the big figure in the empire, finally reminding those big figures at Zenit Empire about the small Chambord Kingdom in the distant border that there's a little king named Alexander that just hit 18 years old and needed to be canonized.
Once officially canonized, no matter how domineering the Head Minister Bazzer was, he wouldn't be able to shake the idiot son-in-law Alexander's throne.
This was Bast's intention.
But what he didn't expect was that the Elder Princess and Paris, the two most terrifying women in the empire had already had their eyes on Chambord City as the best place for their spat, and ultimately did Bast the favor on the way. The monarch's emissary group finally was on its way to Chambord city, but on the way, hearing the scout report that Chambord City was attacked by the Black Armor army, Bast's heart felt like he was being barbequed. Fearing that he would return back late only to see the cold bodies of his daughter and son-in-law… Bast didn't even dare to dream that upon meeting again, the god would play such an incredible joke with him: his idiot son-in-law not only returned normal, but also turned into a true domineering king.
Seeing this administrative system reform plan in front of his eyes, Bast had to once again admit that he underestimated the future of his son-in-law. Alexander's growth rate was appalling, beyond the most exaggerated songs in the lands of Azeroth of any well-known king. The level of perfection of this reform plan has far exceeded Bast's most optimistic expectation. As a pure aristocracy that was previously properly educated, Bast's vision in the administrative aspect was far better than Brook and the other common people. He could already foresee the kind of changes that will take place in Chambord when this program gets implemented, and what kind of impact it will bring to the Zenit Empire.
This was a terrifying force that was far beyond personal strength, and it will change the entire world.
"This is an incomplete proposal and some things need further refinement. Hopefully uncle Bast can complete it as soon as possible. Chambord city don't have any talents in administration at the moment, so the tasks of Left and Right Prime Minister will still need Uncle Bast to take care of. As for the nomination and promotion of the six ministries, I will still need you to prepare the candidates…" Speaking of this, Fei once again felt the difficulty of running a country. No wonder there was a great man that said "talents are what is most valuable in the 21st century." Chambord City right now was basically a pirated version of a good city. Military power could be easily solved, but administration talents were really lacking.
"If it doesn't work, we will open up administration and political courses in the Chambord Civil and Military School, and cultivate talents from youth!"
…
Sweeping away the old aristocracy, Fei simply took the opportunity and directly abolished the old aristocratic hereditary system, and it was implemented very thoroughly.
Then, on the third day after the battle of Eastern Mountain top, King Alexander did another unprecedented act.
12 six-meter tall bronze warrior statues were set up in front of the Chambord City temple, and the copper body was engraved with dense inscriptions. These were the new laws Fei designed for this entire Kingdom, and each Bronze statue's body described a certain facet of the laws. The first nine statues all had their carvings divided into summons, trials, execution, kingship, inheritance, custody, ownership and possession, land and housing, private law (specific crime statement), public law and other content, and then the other three statues were left blank.
When the 12 bronze statues came out, the whole Kingdom was shocked.
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Hail the King
Chapter 134: The Origin of [Fake Death Potion]
In the entire history of the ancient Azeroth Continent, there had never been a single king that had publicly announced the law to his or her citizens.
For a long time, only nobles were qualified to know the law. The written law was never disclosed to the public. The royal and nobles had unanimously agreed that the law should be kept a mystery to the public so that it would have a stronger deterring effect. If civilians also knew the law, they might cause trouble and chaos. The law would also lose its purpose of maintaining the image of nobles and the deterring effect on the civilians. Most of the time, civilians would only know that they had done something illegal and would face punishments after they went past the line. These types of legal concepts and norms helped the nobles maintain their status and the strict hierarchy system. This also caused a lot of misunderstandings around the law and created noble privileges.
The fact that Fei casted copper warrior statues and wrote down the law was the first time someone had done so on the Azeroth Continent.
For a few days, people surrounded the Warrior Codex Statue. Everyone was carefully reading the codex and the laws; some parents didn't understand the writing, but they proudly brought their kids who were enrolled at Chambord Civil and Military Academy, and the kids read and explained the laws to their parents.
Laughter and surprised chatter sounded among the crowds.
The legal system and laws were very complete and included a variety of things; they were beyond people's imaginations. They touched on almost everything that might occur in the kingdom. This codex was like an unprecedented legal system. Even the eldest princess Tanasha, who decided to stay in Chambord temporarily for some reason, came to the twelve Warrior Codex Statues and read every single law written on them. She ordered her servants to carefully copy this codex.
"This is a set of law of the saints… King Alexander of Chambord could be considered a saint just by this set of laws!"
The sigh and murmur that the eldest princess subconsciously made when she was extremely shocked was overheard by someone, and it quickly spread around Chambord. Although a lot of people didn't understand the true underlying meaning of this set of laws, the high appraisal from the Empire's [Goddess of Intelligence] had hyped up the reputation of King Alexander among the citizens. Many people started to address their king as "Saint King Alexander."
To Fei, this was only the beginning.
After borrowing ideas from his previous life such as Saint Seiya, Urban Management Team and Jinyi Guards to perfect the military system, the Three Sector Six Department structure to perfect the civil executive system, and the Leges Duodecim Tabularum, the origin of the legal system for Ancient Rome to perfect the legal system, Fei had painted a magnificent and beautiful design on white paper. In terms of the structure and system, Chambord was way ahead of the super powerful empires on this continent.
Of course, Fei was glad that Chambord was small and simple, like a piece of white paper. If he was in a huge bureaucratic empire, he would be faced with a huge amount of opposition. It would be impossible to complete these series of reforms in a short time; he might not even be able complete it in the long run.
After everything was done, Fei's focus went back onto the strength of Chambord as a whole.
…
Five days after the battle of the peak of Eastern mountain.
Priest Zola and Luciano brought along some energy training scrolls and magic scrolls as they came to the King's Palace to see Fei. For the last couple of days, they had heard some of the things that had happened on the peak of Eastern mountain. They sweated buckets when they heard it; if Fei didn't warn them and told them not to go on the peak of Eastern mountain, they probably would have been buried underground with all the other corpses. Now, they felt a sense of gratefulness on top of fear towards Fei, so they worked even faster. In less than ten days, they gathered a dozen energy training scrolls and magic scrolls and placed them in front of Fei.
Fei was satisfied with the speed of execution of the two; he gave them some "carrots" and let them go.
There were 10 energy training scrolls; they were all under two-star rank, but they covered all five attributes. There were five magic scrolls, but they didn't cover all the attributes. These were enough for Chambord Civil and Military Academy to use for now. Fei used a quill pen and created one sheep leather manuscript for each scroll and commanded his personal guard Torres to deliver them to the library at the academy for the students and teachers to use.
Fei had one set of energy training scrolls in his hand as he looked at the sky.
He had tried to training using the energy training scrolls and magic scrolls increase his personal strength, but after a series of tests, the results were disappointing. He found out through the series of tests that he was not talented at using energy or magic at all; in fact, his body was very different from other people on this continent. His body couldn't store energy or magic.
From the power structure on Azeroth Continent, people could create warrior energy and magic energy through the process of training for warriors and meditation for mages. But to Fei, when he was training or meditating, he would generate warrior and magic energy, but as soon as he stopped, the warrior and magic energy that he created would instantly disappear and could not be found, just like it was playing hide and seek with him.
This situation forced Fei to ditch the training for warrior and magic energy.
He decided to use the Diablo World to improve himself.
He put the energy training scroll and magic scroll into his storage space as he entered the Diablo World.
He chose Barbarian Mode and went to Priestess Akara.
For the last couple of days, Fei was used to going to Akara to learn about the theory of mysterious potion and scroll creation. One of three legendary Miraculous Skill 【Learn】, started to show its effect. Fei was very talented at learning these kinds of things, which Akara was very surprised by. However, the king had brought his clumsy personality from his previous life to the Diablo World. He frequently forgot to add important ingredients, engraved the wrong magic patterns onto scrolls, and messed up the creation process. All of these resulted in violent explosions that occurred in 【Rogue Encampment】, and the beautiful rogues saw Akara who had dirt on her face chasing after Fei with a broom in her hand.
However, Fei made significant progress.
Until now, Fei had mastered the process of creating 【Healing Potions】 and 【Mana Potions】.
Studying the theory was very boring, and time passed by slowly.
As the daily half-hour studying time was about to finish, Fei took out a bottle of pink potion. This potion was named [Fake Death Potion] by Fei. [Fake Death Potion] was the most important item that carried Chambord through the whole disaster; it was the reason why people like Angela and Lampard could fake their deaths and fool both Paris and the eldest princess.
"Is this the mutated potion that you were talking about?"
Akara carefully observed the bottle of mysterious pink potion; she was very intrigued. She took the cap off of the bottle, slightly smelled it, and swirled it. She placed one drop of the potion onto her hand, and rubbed it using her finger. After a while, she shook her head as she said, "This is a brand new potion… can you tell me in detail how you made this potion? Don't leave any details out."
Fei told her the process of how he made the [Fake Death Potion].
"So, you were originally trying to make some 【Healing Potions】, but the same formula created something completely different in your world?" Akara had a hard time believing it. "Did you use the wrong formula again?" Akara wasn't very confident in Fei's memorization.
"Impossible…" Fei disagreed. "I clearly used the formula that you taught me and made more than 20 potions, and all of them had mutated…" Fei said as he shook his head. "Therefore, I suspect that the formula was correct, but the raw ingredients between the two worlds are a bit different… Eh, the materials that I used were all from my world, so that might be the reason for the mutation."
"What? You're saying that the Promising World has the raw materials for making potions as well?" People from 【Rogue Encampment】 liked to call Azeroth Continent as the Promising World. After hearing Fei's reasoning, Akara was shocked. "Mister Fei, you never told me that before."
"I discovered that by accident." Fei rubbed his nose as he said, "Too many things occurred in the last couple of days, and I didn't have the chance to tell you." After he said that, he took out the energy training scrolls and magic scrolls from his storage space and gave them to Akara. "These scrolls are used by the people from the Promising World to increase their strength. They call them warrior energy and magic energy. They might give you some hints and clues."
At this moment –
"Ahahahahaha, I got it! I finally got it! So it's like this… Hahahaha, this is very interesting…" A high pitched scream suddenly sounded from afar. Fei and Akara turned around and saw white-beard old man Cain rushing to them as if he got with the woman of his dreams. As soon as he saw Fei, he grabbed Fei's hand as if he wanted to get an appraisal. He took out a few magic armors and laughed. "Mister Fei, I got it, I finally got it. This is how these magic engravings and patterns function… Hahahaha, looks at these armors…"
Fei took a good look.
He realized that the armors in Cain's hand were very familiar; they looked like the armors that he stripped from the silver-masked knight who was the commander of the black armored troop. However, the color and the magic fluctuation of the armors were completely different. They were no longer like the magic items from Azeroth Continent, but rather like the familiar magic items from the Diablo World.
Hail the King
Chapter 135: Prophecy and magic item set
Fei was excited. "You… you finally finished identifying this set of armor?"
Cain threw the almost complete set of magic armor to Fei as he laughed. "That's right, it has been identified… I also made some adjustments to the magic arrays on them. Even if the creator of the set of armor was standing here, he or she wouldn't be able to tell that this is something that they created… I have to say, this set of armor is very mystical. The way that the magic array is engraved onto the armor and the way that the magic array functions are both very interesting. It really opened my eyes… However, I can tell that the principles of the magic array and engraving methods are very similar to the ones in this world… Mister Fei, I think I have accidently discovered a gate to a new type of magic. If I can open this gate, we might obtain the power that can make the gods shiver!"
After hearing Cain's exaggerated words, Fei thought of something. He passed two the scrolls that he was going to give to Akara to Cain as he said, "Look at this. Can you discover something from these?"
"This…"
Cain grabbed the magic scrolls from Fei in confusion. He opened one scroll up and looked at it. After a few stares, he was excited. Like a hungry wolf who had spotted a fat sheep, he shouted, "Aha, god, so it's like this… Like I said… Oh, genius design… This is an unimaginable structure for magic swirls and amplification… Oh my, this works?… Ohhhhhh, I see, so it was like this… man, these have some genius thoughts."
After a series of crazy, unclear sighs, Cain ditched Fei completely and walked towards his own tent with the magic scrolls like a mad scientist. He left Fei with one sentence, "With these scrolls, I can evolve my new theories. Aha, I think I might be able to help you to open that strange storage ring…"
This old man was like a wind; he came fast and left fast.
Fei could only shake his head and watch Cain go.
At 【Rogue Encampment】, Both Cain and Akara had a profound knowledge base for history and magic; they were both perfect professors in Fei's mind. Due to the difference in the magic system between the Diablo World and Azeroth Continent, Fei didn't execute a lot of plans that he had. If old Cain could really decipher the magic principles of Azeroth Continent, Fei would be able to put a lot of his plans into action.
"I want to go to the Promising World to make some potions. Let Elena go with me!"
Priestess Akara was very curious about the fact of mutating potions when they were created on Azeroth Continent. Just like Cain, this master of potion and scroll creations also discovered a new way of potion creation. If she was lucky enough, she thought that she could also create a new series of potions.
Fei didn't hesitate at all.
He put the armor into his storage space, used the miraculous skill 【Summon】 and opened up a portal. Akara and Elena were sent to Chambord Kingdom; with the assistance of Angela, the big black dog, and some of the smart kids from the academy, they climbed up the mountains that surrounded Chambord. There were numerous plants and medical herbs. As if she discovered a new continent, Akara started to test every possible combination of ingredients.
Fei on the other hand returned to the Diablo World.
He exited [Barbarian Mode] and chose [Sorcerer Mode] instead on the big 3D screen. His sorcerer was the only character that hadn't completed all the quests from 【Rogue Encampment】; however, there were only two quests left. In the next three hours, as long as he completed the quests 【The Forgotten Tower】 and 【Sisters to the Slaughter】, he would pass through Act I 【Rogue Encampment】 with all seven classes. The mysterious reward that he would get would be here soon as well.
Killing and leveling up began.
…
Two hours later.
"Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!"
A deep, sorrow, and unwilling roar sounded in the deepest location in the 【Catacombs】 on the 【Tamoe Highland】. The roar was so loud that it resonated through the entire 【Rogue Encampment】. After the roar, the female demon Andariel died beside Fei's feet for the seventh time. The red blood soaked the stones in the basement, and violent rumbling tore the ground apart. Huge flames enveloped Andariel's corpse, and the surrounding demons and monsters cried as they were burnt to ashes.
It was the seventh time that Fei saw the tear sliding down Andariel's beautiful face.
What kind of tear was that!
The crystal tear was filled with indulging glory and falling, beauty and desperation, loyalty and betrayal, giving and taking, blood and tears, fire and swords, jealousy and hatred… as well as the tragic love that wasn't accepted by this world. Fei had fallen into a strange state. All a sudden, an ancient and moving emotion jumped out of this tear, and like a vivid roaring soul, it immediately invaded Fei's consciousness.
Fei's expression changed.
This was an unexpected changed.
For the last six times when he killed the fallen Andariel, this didn't occur. Fei couldn't dodge or resist this sudden change on the spiritual level. It invaded Fei's entire conscious, and something magical happened in the next second –
Many scenes appeared in front of Fei, as if he was watching a realistic 3D movie –
A poor little girl who lost both of her parents was walking on a moor alone. But as she was about to die from hunger and exhaustion, a kind priest took her in. From that moment on, this poor little girl lived in the monastery on the Tamoe Highland. She was like an ugly duckling; she did most dirty and tiring chores just to earn a meal. As time passed by, this ugly duckling turned into a beautiful white swan unexpectedly. Even the most devoted priest would lose focus because of one of her smiles. Soon, the girl's name was passed around the continent; she became a goddess in every man's mind, and the target of jealousy in every woman's mind.
The monastery used her beauty to grow its strength by getting more support, and soon became the most important force on the heaven's side of the battle against hell.
In an important event hosted by the monastery, hundreds of thousands of men came to Tamoe Highland from all around the continent just to see her face. When she appeared on the high stage, numerous men cheered, but one man who was in a red cloak turned around and walked away… she remembered that man.
Then, an unfortunate event happened.
During a praying session, the oil lamp fell off of the ceiling and hit the girl's face, and her eyes were burnt by the hot oil. Due to the jealousy from the nuns towards her beauty, the treatment was delayed… she became disfigured. What happened next took her by surprise. After losing her beauty, she had become the laughing stock of the continent. She lost the value that she was able to bring to the monastery, and she had to do the dirtiest, most tiring, and even demoralizing chores again to survive. She lived in shame. Even the lowest, dirtiest mercenary would laugh at her. "Look, this ugly one was the most beautiful woman on the continent…"
Just to prevent people from seeing the ugly scars on her face, she begged a blacksmith to make her an iron mask.
From that moment on, the former most beautiful women had to wear the black iron mask and live like a dog in shame… Until one day, a man in a red cloak appeared in front of her.
"You are Andariel?" he asked in surprise.
She was stunned. "How could this man recognize me with this mask on my face?" she thought.
"Your eyes are still beautiful as always!"
What a simple answer. Tears immediately filled the girl's heart. Beauty? What a familiar yet strange word. When was the last time someone complimented her this way? "So my eyes are still beautiful…"
"Do you want to restore your beauty?" the man asked.
"Yeah… But how? Can you?" The girl had a bitter smile on her face.
"Of course I can." The man unveiled himself from the cloak. He let loose a little bit of his force and the ground started to shake. "Because I'm Diablo – the Lord of Terror!"
The girl was shocked… However, she slowly put herself together when she was facing the Lord of Terror who only existed in legends.
Then, the girl restored her beauty, and she had a strong demonic force. She used her beauty and power to control the monastery and turned it into a paradise for demons, the frontline of hell. She got everything that she lost and became the female demon who was feared by everyone.
Yes, she was in love with the Lord of Terror.
However, that man didn't love her back; he was deeply in love with his wife who had passed away.
For him, the girl who had restored her beauty had taken back the glory, blame, and blood…. She also learnt a vicious technique to become very strong just for the purpose of helping that man in the fight against heaven.
The girl's name was Andariel.
The last 【Flower of Rogue】, the one before Elena.
Fei had witnessed the complete journey that the former 【Flower of Rogue】 Andariel went through and the love between her and the Lord of Terror as a bystander. This was a very mystical and spiritual ride. For a moment, as if Fei was connected to Andariel, he completely felt the emotional journey that the former 【Flower of Rogue】 went on. There was helplessness, powerlessness, anger, hatred, sorrow, regret… until the end, Fei sighed as he thought, "Was she wrong? Was this woman who went through such tragic events wrong?"
This was fate.
Fei was a little sympathetic towards the woman who he had killed seven times.
As Fei was contemplating, something mysterious occurred again. All the scenes in front of him shattered into pieces like a broken mirror, and slowly reformed into a beautiful woman who could take breath out of almost any man. Like a goddess, she appeared in front of Fei – Fei recognized her; she was Andariel, who had her beauty restored and not yet learnt the vicious technique. At this moment, she was so beautiful that people didn't dare look at her straight in the face; she was definitely the most beautiful woman Fei had ever seen.
"Accept my gift, and protect your lover. Every 【Flower of Rogue】 will experience unprecedented suffering. Young warrior, a great disaster is coming. If you still believe in love, please protect her, and don't let her go through what I did!"
After she said that, she waved her arms and a black light enveloped her body. Soon, she disappeared. At the location where she was at, a set of fascinating magic armor filled with unbelievable magic powers appeared.
Fei was shocked.
This was a complete set of magic items.
The complete set of magic items wasn't missing any parts, and it was at its most powerful stage.
Beside the magic armor, there was a black iron mask; it was the mask that Andariel begged the blacksmith to make for her to cover up her ugliness.
Hail the King
Chapter 136: The mysterious black mask
Items in the Diablo World would fall into eight levels.
The first level was 【Inferior Item】. The color was dark, and they would be divided into four more categories: inferior, chipped, damaged, and rough. These items were barely usable; a lot of novice warriors didn't even use them. Even an ordinary demon or monster could drop these items when they were killed.
The second level was 【Ordinary Item】. The color of these items was white. Some of them had natural holes where gems and runes could be embedded. However, these holes would be drilled on after making the items. These items were very common, and they were the foundation of the game. They were easy to get, as one could get nine ordinary items from killing ten monsters. The attributes of these items were very average.
The third level was 【Superior Item】. The appearance of these items was also white; only weapons and armors in the Diablo World could be at this level. These items had some extra attack damage, durability, and defense stats, but the extra effects weren't that strong. They were only a bit better than 【Ordinary Item】.
The fourth level was 【Magic Item】. The appearance of these items was blue; they had stronger attributes and effects. They were better at attack, defense and additional effects compared with the other three item types. Most 【Magic Items】 also had one or two prefixes or suffixes; they determined the quality of the additional attributes. There were super powerful 【Magic Items】 and weak 【Magic Items】, but they were all very strong. Fei's current Barbarian's armor and belt were both 【Magic Items】.
The fifth level was 【Crafted Item】. These items were orange and could only be crafted by combining various ingredients through recipes. Fei didn't own anything like this currently.
The sixth level was 【Rare Item】. These items were yellow and were even more powerful and had more attributes than the other four types of items. The name of these items typically contained two to six prefixes or suffixes. Fei had a few of these items. For example, the bow that Fei gifted to Elena was a 【Rare Item】. These items were the more premium mainstream items.
The seventh level was 【Set Item】. The appearance of these items was green. According to legends, these green items belonged to great legendary warriors. When all of the 【Set Items】 from the set were collected and equipped, extra powerful magic power would be generated on top of the powerful attributes of each individual item. 【Set Items】 were hard to find. There were usually a few pieces in a set; it would take a lot of time to collect all of them, even if one was lucky. Fei did get 【Arctic Fur】, the armor in the 【Arctic Gear】 set in the Barbarian Mode. However, he still hadn't found the other three missing items to complete the 【Arctic Gear】 set.
The eighth level was 【Unique Item】. These items were golden and were almost holy. They were the rarest of all items, and they each had a unique special ability. They had their own shapes, attributes, names, and they could even changes color. There were three small levels within 【Unique Items】, and they were normal, exceptional, and elite.
After understanding the level system within this Diablo World, it was easy to see why Fei was so excited.
What was in front of him was a complete set of the level seven green 【Set Items】. They all appeared in front of Fei; this was unheard of when he played the game in his previous life – of course, the scene with the female demon Andariel also never occurred in the actual game on Earth.
Fei lightly reached out and touched the green 【Set Items】 in front of his eyes.
The cold sensation coming from his fingers told him that this was real; he was not hallucinating or dreaming.
This was a four-piece set. There was a simple pointy light blue mage hat made of bones, a delicate light blue metal armor that protected his shoulders to his knees, and a light blue wand that was about 6 feet tall. It had a spherical magic crystal at the top and three mysterious strands of clothes covered the wand. The last piece was some kind of talisman that was red, about the size of the palm, and had a five-star magic array engraved on it.
The four items were tightly put together and took the shape of a standing person. It was lively and a crystal light of life floated on the surface of the items. Waves of powerful magic fluctuations came off the set of items in an unstoppable manner.
The set was currently in an unidentified state.
However, Fei was very intrigued by this. He could no longer wait to take them back to the encampment and let Cain identify them for him for free. He used four 【Identify Scrolls】 and unveiled the properties of this set –
The wand's name was 【Arcanna's Deathwand】.
It was a two-handed item.
Damage -12-18; durability – 50/50; level required – Level 15.
Special properties: 1 level to all sorcerer skills; 25% chance of deadly strike; 50% damage to undead creatures; 5% mana regeneration; 50 mana.
The pointy light blue mage hat that was made out of bones was called 【Arcanna's Head】
Defense – 237; Durability – 18/18; Required level – Level 15. Required Strength: 15
Special properties: 4 health regeneration; attacker takes damage of 2; 25% lightning resistance; 228 defense (depending on player's level).
The light armor was called 【Arcanna's Flesh】
Defense – 195; Durability – 60/60; Required level – Level 15; Required Strength: 41
Special properties: 3 damage reduction; 2 visibility (Light radius) ; 10 stamina; 100 defense.
The talisman was called 【Arcanna's Sign】
Required level – Level 15
Special properties: 20% mana regeneration; 15 mana; 20% fire resistance; 50% chance of finding【 magic items】.
These were the individual properties and attributes of each item.
【Arcanna's Tricks】!!
Fei instantly knew the name of this set.
From Fei's previous memories, there was such a 【Set Item】 for sorcerers. Although it wasn't as great as the top-tier Sorceress 【Set Item】- 【Tal Rasha's Wrappings】, it was the perfect set for Sorcerers who were at a low level. The required level to equipment this set was only level 15. Currently, Fei was level 19, so he could equip it.
Without any hesitation, Fei stripped himself and put on 【Arcanna's Tricks】.
A light blue light instantly enveloped Fei. An unprecedented feeling of power filled every single cell in his body. Fei felt that his attack and defense had doubled or tripled instantly. With this complete set, he was the equivalent of a level 25 sorceress even though he was only level 19.
After he equipped everything, the bonus effect kicked in –
20% faster cast rate; 5% mana stolen per hit; 50 health; 50 mana.
Fei closed his eyes and carefully felt the pleasure of the increase in strength.
Then, he noticed a simple, black iron mask floating in mid-air.
The appearance of this mask was far worse than the set item – 【Arcanna's Tricks】. If Fei didn't pay attention, he would had thought that it was a piece of old bark with two holes cut in it. The mask was lifeless, but it floated in mid-air as if there was no gravity. A strange power vaguely floated on the surface of the mask, and it had an ancient, mysterious, and tragic sensation.
"Could this be… the legendary 【Andariel's Visage】?"
Fei was stunned. 【Andariel's Visage】 was the mask that Andariel begged a blacksmith to forge for her after her beauty was destroyed. It was a nice item, but it was rare to get from the Monastery map. It shouldn't have appeared here.
Fei took the mask, and it was so light that Fei felt like he was holding onto air.
Before the identification, Fei wouldn't know the name or the property of the mask. He took out a 【Identify Scroll】 and a golden light flashed by.
Fei was shocked.
He realized that the mask in his hand wasn't affected at all; he still could get its property.
"This… What is going on? Could it be a very normal mask that's not even considered an item? And that's why there are no properties to display?" Fei guessed. "But that shouldn't be it. If it's just a regular mask, how could it float in the air?"
This was very strange.
This situation was also unheard of in the original game that Fei played before.
Fei remember what Andariel said to him in her recovered, soul state –
"Accept my gift, and protect your lover. Every 【Flower of Rogue】 will experience unprecedented sufferings. Young warrior, a great disaster is coming. If you still believe in love, please protect her, and don't let her go through that I had!"
The sixth-sense that came from his soul vaguely told him that this mysterious black mask was somehow related to the "prophecy" that Andariel left him, but he couldn't wrap his head around this vague connection.
Fei thought about it and tried to put this mysterious mask onto his face.
His face felt a warm sensation, as if his lover was lightly touching him.
The mask wasn't big. It perfectly covered the rest of the face below the hat that was made out of bones. He was still able to see through the two holes on the mask, and the nose was raised, so his nose fit perfectly into the mask. He was able to breath comfortably. However, Fei had a strange feeling; he felt like this mask had its own life. It slowly squirmed on his face and adjusted itself to his face. The end result was that it fit Fei's face so perfectly that it seemed like it was built for Fei.
Then, another strange feeling kicked in.
Fei felt like all five of his senses were merged. He could see what he couldn't see before, he could hear what he couldn't hear before, and he could smell what he couldn't smell before…
He raised his hand and took off the mask, and this feeling went away.
After a few trials, he was sure.
It seemed like magnifying senses was the only ability of this mask.
"Something that 【Identify Scroll】 couldn't identify, this is very mysterious… I know for a fact that even level 8 【Unique Items】 can be identified by the 【Identify Scroll】. Wait… Could this black mask be something above level 8【Unique Items】? It can't be! I've never heard about a level 9 item in the Diablo World!
Fei shook his head; he couldn't tell what was going on, but he knew that this mask was mysterious and strange. He put the mask into his storage belt.
Then, the scene in front of him changed, as if it disappeared into space.
Like traveling through time, Fei instantly returned to the catacombs where he killed the demon Andariel. There were the same burning fires and flowing blood; all the monsters were dead, and Fei's Sorcerer character competed all the quests from 【Rogue Encampment】
All seven of his characters passed Act I in Diablo World.
Fei returned to the 3D screen where he could choose different classes.
Something occurred; although it surprised Fei, it made him very happy.
Hail the King
Chapter 137: The Obscene Reward for the Clearance (1)
Huge changes occurred on the 3D screen.
The seven characters who represented the Barbarian, Sorceress, Paladin, Assassin, Amazon, Druid, and Necromancer classes were still standing there vividly. The changes on them weren't that obvious. The weakest among all the classes was the Necromancer, and it was now level 19 already. Every character had at least a level 5 【Magic Item】on them. The Sorceress character was the fanciest with a complete set of green 【Arcanna's Tricks】emitting a green light sphere and enveloping the character in it. The items the sorceress had were obviously better than the items that the other characters had, all appearing in different colors.
Set items were great after all. On top of their power, their appearances were much sharper and different compared to others.
What surprised Fei wasn't the appearances of his characters…… but rather a line of ancient red words filled the whole 3D screen. The words were clearly reflected into Fei's pupil –
"Congratulation, young adventurer. After the test of blood and fire, challenges between death and life, choices for love and hate, you have complete all the quests from Act I in the Diablo World. Your miraculous skills, 【Summon】and【Give】, will be leveled up. Your conversion limit will be upgraded, the parallel universes will be upgraded, your mercenaries will receive a boost in strength…… There is a total of eleven level ups that you will receive as mysterious rewards. Slowly unveil the secrets of the Diablo World! Young man, a new adventure lies ahead of you. Prove you are worthy of God's favour by using the swords and blades in your hands like a true warrior!"
Fei was only able to half understand it.
In between the lines, Fei sensed an unexpected aura of compassion, as if an elder was standing in front of him calmly, gifting him with all these rewards, and then patiently and carefully teaching and instructing him.
As soon as Fei finished reading the sentence, the line of words started to change. The words slowly fainted, and shrunk into small red dots. After dancing in the air like fireflies in a dark night, they suddenly rushed towards Fei like iron dust attracted to a magnet.
Fei couldn't dodge it, and all the red-light specks instantly entered Fei's body.
It felt really strange.
As if he was hugging another soul.
For the next second, Fei felt something appear in his body but it strangely felt like it belonged there. It was a force, like a cloud of information. It felt ancient, mysterious and strange.
Fei closed his eyes and slowly "read" the information.
Suddenly –
"Shit…… combining strength, so this is how, it's bad……" A short message in this information surprised Fei. He didn't continue reading the rest of the information; he instantly exited from the 3D screen.
The time was tight.
……
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The back mountains of Chambord.
The autumn's sun was warm and the weather was very nice.
There wasn't a single cloud in the sky, and the sky looked like a huge crystal blue gem that covered the top of the world. Deep in the mountains, deep and long roars from beast and animals sounded frequently. The yellow leaves fell from the tree branches and covered up numerous unknown secrets.
All the plants and greenery were turning yellow and golden brown, expressing their beauty brazenly.
Nearby, on one of the plateaus made of rocks with vines climbing over them, Akara smiled as she taught Angela and a bunch of kids how to identify herbs and their effects in making potions. The atmosphere was very peaceful and fun. Angela and the kids would gasp and laugh as they learnt the mystical effects of the herbs and random plants that they didn't pay attention to before.
Akara was very pleased with the atmosphere, and she did her best to teach.
Not too far away, Elena, looking like a Valkyrie, was standing on a big rock as she held on tight to her bow. Her red hair fluttered in the wind, like a burning fire. Although there weren't any huge beasts in the back mountains, the dangerous surroundings in the Diablo World had trained her to be cautious all the time. She guarded Akara, Angela, and the kids carefully. She was very sensitive to danger, and she knew what place that beautiful naive girl held in Fei's heart.
Therefore, Elena felt she must help Fei to protect this girl.
【Black Tornado】was lying beside Elena's feet lazily. Its eyes were sleepy and it opened its mouth and yawned here and there. Under the warm autumn sunlight, this smart beast felt very comfortable.
The scene was beautiful.
Suddenly, Blacky sniffed his nose.
It felt perplexed, and it raised its dog head and looked up. Its eyes focused on Elena and found the source of the abnormality – the autumn sun wasn't hot, but a large amount of sweat started to drip from Elena's forehead. The crystal sweats reflected all sorts of colours from the sun.
Drip! Drip!
The sweat landed on the rocks.
"Woff!Woff!Woff!……" Blacky got up and started to bark.
Akara who was teaching the basics of potion concoction to Angela and the kids also stopped talking and looked this way.
She also felt the change coming from Elena's body –
At that moment, a few strong energies came from nowhere and were instantly injected into Elena's body. These energies were all different attributes. They couldn't co-exist with each other. Therefore, they were fighting aggressively with each other, and Elena's body turned into a battlefield for these energies.
To any warrior, this situation was deadly.
The disruption coming from the energies of different attributes might instantly destroy one's body and bones; the person might become a pile of flesh and blood.
Currently, there was already a layer of light blood on Elena's soft smooth skin, and a lot of bloody mists were coming out of Elena's invisible pores. From afar, it seemed like Elena was covered in a red flame. Numerous veins were becoming visible on her arm that was holding onto the bow. Her white teeth had bitten into her red lips so hard that blood gushed out.
The mercenary was definitely in huge amount of pain.
"What's going on?" Even Akara who was very wise was surprised couldn't understand why this would happened to Elena. In her long life, she had never seen any female rogues in any kind of similar situation.
Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!
There was no time to waste, Akara raised her hand and a series of white light flew out of her palm and into Elena's body.
This was the special healing skill that priestesses of the Diablo World knew.
Akara had deep knowledge about magic as well.
With the help from the healing, Elena was doing a little bit better. However, the conflict between energies didn't stop. In fact, it was getting more and more aggressive. Soon, more and more bloody mists gushed out of Elena's body, and the beauty was covered in blood.
""Woff!Woff!Woff!……" Blacky started to bark like crazy.
"Sister Elena……" Angela was also terrified by what she saw.
Akara used the healing skill non-stop and didn't reserve her magic energy at all. A series of white healing lights dashed into Elena's body, but it wasn't helping much.
"Damn……" Even Akara, who worshiped god, spat out swears.
"Ah……" The valiant valkyrie who endured all the pain couldn't hold up anymore. She let out a deep painful cry.
At this moment –
Huuuu!
A blue portal suddenly appeared on the rock, and Fei walked out of it. He took out a full bottle of 【Full rejuvenation Potion】and poured onto Elena's body. He then held the hot mercenary who already fainted by the waist as he stomped the ground. Boom! The rock exploded into pieces as Fei leaped into the air and disappeared from Akara's, Angela's, blacky's, and the kid's eyes.
"Don't worry, I have a solution!"
Fei's voice resonated in the sky.
Akara felt a bit relieved, but became very curious. It looked like Fei knew what was going on inside Elena's body…… But why? Angela on the other hand wrapped her arms around her chest as she felt very worried. This pure girl didn't get mad or jealous of her fiance holding another woman.
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Fei used Barbarian 【Leap】repeatedly and his body merged with the wind. He quickly arrived at a stone room in the underground cave within the back mountains.
He ordered the guards to not let anyone in as he poured the last bottle of 【Full rejuvenation Potion】he had into Elena mouth.
The hot mercenary was in a terrible condition.
There was ice, fire, lightning and poison energies within her body. The four types of energies were fighting inside her body. If Akara didn't use healing skills to suppress the conflict and Fei didn't use all of the 【Full rejuvenation Potion】he just converted to balance them out, the valkyrie in his arms would have broken into pieces.
"Shit! Do I have to do that?"
Fei looked at Elena who was still fainted, hesitating.
He knew exactly what was happening to Elena – this was one of the rewards he got for completing all the quests in Act I in Diablo World – Combining his strength.
This was the underlining purpose of this reward –
All the strengths from the other six mercenaries from the other six parallel universes that Fei's other six characters were in would be combined into Elena – this wasn't a surprise – only Elena was like a living being and the other six mercenaries were like rigid robots; they didn't have any intelligence. Although he guessed that this strange phenomenon occurred because of the rewards he got, he didn't expect it to have this kind of connection. Also, from the information Fei read in the Diablo World, this combination process was very dangerous. Without careful preparations, Elena might not be able to balance the energy in her body, and that would result in harming of her health, and even death.
At this point, all the potions that Fei converted were used.
But Elena was still in a terrible condition.
All four energies in her body didn't show any signs of balance and calming down. In the conflict, they were more like kids who got into a fight. They were causing more trouble and getting more aggressive. Although Elena fainted, the pain was still torturing her. Fei's heart was hurting just by looking at her unconscious frowning expression. The floor would soon be stained by Elena's blood.
Fei quickly made the difficult decision.
He slowly placed his hands on the buckles of Elena's armour.
Hail the King
Chapter 138: The Obscene Reward for the Clearance (2)
Although it was called a remote and impoverished kingdom, Chambord wasn't actually as impoverished as most people thought. In fact, it was quite the opposite. Surrounded by green mountain ranges and the Zuli River, Chambord was quite an aesthetic and cheerful place.
In the afternoon, on the defense wall, a team of sharp soldiers was patrolling around the battlement. The plain across from the river seemed to feel the desolation of autumn; the green grass had turned yellow. Looking from afar, it looked like there was a golden carpet placed on the ground. A breeze blew pass by, and the long grass on the hills waved, as if they were tides. The scenery was just perfect.
Suddenly –
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
A series of vague drumming noise came from afar; it was filled with the sharp murderous intent that came only from military troops. It instantly broke the peaceful atmosphere and picturistic view.
"Stop!"
Michelle-Barak, the captain of this team waved his hand, and the patrolling soldiers paused their steps.
Barak toned down his breathing and listened carefully to this vague drum noise. His face slowly changed color. He jumped onto a battlement without say a word and took a detailed look. At the horizon, where the golden plain met the skyline, he saw a dense row of flags. The flags had various colors and symbols, and they all fluttered in the wind. Then, a group of people appeared; they looked like a huge mass of black ants from Barak's view…… It was an army.
"Who could they be?" Barak was shocked.
This army that appeared out of nowhere and had at least a thousand men. They were all armed well; their weapons shined and reflected the sunlight into Barak's eyes. This fully armed army was up to no good. But just in case that it was misunderstanding, Barack sent out a scout.
A fast horse with the scout on it rushed out of the kingdom gate. It soon passed the stone bridge and headed directly toward the army in afar.
At the same time, all the soldiers in the kingdom received urgent commands and were all rushing up the defense wall in formations.
After more than ten minutes, the scout had finally returned. Although he didn't hear the report from the scout, Barack knew what was going on after he saw the blood stains and the few arrows on his back – this army who appeared out of nowhere was an enemy.
"Ring the bell and alarm everyone. Quick! Inform Mr. Brock about this situation now!" Barak's agitated voice sounded in every soldier's ears.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The huge bell that was about 2 yards tall and hung at the highest location on the defensive wall was rang.
A tense atmosphere spread in Chambord Castle as the bell rang by. The relaxed citizens who were wandering on the streets all panicked and rushed back to their homes. A few fast horses were rushing towards Chambord's Civil and Military Academy and King's Palace. Although the atmosphere suddenly changed from casual to tense, after the experience of the black armored enemies' siege, people of Chambord who had lived through the war didn't turn into chaos. All the preparations for battle were being processed accordingly.
Barak led forty soldiers out of the Castle; they rushed to the stone bridge.
During the battle on the stone bridge with the black armoured enemies, the god like King Alexander broke this ancient bridge who had been here for numerous of years in half with his brutal strength, and left a gap about more than ten yards(m) long. After that war, the two portions of the bridge were connected by ropes, chains, and wood boards. But under the design of his majesty, the simple and crude rope and wood board bridge was replaced with a suspension bridge made from iron chains and plates.
This suspension bridge was perfect for both attack and defence. It was like a gigantic beast that crawled in between the two side of the stone bridges. It served as a great first line of defence and perfected the Zuli River's moat effect.
Creak! Creak! Creak! Creak!
8 iron chains that were as thick as an adult's waist slowly pulled up the iron suspension bridge like 8 godly arms under the squeaking and whining of the the huge iron wheel. The more than ten meter gap reappeared on the bridge. The fast current in the Zuli River rushed by under the gap, and cold mists were blown around by the wind, freezing the surroundings. There was also a mysterious suction force coming from the river, making everything more horrifying.
When faced with this gap, any army would have to fill the river with corpses before they would get by.
"Archers…… get ready!"
Barak drew out his sword. He licked his lips and didn't bother hiding the excited expression from his face. Chambord Kingdom had slowly ramped up its military strength. As one of the twenty three strongmen who participated in the battle on the stone bridge and one of the Silver Saint Seiya, he was looking forward to this battle from the bottom of his heart.
He wanted the whole empire to see how strong Chambord was!
Behind him, many soldiers charged out of the castle to help them. Saint Seiya members such as Drogba and Ivanovic had lead the elite soldiers under them and joined the soldiers at the northern side of the stone bridge. On the defensive wall, both Bast and Brock who were the civil and military heads of Chambord had already arrived after the alarm. They were standing under the watch tower calmly.
This was a scary reaction speed.
Everyone was waiting for this sudden, mysterious enemy to arrive.
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At the underground cave in the back mountains.
In the simple and crude stone room.
Fei had took off the last piece of soft leather inner armour for Elena; he tried doing so as he close his eyes. Although his shivering fingers had not touched Elena's white, smooth and burning skin, he already felt a warm and charming sensation. Fei felt like his soul was getting a third degree burn by this Valkyrie's beauty.
There was no time to waste. Elena's condition was getting worse and worse. Fei shook his head as he hugged the female mercenary's body. He felt a mystic sensation; his body was numbed by this soft, warm, unprecedented feeling. His head turned blank.
The fainted Valkyrie seemed to sense something; the frowning expression on her face relaxed a little bit.
Fei suppressed the dirty thoughts in his head as he thought back to the information he got in Diablo World. He looked at Elena's beautiful face as he sighed in his head. At this moment, for some reason, another girl's pure figure popped into his head. However……
After lightly separating the Valkyrie's long and white legs, Fei finally slowly entered.
There wasn't anytime to experience that moment of ecstasy. A stream of explosive power filled with destruction rushed into Fei's body through the connection. Although Fei was anticipating this, that extremely painful sensation made Fei instantly cry out with a deep roar. He felt like that power had torn his soul from his body. His blood also gushed out of his body through the pores, filling the air with bloody mists.
Fei finally experienced the pain that Elena was enduring.
It was hard to imagine how this pretty girl was able to endure this pain; she didn't even groan when she fainted…… This girl's fortitude instantly shocked Fei!
He hugged the girl tightly in his arms, as if he was hugging the most precious treasure in the world.
Fei utilized his Barbarian physical power and tried to take on as much of that terrifying pain as he would. He could even clearly feel the four energy:lightning, fire, ice, and poison passing through the connection and entering into his body. He felt like all the cells in his body were ground into dust. Endless amounts of pain were generated through the conflict and fight between these four types of energy.
Under this pain that was more than ten times the amount as the pain he experienced after drinking 【Hulk Potion】, every second was longer than a century in his head.
Soon, ice, lightning, fire, and poison, the four incompatible energy gradually stopped fighting. They were like four guys who became friends after a long fight. The energies circulated in Fei's body for a full cycle, and then completely returned back to Elena's body through the connection like a whale sucking back the water it spurted out; none of the energy was left behind in Fei.
Next moment, Fei felt the beautiful body in his arms slightly moved.
This slight movement surprised Fei, and it instantly cleared his head. He immediately realized that it was very awkward between them, his lower body part was still…… Eh, he was going to say something and separate their bodies, but two soft, slender and smooth arms reached out and held onto Fei tightly.
He lowered his head.
He saw the hot mercenary blinking her beautiful eyes.
She had obviously awakened quite a while ago.
And she knew what happened.
A crystal clear tear drop slowly slided off of her beautiful face.
However, she didn't let go of Fei; her arms still surrounded Fei's neck tightly. Fei was even having a hard time breathing. It seemed like she was scared that the person in her arms would instantly vanish to thin air if she let go.
"Hug me tighter!" Elena murmured into Fei's ear.
At the same time, Elena hugged Fei tightly like a burning fire
She pushed her hot body against Fei; Fei felt like he was about to melt into this warm flame. Her body lightly shivered in Fei's arms; at that moment, she was no longer the invincible magic archer who covered up the heat from the sun by her frost arrows, she was just a brave yet timid little girl who had a low self-esteem.
Fei suddenly realized.
He finally understood that he was ignoring some before.
His heart felt warm and soft, as if it was wetting and melting into bits, blending into the body in his arms, and they could no longer be separated.
Seductive moans and heavy breathing gradually resonated in this stone room.
Elena raised her white, smooth, swan like neck, waved her hand, and a blue water curtain enveloped both of them in it. The sky blue light lit up this dark stone room, and made it as beautiful as heaven.
This was the color and tone of a dream.
Hail the King
Chapter 139: They are all warriors who loved to fight
As the sky-blue and water-like screen gradually grew thinner and disappeared, the seductive activity going on in the stone room finally ended.
Elena was already in her inner armor. This was a very tight leather armor; it perfectly emphasized and drew out the female mercenary's elegant, yet intriguing figure. Fei never would have thought that a woman's figure could get to that degree of hotness – it was the type of beauty that would be impossible to move one's eyes away after viewing it once. According to the legends, the former 【Flower of Rogue】Andariel caused even the most devoted priests to lose focus uncontrollably during their prayers; Fei believed that Elena's charm wasn't any less compared to Andariel.
After lightly waving her smooth white hand, the armor and bow that were sitting on the stone table far away flew onto Elena's body as if they had their own intelligence.
The girl who was as gentle as water a moment ago had immediately returned to her valiant Valkyrie appearance. After successfully combining the strength and power of the six other NPC female mercenaries, Elena had a devastating strength at this point. She could switch in between lightning, fire, ice, and poison–the four different magic attributes. On top of the different fighting techniques she acquired, every magic attribute she had grew exponentially. Her actual combat ability had probably more than doubled; she had at least a mid-tier four-star warrior's combat ability. At this point, her fighting ability was a bit higher than Fei if he was in his normal state.
After getting dressed, Elena's expression didn't change at all. She looked at Fei as if nothing had happened.
She was the only one who knew how happy she was inside. She always felt like she was a little lowly rogue; like all her sisters, she was going to die under the demons' and monsters' claws during the endless and hopeless fights; there was no way that she could escape her horrible fate. If it wasn't for her belief and passion in protecting the encampment that held her up, she would have been pressured into a crazy person by this endless darkness and numbing lifestyle.
Fei's appearance had changed her fate completely, like a warm candle light that suddenly appeared in the endless darkness.
In the destroyed Tristram, when Fei used his body to block the arrows from the Skeleton Archers that almost covered up the sky… in the basement at the monastery, when Fei used his thick chest to block the Skeletion Fighters and Shaman's swords and blades… in the Claw Viper Temple at the Far Oasis, when Fei attracted the attention of the Blunderbores, Zombies, and Bat Demons to himself… Elena didn't know when she fell in love with this young warrior. The love that was nourished from the bottom of her heart quickly spread though the Valkyrie's heart like an incurable disease; it tortured her so hard that she almost even crazy.
However, Elena, who had a hard and invincible appearance, had a soft heart that was as weak as a fluttering catkin.
All of her heart was tied to Fei, and that caused her to forget about herself.
Especially after knowing that Fei's real identity was a prestigious king in the "Light World", Elena felt that the gap between Fei and herself had grown even wider. The existence of the pure, flower-like girl Angela, also created an abyss in Elena's heart… She thought that the curse of the 【Flower of Rogue】was realized on her once again, but what just happened had elevated her heart that was falling down to the bottomless and dark abyss and filled with desperation into a haven.
At that moment, the crystal clear tear wasn't due to sadness, but rather due to pure happiness.
Elena finally let herself loose for once. She hugged onto Fei tightly with both of her arms – that was the craziest and most daring action she had ever done. Even when she was facing the female demon Andariel, Elena wasn't even that nervous.
There were no traces of the beautiful dream left.
However, Elena felt like she was very satisfied.
This was because she received what she wanted even in her dreams – it wasn't that moment of pleasure, but she could feel that Fei really cared about her. It was just like how Andariel decided to fall as a demon for Diablo, and even practiced vicious technique to gain power at the cost of sacrificing her beautiful face that she cared deeply about. It seemed like every girl that who got the title of 【Flower of Rogue】all had brave and warm hearts that dared to seek love hidden under their ice cold appearance. They were like moths chasing after flames; even if they ended up getting destroyed, they were willing to give up everything they had without any hesitation.
"King Alexander!"
Elena kneeled down with one knee as she lowered her head. The portion of her red hair that was hanging loose in the air swung and fluttered around in the wind.
Fei instantly understood Elena's intent.
He lightly dragged Elena off of the floor and tightly hugged the Valkyrie, who didn't know how to react, tightly in his arms. "As the king of Chambord and the Supreme Leader of Rogue Encampment, Elena, I'm going to take away your right to kneel down. From now on, you can only stand behind me closely. You got that?"
After listening to Fei's peremptory and domineering speech, Elena was stunned for a few seconds. Then, a pleasantly surprised expression appeared on her face, as if she couldn't believe what she had heard. Of course, she understood the intention behind Fei's words; it was the happiness that she could only see, but never touch before.
The stone room shined up with smiles as if spring had arrived.
Every woman had a side of her that people didn't know about.
Who could have thought that the godly Valkyrie that was dominating in the fight on the Peak of East Mountain would lose her invincible presence, and would be swayed by consideration of wins and losses like a little timid girl.
Fei could understand what Elena was going through.
He felt like he was the luckiest person that ever lived.
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"The lowly citizens of Chambord, listen up. Drop down the suspension bridge immediately and let go of the princes that you locked up illegally. If your dumb pig King Alexander kneels as he walks out to apologize, we may spare Chambord Kingdom from getting run down to nothing!"
On the other side of the stone bridge, a man on the horse sat tall against the wind. He shouted with a disdainful look on his face.
"How dare you! Who are you? How dare you act so disrespectfully toward King Alexander?"
Silver Saint Saiya Michelle-Barak jumped onto the huge iron wheel for the suspension bridge as he asked back angrily. Tink! Tink! Tink! Tink! Behind him, all the Chambord Soldiers had mad expressions on their faces as they drew out their weapons, and all the archers strung their bows and loaded the arrows; as long as their captain commanded, they were ready to shoot out the arrows and pierce through that knight's throat.
"Yuck, you useless pest, do you think you are qualified to ask for my name? Go and tell that Alexander to come out and kneel down to apologize!"
This brightly dressed knight said as he waved his hands. After he chanted a paragraph of obscure spells, it drifted in the air and quickly turned into a series of dense and transparent, yet visible wind blades that were positioned in front of him. As the knight waved his hand again, these wind blades shot towards the Chambord people while creating a sharp, ear-piercing, air-breaking whooshing noises.
"It's a magic spell! He is a mage!"
Gasps immediately sounded from the crowd on Chambord's side. Although they had experienced a hard and extremely dangerous war with the black armored enemies and Chambord's soldiers were warriors who had seen blood and violence, the mysterious factor that mages had shocked them easily. Additionally, this enemy was obviously a high-level mage.
"Don't panic, back off! Form into groups and create formations!!"
The five people: Michelle-Barak, Drogba, Pierce, Ivanoski and Essien all had fast reactions. They immediately grabbed the two yard tall Iron Tower Shield from the soldiers beside them and formed an iron defense wall that even wind couldn't pass through. These Tower Shields were all war trophies from the war with the black armored enemies. Every single one of them was over a thousand pounds. Only the Saint Saiya who were reformed by the 【Hulk Potion】like Pierce were able to lift these shields up.
Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang! –
The numerous wind blade smashed onto the Tower Shields forcefully as they tore through the air, and they left a series of horrifying deep marks on the iron shields. Under the powerful strikes, even Saint Saiyas like Drogba felt their shoulders go numb and their heart start to race.
"Shoot! Quickly shoot him!! Kill that bastard with your arrows!"
As Barak shouted, the Chambord archers released the bowstrings that they were pulling tightly. Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! After a series of bowstring shaking noise, sharp arrows were shot towards the man on the horse on the other side of the bridge; there were so many arrows that they almost blocked the sunlight.
"Oh, you damn low lives, how dare you shoot at me!"
The mage on the horse became enraged. After a paragraph of magic spells and hand gestures, greenish wind blades formed a three to four yard tall translucent shield. Bang! Bang! Bang! The numerous arrow collided onto the shield; the force from the collisions pushed the mage with his horse backwards several yards. Crack! After the first round of arrows, several cracks appeared on the translucent shield. Finally, as if it was glass that was dropped on the floor, the shield broke into pieces.
"You damn low lives, do you know who I am? Damn… You guys dare to shoot at a noble mage from Zenit Empire? Dead, you guys are all dead! Your skulls will be made into urinals…"
After the first round of arrows, the mage on the horse yelled angrily as he backed off, as if he was a beast that got his ass poked with a stick.
Although he was mad, he believed that his life was more important; he got scared by this "arrow rain."
He pulled on the horse, and the man and horse quickly rushed back to get out of the range of the arrows as the horse cried.
On the south side of the bridge, the mysterious troop finally showed itself in front of the people of Chambord. Various complex flags fluttered in the wind. The flags told the people of Chambord that this troop included several kingdoms and powerhouses. Nine fully armored knights rode their horses and led this troop; their retinues who followed them closely held up nine different flags, and the soldiers behind them all wore different styled and different colored clothing. Like nine flood streams, they slowly approached Chambord.
The mage on the horse who approached Chambord alone returned to join this troop. He pointed at the opposite side of the bridge with his whip as he said something angrily.
On the Chambord defense wall.
"It looks like it is a joined force formed by many little kingdoms: Shuani Kingdom, Lunar Kingdom, Chamb Kingdom, Derk Kingdom, Lushi Kingdom, Chishui Kingdom…" Chambord's military commander Brook looked through each of the flags, and he quickly identified the make-up of the troops. A murderous intent appeared in his eyes, "I know why they are here… Hehe, they really don't know where their limit is. King Alexander temporarily doesn't want to target them, but who knew that these dumbasses would want to take back their princes by force. If we don't let them feel pain, they will think that Chambord is a piece of delicious meat that anyone can come and take a bite out of!"
"This is an opportunity!" An excited smile appeared on the Head Minister Bast's face. "This is a great chance to use them to train our men; get our men prepared for the military exercise."
No one knew since when, but the two heads of military and civil affairs of Chambord loved fights; they had decided and turned up the background music and melody of this battle.
Hail the King
Chapter 140: That must be a lie!
Water was rolling, and a cold breeze was blowing.
The nine kingdom alliance army gradually came to a halt a few hundred meters away from the south bank of Zuli river. Their formation was a bit scattered. The horses were making messy noises, and their footsteps were out of sync; after stopping, even their banners were not set up upright. Even people who weren't familiar with the military at all could tell that these were a bunch of amateurs. In comparison to the Black Armor Army from before that moved back and forth like mountains and oceans, it was hard to be convinced that this nine kingdom alliance army was actually a regular one.
However, this miscellaneous army seemed to be pretty confident in their strength.
"A one-time assault is enough to take down Chambord City and let that stupid arrogant little King Alexander kneel down and beg for mercy!" The king of Shuani Kingdom whipped his horse on the ass and said confidently.
"Pass on my order. After Chambord City falls, capture all the men from Chambord City as slaves and teach this evil country a good lesson!" Chamb Kingdom's king already couldn't contain his excitement, and the soldiers behind him had prepared iron chains and cages for containing slaves.
"I want that damn little king to kneel in front of my horse and beg. I heard that he has a pretty good-looking fiancée. Hehe, maybe she can clean the floor and wash the toilet when she comes over to Lunar Kingdom…" Lunar Kingdom's elder prince raised the facial protection on his helmet and exposed a perverted smile.
"Hahahaha!"
Upon hearing the words of Lunar Kingdom's Elder Prince, all the men laughed.
The muscular and stupid soldiers behind the kings all laughed, raising the weapons in their hand up high. Jewelry, wealth, and women – these have always been the strongest stimulants for fighters.
"However, I recommend giving Chambord City a chance. Send a messenger to tell them to immediately drop down the draw bridge and let out those rudely detained princes within one minute. Otherwise, even if we might be punished by Zenit Empire, we will still let this evil country disappear from the territorial map of Zenit." Chishui Kingdom's king glanced at the other kings by his side and said slowly.
The strongest army within this alliance was the Chishui Kingdom's.
The army under Chishui King's command was approximately six hundred people. They were the most organized team and had the highest morale among the nine teams. It even included a hundred heavy cavalry team that was self-proclaimed as the [Fire God's Iron Fleet]. They were all covered in black iron armor and uniformly rode on a tier 4 Warcraft beast. These so-called Roaring Flame Beast tier 4 Warcraft beast looked very much like horses, but they had a sharp horn at the top of their heads. It was said to be the hybrid offspring of the sacred Unicorn beast, born with the speed of wind and could also carry an extremely heavy load. It was definitely the best mount for forming a cavalry.
It was said that the reason they were able to get that many Roaring Flame Beasts was because the last generation's old king got really lucky and ran into a large mercenary group that was on the verge of death. He took advantage of the situation and acquired 40 or so Roaring Flame Beast cubs at a super low price. Then, after about twenty years of careful cultivation, they developed into today's scale of over a hundred. This was also the reason why Chishui city was able to secure its tier-3 kingdom title despite having not many exceptional warriors. It was also said that even Prince Arshavin and Dominguez, who were in vicious fight for the throne, had both tried to extend their branches to Chishui Kingdom just because they had their eyes on the [Fire God's Iron Fleet].
The [Fire God's Iron Fleet] single-riding cavalries carried at least six hundred pounds of weight, yet they could still travel like the wind. If they were allowed to sprint on the field, their direct impact force could overturn even a wall. According to the legends, this heavy cavalry army was invincible among the 63 subsidiary kingdoms in the Zenit Empire.
Hearing the Chishui King speak, all other Kingdoms' leaders weren't completely convinced, but since the greatest power had spoken, the majority of them still agreed to this plan. It was only the aristocratic magician who were previously scared sh*tless by the wave of arrows from Chambord city who didn't really agree to this advice; he clamored about entering right away to set the city on fire. However, this alliance army was clearly not unified. Everyone thought for themselves, and no one was an idiot. After seeing Chambord city's dangerous terrain, they were all thinking about how to preserve their kingdom's strength, so although they all treated the little aristocratic magician from the Royal St. Petersburg respectfully, no one really listened to him.
It was just that the arrogant leaders of the armies didn't expect that before they even sent out their messenger, a burst of creaking noise from iron chains suddenly sounded. They saw that Chambord city had already taken the initiative to let down the draw bridge. With a loud bang, the 10-meter tall iron bridge heavily landed onto the south bank of the stone bridge. Among the skyrocketing smoke, it looked like a terrifying, yet holy dragon suddenly landed on the bank.
"The draw bridge is down… Could it be that they were scared even before the battle began and wanted to surrender?" A king arrogant laughed and said.
The smoke scattered.
The alliance army were shocked as they saw rows and rows of Chambord soldiers come out orderly and begin to get into formation. There were twenty shield soldiers in front lined in groups of two, each carrying a 3-meter tall iron-tower shield. Their steps were heavy, and each could leave behind a deep footprint. Looking at the iron-gate-like tower shields, the 9 kings and the soldiers behind them that were just mocking Chambord city suddenly felt a chill.
Behind the 20 soldiers carrying exaggerated shields were fifty archers.
In comparison to the intimidating shield soldiers, the archers didn't look too extraordinary. They didn't even have any complete pieces of armor on them. They were dressed in weird clothes, with dark beast skins covering their shoulder areas which carried longbows. The longbows on their back were a bit larger than usual, and everyone carried less than 100 arrows in the quivers on their back.
"The small number of archers aren't even enough to fill the gaps in our teeth. My soldiers just need to swing their swords once and they will all be dead… Hahahaha, Chambord really is a real shabby tier 6 city, what an embarrassment!" Lunar Kingdom's elder prince pouted and said in disdain, and the soldiers behind his back all laughed and banged the weapons in their hands in agreement.
Across from them, Chambord city continued laying their formations.
After the archers were 30 or so muscular men. They were also not wearing any armor, and the pieces of broken clothes on their body made them look like they were the definition of poverty. However, the weapons in these giant men's hands were a little scary – everyone was holding enormous axes. The 2-meter long giant axes reflected a cold light under the sun. The design of these axes was way too exaggerated. If the axe's body was completely forged completely with black iron, then the weight of the axes would be at least 3 to 4 hundred pounds. Normal soldiers would have trouble even lifting it.
"Oh, how is that possible? They must be made with wood and painted with black and silver dye. Fake, it must be fake!" The Black Water's King was slightly startled as he murmured.
His view was also recognized by everyone around him, and even the wind-type magician from earlier spoke, "It's certainly fake. Only fools would be scared by those tricks. Haha, I think that even those tower shields at the front are fake; they are probably pieces of woods nailed together!"
Having said that, the Alliance army's morale was clearly affected by the shocking formation, as if a roaring flame was poured out by a pot of cold water. No one was thinking about charging first anymore, and everyone just stood in place.
Immediately following the giant axe wielding muscular men was a 50-unit infantry array.
This formation was more normal than the others, and it was not just a little worse in comparison to their comrades that walked out before them. The weapons in their hands were greatly diverse. One person held half of a sword, another held a bamboo stick, another held a rusty cleaver, and one even held onto a flat hammer that was usually used by blacksmiths… The formation was also a little disorganized. They varied greatly in height, and none of them were muscular. Instead of looking like soldiers, they looked more like peasants that were trying to spectate the fight with popcorn in their hands.
"Haha, look! Chambord city has finally exposed their true form. This is the real level they are at!" Someone contemptuously mocked.
"They are just a group of farmers… Fighting against this kind of an enemy is simply an insult to my army!"
"Such a country, there's no need for it to continue to exist!"
All the leaders of the army became happy and optimistic again, looking at Chambord city as if they were looking at a circus performing.
At this moment, new changes took place again on the bridge.
A team of about 20 people arranged in a sharp cone formation slowly moved out, and every one of their bodies were completely covered in heavy knight armor. It seems like the heavy armor was staggering the soldiers' pace, making it very difficult for them to move. They would take a break after every three steps and look out of breath. Their heavy armor didn't even get to protect their masters before it wore them out.
"Oh my god, I think their stupid king has really gone mad. He actually had infantry units wear the armor of heavy knights…" Chishui Kingdom's king started laughing. His laughter was filled with disdain, "The [Fire God's Iron Fleet] just needs one breath of time to turn all these upright-walking monkeys into a pile of garbage!"
"It is a pity for these twenty or so sets of heavy knight armor to go to waste. They will all be mine now!" Shuani Kingdom grew envious; anyone could see that the armor was good equipment, and if they were equipped onto real knights, it would definitely form a powerful vanguard cavalry troop.
"Whoever grabs it first gets it!"
All the other kings' eyes were also shining with greedy. How could they just leave such a piece of fat meat to other people?
What they didn't know was that as they were watching the hundred or so heavy knight regiment from the opposing alliance, His Majesty Fei, who was just finishing his business in the cave and came to the scene after hearing the news, was also drooling and clamoring, "Hahaha, this is too awesome! It's actually the entire 100 Roaring Flame Beasts; they are all going to be mine! Hahaha, they are all mine now! Pass on my order, you must capture those things alive… These kings are too enthusiastic. I just wanted them to pay a few gold coins for their princes, yet they actually came to my door to hand me such high tier equipment!"
Hail the King
Chapter 141: The Gap between 2 Sides is too Big
Chambord city's army formation was more like a festive celebration that had nothing to do with the war.
After the 22 heavily-armed soldiers finally used all of their strength and dragged themselves to the formation at the north shore, with a wave of crisp hoofs, six gorgeously decorated carriage slowly made their way over the stone bridge, each carried by four big horses, beautiful young ladies sitting above. Their laughter and beauty tickled the heart of the Alliance army soldiers. Looking at their angel-like faces, countless soldiers on the other side began drooling, and they were suddenly filled with the courage to fight.
"That dumb king, he even brought out his harem out. Is this fighting or sight seeing?"
The kings of the Alliance army all became a little dumbfounded. They've head that King Alexander of Chambord city was a big idiot, but didn't he return to being normal after? Seeing the situation now, if he's not a retard, who else would be stupid enough to bring out his wives? This was basically a military taboo, and he was basically asking for death.
The kings of the Alliance army all became very optimistic about the coming battle.
But what made them even more dumbfounded was, what followed was even more exaggerated. After those 6 carriages joined the formation, immediately behind was actually a hundred or so little kids around the age of ten. They laughed and chatted as they followed behind the carriage, bringing a few guards protecting them on the side. They lined up and stood on a little hill behind the Chambord City formation, and all of them stretched their necks and curiously looked at the enemy army.
"What is that retarded king really thinking about?"
Almost all the kings felt faint.
Just when they were feeling very puzzled, the main protagonist that everyone was expecting finally appeared. They saw Chambord city's formation open up a two-meter-wide path in the middle, and then a black-haired young man in a white fluttering robe, with an unspeakable kind of posture, crotch riding a strong and burly black "horse", slowly appearing from the stone bridge. Along the path opened up by the soldiers, he came to the front.
Fei's appearance successfully attracted the attention of the opposing allied leaders.
"Is this idiot the Chambord city king?" Almost all the kings instantly compared their own heroic self-image to this young person in front of them, and after a quarter of a second they immediately came up with a surprisingly consistent conclusion. "Although this guy has good looks and temperament, but from the Chambord city's battle formation perspective, this Alexander King is clearly a peasant… No, calling him peasant is even too light. They must use the name that was previously accepted by the entire empire – retard! Since that's the case, then how can a retard be compared to the mighty me? Yep, it's just that that big black co- I mean horse looks pretty mighty. It should be a mutated species, its mighty look suits the mighty me!"
Arf arf arf!
As if it sensed the unwanted attention projected onto it by those kings of the Alliance army, [Black Whirlwind] barked and issued the most severe warning.
Puff~
Across from Chambord, almost two thousand people all invariably sprayed out water in their mouth. A few kings that were "severely" shocked even almost fell off their house. Oh god, that…… is actually a dog? How can there be such a big dog? The kings on the horses were busy wiping their eyes on horsebacks, and the two thousand or so soldiers also began chatting unbelievably. That big idiot king of Chambord city is way too crazy, he actually rode a big dog and came out… The taste is really… unique…
[Black Whirlwind] felt pretty satisfied with the little chaos it caused, so it "arf arf arf" barked a few more times.
And after that, even the people with the slowest reflex could finally confirm – Chambord city's King was indeed riding a dog.
And at the same time, Fei's eyes were also red as he drooled while looking at the Alliance army.
In his eyes, this group of vicious-looking guys came to deliver weapons and treasure! Although Chambord city's soldier's strength was recently greatly improved, due to its remote location and poor mineral reserves, there isn't enough steel to forge weapons, armor and weapons had always been scarce. Until now, besides the original king's guards, there wasn't enough to form a 100-men fully-armed infantry army. If it wasn't for defeating the Black Armor Army and looting some weapons and armor from before, then right now Fei really would have no choice but to carry a bunch of peasants holding farming tools to go and fight the enemy.
Just when Fei was thinking about how to greet these "charity donors", among the Alliance Army, Chishui Kingdom's king riding on the roaring flame beast slowly walked out of the formation, contemptuously glanced over the Chambord City crowd for a while, and then shouted, "Where's the King of Chambord city?"
He obviously saw Fei and also recognized his identity, but he deliberately pretended to not know it.
Fei also wasn't angry, he smiled and patted [Black Whirlwind] on the ass, then the big black dog growled and slowly walked up.
"All nine kingdoms allied to come visit me, could it be to fulfill the war compensation agreement signed by the prince? Did you bring enough gold coins?" Fei completely disregarded the aggressive alliance army that stood in front of the city.
"Hahahaha, arrogant! I think you've gone insane. Just a little tier 6 subsidiary kingdom dares to ask for war compensation? You think you can conspire to capture the princes and blackmail us? You must've gone mad from being too poor!" Chishui's King started laughing out loud as if he heard the funniest joke, "I give you ten days to hand back the captured princes, and then surrender all royal treasures, and one hundred maids as compensation. Otherwise…" He pointed at the nine kingdom alliance army behind his back and shouted triumphantly, "Otherwise today we will burn your Chambord city to the ground into ashes!"
"How does that make sense? Your twelve kingdom's princes openly destroyed the King's Altar during the crowning ceremony, it's already light to ask for compensation, and you still dare to bring army to invade? Do you still have the honor of a warlord?" Fei pretended to be dumb and replied.
"The glory of warlord only belongs to the victor!" Chishui's King laughed, "Your little Chambord city, don't flatter yourself."
Fei kept his calm expression and purposely tried to provoke them, "Since there's no compensation, then why are you guys here? To suicide? Now the King I give you all one last chance, pay the amount that was stated on the compensation agreement and I will spare your lives today, or I won't even give you guys the chance to cry under the sharp edges of Chambord City's Bylaw Enforcement Officers!"
"Go f*ck yourself! You little retard whose brain is crawling with maggots, looks like there's no need for Chambord city to exist anymore…" Chishui's King didn't expect the king of a little tier 6 kingdom dare to go against him, especially that attitude of not taking him seriously, it made his rage skyrocket, "What the f*ck are bylaw enforcement officers. My [Fire God's Iron Fleet] just needs one chance, and I can make your Chambord city disappear into smoke!"
"Arf arf arf… ROAR!!"
The big black dog became furious seeing its master being humiliated. Waves of fierce light shot out from its eyes, and a beast-like roar was issued from its throat. A ferocious atmosphere was suddenly released out of its body, and all happening in an instant. Then the Roaring Flame Beast below Chishui King's crotch, as if scared by a high tier magic beast or something, suddenly softened its legs and fell to the ground while white foam began coming out of its mouth. All the horses under the other kings all suddenly panicked and began moving back!
The Chishui kingdom king that was high up there just a second ago became like a wooden man. He was caught off guard by the roars and the horse screams, and fell head-first from the Roaring Flame Beast, covering his face with dust, being embarrassed in front of the entire Alliance army.
Who would've thought that a dog could have that much power. One roar was enough to terrify a tier-4 magic beast to shit itself. The alliance army only felt that it was not a dog that was standing in front of them, but a powerful tier-7 magic beast. That violent and dangerous atmosphere made every single one of their hairs stand on end.
"Ahahaha! Look, their stupid king almost died from falling!"
A wave of laughter came from Chambord city's camp. Even the kids that stood on the hill further away were also clapping and laughing, and those soldiers that were originally a bit nervous were also affected by the funny atmosphere. Each one of them started clamming the weapons in their hands together and cheered in ridicule, with the army morale climbing insanely.
Fei was also shocked for a second.
Good dog!!
He intimately caressed the dog's head. He didn't think that this bastard actually had this skill, one roar could retire a mighty force, looks like he still underestimated this bastard in the past. Then, he suddenly thought, if he uses the [Hulk Potion] to feed some other animals, would he be able to breed more mutated species like the big black dog? Or maybe even breed a black dog cavalry regiment?
"Danger! Protect the king!"
Seeing their own king falling from the enemy dog's bark, Chishui kingdom's soldiers suddenly felt their faces burning like someone threw shit at their faces. They were scared that the enemies would take this opportunity to launch an attack so 20 guards immediately rushed to the king and formed a defensive formation and escorted the king back to their camp. Who knew, during this entire escorting process, Chambord city's people were watching the scene as if it was a comedy and completely didn't mind whatever the Alliance army was doing, making the Alliance army's vigilant formation look as ridiculous as a bunch of desperate whores trying to show their slutty side towards blind people.
"Ahhhhhhhh! F*ck! Attack! Kill them all!"
The Chishui King pushed away the guards as furious as a lion that got his mate stolen during sex. He immediately jumped back onto another Roaring Flame Beast, pulled out his sword and waved. Then, the [Fire God's Iron Fleet] began advancing in an arc towards Chambord city. They wanted to pull the charging distance to maximize the impact of the cavalry's impact. At the same time, a hundred or so infantry units with long spears and shields also roared and began their assault!
The murderous force shot right into the sky.
The battle began.
Boom boom boom boom boom-!!
Chishui's soldiers ran at a neat rhythm, from the initial slow start to gradually becoming faster, and the earth began trembling under their feet. They were worthy of being the strongest armed forces among the Alliance army, each soldier wearing light armor, holding a kite shield in the left hand, carrying a two-meter long javelin at a 35-degree angle in their right. The sharp tip of the spear flashed with a chilling feel under the sun. Using the momentum of running, such a spear, if thrown was enough to instantly penetrate four or five enemies.
On the yellow grassland, the running soldiers were like a rolling torrent.
When both sides' gap was closed to fifty meters, the javelins could be thrown, and it would be a kiss of death.
Or maybe before the [Fire God's Iron Fleet] arrives, just with these hundred spearmen would be enough to finish Chambord city's peasants… Look at those group of trash soldiers, did they really come here to fight? The gap between two sides is just too big!
Almost every king in the alliance army thought this way.
Hail the King
Chapter 142: Hurry and Grab the Bodies
One hundred yards… seventy yards… sixty yards…
The distance was getting shorter and shorter.
As the distance decreased, everyone's hearts started to race, and they hoped that the scene they wanted to see would happen.
A vicious and venomous expression appeared on the king of Chishui Kingdom's face. He never thought that a dog could scare him off of his horse and make him lose face in front of all his peers. He tightly gripped his swords as he swore to chop that black dog into pieces when he conquered this castle. He laughed as the Lance and Shield Formation slowly approached his opponent's formation. He could foresee the scene of all the dirty low lives in Chambord whining and dying under the lances, as well as the king of Chambord kneeling on the ground, begging to give up his royal treasures and fiancée, who was rumored to be a peerless beauty…
"Archers… get ready!"
A red signaling flag stood on the hill that Fei was standing on as a loud shout sounded from Chambord's troops. Squeak… A series of sounds that came from bowstrings being drawn made some of the soldiers' hairs stand up. The fifty archers behind the tower shields placed arrows on their bows as they pulled their bowstrings. Every bow was pulled into a full moon shape, with the point of the arrow being aimed at the Lance and Shield Formation from Chishui Kingdom.
What made the spectators surprised was that all these archers didn't angle their shots upward. They used flat shorts, which were arrows that travelled parallel to the ground once they were shot out.
"Hahaha, they really don't know what they are doing!"
Some soldiers in the Alliance Army instantly started to laugh and scorn Chambord. During battles and wars, archers weren't the main players. The situation often changed, so even god-tier archers would only have limited utility. Archers had the most terrifying impact moments before two armies engaged each other. Their ability to injure many soldiers and their wide firing range could result in enemies suffering heavy casualties before the armies even reached each other.
However, if archers wanted to achieve this result, they had to aim their arrows at an upwards angle. These arrows would strike down at the opposing army as the upward force was cancelled out by gravity; this was the most effective method to injure enemies who were charging forwards with shields in their hands.
"These Chambord idiots actually chose to use flat shots!"
This was just too rudimentary of a mistake!
"Flat shots only pose a threat to soldiers at the very front. During a battle where situations change by the second, both armies won't give enemy archers the chance to pull on their bowstrings a third time. Wasting time and an opportunity is equivalent to joking with their own soldiers' lives… unless… unless each and every one of these archers are god-tier archers who never miss a shot! However, haha, how is that possible?
"Hahaha, the victory is ours! We have overestimated these dumb and vulgar farmers…"
The king of Shuani Kingdom laughed out loud.
However, at the next moment, his laughter suddenly paused, as if he was a rooster who had its neck pinched by someone during its morning call. His laughter was stuck in his throat as a shocked expression appeared on his face.
"Shoot!"
Bang! Bang! Bang! After an angry roar, a series of vibrating noises resonated on the bridge. Fifty sharp arrows made whooshing, air-piercing noises as the white feathers at the end of the arrows drew fifty parallel white lines in the air. Like bloodthirsty insects, they almost instantly penetrated Chishui Kingdom's soldiers who were charging at Chambord.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
A series of noises sounded as the arrows penetrated through bones and flesh. Fifty of the Chishui Kingdom's soldiers who were charging at the very front fell in unison as if they were crops that were harvested by a farmer's sickle. The big circular shields in their hands didn't provide them with any protection. The merciless arrows pierced through the very small half-circular peeking holes on the shields and struck through the soldiers' heads. These fifty lives were instantly lost; they didn't even have time to let out whines or screams.
Fifty arrows took away fifty souls!
The whole battlefield quieted down; a strange and breath-taking atmosphere instantly took over.
Dang!
The king of Chishui Kingdom's mouth opened wide subconsciously as his sword slid out of his powerless hands.
"God… God… God-tier archers? Are all of them god-tier archers?" Someone screamed as if he saw the Goddess of Life running naked in front of him.
"No! Who could it be?"
All the kings and generals in the Alliance Army felt like a cold breeze had instantly gone up their buttholes and rushed into their throats, instantly freezing their bodies. Even the horses they were riding on felt the sensation of death. They neighed as they backed off anxiously and uncontrollably. "This is crazy! Is there anything else this crazy? A poor little kingdom that can't even afford to buy armor for its soldiers has fifty god-tier archers? How is this possible?
Bang! Bang! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The archers didn't give the kings in the Alliance Army too much time to think. Soon, a second wave of bowstring vibrating noises sounded, which woke up the leaders of the Alliance Army as they were deep in shock.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
There wasn't any difference between the first and second wave of arrows. After the fifty bowstring vibrating noises, fifty flesh- and bone-piercing sounds quickly followed. Those were the only noises on the battlefield, and it was a dead melody. Everyone in the Alliance Army felt that Hades, the god of death, was swinging an invisible sickle and harvesting each life on the battlefield.
Fifty yards!
That distance was an impeccable and invisible defensive wall.
This was because fifty meters from Chambord's formations, there were a hundred corpses lying on the ground.
Every infantry had their vital spots penetrated, including their throats, eyes, and foreheads. These were the spots that couldn't be protected by their circular shields, since they had to check their enemies' response when they charged. These vital spots, which were less than the size of their palms, could normally drastically reduce the effectiveness of archers. No one on the Alliance Army's side could have foreseen that these vitals spot that were left out would result in the death of a hundred strong soldiers.
Everyone on the Alliance Army's side gasped in shock as they saw the hundred corpses on the bridge. Almost every one of them wiped their eyes and hoped that they were hallucinating. "How could this be possible? After two rounds of arrows shot out by fifty archers, a hundred elite lance and shield soldiers were killed. Even though there were a lot of veterans in the Alliance Army who been to many battles and wars, they shook and sweated profusely. It wasn't right to call this a miracle; it was better to call this a horrifying nightmare! It was terrifying!
The king of Chishui Kingdom's heart was dripping blood. This kind of blood loss was vast and severe.
There was no way that he wouldn't feel any pain. This was a hundred elite lance and shield soldiers! They were his trump card and backbone formation during battles. One reason why he let this formation charge in was because he saw that Chambord's formations were messy and soft; another reason was because he wanted to showcase the strength of his elite troops in front of the other kingdoms. The last reason was because he wanted to have more authority and more spoils of war when the Alliance Army conquered Chambord and divided up the seized resources. He never would have thought that a hundred of his elite soldiers would turn into corpses before they finished a single charge and struck their lances once!
He felt like someone had carved out a piece of his heart from his chest with a sharp knife.
"Ahhhhhh… I'm so mad!" the king of Chishui Kingdom swayed on his horse as he felt his blood pressure increasing and his head dizzying; he almost fell off of his ride and landed on his head.
God-tier archers!
A total of fifty god-tier archers.
"Does Chambord Kingdom have a total of fifty god-tier archers?"
No one could laugh anymore at the fifty poor archers on Chambord's side who weren't even properly dressed in armor. This fact was way too shocking. Every single god-tier archer had a high status and was a valuable resource; many affiliated kingdoms and even empires fought over these kinds of talents. Who could have thought that a small level 6 affiliated kingdom would have fifty of them? It was unheard of! At that moment, no one dared to make any noise. They were afraid that they might attract the attention of the fifty killers on the other side of the bridge; if these killers' bowstrings vibrated again, they would be turned into "hedgehogs".
At almost the same time, most of the people in the Alliance Army wanted to retreat.
They only had about two thousand people. When facing fifty god-tier archers, they weren't even enough for those archers to practice on. With about forty arrows from each archer, all of them would be going to hell without any chance of escaping.
Fei, who was riding the big black dog, was so delighted that his teeth almost fell out of his mouth.
He had used six bottle of [Hulk Potion]. He mixed the potion in with these archer's daily meals and slowly changed these archer's ability. Since these fifty archers consumed small doses of potion each meal, all six bottles were depleted after two weeks. After these soldier's body were completely strengthened, Fei asked the female rogue mercenaries to teach them archery. This was the first time that Fei's secret weapon was used, and the fifty strong archers had instantly shocked the arrogant Nine-kingdom Alliance Army.
"Are you guys dumb? Why are you guys standing here? Follow me to seize the corpses and their weapons!"
Fei shouted and commanded the big black dog. He was the first one to rush out of Chambord's formation; Chambord's fifty scattered law enforcement officers were also woken up by Fei's shout; they were shocked by Chambord's archers as well. They threw away the sticks and wood axes in their hands without hesitation and cheered as they rushed to the corpses. They were like a pack of hungry wolves who had just seen a white rabbit. They followed the big black dog and sprinted so quickly that the bottom of their shoes almost caught on fire.
"What are they trying to do?" Someone in the Alliance Army asked dumbfoundedly.
"Damn it! Charge! Stop them! They are trying to rob me…" The king of Chishui Kingdom felt like he was going crazy. He instantly understood Fei's intention. These low lives were so poor that they were going to take the weapons and armors from the corpses. "This is too shameful! They aren't even letting go of dead people." The King of Chishui Kingdom thought as he screamed, "Ahhhhhhh…… Shoot your arrows, quickly! Kill them!"
Most of the leaders in the Alliance Army realized what was going on. They quickly commended their archers to shoot.
