Chapter 2492: Chapter Fifty-Three: The Sisters Who Devour Deities

Su Xiao sat on the black dragon's back as the beast cavalry below galloped forward, heading straight for Shadu.

On the dragon's back, Su Xiao looked at the ring in his hand that had turned red; this item was called the 【Peniol Ring】, and since this morning it had begun to heat up, now becoming somewhat hot to the touch.

"Descendant of the Peniol family."

Su Xiao stored the 【Peniol Ring】 in his storage space; he was still a step late, having failed to return to Shadu in time to ambush Hishi, so someone in Shadu had likely already acted—and won.

Although he hadn't rushed back to Shadu immediately, Su Xiao commanded 220,000 beast cavalry; if Shadu's situation had become irredeemable, he would simply charge in.

Su Xiao would not do this unless absolutely necessary, for Shadu was the capital of the Shayan Kingdom, and sending beast cavalry to attack it would lower troop morale, with some loyal officers even refusing orders.

Everything would be assessed after returning to Shadu; no matter what, he needed his beast cavalry to pin down Shadu's garrison, and having just used a human-wave tactic to kill Hishi, he would certainly not fall into the same trap again.

The army marched swiftly, crossing two deserts and a vast cactus field before Shadu appeared ahead.

Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang led the way, first infiltrating Shadu; Su Xiao ordered the entire army to camp outside the northern city walls of Shadu.

The current deputy commander, Wen Aiyuer, was a trusted aide Su Xiao had promoted all along; with her, he could mobilize the 220,000 beast cavalry at critical moments.

The northern gate of Shadu stood wide open, as kingdom officials came out to greet him, while the garrison stood in two rows on either side of the gate, nearly ready to hold a welcome ceremony; Su Xiao had just returned from attacking the Peruvian Kingdom, so such treatment was normal.

Standing on the black dragon's back, Su Xiao ignored the greeting officials, waiting instead for Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang's intelligence feedback.

If he had not mistaken, the victor in Shadu's contest was Queen Camela and Chancellor Carolos—these two sisters.

Initially, Su Xiao had not noticed anything abnormal about the two sisters; even after invading Peru and meeting the Peruvian king, he had not guessed their plan, until the neutral deity Mosheng was devoured.

Su Xiao had once obtained several pieces of information from Lai Dun Redbeard, namely:

1. The current Shahan Emperor in Shadu is a false king.

2. The true royal Peniol family of Shayan has been exterminated, their bloodline severed.

Of these two pieces of information, the first is correct, the second false; Su Xiao acquired the 【Peniol Ring】, which has a trait: after the Peniol family dies out, the ring will shatter.

The Peniol family has not yet died out; 'coincidentally,' Mosheng was devoured, and one should know that the Peniol family also bears the title, 'the clan that devours deities.'

During negotiations, according to what the Peruvian king revealed, the first Shahan Emperor never allied with the neutral deity; Shayan had no true deity of faith, and the first Shahan Emperor did not ally with the neutral deity—he instead led an army to besiege that deity and captured it alive.

Occasionally drinking wine infused with deity energy was still a hearty meal, and the Peniol family could discern such things, so they imprisoned that deity to let it continuously provide deity energy.

To ensure the deity would not die from energy depletion, the first Shahan Emperor devised a method: he publicized the deity's existence, letting Shayan civilians to some extent believe in it, thereby providing minuscule faith power to guarantee the deity's survival.

The result was that the first Shahan Emperor succeeded; the Peniol family's special physique could continue, no longer needing to spend heavily to buy minuscule deity power from Mosheng.

After generations of rule, a false king appeared—namely, the father of the current Shahan Emperor; this false king was ambitious, having allied with the already high-ranking Wuno and an unpopular family, the Yonglu tribe.

After allying with these two, the false king still felt they were no match for the Peniol family, so he approached Mosheng, arguing that Shayan's deity would eventually die, and the Peniol family needed a new deity to provide energy to sustain their powerful physique, and the next deity to be imprisoned would be you, Moshen.

Moshen knew this was not a threat but a fact, so he approached the Peruvian king, Spring Goat Steel, to bridge talks between the false king and the Peruvian king.

The Peruvian king's initial thought was, 'Is there still such a good thing?' Since his kingdom had been nearly defeated and lost its bearings, he immediately agreed to the false king's alliance.

The false king, Wuno, and the Yonglu tribe stormed the Rosai Palace at night, besieging the Peniol family, believing victory was certain; the result was they were nearly hammered into excrement, for the Peniol family was overwhelmingly strong—so strong they needed no guards to protect them, those guards merely for show to outsiders.

Moshen and the Peruvian king's reinforcements arrived in time, and ultimately the false king won; afterward, everyone related to the Peniol family—historical records and all—were purged, which is why this world's history now shows vast blank spaces.

After the false king ascended, he did not honor the agreement to ally with Peru, causing the Peruvian king and the false king to turn against each other.

Was the Peruvian king deceived? Of course not; not many years later, the situation on the central battlefield changed, because all Peniol family officers mysteriously vanished, causing Shayan's front lines to collapse repeatedly; from then on, Shayan gained no advantage on the central battlefield.

According to Su Xiao's investigation and inference, this is the blank history of the Shayan Kingdom; usurpation is not glorious, so the false king would conceal it, aided by Shayan's deity.

This is the most pitiful deity Su Xiao has ever seen, even more wretched than the reclusive Moon Goddess, having provoked no one, yet imprisoned and frequently drained of deity energy.

After the Peniol family's defeat, this deity could be said to have taken off from the spot; the false king valued it greatly and cooperated with it, using various methods to erase all traces of the Peniol family within Shayan Kingdom.

How the false king died, Su Xiao never investigated; his sole heir is the current Shahan Emperor, and everything after is what occurred after Su Xiao arrived in this world.

When Shadu first demanded a goddess from him, he felt something was off, and more importantly, he later obtained the 【Peniol Ring】.

Thus, Su Xiao still did not suspect the Peniol family's descendant was in Shadu, but after Mosheng was 'eaten,' he thought of another title for the Peniol family: 'the clan that devours deities.'

Shadu's demand for a goddess, and the goddess's close ties to Mosheng, meant that initially only the Shahan Emperor, Wuno, and Carolos were qualified to demand a goddess from him.

Simple elimination and speculation: among the Shahan Emperor, Wuno, and Carolos, one might be a Peniol descendant—the answer is nearly out: Carolos, Peniol Carolos, and her sister, Peniol Camela.

In Su Xiao's feeling, Peniol Camela's behavior was strange; she seemed like a pawn of the Shahan Emperor, yet also Carolos's sister and a Peniol descendant—how could she obey the Shahan Emperor's command? This made little sense.

Su Xiao did not know the specific plan of the two Peniol sisters; he had not stayed long in Shadu, so what he understood was more about the Peniol family's secrets and the clandestine affairs between the two nations.

Just as Su Xiao pondered, Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang hurried back.

"Woof."

"Only the two Carolos sisters are in Rosai Palace? No ambush?"

"Woof."

"Strange."

Su Xiao couldn't quite understand—were those two sisters just waiting for him in Rosai Palace? If so, this was no different from delivering heads.

Do not forget the crucial point: the goddess was captured by Su Xiao, and she had stayed in Segona City for a time; since Shadu had so insistently demanded the goddess, Su Xiao would naturally have taken precautions.

"Woof."

Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang barked again, causing Su Xiao to pause his advance, for Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang said that though Rosai Palace's bedroom clearly held only two people—the monster-transformed Carolos and the mobility-impaired Queen Camela—their combined presence emitted dozens of auras, which should relate to the Peniol family's special physique.