Chapter 184

Luosen

Levinde Crown Princess and Sage Fujiluola sat silently in the chairs, patiently waiting.

They could still continually hear La Fengge's voice.

"Your Highness, don't hide~ come out quickly~~ you can't escape!"

"Fujiluola, I'll tell you this: I now possess eight-ring magic power; in my eyes, you are just two ants. I can crush you with a single finger!"

Fujiluola

Sage Fujiluola

The sound came again and again, as if ringing right by the ears, like the death god's summoning demonic tone.

Arcane Master

Mother Nature

"You may have fled, but the Xila royal family still remains; I will kill them one by one."

"Let me see who to kill first, oh, Crown Princess Your Highness, you actually have an illegitimate daughter— who is her father?"

"Oh~~~ this illegitimate daughter is already eight years old, she's so cute, haha~~ I'll let her taste the most unforgettable flavor in the world~~ haha~~~"

As these words were spoken, the princess's body trembled violently, her already snow-white skin completely losing all color.

Because she indeed had an illegitimate daughter, secretly born when she was young with a talented commoner mage.

But because she was an illegitimate daughter, her father also lacked an illustrious lineage, so she did not want this child to experience the darkness of the royal family, and quietly entrusted the child to the child's father to raise.

This is her biggest secret, but she never expected La Feng Ge to have dug it out.

"Ah ha~~ Your Highness, you surely care about this child, but compared to the child, you should be more concerned about the child's father, right?"

"This man is truly handsome, ah, both handsome and strong; even I feel my heart flutter upon seeing him, no wonder he has earned Your Highness's favor."

"Let me see, this handsome man's dying scream—is it the same as an ordinary person's? Hehehehe~"

The Princess clenched her fists, her knuckles turning white, her teeth clenched tightly.

She felt both hatred and confusion.

She didn't understand where the other party was now; if they were in Levinde, how could they transmit their voice to Weilan?

If they were in Weilan, how could they know the situation in Levinde so clearly? The other party might be lying, yet the details in their words are shockingly horrifying.

The unknown that subverts common sense lets the fear in the Eldest Princess's heart grow uncontrollably.

Sage Fu Ji Luo La saw this situation and hurriedly reminded.

"Your Highness, La Feng Ge is surely using some very powerful divination to find your position; intense soul fluctuations greatly aid divination positioning! Just pretend you heard nothing!"

The Princess's eyes were filled with tears.

"I can't do it~~ Sage~~ I really can't do it."

"He surely killed my daughter, and also killed him, oh~~~ Mother Nature, why does such a demon exist in the world!"

It might not have been just now that he killed them; perhaps he had already killed them earlier, but since they've been exposed, they must already be dead.

This left the Eldest Princess grief-stricken to the point of despair.

Before her words even finished, La Feng Ge's voice immediately sounded.

"Ah ha~ Your Highness, I've found you!"

"You hid well~~ hahaha~ You hid well!"

"But it's meaningless!"

As these words were spoken, visible distortion appeared in the air inside the safe house, and a rising conical spiral airflow materialized out of thin air.

Lasting less than two seconds, a flash of light appeared, and a figure materialized out of thin air in the air.

Before the figure fully materialized, Sage Fu Ji Luo La sprang into action.

She pointed both hands at the figure, each finger shooting out a violet-colored ray, each with intensity reaching the Fifth Ring.

It is the Fifth Ring Arcane Art "Finger of the Hunt," a terrifying attack spell, also her signature technique; its power is absolute, capable of breaking even a Sixth Ring magical defense.

However, the intense violet rays failed to strike the nearby target; they were interfered with by a strange force, bending in the air and sweeping around the target's body.

Immediately afterward, the figure fully materialized.

This person had a head of golden hair, a pair of ice-blue eyes, a tall build, and a handsome yet gloomy and mad visage—indeed, the other guardian sage of the Levinde Royal Family, the Ice Envoy La Feng Ge.

Fu Ji Luo La, though shocked in her heart, without hesitation stepped forward, shielding the Eldest Princess behind her, while a thick violet light membrane appeared on her body's surface.

"La Feng Ge, what kind of spell is this?"

"Just a minor phase-shift technique."

La Feng Ge didn't rush to attack; he wanted to savor the taste of victory.

His ice-blue eyes darted between the two of them, finally settling on the Eldest Princess.

"Your Highness, guess whose blood is on my hand?"

He raised his left hand, half-congealed fresh blood smeared across it, dripping drop by drop.

Because of its half-congealed state, the blood drew out strands in the air.

As an Arcane Master, the Eldest Princess easily sensed the scent of blood kin from the blood.

She knew, this blood belonged to her daughter.

In other words, her daughter had just been killed!

The Eldest Princess shuddered violently: "La Feng Ge, you are nothing short of a demon."

La Feng Ge laughed ha ha: "Exactly~~ you're right, I am a demon."

"Demons wield incomparably great power; they can freely dominate the fate of the weak, making them the most exhilarating beings in the world."

"Of course, for you mortals, this is an eternal nightmare that can never be forgotten."

"But it's fine, after all, pain belongs to you, while joy belongs to me, hahaha~~"

While speaking, LaFengge's left hand reached forward vaguely, then gently pinched, as if grasping something soft.

At the same time, Sage Fujiluola's complexion turned extremely strange.

Her lips turned bluish, she shuddered uncontrollably, her complexion quickly turned purple, and her body trembled uncontrollably, as if she had epilepsy.

Strangely, the magical shield on her body's surface remained intact, but a hole appeared at her chest.

The arcane power actually avoided LaFengge's force, just like the previous Hunting Kill Finger.

LaFengge's fingers gently pinched, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

"Fujiluola, this spell of mine is self-created, called Heart-Kneading Technique, hehehe."

"This is the might of a super-high ring; with your five-ring power, you cannot block it, you can only endure."

"How is my heart-kneading technique? Does it feel good?"

"It's beating powerfully; I don't know how far the blood would spurt if I poked a hole in the heart."

While speaking, LaFengge's left hand fingers hovered and stroked, while his thumb made a slight inward pressing motion.

As she made this motion, the Sage's body shuddered violently, her mouth involuntarily wide open, wanting to breathe but unable to draw breath.

This scene was truly terrifying.

The Elder Princess shouted, her magic surged, and she launched a Four-ring Arcane Ray at LaFengge.

A thick, deep-purple arcane light shot out, stabbing toward LaFengge's forehead.

But the strange situation occurred again; when the arcane light contacted the space in front of LaFengge's body, it bizarrely bent, going around the side of his head.

The Elder Princess despaired, as everything before her exceeded her magical understanding.

This demon is too powerful!

LaFengge laughed triumphantly: "Your Highness, that move won't work; try another."

Before he finished speaking, a sudden 'bang' came from the side. Ice-blue light flashed across LaFengge's body surface, then shattered into countless points of light, and his left hand, which was gripping the Sage's heart, along with his shoulder, vanished outright.

His whole body was also shoved by a tremendous force, stumbling and flying out.

Immediately after, ripples flashed in the air; first a dark-black Fire God Gun appeared, then a figure emerged from the air.

This person wore black leather armor, had black hair and black eyes, and was taller than LaFengge—indeed, Duke Weilan Luosen.

He held the low-profile Fire God Gun with one hand, aiming its muzzle at the fallen LaFengge, and at the same time threw a bottle of Golden Blessing Potion to the Elder Princess behind him.

"Healing potion, feed it to the Sage."

The Elder Princess exhaled greatly, feeling a faint relief from having escaped a desperate situation.

She hurriedly complied.

On the other side, Luosen narrowed his eyes, watching LaFengge clutching his severed arm.

"LaFengge, how about this move of mine?"

LaFengge panted heavily, his ice-blue eyes fixed on Luosen, yet showing no trace of fear.

"Duke, I never expected you to secretly cultivate the Summoning Forbidden Technique!"

Luosen grinned: "You study forbidden arts, while mine is legitimate. For I have consulted Mother Nature."

While speaking, he stared at LaFengge, observed carefully, then concluded: "You are not LaFengge himself; you are his substitute."

"Hehehe~~ Duke, your eyes are really sharp."

"That's right, I am LaFengge's substitute, and my true self is currently in your Swan Castle, killing your family members one by one."

Luosen hehehe laughed: "LaFengge, you can fool others with that, but not me."

"I have set up a Phase Binding Array in Swan Castle; you simply cannot teleport in."

The Phase Transfer Array is a means of the Traveling Mage; Luosen has mastered it and knows its limitations.

First, there is tremendous magical inertia.

For the same soul, only one transmission is possible per period; generally, a Seven-ring Mage can do it once a month, an Eight-ring once every twenty days, and a Ten-ring once every ten days.

If one ignores the inertia and forces activation, it will cause massive damage to the soul, even tearing it apart directly.

Second, it is extremely susceptible to interference.

If interfered with during transmission, the body will disintegrate outright during the Phase Transfer process, and the person will naturally be dead.

Therefore, given that he has set up a Phase Binding Array, if LaFengge still dares to transmit, he will die instantly.

LaFengge, seeing that he couldn't intimidate Luosen, fell silent for a few seconds, then suddenly reached out a hand toward him.

In the next instant, Luosen felt LaFengge's magic stir slightly, while a very hidden force surged toward him.

He immediately knew this must be the same killing move the opponent just used on Fujiluola, likely employing some unknown high-order power.

He is the true body, so he dare not take the risk.

A flick of his finger, he preemptively pulled the trigger of the firearm.

"Bang!"

Fire sprayed, LaFengge's head exploded like a watermelon.

His whole body was also flung backward five or six meters by the tremendous impact, slamming hard into the wall like a lump of rotten meat.

His strange power can distort five-ring magic, but obviously cannot twist the ten-ring strength of the Fire God Gun.

With such injuries, no mortal in the world could withstand them; even if a legendary mage came, he would surely die on the spot.

Thus LaFengge is completely dead.

More precisely, the substitute produced by the opponent's bloodline fusion is completely dead.

But Luosen did not feel pleased about this, for LaFengge's earlier conversation and the power he displayed revealed a terrifying piece of information.

This fellow used the Summoning Forbidden Technique, made contact with an extraplanar entity, or an entity from Huan Wai Xu Kong, and from it gained much astonishing high-ring knowledge.

If it were merely his own cultivation, that would be fine, but seeing his current mad state, he is likely being continuously brainwashed by that entity and gradually becoming its puppet.

"Being able to wash the brain of a guardian of the Sage into this state, there is an eighty to ninety percent chance it is a god or demon from Huan Wai Xu Kong."

In other words, the gods and demons have already infiltrated the Natural Alliance.

At that moment, a timid voice came from behind: 'Duke~~ are you alright?'

It was the voice of Levinde, the eldest princess.

Luosen came to his senses, turned and walked toward the eldest princess: 'I'm fine.'

He also looked at Sage Fujiluola, seeing her breathing had steadied but her face still somewhat pallid, so he placed his hand on her back, carefully sensing her heart's condition.

There were still some scars on her heart, and under the medicinal power of the Golden Blessing, they were gradually healing.

Strangely, however, a strand of foreign power still lingered on her heart.

'This power is much like pure magical energy, but the person is dead—shouldn't the magical energy have dissipated?' Luosen muttered to himself.

By common sense, as soon as a mage dies, no matter how powerful their magical energy was in life, it will instantly dissipate.

What can truly endure are the various spell energies transformed from magical energy.

The reason is that the soul is the sole vessel of magical energy; without the vessel, the magical energy naturally flows away.

A speculation suddenly arose in his mind.

He then guided the medicinal power to heal the wounds, while attempting to gradually draw this strange magical energy out of the sage's body.

The result was that several attempts all failed.

Although it had lost its controller, this foreign power seemed to possess a life of its own, and its intensity was extremely high—even higher than Luosen's magical energy.

'If its intensity exceeds mine, then it must be eleventh-circle magical energy, right?'

A little thought makes it clear that this is definitely not Lafengge's power, but rather the power of the gods and demons behind him.

Upon close observation, he found that this foreign power had a tendency to actively devour pure magical energy, and the higher the circle, the stronger this devouring tendency.

He immediately took advantage of this, changing from active extraction to passive guidance.

This time it worked.

The speed was slow, but he gradually drew the foreign power out of the sage's body.

This foreign power resembled strands of ice‑blue threads; once drawn out, they automatically curled into a clump in the air, forming an ice‑blue orb the size of a date pit.

Meanwhile, the sage's complexion visibly returned to normal at a visible speed.

Seeing she was unharmed, Luosen hurried back to Lafengge's corpse, examined it closely, and indeed found a considerable amount of ice‑blue pure magical energy.

After gathering and merging all the power together, it was about the size of an apple, emitting a pure, ice‑blue glow.

When Luosen approached with his own pure magical energy, it would immediately begin to slowly devour it.

Probably because it had lost its controller, its devouring intensity was not high, and Luosen could easily withdraw his own magical energy.

As the devouring proceeded, the ice‑blue light cluster's volume increased slightly, and its brightness rose a bit, as if it had received a boost of power.

Luosen felt a surge of joy.

'This is the characteristic of eleventh‑circle magical energy; figuring it out will greatly speed up my breakthrough to legend!'

'Besides, the capital's security work also needs to be greatly strengthened, lest Levinde and Aaron come to cause trouble.'

'We also need to set up a phase‑sealing magic formation, lest Lafengge assassinate my important aides.'

Thinking thus, he said to the two ladies: 'Your Highness, Sage, you are both honored guests of my Weilan; this place is no longer safe—come with me to Swan Fortress.'

For the two women who had just experienced the terrifying incident, the timely arrival and defeat of the demons by Duke Weilan was nothing short of a savior.

Naturally, there was no objection.

Luosen saw the eldest princess's face darkened, knowing she was grieving over her daughter and lover's death, and gently patted her shoulder: 'Your Highness, if you want revenge, you must first stay alive.'

The eldest princess's expression jolted, and she exhaled a stale breath from her chest: 'The Duke is right!'

(End of chapter)