Chapter 29: Siege Force
‘Pedeira’ suddenly collapsed, blood gushing from her throat. Seeing this, the King with the Ahoge immediately stepped forward, lifting Pedeira from the ground, supporting the back of her neck with one hand.
“Ah, Artoria.”
Pedeira’s voice grew weaker and weaker. Her problem wasn’t a pierced vital point or severe blood loss, but irreversible damage to her soul.
That violator was named Di Ya. Her ability was quite ferocious—not completely replacing the native inhabitant, but invading part of her own consciousness into another’s soul.
This was like an arrow piercing into the victim’s soul. To prevent the victim from breaking free, that ‘arrow’ was covered in barbs. Now, Di Ya forcibly pulled the arrow from Pedeira’s soul, and the trauma caused was unimaginable.
Worse still, Pedeira’s soul was relatively weak. Di Ya’s rough extraction of her consciousness nearly tore Pedeira’s soul apart.
“Artor…ia, are you there~”
Pedeira tried to raise her arm but failed after several attempts.
“Mm, I’m here.”
The King with the Ahoge spoke softly.
“That’s… good. Meeting you… is truly… wonderful…”
After saying this, Pedeira’s arm fell limply, the light in her eyes quickly fading.
“Mm, me too.”
The King with the Ahoge held Pedeira’s fallen arm, which was gradually losing warmth. Her gaze turned to Su Xiao.
“She didn’t have to die.”
The King with the Ahoge looked at Pedeira’s pale face. She knew that Su Xiao had been using Pedeira all along, but there was nothing she could do about it.
“Oh.”
Su Xiao was closely monitoring the situation on the tablet. Bubu Wang was already very close to that violator.
“She didn’t want…”
“Are you sure?”
Su Xiao interrupted the King with the Ahoge’s words. Her lips parted but she couldn’t say anything for a long time.
Did Pedeira not want to become the new king? Was she completely an innocent little rabbit? No. Pedeira wasn’t eager to become the new king, but she wasn’t unwilling either. The attitude she displayed was one of feigned reluctance.
Pedeira didn’t reject becoming the new king. If she could sit on the throne, she wouldn’t refuse. Her childhood experiences had taught her that fighting for power was dangerous, but having no power at all as royalty was also dangerous. So she prayed every day, cultivating a relatively glorious image among the people, even being hailed as the Dawn Princess.
Little rabbits also love to eat grass, let alone Pedeira, who was a living person. Greed wasn’t something shameful.
“Zos, dispose of the body.”
“Leave it to me.”
Zos came before the King with the Ahoge. He wiped the bloodstains from his chin and gestured for her to hand over Pedeira’s body.
“Wufu, if this matter gets out today, I’ll twist your head off and use it as a stool.”
“Yes, sir.”
Wufu immediately whispered something to his vice officer behind him.
“Are the men ready?”
Su Xiao put away the tablet. Everything he had arranged from the moment he entered the Black King World until now was to deal with the violator. Now was the time.
“A total of 15,000 elite soldiers, including 2,000 heavy shields, 7,000 light beast cavalry, and 6,000 halberdiers. The city guard is quite resistant, but for now, they’re not hindering us.”
Wufu reported to Su Xiao in a low voice. This was all what Su Xiao had instructed him to prepare within two days.
“What about the follow-up forces?”
“They’ve been waiting outside the city since this morning. If more than 20,000 soldiers enter the Holy City at once, the princess will definitely obstruct us.”
“Mm. Have them assemble at the designated location.”
“Understood.”
Wufu hurriedly left. The bloodstains in the courtyard were quickly cleaned. Although the King with the Ahoge seemed a bit sad, she soon recovered. She had experienced this too many times in the Black Abyss, but she wanted to avenge her newly befriended close friend.
“Just follow and watch the show. If you dare interfere, I’ll kill you.”
Su Xiao’s words crushed the King with the Ahoge’s hope for revenge.
Su Xiao and the old divine stick walked out of the estate. The King with the Ahoge hesitated for a moment but still chose to follow, though nearly a hundred soldiers were nearby. If she dared to act rashly, she would be killed without mercy.
……
About nine kilometers east of the Right Imperial Estate. This was a somewhat crowded residential area.
The autumn sun was still scorching. The surrounding streets were empty, and the occasional dog barks or rooster crows had disappeared.
Inside a two-story wooden civilian house, in the deepest bedroom on the first floor, the windows were sealed, letting no light into the room.
Suddenly, a faint glimmer of light appeared in the room.
“Exposed.”
A female voice came from the darkness. With the sudden faint light, one could see the woman’s somewhat androgynous features. Her black hair hung loosely, and her gem earrings flickered with colorful light.
“But it doesn’t matter anymore. It can begin. I hope that old man’s soul strength isn’t too twisted, otherwise it’ll be a waste of time. If I ambush him, the success rate against that old yinbi is over seventy percent. Victory is just one step away.”
With a snap, a pair of hands covered in red patterns clasped together. This person was Di Ya, a violator from the Apocalypse Paradise.
A mass of colorless energy gathered in Di Ya’s hands, eventually forming a crystalline, transparent spike that suddenly disappeared before her.
A dozen or so seconds later.
“Ah!”
Di Ya screamed in pain. The patterns on her hands twisted as if alive, their color gradually changing from blood red to grayish white.
Cold sweat dripped down Di Ya’s chin. Her cheeks twitched, and bloodshot veins appeared in her eyes.
“What the hell is that… Am I… infected?”
Di Ya looked at her hands, disbelief in her eyes.
“That should be a living person. I confirmed that many times. Why did invading him infect me with the ‘death’ of Dead Silence City…”
Di Ya hesitated for a moment before jumping off the bed. She quickly went to the window and pulled the curtain open a crack.
Outside was very quiet, eerily quiet. That was abnormal.
Di Ya rarely fought personally, but that didn’t mean her combat strength was weak. In terms of attributes, equipment, and abilities, she was stronger than Su Xiao, accumulated through her special abilities. But one thing was certain—she hadn’t fought personally for at least four worlds.
“I’ll have to fight my way out and reconsider. What went wrong? Forget it, force can solve problems too.”
Di Ya’s eyes turned blood red. A highly corrosive energy surged through her body, expelling the grayish-white energy that had seeped into her arms.
As soon as the grayish-white energy was exposed to the air, the walls of the room quickly weathered and became brittle. This energy was terrifying, but it was only a small amount, unable to harm Di Ya.
A crystalline spear appeared in Di Ya’s hand. The spear was entirely crimson, like a finely crafted work of art.
This was one of Di Ya’s two core abilities: Valkyrie.
Di Ya was a little over 1.6 meters tall, but her current aura was extremely powerful. A red crystal armor clung to her body, the magic patterns on it continuously outputting power.
Di Ya slightly raised her right foot and stomped on the ground.
Boom!
The area within several hundred meters shook like an earthquake. Large houses cracked and collapsed. Civilians who hadn’t had time to evacuate screamed in terror, and those injured by the debris wailed endlessly.
Bang, bang, bang…
Signal flares shot into the sky one after another.
“All troops, charge!”
A roar came from the distance. About two seconds later, the surrounding area began to tremble.
Rumble…
Seven thousand light beast cavalry charged from all directions. The so-called light beast cavalry was only a name compared to large war beasts. In reality, their mounts weren’t small—each was a creature less than two meters tall, resembling a hyena, with extremely developed muscles and great endurance.
As for the riders on the beasts, they were all clad in full-body armor as thick as a finger, with gleaming single horns on their helmets and weapons flashing coldly in the sunlight.
“Vanguard, accelerate!”
With this roar, several hundred beast cavalry temporarily broke away from the main force. The determination in their eyes beneath their helmets was clear—they were all veterans who had been on the front lines.
“F*CK YOU, KUKULIN!”
Seeing the beast cavalry surrounding her from all directions, Di Ya couldn’t help but curse. She really hadn’t expected Su Xiao to bring such war machines from the front lines. These war machines should have been guarding the Northern Border.
Boom!
A loud noise came from the distance. A pitch-black barrel-like object, at least the thickness of a millstone, flew through the air from high above, trailing a blazing red tail flame.
This formation didn’t look like it was meant to surround and kill a single person; it looked more like storming a large city. In fact, the force Su Xiao had mobilized was indeed a siege army.