# 745
Chapter 746: Request to Rejoin the Squad
Calling the Oracle Envoy大人 a maggot?
Upon hearing this designation, everyone watching the screen froze in place.
But for some reason, instead of anger, an inexplicable fear rose in their hearts...
If someone truly revered was cursed to their face as a maggot, countless people would rush to angrily retort, or even throw punches and curse back. Yet the people standing before these screens felt not a shred of anger.
They were only afraid.
Afraid that the blasphemer's words might reach the Oracle Envoy's ears, that His Excellency would fly into a rage, slaughter them all, and implicate their families in the process...
In the end, this was because the Oracle Envoy controlled these people primarily through fear and deception.
Claiming to be the messenger of the gods, using overwhelming strength and authority to instill the notion of "supreme authority" in everyone's hearts, thereby controlling their thoughts and actions.
Like the tyrants of ancient times—though tyranny could elicit kneeling and prostration from all, how many of those bows were genuine reverence?
Every heart hung in suspense.
...
Tokyo.
In the ink-black night sky, raindrops cascaded down.
As they struck the surface of the silver disc, they shattered into fine droplets, their reflections showing four silhouettes streaking across the sky, landing upon the 【Pure Land】.
Four robes of different colors fluttered in the wind.
The Oracle Envoys had descended.
On the opposite side of the silver disc, three masked figures stood in the rain, facing them across the distance.
"Maggot?" The black-robed狱灾 calmly regarded Lin Qiye. "Only creatures that can be effortlessly crushed are called maggots... Do you three little insects dare wage war against the gods?"
"Gods?" Lin Qiye sneered. "You think you're qualified to represent them?"
"We are the Oracle Envoys. Of course we can speak for the gods."
"Why don't you call out to them and see if they answer?"
Hearing these words,狱灾's expression chilled.
It seemed these intruders had fully mastered the information within the 【Pure Land】, knowing that the gods of Takamagahara had vanished?
They... must die.
Murderous intent flashed in狱灾's eyes.
"Three ants... courting death."
Whoosh—!!
The four Oracle Envoys surged forward at breakneck speed. The white-robed兵灾 was the fastest, like a ghostly white shadow skimming through the air, arriving before Lin Qiye's group in the blink of an eye.
Lin Qiye's eyes narrowed slightly as his hand reached for his blade hilt, but then he seemed to sense something, his brow arching.
The blade at his waist remained sheathed.
A faint smile curved his lips.
At that moment, directly above the 【Pure Land】, a helicopter screamed across the night sky!
The rotors hummed through the darkness as a blue-robed figure carrying a black case opened the cabin door and nimbly leapt from high above!
Wind howled as the figure's black hair billowed wild against the night sky, streaking across the heavens like a meteor.
Thud—!!
A heavy, muffled impact echoed across the surface of the 【Pure Land】.
兵灾's blade light—enough to demolish an entire district—was gathering at his fingertips, on the verge of striking Lin Qiye, when a figure draped in deep blue Hanfu crashed重重 onto the silver disc, landing directly in front of him!
A pale, white hand gripped兵灾's blade bare-handed!
Boom—!!
An explosion burst from兵灾's fingertips, ferocious blade light raying outward in all directions, but try as they might to cut, none could so much as scratch the owner of that pale hand!
"You think you can harm him?" Jialan grasped兵灾's fingertips with one hand, her eyes narrowing slightly.
Her right leg flashed out like lightning, carrying terrifying kinetic force, striking兵灾's chest. The latter was sent flying,狼狈 tumbling through the air for half a rotation before stabilizing on the silver disc.
His eyes, when they found Jialan, held nothing but shock and confusion!
How was this possible?!
He was兵灾! His blade light, unless fueled by aMagatsu Blade, should be unstoppable! How had this girl caught his strike with her bare hands, completely unscathed?
Under the night sky, the blue-robed girl, after sending兵灾 flying, turned back and smiled gracefully at Lin Qiye:
"【Nightfall】 Squad, Jialan,
Requesting to rejoin the squad."
Jialan had flown from Hokkaido to Tokyo on a plane. Though she'd departed earlier than Lin Qiye, compared to the speed of the 【Somersault Cloud】, planes simply couldn't compete. Still, she'd arrived just in time.
Lin Qiye gazed at her and smiled. "Welcome back."
Across from them.
狱灾 frowned as he looked at the unscathed Jialan in her blue robes. A dark ring of light flickered in his eyes.
"Analyzing target energy fluctuations... Energy threshold exceeds established limits. Analysis failed.
Analyzing target vital signs... No life sign variations detected. No matching entry found in genetic database. Analysis failed...
Unable to extract any information from the target."
狱灾's expression grew increasingly grim.
Even the god-tier analytical power of "羽津" couldn't penetrate that blue-robed girl's strength. It couldn't even definitively determine whether she was human.
What kind of monster was this?
Lin Qiye's side had grown from three to four, but to the Oracle Envoys, this still posed no real threat. After all, except for the blue-robed girl, they could clearly see through everyone else's power.
Though of course, Lin Qiye, who wielded fiveMagatsu Blades, carried a threat level comparable to the blue-robed girl.
Ding—!
Just as the four Oracle Envoys were about to strike, a crisp bird's cry rang out from the distant sky.
Everyone on the 【Pure Land】 turned to look. There, beneath the pitch-black clouds, a snow-white crane silhouette flapped its wings, moving like a bolt of white lightning across the sky!
It was a massive crane king formed from countless small paper cranes.
Perched atop this white crane king, a black-clad figure clutching aStraight Blade stood firmly on its back, eyes sharp as blades.
"That's..."
An Qingyu's eyes widened with surprise at the figure. "Cao Yuan? Why did he come riding a paper crane?"
"That's Yuzuri Nana's 【Thousand Cranes】." Lin Qiye smiled as he spoke. "Seems this little girl has gotten quite powerful now..."
The white crane carried Cao Yuan above the 【Pure Land】. With a gentle flap of its wings through the rain, thousands of paper cranes burst forth from its body, like a swirling paper cloud, orbiting around Cao Yuan as they descended gracefully.
Within the flock of paper cranes, Cao Yuan's feet touched down on the silver disc.
"You?!" The four Oracle Envoys' pupils constricted sharply at the sight of Cao Yuan. Their expressions turned ghastly, as if recalling some terrible memory.
How had he gotten out?!
Right... he was also an intruder, allied with the people before them!
This monster had been released again. Things had just gotten complicated!