by welyjesch
“Be careful. Don’t end up running into Tarosse and Dylin before finding Olivier!” Hanbritt said with a laugh.
“Don’t worry. My luck can’t be that awful.” Ojwin immediately said.
The only danger of his infiltrating Dragonblood Castle alone was that he might run into Dylin or Tarosse before finding Olivier. If that happened, there would be no way he could kill Olivier.
“This method of yours does indeed have a chance at success, and the chance is rather high.” Hanbritt nodded. “Only, this method is dangerous as well. Ojwin, all I can do is wait here and hope for your success. I won’t be able to accompany you.”
“No need.” Ojwin understood the practicalities involved. “I alone will be enough.”
After speaking, Ojwin smiled towards Hanbritt, then immediately turned and flew back towards Dragonblood Castle.
Watching Ojwin’s disappearing back, Hanbritt sighed in his heart. “Ojwin’s only weakness is that he cared too much about that son of his.” Both Hanbritt and Ojwin were incomparably vicious. For example, Hanbritt had been the one to destroy War God Mountain.
Ojwin, in turn, had destroyed the Baruch Empire’s imperial palace.
Dragonblood Castle. Linley and Delia’s residence.
Linley and Delia were enjoying their own private little world. Linley was lying in bed, with Delia in his arms, her ear pressed against Linley’s chest, listening to Linley’s heartbeat.
Linley stroked Delia’s fragrant hair. Smelling the scent of her hair, he felt his heart at peace.
“Linley.” Delia suddenly said.
“Hrm?” Linley replied.
Delia said, “Linley, recently, every day I’ve been afraid of a battle erupting. This sort of life…” Delia raised her head to look at Linley. “When will this end?”
Actually, Linley could also sense that many people in Dragonblood Castle were very nervous.
“What are you worried about?” Linley sighed. “In the past, when we were young, you were just an ordinary magus, and I wasn’t a Saint yet. Didn’t we still successfully pass through those days? A road filled with struggles and battles. And now, I have reached the Deity level, while you, Delia, in a few years, will have completely absorbed your divine spark as well and also become a Deity. We weren’t afraid back then. What have we to fear now?”
Delia thought back to those days of the past, when she was all by herself. At that time, Linley and Alice had been together, and then he had disappeared for nearly ten years.
And then Delia thought about how she and Linley were together now.
Delia laughed. Right. What did she have to worry about?
She already enjoyed this sort of quiet life very much. Linley and Delia, although both had to train, would often make the time to be together by themselves, and enjoy this sort of warmth.
“Linley, have you gone to see Alice?” Delia suddenly asked.
“Did you just say Alice?” Linley didn’t feel too agitated when the subject of Alice was raised. He only had a feeling in his heart, a feeling that so much had changed, that ‘the blue seas had transformed into mulberry fields’. “I haven’t seen Alice. What, have you?” Decades had passed since Linley had last seen Alice, prior to her wedding.
“I saw her.” Delia said. “And it was right in the imperial capital, Baruch City.”
“The imperial capital? Alice is at the imperial capital?” Linley was somewhat surprised.
Delia nodded. “Right. We now have a Proulx Gallery in the imperial capital, and Alice is the manager of that Proulx Gallery. But of course, she’s just a branch manager. Alice hasn’t changed very much compared to the past, you know. She’s still quite beautiful.” Delia looked at Linley teasingly.
Linley only laughed.
He still remembered how, during the Apocalypse Day event, he had given Alice and Rowling into the care of managing director Maia.
“In addition, Alice still hasn’t gotten married.” Delia stared at Linley, carefully looking for any changes in his expression.
“What?” Linley was rather surprised.
It had been decades, after all. The puppy love they had shared in the past was insubstantial, like a dream. And on Apocalypse Day, that Kalan had died as well. Linley had thought that Alice would have married long ago.
“What, do you have any special thoughts?” Delia’s laugh was very evil.
“Not really. Only, I feel a bit moved.” Linley said with a laugh.
Delia no longer teased Linley. Nodding, she said, “Honestly, it was Jenne who told me that Alice had arrived in the imperial capital. Jenne used to spend a lot of time in the imperial capital, right? She’s quite a famous figure in the circle of nobles within the imperial capital these days. Naturally, she would encounter Alice during some of the banquets there.”
Just as Linley and Delia were engaged in private conversation between the two of them, husband and wife, a figure suddenly emerged from the earth beneath the rear gardens of Dragonblood Castle. It was Ojwin, who had snuck in.
“It is about time.” Ojwin said to himself.
Actually, Ojwin had been waiting a few hundred kilometers away from Dragonblood Castle. After three or four hours, he had come over. According to Ojwin’s calculations…it should have been dinnertime after the battle just now. He expected it should now be about midnight.
“By now, everyone should be back in their own rooms. Only a few roving patrols are around.” Ojwin suppressed the excitement in his heart.
He began to stealthily move about within Dragonblood Castle.
Dragonblood Castle was extremely large, comparable to a small city. There were thousands of commoners living here, and each night, there were quite a few roving patrols. But of course, for a God of Ojwin’s power, he was naturally able to easily avoid those roving patrols.
“Hey, bros, you guys go on up ahead. We’re going to take a rest.”
The nighttime guards were about to change shifts. One of the units headed towards their own residences, chatting amongst each other. When they reached the northern gardens where the guards and the serving maids resided, they naturally went their separate ways and headed towards their own rooms.
Suddenly, one of the guards who was heading towards his own residence felt his head grow dizzy and his consciousness grow dim. A human figure appeared behind him. It was Ojwin.
“Tell me, where is Olivier.” Ojwin spoke out.
Although Ojwin wasn’t very proficient at techniques for controlling others, just by relying on his spiritual energy as a God, he was able to easily control an ordinary commoner.
“Don’t know.” The guard said woodenly.
Ojwin couldn’t help but frown. “Then what about Tarosse and Dylin?”
“Don’t know.” The guard still said.
Ojwin couldn’t help but feel some anger, but then he quickly understood. “It seems the ordinary people in Dragonblood Castle aren’t familiar with these Deities at all. Only those personal servants will know them.” Ojwin pondered his next steps.
“Let me ask you this. Have you ever seen a seemingly young man with white and black hair? He is often together with Linley.” Ojwin said.
“Yes I have.” The guard said mechanically.
“Do you know where he lives?” Ojwin felt joy in his heart, and he hurriedly followed up on this line of questioning.
“East gardens. When on our patrols, I have seen that lord. He lives with several other lords in the east gardens. Lord Linley is often together with him.” The guard said. Ojwin’s heart was filled with wild joy. “It seems Olivier, Tarosse, and Dylin are all in the eastern gardens.”
“Lead me there.” Ojwin said.
“Yes.” The guard didn’t resist in the slightest.
The guard immediately led Ojwin out of the northern gardens towards the east gardens.
“Hey, Will [Wei’er], aren’t you going back to get some rest? What are you doing here in the east gardens?” Several roving patrolmen walked over from the east garden. Clear
ly, they recognized this guard, and they immediately asked him.
Ojwin was currently hidden nearby.
“Tell them that when you were on patrol, you lost something in the east garden, so you came to search for it.” Ojwin immediately said.
The guard said, “When I was on patrol, I lost something in the east gardens. I’m coming to look for it.”
The other guards all began to laugh. “Will, you sure are negligent. It is very dark now. Search carefully. If you can’t find it, come back and search again when it is day.” After speaking, these guards left and went back on patrol.
Although they had the feeling that Will’s manner of speech was somewhat different from the past, they didn’t harbor any suspicions.
After all, they could tell at a glance that this was indeed their old friend, Will.
“Continue.” Ojwin gave the order, and the guard immediately headed deeper towards the east garden of Dragonblood Castle…
Book 13, Gebados – Chapter 17, Mental Message
The guard led Ojwin forward. After walking for a while, the guard suddenly halted.
“Why did you stop?” Ojwin immediately barked. Right now, Ojwin was using a small-scale Godrealm, causing no sound to transmit outside their bubble.
The guard replied woodenly, “I only know that those lords live in the rooms within. Normally, I am not permitted to enter. I don’t know which lord lives in which room.” The guard’s reply caused Ojwin to be surprised.
However, he understood why this was the case.
The rooms where the likes of Olivier lived was normally off limits to the guards.
“One of the rooms inside…” Ojwin could tell that there were six or seven little buildings within, each building having a courtyard. “That makes this complicated. I don’t know which one Olivier is in.” Ojwin frowned, considering.
War God, High Priest, Tarosse, Dylin, Cesar, Olivier. They all lived there. Within the two-floor building where Cesar lived, Cesar was currently seated in the meditative position, his eyes shut.
The Elemental Laws of Darkness which Cesar trained in was a type of profound mystery having to do with stealth.
To Cesar, the darkness was as comfortable to him as a mother’s embrace. Cesar could completely and easily fuse with the darkness, causing others to be completely unable to detect him. At the same time…Cesar could sense anything which was not part of that darkness.
For example, Cesar could sense that in the building next to his, there was a blazing hot aura.
It was obvious to him as a blazing comet within the darkness.
“Hrm?” Cesar frowned. “Why has someone drawn near so late at night?”
As the ‘King of Killers’, Cesar, a master of subterfuge, was the first to sense that someone was nearing their residences. In addition, Cesar could sense that there was more than one person present. “Such a weak aura. But unfortunately for you, you can’t escape my detection.”
Cesar didn’t use his divine sense either.
To Cesar, using divine sense was an utterly foolish sort of behavior. When you used divine sense, you allowed others to be able to find you as well.
Cesar disappeared into thin air. If a Deity-level was carefully inspecting the area, he might be able to just barely notice that the darkness within the room had changed slightly. Hidden within the darkness, Cesar quickly left his room and headed outside.
Right at this moment…Ojwin and that guard were standing not too far away.
“Him!” From a distance of just a hundred or so meters, Cesar could instantly tell who this person was.
Cesar was shocked, but then he laughed coldly to himself. “This Ojwin really is bold. He actually dares to come here late at night.” It must be said that Cesar’s stealth abilities truly were astounding. He was hidden just a hundred meters away from Ojwin, but Ojwin was completely unable to locate Cesar’s presence.
Cesar instantly used his divine sense, casting it towards the direction of Tarosse’s residence.
Tarosse didn’t have any ability to hide his presence, and so Cesar easily located him. “Lord Tarosse, Ojwin came. He’s right outside.”
Tarosse was greatly shocked, but then his mind became filled with rage. “This Ojwin. Two times in a row, I stayed my hand and didn’t go all out against him. Does he really think I’m afraid to kill him?” Tarosse immediately flew outside his residence.
Tarosse’s hiding skills were clearly inferior to Cesar’s. Only, Tarosse was extremely fast! His residence was only a hundred meters or so away from Ojwin. At such a close distance, as soon as Tarosse flew out of his room, he immediately saw Ojwin and thus shot towards him at high speed.
“Right now, all I can do is find one of the servants who specially serves these Deities, then continue to investigate.” Ojwin was planning to go find another servant to interrogate.
“Huh?” Ojwin turned his head in shock.
A figure was shooting towards him at high speed. Ojwin’s face changed dramatically, and in his heart, he cursed angrily, “Bastard, him again!!!” Seeing Tarosse come, Ojwin knew that he had failed yet again. Although he was unwilling to admit defeat, he couldn’t do anything else now except immediately rocket into the air at high speed.
“Motherf*cker, you want to flee?!” Tarosse’s bellowing voice shook the entire Dragonblood Castle.
Instantly, many people in Dragonblood Castle were shocked into wakefulness.
“Hisss….” An ear-piercing hiss seemed to shake the entire world. This sound was louder than the sound of the world exploding, and was far more ear-piercing as well.
“What is that?!”
Wharton, Gates, and the others all came out of their rooms upon hearing the bellow. They were all stunned by what they saw. In the air above Dragonblood Castle, an astonishing, enormous coiled green snake that was ten thousand meters long had appeared. The girth of its body, at least several houses thick, truly caused the hearts of the viewers to turn cold.
The massive green serpent coiled there in mid-air. Raising its head, it emitted that ear-piercing cry.
“No!” A human figure had been completely locked in, in mid-air. The person cried out in desperation and hopelessness.
That enormous serpent’s maw was open, and the space of what felt like the entire world began to tremble. That human figure was only able to resist for a brief instant before he was no longer able to endure that devouring force. Instantly, he was drawn into that enormous serpentine mouth and swallowed into its belly.
The ten-thousand meter long enormous green serpent then transformed into a human figure. It was the green-haired Tarosse.
Tarosse flew down while cursing, “That Ojwin actually interpreted me being good-natured as being me being afraid to kill him. Hmph. Ever since I left the Necropolis of the Gods, I haven’t killed anyone. This fellow didn’t pay any attention to what I said.”
A group of people were gathered below. Even Linley and Delia had hurried over.
“Was that Ojwin just now?” Linley hadn’t seen it clearly just now. He only vaguely saw a human figure be swallowed into Tarosse’s stomach.
Linley had once seen Tarosse’s true form on the third floor of the Necropolis of the Gods.
“It was Ojwin.” Cesar laughed. “That Ojwin actually snuck into Dragonblood Castle. He thought we wouldn’t notice him. However…before he even drew near me, I noticed his presence.” How could Ojwin possibly hide himself from Cesar, so skilled in the arts of stealth?
What a silly dream.
Although one was a God and the other was a Demigod, this was Cesar’s specialty, after all.
“Haha, Tarosse, you’ve shown off your ‘Devour’ ability as well.” Dylin laughed.
Dylin’s true form was that of the Suanni Lion, also known as the ‘Heaven Devouring Beast’. He naturally had a vast amount of space in his stomach. As for Tarosse, as a Deity-class beast, the ‘Ba-Serpent’, he also had the innate ability of ‘Ocean Devouring’. The Ba-Serpent had a space in his stomach to be
gin with, and what’s more, the Ba-Serpent’s body was naturally enormous.
In fact, his devouring ability, compared to Dylin’s, was actually slightly more powerful.
Given that Tarosse’s spiritual energy, in terms of pureness and quantity, was superior to that of Dylin’s, his ‘Devour’ ability was naturally far stronger as well.
“This Ojwin actually came again.” Olivier laughed ruefully. He truly had been frightened just now.
Linley laughed, “Olivier, you can relax now. That Ojwin is now dead. In the future, he won’t be able to come make trouble for you.” Ojwin’s death caused Linley to feel relieved as well. Actually, many people within Dragonblood Castle would be celebrating tonight.
“Don’t be happy so soon.”
Tarosse snorted coldly as he spoke. Opening his mouth, a divine spark that faintly glowed with red light floated out. “Ojwin died inside my body. This is his divine God spark.”
“A fire-style one?” Linley was shocked. Ojwin didn’t have just one body. If the Ojwin that had been devoured was the ‘combined’ Ojwin, there should be two divine sparks present.
“Right. Only the fire-style one.” Tarosse said. “You all know that he has two bodies. And just now, the one which I devoured and killed was only his fire-element divine clone. His divine light clone never came to this place!”
Linley sighed in his heart.
It was much like how, during Ojwin’s first attack, Linley and Desri had kept their original bodies within the pocket dimension. They were guarding against the chance of their divine clones being destroyed, in which case they would be finished.
“It seems that Ojwin was also worried about being killed, so he had also made preparations.” Linley couldn’t help but look at Olivier. The look of concern once more appeared between Olivier’s forehead. If Ojwin didn’t die, then Olivier wouldn’t be able to be relaxed.
“Olivier.” Linley looked at Olivier.
Olivier couldn’t help but look at Linley with a rueful smile. Linley said, “Olivier, right now, none of us know what that Ojwin is capable of doing. How about this. Come to the pocket dimension for your training. In that place, even if Ojwin used his divine sense, he definitely wouldn’t be able to locate you.”