Monarch of Evernight - Chapter 1016

Chapter 1016

Chapter 1016: Lost

One day had passed by, but Bai Kongzhao remained crouching inside the bushes and staring at the distant stone keep .

Light footsteps and a hushed call approached from the distance, soon followed by Anwen’s figure . His armor was somewhat damaged, and he looked fatigued .

His eyes lit up when he saw the young girl . He then said with a wry smile, “As expected, you’re back again . ”

“I lost my way . ” The young girl was staring forward, apparently focused on charging the stone keep . The reply was a mere arbitrary gesture .

Anwen looked helpless . “You’ve gotten lost three times . ”

“Oh, I lost my way . ” The young girl never heard what he was saying .

Anwen didn’t know what to do anymore . He crouched down beside her, saying, “Haven’t I told you before? We can’t handle this . Why have you run back here?”

The girl pointed at the keep . “There’s something good in there, something similar to the wine . ”

“Just tell me if you want to drink! That wine has a bad side-effect, you can’t drink too much of it . Didn’t you feel anything after drinking it?”

The girl’s eyes never left the walls as she thought back . “I do feel something . It was very comfortable and warm . It felt like being pricked all over by needles, but it wasn’t painful . I also felt very sleepy . ”

“Anything else?”

“No . ”

“Don’t you feel… weird?”

“No . ” The girl’s eyes widened . “Define weird . ”

Anwen exhaled deeply, his expression both disappointed and happy . “I understand now, your body must have a lot of hidden injuries . This wine actually heals your body while activating your vitality . Additionally, your body is too weak, so it instinctively wants to strengthen itself . Even so, the wine really will have side effects . You might not notice it now, but it’ll add up and erupt at one point . ”

The girl asked seriously, “What side effects?”

Under her intense gaze, Anwen became a bit flustered . He opened his mouth and closed it again a couple of times . Finally, he decided to go ahead and explain, “Actually, it’s an aphrodisiac effect, meaning you’ll want to have offspring . ”

“Have offspring?” The young girl’s eyes lit up .

Anwen was startled . A series of outrageous notions rotated through his mind, with no lack of thoughts about “What if she really wants to give me a child…”

“We can study that offspring thing later . Let’s take down this place first!”

Watching the young girl pointing at the stone keep, Anwen really wanted to bang his head against a tree .

“No!” He refused decisively .

“Then I’ll go on my own . ”

“You can’t go, either!”

“Why?”

This girl had asked this question all too many times, and every time, Anwen would gloss over the topic . From the looks of it, dragging the matter on was useless . She wouldn’t leave this place unless he could dissuade her on the assault . Every time, Anwen would just drag her away, only to find her missing some time afterward . He thus had no choice but to look for her near the castle again .

Anwen was worried that she would run into trouble at one point and he wouldn’t get there in time .

He sighed . “The main reason is the four-armed people’s white mist . I’m not afraid of it, but that’s just a relative claim . I will still fall under its control if I take in a lot of it . Also, I just tested it and found that the effects of the mist are hard to expel completely . They can only be suppressed temporarily, which means it’ll rear its head again sooner or later .

“If it flares up… it’ll force you to do some things you don’t like . ”

The girl gave it some thought . “I’m not afraid of pain, I can stand quite a bit of it . If they beat me to the point of injury, I’ll retaliate . ”

Anwen smiled wryly . “They won’t beat you, it’s worse . I don’t want that to happen, I really don’t . ”

The girl nodded slowly, seeming to half-understand . “Actually, we can lure them out little by little and kill them, just like I did in the beginning . ”

“No, the environment here isn’t good . We can’t remain very long, we should hurry back to the safe region . We’ll need to rely on the white-fruit wine to pass the night here, and that’s a limited commodity . We need to get back to the warm areas before we run out . ”

The girl pointed in a certain direction . “Warm area? You mean that way?”

Anwen was surprised . He had to run in a fairly wide circle to confirm the direction in which the gravity was weakest . He had never mentioned this to Bai Kongzhao, but the girl could point the direction out of simple instinct . The demonkin young lord had never feared competition in the perception department, but now he felt rather defeated .

“Yes, it’s that direction . ”

The girl looked at Anwen . “It seems you only need to drink a little bit . The wine we have should last us fairly long . It’ll only take one day to bring down this castle . ”

Anwen said helplessly, “I drank very little because I don’t dare drink too much . The medicinal effects will accumulate . I might attack you once I lose control of myself . ”

Fortunately, the girl no longer asked him if he would hit her, saving him the trouble of explaining to her .

“What about the things there?”

Anwen looked intently at the girl and then sighed . “Since you want it so much, let’s try once . But you should run away on your own if I lose control, the further the better . ”

“Why?”

Anwen didn’t try to explain this time . He merely said, “Nevermind . Even without me saying it, you’ll probably know what to do when the time comes . You decide things on instinct anyway . ”

He glanced at the stone keep and then drew a simple diagram on the ground . After that, he drew a straight line, saying, “We’ll charge in along this path, don’t stop no matter what obstructions we encounter . We’ll charge straight into the center to see what they have there . No matter what it is, we’ll take it and leave . We won’t stay for more than three seconds, remember?”

The young girl nodded .

“Okay, let’s go . ” Anwen produced a cloud of faint black mist, which covered himself and the girl as it drifted slowly toward the stone keep .

Although this black mist had appeared out of nowhere, most of the natives simply ignored its presence . Only when it had reached the walls did one of the four-armed warriors on the watchtower look down . Puzzled, the native made ready to shout when a wisp of black energy shot out and pierced through his mouth .

The four-armed warrior immediately lost his life and fell down the tower . Anwen dispersed the black mist and jumped onto the wall with the young girl in tow . Then, he leaped forward once more to land inside the stone keep .

The two—in a single file—charged into the horde of natives pouring out from every corner of the castle . A two-meter sword appeared in Anwen’s hand, with which he slashed dozens of natives into two . He then stepped ten meters forward and erupted in demonic energy, blasting the nearby natives back .

Bai Kongzhao followed closely behind . She jumped about, slashing left and right with her great cleaver, each strike connecting with the vitals of one or more natives . Some of the luckier victims managed to survive Anwen’s sword energy, but they were duly extinguished by the girl’s blade . Even if they didn’t die on the spot, there would be no hope left for recovery .

Like a warship amidst wind and waves, the two fought their way toward the center of the stone keep .

The girl immediately noticed the small tree at the center of the stone keep . At this point, the tree was somewhat wilted, with three white fruits hanging from its crown . These fruits looked small and tart, apparently quite far from maturity .

She raised her blade to cut down the tree but hesitated midway . In the end, she reached out to grab two of the riper ones and rushed back out, leaving the smallest one behind .

Anwen was much calmer . He went around the courtyard picking several plants and fruits into his spatial storage before catching up to Bai Kongzhao . The entire process lasted for only a couple of breaths’ time, but a group of four-armed natives, with no shortage of females among them, had gathered to block their way out . All of a sudden, several clouds of white mist were rolling toward them .

Anwen was shocked . How would he dare to take them head-on? With a shout, he erected a barrier of demonic energy to block the white mist, and then dragged the young girl toward a different direction .

The barrier lasted mere moments before it was dissolved by the white mist .

Fortunately, this amount of time was enough for an expert of Anwen’s level to drag the girl out of the stone keep .

Moments later, the duo appeared ten kilometers away . They were entirely drenched in blood and looked quite miserable . Although most of the stains came from the natives, they had also sustained a good deal of damage themselves . The girl’s injuries were mostly flesh wounds; Anwen, on the other hand, was covered in injuries, including a bone-deep gash on his back . This slash had cut through his outer and inner armor, as well as his protective demonic energy, going right for his innards .

There was a shallow mark on the protruding bone . Anwen’s bones were different from other demonkin in that they were light black and possessed a golden luster to it . This was because he had trained in a secret art to refine his bones since youth and had attained initial success in it .

If it wasn’t for the strength of his skeleton, Anwen might’ve been heavily injured by that blow .

The girl looked back after stopping . “We’ve lost them . ”

Anwen exhaled deeply as he sat down and took some medicine . He looked at the two white fruits in his hand and passed them back to Bai Kongzhao . “They’re definitely good things, but wasting His Majesty’s treasure for them isn’t worth it . ”

With that, Anwen pointed at the girl’s ankle .

The Eternal Flame’s ankle chain was now dim, apparently drained of all power . The duo was completely surrounded on their way out, and they had to engage in a bloody battle in order to break the siege .

Anwen’s injuries weren’t light . Meanwhile, the girl managed to survive several lethal blows only because of the ankle chain . Without that treasure, she would have more than just a few light injuries on her . It was more likely that she would be cut into several pieces .

The girl tilted her head . “Isn’t it there to be used?”

“Yes, but not for something like this…” Anwen shook his head . As he saw it, such a life-saving treasure should only be used at the most critical juncture . Assaulting the stone keep was an unnecessary skirmish, to begin with .

The girl seemed rather ignorant about the value of that treasure, and she didn’t seem bothered by its exhaustion .

She glanced at the white fruit for a good while, and then passed one to Anwen . “This should be yours . ”

She split her own share into two, ate one portion, and then put away the other .

Anwen couldn’t understand why she would do this . He passed his white fruit to her, saying, “Take this if you need it . ”

The girl hesitated for a moment, and then shook her head . “No, that’s yours . ”