Monarch of Evernight - Chapter 1041

Chapter 1041

Chapter 1041: Meeting Again

Song Zining continued dressing while throwing out a random reply, “The cold hasn’t receded, but we can start working already . There’s no excuse to not try hard when we’re in such a bountiful land . ”

The beautiful lady beside him rolled her eyes . “Do you only work during the daytime? I’ve never seen you doing anything properly . ”

Song Zining smiled . “This young master has just arrived, and my body is frail . I can’t take as much punishment as you guys can . I might not get through the night if I go one more round, and I still want to enjoy your affection a bit longer . ”

The lady smiled as she embraced Song Zining from behind . “You really know how to talk! But you just arrived, you really can’t endure the environment here . Sigh!”

Song Zining stroked her face . “Why are you sighing?”

The lady whispered, “I suddenly feel reluctant to part with you, yet I don’t want to keep you here and make you suffer the same things I did back then . ”

Song Zining was already dressed at this point, but he sat down beside her and said with a smile, “There’s no rush . Tell me more about you if you’re willing . ”

The lady was startled, almost as though she hadn’t imagined Song Zining to be so caring . She moved her moist eyes away and sighed once more . “It’s the same thing . I was sent into the Great Maelstrom around ten or so years ago . I was selected to join the exploration squad not long after my arrival and sent to investigate the core region . Our luck was especially bad that time, we fell into the hands of those people almost immediately after entering the area . ”

“The entire group was wiped out?”

“Yes . There were eight of us, none escaped . ”

Song Zining said, “No one escaped, that’s weird . Don’t tell me…”

The lady ground her teeth . “It was of course a scheme, with previous imperial captives leading the way and guiding them . How else would they know about all our retaliatory and escape methods? Half of our men had fallen in just a single exchange . ”

Song Zining didn’t look surprised . “Then what about the guides?”

The woman’s eyes flickered with anger . “I endured three years of torture while the change happened, all so that I can live and get stronger . My strength had far exceeded those people after those three years, so I asked my superior to assign them under my command . I took them out on the first hunting trip and hung them all up on a tree, leaving them crying for three whole days before letting them die! Even with that, I was only able to repay a small fraction of all the agony and embarrassment!”

Song Zining said after some silence, “You talked about the change, what’s that?”

The woman replied with a question, “Did my hatred scare you?”

Song Zining patted her shoulder . “After seeing your current self, I can venture a rough guess of what you went through back then . All power comes at a price, and it seems you paid a serious price for yours . ”

The girl nodded . “In order to retain my memory and reason, I would stab myself secretly at night, using the pain to gain a modicum of clarity as I thought back to my past, my race, and myself . Even so, I can no longer remember my own name anymore and I only remember fragments of my past . ”

“You still haven’t forgotten the enmity?”

“No . ”

“Looks like they deserve to die . ”

The lady said, “I never understood . We’re all from the human race . Why would they treat us so ruthlessly? They’re even worse than those four-armed fellows!”

“Is it to prove their loyalty?” Song Zining probed .

The lady spat . “F*ck loyalty! Our bodies are gradually transforming in this world, and we’re no longer the same as humans . We can’t even live very long without the white-wine produced by those four-arms, so they’re not afraid of us turning traitor . The only fate that awaits betrayers is death!”

Song Zining pondered for a while . “So that’s how it is . I see that there are a fair number of humans who are similarly transformed, but I don’t remember the empire ever sending so many people into the Great Maelstrom . What’s going on?”

The lady sighed . “Those humans you saw aren’t from the empire but the descendants of transformed people like us . It’s not just with the natives, though . It’s also possible that they are the descendants of other humans or even the dark races . ”

Song Zining was surprised . “You can have descendants?”

“Of course, everything is possible in this accursed place . ”

Song Zining was surprised . It had long since been proven that humans and certain dark races would never be able to have offspring, arachne for example . It was also extremely difficult to produce offspring with demonkin . In the Great Maelstrom, however, it would seem everything existed for the sake of procreation . And no matter how big the intelligence gap was between the races, they would be able to leave offspring . It was just that there was no telling how the descendants would turn out .

Song Zining frowned . “Even then, the numbers are a bit too high . ”

The lady replied, “Kids start growing immediately after birth and mature in five years or so . They can then start producing the next generation once they mature . ”

“That fast?” Song Zining was surprised .

The woman nodded .

“If that’s the case, won’t this world be filled with these people?”

The lady didn’t agree . “These fellows are extremely weak, and their fate is to be slaughtered most of the time . They can never beat a four-armed warrior even if they form a group . Whenever they go out to hunt, they would lose several men in order to obtain results . ”

Song Zining frowned restlessly . Perhaps there was some great secret hidden in the depths of this world .

The lady glanced at the sky and blushed as her hand ran over Song Zining’s body . The latter smiled wryly, “I can’t handle anymore . ”

The woman handed him a bottle of wine . “There’s some wine here . Drink it and you’ll have the strength . ”

Song Zining didn’t take it immediately . “No, what will you do if I take that?”

“I’ll go hunt and obtain more prey . ”

Song Zining pushed the wine back warmly but resolutely . “No, I won’t let you risk your life for me . ”

“My life is not worth anything . If I hadn’t met you, I would’ve forgotten the past entirely after a while . ”

Song Zining said, “How about this? I’m very much interested in the weapons you use . Can you help me procure some good ones?”

The lady shot to her feet . “This won’t be a problem . I’ll go back to the castle and challenge some of those cowards . They might not be good at fighting, but they’re skilled in making weapons . Just wait here, I’ll win some back very soon!”

Song Zining nodded slightly .

The lady jumped up against the intense gravity and shot away with some borrowed force from the branches . That was a powerful leap indeed .

She returned before long with a wound on her face, but the camp was already empty .

Dazed, she dropped the weapons she was carrying onto the ground . All of a sudden, she noticed a small jar of wine on the ground that she hadn’t seen before . She opened the container and noticed a wave of fragrance rushing at her face .

It was Song Zining who had left this jar of wine for her .

The Constellation Well soon became lively as Qianye and Edward’s group stood off yet again .

Twilight pointed at the well . “We did find the other well opening, but it’s not as good as this one . We want to use it . ”

Qianye was quite straightforward . “Sure,” he paused slightly, “but do you dare?”

Twilight and Edward’s expressions were unsightly since Qianye’s rhetorical question contained evil intentions .

Among the vampire experts, everyone apart from Twilight and Edward had been injured . That mysterious black-robed man was actually a bit stronger than Twilight, but he never recovered after being injured by Ji Tianqing .

Qianye would easily rampage through the group if Twilight were to enter the well, and then the three of them could surround Edward . It would be even worse if Edward were to enter the well . Qianye would likely wipe out the entire vampire force on his own and block the exit from the well, forcing the Holy Son to his death inside the well .

Regardless of the scenario, the situation would collapse for the vampires if they fell out with Qianye . Not to mention the grave losses, they would never get the origin blood if the one entering the well were to fall . All they could do was hope that Qianye would keep his word, yet pinning one’s hopes entirely on an enemy was never a wise course of action, neither between human families nor between the dark races .

Edward’s countenance became more and more unsightly . At the root of it, their dilemma was born of their side’s weakness . He simply couldn’t figure out why he couldn’t suppress Qianye, even though he possessed blood energy with a great dark monarch’s aura . As for the chances of him being ranked lower than Qianye in the River of Blood, that was something he had never considered .

Seeing the vampires unresponsive, Qianye pushed on with a smile . “We’ve let out the well, aren’t you going in?”

With the Constellation Well just within arm’s reach, Edward’s expression grew increasingly gloomy . Qianye opened the path to the well, but how could they walk into it? A promise was important, but not as important as a Holy Son .

Anwen’s voice suddenly rang out amidst the deadlock . “Oh? Vampires can use the Constellation Well?”

Edward looked back . “Anwen!”

Anwen was quite nonchalant . He said with a smile, “It’s me, probably one of the people you don’t want to see the most . ”

Edward snorted in tacit agreement . He moved his hand behind him, gesturing for Twilight to move . The latter scanned the battlefield, her gaze pausing somewhat on Qianye as she prepared to leave . They could still consider making a deal with the human race, but they couldn’t trust the demonkin at all under the same circumstances .

Twilight had just started to move when an icy cold intent covered her entire body, making her afraid to even move .

She turned back to find that Bai Kongzhao had appeared behind her at some point, her large eyes darting about her vitals . Wherever the little girl’s gaze fell, Twilight would feel as though she had been pricked by needles . It was as though she didn’t even have any defensive power .