Monarch of Evernight - Chapter 1078

Chapter 1078

Chapter 1078: Quite Mediocre

Qianye couldn’t see through the entire army, so he had no idea what was going on on the other side . However, it seemed the beasts and the natives weren’t friendly at all . It was no exception near the Pond of Life .

The Pond of Life surged as a desire-awakening tide arrived yet again . This time, the covered surface area wasn’t just around the boundary line . It washed deep into the forest, toppling thousands upon thousands of natives in the blink of an eye . The distant giant was furious, but nothing it did was working . No matter how many natives it dispatched, they would all be toppled by a single wave .

The six-armed giant roared ferociously but finally withdrew his troops away from the border . That clash alone had cost hundreds of four-arms and tens of thousands of two-arms .

Even the bad-tempered giant had no choice but to compromise in the face of such losses, giving up on charging the Pond of Life .

Qianye crouched low and retracted his aura while moving . Two more waves washed over him after the native army’s temporary retreat, but the intensity was much weaker . Qianye managed to tide over them without making a sound .

There were natives rolling about on the ground along the border . Qianye was channeling Bloodline Concealment amidst all the chaos, so searching for him with perception alone would be extremely difficult .

The existence in the water seemed fairly tired . It merely scanned the area a couple of times for Qianye and turned silent after failing to find him .

Qianye slowly approached the Pond of Life and crept along the water, slowly leaving the natives’ encirclement . The night was young, and he had lots of time to spare .

…

In a stone-forest that resembled a thousand needles pointing at the sky, two figures were contending with the natives . One of them looked nimble and delicate but attacked with extreme force; even the four-armed warriors couldn’t stand after a single blow . The other was as swift as lightning and shrouded in icy energy . She was just a beat faster than all the natives in her wake, cutting them down in mere moments .

These two were Ji Tianqing and Li Kuanglan . They never went back to the fortress after scattering that day, but now, they had appeared near the Pond of Life .

The lay of the land was complicated inside the stone forest, with pillars of rock forming natural obstructions . The two ladies were like fish in water, attacking and retreating at will as they felled hundreds of natives .

Despite that, their expressions were pretty bad . After killing yet another two-armed soldier, Li Kuanglan said, “This won’t do, there are too many of them . ”

“Persevere . ” Ji Tianqing continued fighting in silence after saying this .

Li Kuanglan wasn’t willing to stay quiet . “We should’ve escaped to the fortress, yet you had to come here . ”

Ji Tianqing said angrily, “This is our only chance at survival, that’s the result of our divination . You agreed to it as well, didn’t you?”

“My divination skills…” Li Kuanglan sighed while slashing backward at a two-armed man . “Well, we’re here anyway . I just hope… he managed to escape . ”

“I hope so too . ”

The two grew weaker after a while of fighting . A blushing Ji Tianqing glanced toward the Pond of Life but quickly turned back and continued fighting .

“What are you scared about?” Li Kuanglan chuckled .

“You’re still laughing?” Ji Tianqing asked unceremoniously .

“The Pond of Life was never a secret, why are you hesitating?”

“Humph, it’s easy to say . Why don’t you try?”

“We can compete with the natives in willpower . ”

Ji Tianqing said with a strange expression, “It was never a problem, but now… I’m not that confident . ”

“Shall we take a chance?”

Ji Tianqing shook her head . “No, I don’t want that kind of ending if we lose . ”

Li Kuanglan glanced at the myriad of beasts and natives near the pond and went pale at the thought . “I don’t want that, either, so let’s fight to the end!”

The sword in her grasp was damaged in many places and looked like it would break before long . Just from the state of her weapon, one could easily see how intense the fighting had been . Li Kuanglan sighed, saying, “We might be able to approach the Pond of Life if we hadn’t done that, right?”

“We wouldn’t be alive if we hadn’t done that . Are you regretting it?”

“Of course not . ”

A continuous stream of two-armed and four-armed natives entered the stone forest, and there was no telling when it would end . The two of them couldn’t approach the Pond of Life, and seeing that massive figure in the distance, they also had to give up on breaking out of the encirclement . All they could do was fight on in frustration .

Unknowingly the two of them had been forced to fight back-to-back in order to resist the unending attacks . The wounds on their bodies were also growing in number . Ji Tianqing felt her movements growing painful and her breathing labored . Li Kuanglan found her sword getting progressively heavier, to the point where it was difficult to even keep it in her hand .

She sighed . “The six-arm general chasing after us is already this powerful . The one hunting him down is so much bigger . Do you think he can escape?”

“He will! Our man is, of course, the most awesome person . ” Ji Tianqing’s mood improved quite a bit and there was even a bit of joy in her tone .

Li Kuanglan’s heart sank, and her expression never improved . The two had been fighting together all this time and knew each other very well . She was clear that Ji Tianqing was out of origin power . If she had any tricks up her sleeve, she would’ve used it by now . There were no reinforcements coming to their aid since the Great Maelstrom was isolated from the outside world .

Perhaps she was already preparing her final killing move .

Li Kuanglan was shaken as she thought of those words just now . “Yeah, our man…”

There was no need to hide anything anymore at this point . Li Kuanglan prepared an origin grenade, planning to kill herself before falling in battle . She refused to be captured alive or let the natives obtain her corpse .

Ji Tianqing likely possessed something similar as well .

It was at this time that an extraordinary fluctuation of origin power arrived from the distance . It was mysterious yet distinct, sharp yet gentle, full of conflicting sensations yet didn’t feel artificial .

As experts, Li Kuanglan and Ji Tianqing possessed sharp senses even on the verge of death . Both of them glanced toward the source at the same time .

In the distance, the six-armed giant’s figure towered over them like a mountain .

All of a sudden, a faintly discernible wisp of black energy spun around the giant’s neck .

A red line appeared around the neck of that six-armed monstrosity . Then, its massive head slowly slid away and fell to the ground .

Li Kuanglan and Ji Tianqing were stunned . The six-armed giant… was dead?

For a moment, they had thought that the giant was about to perform some kind of earth-shattering attack and kill them .

“Boom!” Only when that towering frame collapsed did the two girls realize that their enemy was truly dead .

However, a question appeared in their minds: how did it die?

This six-armed giant had joined the chase mid-way . It was a bit smaller than the one chasing Qianye, only reaching up to the latter’s shoulders, but it was more than enough to force the ladies into dire straits .

It was tall, strong, and immensely powerful . Living in the high-gravity region year long made sure that its body was as hard as steel and knew no fatigue . It also happened to know tracking methods that were impossible to counter . Such an enemy was almost invincible . Even though Ji Tianqing was well-experienced and Li Kuanglan had been testing her blade throughout the land, neither of the two had faced a situation where they could neither beat nor flee from the enemy .

Now, the monstrosity was dead, and the process was so simple that it felt like a child’s game .

That black energy flew about and transformed into a giant sickle in the grasp of an indescribable woman . With her dancing black hair and bottomless deep eyes, her appearance could only be summarized as perfect .

The duo’s hearts skipped a beat when they saw this lady . A name escaped from both their lips: Nighteye!

All the young top experts of the Empire knew Nighteye . Her fame didn’t just come from her vampire primo status, nor was it born of her unmatched beauty—it was mostly because of Qianye and his shocking fury . Because of that massacre in the city of Indomitable, one of the most powerful geniuses of the Empire, and someone with great potential at that, was driven out .

Even today, people were still debating about Qianye’s treason . If the military hadn’t broken the rules and captured Nighteye, perhaps Qianye would be a pillar shouldering part of the Empire’s burdens . Many voices still believed that, as a vampire, Qianye was bound to be disloyal to the human race . Why otherwise would the founding emperor not tolerate the vampires? He would even kill his own son if the latter were tainted .

To most of the girls in the Empire, however, Qianye was a heroic figure who would sacrifice everything for love . He was like a bright flag fluttering in their hearts, one that would never fade away . As the heroine of this story, Nighteye was the target of many a girl’s envy .

But the current Nighteye wasn’t anything like the two girls had imagined . Why would she have fallen into Li Fengshui’s hands if she could kill a six-armed giant in one strike?

While they were going over their misgivings, the giant had fallen entirely .

Their greatest enemy was gone, but the two girls weren’t in a better situation . The two-armed natives were still attacking with all their might, and there was no chaos because of the giant’s death . There were native warriors everywhere in the stone forest, numbering in the tens of thousands . They would be half dead from exhaustion even if all of them stood there waiting to be killed .

With a flicker, Nighteye’s figure appeared in the air about a hundred meters away . The two girls were stunned because they recognized this move as Qianye’s trademark skill, Spatial Flash . Why did she know this skill?

Nighteye looked down from above with an expression full of mockery and disdain . Her eyes almost seemed to say, “You’ll die if you’re not smart enough!”

Nighteye was holding a young girl in one hand and a shockingly large scythe in the other . She whispered something to the lass, who then nodded and blew hard toward the ground .

In the blink of an eye, Ji Tianqing felt all her hair standing on end . Under the stimulation of impending death, countless pieces of fragmented information and imagery came together . “That’s Zhuji! Hold your breath and protect your body!”

The girls used their last bit of origin power to shield themselves, blocking the breeze outside . Even when that gentle wind had subsided, they didn’t dare release their barriers until they were completely out of origin power .

At this point, the stone forest was entirely silent with native corpses strewn across the ground .

Nighteye appeared quietly before the two girls . Intentionally or otherwise, Zhuji’s puckered mouth was always aimed at them . Being stared at by the little lass felt no different from being locked onto by a void colossus; they didn’t even dare to move .

Nighteye shot them a glance, saying, “Your man is, of course, awesome, but you two… heh… are quite average . ”

With that, Nighteye’s figure blurred into a Spatial Flash . No one knew how far she had gone .