Chapter 954 - 420: Fragile Pride
"Ha ah!"
The Blood Crystal Power surged into her body, and under the nourishment of powerful Life Energy, Xi Ya suddenly opened her eyes!
She was still falling; the strong body brought by her King Tier Awakening combined with her divine lineage allowed her to regain consciousness within 0.1 seconds, despite a direct hit from a Top Tier Heroic Spirit causing her to lose consciousness.
But the injuries weren’t so easily healed.
The surrounding scenery rapidly transformed as she crashed through hundreds of meters of primordial giant trees, broke branches, and finally landed heavily on the ground with a loud crash.
"Boom!"
Xi Ya’s slender body made a large pit at the spot where she landed, feeling her blood surge violently and intense pain from her already fractured bones.
She clenched her teeth, and the Blood Crystal Power surged around her, quickly healing the injuries.
However...
"It’s not enough, not fast enough..."
This was an enraged strike from a Top Tier Heroic Spirit, and although Xi Ya was a royal family member, the concentration of bloodline within her was not high, merely an average level of talent.
This rendered the Blood Crystal Power insufficient. To fully recover, it would require consuming a large amount of energy and at least half an hour of repair.
For such a long time, even if the Divine Envoy doesn’t take action against her, the passing "prey" could kill her ten, maybe even eight times.
The battle between everyone and the Divine Envoy surely attracted many powerful beings watching nearby. Finding her landing spot wouldn’t be difficult; perhaps someone was already on their way.
Moreover, the most crucial point is...
"Even if the injuries are healed, what then?"
Xi Ya’s light blue eyes were filled with helpless anger and indignation. Even the floating warship was destroyed so brutally, Zoltan was severely injured and missing, and the remaining two opportunistic Awakened likely began hunting their kin. What more could she achieve by herself?
Would she only be beaten into fractures, powerless to resist again?
A voice echoed uncontrollably in Xi Ya’s mind: "The situation is out of control. You are seriously injured. Staying here is too dangerous. You’ve done all you can do. You’ve tried your best."
"Leave, activate the artifact, escape this trial."
"As for the people here... it’s their fate, not your fault."
This voice grew louder, gradually occupying Xi Ya’s mind. Her lips trembled slightly: "No, no... Even if I stay strong, it won’t help. The sooner I leave, the sooner I can report this..."
Of course, this was a flimsy excuse. Failed Awakened in a trial don’t leave an anchor point at the Trial Ground, and even if the Blood Crystal Civilization had divine power from a Seventh-level Civilization, they couldn’t easily locate a small planet in the vast Abyss with unknown coordinates.
𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖
Additionally, there are millions of royal family members in the Blood Crystal Civilization, and no one would have time to cater to Xi Ya’s naïve wish as an ordinary member.
But for Xi Ya at this moment, after her previous plan completely crumbled in an instant, she lost all direction in resisting. This immense insecurity from losing control of everything made her desperately want to escape.
Now, she only needed an excuse. She no longer thought about whether the excuse was reasonable.
Her body barely regained some sensation, and with a flick of her wrist, a small doll appeared in her hand, the artifact for escape.
"Click."
With a light sound, the doll’s small mouth opened upwards, instantly a transparent membrane spread around, seemingly wrapping Xi Ya entirely, while the edges of this membrane began to violently oscillate.
This was a very rare artifact that could shrink the surrounding space, allowing an Awakened to directly fall into high-dimensional space and forcibly escape the trial, one of the few artifacts that enable an Awakened to leave the Heroic Spirit Trial without side effects.
The membrane was about to completely envelop Xi Ya. But abruptly, a green light flashed out of nowhere!
In Xi Ya’s horrified expression, her entire right arm holding the doll was severed!
Xi Ya’s eyes widened in shock, the intense pain from her severed arm made her scream uncontrollably, followed by unprecedented fear!
She looked up to find the Lizard God Envoy, who had unknowingly stood behind her, looking at her with an amused expression.
"Your time to escape was far sooner than I anticipated."
The Lizard God Envoy smirked maliciously: "You were so aggressive before, I thought you’d already made your resolve, at least hesitate a few more minutes."
"But looking at it now, your previous confidence was merely based on calculating that even if the plan failed, with the protection of that big ship and Iron Puppet, you’d have ample time to escape, right?"
"Without a retreat, you are no different from those greedy and fearful slaves."
Xi Ya looked pale at her severed arm, disbelief lingering in her eyes, then an overwhelming sense of terror consumed her within!
Standing atop the floating warship, she firmly believed she would rather die than yield to the slaughter of her kin, that her dignity would always stand above life.
But faced with life and death, the fear brought by survival instinct from her genes suffocated her!
Her rationality was on the verge of collapse; all she wanted was to escape desperately!
But she was, after all, a proud elite raised by the Blood Crystal Royal Family, her pride since childhood wouldn’t allow her to bow at this moment!
Fear controlled Xi Ya’s eyes but still, she gritted her teeth and said, "Victory to the victor, death to the vanquished, kill or torture, why bother with words?"