Vol 3. Chapter 78: The Beginning of the End
When the black-robed man activated the communication magic stone in his hand,
a thousand miles away, within the Imperial Mausoleum south of Sky Dome,
under the bewildered gazes of the Imperial Guards stationed there, an exquisitely adorable gray-haired little girl slowly emerged from the dense fog and simply walked into the Imperial Mausoleum. Although the little girl's clothes were worn and shabby, they could not conceal her extraordinarily adorable appearance.
Beautiful gray twin tails, lively and crystal-clear eyes like emerald jade, delicately curved brows, long eyelashes trembling slightly, flawless fair skin tinged with a faint blush, and thin lips as tender and dewy as rose petals.
Without a doubt, once this child grew up, she would definitely become a one-in-ten-thousand beauty.
However,
the instant such a child appeared, the Imperial Guards protecting the mausoleum had absolutely no attention to spare for admiring her cuteness. Instead, their expressions immediately turned grave! After being momentarily stunned, Noka, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guards in this area, immediately drew the sword at his waist and stared at the little girl before him with extreme vigilance.
The several hundred Imperial Guards behind him and stationed on the surrounding elevated platforms did the same. Not one of them relaxed merely because of her harmless appearance. After all, in this world, there were plenty of ancient monsters wearing the skin of little girls...
Moreover,
the fact that she had silently evaded their detection, passed through the dense fog barrier outside the Imperial Mausoleum, slipped past the patrolling soldiers, and arrived here was already enough to prove that this little girl was anything but ordinary.
His Majesty Xue Tianao had given explicit orders.
Nothing could be allowed to go wrong at the Imperial Mausoleum!
Noka did not dare lower his guard. He immediately commanded the Imperial Guards to completely surround the little girl who had arrived here! The powerful battle aura within the Imperial Guards abruptly erupted as well, and the previously silent mausoleum grounds were instantly enveloped in a tense, ready-to-strike atmosphere.
Coating his longsword with battle aura and assuming an attacking stance, Noka sternly questioned her without the slightest courtesy:
"Who exactly are you?! How did you enter the forbidden grounds of the Imperial Mausoleum?!"
Faced with Noka's questioning,
the gray-haired little girl blinked her adorable emerald-green eyes, tilted her head, and smiled lightly.
"How did I get in? If I wanted to come in... then I just came in, didn't I?"
"What did you say?"
Hearing the contempt in her words, Noka frowned as anger rose within him.
"I'll ask you one more time. Who exactly are you?! How did you get in here?! If you refuse to answer, don't blame us for being rude!"
"Ennmmm..."
Hearing this, the little girl pouted and put on a thoughtful expression.
"How did I get in? Enmm, for this Mist Rain Barrier of yours, don't you just need to find the formation core and break it? What's so difficult about that?"
"Difficulty?"
The little girl's answer made Noka's brows twitch violently.
This Mist Rain Barrier had been given to the Snow Night Empire by the Dragon King! It had protected the Imperial Mausoleum for hundreds of years!
How could it possibly be so easy to break through?!
Find the formation core? Even someone like him, who was familiar with the formation, had no idea where the formation core was, okay?!
"You... are talking nonsense!"
"I'm not talking nonsense~"
The little girl smiled playfully before thoughtfully looking past Noka and the Imperial Guards toward the magnificent Imperial Mausoleum behind them.
"As for who I am, well, that's not important anymore. You only need to know that we're here to demolish the Imperial Mausoleum~"
The girl spoke in an adorable voice.
Her voice was sweet, yet her words instantly enraged everyone present.
"Demolish the Imperial Mausoleum?! To actually utter such treasonous words!"
Hearing this, Noka gritted his teeth fiercely. Seeing that the little girl had no intention of saying anything further, Noka stopped hesitating.
With a direct wave of his hand, dozens of Imperial Guard soldiers charged toward the gray-haired little girl from multiple directions under Noka's command, intending to directly arrest this treasonous intruder.
As for exactly how this girl had gotten inside? They could interrogate her about that afterward!
However,
faced with the Imperial Guard soldiers surrounding her, the little girl remained completely unmoved. Instead, she slowly lowered her head and looked at the little white wolf in her arms, who had her tongue hanging out and wore an utterly goofy expression.
"Xiao's orders have arrived. We need to hurry now, Big Sister~"
??!
Big Sister?
Seeing the little girl affectionately call a snow wolf "Big Sister," Noka could not help revealing a puzzled expression.
Calling a wolf her big sister? What was going on?
And orders?
What did that mean?
...
Unfortunately, Noka would never have the chance to continue pondering those questions.
Because the moment the gray-haired little girl's words fell, the snow wolf in her arms let out a strange "Myaow~" before immediately leaping from the little girl's embrace and landing directly in front of the approaching Imperial Guard soldiers.
?!!
This... this wolf?
However, before anyone could react,
a terrifying aura of Shadow of Silence Power suddenly erupted from the little white wolf's body! It transformed into a horrifying tsunami of energy that swept across everything, mercilessly engulfing everything within the Imperial Mausoleum. The weaker Imperial Guard soldiers were instantly struck by the violent storm of power and sent flying backward!
Even those who were not directly blown away had the skills they had been charging shattered outright by the energy fluctuations released by the little white wolf...
?!!
'Th-this Shadow of Silence Power? That wolf... that wolf is an Abyss Demon?!'
The next moment, under Noka and the others' incredulous gazes, the small and adorable spirit beast before them, which they had thought they could casually send flying with a single slap, suddenly erupted with a terrifying, earth-shaking power. Her body continued expanding as well! In an instant, she transformed into a horrifying existence as enormous as a mountain, towering imposingly before Noka's formation!
When his body
was locked onto by the giant wolf's violently savage crimson eyes, Noka felt as though five bolts of lightning had struck him at once. He froze completely in place, unable to recover from his shock for a long while...
'Shit...'
After he cursed,
the giant wolf's ferocious maw rapidly enlarged within Noka's vision...
...
...
Accompanied by repeated thunderous explosions and screams rising one after another, several seconds later, all one hundred and eighty-nine Imperial Guards, including Noka, had been reduced to horribly mutilated corpses scattered across the ground. The formerly solemn and dignified Imperial Mausoleum was now covered in vast amounts of blood, severed limbs, and scattered internal organs,
forming a scene that resembled hell on earth.
Although Noka and the others had let out agonizing screams like pigs being slaughtered as they died, because of the Mist Rain Barrier, the outside world remained completely unaware of the disturbance within the Imperial Mausoleum. In a district not far from the mausoleum, the people were still joyfully celebrating the coronation of their new emperor...
After indifferently glancing at the severed limbs scattered across the ground, the gray-haired little girl—our little Liyu—focused her attention on the Imperial Mausoleum ahead, which was continuously radiating pure-white light.
Under normal circumstances,
after one emperor died, the coronation ceremony of the next emperor would usually be held the following year. During that period, the entire nation was required to mourn the passing of the previous emperor. This was a tradition of the Snow Night Empire that had remained unchanged for hundreds of years.
Yet this time, Xue Tianao had actually rejected all opposition and even contradicted the High Priest in order to hold the coronation ceremony ahead of schedule and formally become Emperor of the Empire.
It was clearly nothing more than a ceremonial coronation. Why did the Child of Destiny care about it so much?
To tell the truth,
neither Demon King-class existences such as Liyu nor the Black Rose Family had managed to investigate the reason...
However,
since Xue Tianao attached such importance to this matter, he presumably had his reasons. Since the Child of Destiny wanted to do this? Then all they, the Abyss Demons, had to do was oppose him~
That could never be wrong~
Smiling slightly, Liyu raised her hand and pointed toward the solemn and majestic Imperial Mausoleum ahead.
"Big Sister, blow it up~"
"Awoooooooo~" (Got it~)
After hearing the destructive order from her little sister, the giant wolf that Limo had transformed into immediately let out an excited howl. Then the adorable giant wolf slowly opened her enormous bloody maw filled with razor-sharp fangs!
In an instant, an endless torrent of crimson Shadow of Silence Power gathered inside her mouth! And it continuously compressed!
The terrifying fluctuations of power caused even the surrounding space to gradually distort.
The next instant,
the crimson Shadow of Silence Power compressed inside the giant wolf's mouth abruptly erupted!
In an instant, the earth split apart and the sky changed color! The world-destroying crimson beam surged forward like a violent, bloodthirsty beast that had broken free from its shackles, roaring toward the Imperial Mausoleum ahead with overwhelming might capable of devouring everything in existence!
Before the Nihility Cannon,
all things were reduced to ashes~
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Meanwhile,
inside Dragon Dance Square, as a violent tremor suddenly traveled through the ground, the enormous phantom that was in the middle of bestowing the crown upon Xue Tianao abruptly shuddered.
Its movements came to an immediate halt.
Xue Tianao: ??! Huh?!!
'Wh... wh... what's going on?!'