Four Split Personalities

Yizou, who had just celebrated her twenty-fourth birthday, smiled shyly and shook her head, "That’s not a fair statement. It’s a fact that I joined the sect later than my senior. If I remember correctly, you should have joined the sect ten years ago already."

[But that was just a setting casually mentioned by Yu Chen...]

"Alright."

Motan shrugged and stopped trying for the umpteenth time to get Yizou to address her differently, casually asking, "So, what were you trying to say just now?"

Yizou pursed her lips, nervously grasped the hilt of her sword at her waist, and whispered, "My injuries are almost healed."

"So?"

Motan responded noncommittally.

"So, if possible, I would like to help in the fight!"

Yizou finally mustered her courage, her gaze burning with intensity as she looked at Motan, her expression serene yet firm, "I am a High Order Saint Knight; I can take on many tasks. Moreover, the Dawn Divine Power has a certain disruptive effect on the power of the Evil God. With your command, senior, I am sure it will be useful!"

"Indeed, while I don’t deny that, but..."

Motan sighed and scratched her head, "Are you sure your injuries have fully healed?"

"Of course, I am now fully able to join the battle..."

"Barrier."

Motan frowned slightly and softly interrupted her unexpressed determination.

At the same time, a visible distortion suddenly enveloped Yizou, like a transparent film covering her within it.

Pfft!

The next second, accompanied by a tiny halo flash, the invisible ’film’ around Yizou instantly dissipated into nothingness, and her movements, which had been delayed by less than a second, returned to normal.

"Senior, I..."

Yizou, who subconsciously dispelled the Commandment Barrier, looked very uneasy, but Motan interrupted her again.

"Are you sure your injuries have fully recovered?"

Motan repeated with a smiling face, spreading her hands, "If you were in your prime, my Decree just now should have been directly immune to you. Don’t forget, although you keep addressing me as your senior, when it comes to combat power, someone of my level should not be able to pose any threat to you."

Yizou blushed and shook her head, speaking softly, "That’s because you... you have become stronger."

"Believe me, no one knows better than I do whether I have become stronger or not."

Motan, who could directly see her own character panel, spoke confidently and quietly, "Clearly, your injuries are not fully healed."

"But senior, I really don’t have..."

"Don’t have any problems walking a few steps?"

Motan looked at her with a smiling expression.

Then Yizou obediently walked two steps and subconsciously pressed her trembling left hand against her slender waist, her complexion turning slightly pale, and in the next second, it became entirely flushed.

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It was obvious that after breaking free from Hei Fan’s Decree, her injuries, which indeed were not fully healed, suddenly flared up, and the situation seemed worse than she had thought.

Yizou hung her head a bit ashamedly, not knowing whether it was because of the poor lie she had just told, her overestimation of her capabilities, or perhaps both.

"In terms of feelings, you are my lifesaver. If it weren’t for your desperate protection that allowed me to break through and meet up with Fire Yang and others who came to support, I, a weak and worthless Priest, would have died at the foot of the mountain long ago. So from the standpoint of repaying my debt, I personally am very averse to you taking risks."

Motan patted Yizou’s shoulder and quickly continued before she could start speaking in a panic, "In terms of reason, even now you can’t immediately break free from my Commandment Barrier, meaning you could face similar problems against the more bizarre powers of the heretics. Even with systematic tactical support, it’s very easy for accidents to occur if I truly regard you as a high-order combat force. However, if we consider your injuries and reevaluate, it becomes impossible to highlight the value of your participation in combat. Therefore, the conclusion is: both emotionally and logically, I cannot agree to your request – at least not until your injuries are truly healed."

"I understand, senior..."

Yizou’s face turned crimson as she lowered her head, softly biting her lower lip, and whispered, "It was me being too willful."

After hearing the analysis from the other party, the female knight felt even more ashamed of herself for having made an unreasonable fuss earlier, simply because of her relatively close relationship with her senior.

"There’s also one more thing..."

Motan smiled nonchalantly, lowered his voice and sneakily said, "Make sure not to openly say that I’m involved in commanding or anything like that, you know."

"Mhm mhm."

Yizou nodded vigorously, repeatedly saying, "I will certainly be careful, senior."

"Well, it’d be even better if we could change the way you address me, but let’s head off"

Having been addressed as ’senior’ for several months but still not quite getting used to it, Motan casually scratched his cheek without much hope, then turned and walked towards the steps of the Ancestor’s Temple not far away.

"Ah, okay, senior!"

Yizou hurriedly quickened her pace, maintaining a half-meter distance closely following behind Motan, fearing that he might carelessly have an accident.

This was not an unfounded worry – in Yizou’s eyes, senior Hei Fan was someone with extremely poor motor skills, and maybe because he had so much to contemplate which consumed a lot of energy, he had to rest for a long time in the side hall of the Ancestor’s Temple every day. He even experienced sudden fainting spells; although it had never delayed any important business, it still filled the female knight with anxiety.

Looking at the figure that could hardly be described as robust and broad but was currently being relied upon by many, Yizou let out a soft sigh, and a flash of anger unexpectedly passed through her usually gentle and peaceful eyes.

Of course, this wasn’t directed at senior Hei Fan, but at some disgustingly unspeakable people...

Of course, it wasn’t to say that ’some people’ were really that terrible, it was just that Yizou Jielai, who rarely encountered or used vulgar language, simply had a limited vocabulary.

[If that despicable person hadn’t purposefully endangered senior Hei Fan... If he genuinely wanted to help Sumer out of its plight, the situation would definitely not be as it is now!]

Yizou clenched her fists tightly, and once again, the sinister, mean-spirited face came to mind, along with his ill-intentioned smile, and...

"I’ll leave it up to you, the hero of Misha County, as the future star of the Church of the Dawn, the young master who needs a beautiful female knight as a bodyguard when travelling far. Forget Language your Highness’ affair... Ah no, lover, I trust you can perfectly complete this perfectly safe reconnaissance mission."

That blatantly malicious, murderously intended order.

Including herself and senior Hei Fan, the twenty-person support squad was ambushed on the way back, an inconceivable ambush!

Without a doubt, the Northern Expeditionary Army’s Second Battalion Commander Walton Kaleni, the Gold-Crowned High Priest from the Sun Sect, along with the Sun Sect’s overall Commander of the Northern Expedition Army behind him – Knight Commander Jeff Harrington wanted someone dead.

They nearly succeeded. If not because senior Hei Fan chose to retreat to the outskirts of the Sacred Mountain at the first sign of trouble instead of what seemed to be the safer fourth defensive line, if not because senior Hei Fan contacted the influential War Shaman Fire Yang of Sumer’s younger generation through some unknown means for assistance, she herself might have already returned to the Goddess’ embrace.

But even so, out of the other eighteen in the same squad, only five survived. Two middle rank knights from the Fertile Sect, two priests from the Justice Sect, three Dawn Sect Holy Knights, and six priests belonging to the same Sun Sect as Wolens Carleni all perished in the battle.

[You won’t succeed!]

Clasping her fists tightly, flames of anger burned in the clear, vertical pupils of the female knight.

Although not particularly keen, Yizou already had a vague guess about the purpose behind those people’s actions...

"Senior."

"Hm?"

"I will definitely protect you."

"Ah, then I’ll leave it to you."

"Yes!"

Chapter 606: End