Sandora was very good at fighting; this was a known fact among Xyrin Apostles. As a powerful female goddess that could single-handedly lead her army and had helped the Empire gain ten percent of its total territory, her name as the Warsong Princess was well-earned.
However, at this moment, Sandora really hoped for world peace. Having been battling for more than ten thousand years continuously in an endless war without hope for victory, even the Warsong Princess had become averse to fighting.
Unfortunately, it was not possible for there to be complete peace in any world. As long as a world existed, conflict would occur. If a world had sentient life-forms, these conflicts would very likely become wars.
Sandora was now facing a very agonizing battle; she still could not extricate herself from it. The opponent was an old foe of the Empire; it was something that the Empire had been fighting against ever since Sandora had memories.
The Abyss.
Sandora was standing on a magnificent wall that had been formed from massive rocks with its slits filled with lead and strengthened with all sorts of magic. The hot wind blew by her as her golden hair flayed; it was a very beautiful and dazzling sight.
In front of her were countless demonized beasts that were like a black muddy tide. There were huge beasts, devilish demons, magic beasts, pseudo-dragons, and even real dragons in the mix. They had all been corroded by The Abyss’ aura and had lost their own will due to the aura. A black fog rose from their bodies and made them even more violent and crazed.
Their skins were dry and parched while their mouths continuously spat out a foul, white mist. Their low growls filled the air that was so thick that it seemed to congeal together. Countless pairs of red eyes reflected Sandora’s delicate figure. However, it was this delicate figure that made the millions of demonized beasts cautious and not dare to act rashly.
They tightened their muscles as their powerful magical powers rippled to the limit. They knew that the foe in front of them…
Was their mortal enemy!
Behind Sandora, a middle-aged male with brown, messy hair wearing heavy armor pressed his hand on the longsword at his waist. A faint, gold fighting spirit emanated from his being, revealing this male sword saint’s powers. As he monitored the movements of the strange beasts beneath the city wall, he carefully asked the two girls that had suddenly appeared on the walls. “My two mysterious ladies, could you two identify yourselves?”
The man who spoke was this human fortress named North Imperial Crown’s highest commanding officer, General Currans. A few days ago, scouts had reported abnormal gatherings of demonized beasts. As Currans had already fought these strange beasts for twenty years, he immediately deduced that they were planning a huge invasion and so had preemptively made defensive preparations.
From the looks of it, his deduction had been accurate; and the army of strange beasts had come. However, just when the battle was about to start, two ladies dressed in weird garments had suddenly appeared on the city walls. It was fortunate that Currans had not detected any of the demonized beasts’ devilish auras on the two ladies; if not, he would have ordered an attack on them!
Lin Xue took a lot of effort to recover from the sight of the strange beasts about to attack this fortress. She gulped a few times as she said to Sandora, “I really admire you guys. The Xyrin Apostles have been fighting these things all along? If it was me, I would have died from disgust.”
“We haven’t been fighting these things; we have been fighting against the energy that is controlling these beasts.”
As Sandora spoke, a light-blue beautiful battle robe appeared on her body as she turned to look at the middle-aged general that appeared to be ready for a huge battle. “You guys are worthy of admiration; although your physical bodies are not that powerful, you guys have relied on numbers of willpower and have resisted the Abyss energy for so long. However, from now on, the Xyrin Empire would be in charge of battling these things. We are professionals at this!”
“What are you talking…? Oh, my!”
Feeling belittled by the young girl in front of him, Currans had wanted to offer his rebuttal. However, the sight that appeared in front of him the next second interrupted him.
Countless ripples like waves appeared in the air as more than a thousand soldiers brought strange equipment and occupied his line-of-sight.
These soldiers wore metal heavy armor and emanated an energy that he couldn’t understand. They were equipped with huge strange weaponry—no wait, the weapons weren’t equipped; they were part of the soldiers!
“I don’t really like to battle now,” Sandora’s voice traveled over with a mechanical vibration, “However, I have to admit that sometimes, violence is the most effective way to deal with things.”
The thousands of soldiers suspended in the air raised their huge weapons as a deep sound of energy circulating that was deeply unsettling spread throughout the entire battlefield.
Sandora raised her right hand high as she said in a high voice, “Today—”
All the strange beasts below the city walls started to surge forward like a tide.
“We will once again—”
All the huge weapons started to release a glaring white light!
“Achieve victory!”
…
At this time, in a faraway forest…
I looked at the small creature wailing in front of me and had a headache. This small thing that I had ‘bullied’ was something that I have never seen before but had often appeared in human legends… a forest demon.
Of course, as each legend varied, these creatures had many other names. For example, little demon, little immortal, flower immortal, forest demon, little genie, living genie, huge dragonfly… ahem, cough, cough; pretend you guys didn’t see the last name.
This creature was only about the size of my palm. Putting her size aside, she was probably sixteen or seventeen years old. She had a head of emerald hair that reached all the way to her waist while she had emerald bejeweled eyes. This forest demon’s skin was white with a tinge of baby pink.
After my eyes observed it closely, that peanut-sized small face—if it could be magnified—was extremely pretty. She was wearing a green dress made from an unknown material and was barefoot. She was suspended half a meter away from me, and her translucent, jade-colored wings like a dragonfly’s fluttered as a fluorescent light emanated from them.
A pure natural green life-form.
This unknown life-form maintained a half-meter distance from me (to her, this was probably a sufficiently far and safe distance) as she nursed her broken heart and wailed out in distress. Her voice was as crisp and clear as spring water, pleasing to the ears. Every time I made any slight movements, her entire being would shiver and pause; then, she would carry on crying.
This was what happened.
After being separated from Sandora and the others, I had appeared in this strange and dim forest. At that time, I had felt a completely different aura coming from a part of the forest that was completely different from the surroundings. This aura was peaceful and brought joy, and so I had decided to use the Xyrin Spatial Cannon to pave the way.
The good news was when I walked along the huge, cleared area that I had blasted out myself, I had actually found a paradise-like forest space.
The bad news was as I wasn’t very adept at controlling the Xyrin Spatial Cannon, I had actually destroyed a fifth of this paradise-like space.
Just when I was feeling rather sorry for what I had done, this mysterious little being had appeared.
She watched, stunned, at the charred ground beneath my feet and then started to wail and cry out.
In the next half an hour, I used all my deduction nerves and observation cells and finally found some small ashes near my feet.
From the shape of it, a type of plant used to grow here.
After that, I had used another half an hour to try and interact with that mysterious pocket-sized girl. I finally realized something: those ashes had actually been this creature’s house.
“Erm…”
I carefully opened my mouth as the small fella in front of me immediately shivered as it flew backward five centimeters. However, she evidently didn’t want to be far away from what-used-to-be her home as she stopped there and started crying again.
I really couldn’t understand this thing’s thought-process; was she bold or timid?
“I’m very sorry…”
I scratched my head as I apologized deeply. Although it was an accident—as I had burned her house down into ashes instantly, I couldn’t explain myself out of this. Furthermore, having such an adorable being cry in front of me was really unbearable.
As much as I apologized profusely, the small thing still had no intention of stopping.
“Little thing; stop crying. You can tell me whatever you want me to do!”
Really, anything is fine; as long as you stop crying. If you continue crying, I’m going to start crying as well!
After even that was ineffective, I decided to use my trump card!
As my connection with the Xyrin home-star grew stronger, I had grasped many techniques and skills that only Xyrin Apostles had. For example… an alternative spatial storage system.
Most Xyrin Apostles would use this alternate spatial storage as their own personal arsenal and armory. They used it to store all sorts of frightening criminal weapons, fortresses, as well as low-level soldiers without intelligence. For example, Pandora’s spatial storage constantly had two full formations of heavy battleships while Sandora’s had three formations of Xyrin heavily-armed security officers and half a ton of snacks. As for mine…
I waved my hand as a shining object appeared in my hands. Accompanying this item was a curious fragrance.
…System Failure, Showing Penitence…