In the other time and space.
When Lessa, Green, and the others heard the Divine Lady old woman skilfully say their names, they were each shocked almost to the point of speechlessness. What surprised them the most was that the Divine Lady old woman also said she was to pass on greetings from Ye Chui and Debbie to them!
“You know where Little Brother and the others are? What happened to them?” Lessa asked impatiently, her tone vaguely carrying a hint of cold severity.
“They are good people. Ye Chui, Debbie, oh, and Ai Pai De…” A trace of nostalgic colour seemed to appear in the Divine Lady old woman’s eyes. Her pair of eyes, which seemed to have seen through all matters of time, at this moment seemed to gain a bit more of the fresh and youthful feeling belonging to a young girl. It was just that this feeling passed in a flash.
She suddenly turned her head and shouted to several villagers standing nearby: “What are you wooden-headed fools still standing there for? Do you not see that several noble guests have arrived!? Hurry and prepare food. Old John, go and kill those two chickens of yours. And Mashton, do not hide those few hams of yours anymore. Properly entertain these several distinguished guests who have come from afar.”
Hearing the Divine Lady old woman’s words, the villagers’ expressions all showed some astonishment. One old man dressed in tattered clothes stepped forward. His voice trembled as he said: “Divine Lady, this, this how can it be… The wolf bandits may come at any time…”
“Yes, Divine Lady, they are so savage… If we cannot bring out enough food for them, they will kill people!”
“Good things we ourselves are reluctant to eat. How, how can we give them to others…”
Some villagers said in low voices one after another.
It could be seen that although they greatly respected the Divine Lady old woman’s status, when it came to life and death matters, they were not so trusting of the Divine Lady old woman. Even Old Harley and Hank, who were relatively familiar with Green and the others, showed expressions of some incomprehension.
“Wolf bandits? We have long heard you mention the wolf bandits. What kind of people are they?” Lessa interjected at this time.
“The wolf bandits are terrifying robbers nearby. They are extremely savage and powerful. We, we dare not provoke them!” An old man said. His face was full of worry. “If they come and we have nothing to bring out, that will anger those lords…”
“A bunch of wooden-headed fools! I see you have all been scared witless by those little ruffians, not even as good as dogs. Do my words now have so little authority?” The Divine Lady old woman shouted in fury. This old woman, who appeared on the verge of death, suddenly erupted. Waving her wooden staff, she gave those villagers with hesitant expressions on their faces a thorough thrashing. Her mouth still muttering curses all the while.
Lessa and Green and the others were all somewhat surprised and speechless. They quickly reacted and hurriedly went over to hold back this old woman. Actually, they themselves were carrying quite a lot of food and fundamentally did not need these villagers to prepare anything more. However, due to the Divine Lady old woman’s formidable authority, those villagers still went off slinking away to prepare, their mouths full of complaints the whole time.
“Do not mind them. These wooden-headed fools have no great wisdom, only petty cleverness. When the wolf bandits truly come, each one is scared worse than the little chickens they raise themselves.” The Divine Lady old woman seemed to instantly revert to that decrepit and tottering appearance. Moreover, she calmly and composedly accepted Lessa’s support. Leading them into the dilapidated grand hall nearby, the wooden staff in her hand made a series of “tap, tap, tap” sounds.
Green, Lessa, and the others looked at each other and followed her inside.
Unlike the dilapidated state outside, the inside of that hall was swept exceptionally clean, without a speck of dust. There were also several pieces of old furniture that looked quite valuable. It was just that the appearance of those pieces of furniture seemed rather strange in the eyes of Lessa, Green, and the others. The arrangement of the furniture was also somewhat deliberate. The room was very bright. Huge porthole windows were letting in warm sunlight.
Lessa’s eyes vigilantly and curiously scanned the surroundings. At this moment, she suddenly saw something. Her expression immediately froze. Green, Ginny, and Jacob also subsequently saw what Lessa had seen.
“Miss Lessa, that is…” Green exclaimed from his mouth.
Lessa had already walked straight over. She arrived in front of a wall on the east side of the room.
On that wall was a huge mural. The mural looked already of great antiquity. The pigments had begun to peel off. But it was still possible to clearly see what was painted on the mural. It was precisely the content on this mural that made Lessa, Green, and the others all show shocked expressions.
It was a painting full of fantastical colours. Monsters with wolf heads and eagle bodies circled in the air one after another. Their savage aura seemed to pounce head-on through the mural.
In the midst of these monsters was actually an even stranger warrior.
That warrior had black and gold interlaced wings, as well as a thick dragon tail full of bone spikes. His whole body burned with black and gold flames. Beneath those flames, he wore a suit of armour with a strange appearance.
That armour made Green, Ginny, and Lessa all feel somewhat familiar. In a daze, it was precisely the armour of that armoured swordsman that Ye Chui had summoned.
In one of the warrior’s hands, he was also holding a golden greatsword. That greatsword they were all too familiar with. It was precisely the golden greatsword they had obtained in the Burial Sword Ground.
This was not the place that shocked them the most. What they were shocked by was the appearance of the warrior on the mural. The person who painted this mural must have had extremely skilful brushwork, allowing people to clearly distinguish that face showing an angry expression. That was Ye Chui’s face!
“How could Little Brother appear in your painting? What on earth is going on!?” Lessa hurriedly turned her head to ask the Divine Lady old woman.
The Divine Lady old woman leaned on that wooden staff and slowly walked to their side. She raised her head to look at that painting. The corners of her mouth showed a nostalgic smile: “Oh, this is not your Little Brother. He is the warrior and hero I have always been waiting for, Ai Pai De.”
“Ai Pai De again!?” Lessa’s brows tightly furrowed. She glanced at Green. This morning, it was because Old Harley had mentioned the name Ai Pai De that their Guild Leader had decided to head to Green Leaf Village. Just who on earth was this Ai Pai De… Could it be one of their Guild Leader’s aliases?
Lessa walked to the front of the Divine Lady old woman and pressed: “Please tell me what on earth is going on! We do not have time to beat around the bush with you!”
“No rush, no rush…” The Divine Lady old woman, however, continued to say with a smiling squint.
Lessa decided to temporarily abandon the “respect the elderly and love the young” teachings instilled in her from childhood. She prepared to give this old woman a taste of bitterness. But at this moment, someone ran hurriedly into the room. It was Old Harley. When he reached the doorway, he even tripped and fell. When he crawled up, he shouted: “Bad, bad news, Divine Lady, the wolf bandits, the wolf bandits have come!”
“Is that so?” The Divine Lady old woman, however, seemed not worried at all. She smiled and looked towards Lessa, Green, and the others. “Those wooden-headed fools are although very stingy, but just now they were prepared to bring out their good things to entertain you. Seeing them in trouble, could you possibly sit idly by?”
Bloody hell!!!
Hearing the Divine Lady old woman’s words, Lessa, Green, and Jacob’s three bodies all trembled. They realised they had fallen into the Divine Lady old woman’s trap. She had probably long known that the wolf bandits were about to attack. So earlier, making the villagers bring out good things to entertain them was precisely to have them help resist the wolf bandits!
But did they look like people so easily tricked?
Green immediately wanted to say a few words on behalf of the guild. However, the Divine Lady old woman’s next words made them all suddenly freeze.
The old woman used the wooden staff in her hand to point at the mural nearby, then said: “The content on that painting… is precisely the scene of the hero Ai Pai De fighting the wolf bandits!”
“Wolf bandits!?” Lessa and Green were surprised and looked once more at that mural.
The wolf bandits… were actually that powerful?
“I want to fight them!” Ginny suddenly shouted loudly. From the moment she saw this mural, this girl had been stunned by the powerful aura contained within the mural. She had been staring blankly at the painting. Now, hearing that the monsters on the painting had actually come to this village, how could the girl with monstrous strength endure it? She immediately grabbed her greatsword and rushed out, her mouth letting out a series of shouts.
“I will go take a look. Just right, I want to test my own power!” Lessa also hurriedly followed, hugging her Bible and rushing out.
Seeing this, Green thought that for a matter of standing up for the guild, he certainly could not back down. This represented his authority in the guild, um, at least his authority in front of Jacob. Thus, he immediately grabbed his brick and was about to head outside.
Jacob hurriedly pulled him back: “Mr. Green, what, what should I do…”
“Oh, here is a weapon for you.” Green then hurriedly took out a boning kitchen knife and handed it to Jacob. He also patted his shoulder before following out.
“…”
Jacob looked at the kitchen knife in his hand and felt that his combat style seemed a bit off. However, he only hesitated slightly before hurriedly following out. Then, just as he stepped out of the room, a series of cries of pain suddenly entered his ears.
At the village entrance, several horses were lying in disarray on the ground. One of them even had its horse head directly severed. In addition, there were seven or eight swordsmen dressed in tattered clothes, bandits on the plains were mostly of this appearance. Three of them were already lying on the ground, letting out wails. The remaining few made alert postures, looking at the menacing Ginny.
Flames of fiery red had already ignited on Ginny’s body. Just now, upon seeing these several bandits, she had dispatched them with a few sword strikes, making them collapse. At this moment, she stretched her neck long, looking around with a face full of expectation.
“Where are the wolves?” The little girl asked those trembling bandits.
“Wh… where are there any wolves?” The bandit leader answered.
“What about those flying strange birds?” Ginny continued to ask.
“What, what strange birds?” That bandit leader was about to cry. They were only a small band of bandits. Today, they had originally wanted to come here to plunder a bit. Who would have thought they would encounter such formidable people?
Ginny blinked her eyes. The flames on her body subsided: “Are you not wolf bandits? Without wolves, how can you be called wolf bandits?”
“We, we only heard that there used to be powerful wolf bandits appearing here, so, so we called ourselves wolf bandits…” The bandit leader really was about to cry.
The villagers were tremblingly standing in the distance. Seeing the wolf bandits who usually bullied their village actually defeated so easily, each one was dumbfounded, their bodies trembling all over. Lessa, Green, and Jacob arrived subsequently. Seeing this scene, they were also somewhat surprised for a time. The so-called wolf bandits were just this group that seemed nothing special, bandits?
“These people heard the legend of the wolf bandits, so they called themselves wolf bandits, heh heh heh. But they, compared to the wolf bandits, are not just a little bit inferior…” The Divine Lady old woman tottered over from behind, leaning on her wooden staff. Her eyes seemed somewhat vacant, as if recalling some long-sealed past events. “The wolf bandits are evil creatures fallen after being tempted by the devil. Their numbers are endless. Even gods tremble before them. When they appear, dark clouds gather, and a blood moon hangs in the sky…”
The old woman’s eyes seemed still able to see that sealed past…
…
“Awoo woo-”
In the other time and space, terrifying wolf howls resounded across the plains. Shouts, screams, continuously entered the ears without end. The smell of blood swept through the entire village.
From the afternoon, the wolf bandits’ attack had already lasted seven or eight hours. The sky had long since completely darkened. In the sky, a blood moon hung high, as if it might pour down blood at any moment.
The villagers in Green Leaf Village, along with those magicians and swordsmen, fought bathed in blood, resisting wave after wave of the wolf pack’s assaults. Ye Chui and Debbie stood behind Viya. They had no ability to participate in the battle, but they witnessed the most miserable battle scenes.
They saw that blond magician who had previously deliberately pranked Ye Chui. His magic beast battle pet was jointly attacked by several giant wolves, torn into a pile of碎 limbs. The blond magician let out an angry roar. White light began to emanate from his body. He charged towards those several giant wolves. In the explosion, he perished together with those several giant wolves.
They saw Dicao, who had lost one arm, jump onto the back of a giant wolf. He inserted the sword in his hand into that giant wolf’s head. Accompanying that giant wolf crazily crashing into a house like mad, shattering to pieces upon impact.
He saw the earth magic magician Malens condense a huge chasm on the earth, like a mouth, swallowing several giant wolves and the humanoid fierce beasts on their backs. But just as the chasm closed, a humanoid fierce beast’s sharp claw grabbed Malens’s leg, pulling him together into that closing fissure…
Blood spread across the entire village. The defensive line contracted step by step, collapsed, and finally gathered under that Elven Sacred Tree.
Viya stood under the sacred tree. Her face was very calm, merely appearing slightly pale.
The iPad boy’s figure charged and killed amidst the wolf pack. He was obviously the strongest one here in the village. But he still could not influence this miserable battle. The giant wolves seemed endless, continuously surging forth, like an ant colony besieging prey. Their figures covered every corner around the village. Finally, the iPad boy, covered in blood, returned to Ye Chui and Debbie’s side. He had already reverted to his usual appearance, gasping for breath as he protected the two people. His eyes vigilantly watched the surroundings.
The last swordsman was pounced down to the ground by a giant wolf.
The wolf pack began to charge towards the four people under the Elven Sacred Tree.
At this moment, Viya gently said: “The time has come.”
The time has come?
Accompanying her words, everything around suddenly seemed to freeze. Ye Chui, Debbie, and the iPad boy found their bodies suddenly unable to move an inch. Their consciousness was also rapidly fading. In this process, they saw those terrifying giant wolves dissipate bit by bit into black ash. They saw collapsed houses suddenly become intact. They saw the dead swordsmen restore to their original forms…
Everything was reverting to the moment before the wolf bandits’ invasion!
This… what on earth is going on?
“In the final moments of the War of the Gods five thousand years ago, at the instant before the wolf bandits were about to kill the Divine Lady, the Divine Lady activated a taboo magic scroll named [Ultimate Time Defence]. She restored time to the day before her death. This mountain village, the people in the mountain village, and the wolf bandits, all of this detached from the timeline, entered the crevice of spacetime, and began to endlessly repeat within this time segment of ‘wolf bandits attacking’.”
Viya’s voice entered Ye Chui’s ears at this time.
“The cost of using this taboo magic is that the Divine Lady became the sacred tree. And I am the only one who remains awake..”
