In the northern borderlands of the Star Empire, the barbarian nomadic tribes wandering the Elven Plains have been increasingly active in recent years, so the garrison in the borderlands has now been doubled, yet large and small frictions continue unabated.
Now, Prince Geller himself is personally leading the Black Armoured Guards stationed here to resolve some of the disputes, though while Prince Geller is in the military camp, his heart has always been preoccupied with the actions of Ye Chui and Debbie and the others, constantly sending people to scout their whereabouts.
What has made Prince Geller feel unable to sleep peacefully at night recently is that half a month has already passed, yet his spies report that there is no trace of Ye Chui and the others at all, as if they suddenly vanished on the Elven Plains, and there is no sign of them south of the Warm Water River either…
Could they have already been assassinated?
Ye Chui and the others had only left Wind Rock City for half a day before they completely lost their trail, they could not be so useless, could they?
What slightly consoles Prince Geller is that the bounty for Ye Chui’s head is still hanging on the bounty lists of the Mercenary Guild or the Assassin Groups, and the secret actions of several princes have not stopped, which proves that Ye Chui and the others may still be alive, but where exactly have they gone?
This morning, Prince Geller had just gotten up and had not yet enjoyed breakfast when his Black Armoured Guard confidant suddenly rushed into his tent, holding a note in his hand.
“Prince, a swift eagle has come from Quels City, there is finally news about Ye Chui and Miss Debbie!”
This Black Armoured Guard was bald-headed, and back in Wind Rock City, he had also crossed paths with Ye Chui and the others, with a rather favourable impression of Ye Chui’s group, and now knowing the news of Ye Chui and the others, a rough face bore a few traces of joy.
But that expression soon turned to worry again: “Only, their current situation seems a bit unfavourable.”
“What exactly is going on?” Prince Geller hurriedly asked, taking the note handed over by the Black Armoured Guard, which was a secret message delivered by a swift eagle, a small hawk falcon known for its rapid flight, usually used to transmit information.
“Traces of the Name Random Magic Guild have been discovered, they are currently located in Green Leaf Village, a hundred miles east of Quels City, the first to learn of the news was the second daughter of the Moon Gem Family, Xue Yi, who yesterday already coordinated with the sixth prince Leon to head there, but did not return afterwards, last night at a certain hour, the Lord of Quels City announced this information and rallied some forces within the city to form a team of no fewer than a hundred people, setting off for Green Leaf Village at midnight, according to secret agents, there may be several Divine Punishers among them, the situation is critical, they have probably already arrived in Green Leaf Village by now!”
The short missive was already enough to make Prince Geller understand the severity of the matter.
Ye Chui and the others are indeed still alive, now staying in a place called Green Leaf Village, but a team of no fewer than a hundred people is heading to Green Leaf Village, and these people are no ordinary folk, they are those mercenaries and magisters who lick blood from their blades, their power cannot be underestimated, even if Ye Chui and the others are ever so formidable, it is impossible for them to escape unscathed from the encirclement of so many people, right?
“Prince, although the swift eagle is already the fastest means, the distance from here to Quels City is at least five hundred miles, we cannot learn the current situation there in time…” The Black Armoured Guard said gravely at the side.
Prince Geller looked at the missive up and down again, then he made up his mind, abruptly standing up from his seat with a whoosh: “You go and prepare, I am going to activate the Eye of the Sky!”
“The Eye of the Sky?” The Black Armoured Guard’s body immediately jolted in shock, the Eye of the Sky is a powerful magic array that requires several spatial magisters and mental magisters to activate together, using this magic array can attach a person’s consciousness to a flying eagle, allowing one to scout the ground from high in the air, the consumption of this magic array is enormous, and each use requires at least half a month for the magic array’s repair work, it is a battlefield scouting method that can only be launched in emergencies.
Prince Geller looked at the Black Armoured Guard and said gravely: “The activities of those barbarian tribes recently are not frequent, no need to worry about them suddenly launching an attack, and Ye Chui and Sister Debbie are crucial to me, I must know their safety…” At this point, Prince Geller paused, seeming unwilling to say how important Ye Chui and Debbie are, even to his most trusted personal guard, Prince Geller vigilantly did not reveal the truth of the illegitimate son plan, he had already made up his mind, forcefully waving his hand, “Activate the Eye of the Sky!”
“Yes!” The Black Armoured Guard promptly agreed.
Moments later, a pitch-black flying eagle swiftly flew out of the border military camp, shooting towards the south like an arrow off the string.
This was no ordinary eagle, but a second-tier magical beast called the Black Thunder Eagle, with blistering speed, renowned as “the black lightning flashing across the sky”, now Prince Geller’s consciousness was attached to the Black Thunder Eagle, he could remain attached to the Black Thunder Eagle for about three hours, when the time passed, Prince Geller’s consciousness would return, but the Black Thunder Eagle would directly expend its life force and die on the spot.
Every activation of the Eye of the Sky consumes one precious second-tier magical beast!
The Black Thunder Eagle’s speed was many times faster than the swift eagle, after all, the swift eagle is just an ordinary wild beast, while the Black Thunder Eagle is a magical beast, though the Black Thunder Eagle is extremely difficult to tame and cannot be used for communication.
Prince Geller controlled the Black Thunder Eagle and in just half an hour, he flew to the territory in the southern part of the Elven Plains.
From high in the air overlooking, he soon spotted the location of Quels City, near Quels City there is a huge mine pit, that is the famous Gaborei Gem Mine, very easy to identify, at this time the sky was already bright, Prince Geller flew east along Qu尔斯 City and soon discovered a army assembled from various forces, on the scale of over a hundred people.
The Magic Guild, mercenaries, even a portion of Quels City’s city guards, some of them for the sake of wealth, some for loyalty to the princes or the church, their goal is only one, that is to kill Ye Chui.
Prince Geller circled in the air, and soon he spotted that Green Leaf Village.
Villages like Green Leaf Village are innumerable on the plains, from the outside, Green Leaf Village seems to have nothing special, Prince Geller slowly landed on the withered tree in the centre of Green Leaf Village in the morning light.
He soon noticed the sixth prince and Xue Yi tied under the big tree, as well as Ye Chui, Debbie and the others standing by the tree.
“Cheep cheep, cheep cheep,” he let out a series of urgent cries, intending to attract their attention.
Debbie’s attention was indeed drawn over.
“Cheep cheep, cheep cheep,”
Sister Debbie is indeed the most amazing, she must have already noticed something.
Then, Prince Geller heard Debbie say to Green beside her: “That bird looks quite tasty, this strange flying fowl might have the bloodline of a magical beast in its body, tender and delicious meat, Green you be careful, see if you can smash it down with a brick.”
Prince Geller: “? ? ?”
Fortunately, at this moment, a villager hurriedly ran over: “There is a group of people approaching outside the village!”
This news temporarily made Debbie give up on her plan to act against Prince Geller.
And Xue Yi, who was tied under the tree and had suffered through a night of torment, utterly miserable, then shouted loudly: “They have come! Quels City’s four-star guild Cold Edge Magic Guild, three-star Mercenary Group Widow’s Wrath have all mobilised in full force, there are also several powerful wandering swordsmen, magisters, assassins, the Lord of Qu尔斯 City has probably also mobilised a portion of the city guards, the church must have also mobilised a portion of believers or even terrifying Divine Punishers, in the face of this joint army, you absolutely cannot protect yourselves!”
“You quickly let us go, let go of Miss Xue Yi, you despicable lot!” The sixth prince also shouted at the top of his lungs.
Yet Ye Chui and the others paid no mind at all.
Prince Geller originally planned to fly to Debbie or Ye Chui’s side to remind them to hurry and escape, he could scout the terrain from high in the air and point the way for them, but seeing Ye Chui and the others’ calm and composed manner, for a moment he hesitated, this appearance… could it be that they have some preparation?
Prince Geller flew up high into the mid-air, the Black Thunder Eagle’s eyes were sharp enough for him to see every blade of grass stirring below, then, it suddenly noticed the clusters of white mist that were somewhat eerily surging around the vicinity of the village.
That mist looked truly suspicious, but for the moment, it was impossible to discern exactly what it was.
In the distance, the joint army had arrived less than two miles from the village, then one mile, half a mile…
Their charging shouts were even clearly audible to the villagers inside the village.
Prince Geller could not help but feel a pang of anxiety for Ye Chui and Debbie.
But at this very moment, he heard Ye Chui shout out with full vigour.
“Open the gate, release the wolves!”
With Ye Chui’s strange words, those small clusters of mist originally permeating around the village swiftly coalesced together, then surged towards the joint army charging like a sharp sword as if water from a floodgate unleashed.
From high in the air, Prince Geller could clearly see every change in the situation, he saw those eerie white mists like living creatures instantly engulfing all the joint army, the next moment, a terrifying roar that shook Prince Geller’s soul emanated from that white mist.
In the white mist, vague silhouettes of terrifying giant wolves could be seen!
Giant wolves!?
This… these terrifying magical beasts are not long extinct?
Sword qi and magical flashes kept flickering in the white mist, but more were those screams one after another.
Beneath the white mist was a battlefield of blood!
At this moment, a figure suddenly burst out from the white mist, swiftly leaping towards the village on the hillside, Prince Geller’s eagle eyes suddenly widened in shock, that was a Divine Punisher from the church, and his target was clearly Ye Chui standing on the stone platform in the village!
Divine Punishers are the most loyal believers, their bodies engraved with countless characters, those are scriptures from the holy bible, the fallen believer Ye Chui had once encountered also had his body covered in various eerie runes, that method actually imitated the church’s Divine Punishers, evidently, the Divine Punishers are even more terrifying and powerful, the scriptures on their bodies can grant them extremely great power.
Just as Prince Geller spotted that Divine Punisher, the Divine Punisher in his roar leaped up, the scriptures on his body glowing like red-hot branding irons, in the roar, he swung his fist, smashing towards Ye Chui on the stone platform of the village.
A figure like wind and thunder, arriving in an instant!
Jillga and Guni both moved at this moment, preparing to intercept, but another white light preempted them by a step, rushing to Ye Chui’s side and instantly merging into Ye Chui’s body, the iPad magic book subsequently appearing beside him.
iPad returns!
In an instant, Ye Chui seemed to sense something…
His gaze had not yet turned to the iPad magic book floating beside him, but he already knew the information displayed on the iPad magic book.
Reminder: You have gained a new [Enlightenment], unlocking a new magic attribute, the time magic attribute.
You have obtained new unlockable spells, the advanced time sealing magic [Time’s Crevice] (temporarily unable to unlock), the intermediate time auxiliary magic [Time’s Freeze].
Time magic!
The boy transformed from the iPad magic book, sealing sixty-three years of time for those wolf bandits in the time crevice, this experience allowed it to [comprehend] the essence of time, thereby enlightening the terrifying time magic attribute.
The time magic attribute is the fusion magic attribute after the fusion of the other nine magic attributes.
This is hailed as the strongest magic!
At the same time, Ye Chui’s magic book also gained two unlockable spells, among them [Time’s Crevice] should be a magic similar to sealing the time fragments of the wolf bandits, but Ye Chui currently cannot unlock it, as for that [Time’s Freeze], it can be unlocked for three hundred points!
Everything happened in an instant, the Divine Punisher charged, the iPad magic book returned to Ye Chui’s body, the next moment, the Divine Punisher’s body suddenly halted in mid-air, not only the Divine Punisher, everything around in this moment stopped moving, time was completely frozen, except for Ye Chui.
Ye Chui could still hear a “tick tick tick” sound like the jumping of a second hand, each one representing 0.1 seconds.
[Time’s Freeze], at present Ye Chui can only freeze time for 1 second, but this is already enough!
He swiftly dodged the Divine Punisher’s attacking fist, at the same time a phantom emerged on his body, that was a cannon, one second passed, in Jillga and Guni and the others’ vision, Ye Chui’s body suddenly flickered, the Divine Punisher’s incomparably powerful punch thus missed, booming onto the stone platform.
Then, before the Divine Punisher could act, he suddenly saw a pitch-black cannon barrel aimed at his head.
Boom!
A cannon blast right in the face!
The headless corpse of the Divine Punisher subsequently fell to the ground.
Ye Chui looked satisfied at his magic book, the power regained after loss filled his heart with inexpressible joy, of course, and thick surprise, on one hand because he had comprehended time magic, although at the present stage the time magic Ye Chui can use is still extremely limited, but the potential of this magic is immeasurably vast, on the other hand, it was his new ability now in releasing magic: instant cast!
On the screen of the iPad magic book, a new icon appeared, that represented the consciousness awakened by the iPad boy, that consciousness turned into an app application, this application’s name is: Little Assistant!
, this name was still named by the iPad boy himself…
With the Little Assistant, Ye Chui now, even without looking at the screen, can know the scene on the screen, and, all spells or operations, he can perform at will, just like earlier under the Divine Punisher’s attack, the iPad returned to Ye Chui’s body, immediately after Ye Chui used the spell [Time’s Freeze]!
And before this, Ye Chui could only instant cast those low-level spells.
