The tent grew tense at once, like swords drawn and bows strung. The Leader’s wife’s nervous look made it clear she had something to hide.
The Leader’s wife had hidden in the Gale Tribe for a long time. She had secretly guided the tribe’s actions. That showed real skill. But her affair with the deputy leader was very secret. Even the Divine Citizens’ City did not know about it. Now she saw the message Ye Chui had put in the divine stone memory. The white-haired magus by the Eldest Prince said he could read divine stone memory information. And do not forget the zz effect from Aqua’s blessing. Her mind lost control at once. She showed her true colours right away.
In truth, the message Ye Chui left in the divine stone was all made up by him. He knew the Leader’s wife and the deputy leader had something going on. But reading that memory article needed two thousand points. Ye Chui would not spend that. So most of the message in the divine stone was made up on the spot by Ye Chui. But these things follow the same old patterns. Once said out loud, that is all there is to it. Just accuse her and her guilty heart makes her admit it.
Several Gale Warriors in the tent had drawn their curved knives from their waists. They watched the Leader’s wife’s every move with caution.
The Gale Leader’s beard and hair stood on end in rage. He said to the Leader’s wife, “Back then I saved you in the desert. You said you were a low-class slave who fled from the Divine Citizens’ City. I never thought you were such a person!”
“…” The Leader’s wife knew there was no way out. She did not reply. Her eyes looked around coldly, as if she was preparing something. She was normally very alert. Her mind raced through several plans. After weighing them for a moment, she picked the most foolish one: one of her hands slipped quietly into her sleeve. She gently crushed a pale yellow fruit. Faint yellow juice dripped to the ground. It soaked into the earth at once.
A faint scent spread out. But most people would not notice it at all.
In the corner, the deputy leader’s body trembled. He tried to slip out of the tent quietly. But the Great Warrior suddenly blocked the tent entrance. He stopped him. “Deputy Leader, where are you going? Clear things up first.”
“What things?” the deputy leader played dumb.
The Great Warrior looked at Ye Chui instead. He had seen the Leader’s wife glance at the deputy leader by instinct just now. So he was sure the deputy leader hid some secret too.
“Deputy Leader, do I need to spell out what you did? Tell the Leader yourself,” Ye Chui said with a smile to the deputy leader. “I think the Leader will forgive you.” As he spoke, he quietly cast [Aqua’s Blessing] again. A faint light sank into the deputy leader’s body.
“What did I do? Magus, do not frame me!” The deputy leader had lost his nerve too. He shouted in a hurry, “I am innocent with the Leader’s wife! We did nothing!”
“…” At those words, everyone was shocked. Ye Chui’s question just now had not mentioned anything between him and the Leader’s wife. Now he said on his own that he was innocent with her. That proved there was something.
Bloody hell! The Gale Leader flew into a rage at once. His eyes bulged wider than a brute cow beast’s. He looked at the deputy leader, then at his wife. His breathing grew heavier. His face turned green with fury.
The deputy leader froze for a moment. His face grew urgent. His body shook harder. He was normally quick-witted. He did not know why he acted so foolish today. When he met the Gale Leader’s angry glare, the deputy leader’s body shook. He dropped to his knees at once. “Leader, it was a moment of weakness on my part…”
That was full admission of his affair with the Leader’s wife.
It seemed the Leader’s wife’s secret links with the Divine Citizens were almost certainly true too.
The Great Warrior put his black wooden stick on the deputy leader’s shoulder. It pinned him down. His eyes turned cold to the Leader’s wife.
The Leader’s wife bit her lip. She gave Ye Chui a hateful glare. Just then, the ground shook with an ill omen. Everyone in the tent froze. The shake came again. It felt like a small earthquake. But Ye Chui knew the secret realm was just an isolated space world. Earthquakes could not happen here. So where did this quake come from?
The Leader, the Eldest Prince, the Great Warrior, and the others thought of something. Their faces changed in horror. “Desert giant whale!”
The fearsome desert magical beast. Only it could cause such shakes. The Gale Tribe had just faced a desert giant whale not long ago. As they cried out in shock, a loud crack sounded. The ground split into cracks. Shouts of alarm came from outside the tent. Ye Chui rushed out. He saw a sight that left him speechless: in the middle of the oasis ahead, the area burned black by Dragon Cub’s flames earlier had turned to crystals. Now those crystals broke. A terrible black creature leaped out from underground!
It looked like a fish. Its body was huge beyond measure. It resembled a sea whale. No limbs. Its surface covered in black scales. No eyes. A giant mouth full of fangs. It leaped from the ground. Mouth down. It swallowed a tent whole in one bite!
When its body hit the ground, it sank into the earth at once.
Sank in, as if the ground was sea water. It fell into the waves.
The desert giant whale had a rare earth magic talent from birth. It could swim through desert and earth like the sea. Like the Black Mountain ant nest, it was one of the most fearsome beasts in the desert. If a tribe met one, it could mean the end of the whole group!
Its size was not as vast as the desert giant tortoise. But it could still swallow a tent that held dozens of people in one gulp. That dive just now had taken at least dozens of lives.
The ground still shook. It soon leaped out from another spot. Same trick again. Devouring Gale tribespeople!
“Why is it here?” The Leader hurried his people to hide. His face full of confusion.
Ye Chui looked at the Leader’s wife. She was now under guard by the Gale tribespeople.
At that moment, a cold smile showed on the woman’s face. A mad look, as if she wanted to drag everyone down with her. He asked in a cold voice at once, “Desert giant whales rarely come to the surface on their own. They stay underground. The Gale Tribe just met one. It cannot be pure chance to meet another so soon. Did you bring it here?”
At Ye Chui’s question, everyone turned to the Leader’s wife.
The Leader’s wife gave a proud cold laugh. “Yes, I used the fruit of the musk flower to draw them here. This fruit gives off the scent of a female giant whale. It lures male giant whales from any distance. They can sense it no matter how far. Only the Divine Citizens’ City can grow musk flowers. With this fruit, the Divine Citizens’ City can control the desert giant whales’ movements!”
After those words, she froze. As if she did not know why she said all that.
The Gale Leader heard this. Any last fondness for his wife vanished. He asked in rage, “The time we met the desert giant whale before was your doing too!?”
He meant the time the Eldest Prince saved the Leader’s son Nia from the whale’s mouth. Each whale attack cost over a hundred sand people brothers!
“Yes, that time was meant to kill you. But it failed!” Under Aqua’s blessing, the Leader’s wife admitted it plainly. “This time the Gale Tribe is camped in the oasis. No way to flee in time. Attacked by the whale, the tribe will lose at least half its people!”
The Leader’s wife was loyal to the Divine Citizens’ City. She seemed ready to die for it.
The Gale Leader ground his teeth. In uncontrollable fury, he walked to his wife. He drew his curved knife from his waist. He swung it down to strike. Ye Chui had no taste for the bloody scene. He turned his head away. He saw cracks split the ground. The whale’s next strike was about to come.
The Eldest Prince, the white-haired magus, and the others came to Ye Chui’s side then. The white-haired magus said, “My mental magic can stun the giant whale for a short time. His Highness the Eldest Prince saved the Leader’s son with my mental magic. But our attacks are weak. Kru (Ye Chui’s alias), Posili, your magic suits attack better. Later I will do my best to control it. You two attack it.”
At the white-haired magus’s words, Ye Chui smiled and shook his head. “No need for that trouble. Leave this thing to us.”
“To you?” The white-haired magus was stunned.
Just then, the desert giant whale leaped from the ground again. It opened its giant mouth in the air to devour.
Ye Chui had just whispered a plan to Posili and the others. At the sight, he shouted at once, “Do as I said earlier, everyone move!”
Quick as a flash, a golden swordsman appeared before Debbie. It was Gilgar, unseen for so long due to lack of gold to recharge. She turned to a streak of gold light. She flew to mid-air. [Golden Rain] sword qi swept out. It all fell on the whale’s huge body. Golden Rain’s power was strong. But not enough to break the skin of a fearsome beast like the giant whale. Yet it was enough to shift the whale’s body. It had aimed for a tent. Now it veered to an empty spot beside.
Posili summoned her huge magic book that could serve as a shield. She turned its pages. She walked toward that spot.
Advanced ice magic [Ice Queen’s Frozen Earth]
With the spell’s chant, ice crystals formed under her feet. The crystals spread. They froze the ground.
The Ice Queen of old lost control of her magic. She froze a whole nation. This spell came from that. The ground ahead of Posili turned to icy land in an instant. Sand and stones froze. They became blue crystalline forms.
Boom!
The whale’s body smashed to the ground. It twisted. But it could not sink into the earth as usual.
“Green,” Ye Chui called next.
Green agreed at once. He cast a space spell. A patch of green light shadow appeared before Ye Chui. On the other side, another patch appeared by the whale’s twisting body. Ye Chui reached his hand into the light shadow. His hand emerged by the whale’s side. It touched the whale’s rough skin, like grains of sand.
Intermediate gravity magic [Light Body]
Under the magic’s power, the whale’s body, heavier than ten thousand gold, grew lighter fast. Ye Chui’s magic power was now vast. But to [Light Body] such a huge form was still very hard. Yet the whale’s body soon became feather-light. With its struggles, it bounced on the icy ground like a leather ball.
Ye Chui pulled his hand back then.
He took a deep breath. His right arm swelled at once. It became the green giant’s arm. Green sent the blue light shadow under the whale’s body via teleport. “Here goes,” Ye Chui yelled. One fist went through the teleport light shadow. It smashed under the whale’s body.
Bang!
So the huge whale, now weighing just over a hundred pounds, shot into the air fast.
Ye Chui threw the whale into the sky. That way attacks later would not harm the Gale Tribe people. The flying magic vehicle still floated high above.
Ye Chui looked up. The whale’s body reached its peak height. He said to his magic book, “Fire. Nuke it flat!”
