“She’s out, finally out!” Debbie saw Reisha and the others standing outside and happily cheered.
Ye Dui’s face also relaxed with a sigh of relief.
However, seeing their appearance, Reisha and the rest could not help but think that they must have stayed in the barrier too long, so long that the child was already this big, hence their excitement upon breaking through the barrier.
Green instinctively tugged at Reisha’s sleeve and whispered, “Miss Reisha, what should we call the guild leader and vice guild leader’s daughter? Should she call us uncle? Do we need to prepare some meeting gift for her?”
Reisha’s face showed some panic as she said, “H, how would I know!”
“But since Mr Ye Dui and Miss Debbie have a child grown this big inside, it must have been at least three or four years passed. Why do they look unchanged at all?” Xilesi was very concerned about this issue.
Posri also had a look of utter astonishment. She thought that since knowing Ye Dui and becoming companions, she had experienced all sorts of shocks in various ways…
But she had the most pressing question, so she hurriedly shook her head, quickly walked to Ye Dui’s side. “You are finally out. What about the devil now?”
Ye Dui was placing Baby on the ground. Hearing Posri’s words, he was about to answer her, but at that moment, the devil’s angry roar suddenly came from behind them. Ye Dui turned his head in astonishment. The elf tree had broken through the temporal gap and grown out. Green grass had already covered the temple ruins. Even those black-grey rock layers formed by lava were now overlaid with a layer of green. However, at the spot where the elf tree broke through the white mist of the temporal gap, the devil’s figure was constantly flapping there.
His shadow flickered in and out, appearing somewhat blurry.
Time was binding him, but at the same time, he was struggling to break free from time’s confinement!
The time barrier was weakening. Even in other parts of the white mist, two more breaches appeared. Tumour-like objects were trying to escape from there. That was the devil’s body. It was using all its power to send its flesh out beyond the time barrier.
Seeing this scene, everyone was shocked.
“He actually still wants to escape!”
Ye Dui shouted in anger and moved without hesitation. He instantly activated god guard mode. Circuit board-like patterns covered his body. The iPad spellbook also fused into his body. He leaped up, jumping to the largest breach at the very top.
At this moment, he was Teacher Saitama.
One punch strike!
Bang!
Now, on Saturdays, he could use the one-punch hero’s power twice. He had used it once earlier in the necromantic realm. This was the second punch today. It was Teacher Saitama’s one-seventh power punch. The fist force carried a whistling sound that hurt the eardrums, along with a visible layer of wind pressure, smashing fiercely onto the devil that was constantly trying to crawl out.
The devil’s illusory shadow seemed to turn completely solid at this moment. But the solid form instantly began to shatter. Under this terrifying punch, cracks appeared all over the devil’s body. His hissing shout turned into a sharp, knife-like piercing wail. Under that irresistible immense force, he was brutally shoved back into the fissure.
At the same time, Debbie also acted swiftly. She harboured anger towards the devil. She rushed directly to one of the fissures. Right fist clenched, she took a deep breath. Just as Ye Dui unleashed that Saitama punch, Debbie’s fist also landed on the constantly swelling tumour mass.
This was not a simple punch, because she used the power from the Joker ancestor’s hero spirit.
The ancestor hero spirit could possess. Debbie had used such possessing power before. Now she unleashed such a punch again.
With the punch, the tumour mass rapidly caved in. What had swollen out mostly shrank back swiftly under that fist. The force spread within the tumour, breaking apart its composition. That disgusting yet incredibly tough tumour collapsed rapidly into something like a water bag, retreating back into the temporal gap’s fissure.
This scene left Posri, Xilesi, and the others dumbfounded. In their perception, Debbie was just a girl deeply loved by Ye Dui but somewhat silly in personality. Though she held the vice guild leader position, she actually had no real abilities. But at this moment, their views changed. Being able to borrow legendary hero spirit power made Debbie’s punch absolutely stunning in might.
Just then, the massive towering giant tree suddenly shook, as if responding to some summons. It was responding to the elf young female’s call.
Baby stretched her hands towards the sky, making a series of tender cries from her mouth. “Ee-yah, ba, kaka, yah-yah-yah.”
The elf tree began to stir. Suddenly, in the other breaches of the time barrier, those tumours were covered in vein-like patterns. Those patterns were the elf tree’s roots. They rapidly grew into the tumours, absorbing the power within them, making those attempting-to-escape tumours wither quickly and be pulled back into the temporal gap.
All this happened in just a few seconds.
Posri, Reisha, Green, and the others prepared for battle. But in the blink of an eye, the devil bursting from the tumours was dealt with by Ye Dui, Debbie, and that cute little girl. The elf tree was still growing ceaselessly, as if it would not stop until its trunk reached the highest point of the secret realm’s sky.
Its branches extended in all directions. The massive leaves even shrouded the entire upper area of the godfolk city’s inner city. Green spread under everyone’s feet, bringing the most thorough vitality to this piece of world.
And the temporal gap Ye Dui had used was rapidly shrinking, as if turning into a cocoon of light. Within it, a ferocious figure kept struggling. That was the devil still resisting. But the elf tree could use time as nourishment. It was constantly absorbing the temporal gap’s power, while also converting the devil’s evil power into the world’s purest energy.
The temporal gap completely vanished!
This devil, restored to full strength, died along with it.
In previous adventures, Ye Dui’s group had encountered devils twice. The first time was in the goddess of wealth’s ruins. There, they met a devil sealed by the goddess of wealth. After the devil broke the seal, they expended great effort to kill it completely.
The second time in the Sword Burial Ground, they encountered a devil sealed by the goddess of faith. Though they killed the devil in the end, it also infected the fourth prince at the same time.
And now, under the silent influence of the devil mark on his body, the fourth prince had slowly turned into a true devil. After absorbing Zaguras, the void spirit god, and the disaster spirit god’s powers, the devil’s strength had recovered to its peak.
That was a powerful foe even the gods’ clan could do nothing about. Unable to kill, only seal. Now, it was toyed to death by Ye Dui’s group.
Of course, strictly speaking, though the devil the fourth prince turned into matched a complete red devil in power level, it was not a true devil. Its body was limited by flesh, allowing it to be killed this way. In the war of the gods, the devils the gods’ clan faced were complete magical beings, immune to magic and physical attacks, so unable to kill, only seal.
At this moment, seeing that eerie still-growing towering giant tree and the suddenly widespread green plants underfoot, everyone was shocked speechless. Looking again at Ye Dui, Debbie, and Baby standing together, they could not help but marvel inwardly: What an auspiciously violent family this is…
Reminder: Killed the fourth prince, obtained 5000 points reward.
Ye Dui looked at his spellbook at this time and received this message, confirming that the devil the fourth prince turned into was completely dead.
Posri and the others then gathered around in surprise, looking astonished at the little girl standing by Ye Dui’s side. Baby seemed somewhat shy. Her small hand tugged at Ye Dui’s sleeve. She examined the surrounding crowd, making a puzzled sound from her mouth. “Ee-yah?”
“Guild leader, Miss Debbie, I never expected you to actually, actually…” Green could not continue. Seeing the jade-carved little girl, he could not resist squatting down, smiling at her. “Hello, I am your uncle…”
Ye Dui thought of something and hurriedly pulled Baby behind him, warily saying to Green, “You stay away from her!”
Damn, this kid had lolita control tendencies. He had not forgotten.
Green: “Guild leader…”
“Little brother, she, what exactly is going on with her? How long were you in the temporal gap exactly…” Reisha asked Ye Dui tensely at this time, her face still carrying a few odd blushes.
“Rest assured, no time displacement happened this time.” Ye Dui shook his head and explained. He glanced at Posri, hesitated for a few seconds, then introduced Baby. “She is that girl we adopted in Greenleaf Village. Due to special reasons, she only grew up now.”
Ye Dui said this to avoid revealing that Baby was the elf clan queen. The elf clan’s extinction was related to devils. And Ye Dui now knew the church worshipped devils as gods. Plus, the magic guild had deep ties with the church. So Baby’s identity was best not known to Posri.
Green and Reisha instantly understood what was happening and Ye Dui’s wariness. So they immediately nodded in comprehension. Some questions in their hearts were temporarily held back.
Posri could tell Ye Dui was hiding something. She looked up at the immense elf tree that stretched almost endlessly. In her mind, she vaguely guessed a possibility. Her expression showed shock. Her gaze towards Ye Dui’s group changed once more.
In her heart, she already had a very high evaluation of Ye Dui’s ability to stir things up… But evidently, she still underestimated him.
This was the elf clan missing from the continent for five thousand years…
But knowing Ye Dui’s intent to conceal Baby’s identity, she tacitly did not point it out.
“How is the ninth prince now?” Ye Dui did not want to dwell on Baby’s topic. While holding Baby in his arms, he asked Danni.
After killing the fourth prince, among the thirteen princes in the crown war, Ye Dui had gained submission (or killed) eleven of them. Only the ninth prince and third prince remained unsubdued. If he made them submit, the crown war’s final victor would be decided. Jacob would become the crown war’s ultimate winner.
Ye Dui would also completely clear the game Crown War.
