Abyssal Chronicles

Chapter 207 - 208: The Second Wave of Rescue

’Huh? Where am I?’

’Ah?’

’My, my head?’

’why it hurts so much?!’

’Hmm? And wait, this, this smell? This is, this is freaking horse dung!’

"Damn it!"

Roaring furiously in his heart, the consciousness of the Royal Knights’ squad captain, Abike, was instantly freed from his slumber.

Violently opening his eyes and looking at the infuriating brown object in front of him, Abike quickly sat up and wiped the disgusting mess from his face with his hand.

He retched while pressing hard on the bump on his head.

Damn it!

’Who were those people? How dare they attack a convoy protected by the Royal Knights?!’

Hmm?!

No! What happened to the prisoners?!

Realizing the crux of the matter, Abike stopped cursing and instead revealed a furious expression. He rushed to the prison cart and stuck his head inside.

However,

At this moment, there were no prisoners left inside the prison cart. It was completely empty...

"How...how is this possible?! Where are the people?!"

Abike retreated in disbelief. As a member of His Majesty’s elite troops, he should have excellently completed the mission to bring this batch of criminals back to the Imperial Sky Dome City. However, now, these criminals had been abducted!

Someone had actually taken people from the hands of the Royal Knights?!

"Damn it!"

Abike suddenly became so angry that his veins bulged. Unable to bear it anymore, he roared and turned to look at the surrounding unconscious Royal Knights.

"Stop sleeping! Get up! People have been taken away, and you’re still sleeping?! Hurry up and find them!"

The huge roar, mixed with powerful aura fluctuations, instantly washed over the knights, causing them to gradually wake up. They climbed up from the ground in utter confusion.

"What...what happened?"

"Still have the nerve to ask what happened? Hurry up and get your weapons, go find the people! The prisoners have escaped! And, Little Te! Hurry up and contact the others, have them come over and support us!"

Looking at the just awakened team members, Abike hurriedly urged.

If they could catch the people, perhaps they could make up for his failure this time.

He absolutely couldn’t disappoint the Crown Prince!

However,

Just as Abike was about to reorganize the team and make up for his failure, a terrifying power suddenly entered his perception. The squad captain’s face changed dramatically, and an indescribable fear instantly surged into his heart.

"This... this aura?!"

In fact, not just Abike,

Those Royal Knights who had just awakened from unconsciousness also instantly felt an immense sense of fear. Their breathing even stopped abruptly. The pressure this aura gave them was even greater than that of their own captain! More importantly, within this aura, there was a horrifyingly cold hostility...

The next moment,

Under Abike’s horrified gaze,

A figure wrapped in pure white energy suddenly descended from the sky and landed directly in the center of the camp. Then, before Abike and the others could clearly see the person’s face, the white light flashed, and at a speed too fast for the naked eye, it swept across the Royal Knights.

Even though Abike and the others held swords in their hands and promptly adopted a defensive posture,

The swords in their hands were practically useless, like decorations, due to the opponent’s speed being so unbelievably fast.

The white figure easily attacked the Royal Knights and mercilessly struck their heads with a wave of her hand.

"Smack~smack~..."

As the white light dissipated,

The knights who had been hit hard were already dazed.

After staggering for a moment, they once again fell to the ground, unconscious...

’No, this is not good! I have to retreat!’

Seeing this scene, Abike instantly broke out in a cold sweat. Although he wanted to defend the honor of the Knights and defeat the attacker, Abike knew he had a little bit of self-awareness. The mysterious person who had just attacked them was definitely not someone he, a middle sixth-stage swordsman, could face!

A hundred of him together would still be sending themselves to their deaths!

’That aura, it was Holy energy!’

The existence of the eighth-stage light attribute Holy energy,

’Damn it, why would an Apostle of the Heaven from the Asumos Church appear?! Didn’t they sign a contract with His Majesty?!’

Roaring furiously in his heart, Abike quickly turned around, intending to retreat.

However,

At the very moment he turned his head, Abike was surprised to find an extremely familiar and beautiful silver-haired girl had already appeared behind him, her face coldly watching him.

"It’s you?! Miss Mengxi?! How could you...Hmm?!"

However, before he could finish speaking, Mengxi snorted coldly and directly pulled out a mace from some unknown location behind her.

Without saying a word, she fiercely smashed it on Abike’s head.

"Boom~"

Accompanied by a loud, earth-shaking noise, Abike’s eyes rolled back, and he foamed at the mouth, once again falling unconscious...

"How...how could this be..."

After letting out a resentful wail, Abike fell to the ground, his face landing squarely on the pile of horse dung from earlier...

With Abike’s collapse, the Royal Knights in this camp, who had been awake for a full three minutes, once again fell into unconsciousness...

...

Looking at the Royal Knights scattered on the ground, a trace of disgust slowly emerged in Mengxi’s light purple eyes. The reason Mengxi despised these people was not solely because they had captured her sister Yumo earlier. Another reason was their style of conduct.

Although they claimed to be Royal Knights, they did not strictly abide by the empire’s knightly code. Everything was based on the commands of Xue Tianao. Although Xue Tianao was now the emperor, and the Knights were obliged to obey the emperor’s orders, these people’s performance was not like honorable knights but rather like brainwashed fanatical followers...

Compared to those people from the Divine Punishment Sect, there isn’t much difference, is there?

Hmm,

Strictly speaking, many people around Xue Tianao, especially his close followers, seemed to have the same kind of conduct...

’How boring...’

Mengxi snorted coldly,

At that moment, a beam of white light suddenly appeared next to Mengxi. As the white light dissipated, the Apostle of the Heaven, Bai Yanluo, with beautiful long white hair and holding a ’crowbar,’ appeared in front of Mengxi,

"How is it? Did you hit his unconscious acupoint?"

Looking at the embarrassed Abike on the ground, Bai Yanluo slowly asked,

In response, Mengxi nodded slightly,

"Mm."

"Oh, that’s good. According to recent research from the Dogsh*t Academy, hitting that spot can effectively help erase the memory of the two to three minutes before falling unconscious. That way, they won’t know it was us who did it. By the way, Mengxi, you can throw away the mace you grabbed from the goblin. Don’t you find it dirty?"

"Sigh, it doesn’t matter."

After responding softly, Mengxi let go of the mace in her hand, and it fell freely back onto Abike’s head,

’Clang’

Hearing this sound, Bai Yanluo shivered slightly,

She looked somewhat helplessly at the silver-haired girl in front of her.

It seemed that Mengxi was really protective of that child. The person who had been rude back then had been dealt with by Mengxi...

Really, what was I thinking? If she weren’t protecting tht child, Mengxi wouldn’t have dragged me here to save her...

Sigh,

I, a dignified Apostle, am actually coming here to rescue someone?

Speechless.

"By the way, the girl..."

"She’s gone."

Looking at the empty interior of the prison cart, Mengxi’s mood suddenly plunged as if a ton of ice water had been poured over her. She guessed that there was a high probability that her sister Yumo would disguise herself as Xia’er and head to the Imperial City, so she came here to ’save’ Yumo directly...

After all, Yumo probably wouldn’t resist since she was trying to keep up the act.

However,

’Where is she?’

Not seeing the pink-haired girl, Mengxi couldn’t help but clench her fists.

Judging from the chaotic scene and the dazed state of these royal knights,

There must have been a battle here before.

Did Sister Yumo escape on her own?

But, there’s no trace of the Shadow Power?

Mengxi couldn’t help but frown. After absorbing the Shadow power from Yumo every day, Mengxi was very sensitive to Yumo’s power. If Yumo had taken action, she would have definitely sensed the Shadow power released by Yumo.

Instead, there was only that little bit inside the prison cart.

Which means,

’Sister Yumo didn’t escape on her own...’

But, the people here were clearly subdued easily. If Sister Yumo didn’t make a move, who did?

People from the Windy City? No, they couldn’t possibly handle Xue ’s Royal Knights with their strength.

Meanwhile, the conversation between Sister Yumo and the strange powerful little girl during Mengxi’s ’unconscious’ period resurfaced in Mengxi’s mind, causing her eyebrows to furrow,

’Was it the Black Rose family?’

Their words,

Might suggest that they had the power.

As Mengxi pondered, Bai Yanluo, who had finished inspecting the surroundings, walked thoughtfully to Mengxi’s side,

"Strange..."

"Hm? What’s wrong?"

Bai Yanluo’s words temporarily attracted Mengxi’s attention, as it was indeed rare for Bai Yanluo to express such surprise.

In response to Mengxi’s question, Bai Yanluo pointed thoughtfully at the position where the other royal knight squads were located,

"If you look carefully, the path of this escort team has deviated quite a bit, and they’ve fallen quite far behind the other squads. Perhaps it’s because of this that they weren’t discovered after being attacked. However, these knights sure have a lot of nerve."

"Hm? Sister Bai, you mean they’ve deviated? Did these knights get lost?"

"Unlikely. This elite unit wouldn’t make such a basic mistake... Besides, there are traces of magic in the nearby forest. I suspect someone deliberately led them astray."

Hearing this, Mengxi was slightly stunned,

"Causing the Royal Knights to deviate? Sister Bai, do you know what kind of magic it is?"

"The dense forest nearby, Enmmm..."

Bai Yanluo held her chin in her hand, assuming a contemplative expression,

"To my knowledge, the only one capable of doing this is the Elf-exclusive Sacred Magic - The Wandering Forest..."

"The Elf race?"

Mengxi showed an utterly puzzled expression,

Aren’t elves always Prideful and don’t interfere with other races?

Why, why would they suddenly come to help and ’rescue’ Sister Yumo?