Abyssal Chronicles

Chapter 365 - 366: Shaking the Pot [1/2]

Mengxi’s illustration will come out soon: I tried to make it the same style as Yumo so it took me way more than what I expected, anyway, I will relase it tomorrow after some minor changes.

After returning the limpy holy sword to its scabbard, Yumo turned around in disbelief to look at the dark-haired man standing a little distance away, her ruby eyes brimming with surprise,

"Did you say The Holy Sword went berserk because of Xiao?"

Casting a sideways glance at the trembling Odom, who was kneeling on the ground, she asked, her voice touched by confusion,

Compared to a while ago,

As Odom’s words registered, the chilling aura and heavy shadow power around Yumo seemed to withdraw back into her body. The bloody butterflies, which had previously been fluttering around Odom as if intending to rip him apart and devour him, also returned to her side. The deep, potent aura of murderous intent that once filled her crimson eyes was no longer present...

With the pressure of her aura gone,

Odom breathed a sigh of relief. With the vanishing of her heavy aura, clarity began returning to Odom’s mind. Once his thoughts cleared, feelings of regret overwhelmed him.

He should have come up with other reasons! Not directly saying that it was the doing of the Black Rose Duke...

Once spoken, who knows if he will face terrifying retaliation afterward.

The mere thought sent a shiver down Odom’s spine.

But there’s no turning back time in this world. With things having reached this point, all he can do was to continue passing the buck...hoping that the young girl before him can offer him some protection.

If the girl in front of him is not a purely evil masquerading as an innocent, perhaps he might have a fighting chance at survival...

And so, Odom took a deep breath, and under Xiao’s icy stare, he pointed at him:

"No...no! The Holy Sword was very...very calm before. Even if the sword spirit occasionally acted up, causing trouble several times a week, it never went berserk, attacking others directly! But, Duke Xiao mentioned that he intended to take the Holy Sword away temporarily for some discipline! It must be due to their ’disciplining’ that Eshufier has become so irritable..."

Although he kept using exclamatory sentences,

Under Xiao’s piercing gaze, Odom’s voice and confidence faded more and more, to the point where his words were barely audible by the end...

And this Elf prince didn’t dare to continue making eye contact with Xiao, he anxiously lowered his head,

Of course,

With Yumo’s superior physical qualities, she could hear every word, no matter how soft. At the same time, because he no longer maintained a hollow gaze, Odom’s expression became much more sincere. To Yumo, his words didn’t appear to be lies,

Watching Odom’s fearful expression of not daring to make eye contact with Xiao, Yumo fell into a brief silence.

After a while,

She turned around, meeting Xiao’s deeply set black eyes:

"Xiao, is what he saying true?"

Faced with the questioning gaze of the black-haired girl, Xiao couldn’t help feeling a knot in his stomach.

Indeed,

Upon learning that Lady Yumo planned for the Girl of Destiny to have a holy sword as her weapon, Xiao had directly "borrowed" the holy sword Eshufier from the elves and sternly disciplined the trembling loli Holy Sword,

So that when it was pulled out of its sheath by a race other than the elves, it would burst out with strong aggression.

The reason for doing this was, of course, to hope that the Girl of Destiny would die under the rampage of the sword spirit as soon as she received this holy sword.

However,

After learning that the Girl of Destiny had a trump card in the form of a divine body protection power, Xiao didn’t expect this plan to succeed. But he never thought that the holy sword he had disciplined would be drawn by Yumo.

’How did... Mother comes to know that the elves had brought the holy sword with them?’

Without a doubt,

The current situation has exceeded Xiao’s expectations. However, as the incredibly experienced Duke of the Black Rose, Xiao was highly adaptable in unexpected situations.

Realizing Yumo’s doubt, Xiao didn’t plan to deny his actions,

Instead, he knelt in front of her, bowing his head in guilt:

"I’m sorry, Milady, it’s true that I attempted to tame the holy sword."

In this scenario, Xiao opted for transparency over deception and acknowledged his act of taming the holy sword under Odom’s confused gaze.

Nonetheless,

While he accepted his actions, what Xiao said next gave Odom pause,

The black-haired man shook his head, revealing a very guilty and confused look:

"The sword spirit Eshufier is too violent. I was worried that she would not assist the Chosen One in the hands of the Girl of Destiny, but would cause great trouble to the Girl of Destiny instead. Considering this, I took the holy sword back to the Sadik Empire to reeducate it, hoping to make it a holy sword worthy of the Girl of Destiny. I had no intention of causing harm to the Girl of Destiny."

When he said the last sentence, Xiao looked up, meeting Yumo’s crimson eyes with unabashed honesty.

Upon hearing Xiao’s heartfelt explanation, Yumo furrowed her brows slightly,

"I see what you’re saying... But why did the sword target me?... Your attempt at taming it... why did it seemingly incite even more aggression?!"

"I apologize... Milady... I can’t provide an explanation for this turn of events."

"Huh? What do you mean by this?"

"After disciplining, the holy sword indeed became much calmer. It was no longer as violent as before, and communication became easier. I believed that the Girl of Destiny would be able to control such a sword, so I exchanged it with the elves."

As he spoke, Xiao looked at the holy sword in Yumo’s hand with mixed feelings, his deep eyes full of confusion:

"But I don’t understand why she would... suddenly rampage and attack you, Milady... Perhaps... I made a mistake during the disciplining process, which led to Eshufier’s loss of control just now. I am truly sorry!"

The guilt and melancholy in the black-haired man’s demeanor caused Yumo’s heart to shudder,

"But what exactly caused the sudden rampage?"

Yumo squinted her eyes slightly, looking confusedly at the powerless holy sword in her hand,

After all,

If she didn’t know the reason, who knew if the holy sword wouldn’t rampage again? Yumo wouldn’t dare to give such a sword to Mengxi.

As for Mengxi,

Although she had been irritating her recently, Yumo didn’t want to see her hurt.

Moreover,

’Xiao has always been reliable and wouldn’t have sent Eshufier back to the elves unless he had trained her perfectly, right?’

The dark-haired girl tilted her head in thought, her crimson eyes still filled with doubt,

"Could this kid... possibly..."

...

The changes in Yumo’s eyes naturally didn’t escape Xiao’s notice. When he realized that Yumo still had doubts, Xiao unconsciously showed a touch of helplessness, a genuine guilt surfacing in the depths of his profound eyes.

To avoid detection by Yumo, for the greater cause...

’Forgive me brother… I need to use you again...’

Taking a deep breath,

Under Yumo’s puzzled gaze, Xiao’s brow furrowed and his expression changed as if he realized something! Then, hesitantly, Xiao looked up to meet Yumo’s puzzled gaze;

"Milady, I... I think I know what happened?"

"Hm? Do you know What happened?"

"I may have and idea... but..."

Just as he was about to speak, Xiao suddenly swallowed his words, glancing toward Odom with hesitation,

Seeing this, Yumo naturally understood and cooperatively looked toward Odom:

"Your Highness, I’m sorry... can you step aside for a moment?"

Odom: "?!"

Odom was a bit stunned by the current situation, but he very cooperatively left the disheveled garden under Yumo’s command.

To be honest, he couldn’t wait to run...

After Odom left, Yumo skeptically leaned over and crouched down in front of Xiao:

"Can you tell me now? What did happen?"

"Actually, Milady, the reason Eshufier went berserk after seeing you is probably because of Sir Pierre."

"…Huh? What?"

Yumo opened her mouth slightly with a confused expression on her face,

"Pierre? What does he have to do with this?"

"I think, it’s probably because Sir Pierre, hundreds of years ago, had severely beaten the 13th Elf King, after that, as his weapon..."

Xiao tried to start explaining,

But before he could get two sentences out, he was interrupted by the anxious Yumo.

"Wait! Wait! Xiao, what did you just say? Pierre beat up the Elf King? When did this happen? That brat actually bullied the elves?"

The young girl asked in shock, her crimson eyes full of questions.

To this, Xiao pretended to be puzzled, tilting his head in confusion;

"Hm? Milady, you didn’t know? And... it wasn’t just the elves, you know? Over four hundred years ago, the famous powers on the continent were basically all beaten by Sir Pierre... Hm? Sir Pierre... didn’t he tell you?"

"…"

As these words entered her ears, Yumo fell into a strange silence, and the whole garden was enveloped in an eerie quiet silence. Then, a wave of unspeakable anger suddenly surged in Yumo’s eyes,

"That... that stinky brat..."