Abyssal Chronicles

Chapter 729 - 730: Heidely

With the end of the shrill and tragic screams, along with the dispersal of smoke and dust, the originally beautiful green prairie had turned into a blood-stained hell. The group of black-clothed individuals who had previously come killing with great momentum had more than half dead or injured. The remaining survivors, without exception, all sustained injuries and shivered as they collapsed to the ground.

There was not a single trace of fighting spirit left in their eyes, only the emotion known as ’fear’ remained.

Those who still retained some semblance of reason decisively threw away their weapons and posed a gesture of surrender to the nearby black knights.

"Please, don’t kill me! We, we surrender..."

It was hard to see the shadow of their confidence and arrogance from a few minutes ago.

As the leader of this group of black-clothed people, Belis was in an even more wretched state. Although he wasn’t directly skinned alive by Xizhi, leaving him with a small life force, Belis’s condition did not seem too good. His eyes dimmed, and one hand and one foot were even cut off by Xizhi during the previous fierce battle, making him seem as if he was bathed in blood, his body mangled and seemingly on the verge of death at any moment.

He could no longer utter any arrogant words, only able to emit low whimpers. His miserable and wretched appearance was entirely unbecoming of a seventh-level peak powerhouse.

"Uh, uh, uh..."

Despite Belis being covered in wounds, Xizhi still had no intention of letting him go. After forcefully pulling out the sword from his shoulder, Xizhi, not caring about his injured shoulder, directly grabbed Belis’s hair and mercilessly dragged him up from the ground.

"Speak, who sent you? If you don’t tell me, don’t blame me for what comes next."

"Uh..."

Facing Xizhi’s dragon-like vertical pupils, which emitted a chilling murderous intent, Belis’s heart nearly stopped. After glancing at his two colleagues who had died miserably with the corner of his eye, Belis felt utterly disheartened.

The mission given by his Madam had already failed.

Although Belis had sworn loyalty to Madam Lisa and the Sky City, and had made up his mind to rather be a shattered jade than a whole tile, after seeing the other two level 7 colleagues die because they were unwilling to reveal information, fear spread and proliferated in Belis’s heart like a virus.

Overcome by fear, Belis cautiously answered Xizhi’s question:

"The, the Sky City... Execution Group..."

"Oh?"

When Xizhi heard this, she grinned contentedly.

"Judging by your way of fighting, I suspected you had something to do with Sky City, didn’t expect it to be true? Heh, were you trying to capture us, to then threaten Milady?"

While laughing, Xizhi’s expression suddenly turned stern, and a chilling coldness spread rapidly from the half-dragon girl at the center, in all directions. Needless to say, those black-clothed individuals who were already scared witless, even the members of the Black Rose family themselves felt a chill down their spines.

Up close, Belis, who faced Xizhi’s chilling baptism head-on, was utterly terrified.

In the face of death, this leader of the Execution Group abandoned all his dignity, using the last of his strength to plead:

"Please, I beg you... no, don’t, don’t kill me..."

"Kill you?"

Xizhi raised an eyebrow, then sneered and shook her head:

"Why would I kill you? We still have much to learn from you. You’ll have to continue cooperating with us in the future..."

Saying so,

Xizhi grabbed Belis’s head, like dragging a dead dog, and handed him over to a tall and robust Black Rose knight beside her, while she herself prepared to personally clean up the aftermath.

However, at this moment, a terrifying force suddenly burst into Xizhi’s sensory field, causing the fierce killer’s body to tremble, and her complexion to drastically change.

"Someone else is here?!!"

Sensing something was amiss, Xizhi bit her lip and urgently instructed the surrounding knights,

"Be on guard, there are enemies around!!"

???: ’Could this be said to be the well-trained Black Rose knights?’

???: ’Even after having deprived the enemy of their combat capabilities, they still maintained a high state of alert.’

Upon hearing Xizhi’s instructions, they immediately formed a defensive formation.

At this moment,

Unlike before, a solemn expression involuntarily appeared on the faces beneath the Black Rose’s armor.

Because they all heard something unusual from Xizhi’s words.

Although the sensory field did not capture the opponent, relying on her half-dragon’s wild instincts, Xizhi suddenly perceived an anomaly above the sky and quickly raised her head to lock onto a corner of the barrier.

Unfortunately, it was too late,

Soon, Xizhi was astonished to find that the barrier set up by Belis had been broken, leaving a gap.

’Someone rushed in?!’

Realizing this, Xizhi tightened her grip on the dagger, continuously scanning her surroundings with vigilance.

Just at this moment, as if sensing something, Xizhi’s dragon pupils suddenly narrowed, and every cell in her body issued a warning at this moment.

Accompanied by an overwhelming suffocating arrival, a figure enveloped in black mist quietly appeared beside Xizhi.

"Don’t be so tense?"

A gloomy and slightly hoarse voice quietly floated into Xizhi’s ear.

’What!?’

’Where!?’

Just the moment this voice reached her ears, Xizhi was covered in sweat, as if feeling a crisis of walking on the edge of life and death.

"Who is it!"

Gritting her teeth, instinctively, Xizhi’s dagger was suddenly wrapped in dense dark green energy, with a lethal momentum, she stabbed at the shadow’s neck like lightning.

However,

This strike was destined to miss.

Xizhi did indeed hit the shadow, but there was no sensation of hitting the target.

As the shadow dissipated, Xizhi realized it was just an afterimage.

’Damn’

’Where did it go?!’

The next moment,

As if to answer Xizhi’s question, a shrill scream suddenly echoed over the silent prairie.

This scream directly drew the gaze of Xizhi and the Black Rose members to the rear.

"Damn, this guy..."

At this moment,

Under the watchful and uneasy gaze of the crowd, a ghostly shadow had already instantaneously appeared in front of a Black Rose knight, and in the hands of this knight was Belis, who had been defeated by Xizhi just minutes ago.

"What is that?!"

The Black Knight made a decisive move, swinging his sword to slash at the shadow in front.

Unfortunately, aside from cutting through a cluster of black mist, the knight’s attack achieved nothing. The black figure counterattacked with a swing of his hand, instantly shattering the knight’s armor! The whole person was suddenly sent flying out, bathed in blood.

The dying Belis then fell into the hands of that black shadow.

Just when everyone thought the shadow had come to rescue Belis, Belis’s eyes revealed a look of extreme terror.

The next moment,

*Crack~*

Accompanied by a crisp sound, the black shadow’s claws forcefully squeezed, mercilessly crushing Belis’s head into pieces...

"Having disappointed madam’s expectations and daring to reveal information about Sky City. Death is not to be regretted..."

After disdainfully tossing Belis’s body aside, the black shadow muttered to himself dismissively.

As the words were spoken, the black mist slowly dispersed, revealing the true form of the black shadow in front of the Black Rose family members without any cover.

It was a man nearly 1.9 meters tall, slender but frail, wrapped in pitch-black soft armor.

Like a viper, he exuded a gloomy and heavy aura all over.

However, when his brown-yellow eyes locked onto Xizhi, the half-dragon girl trembled, gripping her dagger tightly.

"You are Heidely?!"

In an instant, Xizhi recognized the identity of the other party.

It was the butler of Sky City, possessing the strength at the mid-stage level 8 Divine Swordmaster.

Having considered the possibility of being hostile to Sky City, Xizhi and the Nightingales had started gathering information on Laplace years ago. She was more than familiar with the top most powerful peoples in Sky City.

"Hehe~, has madam Lisa’s trusted aide come? We are indeed honored."

Xizhi couldn’t help but give a bitter laugh.

Seeing that Xizhi recognized his identity, Heidely said with a light laugh:

"Knowing who I am? Then just come with me obediently, you are no match for me. If you cooperate, our Sky City will not trouble you and will offer you the highest courtesy treatment within Sky City."

"Haha~"

After taking a deep breath, Xizhi suppressed the unease in her heart and revealed a mocking smile:

"Though your offer is good, I don’t like it."

As she spoke, Xizhi and the surrounding Black Rose knights all simultaneously burst out with strong aura and pointed their swords directly at Heidely’s forehead.

" Black Rose Family will not surrender!"

However,

As soon as the words fell, Heidely’s voice ghostly floated into Xizhi’s ears. The tall, thin black figure, under Xizhi’s astonished gaze, disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"I’m aware of that"

The next moment,

The disappeared Heidely instantly reappeared in front of Xizhi, his claw wrapped in Black Rose thrusting out fiercely!

Accompanied by the dispersal of the dark green energy and the splattering of blood, Heidely appeared in front of Xizhi with one hand behind his back, while his other hand had mercilessly pierced through Xizhi’s abdomen without any pity.

"So, I was just joking with you."

With a tinge of excited frost flashing in his eyes, Heidely stared at the half-dragon girl spitting blood in front of him, sensing the scent of blood in the air.

’These low life from the land’

’Dared to refuse me?’

’Truly overestimating themselves’

’If they overestimate themselves? Then, they must pay the price...’