Abyssal Chronicles

Chapter 821 - 822: After the war part 2

3 more chapter will be posted after 3h.

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Inside the Redfall City - Lord’s Office

Inside the office of the Redfall City’s lord’s manor, Xiao, the leader of the Black Rose family, was currently sitting at his desk, processing various documents. Beside him were mountains of paperwork piled high.

At present, the capital of the Red Leaf Empire no longer existed, and the Holy War Coalition had collapsed. The entire Red Leaf Empire was almost in a state of fragmentation without a leader. According to Xiao’s plan, now was the perfect opportunity to completely seize control of the Red Leaf Empire. At this critical moment, Xiao couldn’t afford to rest. While dealing with Yumo’s issues, he also worked day and night to process the piles of documents.

There were issues related to military supplies, refugee resettlement, and even news control.

Moreover, he needed to use communication magic stones to remotely command the Black Rose’s army or members of the Nightingale organization, instructing them to search for surviving royal family members. With this as a foundation, they would construct a new regime that obeyed the Black Rose family.

In short, Xiao had countless tasks to handle, and he was stretched thin.

After nearly a week of high-intensity work day and night, the already severely injured Xiao became very weak, and dark circles appeared on his handsome face. However, even so, he persisted in continuing his work, meticulously and conscientiously processing each document.

This state continued until the moment when Wanya pushed open the office door in a panic.

"Lord Duke! It’s terrible! Karos attempted to poison Lady Yumo! Lady Yumo has already coughed up blood!"

"Hah??!!"

Upon hearing this, Xiao’s expression changed drastically, and he directly threw the documents in his hand to the side!

Enveloped in black magic energy, he instantly rushed out! He directly crashed through the wall, leaving a large hole, and then disappeared from Wanya and the others’ sight.

The civil officials were left in the room, at a loss.

However, not everyone was stunned.

As a newly hired minor official of the Black Rose family in Redfall City, Bante couldn’t help but shout in the direction where the duke had disappeared.

"What about the issue of the next Redfall City lord, Lord Duke?! You haven’t given a response yet!"

As soon as the words left his mouth, Xiao, who had just rushed out of the office, flashed back in front of Bante in an instant. Under the dumbfounded gaze of this young man, Xiao handed over the lord’s seal representing the highest authority of Redfall City to him.

Then, Xiao patted Bante on the shoulders and said in a very trusting tone, "From now on, you are the city lord. All the affairs in the city are handed over to you to handle. Alright, that’s it, goodbye!"

With that said, Xiao, who had directly turned into a hands-off shopkeeper, was surrounded by a burst of black light. With a "shua" sound, he rushed out of the office and sped towards the central courtyard, leaving behind a dumbfounded Bante and a mountain of work.

"Huh??"

However, upon arriving at the central courtyard, Xiao saw a scene full of violent colors.

Only to see a group of Black Rose Knights gathered together, frantically beating up a figure in green.

Without a doubt, this figure being warmly greeted by the Black Rose Knights was none other than our great Elf King Karos.

After Yumo vomited blood, Karos was unsurprisingly dragged into the courtyard by the Knights’ Vice-Captain Kardo, who possessed a level 8 strength. Without a word, he started beating him up! No matter how Karos explained, Kardo had no intention of stopping. Not only that, the other Black Rose Knights also rushed up angrily and punched and kicked Karos.

In their view, this Elf King must have deep grievances against the Black Rose family. Taking this opportunity, he tried to retaliate, wanting to kill their Lady in order to avenge the humiliation of the elves over the past few decades!

Strictly speaking, the Elf King indeed had a motive for the crime. After all, before this, Karos had led the elves to resist the Black Rose family a full twenty-six times. Although each time ended in failure, he still remained unrepentant!

Who knows, this might be his 27th rebellion!

Of course, Karos, who was being beaten, knew the thoughts of the Black Rose Knights. If he wasn’t being wronged to the point of crying for his parents, then what was he?

To be honest, ever since Yumo paid him a special visit last time, Karos no longer had any thoughts of resistance in his mind. Even if he had the heart, he didn’t have the guts!

’Besides, I was clearly providing normal treatment, so why would Lady Yu vomit blood?! If my medicine had such great power to poison that lady, then I would have used poison attacks to solve the Black Rose family long ago!’

"Really, really, it wasn’t me!! I didn’t poison her!!" Karos kept howling.

Unfortunately, no one listened to his explanation at all.

The furious Black Rose Knights completely ignored his words and had no intention of giving him a chance to explain. They simply gave Karos a severe beating. If it weren’t for Xiao’s previous orders and Karos’ identity as a collaborator with the elves, they might have directly killed him. Of course, if the doctor’s examination later found that something had happened to Lady Yumo, these enraged knights would likely directly ignore Xiao’s orders and beat Karos to death.

If that really happened, Karos might become the most miserable Elf King in history.

At this moment, in Karos’ view, the only one he could count on was Xiao.

Although Xiao was the culprit who had caused great harm to our elven race, this guy possessed extraordinary wisdom and was a calm and rational person who would analyze things logically. As long as I explained it to him, Xiao would believe that my potion couldn’t possibly harm Lady Yu.

Then, Karos received a piece of good news and bad news.

The good news was that the savior in his heart had finally arrived.

The bad news was that he came with a spiked club...

Seeing Xiao’s gloomy expression and the spiked club inlaid with many beast fangs in his hand, Karos instantly felt a suffocating sensation, his frantically beating heart almost leaping out of his chest.

Supported by his survival instinct, the battered Karos kept trying to speak, attempting to explain.

Unfortunately, due to the relentless punches and kicks, his words were always intermittent and completely unable to convey information to Xiao.

Seeing that Xiao had already gradually released the magic power within his body and was slowly raising the spiked club, Karos seemed to see his great-grandfather on the other side calmly waving at him.

However, just as the murderous Xiao was about to join the group beating, and Karos was about to faint from fright, a maid’s voice suddenly entered everyone’s ears, instantly causing everyone to stop their actions.

"Lady Yumo has woken up!!"

Huh?!

As these words reached his ears, Xiao, who had lost a bit of reason due to extreme fatigue and worry, instantly perked up and immediately regained clarity.

Not even bothering to deal with Karos, Xiao threw down the spiked club and quickly rushed towards Yumo’s bedroom with hurried steps.

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"My Lady! Are you alright?!" Xiao, who had just rushed into the room, immediately asked this question.

Panting, he slowly turned his apprehensive gaze toward the princess-style pink and white bed in the center of the room. On the bed, the black-haired girl who had been sleeping for a long time finally opened her eyes, leaning against the headboard with a tired expression. Her beautiful black and red gradient long hair covered half of her exquisite face and fell messily on her shoulders.

After hearing Xiao’s words, the black-haired girl slowly raised her hand, brushing aside the black hair that obscured her vision, revealing those beautiful, dazzling, gem-like red eyes.

The next moment, under Xiao’s nervous gaze, the black-haired girl smiled faintly and waved her hand helplessly,

"What could happen to me? little Xiao, you really are... Always worrying unnecessarily, as usual."

"Lady Yumo..." Upon hearing these words, the worry on Xiao’s face gradually dissipated.

It seemed that Lady Yumo had returned to normal, not in that previous state of madness where she didn’t recognize anyone.

After reaching this judgment in his heart, Xiao’s tense mind finally relaxed. The magic power suppressed in his palm was slowly withdrawn back into his body.

However, while she was indeed back to normal...

"Lady Yumo, didn’t you... didn’t you vomit blood before? Is your body really okay?" Xiao asked with concern.

In response to this question, Yumo slowly closed her eyes, raised her hand to press against her chest, and revealed a bitter smile.

"About that... it was just caused by communicating with a certain someone, it’s not a big deal, don’t worry about it."