Abyssal Chronicles

Chapter 867 - 868: The Hunt

Of course, in order to avoid exposing her identity, Yumo not only put on the divine artifact "Veil of Deception" to change her appearance after setting foot on the Ancita Continent, but also suppressed her strength to avoid exposing her identity due to the leakage of Shadow Power. Plus, the news of Yuan’er’s upcoming marriage attracted all of Yumo’s attention.

Therefore, Yumo didn’t realize that she had already been targeted. Instead, she walked straight towards the airport with full confidence.

Apparently, Yumo planned to go directly to Night Wish City to meet that scumbag who deceived her daughter’s feelings!

Although Yumo looked confident and believed her identity wouldn’t be seen through, Yue’s eyes were still full of doubt.

From past experience, she didn’t have much confidence in her master’s self-assurance.

After picking up the newspaper Yumo threw down and reading it a bit, Yue somewhat helplessly reminded her master.

"Master, even if your disguise is flawless, the risk of exposure is still not low. After all, in these years, those children have obviously put in a lot of effort to find you."

Saying that, Yue glanced meaningfully at the towering street lamp not far behind.

Reminded like this, Yumo stopped in her tracks. She naturally knew the implication in Yue’s words. Then, the rainbow-haired Yumo looked at that street lamp thoughtfully.

Although the appearance of this street lamp was ordinary and had no magic or energy fluctuations, relying on her extraordinary sense of smell, the girl still detected an unusual scent from it.

Inside this street lamp was a magic crystal.

Magic crystals are a kind of ore that is extremely sensitive to Shadow Power. Once in contact with Shadow Power, it will emit a special power fluctuation. Paired with a specially made alarm system, it can serve as an early warning. In the past, there were many early warning points made of magic crystals on the long border outside the Winter Forest.

And what was contained in this street lamp was not an ordinary magic crystal, but a black crystal that was extremely sensitive to dark-attribute Shadow Power. On the western coast of Holy Lomari, a place that would never encounter Abyssal Demons, the purpose of installing such street lamps was self-evident - to search for her whereabouts.

Undoubtedly, in these years, her children had gone to great lengths to find her whereabouts. They actually installed such street lamps even in this remote port of Holy Lomari. And not just one?

"Hmm, those children have indeed put in a lot of effort."

Yumo nodded in agreement.

At this moment, she also understood Yue’s concern:

"I get what you mean. Even this small border town of Holy Lomari is equipped with such things. In Night Wish City, the area controlled by my children, there must be even more fancy little gadgets to investigate my whereabouts, right?"

"That’s right."

Yue nodded in agreement and somewhat reluctantly turned her gaze to the lowly human adventurer Kain beside her:

"Didn’t this human also say before? The management area of Night Wish City, especially the central main city area, has strict security. Just the outer barrier alone has dozens of layers. Master, if you charge in directly, you’ll have to use force. I’m afraid your identity will be exposed in minutes? Besides, your current state is also..."

"So, Yue, what you mean is?"

"Don’t force your way in or try to sneak in. With Master’s... with our current conditions, it will probably be difficult not to be discovered. Might as well get a pass or invitation to the banquet or something, and enter openly and aboveboard."

"Well, there’s some sense in saying that."

Yumo felt there was some reason to Yue’s proposal.

After the emotional outburst just now, Yumo’s mood had also stabilized a bit, and her IQ climbed back up.

"Pass or invitation..."

While muttering softly, Yumo looked thoughtfully at the extra edition poster hanging in front of the newsstand, staring at the list of invitees on the poster.

"Hehe, I know what to do~. As for the lucky ones? I’ll choose you guys~"

…

At the same time, in the former Wind City, now the location of Night Wish City’s main city. Inside a certain hunting ground in the city, an extremely special hunting banquet was quietly taking place. The reason it was special was because this time, the prey being hunted was not the usual beasts or magical beasts, but living, breathing people.

Of course, these people serving as prey were not ordinary existences either.

If the citizens of Night Wish City were here, it wouldn’t be difficult to judge their identities from their white outer garments and the chained skull emblem on them. They were the prisoners of the most notorious place in Night Wish City, Babel Tower Prison!

At the same time, they were not ordinary criminals either. Each of them had a long list of crimes and notorious reputations as social dregs. The thirty-five prisoners running and fleeing in this hunting ground had each committed at least ten capital offenses, undoubtedly existences that would be sentenced to death.

However, Night Wish City, upholding the concept of compassion, still chose to give these deranged individuals a chance. Give them a chance to be reborn.

That was to participate in the secret hunting banquet hosted by the lord behind the scenes and serve as the prey.

As long as they could leave the hunting ground alive, they could regain their freedom! The law would also not pursue their previous actions, and the government would even provide them with a generous reward.

Thinking of their new life after successfully escaping, the group of death row inmates were all fired up!

The moment the hunt began, they instantly scattered and rushed into the dense forest, using all their strength to flee towards the distance!

At first, everyone still held a relaxed and happy mood.

Because they learned that there was only one hunter participating in this hunt.

And she was the granddaughter of Night Wish City’s lord, Yuan’er.

Naturally, the group of death row inmates had some understanding of that young lady. She was a peerlessly beautiful girl with both virtue and talent, the goddess in the hearts of countless young men, and also the focus of discussion across the entire continent right now. After all, such an existence that everyone yearned for was about to hold an engagement ceremony recently.

But no matter how famous this young lady was, she was ultimately just a little girl sheltered deep in the boudoir, ignorant of worldly affairs.

Letting such a delicate young lady act as the hunter?

Then weren’t they guaranteed to win?

After confirming that the hunter was only Yuan’er alone, everyone’s hearts had already started feeling complacent. And after successfully escaping for dozens of minutes, they were even more certain of their guess.

Escaping from the hands of this vase? It was a piece of cake.

However, very quickly, the death row inmates realized how naive and ignorant their thinking was.

The peaceful and lively atmosphere vanished in an instant the moment the black arrows shot into the forest.

Splat~

Accompanied by the splatter of blood, the bald, burly man who had just been making mocking remarks instantly had his head pierced by a pitch-black arrow! The next moment, a surge of black light, and the man’s head exploded! Brain matter mixed with blood suddenly dyed the surrounding greenery red. The headless body swayed a few times before abruptly collapsing heavily to the ground.

"Huh?! This, this is?"

Seeing this, the short prisoner beside him instantly showed a dumbfounded expression.

But before he could figure out what exactly happened, another arrow suddenly struck, piercing the short death row inmate’s chest without warning. Then, with a surge of black light, the short man exploded into a puddle of blood and water before he could even let out a scream.

"What, what the hell is this?!!"

"Be careful ahhhh!! Someone is shooting from the shadows!!"

"Quick, quick run!!!"

"Help, help me!!"

As the black arrows continued to shoot out, one death row inmate after another fell into a pool of blood, completely losing their lives. Their expressions before death were filled with hideousness, unwillingness, and disbelief.

In an instant, miserable wails echoed throughout the hunting ground.

After witnessing her companions die one after another under the black arrows, the young woman Marta, who was running frantically, also realized the current crisis. Although her eyes were filled with horror, she still relied on her remaining reason to make a move that she thought could seek a chance at life.

The next moment, Marta abandoned the weapon in her hand and directly gave up on running. She turned around and abruptly knelt down.

"Please! Please, I beg you, don’t kill, don’t kill me!"

That’s right, faced with the lightning-fast, hard to avoid pitch-black arrows, Marta chose to beg for mercy.

While uttering her plea, Marta slowly raised her head, revealing a pitiful, truly remorseful and innocent expression. It was with this innocent little look that Marta had originally deceived and murdered dozens of young boys and girls. And now, she seemed to want to use this move again to gain that person’s sympathy.

Just like that, Marta looked into the distance, towards the towering cliff, the direction the arrows came from.

At this moment, in the reflection of Marta’s eyes, a girl holding a longbow was quietly standing on the lofty mountain peak, looking down from above, silently observing everything below.

The girl looked as if she was a fairy who had fallen into the mortal world.

A lock of beautiful dark pink hair cascaded down like a flying waterfall, fluttering dynamically in the wind, alluring. Curved willow brows, a pair of red and blue heterochromatic eyes like jewels, enchanting and soul-stirring, a delicate nose, slightly flushed pink cheeks, cherry-like lips, a crystal clear oval face, tender snow-white skin like ice, an absolutely beautiful figure, charming and amorous, pleasant whether happy or angry.

Wearing a red and white fitted gown, it showed off her alluring figure to the fullest. The white lace flower bud on her chest, like a girl’s skirt, seemed like it would bloom at any moment. Two scarlet skirt hems danced in the wind. The dazzling red gems inlaid on them continuously emitted a glaring light under the sun’s reflection.

However, such a beautiful girl was bathed in a sinister and violent atmosphere.

Although her appearance was perfect, when Marta looked at her, she couldn’t appreciate this kind of beauty at all. The feeling she gave Marta was not a fairy, but more like a demon king wearing a beautiful exterior.

But now, in order to survive, Marta could only hope for this demon king to show mercy for once.

Unfortunately, facts proved that she was still thinking too much.

Faced with Marta’s plea, the pink-haired girl said nothing, not showing the slightest compassion because of Marta’s begging. On the contrary, after seeing the death row inmate beg for mercy, a joyful and excited expression couldn’t help but overflow from the pink-haired girl’s eyes.

The next instant, the girl released the bowstring.

The black arrow suddenly tore through the air and pierced Marta’s right eye.