Abyssal Chronicles

Chapter 868 - 869: The Growing Girl

Yuan’er’s New illustration will be posted with the next update in chapter 71 and the main page.

Aya’s Illustration has been posted in chapter 71 and in the main page.

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With a flicker of black light, Marta, who was still harboring evil thoughts, fell face-first to the ground just like that.

The next instant, her beautiful face, along with her unrealistic ideas, was directly devoured by the black energy overflowing from the arrow, exploding into a rain of blood.

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On the mountain peak, a brown-haired woman in an elegant butler uniform slowly walked up to the pink-haired girl’s side, indifferently looking towards Marta’s incomplete corpse in the distant forest. For a moment, a mocking smile couldn’t help but appear on the brown-haired woman’s face.

"Hehe, what a foolish woman."

And this woman who spoke was named Eliza Lakasha.

She was the existence dispatched by the Black Rose family to serve as Yuan’er’s head maid in Night Wish City. Having been a member of the Nightingale organization before, Lakasha naturally possessed extraordinary strength, able to clearly see that badly damaged corpse tens of thousands of meters away.

As for that death row inmate’s begging behavior, Lakasha felt disdain from the bottom of her heart.

Begging for mercy?

What’s the use of these social dregs begging?

Besides, the purpose of bringing you here was not to let you live in the first place.

You foolish lot, you don’t really think you can escape from the young lady’s hands, do you?

After a slight smile, Eliza slowly turned her gaze to the pink-haired girl beside her.

That’s right, the root purpose of sending the death row inmates to the hunting ground and starting this unique hunting activity was for Yuan’er.

The current Yuan’er indeed looked like a gentle and delicate noble young lady. But what couldn’t be ignored was that her essence was still a fearsome Demon King.

Since she was a Demon King, no matter how much Yuan’er acted like a human, she ultimately couldn’t completely cast off the nature of Abyssal Demon.

That kind of urge for destruction and slaughter still filled Yuan’er’s mind at all times.

And this urge grew stronger as Yuan’er’s power increased over the years.

It even gradually started affecting Yuan’er’s mental state.

After all, Yuan’er was still a sixteen-year-old child and couldn’t perfectly control her inner nature like her sister Kalina. Plus, Yuan’er had been living with humans day and night in recent years. Under the stimulation of human aura, Yuan’er’s sanity was often on the verge of extreme danger. If she was slightly careless, she would be dominated by her Abyssal Demon nature and destroy everything around her.

To avoid this situation from happening, Yuan’er needed to regularly vent her inner desire for slaughter.

After all, only in this way could her state of mind be stabilized.

Kalina and her grandfather Xiumu, who were well aware of this, regularly prepared such a special hunting banquet for Yuan’er. Using the lives of those death row inmates to stabilize Yuan’er’s heart.

Well~ In any case, those sinners were utterly wicked existences to begin with. Before dying, using their own lives to make some contribution to the peace of the entire Night Wish City~ could be considered making some atonement.

Although Miss Yuan’er was a bit unaccustomed at first, she quickly tore the death row inmates into pieces with black energy claws in one go under the patient guidance of sir Pierre.

Gradually, Miss Yuan’er even started finding fun in it, each time using different methods to "deal with" those dregs of society.

And this time, Miss Yuan’er’s choice seemed to be archery?

Eliza expressed great approval for archery. If it was like before, using fists to punch, hammers to smash, or knives to chop and such, the blood of those lowly existences would splash onto their noble young lady, which was something Eliza didn’t want to see.

Also, this way, before returning to the castle, she wouldn’t need to deliberately clean Yuan’er’s body and clothes.

Thinking of this, Eliza nodded in satisfaction and as always, silently watched Yuan’er slaughter the death row inmates one by one. Seeing that excited yet cruel smile on Yuan’er’s pretty face, Eliza couldn’t help but smile contentedly.

And at this moment, a strange energy fluctuation suddenly rippled out from her waist pouch.

"Hm? This is?"

Noticing the communication magic stone flashing with a faint blue light in the pouch, Eliza put away her smile and revealed a serious gaze. She was well aware that this communication magic stone would only activate in emergency situations.

Faced with an urgent matter, Eliza naturally didn’t dare to be negligent and hurriedly connected her consciousness with the communication magic stone.

"Captain Xizhi, what are your orders?"

As message after message was transmitted from the communication magic stone into Eliza’s mind, this head maid’s expression kept changing - shock, joy, solemnity, no... Various emotions alternately appeared on her face.

And when the communication ended, Eliza immediately strode up to the pink-haired girl’s side, her eyes filled with urgency.

As if sensing Eliza’s huge change in alertness, after casually releasing an arrow and blowing up a certain death row inmate’s lower body into minced meat, Yuan’er slowly turned her head and calmly asked:

"What’s wrong?."

While speaking, the pink-haired girl raised the longbow in her hand. Black Shadow Power rapidly gathered at Yuan’er’s fingertips and suddenly condensed into an arrow exuding a deathly aura.

"What did Sister Xizhi say?"

"Reporting to the young lady, Captain Xizhi received a piece of news. In the western part of the Holy Lomari Empire, in Dotori Port, a suspicious figure was discovered. It’s very likely to be Lady Yumo!"

"Hm?"

As these words entered her ears, Yuan’er’s entire body froze, and her eyes that were just calm a moment ago suddenly started trembling crazily.

And Eliza beside her continued speaking:

"Didn’t Lady Kalina and Lord Duke say before, if Lady Yumo reappears in human society, she definitely won’t keep a low profile but will make herself very conspicuous and high-profile! Because in Lady Yumo’s view, we would definitely think she would appear low-key! And today, in Dotori Port, a girl who dressed herself up like a butterfly and attracted attention appeared!"

"There are people like this too. It can’t prove anything, right?"

"Not only that, Miss Yuan’er! That girl’s behavior was very abnormal after seeing the news of your engagement! That’s right! That girl’s background is also not very clear! It’s very much like a disguise!"

Eliza said somewhat excitedly, and the gaze she used to look at Yuan’er even carried admiration.

Now, in the eyes of Eliza and the others from the Black Rose family, there was an eighty percent chance that Yumo was not on the Ancita continent. Perhaps she had hidden herself in that vast Dead Sea realm, which was why their search over the years had been as ineffective as a stone sinking into the sea. However, everyone believed that Yumo would eventually return to the continent from the ocean!

Therefore, considering Yumo’s temperament, the Black Rose family had informants monitoring the major coastal port cities across the continent all year round, intending to discover Yumo at the first opportunity. However, considering the Veil of Deception possessed by Yumo, the Black Rose members had always been skeptical about whether they could discover Yumo. Even if they had already deduced that Yumo would definitely dress herself up in a very eye-catching manner...

And knew that Yumo would appear in the form of a young girl.

But this wasn’t much.

After all, in these port cities, girls who dressed flamboyantly were not few.

Wanting to find Yumo based on this still seemed like a pipe dream.

Until Miss Yuan’er proposed a new plan.

That was to loudly promote the news of her engagement in major port cities! And Yumo, who saw this news, would most likely find it very difficult to remain calm. A girl who dressed in an eye-catching manner, plus having a big reaction to the engagement news?

This undoubtedly would greatly reduce the number of suspected targets.

Facts indeed proved this to be the case.

A full month after Yuan’er’s engagement news was released, only then did a target meeting the three conditions appear.

Although it couldn’t be determined if she was really Yumo, just the possibility alone was enough to make Eliza excited. After all, in the past six years, they had never even encountered a hint of possibility.

Hearing Eliza’s excited words, Yuan’er didn’t speak but took a deep breath as if trying her best to control her emotions.

The next instant, the black arrow in Yuan’er’s hand suddenly shot out!

No longer playing around like before, shooting one criminal with one arrow, this arrow shrouded in pitch-black Shadow Power directly shuttled through the dense forest and in an instant pierced through the heads of the remaining fourteen death row inmates. Undoubtedly, after hearing Eliza’s words, Yuan’er no longer had the mood to continue hunting leisurely.

After dealing with the criminals, Yuan’er slowly lowered the longbow in her hand. Looking up at the clear sky, the pink-haired girl’s lips curled up slightly, revealing a crazy excited smile.

"Oh ho~, could it be that she took the bait so quickly?"