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Zeta blinked her eyes innocently.
She even spread her hands, indicating that she too had no idea why.
“I just went and took a stroll around their headquarters, didn’t do anything. Didn’t steal a thing, didn’t take a thing. Yet they kept chasing me.”
“….”
Enya gave Zeta another eye roll.
That’s what Zeta said, but what really happened was definitely not that simple. Enya reached out and grabbed the fox princess’s big ear.
With a pitiful look and a coquettish tone, Zeta said, “Sister Enya, you’re hurting Zeta~”
“You must have seen something. Tell me about it.”
Enya had spent time with Zeta and her sisters before. She was already quite familiar with their routine and had built up immunity, so she couldn’t be influenced anymore.
“Mm~”
Zeta stuck out her little pink tongue and said, “Zeta saw a coffin box inside that palace. The lid was open, but it was pitch black inside. I don’t know what was in it. Then that really capable guy discovered me and chased me all the way into the city.”
“Palace? Coffin?”
“Mm-hmm, it was a palace and a coffin. A place kind of like a human church, with a coffin placed there.”
Enya furrowed her brows. She had a vague suspicion forming.
That coffin couldn’t possibly be…
She turned her head and looked straight at Zeta. “Let’s go take a look.”
“But that place has already disappeared. Zeta can’t even find the aura anymore.”
Zeta’s ears drooped.
After she left that place, it vanished without a trace. Even her tracking ability couldn’t find the mountain that had disappeared from that spot.
Enya asked curiously, “It disappeared? Where did it disappear, and what kind of place was it?”
“Ha…”
Zeta lowered her head and thought for a moment. She summarized all the information she knew and told Enya one by one.
“That place wasn’t inside the city. It was outside to the north. There used to be a big black mountain called Mount Blacksky. It was so tall it reached into the clouds. Climbing it nearly exhausted Zeta. The palace was on top of that mountain called Great Black Heaven Mountain. Zeta could even see the stars from up there.”
“Stars…”
Enya muttered softly. Her expression froze for a moment, then she got up from the bed and walked to the window of the room.
This direction happened to be north.
However, the terrain here was low, and many buildings blocked the view. Even after Enya opened her Dragon Eyes, she still couldn’t see the Great Black Mountain that Zeta had mentioned.
There were no stars either.
Zeta wasn’t lying just now. The truth was likely exactly as she had said—that black mountain piercing the sky had vanished.
Enya narrowed her eyes slightly, her gaze sweeping over the chaotic and ruined scene outside. This city had no real ruler.
Basically, a bunch of gang factions had divided up the streets, each doing their own business, making this place extremely chaotic.
As she pushed open the window, many people outside cast their gazes over.
Some bold ones even wanted to whistle. But as Enya’s gaze swept across them, they all felt a chill down their backs.
It was as if some existence that could crush them with a flick of its finger had inadvertently glanced their way.
Terrified of being noticed, they all had another thought in their minds at that moment.
‘What a scary woman!’
Enya closed the window and walked to the table.
She picked up her magic cloak, put it back on, and then pulled up the hood.
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Zeta still lying on the bed. Enya’s gaze landed directly on her.
“Let’s go. We’re going to pay a visit.”
“But it’s gone.”
“It’ll come back.”
“Huh? Why?”
“Why? Because I’m here. So it will definitely come back.”
A confident smile curled at the corner of Enya’s mouth. The words she spoke, though strange, held a persuasive magic. As long as she came, the Great Black Heaven would definitely return!
The two of them, one after the other, slowly walked down the stairs of this empty inn. After stepping out the door, they stood on the desolate street.
Under the dim twilight, the air carried a tense, murderous atmosphere.
Zeta’s eyes swept over the corners and houses, then she turned to look at Enya.
She smiled sweetly and said, “Sister Enya, let me handle it, let me handle it. Killing them will dirty your pretty hands.”
Enya was a little speechless.
A ghostly blue foxfire ignited around Zeta. The guys hiding in those corners slowly emerged one by one. The number was abnormally large, like pushing a sofa at home and having hundreds of thousands of cockroaches scurry out.
The accumulation over the years had filled the City of the Other Shore with all kinds of criminals. They formed gangs and clans, building numerous sinister organizations.
“People full of sin, hiding in the darkness. Quite interesting.”
Enya murmured.
As she said this, Zeta, with a slightly manic grin, charged into the crowd. With a few swipes, she killed a mess of them.
Blood and limbs flew everywhere, and screams and wails sang together.
Don’t let Zeta’s cute and slightly dramatic fox princess act in front of Enya fool you. As her opponent, the terror felt from this graceful body far surpassed that of the restrained Enya.
Enya knew Zeta’s personality well. The first time she saw Zeta like this, she was also a bit startled, unable to believe it was her.
Lifting her head to look north, Enya suddenly thought of something.
“Hey, we seem to be in the southern part of the city.”
“Tsk…”
“Then let’s kill our way from the south to the north.”
Enya summoned a standard longsword. With a casual swing, she sliced in half the guy who had been hiding his aura, sneaking up not far behind her, along with the house he was in.
Boom!
The sound of collapsing bricks and stones rang out. Dust rose and spread.
Enya didn’t bother to look back. But from the smoke, three figures rushed out, each one fiercer and more vicious than the last.
One laughed, one frowned, and one shouted, “Woman, your life is mine!”
Enya didn’t move a muscle.
Before they could get within five meters, their bodies were cut into pieces by the countless silver threads spread throughout the space, their chunks splattering on the ground.
Those who were about to attack from nearby saw this and felt the hot blood stirred by greed instantly turn cold in their chests.
Their steps halted.
“How did she make that move?”
“I didn’t see it!”
“Don’t get close! This woman has something weird. Magic squad, attack from range!”
A voice gave the command in their minds. Some magic users started constructing various attack magics—some elemental, others from different systems.
They all hurled them at Enya’s location in a flurry.
Enya twisted her blade.
The silver threads spread through space rapidly converged into a semi-transparent silver sphere, completely enveloping her body.
When the attacking magic landed on the sphere, it exploded.
The magic users among this group, following orders, actually used a legion magic. Enya turned to look carefully.
She noticed it was a Zephyr Empire legion magic.
Enya recalled that when Vivienne was consolidating the northern forces, many people had fled. Most ran south, and a small portion should have come to this City of the Other Shore.
So-called legion magic was essentially a magic constructed by multiple magic users together. Since it was created for war, its power was incomparable to individual magic.
The magic users there saw magical circles appear on their bodies, eventually forming a larger one.
As the charging completed, a huge beam of light flashed, directly hitting the silver semi-transparent sphere.
Then, at Enya’s location, a small red mushroom cloud exploded, illuminating hundreds of meters around in fiery red.
When the firelight died down and the surging mana turbulence calmed a bit, several mental perceptions swept into the thick smoke.
Then, they were horrified to find Enya standing calmly in place, her long robe bearing not a single burn mark, as if nothing had happened.
The guy secretly commanding widened his eyes, then silently clenched his teeth.
Through a special vision, the man stared at Enya’s figure floating in the air, and commanded in a low voice, “Her shield has been broken. Rush in and kill her before she can reconstruct that damned barrier!”
As the order was given, those originally surrounding the area from a hundred meters away charged toward Enya, who was suspended in the middle of the giant crater.
These third- and fourth-rank guys were no different from ants in front of Enya. She usually had to be very careful not to step on them.
Enya slightly raised her head, looked at the bird in the sky that had been lent a pair of eyes, and directly traced it back to the commander.
She pressed her body down slightly, then vanished from her spot in an instant.
Those charging toward Enya saw her disappear in a flash. Losing their target, they stood there holding their weapons, confused.
The very next instant, they were all neatly sliced apart. The ground and buildings were also destroyed, almost all the cuts being clean and smooth.
Enya left behind a sword qi as a little gift for them.
She herself crashed through the wall of a house and appeared in front of that commander—a man with an aged face.
After looking at him, Enya said, “I don’t know you.”
“…”
Yeah, how could he be an old acquaintance?
During her time with Vivienne, she had encountered some people. Some died on the spot; some managed to survive.
Ten years had passed. She didn’t know what had become of those people.
Enya remembered a certain young miss who had once made trouble for her. After punishing her, Enya had spared her life.
But her family was completely ruined because of her actions. After that, Enya never heard of that person again.
However, that man widened his eyes.
“I… I remember you… you’re that… En…”
“Shh~”
Enya pressed her index finger to her lips, making a silencing gesture.
After seeing it, the man could no longer speak.
“Did I give you permission to speak?”
His head fell to the ground, unable to answer that question.
Beside him was a woman with heavy, gaudy makeup.
Enya turned her head and looked coldly at this seductive woman.
“Tell me what evil deeds you’ve done.”
“I…”
The woman’s face was pale.
Obviously, the sudden appearance of Enya and her swift, thunderous methods had scared all the color from her face.
A hint of ruthlessness flashed in the woman’s eyes. She opened her mouth and spat out a thick, pink smoke.
In less than a second, the entire room was filled with pink dust.
Seeing this, Enya let out a sigh. “Poison doesn’t work on me,” she said, almost mockingly.
“!?”
The woman knew something was wrong and quickly used her own methods to try to escape.
Enya wouldn’t go easy on such a poisonous woman.
She lifted her head and sent a sword qi.
Then she broke through the ceiling and came to the rooftop, sending a mental message to the golden-furred fox princess Zeta, who was busy slaughtering.
“Let’s see who gets to the north first.”
Enya came to the City of the Other Shore to cause trouble.
The bigger the disturbance, the better. It would be ideal if it spread across the entire world.
So, from now on, she was going to kill her way from the southern end of the city to the northern end, climb the Great Black Heaven, break into the Hall of Shadows, and kill that Hall Master.
Kill… kill them all!
Enya was just starting to get excited when she suddenly thought of her two daughters at home. They were still at that most innocent age.
“Ahem, Enya, you’re a mother now. You need to learn some restraint. But still, I’m ridding the people of these pests. It’s a heroic act. Others won’t have time to thank me.”
This City of the Other Shore was like a garbage dump, one of the world’s cesspools. Cleaning it up by the way would indeed be a great deed.