Chapter 570: [ Reunion (2) ]
“... Thinking like that, Master took out the excess weapons he had made and scattered it around the ‘Ruinos Castle’ so that, if they have the luck they can try and take the weapon and use it…without even needing the points anymore...” Laura smiled wryly as she said. Her eyes flashing without pride and love.
“Eh?! You mean, these weapons are free to take?” Si Mulan’s ears perked up and asked in surprise.
“Of course,” Laura nodded. “However, I tell you this, it’s not that easy. All of them are magical weapons, albeit a failure in Master's view but to your level, they are still peerless…in addition, they chose their owners…”
“What?! All of them are magical weapons?!”
Not only Si Mulan, Bu Fanyi, Qin Han and those who came with Layla’s party and even those members of the Dawn was so shocked their eyes widened.
All of these were magical items?
And they are just scattered there just like garbages littering in a park…?!
Is this for real…?
If all the Sect knows about this, who knows what would they feel!
They would surely cry in blood and beat the shit out of the person who just leaves them all around here, littered around casually.
Those who became greedy immediately tried to grab one of those beside them but no matter what they do, they cannot pull it out. They tried on others but the same happened.
“Did Allen change profession and became a blacksmith?” Xue Ling asked in a joking tone as she looks around her while walking towards the castle.
“Not just blacksmith, though…” Alkrasha smiled wryly as she pointed at the statues standing around the premises of the Castle. A pair that looks like classic Gargoyles standing at the gate, one fanged tiger, one large bear, and the most terrifying—a dragon look alike. “They are not just simple stone statues—they are alive!”
“What?!”
“I can feel mana coming from them so that’s not my misconception, right?”
“Yeah, as expected of Mistress Alkrasha's insight, truly amazing!" Laura chuckled. "They are the Castle’s Guardians… well, that was what Master calls them anyway.”
“That’s amazing… and what’s wrong with this Castle? Never knew he could be so fancy… he now likes Castles, huh…” Celty chuckled in amusement.
“He he he,”
“Right Laura, you must have suffered taking care of him… we all know how he can be so unreasonable sometimes~”
“It’s fine, Mistress… taking care of master is my life’s only purpose.” Laura smiled at Layla. Her beautiful smile was so pure it’s hard to believe she was a demon, much less a Succubus.
“… Though I don’t know why and how you are doing it, I’m so thankful that you are here.” Laura suddenly stopped and turned around, she bowed at Layla and the others. “Master’s been longing for all of you, he missed all of you so much that ‘we’ felt helpless we couldn’t help him eliminate his sadness entirely. We are already losing options as to how to pacify master's unstable mood sometimes.” Laura smiled bitterly, her expression full of sadness and sorrow.
“… …?!”
“'We’ feared that Master has been ultra-reckless till now, wanting to advance his power to break through the world’s boundary and return home… Although we wanted to cheer him up but seeing him does dangerous things one after another, just—” Laura couldn’t endure it anymore and break down, crying.
“Laura,” Layla pulled Laura closer and hugged her. Stroking her back and consoling her gently, “We know… that’s why we are here, we had never given up on him even once…”
“That’s right, Laura… no matter where he ends up with, we will do anything to chase him down. We won’t rest till we find him…don’ forget that,”
“Well, I was actually planning to beat him up first for leaving me but…” Alkrasha smiled as she stroke Laura’s head. “Now that I know that he was also feeling desperate for not seeing us, I forgive him now. As long as he was not fooling around after throwing us off, I forgive him for everything…”
“He he, but not punishing him would be a different matter…” Celty grinned. “He dares to leave me out? Huh, over my dead beautiful body…! I would dry him up!” She said without shame.
The others broke out, laughing.
“…But Laura, don’t you have something else to tell us?” Alkrasha inquired with a faint smile, her eyes narrowing.
“Eh? Something else?” Laura tilted her head in confusion from Alkrasha’s sudden words.
Alkrasha didn’t speak but pointed her finger at Laura’s belly. At that time, the latter’s body froze…
No, the entire area immediately froze up and a suffocating silence covered them.
"N, no, no way... don't tell me...!!" Celty stuttered. Liu Muxiao covered her mouth with her hand and Xue Ling's body shivered, her jaws hanged open.
“What? Don’t tell me,”
Layla’s head turned as well and stared at Laura, dumbfounded.
Liu Muxiao and Xue Ling facepalmed.
Each of them wearing bitter smiles.
“No way…Laura, you,” Celty’s face was one for the second end of the world.
“Ah, sorry, it’s not that I was purposely trying to hide it…” She scratched the back of her head in embarrassment. “Yeah, I’m pregnant…”
“Pre…g…nant? Who? Laura?.... NOOOOO!!!!” Celty closed her ears with both hands and cried out. It took a while for the word, “pregnant” to register in her brain. Her reaction when she finally understood what Laura meant was as followed; she opened her eyes wide, her mouth formed an ‘O’ shape, and she almost fainted from shock. She was indeed easy to read.
“Eliade aside, Alkrasha was the first and I should be the second…!!! This shouldn’t be possible!! No, no, there’s still third place…! I can be third place…!”
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“Ah! Sister Baishe as well, she’s pregnant before me…”
“NOOOOOOOOOO!!!” Celty’s face pale and she fell down, unconscious.
She fainted from shock!
1st place is gone…2nd place and now… 3rd place…
Celty felt despaired…!
Alkrasha had an indifferent face, Liu Muxiao, and Xue Ling, on the other hand, had both show bitterness and a bit of jealousy. They facepalmed and muttered, ‘Ah, he did it… I had expected this but… he really did it…’ ‘That pervert… if he didn’t do it, I might think he’s impotent or weird but… knocking both at the same time… in just one year…that, that’s a bit too much, isn’t it…?’
“Aah, I guess, Ciel and Rasha have become Big sisters now… huh…” Layla smiled wryly as she touched Laura’s belly. “…if you are, then wouldn’t working like this be bad for your health, Laura? Mireya and the others should be here, though…”
She cast a worried look at Laura.
“I’m alright, Mistress… As I said, serving master is my life’s purpose. If I can’t do it, I would surely be uncomfortable.”
“Don’t call me Mistress… Sister is fine…” She was already pregnant with Allen's child. Although she wouldn't care about Laura's desire to serve Allen before and just let her do so even though they already acknowledge her status as one of Allen's women but now they can't do the same anymore. If not, Laura's child would be implicated!
However,
“No, no that’s not possible!” Laura immediately refused. Her expression is firm and determined. She has always been stubborn, especially in this matter; “Master is my Master… the mistresses are my mistresses. Even if we have our child, I will still continue serving the Master and all of you. That is my purpose and that would never change…” She said full of certainty.
Being Allen's personal maidservant, that was her right and happiness!
She would never relinquish it!
Never!
“But…”
“... But what about the child, Laura. You can’t tell him to become a servant to us, right?” Layla was hesitating because of Laura’s unwavering expression. But Alkrasha stepped forward and asked.
“He will live for his own will.” Laura smiled faintly. “Master said that he will take both of us but I had already asked Master to let me continue serving him. I’m certain that my child will understand my decision in the future…”
“… If that’s what you want, then go on…” Layla sigh. “But don’t forget, you are already a real part of this family. You are not a servant whatsoever, you are now Laura Bando Villaflores…” She reached her hand and lovingly stroke Laura’s hair.
“Un… I will always take pride in that name,” Laura responded with the most beautiful smile amidst the tears. She clenched her hand and let herself be hugged by Layla and the others. Though a certain someone who’s muttering ‘No, no, I am the second… huhuhu, I won…!’ in her sleep was completely ignored.
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“Damn it! I’ve been had!”
Allen cursed as he somersaulted in the air, inhaled a large breath and Badum!! used Dragon’s Breath.
BOOOOM!
Immediately, from the other side a straight, black, laser-like Breath fired from the massive creature that looks like a mixture of an eagle and dragon. The Breath didn’t let out any sound and immediately reached Allen’s breath as they clashed in midair.
The impact accompanied by a tremendous roar and the heatwave released melted the trees and the ground beneath them.
“Guu! OooooOOOOhhhHHH!!”
Allen let out a roar filled with spirit as he resisted the Breath’s pressure coming from the enemy. Before one was aware, Allen’s body let out bright blue light and fish-like scales started appeared, covering his skin. His eyes as well went from red to slightly blue.
He went all out. However, the enemy’s Breath seemed to carry greater power, so after a pull and push scenario lasted for several minutes, the point of collision exploded with the thunderous boom a few meters away from Allen.
“This bastard!” Allen immediately summoned his pair of black angelic wings—which this time, instead of a pair, it had unexpectedly become two pairs of wings protruding from his back. The moment they were summoned, Allen was immediately enveloped by these wings like a cocoon, absorbing all the impact.
A visible transparent ripple spread in the air, pushing the monsters surrounding Allen slightly away. The surrounding water in the river beneath them was evaporated by the heatwave, the soil and stones on the riverbank were blown away by the impact and in an awful state.
When the shockwave disappeared, the wings bloomed like a blossoming bud, revealing Allen who had already taken off his mask, exposing his real appearance.
Two pairs of horns, one pointing forward while a pair was pointing upward as if it was a crown. Strange marks on his face and limbs. Strange shackles and chains on his wrist and ankles and blue with crimson dragon scales on his skin.
1, 2, 3…8, 9, 10, 11, 12… twelve monsters, though for now, let’s call them Feather Dragons, a seeming mixture of an Eagle and a Dragon, was currently surrounding him. Around them were vulture, eagles, hawks and other types of flying creatures that emitted bloodlusts.
Even in the ground, a horde of monsters was surrounding the human cultivators he unintentionally saved.
No matter how you look at it—this is an ambush!
And looking around him, forests and mountains filled his view and for some reason, he can’t see 'Ruinos Castle' anymore—‘To think I would fall into a trap and be imprisoned in a Domain…’
Allen’s slit eyes narrowed. He suddenly recalled the time when he was in the [ Wild Harsh ] of the Monster King of the Blood Oasis; Hanjin. Such de ja vu, was making him really uncomfortable…!
But still… that familiar aura… was it just an illusion…?
Allen frowned as disappointment colored his expression.
When he suddenly felt a couple of familiar and nostalgic aura when he was working inside his castle, although it’s a bit faint, Allen was surely shocked. Especially when he realized that one of the auras was Alkrasha’s! Although he deemed it impossible for them to be here, he still clung on the bit of hope and left in haste…
However, mid-way, the aura turned strange and somewhat turned blurry. A new massive aura seemed to be covering the surrounding part or something along those lines the moment he had left beyond several hundred meters from the 'Ruinos Castle'. Then, when he heard some scream and cry, he immediately went towards it only to see some unfamiliar faces being besieged and was drowned in helplessness and despair.
… And before he knew it, he fell into a trap…
And judging from this Domain… A Monster King… huh…
“Damn it! Whoever tried to fool me using them! I will surely slaughter you, even if you are a Monster King!!” Allen muttered at the same time a Feather Dragon attacked him from behind.
Beneath him, Allen heard, “Look out!!” and “Behind you!” warning voices filled with urgency could be heard. However, Allen casually turned around and clawed the Feather Dragon and lifted it without any difficulty.
The Feather Dragon was surprised and struggled to escape which made space blurred intensely. Looking at it, Allen looked at it with scorn.
“How presumptuous of you, a mere foot soldier dared to stand in front of a King? Did your King not teach you any manners…?”
Standing still while he raised the Feather Dragon with the huge body weighing several hundred and thousands of kilograms as it struggling midair with only a hand, Allen made the other Feather Dragon’s apprehensive, while the people in the ground dumbfounded.
What kind of human is this…?
Is this still a human…?!
Allen leered at them and lift the Feather Dragon up as though he had lost his interest in it and then,
BoOoOoOmM!!
BaAaAaANNNG
With a raw sound ringing out, Allen clenched his other fist and punched the Feather Dragon’s exposed abdomen, in an instant, the Feather Dragon was unable to even raise a scream as a large hole with a roughly over five meters in diameter appeared in the Feather Dragon’s body.
Blood splattered like a shower and the flesh and internal organs seemed to have already evaporated as they were nowhere to be seen—only chunks of meats that had showered the ground along with the blood.
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