booktalesy Chapter 117 Egg
Chapter 117 Egg
Chapter 117 Egg
"What on earth happened?"
After retreating a short distance with Aya to ensure that the surrounding dark matter would not invade her body again as before, Yunhua asked Aya.
Aya didn't answer, but instead took out a telescope and handed it to Yunhua, asking him to observe the center of the basin.
Yunhua took the binoculars and saw a well-preserved, huge bird-like skeleton in the center of the basin, with blue flames burning on it, which looked very similar to the flames of the Azure Flame Bird.
Xu Chao, who had disappeared earlier, was standing on top of the skeleton. He seemed completely unaffected by the dark matter and was casting his mid-level max-grade lightning magic to fight a blue flame bird in the air.
That was a Commander-level Azure Flame Bird, even more powerful than the one in the mine! Its entire body was covered in pure blue feathers, and its blood-red eyes were fixed on Xu Chao.
Logically speaking, it would be impossible for Xu Chao, a mid-level mage, to fight a commander-level demon.
However, beneath that skeleton, endless black energy emanated, permeated with feelings of fear, hatred, and distortion. It seemed that this black energy was the source of the strange behavior of the Azure Flame Bird.
Fortunately, a flame was burning continuously, incinerating most of the black energy, leaving only a small portion.
However, this small portion of black energy condensed in the air to form the shape of a tree. The branches formed from the black energy helped Xu Chao fight against the Azure Flame Bird, which is why Xu Chao, a mid-level mage, was able to fight the Azure Flame Bird to a standstill.
"What's going on?" Seeing these things, Yunhua's questions were not answered, but instead became even more confused.
Aya then recounted everything she knew from the beginning.
When Xu Chao took advantage of the chaos to leave the main force, he took out a light-attribute defensive magic tool. Because of this magic tool, the demons that were tainted by dark matter were unwilling to approach him, so he easily left the Dark Forest. Aya followed behind him using Shadow Step.
Perhaps because he believed that no one could follow him, Xu Chao did not notice Aya's presence along the way, which led Aya to leave a mark for Yunhua.
Aya followed them all the way here, but because the basin was too open and not suitable for tracking, Aya stayed outside.
During this time, Aya also encountered a similar situation to Yunhua. A large amount of dark matter tried to erode her body. Fortunately, there was no other fire element energy, so although Aya was in pain, she could still move her body.
After getting away from the thick, eerie dark substance, Aya found a place nearby where she could be easily observed and hid, then waited for Yunhua to arrive.
"But judging from your demeanor just now, it seems there are other factors besides the dark matter?"
Yunhua nodded and told Aya about her feelings just now.
"Fire energy?" Aya thought for a moment after hearing this, then said, "That might be Nephthys's power!"
"Nephthys? Senior Sister, you mean that skeleton is the remains of the Phoenix God!"
"That should be it. It matches what I learned. Nephthys perished together with a dark creature, and this black mist should belong to that dark creature."
"But it's been eighty years. Even if it was powerful when it was alive, after so long, does it still have such power?" Yunhua said in disbelief.
Aya chuckled softly, then warned Yunhua, "Don't underestimate demons. The more powerful a demon is, the more bizarre its abilities will be. At least in my opinion, it's not impossible."
Yunhua said, "This is truly beyond my imagination! That one down there can corrupt so many demons just by relying on black energy, and Nephthys is also amazing, managing to suppress them for eighty years using only corpses!"
"I'm afraid it's not just Nephthys's own power." Aya had a different opinion. She asked Yunhua to take a closer look and see if there were many stones near Nephthys's body.
Upon closer inspection, Yunhua confirmed it was true, and those stones appeared to be magic stones whose energy had been depleted.
"Azure Flame Bird?" Yun Hua immediately thought of the Azure Flame Bird that robbed the magic stone mine, and there seemed to be some connection between the two.
"That's right." Aya confirmed Yunhua's guess. "These Azure Flame Birds should be Nephthys's kin. After Nephthys died, they have been strengthening Nephthys's seal by providing these energy-rich substances. Because they can't get enough of these substances, they attack humans."
Yunhua nodded: "That's very possible! But what about Xu Chao? Why would the demons underground help him? Are they colluding with one of them?"
Aya shrugged and said, "I don't know either, but I'm sure those missing assassins died here! I saw some special tools that only members of the Assassin's Guild would use."
"In that case, should we notify the military first, just in case that demon below revives?"
"There's no way to communicate here, so even if we go back to inform them, it'll be useless. Such powerful demons breaking free will definitely make a big commotion; they'll find out on their own eventually! Do we have other tasks?"
"What is it?"
"Take a closer look at Nephthys, is there anything different about her?" Aya said, her face revealing undisguised excitement.
Yunhua carefully examined the skeleton from head to toe again, and finally found a huge object in its abdomen. It was oval in shape, grayish in color, and looked like a large rock.
But Aya's excitement made Yunhua think of another possibility.
"Is this an egg?!"
"You think so too, right!" Aya was so excited she could hardly contain herself. An egg that was suspected to be of monarch quality could fetch an astronomical sum if it could be sold.
With this money, I won't have to worry about funding anymore, and I might even be able to buy a small island for my retirement.
If the dark matter there hadn't been so dense that I couldn't go in, I would have killed that guy and taken the egg long ago.
Now we can only wait here until that lightning mage takes the egg away before we make our move.
Seeing Aya's excited expression, Yunhua couldn't help but pour cold water on her enthusiasm, "Senior sister, you'd better not be too happy yet. Putting aside whether that is Nephthys's egg or not, there's no guarantee that Xu Chao will survive."
At this moment, the Crimson-Eyed Flame Bird had begun to fiercely attack the Giant Black Tree. Xu Chao could not actually do much damage to it, but the Crimson-Eyed Flame Bird's main target was Xu Chao. It attacked Xu Chao relentlessly, seemingly in a great hurry.
The giant black tree stretched out branches like pythons and wrapped them around the Crimson-Eyed Flame Bird. The branches clung tightly to the one-eyed Blood-Eyed Crow like suction cups, and feathers scattered all over the ground as it swayed.
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