Volume 4 Chapter 227

Volume 4 + Chapter 227: As If First Meeting

Elizabeth closed her palm as if to crush the monster before her, and gave a fierce squeeze.

The blood around her transformed into spears, piercing the black monster’s body and shattering its core.

The creature let out a mentally distressing wail before collapsing, turning into a lifeless corpse.

Elizabeth had lost count of how many such monsters she had slain by now.

“When will this ever end?” Elizabeth complained. “We’ve been fighting for so long.”

“Soon, there shouldn’t be many left. Once we clear this area, it should be over.”

Cynthia, who was also clearing out monsters, replied.

“Just when the Allied Pact was about to be successfully established, all this trouble had to pop up.” Elizabeth sighed.

In the Dragon’s territories, strange incidents had occurred. Across various regions, grotesque, hideous monsters had appeared.

These monsters were highly aggressive and powerful, attacking any living creature they encountered.

Initially, the Dragons didn’t pay much attention, thinking they were merely berserk magical beasts. But gradually, they realized something was wrong. Dragons slain by these monsters showed signs of corruption, turning into similar creatures.

These monsters were completely different from ordinary lifeforms, as if their sole purpose for existence was slaughter.

Realizing the severity, Cynthia personally took charge of investigating and handling the matter.

Coincidentally, Elizabeth had also come to the Dragon’s territories during this time to discuss the Allied Pact, so the two decided to act together.

Through their investigation, they uncovered the truth behind the incidents.

The source of it all was closely linked to the Allied Pact.

Not everyone in this world longed for peace. There existed a small minority of extreme, dangerous individuals who harbored intense hatred for the establishment of the Allied Pact. Cynthia and the Dragons became their primary target for revenge.

Surprisingly, even within the Dragons themselves, such fanatics existed.

They had devised methods to perform an evil summoning ritual on Dragons soil, calling forth terrifying monsters to carry out their retribution.

However, their schemes were like a clown’s performance before true power.

Once Cynthia and Elizabeth personally intervened to eliminate them, they couldn’t even put up a fight.

“Damnable Dragon Queen and Vampire Ancestor! You simply cannot comprehend the greatness of that Lord!” the extremist screamed even in his final moments. “Even with your Divine Authorities, you cannot change your foolish ignorance…”

“Hmph, noisy fool.”

Elizabeth severed his body with a blood-red spear, ending his life.

“So, is it over now?”

“…Mhm.”

Cynthia surveyed the surroundings. After confirming that this extremist group and the monsters they summoned had been dealt with, she gave her affirmation.

“There shouldn’t be any remaining remnants.”

“Then shall we return?” Elizabeth suggested. “I came here originally to have fun with you, and yet I got dragged into this boring affair~”

“Wasn’t it you who insisted on tagging along?”

“I don’t care. You owe me your thanks.”

“Alright, alright, I understand, Elizabeth,” Cynthia proposed. “In a few days, it’s a festival for our Dragons. I’ll take you to enjoy it.”

…

The sky blossomed with splendid fireworks. The capital’s streets were packed with people gathering together, celebrating joyously.

Today was a festival day for the Dragons.

On this day, Dragons remembered the First Dragon King, holding grand parades to give thanks for his creation of the Dragons nation.

Cynthia and Elizabeth had both discreetly disguised themselves, concealing their identities to blend in with the common folk in the capital, enjoying the festivities.

“Thanks to our efforts, all the rulers of the superior species have agreed to join the Allied Pact.”

“With the deterrence of all the superior species rulers, we can further stabilize the other races, allowing all peoples of the world to coexist peacefully, eventually bringing everyone into the Allied Pact.”

“The chaotic era of this land is about to end. Our dream is almost realized.”

Cynthia spoke happily to Elizabeth.

Elizabeth gazed at the profile of the person beside her, listening to her words as they walked side by side along the leisurely streets.

Just as Cynthia said, this land was poised to enter a brand new chapter.

Prior history had always been marked by endless warfare among the rulers of the superior species, peace had been utterly impossible.

Yet this unprecedented, unparalleled achievement was something Cynthia was truly on the verge of accomplishing.

It held immense significance.

This dream was no longer intangible, it was within reach.

Elizabeth suddenly felt that her initial impulse back then might have been correct.

“Elizabeth, after the chaotic era ends, the barriers between races might gradually weaken.”

Cynthia turned her face, looking at Elizabeth, as if preparing to voice the words hidden in her heart.

“Elizabeth, when that day arrives, I will tell you—”

BOOM!!!

Suddenly, a violent explosion erupted within the capital, cutting off Cynthia’s words.

Both the Silver Dragon Queen and the Vampire Ancestor frowned.

Who dared to cause trouble here, so blind to the occasion?

“Monsters! There are monsters!!”

“Ahhhh!!”

“Don’t kill me! Help, help!!”

Terrified screams came from ahead.

“Monsters?”

A sense of foreboding surged in Cynthia’s heart.

Seeing her people in danger, she would not continue hiding. No longer suppressing her aura, she rushed forward.

Elizabeth quickly followed.

Upon reaching the scene, both wore expressions of shock.

Numerous black monsters had appeared in the capital, attacking the Dragons here. These monsters were identical to the ones the two had cleared out earlier, the same type summoned by the evil ritual.

“Why are these monsters appearing again? Weren’t they all cleared out by us?”

Cynthia was deeply puzzled.

Those extreme dangerous elements should have been completely eliminated.

Moreover, this was the capital. It was impossible for anyone to attempt something under her very nose without being detected.

“These damned monsters, so annoying!”

Greatly displeased, Elizabeth charged forward, unleashing her blood magic.

“Blood Surge Explosion!”

Blood energy erupted like a bomb in Elizabeth’s palm, blasting onto the black monsters.

The powerful impact sent the foremost monsters flying.

As they soared into the air, dense ice spikes rained down from the sky, piercing through the black monsters’ bodies.

That was Cynthia, using instant-cast magic attacks without the need for chanting incantations.

Before the crowd could even react, this duo displayed formidable combat prowess.

In the blink of an eye, a large number of black monsters were annihilated.

“It’s Her Majesty the Queen and the Vampire Ancestor!!”

Upon seeing this pair appear, the Dragons cheered, their panic vanishing, replaced by a sense of security.

After all, everyone knew that when these two joined forces, they were an invincible presence, having defeated all the rulers of the superior species, let alone these monsters.

As long as they were here, there was no problem.

Simultaneously, a black butterfly, appearing from nowhere, slowly weaved through the crowd. No one noticed…

“Her Majesty the Queen has come to save us!!”

“Excellent!”

“Now we don’t need to worry!”

As the Dragon’s ruler possessing a Divine Authority, Cynthia’s status among her people was unquestionable. Especially after the previous Dragon King’s passing, when she, as the successor, shouldered the Dragons’s banner, she had never tasted defeat.

In the Dragons society where strength was revered, the worship for her was quite fanatical. Every time she appeared before the people, it caused a huge stir.

The attention on Cynthia herself had now even overshadowed the incident of unknown monsters appearing in the capital.

“Oh dear, Cynthia, this is troublesome now,” Elizabeth said unhappily.

“What’s wrong?”

“Originally, spending time with me was your thank-you gift… But look at your people. In this situation, even after the fight ends, we won’t be able to enjoy ourselves.” Elizabeth pouted.

“Well then, after clearing these monsters, back at the palace, I’ll give you a new gift.”

“Really?”

“Of course, Elizabeth. Have I ever lied to you?”

“You said it. If the gift doesn’t satisfy me, I’ll throw a tantrum.”

Elizabeth held a blood spear. While conversing with Cynthia, she casually dispatched a black monster.

Cynthia was the same, her fight against the monsters never ceasing.

Both wanted to quickly clear this area of monsters.

However, during the battle, Cynthia also wondered: how exactly did these black monsters appear out of thin air?

“Urgh… Aaaahhh!!”

Just as the monsters were nearly cleaned up, eerie screams erupted from the crowd again.

One of the commoners clutched his face, kneeling in agony as a layer of extremely ominous energy enveloped him. This malevolent energy actually transformed his body, turning that commoner into a black monster.

“What… is that?”

Cynthia witnessed a strange scene.

A black butterfly rested on the transforming commoner.

With her eighth-tier cultivation, she couldn’t discern what the black butterfly truly was, nor could she sense its cultivation level.

This was the first time Cynthia, as the Dragon Queen, had encountered such a thing.

The black butterfly left the transforming commoner, fluttering up and weaving through the crowd. Every commoner it passed through underwent changes. Without exception, as if corroded by an irresistible force, they all transformed into black monsters.

In an extremely short time, the area became a sea of black monsters.

“Your Majesty! What is happening?!”

Cynthia’s subordinates arrived at the scene leading the capital’s Dragons army. Seeing the situation, they could hardly believe their eyes.

“Protect the civilians! Evacuate everyone quickly!!” Cynthia ordered. “Don’t let anyone approach this area!”

“Yes!”

The Dragons soldiers immediately carried out the order, engaging the monsters in battle.

“Cynthia, what’s going on?” Elizabeth inquired.

“The black butterfly, find it!!”

Unable to sense it, Cynthia could only try using her eyes to locate the black butterfly’s position.

Her intuition told her the black butterfly was the source of all this trouble.

“Hurry, hurry, we must find it quickly…!”

Cynthia was frantic with anxiety.

The later they found it, the more civilians would turn into black monsters.

“The black butterfly, I found it!! Cynthia!!”

Elizabeth pointed in a direction.

Cynthia looked over and spotted the black butterfly amidst the sea of monsters. It was still flying.

“Endless Blood Prison!”

Even without being asked, Elizabeth, acting in perfect tacit understanding, made the judgment, using blood magic to create a prison, trapping the black butterfly.

Cynthia charged forward. Monsters lunging at her from the side were all impaled by Elizabeth’s blood spears, clearing a path so she could reach the blood-magic prison unimpeded.

The Silver Dragon Queen raised her hand and struck. Immense force shattered the bloody prison, the impact concentrated on the black butterfly. The resulting shockwave even pulverized nearby black monsters into pulp.

After withstanding) such a ferocious strike, the black butterfly seemed to crumble, slowly drifting to the ground, motionless.

All the black monsters stopped moving, collapsing one after another.

“Did we succeed…?”

Cynthia murmured to herself.

She hoped it was over, yet her heart remained uneasy, filled with foreboding.

“Your Majesty!!”

Cynthia heard her subordinate’s call.

“The ground!!” her subordinate shouted at the top of his lungs.

“The ground?”

Cynthia lowered her head. Looking down, her expression froze.

The dead black butterfly had fallen to the ground, and its shadow was rapidly expanding, eventually covering the entire area.

The fallen black monsters hadn’t lost their ability to fight, instead, they prostrated on the ground as if worshiping a great being, heralding its descent.

As Cynthia’s gaze followed, she finally saw the outline formed by the shadow’s edge.

It was…

A giant beast resembling a fly.

Buzzzz—

Everyone heard the sound of flies.

A colossal entity gradually emerged from the shadow, slowly ascending over the capital, looking down from above. It was truly an earth-shaking, sky-obscuring behemoth.

The moment it manifested, ordinary Dragons couldn’t even withstand its gaze, falling from the sky.

Even the Silver Dragon Queen and Vampire Ancestor felt an overwhelming pressure, heavy as a collapsing sky.

This indicated the giant beast’s power wasn’t merely at the eighth tier but far surpassed both of them.

The enemy of life, the calamity of extinction, the remnant of the old world, the Legendary Beast — Beelzebub, Lord of Gluttony.

This name surfaced in the hearts of Cynthia and Elizabeth.

Whoosh!

From the body of the Gluttony Beast, swarms of black flies emerged. They swept over the Dragons soldiers, instantly draining their life force without a chance for resistance. A large number of Dragons soldiers were converted into black monsters. 

“Damned creature!!” 

Elizabeth activated her divine halo.

“Blood Sea: Liberation!!”

A sea of blood descended. Within it, she stirred up a crimson tsunami, intending to engulf the Gluttony Beast.

However, the Gluttony Beast spewed forth a vile breath, dispersing the tsunami.

The fly swarms pounced towards Elizabeth, sweeping past her body.

“Ugh…!!”

Elizabeth’s legs gave way, and she fell to the ground. The light of her divine halo dimmed, as if much of her life force had been drained.

A black vortex appeared atop the Gluttony Beast’s head, continuously expanding, seemingly planning to swallow the capital whole in one go.

If that happened, countless of Cynthia’s subjects would die.

“Why… would a Legendary Beast… appear so suddenly…!” Elizabeth was filled with both resentment and fury. Gritting her teeth, she stood up, preparing to continue fighting.

However, they were rulers of superior species possessing Divine Authorities, not true gods.

A gap still existed between them and entities like the Legendary Beasts.

Cynthia lowered her gaze. She had already understood the reality of the situation.

Legendary Beasts were the most terrifying calamities. They would descend upon this land for no reason, and none could resist. Even the previous Dragon King was the same, this was beyond the capability range of superior species rulers to resolve.

The present situation was a hopeless dead end with no solution. All life would die.

Even if they gathered more Dragons to attempt to confront Beelzebub, there would be no chance of victory.

However…

The divine halo behind Cynthia lit up, releasing the Dragon Divine Authority. She raised her palm, and a spatial rift expanded on it.

She walked step by step towards Beelzebub, facing the sky-obscuring behemoth alone.

Elizabeth suddenly realized what Cynthia intended to do. Her pupils contracted sharply, and she even forgot to breathe.

“No, don’t!! Cynthia, don’t!!”

Elizabeth was nearly out of control, her voice heart-wrenching, even wanting to use force to forcibly stop Cynthia’s action.

However, her blood magic was deliberately interrupted by the Dragons maiden.

Cynthia turned around. Her silver eyes looked at Elizabeth. She slightly opened her mouth as if to say something, but no words came out. In the end, she simply gave Elizabeth a smile.

Just like when the two first met.

“Dragon Divine Authority: Spatial Mastery.”

The Divine Authority closest to godhood on this land unleashed its unparalleled power for the last time. The spatial rift rapidly expanded, engulfing the Gluttony Beast and all the black monsters, along with Cynthia herself. Through spatial teleportation, they left the capital.

Elizabeth watched the silver back figure, disappearing from her sight, utterly devastated.

“Cynthia…”

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