novelraw Chapter 141: Don’t Worry, the Answer Will Be Revealed Soon
Chapter 141: Don’t Worry, the Answer Will Be Revealed Soon
"Besides, they’re clearly leaking their aura on purpose.
Their goal is to make sure the White Elephant Empire knows they’ve arrived. This person is outrageously arrogant.
If you think about it, the only person in the Great Xia Empire with that kind of guts and that level of power is probably Chu He."
The woman slowly rose to her feet inside the tent.
"Let’s go out and take a look. We should welcome our friend from afar."
The young man at the head of the table stood up, calm and composed.
A strange, interwoven light of gold and red shone in his eyes.
As the young man strode past,
the woman and the man named Asura subconsciously stepped aside, giving him a wide berth.
Only after the young man had passed them did the woman and Asura fall in line behind him.
Outside the tent, the entire Border City Guard of the White Elephant Empire had already assembled.
They stood in strict formation, eyeing their surroundings like tigers stalking prey as they awaited the man’s arrival.
Sure enough, in the far distance,
a slender yet upright figure could be seen slowly approaching across the vast plains.
He moved unhurriedly, as if taking a leisurely stroll through a garden.
His calm and composed demeanor
made even the young man with the interwoven gold and red light in his eyes take notice.
"Katrina, Asura, do not be careless once the fight begins.
He is, after all, the strongest person on Blue Star. There’s a saying in the Great Xia Empire: ’A great reputation is not built on empty talk.’"
the young man at the front admonished.
"Amir, is there really a need to be so worried?
There are three of us, after all.
It would be absurd if the three of us, three Divine Children, couldn’t take down Chu He together.
As I see it, the White Elephant Empire’s true rival has always been the Lighthouse Empire.
Besides, everyone says the Lighthouse Empire is the number one power on Blue Star, but it’s not set in stone who’s actually on top.
The Lighthouse Empire has its secrets, but does that mean the White Elephant Empire has none of its own?"
Asura said dismissively.
"DeHart thought the same way you do now.
Even knowing his opponent was Chu He, he still insisted on fighting him alone.
He even pushed his form to the state of absolute Perfection. And what was the result?
By the time the White Elephant Empire sent people to find him, his body had already been torn apart by a horde of Evil Spirits.
All we found were a few scraps of his clothing on the ground."
the young man named Amir said with a smile.
"Fine."
Asura shrugged, his expression finally turning serious.
"Why has Chu He stopped? What’s he doing just standing there?"
Katrina asked, puzzled.
In their line of sight,
Chu He, who had been walking toward them, suddenly stopped. He stood there, fumbling for something with one hand,
as if searching for something.
The action was completely at odds with the tense atmosphere of the scene.
A massive battle was about to break out, yet Chu He had the presence of mind to be looking for something?
Judging by the aura emanating from his every move, he didn’t seem like someone who had come to wage war on the White Elephant Empire.
"Ah, found it."
Chu He pulled a photograph from his coat. It was the one Galava had given him.
Galava had taken it from the Evil Spirit codenamed "Shy One" on the Black Continent Grassland.
This Evil Spirit, the Shy One, was an extremely unusual entity—more akin to a Curse.
The moment anyone saw its face, this curse-like rule would automatically trigger.
Once targeted by the Shy One, you would be hunted down.
No matter where you hid on Blue Star, it would find you in an incredibly short time.
The only way to stop its relentless pursuit was to kill it.
Chu He held the photograph between two fingers. It was still inside a white paper sleeve.
This was to prevent Chu He from accidentally seeing the Shy One’s face and triggering its kill rule,
which would have just created more trouble for him.
According to the intelligence extracted from Galava’s mind,
the Shy One had suddenly frozen in place that day, almost as if it had crashed like a computer,
because a disruption in the strange energy fluctuations from the Rainbow Welfare Institute had affected it.
Not only did the Shy One possess immense destructive power and an inescapable kill rule,
but it also had one critical feature: the Shy One could not be killed.
Galava could never have imagined that Chu He would use the intelligence he provided
to deal with the Divine Children of the White Elephant Empire.
With a flick of his wrist, Chu He sent the thin, white paper sleeve spinning through the air.
The two groups were separated by a distance of seven or eight hundred meters,
yet in the blink of an eye, the sleeve appeared right in front of Amir.
Chu He could clearly sense that
the young man with the surging gold and red light in his eyes was the strongest of the three.
Therefore, Chu He planned to use the Shy One to test his opponent’s true depth.
Just then, a hand shot out and snatched the thin, white paper sleeve from the air.
The hand belonged to the most sinister of the White Elephant Empire’s three Divine Children.
"Is this a letter of surrender from Chu He?" Asura immediately tore open the thin, white paper sleeve.
"Be careful, it could be a trap," Katrina warned.
But Asura paid her no mind.
He ripped open the paper sleeve and found a photograph inside.
Asura held up the photograph. "What the hell is this thing? It’s hideous."
The face in the photo
was like the cruelest masterpiece born from an interweaving of time and suffering. Every inch of its skin told a story of endless hardship and despair.
Its skin had a texture no human could possess, stretched taut against the bone,
like a dried-up riverbed in a desert forgotten by time. Every inch of it was parched and depleted.
Its color was not a healthy flush but an ominous, deathly pallor—
a shade that reeked of death and decay, sending a chill through anyone who saw it.
Its mouth was a horrifying, rectangular slit, as if torn open to its absolute limit by an invisible hand.
A long, thin tongue hung limply from the opening, covered in mottled cracks,
long devoid of moisture or elasticity. It looked like the last gasp of life in a barren desert.
Its eye sockets were entrances to an abyss.
They were sunk deep into the skull, as if gouged out by an unseen hand, leaving behind two empty, bottomless pits of darkness that could swallow all light and hope.
Within these voids, there was no trace of life, only endless nothingness and terror,
making one wonder if some indescribable entity lurked within, peering out at every corner of the world.
The surrounding environment wasn’t clearly shown in the photograph,
but the sheer cold and oppression that seeped from the image
was enough to suggest it was taken in some abandoned corner of the world, or perhaps some unknown, horrifying domain.
The air itself seemed to carry the faint stench of rot and despair.
Every gaze upon the photo felt like being drawn in by an invisible force,
pulled slowly into a nightmare woven from fear, with no hope of escape.
"This must be the product of some strange phenomenon. The photograph radiates an ominous aura... quite rare. I must admit, this thing is very interesting."
Amir’s gold-and-red gaze swept over the back of the photograph.
"Let me see." Curious about what was on the photograph, Katrina reached for it.
"Don’t touch it."
But Amir grabbed Katrina’s wrist,
pulling her back a step. "Asura," he said, "only you can look at this photograph. Do not let anyone else see it."
"What exactly is this thing? Do you know what it is?"
Asura asked, confused.
From the tone of his voice, Asura detected an unusual undercurrent.
"Don’t be impatient. The answer will reveal itself shortly."
Amir’s gaze shifted to the far reaches of the border plains.
A small black dot was rapidly appearing there, moving at an incredible speed.
He could even hear the sound of a sonic boom growing closer.
At the same time, a cold, strange wave of energy was rapidly spreading toward them.
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