fantasy novels Chapter 132 We are not outsiders seeking to seize godhood.
Chapter 132 We are not outsiders seeking to seize godhood.
"You outsiders!"
The girl's voice no longer trembled.
She raised her hand, pointing directly at the first squad, her voice filled with cold, indignant grief that echoed under the empty dome, "You slaughtered all my guards, and now you won't even spare my father's final resting place?"
Zhao Leiguang was taken aback by the sudden accusation.
He slammed the tower shield in his hand heavily on the ground, making the crystal floor beneath his feet vibrate.
"Hey, little girl, how dare you talk like that?"
Zhao Leiguang shouted at the top of his lungs, pointing to the long corridor behind them, "Go out and see those shrimp soldiers and crab generals outside! They were the ones who formed an array to try and wipe us out! And that big guy behind you, he just used a skill that caused everyone to lose health without saying a word, almost keeping our whole team underwater and slowly wearing us down. Were we just supposed to stand there and get slaughtered without fighting back?"
"Father is merely guarding the seal of the Dragon Palace!"
The young girl, or rather, Princess Ao Qing of the Dragon Palace, had reddened eyes.
She clenched her fists so tightly her nails almost dug into her flesh. "It was clearly your intrusion that activated the highest level of restrictions here. If it weren't for that repulsive aura you carried, the guards wouldn't have been fully awakened!"
A repulsive smell.
Lu Yan did not participate in the argument. He stood at the back of the group, his gaze passing over Zhao Leiguang's broad shoulders and locking onto Ao Qing.
His gaze did not linger on the girl's stunning beauty for even a second.
The [Disc of Nothingness] operates silently at the waist.
He captured the details.
Ao Qing wore a dragon-shaped jade pendant that was entirely dark blue. To ordinary people, it was just an exquisite ornament.
But in Lu Yan's view, the jade pendant was emitting an extremely faint energy fluctuation that was completely identical to the blue core on the throne.
Not only do they share the same origin, but there is even some kind of hidden one-way transmission channel between them.
The jade pendant was continuously receiving some kind of data instruction from the core.
Xiao Qianyu stepped forward.
The tip of the Crimson Lotus Goddess Spear left a scorch mark on the ground, and the crimson flames burned in the water, emitting a piercing hissing sound.
She stared at Ao Qing, her voice icy and cutting to the heart of the matter: "You mean, this Dragon King is your father? And it's still alive?"
"My father fought a desperate battle against the invading enemy a thousand years ago, and he has long since exhausted himself."
Ao Qing's gaze shifted to the enormous azure dragon, his hands trembling slightly at his sides. "To protect this sea, he transformed his broken body into a guardian artifact for the Dragon Palace, maintaining the seal against that terrifying being at the bottom of the abyss. The core of the throne is the last bit of his primordial power. This power is merely used to drive his body, mechanically executing the command to protect him."
She turned her head, staring intently at the crowd, the water curtain pulsating violently with her emotions: "You severed the energy nexus; the seal will soon loosen. This secret realm will erupt and descend upon your real world, and the entire South China Sea will perish because of your greed!"
The atmosphere froze for a moment.
"cut."
Lin Chuxue peeked out from behind Xiao Qianyu and muttered softly, "Is it really that exaggerated?"
These words, spoken clearly, reached everyone's ears in the absolutely silent cavity.
Ao Qing's body stiffened abruptly.
The sadness in her eyes vanished instantly, replaced by an extreme mania.
A strange black light flashed deep within his originally clear blue pupils.
The water around her began to swirl wildly and erratically.
"You don't understand at all!" Ao Qing's emotions completely erupted, his voice sharp and piercing, causing crystals to fall from the dome. "You're just like those guys back then! You're all bandits who came to seize godhood! You all deserve to die!"
godhead.
Lu Yan grasped the word precisely.
He raised his hand to hold down Zhao Leiguang, who was about to lash out, and took a step forward, passing through his teammates' protective circle to face Ao Qing directly.
"We have no interest in the divinity you're talking about."
Lu Yan looked into Ao Qing's eyes and spoke at a measured pace: "We came here to clean up those invaders tainted by divine corruption. Now that the problem is solved, we just want to leave. But as long as this dragon king's indiscriminate attack mechanism isn't dispelled, none of us can leave."
Lu Yan's absolutely calm attitude was like a block of ice, forcefully stopping Ao Qing's rampaging emotions.
The hostility on her face lessened slightly, but her body remained tense. Through the water curtain, she stared intently at Lu Yan, trying to find a flaw in his cold expression.
"You..." Ao Qing hesitated for a moment, then asked in an extremely skeptical tone, "Are you really not those monsters from the void that feed on the divine sparks of powerful beings?"
Void monster.
Devouring Godhood.
He instantly recalled the black conch shell in his storage space with its coordinates erased, the items that the South Asian team worshipped as sacred objects, and the cold name in the system notification—Observer.
The White Eagle Empire's use of South Asians to spread coordinates wasn't for conquering secret realms at all. They were guiding higher-dimensional void monsters.
They wanted those things to descend upon Earth to devour the divine essence left behind by fallen native gods like the Dragon King of the South Sea.
The first squad had just killed those South Asians outside the Dragon Palace, and their bodies still carried a faint "divine scent".
This is why the Dragon Palace's defense mechanism classifies them as accomplices of the "Void Monsters," thus launching a relentless pursuit.
The logic is completely closed loop.
"We're not, calm down." Lu Yan looked at Ao Qing. "We killed the lackeys of those monsters you're talking about."
Ao Qing was stunned. She looked at Lu Yan, trying to discern whether his words were true or false.
Just as Lu Yan was about to continue asking for more details about the "Void Monster" and the "Abyss Seal",
A sudden change occurred.
The dragon-shaped jade pendant that had been hanging quietly at Ao Qing's waist suddenly burst forth with an extremely dazzling, dark blue light.
The light pierced through the water curtain in an instant, creating a violent and forceful resonance with the blue core on the throne, which had stopped flickering.
hum-
The entire dome cavity emitted a deafening roar. The crystal floor beneath their feet cracked extensively.
"What's going on!" Zhao Leiguang immediately raised his double shields to protect Su Yunqing and Lin Chuxue behind him.
Lu Yan's gaze was fixed on Ao Qing.
The moment the jade pendant lit up, the rationality on Ao Qing's face vanished as quickly as the tide receded.
Her once clear whites were instantly covered with countless fine black blood vessels.
The pure and noble aura that originally belonged to the dragon race turned cold, twisted, and violent in the blink of an eye.
She suddenly raised her hand.
The previously calm water elements instantly went berserk. A terrifying deep-sea tornado, over ten meters in diameter, instantly formed behind the water curtain.
The rapidly spinning water, carrying a violent force capable of tearing everything apart, shattered the water curtain that served as a barrier and slammed towards Lu Yan's location.
"fraud!"
Ao Qing opened her mouth, but the sound that came out was no longer the clear, crisp voice of a young girl.
That was the same roar as the puppet dragon king from before.
"All outsiders deserve to die!"