Chapter 13 – The Distant Kingdom
When Hubert came to his senses, he found himself surrounded by Blood Crystal Beasts.
Another giant wolf charged at him. He gripped his spear tightly, and the runes on his arm glowed… A powerful force surged through his entire body.
But before he could thrust his spear, a sharp object whizzed past his ear.
Hubert felt a sharp pain as if his eardrum had been violently pierced, a searing sensation that shot straight to his brain.
More painful was the sight before him: the giant wolf’s head erupted in a brilliant display of gore. Instead of petals, the flower was made of the wolf’s blood and brain matter.
The giant wolf, losing its balance, collapsed at Hubert’s feet.
The wolf was still alive; as it tried to lift itself up, its head exploded into more small bursts of red.
The thick blood splattered onto Hubert’s face, causing his body to tremble uncontrollably.
At that moment, Hubert had a sudden illusion.
On this battlefield existed an invisible reaper, wielding a scythe that instantly severed the heads of these giant wolves.
Not severed, but crushed.
Hubert looked around in a daze. All eight giant wolves emerging from the forest had fallen to the ground, their bodies marked by gaping wounds as if pierced by a massive spear.
The tip of this spear was imbued with explosive magic.
“General Hubert!”
Princess Elena, the Seventeenth Princess, had just seized the jaws of one giant wolf, attempting to tear it apart, but the wolf still struggled, trying to shred the walking beast she was riding.
Before the wolf could struggle for even a second, its head exploded into crimson splatter in the night sky.
Seizing the opportunity, Elena aimed to rescue the fallen General Hubert.
“Stay back!”
Hubert shouted to stop Elena from recklessly moving forward.
All the Blood Crystal Beasts attacking them had been killed, and their deaths were gruesomely tragic.
These giant wolves, capable of swallowing humans whole, had all fallen to the ground in less than ten seconds, turning into headless skeletons.
A reaper? The Thunder God?
Hubert did not know which deity was behind this, but the deity had not left the battlefield.
Hubert could sense a chilling feeling of being watched by an unknown death.
It was as if that invisible deity was standing right in front of him, holding a sharp blade against his neck and tilting its head, scrutinizing him.
What should he do in such a moment?
Hubert was not afraid of death, but he feared dying without understanding why!
He racked his brain for any known methods of worshiping deities.
Eventually, Hubert thought of a universal method. He fell to his knees in the mud, raising his hands to the sky.
As Hubert was about to say something to the deity, the sky, which had been overcast with clouds, began to pour rain.
Rain… Is this the deity’s response?
Hubert watched as the rain from the sky washed away the crimson stains from his armor.
For a moment, Hubert couldn’t decipher what the deity was thinking, but he vaguely heard someone calling him through the heavy rain.
Could it be the deity trying to communicate? Hubert closed his eyes, concentrating, trying to hear what the deity was saying.
In the end, he successfully caught the voice. The deity was saying…
“What are you doing standing outside in the heavy rain! And where are your horses?”
Suddenly, Hubert opened his eyes, got up from the muddy ground, and turned towards the church, where the voice had come from.
On the second floor of the church, there was a dazzling white light that Hubert had never seen before.
Hubert instinctively walked towards the source of the light.
………………
Wood crackled and broke apart in the flames, illuminating the interior of the church.
But the warmth was insufficient to dispel the dampness and cold inside the church.
Lu Cheng stood behind the pile of firewood, the light casting his shadow on the wall like a giant.
The refugees huddled behind Lu Cheng, while the kingdom soldiers who were supposed to protect them stood at the church’s entrance, vigilantly watching Lu Cheng.
The atmosphere was tense. Lu Cheng sighed and broke the eerie silence.
“Aren’t you cold standing by the door?” Lu Cheng asked.
“Who are you?”
Hubert gripped his spear tightly, and Princess Elena and the other soldiers also held their weapons, eyeing the unexpected group that had appeared in the church.
These individuals did not wear armor or wield long swords like soldiers, and seemed less threatening than the Blood Crystal Beasts outside.
However, their attire was bizarre, and their demeanor was peculiar.
Hubert shifted his gaze to the iron ring and kite standing behind Lu Cheng. He could tell they were soldiers experienced in battle.
“Thunder God’s… messengers?”
Elena tentatively inquired about Lu Cheng’s group, recalling the thunderous gunfire she had heard coming from the church’s second floor during the battle.
“Messengers of the deity? Unfortunately, we have no connection with the deity you imagine.”
Lu Cheng pointed to the red flag on his left chest.
“We are soldiers from the Celestial Kingdom.”
Indeed, soldiers?
Elena examined the emblem on Lu Cheng’s chest—it was a red flag.
She had never seen such a flag in her royal diplomatic courses, nor could she recall any country near Skarre or even farther afield with a similar flag.
“Which country are you from? Is it the Duchy of Leslota to the south? Or the Shuen Zhelai Kingdom to the north…”
Elena could only assume it was a flag of some secret military unit from a distant country.
“We are from another world, a nation called the Celestial Kingdom.”
To prove this, Lu Cheng displayed the Sacred Crystal on his left hand and summoned a portal on the ground.
The portal lasted less than three seconds before vanishing.
But it was enough to prove to Elena and Hubert that Lu Cheng and his group truly came from another world.
“An unfamiliar teleportation magic. You really are visitors from another world?”
Elena still harbored doubts, as this exceeded her imagination.
“You may understand it as coming from a distant kingdom, but this kingdom has the power to crush everything here into pieces,” Lu Cheng said.
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