Chapter 123: A Country in Time and Space
“Actually, the signal Uncle Owen gave was a bit strange.”

On the way back to the village with a few people, the hunter boy said in a worried tone: “From the code, the people who entered the village are indeed from the empire.”

“But after sending out the signals of ‘Empire’, ‘Knight’, and ‘Nobility'”

“Uncle Owen sent another supplement saying ‘unknown person’ and ‘the above information must be changed’.”

This is a contradictory signal.

In Lei Ze’s understanding since childhood, the only empire in the Demonic Abyss Realm that can be called an empire is the “Soton Empire”.

That country monopolized the magic resources of the entire continent and possessed extremely advanced magic technology, even having an advantage in the war with the abyss.

Because there are plenty of magicians in the empire, even a village under its jurisdiction can be equipped with a magician.

Safety is guaranteed.

However, this was accompanied by harsh taxation and a cruel policy that did not treat people other than nobles as human beings.

It was the epitome of the Age of Aristocratic Magic, and the only empire that Rezer knew of.

Logically speaking, they are the only ones who have the ability to launch a large-scale teleportation array, right?

At that time, Lei Ze wanted to ask more questions.

But the situation was urgent and time was limited, so the other party cut off the communication first. This doubt remained in his mind, and now he provided a warning to several people.

“They are envoys from the Empire, but not all of them.” Lin Xuan repeated in a low voice, his eyes thoughtful.

Combining what was happening right now, he thought about it and made some rough guesses.

It’s just that there’s no need to state it now until the facts are confirmed.

Being too decisive in deciding something will only affect the overall analysis. Lin Xuan is more accustomed to making preparations in advance and then acting accordingly.

“Anyway, there’s no point in you worrying about it now.”

He smiled easily.

He patted the boy who was sitting on his shoulder, who now had a heavy expression on his face.

With his other hand, he casually took out a long knife and swung it, removing the giant python, which was thicker than the diameter of a thousand-year-old tree, from its head with bared fangs and sticking out tongue.

Cut it in two with one stroke.

The giant python that crashed in like a huge truck, its flesh and skin separated, the aura of the abyss that enveloped it dissipated, and it died after being cut in two in mid-air.

Its body fell heavily due to inertia.

It knocked down a whole field of trees and plowed a deep furrow in the ground.

Lin Xuan sheathed his sword and chuckled calmly, “You said you are now the patrol officer in charge of the village, right?”

“So the more times like this, the more you can’t panic, the more you have to stay calm, right?”

Lei Ze was still looking blankly at the ‘Dragon Blood Hidden Anaconda’ that was killed instantly, and he was somewhat unable to react.

Wait, this monster just died like that?
In the past, even the strongest person in the village, the village chief who had retired from adventurer and possessed fighting skills, had repeatedly warned people not to provoke the Abyss Blood Race who entered the territory!

Just along the way.

Originally, Lei Ze had been taught since he was a child that once he left the village, he was not allowed to have even a casual conversation unless it was an emergency.

Because compared to the Abyssbloods, humans are extremely weak.

The slightest carelessness and exposure of one’s aura would lead to the destruction of the entire hunting team.

However, this journey overturned his cognition.

Because he was too slow, Lin Xuan simply picked him up and moved him.

along the way.

If there is a crack, just jump over it; if there is a big tree, just chop it down; if there is a Abyss Blood species, kill them.

Never stopping, fully implementing the truth that “the straight line is the shortest distance between two points.”

This meant that a journey that would normally take half a day was mostly completed in just half an hour.

Such pursuit of speed will of course bring threats.

After stepping into the depths of the [Demon’s Abyss Realm], the entities here refreshed just like in one’s hometown, killing them one by one.

But every time, before Lei Ze could lift his heart.

Brush it.

There was often a flash of a knife, or a petite figure in a hooded cloak following behind the team, silently throwing “arrows” with some kind of long black staff.

The battle will be ended before people can react, before they can even begin to get too anxious.

too fast.

Lei Ze had already vaguely realized that the identities of these people might be even more remarkable than he had imagined.

“Yeah, I understand.”

Hearing Lin Xuan’s steady comfort, Lei Ze’s heavy breathing also eased a lot.

Because the carriage had difficulty moving forward, Raman and his dog were left behind.

After all, the strength of the next enemy is uncertain, so this is the retreat left by Lin Xuan to prevent innocent guides from being involved in unnecessary battles.

Confidence and arrogance are very similar, but Lin Xuan never confuses the difference between the two.

Now, the village is almost here.

“Just cross this stream and go around the high ground at the foot of the mountain ahead.” The hunter boy stretched out his hand and pointed forward.

But suddenly, his pupils shrank.

A trembling whisper:
“.mom?”

There was a woman in her thirties, covered in wounds, staggering out of the bushes, gritting her teeth.

It seemed as if he was avoiding someone from chasing him.

She would look back from time to time, holding up her linen dress with both hands, and she would not stop even if branches scratched the hem of her skirt and left wounds on her skin.

He looked extremely nervous.

“—!”

Because she kept looking back, the woman accidentally kicked her shoe against a stone by the river. After a scream, she fell forward.

Lei Ze’s heart suddenly tightened and he almost rushed out of the woods and shouted.

But the figure chasing after the woman forced him to stop himself.

“Ma’am, let me reiterate once again that we really don’t have any ill intentions.”

With a sigh, a ranger wearing some kind of uniform appeared, moving easily among the bushes.

He patted the vines off his clothes.

He shook his head, his expression seemed somewhat helpless: “We are only following orders from above, and we are not going to endanger the safety of your villagers.”

“You left the team without permission and ran away. Fortunately, you didn’t attract any Abyss Bloods. But you got injured all over, which will make it very difficult for us to deal with you.”

The woman fell to the ground, looking alert and using her hands to support herself backwards, trying to keep some distance.

Enduring the pain, she glared and said in a deep voice: “Stop lying!”

“We don’t even know the Galmo Empire you’re talking about, and we’ve never heard of the emperor you’re talking about!”

“They showed up and took control of the people in the village, saying they would take us to a safe place.”

“Your words and actions have been full of doubts from the very beginning!”

The woman lying on the ground had a determined look in her eyes and picked up a sharp stone from the ground beside her.

Like a last weapon.

The stone was pointed at the man, whose smile gradually disappeared and whose expression gradually turned cold.

She asked again in a deep voice: “And even if we really believe everything you say.”

“You want us to abandon the elderly in the village and those who have been sick for half a year and lack medical treatment, and go directly to seek refuge with you?”

“Isn’t this just sending those who stay behind to their deaths?!”

The ranger in the high-class uniform frowned as he looked at the sharp stone the woman picked up.

“Do you think we want to do this?” He also frowned and was no longer friendly.

He said coldly: “Based on the physical fitness of those people, they cannot bear the magic load brought by the temporary transfer magic circle.”

“Even if we bring them by force, they will just die when they arrive.”

“It’s better to let them stay. At least they have a chance to survive.” The ranger approached the woman.

Before the woman gritted her teeth and prepared for a final fight, an invisible arrow formed by magic knocked the stone out of her hand.

“Now is the critical moment for our [Demon Abyss Realm], and His Majesty the Emperor bears a heavier responsibility and burden than anyone else.”

“I don’t want to waste too much time.”

He said coldly: “His Majesty means that as long as we reach the royal city alive, it will be fine.”

“If you insist on resisting here, I don’t mind using more brutal means, understand?”

Listen to the ranger’s threat.

Rosa couldn’t help but clench her hand as the stone was knocked off her.

She knew in her heart that it was impossible for a commoner like her to disobey a noble who could use magic.

They felt completely insecure facing a strange organization that would abandon the elderly and patients in the village.

hateful.

Obviously, the child had just lost his father. If he had lost his mother as well—

At this moment.

Rosa vaguely heard the sound of the bushes, and she subconsciously looked towards the gap between the bushes.

Then the woman’s eyes widened.

Just before the ranger noticed her gaze, Rosa said coldly: “Okay, then I’ll go back with you.”

“What?” The ranger seemed to be surprised that she would suddenly cooperate.

“I can’t refuse anyway.”

The village woman stood up, even though her skirt was torn, and even though she was an ordinary person who knew neither magic nor fighting spirit, she was now covered in bruises.

But this woman in her thirties, who lost her husband within half a year, is raising her son alone in the world after the mutation.

She said decisively and coldly.

“If I have to die, I want to at least die with dignity.”

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Breathe in, exhale.

For hunters this is basic.

Being able to take over his father’s responsibilities and protect his mother’s career are the skills that Lei Ze has learned since he was a child.

He had also made up his mind that even in this world where survival required every possible effort, he would continue to live tenaciously.

So, when he saw his mother fall and the figure behind her chasing after her, he held back his disordered breathing and did not rush out immediately.

Now is not the time to take action.

At least we need to confirm whether there are any people chasing us around, what their goals are, and whether other people in the village will be taken hostage.

Therefore, no matter how anxious he was in his heart, he forced himself to stop his impulse.

Even if the two sides look into each other’s eyes.

Even though he saw his mother shook her head, indicating that he should leave alone, in this strange world humans are more dangerous than the Abyssbloods.

Lei Ze did not rush out in the end. He silently watched his mother’s back as she was being taken away by the ranger.

“Relax, your bow will break if you keep doing this.”

At this moment.

A hand patted his shoulder, and the boy he had just met not long ago whispered calmly.

“—!”

The hunter boy looked back angrily. The precious hunting bow in his hand had been broken with a creaking sound due to his excessive force. His fingers had lost color from the force.

“What on earth do you know, you guy!”

He lowered his voice completely and gritted his teeth.

Obviously, he is just an outsider and obviously does not understand that he is worried about his mother and the village, but he still speaks nonsense unscrupulously at this time!

The other party claimed that they were not from the Sodon Empire, but since they also called themselves an empire, they also had an emperor.

Lei Ze has been aware of the awe and fear of the nobles since he was a child.

With someone like that as an enemy, it wouldn’t be too much to be extremely cautious, right?
“Because, I said I would help you.”

Under the wide-eyed gaze of the Hunter boy, the black-haired boy whom he had just met a few hours ago, patted his shoulder with a calm expression.

Then he walked out of the bushes where he had hidden his figure.

“So, don’t worry too much.”

His calm voice seemed to contain a smile, as if as long as he was present, no situation would escape the control of the strategy.

The spirit envoy from the modern world walked forward and entered a world of time and space that should have been destroyed thousands of years ago.

“who is it?”

The ranger frowned.

Keilan looked at Lin Xuan who walked out of the woods in confusion. Has this guy been here all the time?

Could it be that he is also a villager?
He noticed the strange attire of the other party, which did not look like that of an ordinary villager. There was no sign of the existence of other large countries nearby.

Everyone was swallowed up by a thick fog and came to this world at the same time.

In Keylan’s memory, he should have been fighting a bloody battle with the Abyss Blood Clan on the front line of the abyss at that time, but a thick fog suddenly came.

When I opened my eyes again, I was already in this world.

Fortunately.

Whether it is the capital of the “Garmoso Empire”, or the wise and majestic emperor in memory, he is hailed as the emperor with the greatest potential to defeat the threat of the abyss in history.

All came to this strange world together.

In this time and space with drastically changed terrain, not only did many residents who should have died long ago in history appear, but also people who were said to have a longer history than them.

And in this chaotic situation, the threats from both the Blood Moon and the Abyss are far more tragic than the worst records in the past.

After more than a year of consumption, the losses of the guards in the royal capital were extremely serious.

Leaving the elderly and the sick in the village to die, Keilan was of course aware of how cruel what he was doing.

But there is no other way.

This is His Majesty’s order. And, that’s what the legendary “hero” said.

——This may be the only remaining way to save their world.

“Tell me your identity.” Keylan looked at Lin Xuan with a cold and wary expression, and the arrows formed by magic power were like light.

Dozens, hundreds of them appeared around him.

The tip of the arrow was pointing directly at Lin Xuan.

In the bushes, Xia Shimi had a blank expression on her face, but her sight was aimed at the ranger’s head, and her slender fingertips were placed on the trigger.

If it weren’t for the fact that her position could not be seen by the eyes, she would seem to have blended into nature with her restrained breath.

Lei Ze looked at her in astonishment – because compared to himself, this guy, as a hunter, was an overwhelming monster in both talent and ability.

Even that powerful nobleman didn’t realize that he was already in a murderous situation.

It seemed that the urgency of the battle was imminent.

At this time.

Lin Xuan broke into the scene and gave Keylan a harmless smile.

“I have no hostility towards you. At least, there is no need for us to become enemies before I make my intentions clear.”

He looked directly into the ranger’s hesitant expression.

Speak calmly.

“Anyway, can we talk first?”

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