Chapter 668: [Deadly Roses]

As ‘Schwarz’ felt his current power, his body was suddenly enshrouded by an azure-colored radiance. It appeared as if his entire body was enshrouded by a blob of protective membrane. What was contained in the essence of the dragon soul within his body was inexhaustible life energy. He felt very delighted, what kind of abnormality would occur in the future, he didn’t know. However, his life energy has now become abundant and powerful; the benefits will definitely be huge.

People said cats have nine lives, that is because the life energy they possessed was sufficiently abundant. As a result, even if they suffered heavy injury many times, they would still be able to live on.

As a Clone, his life force has limitations, in fact, even weaker than normal Emperor Realm Godkins or High Humans. If he had suffered the same wounds like before, he would exhaust all his life force in an instant and die… but now was completely different!

‘Schwarz’ did not count on becoming an undying cat with nine lives or would he want to prolong his life and survive, as he knows that this is only temporary. He would one day disappear as to avoid making any trouble for the original. This is his fate, something he couldn't avoid so as not to complicate things. And he had already accepted that fact—even still, he doesn’t want to leave now. The Celestial Realm is currently full of troubles and Eerika in this place was full of danger that can take her life at any given moment. Now that the original seemed to be unable to return yet, ‘Schwarz’ can only stay here and protect her, at the very least, before he exhausts the last oil of his life, he wanted to do at least that!

Despite these desires, his body couldn’t shoulder such a burden.

But that is before—now, is completely different.

With an incarnation rather than an ordinary clone with limited vitality and life force, even if he sustained any injury as worse than that again, his wounded body will be healed by the abundance of life energy. The speed of recovery will inevitably become much faster.

He was not a mere clone anymore, but another completely new being...!

That is much better and greater news, compared to anything that he could have at this very moment…!

The instant he got up, ‘Schwarz’ felt his body was much lighter than before. Moreover, his strength also increased tremendously. By lightly waving his muscles and bones, he left behind a few afterimages in the room.

Furthermore, with this kind of body, he can now use and control much power from the [Frostmourne] compared to before. With the [Leviathan]’s draconic physique and powers as the overlord of water, his power had truly increased tremendously!

Water and Ice.

It complements each other.

Before he was only able to convince himself that his ability was around the peak Lesser Deity and can fight against Initial Mid Gods if he forces himself to death. He couldn’t be sure, but now he is confident that he has the power equivalent to a true Mid God. In addition to his abundance of life energy, he believes he can handle experts around the 1st Grade Mid God without exerting himself, or maybe even opponents a little stronger than that!

This is really a good event.

However... why did 'he' sent the 'Leviathan' instead of coming personally...?

Don't tell me... is he not planning on returning for the time being...?

Just what could be more important than the war right now...?

“…so, are you alright now?” Princess Ilse asked as she watched ‘Schwarz’ inspected his body.

“…never been better…” he shook his head from these bewildering thoughts and smiled in response.

“I heard you have a clone body before but now it was a true Incarnation… is there something wrong to where you are, that you cannot come into this place personally? Did you have some difficulties?” Princess Ilse asked in worry.

‘Schwarz’ shook his head with a wry smile, “It’s fine…I am fine…rather than difficulties, it should be that there is still something I needed to finish first so I can’t return for the time being." Probably... "However, I should be able to come back sooner than I expected as I’m already almost done with my work.”

“Is that so? Well, where are you now anyway?”

“I’m inside an independent space…a tiny world completely detached from this world so I can’t make any clear connections.”

“A Tiny world…?” Princess Ilse asked in surprise. So that's why I couldn't feel his aura anymore, as if he had vanished. He had gone into another realm...

“Hmm, a Tiny World…” ‘Schwarz’ smiled faintly as he looked at the blue-colored sky through the window.

The real war is coming faster than expected…it seems like Mammon was already in the middle of unsealing Lucifer.

However, the location of the ritual should be in the Demon World. What are you gonna do now… ‘Weiss’?

Just defending wouldn’t let us win this war…you do know that, right…‘Weiss’?

Or are you thinking what I am thinking right now... But can you really managed to do it on your own...?

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In the Dungeon Domain...

“Sister, are we going to go dig up the buried treasure now?” Celty said quietly, looking left and right.

Layla nodded with a faint smile. Though she looks calm but if one looks closely, her eyes were also sparkling in excitement, “This matter should not be delayed. Let’s leave town, then we’ll talk.” she grasped her fist in an adorable way.

This is an adventure she doesn’t want to miss—if Allen was here, he would surely be excited. Layla thought as she walked towards the gate of the Adventurers Town.

[Adventurers Town] is a town made by adventurers and players in front of the Dungeon Entrance. Here, aside from the Adventurers Guild, there were also many places that make the adventurers life better than normal. This is also probably the reason why no adventurers were exploring the Nine Mountains and were instead focused themselves on challenging the Dungeon.

Weapon Shop, Armor Shop, Skill Shop, Restaurants, Trade Stores, and even Adult District can be found in this town full of adventurers. It even reached to the point that the [Adventurer’s Town] became the center trade of all people within the Thousand Worlds.

‘Schwarz’ calling it a Tiny World is also because of this reason… it’s not a dull Dungeon World anymore but a true imitation world—a True Tiny World.

Normally, it would be difficult for Romeia to create a flourishing town like this even with her power due to power limitations, and the trade among adventurers can only reach to some extent. But with Allen’s help, it started to become something else.

According to the statistics, the coming and staying adventurers had seemingly increased compared to before the night of the [Player’s Banquet]. In the business section of the [Adventurer’s Town] Allen was holding most of its power and authority. Several shops were also his; Weapon, Armor, Tools, Skill Shops, and many more. One can be said that this world is turning into Romeia’s and Allen’s alone. Of course, these items he had placed in the trade are those only excesses from the [Dawn's Shop], and Allen made it so that, the people within the town can still contact the various members of the organization and created a trading platform aside from those for the only real members.

Hence, although it looks like him playing around, but there are many benefits and advantages Allen had managed to obtain by doing this. And these advantages were extremely helpful to the Mortal World and its situation as well as the Celestial Realm.

The [Adventurer's Town] had become a center trading platform for all Thousand Worlds and the Three Realms.

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Amidst the sea of people as Layla’s usual group; Celty, Liu Muxiao, Xue Ling, Li Tian, and Li Lian, and Mireya. As for Laura, she was placed under house arrest by the others due to her current condition, in which she was extremely feeling dismayed. As for Alkrasha, she was following Allen wherever he goes.

The group was having fun, savoring the moments they still left to stay in this Dungeon as the time limit was already fast approaching. Although they can return anytime with Romeia’s authority but they were quite reluctant to leave because Allen was here—so they decided to stay here for a while and leave after a week. In any case, all the people Layla and the others brought with them were now sent back to the Earth to relay the good news. By now, Mia and the others should have received the news, however, due to the Dungeon being far from the Italica as well as the entrance was deep in high-level difficulty ruins, if Mia rushed here, it would still be quite a while for her to arrive.

They are still returning though… because their goal of finding Allen had already been achieved. And most of them have many duties and responsibilities they left behind due to this mission and it was now time to return to that. Although they are quite reluctant, but unlike before, they are now feeling relieved--as long as the Dungeon is present, they can always find Allen whenever they wanted.

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“…I wonder what kind of treasure we would find,” Xue Ling asked in curiosity.

“Probably not as much as we expected—” Celty replied. Well, not like whatever kind of treasure it was could make them excited after all, they have a husband who is literally omnipotent and could make anything.

They have never been in short on any kind of thing or items.

“It’s not about the treasure, it’s about the romance in finding treasures and adventure in the process~” Mireya chided.

What they are talking about was the treasure map they accidentally found in one of their explorations. There seems to be a hidden treasure trove and they are on their way to find it. Adventure or what they call it—

The group stopped speaking and walked towards the southeast of the Ninth Mountain, not on the Dungeon. As they passed a street, they ran into a crowd of players. Now was precisely the time when player activity in town was at its peak. The monsters at night were too strong and so most players had no choice but to form parties and groups, even inviting those from other worlds.

Due to problems with torchlight and various other problems, most either chose to continue fighting at the Dungeons with people who have some convenient abilities that can help them in the dark or setting up a stall to trade.

It was at this moment that Layla and the others passed through the busy town, with their voices and peals of laughter like hymns of angels. Truly eye-catching!

The surrounding players looked at the group of a beautiful woman walking and laughing leisurely, their eyes filled with a heated gaze. However, no one dared to go up and mess with them—

It was still fresh in their memories of what happened a few days ago.

One time, when this same group was strolling around the City and shopping happily, they suddenly found themselves already surrounded by ten and above men. Most of them looked like adventurers, but among them, there was also those who proudly proclaim themselves as outstanding and powerful nobles. They then tried confessing and flirting with them.

At first, Layla didn’t want to bother about them and completely ignored them. Then, all of a sudden, they become forceful so Layla and the others showed an annoyed and threatening expression as they chased them away.

Some lost hearts and give up. However, there were also some that didn’t give up. That just goes to show how far above normal Layla and the rest in terms of beauty and allure was. As a result, it couldn’t be helped if they became reckless because of it. “Then, I’ll make you mine by force!”—something along those lines and with a ‘ginn’ light coming from the other men’s eyes. They surrounded the group so they could catch them, then impatiently drew near them.

And because of that…a carnage occurred in the middle of the town.

Limpless ‘corpses’ littered on the ground along with twitching bodies. Although they didn’t kill anyone, Liu Muxiao and the others didn’t hold back either. If not due to the fact, that healing magic existed, all of them would have broken bones and limbs, and probably some will go into a coma. That scene where they rampaged and broken their’s arms, legs, or spines, kick the head like kicking a soccer ball and even to that point of crippling a man’s ‘most important’ place, with angry and fierce expressions, like demonic gods, sends shivers down to every person watching…!

Cries and screams echoed in the entire town.

If not for the arrival of the Town’s Guards, aside from the gentle Layla (who placed a very fearsome curse of impotency secretly due to anger and the one that cannot be healed by ordinary cure or heal magic) Liu Muxiao and the others would have painted the town red.

This scene left a deep impression on every onlooker, giving them the realization that they are not just beautiful flowers but also roses filled with thorns. And the most savage thorns at that. Of course, that was not only the time as there were still several people whose head is probably harder than obsidian and guts covering the sky—several suicidal people still bother them and…the result is still the same as expected…!

However, what makes other people terrified was that, no matter what this girl group does, the guards would not do anything to them, giving them a glimpse of a terrifying background behind them.

Well, as for those who had managed to survive the ordeal, they could be seen walking within the town but for some unknown reason, most of them seemingly suffered from a traumatic experience. When people saw them again, they are walking around the town, in a daze and lost in spirit, muttering, ‘A devil! A devil has come! A devil! Save me! A devil has come!’ or something like that…but that’s a story for another time.

Now, there is an unspoken rule within the town—

'Lovely to look at, delightful to see. But if you mess with them, consider yourself dead!'

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“Gardo, what do you think of those women? Don’t you think they would be a nice catch?” A short-haired man holding a long staff with a resolute, square face, and a threatening aura asked all while staring at Layla’s group with a lascivious gaze.

“If you want to die, then go…why bother asking me? Do you think I have enough of my life?!” The man dragging a long blade, who was called Gardo raised his eyebrows and scolded angrily.

“Why be so angry? Even if they are strong, there is still a group of women. Why are you scared?” The short-haired man faintly smiled.

“It’s not them that I’m scared of! Why don’t you try asking your boss if you can mess with those girls…he would surely kill you without hesitation, in order to not bring out a plague to them…”

“…that’s impossible…!” The short-haired man frowned as he glared at Gardo with menacing eyes. The Boss of their group is his blood brother, why would he want to kill him for some stranger!

“…hmph! I’m not scaring you! Behind those girls, is someone even more terrifying! He’s a demon that can easily slaughter the entire City if he wanted. He had already appeared and warned all the underground or those secret bosses within the city that if they still want to exist then never touched even a strand of their hair. Someone had dared a thought like yours, but what happened? An entire group of hundred people was killed in just one night—secretly as well without any pieces of evidence or tracks. Some stupid prince of some world coveted them; an entire another World’s force was obliterated in an instant within the Valley of Longing. Now, they are banned to enter this world again...!”

“…?!” The short-haired man was shocked silly from Gardo’s words.

Gardo sneered. “That’s why you are stupid. No one dared to start with them, why have you not even realized that? No one dared to speak out loud, or have the risk offending ‘that’ demon. And now you see why would your brother kill you without hesitation if he heard about what you said? Survival is more important than your life…!”

The short-haired man immediately paled. Gardo snickered in contempt and started walking away. “If I were you, I would think twice before speaking and doing anything…”

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