Alien Queen

There was a long silence, and Baba was silent for a long time as if she was lost in memories.

Li Junshan was not in a hurry. He knew that Barbara must have a point in what she said. Seeing the shrewd and capable woman in front of him look weaker and sadder than ever before, he felt a little regretful in his heart.

The mentor has never come back, but his Ice Phoenix has.

Barbara said quietly: On the tenth day after the mentor left.

Um?

Li Junshan raised his eyebrows: His super demon pet?

That's right.

Barbara nodded, her eyes beginning to sparkle with tears.

The practice of an assassin requires a more private space than the meditation of a magician. I have been practicing in my mentor's villa in the mountains. It is an inaccessible place and is the place where my mentor spends most time when he is not busy...

At this point Barbara's voice began to tremble, and even her shoulders began to shake.

After the teacher left, I went to another courtyard to practice with concentration. I also like peace and quiet. I stayed there until the tenth day. In the evening of that day, the ice phoenix that left with the teacher suddenly flew back.

More than a thousand years have passed, but the scene of that day will always be engraved in Barbara's soul. Even if she wants to forget it, she can't forget it. At this moment, when she first talks about it, the vivid memory of that scene suddenly pops up again.

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Barbara remembered clearly that at that time, she caught a trapper that was extremely sensitive to various creatures and was practicing her aura concealment. She had been practicing for a whole day. In the evening, she was finally able to try to hide herself and approach the trapper. The beast will not be noticed until it is closer than ten meters.

Back then, she was just a little assassin. She was in the absolute early stages. Barbara, who was extremely satisfied with her own invisibility and the aura concealment potion prepared by her instructor, was about to end her day's practice when she suddenly saw the lazily lying... The trapper on the ground suddenly pricked up his ears, and then the hair on his body exploded and he jumped into the dense forest without looking back.

Before she could feel strange or react, Barbara sensed something unusual. When she turned around suddenly and looked back, she was so frightened that she almost fainted.

Barbara had never been so frightened, not even when she met Li Junshan and saw his ferocious innate summoned beast.

The holy, noble, and beautiful ice phoenix, the ice phoenix that only belonged to Prophet Muen and loved to incarnate into a human body, actually stumbled back.

The beautiful tail feathers disappeared, and blood oozed out from the severe stubble. The beautiful ice phoenix still had half the nobility of a super-level monster. While the whole body was covered with wounds, the surface of the body was not yet known to have been burned by flames. Or something else corroded into a terrifying bubble.

Barbara was petrified, but she could not see her mentor who always had a smile as harmonious as the spring breeze on her face.

The ice phoenix stumbled down the mountain. Unable to control its body, it collapsed most of the attic in the other courtyard. Barbara, who only reacted at this time, flew towards it like an arrow. When she saw the ice phoenix, When she saw a pair of clear eyes filled with extreme sadness, Barbara somewhat understood what had happened.

The ice phoenix did not give the distraught Barbara a chance to go down the mountain to report to the great elders. It vomited out blood clots and fell into a coma after shaking its head firmly at Barbara.

That was the most difficult half of the night. Barbara had never felt that time would pass so slowly. She couldn't imagine what she had gone through to make the ice phoenix, which in her eyes was so powerful and invincible, become like this.

When Ice Phoenix woke up in the middle of the night, Barbara couldn't wait for her mentor to come back.

Where's the mentor?

The Ice Phoenix woke up faintly. Barbara had moved all the medicines that might help the Ice Phoenix's injuries from the secret room in the other courtyard to it. But when the Ice Phoenix woke up, she still asked urgently: What happened? What?

Ice Phoenix fixedly looked at the bottles of potions in front of it that were prepared by Mu En himself - the prophet originally had the title of pharmacist. For a long time, it was not in a hurry to answer Barbara's question. When the latter was so anxious that he did not care about his injury. When Qing grabbed Ice Phoenix's front paws with several cracks and shook them, Ice Phoenix looked at Barbara.

Big tears flowed from Bing Huang's eyes. The pearl-like tears fell to the ground and burst open with a crisp sound, as if they were dripping on Barbara's soft heart.

died.

The ice phoenix's body was trembling, and Barbara didn't know whether it was the pain caused to it by severe and intensive trauma or something else, and she was not in the mood to distinguish it. She was completely frightened.

This is impossible

How could the mentor be killed?

Why is this happening?

what's going on?

After being stunned for a long time, Barbara finally came to her senses, but her sobriety brought her madness.

The ice phoenix was not in a hurry to answer Barbara's series of questions. Its severed beak, which looked like it had been broken off with great force, lightly touched a pile of potions in front of it, and it let out a murmur full of plaintiveness from its throat. It looks like he is kissing those colorful potions.

In the boundless space turbulence, in the air current more terrifying than the sub-blade, Mu En saved me with his eternal elegy of life, but he himself was swallowed up by the boundless space turbulence.

Ice Phoenix finally spoke amidst Barbara's completely crazy questioning voice. She spoke with a slight trembling, and big tears fell down again.

Elegy of Life is an ancient magical secret technique in the legend of orc priests. It is a way to rapidly consume one's own power and the light of life in exchange for greater power to exert on others. This is similar to the soul damage of the summoner. Chain is different. The latter allows the familiar to share the pain, but Elegy of Life does great harm to the caster. It can be said that no one is willing to use this sacrificial technique until the most critical moment.

Just like most civilizations were destroyed by the last plane war, Elegy of Life can no longer be chanted and cast by any orc priest in the known plane world, but the legendary Mu En Prophet relies on half a fragment of the scroll. Understood or created a sacrificial technique that has the same effect as Elegy of Life.

Will not……

Barbara naturally knew what the elegy of life was. She stood in front of the Ice Phoenix and looked at it in disbelief: How could your mentor be killed by space turbulence? I don't believe it. This is not true...

I am Mu En's partner. We have an equal soul contract. No one knows better than me whether he is alive or dead.

Ice Phoenix said and spurted out another large mouthful of blood. Compared with the original clots that had solidified, this mouthful of blood that contained a hint of chill shattered a large amount of potions in front of it, red and green. , yellow, and blue liquids of various colors were mixed into a ball, and were immediately frozen into ice crystals by the natural coldness in the ice phoenix's blood.

I don't believe it, the mentor will never die.

Barbara knew that Ice Phoenix would never make such a joke with her, but she was unwilling and unwilling to believe that it was the truth.

The enemy is too powerful. Mu En should not have gone to see him because of that information. He is simply an invincible person...

Speaking intermittently in an extremely weak voice, Ice Phoenix's tears kept dripping on the colorful ice crystals on the ground, and the tears immediately turned into ice.

who?

Barbara asked with a pale face, and large tears fell down her face. She was in pain, sadness, disbelief, and her mind was in chaos, and she was completely at a loss.

Don't ask. When Mu En was swallowed by the boundless and terrifying space turbulence, the last spiritual communication was to tell me not to seek revenge against him, and not to let anyone know who the enemy is...

There was a mixture of anger and fear in his clear eyes, which soon turned into sadness.

Mu En wants me to tell you not to tell anyone the news of his death. The alliance seems to be united now, but if the news of his death spreads, there will definitely be civil strife...

Ice Phoenix coughed out a few more blood clots, and stared at Barbara, who seemed to have turned into a statue: When Mu En is not here, those great elders will naturally take care of everything. He said that your future is limitless. But he wants you to inherit his legacy. He will definitely try his best to rescue the enslaved lower planes from the hands of the demons. But this must wait until the plane war between the light plane and the demon world begins. It is best to do this. You must not be impulsive before finishing it after the two popes are dead.

I still have to worry about so many things until I die...

The Ice Phoenix shook its head. This action made the extremely weak creature roll its eyes and almost fainted again.

who is it?

Barbara finally came to her senses. She bit her lower lip and stared at Ice Phoenix.

My child, Muen said that not being able to watch you grow up was his biggest regret. He said that he has always treated you as his own daughter. Barbara, Muen is too persistent. I have persuaded you more than once. He gave up, but he always believed that justice could defeat evil, but now it seems that at least he can no longer see it.

Barbara, I was supposed to stay by your side and take care of you, but I can't. I have more important things to do. You have to take care of yourself.

Who is it?

Barbara didn't pay any attention to what Binghuang was saying. She just stubbornly kept repeating the same question.

I promised Mu En not to tell her, and I will never tell her.

Binghuang slowly shook his head: Muen can't defeat him, and neither can I. If there is a chance that we meet again in the future, and if I think you have the strength to challenge him, maybe I will tell you then.

Goodbye, my child, remember to live well.

Don't tell anyone what happened today, just pretend I haven't been here.

Have a good sleep and wake up strong to live.

A series of spiritual secret words sounded in Barbara's mind, but before she could say anything else, a peaceful spiritual shock wave from Ice Phoenix hit. Barbara, whose thoughts and soul were completely confused, could no longer bear it and fainted. land.

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You know how much I wish that was a dream?

Barbara, whose face was filled with tears unknowingly, struggled to wake up from the narration of her memory. She looked up at Li Junshan and said sadly: But when I woke up again, whether it was the frozen ice crystals around me or the ice crystals on the ground, The blood, including the fact that most of the attic was collapsed, clearly shows that those are the facts.”

Ice Phoenix has come back, and my mentor is really dead.

By now, Barbara was crying.

Li Junshan was silent. He didn't know how to comfort the woman in front of him who had never been so weak in front of him.

After a while, the sobs subsided, and then Li Junshan said: Then you should go back and take a look.

No.

Barbara stretched out the back of Bai Shengsheng's hand to wipe her eyes, raised her head and said: No one knows better than Ice Phoenix whether the mentor is dead or not. It's just like your summoned beasts. Whether they are dead or alive depends on your mental power or The spiritual connection will tell you all this.”

So the reason why you don't want to go back is because you know that this prophet is fake?

That's right.

Barbara nodded, her mood slowly calming down.

I believe there is a 90% possibility that the current Prophet Mu'en is just a fake concocted by Elder An Ting and the others. If my mentor really has not come back from the dead, he will definitely come to me personally. I Believe in that.”

Barbara's expression was very determined, and she continued: In the last plane war, the nightmare that the half-orc shadowless assassin Arinozi brought to the demons with the Thunder Meteor Arrow-winged Beast was too profound, even Even the Pope of the Demon God Sect personally took action in the end, leaving a deep memory for Elder An Ting and the others. I believe the reason they did this was to lure me back so that they could successfully assassinate me in the upcoming plane war. Each and every one of them is a strong person from the nail or demon race who threatens the alliance.

not necessarily……

Such an important thing, at least to Barbara, was very important. Li Junshan estimated that she could not remember many things due to her wisdom. It was also the return of Muen Prophet that stimulated her, but Li Junshan, who was a bystander, had to remind her.

In case, I mean just in case, if this Munen Prophet is not a fake concocted by Antin and the others, but is a conspiracy of other forces, then your lower plane alliance will probably disappear soon.

hiss……

Barbara was also upset after hearing the news about her mentor. When she heard Li Junshan's analysis, she couldn't help but stood up and took a breath.

No, I can't just watch the alliance that my mentor worked so hard to organize disintegrate without even a single conflict or war with the demons.

I'll go back with you and take a look.

Li Junshan patted Barbara on the shoulder comfortingly, and the latter immediately responded to him with a grateful smile.

Fortunately, we have recruited a lot of talents during this period. If we let it go for a while, nothing big will happen.

Barbara, who was in charge, explained to Li Junshan: Now there is no trouble in the plane of Alan continent alone...

Don't worry about it here yet.

Li Junshan waved his hand to interrupt Barbara's voice. He suddenly frowned and said, That Daolun said that as long as he breaks the scroll, another disciple of Prophet Muen will come to take him back. Who is this other disciple?

have no idea.

Barbara shook her head and said: The mentor used to have many followers, many of whom were also inspired by him, but except for me, he has never accepted or recognized any other disciples.

Where's the Ice Phoenix?

Li Junshan couldn't help but ask again: Did it never appear again?

No.

Barbara shook her head sadly and said: I have never seen it since then. I even went to the devil world to search for it several times in the snowy mountains and ice, but in the end I couldn't find it.

Could it be that after it recovered from its injuries, it ran to find that person and was killed?

This sentence swirled in Li Junshan's throat, but he did not say it in the end.

You mentioned before that your mentor said to go to the plane of light...

Li Junshan changed the topic and asked again: Do you think the 'him' Binghuang mentioned is the Pope of Light?

I think it might be the Pope of the Demon God Cult.

A trace of hatred flashed in Barbara's eyes, and she said: The Light Plane harvests super-powerful people from other lower planes that are not ruled by demons. Even though this behavior is extremely shameless, at least they and our alliance have nothing to do with it. Conflict. We only remember that the person who passed away after looking for a mentor was a human with demon blood. Later, we used all our efforts to find out who he was. Combining all the signs and intelligence, I can almost It was determined that the mentor had gone to a forbidden place. After a conflict with the Demon God Pope, he had no way to escape and had to escape into the terrifying turbulence at high altitude...

At this point, Barbara was almost gritting her teeth.

The Pope of Demonic Cult

Li Junshan murmured to himself about this name that shocked him every time, and suddenly thought of Red Flame and Fire, his heart moved.

Is it possible that this Prophet Mu En is another puppet, a puppet whose soul has been manipulated by the Demonic Pope or has no soul at all?

Of course, he just said it in his heart, but Li Junshan immediately felt that it was impossible.

Chi Yan turned into Fire. Judging from the situation after Li Junshan's last encounter, Fire can only become a thug, and infiltrating the enemy's interior is obviously not something that a person in Fire's state can do. came out.

What's more, Li Junshan has not forgotten that methods such as soul attack or manipulation are not the strengths of the Demonic God Pope.

I'm going to calm down the thunderstorm, and then we'll set off.

Li Junshan calmed down and looked at Barbara.

Um.

Barbara responded softly, but her eyes softened when she looked at Li Junshan. Apparently, the grudge in her heart caused by Li Junshan's suspicion had almost melted away.

Go and meet that Doulun, don't scare him and tear the scroll apart and run away. Li Junshan said to Barbara with a smile, then turned around and walked out.

Nicholas, thank you.

Barbara's voice sounded from behind Li Junshan.

You're welcome.

Li Junshan waved his hand without looking back and said with a smile: It's like you have been helping me all along, but I have never been polite to you.

Barbara pursed her lips and smiled, but then she thought of the so-called prophet's return and her brows knitted tightly again.

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