Garbo D (Part Two, Fourth Update 4)

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Prince Yin Tianjue swept a cold-eyed glance over the five men and women in splendid clothes, then chuckled softly. "The first Grand Arbiter of Milan City-State, Sky Wind Dragon Garbo D? An extreme human supremacist who once every thirty years used the sun-drying torture to execute all eight hundred Blood Demons of the Medici Lineage, thereby earning the title of 'the Most Devoted Guardian of Humanity'! Well, well—how interesting!"

Garbo D produced a pink rose from who knew where. He brought it to his nose, inhaled its fragrance deeply, and sighed in an exaggerated, greasy voice that sounded as though his throat were stuffed full of sweet cream. "Interesting? What is it that you find interesting, powerful Blood Demon?"

Yin Tianjue merely smiled and ignored Garbo D. He turned toward Fainlan, then let out a deep sigh. "So Fanlu'er City was deliberately sacrificed by you? Including the soldiers, hunters, and those young people who were supposedly descendants of the Deities?"

Fainlan toyed with the banner in her hand. Thousands of sharp blades in the sky shrieked in unison, having already been charged to the limit by the formation. The moment she gave the order, they would howl through the air and strike Yin Tianjue.

Hearing Yin Tianjue's question, Fainlan smiled sweetly. "You evil vampires. Though you are filthy and base, your excessively long lives have granted you superhuman wisdom!"

"That's right. Fanlu'er City was nothing more than a discarded pawn! You wanted to attack Fanlu'er City to test the reaction of our Great Berlin City-State, but we simply abandoned Fanlu'er City! Let me calculate this—by sacrificing a trifling number of lowly humans, we bought ourselves more than ten days."

A trace of cruelty and malice mingled in Fainlan's smile. She narrowed her eyes at Yin Tianjue and enunciated every word. "You marched at your leisure, making a grand show of attacking Fanlu'er! Then you leisurely returned from Fanlu'er and tried to attack the Great Berlin City-State! What you wasted was your own time! What we paid was merely the sacrifice of over a million people!"

Fainlan gave the banner in her hand a forceful wave and let out a shrill, menacing laugh.

"If you hadn't gone to Fanlu'er City and wasted time, but had instead brought all your forces directly against the Great Berlin City-State, perhaps you really would have thrown us into disarray and forced my companions to return and reinforce us! But now, you've already wasted so many days for nothing. My companions may well already be on their way back."

Yin Tianjue looked up at the densely packed silver clouds overhead, then sighed leisurely.

"You can't be certain when those who left will return either?"

Fainlan fell silent for a while, then spread her hands helplessly. "Our guests could only roughly estimate a possible point in time! But none of us knows exactly when that event will happen—whether earlier or later."

"What if they still need many days to return?" Clusters of black-red ice crystals roared up from Yin Tianjue's Natal Bat Wings, with countless tiny arcs of lightning faintly winding between them. His power was so tremendous that even beneath the Great Formation's shroud, delicate snowflakes suddenly began drifting down from the sky.

"What if they need many days to return?" Fainlan's smile remained radiant. "Even if they can't return to reinforce us according to the planned schedule, at the very least, we have successfully delayed you for so many days. The odds of their returning soon are far greater than the odds of their remaining away."

"And you are trapped by the miraculous formation aided by our guests. Your warriors are dying in great numbers. I could even try to kill all you ancient evil beings inside this Great Formation! What do I have to worry about?" Feeling the surging might of the Great Formation, Fainlan laughed aloud with utter confidence.

Watching Fainlan laugh until her whole body trembled like a swaying flower, Yin Tianjue let out a heavy sigh.

"Then can you tell me where they went? If they return normally, how long will they need?" Yin Tianjue narrowed his eyes at Fainlan and spoke unhurriedly. "Look, we're already trapped here, and it's very possible that all of us will be killed! So grant us one final wish before our lives end. Where did they go?"

Fainlan raised an eyebrow and regarded Yin Tianjue with extreme wariness.

"No, I won't tell you! Where my companions and our guests went is not something you should know. I can't tolerate any mishap. Perhaps you might be able to destroy this Great Formation, but I'm confident I can escape. As long as you don't know where my companions went, you have no way to disrupt their operation!"

Fainlan laughed mockingly and shook her head at Yin Tianjue in disdain.

"As long as my companions successfully obtain the share of the benefits that belongs to us, even if this Great Formation can't do anything to you, once they return, you evil vampires will still suffer a terrible reprisal!"

"What a clever woman!" Yin Tianjue raised both hands with a beaming smile and gave Fainlan two thumbs-up. "What a clever woman! Yes, absolutely don't give us any opportunity! But why did you leave such a huge loophole?"

"Loophole?" Fainlan stared at Yin Tianjue in confusion. "What loophole did we leave? We haven't overlooked any possibility! We carefully examined our plan, whether it was sacrificing Fanlu'er to waste your time, using this formation to trap you and drain your strength as much as possible, or even how I would abandon the Great Berlin City-State and retreat safely if the Great Formation were destroyed!"

"Wound her severely. Capture her alive!" Yin Tianjue had no patience left to listen to Fainlan. He raised one finger and made a crude gesture toward her.

Fainlan's expression darkened. She was just about to angrily berate Yin Tianjue for his shameless vulgarity and activate the Great Formation to attack him when the entire formation suddenly shuddered violently. The light of the three golden towers abruptly dimmed, and a sharp standard-issue soft sword of the Yin Clan soundlessly pierced into Fainlan's body from behind, passing straight through her lower abdomen.

Garbo D held a standard-issue soft sword of the Yin Clan, his body pressed tightly against Fainlan's curvaceous figure. His left arm had already wrapped firmly around her slender, graceful, yet powerful waist.

"Darling, don't struggle. Whatever you do, don't struggle!"

"You've suffered a terrible wound! But this injury can be healed! However, if you struggle, I can't guarantee that I won't hurt you even more!"

"My dear Fire Queen Fainlan, obediently accept your fate! Oh, what an adorable little girl! So very adorable! I'll ask my great master, Prince Yin Tianjue, to bestow you upon me and make you my little darling!"

Garbo D trembled all over with excitement and forcefully kissed Fainlan on the neck.

The other two female Grand Arbiters from Milan City-State appeared as abruptly as Garbo D behind the remaining two Grand Arbiters. The sharp longswords in their hands likewise pierced through their targets' lower abdomens. (To be continued)