Starfire City, Dragon Knight Warrior Academy.
The back mountain, where Yao Lao had secluded himself.
"Sorry, Mr. Roger. I made you come all this way for nothing." Yao Lao wore a respectful expression.
Rejected once again, Roger nodded, his face expressionless, then shot into the sky and quickly disappeared over the horizon.
Since Yao Lao and Xiao Yan weren't willing, Roger didn't press them. Besides, he had recently persuaded nearly a hundred Saint Domains to head to the Supreme Plane, which had been quite a thrill.
"I'll go find that Sea Dragon first. Magical beast Saint Domains are much easier to persuade than those of other races." Roger rose into the air and flew toward the horizon.
Only after Roger left did Xiao Yan return to Starfire City.
Yao Lao and Xiao Yan exchanged glances.
They understood what the other meant.
Yao Lao: He came to see you too?
Xiao Yan: He did, but I turned him down.
They understood each other's silent exchange and said nothing.
"You found traces of Second Brother?" Lynn stood up in shock.
At that moment, all kinds of emotions surged through Lynn—anxiety, excitement, surprise... He looked at the guard before him with eager anticipation.
The guard lowered his head fearfully. "I can't be sure. Someone reported that after Qingli City fell, some residents saw people rounding up refugees in large numbers. There were even mages among them."
"Slave traders?" A thought flashed through Lynn's mind.
Slavery existed in the Coiling Dragon World. Whenever a large-scale war broke out, slave traders often skirted the edges of danger to acquire large numbers of slaves. Sometimes... the army itself was the biggest slave trader of all.
"Probably not slave traders." Wilbur walked in from outside.
"You may leave." Wilbur glanced at the guard, then turned his attention to Lynn.
Only after the guard had left did Wilbur speak.
"After receiving the report, I sent word to every organization in the empire that dealt in slaves, large or small, and had them all investigated. None of them had heard of the Kasa you mentioned."
"To make sure we haven't missed anything, I've sent Saint Domains to investigate the forces outside the empire. We should hear back soon, but... I doubt we'll find anything."
"..." Lynn furrowed his brow, looking deeply troubled.
If Kasa hadn't been abducted by slave traders, could something terrible have happened to him?
"Keep searching. I want to see him alive or find his body!" Lynn took a deep breath, forcing down his unease.
Just as Wilbur was about to leave, a figure suddenly descended from the sky.
"Mr. Lynn, there's something wrong in the Dark Night Principality!"
At the sound of the voice, Lynn's eyes snapped open.
"Tell me!"
The middle-aged Saint Domain who had descended from the sky felt the pressure of Lynn's gaze and took a deep breath.
"My lord, following Lord Wilbur's orders, I routinely inspected the local slave-trading organizations while passing through the Dark Night Principality."
"Unexpectedly, I learned that a mysterious force had recently appeared in the principality and was seizing people in large numbers. According to information provided by the slave traders, this mysterious force took advantage of the war between the two churches to abduct many people."
"Not long ago, someone near the Dark Night Principality's border spotted a large convoy entering the principality from the empire. There was a great deal of noise coming from the wagons. The people inside were very likely the ones who'd been abducted."
"Is this information reliable?" Lynn asked, his gaze fixed on the middle-aged Saint Domain, his expression bright with excitement.
"Absolutely. I wouldn't dare fabricate a single detail." The middle-aged Saint Domain's expression turned solemn.
"Good. I'll go there myself." Lynn rose from his seat.
He glanced at Wilbur and the middle-aged Saint Domain. "If I find Second Brother this time, I'll owe you both a favor. I'll repay you generously in the future."
"You're too kind. It's our honor to serve you."
Whoosh!
The Eastern Sea, the Nine Islands Alliance, Tianxing Island. Deep inside a hidden base, the air was thick with the stench of blood.
In a dim chamber, three gleaming golden pupils glimmered faintly beneath a black robe. Before the figure, a crystal orb wreathed in a hazy golden mist vanished into the black-robed figure's Spatial Ring.
"One thousand ordinary living beings, plus the souls of several hundred mages... That should be enough to condense a wisp of soul fluid," the black-robed figure murmured.
"Eight bases remain. I should be able to harvest at least several hundred thousand units of Soul Essence. Combined with what I've collected so far, it should be enough to form a Soul Gold Bead." The black-robed figure sounded rather pleased.
Ordinary deities couldn't make Soul Gold Beads, but this black-robed figure, despite being only a Saint Domain, could. That was entirely thanks to his race: the Three-Eyed Winged Human Race!
Elmer's parents were ordinary Winged Humans among the beastmen, but Elmer had unexpectedly experienced a bloodline reversion, and a third eye had opened on his forehead.
The Winged Human Race considered three-eyed Elmer a freak and abandoned him before he was even a month old. Fortunately, his reverted bloodline was powerful. Even as a child, he possessed strength no weaker than that of a low-level warrior, allowing him to barely survive in the wilderness.
As Elmer grew older, he discovered the secret of his third eye: it could naturally refine Soul Essence to increase his spiritual power. Thanks to this, he became a Saint Domain in just a few decades.
In the end, he even slaughtered his way through the Winged Human Race and refined them into several Soul Gold Beads.
That day, Elmer left the Winged Human Race with not a single clansman following him. The only things that accompanied him were the cold Soul Gold Beads.
The whole race, destined for Saint Domain!!
The Dark Night Principality. Lynn descended from the sky and surveyed the dark mountain range before him.
"It should be here."
Having comprehended the Fate Law to the Saint Domain limit, Lynn could move incredibly fast through the Material Plane. In just a brief moment, he could survey the entire Dark Night Principality. The base Elmer had built deep in the dark mountain range couldn't possibly escape his notice.
Inside the base.
Kasa sat on the ground in tattered clothes when a sudden knock came from outside the door.
"Mealtime." A black-clad soldier's cold voice rang out.
Smack!
The soldier tossed a wooden bowl in front of Kasa. Inside was a lump of some unknown, viscous soup.
A look of humiliation flashed through Kasa's eyes as he stared at the food. But his experiences over the past few days had taught him that he couldn't fight back. He couldn't even kill himself.
"With my extraordinary elemental affinity, I can just barely break through the Anti-Magic Stone's seal and sense the magic power inside me. If I endure for a few more days, I'll be able to cast a spell and fight my way out. I have to hold on for now..." A cold glint flashed in Kasa's eyes.
There was no spoon or any other utensil.
With his hands and legs bound, Kasa could only eat in the most humiliating way, head down, lapping up the food like an animal.
The black-clad soldier outside the door saw this and gave a scornful chuckle.
As soon as he turned around, a palm rapidly grew larger in his pupils.
Bang!!
Lynn seized the black-clad soldier by the face and lifted him into the air, his expression cold.
With his other hand, he struck the prison door and broke it open.
"Second Brother, I'm sorry I came so late."
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