By evening, a town was faintly visible in the distance. After some thought, Akame decided not to go there yet. She also wanted to experience what doing that in a tent like that felt like!
After eating some grilled meat, Akame took the initiative and pulled Lin Ran into the tent.
"??? Tongtong, why are you so eager today?" Lin Ran asked curiously.
"Hmph, you and Sheele already did it! I want to, too!"
Within a few minutes, panting came from inside the tent. With Akame taking the initiative, they made even more noise than yesterday. Blushing furiously, Sheele covered Zi Xing's ears, trying to shut out those lewd sounds for her.
"Big Sister, it's fine. I know Big Sister Akame and Big Brother Divine Abyss are practicing!"
"Mm-hmm, go to sleep." Sheele pinched Zi Xing's little cheek. Listening to the two of them, she could not help feeling a little aroused. Lin Ran's powerful body had surfaced in her mind again. Recalling scene after scene of him bullying her, along with his teasing tone as he said she could not last until the end, Sheele rubbed her legs together. Only as those three hours drew to a close did she fall asleep.
After the sun was high in the sky, Akame walked out of the tent and looked at a squad of foreign tribesmen closing in. She swung her sword once, killing them all.
The three girls headed toward the town, leaped straight onto its walls, and looked at the inhabitants inside.
Lin Ran discovered that the people living here were also foreign tribesmen. However, they differed somewhat from the uncivilized tribesmen out in the wild. They got along harmoniously, and their clothing was more proper.
But the next scene stirred Akame's killing intent. A foreign tribesman who looked very distinguished strolled leisurely down the street, holding two ropes. Yet what those ropes bound were two young girls! Their clothes barely covered their bodies, and they could only crawl along the ground. Whenever they crawled too slowly, the tribesman whipped them.
The surrounding tribesmen merely watched the nobleman with envy, and others kept bowing and scraping before him.
Akame leaped, her figure disappearing in midair. The next second, she was already standing before the two girls.
Lin Ran examined them carefully and noticed quite a few whip marks on their bodies. However, they seemed to have undergone some special treatment. The marks were very faint and would even disappear after some time.
"Someone from the Eastern Empire?" The foreign nobleman was startled, then immediately delighted. Another new plaything!
Sword light flashed, and the nobleman's limbs fell to the ground. Akame helped one girl up, only to find her staring at the nobleman in terror.
"Quick-run! You're no match for them!" The girl pushed Akame, wanting her to leave this place quickly.
"Run? Where could you run?" An armored foreign general rode over on a towering exotic beast.
"Grand General!" All the surrounding tribesmen knelt and bowed.
"Carry him away and ask the priest to treat him." As the grand general finished speaking, four foreign soldiers moved to carry away the nobleman wailing before Akame.
The grand general suddenly accelerated, slashing his saber at Akame. Saber and sword collided with an ear-piercing clang. Akame calmly regarded the astonished grand general before her.
"With so little strength, you dare abduct the people of our Divine Dragon Empire?"
Akame abruptly exerted her strength, severing the heavy saber in the grand general's hand with one stroke. Without losing momentum, her sword cut him in half at the waist. Realizing something was wrong, the surrounding foreign troops encircled Akame.
"Heaven-cleave!" Akame no longer held back. A gigantic sword a thousand zhang long descended from the clouds, and a devastating shock wave ravaged the entire town.
When the dust cleared, Akame slowly walked out of the ruins with Sheele, Zi Xing, and the two girls. One strike had annihilated the entire town! This was Akame's current strength!
As for why she had brought the two girls along, it was because they knew where the Western Empire's imperial capital was. The grand general had bought them there, then bestowed them on his son-the nobleman.
"You're saying there are many more people like you in the imperial capital?"
"Yes! There's a trading company in the imperial capital that specializes in abducting young women from the empire and selling them here for these nobles' amusement."
"There were actually quite a few in that town just now, too." The other young woman bit her lip, but ultimately said it.
"I have no way to search every house and rescue them. Do you understand? What I can do is kill every last person who abused them."
"We understand, my lady."
"Let's go. Once we reach the imperial capital, if we can find that trading company you mentioned, there's no harm in rescuing the people there before taking action."
"Thank you, my lady!" The two sisters were overjoyed.
Akame had her own considerations as well. If she could rescue the women there and form an army belonging solely to Zi Xing, that would presumably be a good thing. These women had endured every kind of hardship away from home, so their desire to grow stronger would surely be incredibly intense.
At this point, the foreign tribesmen in the other towns still did not know what had happened. They merely assumed that the enormous sword phantom just now had been some kind of treasure. Quite a few squads rushed over, running straight into Akame and her companions.
Every one of those tribesmen had gleaming eyes. In their eyes, Akame's group were lambs awaiting slaughter, theirs to ravage however they pleased!
Sure enough, two groups of tribesmen now surrounded the five girls, discussing how to divide them up as though no one else were there.
"Zi Xing, they're yours. Practice your hand-to-hand skills," Akame said calmly. Zi Xing nodded her little head and charged forward barehanded.
Under one tribesman's mocking gaze, she blasted his body apart with a punch, along with the bodies of two tribesmen behind him.
Zi Xing pushed off with her legs, turning into an afterimage as she attacked the surrounding tribesmen. Seeing how formidable she was, the others actually attacked Akame and the other three instead.
Black light flashed, and all the attacking tribesmen were sliced in half at the waist. Holding the Blade of Devouring, Sheele adjusted her glasses.
"System, are there any treasures that can cure Sheele's eyes?"
[It is recommended that the host purchase Divine Eye Liquid!]
Lin Ran spent fifty thousand Origin Points on a bottle of Divine Eye Liquid, planning to put some drops in Sheele's eyes that night. Although glasses girls earned plenty of bonus points, glasses really were inconvenient in combat. Lin Ran did not want Sheele to suffer in future battles because of this.
With Sheele joining the fight, the tribesmen continuously arriving from the surrounding area could not even keep up with the pair's killing speed. Akame simply stopped waiting by the stump for rabbits and took the initiative to attack instead.
Sheele and Zi Xing cleared the way up front, while Akame followed behind with the two burdensome sisters.
By nightfall, all the tribesmen had been terrified by the slaughter. They had all retreated onto a town wall, staring at the five girls as though confronting a formidable enemy.
"You're Teigu users from the Eastern Empire? I've long heard that the Eastern Empire has a group of incomparably powerful Teigu users who can take on a thousand men with the power of their Teigu! From what I've seen today, those aren't just rumors! No wonder our sovereign has always placed such importance on alchemy. It seems our sovereign also wants to create weapons like those in your hands," a lavishly dressed foreign tribesman said with perfect composure.
"Wage, Wali! Go test them! Remember, capture them alive!"
Two figures immediately leaped down from the town wall, each holding a crimson greatsaber. As they drew the blades across their fingers, opening a cut, blood-colored light blazed from the weapons.