"Big sister, let me!" Zi Xing summoned the Heavenly Heart Sword and charged at the two men first.
After just one clash, the long saber in Wali's hand had a huge notch cut into it. Barely ten breaths later, the brothers Wage and Wali were already beset by danger.
"Loose!" Seeing things turn against them, the foreign tribes' leader on the city wall decisively gave the order. A dense barrage of arrows flew toward the group.
The foreign tribespeople on the wall all watched Akame mockingly. At last, Akame made her move.
Vast power rapidly gathered around her. Then she swung her sword, and two enormous golden-red dragons let out deafening roars. Twining around each other, they shattered every arrow and slammed headfirst into the city wall.
After wreaking havoc, the golden-red dragons dissipated in the air. Most of the town before them had been destroyed, and as for that leader, he had long since evaporated. Akame followed up with another Heaven Opening, razing the town outright.
That night, after everyone had eaten roasted meat, Sheele followed Lin Ran into the tent, her face flushed with embarrassment under Akame's gaze.
"Don't take your clothes off yet!" Watching Sheele start to undress the moment she came in, Lin Ran pinched her cheek in exasperation.
"Huh?"
"Lie down. I got something good for you!"
Once Sheele had lain down with her head on his lap, Lin Ran took out the Divine Eye Liquid and dripped it into her eyes. Divine light immediately swirled through Sheele's eyes, making them look extraordinarily wondrous.
Half an hour later, Sheele took off her glasses in shock and found that she could see everything clearly. Lin Ran chuckled, removed both lenses from her glasses, and put the frames back on her.
Sheele watched what Lin Ran was doing in confusion. Only after he muttered something in her ear did she blush and pound her fists against him.
Lin Ran pulled her down into his embrace. Before long, melodious sounds came from inside the tent.
The two girls were the most shocked of all. This mysterious man who had suddenly appeared was actually doing that sort of thing with Sheele! They could not understand it. Could a woman as powerful as Sheele be conquered by a man too? If it had been Akame today, their eyes probably would have popped out.
At that moment, Akame was like a deity in their eyes, slaughtering tens of thousands of foreign tribespeople with a casual gesture, destroying heaven and earth with every move.
Three hours passed, and all the women could finally go to sleep. Looking thoroughly refreshed, Lin Ran returned inside Divine Abyss and acted as their lookout.
With him there, Akame, Sheele, and Zi Xing all slept particularly soundly.
Only when the blood-red morning sun dispelled the darkness did Akame and the others leisurely emerge from their tents. Zi Xing looked full of energy, while Sheele glowed radiantly. Only Akame looked a little resentful.
"System, can you upgrade that Myriad Spirits Body of mine?"
[Spend three million Origin Points, and the host can use the Myriad Spirits Body at any time!]
"Hiss-you ask for millions at the drop of a hat. Who can take that? Bought!"
Lin Ran bought it without the slightest hesitation. After all, this concerned his future happiness. He immediately used the Myriad Spirits Body.
Akame and Sheele looked at Lin Ran in surprise, not understanding why he had taken human form again now.
"To keep a certain someone from being left unsatisfied, I'll stay like this twenty-four hours a day from now on!" Lin Ran whispered into Akame's ear.
"Nonsense! I'm not!" Akame threw herself into Lin Ran's arms and pinched him in displeasure. After breakfast, Akame and Sheele each hugged one of Lin Ran's arms. By then, the two sisters had gone completely numb!
But they soon witnessed Lin Ran's strength. Looking at yet another town before them, Lin Ran felt his hands itch for action, so he gripped Divine Abyss and mobilized all its power.
With one slash, two golden-red dragons more than ten times larger than those Akame had formed yesterday burst into the sky. Wherever they passed, not a scrap of armor remained. After they had completely destroyed the town, Lin Ran beckoned to the dragons, and both roared as they rushed back into Divine Abyss.
Akame looked at Lin Ran with shining eyes. So this was Divine Abyss's true power? It seemed she still was not strong enough!
By then, through some unknown channel, the Western Empire had actually learned that an invincible squad had arrived from the Eastern Empire and was sweeping through its towns, sparing nothing in its path.
The Western Empire directly issued an astronomical bounty, and its strongest fighters began to gather. If they took down Akame, they would become great heroes of the Empire and could spend the rest of their lives enjoying themselves.
As more and more bounty hunters attacked, Akame grew somewhat puzzled. After she subjected a band of foreign tribespeople to brutal interrogation, one of them promptly confessed everything.
"So that's it. Perfect. That saves us the trouble of finding them. They're coming to their deaths on their own."
After they killed dozens of waves of bounty hunters, something puzzled Lin Ran and the others: no more foreign tribespeople attacked, all the way until nightfall. Lin Ran was in no hurry and set up camp right there. When it was time to rest, he carried Akame into a tent. More than three hours later, he entered Sheele's tent, while Zi Xing ran into Akame's tent and snuggled up against her to sleep.
More than two hours later, Lin Ran fell into a deep sleep holding Sheele's delicate body. He could not take any more!
Early the next morning, everyone packed up their things. After they had walked for over an hour, a large force of bounty hunters appeared before them.
The several groups of foreign tribespeople standing at the very front all gave off fairly powerful auras, already comparable to those of ordinary Teigu users.
Sheele wanted to fight too, but Lin Ran stopped her. Her constitution was still far weaker than Akame's. After being so exhausted each of the past two nights, she had yet to recover today.
"It's all your fault!" Sheele pounded Lin Ran in displeasure.
"How is it my fault? You were the one taking the initiative the whole time last night," Lin Ran said with a chuckle.
Both Akame and Sheele blushed. Akame said nothing more and charged straight ahead, casually swinging her sword. Sword energy swept across thousands of meters.
"So those weren't rumors!" The foreign tribesman in the lead was horrified. He had always thought those reports exaggerated the strength of Akame and the others. After all, the power to destroy a city single-handedly sounded unbelievable no matter how he heard it.
"Heavenly-Burial!" Golden-red light blazed all over Akame's body, and ten enormous golden-red swords, each hundreds of zhang long, slowly took shape. Every foreign tribesperson froze in dumbfounded shock. At that moment, they had only one thought: Don't come any closer!
The ten enormous golden-red swords hurtled forward just above the ground, leaving trenches dozens of meters deep wherever they passed.
To Lin Ran's surprise, energy barriers lit up around the bounty hunters one after another. It seemed these people did have a few tricks up their sleeves! Unfortunately, Akame was unleashing her full combat power. While those barriers were still dozens of meters from the enormous swords, the terrifying sword intent radiating from them had already shattered the barriers.
The ten enormous swords charged forward for more than ten kilometers before finally dissipating between heaven and earth, leaving ten terrifying trenches that proclaimed to the world that the battle just now had truly happened.
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! An enemy like this can't be defeated! The Empire is finished!" Some surviving bounty hunters collapsed onto their backsides. That attack had shattered their convictions outright.
Breathing a little heavily, Akame came to Lin Ran's side and shook his arm.
"What is it?"
"I want to see you use that move!"
"Sure. I'll show you!" Lin Ran stroked her head and took Divine Abyss.
"Heavenly Burial!" Lin Ran's aura abruptly became as sharp as a sword. Sword intent soared skyward, scattering the clouds.
Ninety-nine enormous golden-red swords, each nearly a thousand zhang long, rapidly formed and filled the entire sky. Lin Ran could not help catching his breath either. He had gone overboard showing off this time. This move consumed far too much power! But Akame and Sheele were both watching, so he could not chicken out.
With a thought, every enormous sword hurtled forward from the clouds. Each one crashed heavily into the ground, taking the lives of nearly ten thousand bounty hunters.
When the rumbling ended, the dozens of kilometers ahead had become a forbidden zone for life. The sword intent lingering within it did not disperse for a long time.