Chapter 803: Waking up
"..!!" The Shadow Sword was still trembling slightly from the horror of the scene, but he obeyed Richard's orders and followed him until they reached the side of the portal's control panel.
There, Richard passed his soul sense through the voice ring and closed his eyes again, leaving the shadow sword behind him, swimming in his thoughts.
The Shadow Sword couldn't find anything to do, so he glanced back at the city that had witnessed tens of thousands of deaths within a few seconds. It had completely returned to what it was when they came. There was no new blood stains or burn marks on the ground. Even the rocks had returned to their places.
If it weren't for the destroyed spaceships outside and the mountain of mummies, he would think he was hallucinating!
"...Well we got it." After a while, Richard opened his eyes again, then put an Energy Pearl on the control panel
*Bzzzzzz*
The control panel finally lit up after being dormant for decades, and then the glow extended until it surrounded the entire space portal. Richard then began entering coordinates into the control panel.
*Vroom*
The space inside the portal metallic arc began to liquefy, and then the portal opened completely, it was already connected to the other side.
Then Richard turned and addressed the Shadow Sword, "I spoke to Mayor Henry Burton and got the coordinates of the last space portal that Jura's army used, the southern space portal in Plaet Nihari. This will make your mission somewhat easier."
"And what exactly is my mission, Crown Prince?" Shadow Sword responded with the utmost respect possible, after having personally witnessed Richard's power, he no longer respected him only as the son of His Excellency, but as one of the major power centers in the Empire, a character no less than Supreme General Caesar!
"My father probably doesn't know what's happening here. Go and tell him, He will know what to do. But beware of telling anyone before you reach him. If this news spreads among the army, devastating chaos will occur." Richard took two steps toward him, "...I have injected half of my life energy into Jura City, the life energy of a million giants, including 9 Martial Emperors. This amount will be enough to defend the city. Depending on the severity of the attacks, the protection may last for a few months or perhaps one day before it vanishes, when that happens the city will surely be destroyed. You must reach my father as quickly as possible and bring support before the life energy is dissipated and the city and the space portal are destroyed. Do you understand your mission?"
"Yes!!" The Shadow Sword stood up straight and shouted, but then asked again, in a low voice "But... What about you, Crown Prince?"
Richard smiled, "If I leave the planet, I may lose control of the city and then the gate will be destroyed after me, and also... My father did not take the army to Planet Nihari to play but to go to war. Even if he heard the information, I do not know whether he would be able to return or not. I will do what I can until he comes back."
Shadow Sword lingered at Richard's face for a few seconds, then lowered himself in a full bow, "...I will deliver the message no matter what the cost."
"What is your name?" Richard asked, smiling
"Leonid Burton, Crown Prince."
"Leonid... I'll remember the name." Richard nodded, "The fate of Planet Jura is in your hands."
"..." Leonid nodded vigorously, then gave a military salute, then jumped towards the portal.
*Viinnn--*
Richard waited until the space portal went off again, then sighed, "Heh~" and took a few steps towards what had once been Robin's mansion and patted its wall, "Jura City, you are back to being the center of events again even though you did not ask for all of this, but you have to endure, this... Just once..."
*Krrrr* A small earthquake was the response to Richard's words
Who smiled in turn and then muttered to himself, "Okay, buddy, I'm going to take a nap for a little while. It's your turn, just calm down and just do what we agreed on."
The flames caught Richard's hair, his calm eyes befitting a king turned into those of a convicted criminal as he laughed hysterically towards the sky, "HAHAHA, you will never find me complaining about killing too much!!!" Then he set off far away, not North towards the imperial capital, but west towards a city near Jura City.
While Richard was flying, he noticed with his strong soul sense that this city had been completely occupied by Demi-humans, and everyone in it was killed, There were apparently at least 5,000 Demi-humans still there, and next to it was a village that had fallen under the rule of the rebels, There were about 3,000 rebels there as well.
On that day, many piles filled the Ancestral Continent, and a lot of life energy began to refresh Richard's reserves...
At the same time-- Planet Greenland---
"I..." Peon's eyelids trembled and he sat up with difficulty, "Where... am I?"
"Oh? Sleeping Beauty finally graced us with her appearance." Peon heard a sarcastic laugh from the side
When he saw its source, he smiled and scratched his head, "His Highness the Supreme Commander of the Shadow Swords is waiting for me to get up? What an honor..." Then he stood up with difficulty, his facial expression showing a severe headache, "Tsk tsk~ I just got up and yet I feel like I haven't slept in months! I'm going to take a shower, and maybe take a nap after." Then he looked around until he located the bathroom and headed towards it with
heavy steps
There was no longer any need to know where he was, as long as Theo was here it meant the location was safe and that was all that mattered.
Sitting on a couch next to the bed, Theo smiled, "Hehe, take a nap? how ironic, considering you've been sleeping for months." He was really happy that his little brother chose today to
wake up.
"Months?!" Peon stood up and quickly looked back in shock, but he seemed to remember something and walked back to the bathroom again, "Oh, because of that fight, thinking about it, I was supposed to die at the time, it must have been Richard who saved me, remind me to thank him later."
"It was a joint venture between Richard and his father, In fact, you made a lot of people worry about you." Theo nodded
"His Excellency participated in my treatment? Why did he get his hands dirty when Richard was there?!" Byun's voice came from inside the bathroom, and immediately followed it with a broken voice, "Ah!! ...Argh, I owe him for saving me and everything, but Richard shouldn't
have gone so far."
As soon as Peon entered the bathroom, he noticed a strange man inside, so he took a step back but quickly calmed down... It was the mirror.
His torn face that had frightened every ally and enemy had been completely healed, what was left was a handsome face with sharp details befitting Noble Peon Camden.
*Shhh* But he started showering anyway. He would probably recover all of his injuries after a
battle or two.
"Richard used the life energy of tens of thousands of giants to rebuild your body, while the adoptive father used the souls of ten Martial Emperors to rebuild what he called the Soul Domain. Both of them have done a lot for you. You have to live long enough to return this favor, do you understand me?" Theo smiled assuredly, the only one who spoke to him so freely was Peon, even with his adoptive father and Caesar he would be acting respectfully and with much fewer words than needed.
"I'll see what I can do about it." Peon smiled while taking his shower. For the first time in decades, his smile was this beautiful.
How could he not understand Theo? It is clear that he is telling him to stop committing suicide attacks, but it is not as if he really wants to die. If he wanted to, he would have committed suicide in some random street and got it over with... It is just that he wants to do something and does not have the strength to do it, so he uses his life to get closer to his goal. If he had been stronger during Richard's battle against the Azil tribe, he wouldn't needed to
carry out that attack!
*Shh~~~* The sound of the water stopped and Peon came out of the bathroom with wet hair and a loose robe, "You say His Excellency used the souls of Ten Martial Emperors to treat my soul? Thinking about it, I feel something strange in my head today..."
"I think you should figure it out quickly then, Third Brother," Theo stood up and calmly took
a few steps toward the window and then opened it all the way, "No more sleeping, I won't
allow you to shirk your responsibilities today."
"Hmm?" Peon raised his eyebrows, then took a few steps towards the window
*Paa* The towel fell from his hand as he opened his eyes wide, "Oh no..."
At this moment, specifically outside the city walls, there was a massive battle.
The defenders were humans wearing armor and weapons made of wood, apparently, the local
Greenlanders trying to defend the city.
While the hostile army were the soldiers of the Great Serpent Empire.