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Moving withing the dozens of guards of high statuses among some other soldiers who were seemingly of a high rank, Yun Beishang made his way in an extremely agile but feebly manner. Though his Movement Speed was limited at 100%, he still moved tens of times better than even a agile-DEX type of class player, even one that was really damn good at that.
Wearing his Petals of Destruction Armor Set, he jumped from on spot of the road towards one of the walls of an alley before climbing it up by jumping towards the other one in the opposite direction from the wall he jumped to at first. Like that, he arrived at the roof of a large building that was a few hundreds of meters away from the worn walls of the Carmesí Vermilion Bird City closest to the Northern gate.
Yun Beishang was, indeed, using one of his newest skills; namely, the Masked Instrumental Body skill. As he moved always to his 100% of Movement Speed, he was still able to not only hop from one structure to another, mainly buildings. But he was even also to jump two or more dozens of meters high up into the air or in the distance with a forward angle from a feeble and easy-to-break street lamp that was definitely not given well-maintenance; but he was even able to step in the middle of the air to impulse his body a bit more towards any direction, as long as he did so much as wished it.
Even if he repressed his Movement Speed, his flexibility, combat experience and awareness allowed dear Yun Beishang to move as if he was a normal player with an unique one-time-buff to be granted 300% Movement Speed and for some reason, not die from the lack of control. In other much shorter words, he was a sight to behold should he have been able to be seen for as the Masked Instrumental Body seemed so powerful that even Zyv couldn't tell of his whereabouts even as she was still in the same party with him. Which made him think, or ask, to himself. Could the whatever that is the Sacred Beast Protector of this Sub-Division be capable of discovering him while in the use of such skill?
In any case, Yun Beishang looked at the wind as it powerfully swept into a gust of wind that quickly moved towards the center of the Main City, as his eyes seemingly longingly looked at the wind, the figure of his 'hidden-to-the-world' body swiftly disappeared into that gust of wind.
"... ... ... ... ... ..."
Swish... Swish... Swish... Swish... Swish... Swish...
As the gush of wind passed that was Yun Beishang himself as he became 'it' from a simple gust of wind thanks to his still not attained most beautiful, purest of whites essence and his also still not attained grey-platinum, bright-metallic essence. From a typical gust of wind, it became a beautiful sight to behold but, to anyone else that wasn't powerful enough, they became unconscious and mostly; asleep. In the deepest of the night, as Yun Beishang moved without exerting a single Movement Speed of his own, he quickly traveled thousands of kilometers in a matter of a few dozen minutes without anybody noticing a completely strange, new and beautiful combination of a striking white and a melancholic grey as 'it' made 'its' way towards the center of the City.
At first, Yun Beishang didn't really needed to move at all, but once almost an hour went by and he was still busy with the scenery route of his traveling, he decided to use some of his Movement Speed to manipulate the gust of wind to move him almost directly towards the utmost center of the Carmesí Vermilion Bird Main City. From 1% of his Movement Speed, it went all the way up to 100% in a matter of a few minutes, Yun Beishang becoming even like a child enjoying playing with toys as he swayed big lefts and big rights while moving directly towards the large and bulky building.
Previously, as Zyv decided to sacrifice her own fan club -'fun clab'-, Yun Beishang gave her the green light to do so while also starting to corrupt this little wolf cub of his as he began telling her what to tell them to do exactly. And as time went by, some hours had already gone by and, Yun Beishang was already this close of reaching his target. He was not sure of the whereabouts of the key, but he did knew that if he couldn't find it, then the 'city lord' should be the one holding it. And dearly at that, considering that he is a city lord of a billions-many citizens Sub-Divisional Main City and the governor of even more billions outside the Main City that were situated inside the Carmesí Vermilion Bird Sub-Division territory; then, the city lord was sure to know that if Tongqiu really killed the Azure Dragon and even managed to destroy the Azure Dragon City, then... any of the other 3 Sub-Divisions were next! He could be next at any time!
And indeed, that fucker, was completely right. Oh, but he couldn't be even more right as, it just so happened that Tongqiu indeed targeted them and he himself was also the first one to be 'chosen'.
. . .
Carmesí Vermilion Bird Main City, inside the 1km x 1km large armored short, one-storey tall building in which the family and extensive branches families of the city lord's concubines lived at the very center of.
Today was a 3-time consecutive night, a 3-day period in which Main Kingdom didn't experienced a second day for three days. But, the 'most important' man of the entire Carmesí Vermilion Bird Sub-Divisional Main City was still holding tight onto an amulet covered by some kind of paper with a floral, watery design of plain orange and plain red color by his right hand as he toured through the long corridors of the building while being in the complete dark. His body was of a regular size, had a slender appearance and even looked a bit handsome of the kind that is not 'pretty' as well as being slightly old-looking. Had a big but also slender nose with regular ears. Short-long hair for a male that was combed backwards mostly and whose hair seemed to be messy, mostly because of stress and the endless rolling of his bed due to insomnia.
As he looked left and right of the corridors while still stepping forwards in a slightly cowardly but nor self-humiliating manner and as he did so in the complete dark of the night with the longest of corridors an ordinary person could ever imagine to and wonder, why even bother with such long corridors? The city lord had his eyes half-opened but were fully awake, and as he tightened the grip of his right hand and then released it over and over again, he failed to notice a tall, almost more than 2 meters tall figure suddenly appear behind him; seemingly out of nowhere.
Swoosh...
The left arm of the figure who just materialized from nothing was lifted towards the city lord's back, aiming at his left shoulder. At that time, the amulet did nothing but the city lord's face changed from one that was constantly calming down and becoming anxious before becoming slightly relaxed only to calm down and then get anxious again, finally changed its pattern to that of a wide-eyed and jaw-relaxed expression as if realization struck him; albeit too late.
Tap.
"EEEHHEEE-heeeyaaaa!" His right arm in front of his face and his left elbow covering his heart in front of his chest, the city lord jolted high up almost half a meter into the sky while turning around, giving that figure a cruelly, humiliating sight to behold.
"Wh-who are you! Bastardly sack of shit-"
Slap. Thud!
Before the city lord could finish speaking his flowery words, a casual slap went to his right cheek; it came from Yun Beishang's left hand, and it was a casual but powerful back-handed slap. The city lord stupidly made a 180 degree turn of his entire body with its head meeting the ground as if it was his lover first, followed right after by the collarbone and then his chest. The sound of a few bones breaking sounded out.
"UUGH... wh-why-no, cough! What-" Oh, but if the city lord thought that he was about to speak freely, he was damn wrong. He should've seen the Azure Dragon City's city lord, he didn't even bothered!
Pvfigsh!
Slap.
"KAAAGH!!" As the city lord spoke before, he tied to rise up from the ground with both his hands supporting his body against the ground, but the feeling of something 'clicking' straight into his very own body and soul sounded out, and as the familiar pain of the incoming repeated slap came, an even more anguishing pain assaulted his brain and all of his senses as he flew towards a side of the long as fuck corridor before finally landing on the exotic and lush flooring.
Thud... Swish!
"KGH... arrggghhhll-kwagh!" The already familiar with the choking sounds Yun Beishang looked on at the already dark red-faced city lord of the Carmesí Vermilion Bird City, his lips suddenly lifted up a mocking grin as his canines then showed as he talked to the city lord. "Even though the walls of 'your' city are so old and some even already show signs of collapsing, your floor sure is hard. Hmm, what is it. Made from Resplendent grade materials? Woaaaaaah, you be fucking rich... 'city lord'."
His last words spoken towards the city lord with his head tilting twice before ending in a twisted tilt to his right, the Petals of Destruction Suit Caberg made Yun Beishang's eyes inflict deep fear into the city lord's already scared silly heart, while his voice was completely normal though, completely unchanged by his Caberg.
Before, as the city lord 'fell' onto the floor once again, Yun Beishang quickly caught up with him to grab him by the neck from the back. The city lord's tongue now commenced to spiral out of his mouth out of the desperation and the unknown, this kind of feeling... was very much unlike suffocation but it some way, it was just much more worse!
Huuu~.
The city lord then was barely able to move his eyes to his left as Yun Beishang lowered his head to disrespectfully place his shin onto the left side of the city lord's face, seeing nothing but a helmet. Feeling his 'soul leaving his body', the city lord thought that simply sleeping was fine; but then, the words of Yun Beishang made him wake up once again and his following actions, to feel uncontrollable torment.
"Don't die yet, give me the key, the one you're holding out of fear and precaution. The one I am going to annihilate this entire city if you don't do." Then, as Yun Beishang spoke, he let go of the middle-aged city lord whose face and hair seemed to age a couple of decades.
"...KLAAARGGHHH! GASP... ...GAAASP~! Kuh, kuuh!" Horrifying, throaty convulsions and abrupt, forceful coughs and expelling of something resounded with the city lord's expression becoming incredulous to the fact that he was still alive, not even realizing that his aggressor was still just right beside him; right there.
Suddenly,Yun Beishang grabbed the city lord's hair from behind -once again-, before springing the dumbest shitard to his feet; albeit weekly.
With but a furious voice that became aloud out of nowhere, Yun Beishang became the little, small devil of the city lord's heart. "THE. KEY!! Give it to me!"
Step, step, step, step, step.
"Y-ye-yes. YES!" The city lord's face paled more than any human could even go paler at, his eyes flashed as he didn't wanted to be silenced and rapidly unwrapped the amulet.
Crsh-crsh-crshcrsh.
With only 15 seconds having gone by and as Yun Beishang felt his Mental Power finally able to look at the thing, or rather, things in the City Lord's hands; the guards all nearby the city lord's chambers were finally on sight. Already aware of an intruder and that of which their city lord's life was a great danger, they didn't bothered with any words as they stomped as harsh as they could to rush up at the two figures in the distance.
"Quickly!" A grotesque voice came from Yun Beishang as he extended his right hand to take the things from the city lord's hands; in response, the city lord himself obediently gave them to him as he said right after. "I-right, there! I gave you all, please forgive me, Tongqiu? I was blinded, I shouldn't be like that and I'm gonna reward you lots if-if... oh! If you can help me talk to the Vermilion Bird yourse-s-s-self so! Please spare my life! I'll give you all my concubines, my wives and daughters, do you like boys too? I-eh..."
The city lord's rambling finally stopped slightly abruptly as his eyes saw, for the last of his moments as fist coming his way right before the sound of his nose was completely broken; could be heard.
"!!"
"MOVE! He's escaping, he is running away!"
"The City Lord has been injured, medics!!"
"Alarm the entire city, do not let this monster go away goddammit!"
But, by the time that they've arrived to the place where their 'City Lord' fell unconscious, the culprit had already gone far, far away. Or so they thought.
"Quickly, quickly! He's been through some trauma, we need to operate him as fast as possible. Many internal bleeding confirmed." As the city lord was carried off towards the medical room of operations, the doctors all around him were using a strange flute, mirror-like ball object and even some talisman-like items as they talked to it seemingly in the same fashion that when a person uses a cellphone.
"Goddammit, are the healers ready? I think most his organs... ruptured? Oh god..."
"Just move, no need to think right now. Save your brain for the operation-holy fuck... ey! Someone quickly stuff his nose with something, I think some brain matter is leaving his head!"
"Fuck..."
"Fuck!"
"Fucking hell!"
***
Outside the Carmesí Vermilion Bird City, towards the south of the Carmesí Vermilion Bird City.
"BLEEEEEERGHH!!"
Tap, tap.
"There, there. Big Brother Wolfy, feeling better? Betteeer~?"
While Yun Beishang vomited lots, his Little Zyv faithfully aided him in the process, her heart was scrunching up at the sight but her face looked calm as even her words were soothing and motherly, intending on taking his heavy weight away.
"Oggh, shit. That was awful, bleeeeeeerwwwghh...!!" Responded an eye-rotating Yun Beishang, he had this condition ever since using Rosey's Destroyer - Bloodline skill and his very own Corporeal Ignition skill of his Godly-Masked Instrumental Body together; yes, at the same time. The immense boost of a total of 675% of Movement Speed, added up to his already 'high enough' 239% Movement Speed; a 914% of total raw Movement Speed made him feel his eyes turn 2D and then 1D before finally returning to reality, yet the damage was already done and he still felt his organs gurgle and deform every now and then.
Oh? Oh no, of course it was not because of the brutality that he showcased just then against the city lord of the Carmesí Vermilion Bird Main City, nonono. In fact, once he vomited a few more times, what could be called 'just' pixels as this was only his virtual body. He acted.
Yun Beishang's eyes flashed slightly into a grey-platinum, bright-metallic glint for an instant before, in the distance, the beginning of chaos ensued.
Pvfigsh!
-77,642.
*PING*...you've successfully killed a Human, 'City Lord of the Carmesí Vermilion Bird City'. Natural hostility towards forces pertaining and closely related to the City Lord of the Carmesí Vermilion Bird Main City has been vehemently increased. Neutrality increased for all other forces in and closer to the Carmesí Vermilion Bird Sub-Division.
"Haaah, completed. Wagh~..." Seeing her big brother still 'bad at his tummy', Zyv wifely moved on to rub his back and to blow air onto his face, mostly his nose and lips. After a little bit of doing so, he seemed all fine and all pixels as well as virtual smell disappeared, so she began 'giving him air' herself in a more direct way.
"Mwah~❤️. Big Brother, get better~, alright? I'll be here, you can eat me all up if that's what makes you feel better, moreover, impregnate me if you will it~!"
Slap!
"KYAAAAAAHGH-" A wide-eyed and totally astounded Zyv became silent and obedient after her little bum was shaken powerfully, vibrantly and... electrifying-ly by Yun Beishang's casual wave of his palm and grabbing fingers.
"Kyaa~❤️..." But Zyv asked for more after the initial shock and electrifying sensations went off from her skin and muscles, wanting, begging more.
...Yun Beishang complied. But at the same time...
*PING* Local System Announcement: The city lord of the Carmesí Vermilion Bird City has been assassinated, all 'Journeyers of the Carmesí Vermilion Bird City are to engage in the search...
***
To the south of the Carmesí Vermilion Bird Sub-Division, where even the Myriad Beasts Division Southern territory ended and only the ignored and uncared for settlements of all Myriad Races should've been living at. Because, in fact, the south outside of the Carmesí Vermilion Bird Sub-Division, was a 'small' but utterly lifeless and almost colorless piece of land whose heat even made any player suffer -500 Fire Core Elemental Damage each second. Damage that will even increase over time as they reached further and further into the unusual desert of the Carmesí Vermilion Bird Sub-Division.
-100, -100, -100, -100.
-100, -100, -100, -100.
-50, -50, -50, -50.
That was so, if it wasn't because of Zyv's newly created dish.
[Spicy Feathered Turtle]: Type: Food, Grade: Magical, Properties: Upon consuming this roasted drumstick made from a 1 Star Elite LV70 Feathered Turtle, direct damage taken from Fire Core Elemental Damage is reduced by 350 points.
[Dumpling - Magma Slime]: Type: Food, Grade: Formidable, Properties: Delicious dumpling with incredibly unique and perfect texture that melts in one's mouth without scalding nor damaging one's mouth, grants the consumer the effect of incoming damage reduced by 550 points coming from the Fire Core Element.
And while Cosmic Wolf suffered even less damage even after they've been a lot of time in these lands, only Zyv and Yun Beishang were more or less naturally affected by it, they would receive 1,000 points of Fire Core Elemental Damage every second if it wasn't for Zyv. As for Rosey, she was delighted and bathing at the scorching heat.
Sniff, sniff.
Sniff, sniff, sniff... sniff?!
Suddenly, Yun Beishang was the first to give out a few sniffing noises from his nostrils; instinctively. He then looked to his right to see a rapidly approaching figure coming their way, under that figure's feet was a strikingly beautiful and wondrous bird whose body was almost nonexistent but whose wings were big enough to hold 4-8 people of all sizes. At the same time, Zyv mimicked his acts and discovered the same almost at the same moment, she was a step later than her big brother wolfy though.
However, what caught her attention was not the skill under the player's body that was so eye-catching, but the smell...
"Big Brother Wolfy, why does her mouth smells so much of you?" With but the most curious of expressions, a frowning Zyv asked her big brother like a wife catching his husband's mistress.
Yun Beishang, similarly encountered a powerfully and impossible fact, he knew!
But at this time, the player's voice sounded out, the figure enshrouded by the darkness of the night even as the striking skill below her feet illuminated 10 meters in its surroundings became clearer at the player's yell. "Stop right there! Return what is not yours to the rightful owners, and only then will I let it go."
It was a she, and her calm but fierce yet feminine voice resonated pretty beautifully across the night sky; even illuminating brighter her surroundings as her image became fully clear while also illuminating 100 meters around her seemingly from just her voice alone!
But, to Yun Beishang, 'this' was shocking. His eyes widened, he simply opened his mouth but for no words to come out until a while later as the player arrived quite before them already. "Eh? Y-you-you are... YOU ARE CINDY?!"
"...?!?" The player responded in the most shocked of ways as she almost fell with her head straight down onto the scorching sand.
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