Chapter 1959 - 997: The Final Journey (Part 9) 2
Chapter 1959: Chapter 997: The Final Journey (Part 9) 2
He turned his head and saw a violent girl with a ponytail and bandages around her waist, carrying an imposing Long Knife and holding an old man’s head, standing atop a pile of orc soldier corpses!
In the next moment, she raised that old man’s head high: "Kill!"
The Parent Association Members all shouted at the top of their lungs: "Kill!"
Everyone’s voice was hoarse, fighting desperately, unleashing all their strength and courage without hesitation!
The Orcs Army, originally surrounding the Parent Association, began to scatter and flee backward, as if freeing themselves from the control of the Taboo Ant Queen with fear.
The Parent Association Members screamed and chased after them, not wanting to let a single orc soldier escape.
The Orcs Army began to collapse, the Eastern Continent was about to win... but Qing Chen felt that something was missing.
This intuition made him uneasy.
It’s like when you leave home and feel like you’ve forgotten something, but can’t recall what it is until much later when you realize you actually forgot your wallet.
That intuition is a subconscious reminder to you.
Amid the cheering, Qing Chen stood in place, pondering with his head down, trying to find the source of his unease from past memories.
What is it?
What clue did he miss that caused him to feel so uneasy?
In an instant, Qing Chen’s pupils narrowed.
Everyone’s actions turned into slow motion; as Xiao Qi cheered, beads of sweat flew off his hair, suspended in mid-air.
A dagger was embedded in an orc’s neck, with crimson blood slowly splattering outward.
The entire world seemed to slow down suddenly.
However, it wasn’t the world slowing down, but Qing Chen’s thoughts speeding up!
Where should he look for clues?
Qing Chen seemed to return to the beginning of the story, in that narrow and shabby alleyway.
He was still sitting under the rain shelter in front of the supermarket, beside a middle-aged man passing by, carrying four freshly baked pancakes, with steam forming a layer of white fog inside the transparent plastic bag.
At the end of the alley, bus 103 flashed by at the narrow alley entrance, a woman in a beige trench coat ran with an umbrella to the bus stop.
But this wasn’t the clue he was looking for.
Qing Chen shuffled through his memory, passing through a gray mist; he didn’t know what was inside the mist and couldn’t approach it.
At this moment, a voice sounded beside Qing Chen’s ear.
He seemed to have returned to that dim safe house, with the tritium lamp on the wall emitting a faint light.
Black Spider calmly told him: "The Roosevelt Royalty has been requiring every Duke to tribute one Taboo item every year since 64 years ago, with many Taboo items currently hidden within the Royal Family, rarely seen being used."
Qing Chen suddenly woke up!
That’s it, 64 years meant 256 Taboo items concentrated in Drama Master’s hands, and this was only the tribute from the four Dukes; who knows how many Taboo items Drama Master himself holds.
Yet, even as the Orcs Army was about to be defeated, Qing Chen hadn’t seen any of those Taboo items.
According to the information from the Fifth Princess, the Taboo items were to be used to contain the Taboo ’Amber’.
But even if the Amber that could seal the Hyakki Night Trip needed to consume one Taboo item a year, it would only consume dozens; what about the rest?
Now that the Drama Master was about to lose, why hadn’t they used them?
In a desperate situation, one would try to grasp even a straw, but Drama Master still concealed those Taboo items.
The war with the West Continent lasted two to three months, and Drama Master had brought out less than twenty Taboo items; where were the rest?!
Also, the Duke of Storm City hadn’t appeared until now.
Qing Chen withdrew from the innate Super Memory state in his bloodstream; he saw many Parent Association Members cheering and celebrating, some hoarsely venting pent-up emotions, while others sat on the ground and cried loudly.
Qing Chen suddenly shouted loudly: "Retract the formation! Gather around me, stop celebrating, the battle isn’t over yet!"
He wasn’t sure what Drama Master’s contingency plan was, but now was definitely not the time to celebrate.
When he shouted, Parent Association Members stopped to look at him, Xiao Qi asked: "What’s wrong, boss?"
"Get back to the last line of defense, quickly!" Qing Chen didn’t have time to explain.
All the Parent Association Members fell silent, calming down and returning to battle mode, those who were crying suppressed their emotions, wiped away tears, and stood up!
...
...
Beyond the battlefield, to the north.
The tall Duke of Storm City, clad in a black robe, stood atop a mountain, eyes tightly closed as if trying hard to sense something.
Not far away, twelve Drama Masters stood quietly in black robes, silently waiting.
"Fate is being obscured; some of you can even pinpoint the Phoenix City Marquis thousands of miles away, yet I cannot see the things close by," the Duke of Storm City said calmly: "I suspect a special presence suddenly appeared on the battlefield, whose surrounding fate becomes concealed... Qing Chen."
The Duke of Storm City revealed the true principle behind Qing Chen obscuring fate: Qing Chen is an existence transcendent to this world, at his center, within the radius of his Life Field, no one can spy on the fate of this land within a hundred kilometers.
Qing Chen seems to possess a halo that obscures fate, wherever he goes, this halo covers.
Outside the halo, only the fate related to him becomes blurry, as if covered by frosted glass.