Chapter 3: The Dog and the Lion
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“Angel, please save me.”
“I beg you, save me.”
“Please, spare the Bo family a way out.”
Black smoke blanketed the Bo family’s towering walls, symbols of their former glory.
The acrid scent of burning homes mixed with damp mist filled Bobai’s nostrils.
Not long ago, this rebel general, commanding an army of a hundred thousand, boasting he would conquer Longyou in the west and Jin Yuan in the east,
Now hung one drooping wolf ear, like a lost dog, begging the mysterious figure before him for mercy.
“Save me, Angel. For all I’ve done for you, for the Starlight people, for your great Star God...”
“Save my entire family—wife, children, elders!”
He no longer cared about the dignity of the Jin Chuan Dao Guard.
Desperate, Bobai collapsed to the ground, weeping uncontrollably, snot nearly dripping onto the floor.
“No.”
The mysterious figure said coldly.
She wore a black cloak, half concealing her face.
Strangely, a faint blue aura surrounded her—
Almost identical to the jade energy that enveloped Da Longmei.
The eerie blue mist circled her like a shield.
“Angel, over the years, I, Bobai, have provided many conveniences for your Starlight people’s travels in Tianyu.”
“You know that Lady Freila’s White Lion Cavalry’s reconnaissance in Tianyu was all thanks to me...”
“A lowly servant... a lowly servant...”
Bobai crawled forward on his knees.
There was no trace left of the fierce wolf warrior he once was.
Only the look of a mangy cur remained in his eyes.
“I, Bobai, may not have great merits before the Star God, but I have borne hardships.”
“Considering I betrayed so much Tianyu intelligence for you, did so many favors...”
“Lend me a hand...”
“No.”
Before Bobai’s tearful plea finished, the mysterious figure’s voice rang out again.
She glanced at those behind Bobai—also kneeling, faces ashen, weeping women of Tianyu and younger wolf clan youths.
The proud aura of Jin Chuan’s once-great family was utterly extinguished.
Only a few dozen broken dogs gathered in the room—
A rare sight indeed.
“Commander Bo, you present yourself as clean and innocent, as if you’ve done no wrong.”
She summoned the blue energy into a ring on her hand, then produced a cup of brown liquid.
Even Bobai, who had dealt with the Starlight people for over a decade, had only tasted this once.
The Starlight people called it “coffee.”
Her red lips sipped delicately, leaving a crimson mark on the cup’s rim.
“But we, the Starlight people, never asked you to rebel against Tianyu, never told you to contest the title of King of Jin Chuan with the Tianyu court.”
“Even if your so-called rewards and military pay were withheld...”
“That is no excuse for your rebellion, for causing Lady Freila to lose her foothold and delaying our grand plan!”
The aroma of coffee filled the room.
Bobai felt only a chilling numbness on his scalp, fully aware—
Besides the overt excuse of “Tianyu court’s tyranny,” the true cause of this rebellion was his own ambition to claim kingship and dominance.
And this great act of treason was carried out without consulting his longtime master.
“I... the lowly servant... was indeed unjust in this matter, I did not discuss it with Lady Freila.”
“But at the time, I thought... I thought... if it succeeded...”
“Do you think your leash has loosened, so you can act recklessly and do whatever you please?!”
The mysterious figure’s tone rose sharply.
Her Tianyu accent grew more pronounced,
And her anger was unmistakable.
“You filthy dog!”
Suddenly she leapt forward, delivering a flying kick straight to Bobai’s chest.
But before impact, she retracted the blue aura from her foot.
The nine-foot-tall wolf man was kicked back to the doorway.
Had it not been for the younger wolf clan members blocking the way,
He might have been sent flying into the courtyard.
“Ugh!”
Bobai spat out a mouthful of black blood.
His leather armor was burned to ashes by the blue aura contained in that kick.
At the moment of impact, the blue aura ignited into flames,
Consuming the thick rhinoceros hide armor he wore.
If the mysterious figure had not restrained her energy,
Bobai’s flesh and bones might have turned to ash.
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“Angel... I’m sorry... we... the Bo family... were wrong.”
“Please show me a way out!”
“A way out, huh.”
The mysterious figure waved her hand, signaling Bobai to rise.
Bobai, his bones nearly shattered from the blow, struggled to stand.
“Tell me, recently what message did you leave for those suddenly missing White Lion sisters?”
“Message? What... message?”
Bobai had not yet recovered from the shock.
“Tsk~ fool~”
The mysterious figure snapped her fingers lightly, sending a tiny blue orb hurtling toward Bobai’s forehead.
The tiny orb touched his body.
Though Bobai could not see the blue energy, he felt every inch of his skin burning as if scorched by fire.
Every hair, every inch of flesh felt seared by blazing flames.
“Ughhhhhhh!”
Bobai writhed on the ground in agony.
A faint smile appeared on the mysterious figure’s face.
“Let me help you remember. Tell me! Where is that key?”
“Key?”
Seeing her about to snap her fingers again,
Bobai, ignoring his burning flesh, painfully got to his knees before her and said respectfully,
“That Tianyu woman, the grave robber... that key, she’s no longer in the west, not on our side anymore.”
“Where did she go? Speak!”
“The last time, my spy discovered she was originally in Liaodong to the east, but suddenly appeared in Longyou...”
“Afterwards... she disappeared without a trace.”
The mysterious figure sighed as she listened to Bobai’s report.
“A mere key running wild everywhere!”
“She should have been captured in Liaodong back then, and her virtual core taken...”
Muttering, her eyes turned sly.
She then looked at the nearly lifeless Bobai, burnt by the blue energy.
“Hmph, you still have some use...”
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