Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 538 - 34 Return to the Northern Border
Chapter 538: Chapter 34 Return to the Northern Border
Yan Yu was utterly baffled and spent a long time explaining to Ye Jun through voice transmission, clarifying that he had not entered into a romantic relationship with anyone.
I’m still the proud owner of a golden bachelor status, alright? Look, the golden-haired queen of the Northern Country is already summoning me to save her. If I already had someone, would she still be thinking about me? She’d kick me to the curb without a second thought.
Ye Jun just laughed “hehehe” without arguing or showing that she believed him, which confused Yan Yu even more.
In any case, after explaining the situation to the ladies, Yan Yu made a phone call to Li Weiguo to report in.
“Hmm.” Li Weiguo indicated that he was already aware, “Even though you’re going to support them, you can’t neglect your daily breathing exercises and energy refining. The Privy Council has already made arrangements with the Amur Witch’s Group. They have prepared a place with the richest Spiritual Energy for your residence and cultivation.”
“They’re really too kind.” Yan Yu could only laugh “hehehe” in response.
What the heck! Do I still need to practice breathing and energy refining? Once I get back, I’ll just pull Xie Ruoxi into a Joint Cultivation group, and in minutes, I could boost you to the Hua Fu Stage, easy peasy!
“By the way,” Li Weiguo continued, “there’s another matter.”
“After you face Peter, if you’re confident you can beat him, try not to kill him—it would be an extra credit for the mission.”
“Understood.” Yan Yu didn’t ask why Lu Country didn’t want Peter dead.
Isn’t that obvious? The more formidable Emperor Peter is, the more the Amur Witch’s Group will cozy up to Lu Country! A common enemy who’s tough to beat is the best guarantee for a bilateral friendship.
After hanging up the phone, Yan Yu started his journey to the Northern Border.
It was now late spring, early summer. The southern part of Lu Country was already bustling with lush growth, while many areas in the north were still cold and barren—the farther north you went, the more pronounced it was.
After crossing the three Northeast provinces, one would enter the region internationally known as the “Northern Border.” Although it is not declared independent from Rakshasa internationally, anyone with clear eyes could see that this territory was no longer under Rakshasa’s control but was occupied by various Transcendent factions of differing sizes.
The smallest factions might only govern a single village, while larger ones controlled towns or even cities. There were also affiliations among the factions, with lower-level factions loyal to mid-level ones, periodically paying taxes, providing manpower, and answering the call to arms. Meanwhile, mid-level factions groveled to those at the top of the pyramid, fulfilling nearly identical obligations.
At the top of the pyramid was the Amur Witch’s Group. After defeating the Belarus Bear-men, they had nominally taken over the entire Eastern Siberia region, with no other Transcendent force daring to challenge them.
The entire Northern Border had regressed straight back to the feudal system of the Middle Ages—perhaps even more primitive and savage. No customary rules had to be followed, and vassals could always rise against their lords to take over, all depending on who was stronger.
Yan Yu flew on his sword for a while, then suddenly noticed explosions up ahead.
He quickly focused his gaze and saw two groups of bats scattering in flight, while a woman riding a broomstick was raining down a variety of long-range attacks on them.
Witch.
Strictly speaking, in the entire northern part of Asia and Eastern Europe, witches could emerge. However, due to the rise of the Amur Witch’s Group, most witches had migrated eastward, and thus the professional term internationally used for this occupation became “Amur Witch.”
The Amur Witch is similar to a Sword Immortal and can ride on a broom to fly at high speed and make agile turns, and are also capable of deploying a variety of long-range attacks, mainly divided into three categories: Spells, Summoning, and Curses.
Since his former life, Yan Yu did not know any witches, so his knowledge about them was limited. He only knew that Spells had physical forms, such as a ball of fire or an ice arrow. Curses, on the other hand, were silent and instantaneous, and without the need to travel, they would descend upon the enemy and take effect immediately through some unknown means. As for Summoning, it involved calling forth various evil creatures from Hell.
The three methods of attack had their strengths and weaknesses, with no clear superiority. For instance, the title of the Eclipse Queen from my past life came about because she cursed the moon, rendering its light unable to shine upon the Northern Border region forever. Consequently, any Transcendent who wished to oppose her had to weigh their capability to intervene with the stars above.
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As Yan Yu pursued with his Sword Control, he naturally caught the attention of that witch. She held down the hat on her head while forcefully pulling her broom up, quickly flying towards us, shouting in incomprehensible Rakshasa language.
When she got close to Yan Yu, she suddenly paused, then switched to fluent Lu Country language:
“Divine General Yan Yu? Are you from Lu Country?”
“I’m here to find Anna.” Yan Yu answered, secretly surprised when the Lu Country language had become the official language of the Northern Border, such that even random people he encountered on the street spoke it.
“Oh? Oh. Oh!” The young witch exclaimed “Oh” three times, her face breaking into a beaming smile, “That’s great, the Elders were just discussing when you would come… I’ll show you the way.”
She turned her broom and began to fly, while Yan Yu followed closely with his Sword Control, listening to the young witch chat away incessantly:
“It’s really great that you could come. Due to Emperor Peter’s foolish eastern campaign, many Transcendents from the west are migrating eastward. Hence, there have been constant attempts by riffraff to invade our territory. Those two just now were the infamous vampire sisters, Evgenia the Elder and Fugonia the Younger, who used to operate around Veldrolovsk. Fearing a duel with Emperor Peter, they came to our Witch’s Group seeking refuge, asking outright for a city to be given to them for raising their blood livestock. Shameless bitches, get the fuck out… Is this how you curse in Lu Country language?”
“Pretty much,” Yan Yu said, “Your Lu Country language is pretty good.”
“Thank you, I learned by watching Lu Country TV dramas,” the young witch replied, “I especially love your Channel Six, with all the foreign movies dubbed in various translations, haha. By the way, I’m Clara. Clara Sharapova.”
“Hmm, nice to meet you.” Yan Yu said.
“I only joined the Amur Witch’s Group earlier this year.” Clara continued, “When they were fighting the Belarus Bear-men, I was still boiling herbal medicine in the village! So you probably haven’t met me before, but I’m especially close to Anna—she likes to use ‘iron’ to describe a strong friendship.”
Yan Yu thought the young witch was a bit talkative, but since she mentioned Anna, it was worth asking about her situation:
“How has Anna been recently?”
“She’s been good,” Clara said with a smile, “Previously, Elder Anastasia ostensibly handed over power to Anna, but in reality, she still held onto it, keeping the Witch’s Group’s affairs firmly in her grip. Anna argued with her a few times, realizing her stubbornness to concede, so she simply stopped bothering with the group’s internal affairs and began to focus on meditation and cultivation.”
“As a result, Anna’s strength improved rapidly, while the Elders were bogged down with all kinds of trivial matters, and her power ended up far surpassing theirs. Now everyone has started to notice something’s amiss and they want to return authority to Anna to free up their own time for meditation and cultivation. But Anna refuses, hahaha, it’s driving the old bunch crazy.”
“That’s how it is,” Yan Yu said, “Rather than holding onto power, it’s better to improve one’s strength. Power follows the sword.”
“I’m a virgin,” Clara said.
