The Legend of the Devil
Ch. 229 - Protector of the Wind Goddess

The Council of Nine seats were attended by all the members who seemed tense.

Tao Liu who was leading the meeting that morning was silent by a thousand languages when a red light cut through the sky and land several kilometers from the palace. He did not know exactly where the attack had fallen but what was certain was that the war had begun

Trying to be calm he made the final argument.

"War is war, but safety is also paramount. Send all the soldiers to evacuate the citizens and take them to a safe place"

The noise happens outside the room.

The Dragon Warrior banged on the door loudly repeatedly until the guards outside were forced to allow him in and cut off the meeting that was still ongoing.

"They are so much more than the soldiers we have! Evacuation is just nonsense, those soldiers are not humans but undead! We won't be able to kill him so easily!"

The raid was followed by the sound of one of the other Holy Swords behind the Dragon Warrior, the Crystal Rose. The woman panicked even more. "Emergency news from the Feng Empire. Right now the person hiding the Wind Stone was in pursuit of Red Taring men who were wearing black cross masks. They themselves lost connection with him."

"What-what?" To Quang stood up in shock. "after the Water Stone, Fire Stone, now the Feng Empire is also careless so that the stone was seized? Just two stones alone was enough to awaken the Sun's Heirloom. You see the red light that split the four Empires earlier?!"

The Crystal Rose swore in his heart, why he was to blame.

"If two are enough to divide the mountains and the oceans, four can destroy the sun and the moon!"

"Where is our stone now?"

The Ground Stone that was the Earth Ruler Element Stone belonging to the Diqiu Empire was definitely the target of the enemy in these times. They fought for two more elemental stones.

Asked someone who had suddenly entered the room, he was also part of the 14 Sacred Swords with the nickname Claw Leaf. The skinny man put his shoes that echoed on the floor. His cynical views with pressure added to the tension.

"... Our rock?" The man looked confused. "The last time he was in the hands of the Sacred Sword's Batara."

And after that there was no news of the existence of the stone and it seemed to sink into the earth. A moment of silence on the sidelines they seek the answer even though it only ends in a dead end.

The Dragon Warrior spoke. "Our priority now is to defend the Empire, save the citizens and search for the existence of the Ground Stone before it falls into the hands of the Red Taring. Understood?" As the first Holy Sword, everyone immediately agreed to his proposal.

Everyone split up.

Outside the war palace had broken out and destroyed hundreds of shops and settlements. The Dragon Warrior who was then moving east clearly saw a fiery deep abyss as a result of the attack of red light from the Sun Treasure. His breathing was held back for a moment, it was never imagined for him that he would return to see the same events as he had seen as a child.

The bloodshed everywhere, the high death rate and the endless suffering were terrifying traumas for him. The Dragon Warrior was locked by an old woman who approached the giant ravine and immediately stopped her.

"Mrs, I'm sorry. You can't get close to this ravine. It's very dangerous."

He had thought the woman was myopic due to aging but his assumption was wrong, when the woman answered he could only be silent.

"I'm just speeding up my death, young man. For what lingers weeping seeing this war. I've lost enough of my family, my children and even my grandchildren. They died for the same reason, War."

"You must endure, madam," he persuaded pity. Around them, too, things were getting chaotic with each passing second. The Dragon Warrior heard the narration carefully.

The woman's laughter sounded small. "Know what you know about the Sun Heirloom," He shook his head to make the Warrior's eyebrows furrow in.

"When his power is awakened, man and his whole will perish. That weapon is a weapon created by the demon nation to destroy mankind."

"What does Madam mean?"

"The inheritance of the Sun is the container of the Devil of Sin. His true host. In another sense, the original form of the Devil's Sin itself."

"In the moment his power is activated, the demon with mixed blood will turn uncontrollably. Each one of those elemental stones would open three spell seals in the body of the demon soul of the sinful dragon. The moment he had escaped and lost control, that demon soul would return to its original body and destroy the entire world."

"Why then does the man who created all this keep doing it? He knew he was going to die too!"

"Humans are blinded by greed. When you see a pile of gold diamonds in front of you, because so fascinated you forget to see death lurking behind you. That's what happened to him. He thought he could control the Devil's Sins with the power of the 100 Heirlooms of Miracle World."

"But basically the Devil of Sin has power far beyond that of humans. He also had a whole soul inside the demon body that carried him. The devil moves with full awareness, he is not an entity willing to obey anyone's orders let alone humans who are inferior to him."

The smile on the face of the woman who had aged twilight showed deep sadness.

"I can finally meet my grandchildren."

The Dragon Warrior could not help the old woman as she plunged herself into the boiling lava in the abyss.

The Dragon Warrior looked up at the sight of hundreds of thousands of crows on it passing by. They suddenly swooped down and exploded.

The rain of explosions wiped out the entire land. The crow has a strong explosive power. Thousands of them managed to kill many lives in one second. Seeing one by one the casualties began to fall the dragon warriors began to take action.

In the midst of his hurried steps, the Dragon Warrior was fooled by the three people within the crowd who looked so panicked. They had just crossed the area of Feng Empire which was much more devastated than Diqiu Empire. Finding the empire also on the brink of Destruction, the two people propping up one of them began to frantically quarrel.

"Wait ... Isn't he ..."

His eyes did not look wrong. His widened eyes were threatened and without words he observed the three figures.

He knows two of them. One of them was Emperor Li's right hand.

And the other one was the figure that the old lady was talking about earlier.

"How can he live? Wasn't that day he had fallen into the Pit of Regret? Is it because he's still breathing that Sun Heirloom power could be activated?" his tanyanya muttered to herself.

Before thinking of securing the situation around him, the man felt that meeting Ziran Zhao and informing him of this new information was his top priority. Without thinking, the man immediately went to the palace.

*

Thousands of troops in black robes flooded the streets ferociously, waves of undead fighting humans armed with swords and arrows. They fought better than the soldiers themselves.

The once bustling city streets were now filled with troops in black robes. They moved with lust and ferocity, mercilessly against the warrior Diqiu Empire until the casualties began to fall.

The battlefield was filled with the sound of clanking weapons, shouts, and the rumbling of falling bodies. Blood flowed like a river in the streets, gracing the ground with a sinister red color. Every corner of the city became a battleground, with explosions and continuous attacks occurring.

Imperial Warrior Commander Diqiu stood at the forefront of the war. Amidst the chaos of the battlefield, there were sounds of war cries resounding around him. The sound of swords clashing, arrows flashed, and explosions shook the air.

"For the Empire!" shouted Commander Diqiu.

A barrage of battle cry sounds from the warrior commander filled the air, creating a burning spirit. They shouted excitedly, in order to win the fierce battle. The screams became a spell of courage in the midst of the chaos of war.

At the same time, angry shouts from the Red Taring were also heard among the chaos of the war. Those who wore white robes and red cross masks were genuine humans. While the people in black robes as well as fox masks were just undead.

Commander Diqiu loudly shouted. "Don't let any of them get away!"

They continued forward, forming a sturdy formation, and attacked with full force. Their war cries shook the battlefield.

**

The man with the Fox Mask sat quietly in his chair without even a hint of his smile. Seeing the destruction everywhere that was treating the pain that had been eating away at his heart. The grudge has paid off but he feels something is not done.

The girl next to him stood stiff as a puppet, under the influence of a spell she was unable to do anything about it.

But from his eyes now a circle of tears fell on the floor. The man was struck by accident and realized that the girl was sad even though she was under the influence of the power of spells.

"Why are you crying, poor little girl?"

He stroked the smooth surface of the girl's cheeks.

"A girl who used to cry the loudest, now cries the quietest. About why? Is your heart hurt?"

The carving of a withered smile was visible even though the man's face was covered by a mask.

"G ... I know ..." He flicked his finger feeling he was getting an answer.

"Given your brother, hm?" He surrounded the girl while watching her sharply.

"You regret your decision that day? Aren't you the one who whined at us for revenge?"

Her fingers gently stroked the girl's long and fine hair, playing it out while continuing the conversation between them - or rather she was just talking to herself.

"You said your brother left you and destroyed your family. You fostered a great hatred for him and walked this far for that vengeance."

"Why is your heart hesitating now?" The man's eyes tried to find the answer from the girl's two eyeballs, only sadness could he see.

"After this I will keep my promise to you by killing your foster brother. He'll be one of my collisions too. Hows it? You happy?" Again his hand swept across the girl's cheek, putting away the tears that still flowed without a sound on her face.

"You're too happy to cry, aren't you? In this world it seems like you're the only one I don't betray. You should be proud."

"I don't want to betray you because I know we suffered the same fate ..."

The man slowly removed his mask. The girl behind him grew stiffer. His body could not move but the expression on his face could still change. The eyeball opened wide, as if he could not believe what he was seeing now.

"I lost my family and hate my brother so much. Revenge will never be enough to avenge the hatred, but by taking revenge, they can feel the same as I have felt all along."

A pair of giddy eyes stared intently ahead, there was no mercy in it and he was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of destroying the people he hated.

"... Suffering and misery."

*

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

A man in servant clothes ran through the halls of the palace in great haste, he arrived before the Emperor and immediately knelt down begging for mercy.

"Wen Ning, Your Majesty! Wen Ning is arrested!!"

The man's eyes were watering, as if he had just seen death before his eyes and made his throat choke so much that he stammered.

Li Jia Xing stood up from his throne chair and glared, his so calm facial ripples had turned extremely startled. The man in front of him put together a trembling hand.

"How can it?! Didn't I tell the greatest swordsman to save him?" exclaim that woman.

"Your Majesty, they were killed by one of the Red Taring Light. Our enemy ... They were like a powerful explosion that destroyed the city. That person was the one who also destroyed the center of the Guang Empire and killed the Emperor."

Li Jia Xing's teeth growled furiously, subconsciously his hands snapping at whatever was around him.

Wen Ning should have been the most to be protected at this moment. The younger brother of Wen Zhiqiang, the second son of the Celestial Sacred Realm College. Without needing to explain again Wen Ning was definitely heavily guarded at her College and dozens of her trust envoys had guarded the area around the college in order to avoid upheaval.

But Li Jia Xing never expected that in a situation like this, their defense could be broken through. Hundreds of years of that stone in their hands just this time the Wind Stone fell into the wrong hands. This shocking news made the minister and the higher-ups pale. Especially after hearing the news that in the three Empires also experienced the same crisis and the news about the Wind Stone further messed things up.

His index finger tapped on the armrest on the chair, Li Jia Xing took in an anxious breath.

"Power that exceeds the limits of human ability can only be resisted with the same power as well. We cannot muster all the greatest warriors to save Wen Ning. They also had to protect the Empire from attack. To that end, I assigned Xiao Rong with the limit of using his Darkness power should only be under eighty percent."

The servant interrupted. "But His Majesty"

"Master Xiao is not in the Feng Empire."

Again Li Jia Xing was made dizzy. "How come? I never ordered him to exit the Empire and he was not on a mission either. Where is he now?"

The servant man moved his eyes, looking hard at the question so Li Jia Xing who was waiting started to get suspicious.

"The answer is honest!"

"Your Majesty ... Tu-tuan Xiao-" His speech came to a halt for a moment in fear, both of his palms were cold when he saw the deadly gaze of Li Jia Xing.

"He helped the Phoenix Bird escape and from the last news I heard he was no longer in the Feng Empire."

Li Jia Xing. It turned out that his own right hand was conspiring to leave the Empire at times like these.

Then he got up from his chair, his hair tied up while walking. Her large outer robe she took off so that it left only simpler clothes. People astonished.

"Your Majesty, what are you doing?"

"You must not leave the chair, Your Majesty!"

"We beg Your Majesty, if anything happens to you our empire will be ..."

Li Jia Xing paid no heed to the words of the people behind him other than focusing on looking ahead.

As the Wind Goddess who protected the Feng Empire was already his duty to protect his people.

"Let me alone face the First Light."