With the weight of two people, his wings could only hang crookedly in mid-air. As time passed, Wei Yu was almost unable to hold on, nearly letting go.
Feeling himself slipping downward, Ziyuan mockingly said to Wei Yu, “Do you have no arm strength at all, little guy?”
“It’s because you, Ziyuan, are too heavy…” Wei Yu quietly retorted.
“Dare to say I’m heavy? Since you find it heavy, just put me down. I didn’t ask you to save me.”
“Wah, okay, stop moving. We’ll really fall!” Wei Yu was about to readjust his grip on Ziyuan when suddenly the giant horse pursuing them from below reared up, thrusting forcefully into the air. Wei Yu shifted to let Ziyuan dodge, but the sharp horn grazed the right side of his face. It was unclear where Wei Yu was injured, but he let out a painful cry.
“Agh!”
“Hey, are you okay?” The way Wei Yu cried out just now sounded wrong, so Ziyuan quickly asked.
“I’m… I’m fine.” Wei Yu flew up crookedly again, and Ziyuan, held against his back, couldn’t turn around to check on his condition.
“Are you sure you’re okay?” The response to that “I’m fine” sounded quite guilty. Ziyuan’s hands, holding onto Wei Yu, were visibly trembling, likely due to the pain.
“My wound doesn’t matter. Anyway, we need to figure out how to deal with that disgusting horse first.” Wei Yu flew along the mountain wall to a higher place, placed Ziyuan at the edge of the cliff, and quickly covered his right face with the freed hand.
“Hey, are you really okay?”
At this moment, the giant horse was still roaming around the cliff, unwilling to give up, trying to find the two people’s traces. Wei Yu pulled out his gun with one hand, aiming downward at the magical beast, hoping to use the gravitational force to make the bullet more powerful and directly hit the monstrous creature.
“Ziyuan, where do you think the fatal wound on this horse might be, its forehead?”
“Don’t change the subject. Let me see your wound.”
Ziyuan insisted that Wei Yu reveal his covered right face for confirmation, completely forgetting that even if he saw the wound, he couldn’t provide any first aid for him.
Most magical beings have different magical abilities, but they typically only possess one type of attribute. Through rigorous training, they might be able to barely use one or two additional attributes, but the stability of their inherent magic would decrease significantly. Ziyuan’s magic, like most magical beings, belonged to the lightning element. However, he was a bit stronger than ordinary magical beings. Unfortunately, regardless of how powerful lightning magic might be, it couldn’t heal Wei Yu’s wound.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
Wei Yu’s hand was eventually forcibly opened by Ziyuan. Indeed, the strength of a child was not great, especially considering he was in an injured state.
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“Now, immediately fly back to your country for treatment!”
As expected, the sharp horn of the magical beast just now did not cut across the cheek but struck Wei Yu’s right eye. That was why he howled so pitifully.
“Don’t you know? In the Emerald Kingdom… no one can see me anymore.” Wei Yu suddenly showed a bitter smile, a smile that was faint and light, tinged with a bitter sweetness of calmness and helplessness. What Wei Yu mentioned was the “illness” he fabricated when he was a child to escape reality. He repeatedly claimed that people in the palace couldn’t see him, ignored him because he had a strange illness that could only be cured by becoming a complete hero. However, not long ago, in front of tens of thousands of citizens, Wei Yu suffered a miserable defeat, and overnight, all his dignity and his steadfast beliefs were shattered, just like that fabricated crystal sword.
The situation of being ignored became worse than before. Initially, Wei Yu could use the words and ideals Ziyuan told him, as well as the dignity of the royal family, to support himself. However, not only within the palace but also outside the palace and among the common folks, everyone in the Emerald Kingdom—from top to bottom—could no longer see Wei Yu. It was as if Wei Yu had completely disappeared from this world. This almost made Wei Yu collapse. He had come to terms with the fact that he couldn’t become a hero, but even if he just wanted to be a patriotic and caring prince, people were unwilling to give him that chance. In the end, he couldn’t even be a prince, not to mention a normal person.
The reason people gave such a cruel ending to the young Wei Yu was that the Emerald Kingdom was, after all, the most admired and proud country among all hero nations. Therefore, no one was willing to bear the first-ever scandal of “the prince of their own country is a flawed hero,” and they were even more unwilling to be ridiculed by other hero nations as “the curse of the goddess Elena on the Emerald Kingdom.”
Ziyuan no longer knew what words to say to inspire him, and he was powerless to help him even a bit. Looking at those still immature shoulders, had the heavy accusations and humiliations become a blow to the sincere feelings Wei Yu held?
Under the pretext of inspecting the borders, Wei Yu, who had been exiled by the palace, was, in fact, equivalent to fleeing from his own country. He had no face to go back, which was why he kept following Ziyuan. He just wanted to find his last sense of belonging, even if the other party was a demon, or possibly a demon king, Wei Yu didn’t care.
He rudely wiped away the blood on his cheek with the back of his hand, as if the eye injury was nothing to be surprised about. Once again, he aimed with the single eye at the magical beast moving below.
“Don’t wipe it like that. Can’t you take care of yourself a bit?”
“I would love to, but I can’t find… I can’t find a reason to cherish myself anymore.”
Having a body filled with divine power but unable to use even half of it, even if he could use it, it was definitely just a rare coincidence. Any contract demon would probably be more powerful than Wei Yu. Unable to become a hero, unable to become a prince, and now unable to stay in his own country, the cruel judgment declared that Wei Yu had no chance of redemption. The deep gloom enveloped his heart, causing him to repeatedly lose his direction, and Wei Yu’s thoughts sank into a quagmire.
Bang!
The bullet shot straight down, making a muffled sound as it penetrated into the flesh. One of the heads of the giant horse immediately gained a hole, and Wei Yu’s uncharacteristically indifferent expression silenced Ziyuan.
Wei Yu often pondered why another hero, Ellyad, who was also an incomplete hero, exuded the majestic aura of a hero all over his body. If he and Wei Yu were not the same, what was the difference? Because he had two proofs? Because he was older? Or because he wasn’t a prince? In fact, the answer had long been obvious in Wei Yu’s heart—it was because behind Ellyad, there was someone who unwaveringly supported him.
With black hair and different-colored eyes, the strange demon who couldn’t make Wei Yu feel any goodwill toward him was an important existence for Ellyad. From their first meeting, Wei Yu felt as if there was a very strong bond between these two. Their destinies were closely linked, and no matter what dangers they encountered, they would never be separated. Perhaps it was this bond that became Ellyad’s strength. Even if he lost everything, even if the whole world turned against him, that demon would never abandon him and would protect him to the end.
‘He’s clearly a demon.’
Wei Yu’s gaze was fixed on the giant horse below, seemingly observing whether the horse was dead or not, but his mind was in a completely empty state.
This time, the silver horse was truly motionless, and Wei Yu only put away the gun when he was assured. He didn’t expect Ziyuan to say anything to comfort him, and he didn’t need any sympathy.
Feeling a bit apprehensive about seeing Wei Yu’s vacant gaze, Ziyuan pretended to shift his attention to the cliff below. “It should be dead, right?”
Thinking that they had finally succeeded in killing the monstrous horse, Ziyuan was shocked to see the limp horse corpse twitching again.
“Oh my God, it’s not dead yet!” Ziyuan couldn’t help but exclaim. He instinctively tried to step back, but there was no extra space to move on the narrow and steep cliff edge. As his foot touched the ground, the loose foothold collapsed, and Ziyuan fell directly towards the location of the monstrous horse.
“Ziyuan!” Wei Yu reached out to grab Ziyuan in time but, unfortunately, his short arms couldn’t even reach the other’s fingertips. Failing to catch Ziyuan’s hand, Wei Yu immediately jumped down without hesitation.
Ziyuan tumbled down the slope and, although there was no fatal harm, he could clearly feel the intense pain in both ankles, making it difficult for him to stand. What truly made him nervous, however, was the nauseating giant horse with four bloodshot eyeballs glaring at him up close.
Its revenge target appeared brazenly in front of its eyes, and the vengeful desire fueled all the bloodthirsty attacks of the monster. The two heads swung excitedly, eager to thrust forward.
‘Bang! Bang! Bang!’ Three consecutive gunshots were followed by the crisp sound of shell casings hitting the ground, followed by a continuous barrage of gunfire.
Wei Yu held two guns, simultaneously reloading bullets between rapid shots. The question lingered: who would last longer, the monster enduring the assault or the guns enduring the barrage?
“Ziyuan, escape now,” Wei Yu said without even looking back. The increasing bullet holes on the monstrous horse temporarily restrained its attacks, buying some time for Ziyuan to flee.
However, Ziyuan vaguely sensed Wei Yu’s hidden intention. Wei Yu intended to deliberately continue attacking the monster, diverting its revenge focus onto himself.
Standing in front of Ziyuan, Wei Yu faced the monster, his back as unyielding as a stone statue.
How much longer could he hold on? The answer was already revealed. With a muffled sound, Wei Yu quickly discarded one gun as it seemed to have been rendered useless. After firing only a few more shots with the remaining gun, he tossed it away as well. Fortunately, the monstrous horse had just suffered a severe attack, and it would take some time for it to regenerate. Seizing this opportunity, they had a chance to escape. However, when Wei Yu turned to see that Ziyuan remained motionless, he was astonished and urged again, “What are you doing? Hurry and escape.”
Ziyuan didn’t answer him, not because he was intentionally ignoring Wei Yu, but because he saw a strange scene behind Wei Yu. The protective aura around the young man emitted faint, tiny points of light, shining like brilliant golden suns. However, these points of light seemed to burn Wei Yu, engulfing his slender and small figure. Despite their beautiful and divine appearance, they carried an ominous aura.
Suddenly, Ziyuan understood what was happening. It was the backlash of the power of the goddess. If a human body forcefully used too much divine power without the protection of a hero totem, it would lead to the destruction of the body. The precursor to this devouring phenomenon might be Wei Yu’s current condition.
“Brat! You’re not trying to use magic, are you?” Ziyuan angrily questioned, though it was a rhetorical question, he was certain of Wei Yu’s answer.
“Because I don’t have any other weapons left. Compared to that, Ziyuan, you should escape quickly!”
“Do you realize what you’re doing? Your body has already started…” being devoured by the backlash.
Ziyuan didn’t want to utter the words, swallowing back the ominous reality.
The monstrous horse finally revived, and this time, the body, riddled with wounds, had no telling how it would regenerate into some grotesque form.
Facing the terrifying monster at close range, Wei Yu’s expression showed no fear. Under the halo of the goddess’s power, he turned his head to look at Ziyuan, smiling gently.
“Maybe the situation isn’t that bad. As the beloved child of the goddess, we humans will eventually receive the protection of the Goddess Elena,” he said.
“Please wake up! Don’t believe in that idiotic goddess who went off to sacrifice herself! She died thousands of years ago. How could she protect you?” Ziyuan shouted anxiously. While everyone else fervently praised the goddess, Ziyuan had never seen the so-called goddess extend a helping hand to rescue the young man before him.
“It’s okay, I think…” Wei Yu turned to face the monster. Covered in bullet holes, it swelled up this time, its muscles expanding to several times its previous size, almost reaching the height of a small house in front of Wei Yu.
The pure white wings, ablaze with a golden sacred light, burned under the divine radiance. Wei Yu felt a hot, stinging sensation, realizing for the first time that the pain from his wings could transmit to his own body.
The blood on the wound on his right cheek had slowly coagulated, but a few strands of blood still flowed from the corner of his eye. Enduring the pain throughout his body, he waited for the moment to release his divine power. He still didn’t understand how to use the power within him, so he planned to rely on instinct.
Unfortunately, that powerful force, even at the cost of Wei Yu’s body, showed no intention of letting him use it, remaining silent and motionless.
His eye needs to be taken care of cuz if a freaking unicorn’s horn dragged a wound across my eye I’d be afraid I’m gonna go blind! 😭
OK, I did not expect the author to go in this direction…😫