"Don't move. Release the princess and that big oaf." Ye Chuan tightened his grip on the sword pressed against the earl's neck.
"Do you really think you can hurt me, boy?" Kaiaolen scoffed at the threat. His muscles bulged as black scales began spreading across his neck, his aura erupting violently.
"!"
His eyes burned crimson as sparks flew from the friction between his neck and the blade. Unfazed, Kaiaolen turned and swiped with his claw!
Ye Chuan reacted swiftly, raising his sword to block. A crisp clang echoed—his flying sword shattered instantly. He leaped back with a spatial dash, putting distance between them.
Clatter. The broken fragments of his weapon hit the ground.
"A dragon?" Ye Chuan stared at Kaiaolen, whose hand had fully transformed into a draconic claw, his neck now armored in scales protecting his vitals.
No way.
He glanced at the hilt in his hand—only half remained.
"This guy's strength…" Ye Chuan couldn’t gauge it, but one thing was clear: he was outmatched. Should I go all out and risk a mutual strike?
But could he even pierce that defense? The guy was practically a walking fortress—high armor, high HP.
With a shrug, Ye Chuan tossed the broken sword aside and drew a fresh one.
He’d swiped plenty of flying swords from Qin Tianya—losing a weapon or two didn’t faze him.
But as he eyed the earl, the butler, and the guards closing in, he realized the odds were hopeless.
One swipe had shattered his enchanted blade.
How is this a fair fight?
Just as Ye Chuan debated summoning all his avatars for a desperate last stand, Irena’s voice rang out from nearby. "Lord Xixi, run!"
"Run?" Before he could react, darkness filled his vision—Kaiaolen had already closed the distance, his draconic claw descending like a hammer!
Ye Chuan parried with another sword, but the blade shattered in an instant. He barely managed another spatial leap, reappearing outside the building.
BOOM! A figure burst through the window—Kaiaolen, now with massive black wings unfurled, his fist wreathed in flames as he lunged at Ye Chuan.
Ye Chuan thrust out a hand. "Mana Beam!"
A searing blast of magic erupted, but Kaiaolen’s wings snapped forward, shielding him effortlessly.
KABOOM! Light scattered like dust.
When the beam faded, Kaiaolen stood unharmed on the rooftop, his wings stirring embers into the air.
"Dragons in movies and novels always have insane magic resistance," Ye Chuan muttered, unsure whether to laugh or cry.
The gap between them was too vast.
This guy was at least three major realms above him.
"Give up," Kaiaolen said coldly.
"How about we talk this over?" Ye Chuan grinned.
A derisive snort answered him. "If not for the princess’s sake, you’d already be dead."
The princess’s sake?
The words struck Ye Chuan as odd, but before he could dwell on it, Kaiaolen was upon him again—his fiery fist distorting space, heat searing the air as it hurtled toward him.
Ye Chuan had no choice but to teleport away.
A tanky, magic-resistant brawler like this was his worst nightmare.
He wanted to go all-out, but his weapons couldn’t scratch Kaiaolen’s scales, magic was useless, and no buff could bridge such a colossal power gap.
As Ye Chuan reappeared in the distance, Kaiaolen’s eyes flickered with surprise.
"Spamming spatial magic?"
But Kaiaolen was faster. With a sonic boom, he closed the gap instantly.
"Tch. Fine." Seeing the dragon-clawed brute closing in, Ye Chuan stopped holding back—he burned through four or five teleports in rapid succession.
The distance between them yawned wide.
Then wider.
Until Ye Chuan vanished entirely.
"…What?" Kaiaolen stared, baffled. Spatial magic was supposed to be complex, requiring long incantations and hefty mana costs.
"Does that brat have instant casting?" His wings twitched. Realizing pursuit was futile, he returned to the estate.
"My lord! The princess—she’s gone!" A guard rushed up as Kaiaolen landed.
"Gone? Wasn’t she bound?" Kaiaolen frowned.
The guard knelt. "A door appeared out of nowhere in the meeting room! The man you were chasing stepped out and snatched her!"
"A door? That man…" Kaiaolen’s eyes narrowed.
The one he’d been chasing had looped back with spatial magic to rescue the princess?
Impossible.
How much mana did he even have?
"And the other one?"
"Torres was already being taken to the dungeon, so he wasn’t grabbed." The guard explained they’d been transporting them separately when the ambush happened.
"…" Kaiaolen’s scales receded as he returned to human form. "Clean this up."
"Yes, my lord!"
———
Meanwhile, outside Milal City’s mountain ranges…
Ye Chuan touched down, one arm cradling a dazed girl.
"Now that’s how you execute a plan." He rubbed his chin smugly.
After putting distance between himself and Kaiaolen, he’d simply warped back to the estate and yoinked the princess.
"Lord Xixi… Ugh… I feel sick…" Irena clutched her stomach, swaying. Unlike Ye Chuan, she had no resistance to spatial displacement’s nausea.
"You’ll live." Ye Chuan dropped her unceremoniously. "Too bad about Torres, though. That old monster was too fast—just whoosh and pow."
"Lord Kaiaolen is a seventh-tier half-dragon warrior," Irena groaned, fighting the dizziness. "The fact he could transform like that means he’s not one of the skin-stealers."
"Yet he didn’t seem too friendly toward you?"
"…" Irena had no answer.
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
u serious?" Chen Feng watched helplessly as his painstakingly trained disciple, fresh off a championship victory, publicly abandoned him. "You had your chance, but you didn’t appreciate it. Now, face the consequences of your choice!" Chen Feng possessed the "Master System," a treasure trove of supreme martial arts techniques, capable of molding ordinary individuals into peerless prodigies. "Legs like yours? A shame not to train in the Crippling Kick." "Ever heard of a palm strike that descends from the heavens?" "Auntie! I see extraordinary bone structure in you—a martial arts prodigy, one in ten thousand." The once-defiant senior disciple, now watching her juniors rise to fame one after another, dominating the internet, was consumed by endless regret.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
