Chapter 29: Re-encountering Azure Blue

  After lying on the ground for a long time, Gallo barely had the strength to move. The previous blow had almost consumed all the natural elements stored in her body. After sitting up, Gallo pressed her hands against her temples and began to absorb the heat and energy emitted by the sun to recover from the excessive consumption of power.

  "Hmm, that's quite impressive." After a few hours, Galo's body had recovered. "The power of a 9th-level strongman is too astonishing, and I'm currently no match for him. How infuriating! I must find a way to deal with this as soon as possible." However, strength isn't something that can be gained overnight.

  He picked up a yellow magic core dropped by the Gablin King, as well as some other evidence. Galo then descended the mountain and returned to the city, submitting the evidence and letting the people in the city confirm that all the Gablin beasts were dead, thus completing this task.

  To say the least, this time's action has yielded a considerable harvest. At the very least, I have already grasped some of the ways to use Chinese ancient martial arts, although I can't rely on internal skills and mental methods to drive it, but mixed into elemental alchemy combat techniques, it can still exert a certain amount of power, at least making up for my own advantages in actual combat.

  "Next... where to go?" Looking at the map in her hand, Gallo began to study it. Her current location was east of Beth City, although not far away, but there would still be trouble. Prince Kahn was absolutely not someone who would easily give up, unfortunately, she wasn't someone who would easily surrender either.

  Since I've decided to run away, I might as well go further, and head east.

  Because she wanted to avoid the crowd, Gallo walked on some winding roads that almost no one could find. Not far away, suddenly, she heard some voices.

  "Hmm? Natural elements are gathering, is someone using magic?" Galo sensed a lot of energy from the light elements "Light elements? Who's that?"

  Sneaking a peek, I saw that dozens of people had gathered below, with several corpses on the ground. The remaining people were surrounding a white light sphere, from which a large amount of radiant elemental energy was emanating.

  Looking over there, in the light ball, there were two people tightly hugging each other. Upon closer inspection, Gallo was suddenly shocked!

  "Mrs. Azure, Azure!" How could it be possible? The people who appeared here were actually them!

  Can't wait any longer, Jaro rushed out in a hurry and found that someone was approaching. The attackers split into several people who blocked Jaro's way. "You little devil, do you want to die? Hurry up..." Before the words were finished, Jaro had already rushed to his front, and with a fierce knee strike, he directly knocked the man's words back!

  "Ah, come quickly, kill her!" The others shouted, and another half of the dozens of people rushed over. Gallo no longer held back, launching a full-force attack with elemental alchemy combat skills combined with ancient Chinese martial arts, showing no mercy or quarter. No one could escape her hands.

  A fierce straight punch, and the last person fell down. Seeing Gallo fall, Mrs. Azure seemed to let out a sigh of relief.

  "Thank you so much, Gallo. I'm sorry again, but I have to ask another favor of you." A gentle smile, her elegant demeanor as perfect as ever.

  Ka Luo felt a bit strange, after all, the other party's younger brother had just pursued her and let her escape, now she encountered someone else's older sister...

  "Can you tell me what's going on?" After thinking for a moment, Galo still couldn't bring himself to leave like this, perhaps because of that girl, Bikyaru, who really resembled his deceased younger sister, Hyōgetsu.

  "You smiled and said 'Okay, but shouldn't we change places first?'"

  By a clear and tranquil little river, Gallo brought water to calm their minds. "What's going on? Why did you, Lady Azure, appear here?"

  "I obtained the territory authorization for my daughter Azure, with this, Azure can inherit her father's territory. However, I didn't expect Pujit to be so crazy, even now he still hasn't given up, instead, he actually sent another assassin..."

  "Is it that Puyo again." Garo looked at the two "In that case, there seems to be no other way, must be a solution, have you thought about it?"

  "As long as I can return to my husband's territory, Artice, I can receive the armed forces there and the qualification of the Azure Lord will not be denied. At that time, we can also try Pujit's crimes."

  "Does that mean we just need to get to Yatras?" Galo smiled slightly "Alright, I understand. For the rest of the time, I'll take you there, okay?"

  Yōrō smiled "I'm really grateful to you, Garo. By the way, when I left Besari, I heard some interesting things."

  "Ah, that... let's just not talk about it anymore. Anyway, I won't go back to see him."

  "Heh heh, is that really so?" A profound smile appeared on the pale blue face, a smile that made Gallo's whole body shiver with cold.

  "Ah, Lady Azure. The three of them found the carriage left behind by the assassins, and Galo took the reins. "We've foiled Pujit's attacks many times, let's think about it, he's already lost over a hundred men, plus the death of the Wolf Brothers, you could say he doesn't have much power left, so why can he still launch an attack? Can a marquis really have that much power?"

  "I've been thinking about this for a long time, according to the law, viscounts without territories can only develop their own private armed forces, and this team is clearly stipulated not to exceed one hundred people. This law must be followed by all nobles, as there are special personnel investigating. However, I found that the recent batches of killers were not ordinary people."

  Ka Luo nodded "That's right, these people are fugitives, I can feel the hatred and killing intent on them, absolutely not an ordinary team."

  "So I suspect that there is only one possibility, and that is that Pujie has already colluded with the thieves' gang near Yatou, and as long as he kills us, the deed to the territory will fall into his hands, and he can take over as the lord of Yatou."

  "Why?" Galo spoke up "You've been attacked so many times, doesn't the Empire care?"

  He let out a wry smile. "It's no good, after all, apart from the Wolfman Brothers, everyone else who attacked us weren't soldiers. I reckon they're probably all underlings of some thief group. This way, we don't have any evidence to prove that the people who ambushed us were from Pujiet, and there's nothing we can do."

  "Also, I think there's another situation." Galo said "As long as he relies on the thief group to kill you, he can take the position of lord, and then when he becomes the lord, he can use the excuse of avenging you to attack the thief group. Since he already knows his opponent, he will definitely have the power to destroy the thief group, and after that, he can rest easy."

  "Uh-huh." Youlan said with a wry smile. "I really didn't expect him to have such deep thoughts, so what do we do now?"

  Garo didn't speak anymore. In fact, she had another concern - having left Artas for so long, how many of the armed forces within the city that belonged to the lord could still be utilized?

  "We've arrived. Ahead is Aitsu." It was another three days of travel, during which Garo repelled at least six waves of enemy troops, numbering over 200 people.

  It's finally almost there, and the outline of the city can already be seen. Gallo estimated that it would take another half a day to arrive.

  "Finally back, it's great." Yu Lan sighed, after all, this was her home.

  But they didn't know that in the city, someone was furious about their return.

  "Damn it! How could this happen!" Duke Pujit thundered, the three people in front of him also looked gloomy. "Duke Pujit, what should we do now? We've already lost two-thirds of our men. Whether it's open killing, secret killing, or poisoning, that woman wrapped all over her body has ruined everything. And they'll be here soon. If they accept the armed forces in the city to attack us, with the remaining subordinates we have now, it's simply impossible to hold on."

  Puji Te took a few sips of water, calming down "You don't have to worry about this, the armed forces left by that dead old brother of mine in the city have been dismantled by me, and it's estimated that they will be disbanded within these few days. The trouble is, if those women arrive here, we won't be able to make a move."

  "Hmm, what's next?" The three bandit leaders no longer had the upper hand in annihilating each other and began to consider their next move.

  Pu Ji was quietly thinking, without speaking, and the three of them had nothing to say for a while. The room fell into silence.

  "Their guardian is too strong, and relying on sheer numbers won't work, so we need to use other methods. Let's gather some top-notch experts to take care of it once and for all. Also, there are many places in the city that I control now, which can be used as leverage to threaten them into becoming puppets. That way, Artis will still be under my control. As for that woman... humans all have desires, it's just a matter of how strong hers are."

  Entering Arthys, the group received a warm welcome "Ah, it's Lady Azure and Miss Cerulean, they're back."

  "Ah, welcome back, madam, miss."

  All the way greeting everyone, while telling Gallo how to go, soon, the three of them arrived in front of a palace.

  "Hehe, welcome back, Yu Lan, Bi Lan." An old man with white hair stood at the door, welcoming the two. Bi La lowered her head and whispered to Jia Luo, "Jia Luo sister, this is my uncle, Duke Pu Ji Te."

  In fact, there's no need to say it, but Gallo had already guessed as much. The intense resentment in the other person's eyes was something he couldn't possibly ignore.

  "It seems that this old man has not given up yet, in that case, I will have to stay for a few more days." Gallo made up his mind to help the two of Azure.