Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

1792 Insidious Words

The thorny Commander was known as Kaisa. She was born to the Fire Elemental Fiends and had an elevated status, much like the other Omniscient Sky Gods that could still command a battalion.

Not only was she at the Lower Omniscient Sky God Realm, despite her young age, she also had a set of Incomplete Chaotic Silk Meridians that allowed her to wield Sovereign Grade Qi.

It could be said that even if she couldn't compare to those absolute apex monsters, she still wasn't so low that just anyone would dare to casually speak to her, let alone be so vulgar and arrogant.

That was why when she heard Ryu's voice enter her ears, especially when she recalled who the voice was from, her fury rose to the top of her head almost instantly.

'Trash like you can lead an army? Your vanguard got wiped out before you could do anything, and now you're standing there passively as your Dao Lords do all the work for you. What a pampered princess.'

Kaisa's pupils trembled, and then her eyes widened.

"WHO?!"

Commander Kaisa's Battalion was taken aback, and the cauldron in the skies trembled.

Even though she wasn't in the skies fighting right now, she was still at the core of the array. The wild fluctuations in her emotions could affect it, and in that moment, the cauldron suffered a blow from Commander Monk's rod-sword.

The expressions of the three Fiend Lords changed as they suffered great backlash as well. They looked down in shock, as though not believing that Kaisa would make such a mistake at this time.

They had been by her side for a long time, and they knew that she wasn't so careless.

Although nepotism was rampant in the Fiend army, and the Real Plane army for that matter, they weren't so incompetent that they'd allow just anyone to lead. Kaisa's record spoke for itself, and she had never made such a mistake.

But this one slip up had cat the absolute worst time.

'How unsightly. You lose control of your emotions so easily, and now you're disrupting the battle of the Dao Lords, picking up the slack for you. Aren't you embarrassed?'

Kaisa's chest rose and fell, but she tried to force herself to suppress her emotions. However, Ryu's words were like a venomous viper. His Dao had reached such a level that Kaisa couldn't even immediately tell that she was being targeted by a Dao at all. Instead, it felt more like a knife was constantly twisting into her heart.

'A little bit of a savior and inferiority complex, huh? You think yourself to be so great, so you send others to die on the front lines for you.

'Hm? You fell in love with a Lightning Elemental Fiend? What a scandal. Unfortunately, your father separated you from him, and when you tried to run and elope with him, he betrayed you, unwilling to lose his own family's inheritance.

'It seems that you're just a pitiful little girl, huh? How pathetic. It also seems that you're a bit too stupid. Did you really think that he betrayed you?

'I'm sure you saw the clues yourself. Why would he agree to elope with you, be on the run for days with you, and yet only choose to betray you after going so far?

'Do you have a screw loose? You've hated the love of your life for so long, when he's never done anything but protect you. In fact, you're so lost in your hatred that you turned that fury onto me, who was innocent for all intents and purposes.

'It seems that you're just burying your guilt, huh? I wonder what kind of torture your love is experiencing now? Maybe he's actually already dead because he chose to fall in love with an idiot like you—!'

"ENOUGH!"

The shriek filled the skies, and the army suddenly exploded.

Several of the weaker soldiers collapsed into a pool of their own blood, and the cauldron above imploded.

It was lucky for them that this implosion caught even Commander Monk off guard, so the backlash was sent through the rod sword and broke it apart.

Ryu disconnected himself from the formation in a timely fashion just before chaos ensued. So, he avoided the backlash.

But the swasn't true of the others.

In that moment, both armies crumbled, and it seemed like at least 10% of them all had died instantly, while another 20% on top of them had suffered severe to crippling injuries. The rest were in various states of duress, while the only person who seemed completely unscathed was Ryu himself.

Ryu grinned.

There was no other way to fight now but chaos.

And as expected, both armies clashed, mostly because there was no choice rather than because this was exactly what they wanted to do.

Ryu swarmed into the chaos, moving like a fish in water and gliding through the currents.

He could feel changes to the battlefield even before they happened, taking into account countless variables at once with the ease of a man who had experienced thousands of these exact situations.

Suddenly, Ryu's eyes narrowed as he noticed a familiar bald man in the chaos. In a flash, he appeared before him.

He slipped out of the way of one of his double axes and parried the second with a forearm to his.

With unstoppable momentum, he blasted open the defenses of the bald man and sent his arms flying to the side as he erupted with a palm strike right into the latter's chest.

The world rumbled and then becquiet in their small region as Ryu left a solid dent in the crimson armor.

'Sturdy armor. Not bad.'

Realizing that the bald man hadn't died, Ryu felt entirely indifferent.

He slipped another ax strike and levied a blow at the sregion. Slipped yet another and repeated.

His movements were as fluid as water and flames suddenly crackled around him.

With a final BANG! the bald man's armor crumbled around him and his body suddenly exploded.