A Core Ship From The Start

Chapter 270: Chapter 217: The Other Shore_1

After reaching an agreement with Lani, Duanmu Huai finally had a reliable assistant and guide. After all, as a native, Lani was undoubtedly very familiar with the Borderland, so Duanmu Huai made a straightforward request for her to assist in locating the others.

This was not a difficult task for Lani. At present, only Lorena’s location was relatively remote. According to her description, Lani judged that Lorena was probably in the Stargazer Village in the snow plains. As for Volcano Manor, Lani confirmed that the route was extremely dangerous.

The reason was simple. There were three successors who attacked the Royal City back then, namely Lacard, Ratain, and Maleniya. Although Gerrick sneaked away in the crowd when the situation was bad, another person stepped up – that was Bad Omen King Mongat. He led the Dark Night Cavalry and the Royal City Troops not only to withstand the attack from the three parties, but even counterattacked all the way to the doorstep of Volcano Manor.

For this reason, almost all the way from the Royal City to the Volcano Manor has become a battlefield, and even now, the soldiers are still waging this despairing and endless war.

Frankly, hearing this made Duanmu Huai somewhat surprised about Mongat. He didn’t know how strong Lacard and Maleniya were, but he knew about Ratain’s capabilities. Just that meteor-like attack from the sky alone could probably take out any ordinary person, and Maleniya, who was able to confront Ratain evenly and escape unscathed after causing the Crimson Corruption in Ratain’s territory, was obviously not an easy opponent.

And yet, the three of them combined failed to capture the Royal City? How formidable was this Mongat?

Could he be the final boss?@@novelbin@@

Of course, Lani also explained to Duanmu Huai that wasn’t the case. Although the Royal City was besieged by three parties at the time, Lacard didn’t personally participate but dispatched his confidant to lead the attack. As for Maleniya, as impressive as she was, upon learning during the siege that her older brother Mikaela was captured, she, being overly protective of her brother, resigned in the middle of the attack and turned to find her brother.

In the end, only Ratain and Mongat fought evenly, and when Ratain saw the other two running away, he was not a fool to share a mutual destruction with Mongat. That would be simply handing out benefits to others for free, so he directly ran away.

Such being the case, it can be seen that this kind of coalition with complex motives is nothing more than a façade, which collapses entirely at the first sign of difficulty.

Alright, setting this topic aside, the most crucial point at the moment was the location of Mistelina. Duanmu Huai did not find any trace of Mistelina in the territories of Ningmugefu, Leyenia, and Gailied. Therefore, she was likely to be transported to other places as well.

At least from the current point of view, the girls around Duanmu Huai were basically sent to separate territories; for instance, Bambi was in Gailied, Melfy was in Leyenia, Ogis was in the Eternal City under Ningmugefu, Audrey was in Volcano Manor at Grimel Volcano, and Lorena was in the Stargazing Ruins in the snow mountain.

From this perspective, Mistelina might also have been transported to a unique location.

Accordingly, Mistelina is likely to be on the Sobbing Peninsular, Yatan Plateau, Mikaela’s Holy Tree Village, or even the Royal City…

Of course, there is also the worst place – that is the Royal City Sewage, where the sealed Wildfire and Three-Fingers reside.

After clarifying the current situation, everyone quickly made a plan.

Bambi and Melfy would go to the Sobbing Peninsular first to investigate and see if they could find any clues about Mistelina. It was relatively safe there, and not too dangerous. If Mistelina was there, it would naturally be the best choice.

As for Duanmu Huai – Lani wanted him to go immediately to the Leyenia’s God-granted Tower. She had already told Duanmu Huai that after the ceremony, she had transferred her soul into this puppet’s body, then used the black sword to kill the body she initially possessed as the demigod. Thus, the remaining half of the Rune of Death lay on Lani’s own corpse.

As long as he traveled to the Kalya Library and entered the God-granted Tower to reach the top, he could obtain the other half of that Rune.

Honestly, Lani was also curious about what a full Rune of Death holder would be like.

After that, Duanmu Huai would then search for the other fragments of the Magic Ring as guided by Lani.

He now owned the Great Rune from Gerrick, the Great Rune from Ratain, and the Great Rune from Lena Lani.

The rest were the four “Fragmented Kings” – the Great Rune from Lacard, the lord of Volcano Manor, the Great Rune from Bad Omen King Mongat, the Great Rune from Blood King Monga, and the Great Rune from Crimson Valkyrie Marlynia.

Last but not least, of course, was Ogis, who would temporarily stay in Lani’s Magic Tower. The reason was simple – Ogis needed to adapt to her current body.

This wasn’t an easy task for Ogis. After all, she used to be a puppet, and puppets don’t have a sense of touch. For Ogis, whether she encountered snowy fields or blazing winds, it didn’t matter because the puppet body inherently had no Perception ability.

However, now, after merging with the Imitation Teardrop, Ogis was like any human, being capable of experiencing all kinds of sensations. What made matters worse was that she was utterly unfamiliar with these sensations. The touch of something, the sensation of being scorched by fire, the feeling of freezing cold, and even the feeling of injury or being torn apart… these were things that common people took for granted, but for Ogis, they were incredibly unfamiliar, which was why she had dared not move from where she sat her place before.

To Ogis, even just sitting and “feeling” the earth was difficult to handle – after all, she had never felt this before.

So now, what Ogis had to do was to adapt quickly to the tactile feedback her body gave her, as well as to change her style of fighting. Ogis had always attacked by manipulating puppet threads. For a regular puppet, this was not a problem, but for human skin, the feedback from the activity of the puppet threads, which were as tough and thin as fishing lines, was clearly of a completely different magnitude.

Think of what it feels like when someone tries to catch the fishing line bare-handed when a fish is on the hook – that kind of sensation.

Therefore, for Ogis, this will be a relatively tough process.

Time waits for no one, after determining their respective targets, Duanmu Huai and his team immediately set off in different directions. Bambi, being able to fly, took tiny Melfy to the Sobbing Peninsular, while Duanmu Huai went to the Kalya Library to retrieve the remaining half of the brand. Ogis stayed in the Magic Tower to relearn and adapt to her body.

At the same time, while everyone is bustling around, Mistelina is undergoing an unimaginable adventure.

“Uhhh… Ahhh…”

The woman fell to her knees, trembling incessantly. Looking at the woman in front of her, Mistelina asked anxiously.

“Are you okay, Miss Haida?”

“Heh… I’m fine.”

Hearing Mistelina’s question, the girl called Haida slowly raised her head. Her eyes were covered with a bandage, she wore a thin robe and looked very weak. However, at this moment, her tone was incredibly fanatical and firm.

Did I make a mistake……?

Looking at Haida in front of her, Mistelina began to regret.

For Mistelina, her experience is equally unimaginable. After parting with Duanmu Huai, Mistelina found herself teleported to a strange place. While she was searching around, she saw a blind girl sitting by the road. Being the Guardian of the Forest, Mistelina couldn’t ignore her. So, she greeted the girl who then told her that her name was Eleina. Her father was the Lord of the nearby Morne City, where the servants were rebelling, and her father led the soldiers to resist. Eleina was very worried about her father, so she asked Mistelina to deliver a letter to him.

Kind-hearted Mistelina naturally did not refuse Eleina’s request. She took Eleina’s letter to Morne City and helped the Lord eliminate those mad enemies.

But when Mistelina returned to Eleina’s side with her father, she found that Eleina was already killed.

Not only was the father, the city’s Lord, overwhelmed with grief, but also Mistelina felt greatly guilty. She felt it was her responsibility since she knew the place was dangerous yet she didn’t do enough to protect Eleina.

The father, distraught at the loss of his daughter, gave a “Shabolili Grape” to Mistelina before he left, hoping she would deliver it to a witch named Haida. Out of responsibility and guilt, Mistelina promised to do as he asked. Then, she watched as he, tired and injured, slowly walked away with his daughter’s body in his arms.

After that, Mistelina followed the father’s instructions and went through Stonewell City — although she also wanted to find Duanmu Huai here, it was a pity that Duanmu Huai had already gone to the Magic Academy, so Mistelina’s effort was in vain.

But at the back gate of Stonewell City, Mistelina met the finger witch named Haida.

She was dressed very similarly to Eleina and was also blind. According to Haida, she was travelling in search of the Far Side Flame and asked Mistelina if she had Shabolili Grapes.

It wasn’t until Mistelina took out the “grape” that she was shocked to discover that the so-called “grape” was actually a human eyeball!

What was even more unbelievable to Mistelina was that Haida ate it! It seemed she truly believed that what she had eaten was just a grape!

Although Haida learned the truth about the Shabolili Grape afterwards, she did not stop, saying that as long as she ate the grape, she could clearly sense the location of the Far Side Flame.

Seeing the weak Haida, Mistelina decided to not repeat the same mistake. This time, she would protect this girl properly and would not let her meet an untimely death like before!

And so, Mistelina became Haida’s bodyguard, protecting her along the way and searching for Shabolili Grapes.

However, looking at Haida now, Mistelina was growing more uneasy.

She did not know what the Far Side Flame that Haida was searching for was, but she had a feeling that it was not something good.

“Thank you, ma’am, I have felt the Far Side Flame, it is waiting for me up ahead… let’s go.”

As she spoke, Haida once again stepped forward, and Mistelina hesitated for a moment before following her.

No matter what, she must protect this girl until the end.