Chapter 572: Cry no longer

Translated by: La0o9

Edited by: Dr.Lock

Proofreader: Arya

The War God UI briefly explained.

[The things called Causality Skills transcend all things, directly bypassing the limit of time and space to directly bring out an ‘effect’, tracing back through the ‘cause’ and change things at the source, altering the natural flow to accumulate the likelihood of something happening until the result they want is finally achieved] (1)

“…Causality Skills… so that’s what they are”

[Do you understand the meaning of Skills of this type now?] the War God asked.

“Not really” Gu Qing Shan honestly replied.

This was the very first time in his two lives that he even heard the term ‘Causality Skill’.

[Slowly think about it]

Saying that, the War God UI temporarily ignored him.

At this time, someone among the guards shouted.

“Look! Entropy Ghosts are coming!”

Gu Qing Shan left the thought behind for now and looked up to the sky.

The Entropy Ghosts that got through the barrier before were now all heading towards their squad.

“Leave them to me”

Gu Qing Shan declared.

His spirit energy boiled with Lightning Element, infusing it into the Taiyi Sword Array.

In just a few moments, Lightning began to flow from the Six Paths Great Mountain sword in the sky.

Which led to the sword storm also beginning to fill up with arcs of lightning.

Lightning!

The most authoritative tool of punishment in this world, as set up by the Gods!

Together with the Six Paths Great Mountain sword’s anti-Law property, the power of his Lightning was greatly increased!

The Entropy Ghosts were all extremely sensitive, as soon as they noticed the presence of Lightning, they immediately turned around to run.

The sky quickly cleared.

Gu Qing Shan retracted his Lightning spirit energy, tapped his Inventory Bag and took out a high-tier spirit energy replenishment pill and swallowed right away.

Ahead of them.

The rest of the ghost army had already given up on attacking the city and were instead heading straight for their small squad.

Gu Qing Shan glanced at the sword array in the sky.

The sword array was currently at its strongest.

About 12 breaths later, the [Taiyi Sword Array] will run out of energy and disappear completely.

Which means I’ll have to finish this battle within 12 breaths!

Gu Qing Shan decided his course of action.

Putting Laura on the black horse’s back, he shouted: “Everyone, protect the princess!”

“Protect her Royal Highness!” the guards all replied.

They urged their steeds forward, quickly got close to the black horse and surrounded it to protect Laura.

Gu Qing Shan leapt off the horse’s back and took to the sky.

Riding the sword storm upwards, he activated a Divine Skill!

[Divine Skill – Ground Shrink: Select any location within range or through locking onto an enemy’s presence, bypass the restraints of space through using a special movement technique and directly appear at the targeted location]

[Effective range: Your inner sight’s range]

In the past, on the Demon Cloud River, to steal the Tianma vase from the Visible Tianma Saint King, Bai Hua Fairy once traversed the entire river in the blink of an eye and knocked them away with a single punch.

And now, while Gu Qing Shan was inside a storm of swords that was starting to form a tornado, he used the very same Divine Skill.

He disappeared—-

Then abruptly reappeared among the army of ghosts.

“Hah, the battle isn’t over just yet!”

With him as the eye of the storm, Gu Qing Shan’s gaze fell onto the millions of ghosts around him as he muttered.

[Starflame War God] Unique Skill, [Conquer] was once again activated.

The ghost army all screeched as they leapt towards him.

In a few moments, the howling tornado had already reached its peak, scattering in all directions.

Swish

Swish

Swish

Gu Qing Shan quickly moved forward along with the tornado, erasing the army of ghosts from the face of the earth as he did.

Just like that, he alone faced off against millions.

The ghosts were almost completely eliminated.

At the same time, Gu Qing Shan sent out a bit of wind towards Tidal city.

It silently flew.

And Tidal city quickly noticed.

A bright blue figure appeared on the city wall.

——he told them to wait for the wind as a signal, and finally it had come!

The bright blue figure carefully looked over the battle situation on the plains.

Ever since she finished the call of the Bramble Bird summoning technique, she had been waiting for the wind to arrive.

She witnessed everything that had happened on the plains up to now.

The once ferocious and intimidating army of ghosts were now reduced to a shadow of its former self, leaving sparse and small squads all over.

And even those squads were scrambling to escape.

“The time is now! We’re going to counter-attack!”

“Everyone, charge!”

The bright blue figure ordered.

A few dozen mountain-like ancient life forms leapt out from the city, landing on the plains with a huge ‘thud’.

“””For the world of the Gods!”””

They all roared.

They quickly charged towards the scattered smaller groups of ghosts and attacked with everything they had.

The bright blue figure lightly leapt and bypassed the entire battlefield, heading towards the rear of the plains.

There, a small group of horses were approaching her with a black horse protected in the middle.

At this time, Gu Qing Shan stopped.

And so did the wind.

The Taiyi Sword Array had ended, and soon so will the battle.

Three flying swords returned from the sky above, circled around him twice before orderly disappearing into the void of space behind him.

Everything went just as planned.

Gu Qing Shan turned around and looked behind.

Frost of the Cold Night Ilya had received Laura and was currently heading towards him.

Both sides met up.

The ancient life forms had also finished dealing with the fleeing monster and were quickly returning.

Everyone was finally reunited.

Ilya was a tall and slender female warrior fully clad in a bright blue armor, including a helmet, which made it impossible to see her face for now.

“For the sake of safety, we need to return to Tidal city first!” she shouted to Gu Qing Shan.

“Got it, you go first, I’ll come soon as well” Gu Qing Shan responded.

His gaze was locked at the rear of the plains.

A few particularly huge commander ghosts were on the other side of the plains, shouting and cursing while rallying their troops again.

Once they reorganized themselves and received reinforcement from the countless Entropy Ghosts in the sky, they would probably launch another attack on Tidal city.

“Laura”

“Ah?”

“Let me borrow your horse for a bit”

“Alright”

Laura leapt off from the black horse and led it in front of Gu Qing Shan.

“Gu Qing Shan, what are you planning?” Laura asked, concerned.

“Just a few minor details, you can return to the city first, I’ll catch up very soon” Gu Qing Shan smiled and stroked her head gently.

Then he leapt on the horse.

The black horse asked: “Are you in a hurry, or will you fight?”

Gu Qing Shan pointed at the rear of the plains, at the slowly rallying ghost army: “We’re going to fight”

Sha—-

The black horse instantly charged forward.

“What does he want to do?” Ilya couldn’t help but ask.

“I’m not sure” Laura replied.

Ilya was confused: “That attack of his just now was completely unreasonable, it doesn’t match his strength at all. I had thought that he paid a great price in order to use it just once, why is he charging forward again now?”

The others also had their own suspicions.

Laura replied again: “I don’t know either, but I trust him—- we’re going to wait for him here”

Hearing that, Ilya signaled everyone around.

The ancient life forms quickly scattered to protect this area.

“Your will has been carried out, your majesty”

Laura was briefly shocked.

Ilya silently smiled.

“A country cannot be without a ruler for a day, Laura”

“Ah…”

It was now that Laura had to face the harsh truth.

That’s right, father was murdered by Triste using vile means while he was off-guard.

Mother is also no longer here.

And brother as well.

Right now, I am the last remaining person in the royal family.

Me.

Alone.

An indescribable sorrow rushed to her head, filling her body.

Laura shook her head but was unable to contain her emotions anymore.

Her tears came flowing.

“Laura, calm yourself down” Ilya sighed and spoke.

The princess is still too young, I don’t know if she will be able to take over the burden of the kingdom.

But there is no other way now.

“I know, I’m just…”

Laura’s tears were still pouring down, unable to control herself.

And then, her gaze passed through the plains.

A black horse was galloping across it at high speeds.

The rider was still unsatisfied with its speed and loudly urged: “Hah!”

He was holding a sword in hand.

He was heading for the army of ghosts on the other side of the plains—- heading straight ahead.

Laura was stunned briefly as she saw this.

Then, some memories surfaced in her mind.

“I’m already used to a life like this, and also… being an orphan has its benefits” he once said that.

“What benefits?”

“When we die, we won’t have to worry about too many people crying for us”

“What kind of benefit is that…?”

“You don’t think it’s a benefit? When you see others being sorrowful because of you, you would only feel more sorrow, but we are superior since we can perfectly avoid this”

“…Is that really superior?”

“Of course”

Laura couldn’t help but shake her head.

Really…

What kind of superiority is that supposed to be?

And also—-

He’s all alone right now, what gives him the courage to actually head straight towards the remaining millions of ghosts?

He already used his sword array, there should be nothing left to use against them!

Thinking about it more and more, Laura slowly forgot her grief.

She pursed her lips, stopped looking at him and nodded to Ilya.

“I’m ready”

Even while her tears were still rolling, she confirmed it with conviction.

Ilya immediately knelt down on one knee, bowing in front of Laura.

After her, all the Bramble Bird guards got off their horses and also bowed around Laura.

“Laura, from today onwards, you will be the one and the only sovereign of the Bramble Bird Kingdom” Ilya declared in a low voice.

“Your royal majesty!”

The guards all bowed and spoke ceremoniously.

Laura looked around at her guards, then at Ilya.

Ilya removed her mask and gave her an encouraging smile.

Laura took a deep breath, forcing her emotions to calm down.

Then she took a glance at the figure on the black horse.

She wiped the tears off her face.

While under the protection of over a dozen ancient life forms, in front of her subjects of the Bramble Bird Kingdom, Laura regained her composure.

She declared: “From today onwards, I will cry no longer”

“I will lead my people to win against all enemies on our way”

“I will protect my country, my land, my subjects and their everything”

“I! Am Empress of the Bramble Birds!”

Note:

(1) Causality skills: Causality skills are, as the chapter suggests, skills that will always bring about the “effect” stated in the skill, triggered by a seemingly unrelated “cause”. A good example of such a Skill is the “Mystic Eyes of Death Perception” that Tohno Shiki and Ryougi Shiki from the Fate universe possess, where the “effect” is death, and the “cause” is having their death lines cut. The entire Fate universe is actually full of abilities like this, if anyone is familiar with them.