Chapter 60: Frantic Sniping

Ya and Ling, faces expressionless, walked out through the Golden Rose’s solid gold gates. The middle-aged man who drove the carriage was gripping Enzo by the collar, following closely behind them without a single step of separation. The heavy gates closed shut behind them, followed by the distinct sounds of several bolts being thrown into place. Immediately after, the rose petal patterns on the gates emitted faint glowing ripples; a Protective Magic Array was activated.

Ya and Ling snorted coldly in unison, feeling furious inside. This was the first time they had ever been so rudely kicked out. Jin, the boss of the Golden Rose Lounge, had bluntly declared them unwelcome guests without sparing any face and forcibly ejected them.

What made them even angrier was that Lafontaine, the agent they had hired, had actually stayed behind in the Golden Rose Lounge. He was currently wearing a fawning expression, explaining and begging for mercy from Jin, completely ignoring them, his employers. Ya and Ling shouted several harsh rebukes at Lafontaine, but it seemed Lafontaine didn’t even want his payment anymore; he was stubbornly staying put in the Golden Rose Lounge, trying to explain things to Jin.

What sent them into an absolute rage was the vicious curse Lin Qi hurled at them as he was leaving, which had simply stunned Ya and Ling.

Ya and Ling came from extremely noble backgrounds, had powerful backing within the Church, and their words alone could almost decide the political changes in some small countries on the continent. Yet someone had actually insulted them with such vulgar and filthy words! It was like splashing sewage from a drain onto two pure, flawless night-blooming cereus flowers.

With all these events combined, Ya and Ling were so angry they felt muddled. They even crushed the tracking Magic Array hidden in the corners of their sleeves to prevent Elham, who was at the Green Gem Hotel, from seeing their disgraceful state. Having been treated this way for the first time in their lives, and with Elham being their childhood companion, classmate, and current partner in their training mission, they were so ashamed and angry they couldn’t possibly let Elham see the humiliation they had suffered through a Water Mirror technique.

With the tracking Magic Array on their sleeves destroyed, Elham could no longer use Divine Art to locate them, and the Water Mirror technique naturally failed. Having cut off Elham’s observation, the two women finally breathed a sigh of relief. How could they let anyone see them in such an embarrassing state?

“Lin Qi, that damned, lowly sinner, he must face the most severe judgment,” the two women fumed, their eyes blazing. As they walked, they trembled slightly with rage. The cluster of flame between their brows gradually brightened, and waves of faint heat spread out around them. Wherever they passed, the cold wind became scalding hot, and all snowflakes within a ten-meter radius instantly evaporated.

The middle-aged man holding Enzo asked quietly, “Honored Ladies, what should we do with this boy?”

The middle-aged man already had his hand around Enzo’s neck; just a slight movement of his fingers would be enough to crush Enzo’s cervical vertebrae.

Ya and Ling were silent for a moment, then waved their hands dismissively. “A being less than an ant. Leave him here to fend for himself.”

In Ya and Ling’s minds, a nobody like Enzo—born into a commoner family, with strength merely at the Mortal Knight level, lacking powerful backing or significant background, and showing no promising future—wasn’t worth their attention. It was like garbage on the roadside; after using it, was it really necessary to step on it? Proud and aloof as they were, Ya and Ling would absolutely not do such a thing.

The middle-aged man nodded, casually tossing Enzo onto the side of the road. Large snowflakes continuously fell on Enzo, and within the blink of an eye, a thin layer had accumulated on him.

About halfway down the alley, there was an entrance in the wall. Inside was a small carriage yard where dozens of carriages were parked, with dedicated staff caring for the horses and guarding these valuable vehicles. This was the private carriage yard of the Golden Rose Lounge; only its patrons could park their carriages here.

The middle-aged man called for the attendants to prepare the carriage they had arrived in and respectfully assisted Ya and Ling as they boarded. With a light shout, the four black chargers neighed, their silver-shod hooves striking the ground heavily and sending sparks flying. Accompanied by the crisp sound of hooves, the carriage left the yard and soon exited the alley.

Just after exiting the alley, the middle-aged man’s expression shifted slightly. This stretch of Seafront Avenue was completely unlit; all the street lamps along this over-ten-mile-long road had been extinguished. There was a faint smell of lamp oil in the air, clearly indicating that the lamps had been maliciously sabotaged, their reservoirs smashed to release the odor.

Dropping the horsewhip and loosening the reins, the middle-aged man said quietly, “Honored Ladies, something seems amiss.”

Lin Qi was standing on the watchtower of a fishing boat, observing from a distance. A low Tiger’s Roar came from afar, and as the tone changed, Lin Qi grasped its meaning—Enzo had been found, and he was safe.

“Then, let’s begin!” Lin Qi said with a grim, menacing tone. “Let these outsiders know, this is Dun Er Ke, this is the territory of the Black Tiger Family. Those who provoke me on my family’s turf must pay the price in blood!”

With a casual wave, making a chopping motion as if with a blade, Lin Qi sneered coldly, “Uncle Bar, that man can be chopped up into fish feed. As for the two women inside the carriage, handle them as you see fit, but half of the Gold Notes and ornaments on them, which are quite valuable, belong to me.”

Bar of the Right Hand of Death, clad in a Black Robe that flapped wildly in the sea breeze, with a nine-foot-long Great Scythe strapped to his back, gave a few sinister chuckles. He puckered his lips and let out a sharp whistle, then said coldly, “Are they two little beauties? And twins? The savages of the Five Great Archipelagos would fancy them. Among their royal families, Human beauties are quite popular!”

Bang! Bang! Bang! Three loud sounds echoed as three pitch-black streaks of cold light vanished into the dark night.

The Frenzied Unicorn Whale’s body exceeded thirty meters in length, its skin tougher than steel, and its vitality more tenacious than a snake’s. The specially made Whaling Harpoons used to hunt them were terrifyingly powerful. Propelled by a fire-element burst Magic Array and forged from a special alloy, they were inscribed with various destructive Runes. Within three hundred paces, they could pierce through a foot-thick homogeneous steel plate, and their subsequent explosive force could blow apart a small house.

The three Whaling Harpoons, each two meters long, were fired from less than a hundred paces from the carriage, right within their maximum effective range.

The three harpoons reached the carriage almost simultaneously with the sound of their splitting the air. Although the middle-aged man was on guard, he hadn’t anticipated an attack so swift and ferocious. His hands moved swiftly, his fists enveloped in a blue-black glow, with a thick cyan halo surrounding this blue-black light; the cyan even verged on blue.

Peak of Status Knight, just one step away from reaching the Celestial Knight threshold.

But what he faced were three Whaling Harpoons designed for hunting high-level magical beasts.

The middle-aged man’s hands accurately chopped down onto two of the Whaling Harpoons coming diagonally towards him. With a loud explosion, the two harpoons blew apart, blasting his two arms into a bloody pulp. The third harpoon, coming from diagonally behind, pierced through his chest, nearly tearing his upper body off completely.

The four black chargers in front of the carriage were also blown to pieces. The carriage itself was thrown over a dozen meters by the force of the explosion before heavily overturning onto the ground.