Legend of Ravaging Dynasties v1c2

Movie Title: L.O.R.D (Legend of Ravaging Dynasties)

Author: Guo Jingming

Translation: epikey@tumblr

Volume 1: Divine Beginning

However, in the next moment, she passes Qi Ling without acknowledging him; even her eyeballs did not move, as if Qi Ling does not exist. She walks until she is standing in front of Liuna before lifting her head to look at the red lion. In her eyes is the innocent confusion of a little girl. With a naive and crisp voice, she says “Why is it here? Doesn’t it know that Bing Mo is coming soon?”

Her small figure stands in front of the monstrous fiery red lion. She looks at it naively with wide eyes, “Do you, perhaps, seek death?” Her voice is weak and calm, as if asking if someone has eating his or her breakfast.

Hong Ri, under her intense gaze, seems as if it saw a monster, flinching and retreating more and more, his powerful arrogance from before disappears without a trace instantly. It shivers like a dog that has been frightened. Liuna stands and waves her hand. Hong Ri dissipates into a cloud of red smog, disappearing in the air.

The little girl tilts her head before moving slowly to a chair in the corner, and then she turns to sit in the chair, folding her legs up, hugging her knees, her small figure sinks into the space between the arms of the air. She cups her round little face, using her intelligent large eyes to scan every face in the room as if looking at a roomful of dead people.

Liuna represses the dread in her heart before she stands and addresses the girl, “If you are here to compete for Bing Mo with us, then I admit defeat, I withdraw.”

The little girl frowns serious. She shakes her head, using a ghostly and faint voice that sounds like it’s coming from a space far away, she says seriously: “No, I’m not here to compete with all of you for Bing Mo.” After saying that, she turns her gaze outside the window, at this point the outside is already pitch black, the remnants of the blood-like large sun has completely sank beneath the horizon. The chilling colour of the night has painted each inch of the ground in the town densely. Only the flickering lights from windows of houses remain in the entire town of Fauser..

She sits with her chin in her hands, dazed for a while before saying softly, “I’m here to compete with them for Bing Mo.”

Tuoka snorts from the side as he asks, “Who are they?”

The little girl pulls her gaze back from outside the window. Looking at Tuoka, a tinge of annoyance appears on her face. Her empty gaze settles on Tuoka, saying, “They, they are them.” And then she pauses and says: “They are not you.” After saying that, she turns her head back to stare at the end of the path outside, unmoving. "I don't like you asking me questions. I just said I disliked noisy places."

Tuoka sits at the table without movement, as if unsure of how to answer the girl's question.

Qi Ling who is standing closer to Tuoka, has already bent down to vomit, unable to hold it in.

At the ground beneath Tuoka’s feet, unknowing of when it happened, a few sharp crystals grew, like vines growing insanely at the speed of light, they pierce through his feet, following the inside of Tuoka’s body, piercing through the insides of his shins and thighs, finally poking out from densely from his chest area, blooming in the air, as if a gigantic white sea urchin just exploded in his chest. Numerous crystals as sharp as ice blades, decorating his corpse like a statue. His innards and intestines are hanging on these silvery-white icicles, bloody and burning, releasing white smoke.

Death looms in the overhead, the bitter cold wind of the night filled with shards of ice blows in from the window. The constantly rising chilliness spreads in the lobby of the inn. Liuna stands, staring at the little girl, her face is full of fear, “……Who exactly are you?”

The little girl does not look towards Liuna, instead she hugs her knees, raising her head to stare at an unknown point on the ceiling, her gaze scattered as if there is no focal point, as if she can look through the ceiling to see the rapidly darkening sky outside.

“You don’t even know me……” The little girl lowers her gaze, looking a tad regretful.

“She is…… ‘Gu Die’ (lit. Skeletons of butterfly) Lijier……” From the quivering throat of Kins, this sentence squeezes out hoarsely.

“Eh? ……You know of me?” Lijier turns to look at Kins faintly, and then she smiles lightly all of a sudden, her appearance like a blossom hidden in the smog, “Or is it that…… you can see it?”

The little girl is curled up in the chair in that dark corner, but her body seems to be shrouded in a ghastly green glow emitting from an unknown place. At this moment, in the corner of the lobby behind her, in that large space, faintly, a being appears……a being that’s indescribable, a being that resembles a colossal butterfly, but is no butterfly at all. Due to its colossal size, it can only squeeze into the corner behind Lijier in distortion, it seems as if it is going to break the roof with its size. Its body is packed with dense and smooth scales, every single one of them flickering with a ghastly green light, the support that forms its wings, are all stick after stick of chilling white bones, the wings holding these skeletal bones together is a form of membrane with a softness that makes one ill. This monster’s wings are covered with slimy tentacles like that of a squid, at this moment they are creeping around messily. The entirety of the skeletal butterfly resembles a sticky spotted bat more, unmoving in its distorted position behind Lijier.

“It’s very pretty isn’t it……” A slimy worm-like tentacle falls from the ceiling, Lijier reaches out, caressing that slimy tentacle of Gu Die, if you look at it closely, you will discover that, at the tip of the tentacle, there is a half-closed naked eye.

Kins and Liuna stands abruptly, their chairs falling in the process. They rush out of the inn.

Nobody wants to compete for anything with such a monster.

Qi Ling is curled up at the corner of the inn, he wants to run, but from his scalp to his toes, they are all numb, he watches the little girl in front of him whose gaze is still empty, and then looking at Kins and Liuna who had rushed out of the inn hastily, he’s completely petrified, the lump of creature at the corner of the inn need not even be mentioned.

If he yearns for the world of soul powers before, the Qi Ling now just wants to escape this nightmare as quickly as possible.

At this moment Lijier turns and looks at Qi Ling, “I’m hungry.” Behind her, Gu Die suddenly morphs into a puddle of green goo, gurgling from the ceiling, moving across the surface of the ground. As if a live being, the slime creeps up the back of the chair and successfully flows into Lijier’s body from her back. “Go and look for some things for me to eat.”

Qi Ling nods as his teeth chatter in fear. He nods, stumbling as he prepares to run towards the backyard.

“Hey,” just before Qi Ling breeches the exit at the back, Lijier stops him, “You better hurry up, and if you try to escape, you should know that you won’t be able to outrun it. It knows how to fly. Heh heh.” He Lijier forces out a chilling laugh.

After Qi Ling left the lobby, Lijier turns her head around, vision concentrated intensely on what’s outside the door of the inn, “Ai yah, they’re finally here. Why did Kins and Liuna run, as if I’m some sort of terrifying creature, unless it’s that they don’t know that, running out, is when they truly meet a group of monsters……” A faint layer of sorrow looms over her youthful features, as if she really feels regretful for the two.

She is so pretty. Qi Ling thinks.

Chapter end