piratefiction Chapter 27 The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
Chapter 27 The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
"BOOM!!!"
A muffled thud came from a distance overhead, and plaster and gravel from the sewers fell down, landing on Ella.
Ella stood in the center of the hall.
She spread her arms wide, like a mother hen protecting her chicks. Dozens of kittens huddled beneath her, their little heads of various colors peeking out from under her arms, and she could feel their tiny bodies trembling.
She herself was trembling.
Ella, you are the bravest.
Ella silently cheered herself up.
"Big sister, what happened? Why haven't big brother and sister Audrey come back yet?" Little Grey hugged his mouse doll and tugged at Ella's clothes.
Ella looked down into Little Gray's eyes and suddenly remembered when she encountered the demonic tide a few days ago. She had crouched in the bushes, covered her ears, and buried her head in the ground. Chu Sheng had looked down at her in the same way.
What did his expression look like then? She tried hard to recall, and then attempted to mimic that expression.
"Them..." Ella said earnestly, "They went to buy grilled fish!"
"Grilled fish?"
"Yes! Grilled fish!" Ella's eyes lit up. "Did you hear that rumbling sound?"
All the cats quieted down, pricked up their ears, and then another muffled thud came from afar.
"That's the sound of the Grilled Fish King turning over!" Ella's eyes sparkled, and she drooled as she described it. "The Grilled Fish King is as big as a mountain! Its skin is grilled to a fragrant and crispy perfection, sprinkled with all the spices from Cat Territory. Its meat inside is white and tender, enough to feed everyone in Cat Territory with some left over!"
An orange kitten swallowed hard.
"Can we get some too?" it asked, raising its head.
"Yes, it's possible." Ella nodded firmly. "It's definitely possible. Everyone in the Cat Territory will get some. Those underground, those unseen, those that were thrown away will all get some."
Sunlight Hall.
Chu Sheng and Arthur followed Audrey's gaze.
Fragments of the flower of flesh and blood were slowly writhing on the ground, attempting to piece themselves back together. A chaotic gel seeped from the cuts in the fragments, binding adjacent pieces together.
Arthur's heart sank, his voice hoarse: "A slime. It also learned the slime's regenerative abilities."
Slimes don't actually have that kind of regenerative ability. Anyone with a modicum of common sense knows that a slime will die if it's cut into pieces, just like a person whose head has been chopped off.
But the Flower of Flesh and Blood is not a slime; it is a sixth-order creature, which means it has a vitality far exceeding that of ordinary monsters.
Given enough time, these fragments will piece together again into a complete flower of flesh and blood.
But now Arthur's holy light is exhausted, Chu Sheng's holy light is exhausted, and his voice is hoarse.
Audrey suddenly lunged at her.
She drew a curved dagger, gripped it with both hands, tip down, knelt before the largest piece of shard, raised the dagger above her head, and then plunged it in fiercely.
The tip of the dagger bounced off the surface of the fragment, leaving only a white mark without even piercing the skin.
Audrey didn't stop; she pulled the knife out, then stabbed it again, pulled it out, and stabbed it again.
With each cut, the white mark gradually turned into a shallow indentation.
But the fragments moved much faster than she could, and the crater was filled in within seconds by the chaotic gel that surged from within.
Audrey's hands were trembling; she knew she couldn't break through her defenses.
Like Ella, she didn't embark on any extraordinary path; at best, she was just a slightly stronger Tier 1.
But she didn't stop. What if? What if it was just one more cut?
"..." Chu Sheng opened his mouth, trying to let out another shriek, gambling on the 0.1% chance of instant death, but no sound came out.
The fragments of the flower of flesh and blood seemed to sense Chu Sheng's threat and began to wriggle even faster.
The largest fragment has successfully glued the three petals together. The mouth-like structure in the flower's center, covered in sharp teeth, is reforming, its teeth rotating and returning to their original positions with a creaking sound.
"You...think...that...you can...kill...?"
Its sound became more and more coherent, and its sharp teeth returned to their positions faster and faster.
"...Kill me?"
The sharp teeth on the fragments of the flower's heart rearranged and began to rotate in circles. It was using its own experience of death to make itself harder to kill.
"What...right...do you...?"
"Bang!"
A loud bang!
On the dilapidated dome of the Sunlight Hall, a stained glass window that was already on the verge of collapse was smashed to pieces by something from the outside!
Glass shards rained down from the sky like a colorful downpour: crimson, cobalt blue, bright yellow, emerald green, orange-gold...
The fragments tumbled in the air, refracting the sunlight streaming in through the hole in the dome. Each piece became a tiny prism, turning the entire sunroom into a dazzling, mottled display of color.
Everyone looked up at the same time.
Amidst the rain of glass, a massive white shadow swooped down against the light!
She is a winged girl.
Her wings were fully spread, and her snow-white feathers fluttered in the airflow generated by her dive, with a few feathers swirling and falling in the air.
She hugged herself tightly to her chest, with someone curled up in her arms.
It's silver leaf!
Her bright green braids stood up in the gust of wind, the ends crackling in the breeze, and a small cut on her light gray face was caused by a shard of glass.
But she didn't close her eyes; they shone brightly in the colorful light refracted by the glass shards.
"I!"
The bright, clear sound of the silver leaves echoed throughout the Sunlight Hall.
"Silver Leaf!"
She deliberately broke free from the winged girl's embrace, stretching her limbs in mid-air, like a fish swimming against the current through a colorful coral sea.
"Treehouse No. 127 in the Gray Area of the Sacred Tree Forest!"
She raised her hands high, and green light surged from her chest, gathering in her palms.
"The 24th generation inheritor of the meat jerky recipe!"
The outline of the light became clearer and clearer. First the neck, then the body, and finally the four strings, trembling slightly in the translucent emerald green light, emitting a low-frequency hum.
"The lead singer, drummer, piano player, and clarinetist of a girl band!"
The zither grew larger and larger, from the size of a person who could be held in their arms to being taller than Yinye, then taller than two Yinye, until it grew to resemble a tree uprooted and hanging upside down in mid-air.
That was an enormous banjo!
"I bestow upon you—"
Silver Leaf's hands gripped the neck of the banjo, and ripples of emerald green spread out where his palms touched the neck.
"die!!!"
She lifted the banjo above her head. To everyone's astonishment, Silverleaf used all her strength to slam the enormous banjo down from the sky!
"boom!!!"
The banjo's strings snapped, the body of the banjo exploded, and the entire Sunlight Hall was enveloped in emerald green energy. Fragments of the Flower of Flesh and Blood rapidly dissipated in the green light.
This was the first time in the history of the continent that the extraordinary path of the [Solo Band] had appeared, and even the Imperial Sanctuary, thousands of miles away, seemed to sense it and its sacred bells rang.