L.O.R.D - Volume 2, Section 9: Dawn’s (Qi Ling-Yin Chen) First Encounter
L.O.R.D (New Version)
Movie t.i.tle: L.O.R.D (Legend of Ravaging Dynasties)
爵迹
Author: Guo Jingming
Published: 2016
Translation: [email protected]
Volume 2: Bewstowment of the Seal
Section 9: Dawn’s (Qi Ling-Yin Chen) First Encounter
“Your name is pretty nice……but I still can’t go with you.” Qi Ling shakes his head continuously as he retreats further behind the large tree. The man is not in a hurry at all, instead he just stands pa.s.sively and stares at him without any expression on his face.
Qi Ling feels uneasy under his gaze. Coupled with the fact that he has nothing to hide, he fails to keep calm and blurts out: “You……was it you who saved me? Last night I……I remember I was cut into a few pieces by a few knives……” Qi Ling scratches his head, as if he himself realises that his usage of words to describe what had happened is weird, “Are you a doctor?”
“……I am not a doctor,” Yin Chen takes in a deep breath and rubs his brows, he looks slightly angry, “When I arrived, you were lying there asleep.” Yin Chen reverts back to his expressionless state.
“Good sir, I was really about to die before……” Qi Ling thinks, unsure of how to explain since not everyone believes the existence of soul beasts or soul maters, so he changes the topic, “Sigh, forget it, you probably won’t be able to understand even if I tell you. Oh yeah, when you arrived did you see a girl in that hole right there? About two or three years older than I am, she looks very pretty, did you see her?”
Yin Chen looks at the youth before him, his eyes as calm as still water, “I didn’t.”
Qi Ling sees Yin Chen’s half-narrowed eyes and feels like he has a “I’m unhappy” hanging on his face. “Are you not in a good mood.”
Yin Chen: “……I’m in a great mood.”
Qi Ling: “But you look very depressed.”
Yin Chen: “I……”
Yin Chen takes in a deep breath and clenches his fist. Doing his best to keep his cool, he walks towards Qi Ling, “Cut the c.r.a.p. Come with me to Gelanerte.”
“Ge……Gelanerte?” Qi Ling is extremely excited, “The imperial capital? You’re bringing me to the imperial capital?” However, a moment later, Qi Ling becomes guarded and ducks behind a tree, “Why? Are you a child trafficker? No no no no no……I have to rush back to the inn. I don’t know what’s the situation like there, if I don’t go back then the boss lady will scold me, and I grew up here, in my life I haven’t even……”
Before Qi Ling finishes speaking, he suddenly feels as if his mouth is filled by bone-chilling shards of nice, he spits a lot of them out, his tongue numb.
“So noisy.” Yin Chen narrows his eyes and stares at Qi Ling with his “mouth sealed”. He rubs his brows, seeming a tad bit more comfortable, as if as if enjoying the current state of quietness. His clear pupils resemble a pair of expensive blue jewels under the light, “From the day you become a ‘Disciple’, your previous way of life no longer has any meaning.”
“What’s a ‘disciple’?” Qi Ling squeezes out with a numb mouth.
“You’ve never heard of ‘disciple’?”
“No……”
“Then do you know how to soul bend?”
“No……”
“……”
Yin Chen stares at the intimidatingly handsome but still naive youth before him, his expression full of fear but not guilt. It is obvious that he is speaking the truth.
Yin Chen sighs, unsure of what the Silver Priests were thinking, as if they just played a prank on him. The only way to know is to bring him back to Gelanerte and ask the Silver Priests himself. Yin Chen walks towards Qi Ling.
“You……are you going to kill me……” Most of Qi Ling’s body is hidden behind the tree, his hands clutch the tree trunk as he asks nervously.
A gentle and refreshing feeling like a gush of spring water moves across Yin Chen’s heart. A feeling that is distant but familiar. Yin Chen pauses before he smiles softly. The tension melts away from his brows, making him appear exceptionally handsome. He reveals a set of straight white teeth, using an appealing and gentle voice, he speaks to Qi Ling softly: “Don’t worry, I won’t. I won’t kill you, I will protect you.”
[West of Aslan Empire - Port City of Rennes]
Lianquan finds an inn to stay.
She lies on the bed fully dressed. She is silent with her eyes closed in the darkness.
Both bronze lamps on the head of the bed are not lighted. Her face is hidden in the darkness, her expression unclear.
The perfectly round moon sits high over the sea. The moonlight is scattered into broken silver across the surface of the ocean by the wind. A few fishing boats of varying sizes are parked in the waters a distance from the sh.o.r.e. A smatter of yellow lights can be seen on the fishing boats, rising and falling on the ocean’s surface.
An invisible ripple appears almost undetectably.
Lianquan opens her eyes in the darkness.
A light golden fog secretes from her body soundlessly before disappearing in the dark.
She does not move. In the dead silence of the dark, time ticks by slowly.
A ripple slightly stronger than the previous one appears in the air, feeling like circular wind.
“Looks like this time round……” Lianquan mutters, “A monster has arrived……”
The moonlight washes a silver-white on the main road in the city of Rennes. Various statues of mystical beasts stand at the sides of the road. Every few steps, there will be large flower pots of white marble filled with blooming flowers, decorating the occasional fountains along the way. These all symbolize the bustle and richness of Rennes.
At this very moment, there are no pedestrians in the empty night city. Only guards on patrol move slowly on the high walls surrounding the city.
Suddenly, tickering sounds appear sharply, sounding exceptionally gentle in the silence. The sound comes from outside the city. A few moments later, the tinkering comes again. It is obvious that the sound is gradually advancing towards Rennes.
[West of Aslan Empire - Outside Town of Fauser]
“We don’t have to go to Fauser anymore, it’s already……” Yin Chen pauses and says no more.
Qi Ling nods in a daze behind Yin Chen. He lifts his head to look towards the direction of the village, everything is dark and there are no lights. In the darkness of the night, only the collapsed silhouettes of buildings can be seen. The town seems to have undergone an earthquake or tornado. He remembers the scene when he escaped from the inn. He could see splattering blood all over the village, innards scattered across the ground…… thinking about that now, a sorrowful expression appears on his face.
Yin Chen looks at Qi Ling and sighs softly. “We’ll set off directly from here to Rennes’ port to take a boat, that’s the easiest and quickest way to reach Gelanerte.”
Qi Ling nods. His expression makes him resemble an abandoned small animal.
When Yin Chen reached Fauser last night, he even thought thought that he had been too late. From the bazaar at the mouth of the village to the inn at the foot of the village were sharp icicles of various sizes. On some were corpses. Occasionally, there are frozen innards on the scattering of icicles. The whole town seems to be chewed to smithereens by the devil. He senses the remnants of the track taken by soul powers in the air and chases it all the way deep into the forest outside the town, and then he sees Qi Ling in deep sleep on the ground.
Yin Chen looks at the melancholic Qi Ling before him and moves over slowly, reaching out a hand.
Qi Ling does not speak, yet his pupils are shaking, obviously feeling a sense of fear.
Yin Chen closes up on him slowly, saying: “Don’t be afraid, I am not going to hurt you.” Yin Chen lifts his hand onto his face, the tops of his fingers grazing upon the bone behind his ear. “It may hurt just a little bit, but it will be okay, bear with it for a moment.”
Yin Chen’s fingertips latch onto Qi Ling’s scalp, a few strands of bitter cold energy pierces into Qi Ling’s body with lightning speed like a sharp needle.
The sudden coldness that went into Qi Ling’s head made his heart grip with fear.
Yet the one who is truly in fear is Yin Chen.
He initially only planned on attempting to inject a few strands of soul powers into Qi Ling’s body to test out Qi Ling’s physical reaction to soul powers and the construction of his body. However, when the sensory soul powers pierced into Qi Ling’s body, they disappeared immediately without a trace. However, as an average joe who has no idea of what a ‘disciple’ is and knows nothing about soul bending, the soul powers contained in Qi Ling’s body is like an ocean without an end overflowing with reckless large waves.
Yin Chen finally confirms that Qi Ling must be disciple that the Silver Priests tasked him to find. The Silver Priests were not joking with him.