Chapter 551 - Battle Soul
Chapter 551 – Battle Soul
"Wow… so we have the same Battle Soul?" Xuan Yu asked, blinking a few times in surprise.
"Seems like it," I said. "That means we'll have to stick together from now on, though…"
Xuan Yu, hearing this, looked a bit offended.
"Um… do you not want to…?"
"Uh… no, it's just…"
I wonder how the girls will react if I tell them I have a big sister all of a sudden.
Seeing the expression on my face, my mother smiled wryly.
"What's this? Hesitant because you already have people around you?"
"Huh? Uh… maybe…?" I scratched my head awkwardly, not wanting to answer her question directly.
"Hm…" My mother narrowed her eyes, knowing her son very well, and smirked. "Well, we'll find out soon enough. Our job here is done—let's return."
"So… with this, we've stabilized the balance of Order and Chaos?" I asked, and my mother nodded.
"Essentially, you have made the relationship between Order and Chaos parallel to your relationship with Xiao Yu. As long as you and her never fight each other, Chaos and Order will also remain at peace."
"… I see…"
I glanced at Xuan Yu awkwardly, who bit her lip in nervousness. My mother, sensing the tension in the air, gave a sigh and rubbed both of our heads with her hand.
"Now, now… I know it'll take some time to adjust, Kai Kai. But she has always thought of you as her one and only little brother, so you should treat her similarly. I realize the news is very sudden, and I apologize for that, but do your best, okay?"
"… Sure," I said with a hesitant nod.
"Good. And now… let's go see your father. But before that…" My mother glanced at our 'Battle Soul', still hovering in the air. "… Give her a name, the two of you."
"A name…?"
"Yes. You can think of her as a Human Battle Soul. Wouldn't a name be appropriate?"
"That is true…" Xuan Yu murmured, falling into thought. "Oh, I know. How about… Hun Xu?"
"Hun for Chaos, Xu for Order…" I muttered. "Not bad. Not bad at all."
"Not only that, but Hun can also be used as a homophone for spirit," my mother added. "A very clever name, Xiao Yu."
"Ehehe, you overpraise me," Xuan Yu said, averting her gaze shyly.
I turned to the Battle Soul. "Are you fine with being called that?"
"I am fine with any name," she replied in a voice utterly devoid of emotion. "Things as trivial as name do not matter to me. I have none."
"Well, you're getting one now," I muttered.
"Nice to meet you, Hun Xu," Xuan Yu said with a smile. The Battle Soul, however, showed no sign of responding, and instead simply turned into a ball of energy that entered our two bodies separately.
"Woah…" I blinked in surprise at the sudden entering, but it didn't particularly hurt or have any 'feeling' to it.
"She will be your last card, you two," my mother said. "Nothing in this world can stand against her—that is how powerful she is—but beware. Using her will require both of you to be present, and just summoning her once in the Living Realm will be extremely difficult due to the lack of True Essence in the air. As such, some of your lifeforce may be expended to make up for it. Keep that in mind—only use her when absolutely necessary."
Xuan Yu and I both nodded and said, "Understood."
*****
With some effort, we arrived at back where we entered the Chaos Realm from, and exited through the same portal. Outside, the dense black aura surrounding the Chaos Core had completely disappeared, and along with it, the Core itself as soon as stepped through back to the Living Realm.
A good distance away on the rocky plains, my father, Eve, and Nael stood. As soon as they saw our figures approaching, my father rushed forward like a dashing prince, and appeared before my mother before kneeling down on one knee and taking her hand.
"… Welcome back, my queen. I have missed you dearl-"
PA!
The sound of a slap rang out in the air as my mother ruthlessly gave my father one on the cheeks, sending him falling to the side.
"… We're in front of our son and daughter, idiot. Do you want to die?"
"N-no, sorry," my father said, standing up and readjusting his clothes. "Ahem… anyway, it's good to see all of you return alive and well. Especially my daughter too… long time no see."
"Yes. Greetings, father," Xuan Yu said with a polite bow, but my mother's expression wasn't very polite as she stared at Eve.
"… So, this is the kind of people you have around you when I'm away, Xuan Ying?"
"Huh? Oh, no, this is… er…"
"Fufu… you are mistaken, Lady Qing," Eve said with a soft giggle. "I am not interested in your husband. I'd rather have a much… younger mate."
Saying that, she winked at me, and I coughed to let her know I was not feeling well and didn't want to participate in this conversation. My mother sent me a look briefly, but suddenly smiled.
"Oh, in that case, it's all fine. My son is a very charming man, isn't he?"
"Fufu, yes, he is… I am not the only one he's charmed, after all."
"Oho…" My mother tilted her head at me, one eye closed, smiling wryly. "Is that so…"
What?! Why is your attitude so different with me than my father?!
"In any case, it is good that you all are back. Let us retur-"
"Yes, yes, yes… let you return," a deep male voice suddenly interrupted, clapping his hands together slowly several times. "To hell, that is."
Immediately, all of us turned to look at the rock formations above us, and there stood an entire army of Void Order dressed cult members. They wore hoods with deep brown and yellow outfits, eye visors glaring orange.
The man leading them had a mask covering his upper right face, but the rest of his face was visible to see. He appeared quite young, but the spark in his eye showed that he was no easy enemy to face and had tons of experience.
"The Void Order…" My father narrowed his eyes and summoned his greatsword, ready for a fight.
"Hahaha! You all can use information brokers… but we can as well," the one leading them said with a nasty cackle. "Who would've thought just following you would lead us to the power we've been searching for all along?"
"… Bastards," my father muttered, but Xuan Yu and I stepped forward, completely dauntlessly.
"… We'll take care of this," we said at the same time, to my father's surprise.
Before he could even react, Xiao Yu and I both dashed into the air, and cast Legendary-Tier spells like they were nothing.
"T-This is… the strength of a… Golden Monarch?!"
"And two of them at that?!"
"Tch, I only expected one, that woman…" The leader muttered. "Not three… but whatever! We can take a few kids on! Go, men! For the Void Order!"
"For the Void Order!" The army echoed, and began to launch spells and magic-charged gunshots at us alike. But alas, that wasn't going to do anything. While Xuan Yu charged up an almighty Order attack, I absorbed all of the magic projectiles they launched at us with my Chaos Mirror. The more attacks it absorbed, the bigger and stronger it became.
"Impossible… have they already obtained the power and mastered it?!" The one leading them gritted his teeth, and I merely gave a snort.
"Fool. This power is not something you can simply 'obtain'. You are not worthy."
"What did you just say?!" The leader roared and unsheathed his weapon—a large chainsaw blade attached to his arm—but that wasn't going to do anything against us.
With a smirk, I glared him down, and spoke the final words he would ever hear.
"Die."
Xuan Yu and I nodded at one another, and she unleashed her spell—a massive explosive meteor summoned from the sky, with an immensely powerful blue trail behind it. This meteor flew through my Chaos Mirror right as I closed it, bringing along the converted powers of all those attacks the army threw at us.
Its target?
The army, of course.
BOOM!
An earthshaking explosion erupted throughout the land as the meteor struck the land, completely decimating anyone who was within range of it. The entire army was reduced to atoms in a second, and not even their ashes remained. It was as if they had never existed in the first place—the only evidence of something happening here was the massive, and I mean massive, crater that was left in the ground.
"Holy shit…" My father muttered, as my mother pinched him in the ear. "O-Ow!"
"Language," she warned, and my father hurriedly nodded in agreement.
"Yes, yes, sorry…"
Xuan Yu and I gently landed on the ground beside the crater we just made, and she smiled at me.
"That was some pretty good teamwork, don't you think?"
I nodded.. "It sure was."