Grand Ancestral Bloodlines
chapter-1847

1847 Helplessness

Ryu looked down and found that there was an invisible clash going on below. He stood high above a no man's land, and it seemed that no one would easily come to attack him. But at the same time, he wasn't the only one in this no man's land either.

The Luminara Clan members that had fallen out were in the same region as him. The only difference was that one was above while the other was below. Ryu was high in the skies, and they were prostrated on the ground, unable to withstand the pressure, and clearly not having gained much of anything from the Holy World.

Dao Sovereign Aerendil of the Luminara Clan was the first person that Ryu made eye contact with. The man didn't seem to have any expression on his face at all, but the momentum he was giving off was something akin to a keg that was about to burst.

He looked like he wanted to kill Ryu more than anyone else, but when Ryu met his gaze, he grinned.

"Sovereign, you don't have to worry, the twins are still alive, and I have them here. I will protect them with my life."

There was nothing wrong with Ryu's words, but the moment Aerendil heard them, it was like he had been plunged into a bucket of ice water. He was suffocated as he realized that he had neglected a very important point.

Ryu had hostages.

Trying to use the situation to kill him was the pinnacle of stupidity, and it felt more ridiculous than anything else. One couldn't help but be left speechless by the actions of the Sovereigns and Lords of this world.

Ryu felt that they were truly too… stupid.

Maybe it couldn't be said that Ryu had a lot of experience with fighting against intelligent people. But at the very least, there were some that weren't outright morons.

And yet, when he thought about it, he couldn't seem to stop running into idiots in this world. How many? There were simply too many to count at this point. Other than the Fey Sovereign, the rest felt like they had room temperature IQ.

This idiot just tried to kill him while he had two of their best geniuses in his possession. And he also didn't believe that he didn't know this, because Ryu had kidnapped them days ago and had even allowed many of their army to escape to report this matter. It was meant to be an extra layer of security for him.

But this was maybe the problem with basing everything you did on strategy and not the larger fist. It was precisely because of this problem right here.

Scheming against someone who was intelligent was easy. Scheming against someone who was a fool was also easy.

Scheming against someone who was sometimes a fool and sometimes not was the most difficult because you never knew which head they were going to use to think next.

Would it be their actual head? Or would their thoughts come from their ass this time?

"But, I have to say that my heart's turned a bit cold," Ryu continued, shaking his head from high above. "While I was working hard for the Real Plane, these two led an army to try and kill me. I'm not entirely sure why, as I never attacked them myself. It wasn't even until after the fact that I realized that they weren't Fiends, and I was shocked.

"I assumed that they went rogue and acted on their own, and it's also not my place to discipline members of your Clan, so I only captured them.

"Regardless, the Heavens seem to have eyes, and they've suffered enough. I assume that if they didn't ruin their own Karma by attacking me like they did, after everything they've contributed to the Holy World, they would certainly be in a position to get at least a small bit of these Holy Blessings. Unfortunately, it seems that I must carry this burden alone."

Ryu spoke solemnly, but every word he said only made Aerendil more and more infuriated. By the end, the calm man looked as though he might try to suffocate and crush Ryu all on his own. His own subordinates didn't dare to get close for fear that their own souls might explode under the pressure.

At that moment, laughter came from the Fiend side. A Sovereign who stood at over 20 meters tall and had a hammer as thick as a large hill on his shoulder boomed.

He was Sovereign Galadriel of the Dark Fiends.

However, before he could say anything, Ryu looked toward him as well before he took out Lichen's corpse and waved it around.

"Unfortunately for the Fiends, I don't have a habit of saving their kind. I can take this corpse as a trophy, though.

"I've seen through his Fate. It seems like he's ranked 96th, something or another, on some trashy list. Honestly, I can't say that I remember killing him, he was just another one in the army and I also didn't realize until afterward who he was.

"It's a shame. I thought that when I finally became a Sky God and could battle it out with you Fiends that you'd have some good competition waiting for me. I didn't expect that this so-called competition would actually be so pathetic."

The Fiend Race froze.

They didn't even react to Ryu's words at first, all they saw was the corpse. It wasn't until afterward that they came to hear exactly what it was that Ryu was saying.

And the shame of it was that Ryu really wasn't lying. He couldn't remember killing Lichen because it wasn't him. With the sensitivity of these experts, they could easily tell when someone was being genuine or not, and the helplessness in Ryu's eyes only made them all the more infuriated.

"DIE!"

"STOP!"

Galadriel swung down his hammer, and Aerendil immediately moved to stop him. How could he allow Ryu to die like this when his geniuses were in his hands?

Ryu grinned as though it was all going according to plan, a light twinkling in his eyes.