I Will Never Submit to Miss Grim Reaper - Chapter 405
Chapter 405: My Battlefield Is Not Here
The sound of crashing waves and the whistling sea breeze continuously came from the coastal Lizardman village. The tense atmosphere quickly spread to almost everyone present.
It was evident that the construction of this Lizardman village was also very backward. There wasn’t even a decent road in the village. It was all muddy paths, resulting in large puddles and potholes whenever it rained.
Moreover, since the Lizardmen didn’t seem to like wearing clothes, many of the male Lizardmen were bare-chested, wearing only skirt-like garments on their lower bodies. Compared to the neatly dressed pirates ahead, it seemed like they were from completely different eras.
It was as if… a group of adventurers had been caught in a goblin lair. For those unaware of the situation, they might even think that the pirates and two mages were being bullied by the savage Lizardmen. However, the truth was that the troublemakers were the pirates.
“Are you both junior mages?”
Seeing another mage suddenly appear holding a ball of lightning, Nida’s father stepped forward after a few moments of silence. Perhaps because both sides had been conversing in Elvish, he didn’t switch to another language.
“You are both influential figures. We… we are an exiled race, sir, surely you won’t take issue with us?”
“Enough with the nonsense.”
The so-called “Lightning Mage” casually threw the lightning ball aside, which exploded with a “boom” in a nearby muddy pit. The arcs of electricity immediately spread in all directions, striking a few unlucky Lizardmen, causing a chorus of wails and screams.
“We’ve made ourselves clear. Tell us how many people are on your island, how many villages there are, and we want that much food!”
After throwing the lightning ball, the male mage speaking looked indifferent.
“Besides food, you must also hand over all your weapons, gold, and silver…”
“Why should we?”
A lizard that had been inexplicably shocked shouted out from behind.
“Do you really think there’s no one left among the Dragon Clan? As soon as Tam leaves, you come to rob us. Asking for food is one thing, but weapons? And money? What do you take us for?”
“Are you trying to threaten me with the Dragon Clan?”
The mage’s face instantly darkened. “Though I admit Tam’s strength is formidable, with the two of us mages here, even if she came, would she really turn against me for the sake of you lizards?”
Ah… does this mean the negotiation has broken down?
Protected by Nida and the lizardmen, I stood in the center of the crowd, carefully observing the humans ahead.
Unexpectedly, the fierce-looking lizardmen I encountered in this other world became my friends, while the first humans I met turned out to be villains.
The pirates’ ships anchored on the shore were somewhat outdated. Logically, their strength should be concentrated in individuals, but… for some reason, even the two “junior mages” highly regarded by Nida’s father didn’t seem very strong to me.
At least, judging by the lightning ball thrown by the “junior lightning mage,” his strength was less than one ten-thousandth of Xiao Mo’s, and that was just a clone of Xiao Mo.
Xiao Mo often bullied me, and this month she frequently demonstrated her abilities to me. During our honeymoon, she even made me participate in several “chase” combat drills with her.
Even in training mode, Xiao Mo’s magical prowess far exceeded that of these two mages. I could sense it: their magical use, the oppressive aura of their magic… none of it was very strong.
The pirates around us wore very ordinary clothes, possibly because of their long years at sea, exposed to the sun and rain every day. Their clothes were mostly faded and many were tattered. Such “pirate attire” would be typical NPC outfits in a game, and the same went for the lizardmen around me.
And although the two junior mages wore mage robes, which were different from the tattered pirate clothes, due to the limited productivity in this other world, spices and dyes were relatively rare. The colors of the two mages’ robes were very plain, reminiscent of ancient Shenzhen City.
In ancient times, natural dyes were scarce, either undiscovered or difficult to produce. Yellow became a symbol of imperial power, and common people’s clothes were only in more common colors or drab gray.
The mage robes of these two mages gave me that same impression—they could have been made very luxurious, but due to cost and productivity, the finished product was quite ordinary.
So… wearing my luxurious Lolita dress, I looked like a “player who bought the latest fashion in a game CG or cutscene,” while the game NPCs were in rags and tatters, and I was in a sailor-style Lolita dress or a bunny maid outfit.
“We’re not negotiating with you. This is an order. You have ten minutes to get everything ready. If you don’t bring the items here in ten minutes, we’ll take them ourselves.”
As more and more Lizardmen gathered around, the lightning mage shifted his gaze to me.
“Also, what’s the deal with the little girl over there? Who is she? A royal princess?”
Ah… well, when you put it that way, it seems plausible.
I thought quietly to myself.
Xiao Mo did say she built a massive empire in “Grandis,” and the center of power for its “royalty” was “Diwu.” Xiao Mo also said that my authority in that country surpassed hers. Over hundreds of years, she had trained the people there to believe “Diwu’s orders are everything,” and she herself was just a “little maid dressing Queen Diwu.”
“Nice to meet you.”
Seeing that I was being addressed directly, I had no choice but to step out from among the Lizardmen.
“My name is Diwu. I come from a distant empire and ended up here due to a mistake in using teleportation magic. I’m sorry for causing trouble.”
“Diwu?”
The mage speaking frowned. “That does sound like a royal name. You’re not from Stan City, are you?”
Stan City?
“No, I’m not.”
I shook my head, trying to appear as gentle as possible. “I just met everyone here.”
“You don’t find your own lie ridiculous?”
The mage holding a fireball stepped forward. “A mistake in using teleportation magic? Do you know where this is? This is the most remote ‘Land of Exile’ in Grandis. Thousands of years ago, one of the Twelve Heroes, Momo, cast an anti-magic curse here. No magic targeting this place works. What kind of powerful teleportation magic do you have? Tell me about it.”
I have no idea what you’re talking about!
I was really teleported here by Xiao Mo’s spatial curse!
The “anti-magic barrier” of the Land of Exile isn’t like some weird magical girl game where the magical girl fights an evil organization, enters and finds she can’t use magic, triggering a defeat CG. It’s a “magic restriction” based on logic and space, and its range is vast. It seems to encompass not just the island but the surrounding seas as well.
The barrier’s only function is to block all magical connections between its inside and outside. Any magic cast from the inside targeting the outside, or from the outside targeting the inside, is ineffective.
Of course, if you use magic within the barrier, like the lightning mage did just now, throwing a lightning ball targeting a puddle on the island, the barrier doesn’t activate.
Back when Xiao Mo set up this anti-magic barrier, her purpose was likely to prevent the exiled Lizardmen from escaping and causing trouble for the allied forces, or to stop any spies from the demon army from using teleportation magic to enter the Land of Exile and create chaos.
By a twist of fate, my body was created by Xiao Mo’s forbidden curse, and the magic that teleported me from Earth to this other world was also a forbidden curse. The anti-magic barrier of the Land of Exile is also a forbidden curse. Combining these three forbidden curses resulted in an error, and here I am.
This is the only reason I can think of.
“Little girl, you are indeed very suspicious.”
Seeing that I didn’t respond immediately, the fire mage raised his fireball.
“Judging by your outfit, it’s clear you’re not an ordinary person, yet you deliberately spout nonsense about being teleported to the Land of Exile. Are you trying to get some information from me? After all, everyone knows this place was designated a forbidden area by that great person.”
I instinctively asked, “You know Momo?”
“Of course.”
The fire mage’s lips twitched. “The most powerful and terrifying top-tier lightning curse master, the undisputed strongest in Grandis. Although she has rarely been seen since the Demon King was sealed hundreds of years ago, her empire remains the strongest in Grandis. Surely you know that much, right?”
Actually, I don’t know much about it.
Seeing that the two mages seemed to be shifting their focus onto me, I quietly reached into my pocket and grasped the magatama Xiao Mo had given me. I wasn’t sure exactly what it did, but since Xiao Mo said to use it in an emergency, facing the threat of these two mages probably counted as an emergency, right?
“If you dare lay a hand on her, from today, there will be no more Cote Pirates in this world.”
Just as Nida’s father hesitated about whether to speak up for me, the sky, which had been slightly lit by the early morning light, darkened again. A majestic female voice echoed from above everyone—
In an instant, all elements of sunlight, clouds, and lightning in the sky vanished. Following that, a gigantic blood-red moon hung high in the sky.
It was the first time I had seen such a scene— the sea, a blood-red moon, and a pitch-black sky. Adding to that, a few bats occasionally flying by gave the atmosphere of an ancient, haunted castle.
“Who!”
The two mages instinctively turned their heads towards the direction of the voice from above. The next second, upon seeing the approaching figure, they both collapsed to the ground with a thud, their voices trembling—
“Gwendolyn, the strongest vampire under Momo, one of the Twelve Heroes. Why… why is she here?”
“Phew… we made it in time.”
Another voice of relief followed, and the two mages looked in another direction—
“Vivi, the strongest undead, known as the ‘Queen of Slaughter’ under Momo’s command. Why… why is she here too?”
“Why are you guys so fast? Wait for me! I want to see Queen Diwu, Queen Diwu yay yay yay…”
“Ophelia, the top demon assassin, hailed as the strongest demon in the ancient wars. Why even she…”
“Boss, we were just robbing a few Lizardmen. Did we commit a cosmic crime or something?”
“……”
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