Chapter 654: Chapter 654: The Priestess’s Charms (30)

The original owner’s story is actually not much to talk about.

It’s just a tale of a young and ignorant girl who got trafficked and eventually trained into a chess piece.

“I somehow feel…” Lingji hesitated to continue.

“What?”

Chuzheng was still leaning against him, her lips brushing his cheek, too close for comfort, causing Lingji’s face to redden even more.

Lingji whispered, “The person you’re talking about… isn’t like you.”

The girl in her story was naive and timid and had never seen the outside world.

But she…

Wasn’t like that.

“Because I…”

Beep–

[Little sister, please don’t break the rules~] King’s Account’s voice cheerfully reminded.

“People grow up.” Chuzheng corrected herself, “Haven’t you heard the stories of growing up overnight? I am different. I’m like someone who’s been replaced; however, Bastard won’t let me tell you.”

Lingji was a bit puzzled, “But, it shouldn’t be possible to…”

Chuzheng’s tone turned colder, “Don’t you believe me?”

When his own words were thrown back at him, Lingji pursed his lips and said, “I believe you.”

“Good.”

Pushing down the doubts in his heart, Lingji changed the subject, “Why does the Ye Family want to slaughter the city?”

Maoling City wasn’t very big and was in a remote location.

Why would Ye Shuliang want to slaughter such a city?

“How would I know.” Ye Shuliang wouldn’t possibly have told the original owner.

“Is the Magic Array outside Maoling City a Dark Series Magic Array?”

Chuzheng thought for a moment, “Mhm.”

Lingji seemed to have realized something, “I’ll be back soon. You stay in Qingfeng Hall and don’t go out. Wait for me to return.”

Lingji kissed Chuzheng on the face and hurriedly left.

Was Chuzheng someone who would obediently listen?

The fact proved–she was not.

No sooner had Lingji left than Chuzheng followed right behind.

–

Night fell.

Because of the Dark Series Magician incident, Penghua City had a curfew, forbidding people from wandering the streets at night, which made Penghua City extremely quiet.

Chuzheng made her way to the vicinity of the Ye Family.

The entire Ye Family seemed especially quiet, barely showing a few lights.

After searching for a while, Chuzheng finally saw a few members of the Ye Family.

They left the Ye Family in a hurry, with an air of urgency, not knowing what they were up to.

Chuzheng couldn’t find Ye Shuliang and returned, somewhat disappointed.

“Hurry up!”

Just as Chuzheng was leaving an alleyway, two people bumped into her head-on.

Upon spotting someone, they initiated an attack immediately.

Dark Series Magic rushed towards her, causing Chuzheng’s brow to twitch slightly.

Fellow travelers, huh!!

Chuzheng dodged the attack, stepped forward swiftly, and grabbed one of their arms, flinging him against the wall.

Chuzheng did not use magic, but engaged in close combat, which for Magicians, who are best suited for long-range power output, was a fatal attack strategy.

Two Dark Series Magicians were laid out on the ground by Chuzheng.

Dark Series Magician “…”

Where the hell did this one come from?

They even lost the fight!

No!

She actually didn’t use any magic!

Chuzheng crouched down and eyed them, “What are you doing?”

Dark Series Magician: “???”

They had just used Dark Series Magic, why wasn’t this person surprised at all?

One of the Dark Series Magicians glared at Chuzheng angrily and asked viciously, “What do you want to do?”

“I’m asking you what you are doing.”

“What do you want to do?”

“…”

In the dark alley, three people stared at each other wide-eyed.

Chuzheng tied up the two men. She looked in the direction from which they had come; there was a residence that seemed unremarkable.

But Chuzheng smelled the scent of blood.

From such a distance, the fact that the stench was discernible could only mean it was incredibly strong.

After pondering for a moment, Chuzheng rose and made his way to the mansion.

The mansion’s gates were tightly shut. Chuzheng climbed over the wall to get inside, where he found many people strewn about lying in pools of blood. Their eyes were wide open, as if still lingering with terror, seemingly unable to believe they had died just like that.

Chuzheng hugged his arms close.

It was a bit frightening to encounter such a scene in the dead of night.

Chuzheng made a round through the entire mansion.

There were only corpses, not a single living soul.

Chuzheng: “…”

This was a massacre!

Those two Dark Series Magicians were quite something!

Chuzheng climbed back over the wall and returned to the alley he had come from.

The two Dark Series Magicians were desperately struggling to escape. When Chuzheng returned, they immediately stopped moving.

“Did you kill those people?” Chuzheng asked them calmly as he sat in the corner, his tone as if he was asking whether the moon was beautiful tonight.

“…”

The two Dark Series Magicians stared at her without saying a word.

The atmosphere in the alley fell into a sinister silence.

Finally, one of the Dark Series Magicians couldn’t hold back and threatened, “You better mind your own business. I advise you to let us go now, otherwise you’ll regret it!”

Chuzheng looked at him and said, “Do me a favor, and I’ll let you go.”

“…”

Something about this conversation seemed amiss.

The taller Dark Series Magician was suspicious, “You’ll really let us go?”

“Of course, my word is my bond,” Chuzheng assured him with a serious face.

The shorter Dark Series Magician clearly didn’t believe it and kept giving the taller one meaningful glances.

But the taller Dark Series Magician thought that since Chuzheng hadn’t hurt them earlier, perhaps she really hadn’t come to kill them.

“What do you want us to do?”

“Were those people inside killed by you?” Chuzheng nudged his chin towards the mansion that lay silent in the darkness.

“…So what if they were?”

Chuzheng’s tone was cryptic as he said, “Then that makes things easier.”

“???”

–

“Have you heard? There’s a Dark Series Magician in The Temple.”

“Impossible! How could The Temple have a Dark Series Magician!”

“I can’t just make this up; I also heard it from a patron who was at my store just now… On the day of the Qitian Priestly Ceremony, it was because of this traitor that the Priest Lord was injured. Also, have you heard about the massacre in Maoling City? They say that the culprit was that same Dark Series Magician from The Temple!”

“…No… could it be?”

The next morning, as shops opened one after another, such rumours began to circulate among the people.

“Ah!!!”

“There’s been a death–”

A person yelled as he rushed into the street, running and shouting, pointing towards the mansion behind him.

“There’s been a death!”

“There’s been a death…”

“Someone died over there!”

The crowd looked in the direction the man was pointing.

“Isn’t that the Ding Family’s place?”

“How could there be a death in the Ding Family?”

“Let’s go, let’s go see.”

Some of the braver ones went to check out the mansion together.

Before long, a group of people came running out, stumbling over each other, as pale as the first one to shout, repeating the same cries.

The Ding Family, they were all dead.

–

The Ding Family was considered a noble and reputable family with officials in high positions. They were not at the height of their influence, but they were not to be trifled with.

Yet the Ding Family had been exterminated overnight.

This news instantly overshadowed the rumors that morning about the Dark Series Magician in The Temple.

All eyes were now on the exterminated Ding Family.

The royal family sent people to investigate the Ding Family’s mansion as soon as they heard about the massacre.

Following them, various powerful factions sent their people to the Ding Family’s door one after another.

Chuzheng sat on the second floor of the teahouse, arms crossed and leaning against the back of his chair, his gaze coldly fixed in the direction of the Ding Family’s gates.