Imperial Crown.

Chapter 611 My Special Skill
"Raven!!!"

"You terrifying demon!!!" "Man-eating evil spirit!!!" "Utterly wicked scum!!!" "Come at me, release my sister!"

Judd struggled to his feet and roared. His eyes were wide, his teeth clenched, his fleshy face contorted in a ferocious grimace, and the veins on his neck bulged, revealing the terror he felt and the immense courage he was displaying. This was the same guy who had bet with Vesdon at the Dragonbreath Tavern years ago on who could eat more gold coin burgers. It must be said, this guy wasn't just a burly fellow; he still harbored a certain ferocity. The other three, however, were in no better shape, already cowering with fear, not even daring to exchange a glance with Raven.

"Oh, oh, oh," "Don't get excited," "I think you misunderstood me."

Raven flashed a wicked smile, revealing his red teeth and white teeth. "I invited you here so that you could reunite with your grandfather."

"My grandfather isn't dead?!" Jade and the others immediately looked at Raven with hopeful eyes. As long as their grandfather was alive, things would be much easier; he would definitely save them at any cost. It made sense; their grandfather, a sixth-tier expert who personally led an army of over 20, how could he be easily defeated by Raven? The rumors and Savannah's words were indeed unreliable.

“Of course he’s not dead.” Raven nodded. “I have a special skill that can grant someone immortality. It just comes at a tiny price.” As he spoke, Raven raised his hand to stop the questions that the others were eager to ask. “Wait a minute, let me ask your grandfather’s opinion first.”

Raven immersed his spiritual energy into the blood ring and explained the situation outside to Ferdinand. Although the blood ring could convert spiritual energy into a soul form, it couldn't release Ferdinand or allow him to perceive anything outside. Simply put, it merely condensed his extraordinary, vast spiritual energy into an energy bead, making it convenient for Raven to absorb. Once removed from the blood ring, Ferdinand's soul would soon dissipate completely. Just like Gangdu, who assassinated him years ago, those blood beads weren't absorbed into the blood ring in time and quickly turned back into blood, seeping into the ground.

"..."

Ferdinand was caught in a deep dilemma. He didn't doubt the truthfulness of Raven's words. After all, at their level, lying was pointless. In a battle between two armies, such a lie would only make both sides fight to the death, offering almost no benefit. Why did Ferdinand immediately guess that Vesdon was a traitor? Because when Raven mentioned imprisoning his family, he chose to believe him. After all, Akori's unusual behavior and the various strange occurrences in the capital forced him to believe! Since he had already chosen to believe, following the clues, it wasn't difficult to guess that Vesdon was the traitor in the counter-espionage plot. Was it that hard to guess? Not to mention the current situation... He had already been defeated by Raven and become a lost soul... Raven had even less reason to deceive him.

However, Ferdinand's hesitation and indecision were interpreted by Raven as disbelief. Without a word, Raven punched down, blasting one of the men next to Jade into a blood bead. He then absorbed the blood bead and the silver bead into his blood ring. Immediately, the soul of another person appeared within the blood ring's space.

"Grandpa?" "Grandpa!!!" Kolima blinked, not quite understanding what was happening, when he saw his most doting grandfather, Pei Dinan. He exclaimed with delight, "It really is you!" Before he could finish speaking, he rushed over, wanting to hide in Pei Dinan's arms. However, something terrifying happened: he actually "crawled" over Pei Dinan.

"What...what happened?" Korima's reaction time was unusually slow. She still hadn't realized that she was dead.

"Raven!" "You!!!!!!!!!!"

The moment Ferdinand saw his grandson, Korima, with his own eyes, he was furious. He never imagined that Raven would so ruthlessly kill his grandson after he had only hesitated for a moment! He pointed at the sky above the Blood Ring and roared, then his expression changed: "Hate!" "Raven!!!" "I choose Hate!!!" He couldn't hesitate any longer and hastily made this difficult decision.

This time, however, Raven didn't need to speak. Kolima, standing to the side, said with a sob in his voice, "Grandpa, Second Uncle wasn't arrested." He seemed to belatedly realize his situation.

"what?!"

Kolima's reminder filled Ferdinand with mixed feelings of joy and sorrow. Of course, the "surprise" outweighed the joy. Hate was one of his sons, and also Judd's father. He had thought his own son had been captured as well. "Raven!" "Just let my family go." "Gold coins," "Combat skills," "Even the laws," "I can give you everything!" "Just like you said." "We have no past grudges or present animosity." "And we've gotten along very well in the capital." "..."

Ferdinand kept rambling on... trying to strike a deal with Raven. He completely forgot that he was already a fish on the chopping block, having lost all bargaining power.

Seeing that Raven was ignoring him for a long time, Ferdinand paused for a moment and could only sigh, "Then I choose Judd!"

Raven remained silent, simply withdrawing his mental energy from the Blood Ring. He then walked step by step to Judd, pinched Judd's chin, straightened his head, and asked, "You should know Vesdon, right?"

Judd nodded frantically, "Not only do we know each other, but we were also good buddies in the academy!" "He...he...he..." Judd originally wanted to talk about how Vesdon had insulted Raven and Denise in the academy. But after thinking about it, he didn't know how to explain it, so he could only change his words to: "He was very poor during his time at the academy, and I helped him out quite a few times."

Raven sighed inwardly upon hearing this. He had overestimated Judd. He had thought Judd would tell the truth. In the end, it turned out he was just making things up to save his own life. If he were truly on good terms with Vesdon, Vesdon wouldn't have brought him all the way here, bound and gagged.

Raven straightened Judd's head, which had been drooping again, and then slapped him across the face.

"what--"

Helpless screams and wails suddenly filled the room.

The sudden death of Kolima had already completely shattered their nerves. But now, with Judd's head spinning 360 degrees, they felt utterly hopeless!

"I told you so." "I'll get the 'first' good show!"

"Raven said calmly. However, he deliberately emphasized the word 'first'," he said.

"Original..." "So it was this 'leader'."

Nevertheless, Judd did not die immediately. He coughed up blood and spoke intermittently, his eyes gleaming with a hazy, unfocused light.

Seizing the opportunity, Raven used the same trick again, putting his soul into the Blood Ring.

"Thunder!!!!!!!!! Wen!!!!!!!!!!"

The moment Ferdinand saw Judd's soul, he was consumed by a frenzied, helpless, and agonizingly impotent rage.

"Now," "Do you understand how I feel?"

Raven's voice rang out indifferently from within the Blood Ring. "When you killed my second-generation transcendents, did you ever imagine this day would come?" Raven's voice grew colder. "Don't rush, Ferdinand. Your painful days are yet to come."

After doing all this, Raven finally felt a little better.

Withdrawing his mental energy, Raven said to Savannah, "Take these three people to Venice."

"Are you leaving already?" Savannah leaned closer, wrapping herself around Raven like a snake.

Raven was unaware of her little scheme. However, with three other people in the room, she felt a little uneasy. Raven gave her a light kiss on the lips and softly comforted her, "Just bear with it a little longer," he said. "Everything will be over soon."

Raven then projected his spirit into the castle, where Eric and Hu Xia were busy entertaining the nobles of all ranks residing in the city. Clearly, it wasn't suitable as an anchor point. Raven had to switch targets; Link and the Hyena were also busy, having been taken by Thor to search for nobles on the border of the North Sea Province.

Raven shook his head somewhat helplessly. While his own martial soul could help him traverse space, it was undeniably too troublesome. Of course, this was also because Raven didn't want to reveal his abilities in public. Firstly, he was cautious. Secondly, although traversing space was no longer a secret during his battle with Ferdinand, at least others wouldn't easily figure out the pattern. Finally, Raven didn't want to frighten others. After all, everyone has a right to privacy.

To be honest, after dawdling for a while, Raven was already considering flying back himself. After all, Cambrie County was right on the edge of the North Sea Province, and also the border between the North Sea and Nord. It wouldn't take him long to fly back.

After much thought, only one person seemed suitable: Chirp Chirp Linga. Raven could only project his martial spirit onto Chirp Chirp Linga's head once more. But at this moment, he was with Igni, the two chatting and laughing about something… and what surprised Raven most was that Igni was unusually shy, her two plump, strong legs tightly pressed together. She looked like a young girl in the throes of first love. Raven, being an upright man, naturally wouldn't pry into other people's privacy. After listening for a while, he discovered it was all just meaningless chatter.

"I wonder where Lux has run off to." That girl is no pushover either; the situation is turbulent and fraught with danger. Raven has been worried about her. Thinking this, Raven projected his spirit power towards Lux.

But the next moment.

A blindingly bright light appeared in Raven's vision. The light wasn't black, purple, or gold; it was a pure white, unbearably dazzling. It was as painful as staring intently at welding torches. Raven quickly squeezed his eyes shut, deactivating his martial spirit. What was that?!
Lord of Light?

Raven was somewhat uncertain and still a little shaken. He only vaguely saw an outline. But it really looked like the statue of the Lord of Light in the church. The feeling was similar to the oppressive feeling he had when he saw the Elf Empress.

I rely on...

He's not dead yet... He really exists??

Raven had always thought Lux's devotion to the Lord of Light was due to excessive brainwashing. He thought her devotion wasn't for nothing. Turns out, he'd been too deeply influenced by atheism, his thinking too narrow and prejudiced.

Why didn't this happen when he used his martial spirit to spy on Savanna? Was it because Savanna's cultivation level was too low? Or was it for some other reason? But Raven dared not try again. Fortunately, he was already at the fifth rank. If he were still at the fourth rank, that one glance would probably have been enough to shatter his martial spirit.

There are just too many mysterious forces on the continent of Miders.

Raven suppressed his thoughts and could only change his target. This time, he finally found a suitable target who existed alone—Bai Yue. Bai Yue was cultivating in her room. Raven had witnessed the little wolf girl's diligence. Since she arrived, she rarely interfered in various matters, and rarely communicated with others, even ignoring Raven. Occasionally, she would go out for a walk to clear her mind, but she would only do so alone; the rest of the time, she would silently cultivate.

Without a second thought, Raven tore open a rift in the void and traversed through it.

……

inside the room.

Raven and Bai Yue looked at each other in bewilderment.

Bai Yue sat cross-legged on the bed and saw Lei Wen suddenly appear in her room. A hint of doubt was clearly hidden in her foxy eyes. But she remained calm, showing no surprise, and simply looked at Lei Wen without saying a word. She seemed to be waiting for Lei Wen to give her an explanation.

Ever since witnessing the entire battle between Raven and Ferdinand and witnessing Raven's true strength, Bai Yue felt a strange sense of urgency. She didn't know where this urgency came from, but it undoubtedly strengthened her resolve and motivation to cultivate. Bai Yue kept trying to convince herself that this urgency might stem from her desire to avenge Raven's murder of her father. But her true feelings told her otherwise. That's why Bai Yue was so conflicted. She wasn't very old, and there were many things she couldn't fully understand on her own.

Raven, with one hand behind his back and a slight smirk on his lips, struck what he thought was a very cool and stylish pose as he strode towards Bai Yue with the Heavenly Gang Steps. He said seriously, "Your way of cultivating won't work." "I have a more efficient method." "Would you like to try it?"

"Oh"

Bai Yue responded with a faint "yes".

"Huh?" Raven felt a little strange seeing the little wolf girl's aloofness. After all, he hadn't known her well back in the Orc Empire, only meeting her a few times. He had been grateful for her kindness in coming all this way to support him. Seeing the little wolf girl's disbelief, Raven didn't waste any time. He took out a fifth-tier magic core, crushed it with a snap of his fingers, and then extracted the essence of the corrupted soul from the vast elemental source like a river, placing it into a crystal bottle. He then split the pure elemental energy within the magic core in two, placing one half over Bai Yue's head and absorbing the other half into his own body.

If he remembered correctly, the little wolf girl should be cultivating the void element. She had used void combat techniques when she tried to assassinate him. The reason she was stuck at the second tier was because the void element was extremely rare. Like the lightning element, although its combat power was terrifying, it was extremely difficult to advance and break through.

Raven happened to have obtained a fifth-tier Void Magic Core from Adjani's ring. Even if he had a sixth-tier Void Magic Core, given Raven's greedy and stingy nature, he would absolutely not have been willing to part with it. However, even though it was only a fifth-tier core, the Void element it contained was vast and boundless. Without Raven's help, the second-tier wolf girl would have immediately shattered her Qi Seed. With Raven's current physique, absorbing a fifth-tier core was naturally a piece of cake. He divided his half in two again, using one part to strengthen his physical body and the other to absorb into the magic vortex as magic power. After all, Raven's extraordinary realm had already broken through to the fifth tier, seventh star, while his mage realm remained at the fifth tier, first star. His extraordinary realm, having progressed later, had already far surpassed that of a mage.

Raven had planned ahead: the Blood Ring would be used to replenish his battle aura, and the Eye of Truth would be used to replenish his magic power. The two needed to be balanced, and more importantly, they needed to be used simultaneously.

After swallowing the void element in one gulp, Raven released a large amount of his mental power and began to concentrate on manipulating the other half of the void element to strengthen Bai Yue's physical body and infuse him with battle qi.

As a continuous stream of void elements poured into Bai Yue's body, her watery eyes flashed with shock. Without Raven's instruction, she began to absorb it on her own.

These void elements were also split in two by Raven, whose eyes emitted a dazzling golden light. One part was slowly poured into Bai Yue's fighting spirit seed, while the other part was slowly tempering Bai Yue's physical body.

"Well"

Forty minutes later, a faint moan escaped Bai Yue's cherry lips. With only half of her fifth-tier magic core's worth of void element remaining, she was already at the point of attempting to break through to the third-tier transcendent realm! This was because she wasn't far from the third tier to begin with, only about 2-3 stars away from achieving it. Therefore, she was prepared, taking out a potion and swallowing it. A deep, star-like radiance erupted from her body. A gust of demonic wind swept through the room, causing everything inside to rattle and clang. Raven's clothes also billowed in the wind.

boom--

The next moment, a powerful surge of energy erupted from her body. She had successfully broken through to the third tier.

Raven continued to draw void elements into her body, simultaneously boosting her battle aura and tempering her physical form.

More than an hour passed, and Bai Yue finally couldn't take it anymore. But the little girl was stubborn. She would rather groan in pain than ask to stop. It seemed like this was her way of giving in to Raven. Raven saw through her act and devoured all the remaining void elements.

Bai Yue's cultivation level had reached the third tier, second star. Her entire face was flushed red, and she was covered in sweat, though it didn't smell very good. Her wet white hair clung to her cheeks and collarbone, making her look incredibly charming.

The two locked eyes for a moment, then Bai Yue seemed hesitant and looked away first, avoiding their gaze.

"Tsk," Raven thought to himself, regretting that otherwise he would have really wanted to pay tribute to the senior Xu Xian.

But Bai Yue was clearly unwilling.

"Ahem," Raven coughed lightly, "Shall I be going then?"

"Um"

Bai Yue nodded slightly. After strengthening her physique, she was now itchy all over and eager to take a bath. Therefore, she didn't want to keep Raven any longer.

But to Raven, Bai Yue was so cold. She didn't even say thank you. He wasn't so shameless as to turn and leave. Seemingly sensing Raven's displeasure, Bai Yue stood up and saw him to the door.

However, as soon as the door opened, a cry of "Ouch!" was heard.

Pan burst in from outside. "Don't kill me!" "I didn't hear anything!" "May you two have a baby soon!"

Bai Yue: ……

Raven: ...

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(End of this chapter)