Reincarnated as a Tabby Cat: Daily Life with the School Beauty Empress

Chapter 52 Another Dimension

Yichen buried his head in her arms, his emerald green eyes fixed on her face, never looking away.

"You break the contract with me," Su Qianxue said. "After you break it, leave quickly. You're small and fast; they might not be able to catch you."

Yichen didn't move.

Tears rolled down the golden cat's face and dripped onto Su Qianxue's wrist.

This woman, even as she herself was dying, was still thinking of a way out for him.

In her previous life, when her senior sister stabbed her in the back, her contracted beast perished along with her. No one gave her contracted beast a way out.

So in this life, her first reaction was to let him go.

Yichen felt as if something had squeezed his heart tightly.

He won't leave.

Even if he can't win, he won't leave.

【Ding! 】

The system notification sound exploded in my mind.

[Congratulations, host! By sharing hardships and life-and-death experiences with your master, you have triggered the hidden achievement—Life and Death Contract!]

[Reward: Warmth Points +30000! Current Warmth Points: 31000/100000!]

[Activate Skill - Illusion Magic: Another Dimension!]

[Skill Description: Tears through space, creating an independent alternate-dimensional space. Can carry a target into this space for refuge; it is undetectable and unattackable from the outside. Can also banish beasts of the same or lower level to this space. Duration: 10 minutes. Cooldown: 24 hours.]

Yichen, the cat, was stunned for a moment.

Then all the blood in my body rushed to my head.

[An alternate dimension! Portable! Ten minutes!]

"Die."

The man in black on the left raised his palm, and a ball of earth-elemental spiritual energy, condensed to its maximum, gathered in his palm and aimed at Su Qianxue's head.

Meanwhile, another man in black also tried to kill Murong Hui!

This strike was enough to blast a sixth-level martial artist into dust, along with the ground.

The palm strike landed.

Su Qianxue closed her eyes.

She felt an overwhelming pressure closing in on her head.

[Alternate dimension, activate!]

Yi Chen's pupils changed abruptly. The irises in his emerald green cat eyes disappeared, replaced by two tiny, shimmering starlight.

His golden fur shone brilliantly for a moment.

Space has cracked.

It wasn't broken, but rather torn open by an invisible hand.

The crack appeared silently, without light or wind, and a one-meter-long black line split open beneath Su Qianxue's feet.

Su Qianxue, Murong Hui, and Yi Chen.

Just before the man in black's attack landed, the three living creatures simultaneously fell into the crevice.

boom!

Earth-elemental spiritual energy slammed into the ground. Debris flew everywhere, and dust billowed into the sky. A three-meter-deep hole appeared where Su Qianxue had been kneeling.

There was nothing inside the hole.

Where are they?!

The two men in black simultaneously scanned their surroundings. The hall was small; one could see its entirety at a glance.

nobody.

Two living people and a cat vanished into thin air.

"Where did they go?" The voice of the man in black on the left showed panic for the first time.

The one on the right was calmer. He squatted down and touched the remaining traces of spiritual energy on the ground, rubbing them between his fingers.

"Spatial abilities." He stood up. "They didn't go far, they're nearby. They used some kind of spatial folding or concealment ability to hide."

"What should we do then?"

"Indiscriminate attack. Spatial skills have range limitations; once this entire area is destroyed, they'll have nowhere to hide."

The two exchanged a glance and reached a tacit understanding.

Two Rank 10 Martial Kings and two Rank 9 Contracted Beasts, all four unleashing their full combat power, began to launch a devastating attack on the surrounding area.

Earth-elemental spiritual energy surged, the black-armored giant scorpion's tail stinger continuously pounded the ground, and the shadow leopard's dark-elemental shockwaves swept across the area one after another.

The ground began to collapse, trees were burned, and an area of ​​fifty meters in radius was leveled.

However, in the alternate dimension, Su Qianxue and Murong Hui witnessed all of this.

On the other side of the spatial rift lay the destroyed palace. They could see every move the men in black made and hear every explosion.

But those attacks couldn't penetrate the barriers of the other dimension.

Not even the slightest vibration could be transmitted.

"Where are we? Where is this?" Murong Hui sat in a pitch-black void, with nothing around her except a transparent platform with no end in sight.

She turned to look at Su Qianxue, her eyes filled with confusion.

Su Qianxue looked down at the tabby cat in her arms.

Yichen's eyes returned to their emerald green color, but the lingering glow of those two stars had not completely dissipated, and tiny specks of light would occasionally flash in his cat-like pupils.

There were still tear stains on the corners of his eyes.

"It's it." Su Qianxue's voice was hoarse. "It's its skill. A spatial skill."

"Spatial skills?!" Murong Hui's voice rose sharply; she almost jumped up in the alternate dimension. "According to the literature, only Beasts at the Mega Dream level or higher can comprehend such skills! Your cat is only at the Emperor level! How could an Emperor-level creature possibly—when did it learn it?"

Su Qianxue shook her head: "I don't know either. To this day, I still don't know just how capable my cat is."

She lowered her head and gently touched Yichen's cat head with her forehead. The golden cat fur brushed against her skin, still warm.

"Thank you." Her throat was so dry that she could only manage to squeeze out those three words.

Yichen nuzzled her chin.

Don't be shy, boss. You gave me my life. If you die, I'll be finished too. Who else should I save if not you?

He spoke lightly to himself, but his front paws gripped Su Qianxue's wrist, the tips of his claws tightening slightly, unable to loosen.

Murong Hui moved closer and reached out to pat Yichen's back: "You saved my life too. I'll buy you a fish when we get back."

"One isn't enough, at least ten, and they have to be braised." Yi Chen flicked its tail.

Outside the alternate dimension, the attack by the two men in black lasted for nearly five minutes.

The surrounding trees were reduced to rubble and dust.

They stood amidst the ruins, searching everywhere, but found nothing.

There was no corpse, no bloodstains, and no trace of residual spiritual energy.

The living person vanished.

"Impossible." The man in black on the left circled around three times. "Spatial skills have range and duration; they must still be nearby."

Before he could finish speaking, a whooshing sound came from the distant sky.

Three figures approached rapidly from the north, leaving long trails of spiritual energy behind them.

Its aura was powerful.

The expressions on the two men in black changed simultaneously.

"They're from the Murong family. Let's go!"

There was no time to search any further. The two recalled their contracted beasts, leaped into the air, and flew off in opposite directions.

A few seconds later, three figures landed in the air above the ruins.

The leader was a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing the dark gold battle robe of the Murong family, with a long sword at his waist. Behind him were two guards who were equally powerful.

"Go down and take a look. The princess's distress signal came from here."

The three landed and began searching through the ruins.

Just then, Yi Chen, inside the alternate dimension, sensed a change in the atmosphere outside. The enemy had fled, and allies had arrived.

[Rescinded.]

The spatial rift reopened.

Su Qianxue held Yichen in her arms, with Murong Hui following beside her. The three of them appeared from the void in a corner of the ruins.

"Big brother! Princess Murong is here! We've found her!" A guard spotted them immediately.

The middle-aged man rushed over and his face darkened when he saw the state of Murong Hui and Su Qianxue.

Murong Hui was alright; her spirit armor blocked most of the damage. Su Qianxue, however, was in a much worse state. There was blood at the corner of her mouth, and her pajamas on her right side were torn by pebbles, revealing a purplish-blue bruise.

The two escaped danger.