Chapter 1209: Is that it?
"Time for you to show your power." Haku said to Lin Fan after pinpointing the direction that the Mist Lord was coming from.
Lin Fan gave a nod before moving to the back of the formation with Rokuko.
Haku didn’t say anything about him moving to the back since this was where she wanted him to be at this moment. Though Haku did glare at him for a second when he moved closer to Rokuko.
Haku’s subordinates also didn’t say anything as they moved to the front of the formation as if they would act as the tanks for the full brunt of the Mist Lord’s attack.
After a while, the mist seemed to become thicker around us.
It was clear that there was something that had arrived that made the mist thicker than before.
If anything, it should be the source of the mist.
"Who are you?"
That was all that was said after the mist became thicker like this.
"Did you really think that no one would notice what you were trying to do? Do you really think that you would be allowed to do whatever you wanted? People aren’t that easy for you to mess around with."
When Haku said this, there was a strong emotion that was in her voice that was different from the way that she normally acted.
When Rokuko and Lin Fan heard this, they couldn’t help looking at Haku in a different way.
In the end, it was a fact that Haku was the empress of the Laver Empire and there was a reason why she was an empress that was so well loved by her people. The things that she did were all things that she did out of care for her people.
She was someone that took care of the people that were under her.
Though it was different when it came to Lin Fan...
Perhaps this was the true her and the other her was just one side of her that they had come in contact with.
Regardless of what it was, this wasn’t the time to be distracted by these thoughts.
So Lin Fan wiped those thoughts out of his mind as he gathered the Clear Water in the form of a mist in his hands. He was prepared to release this at the moment that it was needed.
There was a silence that followed after Haku said this, but the mist that was in the air was still becoming thicker while this silence hung in the air.
It seemed like whatever was around them was using this chance to create an area filled with mist that it controlled. It was trying to take over this place so that it would have the advantage when the fight began.
Haku looked back at Lin Fan and saw that he wasn’t worried, so she didn’t say anything as she waited for the Mist Lord to appear.
"Then why are you humans so easy to manipulate if that is the case? If you weren’t meant to provide the path for my ascension, what purpose do you humans serve?" This voice was filled with arrogance when it spoke again.
However, everyone in Haku’s group couldn’t help revealing strange looks when they heard this.
That was because all of them could tell that this voice seemed immature.
It wasn’t that the voice itself sounded immature, it was just that the way that it spoke made the owner of the voice seem immature. It was as if the owner of this voice was nothing more than a child that was throwing a tantrum.
"Then why don’t you prove that you’re better than humans." Haku said in a calm voice in response.
As soon as she said this, the mist around them seemed to change.
It seemed that this mist was concentrating on a certain point, as if it was being compressed by something. As for the point that they were gathering on, it was where Haku’s group was standing.
This move was clearly the Mist Lord trying to use the mist to do something.
Seeing this, Lin Fan had no choice but to act.
However, there was something else that was in the mist that he could see which was why he was making a move.
In fact, that one area where he saw that thing was where he was concentrating his own Clear Water mist on.
That was the place where the Mist Lord was hiding.
"What is happening? How are you doing this?" The Mist Lord’s voice was instantly filled with panic when it saw the mist that it created being pushed back. There was no maturity in this voice at all, there was only panic that a kid would have when it saw that it was being countered.
By the time that the Mist Lord could react, it found that it had been completely exposed and it landed on the ground in a daze.
Of course, Haku wouldn’t give the Mist Lord the chance to run away now that it had been exposed.
With a single wave of her hand, flames were summoned around her and it surged forward to surround the Mist Lord.
By the time that the Mist Lord even knew what was happening, it was the one that was surrounded this time.
Through the flames, they could see the true appearance of the Mist Lord.
It seemed to be curled up, but that made it even clear what this Mist Lord was.
It seemed to be some kind of armadillo.
Seeing that it was trapped, the Mist Lord said, "You dare to challenge a god?"
Then as soon as its voice fell, it started to spin in place.
While it was spinning in place, there was a mist that was released from its body.
As the source of the mist that filled these Mist Lands, it was only natural that it would be able to release this mist. However, the mist that the Mist Lord released was much thicker than any other mist that they had seen before.
But even then, it wasn’t enough to deal with Haku’s flames.
Haku’s flames were on the level of someone in the Transcendence Realm, so they weren’t that weak. Even if this Mist Lord was a real god, it didn’t mean that Haku wouldn’t be able to fight back.
So there was no need to mention this Mist Lord that was still just someone that was trying to become a god. It certainly wouldn’t be strong enough to break free from Haku’s flames.
"How is this possible? I’m about to become a god!" The Mist Lord complained while it tried to break free of Haku’s flames. Only no matter how it tried to fight back against these flames, the Mist Lord just wasn’t able to do a single thing.
It was firmly trapped inside of a cage of flames.
"Is that it?" Lin Fan couldn’t help thinking to himself when he saw how easily the Mist Lord was captured.
He thought of the pressure that he felt when he tried to approach the center of the Mist Lands and couldn’t help feeling a bit embarrassed. He thought that the Mist Lord would be able to do much more than this, but now he felt embarrassed that he had made a big deal of it.
Though thinking about it, he realized that it had only been this simple because Haku was the one that came to help.
If it wasn’t for Haku making a move, then it certainly wouldn’t have been this easy to take care of the Mist Lord.
Lin Fan had experienced the power of the Mist Lord’s mist, so he knew that he would have been able to dispel it. But even if he had dispelled it, that didn’t mean that he would have been able to capture the Mist Lord.
The Mist Lord’s mist was something that he could control, but it did take more effort than the normal mist.
He knew that if he hadn’t called Haku, then he would at most have been able to restrain the Mist Lord and wouldn’t have been able to capture it like Haku did.
So in the end, it was the right choice to call for Haku to come and deal with this Mist Lord.
At least things ended without anything unexpected happening.
After Haku trapped the Mist Lord, she used the flame cage to bring it closer to her before taking a close look at it.
When she was done observing the Mist Lord, she said, "It shouldn’t be over yet."
Lin Fan couldn’t help being surprised when he heard this before asking, "What do you mean by this?"
Haku actually answered properly for once, but it was with another question.
"You said that you felt something when you tried to approach the center of these Mist Lands, right?"
Lin Fan was confused when he heard this question, but he still gave a nod in response.
Haku looked at the Mist Lord again before saying, "Then can you feel it coming from this thing now?"
Lin Fan slowly narrowed his eyes to look at the Mist Lord before saying, "That’s just because you’re suppressing it now, isn’t it?"
Haku shook her head before saying, "No."
Lin Fan was caught off guard hearing this, but it didn’t take long for him to figure out what Haku meant by this.
"You’re saying that there’s still something left in the center of these Mist Lands?"
Haku gave a simple nod before saying, "Let’s go and see what it is. We’ll still have to decide how we handle this."