After Crossing Through Ten Worlds, I Failed To Run Away

hadn’t dared call Ji Ning this way – his own family had been in decline for a long time and although the marriage contract was still in place, it was in name only.
When he entered the Ji family, although he was Ji Ning’s marriage partner, he held no status at all.

Aware of his identity, he never asked for anything and didn’t dare violate the rules in any way.
Unlike him, Ji Ning was the pride of the entire clan, he was a once in a lifetime cultivation genius in full bloom.
When he first met Ji Ning, Ying Qianqiu hadn’t even dared to look at his face.

 

“Why don’t you look up? Are you so afraid of me?”

At the time he had bowed his head and stood frozen.
He heard the boy’s dissatisfied scolding before his jaw was lifted, and his vision was filled with fiery red. 

The red clothed boy was high-spirited, unrestrained, and prideful.
He squinted at him with a beautiful, haughty expression, as if arrogance was his birthright.

Ying Qianqiu was still a young man at the time.
Faced with such a beautiful fiance, his heart was sent into a mess.
It was inevitable that he would feel a little shy but on the surface he still had to abide by etiquette and bowed respectfully, saying.

“…don’t dare.”

“You say you don’t dare, what don’t you dare? Do you not dare look at me, or do you not dare be afraid of me?” 

Faced with such cautiousness, the young boy was even more irritated and walked away, “I’m so scary? The children of the side branch dare not get close to me for fear of offending me, and now even you treat me like this…”

“No…”

Ying Qianqiu panicked when the young man turned to leave, grabbing his sleeve without thinking.
He felt a stutter in his heart for making such a rude action.

But unexpectedly, the young boy laughed instead of getting angry, and turned to look at Ying Qianqiu with curved eyes. 

“That’s right, you don’t have to act restrained in front of me, and you don’t have to worry about being bullied.
I’ll protect you.”

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Already startled, Ying Qianqiu heard the boy say, “My family calls me Xiaoxiao and everyone else calls me Ning Lang Jun. You can also call me Xiaoxiao.”

But the person he once called Xiaoxiao was no longer here.

The silver haired man’s eyes were empty as he gently lifted the boy’s body off the altar.
Yun Dao followed him with the cub as they walked back through the caves. 

Lying in the girl’s arms, Ji Ning was ready to finally see the sun again after spending so much time inside the dark cave.
He worried his eyes would feel uncomfortable from the bright light and was about to close them, when he saw that the sky outside the cave was dark, shadowed by a faint blood mist.

Ji Ning’s eyes widened, unprepared for such a shocking sight.
They stood on the edge of a large mountain, a city at their feet, but instead of the bustling sight he had expected, there was a heavy aura of death, the city walls dyed red with blood.

The bones in the cave had only been a small proportion of the destruction.
The whole mountain was piled high with the remains of both humans and beasts.
Even the trees had withered, their life drained away.

In some places there were beasts, left barely alive, struggling to crawl out from the pile of corpses, fleeing in panic.
Ying Qianqiu and Yun Dao did not attempt to stop them. 

“Let’s move on to the next one…”

The girl whispered softly, gazing at the devastation around her.

 

At this moment, Ji Ning felt an uncomfortable sickness.
Curling up, he quickly fell once again into unconsciousness.

When he next opened his eyes, he found he had actually returned to the hotel room, back in Gu Chen’s world. 

“Awake?”

Herinos sat next to him with a smile.
Ji Ning was dazed for a moment, the last thing he could remember was getting drunk at the celebration meal.
He asked in a hoarse voice, “I’m…?”

“You got drunk last night and wouldn’t wake up.
I brought you back here.
Who would have thought you’d sleep until noon?”

Herinos stroked his hair and said gently, “It seems you’ve been working hard these days, it’s good you can rest now.
I’ll call for lunch, what would you like to eat?” 

“…Anything.”

Ji Ning had just returned from another world and wasn’t quite sure what was going on, making his reactions a little slow.
He carefully got off the bed and said, “I’ll go and wash first.”

“Okay.”

Ji Ning staggered over to the bathroom.
Having learnt his lesson with Huo Wuling last time, he didn’t dare close the door and left it wide open. 

He checked the mirror carefully to make sure there was nothing unusual, before washing his face quickly.
As he was drying his face, his terminal made a light beep sound, indicating that someone had sent him a message.

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Ji Ning glanced at his terminal and saw it was an advertisement for a game.
Usually, this kind of pop up would be filtered out by the artificial intelligence system.
Perhaps the company had paid to bypass the adblocks.

He didn’t have time for games and tried to close the popup, but not only did it not exit, it opened by itself.

His terminal cast a holographic projection into the air, elegant calligraphy spelling out the name of the game: 

‘Dark Kingdom Era’

That name…wasn’t that the name of the Western Fantasy novel he once travelled through?

Ji Ning’s heart skipped a beat and he repeatedly pressed the close button of his terminal, even going so far as to remove it and force it to shut down, but it was no use.
The projection still displayed in the air.

「In this wealthy and prosperous continent…」 

「Innumerable lives thrived off the lands…」

「The Demon Race, the Celestial Race, the Elves, the Dwarves, the Orcs, the Dragon Race, and the Human Race.」

 

「These races had their own territories and kingdoms, and lived without interfering with one another.
Until one day, the king of the demons launched a savage bloody war, plunging the continent into the boundless flames of conflict.」

「Countless lives lost created countless corpses, and for a time undead magic flourished.
You, a magical apprentice with a natural aptitude for soul magic, chose to become a necromancer during the war.
For many years you have travelled the continent and established a grand reputation.」 

「But the endless killing made you uneasy.
Despite your power, you knew that one day you would die, thus you had the idea to take on a disciple, who could take up the mantle when you are gone.」

「You took a fancy to him, a young knight from the Temple of Light, Lai.」

These lines of text flashed quickly through the air, before the figure of a young man emerged.

The boy was dressed in a valiant white knight’s uniform, his golden hair was cropped short and his blue eyes shone like gems.
With a handsome face and tall figure he looked forward with a gentle smile. 

「He was the most talented magic user you had ever seen, even greater than yourself.」

「You secretly made up your mind to snatch him away from the temple, no matter the price.」

「This time, what will you choose to do?」

The protagonists are coming hard and fast now! I know I was just gushing about Ying Qianqiu, but I Lai is also one of my personal favourites as (so far) he’s the only protagonist I’ve found that acts more shameless than Herinos! 

Any time I’m even thinking of looking at novelupdates, can one of you please slap me through the screen – why do I do this to myself, I should know I’m terrible with critisism (⌒w⌒;)