BXBX NOVEL Chapter 321: Ember
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The High-Rank Monster Kings were horrified over what happened to their comrade, but more than that, they were baffled over the level of shamelessness that oozed out of the invader.
"Anyways~," Azmond began with a wide smirk before he continued, "I was just kidding about what I said earlier."
A cold gleam flashed past his eyes as he looked around at all the walking experience bags with a voracious expression.
One of the High-Rank Monster Kings immediately noticed such a disturbance as he attempted to say, "What do you mean by tha-?"
However, he couldn't even properly express his concern before
SLICE!
A black tendril cleaved through the air as it made contact with the head of the Monster King, who had just spoken up.
*Spurt!*
Red and green blood gushed out of the place where his head used to be connected!
"!?" "!?" "!?"
Everyone in the room was about to freak out and run away after witnessing such a 'spectacle', but before they could even entertain the idea...
SLICE! SLICE! SLICE!
Hundreds of black tendrils were sent in every direction as they diced up the bodies, Nascent Souls, Essence Souls, and whatever else they had protecting their lives!
The entire black chrome dome was sliced up into millions of different pieces as all the water outside came rushing in!
WHOOSH!
And just as the entire place was about to become submerged underneath trillions of pounds of water, Azmond put a soul essence barrier around the enormous dome before he lifted it up and brought it to the water surface.
OOOM!
PLOP!
The dome appeared above the water before it zipped in a direction to the north of the vast and seemingly endless ocean.
And inside the dome, Azmond stood with an indifferent countenance as he waited for the dome to reach its destination.
However
He wasn't the only one alive inside the dome.
"You spared us?" Spiritflame asked with a puzzled expression.
He didn't expect that he would've survived such an encounter after the rash attitude he displayed in the beginning, but apparently, he was proven wrong.
But what he didn't understand was why. Why would that freak spare him?
And it reached a point where he couldn't stand it anymore, as he asked, "Why did you spare me?"
Azmond looked in Spiritflame's direction before he responded, "It's because you answered my questions."
That was all he said before he looked in the direction of the other people he had 'spared', which included all the 'innocent'ish' female Monster Queen's and the gazellekin that had told him how to get to the twenty-first floor.
Hundreds of High-Rank Monster Kings had died not even a few seconds ago, but at least a few of them had survived an encounter with Azmond.
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One of the Foxkin Monster Queens looked around and noticed that she was alive before she turned her soft gaze in Azmond's direction and asked, "Why did you let us live?"
"Oh?"
Azmond looked in the direction of the Foxkin, who spoke as he recalled her information.
The Foxkin woman in question was named 'Ember'.
She had been abused and 'used' her entire life, and after thousands of years of struggling, she was able to reach a position where she could be considered to be at the top of Monster Society.
Ember had a hard life, and the only people she had ever killed were the ones that came after her first...
And, ultimately, it was due to her background that he decided to spare her life.
The rest of the Monster Queen's he spared had been through similar circumstances, which led to him sparing them as well.
However, such 'circumstances' were few and far between, as most of the Monster Queen's and King's were heinous beings who did things beyond what could be described.
All in all, Azmond had killed around 95% of all the High-Rank Monster King's and Queen's who were at the meeting, while he spared the last 5% due due to their 'extenuating circumstances'.
And though it may seem a little biased from a third-person perspective, he had not spared a single Monster King besides Spiritflame and the gazellekin.
Even then, he only spared them because of their compliance and 'unique history'; if not for that, then they would've been added to the deceased list as well.
It wasn't his fault that almost all the male Monster King's were complete @ssholes! He wasn't a simp for sparing a few Monster Queen's!
'...Am I a simp?'
He couldn't help but think over such a topic as he realized that he would be seen as nothing more than a perverted simp in the eyes of Boundless and Calista!
"This can't be" He mumbled.
Azmond's expression turned distraught, as he couldn't believe such a thing could be possible! How could he be interpreted as a simp!?
However, his self-doubt wasn't a silent one, as a certain foxkin woman overheard him.
"What can't be, sir?" Ember asked.
"Hmm?" Azmond looked toward Ember before he said, "Oh! Nothing I was just pondering the woes and abstruse concepts of Cultivation!"
He refused to get caught simping, so he used the deflection tactic, otherwise known as 'Just pin in it all on cultivation'!
"I see"
And it worked like a charm!
"..."
Nonetheless, since Ember started talking to him first, he decided to make use of that chance to ask her something he had been curious about, so that's exactly what he did:
"Ember, what is up with your system inter- Err, I mean, why can I feel some of the Nine-Tail Fox in your bloodline?"
However, hearing his words made her a little puzzled as she asked, "How do you know my name, sir?"
Her reddish-orange eyes gazed up at Azmond, as she didn't remember telling him her name.
Azmond looked down at the 5'8 foxkin woman with long red hair and eyes of the same color.
Her body was extremely 'well-endowed', as her hips were sensual, her waist was thin, and her breasts were plump and perky, with a size around E-Cup.
Nonetheless, he wasn't a simp, so he paid no mind to the alluring body of the Foxkin woman and got to answering her question!
For sure