Chapter 66 -66-A Legion Executive Appears

No one expected that inside Mylanne City, the teleportation array would actually explode!

What the hell was going on??

Many awakeners and civilians instinctively scattered, fleeing in all directions. The guards stationed at the entrance turned pale one after another, grabbing their weapons and staring warily toward the teleportation array.

Just then, shouts and the sounds of slaughter came from inside—

"Enemy attack! Reinforcements, now!"

In the next moment, the guards no longer had the time to pay attention to Caelan and the others. They charged straight toward the teleportation array.

...

Ironclad Legion — Headquarters Building

Talia lounged lazily against a huge sofa, her soft, chubby little legs swinging back and forth.

Bored out of her mind, she flipped through a male model magazine in her hands, muttering under her breath:

"This one won’t do—too skinny, like a bag of bones..."

"This one won’t do either—his face isn’t my type..."

"This batch of male models is hopeless. None of them even meet my ex-boyfriend’s standard. So annoying!"

Even though Talia was still "slacking off," the truth was that over the past few days she had actually done quite a lot.

For instance, she had already confirmed that Caelan was the legendary Chosen One.

But even so, she had no intention of revealing her identity yet and letting that brat grovel at her feet.

Mm... not yet.

When the day came that she finally made it public, she would definitely stomp that brat into the ground!

Thinking that, Talia’s gaze shifted to the screen in front of her.

At present, the Ironclad Legion looked extremely solid on the surface.

But Talia could always sense that there was some force within, holding her back—preventing her from making certain "inappropriate" moves.

So she planned to use this opportunity to let that brat act as bait and hook a few big fish for herself!

After all, if you’d been raising something for so many years, it ought to be useful, right?

Talia tapped the tabletop and asked in a languid voice,

"Oh right. How’s the investigation going? Who exactly spread those historical fragments related to the Chosen One?"

"If the Chosen One truly awakens his ability, then unless you’re someone who has touched the power of the rules... almost no one can be his opponent."

In truth, Talia was very satisfied with that brat’s performance.

It was just that some old fossils had developed other ideas—or been misled—and believed the Chosen One must be eliminated.

But whether by logic or by sentiment, Talia would never do that!

Leaving aside the feelings between the two of them... she also couldn’t bear to lose the brat’s cooking!

...

At that moment, several sections of the wall around Talia shimmered as light screens flickered into existence.

A few breaths later, projections of several high-ranking vice commanders appeared on the displays.

Every single one of them wore a grim expression. Clearly, even to the human race, the Chosen One was an extremely important existence.

But before discussing serious business, they needed to check on Talia’s condition first.

"Talia, you finally decided to come back. Do you know how much we’ve hoped you’d return to the Ironclad Legion during this period?"

"In any case, no matter what—so long as you’re back, that’s what matters!"

Talia snorted disdainfully and turned her head away.

"Who said I’m back? I’m just passing by to play around!"

"And what are you planning to do about my brat, anyway??"

Just as the meeting was about to enter the main topic, an intelligence officer suddenly rushed in, panic written all over his face.

"Captains! Vice Commanders! This is bad—Caelan has been targeted by the titan race!"

Talia froze for a fraction of a second—then sprang up from the sofa.

"What did you say?!"

"Those titan race idiots... do they have a death wish??"

"No. I’m going personally!"

...

Mylanne City — Teleportation Array

After the teleportation array exploded, Caelan hurried over to help. But when he arrived, he found that there were almost no casualties at all.

Only one titan race fellow had died—purely due to bad luck. Just as he was about to step into the array, the explosion happened, and he was blown to pieces on the spot.

The awakener responsible for maintaining the teleportation array let out a soft sigh.

"Looks like this array will need a major overhaul. In the short term, it basically won’t be usable."

Hearing that, Caelan couldn’t help frowning.

Why would a teleportation array explode for no reason?

"You’re maintenance staff, right? Can you tell why the array exploded?"

The repairman paused, then glanced at Caelan.

Originally, he hadn’t intended to answer some young kid’s question. But when he saw the Ironclad Legion emblem pinned to Caelan’s chest, he changed his mind.

"Under normal circumstances, it’s very difficult for a teleportation array to explode."

"To be honest, I can’t make sense of this either. We may need to invite a few experts to evaluate it together."

Caelan nodded and didn’t ask further.

He turned, preparing to leave—when the corner of his eye caught a status panel.

Titan race, huh?

Interesting.

In fact, ever since Caelan left the Instance Control Center, he had already sensed that titan race members were watching him.

And their strength wasn’t weak either. The weakest among them were at least five-star, and there were even two seven-stars.

Clearly, the titan race had set their sights on him.

What Caelan didn’t understand was—why?

Was it because... he had killed Dark Titan back then?

But if they wanted to die, then he wouldn’t hold back.

A cold killing intent flashed through Caelan’s eyes.

Then he mounted the Whitewing Tiger and sped at full gallop toward the outskirts of the city-state.

...

Outside Mylanne City

Ever since the previous blood mist incident, the surrounding white fog had already thinned out by quite a bit.

Many awakeners—especially the lowest-tier ones—often wanted to venture deeper, hoping to get lucky.

With the fog thinning, some awakeners had even found traces of ancient ruins.

But what confused them was why these ancient ruins were always either built deep in the mountains... or submerged underwater!

For awakeners, diving wasn’t particularly difficult.

A lot of them chose to visit the newly discovered ruins to see whether they might stumble upon some treasure.

Among all the ruins discovered so far, the most famous was a purple landslide-dammed lake. People had named it Secret Lake.

It earned that name because beneath the waters of that lake, something secret lay submerged.

Every awakener who learned that secret chose to leave Mylanne City—and never return.

What was truly chilling, however, was this:

After they left, it was said that within a few months, they would die in other city-states.

So far, it seemed that none of them had survived.