“Ha… Ha…”
With the sound of howling wind, countless azure whirlwinds rose around Liyakade.
Looking closely, those azure ripples were actually formed from numerous wind blades, each of similar intensity to the previous one.
“Good, it seems I’ve grasped the right amount of force.”
“Wh-What? Your sister… just who is she?”
Watching the scene before her, Nili looked somewhat shocked.
The Wind Orb that Liyakade had unleashed earlier was already significantly stronger than her own full-powered attack.
Yet such an attack was nothing for Liyakade; she could casually create a whirlwind entirely composed of these wind blades.
Guan Chun, standing opposite Liyakade, was equally shocked.
The Wind Orb earlier was indeed nothing to him.
If he had to make a comparison, it was like a utility knife cutting through skin—it could only leave a tiny scratch.
Simply put, it was just a scratch.
But… this many wind blades, if every single one was at that level of force, it would indeed be somewhat troublesome.
Nevertheless, Guan Chun was very confident in his defensive capabilities.
After a moment of simple surprise, Guan Ke increased his magical power output, readied his defensive stance, and charged at Liyakade.
The next second, Liyakade’s jade-like hand pointed at Guan Chun, and the azure whirlwind instantly scattered and flew off.
He immediately realized something was wrong, only then noticing that the wind howling past his ears was everywhere.
Unbeknownst to him, the gale had already filled the entire sealed chamber.
Inside the room, everything—whether it was the tools Guan Chun used to toy with and torture others, or the decorations and treasures Guan Ke had specially stored here—was swept into a corner by Liyakade.
Countless pieces of furniture, where many innocent girls had suffered torment and left behind bitter memories, were all overturned by this gale.
The room was in chaos.
Liyakade was the eye of this storm.
Unbeknownst to anyone, she had already risen into the air, looking down at Guan Duo from her vantage point.
Mila, showing good judgment, took Nili and moved closer to the stairway to prevent Mila from being swept away by Liyakade’s attack.
Nili’s eyes were filled with admiration and longing.
There was no other reason; she was also a user of the Wind Element.
Before encountering this misfortune, she had been studying at a certain magic academy.
She had only managed to cultivate up to Level 30 with great difficulty before being caught up in this.
In the past, she had always dreamed of becoming a powerful Wind Element Mage like Liyakade.
In the cell, the women wearing collars and shackles, tied to the iron bars, also felt this fierce wind.
They held their breath, watching the battle in the room without blinking.
They had heard Guan Ke’s words earlier and knew that no matter what, they would die today.
They had all fallen into despair, but Liyakade, who had arrived with hostile intent, seemed to have given them a new hope of survival.
Countless Wind Orbs then rained down, lashing at Guan Chun like sharp whips, tearing his skin open.
Grooves-like scars were left on his earth-yellow skin.
His expression twisted horribly; it seemed he let out a scream, but… the sound of the howling wind had already completely swallowed his roar.
So, it wasn’t that Liyakade’s attack couldn’t break through Guan Ke’s defense, but that Liyakade was finding the right amount of force to attack.
If she had used her full power, Guan Ke’s body would have shattered just like before.
And facing such a scumbag, how could Liyakade let him off so easily?
Floating in the air, Liyakade cast a pitying glance at the women in the cell.
Looking at them, these women, once in the bloom of youth, had withered beyond recognition after just a few years locked up here.
The sweeping gale blew their hair, which had become greasy and tangled from lack of care, revealing their haggard faces.
If none of this had happened, the swirling wind might have caught the hems of these girls’ skirts.
They would have coyly held their skirts down, trying to cover that pure place, but still revealing their fair and smooth thighs.
But now, even if they stood there naked, Liyakade’s heart felt only indignation.
There were no fair and smooth thighs, only skin covered in bloodstains.
There was no pure place, only the remnants of defiled, fallen petals.
Thinking this, Liyakade looked at Guan Ke again.
A wind blade sent Guan Chun flying, slamming him into the wall beside him.
Each groove carved into Guan Ke’s body—were they not the same as the bloodstains he had left on the girls?
The next moment, Liyakade flashed in front of Guan Chun.
Guan Chun was now beaten black and blue, slowly sliding down the wall.
He couldn’t understand for the life of him why his defense was completely useless against Liyakade.
In front of Liyakade, he was like a top, merely being whipped wildly by her without the slightest ability to fight back.
Wasn’t the Earth Element supposed to be the strongest defensive element among the four?
Why was he being beaten like a spinning top now?
“Crack—crack—”
A series of bone-snapping sounds rang out.
The women were shocked to find that the collars and shackles around their necks and wrists had all been sliced off by wind blades.
Not only that, the iron bars that symbolized their humiliation had been torn open, creating a large gap by an unseen force.
They were no longer livestock raised and freely humiliated by Guan Chun.
And they seemed to find this sudden freedom a bit too abrupt, unable to process it.
They remained where they were, dazed and standing in place.
“Come out. You are free now.”
Liyakade landed from midair, and the gale ceased with her.
She looked at the women in the cell, but they didn’t immediately move because of her words.
The long-term life of being raised and enslaved had placed an invisible yoke on them.
Even if their physical collars were destroyed, this invisible yoke couldn’t be erased instantly.
“You damn woman! Don’t you dare touch Lord Guan Chun!!!”
Yet, the first person to rush out of the cell wasn’t pursuing freedom, but to protect Guan Chun.
She was naked, screaming as she charged at Liyakade, trying to stand in front of the fallen Guan Ke.
“Lord Guan Chun is very good to us! Don’t interfere, you woman!!!”
After shouting these two angry sentences at Liyakade, she actually knelt before Guan Duo, pleading with him not to abandon her, tears and snot streaming down.
“…Lord Guan Chun! I beg you, don’t abandon me! Don’t kill me! I can go with you! I’ll be your slave or your beast of burden, just as long as you, Lord Guan Xiang, don’t abandon me!”
Then, one or two more women walked out of the cell.
They knelt before Liyakade, kowtowing to her.
But they weren’t thanking Liyakade for her help; instead, they were pleading for Guan Chun’s life.
“Great Lord, we don’t know who you are, but please spare Lord Guan Chun! Lord Guan Xiang has his reasons for treating us this way!”
“It’s because we were too disobedient, and didn’t serve Lord Guan Chun well. Lord Guan Duo is not a bad person. He gives us good food and drink, and he caresses us. Please, don’t kill him! We have nothing left except Lord Guan Qin!”
“Shut… shut up!! You rotten women… Take a piss and look at yourselves, smell what’s down there! Who would want to take a bunch of stinking, rotten women like you with them!”
Hearing these three women plead for him, their hoarse and grating voices nearly made him vomit.
Half-lying against the wall, Guan Tu made no attempt to hide his inner disgust, roaring at the three women.
Seeing the three women before her being so disrespectful, kneeling naked before her, even pleading for their tormentor, Liyakade felt neither anger nor confusion towards them.
Instead, her killing intent towards Guan Xiang grew even stronger.
“What are you… what are you all saying…”
After the storm in the room stopped, Mila and Nili came to Liyakade’s side.
Mila thoughtfully draped a bedsheet that had been blown nearby over Nili, temporarily covering her half-naked body.
Hearing the words of these three women, Mila was too shocked and confused to speak.
She didn’t understand.
Clearly, Guan Chun had been torturing them, even planning to kill them today.
Why weren’t they grateful to Liyakade for saving them, and instead pleading for Guan Chun, even wanting to continue following him?
“You all… wake up!”
“Alright, don’t rush. What’s your name?”
Liyakade glanced at Nili, who was slightly behind her, signaling her to calm down, and then asked for her name.
“…My name is Diao Li… Lord. Those women… I don’t know what’s wrong with them. But Guan Zhen is definitely a scumbag! You must not let him off!”
“Mm, I know that guy’s a scumbag. I will kill him.”
There was no emotional fluctuation in Liyakade’s voice, but Nili could sense a certainty in her words.
She knew that since Liyakade said this, she would definitely not let Guan Chun off.
This calmed her down somewhat.
“Heh heh heh… Kill me!? Just try it!”
“I didn’t tell you to shut up, but that doesn’t mean you can speak, you piece of trash!”
Liyakade clenched her right hand in the air, and Guan Zhen instantly felt it hard to breathe, almost suffocating.
Even if he opened his mouth wide, he couldn’t make a single sound.
This was also the power of the Wind Element.
With Liyakade’s ability, under the current circumstances where Guan Chun had no magic power to resist, she could easily manipulate the wind element in the air, creating a near-vacuum zone in his mouth, making him completely unable to speak.
“Sister Zheyakade… then why are they pleading for Guan Chun?”
Mila was also very puzzled by this.
Could there be some hidden secret to all this?
So, she couldn’t help but ask Liyakade.
“It’s simply because they’ve been tormented for far too long.”
Liyakade sighed.
There was no hidden secret.
It was purely because Guan Chun tortured these women, played with their bodies for his own pleasure.
It was just that these women had gone mad under this torment.
As someone who had transmigrated from the modern world, Liyakade was fully aware of what situation these women were in now.
It was Stockholm syndrome.
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