Chapter 729 - 277: Bat and Mouse_4

Chapter 729: Chapter 277: Bat and Mouse_4

Those who cannot pass the Food Sacrifice will become the nourishment for the Remnant Beasts, used to their fullest potential.

Perhaps to some researchers of the Black Ash Dawn, Sacrificial Children or Remnant Beasts, or even the Beast Children and Remnant Beasts cultivated, are no different in essence; they are merely different manifestations along the line of "Beast Magic Power".

"Go to sleep, after we pass the assessment, we’ll go home together."

The night before the Food Sacrifice, Mint was actually scared to death, but to avoid hurting the morale of her own people, she tried hard to appear confident, as if assured to succeed.

"Mm, going home together." However, her sister seemed to have other concerns.

The two nestled close and spent the night together, and the next day, each headed to different Food Sacrifice testing grounds.

Before they parted, Mint exchanged a final glance with her "sister".

At that moment, Mint did not know what the other was thinking; her mind was full of dispiriting thoughts like "going to die", "so afraid", "shouldn’t have come here", but she knew she should not show this emotion.

Before turning away, she left a big smile for her sister.

Even if she were to die, she hoped the impression she’d leave wouldn’t be so grim.

Only, as proven, Mint’s aptitude for "survival" was stronger than she had anticipated.

Even in the Food Sacrifice, a place requiring straightforward confrontation, she managed to make herself seem invisible, hiding amidst the hellish fighting among the Remnant Beasts until most had died in their mutual conflicts, then sneakily stabbing those leftover, injured Remnant Beasts.

Without a doubt, after the training in Black Ash Dawn, she was no longer a girl living in a greenhouse. During the slaughter and consumption of Remnant Beasts, despite feeling disgust, she hesitated not a bit.

When she came back to her senses, she stood before the open gate, greeted by a group of staff.

"Congratulations, Miss Wu Xiqing, from today onwards, you are one of Black Ash Dawn’s ’Young Master’, a distinguished Beast Child. Next, please allow us to escort you to cleanse, then meet with Lord Ash Envoy."

Mint followed these people dazedly, dazedly bathed, dazedly ate, and finally dazedly met a robust middle-aged man.

The man opposite wore a mask covering half his face, and did not remove it upon seeing Mint, merely nodded to her:

"I watched your performance in the Food Sacrifice. Though you are not strong, your survival instinct and determination satisfy me; next, I will give you a special task."

"Who are you?"

"Me? You can call me Tian Niu, I am an Ash Envoy. From now on, we will have a mentor-student relationship, I will teach you how to harness your powers as a Beast Child, and how to survive."

"Oh." Having lived in Black Ash Dawn for half a year, Mint knew some basics; Ash Envoys were the top figures in Black Ash Dawn. When she was still a Sacrificial Child, a single word from them could have her fed to the Remnant Beasts.

"No questions? Then here’s your task, first congratulations are in order, you can go home, back to your parents, return to your school, continue life as before coming here, nothing will change."

"Ah, I can go home?"

"That’s right."

"Well, what about Xiao Yu?"

"Who?"

"My sister, the child who was always with me... Can she come back with me too?"

"That is impossible."

Mint’s wish was simply rejected.

"Why? Isn’t it possible to go home?" She was very perplexed.

"You can go home because you are special; you have a legal status in Yue Wang City, a clean background, parents of stature... When you return, you need to become the Yue Wang City’s Magical Girl, infiltrating the enemy ranks," Tian Niu’s answer was straightforward.

"Then what about Xiao Yu? She’s also a part of our family..."

"She is not, legally speaking, she is not your sister. From the beginning, your family never had this child."

Tian Niu shook his head: "Moreover, the numbers of Beast Children aren’t vast enough to dispatch them massed in the same city. You have your task, she has hers."

"I beg you, lord."

Mint, at that moment, didn’t even have time to think, directly knelt down: "She is my sister, I beg you."

Tian Niu was silent for a while.

"I can’t." That was his reply.

"She has already been taken by another Ash Envoy."

"Who?"

"Feng."

After that, Mint returned home.

She remembered her parents standing teary-eyed at the doorway, remembered how they held her tightly crying, and remembered the task Black Ash Dawn people left when they departed.

Her experience leaving home was packaged as staying over at a relative’s place, and thanks to her parents’ connections in Yue Wang City, the six-month absence was soon covered up.

Her parents did not ask much about the sister, as if this child never existed. Clearly, to them, having their biological daughter return was a fortunate misfortune, "Wu Xiyu", the adopted daughter, became a forbidden topic at home. Especially when Mint was around, her parents avoided the topic altogether, not initiating it.

Moreover, Mint naturally became Yue Wang City’s Magical Girl.