LAZARUS REGULUS
Chapter 295's. Traitors.
A male Emerald Lion with beautiful plumes of emerald green, golden eyes, dense mane and 2 long sharp fangs in his mouth gazed towards Lazarus and Emerald.
"Man, is the Emerald Lion your contract Beast?" The Emerald Lion asked.
"Emerald is my contracted Beast and he was originally the Grand Demon Beast Green Forest Lion Variant that awakened his bloodline and evolved into the Emerald Lion." Lazarus answered while getting ready to use the Reverse Time Strong Power Skill.
"Your young Emerald Lion is very lucky. It was rare for a low rank Beast to evolve into a high rank Beast. Relax, I will not attack you. I'm only interested in meeting one of my species in the Cerulean Forest." The Emerald Lion said, then jumped up into the tree.
Lazarus and Emerald breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the Emerald Lion had almost the same power as the Beast King.
"My name is Green Forest, I am a follower of Old Turtle." Green Forest introduced himself, then left Lazarus and Emerald.
The Emerald Lion is a forest guardian beast, they can be found in the Great Beast Forest and the Atlanta Forest which has a thick wood element. When their babies do not have feathers, but have green scales such as crystal jamrud that covers all parts of the body for self-defense and camouflage with the surrounding environment. Over time they will grow a green feather lining the green scales, a pair of long fangs as sharp as a sword and a dense mane for the male Emerald Lion.
"Master, why haven't I grown a pair of long fangs?" Emerald asked.
"Emerald, it looks like you're the flawed Emerald Lion." Lazarus answered.
Emerald felt his head being crushed by a boulder upon hearing Lazarus answer. He was eager to have a pair of long fangs like the Green Forest.
"Haha. Emerald, you are different from a normal Emerald Lion. You were originally born as a Green Forest Lion and your growth is slower than a normal Emerald Lion. I'm sure you'll grow a pair of long fangs that are more beautiful than the Green Forest." Lazarus stroked the green mane of Emerald.
Lazarus and Emerald return to their place. They saw Cyrille sitting next to Alastair who was cooking the Beast's horn and bone marrow soup for Cyrille.
"Alastair, where did the others go?"
"Dad, they said they would go for a while to look for Herbs. Linwood, Little Gold and Rainbow left with them." Alastair answered.
Feira jumped from the top of the tree branch, then walked towards Emerald and rubbed his head into Emerald's mane.
"Master!" A Three-Legged Golden Crow flew towards Lazarus in a hurry, he was Little Gold.
"Little Gold, what's going on?"
"We found bodies and groups of people we've met on the way! Icarus said that I should look for you immediately!" Little Gold exclaimed.
"Alright, Feira, Emerald you must guard this place while I'm gone!"
"As your orders."
Lazarus rode on Little Gold's back, then went to where Magnolia and the others were. A moment later they reached Magnolia and the others.
There were 5 people lying with multiple wounds on their bodies and 10 people who were seriously injured. They were members of the Azure Dragon Organization group that Lazarus had met on the way.
"Urs!" Duke Levin yelled.
Lazarus immediately ran towards the injured group of Azure Dragon Organization without asking what had happened. He examined 10 people who were lying down with wounds, but 6 of them had not breathed and their heartbeats had stopped.
"Yun Shan, what has happened?" Lazarus asked.
"Urs, we were attacked by the forces of the Silver Phoenix Empire and the Black Scorpion Organization. We fought back and were outnumbered, then we were able to escape." Reina answered.
"Urs, how are Yuuka, Shiro, Rin, Li Wei, Xiao and Sana?" Yun Shan asked.
Lazarus was only speechless hearing Yun Shan's question. He learned that the person who attacked Yun Shan's group was a strong and trained person for already killing 2 Mythical realm people and 4 Legendary realm people.
"They're all dead. I can't save them." Lazarus answered.
"Urs, didn't Magnolia say that you could heal someone one step away from death!" Yun Shan shouted, then got up and stared intently at Lazarus.
"I'm not a God who can bring a dead person to life!"
Yun Shan clasped Lazarus' shoulder as he shed tears. "Urs, I'll pay whatever you ask! I'm even willing to be your slave, as long as you can heal them!"
"Yun Shan, they're dead!"
"No! Urs, you're lying! How can people who have gone through so many battles with me die from just this little wound!"
Akira slapped Yun Shan's face hard. "Yun Shan, accept reality! Everyone is going to die and we don't know when we die!"
"You lied!" Yun Shan sat down while covering his ears.
Lazarus sighed deeply. "4 of these people are still alive." Lazarus gave the Elixir made from his blood to the 4 people, then gave the 12 bottles of Epic Healing Potion Rank.
A long black-haired man, brown eyes, wearing crescent-shaped earrings frowned as Lazarus treated the 4 men.
"Yun Shan, did you realize that you've all been poisoned?" Lazarus asked.
"Urs, what do you mean?"
"Levin, are you aware of the Legendary rank poison that is formless, smelly and tasteless?" Lazarus asked.
"The Silent Poison Of Death!" Duke Levin replied.
"Dare you accuse one of our members of treason!" A short black-haired woman and blue eyes with a butterfly tattoo on her right hand pointed her Long Sword towards Lazarus.
Hector, Herakles, Jino, Hali, Jaan and Akira swiftly pointed their Weapon Artifacts towards the woman. They gave off a bloodthirsty aura towards the woman, however Lazarus was their leader and had helped them many times.
Daisy, Solon, Dimitri, Raiden and Magnolia immediately took 4 seriously injured people away from Lazarus. They were ready to fight it out, if the Yun Shan group attacked them.
"Yuuna, can you sheathe back your Long Sword?"
Yuuna immediately sheathed back her Long Sword. He thought that Lazarus was just an insignificant member of this group since Lazarus was only a Legendary realm.
"All right." Yuuna sheathed back her Long Sword.
Akira and the others took out their weapon Artifacts and watched over Siegfried's group vigilantly. They were afraid that Siegfried's group would carry out ambush attacks when they were weak.
In this place there were only 5 members of the Yun Shan group who could still fight. Among them was a long black-haired man, brown eyes with moon earrings, a beautiful black-haired woman with blue eyes who wore a blue-colored kimono, Reina, Yun Shan and Yuuna.
"Urs, can you give me an explanation?"
"Silent Poison Of Death is a poison that attacks the mana stream. They were categorized into Unique rank, Epic rank and Legendary Rank. This poison is liquid and difficult to identify because it has no taste, aroma and shape, usually people mix it with drinking water. People who consume these toxins will not die immediately, but when they use where they are. They would have difficulty controlling mana, thus making the enemy able to deliver a fatal attack against them."
"Hurry to get the bottle out of your drinking water!" Yun Shan ordered.
The 5 members of the Yun Shan group immediately took out their water bottles from the storage Artifacts.
Lazarus took out a silver needle from the Draupnir Ring, then put it in Yun Shan's drinking water and drained the mana.
"Your drinking water is not poisonous." Lazarus says.
Lazarus thrust the silver needle into Reina's drinking water, and the silver needle curved slightly. He then did the same to the other drinking water, all the silver needles were curved.
"I understand 4 out of 5 of these bottles were contaminated by poison. Can you tell me who's the one who took the water?" Lazarus asked.
"Xia, was Jian the one who took the drinking water? Didn't you take the water?" Reina asked.
"No, Jian took my job to fetch water. He said that the river was too dangerous for a Job Priest like me." Xia replied with tears.
Jian walked towards everyone.
"Dians..." Yun Shan gritted his teeth.
"I am the one who poisoned them all, so please kill me!" Jian knelt down and gave his War Axe Artifact to Yun Shan.
"No, How did Jian do all that. Yun Shan, Jian has long been adventuring with us since this group was first formed!" Yuuna shouted.
"Urs, what should I do?" Yun Shan glanced towards Lazarus with an angry, sad and confused expression.
"Jian, who gave you that bottle of water?" Lazarus asked.
"Urs, I am the one who prepared the drinking water bottle and brought the drinking water supply for everyone!" Jian replied.
"Give me your hand."
Jian stretched out his hand, then Lazarus stabbed a silver needle into Jian's hand while flowing mana. Slowly the needle was curved due to the influence of the Silent Poison Of Death.
"About, knock Xia out!" Lazarus shouting.
Akira immediately moved quickly towards Xia and slammed him to the ground. He pressed Xia's head firmly against the ground, so that Xia could not move.
"Master, what do you mean!" Xia shouting.
"Urs, why did you attack Xia! Hasn't Xia nothing to do with this?" Jian wanted to help Xia, but Heracles and Hector immediately crippled Xia.
"Jian, you're innocent! Do you want to protect the traitor using your life?" Lazarus said, then stepped towards Xia and pricked the silver needle. But nothing happened when Lazarus pricked the silver needle.
"Xia, why aren't you poisoned?" Lazarus asked.
"I used my Skill when I found out I was poisoned!"
"Haha. It's funny when you find out you're poisoned. Why don't you tell him to everyone and detoxify all the toxins in everyone's body? Isn't that how everyone will be saved?"
"No, you're lying! You are simply reversing the facts! Jian had already admitted that he was the culprit."
"The poison is actually in the bottle not in the water. Even though your bottle is poisoned and only 3/4 of the bottle remains, you are not poisoned. Wasn't Jian also the one who took the water for Yun Shan? Why is Yun Shan bottled water non-toxic? You also said Jian who replaced you took water, didn't all those bottles come from you?"
Yun Shan widened his eyes, everything Lazarus said was reasonable and what reason Jian had to admit a mistake he had not made.
Yuuna, gazed towards Jian Chen with sullen eyes. He had long harbored feelings for Jian Chen and already knew that Jian Chen was harboring feelings for Xia Jiali.
"Urs, why did Jian admit that he had poisoned everyone?" Yun Shan asked.
"The answer is love. Jian willingly sacrificed his life for the woman he loved and Xia did not love Jian, but he loved you." Lazarus answered.
"Yun Shan, don't listen to his words he's just saying nonsense!" Xia shouting.
"The Orchid Black Scorpion Organization is one of the 12 great powers on Planet Antares focused on the sale of poison and murder. Let me guess what they promised you... Did they promise to release you and Yun Shan, when you poisoned all your members?"
Xia Jiali was speechless at the question of Lazarus. The plan he had been putting together for months had Lazarus guessed perfectly.
"Had the squirrel jumped would have fallen too." Jino says.
"Jay!" Reina gave off a bloodthirsty aura and wanted to immediately tear Jiali's body apart.
"Sufuku. All that's right! I did this just to live happily with Yun Shan. Do you not know my past? I lived in a poor area in the Golden Sun Empire, I sold myself in my teens and I met a Jian wanderer who had the same fate as me. I finally met Yun Shan and fell in love at first sight, but Yun Shan only saw Reina and never once saw me!" Xia Jiali laughed.
"Xia, what do you mean?" Yun Shan's body trembled.
"Yun Shan, ever since I met you I've never been in contact with another man. I only used Jian just for my purposes. Yun Shan, why have you never seen me? You only saw Reina who was both prostitutes like me." Xia shed tears.
"I'll straighten out into misunderstanding. I am Aunt Yun Shan, even though my father Yun Shan and I have different fathers." Reina said as she glanced at Lazarus.
"I just heard it, it turns out I'm a fool. The Black Scorpion Organization Orchid told me it would protect me and Yun Shan as I poisoned everyone." Xia Jiali smiled.
"They lied, they'll still kill you and Yun Shan. Remember not to believe in poisonous snakes and poisonous insects." Lazarus says.
Yun Shan's body froze, he couldn't believe what Xia Jiali had said. They had long been adventuring together, but Xia Jiali had the heart to betray and kill his friends.
"No! Release Jiali!" Jian tried to rebel, but Hector and Heracles did not let go.
"Yun Shan, what's your decision?" Lazarus asked.
"Urs, I handed Xia Jiali's punishment to you." Yun Shan walked away.
"Yun Shan, even until now you have not looked at me!" Jiali shouted while crying sobbing at the back of Yun Shan who stepped away.
"About giving him a painless death." Lazarus says.
Akira nodded, then very quickly beheaded Xia Jiali. Akira finds out that love can make a person stupid and insignificant in his life.
"May the God of Gail's Life forgive you." Lazarus murmuring.
"Jay!" Jian shouted.
Lazarus tells Hector and Heracles to release Jian.
Jian then ran towards Jiali's corpse and hugged Jiali's head. Yuuna who noticed Jian immediately hugged Jian, knowing Jian only loved Jiali. Although Jian's love clapped one hand.
"If you want revenge, then look for me Akira Nara from the Moonlight Frost Empire." Akira said as he sheathed Odachi Ame No Murakumo, then stepped towards Lazarus.
Jian shook his head lightly. "Jiali was the one who planted the ugliness, he only reaped the fruits of what he planted. If Jiali does not die today, he will die more horribly in the future. Akira thank you for giving Jiali a painless death."
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Lazarus covered the 6 corpses of the Yun Shan members with a white cloth. Now the remaining Yun Shan Members were 8 people.
Lazarus was sitting beside Yun Shan who was playing with a twig and painting on the ground.
"Urs, am I a bad leader?"
"Yun Shan, you are a good leader."
"I want revenge on those people."
"If you want revenge, I will help you and come with me. It just so happens that we all have the same goal, even though I don't yet know their main purpose for coming to the Cerulean Forest."