Lily had used mental transmission to warn Damien while Yuria knocked herself out since she was playing the damsel in distress and Damien was the big bad who kidnapped her.
As for Lily, Olivia and the other emperors, including Ruthren, knew about her relationship with Damien, and surely it didn't really matter if Ruthren saw her being comfortable with her 'kidnapper'.
As for the fate of her empire, she could only bottle up her guilt and wait for the perfect opportunity to dethrone Olivia. However, she was worried about her grandpa, wondering if he would be alright. She truly wanted him to come with her if she was going to leave the Rong Empire, but even now, she had no idea what his decision was.
Damien briefly turned his head to look behind and said casually, "Oh, the strongest emperor in town isn't as fast as I thought, tsk, tsk."
Even though his tone was casual, his voice was loud enough for those behind to hear, especially Ruthren, whose veins were literally popping out of his temple and had a great urge to take him down from right here.
He knew it was quite humiliating for someone like him to personally chase a junior who didn't even have any background and yet be unable to catch him instantly. It surely made him look like a joke. He could, of course, use any one of his attacks to stop Damien in his tracks.
But any attacks he might send out will definitely hurt Lily and Yuria as well, and after personally seeing what the Gale Emperor did, he obviously can't afford to make such foolish mistakes, especially with all those people below watching.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64ce79d606107d003c23ea27", id: "pf-5140-1"})But not only him but those centuries-old experts who were flying along with him were shocked that Damien's cultivation had reached the eighth level of the Sky Ethereal Realm. Of course, after Soran and Godnim's appearances, it didn't seem that shocking but both of them were dead now, and Ruthren knew that Soran's cultivation wasn't really stable.
And even if Damien had such a cultivation level, it was still nothing before someone at the peak of the Profound Ethereal Realm expert like him. Then how could a young man of just 18 years old be able to fly so fast to the point even the strongest emperor on the continent was still giving chase?
Were they dreaming or what? But they surely remembered how Damien turned Godnim to dust with just a single move. And wouldn't this mean that Damien's true strength might be well over the Heaven Ethereal Realm?
What was the world coming to? Why did they strenuously cultivate for centuries when this junior before them was still making them eat his dust with just a dozen years of cultivation at best?
Or was he born a monster right the moment he came out of his mother's womb?
He definitely was no ordinary human. This was the conclusion most of them came to as they tried to patch up their broken ego and pride.
But even if these experts had their egos hurt, they still felt a sense of awe seeing a junior being so powerful. They began to feel curious about how far he would reach in cultivating the Ethereal Way. Could he possibly become even more powerful than the Xeton Emperor?
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64cc9e79c7059f003e4ad4b0", id: "pf-5109-1"})Would he be able to cross into the unreachable realm beyond the Profound Ethereal Realm? This was a question they were keen to get an answer to.
After all, it was in human nature to witness someone transcending their limits since it could be an inspiration to others as well.
But Ruthren only became even more annoyed seeing his own men being awed by Damien's prowess and quickly sent a mental transmission to his men on the ground near the border of the city to stop Damien by blocking his path while the rest he could do it himself.
However, he had no idea that the lightning element inherently had an advantage of movement speed, and coupled with Damien's ethereal lightning arts and his anti-god powered cultivation, he was at least in the top five in the continent when it came to who could fly the fastest.
Still, Ruthren was still slowly catching up to him, and Damien knew that within minutes Ruthren would definitely catch up to him.
Right when Damien was about to reach near the border of the city, he narrowed his eyes upon seeing many men wearing royal robes with the symbol of Xeton, Gale, Lancaster, and the Rong Empire on their chests.
The Xeton ones were numbering around five, the Gale and the Rong ones were around three, while only a single Lancaster expert flew up.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "663633fa8ebf7442f0652b33", id: "pf-8817-1"})It was obvious that the rulers of these three empires had rallied up experts to stop Damien from leaving the city.
All the 12 experts in front of him quickly formed a semi-circle in front of Damien to force himself to turn back in fear, and even if he was foolish enough to still continue forward, how can a brat at the Sky Ethereal Realm stop all eleven Heaven Ethereal Realm experts like them who were all at the Peak of the Heaven Ethereal Realm? And with one expert from the Xeton Empire who was at the first level of the Profound Ethereal Realm, did he really stand a chance?
This Profound Ethereal Realm cultivator was none other than Larkin Uto, the general of the west wing of the Xeton Empire, who was stationed to stand guard on this side of the city while the Xeton Emperor was attending the event inside.
He had a valiant aura with a cold, stern face and a long thin beard with thin pointy eyebrows.
And who would have thought that the emperor would order someone of his power and status to stop a criminal boy who normally didn't even deserve a single glance from him. Thus he considered it beneath himself to personally stop Damien, but since his emperor ordered it, he could only follow through with it.
"Boy, stop right now, or we will be forced to take you down! Don't think that we can't take you down without harming those two princesses," Larkin said in a stern, cold voice as he proudly stood with his hands behind his back in front of the other eleven experts as he saw Damien heading right towards him. Larkin was fully confident that he wouldn't even have to lift his finger to stop Damien since if Damien had some intelligence, he would definitely surrender now.
"Just fuck off, you weak piece of shit!" Damien said without showing the slightest respect in his voice for a senior like Larkin, who commanded the respect of thousands of warriors and noble families. It was as if Damien wasn't really bothered by the presence of someone as powerful as him blocking his way.
