Chapter 50: Shock! Part 1
Ning Yunyi, still holding the Alliance Leader up, turned his head and looked at the Vice-Leader beside him in surprise.
The Vice-Leader was stunned by his sudden pause. “Benefactor, is there a problem?”
However, a subtle feeling rose in his heart. Does this person… perhaps know me?
To the outside world, he had always used a voice changer, only using his real voice when facing the Alliance Leader. This time, because the other party had saved everyoneâif not for him, they likely would have been wiped outâthe Vice-Leader had no intention of hiding anything from his savior.
He just hadn’t expected… his benefactor might actually know him?
But all these years, he had never seen such a breathtakingly powerful expert around him.
Ning Yunyi listened to another sentence and felt completely numb.
It wasn’t an illusion. This Vice-Leader in front of him, the only Vice-Leader who survived tonight in the book, was actually Yuth?
That young master of the Herman family he had seen in the palace not long agoâblack hair, black eyes, radiating a morbid aura as if he could go mad at any moment…
In private, he was a righteous crusader whose mission was to save half-beasts?
This contrast was simply absurd.
Under the mask, Yuth also understood. The benefactor really knew him, even recognizing his identity from his voice.
Yuth switched back to his voice changer, his tone low and raspy. “Thank you for saving us tonight, Benefactor. The fifty of us owe you fifty lives. I am willing to do fifty things for you, regardless of the reason and at any cost.”
Since he was recognized, the benefactor must also know his current identity, which could accomplish many things.
A gift of fifty favors was almost equivalent to selling his life to the other party.
Ning Yunyi hadn’t expected such a generous offer. For the first time, he clearly realized the madness of this young master before him.
As expected of someone who would even kill himself when he went madâhe truly didn’t care about his own life or death.
Given how he spared no effort tonight, exhausting his spiritual power to save these half-beasts, he truly wanted to protect them with his life and give them a way to live.
Ning Yunyi’s feelings were complicated. In the book, Yuth reappeared more than ten years later to protect Ning Xingyao and Elias.
The reason he appeared so late must be because he was heavily injured saving people tonight and took more than ten years to recover.
Ning Yunyi sighed. “Do you know what that sentence represents?”
Yuth’s expression was hidden under the mask, and his voice was fake, yet inexplicably firm. “At least for now, my motivation to live is to seek a way out for these people who are not tolerated by the world.”
In this way, at least he felt he was cared for, instead of how he had spent the past yearsâforced to stain his hands with blood, forced to kill just to survive.
Ironically, the heaviest blows dealt to him in the past came from his closest kin.
How sarcastic.
Ning Yunyi heard the implication behind his words. After a long silence, he said, “You will succeed.”
Half-beasts, even with half-beast genes flowing in their blood, were still human.
They should enjoy human rights, not become vessels for extracting spiritual power.
Living, conscious half-beasts capable of transforming into human form were not machines, but people who felt pain, sadness, and the full range of human emotions.
Yuth was surprised by his decisiveness. Suddenly, he laughed softly, but immediately spat out a mouthful of blood because he had been pushing himself despite his exhausted spiritual power.
The Alliance Leader anxiously supported him. “Are you okay?”
She was the only one in the Half-Beast Alliance who knew Yuth’s true identity.
Back then, she had unintentionally saved him once. Who knew that the young man, who seemed cold-hearted and even had a gloomy, mad look in his eyes, would spend the next few years helping her save their kin?
She was grateful, but tonight she was also terrified, realizing clearly for the first time the disparity in force.
Not just pure spiritual power, but technology.
Just one net left them with nowhere to run.
How ironic, yet how despairing.
Ning Yunyi raised his hand, and a healing force surrounded Yuth, relieving the exhaustion of his spiritual sea caused by the depletion of spiritual power.
Once or twice was fine, but if it happened too often, it would trigger a spiritual riot.
When Yuth recovered, the eyes under his mask were shocked and incredulous. “Aren’t you afraid we’ll betray you?”
Was there really someone in this world who possessed two abilities simultaneously?
Not only a strong spiritual power user but also a healer.
Ning Yunyi: “I think someone willing to stake their life for a different race won’t betray me.”
At least more than ten years later, Yuth still hadn’t chosen betrayal. Even when he was the only one left of the Half-Beast Alliance, he immediately returned to protecting those half-beasts as soon as he recovered more than ten years later.
For this point alone, he was worth saving.
The Alliance Leader was also moved by Ning Yunyi’s words. Her eyes reddened, and she pulled off her mask, revealing a young face. Because her appearance had remained as it was when she came of age, her age couldn’t be discerned, but judging from her firm and calm gaze, she should be over thirty.
The Alliance Leader cupped her hands and reintroduced herself. “Benefactor, my name is Rui Hu. My beast form is a colorful tiger. Don’t let my youthful appearance fool you; I’m almost forty.”
The Vice-Leader beside her fell silent for a moment, then spoke after the Alliance Leader. “Here, I am called Rui Bao. I have no beast form.”
The corners of Ning Yunyi’s mouth twitched. Rui Bao? This was obviously named after Rui Hu. And at first glance, the name sounded like “Rui Bao” (Lucky Baby), which was quite festive.
Rui Hu lowered her voice curiously. “Benefactor, do you know… Rui Bao’s true identity?”
Ning Yunyi hummed in affirmation. “I guessed it roughly from the voice.”
Rui Hu was quite curious about the benefactor’s identity. After all, having hidden in the Capital Star for so many years, this was truly the first time she had seen someone fight two Triple-S spiritual power users simultaneously leaving them with no power to fight back.
Fortunately, Rui Hu knew what to ask and what not to ask. She ran to check on the other members of the alliance.
Ning Yunyi decided to go check as well. Fortunately, because he acted in time and Yuth and Rui Hu had protected them earlier, apart from external injuries from struggling in the net and exhausted spiritual power, there were no serious injuries.
Ning Yunyi thought of the two pets at home. “Since they spent so much effort cornering you this time, there will be a next time. It’s best if you don’t go out recently.”
If they were caught in one fell swoop again, and he couldn’t make it in time, it would be difficult to save them.
Rui Hu’s expression was grave. “We know.”
If not for the benefactor this time, they would either be wiped out or captured alive, facing a fate worse than death.
Ning Yunyi used having business as an excuse to ask Yuth to escort him out.
Yuth, wanting to repay the kindness and curious about the other party’s identity, followed. In his mind, he went through everyone he had ever met from childhood to adulthood.
Not a single one matched.
Let alone someone who could recognize his identity from just two sentences, or at least from hearing him speak.
That meant the person had met him.
The scope narrowed again. Combined with this combat power, only one person flashed through his mind who fit the criteria.
But the body shape… was completely different.
Ning Yunyi glanced at him. “Don’t guess blindly. I’m not him.”
Yuth: “Although I haven’t seen Marshal Zong much, judging by the body shape… indeed not, unless Marshal Zong can change his body shape at will, but that’s impossible. I don’t mean to pry into Benefactor’s identity, but regarding the fifty things mentioned earlier, I sincerely want to repay Benefactor.”
He was a person who repaid grudges a thousandfold, but he also repaid kindness without fail.
Besides, with his current status and position, why not use it? Why should he let those in the Herman familyâwho had targeted, tortured, and harmed him since childhoodâget off easy?
If he didn’t want to do more for the Half-Beast Alliance, he would have burned the Herman Castle down, clean and simple, so no one would have it good.
He had tormented himself into this ghostly stateâwhat right did they have to just brush it off as the Herman family’s tradition of cultivating heirs?
He had endured those past years day by day. He had thought that since he didn’t have Herman blood, he could be free.
Only to be told that he was the real heir.
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