Chapter 188: The O'Hara Incident: Entrusting an Orphan to Him Before Death

Nasu Shoulang responded to the air with great fear.

This scene shocked Zhan Guo.

The only person who could make one of the Five Elder Stars show such a fearful expression could only be a being that was superior to them.

In the past, the Warring States only knew that the Five Elder Stars were the controllers of the world's highest power.

Now it seems that there are people behind the scenes who are more powerful than these old monsters who have lived for decades without aging.

Sengoku remained restrained, not showing any of his keenly aware emotions, to prevent Nasu Shoulang from spying on him.

"Ha~! Ha~!" Nasu Shoulang was sweating profusely and leaning on the table uncomfortably.

"Such fear is only a matter of talking to an unknown big man behind the scenes?" Zhan Guo thought, "It is enough to show that these five elders may have something that controls their lifeblood."

Rumble——!

Rumble——!

Outside the cabin, ten warships, including the World Government's warships, began bombarding O'Hara Island.

The artillery fire bloomed brilliantly in the storm, and lives fled in panic.

The five thousand year old All-Knowing Tree is being ruthlessly burned bit by bit by artillery fire.

"..." Nasu Shoulang came back to his senses from his fear and saw Zhan Guo staring at him calmly: "Spandain has activated the Demon Killing Order, which means that evidence of a crime has been found on the island!"

"Report!" A soldier from the communications department rushed into the cabin and urgently reported to Sengoku and Nasu Shoulang: "The advance team has landed in Ohara and has confirmed that the traitor Lieutenant General Sauro is on the island."

"Let the warships carry out the bombing with all their might. Don't let go of any fleeing ship except the refugee ships!" Zhan Guo ordered.

The soldier stood at attention and saluted, then immediately ran out of the cabin to convey the order.

"General Sengoku orders the fleet to bombard O'Hara with maximum firepower!"

"Don't sink the refugee ship!"

The shells bombarded O'Hara indiscriminately, and the All-Knowing Tree soon caught fire.

The moment the firing started, the world's forces went undercover and immediately let all forces know the news of the Demon-Slaying Order being launched.

On the pretext of reviving ancient weapons, Scholar O'Hara was turned into a demon who would destroy the world by the public opinion of the World Government.

At the front deck of the warship led by Gion Shima, she looked solemnly at the artillery shells rushing towards the island ahead.

"Are you really on the island?" She thought to herself, "What has happened to you since we last saw each other for so long?"

She looked anxiously at the island ahead, where flames were blazing.

The burning of the All-Knowing Tree made her feel guilty about history, and she became a sinner who burned history.

"As a soldier, we must take orders as our priority," her adjutant noticed Gion's emotions behind her and comforted her, "We have no choice..."

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On O'Hara Island, not even a storm could extinguish the burning All-Knowing Tree.

Rain can't put out the fire, and the wind blows the bigger it gets.

This unusual scene made Arthur feel that it went against common sense.

As the fire grew bigger, he jumped down from a branch a hundred meters above.

Seeing this, Cooper swooped down immediately, grabbed Arthur with one claw and landed him steadily on the mud and grass below.

Seeing Olbia abandoned by Spandine, he lay down in front of the seriously injured Kloba to check his injuries.

"It's useless, Olbia." Cloba's mouth was full of blood and he couldn't stop it from flowing out: "I'm old... You should take Robin to the shelter ship..."

Cloba knew that his injuries were beyond repair, and his body was old and frail.

There is nothing that can be done to save the situation, and I am completely disheartened.

"Don't leave me, Mom, please! Robin will listen to you in the future and don't deny me!" Robin ran towards Olbia in the rain.

Upon seeing this, Olbia immediately stopped him with a stern voice: "Don't come over! I don't even know you... You are a civilian from O'Hara, right? Hurry and seek refuge on the refuge ship!"

"mom…"

"Don't call me mom!"

In order not to affect Robin, Olbia interrupted Robin and cursed her with malicious intent.

Such chilling words made Robin run to the government refugee ship alone and sadly, and passed in front of Arthur crying.

Arthur witnessed with his own eyes that the mother and daughter were unwilling to recognize each other.

From his perspective, the only people he cared about were Olbia and Robin, who had volunteered to be his babysitters for several months while sailing with him.

Instantly, a cannonball flew accurately from the sea to their location, hitting the giant Sauro and exploding.

"Ah--!" Sauro was hit by a shell and let out a painful scream.

The black smoke dissipated from his body, and Sauro stared at Olbia and Robin, mother and daughter, with blood all over his face, then left them behind and ran towards the back of the All-Knowing Tree.

As the sky was filled with gunfire, scholars worked hard to save historical documents in the library.

On the flat ground outside the All-Knowing Tree Library, there were only Olbia, Arthur, and Cooper.

"Would you like to go? I can take you and our daughter with me." Arthur took the initiative to ask Olbia amid the gunfire, "Return to the life of sailing on the sea."

"Don't worry about me...!" Olbia changed her usual docile style, holding Cloba's dying body and turned to look at Arthur:

"I am a scholar from O'Hara. I will be pursued by the World Government wherever I go."

"You rejected me a week ago and helped O'Hara through this disaster... Our fate has ended here, Arthur."

Arthur's eyes were as dark as an ancient pond. Despite his seemingly cold appearance, his heart was slightly shaken as he persuaded:

"When you die, everything is gone. Even your memories will disappear completely, Olbia."

Cooper, who was standing behind Arthur, was also a little reluctant.

It also knew that at this moment, Olbia's life or death depended on its own thoughts.

Olbia gave Arthur a bitter smile: "My thoughts are not as contradictory as yours, Arthur, I want to...stay here."

She looked at the shells around her that were frozen into ice and knew that it was Arthur who used his ability to protect himself.

"Put away your abilities, Arthur. I'm sorry for having fallen in love with you before." Olbia stood up and said to Arthur with a sincere smile:

"The time I spent on your ship was one of the best times in my life."

"My daughter...Robin is in your care." Before dying, Olbia, fearing death from the bottom of her heart, entrusted her to Arthur: "She cannot inherit my path. The World Government is too powerful."

Upon hearing this, Arthur retracted his extreme ice power, and the artillery fire quickly engulfed Olbia and the dying Kloba.

The shells severely injured Olbia instantly, leaving her no time to go to the All-Knowing Tree to help, and she threw all the documents into a huge lake inside.

“Cooper!” (Our dumpling nanny...!) The bloody scene before his eyes made Cooper helplessly lower his head and sigh.

It looked up and found that Arthur had turned away with an indifferent expression, facing the Demon-Slaying Order's warships that were bombing the All-Knowing Tree.

Arthur held the Ice Dragon Knife scabbard tightly in his left hand, turned around and walked towards the east coast, and said in a heavy voice:

"understood."

No matter how cold he is, his heart is still made of flesh.

He would not feel anything at all about the death of a stranger.

Now, an irresistible strange emotion occupied Arthur's mind.

He didn't know what it was, maybe he had it before he changed...

However, during the nearly nine years of fighting, it was gradually forgotten.

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