Hidden genius: Black belly snake

Chapter 263: Memories of the past Part4

Unlike Xander, Tang Yue did not think much and instantly whipped up the skill she had on hand.

Tang Yue and Little Blue shared an innate bond through the beast contract, so she could immediately sense the wolf's presence even though they were quite far apart.

And from what she could tell, Little Blue was still in the forest grounds.

So Charlotte, as well, was most probably near the wolf.

Tang Yue didn't hesitate and activated her skill 'One with the earth'. 

In fact, by repeatedly using this skill, she was far more proficient in it now and could somewhat control it.

She only activated the skill for a few seconds and focused on the area of the forest where she had sensed Little Blue's presence.

After that, she quickly stopped the skill and her energy was not drained completely.

But Tang Yue didn't look happy at all with the results.

Based on what she could feel, there seemed to be a dozen or so higher beings along with Little Blue.

Charlotte was probably one of them, but who were the others?

Tang Yue quickened her pace and hurried towards the deadwood forests.

Even though there were a few low-grade beasts, maybe because of the subconscious killing aura she emitted, no animal dared to cross her path.

It didn't take long for her and Tang Yue quickly reached the destination.

Standing several miles behind her, Xander carefully positioned himself and made sure not to attract any attention, but he had a bad feeling about what was going to happen.

Several dwarves were standing around, crowding around Little Blue in the middle of the forest.

And next to Little Blue, a young hybrid slave girl was kneeling down.

Her clothes were slightly disheveled and her upper back was almost completely exposed.

Moreover, on her back, there were deep bloody imprints of several lash marks.

Tang Yue shuddered in shock. 

"What is going on here?" Her cold icy voice instantly cut through the chatter and the murmur among the crowd.

But Tang Yue didn't wait for anyone to respond, she directly walked forward and helped Charlotte up, throwing a robe around her tattered clothes.

"What the hell? Who are you? What gave you the right to intervene in my business?" A thin dwarven girl standing in front spoke up.

She had long brown hair and was dressed in dwarven royal regalia, a boulder wyrm.

Tang Yue looked at her from top to bottom and sized her up in an instant.

"She is my slave and this is my pet. I am taking them back." 

She nonchalantly answered without caring about the obviously important status of the other party.

"Hmph. Think twice before letting your mouth run, you bumpkin."

"Do you know who you are talking to? I am the fourth princess, Layla." The girl cold snorted and glared at Tang Yue.

"Hmm In that case, I apologize, your highness." Tang Yue replied. 

Her words were humble and obedient but the look on her face told an entirely different story.

Layla was slightly taken aback. She had expected Tang Yue to immediately yield and buckle down.

But it looked like the dwarven girl was rather pretty adamant.

"Your slave injured one of my friends. So she is being punished for her wrongdoing."

"Don't interfere and stand on the sidelines. Once the punishment is over, you can then take her away."

"That is if something is left of her." Layla chuckled coldly.

Tang Yue knew that Charlotte wouldn't have acted rashly without being provoked first.

After all, the woman was even willingly acting as a slave for these past few weeks.

So why would she do something to jeopardize their disguise now?

She calmly turned towards her and asked what happened.

Charlotte gulped. She felt extremely guilty. She was worried that she had irreparably screwed up things for Tang Yue.

"I am sorry, Master. They wanted to attack and capture Little Blue."

"I immediately informed them that the wolf was already a contracted pet, but they still wanted to capture him." Charlotte hesitantly explained, with her head hung down.

Now Tang Yue understood what had happened.

"Your highness, clearly the fault is not on our side. So please excuse us this one time." Tang Yue bowed.

But how could things be so simple?

Layla immediately scoffed at her. "My friend is telling me a different story." 

"Your wolf attacked us first and then your slave as well tried to attack us."

"Now that I think about this, maybe you were the one who instigated all of this and tried to assassinate me in the forest." Layla crossed her arms and twisted the truth.

Tang Yue frowned. This stupid woman didn't look like she was going to drop this matter easily.

Why were all royal spawns this difficult to deal with? She sighed.

"Your highness, please have mercy. Things only happened accidentally." 

"Please show mercy and excuse us. We will not come here again." Tang Yue bit her lips and tried asking nicely again.

At the same time, she also tried to sense if they were currently alone and isolated.

There were only twelve dwarves in the group and five of them were in Emperor realm.

The rest were merely in Mortal and Martial realms and barely posed any threat.

So if worst comes to worst, it would barely take only a couple of seconds for Tang Yue and Charlotte to finish off the entire group without leaving any trace behind.

But the main problem here was that a dwarven princess was involved in this chaotic situation.

If Tang Yue ended up massacring everyone here, then this incident will most definitely create a huge commotion.

Her disguise would completely be ruined and her efforts thus far would also be ruined.

This was why even though she was completely enraged on seeing Charlotte in that state, she still controlled her anger and tried to calmly diffuse the situation.

Trash can be taken out at any time but she was unfortunately in a situation where she had to think about the consequences.