Divine Beast Creator

Chapter 2366 - 2367: Bad News

"Agunas, wake up, I need your help with something."

Feng Yuan directly woke Agunas up. It glanced at him in confusion, then quickly figured out what had happened. Even if its attention wasn’t on this side, it could still learn what happened earlier through its avatars.

Staring at the red‑haired Gladys with an indescribable look, Agunas flicked its tail and said,

"Why is she the only one here?"

"Mm, maybe it’s an issue related to experience, so she’s the only one?"

Feng Yuan understood what Agunas meant, but he also didn’t quite get what was going on. Parallel‑time Qi Chen and Parallel‑time Dou Yanlan had both come alone, and now this Parallel‑time Gladys was the same.

"Hmph, you actually bring along a bunch of dead weight when carrying out a recon mission?"

With a cold laugh, the red‑haired Gladys spoke disdainfully. Rubbing his brow, Feng Yuan said,

"Agunas, trouble you to bring Gladys over. She’s her Parallel World self after all. Or do you two want to handle this yourselves?"

Even though the other party hadn’t stated her identity outright, Feng Yuan suspected she was probably nothing like the Gladys of this timeline, who was just an ordinary person.

Agunas looked at Feng Yuan suspiciously, not really understanding why he wanted Gladys called over, but after thinking a bit, it still followed his instructions.

On holiday along with the academy, Gladys found it strange to suddenly be approached by Agunas—especially since she just happened to be with Mr. Yan. The two of them came through the Space Gate into the tunnel of the Hellfire Mine, and the surrounding Fierce Flame environment didn’t have much effect on either of them.

After all, both of them were quite strong. What really shocked them, though, was the red‑haired Gladys trapped in place.

Although Feng Yuan didn’t explain, and there were still some slight differences in appearance between the two, Mr. Yan and Gladys still recognized that this person in front of them had a deep connection with Gladys.

"That is... astonishing."

Gladys casually drew a card and tapped it against her chin, staring at the red‑haired Gladys in mingled surprise and doubt. Though there were differences in appearance, she still recognized that the other was herself—no, rather than saying she was herself, it was more like... a different possibility of herself?

"Hmph, to think the me of this world is actually drowning in the sweet trap of romance."

The red‑haired Gladys spoke with a hint of jealousy hidden beneath her disdain. Feng Yuan eyed her suspiciously. Her words weren’t pleasant to hear, but he kept getting the feeling that she seemed to be jealous of Gladys. Could it be...

Thinking of the experiences of Parallel‑time Qi Chen and Parallel‑time Dou Yanlan, Feng Yuan suspected that this Parallel‑time Gladys’s lover was also Mr. Yan—no, to be precise, it should be Yan Lvxin. Feng Yuan really didn’t think the Parallel World Yan Lvxin would still be a teacher.

Mr. Yan and Gladys naturally also caught the implication hidden in her words.

"’Sweet trap of romance’... what a weird way to put it. But I also never thought the Parallel World me would end up like this. I really wonder what she went through."

Gladys didn’t care about the other’s remark. She was very curious what the Parallel‑time Gladys had experienced to become like this. After all, if it were her, she actually didn’t care much about what country she belonged to.

To her, aside from those familiar friends and family, she didn’t care what the nation was like at all. That was why she chose to join Great Xia as soon as she found Yan Lvxin.

As for fighting for the Empire like her Parallel World self? Gladys found that hard to imagine or understand.

"Hmph!"

The Parallel‑time Gladys snorted and turned her head away. Rather than anger, it was more like a bit of pride and self‑satisfaction, which made Feng Yuan feel this scene was especially odd.

"You specially called me over because you want to get some valuable intel out of her mouth?"

Holding a card between her fingers in front of her eyes, Gladys said calmly. Feng Yuan nodded and replied,

"Yeah. She should be acting as part of some plan. Even if their plan isn’t to attack me directly, I feel like she should still know something."

Feng Yuan didn’t really believe she had attacked him as part of some specific mission. Feng Yuan himself wasn’t particularly famous; at least in his view, those people’s primary targets should be the various Divine Beasts, not him.

Moreover, this Parallel‑time Gladys clearly had the same slick divination skills as Gladys. Using divination to find him didn’t seem impossible at all. In fact, from her earlier words, she’d vaguely confirmed that possibility.

The only part that left Feng Yuan speechless was her belief that he would be their biggest obstacle?

Come on—if they wanted Feng Yuan to be the one to stop them, they’d have to get past the Divine Beasts first. Otherwise he wouldn’t bother with those invaders at all. As for whether they could even beat the Divine Beasts...

Feng Yuan’s inclination was that they couldn’t. Even if not every Divine Beast joined the fight, Agunas and the others alone would be enough to hold that group off.

Something occurred to him, and Feng Yuan rubbed his chin. Would Old Wei have a Parallel World counterpart? Unique Throughout Time probably wouldn’t apply to him. So... could there be a Parallel World Old Wei?

Shaking his head, Feng Yuan tossed the thought aside. He could ask when he ran into him. For now, even Feng Yuan had no idea where he was or what he was doing.

After some random questioning, unsurprisingly, they didn’t get much useful information out of the Parallel‑time Gladys’s mouth. No, that wasn’t entirely true.

Gladys gave Feng Yuan such a strange look that he felt very uncomfortable. Fortunately, she didn’t keep staring at him, or Feng Yuan wouldn’t have been able to relax even a little.

Even though she had already guessed that Feng Yuan’s identity was very special, Gladys hadn’t expected her Parallel World self to have divined that Feng Yuan would be the greatest obstacle to her faction’s invasion of this world.

Of course, Gladys didn’t dwell on it. Most Divine Beasts had an undivinable nature. Even if she used every trick she knew, she could only get a fuzzy result. So Gladys simply assumed that her Parallel World self couldn’t divine the threat posed by the Divine Beasts.

Although the Parallel‑time Gladys had said very little, Gladys could still deduce quite a lot from her perspective. Precisely because of that, she concluded that the Parallel‑time Gladys wasn’t acting on an Imperial mission, but was operating independently.

Based on her own habits, she didn’t have any heroic tendencies. For a mission like infiltrating enemy territory to carry out a decapitation strike, she would absolutely never casually go in alone.

However, Gladys wasn’t sure how strong her Parallel World self actually was. She had no way to judge. Unlike the War timeline, the Beast Tamer methods of The Imperial Timeline were somewhat different from their own.

By contrast, Gladys was actually a bit curious about The Imperial Timeline’s Beast Tamer style. This approach of personally stepping into battle seemed pretty interesting.

Even if that battle style required a certain level of combat strength from the Beastmaster themselves, that was no problem at all for Gladys. Her travels across the land hadn’t relied purely on her beasts’ strength; she had some combat power of her own.

At Gladys’s request, Feng Yuan let her participate in the interrogation. As for what they could get out of the other, Feng Yuan didn’t care. He just had to hand her over to the arriving Elders and be done with it.

That’s right—because of the special circumstances surrounding the Parallel‑time Gladys, the ones taking over weren’t the Baiman City Special Duty Team, but the Elders. After all, it was hard to gauge her strength. If she exceeded the Special Duty Team’s suppression threshold, it could easily lead to casualties.

As for whether the Parallel‑time Gladys was stronger than an Elder, Feng Yuan felt that was impossible. The Imperial Timeline wasn’t the War timeline; they didn’t have that much combat experience. Not to mention, none of the Elders were simple characters.

Take Qi Chen for example. Even if his current strength met the requirement, he still wouldn’t be allowed in that place, because he lacked sufficient combat experience and contribution. So when Feng Yuan saw the Elders come to take over, he immediately gave up on the idea of assisting any further. No need. There was no way the Parallel‑time Gladys could escape from the Elders’ hands.

"Seriously... I didn’t expect the trouble to show up so soon."

Finally seeing those sources of trouble off, Feng Yuan looked at the Flame‑filled tunnel and sighed. Qi Chen scratched his head in puzzlement and asked,

"What trouble? There... shouldn’t be anyone else coming to mess with us, right?"

"No. There’s one thing very clear from Parallel‑time Gladys’s words: she was clearing the path for an invasion of our world. That means they’ve mastered the ability to cross timelines, and they already have an offensive plan prepared."

Dou Yanlan pinched her chin lightly, her expression serious. Nodding, Feng Yuan said helplessly,

"Before, it was just a worry. Now... they’re going to be very busy."