Mist Empire’s Rise: Fake Noble to Fog Queen

For Luo Wei, facing thirty-one enemies alone was no small challenge.

Although she had been a Taekwondo expert in her previous life, she hadn't maintained regular training in this life due to her busy schedule, and her muscle explosiveness wasn't particularly strong.

If she were to use magic, she could only cast the fire spell thirteen times at most, and these agile fighters might not be easy targets to hit.

Getting reinforcements?

Sure, she could, but she couldn't always rely on others for help. She needed to be self-sufficient and capable of completing tasks independently.

Besides, she didn't want to explain to Troy why she was flying out in the middle of the night to find the Seko people.

Although Troy knew she could fly, and she knew that Troy knew she could fly, Troy didn't know that she knew he knew about her flying ability.

The unspoken understanding between them was the best state of affairs.

If they broke that tacit agreement, many things between them would need answers.

Luo Wei's mind raced as she considered how to eliminate this group of Seko people.

If only she had a gun, but this was still the age of cold weapons, and the infrastructure was too primitive to manufacture precise components.

Luo Wei mentally inventoried her equipment: a magic wand, a turtle shell, two daggers, a black robe, and a bag of jewels.

Direct confrontation wasn't an option; she could only resort to ambush tactics.

Luo Wei drew her dagger and hid behind a rock, quietly waiting for an opportunity.

These men had drunk so much water; they would surely need to relieve themselves. Then she could pick them off one by one, slitting their throats.

After waiting for about twenty minutes, finally, a man stood up, lifting his clothes as if urgently needing to urinate.

This was her chance!

Luo Wei gripped her dagger tightly, her eyes fixed on his figure, watching to see which direction he would go.

Three seconds later...

She had miscalculated.

The man didn't leave the campfire at all; he simply turned around, lifted his clothes, and relieved himself right there.

Luo Wei: ...

She had almost forgotten that in this era, even nobles would defecate at their dining tables. How could she expect a group of bandits to seek privacy for their bathroom needs?

However, after another dozen minutes or so, she finally got her opportunity.

It started when one man squatted near the fire to eat while defecating, but he had drunk too much and had diarrhea. His excrement splashed onto the face of another man who was crouching nearby looking for a wine jar, and the two began arguing.

From their quarrel, Luo Wei heard some good news - because his diarrhea smelled so terrible, it angered everyone, and they beat him up before forcing him to go further away to relieve himself.

The man with diarrhea hadn't even wiped himself before being pushed away by the group.

Luo Wei watched him stumble away alone, then looked at the dagger in her hand.

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To kill or not to kill, that was the question.

If she killed him, she worried her dagger would get dirty.

But not killing him... no, she couldn't let any of them escape.

Gritting her teeth, she followed him.

The first kill went smoothly, probably because he was drunk and his senses were numbed.

Luo Wei waited until he finished his business and was looking for something to clean himself with. She covered his mouth with her left hand and firmly pressed the dagger across his throat with her right.

Blood sprayed out, wetting Luo Wei's palm. The warm, metallic scent quickly dissipated in the cold wind, and the liquid froze into red ice crystals on her fingertips.

She laid the corpse on the ground and wiped the blood from her dagger with a soft cloth.

The bright blood coated the blade tip like a red plastic film.

The soft cloth couldn't clean it off, so Luo Wei had to scrape the frozen blood away with her fingernails.

Now she just needed to continue waiting for the second person to come out to relieve themselves, or for someone to come looking when they noticed a missing companion. Then she could strike again.

Ten minutes passed, and Luo Wei had miscalculated again.

These men were so drunk that none of them even noticed they were missing a companion.

Luo Wei waited until her hands and feet were numb from the cold, but no one came out.

Suddenly, sharp screams erupted from around the campfire. The barbarians weren't satisfied with their meal and had dragged out another female captive from the bushes, laughing about how women and children's meat was the most tender, saying they would roast her on a stick.

Cries and laughter intertwined, like a grotesque grey comedy being performed.

Luo Wei's brows furrowed tightly, her downturned crescent eyebrows resembling sharp butterfly knives.

These beasts - every second they remained alive was her sin.

Luo Wei scanned the surroundings and noticed the rock fragments on the ground, suddenly struck by an idea.

An egg dropped from the twenty-fifth floor could kill someone, and a nail dropped from the eighteenth floor could pierce a skull.

Although stones would lose some speed due to air resistance during their fall, with sufficient height, the impact force would still be enough to kill.

Luo Wei gathered several dozen pounds of rock fragments in her skirt and spread her wings to soar upward with all her might.

It was a crude method - aiming would be difficult from the air, and she could easily miss her targets.

She would have to do her best to avoid harming innocents.

The wind howled, making her robes flutter.

She calculated the height, estimated the air resistance and wind force that each stone would encounter during its fall, and approximated the terminal velocity and potential impact force.

Luo Wei flew to about a hundred meters above the ground, took out a goose egg-sized stone, and aimed at the flat beach on the other side of the campfire.

The higher the distance, the greater the deviation - she needed to test it first.

The fragment left her hand, falling toward the exposed ground.

With a "bang," the stone hit the glacial beach twenty meters from the Seko people's campfire, sending sand and soil spraying several meters high.

"Who's there!"

The tremendous noise startled the drinking men. They quickly grabbed their stone axes and looked warily toward the source of the sound.

"What happened? What was that?"

"Don't know, doesn't sound like wolves."

Several Seko men who were about to impale the female captive on sharpened stakes also stopped and turned around holding their weapons: "Is someone there?"

The wind sobered them up considerably.

The Seko leader drew a machete: "Leave a few men to watch the two-legged sheep, the rest come with me to check it out."

A large group stood up from the ground, pulled burning branches from the fire, and rushed menacingly toward the glacial beach.

Thanks to their torches, they gave Luo Wei clear targets.

She coldly watched them run into her preset zone, grabbed the stones from her skirt, and rained them down indiscriminately.

Rock fragments of various sizes fell like hail toward the ground. The Seko leader's ears twitched as he seemed to hear an odd sound.

"Not good, run!"

But his warning came too late. The stone rain fell densely upon them, blood splashing as within a few breaths, the area around him was filled with agonized screams.

Sharp edges of the fragments pierced their flesh. Some died instantly when hit in the back of the head, others fell with broken shoulders and crawled around in terror.

The Seko leader's eyes bulged as he swung his iron blade to deflect falling stones while shouting: "Scatter! Scatter! Put out the fires and use your weapons to block!"

As pirates who lived by the blade, their reactions were much faster than normal people. Although they didn't understand why stones were raining from the sky, they immediately held their stone axes above their heads and fled in all directions.

The stones in Luo Wei's skirt were almost gone, but less than half of the people below were casualties.

Her accuracy had been too low.

She wasn't discouraged though - the results were already better than she had expected.

This tactic was only meant to scatter them anyway.

Once they were isolated, none would escape.

Luo Wei dropped the last stone, took out her magic wand, and dove toward the ground.

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