Quick Transmigration: Saving The Crazy Villainess

Chapter 452: Wang Yu Yan (27)

The skies became darker not because of the weather. Shadows covered the city from above. Ominous howling from engines and war beasts echoed without pause. 

Faced with a great threat that wanted to erase them from Earth, humanity also brought out their weapons, and now every inch of the land and the air was crowded with soldiers, floating cannons, ships, flying robots, and other weapons.

Although caught off-guard, they were prepared to fight to death. 

Of course, there were still people who hoped for the war not to happen. After all, they knew, even with the fae army reduced to half, humanity would still lose.

When both parties had yet to open fire, Shi Nianzhu made a territory-wide announcement targeted at the enemies. 

Dong Lan listened to it with a contemplative look put on. 

The Pontiff and the others who knew the human language understood the opponent wanted to threaten them with the mighty being that flooded the entire fae territory. 

However, under the leadership of the Pontiff, nobody responded.

It did not help that many amongst the nobles not amongst the higher-ups or elites of the government and the Temple did not bother learning the human language. When the announcement rang, they did not get a word from it at all, nor could they be bothered to understand. 

They were the most enthusiastic ones when the Pontiff signaled the attack. 

Seeing this result, the President fell silent for a few minutes before he gave an unexpected order. 

"Have Wang Yu Yan join the frontline," said Shi Nianzhu, his tone filled with finality.

For this order, he even argued with the military commander-in-chief.

He murmured to himself upon receiving disbelieving gazes of his subjects. "This is for the sake of humanity."

No one could tell for sure if he was convincing himself or those around him. 

'Let's all hope the miracle-maker would make a move again once Wang Yu Yan is in danger.' 

The President made that decision despite the opposition from his advisors. He wanted to have the least number of casualties possible and a distracter big enough to give time for humanity to enter outer space.

Even though Jiang Li was not as intelligent as Wang Yu Yan, he had not lived thousands of years in vain. The President's intention for assigning a strategist on the front line was clear as day to him. And he knew it was definitely done out of desperation. 

The person must have guessed that he was guarding the woman, or blindly betted that he would care for her life and death on the battlefield. 

'They're smart,' he said to himself laughingly. 

Wang Yu Yan obediently followed the orders and arrived at the dangerous zone where the battle already started. Her mind was on plotting for humanity's survival and contemplating about the sudden transfer. 

Hearing his words, Wang Yu Yan looked up and saw the man looking out the window. She inwardly sighed.

About the transfer order, she was not an idiot to realize what Jiang Li realized. And the sad thing was, she could not not follow. 

Moreover, her brain too was telling her something despicable, yet reasonable. 

To take advantage of the man's suspicious obsession with protecting her. 

Loud, chaotic sounds from the battle ahead made way into her ears. The smell of blood assaulted her nose. As she raised her weapon and listen to the reports flooding her, she heard a faint voice inside her head that was different from the rest. The words her mental devil was spouting were not full of seriousness and urgency, but malice and temptation. 

'He caused the war to break out earlier than expected. Don't hesitate anymore! Use him. This is all for the greater good,' it said. 

It was urging her to forget how the great flood sank one of the hidden trump cards of the fae race, the transformed human slaves. To forget that many resources and manpower of the fae race also got destroyed by the waters. 

She momentarily felt dizzy. 'Get a grip of yourself, Yu Yan. If the war proceeded without his intervention, humans would not even be able to withstand the first wave. We would be annihilated by the dinosaurs and living metals.' 

The villainess closed her eyes. 

However, before jumping off the battleship to join the fight below as one of the commanders, Wang Yu Yan glanced at Jiang Li. 

She did not say a thing or make an unreasonable request. 

But this did not change the fact that she jumped. 

Moreover, before doing so, she did not tell the man that he already did enough for them, that it was okay not to join the war. 

Jiang Li watched her for some time before he laughed. Then also jumped down. The relieved but guilt-ridden gaze that Wang Yu Yan gave him as she fell did not escape his notice.

However, he had no whatsoever intention to play their game of war. Not even for the villainess. 

'A thousand meters off the ground, meaning we have about fifteen seconds before impact.' He estimated. 

Jiang Li's voice rang echoed faintly in Wang Yu Yan's ears, almost drowned out by the deafening whistling of the wind. 

"See you later. I'd first go see some really important people." 

Wang Yu Yan froze when he suddenly flew in a different direction, shortly disappearing from her sight. 

'He left?'

She was so dumbfounded that she almost crashed to the surface for not paying enough attention to her landing site.

A moment later, as the woman gasped, trying to calm down her racing heart, she thought bitterly. 

'I should have known. There's no way we can manipulate somebody way beyond our league.'

Jiang Li ended the war in less than an hour. 

However, it was not in the way everyone else who knew him hoped. The territory still ended up in the hands of the fae, the entire humanity forced to leave. For the latter race, the only good thing that happened was that the casualties did not reach more than ten thousand and everyone else was given enough time to evacuate.

However, when a space shuttle came to fetch her, Wang Yu Yan chose not to board it. She looked for Jiang Li, the guy that bought her race the time to migrate over to outer space. 

She found him sitting on the ground cross-legged. He appeared so bored as he looked up. On the other hand, Wang Yu Yan's back became drenched in cold sweat upon seeing that facing him were thousands of huge creatures and oddly-shaped battleships. 

How could this person maintain such a face considering his situation?

"Sir," she called out in a quiet tone. 

Jiang Li's hunched back slowly straightened. He turned his head, looking over his shoulder "You're still here?"

Judging from his expression, it seemed that he was not pleased to see her.

Wang Yu Yan sensed a few cannons and guns aiming at her so she made sure to activate her shield. Then with a stiff face, she replied. "My race is grateful for Sir so I stayed to convey our gratitude." 

Fifty minutes ago, the fae race suddenly stopped attacking. No one from the human side knew the reason. But instead of counterattacking or provoking them to resume the attacks, Wang Yu Yan advised the President to take advantage of the situation to fly every Federal citizen to space. Shi Nianzhu only deliberated for a minute before heeding her idea. 

Now, things had come to this. There were barely any humans left on the planet. Probably only the soldiers who chose to standby while remaining spaceships were taking off. Then there were Jiang Li and Wang Yu Yan. 

Although like others, she wanted to survive, deep inside her, there was a voice saying she would not be able to live with dignity without properly apologizing and returning the favor to him. 

The man threw her another glance. Standing before thousands of monsters and enemies, he could see that the villainess was not as calm as she wanted others to believe. 

"How's humanity's gratefulness related to leaving you behind?" he asked, amused. Jiang Li never thought something illogical could actually come out of the girl's mouth. 

"Because..."

The villainess closed her mouth after. She was not really someone easily stumped in a talk. But sometimes, when feeling guilty, humans would just find it hard to come up with anything besides excuses or stupid-sounding arguments. 

Jiang Li's eyes went back to the ones lining up in the front. The eyes of the fae race members there were not friendly. Dong Lan for example, looked like he was dying to kill him. But they did not dare move. 

He said to the villainess, "I know there are private pods left at the central district that you can use. You should leave."

She stubbornly shook her head. 

"Sir, I specifically looked for you to bring you away." Finally, she replied. 

His eyes replied as he pointed at the forces half-circling him. Without him speaking, she could see him asking if she could. 

Wang Yu Yan took a deep breath and asked, "May I know what's the situation here?"

"Sure." He nodded nonchalantly and answered, "We're at a stalemate, although they wanted to kill me, since I just turned the person the Pontiff cared about into a human." 

Jiang Li laughed upon remembering the face of his annoying fellow world-hopper when Mo Han lost the beautiful sapphire glow of his sclera. Yes, it was the male lead. He turned him into a human. 

Because he put an effort in raising his voice, the faes turned to him with angry faces. Since he knew their language, a perk that came with possessing his current body, he could understand their words and knew that they were madly cursing him to die. The faes felt badly insulted that somebody belonging to their race, a noble no less, turned into a lower being.

Meanwhile, the Pontiff was angry for another reason, because he knew who Mo Han really was and what role he played in this world. Even now as he tried to cure the Blessed Child, he could hear Mo Han begging to turn him back into a fae. Surrounding the youth and the Pontiff were several magic circles and formations that lit up the deck of the fae race's flagship.

"Jiang Li!" Out of frustration that his efforts for a full hour resulted to nothing, Dong Lan spat out the name in fury. 

Wang Yu Yan never thought she would ever witness the prided seer, healer, and leader of the enemy race trembling like mad. All sorts of weapons were raised and aimed at the two of them. She looked nervously at Jiang Li and saw that the person was the opposite of her. He calmly pointed at the thick, sky-high wall of ice before turning to her. 

He explained, "It's okay. They won't dare since they know I can easily collapse that thing over there. You see, for some reason, they value land more than anything else now."

The woman gave the enemy forces a look. The shadows engulfing them from above were massive, but the blue wall towered behind them and appeared more intimidating. 

Now she knew how the man bought them time. 

However there was still one thing she did not understand. "If you can turn a fae into a human, why that noble youth then?"

Jiang Li did not answer. He taunted Dong Lan and made it appear like he did it on purpose, like he knew something more about the world's consciousness and the leads that the other party did not know. In reality, he was just jesting.

At his age, he was still someone who did things on a whim, a proof that not all people turned calculative the older they became.

But who would expect that the Pontiff would give that kind of reaction? 

Maybe there was really a secret behind it that he just did not know? 

'I never encounter a non-human protagonist before, so maybe there's really something deeper into it.'

'But so what?' 

'That fellow prophesied the male lead as someone who will play an important role for the fae race. I helped him make it a reality. He served as a distraction and a reminder of what the current I can do Oh whatever, I know it's a weak argument.'

Wang Yu Yan took his silence as him saying not to pry for something she should not know. 

Of course, she was still puzzled about the situation. There was also one thing that she disliked to consider but just wouldn't stop popping up in her mind. 

'Why did you wait for several thousand soldiers to sacrifice themselves before making your move? Why didn't you do this the moment the enemies arrived?' 

She did not know that before the fae race arrived, Jiang Li was weak, that it took him some time to decide to spend some points in his recovery. 

Thankfully, her head was still sound, and she realized that Jiang Li was not like her who was obliged to work for humanity. The words never left her mouth. She remembered him saying that he could change a person's race. That ability she didn't believe any human or fae could do that.

Behind her echoed the deafening sounds of another starship taking off. In her recollection, that one was truly the last remaining space vessel of the Federation. 

"Sir, it seems we really can't leave Earth anymore," she muttered. 

In just a minute, the massive thing vanished from sight.

Jiang Li smiled and stood up. He looked unconcerned by the fact that he would not be able to leave the planet.

Without patting the dust off his clothes, he yelled to the Pontiff, "The agreement starts here." 

The departure of that last spaceship marked the end of the war. 

"Bastard," grumbled the Pontiff.

Dong Lan heard him and felt tempted to signal the attack. He almost agreed when Jiang Li showed his back to them and the Supreme General suggested through gritted teeth, "Your Holiness, let's take this chance to kill him." 

However, the Pontiff controlled himself and did not give a reply to the Supreme General.

When others urged him, Dong Lan coldly said, "I have already predicted that he would destroy the wall to drown the remaining land with water once we make a move."

The angered Duke, father of Mo Han, argued. 

"Do we have to be this careful? He might just be bluffing! He might not be able to tumble those walls down within a short period of time." 

Dong Lan was not looking pleased with the situation. He silenced the protesters with a glare. 

In actuality, he brought his race to attack because he sensed that Jiang Li had not much divine power left on him. He wanted to force the man to consume his backup points. At the same time, his race needed a dry place, a place that would not force them to spend the resources remaining in them.

However, a moment of complacency also made him overlook what was keeping this coveted territory from being flooded and who created them.

The Pontiff silently returned to attempting to reverse Jiang Li's spell on the male lead. Mo Han must become a fae again to fulfill his actual role. To not be bothered by the others, the Pontiff ordered them to begin settling their people in the vacated cities.

Meanwhile, Jiang Li had a calm face as he walked towards the vehicle that he saw parked nearby. Wang Yu Yan boarded the same shuttle, assuming the role of a driver.