In a split second, before Timothy, Abelard, Hailey, and the Water Kylin had enough time to react or protest, they were already spurred into the Ancient Void Battlefield. Darren had taken them all into the safe haven just in the nick of time, a few inches away from the hot magma.
"We are safe now. Thanks to Darren for bringing us here. But what about him now?"
"Yeah, if he is drowned in that hot magma, we are afraid that..."
Timothy and Abelard stopped their words abruptly and looked very anxious. Hailey next to them was distraught too. Her mind was preoccupied with the thought whether Darren had survived or not. Yet, all of them knew they couldn't do anything for Darren at that moment apart from praying silently for his safety.
Even the Water Kylin, Darren's beast slave, had a strange feeling in his heart, a feeling that he never experienced before. For his entire existence as a beast, nobody ever treated him like the way Darren did.
Scenes of the past flashed his mind. When Landon, the double-headed man, was injured by him, and the law enforcer was about to kill the Water Kylin as well, Darren risked his life and persuaded the law enforcer to spare him. Also, when he was about to be killed by the winged-tiger, Darren opened the Ancient Void Battlefield by force despite the huge risk and saved him from the winged-tiger. Now, for the third time, the same thing happened once again—Darren saved him at the most critical moment.
Aside from all the rescuing and saving that Darren had done for the Water Kylin, what moved him most as a slave was Darren's behavior towards him. Especially when Diana, the Holy Lord of the Lotus Holy Land, came to the Ancient Void Battlefield, Darren introduced the Water Kylin to Diana as his buddy—not his beast slave! Although the Water Kylin was always careless and disinterested, he actually kept all those things in mind and was very grateful to Darren. Now that Darren's life was in danger, the worry that the Water Kylin felt deep inside him heightened to an extent.
"Master never treated me as his slave..." the Water Kylin said painfully as he felt a lump in his throat. He wasn't able to finish his words in between sobs.
Whoosh!
Forthwith, like greased lightning, a white figure flew out of nowhere and landed near them. Soon, the Water Kylin recognized the white figure was Finley.
"Water Kylin, come to my side now!"
Finley waved towards the Water Kylin and used his space skill and drew him closer to him.
"Finley, the master is..."
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