A Single Mother's Farm of the Gods
Chapter 186: Wrath of the Farmer

Chapter 186: Wrath of the Farmer

The Young Duke is quite a calculating individual and will not just do something that would make him lose a lot of time and effort just for being there. He will ensure he is doing it to make him get what he wants with minimal effort.

However, it seems he has severely underestimated the security and the danger that he will be facing. He was expecting the soldiers to be his problem, but he didn’t expect the Shadow Ops to be there. Shadow Ops are considered to be the elite of the elites and they are not just called Elite for nothing.

He still can take on these guys but he will struggle a bit, but there were no talks about the farmer and owner of the farm. All he knew was that she was the former empress of the neighboring Luminiera Kingdom. She heard of her exploits before but because it was all about the business type, he was not worried about her.

But he was never informed that she was this dangerous.

She was just standing in the middle of the Shadow Ops protecting her while she was holding her sword in her hip and had never moved an inch, and yet, that attack earlier clearly passed through and he was far from her, yet the attack connected. His precious hair which he tied up and meticulously spent hours to care of has been slashed and cut off from his head. His tied-up hair sits on the ground and will never be reattached again.

As much as he wants to get angry, the woman before him is much angrier than him, and even as someone who has lived through longer than her, her anger is nowhere near what he can muster. That is a real rage right there.

"What are you waiting for? Leave!"

He gulped a bit and showed his confident face. Despite the lingering fear in his system, shouting that he shouldn’t provoke someone like her, he is confident that even she would not be able to defend against his petrification magic. An impeccable power that has no cure.

Landing on the ground, he holds a big confident aura as he walks toward them. The Shadow Ops are wary of him and pose their stance to fight against him if he does something funny.

"And what can a pregnant woman like you do to me?"

Elaina steps forward with a sword in hand.

"Oh, there’s plenty to do. For example..." Elaina moved the sword on her hand slightly and before the young baron could react, his expensive clothes which had been swaying in the wind earlier, slowly fell to the ground...in pieces. What was left behind was his underwear which Elaina purposely hid to not fully tarnish the reputation of the Young Duke.

But what is revealed underneath his clothes are black lines of multiple runes. Elaina is not familiar with it, but it seems the Shadow Ops soldiers do.

"T-those are Cursed Runes! He has indeed dabbled in dark arts!"

The Young Duke slowly started laughing as the black runes on his body glowed into a bright purple, flaming around his body.

"Tsk, tsk. Fatal mistake, former empress. Seeing that you know my secret, there’s no need for you to remain alive! Now, suffer for eternity and rot as a stone!"

The Young Duke immediately shot out a beam into Elaina which shocked the latter, he also shot a few to the Shadow Ops but they were quick and dodged them. Shardu and Zaza managed to dodge as well, but only Elaina didn’t manage to evade it in time and was hit by the peculiar beam.

"Hahaha! Now, stay there and move away, or else, I will smash you to smithereens. Think of it as an act of mercy from me..." He then proceeds to walk towards the door, only for a sword to touch his neck.

"And this is my only mercy from you. One wrong move and your body will soon be missing its central processing unit."

This caused the Young Duke to be shocked. He shot the former empress with the Petrification beam, the beam that also petrified countless people in the palace including the king and queen themselves. The effect should be instantaneous, but why is this woman still capable of moving?

"I don’t know what you just shot me but it seems you have done something that can cause some problems with me, right? Based on the words you said, and the "smash to smithereens" words you spouted earlier, I can assume that the power you shot earlier should be the Petrification magic."

"How?! How are you still moving?!"

Elaina opens and closes her fist and like what he said, she is still unharmed and the petrification process in her body has not even started.

"I don’t know but knowing that you are indeed trying hard to petrify me, then perhaps you should get to be stopped as well. Think of it as my wrath for not complying with my request to leave the farm’s premises."

"Stay back! Become a stone! Stay away from me!"

He shoots Elaina a few more times but he soon realizes why it is not connecting. What he saw is that his attacks were indeed touching Elaina but they were immediately cancelled out and disappears like they were just smoke. In short, the attacks were all nullified before they took effect.

Elaina could tell that he might be harming other people with that power of his, so instead of letting him go as she would usually do, Elaina decided to deprive him of a way to use those powers.

SWISH! SWISH!

Two quick slashes, enough for everyone to see in a span of seconds.

"AAAAAAHHHHHHH!"

The Young Duke screamed. Scream of someone in pain.

What Elaina did was sever both of his hands, preventing him from even using his hands to cast the curse of petrification on anyone.

"Stop screaming, I made sure to make the attack painless, look, you won’t even see blood flowing out of your wounds."

Elaina’s precise attack severed his both hands, but they were so quick that the blood that should have been flowing out is nowhere to be seen.

Seeing that the Young Duke is no longer capable of doing anything harmful, the Shadow Ops immediately took action and grabbed the Young Duke. One tied up his feet, while the others put a sack on his head. It looks so wrong mobbing a young kid like that, but considering that this person is a dangerous individual, it doesn’t matter if they look bad at all.

After the incident, Elaina sighed in relief. Although the Young Duke sounded like the major villain, it seems that he was just a minor annoyance. With Elaina severing both his hands, he will no longer be capable of doing anything as a result.

"Thank you for the assistance, Miss Elaina. Seeing your swordsmanship in close range is something of an experience. Thank you for assisting us in apprehending the one who soiled the royalty," the leader of the Shadow Ops said with a bow.

"It’s fine. I just did that to ensure that he will not be doing anything heinous again. So...what will happen to him?"

"He will be held in prison for a few days and then he will be held in trial. Seeing that various evidence points out that he is planning to overthrow the current royalty, and he does harm to others by using Black Magic, it would be no doubt that he will be receiving the death penalty for sure."

Elaina nodded. It makes sense since this guy did various outrageous acts, and he even cursed the royal family with petrification. If not for the cure, then perhaps they will not be able to move again.

"We will take our leave then. Please send our regards to the Princess. From the looks of it, she is still unaware of what happened."

"Best that she didn’t see what happened earlier. I don’t think she will be able to hold it in after seeing the attack."

The Shadow Ops nodded and they disappeared alongside the squirming Young Duke. Elaina sighed in relief and immediately contacted the Gods about the situation.

"God of Farming, it seems that your fruit is much more than what it is worth. It is not just an anti-petrification fruit, but it seems that it can nullify further effects to the user!"

Instead of the God of Farming answering, the one who answered is instead the Goddess of Medicine.

"[I saw all of it, and he also saw the whole scuffle. As a result, he let me handle the talking to you, human. Good job learning the minor details.]"

"Oh, it’s you," Elaina nonchalantly said as she slowly sat down on the rocking chair.

"[Why do you sound like you are indifferent to me, talking here?]" the Goddess of Medicine seems to be pissed.

"I mean, you are hard to talk to, so doing little to no interaction with you would be a much better option, sparing me without a headache interacting with you."

Then, the God of Farming returned.

"[Don’t worry about her, Elaina. She might be grumpy but you don’t have to worry too much. Anyways, she will become a new god who will be supervising the others here as a way of collaboration. So, you needed to get used to her way of talking.]"

"[Hey, why does it sounded like you are insulting me?]"

"[I am just helping out, don’t take it the hard way, geez...]"

Elaina smiled. She already guessed that the Goddess would be joining the group soon. With the minor scuffle ended, it seems that only time will tell what will happen in the future.