After the Lord of the Abyss Awakens - Chapter 1

The sun was shining brightly outside, with people coming and going.

The antique shop was located in a quiet alley amidst the bustling city. Occasionally, some people in heavy winter clothes would pass by, but very few noticed the old antique shop.

The black-haired young man had finished cleaning the antique shop. He was a bit tired, but his face showed satisfaction. He looked around the antique shop, seemingly very pleased with his work. Then, he put on a cotton jacket, sat behind the counter, and slowly read a popular science history book.

“Ancient Era, Mysterious Era, Gods Era, Demons Era, Human Era.”

Unexpectedly, he had been dead for thousands of years, and the outside world had passed through three eras.

“The era I traveled to was a chaotic battle of gods, and humans were the weakest race. Unexpectedly, as time passed, humans became the masters of the continent.”

“At least on the surface.”

Xiu Si nodded, showing a thoughtful look.

He was a traveler from Blue Star, and his original name was not “Xiu Si”.

Xiu Si was his name in the game. Back then, humans were too weak to compete with other god-created races. The eighteenth generation of human magicians, in conjunction with several gods, turned this world into a game of Blue Star. He was one of the game’s beta testers at the time, and one of the seven saviors.

There were more than seven beta testers at the time, but only those who completed the “Hero” mission received the title of hero.

Back then, he felt a bit embarrassed when he got the title of hero. A hero, huh? I’m just a corporate slave. But his undying chuunibyou spirit accepted it.

He entered the game knowing nothing, and it wasn’t until he awakened that he realized this world was real!

He was shocked and incredulous at the time. However, after awakening, he found that he could not travel back. With no other choice, he had to stay in this foreign world, striving to survive and level up, accepting the name Xiu Si and the identity of a hero.

Among the seven heroes, he was undoubtedly the weakest. He chose the “Creator” channel for fun at the time, plus he was a 3D modeler himself. He didn’t expect that the “Creator” would be extremely difficult to upgrade in the early stages, and the initial panel was extremely low. His attack power was 1, defense power was 1, magic resistance, physical resistance, and other attributes were also very weak, he was a complete weakling!

Oh no, even worse than a weakling, at least a weakling has a combat power of 5.

If others needed 10 resources to level up, he needed 100, a huge resource hog! And even after leveling up, there wasn’t much enhancement. Talent points could only be put on the “Creator” job attributes. To become stronger, he couldn’t just make himself stronger, he had to make the creatures he created stronger. Only when his creatures leveled up could he level up.

“Ah, I used to have fun playing, but only after crossing over did I realize the hardship.”

Xiu Si reminisced about the past, feeling melancholic in his heart, but he was the type to make the best of things. He gradually adapted. Hardship and difficulty were only temporary, as long as he leveled up well, he could always live well, right? As a corporate slave and a gamer, his endurance was relatively high.

However, he didn’t expect that just as he had leveled up to level 10, he was adventuring in the abyss with other heroes. Suddenly, the space-time became unstable, and the channel connecting the present world to the abyss almost collapsed. He didn’t know if the others had returned safely, but when he came to his senses, he found that only he was left.

“At that time, I was really desperate. I, a level 10 ‘Apprentice Creator’, with attack and defense values of only 10, couldn’t beat any abyss monster. Wasn’t it certain death?”

Xiu Si recalled that year, feeling even more melancholic.

But he still survived. Should it be said that his will to survive was strong, or was it good luck?

“Um…”

Xiu Si paused, his eyebrows slightly furrowed, and said in a complex tone, “It seems that I didn’t completely survive.”

Yes, he still died. An accident occurred when he was about to level up to 19.

Theoretically, he should have died, his health bar was zero, and the system panel was shattered. However, he didn’t expect—

“I actually resurrected.”

Xiu Si murmured, feeling puzzled about this.

Being alive was certainly something to be happy about, but he didn’t quite understand why.

“Let’s not talk about these for now.”

Xiu Si stopped flipping through the book, his expression serious, and his body slightly trembling.

He was dead, but what about his family’s obedient children?

When he was struggling in the abyss, he used his professional skill “Creation” to shape many cute creatures. But he suddenly died, leaving his weak and pitiful obedient children behind. How could they survive in a place like the abyss?

Xiu Si opened the system panel and looked at the gray creation manual column, falling into a long silence.

A few days ago, he walked out of the graveyard, knowing nothing about the world thousands of years later. The game system had not been repaired for a long time, and he didn’t know the situation of his obedient children.

He was really worried!

Fortunately, as soon as he came out, he met the enthusiastic church priest, Xilin.

Priest Xilin was also a human adventurer, usually adventuring in various ruins. Seeing him helpless and “lost his memory” in the graveyard, he generously provided him with temporary accommodation and work. He was very grateful and helped watch the shop during the day.

Priest Xilin was an elegant gentleman, about forty or fifty years old, with some gray hair. It seemed that he held an important position in the church, and his days without adventuring were also extremely busy.

Priest Xilin said at the time, “People often fall into the abyss, and when they reappear in the world, they lose all their memories. Your situation is not strange. I will report to the church. If the process goes smoothly, you will have a relief fund.”

Xiu Si didn’t expect that his amnesia would pass so quickly.

Xiu Si was a model young man of Blue Star, with a laid-back personality and stable emotions. As long as he didn’t have to work overnight, he wouldn’t get irritable. He believed that things would naturally straighten out when the time came. His colleagues all said he was a good old man, calm and composed in various situations. Although he himself thought he was okay, he was just a bit of a slacker, not very sociable. He treated people equally well simply because he didn’t want to spend too much time on the distribution of social energy. His interactions with the other six heroes were also similar.

As for Priest Xilin, he didn’t want to lie, but his situation was not easy to explain. Fortunately, Priest Xilin didn’t doubt him.

“No matter what, the first thing to do now is to understand the situation of this era and wait for the game system to restart.”

Xiu Si continued to turn the pages, reading the human history of the Gods Era.

What happened to the other six heroes after he fell into the abyss?

And just then, the door was pushed open.

The person who came in looked travel-worn, wearing a heavy military coat, with white hair, mixed with snow water, an aged face, but bright eyes. As soon as he came in, he stared at him.

Xiu Si was taken aback and looked at the old man.

The old man seemed very surprised that the person at the front desk had changed, and asked as soon as he came in, “You are…?”

“Hello, I am Xiu Si.”

Xiu Si raised his head and showed a harmless and brilliant smile, “Priest Xilin asked me to help watch the shop here.”

The old man had the air of someone from the Aust Empire’s military.

When Xiu Si crossed over, this world was still at a production level similar to the Middle Ages. After he died, this world had obviously developed. It hadn’t reached the electrical age yet, but all kinds of modern living supplies that should be available were about to be available.

This was a great thing. God knows how hard he had to work to adapt to life in a different world back then. If it weren’t for his obedient children accompanying him, he, a lonely and salted fish, would have hardly been able to hold on.

Ah, thinking about this, Xiu Si couldn’t help but think of his obedient children.

At this time, the old man introduced himself, “I am Ronald, just passing by. I wanted to find Priest Xilin, but it seems he is not here.”

Ronald didn’t have too many thoughts about the black-haired young man in front of him. He just thought he was good-looking, with rare black hair and black eyes. 

It’s just a pity… 

Ronald squinted his eyes, not sensing any magic power from the other party, and knew that the other party was just an ordinary person.

In this era, it was difficult to move without magic power. It was not an easy thing for an ordinary person without any magic power to survive.

Especially recently, with the fluctuations in subspace, monsters from the spirit world occasionally broke into the human world. Although the imperial city strengthened its guard and several great magicians were stationed to control it, there were still some fish that slipped through the net.

The monsters that could escape from subspace were basically above level 30. That was to say, if the young man in front of him was unlucky enough to encounter one, he would probably lose his life.

And he himself was an imperial soldier who existed to protect these ordinary people. Thinking of this, Ronald’s eyes deepened, and his aura became a bit sharper.

Ronald looked up, looked into the young man’s eyes, and said seriously, “Since Priest Xilin is not here, please relay some words to him.”

“What words?”

Xiu Si was happy to help, but he added, “I don’t know when Mr. Xilin will be back.”

Ronald nodded, “Just relay the message to Priest Xilin, tell him that ‘that thing’ needs him to personally decipher it.”

Xiu Si nodded, about to agree.

Suddenly, Ronald’s body trembled, his face pale and ugly, as if something had happened, he immediately looked down at his right hand.

Only to see that his palm was surging with extremely ominous black particles.

The black particles were rolling and surging, like a living monster, currently backfiring on Ronald.

Ronald frowned, not knowing why the contract demon was becoming unstable at this time.

Back then, the abyss demons collectively emerged, causing chaos in the Gods Era, leading the world into the Demons Era.

Later, the abyss demons abandoned the present world for unknown reasons and collectively ran to the subspace, as if they were frantically looking for something.

Humans seized the opportunity to rise. Under the guidance of some mysterious forces, a part of the human powerhouses made contracts with the abyss demons, enhancing their own strength. Afterwards, after thousands of years of war, the human kingdom finally established the dominant position of humans, leading the world into the Human Era.

Since then, the abyss demons have been closely related to the armies of various human countries. The stronger the allied abyss demons, the stronger the military power.

But even so, humans were not without worries. They must always be vigilant against invasions from the subspace, and worry about whether their ally, the abyss demon, would abandon them, just like now.

Ronald made a pact with the demon when he was nine years old, and his contract demon seemed to want to cross his control and appear in the human world from the abyss!

Ronald immediately concentrated his mind, his body’s magic power running. He had to control his contract demon, because there was an ordinary person here!

Just then, his heavy military coat was suddenly lifted by a strong wind, the operation of the magic power in the air was visible to the naked eye, he was going to seal his out-of-control right hand on the spot.

At the same time, the black particles were about to take shape, showing the form of the demon!

Ronald thought to himself, this is bad.

Also at this time, the young man in front of him, not knowing to avoid, looked down at the pure black creature crawling out of him, and smiled again.

Ronald was stunned on the spot, almost doubting his own eyes. This young man actually smiled at the abyss demon?

But the most shocking thing was—

The young man also raised his hand, casually stroked the head of the pure black creature, and smiled, “Is this a pet raised by Mr. Ronald?”

Pet, pet? He actually said the abyss demon is a pet?!

Ronald widened his eyes, as if struck by lightning.

He was an imperial general, nicknamed the Slaughter Machine, who had been through countless battlefields and witnessed many horrors, but he had never seen such a scene!

What’s the situation with this young man?!