After the Lord of the Abyss Awakens - Chapter 104.2

Morax: “Bachin has the weakest constitution among us.”

Buer’s eyes widened. “Is He that weak?”

Bachin internally roared: I’m so sorry for being too weak!

Morax pointed at Bachin, “Isn’t it obvious.”

Buer looked down to see Bachin’s face ashen, nearly breathing His last.

Buer was immediately alarmed, anxiously saying, “I didn’t mean to meow!”

See, She was so anxious the “meow” came out.

Bachin was numb, struggling to say, “Never mind… that… help me… up first.”

Perhaps Buer’s habit of defaulting to force-feeding potions needed to change, but these demons all had maxed out magic resistance and wouldn’t let anyone examine their bodies even when unconscious – how was She supposed to know their condition?

Buer was a bit annoyed too, but still helped Bachin up, saying, “Actually if you’d just relax and let me check your condition this wouldn’t have happened.”

Standing at the doorway, Gusin watched the whole process and laughed out loud. “Hahaha, everyone gets along so well.”

Buer and Morax simultaneously looked at Gusin.

Bachin thought to himself, how could they not get along well, these were life-and-death friendships.

Seeing Bachin’s expression full of resentment, Gusin said with a smile. “Haha, did you ever think about today when you used to trick us with your spatial powers?”

Buer was shocked again, “What, He used to trick us?!”

Morax opened His eyes wide and confusedly let out an “Ah.”

Bachin had a look of impending doom on His face as He stared intensely at Gusin.

Gusin smiled and said, “Little brother Bachin used to prank you guys quite often, like using spatial powers to swipe careless Sister Buer’s potions, and steal little brother Morax’s asteroid.”

Buer’s pupils shook.

Morax nearly exploded.

Gusin continued telling Buer. “No, many demons stole your potions, you just weren’t good at counting, so you never noticed.”

Buer was devastated, Her whole worldview was about to collapse!

Bachin was about to curse, staring intently at Gusin – why are you exposing my dark history at a time like this, is that how you’re supposed to use the Book of Answers?!

At this point, Morax finally couldn’t hold back anymore, angrily pounded the table, grabbed Bachin, and stared at Him at extremely close range. “That star I lost was stolen by you?”

As everyone knew, Morax was an astronomy demon, manifested in His love for playing with stars.

Every star in the cosmic region where He usually stayed was His treasure, carefully polished by Him. One day, He woke up and lost one, couldn’t find it anywhere, thought it had naturally exploded, never imagined the culprit was actually this fellow Bachin!

Bachin was now sweating profusely, how could He say He didn’t do it on purpose, it was just that sometimes His powers activated on their own? That would obviously sound like nonsense. He had no choice but to play dead and pretend not to know.

Morax shouted angrily. “Sister Buer, increase the dosage!”

Buer glared. “Increase it to the max!!”

Hearing this, Gusin smiled even more happily.

Bachin was truly horrified, inwardly roaring that Gusin must be the king of hell.

But Bachin couldn’t pretend anymore and tried to struggle desperately. However, Gusin laughed heartily and actually said, “You’ve got it wrong, He has a dimensional stomach, no matter how much He eats it won’t affect Him.”

Buer and Morax immediately stopped and glared fiercely at Bachin.

Bachin wanted to curse Gusin to death – the most twisted demon in the family must be you, right?

Gusin calmly said, “Occasional bickering improves relationships.”

Improve my foot, They’re going to kill me! Bachin was being restrained and was about to call for help.

Fortunately, Aelioge suddenly appeared and stopped this fraternal harm.

Aelioge calmly said, “That’s about enough, if Bachin dies, we’ll lose our spatial power.”

Hearing this, the two demons couldn’t help but stop their actions.

Although Bachin was very grateful to Aelioge, He also wanted to curse – so after all this, I’m just “spatial power” to you, where did the brotherly love go!

The air was exceptionally tense. Several minutes later, Bachin barely escaped punishment.

Buer: “Don’t steal anymore next time.”

“Steal again and we’ll eat you!”

Morax made a death threat.

Bachin finally escaped danger, with Gusin being the most irritating one.

However, Gusin walked to His side and inexplicably said warmly, “Little brother Bachin, I love you.”

Bachin’s face turned green with anger, “What nonsense love!”

Gusin said seriously, “Isn’t there a saying? To love someone, you must accept all their truths.”

Bachin frowned. “What nonsense are you talking about?”

Gusin became even more serious, His eyes mysteriously deep as He said, “Knowing the real you is the first step to loving you.”

“??”

Bachin instantly got goosebumps all over.

Buer was dumbfounded, standing there in a daze.

Morax was even more confused.

Only Aelioge nodded, thinking He was the demon who understood Father the most!

However, when He thought of Second Brother, He had to grudgingly add “one of” to that thought.

Aelioge shook His head and said to Gusin. “That’s enough, if Bachin becomes useless, we’ll have a lot of trouble in the subspace.”

Gusin seemed stunned and replied. “Indeed, little brother Bachin still needs to be useful.”

Buer watched their conversation and suddenly seemed to think of something, couldn’t help but smile.

The three demons in the room immediately looked at Buer.

Why was Sister Buer smiling?

Buer’s face was radiant. “Come to think of it, we haven’t bantered like this for a long time.”

“This is also a kind of sibling love, isn’t it?”

There was pure innocence in Her eyes.

No demon refuted that.

It had to be said, there was a bit of love, although definitely just a bit!

While the group of demons was causing chaos and arguing up a storm, it was good that their sixth sister was still properly doing Her work.

At a certain point in subspace, Valefor was observing chaos and staying alert to the movements of the other two otherworld gods.

She had tried multiple times to communicate with Amon, but failed, the contact stones She sent sank into the sea, with absolutely no response.

She could feel that Amon’s will permeated throughout Chaos’ body, Amon was controlling Chaos, the process was going very smoothly, the only problem was that the volume of Chaos was too large.

As for whether there were any forces trying to intervene…

Valefor’s eyes swept across the surroundings but didn’t discover anything.

Was the mastermind not going to interfere anymore?

Or rather, could They actually not do anything about it?

They could control chaos to approach the continent and descend, but could They not issue any further specific commands?

One possibility was that after Amon took control of chaos, the mastermind knew They couldn’t advance to the next step, so They had already withdrawn and given up.

But if that was the case, then the mastermind’s attitude of complete abandonment was too thorough.

Of course, in some sense, Valefor understood as well.

Because the mastermind had lost from the very beginning, Their identity had already been discovered by their Second Brother Agares.

Put this way, the mastermind’s series of actions were like the struggles of a defeated person, doing anything else would be meaningless, so They thrashed about repeatedly, like someone with a split personality, struggling while half-dead.

Of course, there was another possibility, which was that Arnold’s consciousness had awakened and was fighting against the mastermind’s consciousness, trying everything to help Them.

This could also explain the mastermind’s mysterious leniency and mysterious giving up.

Who knew what the truth was, Valefor’s eyes dimmed slightly.

However, there was one thing that could be assumed – the mastermind had encountered too many accidents, nothing went as planned, They were anxious, irritable, depressed, desperate, and had already reached the edge of collapse.

So They would definitely take some action soon.

****

On another side, in Oedipus. Three o’clock in the afternoon.

In the study, Xiu Si flipped through some books, looking up medical records related to memory loss.

In the otherworld, memory loss was actually quite common, for example, most people who accidentally fell into the abyss would lose their memories. In researching and treating these people, humans had gained a lot of experience in treating memory loss.

Their approach to memory loss was usually psychological treatment, because memory loss was usually caused by psychological damage.

But Lelagin was obviously different, He had taken out His own memories Himself, unless they were found, they couldn’t be restored.

So, was there no other way?

Xiu Si put down the ancient book, his expression a bit heavy, thinking more or less about his second cub – if his second cub were here, he would definitely be able to think of several solutions.

At this time, the Devon Rex cat lying on the desk seemed to sense his mood.

“What’s wrong, Father, meow?”

“It’s nothing. We’ll find a way eventually.”

Xiu Si lowered his eyes and said gently, “Even if Father doesn’t have the ability to do it, your siblings will make it happen.”

The Devon Rex cat paused.

At this time, the gray cat appeared at the doorway, looking nervously at the black-haired youth by the window.

Xiu Si noticed the gaze and immediately turned around, meeting the gray cat’s eyes, “Is something wrong?”

The gray cat hesitated but still walked into the room, stopping one step away from Xiu Si, “Father, meow.”

Xiu Si crouched down, facing the gray cat, “Hmm?”

The gray cat was nervous inside, not knowing how to start.

He couldn’t possibly directly ask Father “am I the Primordial God of Humans,” right? Father wouldn’t know anyway.

For Father, the Primordial God of Humans must have been from so long ago.

So how should He ask?

Inpos racked His brains, and also remembered that Father rarely talked to them about settings normally, probably had some concerns.

Xiu Si patiently looked at the gray cat, “You can say anything, it’s okay. What do you want to ask Father?”

The gray cat’s heart melted under his gaze, and couldn’t help but obediently say, “I-I want to know about my settings…!”

“Settings, huh.”

A flash of surprise passed through Xiu Si’s eyes as his gaze fell into memories.

At that time, the strongest thought he read from Inpos’s consciousness was [Seeking Knowledge].

It was ambition for knowledge.

But seeking knowledge was just the surface, the key was the purpose after seeking knowledge.

That is, evolving oneself.

So, he immediately thought of the concept of [Learning] at that time.

He wanted to give Him powers to solve His most urgent problem.

After he wrote in the settings, he didn’t expect them to take effect immediately.

At that time, he was originally very happy, but soon realized something.

If the twenty-second cub was an overly obsessive child, then giving Him this power might not be a good thing.

Eternal learning, eternal evolution – it sounded good, but somehow felt suffocating, and might not be entirely beneficial.

This child might end up being controlled by the power of [Learning], becoming a slave to [Learning], walking down one path for life until the end.

Xiu Si deeply resonated with this.

Back then, his supervisor demanded that he learn the industry’s cutting-edge design concepts every day, required him to constantly optimize his work, forced to continuously improve.

It felt like there was a huge monster chasing from behind – if he couldn’t improve, couldn’t run fast enough, or even stumbled, that monster would completely devour him.

For internet companies, this was considered a very normal work requirement. Although wages wouldn’t increase with improved work ability, and might even decrease, the requirements would always keep pace with the times.

From the company’s perspective, they claimed these were perfectly reasonable demands, because if they didn’t do this, they might lose to external competition.

Although his company’s biggest risk might not have been the basic modeling employees, but rather the decision-making level.

Anyway, as an ordinary person, he couldn’t escape that situation because the work environment was similar everywhere, so he gradually got used to it.

But while getting used to it, his fatigue also continuously accumulated.

Sometimes he really envied people who were completely incapable, because if you truly had no ability at all, you wouldn’t even try to work hard in that area.

The worst was knowing a little, but not much, having no talent or potential, hanging in the middle as a jack of all trades, unable to move forward or backward, and not daring to randomly change tracks.

It was truly a suffocating work life.

In short, combining his own experience back then, afraid that his child would only know how to learn, so on the foundation of [Learning], his hope for his twenty-second cub Inpos was:

While progressing, don’t forget to rest, have enough time to enjoy life, hope that learning would always be a purely happy thing for Him, not entirely because of personal ambition and desire, or pressure from outside.

Need to progress, but life couldn’t only have progress, there needed to be times of stagnation, even regression was fine.

He also borrowed some ancient Greek sayings, such as “leisure and wonder are conditions for wisdom to arise” and so on, finally arriving at and successfully implementing the settings: [Happy Learning], [Abundant Curiosity] and finally – [Infinite Potential].

Its other meaning was [nfinite room for growth].

Anyway, when you’re a being with infinite potential, wouldn’t your learning be more meaningful and fulfilling?

Otherwise, if you loved learning so much but kept hitting insurmountable thresholds every day, wouldn’t that be very painful?

Xiu Si explained all his thoughts from back then, explaining in detail the reasons for each thought.

“That’s what I was thinking at the time, does that answer your question?”

The gray cat was very nervous at first, but after listening His eyes lit up, His mood visibly improved.

Because He heard deep love in Father’s words! Father hadn’t set things randomly, Father was super thoughtful!

He instantly became excited, almost jumping up, “I understand meow!”

“Good.”

Xiu Si was gratified, and then, as if noticing something, he suddenly leaned close to the gray cat, his finger wiping the gray cat’s eyelids.

His precious seemed to have been crying, His eyes slightly red – was it because He was confused about His settings?

“Not crying meow, just got some sand in my eye meow!”

The gray cat jumped into His father’s arms, shamelessly nuzzling, seeming to forget that He initially wanted to know if He was the Primordial God of Humans.

After more than ten minutes, He strutted out of the study under the envious and jealous gazes of several cats.

The silver cat wasn’t so considerate now, directly saying, “Inpos, based on what Father just said, you must be the Primordial God of Humans, right.”

Inpos stopped in His tracks, looked at the three cats, then nodded, actually honestly admitting. “Yes, I think so too.”

****

Meanwhile.

In the cat’s nest, the big white cat’s paw moved.