After the Lord of the Abyss Awakens - Chapter 113.1

Due to Information General Bachin being inactive, Aelioge knew nothing about the subspace situation, but was still steadily planning.

Many demons passed through His mind, and gradually, He thought of Marbas and Samikina.

Fifth Brother and Fourth Brother were very strong, and Their powers could be extremely useful in dealing with Big Brother, but the obstacle lay in Samikina’s personality, and if Samikina disagreed, Marbas temporarily couldn’t leave the Elven Ancestor’s territory either.

They were tied together – if you could successfully leverage one, you would leverage both together.

But how to persuade Samikina?

Aelioge fell into deep thought. Due to differences in personality and beliefs, Big Brother and Samikina had their conflicts, such as how Big Brother’s attitude toward raising Them was hands-off, throwing Them into dangerous situations like troll hordes, letting Them defeat trolls to train and become stronger.

Sometimes, Samikina would rescue brothers and sisters from Big Brother’s hands, telling Big Brother “Let me train Them instead” and similar things.

Regarding Samikina’s intervention, Big Brother usually wouldn’t say anything, but internally probably still believed that dangerous situations were the most effective path to becoming stronger, and that Samikina’s methods were too gentle.

Of course, this conflict in educational philosophy wasn’t a big problem, and wouldn’t develop into antagonism or fighting. In these eight thousand plus years, Big Brother and Samikina had never fought, at least not in Their brothers’ and sisters’ memories.

So, how to make Samikina turn against Big Brother? Should He stir up conflict between Them? Once Aelioge’s war-minded thinking kicked in, He almost instinctively thought of sowing discord.

He was too wicked, but the impending fear of Big Brother overcame everything, causing Him to rack His brains and adopt dark tactics!

But Aelioge couldn’t think of any effective methods after pondering for a long time. Samikina wasn’t like Paimon, having strong thoughts of challenging Big Brother, and besides, how many years had it been since Samikina took action? Two thousand years? Three thousand?

How to get the pacifist Samikina to join Them in jointly opposing Big Brother?

Aelioge wracked His brains, searching through His mind for any possible grievances between Samikina and Big Brother, but found nothing.

If there were no grievances, create some?

That wouldn’t work – Samikina was not only powerful but also wise, and in some sense was Their teacher. What student would trick their teacher?

Moreover, Samikina hadn’t taken action for so long that His power was already unfathomable. Who would dare imagine? If things backfired, He might be the first one Samikina would deal with.

So… should He give up?

Aelioge felt dejected, but immediately gathered His courage and privately called Marbas to probe.

Aelioge vaguely asked. “Fifth Brother, shall we fight?”

This was an ambiguous question – if a demon was of the same mind, they would immediately think of Big Brother given the situation. However—

A few seconds later, Marbas asked. “Fight what?”

Aelioge’s heart half died, and He carefully chose His words. “When Big Brother returns He will definitely deal with us. What do you think, Fifth Brother?”

Marbas fell silent.

Aelioge felt slightly nervous inside. “Fifth Brother?”

Marbas said, “This has nothing to do with me, right?”

Aelioge instantly replied, “You also concealed things from Big Brother.”

Sweat appeared on Marbas’s forehead. Originally lying sideways on the grass, He suddenly sat up, His eyes showing some seriousness.

“…Big Brother wouldn’t take action against me over such a small matter, right?”

Actually, it depended on the situation. And anything concerning Father wasn’t a small matter. Concealing information about Father would undoubtedly enrage Big Brother, and if just one demon had concealed it that would be one thing, but now almost all demons knew about it. As one of the last demons to be informed, how could Big Brother not be angry?

Aelioge reminded Marbas. “Fourth Brother has been in the Elven Ancestor’s territory the whole time, so He hasn’t changed His avatar, but you changed yours. Big Brother definitely saw and remembered that.”

“Huh?”

Marbas raised Their eyebrows and said, “Can’t I just like cats and change to a cat avatar? Can’t I follow trends? Not all demons with cat avatars are bad demons!”

After His words fell, Aelioge remained silent, as if saying: what do you think?

Marbas’s eyelids keep twitching, His heart gradually growing anxious.

Marbas: “That’s not fair, could it be that the cat avatar was a conspiracy from the start?”

Aelioge smiled. “Ha, who knows? It was Amon who proposed it first, He might have planned for today back then.”

Just change to a cat avatar and become one of Them – what a simple threshold, very easy to infiltrate, right?

This was exactly it! This was Amon’s intention – He was deliberately expanding the circle of informed demons, then dragging more demons in, strengthening the camp against Big Brother.

What a far-sighted demon, worthy of being Amon!

“…”

Marbas’s fist clenched, He knew Amon was up to no good.

At this point, Aelioge suddenly became confident. “Fifth Brother, you’re not confident you can safely get through Big Brother’s infinite trials either, right?”

“Don’t be an alarmist.”

Marbas gritted His teeth, “Big Brother might not even fight me.”

“But time is running out.”

Aelioge’s tone became serious again, gravely saying, “We don’t necessarily have to fight Big Brother, but we must unite our camp, show our strength and attitude. Only then will Big Brother not deal with us all at once, sending us all to the infinite trials.”

Marbas snorted, His golden long hair gleaming in the night wind, floating softly like silk. He exposed Aelioge’s thoughts, saying, “Strength in numbers, Big Brother won’t punish everyone – that’s what you’re thinking, right?”

Aelioge nodded, His tone as if announcing a universe-level strategy, deep and serious. “We’ve grown up, we have our own attitude, we can’t let Big Brother push us around anymore.”

Hearing this, Marbas said, “What attitude, not attitude, Aelioge, are you still a rapper? Are you going to perform a freestyle for Big Brother then? Count me out.”

Aelioge fell silent, retorting, “Can you not use words from Father’s memories to mock me? It’s too trendy.”

Marbas snorted, naturally a bit unhappy about being schemed against.

Aelioge waited for Marbas’s answer.

Several minutes later, Marbas gazed at the emerald lake in the night, His eyes distant, pondering, “Lending you a hand isn’t impossible, but the risk is too high. I actually think the best method is to use the mastermind’s matter to divert Big Brother’s attention. Think about it – between the mastermind and us, who does He hate more? If we expose the mastermind’s involvement with Father, Big Brother will definitely get angry and kill the mastermind first. We can fan the flames, exaggerate things, play the victim card, and maybe Big Brother won’t care about us anymore. Also, don’t forget who found Father first – it was Agares! If we drag Second Brother in, our chances of success immediately double!”

This string of ideas from Marbas left Aelioge silent.

Aelioge sincerely said, “Brother Mar, is it possible you’re even darker than me?”

“Cough.”

Marbas scratched His head, putting on an innocent and pure foolish appearance, even His voice became a bit affected. “Nonsense, I’m the beloved Brother Marbas whom every demon loves.”

Huh, how could someone who became the universe’s richest be a good demon? His scheming and cunning attributes must be maxed out.

Aelioge remained silent but His gaze was very sharp.

Marbas excitedly denied. “How is that possible? Business requires the utmost integrity, I earn money through ability!”

“Not through your powers?”

Aelioge immediately exposed Him.

Marbas jumped up. “What skill is there in relying on powers? I despise those who only rely on powers!”

Hmph, every word was false. But Aelioge didn’t continue bantering with Marbas, as it was meaningless.

In fact, what Marbas suggested was a good approach. After all, He currently did have a suitable choice – properly package the mastermind’s involvement, ignite Big Brother’s anger, and once Big Brother got fired up, He might be too busy to deal with Them.

Aelioge had thought of this too, but hadn’t considered fanning the flames and playing victim – what kind of psychological warfare was this? You really dare to think, Fifth Brother!

But the question was, was Big Brother that easy to deceive? Furthermore, with so many loose lips in their camp, could they possibly keep information from Big Brother? With one glare from Big Brother, Buer might immediately rush to confess everything.

So many traitors among the demons, how sad! Aelioge was very pessimistic about the situation.

At this point, Marbas interrupted Aelioge’s thoughts, saying resignedly, “Forget it, leaving other things aside, I’m already on this pirate ship anyway. If Big Brother wants to settle accounts, I can’t escape either, so I’ll help you.” Who knew He would be caught because of an avatar? It was impossible to guard against – He shouldn’t have been tempted by fun back then.

GOOD, Fifth Brother successfully collected! Aelioge laughed internally, then continued, “Fifth Brother, about Fourth Brother…”

Marbas predicted: “You want me to drag Samikina in.”

Aelioge nodded, “Yes.”

Marbas shook His head, His gaze falling on the fireflies by the emerald lake, saying directly, “Samikina won’t mess around with us.”

Aelioge knew how to assign tasks, boldly saying, “But Fifth Brother has a way, right?”

Marbas snorted, squinting His eyes in displeasure, “Aeli, are you ordering your brother around?”

Aelioge frankly admitted His ambition, His tone carrying an obviously fake flattering tone, “I know Fifth Brother is so capable, You must have a way.”

Marbas fell silent, thinking what way could He have, He didn’t know more than you. Samikina had no reason to join unless you framed Him, secretly changing His avatar too.

Thinking of this, Marbas condemned Himself for being too dark – how could a demon be so dark? Where was the brotherly love in this?

But Marbas recalled: hadn’t Fourth Brother just beaten Him up? Just because He hadn’t recognized the Lord of the Abyss was Father.

Thinking about it this way, Fourth Brother had been quite brutal too, so maybe secretly getting back at Fourth Brother wasn’t such a problem.

After considering it back and forth, Marbas’s expression kept changing.

Across from Him, Aelioge showed patience, smiling, “I’ll leave Fourth Brother to Fifth Brother.”

Hey! Don’t make it sound so easy. Marbas was so angry His eyes glowed golden, His whole body heating up.

However, this crafty demon Aelioge affirmed. “I believe in Fifth Brother!”

After saying this, He left the private message.

Leaving Marbas cursing and complaining alone.

Next.

Aelioge’s plan for mutual downfall was unstoppable. Seeing no response from Barbatos yet, He looked at the list of cat-headed demons and turned to contact Valefor.

Aelioge: “Sixth Sister, the situation is like this.”

Before He finished, Valefor saw through it, “I know what you want to say.”

Aelioge immediately dropped the act, “So will Sixth Sister help us?”

Valefor lowered Her eyes, speaking coolly, “I seem unable to stay uninvolved.”

“So…”

Aelioge couldn’t quite tell Valefor’s stance.

Then Valefor said, “I will stand on your side.”

“Really?”

Aelioge was delighted.

“We used to spar during our family meetings too, it’s not really a big deal.”

Valefor spoke lightly of it.

Aelioge heard Valefor’s composure. He thought, worthy of being a sister, sisters were better than brothers after all.

The matter with Valefor was settled. A few minutes later, Aelioge quickly strengthened His connection with Beelzebub and Botis.

Beelzebub and Botis were in a cat claw battle. It took several minutes before They replied to Aelioge’s message.

The silver cat Beelzebub licked His wounded paw, glared at the Siamese cat beside Him, then answered Aelioge. “Ready to fight, right? Been prepared for a long time.”

The Siamese cat was so excited He stood on two legs, “Fight fight fight, Big Brother’s coming back right? Ready at any time!”

The silver cat didn’t waste words. “So, how do you want us to cooperate?”

Aelioge chuckled, His eyes bright, saying seriously, “Actually, I have a strategy.”

The Siamese cat “oh”-ed, “Tell us quickly.”

So Aelioge told Them once.

The silver cat and Siamese cat listened silently, Their expressions varying, exchanging glances.

The silver cat thought, well played Aelioge, You even have this method.

The Siamese cat thought, what is this, will it really work?

They were silent for a while, but finally agreed with Aelioge.

The silver cat nodded. “At least it’s a method, there’s some hope.”

The Siamese cat followed. “Let’s give it a try, if we don’t succeed we’ll die with honor!”

Receiving this confirmation, Aelioge smiled deeply, “Then relay this to Beleth, Celerios, oh, and Buer.”

When He said “Buer”, He clearly showed some distrust.

The silver cat keenly caught this, smiling, “Afraid Buer will break the chain?”

“A bit.”

Aelioge said quietly. “I’m afraid She’ll tip off Big Brother.”

The Siamese cat’s pupils trembled, shocked. “That’s possible!”

But Buer really would. Because She was really afraid of Big Brother, it wouldn’t be surprising if She switched sides at the critical moment. And think about it – selling out a nest of demons to save yourself, wouldn’t that be a profitable deal?

The Siamese cat found this tempting just thinking about it, but He wouldn’t do that because Big Brother was His enemy, a powerful threatening demon who could steal Father’s attention. He would rather be beaten flat than turn to Big Brother’s side!

“I’ll keep an eye on Buer.”

The Siamese cat promised.

“Very good.”

Aelioge was satisfied, then said, “You know how to talk to Beleth.”

“I know, but Beleth is a pacifist demon like Samikina. If it really comes to fighting, He’ll probably raise a white flag.”

The Siamese cat didn’t hold much hope for this.

“As for Cele…”

The silver cat hesitated.

“What?” Aelioge asked.

“Let’s forget about Him. Cele becomes immobile at the sight of Big Brother.”

The silver cat shook His head.

Aelioge fell silent for a moment. Truthfully, Cele’s powers were very useful, extremely destructive. Among many abstract concepts, Cele’s concept was undoubtedly one that could rank in the first sequence. If Cele could join them, that would be perfect, it’s just a pity about Cele’s personality… unless you could bring out Cele’s hidden dark side, otherwise Cele would only be responsible for trembling in fear.

At this point, the Siamese cat suddenly brought up, “Speaking of which, isn’t there still Lelagin? Won’t He care?”

Aelioge paused, shaking His head to exclude Him, “Lelagin has lost His memory, is mentally unstable, and sleeps most of the time, let’s forget it.”

Sound argument. In Lelagin’s condition, if He came out to fight too, Big Brother would only beat the rest of them even harder.