After the Lord of the Abyss Awakens - Chapter 143.1

The ragdoll cat glanced at the black cat’s silly smile and waved its paw, saying “Aeli Aeli is pleased again.”

Upon hearing this, the black cat paused its movement, then turned to look.

In the living room, five cats sat around a small table. Among them, a milk tea-colored ragdoll cat was turning its head to look at Him. Under the sunlight, the ragdoll cat’s fur seemed coated with a gentle radiance, looking both beautiful and majestic.

This was Their little sisters’ meeting. The small table was filled with various exquisite tea snacks, mainly red tea, and those gold-rimmed teacups were clearly stolen from Marbas’s home.

There were the sixth sister forest cat, eighth sister calico cat, twentieth sister silver- -shaded cat, twenty-third sister cow cat, and finally the ragdoll cat. Only sister Paimon wasn’t present.

The cow cat noticed the black cat’s gaze and turned its head to say “lalala,” with a hint of provocation in its eyes. “Aeli Aeli, what are you looking at!”

The black cat was choked by this questioning and subtly shifted its gaze. At home, only the ragdoll cat and cow cat were best not to provoke.

These two were too fond of pranks.

Now, Their family of demons had returned to Their father’s regular bookstore, spread out in different places.

Some were in the bookstore, like Fourth Brother, Fifth Brother, and Seventh Brother, as well as Thirteenth Brother Beleth.

Fifth Brother Marbas was a fortune-bringing cat – just sitting at the entrance would bring in wealth, and indeed He was now sitting at the entrance, comfortably basking in the sun.

Fourth Brother Samikina sat behind the counter, managing the accounts and the quantity and classification of books entering the inventory. As a gray and white Maine Coon cat, Fourth Brother’s demeanor was noble and elegant, commanding reverence from all who came – yes, reverence, for Fourth Brother’s presence was so powerful that how could humans dare show any disrespect?

Inside the bookshelf, Seventh Brother Amon lay lazily, possibly feeling bored while waiting for Father’s arrival, as He kept yawning. As a small chinchilla cat, when He was quiet, He looked just like an exquisite doll. However, who could imagine that this seemingly harmless small cat was actually the true form of Amon, the dreaded Abyss Lord?

And on the other side, Thirteenth Brother Beleth sat in a small hanging chair, casually playing a small lute meant for wandering poet cats, with lyrics praising the great Lord of the Lord. As He played, He became somewhat entranced, occasionally breaking into silly smiles. It was unclear how His fat orange cat body managed to sit in the hanging chair.

Aelioge believed He must have used Word Spirit.

On another side, several cats were in the courtyard: Garfield cat Gusin, blue-shaded cat Sitri, blue-white British Shorthair cat Bachin, and red cat Morax. They were discussing matters of subspace, including but not limited to what to do with all the gods who had perished after the divine war.

The Garfield cat sat down on the grass and said calmly, “Those particles won’t digest naturally. I think they’ll eventually sink into the Abyss.” The particles He mentioned referred to divine consciousness.

The blue-white cat nodded and said carelessly, “Right, but I think it doesn’t matter. Let them sink if they’re going to sink. They opposed us, so they should sink for tens of thousands of years!”

The blue cat analyzed calmly. “But isn’t there too many? With so many divine consciousnesses, even the Abyss might not be able to contain them all.”

The red cat exclaimed in shock. “Huh? Will the Abyss explode from all these consciousnesses?”

Though the Abyss wasn’t a good place, it was still Their birthplace and had memorial significance. If the Abyss exploded… that would be disastrous, wouldn’t it?

The air grew subtly quiet for a few seconds.

“So that’s why we need to find a solution, right?”

As He spoke, the Garfield cat’s gaze turned toward the blue-white cat.

Among those present, only Bachin with His space authority could skillfully resolve this matter.

The blue-white cat pointed at Himself and said somewhat annoyingly, “Me?”

The blue cat felt His paws itching, wanting to hit something, and countered, “Who else?”

The blue-white cat sprawled in a limp manner, with lowered eyelids saying, “Please, it’s very tiring.”

He wasn’t making excuses but speaking the truth. The visible range of the Abyss was at least the size of several stars – asking Him to reorganize the Abyss and deal with those divine consciousnesses… no matter how you looked at it, it was a massive project, right?

“You still have to do it even if it’s tiring. Do you want our Father’s place of memories to disappear?”

The blue cat glanced at the blue-white cat.

“…Fine.”

The blue-white cat nodded helplessly but still didn’t want to move right now.

Please, He had just come out of the Infinite Trial and then straight into the divine-demon war – His exercise quota was already over the limit. If He didn’t rest now, He might die from overwork!

This matter was temporarily put aside.

The Garfield cat noticed another issue and pondered, “No matter what, with so many gods suddenly disappearing, the subspace will be chaotic for a while.”

Of course, these fellows all had status – several Great Universe Lords were among them. Now that they had all perished, those universes would be leaderless and surely fall into chaos.

The red cat laughed and stroked His paw. “Isn’t this a good opportunity to conquer the subspace then?”

The blue cat turned to look at the red cat and directly exposed Him. “You’re still interested in that? You just want to collect planets again, right?”

The red cat’s intentions were exposed, and He became somewhat embarrassed and angry, His fur standing up, looking ready to fight with the blue cat.

Seeing this, Aelioge turned His head and silently said, “Hmph, foolish demon siblings, still fighting when Father is about to return.”

He looked at the bedroom again, where His Third Brother was sleeping.

Third Brother had been awake for too long during this period. Now that everything was finally settled, His consciousness had relaxed, and He naturally needed to sleep and rest.

Regarding this, how could Aelioge have any objections? It’s just… Third Brother’s body was too big, wasn’t He? Why was a lynx pretending to be a kitty?

Aelioge turned His head, His gaze sweeping across the bed, initially passing over quickly but suddenly stopping, then looking back again, staring carefully, and finally discovering that there was actually a Siamese cat hiding on the bed!

Botis, that fellow, had crawled onto the bed again! This pervert.

Aelioge was truly speechless.

In this huge house, perhaps only He, along with Lelagin and Celerios were doing real work?

That’s right, those two were busy in the kitchen!

Although they were both small cats, they were very capable and skillful – the tea snacks for the sisters’ meeting were all made by Them.

Now, They were preparing snacks for Father – Father’s favorite strawberry ice cream cake!

Aelioge stared in amazement because this cake actually had ten layers, and They were still continuing to decorate it!

Amazing. Aelioge couldn’t help but admire.

He turned His head again, fixing His gaze on the doorway.

Paimon and Zepar were at the door. They were the only two who hadn’t seen Father recently, so They were particularly eager to wait for Father.

Oh right, there was also Inpos. He couldn’t wait for Father and seemed to have gone to the Continental Human Alliance.

Since awakening the memories of the Primordial God of Humans, Inpos seemed to have taken on more responsibility, showing particular concern for the human race. This was normal – Inpos was originally the demon among Them who obviously cared most about humans. Otherwise, why would He create so many aliases to get close to humans and secretly promote human progress?

Thinking of this, Aelioge fell silent. From His position, He intervened in human affairs for Father’s sake. Now that Father had returned and Agares’s universe-level magic was complete, did He still need to continue intervening?

The answer was there was no reason to. Moreover, human affairs were always very complicated, and honestly, intervention was quite troublesome. So, how should He, or rather the Abyss Lords, treat humans in the future?

Friendly? According to Father’s wishes, being friendly was the normal choice. But that might not be good for humans. They had relied on non-human powers for too long.

While Aelioge was thinking, a cold voice suddenly sounded behind Him.

“That’s their choice to make, isn’t it?”

Aelioge’s fur stood straight up – how could He not recognize that voice!

He turned to look at the silver tabby cat and warned, “Beelzebub, don’t speak behind me.”

Beelzebub tilted His head. “What’s the problem?”

Aelioge fell silent. This brutish demon Beelzebub, what would He know about understanding His brothers!

****

Meanwhile, half an hour earlier, the atmosphere in the Continental Human Alliance’s hall was tense. Many human elites had gathered together, jointly observing the progress of the divine war.

“Has it ended?”

“It- it should have?”

The observers looked at each other, unconsciously breaking out in cold sweat.

The magnificent energy at the scene of the universal divine war had exceeded the precise detection limits of humanity’s current most advanced observation instruments. They could only witness the spectacular sight of the Abyss Lords moving out collectively and the blurry scenes of Them battling countless gods, but remained completely in the dark about the specific reasons and course of this divine war.

They had hoped to obtain more details about the divine war from the heroes, but regrettably, they were temporarily unable to contact the heroes.

“It seems some gods revealed that this divine war stemmed from the Creator God’s jealousy of the Lord of the Abyss?”

“I heard that too, apparently He was jealous that the Lord of the Abyss could create more powerful Abyss Lords.”

In humans’ current understanding, the Lord of the Abyss had a gentle temperament and was friendly to humans, not seeming like someone who would conflict with other gods. Therefore, a more reasonable speculation might be that the Creator God actively provoked the conflict with the Lord of the Abyss, and then was killed in retaliation by the Abyss Lords.

A young person at the scene couldn’t help but sigh, “I’ve never witnessed such a grand-scale divine war. Frankly speaking, aren’t we extremely lucky that our planet remained safe and sound?”

“It’s not just luck though, thanks to the heroes! If it weren’t for them joining forces with the elf race to activate the planet’s defense mechanism, we would have turned to ash by now – we wouldn’t have lasted even a second, believe it or not?”

“That’s true. But this also shows… how useless we are.”

At this point, their expressions became heavy, with slight discontent in their hearts.

The feeling of not being able to control one’s own fate… was quite bitter.

The hall suddenly fell quiet.

Inpos mixed among the humans, silently observing them, slightly manipulating magic power so humans wouldn’t notice Him.

He was somewhat curious, wanting to know their thoughts at this moment.

After experiencing and witnessing so many things, had humans gained anything from it?

Just then, Sword Saint Simon suddenly stood up and laughed loudly. “Haha, it’s not something that happened in just a day or two, nothing can be achieved overnight, what’s past is past, we just need to keep working hard.”

Everyone couldn’t help but raise their heads, their gazes collectively turning to Simon.

The simplest words had the most power. Moreover, what His Excellency Simon said was exactly right.

They gradually began to cheer up, especially the young people in their twenties and thirties.

Their eyes were full of passion and hope – as humans, if they didn’t believe in themselves, who would believe in them?

People gradually stood up.

“That’s right.”

“The key is to stay grounded! His Excellency Simon is right.”

The atmosphere in the hall thus became lively again. Inpos silently watched them, still wordless.

At this time, an elderly man walked out from behind the door and asked Simon, “Your Excellency Simon, did you just return from His Excellency Norman Til?”

Simon turned his head, met the old man’s gaze, and answered, “Yes.”

“Is there any new information?”

The old man had an expression of foreknowledge.

Simon nodded, “Sort of, but the specifics still need investigation and understanding. In this divine war, the Abyss Lords’ side achieved an overwhelming victory, and although the Creator God didn’t perish, He has been controlled by the Abyss Lords. However, from what we can see now, there’s no direct threat to our planet and humanity.”

“Is that so.” The old man breathed a sigh of relief.

Meanwhile, the young people at the scene who were listening to their conversation also became excited.

“That’s great!”

“The Creator God deserved to be killed in retaliation.”

The scene was filled with noise and countless cheers.

The old man came back to his senses and continued to ask, “Your Excellency Simon, then our human upward limit…”

Upon hearing this, the scene immediately became serious. Everyone nervously looked at Simon again.

Simon lowered his eyes and said in a deep voice, “Only the Creator God can remove that, and since He has fallen into the Abyss Lords’ hands, we probably need to seek the Abyss Lords’ help.”

Someone couldn’t help but ask, “The question is, will They help us?”

“Among the Abyss Lords, the one who might help humans…is Barbatos, ranked eighth?”

They exchanged glances, showing joy on their faces.

Simon shook his head and said, “Don’t rush, They just fought a great battle, it might not be good to disturb Them at this time. Besides, seeking help always comes with a price – we need to think about what price we can offer first. Their help isn’t something we can just ask for whenever we want.”

Everyone paused, then suddenly realized, “What His Excellency Simon says is right.”

At this time, Lia, who was also a Sword Saint, suddenly spoke up, “There’s another piece of good news.”

Everyone paused again, following the voice and looking at her one after another.

Simon also looked at Lia, somewhat surprised that she was here.

The old man walked forward and asked, “Your Excellency Lia, what good news is there?”

The joy in Lia’s eyes was too obvious as she looked around at everyone and solemnly said, “Princess Sarah of the Aust Empire has returned.”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, finding this name somewhat unfamiliar.

Then someone shouted, “She’s Abyss Lord Agares’s student! She’s been on an expedition in subspace for many years and has finally returned!”

Hearing this, they finally remembered.

Sarah had been away from the continent for too long and wasn’t even ranked anymore, so her fame had naturally diminished, but she was undoubtedly one of humanity’s top powers.

Moreover, her return had even more far-reaching significance.

The old man felt nervous inside and couldn’t help but ask Lia, “Did- did she succeed?”

Lia nodded and smiled, “She succeeded, she brought back knowledge of electricity.”

Everyone froze in place, then were shocked with wild joy.

How could they not be happy – getting electrical knowledge meant they could enter the next era!

“That’s wonderful! As expected of Princess Sarah.”

Simon was so excited his voice trembled, and he couldn’t help but ask, “Has she already returned to the continent?”

Lia nodded again and explained, “She has returned, she’s currently in the Aust Empire. Everyone, don’t get too excited, she’ll come here soon to share knowledge with us.”

When these words came out, everyone’s eyes practically bulged.

“Sh-share?”

These two words seemed to explode in their minds.

The act of sharing knowledge was earth-shattering in their understanding.

After all, who didn’t know how important knowledge was? Knowledge meant the development of national power! Sarah, as a princess of the Aust Empire, was actually willing to share world-changing knowledge with the Human Alliance.

This- this couldn’t be simply described with the word “selfless” anymore.

They were shocked in their hearts as they stared blankly at Lia.

Lia’s response was to nod and smile, saying frankly, “Yes, Sarah said she would share, and she also said that sharing knowledge is a human virtue. She will share all the knowledge she gained with all countries, all humans.”

The hall was completely silent for a full half minute.

After a long while, the old man finally spoke with emotion. “Such greatness, worthy indeed of being Princess Sarah.”

But Lia shook her head and smiled. “No need to call her princess anymore.”

The old man’s eyes widened, and he couldn’t help but ask, “Why?”

Everyone else also cast questioning looks.

Lia spoke with obvious pride. “Because Sarah brought back not only knowledge of energy but also knowledge of systems. We humans have used the imperial system for too long, it’s time for a change. When energy enters the next stage, then social structure and social systems will also enter the next stage in all aspects – these are her words to me.”