After the Lord of the Abyss Awakens - CHAPTER 34.2

Their fight disturbed another of their kin.

That one had been sleeping soundly in subspace when she was suddenly awakened by the noise of the two fighting. She was now opening her satellite-sized eyes, watching them fight back and forth.

She thought: “What’s wrong with Aelioge and Beelzebub this time? Why are they fighting?”

Ah, she really wanted to use part of their bodies to make magic potions. That would surely be very effective. Maybe she could even create a more perfect resurrection potion.

But why?

Beelzebub didn’t seem to be the type to fight with kin casually, right?

Buer pondered for a while, suddenly discovering something interesting.

(TL: Since Buer is using a female body (read from the advanced chapters), I’ll refer Buer as a ‘she’.)

It seemed that both of her siblings couldn’t use space magic. Was that why they had been fighting in subspace for over a month but couldn’t return?

“Interesting, interesting.”

Meanwhile, in the antique shop.

Morax swatted Inpos away with a paw, angrily transmitting, “You little brat, what kind of suggestion are you making to Father?”

Inpos rubbed his head, his cat eyes staring at Morax, cheeks puffed up in anger as he said, “I think it’s a good idea!”

Morax snorted, “Don’t give Father reckless suggestions!”

Regarding the suggestion just made, the two cats started fighting under the front desk.

Xiu Si was thinking, silently saying to himself, “This… it’s probably not possible, right? I’m only level 27 now, what if I’m exposed?”

That suggestion was too…his children were too fanciful, it seemed impossible just thinking about it.

At this moment, the black bird in the system box couldn’t help but talk to the two cats outside.

“Aren’t you going to do anything about that outer god?”

Hearing the voice resounding in their minds, both cats’ faces darkened simultaneously as they said in unison. “Don’t talk in our heads, you stupid bird!”

Their siblings had an ability that within a radius of 100 meters, they could freely contact their siblings, transmit thoughts, and communicate with each other.

It was called [Shared Mental Domain].

Vassago was using [Shared Mental Domain] to search for Agares, which was the fastest way to find siblings, although he hadn’t found him yet.

The little black bird had become their sibling, so naturally, it had also learned this ability.

The little black bird was scolded by them, but it didn’t feel affected at all and continued cheerfully. “Aren’t you going to do anything about it?”

It was new and didn’t know the rules between them, especially Agares’ suggestions.

The two cats knew it didn’t understand, and originally didn’t want to explain, but they were also worried that this one would cause trouble and bother Father.

Inpos thought for a moment, then said in a deep voice. “That’s human business, it has nothing to do with us.”

Morax nodded along, “Why bother with so much? If Luo Jie regains his strength, he can handle it himself.”

The little black bird didn’t understand and said, “But Father is also worried about this matter.”

Morax was more straightforward. As a pure-blooded abyss creature, he indeed didn’t care about human life and death, and said directly, “If necessary, we will take Father away.”

Inpos, having had more contact with humans, hesitated and said to the little black bird. “You’ve been in the human world for over ten years, you should know why, unless your bird brain really is simple-minded.”

The little black bird tilted its head, “You don’t have to be so rigid.”

Inpos asked, “What do you want to say?”

The little black bird suddenly revealed. “I’ve seen that otherworld god before.”

Both cats were stunned simultaneously. Was there such a thing?

Morax widened his eyes. “You actually know each other?”

The little black bird shook its head. “We don’t know each other, I just caught a glimpse of him in the subspace a long time ago.”

Inpos became a bit curious and asked, “What kind of god is he?”

The little black bird’s black eyes flickered as it recalled. “He seemed like a gloomy fellow, with a very bad temper.”

Morax let out an “Oh”. “Then it looks like he absolutely won’t let this go.”

The little black bird shook its head, “That’s not what I want to say.”

Inpos frowned. “What?”

Was this stupid bird playing coy?

The little black bird said seriously, “Didn’t I go to that Magician’s Association with Father? His aura was nearby.”

Both cats widened their eyes, startled.

Morax exclaimed in shock. “What? Do you mean he has already descended?”

This was no joking matter!

The little black bird shook its head again, “It’s not that he came, but that his aura is nearby! Hmm…for example, a part of him is there?”

Inpos was puzzled. “By part, do you mean a part of his body?”

The little black bird: “Similar, but not exactly. I can recognize it as his aura, but the purity is far from enough. I don’t know how to explain it.”

The two cats were confused by It. Was it or wasn’t it?

Morax said dissatisfied. “What kind of thing is it, wouldn’t we know if we go and take a look?”

To be honest, they were a bit curious.

Inpos raised a paw. “Very well, come out and lead the way.”

But the little black bird hesitated. It was strengthening itself in the system and didn’t want to come out. Secondly, it was worried that these two cats might torment It.

At this time, Xiu Si looked at the time, it was 3 PM.

He thought for a moment, then suddenly stood up, looking like he was about to go out.

Originally waiting for the little black bird’s answer, noticing that Father was about to go out, the two cats immediately reacted and followed, one in front and one behind.

“Are you asking if I’m going to the Magician’s Association?”

Xiu Si nodded, “Yes, I’m still a bit worried about Luo Jie’s situation. The magicians at the Magician’s Association should know the specifics.”

The gray cat wanted to say that the specific situation was that Luo Jie guy was out there letting loose and killing crazily!

But their Father seemed to have never known the true face of those heroes.

Back then, after Father fell into the abyss, the heroes became like unsheathed sharp blades, their power dazzling, slaying gods. Because they lost control and no one could persuade them anymore, who knows how many things they did that even terrified the gods.

Perhaps in Father’s impression, they were still good heroes befitting the title, but after Father fell into the abyss, they completely became a — notorious group of villains.

Yes, that’s right, a group of villains, and this was not an exaggeration.

Those praises about heroes in history were just for show. For them who knew the true history, it was all beautified rhetoric!

Just think about it, what kind of world did they live in? A chaotic world where all kinds of monsters, demons, and crazy psychopaths ran rampant!

Could the identity of “hero” cope with that?

To defeat madmen, one must become a madman oneself.

In a group of crazy fellows, even if you were the most normal person, once you went in, you would inevitably be influenced by your surroundings.

The living environment could affect one’s thinking and even personality.

Or perhaps, it brought out the dark side of one’s original personality that was unknown to others.

Take that Luo Jie guy for example, he also went crazy quite a bit back then, only becoming calm after he got old.

Others might not know, but they knew it clearly.

Father not only had a filter for them, but also for that group of heroes!

Back then, because of the inability to return to the Blue Star, the six heroes were enraged and wanted to take revenge on the humans who summoned them to this other world.

In a fit of anger, they wanted to destroy countries, didn’t they?

They were absolutely the fourth natural disaster!

It could be said that among the seven heroes, only their Father had a good temper.

Others might have been a bit naive at first, but after mixing in the other world for a long time, who wasn’t a dark chaotic type?

Under such high pressure, how could one not go crazy?

Human history books portrayed the heroes as a group of “lawful good” people, wrote them into epic stories, and had wandering poets spread them everywhere. On one hand, it was an unconscious beautification of heroic figures, and on the other hand, it was a kind of “moral kidnapping”.

The meaning was, look, everyone thinks you’re good people, can you…be good people?

Now it’s just that too much time has passed, and many people don’t know about it anymore.

Of course, Inpos also didn’t want to reveal the various brutal acts of the heroes later. If you expose others, others might expose you too!

They all had dirt on them, how could they act rashly.

In an instant, Inpos thought of many things, his eyes changing, hesitating to speak.

Xiu Si didn’t know his child had such rich thoughts in such a short time, he just felt that the child’s serious face was somehow cute.

“Let’s go.”

“We’ll also go to understand the situation.”

Half an hour later, Xiu Si arrived at the entrance of the Magician’s Association again.

This time the atmosphere was very heavy.

Regarding the country’s crisis, some magicians were informed, some were not fully informed, but all felt something was wrong.

As Xiu Si walked to the door, several people looked at him, their eyes complex, wanting to speak but stopping, taking a few steps forward, then lowering their heads and stopping, finally turning and leaving.

Xiu Si knew what they were thinking.

He was Great Mentor Matros’s student, and some of them wanted to seek Matros’s help through him, but unfortunately, he didn’t know Matros’s contact information, and had never even met him.

Xiu Si found Xili, Fushan, Oror, and several other magicians with status, but their answers were almost the same, they didn’t know about Hero Luo Jie’s situation.

The military was suppressing the news, and some of them were just suspecting that something had happened.

To some extent, Xiu Si actually knew more than them, after all, he had been to the scene.

There was no new intelligence, it felt like they were even more at a loss than him.

Xiu Si stopped at the edge of the corridor and looked up at the sky.

At the same time, the little black bird ran out, excitedly flapping its wings in the air, flying straight in one direction, as if saying, Father, follow me.

Xiu Si wasn’t surprised by his children’s various supernatural abilities anymore, and followed without doubt.

After a few minutes, he walked through several corridors, seemingly entering a maze, completely unable to recognize the way, while the little black bird still flew forward happily.

“Hodur, you—”

Xiu Si was about to call out to the little black bird when his expression suddenly changed. He stopped in his tracks and turned to look at an empty space.

No, not an empty space.

Xiu Si scanned it with a glance, thinking, it’s a cemetery.

There’s actually a cemetery inside the Magician’s Association?

He was stunned for a moment, then looked more carefully and discovered that around the cemetery was a huge magic array structure layout.

The marble steps were covered with dense magic symbols, so intricate that it made one’s eyes dizzy. If one tried to identify them carefully, they might get lost themselves.

This structure was at least that of a super-grade magic.

But why was it around a cemetery?

With Xiu Si’s magical knowledge, he could only think of one possibility.

“Could it be to seal something inside the cemetery?”

Whose tomb was this?

Just as Xiu Si was about to ponder, he suddenly seemed to hear the sound of an infant.

It was crisp like silver bells, continuous, but not coming from one place, rather resounding from all directions simultaneously.

Was there an invisible baby crying?

Xiu Si and the little black bird were both stunned.

As Xiu Si walked closer to look, the crying he heard became even stronger.

He increasingly felt that it wasn’t just a sound, but that there was actually a baby crying.

The problem was…where?

It couldn’t possibly be under the cemetery, could it?!

Meanwhile, at 5 PM in the afternoon, another heretical stronghold was brutally destroyed.

Duke Feman could no longer sit still and decided to personally deal with the foolish one who dared to interfere with their great cause.

A few minutes later, a fierce battle unfolded in the underground altar.

Duke Feman descended arrogantly, coldly looking at the young man in the pool of blood.

The terrifying pressure released with its aura could crush any being below level 90.

However, the young man was completely unaffected, even stretching his arms and legs, relaxed as if he were in his own home.

Seeing it, he didn’t show the slightest ripple.

Duke Feman, feeling slighted, immediately became furious. Its max-level locked fatal skill burst out in an instant, with blood-red thick tentacles suddenly extending from spatial rifts.

But the target disappeared in an instant.

Before it could react, a heavy blow came straight at its face, bringing excruciating pain that made its whole body convulse.

In a moment of distraction, perhaps just a second, that person had actually stabbed it dozens of times, until there was no space left to stab!

Duke Feman’s mind was in chaos, but then it heard.

“Haha, surprised?”

It immediately associated this voice with Luo Jie.

How was this possible? It widened its eyes, looking straight at the young man’s face.

The young man stepped on it, but wasn’t looking at it. Instead, he lowered his eyes to scan the followers outside, saying in a very mature tone. “A bunch of kids who don’t know their own limits, believing in this today and that tomorrow, with flexible standards of faith, pretending to worship gods. Since you’re all here today, no one is leaving.”

Those opposite were terrified to the extreme. What would happen if they didn’t leave?

Someone immediately begged for help. “Your Excellency the Apostle, save us!”

However, Duke Feman was still in shock and doubt. How could it not recognize that this young man was actually Luo Jie whom it had killed.

This guy had actually revived and become younger, was he here for revenge? What a joke!

It immediately erupted, all skills maxed out, but fifteen minutes later, it was vomiting blood nonstop, dragging its broken body, crawling miserably on the ground, with daggers stabbed into both eyes, oozing dry black blood.

It howled. “This… this is impossible, you can’t be this strong, you had grown old, your strength had declined!”

Luo Jie crouched down, gripping its nape, smashing its head violently against the ground until it was bloody and screaming incessantly.

“What’s impossible? I was once max level, can you say the same? I’d fight even if your god came, let alone a small apostle like you? Back then, I killed three thousand angels in a day, even gods couldn’t stop me. What’s wrong with hitting you once?”

It trembled, vomiting another mouthful of blood, “This is impossible, you old thing… should be dead.”

Luo Jie chuckled coldly, his eyes turning cold, “How can you not respect the elderly?”