After the Lord of the Abyss Awakens - Chapter 53.2

After Xili revealed the identity, there were obviously fewer people questioning. Because it was too reasonable.

He’s the student of Great Mentor Matros, so why couldn’t he raise such a smart little cat?

It’s worth noting that Great Mentor Matros was synonymous with miracles. He had invented and improved countless spells and was a legend among legends. The student of such a great being must be capable of anything.

Matros’s authoritative identity convinced almost all the magicians and most of the people present.

After all, the problem itself was named after Matros. Now everyone had to accept it, whether they wanted to or not.

The second butler watched these magicians chiming in with each other, his anger rising, but he maintained a calm exterior. If he couldn’t deal with them now, fine, he would eventually.

Febi gritted his teeth secretly and said in a low voice, “So what if he’s Matros’s student? He’s not Matros himself, and even if he were, so what? We are descendants of the Sword God, what don’t we dare to kill?”

The old Sword Saint chuckled, waved his hand and left, leaving behind a sentence, “What can’t be dealt with during the day, deal with at night!”

A few seconds later, all members of the Jupius family disappeared.

Afterwards, amid the clamor, Millard returned to his room and remained silent for a while.

Setting aside the matter of the Matros Problem for now, looking back, the development of events was beyond imagination. It turned out that the person recommended by the king himself won first place.

Levin, that guy, had left early. Wasn’t the plan to find the number one ranked? Where was the number one ranked? And he completely offended the Jupius family. With almost no high-level powerhouses backing him, he dared to offend them?

They could make him die without even knowing how he died!

Millard frowned deeply, seemingly also considering his own position.

After today’s events, he had undoubtedly become a supporter of the king. But his heart was only in research, how could he manage so much?

Millard overlooked one thing, which led him to be close to the truth yet unable to grasp it.

Regardless, the competition results were finally accepted without objection, recognized by most nobles and people present.

The news that the student of Great Mentor Matros had appeared in the Oedipus Empire subsequently spread throughout the imperial city.

Under the spread of this news, the fact that the Matros Problem was solved by a cat had been overshadowed. Most people would only think, how could a cat solve such a complex magical problem? It must have learned from its owner.

Only a very small number of people who witnessed the scene would feel that the cat was clearly solving it on its own at the time. It was thinking on the spot, not just giving the answer.

In any case, the name “Yi Xiusi” had deeply impressed people, and they inevitably had some suspicions about him.

At this time, it was already dark, and the time showed 18:30.

Millard had many unanswered questions and was somewhat worried about the safety of Levin and Yi Xiusi, as the Sword Saint family would not easily let them off.

“A student of Great Mentor Matros? But he only appears to be level 32. Is he hiding his strength, or…”

Meanwhile.

Xiu Si had just said goodbye to Levin and returned home. He put the children down on the ground, closed the outer door, and revealed a worried look.

“I feel there’s some danger.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the four cats’ pupils constricted, and their claws came out.

The little ragdoll immediately jumped up, pouncing into Xiu Si’s arms, meowing.

Xiu Si looked down, surprised, “You say not to worry about them because you can kill them all?”

“Meow!”

“Haha, you’re still little.”

“Meow!”

“Father’s not doubting you, it’s just… you’re still little.”

The other three cats stared intently at the cuddling little ragdoll, rolling their eyes a bit.

Beelzebub turned to Inpos and said: Has She always been like this?

Inpos nodded, saying quietly: Always like this, never stopped.

Beelzebub snorted.

Aelioge’s face also darkened. That position was supposed to be mine!

Xiu Si was amused by the little ragdoll, patting its head, “Oh right, there’s something I forgot to tell you.”

The four cats immediately perked up. What was Father going to say!

Xiu Si slowly educated them, “You were still young back then, so I didn’t teach you this. Taking today’s events as an opportunity, let me tell you that showing off in public is dangerous, especially in this world where there are too many unknowns, the gods are capricious, and human powerhouses aren’t necessarily lawful good.”

The four cats were stunned, listening obediently with particularly serious expressions.

Xiu Si’s gaze was serious, carrying a hint of indisputability as he emphasized, “I know you all have the ability to survive and can escape back to the Abyss in time of danger, but you still need to be careful when caution is needed, understand?”

The four cats nodded, their high synchronization rate almost making it hard to distinguish between them.

Xiu Si couldn’t help but smile, patting each of their heads again as he continued, “Of course, no matter what happens, it won’t be your fault.”

Xiu Si’s view of good and evil was rather primitive, but he never taught them that they must do good. Because survival always comes first, they weren’t human and would never be human, so there was no need to act according to human rules or bear any burden.

He continued, “Evil people do bad things and act tyrannically, but we don’t need to reflect on our own problems. If we have a problem, there is and only is one problem, and that is strength, understand?”

Xiu Si had experienced many things. Back in the day, the hero team went in and out of various divine kingdoms on missions. What hadn’t he seen? Today’s event didn’t even count as a big scene.

“However…”

He smiled, “If something happens and we can’t win, let’s run. Inpos, you know movement magic, right?”

The gray cat meowed, indicating that the house was safe, and came over, placing its paw on Xiu Si’s bracelet, saying that no matter what danger they encountered, they just needed to inject magic power into it in time.

“Good.”

After becoming more aware of Inpos’s abilities, Xiu Si trusted him even more. His own child truly lived up to having lived for over 8,000 years, his understanding of magic was far too strong. The outside world didn’t know about this, so that’s why they would doubt him.

He stroked the gray cat’s face and continued. “That family may have their eyes on us. Although we don’t know why, we still need to be careful where we should be careful, understand?”

The four cats immediately nodded, looking obedient and cute, but in their minds they were thinking, it’s them who should be careful!

Xiu Si spoke for about half an hour before the house finally welcomed a quiet time.

Suddenly the door opened, and the four cats tiptoed out of the bedroom, then transformed into human form in the bookstore.

Their excessively beautiful appearances elevated the entire space, as if this place wasn’t some small bookstore, but the most high-class noble club.

Beelzebub leaned against the bookshelf, his long eyelashes slightly sweeping, revealing a pair of jewel-like eyes. His cold exterior combined with his cold demeanor made the entire demon as cold as an iceberg.

“Speaking of which, there really is a group of humans watching us.”

Buer smiled and blinked, her soft silver hair scattered, her features beautiful and delicate like a doll, her skin extremely pale and light, her eyes like rippling lakes. She said carelessly, “So what? Isn’t it easy to deal with them?”

Aelioge turned to look at her and reminded, “Father likes a peaceful life.”

Buer smiled proudly, “Why don’t we create a country for Father then? Let Father live there, research however he wants, have everything he needs, peaceful and serene, and then we can buy time to revise your history.”

Inpos said inexplicably, “The Truman Show?”

They more or less shared their father’s memories or knowledge, so they knew some knowledge from their father’s original world. “The Truman Show” created a false world for Truman, without telling him, letting the whole world watch Truman’s life reality show.

Inpos thought it was too fake and didn’t agree with this.

Beelzebub didn’t care much about this. He changed the topic and looked at Aelioge, saying, “It’s about time, Aelioge, time to go to work.”

Aelioge frowned. He certainly knew what work Beelzebub was talking about, but he really didn’t want to go find Amon and the others.

He was silent for a few seconds, “I have to tell you in advance, if I’m unfortunately discovered by Amon, what we’re about to face is a beating from Big Brother.”

Because Amon would definitely tell Big Brother Baal. If Baal found out, he would definitely beat them up.

Inpos really wanted to object to finding Amon, but also knew the necessity of this matter.

“You go then, we’ll deal with whatever happens. Anyway, history must be rewritten, otherwise we wouldn’t need to keep this from Father.”

Beelzebub nodded and said to Aelioge. “Just be careful, Amon’s eyes can penetrate everything, don’t show any flaws. Oh, and be careful not to be followed by him.”

Amon ranked seventh among them, nicknamed the Hermit, with the authority of [Existence and Nothingness], his ability was very troublesome, even could be said to be abnormal.

Sometimes they’d rather offend Baal than offend Amon, because this guy could play with you to death, and he had a natural mischievous nature. Except for Father, everything was a toy to him.

Aelioge didn’t like Amon, hadn’t spoken to him for over 3,000 years. Now having to go ask him questions, he felt a bit embarrassed.

But for Father… he’d give it a shot!

Seeing him like this, Beelzebub also said, “I have to leave too, we can’t not investigate the behind-the-scenes manipulator.”

Aelioge asked, “What was that clue you said you found? Why haven’t you mentioned it in the three days since you returned? Don’t tell me you forgot again.”

Beelzebub glanced at Aelioge, “I didn’t forget, it’s just that there are some parts I’m not sure about.”

Aelioge: “Alright then, figure it out clearly before saying anything. I’ll leave it to you.”

Buer watched their conversation, finding it amusing, and smiled saying, “You two have such a good relationship.”

Aelioge and Beelzebub turned their heads simultaneously to scold. “What’s good about it? It’s been like this for so many years!”

Buer smiled without saying anything, or perhaps remembering something, she specially reminded them. “Don’t let any other siblings discover us again.”

On this point, they were in agreement.

Because there couldn’t be any more!

Beelzebub countered. “As for you two, protect Father properly, alright? Don’t just indulge in having Father play the role of the Lord of the Abyss, understand?”

Buer snorted, “You guys clearly want to see it too.”

“Anyway, don’t do anything reckless!”

“Okay~”

A few minutes later, only two demons remained in the bookstore.

Buer sprawled on the counter, transforming into a small kitten and rolling around, complaining wistfully. “They’re finally gone.”

Inpos, meanwhile, directed his gaze outside the door, looking at something unknown.

At the same time.

In the bedroom, Xiu Si had another dream. The dream was very deep; he seemed to have fallen into the deep sea, unable to swim up no matter how he tried.

Although he was in seawater, he heard sparse sounds in his ears, like the sound of wind blowing through bamboo forests in spring.

Various sensations mixed together in the dream, hearing was also vision, vision was also smell, everything was in disarray, mixed evenly, inseparable, in a strange harmony.

Here, his spirit seemed able to elevate infinitely, expand infinitely. As long as he wanted, he kept thinking, his spirit seemed to even be able to cover the entire sea.

When a person becomes self-aware in a dream, they instinctively want to regain control over themselves.

So, although he was dreaming, he was also invading the dream.

The more he honed his mental power, the more he seemed able to control his own spirit. The dream had no time; he tirelessly explored, like a child picking up seashells on the beach. As long as he wanted to pick them up, he could do so endlessly, because the sea would continuously wash them ashore.

The mental resources of the dream were inexhaustible.

He found this fascinating and kept exploring, immersing himself in the depths of this dream.

He wouldn’t know that at this moment, Vassago suddenly woke up.

Vassago stared in shock at the spiritual energy overflowing from Xiu Si’s body. In over 8,000 years, it was the first time he had seen spiritual energy actually overflow like this.

Although he knew Father’s spiritual power was strong, he never imagined the values would overflow like this.

What exactly was… going on?

Even without asking why, would this phenomenon of spiritual energy overflowing cause anything to happen?

Vassago looked closer, and even discerned multiple divinities.

Was the concentration of divinity in Father’s spiritual energy too high?

He was about to think this when he saw the concentration still skyrocketing.

Rising in a straight line!

Almost simultaneously, at 12:12 AM.

The assassins from the Jupius family arrived at the bookstore’s entrance, surrounding the entire bookstore in a matter of seconds.

The identity of “Great Mentor Matros’s student” didn’t dissuade them from their intention to kill, rather, it intensified their murderous intent.

They quickly set up, determining the breach point and rushing into the house within seconds.

As long as they killed that young man, it would be enough! They immediately searched for him, stealthy yet aggressive.

But in the next second, they froze.

The room was pitch black, yet there were two glowing jewels suspended in the air.

It was actually a pair of eyes! No, not right, it was two pairs!

They retreated in fear, but as the darkness faded, two beings of extraordinary presence were revealed.

One with silver hair and emerald eyes, stunningly beautiful.

One with black hair and emerald eyes, exuding elegance.

“It’s the Abyss Lords Buer and Inpos!”

Someone recognized them on the spot, but their breath was cut off within seconds.

Buer smiled, grabbing one person’s collar. Just a moment ago she was smiling like a peach blossom, but the next second she was as fierce as a demon god. She playfully said in a low voice. “Within one minute, call the strongest person in your family to cut off their own hands and feet and crawl over here, otherwise I’ll go over there myself, okay?”

That person’s whole body broke out in goosebumps, their mind went blank, and they asked tremblingly, “You… What are you going to do?”