After the Lord of the Abyss Awakens - Chapter 77.2

The Goddess of Wisdom had maintained an indifferent expression, but at this moment She suddenly smiled faintly, “I heard you can see the reasons for the destruction of all things. Is that right?”

Beelzebub glanced at Her, not answering the question.

A few seconds later, the room was empty of demons, leaving only one deity.

****

Meanwhile, in the domain.

Two heroes were chatting while playing chess.

“Sigh, She won’t abandon us, will She?”

“I think She’s forgotten about us.”

“Hahaha.”

“You’re still laughing?”

“Otherwise what can we two old men do? This old man is just having a youthful moment of madness, breaking through domains?”

Justin looked at Luo Jie. “Haven’t you not recovered your strength yet?”

Luo Jie chuckled, “You saw through me, I’m just putting on a brave face.”

As they were chatting, suddenly the space trembled.

It seemed like something had happened over at Buer’s side.

****

On the other side.

Three demons arrived first at the restaurant.

Buer insisted. “I’ve already said I’m not lying! I really did raise a little kitty.”

Ayni didn’t believe it, equally insisting. “Sister Bu isn’t the type to raise cats.”

The two demons argued for almost an hour, constantly repeating their two viewpoints.

Valefor, who had just arrived, looked at Them arguing, Her gaze fixed on Buer with an obvious questioning meaning.

There were still a few sister demons who hadn’t arrived yet, who knew how long they would be delayed, but chatting for a while was still possible.

To be honest, Valefor wasn’t very interested in the topic of “cats”, and it didn’t really matter whether Buer raised a cat or not.

The key was that Buer was clearly concealing something beyond this.

Valefor swirled the wine glass in Her hand, allowing the red wine to have more contact with the air, Her gaze looking into Buer’s eyes.

“Buer, speaking of which, what were you doing together with Aelioge, Beelzebub and the others?”

Buer paused, suddenly had an idea, stood up with a slap, magic power wrapping around Her flying hair, and shouted loudly. “The reason I’m hanging out with Aelioge and the others is to conquer the continent and conquer subspace!”

The air suddenly fell silent.

The restaurant was filled with Buer’s echoes.

A gust of wind blew in from outside, just happening to make the curtains flap noisily.

It seemed as if heaven and earth found Buer’s words… hard to describe.

Ayni was stunned for a moment, then laughed so hard She pounded the table, completely losing Her composure, “Isn’t that what Big Brother is doing? Why are you all getting involved too?”

But Buer actually had a very serious expression.

She left Her seat, strode along the long table, hands behind Her back, and said in a loud and clear voice. “Because this is a rebellion against Big Brother!”

Ayni had a shocked expression, the word “rebellion” echoing loudly in Her mind.

Valefor also hadn’t expected this, so She didn’t stop Buer, listening to Her continue.

Buer paced around the table, recalling while saying, “When we were young, Big Brother often threw us into piles of giant demons, letting us fight wits and courage with the giant demons. We’ve held a grudge against Big Brother for too long! Now that we’ve become stronger, we finally have the strength to confront Big Brother. Of course we have to fire the first shot of resistance against Big Brother, and unite to oppose Big Brother’s forceful suppression.”

The more Buer spoke, the more excited She became, looking as if it wasn’t fake, with a few obvious traces of genuine emotion.

Even the mischievous Ayni was shocked to hear Her say this.

Little Buer, actually having such great ambition?

A group of demons rarely conspiring together, actually to oppose Big Brother!

Ayni seemed to believe it, shaking Her head and saying, “You all combined can’t beat Big Brother, give up.”

Buer excitedly said, “Who says we can’t beat Him! We’ve been reborn anew, if we join forces, even Big Brother will have to retreat three steps and be wary of us.”

Valefor put down Her wine glass, seeming to be shocked speechless by Buer’s wild imagination.

It wasn’t the first day Buer had been like this, naive and lively and talkative, talking nonsense, saying whatever came to mind.

Ayni refuted. “Hehe, brothers and sisters often say that, and then get beaten to tears by Big Brother.”

Buer immediately denied. “I’ve never been beaten to tears!”

Ayni narrowed Her eyes and smiled. “I didn’t say it was you, Sister Bu, but you just admitted it.”

Buer changed tactics, imitating Beelzebub’s gloomy gaze, “Hehe, times have changed, three thousand years east of the river, three thousand years west of the river, my fate is in my own hands. I will be the first to defeat Big Brother!”

(TL: 三千年河東，三千年河西’three thousand years east of the river, three thousand years west of the river’=This saying is often used to express how fortunes can change over time, and no one holds dominance forever.)

She said this with absolute sincerity.

But the restaurant was filled with Ayni’s uncontrollable laughter.

Valefor couldn’t watch anymore, finally speaking up to remind Buer, “I won’t comment on the rest, but don’t randomly look at Father’s memories and learn these phrases.”

This wasn’t right. Buer’s gaze was deep, “Sixth Sister, you taught me these phrases when you were young.”

Valefor paused for a moment, then asked, “Really?”

Buer pouted and said, “Yes, don’t you remember when you were young?”

“…”

Valefor fell silent.

She hadn’t forgotten, She had just sealed away most of Her memories of the abyss.

Because if She suddenly remembered…She would feel very uncomfortable, extremely uncomfortable.

“You guys just keep boasting, you can’t beat Big Brother.”

Ayni thought this was a foolish demon’s dream, emphasizing, “Big Brother has never lost from childhood to adulthood, one demon single-handedly fighting the entire universe!”

As She spoke, Her eyes lit up, revealing heartfelt admiration.

Buer chuckled. “Nothing is impossible, and I’m going to invite you all to join. Us sisters will become the main force in beating Big Brother, oh no, the vanguard!”

Ayni originally wanted to go in and see what was happening, but after Buer said this, She didn’t want to join anymore.

It was all about being rebellious.

“I don’t want to go.”

Ayni snorted, “Big Brother is invincible, if you all go crazy, I’ll tip off Big Brother.”

Buer panicked internally, tipping off would be disastrous.

But She said aloud. “Go ahead and tip Him off, I think you’re the one underestimating Big Brother, He doesn’t need you to tip Him off to beat us.”

Ayni was stunned, pinching Her chin with two fingers, “That seems to make sense.”

Buer’s big fuss had an unexpectedly good effect, probably because what She said was so absurd that it covered up other things.

She thought to Herself that Sister was still clever, if it had been Aelioge or Beelzebub present, They would have been caught long ago.

Good, let’s continue down this path!

Buer made up Her mind, just as She turned Her head wanting to talk to Sixth Sister, She suddenly paused.

Because She saw a flash of deep sorrow in Valefor’s eyes.

Sixth Sister…

Buer seemed to think of something, and couldn’t help but open Her mouth.

****

Meanwhile, in the distant subspace.

Aelioge stepped out of the void, slowly setting foot on the ground, His gaze cast towards the rows of tall buildings.

He came here to find Their sibling Bachin, who was most proficient in spatial magic.

Bachin ranked eighteenth, entered subspace over six thousand years ago, and hadn’t returned to the continent since then, always stationed in subspace.

He was a very famous existence in subspace, His name circulated in many divine kingdoms of subspace.

He was a shy, nostalgic, homebody who loved His own nest, inheriting Father’s otaku attributes perfectly, loving comics, games, TV dramas, movies, and even creating His own works, with countless fans on the continent under His pen name.

He seemed to be a hacker master too.

Why did He leave the continent? Mainly because the civilization on the continent was too backward for Him, He saw more advanced and convenient civilizations in Father’s memories, He was obsessed with those rich literary and artistic works, so He ran to subspace to build His own divine kingdom.

Subspace was different from the continent, civilizations could develop freely, but it wasn’t like you could develop however you wanted.

Subspace was an extremely survival-of-the-fittest place, with danger every moment and every second.

It wasn’t difficult to establish a divine kingdom in subspace, the difficulty was in keeping it.

As far as Aelioge knew, there weren’t many advanced civilizations in this star region of the original continent.

Most civilizations had shorter histories than the original continent, and looked like they wouldn’t last long.

The star region where sibling Bachin was located was extremely far from the continent, a location that continental humans could not reach even with all their means.

Aelioge walked a few steps forward, looking down at the entire city district.

Countless races dwelled in the city, known and unknown ones were all inside, to create sociality and maintain peace, they all used human forms as they came and went.

This divine kingdom had no king, nor any governing organization, purely letting freedom reign, with the only requirement being harmony.

That is – not causing any harm to any others.

To put it in a better light, this was because Bachin had inherited the Taoist philosophy of “governing by doing nothing” from Father’s memories. But the truth was probably that He was too lazy to manage so much.

Aelioge looked over the city landscape and realized something.

This place was very similar to Father’s memories, or rather… it was a 1:1 reproduction.

Before coming, Aelioge had been wondering if Bachin was just living His own life and had forgotten about Father, but the answer was right before His eyes.

This entire city was the answer.

“…”

Aelioge seemed to somewhat regret coming to find Bachin, because even He would feel guilty.

Keeping secrets from His siblings wasn’t really good… but everyone would know sooner or later, it was just a matter of time.

Just as He was hesitating, suddenly a whistle sound interrupted His thoughts.

Aelioge’s expression changed, His thoughts refocusing on the matter at hand, His gaze searching for Bachin’s specific location.

In a sense, Bachin had a more gentle personality, rarely fighting with His siblings.

If you asked Him questions, He mostly wouldn’t refuse, but might reply very slowly, remembering to tell you after a few hundred years, which was a bit troublesome.

If you asked for His help, requiring Him to go out, He would probably refuse.

So He had to think about how to phrase it.

Aelioge deliberated internally for a few minutes, then walked into the void, and when He next set foot down, it was in a large hall.

The room was sparsely furnished, with a long sofa and bookshelves standing against all four walls.

The shelves were filled with various ACG items, comic books, DVDs, figurines, and various merchandise.

One look was enough to know the situation of the room’s owner.

Aelioge hadn’t finished observing when suddenly a faint sound came from the adjacent room.

He turned His head to look, and saw a glowing jade eye peeking out from a three-centimeter-wide gap in the dark door.

An adult-sized figure, with bangs falling down, somewhat obscuring the view, wearing black-framed glasses behind, looking closely, the eyelids were a bit bluish, as if He hadn’t slept well for a long time, the whole demon looking very dejected.

Interestingly, there was also a sound like an anime playing from behind Him.

Bachin gazed thoughtfully, “Aelioge? What are you here for?”

Aelioge spoke directly. “I want to know about the Otherworld God Number 001, and what state the Goddess of Harmony and the Primordial God of Humans are in now.”

“…”

****

A few minutes later, Aelioge was sitting on the sofa, holding a cup of hot milk tea.

Opposite Him, Bachin had brought a whiteboard from somewhere, drew a large circle on it, and then drew a small circle inside the large circle.

Aelioge watched as He drew and wrote.

He wrote “known” inside the small circle, “unknown” outside the small circle but inside the large circle, and then drew a cross, dividing the large and small circles.

Bachin only looked slowly towards Aelioge after finishing all this.

He didn’t ask Aelioge why He wanted to know this, as if He was long accustomed to it.

“Subspace is infinitely large, but we can assume it to be finite, treat this large circle as a map of subspace, and the small circle as the subspace domain we have discovered and can explore. So where is Otherworld God Number 001?”

Bachin suddenly pointed at a spot on the circumference of the small circle, then drew a tangent line, and said, “Right here, at the point where the known and unknown collide, the specific location is…”

He didn’t explain further, directly tossing a location coordinate to Aelioge.

Aelioge caught the information energy He threw, feeling somewhat emotional at how effortless it was.

Bachin yawned tiredly. “You should know, right? The Primordial God of Humans was devoured by Otherworld God Number 001. The Goddess of Harmony too, I saw it with my own eyes, about a thousand years ago? That’s all I know, is that enough?”

Aelioge was about to nod, but after analyzing the coordinates, a flash of obvious shock passed through His eyes, and He murmured, “Isn’t Big Brother a bit close to that area?”

Bachin’s eye sockets were sore with fatigue, He rubbed His eyes and said, “Mm, Big Brother is in that vicinity. Are you going to find Big Brother? Remember when you were young, you often challenged Big Brother, and were defeated every time. You couldn’t beat Him even when He used only two hands.”

Aelioge smiled politely. Although Bachin was His younger brother by three ranks, He spoke without any sense of seniority.

Perhaps due to His restored powers and elevated status, Aelioge felt more confident internally, “The past is the past, now is now. Big Brother is strong, I admit, but I won’t always lose.”

After all, Aelioge was the God of War consciousness, very competitive, just previously scared by being beaten. Now that His power had been restored, His mentality had improved somewhat.

However, Bachin looked at Aelioge with an “are you serious” expression, and asked, “Do you know to what extent Big Brother has conquered subspace? Assuming subspace is finite.”

Aelioge didn’t know, feeling this matter wasn’t very relevant. He’d better find Otherworld God Number 001 first.

“Bachin, never mind the rest, just transfer me over there first, and then transfer me back in about three days.”

The distance was so far, and He Himself wasn’t very proficient in spatial magic. It would take at least a few thousand years to transfer Himself, so He could only rely on Bachin.

Bachin nodded, raising His hand to cast a spatial magic spell.

A few seconds later, Aelioge disappeared, reappearing in a vast, starless cosmic domain, shockingly dark. Only by turning back could He see traces of a few stars.

He was about to unleash His magic power when suddenly His pupils contracted, because He saw clearly that the opposite star region seemed to be at war.

Billions of high-level Evil Wing race beings were besieging a man.

Agares’s eyes widened in an instant, wasn’t that Big Brother?!

He nervously immediately pulled back to a distance, but then immediately realized, how could Big Brother bother with Him from so far away?

Moreover, wasn’t He not weak anymore now? Surely He could face Big Brother head-on now?

Aelioge thought for a moment, feeling a bit confident again.

But in the next second, His face changed drastically.

He saw, amidst the billions of Evil Wing race beings surrounding Him, Big Brother cast a cold glance, casually throwing a punch that shattered space. The resulting shockwave was like a tsunami, sweeping towards the Evil Wing race beings like an overwhelming force, annihilating them in an instant, then destroying a stretch of the galaxy like dry twigs.

This alone was terrifying enough, but the force of the punch actually crossed an enormous distance, the impact reaching right up to Aelioge, making His bangs stand on end, as if gelled, styling His hair into a big pompadour.

Aelioge’s pupils quaked.