I'm Really Not the Lord of the Abyss - Chapter 21

Inside the Zerg nest, the white-haired demon suddenly stood up.

The chains that bound him struck the walls and iron bars with a resounding clang.

The high-ranking Zerg, who were in the midst of a heated argument, were taken aback and fell into a brief silence.

A Zerg jailer was about to step forward to check.

However, staring at the white-haired demon who was hanging his head low, the four-winged Zerg couldn’t see his expression due to the fallen hair on his forehead. For some reason, the unease in the heart of the four-winged Zerg grew stronger, and he was about to speak to stop it.

Clang——

That was the sound of the chains breaking completely, becoming a pile of scrap metal that fell heavily to the ground.

The next second, the jailer was as if hit by an invisible force, violently flew out and smashed through the opposite wall, revealing an exit.

No one saw how he got out of the cell. It was as if he had just passed through a mirror or water surface, and the demon was already standing outside the cell.

Everyone looked at him in disbelief, as if something unusually intense was stirring in the air, and everything began to spiral out of control.

“…Get lost.” Finally, the white-haired demon suddenly spoke. His Adam’s apple rolled, his voice hoarse and dry, like someone who had lost his voice for a long time.

At that moment, all plans, goals, and intentions were thrown to the back of their minds. Those were nothing more than idle banishments, madness to numb oneself.

And now——

The four-winged Zerg facing him suddenly took a step back, seemingly stunned by the unprecedented intense emotion in the demon’s eyes at this moment.

He saw a hot and scorching dormant volcano awaken at this moment, spewing out majestic heat. The frenzied power turned into a sweeping flame, even burning itself madly.

——Finally…

——I’ve found you.

A smile suddenly appeared on the demon’s exceptionally handsome face. No, perhaps it couldn’t be called a smile. It was an uncontrollable moment that moved his trembling lips and meridians.

It was the intense emotion in his heart that had nowhere to vent, and finally, the tip of the iceberg was revealed.

Above the sky of the Zerg nest, the shadow of a dragon hovering suddenly swung its tail.

All of a sudden, everyone heard a long dragon’s roar. Above the higher sky, it was extraordinarily loud, shaking the earth.

The unshakeable law deafeningly vibrated above countless doors, rolling over like thunderclouds.

On the azure sea surface, Lu Mi stood before the abyss rift, the tip of his silver spear lifted.

Immediately, the calm sea surface shook and suddenly lifted up like a curtain.

As the high waves rushed towards them, Salien in the aircraft widened his eyes, and Grant had already covered his face and buried his head in the seat.

At this moment, everyone felt a sense of absurdity as if the world was turning upside down. Even when they raised their heads, they could see flying fish swimming in the giant waves leaping from the sky.

Splash——!

A second later in slow motion, the sea water fell back into the sea, and the towering spray splashed up, making a loud noise.

The aircraft swayed, and Grant tentatively raised his head, “Is it…over?”

“…It’s over.” Salien moved his lips, feeling that after meeting Lu Mi, he should have gotten used to this kind of worldview rebuilding.

…Damn it!

Next time you make such a big noise, can you say it in advance? He was almost scared to step on the gas instead of the brake!!

“That’s enough.” Lu Mi withdrew his hand, looking at the huge rift in the sky that was already invisible, and nodded in satisfaction.

Then, he put away his spear while looking to the west——Ah, he always felt… just now, it seemed like he heard a familiar call?

But it shouldn’t be, there’s no reason to appear here at this time.

…An illusion?

Jizhou, who witnessed all this by his side, let out a deep breath. A certain originally faint belief became slightly brighter at this moment——

If it’s this person, maybe it really can…

“What’s next?” Jizhou asked in a deep voice, bringing Lu Mi back to his senses.

Lu Mi noticed that when the man spoke, his head was slightly lowered, and his eyes were staring at him, seemingly more serious and careful than his previous attitude towards him.

Although it was a bit strange, he didn’t mind and answered decisively with a clear mind.

“Back to the Zerg nest. The Zerg Queen Mother must have noticed something wrong, and your brothers and sisters are probably in danger.”

In fact, as Lu Mi expected.

After a nearly crazy search in the west, the Zerg Queen Mother didn’t find any figures at all.

Not even a trace of the target’s breath!

At this moment, the Zerg Queen Mother was already grimacing, panting heavily due to the raging anger that had nowhere to vent.

“…Where are they!”

“Where on earth are they——!”

“Queen Mother.” Just then, a trembling ear-reporting bug came up and whispered, “Did they deceive you?”

The expression of the Zerg Queen Mother suddenly stagnated, and she looked straight at it like a demon, “What did you say.”

“I, my meaning is…!” The ear-reporting bug was desperate to survive, “The attitude of your children is a bit strange! Could there be some hidden information?”

At this time, the Zerg Queen Mother, who was full of anger, finally calmed down a bit, and her huge compound eyes squinted slightly.

And just then, a red-haired Zerg suddenly flew up from the sea.

This Zerg was the one that Lu Mi had originally knocked into the sea.

“Queen Mother, I saw that damned human running to the east, you’re tracking in the wrong direction!” The red-haired Zerg was soaked through, he had been chasing the Queen Mother all the way after he had finally crawled out of the sea.

“…Oh? Is that so?” The Zerg Queen Mother looked at the red-haired Zerg nodding continuously, murmuring back and forth “the direction is reversed”, then, the Zerg Queen Mother suddenly laughed, “I see, you’re a good child.”

The red-haired Zerg was overjoyed, as if he saw his hope of replacing Jizhou as the new pillar.

This ambition even overshadowed the fear of facing the Queen Mother, the red-haired Zerg hurriedly stated, “Yes! Queen Mother, I’m not like those traitors, I am forever loyal to you…”

Zing——

A huge insect leg pierced through his body.

The expression of the red-haired Zerg was forever frozen in ecstasy and the astonishment that had not had time to react.

The next second, the Zerg Queen Mother threw his body away, not giving a glance to the splash that fell into the sea, “But, I don’t believe a single one now.”

Then, the Zerg Queen Mother’s eyes turned cold, and she quickly issued an order. “Now return at full speed, back to the nest.”

Next, things happened so coincidentally——

From the west and the east, the two parties rushing to the Zerg nest met a kilometer before the base.

This was truly a scene in fate.

Salien and Grant in the aircraft turned pale in an instant.

“Holy sh*t! What the hell is that!” Grant screamed directly.

At the end of the distant horizon, a huge dark cloud was approaching, moving very fast, getting closer and closer.

It wasn’t until it was about to reach them that they saw that the cloud was actually a swarm of insects covering the sky.

Multi-legged, winged, sharp-toothed, venomous, bristly… all the weapons that could be thought of that insects possessed, were all given to this dense Zerg army, each one was two people tall.

However, the most terrifying thing was the huge creature that they were crowding in the center. Its huge compound eyes firmly locked onto the tiny aircraft that was even smaller than its pupils, revealing a terrifying rage and malice in its eyes.

Salien’s fingers holding the steering wheel went soft, his lips trembled violently, “So what we have to deal with is this kind of monster…!”

What made him think he could do it? Was it Lu Mi! Damn it, he shouldn’t have come to this auction! Where did it go wrong!

The Zerg Queen Mother looked at the familiar figure in the other party, slowly opened her mouth, with an expression of extreme excitement and joy, she spoke word by word.

“Oh, isn’t this Jizhou! This Queen Mother has been looking for you for a long time——!”

The noble young man Grant turned into a screaming chicken, cursing again, “Damn it, it can talk!!”

Jizhou’s lips instantly pursed into a straight line, he instinctively wanted to block in front of the aircraft, but was stopped by Lu Mi.

“Leave it to me.” Lu Mi looked at this unprecedentedly huge monster, and slowly said.

Jizhou’s fingertips trembled, he took a deep look at him, then obediently stepped back, hovering behind the silver-eyed youth, as if following.

At this time, the Zerg Queen Mother finally gave a glance to the ant in her eyes.

“Is this your reliance for daring to betray me?” The Zerg Queen Mother’s puzzlement and mockery were almost impossible to hide, “A human!?”

“Ah, indeed it’s a human.” Lu Mi stroked the handle of his spear, suddenly raised the tip of his spear to point at her, lazily raised an eyebrow, “But, it’s a human who can blow up your bug head.”

“…”

How long has it been since anyone dared to talk to her like this!

The Zerg Queen Mother was trembling all over, her eyes suddenly wide open, and a frightening energy gathered around her, making Jizhou terrified.

“Be careful…!”

Jizhou hadn’t finished speaking when a bright blade of light shot out from the mouth of the Zerg Queen Mother.

The blade of light, at first glance, was about a hundred meters long, sweeping across the air and making a sonic boom. It seemed to be intent on wiping out everyone on the aircraft in front of it.

Grant, who was slumped in his seat, lunged towards the driver’s seat, “Quick, quick, dodge, don’t get hit!”

Salien’s vision was completely flooded by the white light of the attack. He swung the aircraft around wildly while gritting his teeth and roaring, “Shut up!”

Outside the flying aircraft, Lu Mi stood still as a mountain on top. He was about to take the hit, but suddenly felt a familiar and strange fluctuation in space-time.

…Huh? Isn’t this?

He couldn’t help but show a moment of astonishment.

The next second, countless mirrors appeared in front of Lu Mi at a fast pace, blinking and arranged into a huge mirror.

The dazzling white light, like a sudden thunderbolt, illuminated the dark sea area as bright as day, and then rushed towards the huge mirror that covered the sky and the earth, crashing into it with a bang.

The two people inside the aircraft had already closed their eyes and were waiting for death. Who knew——

Boom——!

The light blade that passed through the mirror was suddenly transferred to the back of the aircraft, slashing towards the empty sea surface all the way, splashing waves tens of meters high on the sea, directly carving out a huge round hole in the sea surface, even the suddenly falling sea water couldn’t fill it for a while.

“We, we didn’t die?” Grant gasped with his mouth open, then was overjoyed.

Salien was calming his intense heartbeat bit by bit, both surprised and puzzled——Was the skill empty? Was it transferred by some kind of spatial power?

“…It’s you!” The Zerg Queen Mother looked at this familiar skill, her rage escalated, she looked like she wanted to eat him alive, “The demon who killed my army is with you!”

At this time, Lu Mi opened his mouth——If I say I didn’t do this, would you believe me?

Lu Mi followed the mirror that suddenly appeared and blocked the attack for him, slowly looking towards the not far away Zerg nest.

There, the huge nest had been torn open a huge gap at some unknown time, and gusts of wind were pouring in through the gap.

Even though he was far away, Lu Mi’s eyesight allowed him to clearly see the figure standing in front of the gap——

The white-haired demon’s clothes were fluttering in the wind, and his fingertips were still emitting the fluctuation of twisting space after just using his power.

A group of subdued high-ranking Zerg were lying on the ground in all directions, groaning and trying to look this way, extremely anxious because of the increasingly chaotic situation.

The next moment, Lu Mi unexpectedly met the demon’s gaze.

For the “Mirror and Space” demon, his eyes were the strongest mirror he could use.

Those eyes with changing colors were like the crystal windows in a cathedral illuminated by sunlight, and the refracted iris was like a kaleidoscope with gorgeous patterns.

In the moment of eye contact, Lu Mi sensed the fluctuation of power, but he did not resist.

Then, his consciousness was dragged into the world in the mirror.

Here——

Countless mirror spaces were arranged in a chaotic manner, like an endless mirror maze.

Each mirror reflected the figure of the silver-eyed youth. Looking around, it seemed as if there were countless him existing at the same time, giving a sense of weird and eerie absurdity and mystery.

Lu Mi had been here before.

The next second, a cold body pressed up from behind, and a slow breath suddenly sounded in his ear.

“Look.” The man whispered in his ear, “I’ve found you.”

Lu Mi slightly turned his head, and on both sides of him, rows of mirrors were displaying the current scene——

The white-haired demon was holding the silver-eyed youth in his arms, the demon’s eyes were slightly drooping, shimmering with an unclear emotion. He leaned most of his weight on the silver-eyed youth, like a silent statue.

“No.” Lu Mi slightly turned his head with an unchanged expression, and reached out his hand into a mirror on his left.

He said, “It’s me who found you.”

As the silver-eyed youth’s hand gently exerted force, the mirror rippled slightly, and then a figure was pulled out from the mirror. At the same time, the figure embracing him suddenly shattered into broken mirrors.

In the falling shards of the sky, Lu Mi saw that each shard reflected a segment of memory.

In those images, there was basically a silver-eyed youth sitting or standing, still or moving.

It even included the time of their initial encounter——

The silver-eyed youth, who had not yet gained any special powers, finally killed an abyss creature after several hours of continuous fighting.

The power of abyss creatures was almost overwhelming to humans, but the youth had a fearless and almost crazy tenacity.

The dead abyss creature was full of blood holes poked out by a dagger, eyes, heart, feet, abdomen, finger gaps… all vulnerable places were not spared.

Correspondingly, the silver-eyed youth was also covered in wounds, but he didn’t care at all on his face, casually picked off the necrotic flesh infiltrated by venom with a dagger.

The bright red blood slid down his eyebrows, and due to the pain, he slightly squinted his beautiful silver eyes, and the hollowed-out pupils faintly revealed a sense of satisfaction that was still not enough.

Enduring and lazy, mixed with a breathtaking beauty.

“…Hey.”

Just then, the silver-eyed youth who was casually bandaging his wounds suddenly spoke up and looked up at this side.

“What are you looking at over there?”

Where his gaze fell, a pool of blood suddenly swayed, like a suddenly chaotic heart.

The youth lazily lifted his eyelids.

“Don’t hide, you’ve been there since the beginning…” He boldly curled his lips, “I’ve found you a long time ago.”

“…” After a moment, the white-haired demon surfaced from the water.

The two looked at each other from a distance, in the silent air, was the demon’s throbbing heartbeat, like a disordered symphony echoing in his own ears.

“…How did you find me?” After a long time, the white-haired demon pressed his hand to his chest and asked softly.

“This? Intuition?” The silver-eyed youth took a light breath, leaned on a rock to rest, and smiled with a raised eyebrow, “Why don’t you try again?”

Every time after that, the demon was easily found by the human youth, as if he could never escape no matter what.

Yes, from that time on…

In the mirror space, the white-haired demon looked at the youth who was staring at him, and showed a sigh-like smile.

“Mm, you’ve found me.”

His weary eyebrows revealed a burning passion, and he knelt on one knee.

“I’ve come to greet you, Master.”