I'm Really Not the Lord of the Abyss - Chapter 26

Lu Mi always felt as if he had forgotten something.

It wasn’t until he finally returned to the K8 branch and saw the demon standing at the door that he realized—

He had forgotten to contact Alonfus in advance. The other party was still in the dark.

“Master.”

The only ones who came to greet him at the door were Alonfus and the world’s best undercover agent, Gaudi.

Since they were all insiders, Alonfus didn’t avoid anything.

“You’re finally back.” The demon didn’t hide his joy, his crimson eyes full of delight. He restrained himself and slightly bowed in a formal greeting, but it seemed like he wanted to give a long-awaited hug instead.

Afterwards, Alonfus subtly and quickly checked over the silver-eyed young man’s body, and satisfied, he hooked the corner of his lips.

—It seemed that everything had gone smoothly this time.

It was uknow how the demon explained his relationship with Lu Mi to Gaudi during this period.

At this moment, Gaudi was not curious about any of this. He was solely focused on watching Lu Mi’s slowly approaching figure with fervor.

Lu Mi nodded at the two of them, then hesitated as he looked at Alonfus, finally saying, “…Let’s go inside and talk.”

After returning to the branch manor, Sikes, who was carrying a pile of documents and walking through the corridor, saw the three people coming towards him.

It was as if the scene of Lu Mi’s first visit to the branch was replaying, except that the silver-eyed young man was no longer alone.

At the first moment, Sikes hurriedly reached into his pocket. Lu Mi casually helped to take the shaky mountain of documents, but it was snatched away by the two people beside him.

After a while, Sikes shakily put on his glasses and took a good look.

“It really is you, Lu Mi! You’re finally back—” Sikes was both worried and relieved, and he let out a long sigh of relief as if a heavy burden had been lifted!

Lu Mi reassured with a smile, “It’s me, I’m back. I originally wanted to contact you via terminal on the way, but the signal at sea wasn’t very good.”

“No wonder…” Sikes said, “You don’t know, a day ago the Extraordinaries Guild issued an emergency refuge plan to all branches and alliance countries around the world. The red-marked source of the incident was right in the sea area where you were carrying out your mission! This was your first mission, how could it be such a coincidence! The president even made a big fuss about this to the higher-ups, by the way, are you okay? What exactly happened there??”

Lu Mi shook his head calmly, “The auction ship was attacked by a powerful unknown abyss creature, I don’t know anything else.”

On the side, Alonfus looked at Lu Mi thoughtfully, but didn’t interrupt.

Upon hearing this, Sikes muttered, “So that’s it, what on earth is the higher-ups thinking…”

Naturally, he didn’t think Lu Mi would know all the truth behind it, after all, this was the highest secret that even the headquarters kept silent about, and perhaps even the higher-ups were still investigating.

“Anyway, it’s good that you came back safely.” Sikes showed a relieved expression again, pretending to complain, “That kid Donald has been nagging about you for several days, my ears are almost calloused…”

So the three of them became four, chatting casually as they walked towards the main hall of the manor.

One of the benefits of the sparse staff at the K8 branch was that when other branch members completed their tasks and just went through the procedures coldly, handing over the progress and getting it over with, the K8 branch would even specifically hold a lively banquet to “celebrate Lu Mi’s successful completion of his first mission!”

Of course, it couldn’t compare to the scale of other large branches or the Blue Steel Empire, it was actually just a group of people gathering together to eat hot pot.

But the atmosphere was relaxed and cheerful, the branch president even contributed his favorite hot pot stove and treasured seasonings–although Sikes unilaterally declared that these things were confiscated by him, and kicked the tearful president who was begging for them to be returned to the side.

In the middle, Donald tried to get Lu Mi to drink.

“Young people drinking can easily cause trouble…” Sikes was about to criticize, suddenly his eyes fixed, his tone became elusive, “Wait, this wouldn’t be Fiord 2237, the famous and priceless wine that’s not on the market…”

“One cup gets you drunk for three days hehe—this is a cellar product from the palace!” Donald hooked one arm around Lu Mi’s shoulder, “Good things should of course be shared with brothers!”

Ever since that night in the Blue Steel Empire, when they saw the miracle together, Donald’s grandfather, although he didn’t show support, no longer opposed him continuing to be an extraordinary. He would even secretly send some good things over from time to time.

Of course, Lu Mi was willing to believe that the original purpose of this bottle of wine was probably for the king to let Donald give it as a gift to curry favor. If the king knew that Donald was so happy to drink it himself, he would probably be furious.

“Come on! To celebrate Lu Mi’s triumphant return—cheers!” Donald was the first to stuff a cup into Lu Mi’s hand, then raised his own cup-holding hand.

The president chuckled, “Well, you little rascal, you’ve been hiding such good stuff until now, we have to ride on Lu Mi’s coattails before you’re willing to bring it out, right?”

Sikes looked at the wine in the cup with heartache, “At least ten thousand star coins per sip…”

Damn it, their entire guild’s savings were even less than this bottle of wine! Thinking of this, Sikes directly took a gulp, as if he was competing with someone, he was determined to drink enough today!

Afterwards, everyone drank one cup after another, until the night fell, Donald began to babble nonsense while hugging Lu Mi in a daze.

“Palace…small garden…wait, don’t, don’t go…!”

Donald, with his eyes closed, was still tightly holding onto the corner of Lu Mi’s clothes, not knowing who he was dreaming of, desperately trying to retain.

On the side, Alonfus brushed off the other’s hand without allowing any objections, and bowed to Lu Mi who was lying on the table, “It’s already very late, Master, let me take them back.”

Now the only two people still sober in the entire branch were him and Lu Mi. The demon knew that Lu Mi couldn’t possibly leave these humans here, so he simply volunteered.

Lu Mi, who was pretending to be drunk, slowly got up. Seeing that everyone was finally all drunk, he propped up his forehead and put away the haziness in his eyes.

“Then I’ll trouble you.” He gently fiddled with the empty cup on the table, his silver eyes awake like morning stars.

As the demon prepared to turn around and leave, Lu Mi suddenly spoke, “Alon, go to my room later, I have something to tell you.”

Alonfus’s steps suddenly paused.

On one side, Donald, who was being lifted by the chains in the shadows, suddenly bulged his eyes, all because the chain around his waist suddenly tightened for some reason, making him show a confused and pained expression: I’m…I’m going to die…!

But the demon was very excited, he quickly responded, “Perfect, I also have something to report to you.”

This time, this place…

The demon couldn’t help but grin in anticipation, wondering what the Master would want to talk to him about alone?

Perhaps because of the secret excitement in his heart, the demon quickly sent everyone back to their respective rooms, and finally arrived at Lu Mi’s bedroom.

He carefully and quickly adjusted his attire, then solemnly knocked on the door.

“Come in.” As Lu Mi’s faint voice came from inside, the door slowly opened.

However, when Alonfus looked up, he found that it was not Lu Mi in front of him.

The one who came to open the door was Jiabo, he and Alonfus looked at each other.

“….…”

At that moment, both of their expressions suddenly froze.

In the air, there seemed to be something abnormally surging, spreading silently.

The sharp burst of mental power even once failed to control the range, but the only thing both sides remembered was to avoid this bedroom.

The power that spread out swept over other parts of the manor, and Donald and others who were drunk in their own rooms inexplicably felt a chilling sensation.

In their sleep, they seemed to have the same outrageous dream—

They saw two giants, one ice and one fire, fighting each other in the wilderness, and the world was split into two sides, black and white.

Above the sky were rolling thunderclouds, the entire land was barren, everywhere was burning fire and frozen ice.

And they were being tormented in such a cold and hot world, screaming and running for their lives, and when they turned their heads, the volcano at the center of the world suddenly erupted, destroying everything in the dream.

Run, run fast—! It seemed that the next moment they would be swallowed by the sky-covering volcanic ash!

…..

The people lying on the bed were convulsing all over, kicking their legs subconsciously, showing a struggling expression in their sleep, extremely restless.

“…Master, Alonfus is here.”

In front of the bedroom door, Jiabo was the first to move his gaze away. Even though he had just had a fierce contest with his power in secret, his voice still sounded lazy as he spoke to the room, as if nothing had happened.

And at this time, Alonfus realized that the small bedroom was surprisingly lively at the moment!

“…What are these?”

Alonfus didn’t know what expression he should put on now.

“This is what I wanted to tell you, Alon.” Lu Mi sat in the seat like a retired veteran, holding the red dragon in one hand, looking relaxed.

The red dragon had now turned into the size of a ball, just right to curl up in the young man’s arms, the dragon’s cold and warm body temperature was the best hot water bottle.

Jizhou stood behind the silver-eyed young man, reporting to him some things about the past rule of the Zerg Queen Mother in the western area.

But Jizhou was obviously not good at telling stories, and was worried about missing some key information that would affect Lu Mi’s future arrangements for the western area, so he called a few high-ranking Zerg to supplement on the side.

“There are still two fairy race in the mirror world, but their situation is a bit special, so I didn’t call them out.” Lu Mi raised his hand to signal Jizhou to stop there, and waved at the demon who was standing stupidly at the door for some reason, “Let’s all meet today, we will be partners in the future.”

Some were newcomers to the group, some were old friends reuniting.

Lu Mi could fully understand the excitement of this group of people, he had seen the competition between Alonfus and Jiabo before.

“……”

Alonfus took a deep breath, and a few seconds later, he restored his perfect smile to Lu Mi, just that the corners of his mouth were a bit stiff.

“Can you tell me in detail what happened? I always feel that I have unknowingly missed a lot of your things.”

Just as Lu Mi was about to speak, Jiabo took the lead, “Let me say it.”

In the dark night, Jiabo’s white hair was as dazzling as falling snow, coupled with the demon’s usual careless expression, it made Alonfus’s heart attack level double instantly.

Alonfus had reason to suspect that the other party was retaliating against him for being the first to find the master but not reporting it!

However, as Jiabo gradually told about the things Lu Mi had done in less than a week of going out, Alonfus’s expression gradually changed.

Lu Mi was about to pick up a cup of tea to drink, but because of the overly hot gaze cast by Alonfus, he had to put the teacup back.

“Is there a problem?” Lu Mi asked calmly.

“No, I just suddenly realized my own shallowness and shortsightedness.”

At this moment, Alonfus’s face was mixed with excitement, joy, admiration, shame, self-blame…all kinds of complex emotions filled the demon’s chest, making him feel ashamed.

Even his resentment towards Jiabo and others temporarily disappeared, and his heart and eyes were only left with the silver-eyed young man in front of him.

“I have been following you for so long, but I still can’t learn half of your strategy, and can only rely on the illumination of your wisdom–how can I have the face to call myself your most capable assistant to share your worries, I am really ashamed!”

Where did such a huge plan start?

Everyone thought that the young man was just going to attend an auction, but what happened?

He defeated the Zerg Queen Mother, gathered the most powerful army of the Zerg, and naturally incorporated the entire abyss western area into his pocket! What a terrifying achievement!

Alonfus’s eyes couldn’t help but burst out with a brilliant light, this chain of developments–it seems to be a coincidence at first glance, but where in the world would there be such a coincidence! This calculation that doesn’t show any trace of calculation is the most terrifying perfect crime.

Even, Alonfus boldly guessed that his master might have had his eye on the abyss western area a long time ago, even the Zerg Queen along the way–ruling the western area and invading the ordinary world step by step, are all under the Master’s watch!

Thinking of this, Alonfus couldn’t help but glance at the many Zerg present.

Even he could easily see that these Zerg were now truly loyal to Lu Mi.

These fearless alien legions will eventually become Lu Mi’s powerful followers for further progress in the future!

As if he had already seen the day when the young man would completely rule the abyss, Alonfus’s gaze couldn’t help but carry pity and uncontrollable excitement: Yes, continue to dedicate all your loyalty to his master in ignorance, these secrets, only he and his master will know forever.

Lu Mi looked at the demon who cast a seemingly tacit understanding gaze at him, and wanted to question.

——Although I don’t know what happened, it’s always right to smile at this time, right?

Seeing the secretive smile on the silver-eyed young man’s lips, Alonfus’s smile deepened, and he sighed with heartfelt admiration.

Indeed…

As for Jiabo on the side, who had no idea what had happened, he frowned slightly.

He always felt that Alonfus had an amazing ability to fill in the blanks, and always liked to complicate things.

But now looking at the tacit smile of the two, could it be…there is indeed a hidden story in this?

Jiabo couldn’t help but lower his eyelids in distress, he was not afraid of power, but when it came to strategy, he seemed to be indeed inferior to the other party.

And at this time, Lu Mi finally found an opportunity to change the topic, “You said earlier that you had something to report to me, what is it?”

Alonfus quickly replied, “It’s like this. You asked me to patrol around to find the abyss rift, now it seems that the rift is probably the one you have already included in the mirror world.”

Lu Mi nodded.

Alonfus smiled slightly, “So this time, although I didn’t find the abyss rift, I did find another interesting group of people during the search.”

Lu Mi couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows, changed his sitting posture to prop up his chin and looked at him, “Since you say so…let’s hear it in detail.”