I'm Really Not the Lord of the Abyss - Chapter 27

This was the underground of a desolate suburb.

Like a complex maze, the branching tunnels carved out a vast underground kingdom.

At that moment, a group of people were hurrying through the tunnels.

They were dressed in uniform black robes with silver patterns, wearing silver masks, and wide hoods pulled up, resembling a well-trained organization.

A pitch-black coffin was hoisted on their shoulders, yet they still moved swiftly.

In no time, the group passed through one mechanism after another, pressed the skull of a monster sculpture on the wall, and opened a secret passage.

When they disappeared into the secret passage, several figures slowly emerged from the shadows on the side that no one had noticed—

“Is this the organization you were talking about?”

Lu Mi looked at the wall that had closed again, his voice echoing in the quiet tunnel.

Behind him, Alonfus, Jiabo, Jizhou, and others followed out, lining up in order.

The empty tunnel instantly became oppressive with the arrival of several people.

The unique aura of abyss creatures added an inexplicable pressure here.

“Correct.” Alonfus, with a playful smile at the corner of his mouth, elegantly bowed and introduced to Lu Mi, “When I was searching this area, I found traces of their activities, and then followed them all the way here…”

Today was the second day after everyone gathered in Lu Mi’s room.

That night, the interesting group that Alonfus mentioned was actually a burgeoning evil/cult organization.

As the collision between the abyss and the ordinary world became more and more intense, some people resisted stubbornly, while others gave up struggling.

Sometimes, a group of people with the same dangerous and extreme ideas gathered together and gradually developed into illegal sects or assemblies.

—When Lu Mi was sorting out the branch files, he had actually seen quite a few such examples.

They were scattered all over the world, some were mobs, while others had developed into behemoths that were a headache for the Alliance.

However, those particularly troublesome organizations were mostly entrenched in first-tier empires and cities. They never expected to appear in remote places like the K8 Sector.

“In fact, some of their doctrines are very interesting to me,” Alonfus said, his tone rising and falling as if he were performing an opera.

But his performance didn’t attract the attention of the other mutants. Jiabo knew that Alonfus had brought Lu Mi here for a reason.

“End of the world carnival, species evolution, extraordinary ascension, new human selection…” Lu Mi recalled the most widely known ideas of several high-risk sects from the data, “So which one is this?”

“……” Alonfus mysteriously curved his lips and exaggeratedly bowed, “It’s Abyss Worship—Master.”

Upon hearing this, Lu Mi’s eyebrows twitched, he said calmly, “You don’t want me to simply exterminate it, do you?”

“It seems that my thoughts have been completely seen through by you.” The joy on Alonfus’s face grew even higher, he grinned, “I saw an opportunity from them—although our ultimate goal is the abyss, we are now in the ordinary world, where the power of ‘people’ is mainstream.”

“Your great cause should be universally recognized, so we need to develop your power among humans as well.”

“Although this organization is still as small as a firefly, under your rule, it’s only a matter of time before the prairie fire burns to the whole world!”

The demon was obviously convinced of this, he put one hand on his chest, pressing his collar.

“When that time comes…” His words were unfinished, but a certain color of excitement was overflowing.

Lu Mi thought: When that time comes, he will become the biggest cult leader in this world! Isn’t this already moving from a calm and comfortable life to the path of conquering the world?!

No, it seems that something has been wrong for a long time…

“…Let’s see the situation first.” Lu Mi was expressionless, seemingly not at all tempted by the demon’s “enticing” speech.

This calmness made Alonfus admire him even more, he respectfully said, “You don’t have to go personally, I have already planted a chess piece inside, let’s call him over.”

So why are your movements so fast??

To this day, Lu Mi didn’t know what the demon had done while he was out. He silently watched the pitch-black shadow wriggling and spreading out, probing into the depths of the tunnel.

……

“What are you doing?” Jiada was walking inside the palace, looking around.

Suddenly, he saw a group of people carrying a coffin head-on, he couldn’t help but frown and asked sternly.

Seeing this, the members of the Black Abyss Sect hurriedly stopped.

“—It’s High Priest Jiada!”

Jiada’s position in the sect was now second only to the sect leader, holding the position of high priest.

The stopped group showed a moment of panic, “High Priest, we are following the sect leader’s orders, delivering something to him.”

“The sect leader’s orders?” Jiada looked at the coffin, “What’s inside?”

The group looked at each other, hesitated to speak, “It’s…”

Seeing that they couldn’t say a word for a long time, Jiada sneered and waved his hand, “Forget it, have you guys finished your work today?”

“No, not yet…”

“People who can’t even complete the task at hand can’t communicate with the abyss.” Jiada squinted one eye, looking down at them, “The west side tunnel must be dug today, remember to sign in with the construction team.”

Watching the group leave with repeated promises, Jiada reopened the palace map in his hand, thinking of the sect leader mentioned by the people just now, he couldn’t help but sneer.

Just then, he suddenly noticed a wriggling shadow in the corner.

“!”

Jiada’s heart suddenly jumped.

He quickly glanced around, then carefully walked over and squatted down, licking his dry lips and asked, “Is it…Lord Alonfus?”

There was no answer, only a pitch-black chain emerged from the shadows, leading the way to a certain direction and quickly swam away.

Seeing this, Jiada’s face was instantly filled with ecstasy and excitement. He checked his surroundings again, then quickly followed.

Following the chain all the way to a stone room that was still under construction, what appeared in front of Jiada was not just Alonfus as he had thought.

“Master.”

The once impressive and incredibly powerful Lord Alonfus, who had left a deep impression on Jiada, was now bowing to another young man.

“That is him.”

As the words fell, Jiada noticed the young man’s gaze falling on him.

Meeting those silver pupils, Jiada’s breath unconsciously hitched.

In a daze, he seemed to see the Milky Way stars, the vast nebula, and the boundless knowledge.

He almost uncontrollably immersed himself in that vast mystery, like falling into a struggling deep sea.

At the same time, several gazes fell on him one after another.

Even though they were just light and meaningless gazes, they made Jiada’s forehead instantly permeated with fine sweat.

—What’s going on?

He hardly dared to raise his head, rigidly sketching out the figures in front of him in his mind.

What Jiada didn’t know was that although all the people present showed a “human” posture. But unlike Alonfus who had been in the ordinary world for a while, the characteristics of being mutants on others who had just come out of the abyss were not completely covered.

Being stared at by such a group of top monsters, any creature’s nerves would scream crazily.

Fortunately, Lu Mi broke the silence first.

Jiada only saw the silver-eyed young man who was guarded in the center slowly speak, “I heard that Alonfus saved you?”

“Yes, yes!”

Almost instantly recognizing who was the most important person in the room, Jiada immediately showed the utmost respect, striving for every strand of his hair to be in a submissive arc.

“A week ago, I encountered an attack from an abyss creature. It was the passing Lord Alonfus who saved me. He is a powerful and kind extraordinary lord, not only made me realize my mistakes, but also did not arrest me for sentencing but gave me the opportunity to choose the future again!”

This statement contained a lot of information.

Attack of an abyss creature…Since there was a precedent for the forgetful worm running out, it didn’t seem strange that other monsters appeared. However, whether this monster was actively attacking, or was lured by Alonfus, was doubtful.

Lu Mi looked at the demon behind him and got a meaningful smile.

…Well, it seems that the probability is the latter.

In addition, Alonfus did not expose his true identity, but perfectly disguised himself as an extraordinary.

“I’m interested in your activities so far, can you talk about it?” Lu Mi withdrew his gaze, looked back at Jiada, and spoke lightly.

The other party naturally agreed without stopping.

Afterwards, in Jiada’s narration, Lu Mi finally understood the nature of this organization—

Rather than calling it a cult, it was a group of displaced people who set up a banner to attract more people.

Many of them, even extraordinaries, had never seen, let alone the abyss rift.

But they knew that the “abyss” was the most powerful and terrifying place in this world. Just like people believed in gods in the past, no one actually knew what the gods looked like, but this did not prevent them from taking it as a spiritual pillar.

“As long as you believe in the abyss, you can receive the protection of the abyss and avoid unknown harm—we initially said this casually, but who knew that more and more people would join us, and more and more people would believe in this.”

Full of awe for the “abyss”, even the abyss creatures became a part of this sect that they both yearned for and feared, although many were just like Ye Gong loves dragons.

(t/n: Ye Gong loves dragons-It is a metaphor for people who like something superficially or verbally, but actually don’t like it or even don’t understand it. Once they really come into contact with it, they not only don’t like it but may even be afraid of it and oppose it)

“As we gradually had more manpower, we dug this huge space underground. In fact, my plan—and the plan of the earliest founders—was to build a paradise where we could avoid all the conflicts and harm from the outside world, and only our own people could live comfortably inside.”

Upon hearing this, Lu Mi couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows.

Then Jiada continued, “But gradually, some people were blinded by the power they got, and everything started to change…”

While Jiada was telling Lu Mi about this, on the other side, the group carrying the coffin finally arrived in front of the leader of the Black Abyss Sect.

The leader was sitting on a high throne, his tall body stood up, squinting down.

The group quickly put down the coffin and reported nervously, “We have brought what you wanted.”

The leader walked down from the throne in a few steps, put his hand on the coffin lid, and the mental power at his fingertips burst out, lifting the lid.

—This leader turned out to be an extraordinary.

“Why did it take so long?” He looked into the coffin while speaking ambiguously.

“We ran into High Priest Jiada on the way.”

“Him? Hmph.” The leader sneered, “He’s just a thing that is content with the status quo and doesn’t seek progress.”

At this moment, an unconscious blond man was exposed inside the coffin.

Upon seeing this man, the leader couldn’t help but give a dissatisfied look, “Didn’t I say I wanted black hair? How can the sacrifice to the abyss be so perfunctory!”

“We’re sorry, sect leader!” The few people hurriedly apologized, “But there are only so many people in this area. If one disappears, it will definitely alert the security bureau or even the extraordinaries branch. So we waited for a long time, and finally waited for a foreigner. This person just arrived in this sector today, his disappearance will definitely not attract attention.”

Hearing the explanation of the few people, the leader’s expression eased slightly, “Forget it, it’s the first time anyway… consider it an experiment.”

Then, he suddenly turned around and faced everyone, raising one corner of his lips and loudly announced—

“In order to prove the truth of our doctrine, in order to prove the correctness of loyalty to me! Today, I will hold a sacrifice to the abyss in front of everyone.”

“Rejoice! Our ‘god’ will open the door to the abyss, and its offspring will soon descend here!!”

The people standing below heard this and couldn’t help but look up, instantly becoming so excited that they couldn’t control themselves, and a fanatical madness appeared on their faces.

Soon, Jiada, who received the news, was dumbfounded.

In the tunnel, groups of people were gathering towards the center of the palace.

In the midst of countless noisy whispers, anticipation, nervousness, curiosity, excitement, fear…everyone’s reactions were different.

“Has he gone mad?” Jiada was speechless for a while.

In the quiet stone room, Lu Mi pondered with his eyes downcast, his silver eyes shining, “Could there be another abyss rift here?”

“If that’s the case, it would be an unexpected joy.” Alonfus knew that this possibility was not great, and then asked, “What do you plan to do?”

Lu Mi slowly raised his eyes, meaningfully, “The offspring of the abyss…”

In the distance, the fanatical shouts passed through the branching tunnels, getting louder and louder, reaching everyone’s ears.

Behind him, the silent white-haired demon and the Zerg curled up their lips and took over, “Isn’t that us…”