I'm Really Not the Lord of the Abyss - Chapter 28

When Hosen woke up from his unconsciousness, he heard the noisy voices around him.

It felt as if countless hammers were pounding in his mind, his head was splitting with pain, and he struggled to open his eyes.

…Where was this?

He was tied up in a coffin, placed like a sacrificial offering on a high platform at the very center.

In the dark underground, the candles burning on the stone walls illuminated the fanatic faces of the people around him. These people were dressed in uniform black robes with silver patterns, as if they were expecting something to happen, both fearful and excited.

“He’s awake!” Some people noticed the movement of the blond man in the coffin.

People packed the place inside and out, making the originally spacious hall incredibly crowded.

“Where is this?” Hosen struggled, he only remembered that he had just arrived in this town, hadn’t gone to the place he wanted to go, and was suddenly knocked out on the road, “Let me go–you all, this is a crime!”

“Ladies and Gentlemen, we have gathered here for the same belief, and now it’s finally time!”

The man standing at the front of the crowd completely ignored him.

The man suddenly raised his arms high and spoke to the people looking up below.

“As the leader and the host of this ceremony, I feel extremely excited and honored! The glory of the abyss will shine on each of us, soon–we will communicate with God!”

More candles in the corridor burst open.

The doors all around slammed open, and the wild wind that was flowing underground suddenly rushed in, tearing open the dense crowd, stinging every exposed skin.

In the wildly swaying flames, in the suddenly bright light, the crowd burst into excited shouts, and the sound waves spread out like sweeping waves.

The earth seemed to be shaking.

Hosen’s ominous premonition became stronger and stronger, and his face suddenly turned pale.

What the hell! Had he ended up at some kind of evil cult ceremony?!

“Wait!” Just then, a voice suddenly rang out.

Hosen was shaken all over, his eyes welling up with tears, and he looked over full of hope.

However, Jiada didn’t even glance at him, just stared intently at the tall man, “Leader, it seems that the ceremony is my job as the high priest.”

“Hmph…” The leader chuckled ambiguously, “You know nothing and have prepared nothing, the effect might not be as good as if I do it.”

As the founders of this sect, they knew very well what this was all about at first. Although their beliefs had gradually diverged, the leader knew the hard work Jiada had put in so far, and he was sure that the latter would not sabotage at this time.

The leader laughed confidently, “Besides, in terms of influence and sincerity, naturally, I, the leader, am the highest. Among all the people here, I’m afraid only I can get a response from the abyss.”

His words were so arrogant and conceited, yet no one raised any objections at this time.

Because for others, the word “abyss” itself was enough to make them feel unreachable and sincerely fearful, let alone anything else, no one understood!

Jiada noticed the tension of the people who dared not speak, and thought of the words that the group of “extraordinary lords” had told him before—

…It’s not time yet.

So he forcibly suppressed the restlessness in his heart and simply stopped talking.

And in the eyes of the leader, this was Jiada admitting defeat. So his expression became even more relaxed and happy, and his voice even rose a few degrees.

“So I declare—”

With the leader snapping his fingers sharply, the ground suddenly flipped over, revealing a huge formation like a magic circle.

The people who were originally tense because of the confrontation between the two were instantly attracted by this mechanism.

“The ceremony begins.”

As his voice fell, an unknown fluorescent liquid suddenly flowed into the grooves of the magic circle.

Under the illumination of the fire, it seemed as if the magic circle was gradually lighting up with a silver glow.

The eyes of the people were instantly lit up by this faint glow, they subconsciously made way for the flowing lines, and soon the ground where the magic circle was located was completely emptied, forming a huge open space.

Everyone gathered around the open space, their breaths couldn’t help but lighten, but their cheeks were all flushed, and an unusually hot atmosphere suddenly spread.

Then, the leader looked at the magic circle on the ground, lowered his head and hummed his lips, chanting a spell that no one could understand.

Suddenly, a wild wind rose.

The next second, a mass of pitch-black fog suddenly appeared in mid-air, unfathomable.

There was a sudden uproar in the crowd, “Could that be…!”

Of course not! Jiada sneered in his heart. He knew that before becoming the leader, this man was a serving extraordinary, but later left the extraordinaries force for some reason.

And for the extraordinaries, creating such an illusion was just a small trick, just to fool the ordinary people who didn’t understand anything.

However, Jiada was confident that the power of those “extraordinary lords” was definitely stronger than this man, and if they came, they could definitely create a more powerful effect.

Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but look forward to what would happen next.

On the other side, the leader suddenly raised his head, his eyes bursting with brilliance, pointing at the black fog and shouting, “Quickly offer our sacrifices to the abyss—”

He knew that this little thing was not enough to completely deter everyone, but the death of a living person could! As long as real blood flowed out, everyone would absolutely never forget this day!

Hosen, who was lifted up, began to struggle frantically, shouting, “Are you all crazy? This trick is clearly a scam…!!”

The leader choked his neck with one hand, and at the same time pulled out a golden dagger, the gorgeous gems inlaid on it were dazzling and stung the eyes.

Everyone suddenly held their breath, some people dared not look directly and covered their eyes, while others stared even more fanatically!

Just then, an unexpected change occurred—

Suddenly, a subtle fluctuation appeared in the space where the black fog was.

Immediately, a lizard-like creature fell from the sky, and in the eyes of the people, it seemed to have crawled out of the black fog.

The creature was about the height of a person, with a long tongue, a spiked tail, and three heads, one spewing fire, one spewing water, and one spewing flickering lightning from its mouth.

“Ah—”

After being stunned for a second, the crowd suddenly erupted in screams.

“A monster!!!”

“The gods must not like our offerings, the gods…the gods are angry…!”

Various panicked voices rang out instantly, and the scene immediately plunged into chaos.

Only Jiada, after the initial shock, regained his calm, a mysterious and confident smile appeared on his face—

Look, he said! If those extraordinary adults came, they could do it better! How realistic is the illusion of this monster, it stirred up everyone’s emotions in an instant, and their awe of the abyss rose to a new level and they were convinced!

Jiada then looked at the leader.

The man stood still as if frozen, seemingly stunned by this unexpected illusion.

Meanwhile, in a shadowy corner of the hall, Lu Mi and others were watching the chaotic scene.

“What is that monster?”

“According to your instructions, it’s a common creature with low aggression that we caught from the abyss.”

Alonfus respectfully answered the young man’s question. His shadow hid a rift leading to the abyss, but time was limited, this was the weakest one he could find for now.

Lu Mi nodded, and then saw that the three-headed lizard monster, after venting for a while, wrapped in lightning, rushed at the leader who was standing still.

The leader was brutally knocked up on the spot, thrown into the air and then fell heavily, immediately spitting out a mouthful of old blood.

…It seems that this monster is like fish and insects, although it will not actively attack ordinary people, but its hostility towards extraordinaries is still very strong.

“Alright.” Lu Mi swept his eyes over the crowd that was getting crazier every second, and slowly stood up.

He said, “It’s our turn.”

The demon behind him slowly opened his blood-red lips, and along with everyone else, slightly bowed his head and responded in unison.

In front of the underground altar.

The panicked crowd blocked several exits, and the scene was at a stalemate for a while.

From time to time, the smell of burning smoke came out from the back, the high temperature spewed from the monster’s mouth splashed on the walls several times, and was extinguished by the people in a frenzy.

A pitch-black chain poked Jiada’s foot, and Jiada, who received the signal, immediately put on a long-prepared expression.

He quickly pounced in front of the summoning array, knelt down devoutly, and cried out, “Great Lord of the Abyss, I have nothing, my hands are empty, only a sincere heart wishes to offer everything…”

Jiada’s words were not loud in the noisy voices, but for some reason, it clearly reached everyone’s ears.

The chaotic crowd fell silent.

“But begging you to calm your anger, forgive our ignorance and rudeness, and forgive us this time!”

As his words fell, the monster that was destroying everywhere suddenly stopped its actions.

The leader finally got a moment’s respite and took the opportunity to get up from the ground.

He naturally heard Jiada’s words, but at this moment he had no time to care, all kinds of emotions stirred in his heart, he stared at the monster not far away that was ready to go, his eyes red—

Impossible!

Unlike Jiada, who was an ordinary person, he could clearly know that the monster in front of him was definitely not an illusion!

This thought almost made him sweat all over, and the falling sweat wet a patch at his feet.

How could it appear here?

That was clearly just a fake rift, could it be that he got something wrong!?

Just then, the leader suddenly noticed that the stopped monster was trembling all over, that look was clearly…fear.

Fear of something that was about to come, it couldn’t even muster the heart to resist, and was begging for survival in a posture of completely giving up resistance.

The leader seemed to suddenly realize something, and the next second he looked up sharply—

In mid-air, just opposite the black fog he had fabricated, a brand new pitch-black rift appeared.

That was definitely not as fragile as the black fog, a thin paper that would break with a poke.

Space was being distorted, and the power coming from that rift was as bright as daylight in the eyes of the leader, who was an extraordinary.

—Remembered..…

The obscure breath, like a broken bellows, was pulling in the man’s chest.

—No one knew that the reason why the man left the force was because he had witnessed the arrival of an abyss rift on the battlefield for the first time.

That moment, just like now.

The slowly opening rift was like the eye of a dimensional demon, another bizarre and crazy world was peering from hell. The breath belonging to the abyss spread from it, madly oppressing the nerves of every extraordinary.

Then, space was easily torn apart by a pair of invisible big hands, and in the increasingly large rift, the monster (demon) descended…

At that time, the man on the battlefield immediately dropped his helmet and armor and fled in panic.

And now, how much like the most fearful, most shameful, and darkest memory of the past reappeared, and the fact proved that he was still the coward of the past!

Ding—

A light sound.

Like a silent river of death suddenly being dropped a drop of water, like the wind chime in the abandoned shrine suddenly rang, the stagnant world finally began to turn again.

All the noisy heart sounds of everyone for some reason suddenly quieted down, and then they all subconsciously looked at the new rift that appeared in the air.

—This time it’s different…

Although they didn’t understand anything, they easily understood this point from the crawling lizard monster.

The next second, like a slowed-down shot, it kept replaying in their minds in the long time afterwards.

—A group of people stepped out of that rift.

No, that might not be called “human” at all, but a completely different existence that was incompatible with this world.

The demon with ram’s horns spread its pitch-black wings, like a shadow stretching across the sky, obscuring the world.

The white-haired demon turned the broken mirror at his fingertips.

The Zerg race wriggled out endless forces from behind the rift, casting an emotionless glance at the living beings in front of them.

They descended into this world from the darkest shadows, from the mirror, from the sky and the earth—

From the deep (god) abyss (light) devil’s womb, and descended into this world.

The scarlet red (dragon) flashed from the fragments of the mirror, causing the monster lying on the ground to suddenly let out a mournful whimper.

The pupils of the crowd contracted sharply, finally focusing on the silver-eyed youth standing at the forefront of the different species, as if being surrounded.

—What a perfect human posture.

Just one glance was enough to understand that this “disguise” was flawless. Like the divine child enshrined in the sanctuary, even the best painter could not depict a single flaw, it was simply flawless to an abnormal degree.

However, the countless monsters and demons guarding behind him, how could they not understand that his identity was by no means ordinary!

Just then, Jiada quickly stepped forward, crawling in front of them, his eyes tearing up with excitement—

“Lord of the Abyss, ‘God’s’ most beloved child…”

“Please take back your power! It was my foolishness to hold this ceremony, if you want to bring down disaster, let it be me!”

“Being able to see your figure with my own eyes, I have no regrets in death. I am willing to dedicate my soul, to serve you for all eternity!”

Those silver eyes faintly looked down at the ant kneeling on the ground, and in that instant, almost everyone felt that the other party had already seen through everything.

“No, it’s not Lord Jiada…” Gradually, another person spoke up, he knelt down trembling all over, his voice trembling uncontrollably, “I am also a member of the ceremony, unknowingly summoning You…”

Repentance or confession? The subsequent words were not said in time.

Because the next second, as if completely disregarding these ants, the silver-eyed youth standing at the forefront directly raised his hand, and apitch-black chain brought the lizard monster from afar to the front.

That originally arrogant and rampaging monster, in his hands, was like a quail, only the violently undulating chest still showed that it was a living creature.

Then, a silver light flashed in the hand of the silver-eyed youth.

Everyone couldn’t see the true body of that silver spear at all, they were blinded by the suddenly burst of brilliance, and had to close their eyes.

Boom—

The entire underground palace shook for a moment, the debris from the ceiling fell down rustlingly, but everyone bowed their heads and lay on the ground, even the screams were swallowed down.

Not until the rolling stones gradually subsided, did they dare to tremble and raise their heads.

—Skylight of daybreak.

A huge gap was opened in the sky of the underground palace, and the sunlight shone in from there, falling right on the altar on the ground that had been cut open.

The deep crack ran through the fake summoning array, just like the indifferent and majestic warning of the gods.

Everyone just took a glance, and was stung by the invisible power remaining on it, and hurriedly dared not look again.

And in the air, there was no trace of that group of existences.

—They didn’t say a word from beginning to end.

Perhaps, they simply disdained to speak, or perhaps, even if they spoke, the ordinary humans could not understand the oracle of the gods.

After this ordeal, everyone helped each other up and looked at the scene full of ruins.

The wild wind pouring in from the dome was very cold, but for some reason, their hearts were burning hot.

The abyss is real… gods and demons are real…they—really communicated with that high existence, even if they angered the other party because of the first ignorance and used the wrong ceremony and offerings, they were not killed!

What does this mean??

This group of displaced people, who have achieved nothing so far, seemed to touch something more precious than gold and more noble than fame and fortune—

“We are the people ‘forgiven’ by ‘God’, in other words, God has blessed us!” Jiada’s strong voice, full of uncontrollable trembling with excitement, even the words were blurred.

But no one laughed at him, because now every one of them would not be calmer than the other.

“It must be because of our previous offerings, the gods have seen it all. God doesn’t want offerings, He wants our most devout heart!”

Everyone looked at the “sacrificial man” who was discarded like worn-out shoes, and then thought about the previous scene, they couldn’t help but agree, their chests vibrating.

They have done what many people have not done.

At this moment, it seemed that everyone woke up with an extremely noble sense of mission! Fame and fortune could not shake them, and money was also denounced as dung.

Jiada took a deep breath, word by word, “We can only serve God more diligently, to live up to God’s tolerance!”

“Yes…! You’re right!” Everyone’s expressions twisted slightly with excitement.

As for the stupefied leader on the side, who continued to doubt life—no one cared anymore.

After this battle, everyone believed that only Jiada, who stood up to take the blame and protect them at a critical moment, could lead them to keep moving forward, until they reached God!