I'm Really Not the Lord of the Abyss - Chapter 38

“Woah——”

Left Law and Right Law, the two fairy species, looked around at the walls that were collapsing, panicked.

“What——what on earth is happening!”

The broadcasts around them had been damaged, they were unclear about the drastic changes happening outside.

The third-layer mutants following them bared their fangs, swung their beast-like tails and wings fiercely, and shattered the falling stones.

At the forefront was a bovine mutant, which was now carrying a person on its back.

That person was covered in wounds, had the characteristic black skin of the fairy species, but his eyes were closed now, his breath was weak, and it was unknown whether a pair of beautiful heterochromatic pupils could be seen when he opened them.

“Be, be careful——the little master is going to be thrown off by you!” Left Law and Right Law were half-suspended in the air in fear, dodging the building debris in a flustered manner, and reaching out their hands towards that side.

When they went to find the chief warden with Lu Mi, the two fairy species also turned over the nine floor at the same time, and found the target they had been looking for all along.

Let’s not mention the excitement and thrill of seeing each other again, because the target was unconscious, they hadn’t even spoken a word to him.

They could only go to understand what had happened to him later, the urgent task was that they must meet up with Lu Mi as soon as possible!

The bovine mutant shook its body impatiently, if it wasn’t for Lu Mi’s previous instructions, it would be too lazy to care about these fairy species.

The next second, the bovine mutant’s four hooves spread out, and it began to stomp the ground furiously as if gathering strength, and after a loud snort, it rushed towards the exit.

Left Law, Right Law, and the other mutants saw this and hurriedly followed.

The bricks behind them fell one after another like giving chase, and were melted in the lava that was splashing around, exploding into clusters of golden-red fireworks.

At that moment, the person lying on the back of the monster suddenly struggled to open his eyes amidst the violent jolting. A golden and a silver light flashed from under his heavy eyelashes. He mumbled with his bloodless lips, looking as if he was in pain.

“I can’t… leave here…”

However, this low murmur was drowned out by the loud noise of the building collapsing, and neither Left Law nor Right Law noticed it.

On the other side, in the ward.

“Alright, you guys go.” The former chief warden closed his eyes calmly, as if he had fallen into a kind of resigned relief.

A second later, the old man opened his eyes again in a strange way, looking at the two people who were not moving, and joked, “What? Do you want to die with this old man?”

“Hahaha, I’m afraid that won’t work, I haven’t lived enough yet.” Kano’s golden-brown eyes narrowed slightly, and his expression suddenly became serious, “Do you need me to send you off?”

The old man was silent for a moment, sighed, “I really don’t know whether to call you cold or gentle… But never mind, I want to witness the end of the prison with my own eyes, until the last moment.”

Kano nodded, withdrew the double hooks that had materialized, “If that’s the case…”

“What are you guys still waiting for?” The demon’s words were cut off by Lu Mi, who had already walked to the door and looked back.

The silver-eyed youth looked at the two of them somewhat strangely, “Why aren’t you following quickly, I still have to find some companions.”

The countdown to the self-destruction program had been completed, but such a large group of buildings, even if they exploded, would not be able to be blown up in a short while.

But one thing was certain, the destruction had begun.

“Boom” The ceiling that was lifted outside, the huge chains that hung up the inverted pyramid broke one by one, like dancing mad dragons in the howling wind, tumbling crazily.

A thick chain that quickly swung over directly separated the prison from the middle!

Boom——

Tartarus, which had never seen the light of day, welcomed the dawn for the first time.

Like a coffin that had been broken from the middle, the light from the outside world poured in, and the flowing lava was like water shaking in a bottle.

Anbo and others on the first floor immediately grabbed the nearby pillars, barely avoiding sliding down the entire sloping floor, and through the broken floor not far away, they could already see the cliff outside Tartarus.

“What should we do!?”

Everyone shouted in panic.

“Chain?.. Right, grab the chain!” Anbo suddenly recalled Lu Mi’s method, gritted his teeth and let go directly, sliding down to the gap in the floor in the horrified cries of everyone, facing the gale pouring in from the outside.

The next instant, Anbo leaped towards the gap outside, caught the timing, and hugged the thick chain that happened to be wandering in the air.

“Quick——!” Anbo’s indicative roar was pulled away with the departing chain.

Everyone looked at Anbo’s figure swaying on the chain in the air, hesitated, but the next second, the other two people who were in the same group with Lu Mi and Anbo directly followed, without hesitation.

——They were too familiar with this! After all, it wasn’t the first time, thanks to Lu Mi’s free experience before!

“…Us?” The remaining people were dumbfounded.

The exchange students gritted their teeth, “Let’s go for it!”

At this rate, they would probably be scalded to death by the lava flowing down from the upper floor before Tartarus fell to the ground. Even extraordinaries were flesh and blood, they had no choice.

“Hey, wait a minute, take me with you——” Scott, like a drowning man grabbing a straw, grabbed the leg of an exchange student.

——Everything was different from what he had imagined!

Scott’s frightened eyes trembled violently, not knowing where it had gone wrong.

——[Scott, if you want to leave Tartarus, then I’ll give you one last task.]

Scott still remembered his most recent last conversation with the lord.

[After all, you’re going to abandon the identity of the prison liaison officer and start over, so before that, why not make the most of its final value.]

[Yes, as you command.] He respectfully listened to the other’s instructions, then hesitated a bit, […You mean, you want to incite a riot in Tartarus? It’s not difficult considering my position, but…may I be bold enough to ask the intention behind this?]

[Tartarus is a place where even the headquarters of the extraordinaries and I can’t intervene, provided it remains calm.]

[You mean?]

[As long as Tartarus experiences a major accident, so major that it can’t solve it internally, then it has no choice but to ask for help from outside. The current chief warden is already old, and there will definitely be a replacement after this incident, as for the candidate… heh, by then, it won’t be up to him to decide.]

Those forces that have been eyeing the prison for a long time would swarm in like locusts that leave no stone unturned, but they would definitely be the final winners.

The lord had long arranged for the next successor of the prison, just waiting for the plan to be implemented and then smoothly take office, while Scott would retire after accomplishing his mission, to embrace the new life he wanted–provided that everything goes smoothly.

But now, a new chief warden of the prison has been born, a person he has never heard of. Even whether the prison will exist in the future is a question!

“Lu Mi… Lu Mi…” Scott repeated this name in his heart, it was an innate intuition, making him feel that all this must be related to this airborne new chief warden!

“Get lost!” The exchange student who was grabbed by the leg by Scott was not polite at all, and directly kicked his hand away.

“No, I am the liaison officer of the prison, you can’t treat me like this——!” Scott’s eyes were about to split, but he could only watch the other person go away in despair, “Don’t leave me!!”

……

“Heh.” Inside the ninth-floor corridor, Lu Mi, who was walking in front, suddenly laughed.

Kano, who was following him, looked at him strangely, and Lu Mi took the initiative to explain, “It seems that the people here know how to protect themselves well, and I don’t need to worry too much.”

The former chief warden who was carried on Kano’s back couldn’t help but wonder, “You can still know the situation in other places?”

Before Lu Mi could answer, Kano said, “His control over the wind is stronger than mine.”

“…I see.” The old man sighed, he had seen how Kano captured information from the wind.

“Ah, found it!!” Just then, the call of Left Law and Right Law came from the front.

The fairy species and a group of mutants finally found the familiar figure, and they breathed a sigh of relief, “It’s too scary, what’s going on with this iron lump!”

“This is a long story…” Lu Mi didn’t delay any longer, “It’s just right that you guys are here, we can go now.”

“…Huh?” Just as Left Law and Right Law were about to introduce the little master they found to Lu Mi, they saw the silver-eyed youth wave his hand and bring a gust of wind.

——Flying, we’re flying!?

“Woah, wait——!”

The howling gale directly swept everyone away.

In the midst of the flying sand and rocks, Lu Mi seemed to see a pair of heterochromatic pupils slightly open.

Those eyes reflected the silver-eyed young man’s current faint expression, in the golden and silver pupils, the young man seemed to be shrouded in the brilliance of the sun and the moon…

By the time everyone came back to their senses, they had already arrived outside the prison.

At this time, the outside of Tartarus was anything but quiet.

The dark chains were full of people at some unknown time, most of them were imitating escape. It’s just that the broken chains were flying around in the air, making them roll their eyes like a roller coaster.

And besides these people, there were mutants hovering in the air with wings or abilities, including the previous griffin and the barbaric snake.

They watched the collapse of this huge building with either mockery or indifference, until Lu Mi arrived, then they focused their eyes on one place.

And beyond these mutants, there were also prison guards who escaped by aircrafts. Led by Sholun, they were tightly surrounding this area.

With the backdrop of the prison about to be completely melted by the lava, the atmosphere was tense to the extreme.

“Have you considered the current situation?” Kano hooked the corner of his mouth, glancing sideways, “Former chief warden, current chief warden?”

The old man did indeed fall silent for a moment, but Lu Mi was completely calm.

He directly took out the terminal and dialed that familiar number.

The connection time this time was longer than any previous time, the constant “beep——beep——” sound seemed to predict the other party’s refusal.

However, Lu Mi always remembered the phrase “I will never refuse any of your communications”, so he knew that the final winner would definitely be him.

Sure enough, after half a minute of waiting, Sholun’s cold voice came from the communicator, “This is Sholun.”

The man who said this was now looking straight at the figure being surrounded by the stars through the glass window of the aircraft.

——It was this person who had issued the order to destroy the prison not long ago, destroying the existence that he had sworn to guard for his entire life.

And it was in the almost bizarre identity of the chief warden.

This was a development that Sholun could not have imagined a day ago.

Hate? If it were someone else, he probably would, but when it fell on this person, he didn’t know why, but he felt more at a loss than hate.

What does this person want to do?

What is he going to do in the future, where is the meaning of his existence?

Feeling confused for the first time in a long time, the man’s expression at this moment showed a kind of emptiness as if he hadn’t thought about anything.

However, the person on the other end of the communication spoke to him in an extremely clear voice, “Could you please use your troops to rescue those people on the chains, if they are original prisoners, control them as soon as possible.”

“…”

“Hello? Can you hear me?”

“…Is that all you have to say to me?”

The other end of the terminal made a light “uh” sound, “Let me think…right——” The silver-eyed youth suddenly turned his head and accurately locked onto the aircraft he was in, slowly saying, “You are free, Sholun.”

The man’s heart suddenly skipped a beat, a kind of unprecedented emotion enveloped him, but it was not joy——but a kind of panic as if about to be abandoned, and loneliness.

“…I will obey your command, chief warden.”

Suddenly such a voice came from the communicator, and then hurriedly hung up, as if avoiding not wanting to hear what he might say next.

Lu Mi subconsciously frowned, feeling that the other party did not seem to let go as he wished, but instead——

“Hahaha, that kid is quite tricky.” The old former chief warden sighed, “He was trained by the prison to be a biting mad dog, he looks wild and untamed…but that’s all for outsiders.”

The people here guard the prison, like mad dogs guarding the yard for their masters. They will intimidate anyone who tries to invade, but if the master of the yard kicks them, or wants to untie the rope to drive them out of the yard——this group of mad dogs will not be happy, but will tuck their tails and show a look of confusion and unease.

If they are abandoned, they can’t survive, just like dead men.

Lu Mi noticed the eyes from all directions converging, these people were obviously trying hard to remember the face of their new boss.

This kind of pathological “loyalty” made the symptoms of this group of people particularly severe.

Lu Mi: “…Can I announce that there will be no chief warden after Tartarus?”

Facing the expressionless face of the silver-eyed youth, the old man laughed, “Of course, because the orders of the chief warden are absolute. As long as you say it, they will definitely listen.”

Lu Mi: …

Boom——

Just as Lu Mi fell into a strange silence again, a thunderous explosion finally came from the sky, and the overflowing shock wave rushed into the sky.

Everyone’s gaze instinctively focused on it.

They saw the entire inverted pyramid melt into a golden red, falling to the ground like softened clay. The huge heat wave swept over, and Kano swept his double hooks, and the surging wind blocked the heat wave.

At this time, the dawn broke.

The bright morning light illuminated everyone’s faces, those pale or embarrassed expressions were all recorded in this historic moment.

“…Goodbye, my old friend.” The old man suddenly spoke, his vicissitudes of life deeply reflected the huge and ferocious cold building.

Perhaps apart from him, no one could know that complex emotion. The expressions of the rest of the people were also varied.

However, after the collapse of the prison, Lu Mi suddenly widened his eyes and showed a surprised look.

“What is that?!” There were even more people who were more out of control than him.

Because after the shell of Tartarus disintegrated, a huge door was left in the sky.

No one knew whether this door was originally hidden in Tartarus, or it suddenly appeared after Tartarus fell. It’s just that the door that is more than a hundred meters high was undoubtedly extremely visually impactful.

At this time, Left Law and Right Law found that their little master had actually opened his eyes.

The two fairy species hadn’t had time to be surprised, when they saw their little master groan, and only gritted his teeth and said two words, “Run quickly…!”

Left Law, Right Law: “!”

On the other side, Lu Mi was also asking the old man, “Do you know the origin of this door?”

Old man: “Ah, no… I thought it was just…”

Before the old man finished speaking, the door was broken open.

A huge hand–about the same comparison as the World Tree to an aphid, a planet to a glass bead. The giant’s palm rushed out of the door, and from the sky it slammed down on everyone.

Everything happened so suddenly.