I'm Really Not the Lord of the Abyss - Chapter 40
“Although the Dead River of the Southern Area has existed since ancient times, it is said that a long, long time ago, the creatures of the Southern Area could leave…” the fairy species with golden and silver pupils slowly said.
“Why?” Lu Mi asked.
“Because there were guiding deities. If you call their names on the Dead River, they will appear in front of those who have lost their way.”
Left Law and Right Law, who were by the side, took this opportunity to chime in. “Yes, yes! There are rumors that we, the fairy species, are descendants of those guiding deities!”
Their eyes shone as they said this, clearly feeling honored and full of longing.
“But that’s just a legend after all.” Kano crossed his arms and hinted, “According to what you said, only you, the creatures of the Southern Area, can leave now. Wouldn’t everyone else who wants to leave have to find you?”
As soon as Kano finished speaking, the faces of several fairy species changed.
Lu Mi glanced at Kano. The demon innocently shrugged, making him helpless.
“I always speak quite casually, don’t mind me.” Kano quickly apologized first. Lu Mi looked at him thoughtfully. Well, although it was too blunt, it was indeed a problem.
“…You’re right.”
After a pause, the little master of the fairy species, who had returned to normal, slowly spoke again…
Meanwhile, on the other side of the gate—
Near the side of the Dead River, a group of giants stood. They were the unique Asura species of the Southern Area. These giants were now all wearing armor, their faces like the evil spirits in bizarre legends, each with a characteristic ghost horn on their forehead.
It was said that the Asura species were also awe-inspiring existences like deities in the past, but they eventually fell to this state due to death aura and karma of killing. Whether this was true or not was unknown.
But what was certain was that no one in the Southern Area today was not afraid of such a group of giants. Even if they saw them from afar, they would be scared to avoid them.
“——Weigh anchor!”
One of the Asura species suddenly spoke, his deep voice combined with the surging tide of the Dead River, causing the ground to tremble slightly.
Surrounding them was a group of other mutants from the Southern Area, both beast-like and humanoid.
On the river of the Dead River, where black fog was drifting, a huge ship–especially large even for the giants–was swaying at a place barely called a port.
With the command of the giant, the mutants around the ship didn’t dare to delay, they all hurriedly pulled up the ropes.
The ship weighed anchor and set sail amidst the sounds of dragging.
Among the group of mutants on the shore, a young man with a ghost mask was looking up at this scene, his eyebrows slightly furrowed behind the mask.
Just then, a group of fairy species was suddenly driven up from the ship. Each of them was tied with a rope, flying at the front of the ship and pulling hard, like a boat sailing on dry land.
“…The number is even less than before.” The companion who was hiding in the crowd with the ghost-faced young man whispered in a low voice, looking at those fairy species with sympathy. It seemed that their extinction was only a matter of time.
“Hmm.” The ghost-faced young man’s eyes were slightly condensed.
At this time, the ship had moved a short distance in the Dead River, and then quickly returned.
“This experiment went 150 meters further than the last one.” A black-horned giant squinted and said.
“It’s just 150 meters, compared to the Dead River, it’s just a drop in the ocean!” Another green-horned giant complained loudly and anxiously, “When can all of us leave here, hey, you guys wouldn’t be slacking off, would you?”
“!!”
Everyone looked at the trembling fairy species, and couldn’t help but turn their eyes away with sympathy.
Until the black-horned giant who started it all stopped him, “Forget it, they are important resources, the king has specifically explained.”
“Hmph.” The green-horned giant could only reluctantly withdraw his hand, murmuring in a low voice, “Isn’t it said that there is a powerful pure-blood fairy species stranded outside? As long as we catch him, there won’t be any problem, right? Why is there still no progress?”
“Pisutong has been guarding that door, as long as that door opens…”
The giant’s words were not finished, suddenly, a painful howl came from a distance, and at the same time, a strong smell of blood drifted over here with the surging wind.
The giants who smelled this blood all changed their faces at the same time, “It’s Pisutong’s blood…!”
“How could he be so seriously injured? Who could hurt him here!?”
“Could it be that something happened to the gate!”
A group of giants immediately had no time to care about others, only hastily ordered to guard the ship and re-arrest the fairy species, then hurriedly left towards the direction where the smell of blood came from.
“…Did you see that?” Waiting for the giants to go far, the people left in place looked at each other, the companion of the ghost-faced young man couldn’t help but whisper in surprise.
The ghost-faced young man immediately nodded, “I think this is very important! You go back first and tell everyone about it.”
“What about you?”
The ghost-faced young man looked up, staring steadily into the distance, “I’ll go and see.”
……
“So the Asura species began to hunt you on a large scale because they wanted to build a huge ship that could carry them across the Dead River?”
In response to Lu Mi’s words, the fairy species nodded affirmatively, “Our flesh and blood have the effect of purifying the death aura. At first, many of our kind were killed, their blood drained and smeared on the giant ship…..Later, they noticed the scarcity of the fairy species, so they changed from killing to capturing alive.”
Lu Mi: “What do they want to do after leaving the Southern Area?”
“Probably…..occupy territory, start a war. The Asura species is a warlike race, the Southern Area has almost been trampled flat by their cavalry over the years.”
Kano heard this and looked at Lu Mi with a playful look, then showed a polite smile, “They are really confident.”
Not to mention anything else, if they dare to come to the Northern Area where there are the most demons, the scene at that time would be quite interesting. Unfortunately, maybe they won’t even wait until then.
“So, what are you going to do?” Kano asked, looking at the silver-eyed young man, “It’s not a solution to keep that door open all the time.”
Although the demon didn’t mind, he rarely interfered with the affairs of the two worlds, but the silver-eyed young man obviously wouldn’t ignore it.
At this time, Left Law and Right Law also focused their shining eyes on the silver-eyed young man. Although they had always been saying “find the little master to save the clan”, even they themselves had not noticed that they had long been accustomed to seeing the human in front of them as the mainstay at critical moments.
Lu Mi pondered for a while under everyone’s gaze, then looked up and said, “Then let them know first, this door already has an owner.”
In the Abyss Southern Area, the place where the gate was located was a “shipyard” specially set up for the giant ship, not far from the Dead River, probably the original site selection was for the purpose of capturing fairies and shipbuilding experiments.
The Asura species that had gathered by the river before were the ones assigned to be in charge of this plan–after all, this was a plan that the entire Asura race attached great importance to, so these giants were also the subordinates that the king of the Asura race relied on, not just casually sent over.
By the time the ghost-faced young man arrived here, the giant named Pisutong had already been surrounded by the other giants.
The huge shipyard was more like a monster factory, filled with the bizarre style of the other world, just the coming and going of the enslaved mutants was enough to make people horrified.
The mutants coming and going were panicked because of these rarely gathered Asura species, they wished they could do their best to lower their own presence and dared not peep.
“What big thing has happened?” They were surprised in their hearts, “Could it be that the king of the Asura is going to issue some new orders again!”
In the eyes of the giants, after being injured, they would not think of bandaging. They stared at Pisutong’s palm, then the green-horned giant sneered, “Actually being hurt by people from the other world, it’s simply a disgrace among the Asura!”
“Didn’t they say that the creatures on the other side of the gate are very weak?” Another black-horned giant frowned heavily.
Although the Southern Area was almost closed, over the long hundreds of years, there would still be some fairy species coming and going, or some abyss species from other areas coming in through the abyss rift, and then unable to leave.
Through the mouths of these creatures, the Southern Area also knew a little bit about the outside world and the other world, but compared to the completely irrelevant other world, the Asura species here were more obsessed with the other areas of the abyss itself.
The giant named Pisutong let out a strange cry.
It was only then that everyone realized that Pisutong was a mute, because he was powerful and strong, he was arranged here.
“Tch.” The green-horned giant snorted coldly with a look of disappointment, then his eyes filled with murderous intent looked at the already open gate, “That pure-blooded fairy is over there, right?”
The black-horned giant frowned, “What do you want to do? Don’t be impulsive.”
The rest of the giants nodded involuntarily, “Pisutong has already startled the snake, if the other party has a bit of brains, they would have run away by now, we should quickly send the news back to the royal city…”
These words obviously had some deterrent power. The green-horned giant gradually stopped shouting. But the next second, everyone involuntarily said “Hmm?” and suddenly looked up.
“…Hey!” In mid-air, a fairy species suddenly appeared from inside the gate. Seeing that they were all looking at him, the other party stiffly waved his hand and greeted them.
“…..”
After a pause of about a full second, everyone suddenly came back to their senses and exclaimed in unison–“Fairy species!?”
The ghost-faced young man who also saw this scene was also stunned, almost directly shouting out “Danger”, then he quickly looked at the other giants–no, there were too many people, he didn’t know if he could successfully escape with the person if he rushed up…
“Good!” The green-horned giant took a step forward, “I didn’t come looking for you, but you delivered yourself to the door, seeking death–!”
With that, the giant hand with the knuckle duster swung out directly, and the black-horned giant on the side quickly shouted, “Be careful not to kill him!”
The green-horned giant roared in a deep voice, “You don’t need to remind me!”
Left Law showed a terrified expression on his face, then ran back towards the gate without looking back, still shouting crazily in his mouth, “Wuwuwuw–Lu Mi save me wu!”
Who is Lu Mi?
Everyone present briefly thought about this, Pisutong suddenly screamed again and beat his chest and stomped his feet, but this “mentally challenged” reaction in everyone’s eyes did not make them care.
Left Law ran back frantically, the gold ornaments on his body clattering and falling all over the ground, even though he was heartbroken, he didn’t have time to pick them up– wuwuwu, his favorite bracelet!
The green-horned giant’s hand fiercely chased after the other party into the gate.
It must be said that although this gate was quite large for most people, it was a bit of a stretch for the Asura species, which averaged more than a hundred meters in height.
And on the other side of the gate, Lu Mi, who had been prepared for a long time, raised his silver spear, “Here it comes.”
Left Law rushed out from the gate in panic, while at the same time, Lu Mi met the giant palm that clearly did not belong to the previous Asura species.
“The first word—” The silver-eyed youth said so, and the silver spear took off along the palm of the newcomer, brushing it with a series of strokes.
Completely ignoring the roar coming from the giant on the other side of the gate, Right Law of the fairy species caught Left Law, and the little master on the side was purifying the splashing giant blood.
“Hey! How are you doing!?” In the Southern Area, everyone supported the green-horned giant who was falling backwards, looking at his bloody hand.
Pisutong was howling and whimpering on the side, which was particularly harsh in everyone’s eyes, like mockery. A few giants immediately lost their patience, regardless of the black-horned giant’s prevention, they all reached into the gate, “Let me see who the hell it is!”
Black-horned giant: “Wait——”
Then, three neatly aligned screams echoed in the sky.
The ghost-faced young man slightly pulled down his mask, revealing a pair of wide-eyed and tongue-tied expression. He had never seen the Asura species suffer before.
Even the mutants in the shipyard who dared not make a sound couldn’t help but look up carefully.
“Hey, do you guys have words on your palms…” At this moment, several other giants suddenly pointed at these charging clansmen.
The green-horned giant gritted his teeth tightly, not knowing what kind of weapon caused the wound, it was clearly not a fatal injury but it caused him to feel very unbearable pain! Damn it!
And at this time, several other giants had already unconsciously read out the words on each palm one by one——
“This”, “door”, “don’t”, “pass”…
Just right, four palms, four words.
Everyone’s faces immediately showed anger and shame, the giants’ chests heaved violently, and the heavy killing intent released from their bodies made all the curious mutants see them as evil spirits, and they ran away in fear.
“That…” At this moment, Right Law crawled out from the gate, saying tremblingly, “Lu Mi said there is still one missing, so…”
“How dare you——!” This time even the always calm black-horned giant’s eyes were faintly red, scaring Right Law to shout “I’m sorry!” and then roll back without stopping.
Black-horned giant: “Dare to insult us like this…!!” He pulled out the giant axe behind him with a deep gaze, like a hundred-eyed giant awakening in mythology, and swung a full of anger at the lamb in front of him!
But immediately, it was blocked by the equally confrontational attack on the other side of the gate.
At the same time, the black-horned giant felt a pain in his wrist. When he retracted it from the gate, the rest of the giants gathered around to take a look, “…Roll?”
Black-horned giant to everyone: “Roll!!”
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