I'm Really Not the Lord of the Abyss - Chapter 56

Perhaps it was because the Northern Area had always been managed by demons, even though Lu Mi’s return caused some turbulence, it was quickly quelled.

However, beneath the surface, the storm that was stirred up still began with the lowest level of mutants and continued to sweep upwards.

“It is said that His Excellency has already conquered the Southern Area!”

“Really! I heard about the Western Area too… Have you seen the humanoid mutant following His Excellency? It is said to be the strongest Zerg species from the Western Area.”

“I heard from other companions that Lord Alonfus is preparing a coronation for His Excellency!”

“That can’t be true, can it? It seems like they are just recruiting help to build the palace and reclaim the land…”

“What? Isn’t it said that His Excellency is about to set out to attack the last Eastern Area, I have already planned to sign up!?”

Various unclear, half-true half-false news spread everywhere, causing the entire Northern Area to boil in an unprecedented way.

All the mutants looked towards the sky with awe, no matter the distance, they could always see a star shining with a faint blue light—

That was the palace of the king of this area.

High in the sky, there gathered numerous palaces of powerful high-ranking beings, a place ordinary mutants dared not approach.

Just getting a little closer would make them breathless under the overwhelming pressure.

Just like the master of that city, awe-inspiring, full of longing.

At this moment, the “king” who was being thought of by everyone, was looking at the mountain-high documents in front of him with his hand on his forehead.

“…This is the map of the West, South, and North Areas as you ordered, drawn jointly by the demon species, Zerg species, and fairy species.” Alonfus had just finished his explanation, “All the abyss rifts that can be observed have been marked on the map, please review it.”

Lu Mi scanned the symbols on it, which were not many but definitely not few, and nodded, “Monitor them all first.”

Alonfus naturally obeyed, “But there are a few larger rifts that are unstable, I’m afraid you need to suppress them yourself.”

“Okay.”

“Besides, about your plan to build the three areas…” Alonfus put away the map and diligently took out another document.

Lu Mi looked at the demon in front of him who was talking incessantly, feeling that he had even thought about where to build the royal city and what color of paint to brush on the city gate.

Although it was good that he was so diligent and enthusiastic as an assistant, it didn’t change the fact that Lu Mi had become a workaholic again!

But if he didn’t fundamentally change the living environment of the abyss and establish rules, then this place would always be a barbaric land where fights and brawls happened every day.

It’s just that this time, he had three times the workload!!

“Oh, by the way,” as if he suddenly thought of something, Alonfus suddenly said, “There are also some demons who have never seen you before, they have heard the news of your return in their respective territories and want to come to see you.”

“There’s no need for now,” Lu Mi said almost without hesitation, “Let them continue to guard their own territories, I will call them when necessary.”

He almost forgot, there was still a group of people in the Book of Keys who hadn’t seen him return. But looking at these headache-inducing documents, he couldn’t run away anyway, so they had to take their time.

“I understand,” Alonfus smiled slightly, a glint in his eyes.

“So next is…” The demon was about to pull out another document with polite manners, when suddenly, the door was pushed open.

Jizhou quickly walked into the hall, saluted Lu Mi, who was above the high rank, with a serious expression, “King, please forgive my rudeness, I have something to report.”

With Lu Mi’s approval, Jizhou bowed his head and said, “Since yesterday, many people in my troops have suddenly fallen into a coma for no reason.”

Lu Mi’s eyebrows moved, “Yesterday?”

“Yes,” Jizhou lowered his eyes in shame, “Because they were just in a coma, I originally didn’t want to disturb you with these…”

“Jizhou, since you call me ‘king’, you should know that it is the king who stands up to protect his subjects at critical moments.” Lu Mi stood up and looked down at him, “Tell me in detail, what happened?”

As Jizhou was reporting to Lu Mi, the red dragon, who was originally resting on a fake mountain in the city with its eyes closed, suddenly opened its eyes.

Those eyes narrowed into a sharp thin line, it looked up at a certain place in the void, and let out a low growl from its throat, as if it was issuing a warning full of hostility.

—“Found, target.”

There was a sudden, imperceptible fluctuation in the void.

With this deep and silent word, a slender cyan hand suddenly stretched out from the void.

The red dragon’s dangerous aura intensified, and it suddenly raised its sharp claw.

That blow, which could almost shatter rocks, even if the opponent immediately dodged, still tore out a large amount of blood.

But what was strange was that the almost broken wrist healed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was as smooth as new again, only the blood splattered on the ground could attest to the wound just now.

Lu Mi, who was listening to the explanation, suddenly looked up, and the next second, he disappeared from the spot.

Jizhou’s explanation came to an abrupt halt, and he and Alonfus were both stunned, but neither of them had the power of space that Lu Mi had, so they couldn’t determine where he had teleported to for a while.

But then, they heard the angry roar of the red dragon coming from afar.

“What is this…!” They immediately turned around and rushed out of the hall.

The scene switched to the red dragon, just as that hand, which didn’t care about being hurt at all, reached out to the red dragon again without hesitation, Lu Mi, who suddenly appeared, blocked in front of the red dragon.

“Pa—”

Lu Mi’s hand directly grabbed the wrist in the void, “So it’s you, the guy messing around in my territory.”

That hand suddenly froze.

In that instant, Lu Mi exerted force and pulled the other party out of the hiding void in one fell swoop.

“!”

A figure fell to the ground.

It was a humanoid creature with gray wings on its back, its silver hair dimly falling around its body, and a pair of chaotic eyes slowly raised.

…An angel?

Not to mention anything else, but this image, if only the other’s wings were a little cleaner, it would be quite fitting.

Lu Mi quickly flipped through the data of the three areas in his mind, and didn’t find such a figure, so—was it a species from the Eastern Area?

He was not completely unprepared.

In theory, abyss creatures that could transform into “human form” should have some degree of strength. However, for some reason, the one in front of him was listless, giving off an uncomfortable feeling as if it had been ill for a long time.

The person looked at Lu Mi, and for some reason, his pupils dilated slightly, as if he had seen something incredible.

But Lu Mi’s gaze was attracted by a bottle hanging at the other’s waist.

“A star?” He looked at the thing floating like a little star inside the bottle, “…No, it’s a soul?”

The mutant who had his bottle taken away seemed to wake up a little, tried to snatch it back from his hand, but was easily restrained.

“I see, those who fell into a coma were because you took their spirits… um, in the concept of the abyss, perhaps it would be easier to understand if it was called a spiritual body?” He looked down at the other, “You’re not alone, are you? Who sent you, where are the rest of the spiritual bodies?”

The other seemed surprised that he could guess so much all at once, but immediately pursed his lips, apparently not intending to speak.

Lu Mi sighed without surprise, “It seems that we can only use the old method, tracing the source…”

“King—!” At this moment, the voices of Jizhou and Alonfus came from behind.

Lu Mi paused, casually threw the bottle to them, “Look at this bottle and those who are in a coma.”

The two had no time to examine the bottle they had received, and were startled by the hidden meaning in Lu Mi’s words.

However, before they could say anything, the next second, Lu Mi suddenly let go of the hand he was holding.

The mutant with gray wings on its back seized the opportunity and immediately tried to escape into the void.

Lu Mi saw the right moment and jumped in directly, on the contrary, the red dragon closest to him followed his pace, shrinking to the size of a ball and hanging on him at the last moment.

As for Jizhou and the others who were a little further away, they could only watch them disappear, and finally there was a word from Lu Mi disappearing in the air—“I’m going out for a bit, I’ll be back later.”

Alonfus: “…”

Do you remember the last time you said this, you disappeared from the world, and then turned the entire abyss three areas upside down!?

…….

Lu Mi, who had fled into the void, swore that he was so diligent this time, definitely not to avoid work.

What was surprising was that the red dragon also came along.

“Kier?” He and the young dragon looked at each other for a moment, and quickly let go, “Well, it’s likely to involve the dragon race, you know too.”

A man and a dragon then looked up at their surroundings.

This was a place similar to a space channel, if he guessed correctly, the other side of the channel should be connected to the Eastern Area.

And the scenery inside this space channel was a long bridge that seemed to have no end in sight.

The bridge, made of unknown stone, seemed to be the only thing in this different space, under the high bridge was a sea that couldn’t be seen clearly, and the air was filled with hazy mist.

“You… shouldn’t have followed…” A suddenly low and hoarse voice came.

Lu Mi looked up and saw the mutant he had caught and let go of appearing not far away.

At the same time, dozens of figures emerged from the fog, all with wings on their backs like the other, probably all of the same race.

These people slowly surrounded Lu Mi and the red dragon.

“If we touch you, your consciousness will be taken away…” The first mutant said in a low voice.

His companions seemed to glance at him, Lu Mi felt that it should be a warning, but they didn’t say anything in the end, just got closer.

Lu Mi pondered for a moment, then threw the red dragon into the sky, “Kier, fly.”

The young dragon chirped lightly, then its body swelled up in the air until it became the size of a floating island.

The red dragon let out a long cry, whirling its wings and reaching out its claws to Lu Mi below.

And those mutants just stared wide-eyed at this scene—

It was strange that they all had wings, but at this moment they were just running on the bridge, as if they couldn’t fly.

Lu Mi, who was caught by the red dragon’s loosely held claw, also caught the first mutant.

The person was about to say something, but was then attracted by the fact that he was “flying” in the air. He stared straight at the receding bridge, and his fellow clansmen gradually became smaller and smaller black dots.

Lu Mi: “How come, you have wings but haven’t flown yourself?”

“…In the Eastern Area, no one can fly.” The person only said lowly, and then asked, “Are you going to take my life?”

Lu Mi thoughtfully, “If you are willing to be my guide obediently, I won’t.”

Then, as if they had finally flown to the end of this space, a bright light suddenly appeared in the distance.

The person suddenly became nervous, “We can’t go there.”

But they had already broken through the space without hesitation and leaped to the outside of the channel.

—Mountains, rocks, rivers and seas…

They suddenly appeared on a forest and cliff, the wind blew, and the forest surged.

The Eastern Area, incredibly, had such a “normal” scene.

Except for the sky.

That cloudy sky was even more ominous than the always dark red color of the Northern Area.

Lu Mi frowned, and then suddenly heard a roar from the red dragon.

As if hit by something, the red dragon shook violently, and then fell towards the forest below.

At the same time, the gloomy clouds in the sky churned in the thunder, and then an ancient roar came from a distant place.

Something old and dangerous woke up in an instant.