I'm Really Not the Lord of the Abyss - Chapter 57

“——!!”

On a distant cliff, there stood a towering and sky-piercing tower.

This tower was incredibly tall. The erosion of time had filled every brick and tile with an ancient aura, as if it had stood tall from the distant past until now.

No matter where one looked up from this land, they could see its figure, like a pillar supporting the sky.

But now, suddenly, a roar came from the top of the tower, and the invisible sound waves broke through the howling gale.

The dark clouds above the sky suddenly churned madly, as if a god was angry.

The group of people guarding the front of the tower on the ground immediately knelt down on one knee, “God, please calm your anger.”

“Soul…” The ancient voice seemed to come from the void.

The group of people looked at each other, then nodded, bowed their heads, “Yes, we will find it for you right away! Soon, please wait!”

The ancient voice gradually faded away, but the people did not relax for a moment because of this, the atmosphere became even more tense.

“What are those sky races?” One of them frowned tightly, “This time the search for ‘offering’ took so long!”

“They are messengers of God, but this time they didn’t operate in the Eastern Area as usual… It seems they went to other areas.”

“Is this God’s instruction?”

The voices of the people were hesitant for a moment. As races loyal to God, they didn’t have much conflict with the sky race. After all, they were all part of God’s forces and would only receive commands from that one existence.

“Did you notice the chaos over there just now?” One person squinted slightly, looking in a direction, “Something that is not a sky race entered the Eastern Area from the ‘channel’, looking at the figure…It seems…”

The person seemed a bit uncertain, and after a long while, he uttered the word, “Is it a dragon?”

“Oh? Is that so?” A voice suddenly intervened.

The people: “Leader!” Their faces were still filled with the shock and astonishment that had just surfaced, and they didn’t even have time to salute.

Agare waved his hand indifferently, slowly walked over from a distance, and a look of interest appeared on his face.

“A dragon…” He glanced at the towering tower that seemed to reach the sky, then suddenly said, “You all continue to guard here, I’ll go over there to check the situation.”

The people: “But——!”

“Alright, it’s settled.”

Their willful leader didn’t listen to them finish speaking and disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving a group of people looking at each other, their faces showing unease.

Should…be okay, right?

On the other side, Lu Mi and others who had just entered the Eastern Area and unfortunately crashed, were standing up from the dense jungle.

The fallen Red Dragon had knocked down a large area of trees, and the collapsed plants seemed to have just experienced a storm.

Lu Mi removed the leaves that had fallen on his head, turned his head and saw the Red Dragon unwillingly flapping its wings crazily.

Obviously, the Red Dragon was trying to fly again, but it seemed as if something in the air was heavily suppressing it. No matter how hard it tried, it seemed to be struggling in a viscous swamp and couldn’t fly.

“Wu——” The Red Dragon suddenly drooped its wings in despair.

Just as Lu Mi was about to comfort it, he saw the Red Dragon suddenly bite a broken tree, angrily holding the tree trunk and shaking its head crazily, pounding the earth with a ‘thud thud’.

Lu Mi: “..…”

The silver-eyed youth calmly retracted his hand. Well, vitality is always a good thing.

He turned to look at the most embarrassed gray-winged youth among the three, “I haven’t asked your name yet? I’m Lu Mi, this is Kier.”

The gray-winged youth looked at the hand that was extended towards him in a daze, and averted his eyes, “…I should have said, if I touch you…”

“Will the soul be taken away?” Seeing the other party’s slow movements, Lu Mi simply pulled the person up.

Without looking at the other party’s shocked flapping wings, the silver-eyed youth didn’t know whether he was perfunctory or serious, and casually said, “If you can do it, try it. I’m quite curious to experience what it feels like.”

Of course, the premise is, if you can do it.

Speaking of which, Lu Mi suddenly leaned close to the other party and showed a thoughtful look, “Speaking of which, the first time we met when I caught you, it was a good opportunity, why didn’t you do it then?”

“…Gray Crow.” The gray-winged youth suddenly said in a low voice, as if he was flustered and didn’t dare to look at him, “My name is Gray Crow.”

——A very poor way of changing the subject, rather than skipping it directly. Well, whatever.

Lu Mi tidied up his slightly messy clothes and quickly turned his attention to the surrounding environment.

He had noticed before that the environment of the Eastern Area was…too good.

As far as Lu Mi knew, the environment of a place was mostly related to the ruler and the characteristics of the creatures of that region.

Not to mention the Southern Area that was cut off by the River of Death, and the Western Area of the Zerg race that he hadn’t personally been to, just talking about the Northern Area that Lu Mi was most familiar with——the most common scenery there was the dark red sky and the red rock-covered land.

It looked desolate, but in fact, that was the most comfortable environment for the demon race and most of the different species in the Northern Area.

Those red rocks were the condensed power of powerful different species, and the demon race could exert powerful power in worse environments, which also cultivated their mostly cold, survival of the fittest mentality.

But looking at the current Eastern Area, it gave him a feeling of life, and the creatures that such an environment should cultivate should be “relatively” gentle, normal creatures——

But, Lu Mi looked at the wilting Gray Crow in front of him who was exuding a sickly aura, and couldn’t help but be profound.

“Can I ask, who is the ruler of the Eastern Area now?” He paused, “You guys, should have a ruler, right?”

“It’s ‘God.’” This time, Gray Crow answered without hesitation.

Lu Mi raised his eyebrows slightly.

“In the ancient times, the Eastern Area had no creatures, it was desolate,” Gray Crow slowly began, as if these were words deeply engraved in his inherited bloodline, “Until the three gods of the sky, earth, and ocean descended, everything in the Eastern Area was born from their power, and life was nurtured in their flesh and blood…My race, is the beloved of the sky.”

——Gods, usually refer to beings that can do things that ordinary people cannot, possessing incredible power.

Such beings often emerge from one in a million miracles and ascend over time in the faith of all beings.

Lu Mi, who was now also called the “Yindu God” by some people, couldn’t help but be curious about these older beings in these words.

“Have they lived until now?” Lu Mi couldn’t help but raise his eyes slightly, looking through the gaps in the dense jungle leaves, as if sensing something, he looked towards the tower that was faintly visible on the distant horizon, “Is it there?”

Gray Crow was slightly startled, and then his lips moved slightly, as if he was about to say something.

But the next moment, a figure suddenly descended from the sky with a heavy oppressive feeling.

Boom——!

That figure directly leaped from a distance and fell like a nuclear bomb to the place where the three of them had just stood.

And Lu Mi, just a moment before, had picked up Gray Crow with one hand and led the Red Dragon to flash to another place.

“Good reaction,” the man said, smiling as he looked up.

As the rolling dust from the impact on the ground dissipated, Lu Mi also saw the appearance of the newcomer——

The handsome young man had a pair of blue eyes, like a clear ocean. His ears were like fins, and he held a long and short “spear” like weapon in his hand.

“Agare…” Lu Mi felt the Gray Crow he was holding in his hand suddenly tense up, and his voice also became tense.

“Your condition is better than I thought, I thought you encountered some difficult problem, that’s why it took so long,” Agare said to Gray Crow with a hint.

Then, Agare didn’t care about Gray Crow’s expression, and quickly turned to look at Lu Mi and the Red Dragon.

“…It really is a dragon race.” Agare’s eyes lit up, and he immediately slightly retracted the aura on his body, and said in a relaxed tone, “Dragons are the direct descendants of ‘God’, the dragons of the Eastern Area have disappeared for a long time, I didn’t expect there are still some wandering outside.”

He looked straight at the Red Dragon, even slightly bowed his head, making an inviting gesture, “Please come with me to the God’s tower, God will be pleased to see you.”

Gray Crow looked at the man making such an invitation, he could feel the other’s sincere joy.

It seems that the other party doesn’t know about the mission of the sky race this time… Gray Crow muttered under his breath, only silently lowering his gaze, which made Lu Mi glance at him.

Of course, the Red Dragon wouldn’t go with him to that place that exuded an uncomfortable aura everywhere, and immediately roared, and swiped a claw at him.

“Eh eh, wait?” Agare showed a flustered expression on his face, but his reaction speed was not slow at all, and even showed a headache, “It seems to be a difficult dragon…It’s really bad, I can’t understand dragon language.”

“Kier.” In the end, it was Lu Mi who stopped the young dragon, he just waved his hand, and the Red Dragon obediently turned into a ball the size of a ball, and fell into his arms.

This scene made Agare’s eyes widen, this time he was really surprised.

“Although I’ve wanted to ask since just now,” Agare opened his mouth, seemingly unable to find the right words, “Are you this dragon’s…?”

In the dragon legends passed down in the Eastern Area, they are a race of incredibly powerful and independent creatures, there are very few beings who can gain their friendship, let alone make a dragon—even if it’s just a young dragon—show such a gesture…

Just as he had a premonition that the other party was about to spit out the word “Dad”, Lu Mi preemptively interrupted, calmly saying, “Guardian.”

“…I see.” Although he said so, Agare’s expression obviously couldn’t accept it.

Then, he coughed lightly, “So back to the previous topic, can you and this dragon…”

“No.”

“…So decisive? I haven’t said anything yet.”

“Do you want us to go to the God’s tower you mentioned? I was quite interested in that tower originally, but after you invited us, I changed my mind,” Lu Mi seemed to laugh a little, “I want to go see other places first.”

“Whatever I say, you just don’t want to do it,” Agare spread his hands somewhat helplessly, “Are you treating me as an enemy?”

Lu Mi glanced at him, “Hard to say.”

At this time, several people suddenly noticed another wave in space.

They all looked up involuntarily, only to see a familiar space channel open.

A line of gray-winged sky race came out from inside, seeing them, this group of sky race didn’t pause at all, it seemed that they only had the distant tower in their eyes.

And Lu Mi noticed that almost every one of these sky races had a small bottle filled with stars hanging at their waist.

Just as the silver-eyed youth squinted his eyes slightly, Gray Crow pounced over from the side, saying somewhat urgently, “That group of sky race, they are not responsible for, your Northern Area…”

Although he seldom spoke, Gray Crow’s words were stammering.

But Lu Mi just glanced at this sky race who was eager to stop him, “What does it matter——”

In the wide-open eyes of Agare, Gray Crow, and other sky races, the silver-eyed youth unexpectedly reached out and snatched all the bottles at once.

Everyone didn’t even react for a moment.

And Lu Mi, looking at the dozen or so bottles held up in his palm by an invisible force, then laughed, “Didn’t I say,” he tilted his head slightly, looking at the stunned people, “——Except for the Eastern Area, everything else is my territory.”

“…!”

Gray Crow was suddenly speechless, but it was Agare who reacted first.

“I see, I was wrong.” Agare pulled out his twin spears, “Being with a god’s messenger and a dragon, but snatching the offerings, do you want to be an enemy of God…” He looked at the gray-winged sky race, “Gray Crow, do you also want to betray God?”

“…” The named Gray Crow didn’t speak, but he didn’t move either.

This attitude made Lu Mi also glance sideways, he thought the other party would refute without hesitation.

“Never mind,” Agare sighed indifferently, “Your matter is still for your race to worry about, but as for you——”

He looked straight at Lu Mi, smiling, “Can you return those offerings? Our God really needs them.”

And Lu Mi’s answer was to put all the bottles into the shadow.

Seeing this, Agare took a long breath, his aura suddenly became sharp.