I'm Really Not the Lord of the Abyss - Chapter 6

“……Hey! What are you all still dazed for?”

“Now is our chance, those who need to retreat, retreat! Those who need to save people, save them!”

After witnessing the leader of the Snake-headed Winged Dragons being suppressed, similar roars echoed throughout the various battlefields in the palace.

These voices successfully awakened most of the people who were still in a state of shock.

“So strong, so strong!”

On the battlefields scattered throughout the palace, astonishing shouts arose one after another.

“Did you see that? A C-level creature was suppressed so easily!”

“We saw, we saw…” came the helpless response, as people snapped out of their stupor, “We’re not blind, no need for you to tell us.”

That earth-shattering strike, how could they not have seen it?

It was truly…

— too astonishing!

They watched as the creatures that were about to take their lives fled in panic.

The reversal of the situation seemed to happen in an instant.

And the overwhelming victory in the sky seemed to exist in another world, a miracle they were briefly able to witness.

“We’re saved! I’m so glad, I thought we were done for! This is my first mission, I didn’t expect it to be so thrilling!” A team member sat on the ground, drained.

“This is the power of top-tier combatants,” turning the tide with one’s own strength, “No wonder the headquarters recruits so many strong individuals every year.” Some people opened the door to a new world from this, their eyes filled with admiration, longing, and ambition.

“Quick, go see what’s happening over there!” Someone gasped for breath, clutching their chest that was pounding from overexertion.

“It’s not someone we know…Such a powerful force…We don’t know if they’re friend or foe, it better not be a ghost story.”

The slowly shrinking massive magic circle was gradually turning into a glow and disappearing from their sight, as if it was splitting their thoughts into two parts: illusion and reality.

The magic circle was as gorgeous as the beautiful miracles that only existed in myths, and the mysterious and profound patterns made the heads of those who saw it buzz and their eyes sting.

It was unanalyzable and unbearable to look at directly. It seemed to be saying so.

Coupled with the stimulating feeling of surviving a catastrophe, it directly ignited various emotions in their chests. For a time, they were excited, scared, awed, worried, grateful, and worshipful… Their feelings were mixed, making people talk incoherently.

“It’s a power we’ve never seen before…” Sikes murmured, his scholar’s intuition was ringing madly.

He had an intuition that there was something inside that he couldn’t know, but it must be extremely astonishing.

Unfortunately, there was no way to delve into it now.

Most of the creatures had already flown away, although a few remained, they were controlled within a range they could handle.

The majority of the remaining people began to rush to the center of the battlefield. On the one hand, they were going to support the most intense battle point, on the other hand, it was completely subconscious behavior.

They were chasing the blooming silver-blue brilliance, like chasing a sun that was about to return to the sky, trying their best to retain that glimmer of light.

“Hey, wait, what about these wounded?” Sikes, who stayed in place, made a helpless gesture, trying to retain the extraordinaries who suddenly got excited.

“Let them go.” The battle damaged extraordinaries were forced to stay in place due to their injuries. They took out their own weapons, repelled the few remaining creatures, and had already become a morale-boosting force, “We also want to know what happened.”

— A bunch of lunatics!

Sikes looked at these people with blood on their faces, but they were excitedly grinning.

— Each one of them had been dealing with the abyss for a long time, and their brains were not normal! They didn’t even care about their lives!

The desire to pursue the “abnormal” and yearn for the “extraordinary” had unknowingly become the instinct of this group of extraordinaries, finally ingrained in their bones, creating a bunch of alternative lunatic monsters.

…Wait, where’s Donald?

Sikes looked at the familiar figure among the group of people who left, and exclaimed, “How come you’re going too?!”

For the time being, let’s not talk about the tired Sikes. On this side, Lu Mi, who had just solved the leader of the Snake-headed Winged Dragon, stood on the tower and slowly withdrew his power.

He conveniently dealt with a batch of creatures that came to the door, as for the others, he didn’t care.

He was here to help, not to be a nanny. Besides, if they couldn’t handle the remaining creatures, he really needed to reassess the strength of the Extraordinary Guild.

Of course, more importantly, as he said before, to solve this problem, the “source” must be solved.

If the abyss rift was not closed or controlled, no matter how much was done, it would be like drinking poison to quench thirst.

“The rift is right here underground!”

Ever since Lu Mi took him for a ride and finished a fight, the Flying Octopus’s admiration for him had reached its peak. At this moment, he wished he could do everything possible to help him find things.

“Underground?” Lu Mi waved his hand and summoned the silver spear again, slowly saying, “Speaking of which, it’s been strange from the beginning. Although I can vaguely sense the aura of the abyss rift, I always feel like there’s something blocking my perception?”

So although he knew the rift was “nearby”, he had never been able to pinpoint it accurately.

“I know, it’s because of that mineral called Blue Steel!”

Flying Octopus recalled the scene when he first came to this world, “There are a lot of these minerals underground, they can shield the aura of the abyss… If it wasn’t for the fact that I myself came from there, I wouldn’t be able to feel the rift below at all!”

“That kind of mineral actually has such a use.” Lu Mi pondered.

Then, he stood up straight, raised the tip of his spear, “Let’s go, let’s see what’s going on below.”

The silver-blue light fell to the earth like a meteor, the spear tip pierced through the ground, creating a pit the size of a person.

This pit was submerged among other ruins and was not noticeable.

Lu Mi jumped down from the tower, his clothes fluttering, drawing a sharp and light arc.

The next second, he passed through the hole precisely and landed easily. The silver spear that took the lead in paving the way turned into light particles and autonomously returned to his body.

“I didn’t expect there to be such a large space under the palace.” Lu Mi looked around and found that it was a network of tunnels.

The walls were neatly paved with bricks and stones, and one could vaguely see some murals that had been painted on them for some years. There were rooms like normal buildings everywhere, only they were darker and older.

Every once in a while, one could see some minerals piled together, faintly blue.

“Those must be Blue Steel.” Lu Mi commented to himself, “This place looks like another palace built underground.”

Perhaps the royal family of the Blue Steel Empire liked this style, having homes both above and below ground? But the underground was empty, wouldn’t it be scary to sleep at night?

He shook his head and walked deeper into the tunnel. At this distance, he could already sense the rift.

And at this moment, next to the Strong Suppression Device of the abyss rift, two figures were huddling together sneakily.

The shorter one hesitated to speak, “Should we really do this?”

“Nonsense, we can’t let them find out that the Strong Suppression Device has been tampered with! We must destroy the only evidence and the scene before they get here!” The taller man spoke harshly, warningly glanced at him, “This is the order of that lord.”

“…I, I understand.” The shorter man was obviously very afraid of the person mentioned in the other’s words, and swallowed.

Then he shakily opened the terminal, and immediately projected a linear map of this underground palace, where one could see many small red dots flashing densely on many lines.

“These are all detonation points, if successfully detonated, probably the entire palace will instantly sink to the bottom.”

“Very good. Thanks to everyone going outside to resist the creatures now, plus I don’t know who used some method, actually let the Snake-headed Winged Dragons that were originally blocked in the underground passage all fly outside–it’s really heaven helping me!”

The tall man grinned, then asked, “Where’s the king?”

The short man opened another interface, confirmed the green dot on it, “Still in the palace.”

“Good! I don’t believe he can survive this time!” The tall man didn’t delay any longer, directly snatched the terminal from the other’s hand, and pressed the countdown.

[10:00]

[09:59]

[09:58]

……

Seeing the countdown successfully started, the two men immediately stopped hesitating and turned to leave.

The taller man laughed, “Hahaha, serves them right! I don’t know how many people will be buried together this time, let’s withdraw!”

“People will die?” The shorter man was taken aback, then he stammered, showing a twisted smile of fear and excitement, “That’s…great!”

Just thinking about the upcoming scene of despair, the shorter man felt a genuine sense of anticipation. He had accomplished another big thing, and by then, everyone’s eyes would be focused here!

However, just as the two men had just taken a few steps…

A strange feeling suddenly struck their hearts!

It was as if they were being targeted by some extremely dangerous anomaly, like a huge snake slithering from the dark depths, like Jormungandr poking its head out from behind the thick fog of the earthly mire.

(t/n: Jormungandr-originally means “huge monster”, is a huge sea serpent in Norse mythology)

Every single hair on their bodies was standing on end. The cold air drifted from behind them, making them shudder.

Tap, tap, tap…

It was the sound of footsteps.

In a place where there was originally no third person, footsteps other than theirs were heard.

This infinitely elongated second, like a slow-motion scene, the two men stiffened their bodies and slowly turned their heads.

—Pitch black sclera, crimson vertical pupils.

Sheep horns, black winged man.

He was slowly stepping out of the twisted rift, someone’s crimson blood stained his pale, abnormal cheeks, becoming the only bright color in this pitch-black hellish scene.

This person…!

The two men instantly widened their pupils, unable to move their bodies, only physiological tears burst out from their pupils in an instant.

Absolutely, absolutely! Not human!!

A humanoid…abyss creature?

For the generally ordinary world, top secrets above C-level, normal people simply couldn’t come into contact with such an existence.

How could there be such a creature? Such an unreasonable existence… Never heard of it!

The overwhelming pressure made them unable to make a sound, and the trembling scream was stuck in their throats.

However, the next moment, a sharp pain suddenly came from their hearts, and crimson blood splashed in front of their eyes — that was, my blood…? How could it be, I clearly haven’t done anything yet, I haven’t let anyone know about me…

Black chains emerged from their shadows, and the sharp lock head pierced through the hearts of the two men cleanly.

Thud—

The two bodies fell heavily, without causing any ripples, and died easily.

“What ugly souls.” The demon spoke indifferently, not giving the two corpses on the ground a glance, “In the place where my master and I are, how can there be such filthy maggots.”

After he finished speaking, he was about to walk away, but suddenly noticed the terminal screen glowing on the ground.

In just a thought, the chains rolled up the terminal that had fallen on the ground and brought it to the front.

The demon took a look and suddenly narrowed his eyes. His slender pale fingers tentatively clicked on it, and a red box immediately popped up—

[Command cannot be changed]

The red countdown was still continuing.

On the other side, a group of extraordinaries, including Donald, were having a hard time moving due to the collapsing roads everywhere.

Until Donald accidentally flipped over a slab and saw a large hole smashed out on the ground—

“I’ve got it! There are extensive underground passages under the palace, we can go there!”

“Really? How come I didn’t know?”

So a group of people tried to go underground and indeed found a way.

“Good job, kid, you even know about this thing in the palace.”

“Hey, everyone, come and see!” The person who was leading the way suddenly shouted.

Everyone was startled by the sound and hurried over, only to see that person pointing at a device installed in the corner of the passage, with a terrified look of doubt, “Is that thing the latest type of bomb?”

The rest of the people took a closer look and were all horrified, “Damn, it really is! It’s already activated, the countdown is only eight minutes left!”

****

“Hmm? What happened?” Flying Octopus looked at Lu Mi who suddenly stopped, and moved his tentacles in confusion, “The rift is just ahead.”

The wind blew through the tunnel, and the surroundings were so quiet that only the sound of water droplets falling from the corner could be heard. The unique color of Blue Steel was circulating a mysterious luster.

All of this made this place not like the normal world, but rather like another world called the abyss.

Lu Mi didn’t answer.

A look of doubting life appeared on his face, as if he had sensed something, but dared not believe it.

“I seem to…”

“Have sensed an acquaintance’s aura.”

No way, no way, there won’t really be a big “sur-prise” at this time, right!