“The king died within the ruin, devoured by the Occultism spirit”
“The prince… died in this room, he lost his life due to the recoil of the covenant”
“In other words, this child is the last Demi who carries the God of Life’s bloodline?”
Gu Qing Shan looked over the sleeping child and asked
Xuan Ya nodded.
She hurriedly said something.
Ye Fei Li relayed her words: “The throne changing hands will surely shock the entirety of Calming Soul Country, summoning all of the royal family’s guardians”
“We need to quickly avoid them”
“Furthermore, although the four Deities won’t immediately arrive, they will surely show themselves at the coronation ceremony”
Gu Qing Shan immediately said: “There’s not enough time to leave—– hurry, Laura!”
“Got it”
Laura opened her umbrella.
Everyone caught the handle of the umbrella and vanished.
A few seconds later.
Bam——-
The door swung open.
Several Demis in full armor entered the house.
The presence they exuded was easily the most powerful within Calming Soul Country, clearly, they wielded relatively powerful Divine Skills and held a lot more power compared to a normal Demi.
These people silently surrounded the child’s bed and stood still.
They were silently observing the golden light that the child exuded.
「Is this the final bloodline of the royal family?」
One guardian muttered.
「Indeed, he’s the child of the prince and guardian Xuan Ya, regretfully, Xuan Ya was never acknowledged 」another guardian sighed.
「 Regardless of how she wasn’t acknowledged, they have no choice but to admit it now, she is the mother of our new king and according to our information, her soul wasn’t devoured by the monster…」
Everyone exchanged glances and reached a tacit understanding.
Another guardian spoke up:「 Let’s go, take him back to the palace—– -not only is this matter related to our oath, but it is also directly related to the safety of this entire world 」
「 You’re right, we need to make sure that he is absolutely safe, otherwise, if the bloodline of our Deity is cut off, Calming Soul Country would also be destroyed 」
“Hmph, no matter how arrogant the fake Gods and that monster act, even they couldn’t bear to see this world destroyed; that would only heavily injure, or even kill them”
The guardians discussed among one another.
They brought the child away and left the room.
A few moments later.
As Laura was about to put her umbrella away, Gu Qing Shan and Boss both stopped her.
Time slowly passed.
Out of nowhere, four gloomy presences appeared at the same time.
A voice resounded from the void of space: “Is that the final child with the God of Life’s bloodline?”
Another voice answered: “It’s unclear, master is undergoing the final confirmation”
A third voice spoke up: 「This isn’t a bad thing. The new king is a child that isn’t even 3 years old. For a relatively long period, he would not be able to lead those Demis」
One final voice spoke : “That isn’t necessarily the case, we need to check if he has any direct blood relatives as well…”
“Hm, let us return and receive the master’s verdict”
“We need to appear at the coronation ceremony, it would also be a good time to show off the power of Gods, let’s go 」
The voices slowly disappeared.
A long while later.
Gu Qing Shan, Zhang Ying Hao, Ye Fei Li, Boss, and Laura reappeared.
“It was a good thing that you were able to react in time, it was so dangerous just now” Laura was still a bit frightened.
Everyone else had a pondering expression on their faces.
“Did you hear that? At the coronation ceremony, they’ll appear together” Zhang Ying Hao commented.
“We don’t have much time, let’s prepare ourselves now as well” Gu Qing Shan declared.
…
An empty mountain cliff without people.
Ye Fei Li and Zhang Ying Hao had just displayed their killing prowess.
Boss praised them: “Although your powers haven’t fully matured, both of you are exceptionally talented when it comes to killing , and your unique abilities are quite decent as well”
“What about you? Didn’t you say you’ve regained a bit of your power?” Zhang Ying Hao asked.
Boss walked up to the cliff and started monologuing: “I have only regained a bit of my Abyssal powers, but it is still one of the most advanced powers within the Abyss. If you hadn’t gotten acquainted with me, you would never have witnessed such powers in your entire lives”
The Book of Prophesized Destiny appeared next to him and automatically flipped open.
Boss stood in front of the cliff, ripped out a page from the book, and muttered: “Burn!”
A grey mass of flames appeared on the page.
Boss flicked his hand slightly.
The burning page immediately vanished.
Boss turned around and told everyone: “I can’t use the Star Firefly now because I’ve already regained a part of my power, I’m no longer in a state where I’m constantly near-death and could throw my life away at will—— doing so would only result in me losing everything once more”
“And so, witness it clearly——-”
He spread his arms and muttered in a low voice: “Flames of Nihility”
Boom!!!
The tall cliffside that was half-hidden among the clouds was abruptly swallowed up by grey flames.
The cliff exploded, then quickly imploded into a small grey dot.
Soon enough, even the grey dot vanished from their sights.
Not even an atom remained.
Boss calmly stated:
“As you can see, this Flame of Nihility is extremely powerful, even a fake God will be annihilated by this power”
Facing him, everyone was greatly impressed.
“What peerless power!” Zhang Ying Hao watched the cleanly-decimated cliffside and couldn’t ‘t help himself from praising.
“As expected of Boss, if he fights with his full strength, he could easily defeat those fake Gods” Ye Fei Li raised his thumb in praise while silently considering how he should deal with this attack.
“The strongest of the Abyss, what towering presence”
Even Laura had to praise him highly.
She then became a bit distracted as she thought about the Abyssal Soul Artifacts that he mentioned before.
Boss chuckled and wiped some sweat off his forehead: “Of course, I am the Greatest Above the Crown Star, the strongest entity within the Abyss, you must never forget that”
The three of them regained their senses and hurriedly nodded.
— —–but Gu Qing Shan said nothing.
Because among them, by using his Paragon realm inner sight, he was the only one who could observe the entire ordeal and noticed a certain problem.
Hm…
How do I say this…
It seems like Boss didn’t regain enough of his power so he couldn’t quite fully control the power of ‘Flames of Nihility’.
When he unleashed that attack just now, in order to appear effortless, Boss specifically turned to face us with his back towards the cliffside that was struck by Flames of Nihility.
And then———
His back was horribly blasted by the explosion to the point of bleeding, half of his buttocks are also exposed.
How does he plan to wrap this situation up?
Gu Qing Shan silently thought to himself and couldn’t help but glanced at Boss.
Only to see Boss flipping his hair arrogantly with the Book of Prophesized Destiny in his hand: “I suddenly felt a flash of inspiration, go ahead and rest up first, don’t stand here and bother me comprehending my fighting skills”
“Ah, got it” Ye Fei Li replied.
They all turned around and made their way towards the camouflage formation that was set up on the side.
Gu Qing Shan hesitated only for a split second.
Oh well.
If Boss had decided to tough it out, then let’s leave him to his devices.
Gu Qing Shan followed everyone back to the formation as well.
They all rested while waiting for Boss.
At this point, Gu Qing Shan drew one of the Cards Laura gave him and took a look at it.
The Card depicted a maelstrom-like swirl that floated above a person’s head with both eyes closed.
Lines of glowing text appeared on the War God UI:
[Illusion: Dark Inviter]
[Using this Card will cause a target to fall into a unique world illusion, the danger levels of that world are determined by the one who constructs the illusion]
[Consuming this Card will allow you to increase your understanding of swordsmanship and evolve]
——-this was the second out of the numerous Cards that Laura gave him, all of which could be consumed to help him improve his swordsmanship.
Before this, Gu Qing Shan had already consumed [Elemental Wind Chaser Strike], so there was no need to think too much when he consumed [Dark Inviter] this time around.
In fact, as he was about to head into battle against the four fake Gods, Gu Qing Shan only hoped that he’d be able to advance to the next step in his swordsmanship a bit faster.
Without hesitation, he declared: “Consume”
Right as he said so, the Card turned into sprites of light that were absorbed into his body.
Gu Qing Shan closed his eyes, prepared himself to comprehend the wonders of swordsmanship.
All of a sudden, lines of glowing text rapidly scrolled across the War God UI.
Gu Qing Shan glanced over it in surprise.
[Attention! Attention!]
[An extremely rare situation had occurred]
[Consuming that Card is treated the same as using Illusion: Dark Inviter on yourself, but as there are no enemies who are experts at illusory attacks, this poses no issue]
[An unexpected situation occurred during the consumption process: A unique spirit participated in the process of casting the technique]
[That spirit is inviting you into a world illusion]
[It is impossible to determine that spirit’s intentions]
[Please guarantee your own safety]
The lines of glowing text swiftly vanished.
After a brief moment, Gu Qing Shan noticed that Zhang Ying Hao and the rest vanished, the grass field and formation around him also disappeared.
An old, tattered building appeared out of nowhere.
Gu Qing Shan found himself standing inside that building, in a certain hallway.
“How interesting. This shouldn’t be that monster, if it was able to sense us outsiders it would have already gone to kill us”
“So who is this?”
Gu Qing Shan whispered and checked his surroundings.
The entire building was jet-black without any light, a single lamp hung on top of the ceiling, the lightbulb seemed to have broken a long time ago as it was covered in dust.
Due to there being too many buildings around it, the place didn’t see the light of day at all.
Wait a minute, this place is——-
The dusty memories resurfaced in his mind, causing Gu Qing Shan to feel a bit of a chill.
Gu Qing Shan quickly made his way through the hallway and arrived in front of a familiar door.
At some unknown point, he had a key in his hand.
He didn’t say a single word, simply used the key to open the door, and walked in without hesitation.
Standing in the middle of the room, he looked around.
This place didn’t have a clear separation between the bedroom and living room, the narrow, rectangular-shaped room only barely had enough room for a single bed and a cupboard; everything else must be piled on top, otherwise, there wouldn’t be any place to put them at all.
There wasn’t even a toilet here.
Even in the slums, such living conditions would be considered inferior.
Gu Qing Shan silently watched over the room.
Indeed, this place used to be his home.
What kind of world illusion made me return to my homeworld, to the slums of the Confederate?
Gu Qing Shan was full of questions.
He closed his eyes, silently focused himself on searching his surroundings.
All of a sudden.
Following a certain of Gu Qing Shan’s thoughts, something manifested in this narrow and stifled dark room.
A long tongue slowly extended from above, silently descended behind Gu Qing Shan.
The long tongue softly licked Gu Qing Shan’s back, slowly reaching towards his neck.
