Demon King – Chapter 604 – Abyssal Amber, the Ruthless Work Machine

Just as Eiru had said, although she was not sure whether she could retrieve what belonged to her, such as her memories, at the moment the chains fully dispersed, the gradually loosening seal was continuously feeding her information. So the time when she would get all the answers was probably not far off.

And just now, another set of information had entered Her Majesty the Demon Lord’s mind, like the final piece of a puzzle, instantly unlocking a complete chain of information.

“Honestly, it’s pretty dumb. The Daughters of Amber Crystal are basically Demon Lord candidates. Amber Crystal selects suitable girls… cough cough, to put it more formally, Abyssal Amber automatically selects suitable juvenile female individuals of intelligent species within its range and transforms them into demons.”

Amber Crystal’s formal name was Abyssal Amber. It was not actually a product of this world. Coming from another world, it had always been the source and sacred relic of the demon race.

The existence known as the Demon Lord was completely bound to Abyssal Amber. The Demon Lord was birthed by Abyssal Amber, while Abyssal Amber accumulated the Demon Lord’s power. And Abyssal Amber’s task and job had always been only one thing, to ensure the continuation of the demon race and prevent the extinction of the species.

The existence of a Demon Lord represented the continuation of the demon race, so Abyssal Amber’s most important ability was to maintain the Demon Lord’s life. That so-called immortality that made enemies tremble was in fact nothing more than Abyssal Amber forcibly keeping her alive.

However, accidents always existed. Through special methods, or by thoroughly and cleanly erasing everything, it was still possible to break through Abyssal Amber’s abilities and directly eliminate the Demon Lord. So once a Demon Lord fell without leaving any offspring, Abyssal Amber would immediately begin to give birth to the next Demon Lord.

The first choice would naturally be ordinary demon race members, but if necessary, even humans, beastfolk, or elves. As long as they met the condition of being a juvenile female individual of an intelligent species, Abyssal Amber would select suitable candidates from among them and transform them into the next Demon Lord.

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And for reasons unknown, and due to some unknown accident, under the strange operations of a certain generation of Demon Lord, Abyssal Amber, which should have been revered by all demonkind, broke through the world’s barrier and was sent to this world where no magic existed at all.

In this completely unfamiliar world, let alone a Demon Lord, Abyssal Amber could not even find a single ordinary demon. With no other choice, it could only begin searching for other intelligent species, trying to carry out its task.

But it arrived far too early. The human race had not even been born on this land yet. After dispersing its power, Abyssal Amber could not find any intelligent species at all, and was instantly dumbfounded.

In this bizarre world where not a trace of magic existed, with no other methods available, Abyssal Amber chose to enter dormancy to avoid exhausting its energy and causing total mission failure, slowly waiting in the long river of time for the opportunity to fulfill its duty.

“Dormancy isn’t shutting down. Consumption still happens. Because the time span was too long, and because it scattered too much power searching for suitable candidates, the unlucky thing eventually weakened to the point that even its effective range was limited to just the area of Crystal Amber City.”

Spreading her hands, the Little Demon Lord really wanted to complain about this story herself. But thinking about how she herself was now the so-called Demon Lord, complaining about it always felt like she was mocking herself.

“However, although Amber Crystal isn’t a living being and has no autonomous consciousness, as something that stores the information of successive Demon Lords, it does have a certain capacity for evolution. Letting itself continue to weaken wasn’t an option, so it literally evolved the ability to convert this world’s energy into magic.”

This was the source of Eiru’s energy conversion ability. Only at this point did she realize that this was an ability none of the previous Demon Lords had possessed. It was entirely unique to her, an ability evolved in this world.

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“Wait a second. You just said Amber Crystal selects juvenile female individuals of intelligent species. Then what the hell are you? Are you saying you used to be a girl? That’s impossible, right?”

Eiru had absolutely been a genuine boy in the past, something Yuki could be sure of. Although the two of them had not been close during childhood, they had still played together a few times through Jiaqi, and had some impression of each other.

“Don’t rush, let me finish. Since I’ve already said this much, you know what the Daughters of Amber Crystal are now, right?”

“Yeah. Candidates for Demon Lord selected from humans, not fully transformed yet, right?”

“That’s right. But because the rules of the two worlds are completely different, the difference between the creatures of this world and that world is just too great. Relying on Amber Crystal’s purely forced transformation, failure was inevitable in the end. After all, that world didn’t have anything like rejection reactions.”

But Abyssal Amber did not possess intelligence. It was just a ruthless work machine. Over the thousands of years of recorded human history, it had continuously selected suitable candidates and forcibly transformed them into Demon Lords.

To prevent wasting all its energy and failing its mission, Abyssal Amber chose to select a Demon Lord candidate once every five years of accumulated power. It would inject the stored power into the selected human body. Once it failed, it would retrieve the power, then wait another five years to search for the next one.

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Because it lacked intelligence and functioned like a machine, Amber Crystal just kept failing and charging ahead recklessly. Dutifully working for who knew how many years, it failed to produce even a single Demon Lord in the end, and was even pushed into a desperate situation.

“So you still haven’t explained it. You were clearly a boy, so why would Amber Crystal pick you? Did it finally get unstuck and decide that boys could be worth trying too?”

Yuki’s bizarre comment made the Little Demon Lord burst out laughing. After laughing, she clutched her stomach and raised a question of her own.

“After saying all this, combined with what we talked about before, what do you think is different between me and the other Demon Lords?”

‘Damn it, this is a reading comprehension question now? What’s the full score, do I need to hit specific points for marks or something…’

Yuki complained internally, but answered very seriously out loud.

“They’re all mature beauties, and you’re the only tiny one?”

“No! Not that! Absolutely not!”

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Her Majesty the Demon Lord immediately jumped up.

“You’re not allowed to say I’m short! I can fly! When I fly I’m way taller than you!”

Having experienced his height back when she was a boy, this barely over one point four meters of height was a lifelong pain in Eiru’s heart. Why the hell, was it because Abyssal Amber was malnourished and shrank me too?

Although she had been born under Abyssal Amber’s malnourished state, in terms of power, Eiru was not inferior at all. You could even say she was the strongest individual among all Demon Lords in history. So it made no sense. Could it be that concentration really was essence?

Of course, this was not the focus of their discussion right now. Seeing that Yuki could not answer, the Little Demon Lord did not tease him further and directly announced the correct answer.

Unlike all previous Demon Lords who were merely connected to Abyssal Amber, Eiru was the first and only Demon Lord in history to completely fuse with Abyssal Amber as one entity.