Volume 6, Chapter 73 – The Necessity of a Chance Pairing

“Of course we’re going to find Helian.”

Nola answered almost without thinking.

Her personal matters were certainly important, but they still paled in comparison to confirming the identity of the Goddess. Now, she also thought the possibility of Helian being her Goddess wasn’t high. Thinking carefully, if Helian wanted to harm her, there would be no reason to cultivate her from the start. That demon dressed as a priest was even more ridiculous. She wasn’t the real Holy Son at all, so how could she be a rare experimental subject? It was completely incongruous.

The expected answer made Fia curl her lips. She reached out her hand toward Nola.

“Then let’s go. Anastasia, Nola and I are going to the Weeping Mountains. If Claire and Erin Slate ask, just answer truthfully.”

“Yes.”

“Huh?”

Suddenly, Fia’s arm trembled slightly. She subconsciously looked at Nola. Just now, Nola held her hand, which confused her. She indeed reached out to Nola, but that meant for Nola to follow her, not for Nola to hold her hand. Moreover, with Nola’s strong character, holding her hand like Tilulu was simply the sun rising from the west. For a moment, Fia’s expression became strange.

“You… were affected by mental magic?”

“Didn’t you reach your hand over first?” Realizing her embarrassment, Nola quietly withdrew her hand with a steeled face. “I thought you wanted to take me there.”

“I did mean to take you there, that’s right…”

But you taking the initiative to hold my hand is too weird.

Fia couldn’t help noticing the cat tail standing straight up behind Nola, then suddenly realized.

Must be because of the estrus period. Just like how I feel Nola has become radiant recently, I must also be full of temptation in Nola’s eyes, so Nola held my hand unknowingly.

Hehehe~

A bad idea rose in Fia’s heart.

If I deliberately use my charm to seduce Nola, Nola might have quite interesting psychological changes. While thinking in her heart like “This is that crow elf, how can I react to her!”, her eyes would stare straight at my half-exposed chest, and her hands would also reach over unruly. Then I catch her red-handed at the right time, saying jokingly “Nola’s willpower is just so-so,” Nola would definitely be so ashamed she’d want to grind her teeth to dust.

I am really too bad.

Thinking of it, she implemented it immediately. Fia leaned her body toward Nola with ill intentions, while her face wore a natural, puzzled expression.

“Then do we still hold hands? It’s okay if I hold Nola, you know?”

“Anastasia is still here and you’re like this…”

If not for considering Anastasia, Nola would have said Fia was a promiscuous woman. She turned around stiffly and her body gradually floating in the air while actually regretting in her heart until it bled— how great it would have been if I hadn’t withdrawn my hand just now

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“Time to go.”

“Really not cute.”

Shaking her head and sighing, Fia waved goodbye to Anastasia below.

If nothing unexpected happens, this should be the last time going to the Weeping Mountains. I wonder where the ancient battlefield there actually came from.

Thinking of such things, she finally followed Nola, who was emitting a cat scent all over, heading straight for the Weeping Mountains.

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What is all this stuff?

Looking at the gray light screen covering the sky and sun before her eyes, and the rust-colored earth emitting a rotting smell under the light screen, Ruth, as the only Princess of the Kingdom of Death, frowned.

The Weeping Mountains were an extension of the Netherworld. Because she had enough of life in the undead world and hated the unchanging scenery, she arranged the Weeping Mountains, the place where the Netherworld intersected with the world of the living, into an area with dense forests and numerous monsters, making adventurers linger.

To reflect the holiness of the Weeping Mountains and attract people to come, she also styled herself as a Goddess, even giving the divinely bestowed weapon she picked up to a Fire Cat girl, endowing her with the identity of Holy Son. This way, people were more convinced that a Goddess existed in the Weeping Mountains. Although she couldn’t directly touch the living because her undead aura was too thick, just watching more and more living people come and go under her feet made her feel quite interesting. This was something the lifeless undead world didn’t have.

Therefore, unlike her mother, she wouldn’t replace her soul every once in a while out of boredom. For her, the Weeping Mountains were a place that made her happier than home; calling it her back garden wasn’t wrong.

However, now the Weeping Mountains had turned into a look she didn’t recognize. Not only had the painstakingly planted garden disappeared, but a large magic barrier had also been set up at home. If she weren’t exceptionally familiar with the aura of the Weeping Mountains, she would definitely suspect she had come to another world.

Burglarized.

She immediately realized what had happened. Then anger rushed straight to her brain like a bursting flood. She, the dignified daughter of the Queen of the Kingdom of Death, the second strongest necromancer in the World Tree Continent—even the leader of the Darkborn had to be polite when seeing her—yet someone dared to sneak into her back garden to wreak havoc while she went home to visit her mother. Did they think their life was too long and wanted to suffer a bit?

As a strong individual just a sliver away from the ninth rank, she could clearly feel that the land under her feet was completely dead, with not a bit of mana or elements to speak of. It would be hard to restore vitality. Of course, given enough time, she could slowly restore this land to its original state, but the problem wasn’t here. The real problem was, when had she, Ruth, ever suffered such a loss?

If one word was to be used to describe Ruth, it would be a young miss so spoiled and unruly that she had never been taught a lesson. Lawless to the extreme. In the entire Netherworld, except for her mother Venix, she was the biggest. When she said one, the Undead Archmages under her absolutely dared not say two.

In this situation, seeing her garden destroyed by someone, Ruth naturally became angry enough to want to dig the other party out of the grave to whip the corpse, and also use necromancy to drag out their soul, hang confession signs all over their neck, and parade them across the continent.

Bastard!

In just a few minutes, she saw extremely obvious ruins on the vast land. She clearly remembered there were no large buildings in her territory. She was an undead who didn’t need to sleep or eat and wouldn’t feel tired, so naturally, she didn’t need a place to live. Immediately after, she saw two figures frozen in the air. They were a man and a woman, both demons. Getting closer, one could find that the faces of both demons were full of horror, as if afraid of something.

A battle happened in the garden while I was away? But this is the deepest part of the Weeping Mountains. The illusion barrier outside can’t be entered even by that Fire Cat daughter of mine, let alone others.

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Ruth, being an undead, had no reproductive ability. And since Nola worshiped and was attached to her, she naturally treated Nola as a daughter she raised single-handedly. After all, Nola was originally a Fire Cat with messy fur and a small body. She watched Nola grow up bit by bit, and thus experienced the satisfaction of being a mother, even though she was only five or six hundred years old, still a child among the undead.

This woman in front is very familiar.

Circling the frozen air, Ruth looked up and down at the puppet Helian, not even sparing under the skirt, but she still couldn’t recall Helian’s identity. Helpless, she could only choose to use detection magic to check the ranks of Helian and Galil. But because the [Spatial Confinement] froze the entire space into a whole, her detection magic couldn’t drill in, so she couldn’t even detect the ranks.

“This is… [Spatial Confinement]? Can this kind of thing really trap people? Only left for a month, and this place has been turned upside down.”

Ruth knocked on the frozen air, and the air emitted a crisp dang dang sound. She brushed her long pink hair behind her back, her right hand resting on her chin in thought.

Since they are demons, their identity is clear. Either absolute evil people or the Sovereign. Considering the styles of absolute evil and the Sovereign, absolute evil only wreaks havoc, while only the Sovereign would have organized actions. I’m more inclined to believe it’s the Sovereign’s people who sneaked in while I wasn’t paying attention. The remaining question is who is opposing the Sovereign, and using a nearly humiliating way to freeze the Sovereign’s subordinates in mid-air, completely unafraid of retaliation.

To be able to successfully freeze people using [Spatial Confinement], a magic that is high-tier but impractical—[Spatial Confinement] is a forbidden spell, true, but its effect is quite slow. From the magic activation to the end, the opponent would have long sensed something wrong and escaped the casting range. Therefore, it’s just a magic that sounds formidable. Being able to use it successfully shows that the strength gap between the two sides is huge. The caster is at least eighth rank or even ninth rank, on the same level as my mother.

There are very few people exceeding the ninth rank on the World Tree Continent. The objects of suspicion are just those few.

Ruth thought for a long time, finally locking the target on Claire, whom Nola had mentioned. Claire was an outsider; it wouldn’t be strange for her to possess magic similar to [Spatial Confinement].

Though the ones who would fight with Claire first should be those gods whose names I’ve only heard. Didn’t expect Claire would oppose the Sovereign first. I should also remind Nola not to get involved in this matter.

As for the Sovereign making small moves in my back garden, I must make the Sovereign pay the price. The territory of the Kingdom of Death tolerates no interference from outsiders.

First contact the Undead Archmage, find the souls of the dead Darkborn, make them confess the Sovereign’s location, and then find the Sovereign for a confrontation. The current Sovereign shouldn’t have fully recovered yet. Even I have the confidence to contend with him. If it really doesn’t work, I’ll call mother to teach him a lesson together. Although not to the extent of killing the Sovereign, I must make the Sovereign hand over the people related to the incident.

Thinking in her heart, Ruth landed on the ground where the rotting air drifted. Although she was an undead, except for her skin being overly pale, her appearance was no different from a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl among humans, and even a quite beautiful one at that. Surrounded by the elegance of a young miss all over, she sighed long.

“To repair such a large place, I don’t know how long it will take. If only I could invite that group of elves from the north over.”

Even if Ruth was a powerful individual about to step into the ninth rank, she couldn’t bypass the natural disadvantage of the undead. Undead couldn’t use nature magic and holy magic. If she wanted to restore the vitality of the soil, she could only transport vital soil from other places bit by bit, slowly changing the soil quality. Without a hundred years, it simply wouldn’t work.

Thinking of this, fire started to rise in her heart again.

A group of Darkborn unafraid of death, bold enough to touch the earth on my head.

“Oh my, isn’t this Miss Ruth?”

Suddenly, a young voice sounded on the rust-colored earth filled with the wind of death. The frivolous tone made Ruth frown, and a magnificent gray long spear appeared in her hand.

“Who?”

“Don’t be nervous. I’m not here to trouble Miss Ruth.”

The young man walked slowly to the opposite side, a dozen meters away from Ruth. He raised his hands as if surrendering. This young man was enveloped in dark red hideous armor, even his head covered by the helmet. Ruth didn’t know this person, but the other party could call out her name without fear. This fact alone was enough to explain a lot.

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This man isn’t afraid of me. He has absolute confidence in his own strength.

Trouble.

Ruth narrowed her eyes slightly, observing the young man’s flaws while quietly pulling distance from him.

“Who are you?”

“If your mother hasn’t been replaced yet, please say hello to her for me. If not for her holding the fort, the World Tree Continent would have been in chaos long ago,” like an old friend known for a long time, the young man smiled and put his hand on his chest to introduce himself. “As for my identity, just call me Wandering Knight. I like this name.”

“Not only know my name, but also know about the replacement. Darkborn? …One of the Seven Demon Generals? Or Absolute Evil?” Ruth looked neither humble nor arrogant toward one side of the sky, where the frozen Helian and Galil were. “Is this also your masterpiece? Although I haven’t met you, I’ve heard Absolute Evil and the Sovereign are on bad terms. I’m grateful for you driving away the thief breaking into my home, but can you please leave here? The Netherworld doesn’t welcome the living.”

“Oh my, guessed my identity so quickly. Worthy of being the daughter of the Queen of the Kingdom of Death. I only appeared here because of some things I didn’t understand, not wanting to stay long in Miss Ruth’s home.”

Saying this, the Wandering Knight walked unhurriedly to the edge of the cliff, his gaze looking into the sky under the abyss.

“I always knew the Sovereign had secrets in the Weeping Mountains, but I never thought it would be an experiment to bring Chaos to the ground. If I had found out earlier, I surely could have made the Sovereign jump with rage, wishing to come over and kill me immediately. Thinking of him smashing the table in anger, my heart feels very refreshed. Pity I came a step late and was beaten to it by someone else. Those two frozen ants in the air are not my work, but the masterpiece of two other monsters. Also, I advise Miss Ruth, you’d better not stay here all the time, otherwise it’s not impossible to be caught back by those two ladies as a pet one day.”

“Are you seeking death?”

Like throwing a lit torch onto an oil barrel, Ruth’s eyebrows twitched, and the long spear in her hand pointed straight at the Wandering Knight. Even if the other party was Absolute Evil, she couldn’t tolerate herself being joked about like this. She was an undying undead. Even if her soul was shattered, her mother had ways to save her.

The Wandering Knight tilted his head to an angle impossible for normal people.

“Oh my, oh my, Miss Ruth’s temper is actually so explosive. Not listening to my advice, you will definitely become the prisoner of those two ladies in the end. Those two people added together, even I feel it’s tricky. I think that group of gods must be anxious like ants on a hot pan now, maybe already starting to discuss how to unite to solve the Apocalypse.”

“I’m not interested in what you say. Get out of my territory!”

“Okay, okay, I’ll get out immediately,” as if comforting a child, the Wandering Knight chimed in with a smile. “But before getting out, I still have one thing unfinished. I’ll leave after I finish it.”

“You don’t have the qualifications to bargain with me.”

“Uh, aren’t you curious at all about what the Sovereign did in your home? For example, the fine earth suddenly becomes lifeless.”

Indeed very curious, but I don’t want to see you for even a second.

Ruth answered in her heart. The Wandering Knight gave her a quite ominous feeling, as if saying one more sentence was exceptionally dangerous. If not for the fact that she alone might not be the Wandering Knight’s match, she would have already used violence to push the Wandering Knight into the abyss with one spear thrust.

The Wandering Knight continued to speak on his own.

“They are utilizing Chaos, believing that as long as Chaos and the life of the World Tree Continent are combined into one, we can return to the original world. The Sovereign deceived all of us, using means to bring Chaos to the land. The result caused is Chaos polluting your back garden, making this place a barren land.”

“Madman.”

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“Correct, this is a madman’s idea, but I think it can be considered a choice. Chaos is endless; even I am not a match for Chaos. I don’t think we can stay stable forever. Survival of the fittest is an unavoidable truth. Choosing to become a higher-level life is the only way. Pity the Sovereign’s plan was destroyed only halfway through. So I thought, the remaining half will be completed by me. Let me personally witness whether today’s living beings can assimilate with Chaos, and see if I have fallen behind others in these ten thousand years—more importantly, this is very interesting.”

While speaking, the Wandering Knight reached his hand into the void. He took out a constantly wriggling, fist-sized object. If Fia were here, she would definitely recognize at a glance that this was a Chaos Seed similar to the Seed of Despair.

“Ugh.”

The hostility in Ruth’s eyes became even more intense. From the moment the Chaos Seed appeared, her non-existent heart tightened. As an undead, it was almost impossible for her to have this feeling. Therefore, when this feeling appeared, it meant things were exceptionally bad. White flames gathered on her gray long spear, and gray wings accelerating mana circulation unfolded behind her.

“Put your thing away! I only give you one chance, three—”

“It’s already too late, Miss Ruth. You are not my match.” Disregarding Ruth charging straight at him, the Wandering Knight let go of his hand, allowing the Chaos Seed to fall into the abyss. “It is this anxiety that makes it pleasant! Be more angry, hate me more! I am the incarnation of evil!”

Unmoved by the Wandering Knight’s words, Ruth pierced the long spear into Absolute Evil’s chest. But Absolute Evil’s chest was like turning into a mire; the entire spear tip sank into Absolute Evil’s body. Ruth found it exceptionally strenuous even to pull out the long spear.

“Tch!”

She simply abandoned the long spear and retreated violently. Following that were white butterflies filling most of the sky, flying up and down. The splendid and magnificent scene was comparable to a meteor shower. However, this was a high-tier magic bringing death and burning souls.

[Butterfly of Death Beyond the Shore]

Tens of thousands of butterflies flapped their wings and crashed toward Absolute Evil, but it didn’t alleviate the uneasiness in Ruth’s heart. She heard the crash-crash sound of countless slime flowing under the abyss. The weird sound made her feel uncomfortable all over, and her instinct also urged her to leave quickly. However, Absolute Evil was here; she couldn’t casually expose her back to a strong enemy, otherwise it would invite devastating consequences.

Almost simultaneously, the burning white butterflies crashed hard into Absolute Evil, and the cliff behind Absolute Evil also revealed its fangs to Ruth. The thing emitting the weird sound appeared impressively in her vision.

Even with Ruth’s strength at the peak of the eighth rank, her pupils couldn’t help constricting.

“What is all this…”

That was Chaos covering the sky and sun, a monstrous giant wave sufficient to destroy the entire Weeping Mountains.

Translator Note

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why i feel like the absolute evil is more cunning than the sovereign…