Volume 4, Chapter 0.2 – Prologue (Part 2)

Beneath the Lingyuan family’s safe house,

At this moment, Miss Zao Li, who served as a Divine-Graced Maiden of the Westivian Covenant, had been brutally tormented by Suyu. Her hands and feet had their meridians and bones shattered, and the main channels used for circulating Augury Force had been pierced through by Suyu’s specially-made Soul-binding runes, leaving Zao Li completely unable to mobilize her Augury Force, much less use this power to heal her wounds. Now Zao Li was covered in wounds all over her body, her face stained with blood, and her originally beautiful black long hair had become no different from a pile of weeds.

Her previous perfect image as a Divine-Graced Maiden had long since vanished – she was as wretched as could be.

“Cough cough cough!”

Accompanied by a series of miserable, weak coughs, Zao Li was mercilessly thrown into the corner by Suyu.

Looking at this expressionless mechanical girl, there was no fighting spirit whatsoever in Zao Li’s eyes – only unprecedented unease and fear.

As a Divine-Graced Maiden, Zao Li naturally possessed certain abilities. Although her raw strength might only be at mid-tier Divine Departure Realm, even against peak Divine Departure Realm opponents, Zao Li had the power to fight. After all, Augury Force was quite a formidable power, and Zao Li herself possessed the special ability to control others’ bodies.

However, due to bad luck, Zao Li had directly encountered Suyu, who had extremely poor compatibility with her.

Against Suyu, this ancient Shenluo weapon with an entirely mechanical simulated structure, Zao Li’s abilities had no effect whatsoever. Thus, this Divine-Graced Maiden of the Westivian Covenant was unsurprisingly beaten down by Suyu.

So much so that now, upon seeing this mechanical maid, Zao Li was frightened to the point of trembling all over.

However, very soon,

Zao Li discovered an even more terrifying and despairing fact.

Namely, she seemed to have been captured and brought to a strange space, and this space was filled with Corrupted Beasts…

At this moment, behind Suyu, one after another monster emanating violent aura and terrifying curse power, with hideous faces, slowly surged forward, surrounding her.

Feeling that bone-chilling bloodthirsty killing intent and hearing those spine-tingling low growls, Zao Li’s body couldn’t help but tremble frantically.

Cor-Corrupted Beasts?

Why, why would there be Corrupted Beasts here?!

As a Divine-Graced Maiden without much combat experience, Zao Li actually hadn’t had much contact with Corrupted Beasts.

At most, she had seen some low-tier Corrupted Beasts kept in cages when in the capital. Being surrounded and stared at by so many Crimson Hex Tier monsters was a first in Zao Li’s life.

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The instinctual fear deep in her heart was suddenly drawn out at this moment. She trembled continuously while backing away, directly curling up in the corner.

“No, no! You, you monsters! Don’t, don’t come over!! Why, why are there Corrupted Beasts here?!”

Zao Li shrieked in terror and somewhat hysterically.

Obviously, Zao Li had some idea of what would happen to a powerless Divine-Graced Maiden after falling among a pack of Corrupted Beasts.

However, just as Zao Li was shrieking in terror, a voice carrying chilling coldness quietly drifted into Zao Li’s ears. Along with the voice came an aura of violent curse power symbolizing peak Vassal Tier.

“So noisy. You’re supposed to be an Augury Maiden – can’t you have a bit more courage? Keep making noise and believe it or not, I’ll directly rip out your tongue?!”

“…”

After hearing these threatening words, Zao Li’s entire body trembled. She hurriedly raised her hand to cover her mouth and fearfully looked beside Suyu toward the black cat that had appeared at some unknown time.

“A cat?… No, a vassal?!”

“Not bad, not stupid.”

The black cat coldly muttered.

Toward a Divine-Graced Maiden, especially one who had attempted to infiltrate the safe house and threaten the twins, the black cat naturally wouldn’t give her a pleasant expression.

As the words left her mouth, gray-gold lightning enveloped the black cat. Then, the black cat visibly transformed within the lightning into a tall, seductive gray-haired woman with cat ears.

Gazing at the cat-eared woman before her, Zao Li couldn’t help but gasp.

She probably never would have dreamed,

That the pet black cat from the room earlier would actually be a Vassal Tier monster?

Terrabond Lineage? Gray lightning?

Serveiling?!

“Why, why are you at the Lingyuan family?! And, and what is this place?!”

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“Why am I at the Lingyuan family? That’s not something you should be concerned about.”

Serveiling said quite disdainfully.

“As for what this place is? I can only say… a dining hall.”

“Din-dining hall?”

“Yes, a place where Corrupted Beasts eat.”

“?!!”

As this answer reached her ears, Zao Li’s expression immediately changed drastically, her fearful expression evident. As if imagining herself being torn apart and devoured by Corrupted Beasts, Zao Li’s body trembled frantically.

The ground beneath her became soaked through.

After taking in this shameful scene from the Divine-Graced Maiden, Serveiling playfully raised an eyebrow and let out a contemptuous laugh.

“Hehe.”

In fact,

Sister Cat wasn’t lying.

Back when they first came to the Lingyuan family, to prevent the Vassals of Sky army from reaching Wishaven, Sister Cat and Octopus Sister had created a massive space beneath the Lingyuan family’s basement, hiding large numbers of Terrabond Lineage Corrupted Beasts here for emergency use.

The hidden Corrupted Beasts naturally also took care of their meals here~

However, in a certain sense,

This vast space could also be considered a good place for interrogation.

Thus,

After taking a deep breath, Serveiling directly crouched in front of Zao Li, unceremoniously reaching out to grab her chin and forcibly pull her up from the ground:

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“If you don’t want to be eaten as a snack, then honestly answer my questions…”

As Serveiling’s interrogation began,

The crowd of Corrupted Beasts behind her very cooperatively revealed their massive bloody maws, directly maximizing the psychological pressure on Zao Li.

Under this oppression, this Divine-Graced Maiden was directly frightened into wetting herself while nodding.

“I, I… I know, I know!! I’ll answer, I’ll answer! I’ll tell you everything!”

“What’s your relationship with the people from Paradise Manor?”

“Huh? Para-Paradise Manor?”

A trace of confusion flashed in Zao Li’s eyes.

Seeing this, a trace of displeasure flashed in Serveiling’s eyes.

“Still pretending? I mean those red-robed people who came in with you!”

“Ah? Them… I, I’m not very familiar with them… Those people were just sent by Lord Duan to help me.”

“Lord Duan?”

After hearing this name, a glint flashed in Serveiling’s eyes.

“So what’s your relationship with him?”

“Lord Duan, he… Lord Duan is…”

“Confess honestly, don’t think about hiding anything. Otherwise these children will get an extra meal.”

Saying this, Serveiling coldly glanced at the increasingly excited pack of Corrupted Beasts around them.

“No, no… don’t feed me to them, I, I’ll tell you…”

Although Zao Li didn’t want to expose too much information about her benefactor, under the threat of death, she didn’t hesitate much before nodding repeatedly.

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“Lord Duan is, is my benefactor.”

“Benefactor?”

“Yes, if Lord Duan hadn’t brought me to this world, I wouldn’t have my current status and wealth…”

“Brought you to this world?”

Serveiling’s beautiful brows furrowed, her gaze becoming increasingly sharp.

“You mean, you’re also not from this world?”

Hearing this,

After a brief silence, Zao Li fearfully nodded:

“Yes, I’m not lying to you. I really do come from another world…”

As the words left her mouth, Zao Li’s thoughts quietly returned to several years ago.

“Your name is Zao Li, right?”

“Yes, wh-what’s wrong, sir?”

Looking at the purple-haired man in expensive suit and sunglasses before her, who was enjoying delicious coffee, the black-haired girl holding a tray and preparing to head to the back kitchen couldn’t help but frown.

She seemed unable to understand why this wealthy young master-like existence would suddenly call out to her, a poor student working part-time.

And the purple-haired man’s next words left Zao Li completely stunned.

“Miss, would you like to change your fate? Go to another world and become a saint?”

Zao Li: ??!!