Volume 4, Chapter 42 – Descent

The power of Pride in Lucifa’s body went out of control once again at that moment.

This time, the power of Pride that surged out, whether it was Tianyin or Samael, both sensed that something was wrong.

「Xiaoyin, hurry and activate the Seven Original Sins!」

『Got it!』

Without stopping to think, Tianyin immediately activated the power of the Seven Original Sins.

Her black pupils turned into a deep violet. The instant the power of the Seven Original Sins was activated, the rampaging power of Pride that had just been sweeping out went still all at once, like a mouse running into a cat.

However, although she had easily resolved the crisis, Tianyin still noticed that in just those few seconds just now, her maximum HP had been heavily reduced.

“Whew… my HP maximum actually got forcibly cut down… why does the power of Pride have such a bizarre ability?”

She let out a soft sigh, and in Tianyin’s field of vision, the source of the rampage of Pride’s power, Lucifa, had already at some unknown time fallen into unconsciousness.

「Xiaoyin… it looks like Lucifa absolutely cannot cure Yeluo. Relying on Lucifa’s Pride to save Yeluo’s life… maybe we should stop thinking about that altogether?」

『No… that’s not right… Lucifa can save Sister Yeluo, I am sure of that.』

Tianyin shook her head, rejecting Samael’s suggestion, and at the same time walked up to Lucifa, picking the petite girl up into her arms.

「It did have some effect just now. But Xiaoyin, relying on Lucifa to save Yeluo is completely a method where the harm far outweighs the benefit. Also, if you still insist on having Lucifa save Yeluo… Yeluo might really end up dying completely in the next rampage…」

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What Samael said was not to scare Tianyin but a solid, grounded deduction.

『I know… but in this world it really is only Pride that can save Sister Yeluo… Samael, you really need to believe me on this…』

There was absolutely no way the System’s suggestion was wrong.

Tianyin knew the System’s temperament very well. Whatever the System told her was one hundred percent true. However… what other twisted hobbies the System had hidden inside that truth… that was something Tianyin had no idea about at all.

“Maybe she really just isn’t used to it yet… Although I don’t know why Lucifa, the Lord of Pride, doesn’t have very good control over her own power, we can only wait for her to get fully used to her own power…”

To be honest, this operation of having Lucifa save Yeluo’s life… had undoubtedly failed.

But… Right now Tianyin had no way at all to deal with the problem she was facing. Other than Lucifa, who possessed the power of Pride, Yeluo, whose life had been forcibly stripped away by the Seven Original Sins… could not be saved by ordinary methods at all.

Setting the Lucifa in her arms down beside the bed, Tianyin carefully tidied up the bedding on Yeluo’s bed that had been thrown into disarray by the rampaging power of Pride.

Only after she once more pulled the quilt up over Yeluo’s body did Tianyin gently pick the still-unconscious Lucifa up into her arms again.

『Samael… next we just need to wait for Lucifa to master the power of Pride properly. Even though Sister Yeluo’s condition right now isn’t very good, she should still be able to hold on for a while, right?』

「There actually isn’t much time left… if we do not make a move within a month, then Yeluo really will not be able to be saved.」

In her mind… Samael let out a small sigh.

With that sigh, Tianyin’s mood also grew unbearably heavy.

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Who would have thought that something which had clearly looked like it was about to be perfectly resolved… would in the end reach a conclusion that was no different from failure?

“Sister Yeluo… can she really be saved?”

Thinking of that rampage of Pride’s power just now, of that indiscriminate attack that could even injure Lucifa… Tianyin could not help feeling worried.

……

While Tianyin was holding the unconscious Lucifa, preparing to go rest, on the other side, those players whom Mihiel had killed were also resurrecting in their own territories.

As the one who was closest and also the first to be killed, Fanster naturally resurrected first at the respawn point he had set.

“Damn it, damn it… NPCs… NPCs think they are so great, huh!”

Right now, because he had been killed by Mihiel for no reason at all before he could even begin to explain, Fanster was throwing a complete tantrum in his Lord’s Hall.

“You’re all idiots, not a single one of you is useful… I got killed and none of you knew to move in? Why did every last one of you panic and run back?”

Looking at the dozens of high-ranking players under him, all people with names and faces attached, Fanster felt that these people were just a bunch of completely useless trash.

After all, in critical moments, they could not step up at all.

“Lord… it’s not that we didn’t want to move in… it’s that their Legendary-tier was just too ruthless… with one exchange, a few thousand brothers at the front line were already sent back to the fountain… we are not their match at all…”

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One of the players explained with a helpless face.

“Bullcrap. I don’t believe it. There are a million players… even if each of you chipping away only takes one point of HP from the other side, after fighting a battle like that you could still grind them to death, right?”

“Lord, you really can’t say it like that… a Legendary-tier isn’t the sort of person who just stands there and lets you hit them… they dodge attacks as well, Lord, what you are saying is way too idealistic…”

“So what you are saying is that you are all completely useless to me!”

Every time he thought of how he had been the very first one to be instantly killed, Fanster felt his dignity vanish.

The more he thought about it, the more the fire in Fanster’s heart grew.

He was at least a big shot among the players in this region… getting instantly killed in front of so many players… was truly one of the great humiliations of his life.

“I don’t want to hear any more pointless excuses. One thing. Next I want you to come up with a way to deal with Dawn. Not only that, I also want you to find out where those Fallen Angels from Inferno went. Next time, whether it is Dawn or the Fallen Angels, I do not want to let a single one of them go!”

“T-This…”

Hearing Fanster’s words, the players present all showed troubled looks.

At that moment, high above Fanster’s territory, a massive teleportation array suddenly appeared.

“Lord, Lord! This is bad! This is bad!”

The NPC guards who discovered the teleportation array immediately rushed to find Fanster.

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“What could possibly have you in such a panic?”

Fanster had not been in a good mood to begin with. Seeing the NPC under him, who had always been loyal and dutiful, lose his composure like this, he could not help but feel a flicker of nameless anger.

“Lord… a teleportation array… a teleportation array has appeared in the sky!”

“Ah? What? A teleportation array?”

He might have been fine if he had not heard the soldier’s words, but the moment he did, Fanster’s face instantly went deathly pale.

“Damn it… those Fallen Angels aren’t planning to come cause trouble for me, are they? I mean, they already killed me once. They are still coming?”

The instant he heard the word teleportation array, Fanster instinctively thought of those Fallen Angels who had crushed his million-player army in one blow.

“Rooaaar—”

Just as Fanster was at a loss for what to do, the teleportation array hanging in the sky over his territory suddenly shone with a dazzling light.

In the next moment… a gigantic Black Dragon that spanned the sky, its body incomparably huge, almost blocking out the heavens and covering the sun, descended from the teleportation array, carrying an immense pressure.

“Roar… I, Black Dragon King Xingousa, have returned!”