Volume 4, Chapter 49 – Dragon of the End

As the one in charge of managing all of Dawn’s operations, and with Dawn currently in its peak development period, the workload in Xingyu Muxi’s hands was extremely heavy.

Of course, after Tianyin came back, Xingyu Muxi still immediately put down what she was doing. Once she roughly understood Lucifa’s identity from Tianyin, she went back to devoting herself in earnest to “work.”

Of course.

In her off time from work, Xingyu Muxi also kept an eye on the player forum for news, since with how players loved to drag everything onto the forum to talk about, it was entirely possible that Xingyu Muxi might really find some useful information there.

“Ah… it is all threads talking about Xiaoyin. Looks like Xiaoyin is really popular…”

As she scrolled through the top ranked threads on the forum, every single one of them was a discussion thread about Dawn’s Throne-tier loli Tianyin.

Naturally, there was a reason for that. Tianyin’s strength was right there in plain sight, and on top of that there was her adorable loli appearance, plus how she had once in the middle of the battlefield in front of everyone… mm, kissed someone. An NPC like that in the entire Second World, it would be strange if she was not popular.

“But… this feels way too deliberate…”

After flipping through the first several threads that did not really have anything concrete in them, the girl faintly sensed that something was off.

“It is way too deliberate… Why are all the threads on the forum about Xiaoyin?”

After she kept flipping through page after page, Xingyu Muxi’s originally relaxed mood grew heavy.

“The forum is basically the best place for the newest information to spread, but… the first several pages are all just discussions about Xiaoyin… that is way too suspicious…”

Her slender eyebrows knitted slightly and the girl continued browsing the forum.

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Further back at last a thread that was not about Tianyin appeared in her field of view.

“Inferno’s invasion”

A very short thread.

But the name Inferno immediately made Xingyu Muxi sense something was wrong. When she clicked it open, she was startled to see that the poster was a player with the ID Fanster.

“It is him…”

Xingyu Muxi did remember this ID Fanster a little. After all, he had once been on the forum yelling that he was going to trample his way through Dawn. Naturally, Xingyu Muxi had never taken this kind of smalltime clown seriously.

However…

“Eighteen Legendary demons appeared above the territory, along with a Throne tier Black Dragon King…”

“Demons… Black Dragon King…”

Murmuring under her breath, Xingyu Muxi instinctively linked these beings that had come from Inferno with the Lord of Pride Lucifa.

After all, in the timing described in Fanster’s post, the demons had descended only a little later than the Fallen Angels.

So it was not hard to see what these guys’ purpose for descending on the Main World was.

“Lucifa’s backup plan… or is the target actually Lucifa?”

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Both possibilities could work. But having only met Lucifa once and knowing nothing at all about what she was like as a person, Xingyu Muxi’s thoughts leaned more toward these demons and the Black Dragon King being Lucifa’s backup. After all, Lucifa was, at the end of the day, Inferno’s Lord of Pride.

But… if that was the case, then Lucifa coming along with Tianyin to the Main World must mean she had other intentions too.

“Of course… it is still possible that these beings’ goal is Lucifa herself…”

After Xingyu Muxi quickly skimmed through Fanster’s tearful post, she gave a brief moment of silence for the destruction of Fanster’s territory and at the same time the unease in her heart grew stronger and stronger.

“This will not do… tomorrow I have to log in and talk to Xiaoyin… and also call Fisiel and Fischerna back…”

Night was drawing late. Although Xingyu Muxi very much wanted to log into the game right now to arrange things, the in-game world was also in the middle of the night at this hour, and Tianyin was most likely already asleep. So after hesitating for a moment, Xingyu Muxi decided she would just log in earlier tomorrow morning.

“It should still be in time.”

After all, only three days had passed since Tianyin came back, and up to now Xingyu Muxi had not received any report from the Beastman army on the border that they had spotted any sign of a demon army.

……

And at this very moment.

On the Kingdom’s side, the delicate faced youth was using the light of a magic lamp to focus intently on reading the history of the development of all the nations within the Kingdom.

Just then, right in front of the youth, the void suddenly split open, and one twisted tentacle after another stretched out from within.

“Hahahahahahahahaha… such an interesting outsider… I received your invitation. Tonight, I, the Abyssal Lord, have come as promised.”

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A laugh of complete madness rang out and after the laughter faded, the owner of the tentacles announced its own name.

The Abyssal Lord of Inferno.

Yet even though he already knew that the being speaking from the void before him was a Throne-tier Abyssal Lord, there was no trace of panic on the youth’s face.

Not only that, the look in his eyes stayed perfectly calm.

“Let us get straight to the point… Abyssal Lord of Inferno, the reason I invited you this time is in fact because I want to make a deal with you.”

“A deal? Hahahahahahahahaha… now this is interesting. This is the first time I have seen such a weak little existence who opens by directly proposing a deal with me.”

The Abyssal Lord laughed loudly, not caring at all whether that laughter would be heard by the people outside.

“What is the matter… Abyssal Lord, do you not want to hear what the contents of my deal are?”

“Outsider, you have successfully caught my interest already, so… I am very curious about this deal you speak of…”

“Abyssal Lord, my deal is actually very straightforward.”

The youth lifted his eyes slightly.

“My goal is very clear. I want to understand the nature of the Abyss and obtain the power of the Abyss. Before that… I can let you witness the End.”

“Hahahahahahahahaha… interesting outsider… Do you even know that the power of the Abyss is me. If you want the power of the Abyss, that is no different from wanting to kill me. You think I would agree to your deal on that point alone? Hahahahahahahahaha”

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“No… you will agree.”

The youth did not panic in the slightest at the Abyssal Lord’s retort.

“The power of the End is the thing you most want to lay eyes on, is it not? Once, you were the vessel meant to bear the End, only to be personally denied that identity as a vessel by the Creation Dragon God. At the same time, you are also the Dragon of the End, stronger than all the various Dragon Kings.”

“Abyssal Lord… to be honest, I understand your true identity better than anyone. During the last Inferno invasion of the Main World several hundred thousand years ago, that girl who walked the Main World in the form of a young maiden… that was your true body, was it not?”

Silence.

After the youth said these things, the Abyssal Lord on the other side suddenly fell silent.

After a long time, the twisted tentacles vanished. In their place was a girl of peerless beauty.

“To think… just a mere outsider…”

A girl’s voice rang out. The girl gazed at the calm faced youth before her with a deep, distant look.

“From the founding of the Abyss until now, I have never revealed my identity as the Dragon of the End… yet somehow… an outsider like you actually knows…”

“Interesting. Your deal… I, the Abyssal Lord, will provisionally accept it.”