Volume 1, Chapter 95 – The Undead Kingdom

In an unknown countryside, among the retreating forces from the Northern Fortress, aside from the remaining NPCs of the Stronghold and Kingdom factions, a large number of players were also following along.

With the fortress fallen, the entire NPC army was reduced to a broken, demoralized remnant.

In such a state of low morale, this defeated NPC army desperately needed the help of players.

Thus, after the battle at the Northern Fortress, non-undead players from both the Kingdom and the Stronghold factions simultaneously received a quest titled 【Protect the Retreating Forces to a Safe Location】.

Night had already fallen.

Because they were retreating, the army chose a secluded forest to make camp for the night.

Through the thick canopy above, faint starlight filtered down between the leaves, scattering gently over the ground.

In an inconspicuous corner of the encampment, a silver-haired young girl sat quietly, staring blankly at the patches of starlight on the ground.

“Samael? Are you there?”

Although the corner was hidden, the girl still didn’t want anyone else to notice her strange behavior, so she spoke very softly.

“Samael?”

“What is it? Do you need something from me?”

At her call, a clear, pleasant girl’s voice echoed within her mind.

“If you want to talk to me, you can just call me in your thoughts. Why go out of your way to find a quiet place like this?”

Even though she wasn’t currently controlling Tianyin’s body, Samael seemed fully aware of her surroundings.

“Wuu… sorry, I forgot about that…”

The girl blinked her wide eyes blankly, replying in a daze.

“Well, I already said you don’t need to speak out loud. Just talk to me through your mind.”

“Got it~”

Answering cheerfully, the girl, Tianyin, focused her thoughts and began communicating with Samael mentally.

“Oh right, Samael, after using the Seven Deadly Sins ability today, why is it under a full day of cooldown? It’s supposed to be a passive skill, isn’t it?”

That was the first thing Tianyin asked once she focused her mind. She wanted to understand the strange cooldown of her skill after defeating the Frost Dragon.

“A whole day of downtime, huh? Well, that’s not surprising. After all, it is one of the Seven Original Sins. Given your current strength, Xiaoyin, you’re still far from being able to fully wield it~”

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“Eh… So that’s how it is?”

Tianyin couldn’t hide the disappointment in her voice.

If she could stay in that powerful state all the time, maybe… maybe when Xiaobingxue was still here… she could have helped her…

Shaking her head, Tianyin pushed away the thought and looked up at the dim stars visible through the canopy above.

“Hey… Samael.”

“What is it?”

“Samael… for the Seven Original Sins… how can I completely use their powers? For example, yours, Wrath?”

“Hm… that’s something even I don’t know. Even though I’m a manifestation of Wrath, I’m still just a Sin myself…”

What Tianyin wanted to know was how to use the power of Wrath while remaining in control of her own mind.

But Samael’s answer was simple: as a Sin, she only knew how to use her own power, not how to make Tianyin wield it herself.

“I see…”

Tianyin murmured faintly.

“Then, Samael… since you’re Wrath… why didn’t I feel your anger during the battle today?”

“Pfft… I already told you, didn’t I? Wrath isn’t about being angry. I use the power of Wrath, but I’m not ruled by wrathful emotions. In fact, when someone else is enraged, I can draw power from their anger~”

“You can draw power from other people’s wrath?”

“That’s right.”

“I see… Then, Samael, since you’re one of the Seven Original Sins, do you know about the others?”

Tianyin was curious. Since Wrath existed as a conscious being, the other Sins must have their own histories as well.

“What? Are you planning to gather all seven together?”

Samael couldn’t help but tease upon hearing the question.

“No, nothing like that. I’m just curious. I wanted to know if the other Sins also did something impressive, like you did. Can you tell me?”

She was simply asking out of curiosity. She had no strong desire to gather the Seven Sins. Having Samael alone already felt like more than enough, at least, once her level grew higher.

“Well… I don’t know much about the others. But I do remember one of them, Pride~”

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“Pride?”

There was indeed a Sin of Pride among the Seven Deadly Sins. Hearing Samael suddenly bring her up, Tianyin perked her small ears, holding her breath as she listened intently.

“The Sanctuary once had several Throne-level beings. Aside from the Heavenly Father, there were also several Holy Archangels. And among them, one of the most powerful was the Fallen Angel Lucifer, who later descended into the Abyss.”

“Lucifer… don’t tell me…”

Hearing that, Tianyin widened her eyes in surprise.

“That’s right~ The story says Lucifer was lured down by the Lord of the Abyss. But I know the truth. She wasn’t lured, but she went willingly.”

“She…?”

Tianyin immediately caught onto the pronoun. Her instincts told her Lucifer wasn’t male at all.

“Yes~ Lucifer was actually a girl, just like me. And she was the embodiment of Pride, one of the Seven Original Sins.”

“Eh…”

Tianyin was left speechless. The Sin of Pride being Lucifer was already shocking enough, but Lucifer being a girl?

From the name alone, she’d always assumed Lucifer was a guy!

“Haha, strange, isn’t it? But really, Lucifer’s a girl~”

“Lucifer… is a girl…”

It took a long while for Tianyin to slowly come to terms with that fact.

“Well then… if Lucifer’s a girl, could it be… all the other Sins are girls too?”

She suddenly thought of that possibility. Since Pride was female, maybe the rest were as well.

“That… I’m not really sure.”

The answer was vague and uncertain.

“Alright… guess that’s that then.”

No point in pressing further if Samael didn’t know.

“Xiaoyin, you came all the way out here not just to ask these boring questions, didn’t you?”

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“Wuu…”

Samael’s words made Tianyin’s breath catch.

“I… I…”

She couldn’t find the right words. She just felt a hollow emptiness deep within her heart.

“I…”

“You didn’t really come to ask about the Sins, did you? You want to ask about Xiaobingxue, right?”

That was indeed the truth. From the very beginning, Tianyin had wanted to ask about Bingxue.

She just hadn’t known how to bring it up.

“Mm…”

After a long silence, Tianyin finally spoke softly.

“I want to know, Samael… is there any way to bring Xiaobingxue back?”

By now, Tianyin had been forced to accept that Bingxue was merely a false persona, something born from Ysera’s subconscious when the Frost Dragon was suppressed by the will of the world after forcibly entering the Main World.

Samael had explained that unlike other Thrones of the Graveyard who arrived via proper Gates of Planes, Ysera had forcefully torn her way into this world, thus the will of the world had tried to restrain her, resulting in the creation of Bingxue’s false consciousness.

“That’s your question?”

At Tianyin’s words, Samael’s voice paused briefly.

“For now, there’s no way… but in the future…”

The future…

……

Outside the valley near the Northern Fortress, the Undead Grand Duke Sargus had already stepped through a Gate of Planes forged entirely from bone, entering this world.

And accompanying Sargus were the pinnacle beings of the entire Graveyard faction.

The True Ancestor of Vampires, the eternal girl Lilith.

The first Ghoul, and the King of Ghouls.

The Lich King, Kersu.

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The Headless Knight, the Nightmare Knight, the Death Knight, and the Dread Knight.

The Gargoyle Colossus, the Obsidian Destroyer, the Banshee Queen, the Dread Screamer, and the Crypt Spider Queen…

Countless red-ranked and orange-ranked Throne and Transcendent-level beings stood assembled together in silence, gathered around the man wielding the Frost Sword, the leader of the Graveyard, the Undead Grand Duke, Sargus.

“Ysera… regarding your success in locating the key site of the Gate of Planes in the Main World, you have done well.”

Sargus’s deep and commanding voice echoed as the eyes hidden beneath his armor glowed faintly with satisfaction.

“Father, but… I was defeated on the battlefield…”

“That, I already know. But such an existence… is still far too insignificant in the eyes of the Graveyard.”

As soon as Sargus finished, his stern gaze swept across the countless undead assembled before him.

“From this moment on, our strategy is to take the Northern Fortress as our base of operations and begin our advance outward. Our objective… is to establish, here in the Main World…”

“Our Undead Kingdom!”

Translator Note

Trick or treat! Happy Halloween! But… Where is the sweet candy?!

Uwaaahh!

The blank sheet girl Bingxue is no more…!

I was wrong…! This is not a cheerful novel at all…!

But! But! I won’t stop translating this novel!

Because I don’t believe this is a sad novel! There must be an ending somewhere in later volumes where Bingxue is back to the Blood Knight lolis group!

Right…?

Anyway~! This is the end of volume 1!