Chapter 2: New Century (Epilogue)
“This is probably not an easy task. Dealing with Felton, the Demon Lord of the first layer of the Abyss Plane, will be difficult.”
Qi Wub did not refuse the mission assigned by the Blue Star Will. As long as he was given a suitable reason and the mission had a possibility of completion, he would carry it out.
In any case, things couldn’t get any worse.
[This is not a problem. Demon Lord Felton is currently in a desperate situation himself.]
The Blue Star Will waved its hand, and an electromagnetic friction hum sounded. A highly technological electronic screen floated in the air before the two of them.
The screen displayed a majestic city. The city walls were about 20 meters high, predominantly crimson, and stretched for thousands of meters.
The walls were covered in uneven, extremely ferocious, and sharp spikes.
Upon closer inspection, one could see obsidian reliefs carved into the city walls.
Every 50 meters or so, there was a tall, spire-shaped building. At the top of each building was a statue of a broken-winged angel covering its face and crying, its surface mottled and rough as if corroded.
The angel held its hands over its face, but the eyes peeking through its fingers emitted a chilling red glow.
The image magnified and froze. The red light from the broken-winged angel’s eyes grew brighter. Then, with a “buzz,” the red light transformed into a fleeting beam. The scene shifted, showing the crimson beam instantly piercing through a grotesque, mountain-like, wriggling monster.
This monster was about 30 meters tall, seemingly formed from countless corpses haphazardly fused together. Its body was covered in various rotten parts of demons. It crawled by pushing itself forward with the wriggling of the countless arms and legs fused together beneath its swollen, obese belly.
Crimson blood flowed all over its body. This blood was thick and viscous, appearing to act as the adhesive for the corpses. Occasionally, demon faces would emerge from the blood, floating and sinking on the monster’s surface like worms or bubbles in wastewater.
One could see a long bloodstain stretching across the dark gray, rocky wasteland of the Demon Realm behind it, all the way to the end of the demonic mist.
However, this devastating attack did not kill the monster. It continued to advance towards the city walls with unwavering, albeit slow, determination.
Vaguely, one could see countless demons near the monster, rushing towards the city walls as if attending a festival. As the view zoomed in, Qi Wub gradually noticed that the demons’ condition seemed abnormal.
Demons were undeniably creatures of chaos and evil, yet most of them possessed a degree of reason. These demons charging towards the city walls, however, lacked any semblance of rationality. They were like marching ants, driven by greed and madness, piling upon each other like an acrobat’s pyramid to form steps of flesh and blood beneath the city walls of the Demonic King’s City.
More demons scaled the walls via this makeshift staircase. Ironically, despite having wings, they didn’t use them, as if their Demon Wings were merely decorative.
Even stranger was their gaze. Normal demons typically had crimson pupils, while higher-ranking demons usually had golden vertical pupils. But these demons were different. Their teeth were bared, their skin was pale, and their pupils were a pure black. A few bulging black veins formed a spiderweb pattern around their pitch-black eyes, exuding a chilling deathly stillness.
These demons were dead. Yet, they were “alive” in a peculiar way, resembling the zombies from modern movies.
Yes, zombies. The word popped into Qi Wub’s mind. Both their grotesque appearance and their method of attack were strikingly similar to the zombies in those post-apocalyptic films. Was there a biological crisis in the Western Fantasy world? And in the Abyss Plane, no less. Was this a case of fighting poison with poison?
Seeing the confusion and surprise on Qi Wub’s face, the Blue Star Will did not withhold information. It explained to Qi Wub:
[This is something created by the Cain Will. It analyzed Blue Star’s film and television works and used its own abilities to create something akin to a virus.]
A hint of envy could be detected in the Blue Star Will’s voice. Qi Wub, highly perceptive, caught it.
“Is it because its status is higher?”
[That’s right.] The Blue Star Will sighed. [My world is more imaginative than Cain’s. It can get many useful things from me. As long as it’s within its capability, it can manifest it. Therefore, it and I were unequal from the start. If its main will were not still dormant, I might not even be able to meddle in this Abyss.]
[It would rather drive me out.]
Qi Wub remained silent upon hearing this. In terms of world will power, Blue Star might not even be worthy of carrying Cain’s shoes. It was akin to a World War II veteran with outdated weapons facing a modern special forces recruit armed with high-tech weaponry. Now, the WWII veteran and the modern recruit were placed on the same battlefield. The only reason the veteran hadn’t been killed yet was that he had been playing defensively, while the recruit was still busy familiarizing himself with his weapons.
He did not care about the conflict between world wills. He only wanted to save his sister. He wanted his sister to live happily, to stand up again, to run and jump like a normal person. To achieve this, he had to save Blue Star.
“I understand,” Qi Wub nodded.
Currently, Demon Lord Felton of the first layer of the Abyss Plane was engaged in a fierce battle with the virus-demon legion created by the King of Winter. Felton had no time to attend to other matters happening in the territories under his command. Previously, when Qi Wub led the Abyss Players in attacking many of Felton’s smaller cities, they only attacked and did not occupy them. This was because they were unsure if they could survive the reinforcements from Lord Felton. Once their resurrection points were exposed, they would be trapped like turtles in a jar, and worse, they might be captured for various experiments.
But now, everything was different. With Lord Felton occupied, he could openly lead the Abyss Corrupted Player to occupy the cities under Lord Felton’s command, build his own forces, and achieve faster development. As for those virus demons, since the Blue Star Will said nothing, it meant that the virus posed no threat to them, the Abyss Players. It was understandable. After all, the virus’s blueprint originated from Blue Star, and they were originally from Blue Star. The Blue Star Will was intimately familiar with these things. It only required slight adjustments to his and the Corrupted Player’s bodies to make them immune to the virus.
[Excellent.] The Blue Star Will was very pleased with Qi Wub’s decisiveness. Qi Wub’s recent plans had all gone smoothly. Compared to that useless Ye Hao, Qi Wub was indeed well-suited to be a leader.
[In a week, more players will join you. I hope that by then, you will have enough territory to accommodate them.]
“Roughly how many people?” Qi Wub stretched his massive Gluttonous One body. After a series of contortions, his body gradually shrunk, returning to human form. His gaze then fell upon the Blue Star Will.
[Twenty thousand.]
