Chapter 914
Fallen Heavenly Envoy Descends
Eivass was a very suitable listener.
Under his focused gaze, Zhu Tang became more animated as he spoke: “My precious daughter dotes on me the most, is most like me, and also has a fiery temper. She was already at the point of marriage engagement. As she is considered half an outsider, she wasn’t included when I was exiled this time… I also know that the young man pursuing her has good intentions. He saw that Her Majesty was very angry this time and was worried that my daughter would be implicated, so he wanted her to break off ties with me and change her name, even finding a highly respected elder to adopt her as a goddaughter.
“As a result, this directly angered her—she didn’t hit or scold anyone, just slammed the door and came back. No matter how I persuaded her, she wouldn’t go back; no matter what I said, as long as it touched on this topic, she would pretend not to hear anything, truly having the same temper as me…”
As Zhu Tang spoke, his face subconsciously revealed a proud smile.
But the smile had just appeared when it turned somber again.
He paused in silence for a moment, then sighed: “I’ve really implicated her. This time, if I don’t return, Her Majesty will probably think I’ve defected. After all, as soon as I entered the Ancient Kingdom of Anxi, I quickly lost contact and disappeared.
“And that place was originally supposed to be my place of exile. Although the restrictions on me were very lenient… they even allowed me to cross national borders to visit Anxi for festivals—in essence, I am still a banished official…”
“I don’t think it will go that far.”
Eivass comforted Zhu Tang: “Since you said so, your Majesty is always angry with you but has never carried out any serious punishment against you. Even if you were exiled, you would be recalled before long… So I think he should know your temperament and character.
“He should at least have the patience to send people to investigate… After all, you are a minister, probably. And the commotion you caused in Anxi was not small; a little inquiry would reveal it. Perhaps he is already trying to find a way to bring you back.”
“…Then I should really go back as soon as possible.”
Zhu Tang sighed: “Otherwise, it would be terrible if a war were to break out because of a small figure like me.”
It sounds like your value is quite high…
Eivass thought.
But it’s normal. Although Zhu Tang is only a Fourth Tier Transcendent, he has too many miscellaneous and high-end abilities… This inheritance system, at least, requires reading three Grimoires. And with his age and talent, he even has hope of reaching the Fifth Tier…
Before the Ouroboros Ring ritual began, the Fifth Tier was truly a top-tier powerhouse in the world.
Just as Eivass was thinking this.
He suddenly felt a violent tremor from the ground—
He felt a strong impact, which abruptly stopped the conversation between Eivass and Zhu Tang.
The glass teacups on the stone table collided with each other, making crisp sounds. Ripples spread across the water in the cups.
“Is it an earthquake?”
Eivass was startled, his eyes widening in fear, and he held his breath.
This level of earthquake awakened some unpleasant memories for him…
Immediately afterward, an even stronger impact followed—
The glass cups on the table began to shake violently, and cries of alarm came from within the villa. The sky in the southwest turned an almost seductive deep purple.
Eivass and Zhu Tang simultaneously felt a chill run down their spines. A strong desire to transcend, like a giant centipede crawling up their spines, pricked them with venomous needles step by step along their vertebrae. Their backs tingled as if something were about to grow.
At this moment, the purple sky in the distance continued to spread, almost blocking the sunset from the west, causing night to fall prematurely.
At the edge of the night, the clouds transformed into swaying tails like tentacles. Rumbling thunder could also be heard from that direction.
“What… what happened?!”
Zhu Tang exclaimed.
He glanced at Eivass, only to find Eivass completely frozen in place—not only due to the fear of the strong earthquake but also because the Mark of Sin had appeared on his body.
Eivass was doing his utmost to resist the power that was shaking him. The reaction on Eivass was much stronger than on Zhu Tang.
Zhu Tang gritted his teeth and turned his head back.
Although his premonition told him not to open his eyes at this moment—he desperately wanted to know what was happening in the distance.
Eivass was not only his employer but also the Pope of the Church and his friend!
He had to see!
The moment Zhu Tang opened his eyes, he let out a scream.
He tightly shut his eyes, and two streams of bloody tears flowed down his cheeks.
However, he did see—
“Fallen Heavenly Envoy, it’s a Fallen Heavenly Envoy!”
Zhu Tang shouted loudly, his voice even cracking with terror: “That’s the Fallen Heavenly Envoy who just attacked us—”
That was absolutely impossible.
—How could a Heavenly Envoy, a celestial god, appear on the ground?
But he couldn’t help it; he saw it clearly. In the distance, an incredibly vast mass of purple energy gathered into a ball, its scale comparable to a mountain range.
The sky there looked like a piece of cheese with countless holes—or perhaps crawling with maggots.
Countless powerful demons emerged from those holes.
—Those were all Phantom Demons from the Dream Realm!
Originally, they had to sign a contract with a person to enter the Material Realm under the constraint of that contract. The essence of this matter was like a priest invoking an Apostle to descend through prayer.
And under normal circumstances, like other Phantom Demons in the Dream Realm, they could not enter the Material Realm.
After all, things in dreams can only exist in dreams.
But now the sky above the Star Antimony Kingdom… was as crowded as a steam train returning home.
When Zhu Tang was exiled, he had already experienced this. It was like stuffing minced meat into a sausage casing, watching it gradually bulge, and still having to force more inside.
And the sky at this moment was like extruding strips of minced meat from that shaking meat grinder. Each strip was a demon of various sizes appearing in a queue—and each demon was a sinful soul that had been branded.
The entire sky was filled with these “minced meats,” and countless demons filled the sky, like a locust plague—
At this moment, Eivass gradually regained consciousness.
He had been concentrating on resisting the sudden tenfold-plus surge of depraved desire within him—a power that could have driven him mad and caused him to fall into a demon on the spot.
But because he had endured a transformation in the Sky-Piercing Tower once, Eivass managed to hold on with his willpower this time!
“This is… the Ouroboros Ring?”
Eivass looked towards the direction of Star Antimony in astonishment.
A grand ritual that changed the color of the sky, which even Transcendent beings on a similar Path could sense, coupled with large-scale natural disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis… He knew at a glance that this was the Ouroboros Ring ritual originally scheduled for the Day of Balance on May 5th!
—Why was it brought forward!
Today was not a holy day for any god…
…No, that’s not right.
Although today was not a holy day for the Fallen Heavenly Envoy, it was uniquely a day of particular significance to the Fallen Heavenly Envoy.
The Fallen Heavenly Envoy had just told Eivass that He actually understood the Ouroboros Ring ritual.
Could it be that after being ridiculed by Eivass, He became enraged? So He decided to jump down early… before the ritual had fully charged?
“Wait… this is bad.”
Eivass’s expression changed instantly.
He suddenly remembered something important—
—Yulia and Isabel should both be within the Star Antimony Kingdom right now!
(End of Chapter)
