Outside of the military town of Sakerid, within the defensive positions of the Gabriel Empire’s(Swordsmen) royal guard, a giant ant-shaped evil being had crawled out of the ground and was attacking the royal guards. This giant ant came with the giant flower that was currently wreaking havoc within the Church of Light’s ranks. The giant ant was 8 meters in length with a 2 meter wide pincer.
The ant bore strong resemblance in look to Earth’s army ants and although it wasn’t venomous, it had quite the number of subordinates that covered every square inch of land, the ants of various sizes swarmed the royal guards’ positions. These ants didn’t attack those who were infected by the virus, only those who were uninfected, leaving behind nothing more than piles of bleached bone as the wave of ants travelled through the royal guards’ ranks.
Most of the Gabriel Empire’s fighting force was comprised of swordsmen that lacked the ability to attack at a distance, those elites among them who able to use 《Jian Qi》 and attack from a range were rare and few. Swordsmen also lacked the mobility of knights due to the lack of mounts and were unable to flee the scene and could only fall victim to the ants, with screams piercing the air everytime a new victim fell to the swarm.
The royal guard’s commander, Klemans, ordered a general retreat, knowing that it was the only way for them to survive. The Church of Light’s templars had already retreated in another direction and the only one left was the 1st holy maiden, Sophia, who was still locked in combat with the giant flower. Kremans wanted to help the Church’s holy maidens, as it was a great opportunity to make the Church of Light owe them.
It was a shame that the swarm of ants had already caught up to the royal guards’ stragglers, leaving behind piles of bones. This dangerous situation didn’t allow for any hesitation, there was a small river not far from Sakerid, maybe if they forced a crossing the river the ants wouldn’t be able to continue their pursuit of the royal guards.
In the skies above Sakerid, a black dot was circling. The airspace above Sakerid was filled with countless invisible malicious spirits, but they all chose to give a wide berth to the flying girl. The girl had the conflicting scent of the demon world and aura that only god-tier equipment had.
The girl flying above Sakerid was the pricess of the demon world, Hadias, she was currently wearing the god-tier armour ‘Celestial Protection’ that Lisha had given her. She felt a little strange, wearing armour that had been blessed by a god of the celestial world in public, her demon lord father would definitely have grounded her if he had seen her like this.
Even she, the princess of the demon world was shocked by the gruesome scene beneath her, she hadn’t ever seen anything as terrifying as these two giant evil beings back in the demon world, she estimated that they were at least around the power level of Bella’s void monarchs.
Somewhere in the distance, Bella’s party was looking through a crystal ball at what was happening in and around Sakerid. This crystal ball was part of Lisha’s collection, ‘Vision Crystal’ was a treasure that was made up of two such crystal balls, that could share images with each other, even over long distances. The other crystal ball was currently in Hadias’ possession, she had brought it with her in her aerial reconnaissance.
It would be hard not to mention Lisha’s collection here, Bella had learned while in Lisha’s memory world, the 【Demon Dragon Empress] Alisha could be considered filthy rich. All dragons had a habit of collecting and hoarding large amounts of treasure, and as the blood of dragons also ran through her veins, Lisha might have picked up this habit through osmosis. Even Alisha herself didn’t know how much gold and silver she had.
The thing that shocked Bella most was that Alisha had once prepared a giant mausoleum for herself, named ‘The land of Eternal Rest’. Around the Land of Eternal Rest were smaller mausoleums in which rested every one of Alisha’s challengers who had failed, along with all of their wealth that did not enter Lisha’s eyes, countless god-tier equipment included.
In her four lifetimes of terror, none of her challengers had been able to kill Alisha, so the Land of Eternal Rest remained empty while the mausoleums surrounding it kept on increasing it in number. The ‘Vision Crystal’ that they were looking through right now was something that Lisha hadn’t even bothered to take back to the Land of Eternal Rest. If it was taken to an auction within the human empire its value would be unimaginable, yet to Lisha it was only something that she had completely forgotten she had, it wasn’t hard to see that Lisha’s wealth had already exceeded a certain level.
It was a shame that the Land of Eternal Rest required Lisha to completely reawaken the power of the 【Demon Dragon Empress] to open, which had not yet happened yet. The complete 【Demon Dragon Empress] had a terrifying dragon mount that Bella saw in Lisha’s memory. It seemed that Lisha still had quite a few secrets awaiting Bella’s discovery.
“【Underworld Black Ant King] Malthus and 【Death Flower Empress]Heklis, both of them are void monarchs, Heklis is a World Destroyer class too. That’s strange, the dimension invaded by their master 【Tenebrous Demon God], Bloomfield Elise shouldn’t be this one, why has her subordinates appeared here?”
Noesha quietly whispered into Bella’s ear, after some explanation Bella found out that this 【Tenebrous Demon God] was the younger sister of the 【Sanctified Demon God]Bellastier Samantha, and could be often seen together with her, the impression Elise gave off was a little sister that enjoyed clinging to her older sister.
Elise took pride in being Samantha’s true little sister, and was rather hostile towards the two sworn little sisters of Samantha, 【Darkened Evil God]Mystre Lydia, and 【Underworld Demon God]Salisbury Sherrill, but was kept under check by Samantha.
“Noesha, I don’t know any of the demon gods that you just mentioned!”
“Er, you… you’ll know in the future!”
Noesha looked at Bella who had an innocent expression on her face, then looked towards Mia and Angel who were playing in the distance, and didn’t know what to say. She had almost let slip that Bella’s true form was Samantha herself. Back when she was the 【Sanctified Demon God], Samantha was very kind and gentle to everyone she knew, making it so that Samantha had many good friends within the ranks of both the Worldbreakers and the Troublemakers, Noesha being one of them.
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The Gabriel Empire’s royal guards had already began retreating in the direction of the small river. 【Underworld Black Ant King] Malthus sensed an aura in the distance that made him uneasy. Not too far away in the distance, Bella had taken out three items for summoning void monarchs, she threw ‘Grisbane’s Feather’, ‘Gresham’s Stinger’, and ‘Yulysses’ Fang’ into the distance and three gates to the void opened up where the items landed.
Soon after, Bella’s three void monarchs and their minions appeared out of the gate and quickly began an encirclement of Malthus and Heklis. Normally in the void, it wasn’t uncommon void monarchs to fight among themselves, but were mostly 1 on 1 fights, fights between multiple void monarchs on different sides were a rare sight even in the void.
Seeing three ‘peers’ preparing to surround it, Malthus quickly fell back towards the giant flower, giving up on its chase of the Gabriel Empire’s royal guards. However, its route had been cut off by the 【Black-Widow Empress] Yulysses. A little while ago Yulysses and Grisbane had just completed their first cooperative mission. Grisbane had carried Yulysses and ‘air dropped’ her behind Malthus, this surprise tactic had foiled the Malthus’ plan of converging with its companion.
Even though the retreating royal guards also saw these three newcomer void monarchs, but they hadn’t seen that Bella was the one who had summoned them. Bella didn’t interfere with their retreat, she turned her attention to the zombies that now cut off the path through which Bella’s party had came from.
The rate at which the virus had spread was much faster than Noesha had estimated, it had only taken a day and the virus had already spread to many nearby towns and villages. Bella didn’t know how the five great empires and the Church of Light planned to deal with this, as there was no way that they could keep this hidden from the public any longer. Bella didn’t really care about that however, as this virus would have 0 effect on her Dark Sanctuary, even if the entire Coristel continent fell to the virus, the Dark Sanctuary would remain unscathed.
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