Chapter 73

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Chapter 73: The Queen’s Inheritance (XII)

Before the demon invasion, the Holy See’s transportation system was still intact. Although it took a lot of resources to use it once, it only took a blink of an eye to reach the nearest Holy City’s parish in the Sea of Tranquility Desert that was closest to the Underground Ant City.

In the Sea of Tranquility Desert, they made contact with the Holy See stronghold, collected supplies, rode camels, and followed the guide all the way to the Underground Ant City, and the Qi Leren and the Prophet arrived at their destination smoothly.

The Underground Ant City of twenty years earlier did not appear much different from the one twenty years later. Qi Leren covertly came to the Ant City’s Holy See stronghold with the Prophet. The Prophet did not leave, but continued to follow Qi Leren.

Along the way, he confessed many things to Qi Leren, such as the first skill card he’d recieved, which was a genuine “prophet card”.

[Script Without Protagonist (binding skill card): The holder can use this skill card once every 24 hours, and the future irrelevant to the holder will become clearer. If it is desired to draw a future related to someone or something, it is necessary to provide guiding articles.]

It was under the guidance of this skill card that the Prophet had found Maria.

“The script says that you’ll do a great thing that will cause a sensation throughout the world. It seems that you have the fate of a heroine, so I will follow you and see if I can mix into the protagonist’s team. I can be an errand boy or something,” the Prophet smiled and said.

Qi Leren looked at him helplessly, and wanted to tell him, My friend, your future life will be unexpectedly successful, and you will become a big leader rather than an errand boy, but Maria, the heroine, really will do something sensational, and then disappear.

Shortly after arriving in the Underground Ant City, Qi Leren, who was busy adapting to Maria’s force, found that she was already a half-field master. Unfortunately, he could not use Maria’s force at all, but could only create some meaningless fancy effects—for example, by condensing the force of faith into his hand, he could create a blast of gold and silver fireworks…

The Will of the World’s memory didn’t give him any reminder, and Qi Leren didn’t know where to go next, but he made a vague guess: either the Dragon Ant Queen had had an accident or the gap between the two worlds had had an accident.

In order to confirm his guess, Qi Leren went to Purgatory after making some adjustments. However, on that day, the demon tide that should have started the following week was unexpectedly advanced.

This was the first time that Qi Leren faced the demon tide directly. Once upon a time, he only knew that the Underground Ant City would be attacked by a demon army from nowhere once a month, but how could the words on paper compare with the cruelty he experienced when he witnessed all this with his own eyes—the overwhelming foreign demons passed through the transparent boundary membrane, like a black rain pouring down from the sky. As far as you could see in this world, the humans and demons in the Underground Ant City were holding torches and waiting for this group of raging demons.

The sounds of screaming, of shrieks, of weapons piercing flesh, and the sound of burning flames… The whole world seemed to be engulfed by madness.

The army of the Dragon Ant Queen stood at the front line, and this group of strong soldiers uniformly blocked the demons’ attack, but there were always stray demons passing through this layer of guards and killing those further behind.

A bird-type demon flew over the army of soldier ants and spewed twisted insects out into the streets of the Underground Ant City, attacking the fleeing human beings and lower demons everywhere. When Qi Leren witnessed this scene, his heart suddenly felt heavy, and a force that didn’t belong to him and was not controlled by him spewed out from his chest, turning into a golden enchantment that protected the surrounding people.

At the moment when the bird demon rushed into the golden enchantment, it was ignited by the powerful force of faith, screamed and burned in the air, and quickly burned into ashes. The flames swallowed the demon and the insects it had spewed out. Once the demon was killed, the golden enchantment slowly faded, leaving a confused crowd and “Maria” standing amongst them.

The earth beneath their feet suddenly shook. Maria staggered and looked up at the place where the abnormal tremors had originated.

That far away, in the direction leading to Purgatory, the heaven and earth suddenly kept shaking and a huge and violent force surged from the ground, which turned out to be an underground volcano erupting without warning! This was bred by the terrible force of destruction. In an instant, hot lava fell like a rainstorm, flowing along the mountains and the earth, and destroyed everything in its wake.

In this sudden outbreak of a great crisis, Maria was surprised to see countless demons gushing out of the volcanic hell! They were coming towards them!

At this moment, Maria suddenly understood what was happening in front of her eyes—there was always a crack in the two boundaries, which had finally broken!

Amid the lava and flames, a terrible dragon roar came at a deafening volume.

Maria’s heart jumped wildly. He stared in the direction of the sound. In the endless darkness, there was a huge magic dragon flying out from the horizon. The monsters flying all over the sky fell to the ground. Only it, like the ancient legend of the world’s destruction, passed through the underground sky and came before his eyes.

The crowd scattered and fled, but only the Prophet and Maria were still standing there.

“He passed through the gap!” The prophet’s face changed. He looked at the magic dragon hovering beneath the dome of Ant City and murmured, “The magic dragon that brings destruction will eventually destroy the world.”

On the other side of the gap, demons poured out like a tide. The demons fought with the dragon, and it fell from the sky, turning into a handsome uniformed man. He walked forward through the countercurrent crowd, as if what he saw was not a battlefield but a ball, and at a glance he saw his yearned for lover under the dim lights of this bustling ballroom.

However, every step taken by this battle-stricken man was filled with the smells of blood and fire, and the terrible force from destruction made all creatures close to him flee away in a hurry. And he only looked at one person.

Standing in the fleeing crowd, it was as if a holy angel had stepped out of the Holy See’s frescoes.

A name had choked in his throat, but no matter how he tried to recall it, he couldn’t remember her name.

He only came to her, looked at her piously and asked, “Who are you?”

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This was not Ning Zhou.

The moment he saw the Lord of Destruction, Qi Leren was sure. He couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief: thank goodness, Ning Zhou hadn’t also become involved in this memory, he was safe.

“Who are you?” When the man in front of him asked this question, Qi Leren froze.

He had thought of countless situations, but he had never imagined that when the Devil King who had led the demons to invade the human world saw Maria, his first words would be to ask who she was.

Haven’t they met before? No, they must have.

Was it amnesia? Or was it that as the destructive power of the old Devil became stronger and stronger, he had gradually lost himself under the influence of his original force, and even his memories of the past were also destroyed by it…

Whatever the reason, he had to give an answer, otherwise the Will of the World would find his abnormality again.

Having made up his mind, Qi Leren looked up at the Devil with melancholy eyes, brewing his emotions and giving him a long-lost smile: “Maria.”

With his answer, the confusion in the eyes of the Destroyer turned into a sharp gaze full of murder, and the power of the Destroyer** instantly engulfed the frightened Qi Leren…

[Remaining restart times: 1.]

He had failed.

This failure surprised Qi Leren. After his memory was restarted, he returned to the Garden of the Holy Tomb, and the same Canon was still lying on his knee. The strange monk came to tell him that the Pope was looking for him. After Qi Leren replied, he waited for the Prophet to appear, and then went to the Underground Ant City again.

Along the way, he was thinking about what went wrong, and why he would be found as abnormal by the Will of the World after he answered that he was “Maria”, and whether it was that the answer was wrong or the mood was wrong?

Qi Leren had a guess: In this memory, if he was faced with field-level figures like the Pope and the Destroyer, it was easy for any deviation in his role as Maria to be noticed, which was determined by the power level. But he really didn’t know Maria. It was hard for him to figure out Maria’s personality.

Qi Leren replaced them with himself and Ning Zhou. What if one day he and Ning Zhou parted ways, Ning Zhou went to the demon world while he stayed in the human world, and they reunited after a long separation for many years. And then Ning Zhou, who haD become the Lord of Destruction, asked him: Who are you?

At that moment, just like Ning Zhou who had forgotten his name, he would probably forget how to answer. Just imagining this scene, his eyes reddened and he felt pain in his heart.

He knew where he’d gone wrong.

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