Chapter 74

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Chapter 74: The Queen’s Inheritance (XIII)

“Who are you?” When the Destroyer who had crossed the boundary saw Maria, picking her out at a glance from the vast sea of people, this sentence “who are you” was no different from a sincere confession.

Even though he had lost himself to his force and had forgotten his beloved, at the moment when they met again, a familiar yearning engraved in his soul still reminded him to look at that person.

Maria looked up at him, the joy of reunion filling her gentle gaze. Before opening her mouth, tears had already flowed from her blue eyes. Even so, she still smiled, even if she could not say a word.

It was supposed to be a fateful reunion that touched people’s hearts, but it instantly made the Destroyer feel wrong—or, that world felt wrong.

The desire to destroy and to murder were overwhelming, destroying his memory again.

[Remaining restart times: 0.]

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He had failed again.

Qi Leren sat on the swing and was at a loss.

Why did he still fail? Clearly this time, he had tried his best to approach Maria’s most likely response—when the lovers who were forced apart by destiny reunited, the gentle Maria shed tears of both joy and sadness.

What was wrong?

This sort of thinking should be right!

The baffled Qi Leren sat on the swing, absently finished talking with the monk who came to call him to the cathedral, and waited for the Prophet to appear.

The wind in the Garden of the Holy Tomb blew through the treetops, which lifted off a large number of blue and white petals, and also opened the Canon on Maria’s knees and gently brushed one page after another, revealing a letter tucked inside.

Qi Leren startled, picked up the letter, and looked at it. After reading every word from beginning to end, he finally knew what was wrong.

To my dear Maria:

Before leaving, I decided to write a letter to you. You can take this letter as my love letter to you :-D

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The other side of the gap between the two worlds has always made me curious. I’ve read the Canon you gave me. The demon world described in the book is a different world ruled by devils with strict classes, where the cruel law of survival of the fittest is practiced, which may help me master the original force in my body.

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I was surprised that you agreed to let me go to the Underworld. I thought you would never agree. After all, the attitude of the Holy See towards demons has always been the same. However, I think the Holy See’s research in the field has become self-contained. The field should not only inherit the existing original force; the Holy See’s method of condensing fields is too smooth, which limits your further development, meaning that the road of pursuing power ends here. Maybe we should defer to other methods.

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When I wrote this letter, I couldn’t help recalling the scene of when we first met. At that time, your temper was much worse than it is now, and that slap was really impressive. Later, I realized that you were a nun from an esteemed background… When I think of it, my own identity is dull. You always pinch my waist until it’s black and blue. Dear, you need to be gentle with me, or you will easily lose me.

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Suddenly, I miss my hometown very much. I hope I can show it to you one day. The food there is really delicious. It’s ten thousand times better than the white bread in the Holy See! I really want to take you to try it.

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Dear Maria, although I haven’t left yet, I’ve already started to miss you.

This letter from Ning Zhou’s father, who had not yet become the Lord of Destruction, that was addressed to Maria made Qi Leren understand. The key point was that he had misjudged Maria’s character completely, and he had also misjudged the character of Destroyer.

This Holy Nun was not the kind of woman who was gentle, compassionate, and full of piety in her usual thinking. She was quite a woman with “personality” and could be regarded as a “savage girlfriend”. However, in the few opportunities Qi Leren had had to meet Maria, he had missed the true nature of this Holy Nun. In the same way, he hadn’t expected that while he was an ordinary player, the Devastator turned out to be a guy… who could use the basic emojis of twenty years ago.

Qi Leren closed the Canon and took a deep breath.

This was the last chance, but he knew what to do.

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“Who are you?”

The Prophet standing in the corner silently watched what was happening in front of him. The dragon from the Underworld hovered in the “sky” of the Underground Ant City, and finally landed in front of Maria—just like in the prophecy. The couple still reunited in the vast sea of people, and yet… they ended up in a tragedy.

When the newly born Destroyer asked this sentence, the Prophet imagined many possibilities. For example, Maria would answer him with a smile. For example, Maria would be overwhelmed and burst into tears. But he never thought…

The pa sound was crisp, and the Holy Nun who had slapped the Destroyer in public raised her chin. Her eyes filled with tears, but she tried to squeeze out a smile. She gnashed her teeth and asked word by word: “Now do you remember who I am?”

The Destroyer gawked at her, clutching the left side of his face that stung from the slap, and shook his head blankly.

“I seem to have been looking for you for a long time,” he said.

Maria looked at him stupefied. Even if she shut her mouth hard, love still flowed out of her eyes. Whether it was the excitement of reunion after a long separation, the shock of seeing one’s lover become a Devil, or the pain of being aware of some kind of hinted-at fate, it couldn’t compare with the inner agitation at this moment.

“Your Majesty!”

“Your Majesty!!”

The Destroyer was still in a daze, and the demons who were eager to protect their Lord had rushed up after a short jam, showing strong hostility towards Maria who exuded the aura of faith.

"The Holy See’s dog,” snapped the Witch of Desperation, who wore a black robe with a bat hanging upside down from her sleeve.

The Witch of Nightmares was even more fierce, her eyes filled with killing intent that was aimed at Maria.

“Go away!” When the Devil King of Destruction waved his hand, the raging crowd of demons turned and fled. He turned around and said carefully to Maria, “…Let me take you somewhere.”

With that, he showed a happy smile: “Somewhere great.”

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[Current memory progress: 2/3, remaining restart times: 0.]

It worked! Qi Leren was ecstatic; this strategy was correct. When he played as Maria, he even felt that he really felt Maria’s emotions in this memory. At least in the moment when Maria had finally shed tears, it wasn’t acting, but as if… Maria’s will remaining in the Will of the World was recreating this past.

Before Qi Leren could think clearly, his body was taken into the sky by the Devil in the form of a magic dragon, passing through the huge underground space of the Underground Ant City, passing through Purgatory, and reaching the gap between the two worlds.

It is a huge abyss, even if he looked down from the sky, the cliffs below him looked unimaginably large, and under the cliffs was a bottomless dark abyss from which the demon army continuously gushed out. They climbed the cliffs and gathered outside the gap between the two worlds.

This scene made Qi Leren inexplicably anxious. Even though he knew that this was only a memory that happened in the past, he still couldn’t help feeling anxious when he saw that the world was about to fall into war.

Under the guidance of the dragon, he quickly fell towards the abyss, passing through the gate that separated the Underworld and the human world.

The whole Underworld was immersed in bloody sunlight. Under the crimson sky, the mountains and rivers were black, but the rivers flowed with hot lava, as if the world was a newly born planet with constant volcanic eruptions. There was a strong sulphur smell in the air, and it was extremely hot.

The magic dragon flew all the way. In the Underworld, it seemed to have the ability to jump through space, because in the blink of an eye, it had passed through several cities surrounded by black rock walls and finally landed at a huge black palace.

This palace building was extremely tall, and at this time, Qi Leren learned what the real “underworld style” was like. The single-storey height of this palace was over 50 meters tall, full of a majestic atmosphere different from the human world, but its hue and shape were very cold and evil.

The magic dragon flew into the palace at a dash. Several lava rivers reached into the palace, which surrounded the central island in the middle of the lake. The island was filled with gold coins and treasures that made one unable to close their eyes, and there was a golden throne more than two meters high in the center, which was extremely luxurious.

The dragon put the Holy Nun on its treasure, plunged into the gold coin heap and rummaged in it for a while, then suddenly changed back to human form, climbed up from the gold coin heap while out of breath, and ran excitedly to Maria with his arms spread.

A huge diamond ring stung Maria’s eyes. Or perhaps it was the unconscious love in a man’s scarlet eyes that stung her.

The Destroyer shoved the ring into her hand: “For you!”

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