Chapter 75

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Chapter 75: The Queen’s Inheritance (XIV)

This diamond ring was as big as a glass marble, which perfectly showed the brilliance of the diamond after it was finely cut.

Qi Leren looked at the diamond ring for a long time, but neither accepted nor rejected it.

After passing the second part of this memory, he felt that the will belonging to Maria was affecting him. He didn’t know what it was. Was the strength at the field level strong enough to interfere with the Will of the World? Or perhaps, the origins held by this group of field-level masters were themselves a part of the world…

“Are you proposing to me?” Qi Leren asked. No, Maria asked.

At this moment, the speaker was no longer Qi Leren, but Maria’s residual will repeating this memory.

Holding the ring, the Destroyer nodded and looked at her expectantly.

“If it is a marriage proposal, I don’t need this.” Maria looked straight into her lover’s scarlet eyes, resisted the pain in her heart, and made a great but cruel decision for the sake of the world. She said slowly, “I want the most important thing to you to be what you are now.”

“The most important thing…” the Destroyer murmured, frowning and confused like an ignorant child.

Thinking caused pain. He paced on the hill of piled up gold. The more he thought, the more he fell into the force of destruction. His brow wrinkled and tightened, and his handsome face was marred by blue veins, as if he was trying to endure something. After a long time, he finally couldn’t restrain himself. He changed back into the form of a magic dragon with a loud roar, frantically rolled up gold coins and treasures all over the ground, and spewed out the destructive dragon’s breath toward the lava river rolling through.

Maria, who witnessed this scene, covered her chest, and tears welled up in her eyes again.

Her lover had entered a road that couldn’t be turned back from, releasing the self in his soul, moving closer to his original power, and finally sublimating to the origin itself. From then on, he was destruction, destruction was him, and they would be inseparable—until his death.

However, this seemingly correct road had a defect that they had never thought deeply about.

A man flying towards the sun could only see the light in front of him getting brighter and brighter, but he couldn’t see himself burning and turning into a part of the light.

People who moved closer to strength could only see that they were getting stronger and stronger, but they couldn’t see that their self was gradually disappearing, leaving only the “divine nature” represented by the original force.

One day, the Destroyer would completely lose his “self”, and even the remaining love for her would be swallowed up by the force of destruction, and they would eventually become a pair of strangers. And she was looking at her “dead lover” who devastated, trampled, and destroyed the world he had once loved.

Maria quietly looked at the uncontrolled magic dragon, watching it struggle in pain. Its remaining self was still hanging on, but it wouldn’t be for long. How could the will inside a weak human body overcome the world? Like the faint glow of fireflies in the night, how could it replace the sun to illuminate this long night?

Tears couldn’t stop falling from her eyes. The will of Maria, which remained in this memory of the world, made Qi Leren unable to control his tears at this moment. He seemed like a reader who already knew the ending to the story. Ever since he’d opened the first page of this book, he couldn’t help crying over every word.

The furious magic dragon bumped into the huge column of the palace, which made the whole palace shake violently. The stones falling from overhead fell toward Maria, but before Maria opened an enchantment, the magic dragon had descended rapidly, spread its wings, and blocked the rockfall with its body.

The vibrations stopped. Maria looked up and looked at the magic dragon, and the magic dragon looked down and looked at her.

A strange form, strange eyes, but those cold-blooded vertical pupils belonging to reptiles seem to hold familiarity to her.

It suddenly raised its head, screamed, raised its claws, and inserted them into the scales on its chest. It was trying to dig out its own demon crystal while it was still alive.

Maria looked at it in shock, only to see that the huge demon crystal was divided into three parts under her gaze: one third returned to its body, one third landed on the throne atop the mountain of gold coins, and the last third was handed over to Maria by the magic dragon.

Maria took the bloody demon crystal with trembling hands, and the magic dragon slowly changed back to human form, limping weakly and almost falling down.

“Take this. It represents… a third of the kingship. Another third is needed to maintain my life, and a third is used to maintain the underworld. There is also this…” A scepter appeared in the hands of the Destroyer, and he handed it to Maria. “It made me a god and made me a Devil… I’ve killed many people, and maybe there will be more in the future. I didn’t think there was anything wrong with this once, but when I met you, I realized I was mistaken.”

The Destroyer looked at his lover whose name he had forgotten with hopeful eyes and asked carefully, “Will you forgive me?”

Maria, who held the Scepter of Hell and one third of the royal power of the Underworld, stared at her unrecognizable lover. Her heart, which was tormented as if by the fire, made her ask, “Will you stop here?”

“I don’t know,” the Lord of Destruction said in confusion.

“Then I don’t know.” Maria told him, “if you can’t turn back, then I’ll have to accompany you to the end… to try my best to stop you from doing wrong, at all costs…”

At this moment, fate’s prophecy wrote a sad ending for their future.

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

[The second step of the Queen’s Inheritance task: escape from the memory vortex, has been completed. Opening the third step: The Winner is King]

[Task background: After breaking free from the memory vortex, the world before you is the tomb of the Dragon Ant Queen, where the final ceremony will be staged. The remaining qualified candidates are gathered here, and one of them will inherit the body of the Dragon Ant Queen and the field of the Underground Ant City. However, dangerous people have been mixed into the candidates, and the Flame in the rift is crumbling…]

[Mission Requirements: Overcome the conspiracy between the Devil King of Power and the Devil King of Slaughter, and ensure the completion of the succession ceremony.]

[Transmission countdown, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, transmission completed.]

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In the underground valley where the Dragon Ant Queen’s palace was located, the flowing underground river rushed toward the front. In the depression at the bottom of the river, a huge black hole had appeared. No matter the rushing river or the birds flying over the valley, none of them could escape this horrible gravity, and they were all sucked into the abyss of this black hole.

There was an observation deck on the cliff above the river valley, where Ning Zhou, the Illusionist, a maid of the Dragon Ant Queen, a Holy Flame Virgin priestess, messengers from several small areas such as the Red-Lotus Waters and Cloud Vertices, and several big devils from the underworld all were. This group of people and devils with different positions were not at loggerheads, but were standing as if waiting for something, staring at the black hole which was expanding and becoming more and more crazy.

The Devil of Evil didn’t reveal his identity as a subordinate to the Destroyer. He sat in the back position and quietly watched his new master. The Witch of Lust, a subordinate of the Devil of Fraud, was talking quietly with the Devil of Greed who belonged to the Devil of Power, but what was strange was that her voice didn’t reach the ears of the people around her at all.

A group of people with different minds tacitly kept silent amid this strange calm, waiting for the end of the ceremony.

They all knew that once an accident happened with the inheritance of the Dragon Ant Queen, the impact would not only be the destruction of a field, but would even affect the gap between the two worlds near the Underground Ant City.

If the Dragon Ant Queen’s inheritance failed this time, the Devil of Power far away from the Underworld would surely not let go of the cheap fat meat sent to her mouth, and she would mercilessly annex the Underground Ant City into her “Utopia”, just like many years ago when she had just achieved the field level, when she ate away “Utopia” with her newly-established field, acting like a cuckoo in a magpie nest.

No, it should be said that the Devil of Power never intended to stand by idly.

“It seems that you have full confidence,” Lust said to the Devil of Greed.

The Devil of Greed stroked the moustache above his lips and smiled calmly: “The plan was very successful, and those Holy Flame Virgins who defected were also included in the candidates. Now they’re probably ready to start the summoning ceremony. Once the flame is extinguished and the ceremony is opened, Her Majesty can personally visit this field and completely devour it.”

“Then let me congratulate the Devil of Power in advance,” the Witch of Lust said with a smile and gently licked her tongue on her lower lip.

“However, I’m still worried about the assassin from before,” the Devil of Greed frowned.

“Oh, there’s nothing to worry about, it’s just the dying struggle of ‘that one’,” the Witch of Lust said.

“You mean… the Devil of Slaughter?” The Devil of Greed was shocked. “Hasn’t he already been suppressed by Her Majesty under the lake of fire?”

“The seal has become loose, as you know. This group of field-level masters all have at least one avatar; the Devil of Slaughter’s body is still suppressed under the lake of fire, but his avatar may have taken the opportunity to escape and has possessed a human or demon. If this is the case, it would make sense for his avatar to come to assassinate the Dragon Ant Queen’s heir. As long as the ceremony is stopped and the Underground Ant City collapses, his seal will be hit hard, and he’ll have the opportunity to break free from the seal,” the Witch of Lust said.

“That avatar, who…?” The Devil of Greed became worried.

“Hard to say. Maybe his avatar is among the candidates?” The Witch of Lust covered her lips and smiled gently. “You should be careful. If things aren’t done properly, your Majesty won’t give you a break.”

The Devil of Greed shook his head with a wry smile and motioned to Lust with his eyes: “See that one?”

“You mean Destruction?” The Witch of Lust knew clearly, “I heard that the old Devil’s men can’t wait.”

“They can’t wait for what? I’m afraid this future Devil of Destruction doesn’t want to get involved in the Underworld,” said the Devil of Greed.

Lust smiled, her eyebrows curved charmingly: “That’s because he still remembers who he is.”

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“You look worried.” The Illusionist sitting leisurely at the front of the observation deck with his arms crossed glanced at Ning Zhou, whose face was cold but whose anxiety could not be concealed.

Ning Zhou didn’t speak. Of course he was worried. The previous incident in the Queen Dragon Ant’s bedroom had distorted the surrounding time and space. Qi Leren had been subsumed in the chaos because he was too close, and they still didn’t know where he was. Although Ning Zhou could feel that Qi Leren was still alive, he couldn’t bring him back, and he had to wait for him to break free.

Not only Qi Leren, but the dying Dragon Ant Queen was like a huge star that was about to burn out. When dying, it was constantly collapsing into a black hole. Under the traction of this huge gravity, people in the half of the palace centered around the bedroom had become involved in this accident, especially those in the original “honey ant nest” and the “Holy Flame guards” near the bedroom. Hundreds of young girls all fell into the vortex—this was still part of the inheritance ceremony.

Ning Zhou had tried his best to help the Dragon Ant Queen stabilize her form. Otherwise, at that moment, the whole Underground Ant City would have been sucked in by this horrible black hole vortex, but after all, he was not a field-level person. Soon, the black hole would be completely out of control, and the whole Underground Ant City would cease to exist.

“Haven’t you chosen a candidate yet?” the Illusionist asked the maid of the Dragon Ant Queen.

The middle-aged maid sat at the front of the observation deck in a dignified manner, and replied politely but without losing grace: “The selection ceremony is underway, and there are still surviving candidates… 107 people.”

One of the 107 people, Qi Leren, was facing the headache of a familiar misty world.

Hadn’t Ning Zhou already wiped out the demons that made fog around the Queen’s tomb? Why was it so foggy now? Qi Leren was a man who didn’t even have a half-field, yet he had to overcome the conspiracy between the Devil King of Power and the Devil King of Slaughter? And this blindfolded girl who was holding his leg while shivering…

Qi Leren gave her a hard look, and then looked at the demon on the ground that he had just killed. He said helplessly, “The demon is dead. Can you let go already?”

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Editor’s Notes: I believe this is the first time avatars have been explicitly mentioned? I’ll give you a hint by saying that they’re going to be very important from here on out 👀

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