Chapter 84

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Chapter 84: The Queen’s Inheritance (XXIII)

{cw: gore, violent death}

Looking at the corpse hanging in front of him, Qi Leren couldn’t help but imagine the situation at the Flame’s location right now.

“Can you… fight?” Qi Leren asked the little Queen.

The little Queen turned her eyes and said frankly, “No, I will not die anyway.”

Qi Leren looked at Aya without hope, and Aya bowed her head in shame: “I… I… I only learned the precepts, but I haven’t learned that knowledge yet.”

So this time, was he both the meat shield and the offense again? Qi Leren felt desperate. He had only just realized a trace of his original force in the last task. How could a person who didn’t even have a half-field survive in a task where “everywhere you walk there’s a field, a half-field is worth less than a dog”? To complete such a task was almost impossible.

If it weren’t for the [Prophet’s Heart], he would really just lie down and give up now. It was clear that this task involved the Lord of Power and the Lord of Slaughter, plus the Dragon Ant Queen, all of whom were well known field-level masters, and it was unclear if there were any more masters.

“By now it’s basically certain that the Devil of Slaughter’s subordinates have mixed with this group of candidates, and the Holy Virgins who betrayed the Dragon Ant Queens are holding a ceremony to prepare to extinguish the Holy Flame and summon Utopia.” Qi Leren analyzed the current situation. “They’re killing in order to complete the ceremony…”

“It is not only for the ceremony, but also to put out the Flame. It takes a lot of human blood to extinguish the Flame,” said the little Queen.

“I see.” Qi Leren thought about it and asked, “How is the Dragon Ant Queen’s heir determined?”

The little Queen smiled faintly: “It is very simple. I will put a drop of blood on the forehead of the favoured candidates. Among them, the one who reaches the Flame’s rift fastest, jumps into the Flame, and is recognized by the Flame is the new Dragon Ant Queen.”

Qi Leren looked at Aya’s forehead. There was no blood on it.

And the system prompt said that there were only thirty-four people left.

“Don’t worry, it is not the time yet. It is not a good thing to be recognized by me too early, because once the blood is placed, all the living candidates will know your position, and they won’t applaud your victory,” said the little Queen.

Because she was disheartened, she had already given up this time, but Aya’s appearance had made her waver, and she decided to believe in it again.

“Let me think about it… think about it…” Qi Leren had a headache thinking about it. Now, near the Flame’s rift, it was likely to be surrounded by renegade Flame Virgins. They wanted to douse the Flame and hold a ceremony. He feared there were quite a few people. It would be difficult to make an unarmed human girl pass through this line of defense and jump into the Holy Flame before their eyes.

“Don’t act rashly later, we have to find the best chance…” Qi Leren rubbed his dagger and looked at the unfathomable foggy street ahead.

He had a hunch that there was a tough battle ahead of him.

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In the crackling sound of the burning Flame, a group of burning butterflies flew out from the depths of the rift, and they constantly changed the shape of their wings in the wind, just like a group of falling flames.

There was a deep scar in the earth. This rift was like God had held a sword and chopped at the black land, tearing the earth in half and forming a huge rift valley. And under this rift valley was the core of the Underground Ant City—the Flame.

The Flame was like the heart of this field. When it stopped burning, this field would die.

Just above the rift valley, a group of Holy Flame Virgins knelt on the altar piled with corpses and recited prayers uniformly, while other Virgins played butchers silently, cutting the throats of dying girls and draining their blood into a huge pool of blood.

At this moment, the blood pool was constantly pouring blood into the seam. With the blood pouring down, groups of flaming red butterflies flew out of the unfathomable seam, like a burning rain of fire.

The black fog on the altar of corpses had become more and more dense, and the creeping body of a monster in the black fog could be faintly seen. However, whenever a flame butterfly flew over the black fog, the thick fog will be dispelled.

The blindfolded priestess Sophia covered her chest with one hand and murmured in a pious and intoxicated tone: “Continue to pour, continue to sacrifice, or the Holy Flame will not go out, and the kingdom of our God will not come!”

Among those slaughtering the Virgins who were from the same cloth, some of them were not believers in Utopia, but had to work for Sophia because of her arrogance.

As if feeling the fear of this group of Virgins, Sophia showed a smile as holy as an angel: “Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid. The kingdom of God will come to meet you, so that you can abandon the dirty and filthy world and step into God’s ideal land.”

The earth under her feet began to shake and tilt. Sophia covered her chest, imagining the grand scene after entering Utopia, and couldn’t help reciting a prayer: “The almighty God made the earth rise, and let the heavens fall. She came in person, and there was black fog at her feet. We crawled in the blood, offered sacrifices to Utopia, and begged for the door of Utopia to be open to us! Almighty God, the Virgins of Ant City are waiting for you! We praise you! Worship you! Come down! Take us to a new world!”

A burst of footsteps interrupted her intoxicated chant. Sophia turned her head and “looked” at where the person approached. They were ten meters away, and there was no dried blood in their place.

For a long time, Sophia smiled and asked someone, “Where is Susan?”

The person didn’t answer, moving straight ahead.

“Stop.” Sophia put on a cold smile.

The person turned a deaf ear, stepped on a pool of blood, and walked on casually.

A bad feeling emerged in Sophia’s mind. She held the eyeball hanging on her chest, and a silvery curtain instantly floated from her feet, forming a huge aperture that separated the whole altar from the people.

Sophia stood behind the light curtain and rubbed her eyes. This sense of security from the absolute power relaxed her—after all, it was a gift given to her by the Lord of Power, and among the three Virgins who received gifts, only she had the most powerful one.

The visitor, Ashley, stood in front of the light curtain. The short knife in his hand swept by, but only aroused a ripple on the barrier of the light curtain.

Sophia curled her lips: “It’s no use. It’s a half-field boundary film, which symbolizes indestructibility. Only this eyeball can unlock it.”

As she spoke, the priest Sophia lifted the eyeball necklace hanging on her chest and said in an all-knowing tone: “My King has warned me to guard against the Devil of Slaughters running dogs. Did you think I would be unprepared for such a major ceremony?”

Ashley frowned, and all the blood around him made the killing force in his body tempted. The Devil of Slaughter lurking in his body was eager to kill, but he didn’t want to be an obedient dog.

In a stalemate, more blood was poured into the cracks, splashing out a large group of flame butterflies. The Flame had become weak, and if this continued, it would no longer be able to suppress the increasingly powerful force, and Utopia would soon overcome the remains!

At this moment, something round suddenly flew in the air. It flew over Ashley’s head like a whisper, and then passed through the screen barrier like it was nothing.

It turned out to be an eyeball!

And the eyeball continued to roll forward, rolling into the black fog formed by the altar of corpses, and then rolling into the Flame’s rift.

The air was suddenly silent. The light curtain seemed to be erased by an invisible hand, and there was no barrier between the two Holy Flame Virgins who confronted each other! The enchantment has disappeared into thin air!

Ashley’s eyes behind the black cloth glanced in the direction the thing had been thrown from, which was the shelter of a damaged building, but when he “looked”, there is nothing there.

Sophia let out a cry and pulled out a whip from the holster tied to her thigh. In a flash of lightning and thunder, she lashed the whip with lightning power out at Ashley.

The whip broke into a ferocious electric flower in the air, but at the moment when the whip hit Ashley, he suddenly disappeared!

Sophia’s failure filled her with frustration. She immediately stepped back and shouted, “Hurry! Continue the ceremony! Don’t stop!”

As soon as the words had fallen, a black shadow appeared behind her, kicking Sophia with one foot, and she fell heavily onto the altar of corpses. The eyeball necklace hanging on her chest broke.

At that moment, a mutation occurred!

One eyeball slowly rose above the altar, and the eyeball pendant on Sophia’s chest became huge. As the eyeball rose, the black fog shrouding the altar became lighter and lighter, and the monster dormant in the fog revealed its ferocious appearance—as if it was a mass of huge worms that had knotted and intertwined, and every tentacle was covered with disgusting lesions and strange eyeballs. At the center of the octopus, there were mouths with fine teeth.

Priestess Sophia, who had been hit and knocked down by Ashley, had fallen beside the altar. Before she got up, two huge tentacles were entangled around her neck. She wanted to scream, but there was a horrible tentacle that went straight through her open mouth and forced its way into her stomach along her fragile esophagus, and then suddenly came out from her abdomen. Hot blood splashed out, dyeing Sophia’s clothes red. As if sensing the power from here, the monsters became more and more violent, and began to chase the Virgins who fled.

Miserable screams and cries emerged from the huge eyeballs above the altar, emitting scarlet light. The haunting sounds of countless men, women, elders, and children filled the air like spells, and the fleeing Holy Flame Virgins stopped without meaning to, letting monsters kill and devour them.

Ashley stood in this hell on earth, looking up at this increasingly violent monster. His original expressionless face showed a little sneer of disobedience—the will of the Lord of Slaughter took over his body again.

“After so many years, you’re still like this ghost.” The Devil of Slaughter smiled and licked his chapped lips. “But… it is more delicious than before.”

The will of the Devil of Power couldn’t pass through the protective barrier of the Holy Flame and come to the core of the Underground Ant City, which makes this unilateral dialogue lose its fun, but the Devil of Slaughter didn’t mind. This was a good thing for him. If the Devil of Power really came here, an avatar with strength barely reaching half-field level could never be the opponent of the Devil of Power.

Any half-field opponent would be enough to make him fail.

But even so, it was almost enough to deal with this disgusting monster—as long as its owner didn’t come.

The Holy Flame Virgins were swallowed one after another. Some were bitten into pieces, some were torn and thrown into the rift of the Holy Flame, splashing large flame butterflies out when the flame flickered. These brilliant flame butterflies danced in this bloody land, and beauty and cruelty together composed a silent movement.

In this chaotic and stagnant space-time, there was a sudden light from the direction the eye that had broken the barrier had flown in.

The holy light falling from the sky, like a flame amid darkness, tore a gap in this land of demons.

In this instant, a holy angel arrived. Behind him was endless dusk and white flowers. The kingdom of Heaven reflected in the dusk reflected this bloody earth even more cruelly.

The Devil of Slaughter just “looked” at him, and the sneer at the corners of his mouth gradually disappeared. The man who was originally silent in the depths of his soul suddenly came alive, and he desperately squeezed out the Devil of Slaughter’s consciousness out of the way and regained his body.

“It’s you…” Ashley murmured. He untied the blindfold, and with this move, his appearance changed from an ordinary human girl to a young human male.

He suddenly smiled, almost with tears in his eyes.

He put a broken but carefully repaired mask on his face, stared at the familiar yet unfamiliar person in the holy light, and gently greeted: “Long time no see, Red.”

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