“Abyssal Demoness?”
Via glanced around but saw no trace of anyone, nor did she sense the Abyssal Demoness’s aura.
“Desolate Fire, are you sure you didn’t make a mistake?”
“No. She’s coming right now.”
Desolate Fire began the countdown.
Ten. Nine.
“Demon King Armament!”
Though thoroughly confused, Via still activated the Demon King Armament for safety, raising her armlet.
In less than three seconds, her body was enveloped in light as the Demon King Armament manifested.
Zero!
Desolate Fire’s countdown reached zero.
Via felt the camp beneath her feet shaking violently.
No.
The entire Thousand Sea Abyss was trembling—it was an earthquake!
Splash—
With a deafening roar, a massive volume of water surged from the fissures like an ocean crashing down from the sky.
The enormous wave formed by the converging seawater swept everyone in the camp away, dragging them into the abyss beneath the chasms.
“Uwaaaah!”
Kurei cried out as she scrambled to her feet, gasping for air and clutching her chest.
She then touched her face and looked around in disbelief.
“So that wasn’t a nightmare? I wasn’t swallowed by seawater? Where is this?”
Melu held her head, equally bewildered.
She was soaked from head to toe.
“This is the abyss beneath the fissures. The Abyssal Demoness must have used magic to bring us here.”
Wearing the Demon King Armament, Via stepped in front of the two demonkin maids.
She raised her hand and snapped her fingers, casting a simple illumination spell.
However, the light it produced was limited. The areas farther away remained pitch-black, completely impenetrable.
“Abyssal Demoness?” Kurei gasped. “Are we really going to meet her?!”
“Demon King, the Abyssal Demoness doesn’t seem very friendly,” Melu said worriedly.
“Meow meow!”
Little Ha scampered to Via’s feet and curled up.
Via warned her two accompanying maids, “Kurei, Melu, stay alert.”
She knew the Abyssal Demoness disliked outsiders and would certainly not give their group a warm welcome.
Thud!
A sudden, eerie sound echoed through the vast space.
Thud thud!
The strange noise drew closer and closer to Via’s group.
Kurei and Melu tensed up. Both summoned massive weapons into their hands.
Thud thud thud!
Via felt the sound coming from ahead, then from behind. In this abyss, her perception was heavily distorted.
The space itself felt unnaturally bizarre.
“Die.”
A voice devoid of emotion rang out directly above Via.
She looked up and saw a huge red dot hovering overhead.
It gathered pure Abyssal Force and locked onto everyone below.
Immediately afterward, a concentrated beam carrying destructive fluctuations struck at the Demon King and her maids.
“Abyssal Shield!”
Via didn’t dare slack off. She immediately channeled the abyssal aura within her body through the Demon King Armament, converting it into Abyssal Force. She pushed the armament’s output power to its maximum, generating a defensive field in front of them.
BOOM!!!
Under the torrent of energy, Via felt the surrounding temperature skyrocketing. Her body felt as if it were about to melt.
This attack far surpassed anything at the Transcendent tier.
She watched as the Abyssal Shield gradually cracked, finally shattering like glass.
After the first devastating strike, the red dot overhead swiftly prepared a second one and unleashed it.
At this moment, she could no longer use the Demon King Armament to deploy another Abyssal Shield.
Things had truly taken a turn for the worse.
Without the Abyssal Shield, the Demon King Armament might not withstand the next hit.
Not only herself—even Kurei and Melu could die.
In that split-second crisis, Desolate Fire charged forward and shouted at the top of her lungs:
“Excuse me, but are you the universe’s super-invincible, peerlessly beautiful, flawlessly proportioned, brilliantly intelligent, equally skilled in literature and martial arts, a once-in-fifty-thousand-years-forward-and-backward genius Abyssal Demoness the likes of whom Theia Continent’s entire history could never produce a second—Lady Sashaya?”
“Oh? That chatterbox voice… Could it be that talkative sword?”
The red light’s fluctuations suddenly halted.
“I am Nothingness Extinction. You haven’t forgotten me, have you?”
“Yes, Lady Sashaya. I am Desolate Fire. You should…”
“I wondered who it was. Heh, I never expected you would actually return one day.”
A petite figure emerged from the red light, slowly floating downward until she landed in front of Via.
“This is… the Abyssal Demoness?” Kurei’s eyes widened.
“Did I see that right?”
Melu’s face also showed utter disbelief.
In their imaginations, the Abyssal Demoness was supposed to be a ferocious, ancient existence who had lived for countless years, wielded terrifying and overwhelming magic, and could kill magical beasts with a single glance.
Yet what they saw was a petite black-haired girl wearing an oversized black robe. The sleeves were so long they nearly dragged on the ground, and she wore a tall, pointed hat. She looked exactly like an adorable loli playing at witch cosplay.
“Desolate Fire, are you sure this is the Abyssal Demoness?”
Kurei couldn’t help asking.
Why did this Abyssal Demoness look nothing like the description—short and tiny?
“Hm?”
Abyssal Demoness Sashaya lifted the brim of her hat. Through her long bangs, she spotted Via, who was currently equipped with the Demon King Armament.
“It’s you?”
Via switched the Demon King Armament’s voice system to her previous life’s tone and communicated with the Abyssal Demoness.
She took a step forward.
“We meet again.”
“Hey hey hey, Lady Sashaya! The Demon King said he wanted to see you, so I brought her along to find you~”
Desolate Fire reverted to her human form—a completely nude, black-and-white-haired girl with an outstanding figure—and walked over to greet her.
But Sashaya immediately showed a look of disgust. She summoned a staff and pressed it against Desolate Fire’s ample chest.
“Can you not come near me?”
“Aww, Lady Sashaya, you’re still so tsundere. Without me by your side, you must feel so lonely all by yourself, right? Deep down, you’ve been missing me terribly, haven’t you?”
“Shut up!”
Sashaya snapped angrily. Using her magic, she sealed Desolate Fire’s mouth like a zipper.
After dealing with the overly talkative nuisance, she turned her gaze back to the Demon King.
“Ville, you came all the way to the Thousand Sea Abyss to disturb me. Are you tired of living?”
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