Marbas was bewildered and turned his head, saying, “What imposter? Samikina, have you gone mad too? Inpos found an imposter claiming to be the Lord of the Abyss, I must catch him and teach him a good lesson!”
Samikina’s expression remained unchanged, but his eyes grew colder.
Marbas was confused. In his impression, Samikina had always been fair, how could he possibly allow Inpos to deceive so blatantly.
Could it be… Samikina, you’ve changed!
However, before he could react, the surrounding space suddenly distorted. When Marbas opened his eyes again, beneath his feet was a scorching hot continent.
Fires burned everywhere, and the cracks in the ground constantly spewed out fierce beast-like tongues of fla.
Marbas was completely at a loss, his fists clenched tightly as he stared intently at Samikina.
“Do you want to fight
over this?”
His temper flared up, and his body shone with dazzling golden light, almost illuminating the entire space.
Samikina didn’t answer.
Half an hour later.
Marbas rose up, Marbas fell down.
He had been taught a lesson and beca even more angry, glaring at Samikina, “Why are you targeting ! Is it because Inpos is smaller, so you’re biased towards him?”
Hearing this, the young man landed on the fiery red ground, ignoring the tongues of fla as he took a few steps, staring into those eyes burning with anger, “Don’t you know your mistake yet?”
Marbas insisted. “I have made no mistake!”
Samikina reached out his hand and knocked on Marbas’s head from a distance, saying sternly: “It’s not an imposter, that’s our real father.”
“What!”
Marbas’s pupils trembled, almost swayed, but then he shook his head and snorted, “Inpos can’t hide it, trying to confuse truth with falsehood? Impossible!”
Samikina calmly said. “It’s true.”
All the air fell silent, leaving only the crackling sound of the tongues of fla.
Marbas stared wide-eyed, his voice trembling as he said. “Is… is it true?”
“It’s true.”
“…”
The two demons stared at each other in silence.
Huh?!
Marbas couldn’t believe it. Did this an he had been treating his real father as an imposter all along? Constantly cursing at his father?
How damned am I!
Marbas’s mind went blank for a mont. He imdiately revived and stood up, rushing forward anxiously asking. “Where is Father?”
Samikina stared at him, took a breath before saying: “Before you see Father, you need to know these things…”
The fierce fire burned the earth, destroying all living things, yet they conversed as if nothing was amiss.
Half an hour later, Marbas was dumbfounded, mumbling. “Ah, actually…”
His eyes shifted, not knowing what he was thinking. Suddenly overco with emotion, he wildly wiped away tears.
“Has Father… been thinking of us all this ti?”
“Yes.”
“Does Father still rember ?”
“He hasn’t forgotten us for a mont.”
“Ugh…”
Marbas buried his head and wiped away tears without any dignity, finally unable to speak clearly.
It’s true, it’s not an imposter, it’s our real father who has returned, how wonderful, how wonderful!
His anger turned to joy, great joy!
Almost simultaneously.
Xiu Si noticed that Samikina, who had just returned, was gone.
Where did he run off to?
Just as he was about to look for the child, the little ragdoll ran back, leaping into his arms in one or two bounds.
Xiu Si was a bit surprised, but before he could ask anything.
The little ragdoll spoke first, saying Samikina and Inpos had gone back to watch the store!
Xiu Si was startled, “Do they know how to get back?”
The little ragdoll was super confident, saying of course they do! Don’t underestimate them, they’re all quite capable. The human world is a piece of cake for them!
Seeing the ragdoll so confident, Xiu Si thought about it and agreed. His children could stay safe in the abyss, so they should be able to adapt completely to the human world.
Moreover… Xiu Si trusted Samikina very much.
Samikina was a steady child who wouldn’t do risky things. He probably went back early just to check on their ho.
He didn’t need to worry too much.
However, when he turned his head to look, the clock showed it was already 7:30 PM.
He needed to get back quickly. He wasn’t sure if there would still be food for sale on the way at this ti. He wanted to buy sothing for the children to eat.
As a hero himself, his body was ford by magic and didn’t need food, causing him to almost forget the taste of food.
Thinking of this, Xiu Si missed Lelagin a bit.
His cub was multi-talented.
Lelagin was brave and clever in battle, with superb archery skills, hitting the target every ti. In daily life, he was skilled at cooking, a gourt of the abyss at such a young age.
He just didn’t know if his culinary skills had improved over these 8000
years.
He really missed him. Xiu Si still rembered when Lelagin was first created, he was a green little cub who couldn’t stand up and could only crawl. His eyes seed congenitally deficient, always squinting and unable to see things clearly.
The abyss was dark everywhere, and Lelagin feared darkness, seeming to be born with night blindness.
The abyss was practically hell for Lelagin.
He was very worried about this and tried many tis to change that setting, but couldn’t. He could only personally guide Lelagin step by step to get used to the darkness, learning to perceive things in the dark rather than “seeing” with his eyes.
At first, Lelagin wasn’t used to it, always trembling with fear, afraid to walk into the darkness.
But after a certain day, he seed to overco his inner fear, no longer afraid of darkness, and even actively walked into it, making the darkness fear him instead.
Xiu Si still rembered, sothing seed to have happened to him that day.
It wasn’t really a big deal, just that a troll on the opposite side self-destructed before dying, causing magic power to splatter and injure him a bit.
It was a minor injury. Just a cut on his arm.
He hardly reacted, but the children were very nervous, especially Lelagin who was closest to him, his erald eyes trembling as he looked at him, seeming about to cry.
He wasn’t sure what happened to that troll afterwards, only knowing that the children were all very angry that day, silent for the first ti, staring at him intently and protecting him, so serious that he thought they had all grown up.
Also, Xiu Si recalled, Baal unusually used his power that day. In places he couldn’t see, thunder rumbled all night without stopping, the earth trembling, as if dominated by that child’s anger.
The next day, Lelagin said he wasn’t afraid of the dark anymore, there was nothing scary about darkness.
As he spoke, his eyes, which were usually squinting without showing his pupils, opened wide.
That was also the first ti Xiu Si clearly saw Lelagin’s eyes.
They were like a lake in a deep forest, clear and beautiful, ethereal and tranquil.
For so reason, it reminded him of the elf race.
“…”
Xiu Si was lost in mories, silent for a few seconds, then couldn’t help asking, “Buer, do you know about Lelagin’s situation?”
The little ragdoll’s pupils trembled slightly, thinking of sothing unknown. Its mouth opened slightly, then pressed together, finally not saying anything, shaking its head to indicate it didn’t know.
Xiu Si was worried and continued to ask. “After you all scattered, did you rarely gather together?”
The little ragdoll blinked.
According to Aelioge’s account, they had scattered in the abyss, unable to find each other, basically not knowing where other siblings were or what they were doing.
However, over 8000 years was too long. Even though the abyss was vast and boundless, with so many cubs, it seed unlikely they hadn’t t up even once in such a long ti.
Regarding this, Buer was a bit hesitant.
To be precise, for a long ti after their father disappeared, they were still together. Their relationships weren’t good, with frequent conflicts. After their father was gone, the conflicts beca more nurous and intense. But the abyss was so dangerous that unity was strength – this principle wasn’t wrong.
They worked together to occupy territory in the abyss, gradually expanding their domain, constantly growing stronger on the path of leveling up, and finally succeeding in defeating the God of the Abyss. This ant they gained the power to freely enter and exit the abyss, as well as the power to control all the rules of the abyss.
The first thing they did, of course, was to use the power of the God of the Abyss to search for their father.
However, they searched thousands of tis without finding him.
That day, they were silent for a long ti, and then began to suspect that their father wasn’t in the abyss at all and should be searched for outside.
And it was at this point that they began to have disagreents and conflicts.
The center of the conflict was — they were already powerful enough, so why did they still need to restrain themselves and stay with people they disliked?
Couldn’t they each search for their father on their own?
That day, they discussed for a long ti, argued many tis, and the final result was that they scattered, each searching for their father in different parts of the vast world.
Wouldn’t this be more efficient?
Moreover, at that ti, even their weakest sibling had power at the level of a deity. What did they have to fear? In that twilight world where many powerful gods had fallen, did they need to be so cautious? If there was to be a fight, then let there be a fight. What was there to discuss?
Let them scatter!
Of course, scattering aside, they weren’t absolutely avoiding each other.
Siblings who got along well would even team up to cause trouble.
They also had a family eting every hundred years. As the na suggests, all family mbers were supposed to attend the gathering. Those who didn’t co would be personally dragged to their seats by Baal.
The content of the eting was simple: exchanging information about how their search for Father was going, if there were any breakthroughs, and such.
At first, of course, everyone attended the etings. After all, Baal would really co to catch them.
But later… even Baal and Agares were absent. How could the etings continue?
This tradition did continue, but over the years, more and more mbers were absent. There was no binding force, and coupled with their tendency to forget ti while sleeping, naturally they gathered less and separated more.
Speaking of which…
Buer suddenly paused, because it rembered that the next family eting… wasn’t it next month?
It had a distant look, causing Xiu Si to ponder.
The little ragdoll, perhaps realizing it had been thinking too far ahead, quickly snapped back to attention and owed, indicating that they actually did et occasionally.
Xiu Si didn’t know if he had noticed anything, and said mildly, “Regardless, you should get along well with your siblings.”
The little ragdoll nodded vigorously, looking obedient and well-behaved.
Just then, Xiu Si suddenly slowed his pace, finally stopping and turning his head to look at the research lab next door.
Since it was evening, many magicians had gone ho, and this lab was empty.
This seed to be a public magic experint lab?
Xiu Si was inexplicably curious and stood at the entrance to observe.
The configuration of magic labs was more or less the sa, basically a bunch of magical instrunts surrounding several circular table tops in the center.
The table tops were usually covered with magic mirrors that were easy to clean, for magicians to draw magic arrays and various setups.
Moreover, you didn’t need to inject magic power yourself. You just had to operate it a little, and it would automatically inject magic power to activate the magic array, saving magicians a lot of trouble while facilitating universal verification.
From Xiu Si’s position and angle, he could just see the magic array inside.
Curious, he walked in.
The magical devices here were much more advanced and complex than those in the Aust Empire, reportedly because the chanics here were more skilled.
Xiu Si didn’t understand chanics, but he could see their complexity. The difference was so visible that it could be discerned from their appearance.
He stopped to take a closer look, then turned and walked to the magic array, focusing his gaze to observe carefully.
He was very familiar with the magic array on the circular surface, recognizing it almost at a glance as the teleportation technique he had been researching for several days. But it was different from the standard teleportation magic array, missing so structures and reduced in complexity. It was actually… a simplified version.
Xiu Si was a bit surprised. He thought only he would research the simplification of the teleportation technique, but didn’t expect to find it in a random lab he walked into.
So it wasn’t a special idea after all?
Xiu Si nodded silently, thinking it made sense. If he could think of this approach, how could others not? Even in an ordinary magic lab of the great Oedipus Empire, they were doing related basic research.
“However…”
Upon closer inspection, Xiu Si found that this magic array was incorrect and wouldn’t run at all. Trying to inject magic power, it would collapse in less than a few seconds. To make an analogy, it was like a tripod that originally had three legs, but one leg had been removed. The direction of simplification was clearly wrong.
Moreover, it seed this magic array was about to be erased, with traces of erasure in the lower right position.
Xiu Si was silent for a mont, his unconscious compulsion kicking in. He picked up a nearby piece of chalk and started drawing on it.
The little ragdoll, not knowing if it understood what he was drawing, watched with great interest, its erald eyes shining, its little paws dancing.
A few minutes later, Xiu Si finished his simple drawing. He observed for a while, injected magic power, and confird it was running successfully.
Realizing he had arbitrarily changed soone else’s magic array, he felt embarrassed and picked up an eraser, intending to erase it and draw it back for them.
But the little ragdoll suddenly owed, as if saying it was fine, since it was going to be erased anyway.
Xiu Si put down the eraser. Actually, he couldn’t rember exactly how he had drawn it just now and couldn’t restore it for them. Since it was originally going to be erased anyway, it should be alright?
He turned his head to look outside and saw that it was getting darker. It was ti to go ho.
At night, the monsters in the subspace would beco active. Even though they were in the great empire and safety was guaranteed, they still needed to be cautious.
As Xiu Si and Buer were heading ho, Xiu Si reflected.
He had heard that…the Abyss Lords had been frequently visiting the Oedipus Empire recently?
Xiu Si was silent for a mont, realizing he had paid too little attention to such news. Everyone seed to be going about their business as usual, suggesting it wasn’t a big deal.
He thought for a bit, then decided to just head ho with the little ragdoll. Xiu Si’s principle was not to worry about grand things beyond his current abilities, to avoid unnecessary stress. As an ordinary person in the flow of ti, he should just level up normally, doing things appropriate for his level.
He took Buer ho, intending to find sothing to eat, but most shops on the way were closed. Apparently, people were advised to be cautious these days to avoid getting caught up in conflicts between the Abyss Lords.
Xiu Si gazed at the distant sky, wondering why he seed to encounter Abyss Lords wherever he went. Was it just his luck, or was he being overly self-conscious?
He shook his head, silently muttering. “That’s impossible.”
Before he returned…
Samikina had brought Marbas to the bookstore entrance, explaining this was their temporary residence.
Marbas stared in disbelief, carefully examining the bookstore.
Then he asked a very crucial question.
“Why a bookstore?”
Samikina didn’t react.
At this mont, Inpos across from them had mixed feelings. He had thought his fourth brother went to dissuade Marbas, but not only had he failed to do so, he had even brought Marbas back.
His fifth brother Marbas… had quite an unsettled personality.
Marbas then asked another critical question, “Don’t tell
you’re short on money?”
Inpos inwardly retorted, of course we’re short compared to you!
“You’re letting Father stay in a place like this?”
Marbas’s eyes were full of disdain.
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