Chapter 1205: Chapter 45: Devil’s Daughter’s Warning
People have always associated exorcists with devotion, but this term has nothing to do with Hades.
Land of Light, noon.
As a teacher of exorcists, Hades met the ten apprentice exorcists in the school building.
Their first lesson was Hades narrating past stories.
Passing through the corridor outside the classroom, one could faintly hear Hades narrating with emotion.
"The last exorcist? Maybe once, but now I have returned from hell..."
"What did Lu Li tell you about me, an exorcist? He’s too humble. Do you know, before thirty, I was already an exorcist, and now I’m 58, do you know what that means..."
"Back then, Lu Li was just an ordinary person. Let me tell you a secret, do you know who made him become an exorcist? It was me. He was just a person who didn’t even know about ghosts, worse than you, even. Back then, there weren’t as many bizarre occurrences. Most people had never seen real bizarreness, ghosts weren’t uncommon though..."
"I saw him grow up...develop, from a newbie who tricked me out of the Spirit-Calling Gun to ’the one who rings the Evil God’s Death Knell’, and then became a Legendary Exorcist. Do you know which evil god he defeated then? It was the old form of the Mother of the Marsh in the territory..."
"Yes, he’s an investigator. Investigators don’t have the resoluteness exorcists and night watchers do for the bizarre. Do you know what night watchers are?"
Hades’ rambling left Langeler unable to interject, stemming from an emptiness he accumulated. But his age and experience allowed him to somewhat fool these young people who were only twenty years old.
...
In the wooden cabin on Lake Heart Island, Lu Li signed the next weaving machine transfer agreement.
The content was that Vena Ice-Free Port gifted a fleet of warships and three arsenals, along with a repair factory, to the Land of Light.
However, these were all left on the surface and needed to be retrieved personally.
The only thing the Refuge could do was dispatch the Knights Order to the surface for brief support when Lu Li and his team arrived at Vena Ice-Free Port.
The camp desperately needed these things, especially the warships; only with more vessels could more allies migrate over, freeing the camp from being limited to just self-preservation.
After signing the transfer agreement, Merchant Anthony took it to Vena Refuge. Lu Li opened a drawer and took out a paper with to-do items written on it.
[Find Anna: Clue 1: Paradise Valley; Clue 2: Shadow Cultists’ Faith]
[Avoid the third-stage ’Door’: When you see it, it can touch you. Don’t let "it" get close, don’t be touched by "it"]
[Midnight City-related: Find the remnant people, investigate the lost truth, reclaim Midnight City]
[Build the Land of Light: Establish order after the sixth batch of residents arrive; migrate more dreamwalkers; migrate the Shadow Swamp; migrate the Shadow Church; migrate potentially existent Midnight City remnants; migrate the Plant Habitat;]
Because the warships’ priority was higher than other matters, Lu Li added a separate line for them.
[Accelerate migration speed: Method 1: Acquire Vena Ice-Free Port’s warships; Method 2: Solve Merchant’s Inner World pollution]
Nothing was faster than merchant transportation, as seen from the four merchants supporting nearly 100,000 people’s resource transport for Vena Refuge. However, any living thing entering the Inner World must inevitably suffer from pollution.
The many bizarreness of the surface and the old sewers can ignore the Inner World aura, as they were born in chaos and died in chaos, but humans and allies are not suitable.
Unless the camp finds a way to resolve the pollution aura.
Thus, Lu Li added: Find a way to resist the Inner World aura under [Build the Land of Light].
Ophelia could also make use of it, at least preventing the Inner World aura from breaking her reason, leading to a repeat of tragedies.
And newly added supplements: [Investigate Land of Vortex, Shipwreck District, Ashes District, Silent Hill]
To reclaim the Land of Light, these bizarre habitats are unavoidable.
Underlining Land of Vortex, Lu Li prepared to put away the paper.
Sting—
A burning pain suddenly came from the back of his hand. Lu Li looked down at the inverted pentagram on his left hand, as the increasing burning sensation caused the inverted pentagram to shimmer that dark red like flowing lava.
The burning sensation lasted a moment, then slowly faded. Lu Li bent down to pick up the fallen paper on the floor and put it back into the drawer, calling for Merchant Anthony to contact Devil’s Daughter.
[I will rise at night]
Quickly, Merchant Anthony returned with a message from Devil’s Daughter.
...
After finishing dinner, Hades returned to the shed with a bulging belly under the setting sun.
Just as he opened the door, Hades suddenly sniffed and suspiciously turned to the distant manor: "Sulfur...What did that Glatan steal from my fortress?! Or perhaps..."
In Princess Roland’s annex, Lu Li waited for Devil’s Daughter to arrive in the renovated yet still old meeting room.
The Mother of the Marsh, twisted figure, and Ophelia were also here.
At a certain moment, Lu Li’s brow furrowed slightly, glancing at the briefly warm brand.
And they, along with Ophelia, looked towards the open corridor outside the meeting room.
The pungent sulfur slowly seeped in, and flaming hoof prints appeared on the wine-red carpet, approaching the meeting room.
The shadow gradually appeared with the strong sulfur smell, and the black-haired and black-eyed Devil’s Daughter emerged from the void, causing the flaming hoof prints to vanish.
Black ponytail under a black tailcoat, pale skin fitted with white gloves. Devil’s Daughter disregarded the nearby two Alien Gods and wraiths, approaching Lu Li indifferently: "According to the agreement, you must go to hell to fulfill the contract."
"Not now."
Neither Lu Li nor the Land of Light had the power to combat a Devil Monarch existing for thousands or tens of thousands of years.
It might not be as strong as Midnight City’s Lady of Midnight, but not far behind.
Like ink spilling into clear water, Devil’s Daughter’s scleras were dyed black by the pupils: "You have broken the contract..."
"The contract was for me to help you deal with your father." Lu Li calmly countered, "But are you sure we can handle that devil?"
"You must bear the cost of breaching the contract..."
Devil’s Daughter simply whispered as if stating facts, her deep dark eyes fixed on Lu Li, her body rising in black smoke, burning, white gloves aflame, and hideous claws extended from burning fractured skin to seize Lu Li—
The surrounding dimmed, and shrill screams echoed in the meeting room. At this moment, an obscure power suddenly descended, suppressing the hellish aura approaching Lu Li.
The morphing Devil’s Daughter twisted and melted under the oppression, converging into a deep smoke, the deepest black pupils condensed inside.
"When you’re truly ready, I’ll come find you."
As the black fog dissipated, the light in the meeting room gradually returned.
Devil’s Daughter left as quickly as she had come, as if merely fulfilling some "routine duty." The whispered echo reverberated in the meeting room.
"I’ll remind you, human. I’m not the one who activated the brand. His patience is running thin..."