Abyssal Chronicles

"Re-reward?!"

As Maya’s words reached her ears, Yumo’s delicate body trembled involuntarily. She furrowed her brows, unconsciously fidgeting with the hem of her clothes as waves of confusion surged through her mind.

"What exactly are you talking about?"

"Hehe~"

Maya smiled slightly, her pure golden eyes brimming with amusement as she took in Yumo’s adorable reaction.

"Such a cute little thing."

However, Maya didn’t directly answer Yumo’s question. Instead, she unhurriedly sat down on a sofa and leisurely sipped some red tea. As for where the sofa and red tea suddenly appeared from, Yumo was completely baffled.

"I’m quite pleased, you know."

"Pleased?"

"Yes, you have performed better than I imagined over these years."

"Better?"

Hearing this, Yumo became even more confused.

As the final boss, her performance over the years should have been an utter mess. Not only had she failed to train the chosen one according to the goddess’s order, but she had also accidentally killed the previous Son of Destiny. Now she was completely wrapped around Mengxi’s finger. This kind of final boss seemed to have nothing to do with the words "good performance," right?

Glancing at Yumo’s puzzled face from the corner of her eye, Maya’s eyes narrowed slightly.

"Other aspects don’t matter to me. What I really care about is your level of control over your power. From the results, you’ve done quite well in this regard."

"What do you mean?"

"During the 500 years in the Winter Forest, you encountered human attacks multiple times but never lost control. Well... although most of those humans were dealt with by your little cuties. But even after leaving your children’s protection and exiting the Winter Forest, you still maintained control over your power. Initially at Fort Galrose, when faced with your daughter’s injury, you didn’t massacre humans in retaliation. During the battle of Wind City, surrounded by Wilt and the Divine Punishment Sect’s allied forces, you ultimately maintained your sanity. When you encountered Xue Tianao in the Sky Dome, your power didn’t go out of control either. When you came into contact with little Mengxi, who had unleashed divine power, you also resisted the urge to kill. Six years ago during the Anvika Holy War, although you briefly lost control, you ultimately stabilized your power and regained yourself. Now, even when attacked so fiercely by that brat Asar, you weren’t consumed by the Abyssal Lord’s instincts to choose to destroy the world, and even easily suppressed the gradually losing control Momo."

"You...knew ... all of this?"

"All of these were tests for you. The stimuli were gradually increasing, but you ultimately withstood all these stimuli without being consumed by the Abyssal Lord’s instincts. Now, you can almost fully wield this most violent Abyssal power. Honestly, I’m very pleased."

As these words reached her ears, a strong shock instantly filled Yumo’s heart, causing her to completely forget to breathe, her pupils involuntarily dilating.

Clearly, this Guiding Saint seemed to know everything about her over the years, undoubtedly having been watching her all along. More importantly, she even knew about Momo’s existence?! She had never mentioned Momo’s name to anyone?

"It’s not a big deal."

Seeing Yumo’s confusion and shock, Maya chuckled and explained:

"I am the Guiding Saint left behind by the Creator, with the ability to perceive the past and future... There’s nothing I don’t know. Of course I know about your good friend who plays games in your consciousness space every day and her little virtual harem. If I didn’t know, how could I reasonably set up trials for you?"

"Mm."

"Guiding Saint..."

"Call me Maya."

"Lady Maya... I... Aren’t I the final boss? Why give me these trials?"

Hearing this, Maya didn’t answer directly, but rather playfully tilted her head.

"Little one, you’re not stupid, you should have guessed already."

"Your actual test subject... wasn’t the chosen one at all, but me?"

To this, Maya smiled faintly and didn’t directly reply.

But that sweet smile and silent attitude already said everything.

"Then, then why, why did you lie to me back then? Saying I was some final boss, and making me go test others? Making me want to kill myself all day... Ending up just like some masochist idiot."

"This was also part of the trial. If you didn’t think about killing yourself, how would you activate the power of authority? How would you further master all of the Abyssal power? If you didn’t think about being the final boss, how would you have created those children back then, and ultimately let your children become your attachments?"

"Attachments?"

"Yes, without those attachments, how would you go to control the Shadow power? How could you further master these powers?"

"You’ve... been calculating everything about me?"

"In a sense, I can’t deny it."

"…!!"

Thinking that her life, all her actions had been quietly arranged by the other party, Yumo felt a surge of uncontrollable anger. Even though Yumo had vaguely guessed some of this, when she truly learned this fact, she still felt a wave of anger and unwillingness.

However, before Yumo’s emotions could erupt, the silver-haired woman had somehow instantly flashed in front of Yumo, embracing the slightly trembling Yumo in her arms.

"Calm down. About the trials, I apologize to you. I did this out of necessity... I’ll give you satisfactory compensation later. But now... you shouldn’t have forgotten the most important thing at hand, right?"

With these words, the trembling Yumo instantly calmed down.

"The Child of Destiny..."

"Yes... Although I lied to you about so much before, there’s one thing I really didn’t lie about. I can’t interfere too much with this world. Therefore, the task of stopping the Child of Destiny can only be completed by you."

"But,"

Saying this, a trace of redness appeared in Yumo’s eyes.

"The problem is, I don’t know what to do next... Mengxi was controlled before she could finish speaking."

"I know that, so... Remember what I just told you?"

"Reward?"

"Yes... Next..."

Maya slowly lowered her head after smiling, bringing her lips close to Yumo’s ear, and whispered:

"Remember what I say, then do as I say."

Following that, a passage of obscure and difficult unknown language entered Yumo’s mind.

Undoubtedly, Yumo had never heard such a prophecy before.

But for some reason, she could strangely understand its meaning.

At the same time, although the conversation between Yumo and Maya in the consciousness space had lasted for several minutes, less than 0.1 seconds had passed in the outside world. Although the time was brief, Asar, who had regrouped, had already broken through the Shadow power field at full force and reached Yumo’s front.

However, faced with Asar who was at arm’s length, the black-haired girl still kept her eyes tightly closed, hanging her head, apparently not giving any reaction, still in that posture of giving up resistance.

Seeing this situation, Mengxi was extremely anxious, but because she was tightly controlled by Eos, even her mouth was covered, she was deprived of even the ability to shout.

The only thing she could do was pray.

Compared to Mengxi’s anxiety, Asar was overjoyed.

Oh ho?

It seems I thought too much.

What the Girl of Destiny said didn’t have much impact after all.

Asar instantly felt relief. At the same time, Asar unhesitatingly thrust his finger, which had gathered the power of heaven and earth and all of his divine power, towards Yumo’s chest. With just one strike, he could completely destroy her core! Next, what he needed to do was a simple extraction work, to summon the Judgment Temple anew from the corpse.

The victory of the trial still belongs to me!

This moment has finally come!!

Seeing his finger getting closer and closer to Yumo’s chest, while she still had no reaction, Asar felt a kind of ecstasy, a kind of ecstasy of being about to achieve victory, that all her efforts would be rewarded!

"It’s over!"

However, almost at the moment Asar made her final declaration, the black-haired girl who had been silent for so long finally reacted.

In the next moment, under Asar’s astonished gaze, she suddenly raised her hand at an inconceivable speed, grasped Asar’s finger, and directly snapped it off.

The black-haired girl’s eyes also slowly opened,

Still that pair of bewitching crimson eyes.

But at this moment, a pair of ancient runes emitting golden light and full of killing intent appeared in those crimson eyes. The moment he saw those runes, Asar’s face was tinged with a layer of white, and his body involuntarily trembled.

"This farce... ends now."