Abyssal Chronicles

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"..."

Upon hearing Youlan’s words filled with hostility and hatred, Yumo tightly clenched her fists while staring into Youlan’s emotionless, deep blue eyes. Her palms, which wouldn’t even bear a scratch from dozens of forbidden curses, were now covered in shocking bloody marks.

Yumo’s feelings towards Youlan were complicated.

Undoubtedly, Yumo harbors strong feelings for Youlan. After all, Youlan was the first to accompany her upon her arrival on this world. During those fifty or so years, Youlan helped her adapt to life in this new world, cope with the reality of its architecture, and alleviate her unspeakable loneliness.

After Youlan took form, Yumo, who was still unfamiliar with the language and their relationship, even had some strange thoughts about this child. However, once their relationship was clear, Yumo always considered Youlan her most important daughter.

While Yumo loves her eldest daughter, she is also severely dissatisfied and even utterly disappointed with her actions. Youlan’s reckless slaughter of their demon kindred, killing innocent humans against her will, and the thoughts of infecting the entire world with Shadow power are all unacceptable to Yumo.

Especially her actions against her brothers and sisters to absorb power, which drove Yumo to fury.

However, no matter how angry or disappointed she might be, Youlan, who has already left the Winter Forest, is still defined by Yumo as her crazy, disobedient, and rebellious child who needs a good spanking. In Yumo’s heart, Youlan is still her child.

And now,

When Youlan uttered those words, Yumo was stunned.

Those contemptuous and merciless cursing words were like sharp swords piercing through Yumo’s heart, leaving her heart cold and her face pale.

One sentence after another, one stab after another.

Continuously penetrating Yumo’s being, causing her unprecedented massive emotional harm. It’s as if all her senses were lost, and all her blood began to dry up. This gut-wrenching feeling made Yumo involuntarily step back several steps.

She wanted to say something, but Yumo found that she had no strength to argue.

The black-haired girl fell into silence.

"..."

Unlike Pierre and Kalina,

Though like those children that came after, Youlan also considers herself a her doughter.

However, Youlan was not a child she created, but had existed in the Winter Forest from the beginning, one of the most ancient demon kings.

Yumo still isn’t entirely sure how Youlan came into being.

In Yumo’s view, there are two possibilities...

One is that she was born before Yumo arrived in this world, absorbing enough of the Shadow energy released by the Demon Temple. The other possibility is that she was created, either by a being similar to a mythical demon king or perhaps... created by her ’ ancestor ’...

Regarding whether she had a predecessor, Yumo had long been suspicious. After all, when she had once asked Youlan, the child’s answer was simple: that she, Yumo, had created her.

However, Yumo had no memory of this, which led her to suspect that she might have had a ’ ancestor ’...

And now, based on what Youlan had said, before Yumo became the consciousness of the Demon Temple, it was indeed controlled by another consciousness. This other consciousness might be Youlan’s actual mother. In that sense, Yumo had indeed usurped her mother’s body. She was a fake, an impostor. This was a fact Yumo couldn’t deny.

No matter what, she was arranged by the goddess to come into this world as the final boss, the ultimate experience bag for the hero party. Realizing this, a hint of guilt unconsciously crept into Yumo’s eyes as she looked at Youlan. At the same time, Yumo’s brow furrowed slightly. One thing was bugging her: [why had Youlan never mentioned the ’promise’ and ’creating a beautiful paradise’ to her before? Was it because she had been silent and reserved at the time?]

However, Yumo now had no time to ponder this issue.

Because right after Youlan’s hysterical roar, the woman strangely calmed down. Slowly, she lowered her hands that had been tearing at her own face. Accompanied by a wave of bluish shadowy energy, Youlan’s face, previously marred by Yumo’s grasp, instantly healed.

The anger and hatred had vanished from her deep blue eyes, replaced by a terrifying calmness. A calmness so cold it sent shivers down the spine.

Youlan lifted her honey-colored hair and glanced toward the south, where the royal academy of Luminous was located, and where most of the teachers and students were now.

"But now that I know you’re just an impostor and not my mother, I have even less reason to listen to you... I’ll do what I want to do..."

Yumo’s thoughts were immediately pulled out of her reverie, as she followed Youlan’s gaze toward the south.

"You want to harm the Girl of Destiny?"

"Yes."

Youlan didn’t deny it but openly admitted it.

"You always wanted me and my brothers and sisters to be like training dummies for the hero team, right? Fine, just this once, I’ll play along. I’ll be the big bad boss they have to beat. Happy now?"

Youlan’s words had a sarcastic edge.

"No, I gave up on that idea a long time ago!"

Yumo quickly said.

She did think like that once, but that was back when she didn’t really get it. After she saw that her kids had real feelings and how close they’d gotten to her, Yumo ditched that whole ’making them bosses’ plan.

And besides...

In Yumo’s earliest trial plans, Youlan was no ordinary boss. she was a top figure in the Abyssal Demon forces, aside from Yumo herself! she was the boss that the protagonist team had to face before challenging their own final stage. At that stage, the protagonist team should have been at least at the high levels of stage 8…

And now?

Mengxi’s strength was merely at the peak of level l6. Even with the ’Miracle’ buff, there was no way she could win against Youlan.

If Youlan makes his move now, Mengxi will undoubtedly die.

Moreover, it’s not just Mengxi who’s at risk. If Youlan’s tremendous power were to burst forth, the entire Luminous would be flattened, and the students within the academy would likely not be able to escape death either. The same goes for the Sebastian and the Elves.

No matter how you look at it, Yumo can’t let Youlan run amok here.

"Youlan, I’m warning you, don’t act recklessly,"

Yumo lowered his voice and spoke seriously.

At that moment,

Feeling Youlan’s increasingly dangerous aura, Yumo’s blue eyes began to gradually turn into their original scarlet color. The vast and boundless shadow energy that Yumo suppressed within herself began to stir inside the young girl. Clearly, if Youlan began to act, Yumo would release her power at the first opportunity to suppress her.

As for what consequences would arise from revealing his identity after releasing his power, Yumo could no longer consider.

"Don’t act recklessly anymore, Youlan. You know that as long as I’m here, I won’t let you kill her."

"Of course, I know. Although you’re an imposter, you can still control much of my mother’s power. With you protecting the Girl of Destiny, I can’t hurt her."

"Then don’t."

At this, Youlan smirked:

"Sure, I can’t touch her if you’re here. But what if I can get you out of the way?"

"What do you mean?"

Yumo looked puzzled.

"Doesn’t matter if you’re on guard. You won’t be able to resist this."

"What are you talking about?"

Youlan just smiled and didn’t answer.

Then,

The honey-haired woman slowly took out a light blue magic stone from her space ring under Yumo’s watchful eyes. It was the communication magic stone Yumo commonly used. Just as Yumo was puzzled about the meaning of Youlan taking out the communication magic stone, the magic stone in Youlan’s hand suddenly emitted faint blue light.

With the activation of the magic stone, a familiar voice suddenly entered Yumo’s ears. It was the cry of a little girl,

...

"Ahhhh sob*…"

"So dark, so ugly, so scary, Ahhhhhh…"

"No… No! You… monster! Get away! Don’t come over! Aaaaahhhh!! … Wuu wuu wuu… Help… help me! Mommy! Mommy, where are you!!! Mommy!!!"

...

What,

What is this?!!

In an instant, the black-haired young girl’s face changed drastically, and her pupils contracted sharply.

"This, this voice is, Yuan’er?!! You... you... what did you do to Yuan’er?!!"