Chapter 66 Lords (2) I've waited for you for so long, my dear child...
While the meeting in the sky was still waiting for its last participant, Xia Ying had already successfully infiltrated the prison located underground in Cocytus.
After Xia Ying unlocked the prison gate with the access granted by Fafnir, they entered a dark corridor that seemed to have no end. Numerous doors lined both sides of the corridor, each with a string of numbers written on it.
"What does this number mean? Room number?" Xia Ying pondered to herself. Turning around, she saw Cerberus still lost in thought. She couldn't help but wave her hand in front of his eyes. "Cerberus, are you still thinking about that, Cerberus?"
“…Hmm.” Cerberus snapped out of his reverie and said apologetically, “I’m sorry.”
As if to escape the gloom in his heart, the demon dog quickened its pace and walked up to Xia Ying: "Alright, let's look for it quickly..."
“Wait, Cerberus.” Cerberus was pulled back. He turned around and saw Xia Ying’s serious expression.
She said to him, "Let's solve your problem first."
“Let’s talk about Typhon,” Xia Ying said. “What kind of abyssal creature is she? And what do you think she’s doing in Cocytus?”
Cerberus paused, as if only after getting a breather could he continue.
"She is an extremely powerful abyssal creature, but what is even more terrifying is her insatiable desire."
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“Lilith is always like this.” Typhon idly sharpened his sharp lion claws on the conference table, his tail swishing back and forth as if no one else was around. “Although she’s not as strong as Nidhogg, nor as cunning as Yaksha, she’s the most annoying one.”
"Is it because you've gained the least advantage from Lilith during all your years of conquest?" Yaksha sneered. "Oh, right, that's all thanks to your exceptionally cruel child... what was his name again?"
“Cerberus,” Typhon said calmly, “was the most useful of my many children, but sadly he betrayed me.”
Nidhogg, the black dragon, revealed a smile full of fangs: "Some abyssal creatures actually regard me as the most cruel lord of the abyss. They should really take a good look at you. After all, I would never use my children as a disposable army."
“Thank you for your praise, Nidhogg,” Typhon said cheerfully, then looked at the Demon Lord, “So, Demon Lord, you should know that these Abyssal Realms are still in a state of bloody war. What is the reason you have summoned us here?”
The Lord of Demons smiled and said, "However, it seems that everyone has their own reasons for responding to my call."
The lords fell silent, each eyeing the other with their own thoughts... and of course, the Demon Lord and his Ring Kings.
The Demon Lord took in the turbulent undercurrents before him, glanced up at the sky, and spoke in a cryptic tone.
"Tonight, the Necromancer's Moon will rise to its highest point."
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"So, Typhon threw you and Fenrir into the harsh environment of Nibelungen, ordering you to kill each other, threatening to take only the one who survives," Xia Ying exclaimed in shock. "It's even more cruel than I imagined! Are all the mothers of the abyss creatures like this?"
“How would I know? I’ve never had another mother!” Cerberus said uncertainly. “It should be, probably, only Typhon was like that, right?”
Xia Ying continued, "Judging from the result, you defeated Fenrir, right?"
“Yes, I could have killed him.”
Cerberus's tone subtly changed, and Xia Ying immediately noticed, "You're not Cerberus, you're the shadow?"
The black-haired man with blood-red eyes turned his face to her and smiled, but the next second, his expression changed again.
"You're not allowed to run around like that!" This time, the speaker was Kernel again.
Typhon's appearance did indeed shake Cerberus's spirits, and he closed his eyes, trying to calm himself down.
Xia Ying looked at his furrowed brows, stepped forward, stood on tiptoe, and gently kissed Cerberus's trembling eyelids.
"...!"
Cerberus opened his eyes again, and Xia Ying was pleased to see the panic in his eyes slowly being covered by another emotion.
Xia Ying cupped his face in her hands and asked, "Are you feeling any better now?"
“Okay…uh, no,” the puppy said clumsily and slyly, “I’m not completely better yet.”
Xia Ying smiled and kissed his lips again. Cerberus wrapped his arms around her waist and deepened the kiss.
By the time they parted, Cerberus was so engrossed in his thoughts that he had no time to worry anymore.
“You must be feeling much better now,” Xia Ying said. “What happened between you and Fenrir after that?”
“Huh? Oh!” Cerberus had almost forgotten the previous topic. He thought for a moment and continued, “I defeated Fenrir, and I should have killed him, but I didn’t.”
Xia Ying clearly showed a slightly touched expression: "It really is because of the deep brotherhood..."
Cerberus immediately felt a chill run down his spine, and goosebumps rose all over his body: "No! I just don't want Typhon to get his way!"
Perhaps for this reason, Fenrir was always jealous of Cerberus, the chosen one...
“Perhaps Fenrir was the luckier one,” Cerberus said. “I often thought that later, and I began to envy and hate him, and even regretted not killing him.”
“So, Fenrir is jealous that you are chosen and needed, while you are jealous that Fenrir has freedom,” Xia Ying couldn’t help but laugh. “Both of you only care about what the other has.”
“I’m not like him,” Cerberus said smugly. “I managed to break free from Typhon’s control, and then I found you. He really should be jealous of me!”
Xia Ying reached out and rubbed him, then suddenly exclaimed as if she remembered something: "Ah!"
"What's wrong?!"
“I suddenly realized something.” Xia Ying looked at the numbers on the doors on both sides of the corridor. “I know what these numbers mean.”
She took out the Student Handbook and opened the Important Events and Calendar Markings section: "These are dates set according to the Corcytes calendar. I guess the dates on the different doors indicate the imprisonment dates of the prisoners being held there."
Xia Ying kept flipping through the calendar until she finally found the date marked "School Start Date".
"The prisoner we're looking for is hiding behind the door marked with this number!"
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"Instead of always blaming me, why don't you talk about Lilith?" Typhon said impatiently as he waited. "Don't you all think she's a little too mysterious?"
Yaksha agreed, "Indeed, even the hell she rules rarely sends out any information."
"The silent Lilith might be more terrifying than me, after all, no one knows what she's planning behind the scenes."
Typhon said meaningfully.
“Lady Typhon, I understand your concerns, but there are two obvious errors in your words.” The Demon Lord gracefully rose from his seat. “First of all, if I wanted to kill you all, I wouldn’t need to go to such lengths.”
He unfurled his six jet-black wings and simultaneously drew a scepter from the void.
"Secondly, the purpose of my meeting is exactly the opposite of what you guessed."
He did not elaborate on the meaning of his words, and at that moment, the Necromancer's Moon reached its fullest moment, with blue moonlight flowing over the black feathers of the Demon Lord.
Tartarus said briefly, "Alright, let's begin."
"What start?" Nidhogg asked, puzzled. "Lilith hasn't arrived yet, has she?"
“No,” Tartarus said, “Lilith has already arrived in Cocytus.”
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Xia Ying stood in front of a door and said definitively, "This is it."
She exchanged a glance with Cerberus, then pushed open the prison door with force.
The moment the door opened, blue moonlight fell into Xia Ying's eyes, and at the same time, the prisoner in front of her came into view.
It was a woman with black hair, a face similar to Xia Ying's, and a pair of black wings that Xia Ying didn't have.
“I’ve been waiting for you for a long time, my dear child.” She smiled sweetly at Xia Ying. “Hello, my name is Lilith.”
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