Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 949 - 444: The Sugar-Coated Cannonball of the Abyss, a New Oracle
[You push open the great doors at the mausoleum’s exit, appearing before an assembly of Demon Lords who have been waiting for a long time...]
[At the front, the ’Demon Shaman’ had been hoping that you would emerge as the victor of the challenge, but no one knew better than it, the executor of the ritual, that you were just a feeble ’Horned Demon’.]
[It yearned for you to walk out of the mausoleum, yet rationality told it that it was an error in the ritual steps that resulted in the birth of a Horned Demon instead of an Abyssal Child.]
[Now that you have appeared unscathed, the ’Demon Shaman’ is both shocked and secretly relieved, feeling the comfort of a narrow escape from disaster.]
[At this moment, a ridiculous thought surfaces in its mind: Could you, a Horned Demon, truly be the ’Child of the Abyss’?]
[Although the Demon Lords had been mentally prepared, they couldn’t help showing astonishment upon seeing that the final victor was you.]
[Your appearance signifies that a lowly demon in their eyes, the ’Horned Demon,’ possesses the strength to defeat a Demon Lord.]
[Such an occurrence that defied logical understanding leaves no other plausible explanation for them other than you being the ’Child of the Abyss’.]
[The ’Abyssal Slaughter Demon Lord,’ which had repeatedly doubted you, with a crimson body, seemed unconvinced and suddenly questioned, "How come only you emerged? What about the ’Abyssal Agony Demon’ that challenged you?"]
[You scoff coldly and loudly declare, "I’ve always said, anyone who dares to question or challenge me must pay with their life."]
[The ’Abyssal Agony Demon,’ having had the audacity to be the first to jump out, has naturally died as the price for failing the challenge.]
[However, in recognition of its bravery, you allowed it to die within the mausoleum, to rest in eternal sleep alongside countless ancestors.]
[Unlike a certain Demon Lord who dares only to move its lips, but doesn’t dare to challenge you...]
[By now, the majority of the Demon Lords have already acknowledged your identity.]
[The Demon Clan lives by the law of the survival of the fittest, venerating the strong as supreme.]
[If you, with the weakest ’Horned Demon’ Shell, could kill the ’Abyssal Agony Demon’ of Demon Lord caliber, then as the ’Child of the Abyss,’ once you grow, you will surely wield even greater power.]
[Moreover, the stele explicitly records that the ’Child of the Abyss’ will annihilate the ’Almighty True Knowledge,’ replace the ’Almighty True Knowledge,’ and be reborn as the true ’Abyss.’]
[Currently, you may seem like a weak ’Horned Demon,’ but once you accomplish the great deeds recorded on the stele, you will be reborn as the grand ’Abyss,’ becoming the sacred faith of all demons.]
[With you, the ’Child of the Abyss,’ leading, the restoration of the Demon Clan’s glory is within reach!]
[Many Demon Lords bow their proud heads, showing you devout respect, but a small number of them, especially the ’Abyssal Slaughter Demon Lord,’ still harbor doubts about you...]
[It loudly challenges, claiming that the ’Abyssal Agony Demon’ who just challenged you ranks as the lowest among the Demon Lords in strength.]
[You took so long to defeat the ’Abyssal Agony Demon,’ it doubts the method you used to defeat the challenger.]
[Upon hearing this, Demon Lords who have recognized you turn their furious gaze on it, uniting in denunciation.]
[At this point, you no longer need to explain or refute anything, as you are likely to become the Child of the Abyss, but your mindset has shifted from when you first arrived in the Abyss.]
[Initially, you assumed the identity of the Child of the Abyss out of necessity, in order to save your own life.]
[But after various events, multiple signs indicate that the Child of the Abyss is no one else but you, who was mistakenly transported here.]
[You are the legitimate Child of the Abyss, and the benefits you stand to gain after solidifying this identity are unimaginable.]
[Hence, you must ’eliminate’ every dissenter, nipping any doubt or challenge to your identity in the bud!]
Lin Xun, after obtaining the Shell of the Fallen Master and leaving the mausoleum, had come to understand the whole affair.
The Shell of the Fallen Master, a reward of Divine Level, might indeed exist within the Game Process, but it likely isn’t a reward that should have been available at the current stage or timeline of the process.
This Shell was most likely a reward from the Abyss attempting to buy his allegiance, the cost of the Abyss seeking to undermine the Almighty True Knowledge’s foundations.
The stele’s inscriptions are clear: the ’Child of the Abyss’ will slay the ’Almighty True Knowledge’ and eventually revive as the new ’Abyss.’]
This is clearly because the Abyss itself couldn’t defeat the ’Almighty True Knowledge,’ having been beaten on several occasions while hanging on to Omniscience, and wanted to leverage other powers to kill its enemy.]
This outsider, the Apostle, is a very suitable candidate.]
Apostles, with their extremely exaggerated growth curve, are capable of rapid power leaps within a very short period and are trusted insiders of the enemy faction, privy to numerous secrets of the ’Almighty True Knowledge’ camp.]
If one can sort out the ’True God’s Messenger’ and make the Messenger become the ’Child of the Abyss, there might actually be hope of killing the ’Almighty True Knowledge.’]
Therefore, the Shell of the Fallen Master is likely a reward from the Abyss to buy his allegiance, just that the time for the reward’s distribution hasn’t arrived yet.] 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
Because he has yet to show loyalty to the Abyss, or he has not yet completed the trials given by the Abyss.]
This results in the reward—the Shell—being subject to certain restrictions or seals, causing the option to be unviable for possession.]
But more obviously, ’Almighty True Knowledge,’ no, rather ’Knowledge Servant’ already knows everything.]
