bantayden Chapter 484: The Exchange
Chapter 484: The Exchange
“Whoa! It really works!” Adele was the first to exclaim in surprise. Looking at her masterpiece on the drawing board, her eyes lit up. Seraph and Lucifer, on the other hand, had their surprise suppressed by other emotions, so they only reacted later.
Seraph was the first to react. A faint impression of the city Adele depicted also surfaced in her mind. Then came Lucifer, who had been in a daze for a long time. Seeing the expression of this former archangel, Adele basically realized that her guess might have hit the mark!
The city she saw in her dream was indeed the former utopian country, Sodom. So the question became, why did the memory of it exist in her spiritual realm? Did “Adele” have anything to do with it?
In fact, this wasn’t just Adele’s confusion. At this moment, Lucifer looked at Adele with an expression of excitement, like a hunter who had found its prey.
“I’m very curious, why you...” Her gaze was sharp, as if it wanted to pierce through Adele’s skin and see into the girl’s heart.
Adele felt a little creeped out and couldn’t help but cross her arms and rub her own. “Don’t say you’re curious, I’m also curious!”
“But can you not look at me with such a scary look as if you’re going to dissect me!!”
Fortunately, Lucifer was still someone who could communicate. At least so far, she hadn’t shown any hostility towards Adele. Therefore, facing her overly direct gaze, Adele could only verbally admonish her.
“My apologies.” Lucifer wasn’t stubborn. Her gaze returned to the drawing, looking at the magnificent buildings on it, feeling as if a certain shackle in her heart had become loose, and memories related to the past came flooding back.
Lucifer sat there in a daze for a long, long time. Adele took the opportunity to wink at Seraph. Seraph obediently came to the girl’s side, and Adele put her arm around her, whispering. But it looked a bit like intimate whispers between lovers.
Especially since Adele wasn’t being honest at all, always getting close to Seraph’s ear, licking it from time to time while talking, making Seraph blush, and her body gradually feeling something she couldn’t ignore.
“How come I feel... a little unreliable?”
“Is she here to answer my questions, or am I here to help her recall the past?”
“...Sorry.”
“Silly, why are you apologizing? You’re also doing this for me... so it’s okay. On the contrary, I should reward you well, Seraph. Do you want...” Adele began to whisper like a succubus.
Seraph was a little shy and tugged at Adele’s skirt, telling her not to continue because... Lucifer could definitely hear her! Maybe she was even secretly laughing at her!
Unexpectedly, Seraph, who was usually expressionless, would also have such worries one day. Lucifer was her past sister, friend, and also enemy, and possibly even her superior. Although the Lord of Heaven didn’t explicitly divide ranks, Lucifer, as the strongest among the angels, had always taken care of the weak Seraph.
But Lucifer really wasn’t secretly laughing at Seraph. On the contrary, she only felt envious and nostalgic because love was such an intoxicating, even corrupting thing. It came from the soul, a puzzle that even gods couldn’t solve.
“Miss Adele, could you please draw a few more pictures of Sodom for me?” Lucifer suddenly requested, interrupting the gradually increasing, indescribable intimacy between Adele and Seraph.
Adele quickly coughed. “Cough, cough! Of course.”
She saw Lucifer’s longing for that city, which was completely different from her own curiosity and need to uncover the secrets. The girl was also happy to make up for the regret in Lucifer’s heart, especially since Seraph had told her that part of Lucifer’s memory had been sealed by a powerful law.
Lucifer’s expression turned serious, her eyes full of gratitude. “Then I’ll have to trouble you. Please rest assured, I’m not... a freeloader, is that how you say it in this era?”
Wow, was this the learning ability of an angel... she even knew the word freeloader. But why didn’t Seraph feel this way at all? Perhaps because Seraph hadn’t fallen in the past, so she was very slow to accept new things? She instinctively resisted everything in this world, this era, until Adele became the bridge connecting her and this world. Only then did she gradually become willing to familiarize herself with and learn everything about this world.
And Lucifer was different. Because of that girl, she had deeply loved this world from the beginning and was naturally willing to protect it. Perhaps this was why the Human Race was willing to accept these fallen angels and let them act freely.
“I will give you corresponding compensation, also a very important relic to me.”
“!” Adele’s eyes lit up instantly when she heard the word compensation. But then when she heard the following “relic”... She suddenly felt a little reluctant to take it from Lucifer.
Because the existence that could be called a “relic” by Lucifer, if nothing unexpected happened, was most likely something left to her by the Primordial Witch Shirley, right? Seeing the hesitation on Adele’s face and sensing her concern for herself, Lucifer smiled and shook her head.
“It’s okay, I’m just keeping it for her.”
“If she was here, maybe she would hand it to you herself.”
“...” Huh? What? If that Shirley was here, Adele would have already given up, okay! She didn’t want to get involved in the drama between her and the Lord of Heaven. The girl just wanted to spend a leisurely and relaxing daily life with her harem and live a meaningful life.
But if the Lord of Heaven wanted to destroy this daily life, then regardless of whether He was a god or something, Adele would definitely raise the weapon to strike down gods.
At Lucifer’s request, Adele immediately began to diligently draw. Was this method of using magic to generate drawings considered “AI drawing” in the magic world? Although it was equally convenient, it seemed to be two completely different directions from the fundamental concept.
One image after another of the city of Sodom was drawn, but without exception, Adele removed the existence of “Adele” from them. The current situation was that Adele and Seraph had concealed the existence of “Adele.” Lucifer wasn’t one of those who were qualified to know this secret.
Although Adele knew better than anyone that the spiritual imprint of the utopian country Sodom... was very likely directly related to “Adele,” it was basically the domain she explored and mastered. Adele was just a traveler who strayed into it.
Before the right time came, she wasn’t even allowed to enter, just like how the girl was driven out by “Adele” today.
“Finished!”
“I’m exhausted!” Adele said in an exaggerated tone. In front of her were dozens of images of the city of Sodom recorded from various angles. Tears even faintly appeared in the corners of Lucifer’s eyes. N-No way!
But for Lucifer, of course, there was a way! This was too much! Adele had never experienced the mythical era and didn’t understand the hardships before and after the establishment of the utopian country, nor the romance and revolutionary friendship, even love, that transcended gender, race, and any conditions of the people in that era.
What appeared in Lucifer’s eyes was their former “Sodom”! “Thank you, Miss Adele.”
“This is the best gift I’ve received in thousands of years.”
“Seraph, you’ve really fallen in love with an amazing person.”
Lucifer organized «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» the pile of drawings, magically mounted them to ensure they were safe, and put them into her space stone. Then she took out another thing from the space stone.
It was a crystal magic ball. In the center of the magic ball was the mysterious silhouette of a girl. From the sudden gentleness in Lucifer’s eyes, it could be seen that the silhouette in the center of the magic ball should belong to the legendary Primordial Witch Shirley.
“This is...” Adele asked in a puzzled voice.
“A slice.”
“Huh!?” Adele was startled.
“Not the scary kind of thing you imagine,”
“But a slice of magic power,” Lucifer explained.
“A slice of magic power? What is it used for?”
“Inheritance.”
“Shirley hoped to find more like-minded partners, so she cut off her own magic power and injected it into the magic ball.”
“Don’t underestimate this slice of magic power.”
“It contains a huge amount of magic power that countless mages may not be able to accumulate in their lifetime.”
“Ordinary people can hardly do this. Only Shirley... she seems to be the source of magic power, with an inexhaustible and inexhaustible source of magic power.” Lucifer’s eyes were full of admiration, and there was also nostalgia in her eyes as she looked at the silhouette in the crystal ball.
She seemed a little reluctant, but in the end, she still handed the crystal ball to Adele carefully.
“...”
Adele felt the warmth of the crystal magic ball when she held it, and she felt a sense of responsibility in addition to nervousness. After the exchange, Lucifer seemed to be ready to leave. She stood up from her kneeling position and looked at the bright moon outside the balcony behind her.
“W-Wait, there’s one more thing!” Adele suddenly seemed to remember something and called out to stop her.
Lucifer turned around and looked at her with gentle eyes. Adele explained, “Actually... it’s like this.”
Then, she told Lucifer about the “Gu Domain” carried by Tang Linlang. According to the previous analysis, the war the Gu Domain wanted to participate in was precisely the war between Shirley and the Lord of Heaven in the mythical era.
It was just a pity that there was a little deviation, and it was later artificially sealed... It was really unlucky for this insect civilization. Of course, it was also possible that they had calculated something, so they were willing to lie dormant until this life and reappear in the world.
Theoretically, today’s war with the Lord of Heaven was a continuation of the war in the mythical era. The girl wanted to learn about this otherworldly insect civilization from Lucifer.
Lucifer’s eyes also changed from confusion to sudden realization, then to admiration and emotion.
“Unexpectedly, what Shirley once said... is true.”
“Huh, did she tell you about the alien insect civilization!?”
Lucifer nodded. “She did. After she got drunk once, she couldn’t help but show off.”
“Saying that... she had already become a god believed in by an insect race in another world, and taught them how to evolve or something.”
“Everyone thought it was nonsense, and no one took it seriously.”
“Shirley, who was dissatisfied, simply used this as an excuse and...” Lucifer stopped in time because she realized that the next process, in this era, seemed to be something that could not be spread by words or any other medium.
Otherwise, it would be considered illegal. Adele’s mouth twitched. The actions of this Primordial Witch Shirley... why were they so similar to someone’s?
She definitely wouldn’t admit that this “someone” was herself, meow!
“Th-Then what else did she say?”
“I suddenly thought, drunken words are sober thoughts. Since the insect civilization has been confirmed to be real...”
“Then does that mean that the other boasts Shirley made after getting drunk are also real!” Adele asked curiously.
Lucifer’s lips parted slightly. “What you said seems to make sense.”
“Let me think carefully.” Saying that, Lucifer fell into deep thought.
“I’ve got it. She talked about a giant evil god egg the size of a planet in another world. She used words that penetrated the world barrier to guide it to hatch, and as a result, she seemed to be treated as its mother.”
“She had seen a blue planet with no spiritual energy at all, but it was a very beautiful world.”
“And she developed a new position... ahem, nothing!”
After listening to Lucifer’s words, Adele was completely dumbfounded. This one was really not a quiet person... But she was very curious.
“Why... could she communicate with so many worlds?”