Chapter 182: Go to Work, Demon Lord!
More than three consecutive months of intense battle left everyone present utterly exhausted.
Hearing the news that the battle had ended, everyone collapsed limply onto the ground.
"Sigh, I'm going to get scolded again when I go back."
Menka let out a sigh, then looked toward Shirazawa nearby.
"There's a piece of bad news I have to tell you guys."
"What bad news?" Shirazawa raised his head, his brows knitting tightly.
"The energy you've gathered now—even if you dismantle the system's redundant functions—can at most only save this planet."
"As for Goddess Sariel, who has long since been drained dry, don't even think about it."
"Even if you free her, her lifespan will be practically nonexistent."
"How could that be?!"
The moment Menka's words fell, Ariel let out a shock-filled cry.
What was to be done now?
Could she only watch helplessly as Sariel grew old and passed away?
"This is an undeniable fact."
Menka shook her head helplessly. "However~"
Speaking up to this point, a sly smile appeared on her face. "You guys have no way of saving Goddess Sariel, but I do."
Hearing this, Ariel instantly leaped up. "Then save her quickly!"
"Ahem~"
Menka cleared her throat twice, saying unhurriedly, "There's no such thing as a free lunch in this world."
"Therefore..."
"No need to say more."
"What do you want?" Ariel asked straight to the point.
This scene caused Shirazawa and Shiraori to exchange glances.
They both felt a sense of visual illusion, like a creepy uncle coaxing a young loli.
"Go to work, Demon Lord!"
Menka held out her hand, speaking with a beaming smile.
"..." Shirazawa was left speechless and lost for words.
Sure enough, he knew this gal had no good intentions.
Although Ariel was D's designated successor, cat-girl, if you intercept her halfway, won't you really get beaten up after going back?
"No problem. As long as Lord Sariel can be saved, I'm willing to do whatever you ask."
Ariel's eyes were filled with absolute determination.
"Willing to do whatever?" Menka raised an eyebrow in return.
Ariel nodded heavily. "Mm, whatever."
"Hehehe..."
Menka laughed like an eight-hundred-pound child, causing Ariel to retreat several dozen meters in succession.
This gal... she couldn't be a butch lesbian, right?
"I have a contract here. Sign it, and your Lord Sariel can be saved."
Menka pulled out a contract and handed it to Ariel, giving the latter a sense of deja vu.
It felt as though Shirazawa had also given her a similar contract to sign back then.
Whatever.
She would rescue Lord Sariel first before anything else.
Just as she was about to sign her name, a cold voice resonated from the sky above.
"Little Menka, even daring to steal my people—is your butt itching for a spanking again?"
"Maaaaster~!"
Hearing that familiar voice, Menka's fur instantly puffed up, her tail and ears standing straight up in a posture like she wanted to scratch a wall.
D reclined lazily upon her throne, her legs crossed in front of her chest, a pair of black eyes staring down at the crowd below from on high.
"Not to mention failing your mission, you even tried to pull off a side hustle—did I treat you too well normally, to the point that you've inflated so much you forgot your own weight?"
"Well..."
Menka let out a couple of sheepish laughs, immediately dropping her head to play dead, not uttering a single word.
With a gentle wave of D's hand, all the bystanders were tossed out of the system core.
She rose from her throne, descending slowly.
"Her skirt actually didn't fly up—Newton's coffin lid is failing to hold down once again."
Shirazawa muttered in a soft voice, yet it was overheard by Shiraori, who was hugging his arm.
A sudden pinch delivered to his waist instantly made him draw in a sharp breath of cold air.
"Hiss~"
"Why did you pinch me?"
"No peeking."
"I clearly can't see anything at all."
"I don't care, no peeking regardless."
Shirazawa instantly fell silent.
Silence is the Cambridge of tonight; it is gold, it is...
Fine, no peeking then. We're identical anyway, it's not like I haven't seen it before.
"This is the legacy left behind by the Dragon Race back then—it's enough for your use. Consider it a meeting gift for you."
Saying that, D tossed a pure, flawless glass bead to Ariel.
"Thank you."
Ariel caught the glass bead with delight, sensing an astonishing wave of energy fluctuation within it.
This was the thing Potimas had spent his entire life collecting—an exaggeratedly concentrated version of MA Energy to the extreme.
With this bead, Lord Sariel could definitely be rescued.
"Don't thank me. It originally belonged to this world anyway."
D waved her hand nonchalantly.
Back when the Dragon Race departed from this planet, they drained all the remaining MA Energy, refining an extremely pure energy bead.
As for why it had currently appeared in D's hands... well, one could only say the Dragon Race departed very peacefully.
"Wrap up the trivial matters here as early as possible, and then come to the Underworld to find me."
Leaving behind these words, D glanced at the two little spiders cozying up on the side, letting out a long sigh.
These two were raised into complete duds; better hurry up and start a alt account.
She scruffed the back of Menka's neck and prepared to leave, only to discover Sophia staring at her with a look of utter astonishment.
"Looking completely identical... Why is that?"
"Negishi-chan has grown up, huh."
"!!!"
Sophia felt as if a bolt from the blue had struck her.
Why did this woman who looked completely identical to Wakaba know her name from her previous life?!
"Your talent isn't much inferior to those two spiders. If you want to overpower your Master and rub him against the ground, then come to the Underworld to find me."
D, feeling playful, secretly transmitted her voice to Sophia.
She really wanted to see what kind of outcome would await the person wildly loved by a yandere once she possessed absolute power.
Sophia stood dazed on the spot, not even noticing when D and Menka had left.
That single sentence echoed continuously in her mind.
"Rub Master against the ground, rub him, hehehe..."
Shirazawa, who was still flirting, suddenly felt a chill run down his spine, his hairs standing on end.
His spider instinct was telling him that he was done for.
"Shiro, let's continue."
Ariel clutched the energy bead, urging Shiraori to destroy the system.
She was already impatient to see a living Sariel.
Gulie remained completely silent from start to finish.
Although he was equally excited in his heart, his tsundere personality wouldn't allow him to express it outward.
"Leave it to me."
Shiraori, who had long since thoroughly mastered the system, focused her mind, her mental power spreading toward the massive block structure above.
*Click, clack, click, clack!*
A massive amount of useless building blocks were dismantled one by one by her, subsequently feeding back a vast ocean of MA Energy.
Lacking the system's support, the world gradually began to collapse.
Shiraori utilized this energy, along with the soul energy gathered previously, injecting both into the planet.
Soon, all things revived, a vibrant, life-filled green color flooding the entire star realm.
On the other half of the planet, due to the Dragon Race's destruction back then, coupled with the later war between the chimeras and the human race...
That place had long since been bombed into a wasteland by nuclear warheads, full of craters, with radiation running rampant.
At this moment, the devastated earth welcomed a sweet rain.
The planet began to revive; the world began to restart.
Everything seemed to return to ancient times, with a little less slaughter and a little more serenity.
As the world tended toward stability, a vast number of functions within the system were eliminated, retaining only the basic features required for daily life.
A massive number of skills vanished into thin air, causing a portion of people to be affected, their souls suffering damage.
The most severe among them were naturally the powerful monsters and human powerhouses like Old Man Ronandt.
Fortunately, they were prepared; most of them had hidden inside the Anti-Magic Barrier Shirazawa had set up back then, and managed to weather it through.
[System undergoing maintenance... Maintenance time: 24 hours...]
A system announcement floated before everyone's eyes, though Ariel and Gulie paid it no mind.
They only cared about whether Sariel could be saved.
As the maintenance approached its conclusion...
[System core beginning detachment. All players please note: from now on, you will lose the prompts from the "Voice of Heaven." Players please check attribute information and descriptions independently in the background interface...]
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