Abyssal Chronicles

Chapter 641 - 642: Demon King "Dark Soul"

As the supreme of the Wind Domain of Holy Tower, Nolan was extremely confident in his ’invisibility’ technique. After assimilating his body with the air, even someone at level 8 would struggle to detect his presence, especially high above the ground.

It should be noted that in his past trips to gather intelligence over Anvika, he had never been discovered, not even by the renowned founders of the Red Leaf Empire.

Before this operation, Nolan had honed his covert techniques to perfection.

Now he was like a gust of air, a cloud drifting high above, impossible to be detected.

However,

...

"What are you doing here, Uncle?"

With this cute and slightly puzzled voice reaching his ears, Nolan’s eyes shook uncontrollably, his body stiffened, and his confidence shattered. A wave of astonishment surged from the depths of his heart.

"I... was discovered?"

For the first time being found while in stealth mode, Nolan shook his head in disbelief.

However,

As a supreme of the Holy Tower, Nolan quickly steadied his emotions and cautiously observed the uninvited guest with his staff at the ready.

"Who’s there?! Who’s speaking?!"

Before he could finish, Nolan’s eyes narrowed, and a gust of wind howled from his staff, dispersing the clouds at the source of the voice. The pink figure was then fully exposed before Nolan. Despite his vast experience and composure, Nolan couldn’t hide his surprise upon seeing the figure.

"A... a little girl?!"

Indeed,

Nolan found that the person who had discovered him was nothing but a little girl, seemingly around ten years old, not yet outgrown her childishness.

The girl wore a finely made black and white dress, her soft pink hair tied into cute twin ponytails. Her delicate face was beautiful and innocent, with striking heterochromia eyes, shining like two exquisite gems.

Undeniably,

The girl looked as delicate and charming as a porcelain doll.

Of course,

Nolan wouldn’t let his guard down because of her appearance. Being able to find him in stealth mode and silently approach him, he knew this little girl was not to be underestimated.

And moreover...

Narrowing his eyes, with the ’Wind Domain’ activated, Nolan sensed some subtle power fluctuations around the girl.

That surging power, hidden in the shadows, was precisely the type Nolan feared most...

The Power of Shadow.

" Are you an abyssal demon?!"

Realizing the girl’s identity, Nolan’s eyes suddenly widened, and a burst of emerald light shone in his eyes.

This supreme of the Holy Tower didn’t hesitate to unleash the suppressed magical power within him!

Being able to control the Shadow force and having a human form capable of speech...

’This girl must indeed be a demon king!’

---

Faced with a demon king, a wave of intense hostility and hatred swept through Nolan’s heart. The ultimate evil of the continent had appeared right before him, and as a defender of justice, Nolan couldn’t remain indifferent.

In an instant,

The formidable magical aura of a level 8 divine mage burst out, enveloping the sky. The sky changed colors as the wind whipped up clouds. Under Nolan’s control, his magic power rapidly converged at the tip of his staff.

"Holy Domain Magic - Loros Meteor Wind Blade."

With the rapid chanting of the spell,

Accompanied by the screech of the Grim Reaper, several streaks of emerald energy blades, formed from compressed pure wind magic, burst forth with the terrifying momentum of cutting through everything, howling towards the pink-haired little girl! Nolan’s attack showed no mercy, each wind blade possessing the horrifying power to bisect a castle.

Many abyssal demons and enemies of the Holy Tower had been sliced to pieces by these wind blades.

However,

Faced with Nolan’s sudden attack, the little girl naturally wouldn’t just sit and wait for death,

A flash of crimson light quietly passed through her heterochromatic eyes.

Suddenly a surge of black light flowed around the pink-haired girl. A liquid-like black glow suddenly erupted, enveloping the girl in a huge sphere of dark energy, forcefully resisting the wind-blade attack. When the multitude of wind blades collided with the black liquid shield, the terrifying aftereffects spread out instantly, grinding the surrounding clouds into nothingness.

Fragments of black liquid and wind blades scattered across the sky.

After a moment,

As the barrage of wind blades ceased, calm returned to the sky.

Miles of dark clouds were annihilated under the assault of the wind blades.

The black sphere, having endured several wind blade strikes, was riddled with holes and numerous cracks.

"Hmph! Foolish…"

Seeing this, Nolan couldn’t help but let out a cold snort.

His wind blades possessed terrifying penetrative power; a direct confrontation was undeniably foolish.

Even if her defense wasn’t completely shattered, some of the wind blades should have pierced through the black liquid and struck her body.

Even if not fatal, she would have surely been severely injured.

So Nolan thought.

However,

The next instant,

As the black liquid dispersed, Nolan felt as if he had been slapped across the face.

"What?!"

"How is she not even wounded….?"

The pink-haired girl, now visible again, was not bloody and wounded as Nolan had imagined. Instead, she was completely unharmed, still calmly floating in mid-air.

"How is this possible?"

Nolan’s hands trembled.

’Did she have a secondary defense mechanism?’

’Or was she too small?’

’Did the wind blades just miss her?’

...

Gripping his staff tightly, Nolan fell into deep thought.

However,

Before he could sort out this question, the pink-haired girl spoke first.

The girl tilted her head in confusion, her little hand pressed against her lips, blinking curiously at Nolan:

"Old man, I was just saying hello? Why did you attack me?"

---

The words were filled with innocence and purity.

However,

Hearing this, Nolan frowned as if he had heard something utterly ludicrous, letting out a series of cold laughs filled with mockery and disdain:

"Heh, what a foolish question. If I don’t attack you, should I just come up and hug you instead?"

"But I didn’t do anything, why attack me? I just wanted to say hi to you, just a friendly greeting."

"Friendly? What a joke. How many humans have you abyssal demons devoured and killed?! A friendly greeting?! Pretentious creature, planning to kill me when I lower my guard, aren’t you?!"

Nolan gritted his teeth, shouting angrily:

"I’m not so easily fooled."

"Oh? Is that so… You seem to really hate us, don’t you uncle?"

"Nonsense! Thousands of our Holy Tower disciples have died at your hands, how could I not despise you?!"

"Okay, I get it."

Observing Nolan’s battle stance, the murderous intent and bottomless hatred accumulating in his eyes, the pink-haired girl seemed to realize that their relationship was irreconcilable. She stopped talking, instead shaking her head and pouting adorably as she fell into a cute contemplation.

Meanwhile, Nolan vigilantly monitored the girl’s every move while secretly releasing a signal for backup, attempting to contact his colleagues at the embassy.

Being discovered, he had to prepare for the worst.

But…

’Pink hair? A little girl?’

’Not the Blood Butterfly described by the Asumos Church’

’Another demon king entity?’

’The flowing black liquid… Could she be the new demon king entity that caused havoc in Wind City and the Snow Night Capital? Known as ’Dark Soul’ for her attacks involving black light and black liquid...’

’Why would this entity appear here?’

More importantly,

’Being a newly emerged demon king, how could she have detected me?’

’Was my action discovered by Demon Temple, and she sent Dark Soul to eliminate me? To silence me?’

...

Thinking about how his confidently perfected skills were countered and his supposedly flawless reconnaissance action was forcibly terminated even before it started, Nolan couldn’t help but bitterly smile. However, he didn’t have the luxury to regret or ponder anymore.

Now, the most pressing concern was how to face this entity before him...

Feeling the gradually swelling power of the dark, silent shadows, Nolan tensed up, every cell in his body trembling, ready for the imminent battle.

Under Nolan’s intense gaze, the pink-haired girl sighed resignedly, then arrogantly pointed at his forehead,

"Since you hate abyssal demons so much. Fine, you can be this young lady’s sparring partner then~"

As soon as her words fell,

The surging black power around her instantly concentrated and compressed into thousands of pitch-black magic claws, cutting through the air, striking from all directions towards Nolan…