Abyssal Chronicles

Chapter 674 - 675: The Despair of Asar

"Miss Limo! If you keep making a fuss like this, Lady Yumo will get angry!"

"Can you behave yourself? If you keep this up, believe it or not, we’ll tell Milady!"

"If Lady Yumo gets angry, the consequences will be severe! You don’t want to make your mother angry, do you?!"

"Besides, we’ve already promised you, when the opportunity arises, we’ll let you eat the high-quality meat of the Chosen Ones! Can’t you stop fussing about wanting to eat those cheap things?..."

…

…

While trying his best to suppress the "gluttonous wolf in his head," Kardo kept roaring in anger.

As it turned out,

The knight commander’s roar was quite effective. After hearing these warnings, Limo’s rebellious spirit began to weaken.

She was gradually overpowered and pinned to the ground by Kardo.

After all, deep down, Limo still held great fear for her mother.

However,

As Kardo spoke these words, Asar, who was leaning nearby, was suddenly frightened pale, as if struck by thunder, and stood frozen in place.

’Miss Limo is, is the Snow Devourer? A demon king?’

After realizing that his uneasy conjectures were true, an unprecedented fear surged in Asar’s heart.

His heart nearly stopped beating.

In his wildest dreams, he could not have imagined that the noble and just Black Rose family he admired would be colluding with abyssal demons?!

What a joke!

Why would humans help abyssal demons?

Moreover,

From the commander’s words, it seemed they were not too friendly towards the Chosen Ones.

If his identity as a Son of Destiny were revealed, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Just imagining himself being tied up, seasoned, and served at the table of the snow-white giant wolf made Asar gasp in horror.

He regretted his decision to eagerly seek refuge with the Black Rose, like a lamb walking into a tiger’s den.

’I…’

’I… I actually went through so much trouble to seek refuge with the Black Rose? Even sacrificing my dignity?’

Recalling his arduous journey to seek death at the Black Rose, and the humiliation of living in disguise among them, Asar suddenly felt an urge to slap himself.

’Damn it!’

’I’m such a fool!! To think that I eagerly wanted to blend in here?! Really, if this continues, I won’t even know how I’ll die!’

’No, no way!’

’I can’t stay in this cursed place any longer! I must escape!’

....

Due to the pressure of Limo’s Shadow Force being dispersed by Kardo’s fighting spirit, Asar finally regained control over his body. Seizing the moment while Kardo was still preoccupied with the trembling Snow Devourer and not paying much attention to him, Asar quickly used the "Town Return Scroll" he had acquired from the cunning fox lady merchant to swiftly escape the battlefield and retreated back to the maids’ dormitory.

Then, the surviving Asar immediately began planning his escape, intending to sneak away from the Black Rose family.

However, although he was desperate to flee Sabelius, Asar’s intelligence was not overwhelmed by his anxiety. Knowing well the Black Rose family’s strict and almost perverse control over the movements in and out of their territory, he was acutely aware of the gap between his own strength and that of the Black Rose Knights, as well as the family’s higher-ups. With so many experts in Sabelius, it was impossible for him to sneak away unnoticed.

He thought of buying a teleportation scroll from the cunning fox lady merchant again, but couldn’t afford it due to lack of money.

(Asar: If only I had saved some earlier instead of impulsively buying so many items…)

Of course, Asar wasn’t completely out of options for escape.

After a moment of enlightenment, he immediately agreed to Lady Wanya’s previous arrangement - to go to Anvika and serve as a maid in training for the young lady. Initially reluctant, Asar changed his attitude overnight, showing unprecedented enthusiasm! He even proactively inquired about when they would depart for Anvika.

Asar’s sudden over-enthusiasm, a stark contrast to his usual laziness, even led his colleagues and Wanya to misinterpret it as a sign of some serious illness.

— "This kid? Has his brain been hit by a cannonball?" —

Asar’s reason for such enthusiasm needs no further explanation.

He saw this as an opportunity to leave for Anvika and escape from the Black Rose family’s stronghold in Sabelius!

Now, even the southern region, which Asar had always considered safe and reliable, had been silently infiltrated by the forces of the abyssal demons. Asar couldn’t fathom where on the continent could still be considered safe. After much contemplation and internal struggle, Asar made a decision.

He planned to seek refuge with the Asumos Church, to join the Girl of Destiny...

For someone like him, who just wanted to get by day to day, this was a cruel decision, but a necessary one.

Even the righteous Black Rose family was secretly controlled by abyssal demons, and Asar dared not imagine how many forces on the continent were covertly infiltrated by them. Although joining the Church might mean losing his freedom and exposing himself to danger, he could at least be certain...

The Church would not collude with the abyssal demons!

Originally,

In Asar’s grand plan, due to the lack of manpower in the Black Rose family in Anvika, he could seize the opportunity to escape and head to the Church. However... as the saying goes, plans can’t keep up with changes. To ensure her failing student learned the ways of servitude, Xiao arranged for Wanya to take full care of and teach him.

Considering the ’guardian’s’ level 6 strength,

Asar, being fully aware of his limitations, reluctantly abandoned his original escape plan and continued to wait for an opportunity.

Sadly,

Before the opportunity even arose, it seemed his life was nearing its end.

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At this moment,

In the living room of Yumo’s apartment,

Asar stared at the enchantingly beautiful, almost celestial black-haired girl not far away. His pale red eyes held not a trace of admiration, but an indescribable, extreme fear. Under this unprecedented terror, his heart nearly leaped out of his chest.

Cold sweat dripped down his forehead one drop after another, and his back was soaked with it.

’Is she... is she Lord Yumo?’

Asar thought uneasily to himself.

At first,

Regarding the meeting with this young lady of the Black Rose family, Asar didn’t feel much unease or fear. In his eyes, Miss Yu was just a lady unconcerned with worldly affairs and not much of a threat. His disguise was perfect enough to deceive many top experts of the Black Rose family, even the Black Rose Duke at peak level 8.

It shouldn’t be difficult to fool Yumo.

He had already escaped from the Black Rose’s den of demons, so this hurdle should also be smoothly overcome. He was a Chosen One, surely protected by fate!

Originally,

That’s what Asar thought.

However,

This morning, before departure, Wanya, his senior staying in the same hotel, suddenly seemed to remember something, quickly came to his side, and spoke seriously.

--

"By the way, Sister Asar."

"Hmm? Is there something you want to instruct?"

"I got too excited thinking about meeting that lady, and I forgot to tell you something. When there are no outsiders, you should address ’Miss Yu’ as ’Lady Yumo’ and treat her with the highest standard of etiquette. Understand?"

"Lady, Lady Yumo?"

"Yes! You must know, she is an even greater existence than our Duke! You absolutely cannot be disrespectful, understand?"

--

With just a few simple words of explanation, Asar’s mood plummeted like a roller coaster, falling from a hopeful heaven into a despairing abyss.

The name ’Yumo’ was both unfamiliar and deeply etched in Asar’s mind.

Unfamiliar because, in the three months since coming to the Black Rose family, he had only heard this name once. Why deeply etched? Because this name was what Kardo shouted to stop Limo! The existence that could be called Limo’s mother!

’If Miss Limo is a Demon King, her mother is probably an even more terrifying being.’

At that time,

’Lady Yumo must also be above the Black Rose Duke...’

’Such a status, could this ’Miss Yu’ be... a final boss-like existence?’

At this moment,

Asar’s brain worked at high speed, and he suddenly realized.

He seemed to suddenly understand why the Duke specifically called him, a mere intern maid, to take care of the young lady! Perhaps the other party had already seen through his identity, calling him over to sacrifice him to the final boss?!

This,

’This time, really, really doomed, aaaaaahhhhh!!!’

’My goddess!!’

’Is this how you protect me?!!!’