YM778.TV Chapter 204: Hiding in the shadows and guarding it like a mere watchdog
"...." Rose Dawn and her sister Luna Dawn remained silent as they observed Alexander entering the Domain Realm.
"You\'re late... Adriana Dracula" The same emotionless voice echoed.
"sshhhh"
"I abandoned that surname long ago... Ms. Dawn" A voice resounded throughout the area as a woman appeared with silky black hair, small sharp ears, and sharp ruby-red eyes with dark outer rings that were colourless.
Her presence was imposing, and the air seemed to grow colder.
"M-Mother!!" Zera shouted as she ran towards her, about to hug her when,
"Zera Adriana!"
Hearing an indifferent voice, Zera\'s body flinched as she gulped and tried to back off.
"I told you not to separate from him"
".....I-I am so---"
"Scylla!" Ignoring her daughter\'s plea, Adriana shouted at the blue-haired woman. Her voice held a mix of anger and disappointment.
"...." Scylla had no choice but to bow her head, knowing she was responsible for letting this happen.
"ggrrr" Adriana gritted her teeth and clenched her fists, her eyes filled with anger and frustration.
She then shifted her gaze to Mia, who had fainted in Mariel\'s embrace.
"Tsk, Waste! Waste! Such a waste! Every single one of you is nothing but useless!" Adriana\'s expression grew angrier with each passing moment. Her eyes were fixed on the live video, watching Hero and the others battling the Dungeon Walker.
A dangerous glint gleamed in her eyes as she telekinetically lifted a few people who had been hiding nearby.
"Leave, before I obliterate every last one of your News stations"
Seeing her true anger, Reports who invaded the premises was petrified and immediately apologized, before running away.
"Y-Yes, Your M-ajesty"
"Yes, P-lease Forgive us"
"I-I am sorry"
"..."
...
"Ms. Adrian--"
"SHUT UP!! Alden Evergreen!!" Adriana\'s voice thundered, causing dark mana to seep from her, withering plants and reducing everything to ashes.
"....Ms. Adrian--"
"Allow me to enlighten you....Nex Academia will be the first to fall into oblivion, with no trace left of its thousands of years of history" Adriana declared, cutting off Headmaster, Alden Evergreen\'s words.
\'Gulp\'
Alden gulped audibly, fully grasping the fact that a certain single woman had obliterated millions of people in just minutes.
"M-Ms. Adriana... I\'ve had discussions with council members, but..."
"So, they refused to relinquish the \'Nex Heart,\' correct?" Adriana\'s expression shifted, her gaze directed toward Nex.
"Yes, the Nex Heart!" Suddenly, Scylla exclaimed, her eyes widening with realization as if she had just remembered something crucial.
Others looked at her with a frown.
"So, can we save him?" Scylla asked with a hopeful smile as she gazed at Adriana.
".... Yes, with the help of the Nex Heart, we can bypass the restrictions on the portal, but..." before Adriana could finish.
"Then let\'s take it!" Scylla declared with a determined look.
"We can\'t allow that" an emotionless voice interrupted from above. But Scylla didn\'t pay attention to anyone else; instead, she turned to Adriana.
"What are you waiting for?" She stood before Adriana.
"...." Adriana\'s gaze shifted back to the live footage. Hesitation flickered in her eyes.
"Oh, I see..." Scylla, noticing Adriana\'s hesitation, let her lips curl down in a disapproving manner,
"You\'re the Vampire Queen, I understand. Your subjects should come first to you....ah"
Scylla with a disgusting look continued, "A woman like you isn\'t the right choice for him.....I hope you reconsider your decision" She started walking away.
At the end of the day, Adriana was the ruler of the Fallen Continent, and she had sacrificed a great deal to build her empire. Her hesitation was understandable and even now she was under the pressure of someone who might destroy the whole Fallen Continent with a single snap of their finger.
The onlookers were shocked by Scylla\'s unexpected vocal opposition against the Vampire Queen, a maid speaking with such disdain for her queen.
"I told you, We can\'t allow that" the emotionless voice from above repeated, exerting pressure on Scylla that caused her to collapse.
"Scylla!" Zera shouted, rushing to her aid. But before she could, Scylla had something harsh to say,
"AA, Bitch, who do you think you are? Hiding in the shadows and guarding it like a mere watchdog" Scylla spat, her lips tainted with blood.
"!!" The individuals who had remained in the air expressed their shock and disbelief. On the ground, confusion ran through the crowd, except for Rose and Zera, who shared a look of astonishment.
"H-How did you..." The emotionless voice faltered for a moment, but then...
"Truly, you low beings never cease to amaze me...hahaha"
"...A-Alysia?"
All eyes turned to the screen, where they saw the Elven Queen, ruler of the Flora Continent, kneeling before the monster.
""Alysia?"" Both Aadya and the Headmaster muttered in shock.
Taking advantage of the distraction, Scylla prepared to make her escape. However...
"Don\'t you dare think you can leave without answering us" The emotionless voice echoed, and Scylla felt herself being lifted off the ground as if some force were pulling her.
"Ms. Dawn!!" Adriana\'s gaze shot to the sky, where the people covered in the mana barrier could only see a blurred image.
So what others saw until now was nothing but blurred images of individuals nothing more.
\'Sshhh\'
\'Thud\'
With a wave of her hand, Adriana dispelled the force pulling Scylla, and Scylla gently returned to the ground.
"...I\'m taking that" Adriana indicated as she placed her hand on Scylla, and they were about to disappear, but a blurred figure suddenly appeared, blocking their way.
"\'Nex Heart\' is more important than the lives of the people inside, and as a ruler, you understand that, right?" The figure stated with an emotionless voice.
"....." Adriana remained silent.
"No, Adriana, don\'t... If you do this, we might suffer the consequences of a terrible, we\'ve already lost enough because of that thing" The figure warned with a deadly tone.
"Either way, it will all end if she becomes angry" Adriana said, shrugging her shoulders.
"...Why?" the voice asked in confusion, \'Why that woman would get angry?\'.
It was then,
"Do not come closer to me"
Adriana, Scylla, Zera, and....even Mia, who was supposed to have fainted, suddenly turned their heads to look.
"E-Eli!" Adriana muttered as her eye colour returned to normal.
"M-Master!" Scylla exclaimed her lost happiness returning.
"Eli!" Zera sighed in relief, her beating heart finally stabilizing, if only a little.
"Brother... Mother, Big Brother is fine!" Mia shouted without realizing what she had just said. Her thoughts were only filled with her Big Brother.
"..." Mariel was momentarily stunned, her happy tears leaking from the corners of her eyes. But it didn\'t last long, as they all watched Eli kiss Alysia.
"ssshhhh"
Adriana, Scylla, Mia, and Zera released their killing intent, while the others were taken aback by this sudden situation.
"Who is that, Bitch?"
"Just like you, Another bitch wants his underwear"
"I knew it, this bitch would do something like that"
"....We just have to kill that slut face"
Their words made it clear that they were deadly serious, and everyone understood, while a certain old man\'s cry went unnoticed by anyone.
"...." The person who had appeared to block Adriana was left completely baffled, unable to comprehend these girls.
"Eli?" Everyone now focused on the person.
"Is he really a mortal?" That was the question on everyone\'s mind as they saw Eli. story by m|v_l,e,m,p,y,r
As they continued to watch in astonishment, they finally understood why Alysia, the Elven Princess/Queen, complied with the monster\'s order. But that didn\'t mean others could disregard the matter; her act of kneeling before the monster was really shameful and disrespectful as the ruler of the Flora Continent.
"He is inhaling too much Mana!!" Aadya said with a grim face.
"W-What you mean, Ms. Aadya?" Mia asked.
"....Well, that place was dominant with black mana so it was dangerous to draw mana from surrounding. Others could easily draw mana from their Soul Crystal since it acts as a storage, however..." Aadya adjusted her glass before glancing at Mariel and continued,
"Soulless, A Mortal using Mana Breathwork draws mana from their surroundings only so.....Those Dark Mana started to affect his body. There will a chance his body will be corrupted and....change into Fiends, A mindless Monster"
As soon as those words came out,
Eli was pinned down by the monster and dark patches appeared around his body.
"W-What should we---" Just as Mia and others were trembling again when,
/By the power of our pact
"ROOAAARRRRRRRR"
A deafening roar echoed around the world, startling everyone.
"D-Don\'t tell he---"
"Hehe..hahahahah, So, he finally tamed her...ah?"
"Hahahah.....hahaha Damn, I am sure from our torture, she must have felt, Eli is her saviour and all"
Both Adriana and Scylla laughed like maniacs, leaving others baffled by the situation.
"A-Adriana, don\'t tell me this--" The emotionless voice was cut.
"Mythical Beast that lost in the Dark Era" Scylla said with a smug smile.
Everyone had a shocked and astonished expression.
"I-It can\'t be, every Mythical Beast has gone extinct and nothing lef--" That figure mumbled but,
"Yes..." Adriana nodded and looked at Eli who sitting on the throne with a devilish smile....Everyone felt a shiver run through their spines.
"Heh...It\'s Fate, I guess" Adriana mumbled as she felt a tingling sensation in her stomach.
And What\'s more, they were stunned by the Dark Mana dissolving from Eli\'s body....it was truly one the shocking things that everyone in this world wanted to know.
\'So, someone, able to stay sane even after being corrupted by Dark Mana\' Those were thoughts that echoed in their mind.
"ROOAARRRRRRR!!!!"
To my side, I Summon You An-----/
Scylla watched as the video signal was finally cut off, and she couldn\'t help but think,
\'Well, I don\'t want to accept this, but damn, that woman really knew what to do... she\'s more dangerous than Adriana.
Lilith wasn\'t an ordinary woman to begin with, and her obsession with Eli seemed to grow stronger every day. She received reports from Adriana and me about Asher Eli, "HER HUSBAND" tsk, regularly. Of course, I omitted some of the "important stuff".
But when Lilith learned that he had taken "two women" as servants, including the cat monster (Woman), she considered them a threat and was hell-bent on eliminating them....However, She controlled her urges for the sake of "HER HUSBAND" .
Tsk, I don\'t know why she was pressing those words as if itch it on our face...Anyway, She then said something really surprising that not only shocked me but also Adriana.
Lilith, who had lived longer than any of us, recognized the cat monster as an ancient mythical beast. She didn\'t understand why it was alive or how it had become an Overlord of a dungeon. But when she saw the servants\' pictures, her expression changed dramatically, and she ordered them to torture the cat as much as possible....as well as Prisania.
Adriana reluctantly agreed although she didn\'t like the idea.
We likely get an idea of what she trying to do....but, I am saying the second time, \'That woman really dangerous\' just like how she allowed me to be with him after knowing how to use me for my powers \'Tsk\' She was really a cunning woman I have to be careful around her\'.
Then everyone saw that the red portal was starting to change into white.