NOVPUBEly ignored Skyla’s complaint as she was still trying to eliminate this demon girl’s hostility. After giving this demon girl the cold shoulder, she could gain favorability after a little considerate treatment.
Even though her current identity was fake, she at least needed to take advantage of every variable for a greater cause.
However, she didn’t try to get along with this nightmare demon girl. After all, she was not the supposed fiance and had to leave when the time came.
It was still an assumption, but Ely felt Gerrard Fear had died because of Celestia. He tried to eat her and could only blame himself for his demise. So, Skyla’s real fiance was already dead.
Even so, Ely couldn’t possibly explain anything. The current status quo, where everything depended on many misunderstandings, was the best situation for her.
"Young lord, these are the spirit stones you asked for."
"Good. We will continue hunting monsters and invaders to the northwest."
Ely gladly received the storage pouch from the protector.
On the way here, they never encountered any cultivators, only demons and monsters. Nevertheless, Ely managed to scam the two protectors into bringing her many spirit stones.
’I’m sorry, I still need your Nightmare Clan’s assistance. After successfully preventing the ancient demons’ invasion and bringing out my people, I will stop using your identity. Even if you are a bad demon, I will spare your clan and help them with some treasures as my reward. You don’t need to thank me, nightmare demon young lord... rest in peace in hell.’ Ely kept the storage pouch and prayed in her heart.
After that, she took out the spider demon guide. She didn’t know the location of the realm’s portal, but she couldn’t ask her temporary demon underlings.
She knew she had to go to the northwest but did not know the direction. She also couldn’t measure it with the moon because it was not the authentic moon.
All she had to do was to follow the agitated monsters. Still, she accidentally eradicated the previous horde of monsters with the help of her temporary demon underlings.
"Hey, wake up, you stupid spider. Where is the Desolate Valley?" Ely poked the seemingly dead spider with a thin twig, and she spoke softly.
"!?" The Little Spider Queen stepped away from the thin twig. She lay in the cage because she was exhausted after trying a thousand ways to escape.
This dark knight demon was genuinely savage. All she wanted was to get her body back, not become a pet! She was powerless, and the enemy was terrifying. He killed a 9th Rank lich demon with one move. Even though it was her in her prime condition, she would be seriously injured if she tried to fight such a strong lich.
The Little Spider Queen obediently pointed in a northwest direction. Desolate Valley was there. She was bound by a contract and was still this dark demon knight’s guide temporarily.
"Good." Ely nodded in understanding. She went in the designated direction. They would meet another horde of monsters soon.
"My young lord, is that an Araneae Spider?" Daphne slowed her steps and asked curiously.
"Hmm." Ely responded briefly.
"Would you like to raise her as a pet, young lord? She might be able to become a Spider Queen under your care in a few years."
"Maybe..."
Ely also secured a big bundle of demon spider’s egg sacs. She could nurture an army of demon spiders and build a spider’s silk factory in Sacred Mountain later.
’D-don’t give him any weird idea! This queen was already a Spider Queen long before you were even born, stupid moon demon!’ The Little Spider Queen expressed her protest, but nobody could understand it.
*Squish*
Ely found the demon maid’s breasts pressed against her arm, but she was still wearing armor. This demon maid tried to seduce the young lord right under the fiance’s nose?
Skyla noticed it, and she immediately made her move. She pulled Daphne away from her fiance because of complex feelings of jealousy. The young lord’s future wife was her!
Skyla and Daphne exchanged stares, but the latter looked confused. Daphne ended up apologizing.
Ely ignored that because she didn’t feel involved in that petty dispute. She felt slightly guilty towards them because the real young lord had perhaps already departed for the afterlife.
*Rumble!* *Rumble!*
An earthquake occurred, and a battle took place in the distance.
Ely could tell that a horde of monsters was nearby, and a group of cultivators might have encountered the said monsters in their exploration.
Ely was about to go there and slay some more demonic monsters, but several notifications popped out before her vision.
[Celestia is drooling]
[Celestia is showing extreme hunger] 𝑛𝘰𝘷𝑝𝘶𝑏.𝑐𝘰𝘮
"!?" Ely gasped and immediately activated her Sacred Vision to check her surroundings.
Celestia reacted, and it would go into action. A 10th Rank creature was clearly nearby!
"Roar!"
A loud roar caused an earthquake.
It was about a kilometer away. Ely widened her eyes when she found a giant monster opening its mouth large, about to release something out.
*Swoosh!*
A bright red destructive beam was fired, but Ely’s group happened to be in the gigantic monster’s attack trajectory.
"Get down!" Ely pushed down the nearby demon girls and jumped from Skyla’s flying flower artifact.
"Eh?" Skyla lost her balance and fell with the demon maid.
The dark sword Celestia emerged from Ely’s chest, out of her armor, without breaking it.
She had prepared her defensive artifacts to protect herself and her temporary demon underlings, but Celestia magically cleaved the destructive beam into two.
"Gerrard Fear!" Skyla was furious. She fell, face first, into the mud. However, the environment was suddenly destroyed as she barely got grazed by a highly destructive beam.
Skyla, Daphne, and the two protectors gaped at the sight. Their young lord cleaved the 10th Rank monster’s destructive beam with his body!
"Retreat!" Ely shouted, but Celestia already pulled her towards the 10th Rank monster.
The God-tier darkness sword emerged ultimately, and Ely immediately grabbed its handle. She flew like a superhuman, but she was just got dragged by her sword.
"You are still sheathed? But, please slow down!" Ely complained but shot like a missile at the gigantic monster ahead.
*Boom!*
A burst of dark energy engulfed the surrounding area in destruction.
The ground within a two-kilometer radius was blown into the air.
Celestia stabbed the gigantic monster’s back. The 10th Rank Dragonoid Gorilla with steel-like skin mashed into a pulp, eroded by the dark energy.
"Roar!" The Dragonoid Gorilla tried to resist the corrosive effect but was in vain. It could do nothing and died just like that.
Celestia devoured the gigantic monster.
’Is it over?’ Ely wondered in her mind after the seven-meter-tall monster melted like a wax statue in the fire.
Only the black mud remained, and a few dying people were around. Those cultivators suffered severe injuries and were almost dead.
"Hmm?" Ely was wondering about how those people survived Celestia’s dark energy blast.
[Celestia is satisfied]
[Celestia is sleepy]
[Celestia is asleep]
Celestia slipped from her grasp, and Ely tried to catch it. However, it dodged and floated on her back.
"O-hey..." Ely didn’t know what to say. Any God-tier weapon or artifact in her inner space was hard to control. They rarely listened and obeyed her orders.
Celestia emitted its God-tier aura of darkness, and Ely was enveloped in it too.
At that moment, Ely remembered her temporary demon underlings. They might have been blown away by the darkness blast!
Ely then observed her surroundings. These dying cultivators would surely be dead if she didn’t help them. Since they were fated to meet her here, then she might as well save them.
Therefore, she put them into the hostage storage pouch. She also put in a healing assistance artifact and controlled it remotely to heal the injured cultivators.
"..." A particular human mage was still conscious despite suffering severe burns.
He saw a dark knight slaying the gigantic monsters with ease. This ancient sacred realm was a death trap with many deadly regions and countless demonic monsters.
However, someone finally came to save everyone.
"H, h-he... lp..." The dying young mage grasped the dark knight’s arm and begged for help. He didn’t ask for himself but for the dying girl next to him.
"..." Ely threw the dying mage and his female friend into the hostage storage pouch. She would help the dying cultivators, and they would pay some vitality for her service. It was a small price to save people’s lives.
For those who died from the 10th Rank monster’s destructive beam, she could do nothing for it.
After that, she left the vicinity to regroup with her disciples. They headed towards her, but she changed their destination toward the realm’s portal.
