Outside the villa, Sena’s beautiful pink wavy curls swayed in the wind, and in the doll-like cute face, her eyes shimmered with star-like patterns, sparkling.
Dressed in white Lolita and opening a pink-and-white parasol, Sena patiently waited together with the other companions for Gordon’s return.
After the war between the Demon King and the Hero ended, Yang Yu and the others still unabashedly used the teleportation device placed at the Star Clan family stronghold to shuttle all over the world.
When asked "The war is clearly over, what are they still busy with?", Yang Yu would always say mysteriously:
"I don’t have time to explain right now.
In the future, I might need to borrow the Strength you possess.
I’ll explain slowly when the time comes."
Sena didn’t dig deeper; she just silently guessed at the motives behind Yang Yu and the others’ actions, while quietly waiting for the day Yang Yu would need her help.
Maybe because Yang Yu refused the Goddess Sect’s invitation, or maybe because he couldn’t pay the cost to maintain the temporary Teleportation Array—about three weeks ago, the Goddess Sect dismantled the temporary Teleportation Array.
Ever since, Sena hadn’t seen Yang Yu and the others as frequently as she did two months before.
About three or four days ago, Yang Yu finally contacted them again, asking Red Blood Rose to come to this city, strategize the Underground Maze that appeared here, and rendezvous with them.
Red Blood Rose rushed over without stopping, only to find no trace whatsoever of Yang Yu’s group.
Guards and Powerful figures had already sealed off the entrance to the Underground Maze completely, and near the entrance, the Nine-Life Cat Demon Luo that Sena had contracted faintly caught the scent of Yang Yu and the others.
With a bit of asking around, they learned that Yang Yu’s group likely entered the maze to start their strategy the moment it first broke through the ground.
Red Blood Rose wasn’t worried about Yang Yu’s safety; with their current Strength, no matter what kind of Underground Maze it was, it couldn’t possibly stump them.
Since you’re on someone else’s turf, you have to play by the rules they set.
If you accidentally break those rules, you might end up earning their resentment.
Red Blood Rose quickly got in touch with the branch Royal Family that governed this city under Serti’s line and followed procedure to obtain strategy qualifications.
"More or less, they should be coming back soon."
Sena murmured as she twirled the parasol handle.
As expected, Gordon and the others had successfully completed the Task.
Before they were seen, their voices could already be heard.
"That guy absolutely has feelings for you. You’re not getting any younger—ever thought about settling down and starting a family?"
"How could that be?
Miss Liu Li has always been the shy type by nature.
You’re overthinking it.
Besides, stuff like settling down, even Sister Ajing hasn’t considered it yet.
What am I rushing for?"
"I have my own reasons, you don’t need to pry.
With your kid-like body type, although people find you adorable, it’s hard for most to treat you as a romantic prospect.
When you meet someone suitable, you should more or less just go for it.
And to be fair, his conditions aren’t bad."
"For an adventure group like us, is there really any need to care about his conditions?
Instead of worrying about me, Sister Ajing, you should take care of yourself!"
Sena glanced toward the villa’s entrance, and Gordon and Wanjing Zhuhua walked out side by side.
Noticing Sena’s gaze, Gordon and Wanjing Zhuhua simultaneously lowered their voices and returned to the main topic:
"We’ve got the permit.
No idea which floor they’ve strategized up to.
We’ve got to hurry, or all the good stuff might get scooped up by them."
Sena nodded, matching their pace as they headed toward the Underground Maze entrance.
And at the same time...
In the dim Underground Maze, Yang Yu’s group stood around the edge of a square that had been cut diagonally in half.
Under Iyas’s Strong Fortune, they had quickly farmed from the Final Guardian of this maze a device that stored Devil King’s Power.
Gao Yuanyi was wiping dust off Laplace with a rag,
"It was even easier than I imagined.
My Strength paired with your brains, we’re practically invincible.
Normal Underground Mazes are just child’s play.
"
Yang Yu instructed Bai Jin to spread a Barrier around them and replied perfunctorily: "That’s about enough.
Don’t just blurt out things that obvious.
I might actually blush.
It’s about time we went ahead with inheriting the Devil King’s Power, right?"
Gao Yuanyi stowed the rag he’d been using back into the System and confirmed once more: "You really don’t want to reconsider and let yourself inherit all of the Devil King’s Power?"
"As I recall, you weren’t this fond of rambling before, were you?
Or is it that you’re scared?
Afraid of being corroded by the will of past Demon Kings, so you’re wavering?"
Prodded like that by Yang Yu, Gao Yuanyi immediately straightened his chest and strode toward the device:
"How could I possibly be scared! I wasn’t scared facing the Demon King—why would I be scared now?" Gao Yuanyi said as he took out a special little box and handed it to Yang Yu. "This is Wei’s Core. If anything happens to me and you end up chopping me down, remember to resurrect me and her together!"
Yang Yu accepted the box and carefully placed it into the System. Gao Yuanyi then strode up to the device with his head held high, reaching out toward the smooth black wall without hesitation.
At first, the device showed no reaction. After a minute or two, white cracks suddenly appeared on the black wall, twisting up Gao Yuanyi’s arm like the roots of an ancient tree.
Gao Yuanyi’s vision gradually turned blank, as if he had traversed billions of years to arrive in a completely unfamiliar world.
A voice slowly echoed in Gao Yuanyi’s mind: "I’m very glad to meet you.
You are a Hero Candidate selected through layer upon layer of screenings. I still cannot grant you power just yet; you must complete the trial I give you to obtain true Power of the Brave, defeat the Demon King, and drive him back to his own world.
Don’t worry about the outside world; all of these trials take place entirely within your consciousness, and you have plenty of time.
Please do your best to turn in a satisfactory answer sheet.
Thinking and learning are the steps of progress; for every question, you have one chance to redo it.
If your final score is not up to standard, you can use that chance to attempt inheriting this power again.
If you fail a second time, this inheritance will be a complete failure, and you will no longer be qualified to inherit the Power of the Brave."
From the history recorded by the Nine-Life Cat Demon, Gao Yuanyi knew that the Power of the Brave emerged from half of the Devil King’s Power after it underwent transformation.
These Q&A prompts should be the handiwork of the Angels. By granting Strength only to individuals whose ideology matches theirs, they achieve the goal of driving out the Demon King.
Judging from that alone, Angels don’t exactly seem like good people.
Anyway, first see what kind of questions this device is going to throw out.
"Let’s begin!"
Brimming with confidence, Gao Yuanyi started answering the questions—only for the very first question from the device to leave him torn.
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