Book 5: Chapter 274: The Truth Behind The Secret Of Angus City
Book 5: Chapter 274: The Truth Behind The Secret Of Angus City
In the central area of Aldridge Empire, the airspace near Angus City, the church along the Ryder River outside Andorra Town, the girls of Olsylvia Academy, the Listabel Academy and the Dimiost Academy retreated to this area.
The commanders at the scene were the student presidents of the three academies. Presidents Angelia, Alephia and Gladdis had a stony-faced expression. When they came, they didn’t bring a light mage with them. Aside from the Radiant Church, light mages accounted for a deficient proportion among the mages, and it was not easy to find decent ones.
The only competent light mage in the Olsylvia Academy was President Lucia, the “Holy Page.” However, she wasn’t here. Without light magic, no substantial damage could be done to the abyss demons, which led to their present passive situation.
Bella carefully moved to the inner area of the church. The bodies of the staff in the chapel had disappeared entirely. Obviously, they were killed by the abyss demons, not the crypt spiders. They hadn’t even entered the place, so it must have been something else.
There were too many outsiders around her, else Bella would have summoned her own group of abyss demons to fight the enemy. Abyss demons often killed each other in the abyss regions, like predator and prey. Those crypt spiders belonged to a lower abyss demon in the abyss food chain and theoretically couldn’t defeat the abyss demons around Bella.
On the way to the inner part of the church, Bella saw traces of strange blood on the ground that smelled a bit like honey. After much deliberation, she took out her invisibility cloak from her storage ring and put it over her body. She continued to explore ahead in this manner. With her invisibility cloak, Bella had also grabbed the Savior’s Great Evil Slaying Sword. Perhaps it was her circumstances that allowed Bella, a Demon King c** Demon God, to be extremely handy with a Savior’s weapon. She had almost no side effects from using it.
On the way to the gates of the rest area of the church, Bella jumped with fright when two variant abyss demons broke out of the gates. The abyss demonic poison bee was different from the ordinary demonic poison bee. In fact, these abyss demonic poison bees were more than two meters tall when standing upright, like the size of an adult human. The horrifying thing was that these abyss demonic poison bees walked around upright like people, the sight of their heads was enough to send anyone screaming in horror.
“It’s really great! A large group of prey has arrived outside! We’ll use them as raw materials… I caught one just now, but the Queen didn’t allow me to… Ugh, those crypt spiders outside are causing trouble again…”
“That is Lord Faust’s prey. Don’t worry. When the Queen sends down her orders, that group of human girls will not be able to escape. Although they are skilled in magic, what are they to abyss demons like us…”
As the two abyss demonic poison bees walked and chatted, Bella could clearly hear every word they spoke. Regardless of race, the abyss demonic language could be understood by Demon Gods. Bella didn’t bother listening to their nonsense any longer. She stood behind the two abyss demonic poison bees waving her Great Evil Slaying Sword in a horizontal split. Just like that, two demonic poison bee heads fell onto the ground, leaving two bloody decapitated bodies in place.
Bella entered through the door. Inside was originally a rest area for the church members when the Radiant Church had built the place. Now, it had become a demonic lair, much like the beehives in her previous world, with thick honeycomb walls everywhere. By the looks of it, this was merely a temporary hive. It looked like the abyss demonic poison bees built their nests here for the time being.
The queen bee, the head of the abyss demonic poison bees, wasn’t here. In this punishment lair, a group of abyss demonic poison bees were on guard. Their numbers were about a hundred. Aside from the abyss demonic poison bees, Bella also noticed the captured humans. On the sticky honeycomb wall, there were seven or eight human beauties. Their dignified hairstyles and long blond hair suggested they were nuns and knights who guarded the church.
For a small church of this size, there should be around five nuns plus three female guardian knights according to the usual arrangement. Bella didn’t care about the remaining priests and male knights. She was only interested in women, so she deliberately left out the men.
The clothes on the nuns and female knights had been dissolved, exposing their charming snow-white bodies that were imprisoned in a viscous liquid. The liquid seemed to be alive, stretching out numerous transparent fluid tentacles in the shape of human hands as they groped the girls.
The nuns and female knights had their mouths forcefully opened by transparent liquid pipes. Something strange was being poured down their throats. Bella looked at their plump breasts and slightly bulging bellies and thought of a terrifying idea. Abyss demons, regardless of race, liked to hunt other intelligent beings such as humans and use them as their birthing machines. Men were used as food, while women had other uses. These records are confidential to the Radiant Church and not known to the general public.
The imprisoned nuns and female knights were filled with exhaustion, with panic in their eyes. After they were attacked by the abyss demonic poison bees, the men had all been eaten. When they regained consciousness, they found themselves imprisoned in this hive. The demonic poison bees obviously wanted to do strange things to their bodies.
Bella shifted her gaze further inside and found Princess Effie. Her surprise was marred with a little disappointment. These abyss demonic poison bees did a poor job this time. Princess Effie was unconscious, yet her clothes were basically intact. Perhaps they were saving her for some great lord, so the abyss demonic poison bees didn’t date to subject her to the same treatment as the other girls.
To deal with more than one hundred abyss demonic poison bees, Bella felt it was pertinent for her to call for backup. Just as she was hesitating whether or not to ask Lisha or Kriss for help, the situation took a turn. From the ground sprung a large number of crypt spiders that broke through and crazily attacked the abyss demonic poison bees as soon as they came out.
Abyss demons were used to killing each other, and those in the wild who didn’t take refuge under a Demon God strongly displayed such behavior. The crypt spiders frenziedly attacked the abyss demonic poison bee. Unlike feeding on humans, these demonic poison bees could increase their strength when consumed. This was an important difference between the two.
Bella had just ambushed and killed the two abyss demonic poison bees, the blood that spattered on the ground stimulating the bloody natures of the crypt spiders. They hunted and attacked, following the smell of blood. When the abyss demons were at war, they basically ignored their surroundings, so Bella She was able to kill more of them with her sword. However, the first thing she had to do was to save the prisoners. She removed her invisibility cloak and hugged Princess Effie.
“Princess Eiffie… Princess Effie, wake up…”
“Bella… this is the abyss demons’…”
“I know, so let’s go! We’ll take them with us as well!”
Bella was fortunate to find a small wooden cart for carrying goods. Her Great Evil Slaying Sword was able to cut through the viscous liquid that imprisoned these girls. Bella managed to save all the nuns and the female knights. Before they could even thank her, Bella stretched out her hand and pressed on their bellies. These girls vomited a sticky, unknown liquid at once.
“Thank goodness… Any later, and you would have become their kind. Do you know of any other exits here?”
“Thank you, may the Goddess of Light… Cough, cough, there are other exits.”
Under the guidance of the nuns, Bella carried Princess Effie as she loaded the nuns and the female knights onto the small wooden cart. Before leaving, she covered them with a cloth. To guard against them from turning into demonic beings due to abyss toxin residues, Bella tied them up with the red rope that she carried with her.
The nuns very much wanted to argue that they weren’t infected, but Bella blocked their mouths with a white cloth. Princess Effie didn’t know what to say at the time. Bella didn’t seem to be doing anything wrong, but her binding methods were a bit strange. Of course, this “classic” binding style was used in the previous world and very famous in a certain island country. These Other World people wouldn’t recognize it, only Lisha and Kriss, who had transmigrated from Earth.
Bella was a Demon King and Demon God, so it was not possible for her to not know if the nuns were really infected. She only did so to prepare for the eventual “sumptuous feast.” These nuns and female knights were all beautiful girls. In fact, all the members chosen by the Radiant Church in the important cities of the various human empires had an attractive appearance. This was related to their image as the Radiant Church, so they couldn’t afford to be careless.
Bella wanted to integrate them into her own team and assign them to one of her own. With the new chief of the Radiant Church’s Law Enforcement Team, Mathilde, in charge, the abyss demonic poison bees hadn’t done anything to them. They were still perfectly intact. At this thought, Bella secretly took the white cloth and blindfolded these female captives and then waved her hands in several summoning gestures. Princess Effie was busy watching out for the crypt spiders and the abyss demonic poison bees that were all around them, so she hadn’t even noticed Bella’s little actions.
Demon World Princess Diaz complied with Bella’s summoning and emerged from the dark magic array on the ground. She wore a strange mask that made her face invisible. Bella took the opportunity to jump back, pretending to be blown away by Princess Diaz’s dark energy ball.
“Bella… are you alright? Y-you’re from the Demon World. Why are you here?”
“Hmph, humble human beings, I shall take these handmaidens with me. Goodbye…”
“Stop it! Damn it…”
“Bella, don’t chase after her. She must have gone to the Demon World. Let’s say that the nuns… fought for the Goddess of Light till the end…”
Demon World Princess Diaz used dark magic to take away the small wooden cart with the nuns and female knights into the dark space, then quickly retreated. Bella pretended she wanted to go after her but was held back by Princess Effie. She was only acting with her trusted aide, Princess Diaz. Otherwise, Bella couldn’t think of a better way to take the girls away. By the time she got back to see Kriss and Lisha, it would be even harder to smuggle away the girls, so she had to resort to this tactic, successfully tricking Princess Effie with her acting skills.
Princess Effie was tricked by Bella’s act of risking her own life to save her. Bella’s courage made it almost impossible for her to suspect that she was in collusion with Demon World Princess Diaz. She intentionally helped Bella keep this incident a secret since Bella was known to have a good relationship with the Radiant Church, yet she failed to save its followers. Seeing that they were captured by demons, she was afraid that it might affect Bella’s relationship with the Radiant Church. Hence, Princess Effie chose not to mention it.
When the white cloth covering the eyes of the nuns and the female knights was removed, they had entered the dark space. Their hands were shackled in chains that hung from the ceiling, their bodies completely naked. They had also been tied in a strange and shameful posture by that Holy Knight with red ropes.
A loli with her crimson hair tied in pigtails held a black whip as she looked at them with a wicked smile. She was wearing a Queen’s dress that seemed almost out of place with her appearance. The pair of unusually large breasts on her chest rather suited the loli.
“Mistress Bella has handed you over to me for questioning. Little sisters, I prefer to play some exciting games. Okay, let’s start then… Don’t move. This is my dark space, and you can’t escape… Just relax and have some fun with me!”
Looking at all kinds of strange props brought out by Princess Diaz, the nuns and female knights were filled with panic and uneasiness, and a hint of shyness. It wasn’t until now that they discovered the “betrayal” of the fallen Holy Knight Bella, but it was too late for regret. Demon World Princess Diaz was already beginning to do all sorts of unspeakable things to them…
They couldn’t take refuge in the chapel much longer. When Bella and the others arrived at the hall outside the chapel, they saw three girls in a sorry state. After the crypt spiders launched a random attack, they too suffered from injuries. If Lisha hadn’t stayed at the frontlines and Kriss’ sword array, they wouldn’t have managed to deter them until Bella and Princess Effie had returned.
These girls were in quite a mess, their school uniform splattered with venom from the crypt spiders as if they had collectively ruined their clothes. Large areas of their uniforms had been dissolved by the special venom of the crypt spiders, exposing their snow-white skin for all eyes to see.
As they were all girls, President Angelia and the others didn’t think it was a problem to reveal their bodies to each other. Had Bella been a step late, she might’ve witnessed the grand scene of their complete nakedness.
The results of Demon World Princess Diaz’s interrogation in the dark space would be sent to Bella through a special communication between a demon and her master. Bella already knew the exact way to the other church exit. According to the information given by the nuns, Angus had an accident as early as a week ago. The Radiant Church and the Aldridge Empire had been blocking the news, only claiming that people had gone missing.
The truth was even more horrible. The upper rungs of the church and the top imperial officials in Aldridge were too afraid to reveal it. Only a short distance from Angus City, the Rofsky Camp was set up to monitor the anomalies of Angus City. The day before Bella and the others arrived, they had lost all contact with Rofsky Camp.
Bella didn’t dare to tell them the truth because she was afraid it might frighten the girls. In fact, there were a large number of abyss demons in Angus City. The Aldridge Empire couldn’t deal with them by itself and had to drag the situation to buy some time. The Radiant Church planned to prepare a large-scale light magic spell “The Judgement of God” to purify the entire Angus City in one stroke. However, it would take them some time to prepare, and time was the problem. The abyss demons in Angus City had already spread to the surrounding areas.
The person controlling the abyss demons wasn’t one of the Twelve Demon Kings. Bella was sure that there were a large number of Abyss Demonic Kings in the abyss that Demon Kings couldn’t command them.
“Bella, you’re injured… What’s wrong? This blood seems to be…”
“Ahem, Lisha, don’t ask. Come with me. I’ll take you all out of here. We won’t be able to hold out here much longer. We need to leave while the crypt spiders and the abyss demonic poison bees inside are killing each other.”
The blood on Bella’s lips was fake. She hadn’t been injured at all. Lisha and Kriss, who were well aware of Bella’s strength, could easily see through her act. Fortunately, Bella stopped them from speaking, avoiding a “crisis of faith.” The relationship she had established with Princess Effie mustn’t be so easily destroyed.
“There are demonic beings everywhere… Where should we go!”
“President Angelia, President Alephia, President Gladdis, please believe me. I will take you to a safe place near the Ryder River. We can’t stay here tonight.”
Under Bella’s sincere lobbying, President Angelia and her entourage followed and left through the secret entrance originally meant for the church followers’ emergency escape. They finally made it to the other side of the Ryder River.
Shortly after Bella and the others left, two strange shadows appeared in the sky above the church. One was a tall and slender mysterious man in a black robe while the other was a petite loli. The two were suspended in the air at a distance from each other as if they knew each other but were on guard against each other.
“These damn low-level abyss creatures! They’re always messing things up! It’s a pity you had to witness their failure.”
“Faust… your joke is not funny at all! Let it be. I’ll go back to the city to rest first. My wound hasn’t been healed yet after the last fight with Lolita, that naughty girl!”
When the girl disappeared, the gentleman’s eyes revealed a cold look. They were only temporarily cooperating, and there were some things he had to do alone.
“The crypt spider king and the abyss poison queen bee are really useless. It looks like I’ll have to add others…”