Book 7: Chapter 464: Final Victor of the Gate of Seal Battle and the Incident Before the Finals
Book 7: Chapter 464: Final Victor of the Gate of Seal Battle and the Incident Before the Finals
At the Aldridge Empire’s seaside resort spot, Oldrango City’s coastal region, near the center of Phoenix Island, the Christopher Dragon Ruins arena where the final match of the “Light of Dawn” event was being held. In the Ender Dragon’s underground lair at the center of the ruins, Bella encountered the strongest Boss of the Cursed Land here, the Cursed Demonic Dragon Queen Stimmons and the Ender Dragon, engaging in a fierce battle with the two.
Since Bella wasn’t so interested in types that can’t transform into the shape of a girl, this Ender Dragon was destined not to be recruited into her party. Since Stimmons has already surrendered to Bella, Bella didn’t make things hard for her. Since they were still in the middle of a battle, Bella did not consider signing any contracts with the Cursed Demonic Dragon Queen Stimmons for now.
In order to keep her dual identity a secret, Bella did not dare to sign a contract with this loli before ascertaining the extent of her connection with the Forsaker. Previously, Bella had only signed contracts with Collapsing Dragon Lolita and Devouring Dragon Euphenisia after she was sure that they had no direct connection with the Demon God Emperor and the Ruler of the Void.
Since Bella had already crushed the heart of the Ender Dragon, the Ender Dragon which had lost its energy source began a frenzied attack. This is the last burst for the Ender Dragon after its heart was completely destroyed. Without the energy supplied by its heart, it will be completely annihilated here.
The Ender Dragon had originally thought it would be safer to have its Dragon Heart with Stimmons who was controlling it. After all, Stimmons is a Cursed Dragon with many curse abilities. Only a few can threaten her existence. Unfortunately, as fate would have it, Bella had an important ring given to her by the Forsaker. When she saw the ring, Stimmons directly surrendered without a fight. Jumping back, she did not even hesitate to sell out the Ender Dragon.
The Ender Dragon is able to roam the Other World unhindered largely because it was a peerless existence capable of both physical and magical attacks, so an ordinary attack would be useless against it. However, it met Swordsman Kriss this time, a heaven-defying existence with a cache of tens of thousands of swords, many of which can restrain the Ender Dragon’s attributes, almost to the point where any sword she grabbed could restrain the Ender Dragon.
The advance of the Ender Dragon was blocked by Kriss’s various floating swords. Due to the deterring power of those swords, the Ender Dragon did not dare to attack straight on and could only keep on changing directions in an attempt to bypass the area around Kriss’s sword formation.
However, all of Kriss’s swords had sword spirits in them. With the soul, they did not need Kriss to command them and were following the Ender Dragon automatically. Without the support of its Dragon Heart, the Ender Dragon could only launch physical attacks. Since it didn’t have the mana from its heart, it couldn’t use any magic attacks.
With the support of her swords’ souls, Kriss singlehandedly suppressed the Ender Dragon. Her other teammates took this opportunity to close the Gate of Seal. Prince Brizig, who was controlled by the Cursed Demonic Beings, was directing the Cursed Demonic Beings to attack the entrance of the Gate of Seal in an attempt to seize this new passage to that other dimension world.
Dragon Knight Lisha was the first to rush over to the Gate of Seal. With a flying kick, she kicked back the Cursed Demonic Being that was trying to leave through the gate. Due to Lisha’s strength, the large Cursed Demonic Being she kicked away also ended up knocking away several of its companions while it was sent flying.
Assassin Noreya was the next to arrive. She threw a set of darts, accurately puncturing the eyes of the Cursed Demons closest to the Gate of Seal. The Cursed Demonic Beings, whose sight had gone blurry, were in disarray for a moment, and a whole lot of blinded Demonic Beings ended up tumbling about.
When Bella arrived with Stimmons in her hands, Lisha and Noreya were already fighting at the Gate of Seal. A large number of Cursed Demonic Beings were coming in like a tidal wave. If not for Lisha and Noreya’s immunity to most curses, they would not have been able to hold on.
“Stimmons, do you know how to close the Gate of Seal again?”
“The Gate of Seal is disposable and will close itself after the set amount of time has passed.”
It turns out that the Gate of Seal to this Cursed Land was a one-use thing. If not purified for long amounts of time, the curse energy in here will inevitably break through the energy of the Gate of Seal. The Gate of Seal had opened up naturally this time, and Stimmons had only come over to check on the situation. She didn’t expect to be taken in by Bella.
The Ender Dragon that occupied the entrance was like an invisible natural barrier. Most of the Cursed Demons in the Cursed Land fear the Ender Dragon’s intimidating power and did not dare go this way. Now that the Ender Dragon has received a serious injury from Bella and the others, it no longer has any ability to play its original function.
Bella did not have the right energy to seal the Gate of Seal. Even though they destroyed the Ender Dragon, the fall of the guardian of this door was a responsibility that Bella and the girls could not shrug off. However, there were still several ways they could solve this problem.
Firstly, there was the more annoying method they could use. They can transfer the Gate of Seal to a different dimension so that the monsters will appear in that other dimension instead of affecting this Other World. This is a more damaging way of averting their problems to someone else, and it’s easy for them to offend the Creator of the dimension they were tossing this problem to.
Bella was unable to think of a suitable victim right now. If she tosses them to an Other World managed by a Mother of Creation she’s close with, then that would be an accidental friendly fire. On the other hand, it wasn’t that big of a deal to toss it into a Father of Creation’s world. Bella doesn’t have any good feelings towards them anyway.
But Bella could also choose a second safer way, and that is to use a special tool to seal the gate. And, that so-called tool is the pearl “Praise of Light”, and the “Tears of the Goddess” given to her by Creator of Light Vianne. But this cost is going to be huge. The two artifacts will be completely used up if she seals the gate this way.
“This isn’t going to work, Stimmons. The cost of this solution is too high. It will take a full artifact from a Creator like Creator of Light Vianne to do it. It’s not like I know her, so how am I going to find something like that?! Can you think of another way?”
“But…There *is* one last resort that will cost even more, and it’s even harder to get than an artifact from the Creator of Light.”
Bella lied that she didn’t know Creator of Light Vianne, but since Cursed Demon Dragon Queen Stimmons was only meeting her for the first time, she didn’t know that and was easily fooled by her. Under Bella’s probing, Stimmons brought up another way quite hesitantly. The only other way would be to create a field of evil around the Gate of Seal and use the evil eenergy to stop the Cursed Demonic Beings from coming out to do harm.
With her cursed power, Stimmons couldn’t do it herself. The Demonic Beings of the Cursed Land basically have the curse attribute and did not fear her energy. It would need some other terrifying energy, such as devastation or devouring energy to create an evil region.
Which means Collapsing Dragon Lolita and Devouring Dragon Euphenisia’s powers are needed since these two are the subordinates of the World Destructors’ chief, Demon God Emperor, and the Chaos Bringers’ leader, Ruler of the Void, respectively. Stimmons believed that these two would be harder to find than Creator of Light Vianne, and harder to discuss with. It would be harder for Bella to look for them than the former.
“So that’s it? That’s fine then, just tell me what to do. I have a contract with Lolita and Euphenisia. If you don’t believe me, look at the mark on my hand!”
“What? How could Lolita and Euphenisia agree to follow the same master?! You…”
Stimmons failed to speak the latter half of her sentence when she saw the special mark that appeared on the back of Bella’s right hand. There are two overlapping demonic marks on the back of Bella’s right hand, which were indeed the exclusive marks of Collapsing Evil Dragon Emperor Lolita and Devouring Holy Dragon Euphenisia. As an existence very close in level and origins with the two of them, she wouldn’t mistake their exclusive marks.
“Alright, I’ll tell you. But if they blame me afterwards, you have to bear some of the responsibility.”
“Stimmons, with how you’re saying this, it can’t be that evil? Let me say this. I will not accept losing any one of you as the cost. Otherwise, I can just toss the Gate of Seal to some random dimension.”
“No, it won’t kill anyone. Only…”
For the first time, a blush came upon Stimmons’ straight and emotionless face. She came closer by Bella’s ear and shyly whispered something to her. As soon as she heard it, a wicked smile appeared on Bella’s face as if she was quite satisfied with Stimmons’s proposal.
The strange way the two were communicating attracted the attention of Kriss and Lisha. They thought that Bella was again bullying a little loli she had just met. The loli was very strong, at the same level as Lolita. At the very least, Lolita had not really been bullied before, so there was no reason Stimmons who was at the level would just give in to Bella.
After the Ender Dragon failed several times to pass over, it finally let out a roar of resignation, after which it completely dissipated into smoke. Until its death in battle, it was still unable to break past Kriss’s sword formation and rush beyond the cave.
Following the disappearance of the Ender Dragon, the Demonic Beings of the Cursed Land began rushing like crazy towards the Gate of Seal, hoping to use this large charge to break through the joint defense of Dragon Knight Lisha and Assassin Noreya. Lisha and Noreya have already retreated back to Bella’s side. After reciting some sort of mysterious incantation, a black mist emitted from the body of the black-haired loli in her arms, Cursed Demon Queen Stimmons. When the black mist disappeared, the black-haired loli disappeared into thin air as if she had never been here, and was instead replaced with a gruesomely-shaped black demonic sword.
An existence such as Cursed Demonic Dragon Queen Stimmons can actually be transformed into a weapon to be used as well. Stimmons’s Cursed Sword, “Stimmons’s Memory”, that she transformed into wasn’t the only one by Bella’s side, but also Lolita and Euphenisia who were “shot while lying down” and forcibly summoned in their weapon states without even knowing what was going on.
Lolita’s weapon form was also a sword with a dark and domineering shape. Euphenisia’s weapon form is that of a shield. Anyway, it looks weird as well. Due to their contract, Bella can forcefully summon them as weapons to support her. Since they were short of time, Bella didn’t even take the time to contact them and directly recited the incantation taught to her by Stimmons. Sure enough, it worked on her first try and also summoned the two lolis over as well.
The Collapsing Demonic Sword, “Lolita’s Sorrow” and the Devouring Demonic Shield, “Euphenisia’s Smile”, are both super rule-defying weapons. The former can collapse the world by will while the latter can devour attack attributes of any energy. The Cursed Demonic Sword, “Stimmons’s Memory” from before has the ability to curse the targets it attacks with an unbreakable curse.
Bella should have thought of using this early on. She had also borrowed the powers of her other contracted dragon princesses and queens previously as well. It was only because Lolita and Euphenisia’s power was so high that Bella had ignored the contract between them and their identities as dragons.
“Farewell…No, goodbye forever. This world isn’t for you to visit!”
“Wait, my kingdom! You can’t do this…”
The last royal descendant of the Bridges Kingdom who had originally allowed the spirit to take control of him was finally conscious at this moment. He looked exasperated at them as if he could not accept the failure of his plan. In that instant, Bella saw Last Princess Brehanna’s shadow on the prince. Those were the traces left behind by the change in the world line. If Bella had never warped back in time, then the one who would be dying here would be Princess Brehanna instead.
What sort of secret method did the Bridges Kingdom’s descendants use to transform their bodies into something similar to undead to be able to achieve this miraculous ability of living past over a thousand years? But even so, if they were sealed here in the Cursed Land forever, this miraculous ability was as good as useless.
For the sake of the world line’s continuation, Bella did not stop. She slashed down with her sword. A collapsing abyss instantly appeared before the Demonic Beings, right above that, an oval devouring vortex. With the intervention of the two evil forces, the path to their dimension was completely blocked.
Bella and the girls ignored the cursing of the losers and closed the Gate of Seal once more. As for the Ender Dragon’s treasures, Bella didn’t like the strong smell of blood left on them and didn’t take any. This mysterious cave will later be transformed into an underground church. When that time comes, Bella will place the Goddess of Light’s idol right where the Gate of Seal used to be.
When they resealed the gate, Bella planned to invite Creator of Light Vianne over to personally take a look so she could seal the gate. With the double insurance, they won’t have to fear the Demonic Beings of the Cursed Land spilling out.
After Bella took out the biggest boss of the Cursed Land, the entire Cursed Land will soon fall into chaos without a leader. In order to break the old order and become the new leader of the Cursed Land, there was almost no need for any intervention and the demons of the Cursed Land will begin killing each other. As for Prince Brizig and his men, they will remain there forever.
So far, the restoration forces of the Bridges Kingdom’s descendants are all destroyed. Last Princess Brehanna has already been subdued by Bella while Last Prince Brizig was thrown into the Cursed Land and left there forever. Before the restoration plan of the Bridges Kingdom could even begin, it was completely destroyed. The Aldridge Empire knew nothing of this. Only Lisha, Kriss, and the few others from the other empires knew.
When Bella returned to the ground, they were greeted by the Manasvir Empire’s Royal Secret Guard and the army of female demons. Bella and her allies are perhaps the only ones able to see the Human Race and the Demonic Race stand together as friends. When they saw Bella come out, both the Royal Secret Guards and the demon ladies paid their respects to their lord Bella.
Originally, these types of respects were paid to emperors, so it was quite out of line with the noble etiquette system to greet Bella in such a way. However, in the hearts of those present, they all felt that this was appropriate for Bella. Anyway, there were no outsiders here to see. Such respects that can be mistaken into many other things went by just like that with “unspoken understanding” from all.
“Princess Manasviel (Bella), nobody has approached the Christopher Dragon Ruins. Please instruct our next actions.”
“Well done Captain. Round up a group and seal this place off. Hang up a sign that says the Radiant Church is requisitioning this place for construction. From now on, this place will be transformed into an underground church. I’ll talk to the Radiant Church. There’s nothing else for now. By the way, did you see any demons coming in and out…”
“Responding to your highness, we did not see any demons entering or leaving the cave.”
“Very well then, get to work. There is a reward for you when you return to Empress Manya Felan.”
Faced with Bella’s test, the captain of the secret guard squad wisely chose to go along with the performance and stated that he did not see the female demons appearing. Bella was satisfied. If he were just a little more righteous, then he would have been swapped out long ago. During the selection of members for the Royal Secret Guard, Bella and Empress Manya Felan had deliberately kicked out the fools who insisted on upholding justice.
After the men of the Royal Secret Guard withdrew from the area, only then did Bella talk to the captain of the female demons. Bella had been a Demon King for a long time, so she had an instinctive distrust of the Human Race. There are still things she prefers to leave to demons under her. It was more reassuring to talk to them than to entrust the job to the humans.
“Mistress, the goods have been transported to the place you specified. No deaths and no escapees. They have grown much more docile. They are ready and waiting for you.”
“Got it. You’ve done well. We still have the finals tomorrow so I’ll be heading off to rest now.”
“Mistress, there is one thing that this subordinate is unsure if she should say or not. I am afraid it may disturb Mistress’s evening.”
“Just say it, I don’t mind taking a bit of time out. If you feel bad about it, you can…Uh, Kriss, stop pinching me, I was wrong.”
“It’s about the Oceanic Race’s stronghold the human minions found. We noticed signs of movement from them yesterday.”