Chapter 391: I'm going to go pick up Lamia

Suddenly, just as Kurma was preparing to rise, she turned her head to look at Su Nian, revealing an amused expression as she spoke.

"By the way, little brother Su, are you really sure you want to take both Taurus and Pisces at once this time?"

"It isn't that easy to collect all twenty-five Sun Authorities, you know."

Of course, this did not mean that Kurma intended to stop this matter; she was merely a bystander.

She was a Dragon Species independent of Little Garden; truthfully, her connection to Little Garden was not deep, and things like Sun Authorities were just fun toys to her.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have just snatched a Dragon of the Twelve Zodiacs for fun on a whim, only to leave the inheritance behind and toss it to that fellow, the Star Sea Dragon King.

As for the Star Sea Dragon King, that was the Void Star Spirit hailed as the sacred star that divided the Equator Twelve Constellations, who was also a Pure-blooded Dragon Species, and was also called the Equator Belt Dragon.

And she also had an alias, called the Zodiac Dragon—yes, the one worshipped by the Vampire race.

The identity of that fellow, the Star Sea Dragon King, was, to put it bluntly, the Dragon Species that Li Boyang, the reincarnation of Laozi, became after awakening.

Hearing this, Su Nian's heart suddenly sank; was Kurma reminding him?

When it came to Taurus—no, the risk that the Sun Authorities might be collected—Heitian must have certainly made full preparations in advance.

After all, the flow of Sun Authorities was nearly transparent in the eyes of those Two-digit high-ups in Little Garden.

Even if it possessed the highest-level Anti-Divination ability that could shield it from Two-digit observation, that was except for the ability of its true holder to determine its location.

However, the true holders were very clear; it was indeed not difficult to track the flow of Sun Authorities through this.

So, had Heitian anticipated that he would come to seize the Sun Authorities?

No, that wasn't right; she probably hadn't anticipated it. A more accurate guess would be that she was just being prepared for any eventuality.

As long as such a possibility existed, it needed to be snuffed out.

"I am, of course, aware of that."

Su Nian gently exhaled a breath of stale air, his mood gradually calming down.

"But this is the only chance to collect all the Sun Authorities, right?"

If this opportunity were missed, no matter how they exchanged benefits or even fought each other later on, there would always be one Sun Authority remaining within the Sun King Group.

"That's right, this is the only chance."

Kurma clapped her hands with a giggle; she had always been the type who loved to watch the chaos without fear of it being too big.

Whether Su Nian and his group collected the Sun Authorities or not had little to do with her; in any case, it was Heitian and her lot who would be affected.

"However, it is impossible for you to want Little Ju to help you. Only by overcoming this trial can you truly hold all the Sun Authorities."

Having said this, Kurma paused and added.

"But it's not like I, Little Ju, can't leak just a tiny bit of information."

As she spoke, Kurma pinched her fingers, making a gesture of a tiny amount.

She was not clear on what Heitian's arrangements were; after all, her relationship with Heitian was rather mediocre, just a nodding acquaintance.

It wasn't even one percent as good as her relationship with the Halloween Queen or Shiroyasha.

Because of Vishnu's Spirit Status, she and Heitian even vaguely carried a hostile relationship of being rivals.

But the Gift Game for the Taurus Sun Authority was something she had designed, and the venue was something she had prepared, so she couldn't be more familiar with it.

Although, for Su Nian and his group, a mere Taurus game was probably a piece of cake.

After all, this was originally intended to test Kalki and the others, but the people present included one who was the former Northern European God King, hailed as the representative of cunning, cold-bloodedness, and wisdom.

Another was the Fighting Victorious Buddha of Buddhism, an Earth Half Star Spirit with the potential to unite the Earth Mother Goddesses, an existence whose frontal combat ability did not lose to Indra.

As for Su Nian, no other adjectives were needed; a single "Little Wansheng" was enough to express his strength.

Whether the information about this Taurus game was leaked or not probably made no difference.

It could even be said that with Taurus placed on the monster Minotaur, it was no different from picking it up on the road for Su Nian and his group.

At most, the maze inside might cause Su Nian and his group a little trouble, and then that would be that.

The process and the ending were already destined; it was not interesting at all.

It would be better to just leak it all and save them some time.

It was just a pity that she wouldn't be able to watch the fun of Kalki and the others inside the maze; she had clearly prepared so many super interesting Gift Games.

Watching Kurma's regretful expression, Su Nian felt a chill.

His intuition told him that the Gifts Kurma had prepared inside definitely didn't have any good intentions.

If Kurma hadn't leaked the information, Su Nian dared to believe that although the three of them wouldn't necessarily fail, they would likely be in a sorry state for a while.

Fortunately, he had reached a cooperation with Kurma in advance; otherwise, he feared it would have been quite uncomfortable when the time came.

——

A certain abandoned base of the Qianxianweisha, the World Corridor underground.

In front of a massive door, Su Nian, wearing the skin of Kalki, was followed by Sun Wukong, wearing the skin of Caili Ling, and Odin, holding the Golden Harp.

Beside Su Nian, Lamia, wearing a red long dress and tied in twin tails, looked at Su Nian with slight shyness.

It seemed she had not yet recovered from Kurma's prank, and looking at Su Nian wearing Kalki's skin, she felt a somewhat stimulating sense of immorality in her heart.

A moment later, Lamia composed her emotions, suppressed the thoughts in her heart, and took a silver key from her bosom, standing before the door.

This was an abandoned Boundary Gate that possessed the ability to traverse worlds; although it was abandoned, it was actually not unusable if repaired.

In essence, this was just recycling.

"Aunt... Your Highness, please do your best; you must bring Taurus back."

Lamia realized she had misspoken, corrected herself urgently, and then offered her blessings to Su Nian.

Then she inserted the key and gave it a light twist in the stone door. A clicking sound of the door opening rang out, and the massive stone door bloomed with azure brilliance, forming a layered gate in mid-air.

Behind the gate, two bright moons, one red and one blue, shone their cold radiance onto the faces of Su Nian and his group.

Seeing that moonlight, Su Nian stepped out.

Damn, there was a familiar feeling; Su Nian closed his eyes and sensed it for a moment.

"Hmm? It really is this world?"

Su Nian's expression was somewhat subtle as he followed the direction indicated by Kurma.

"Which world?"

Having returned to his original form as a one-eyed crow, Odin stood on Su Nian's shoulder and asked curiously.

"Ku..."

Su Nian felt a chill behind his back and hurriedly corrected himself.

"The world that Xiao Ju created."

"Xiao Ju..."

In an instant, Odin fell silent like a cicada in winter, not daring to speak; who could have imagined that this was a world created by that World King?

She had now completely entered someone else's domain and had entrusted her life to Su Nian.

Because information regarding the existence of Two-digit beings is automatically subjected to the highest level of information control in Little Garden, in fact, although they were in the bathroom, they knew Su Nian and Kurma had reached a cooperation.

However, they were not clear on what specific cooperation had been reached, and if necessary, they would not even be able to remember the fact that Kurma had ever arrived.

This was too thrilling: transforming into Kalki, the Savior of the Sun King Group, infiltrating the World King's territory, and then stealing the Sun Authority belonging to the Sun King Groups.

They had even arrogantly transformed back into their original forms.

"Let's go. Before obtaining the Taurus Sun Authority, I still have one matter to handle."

Su Nian glanced at the blood-red moon in the sky and said.

"I am going to pick up Lamia."

Having reached a cooperative relationship with Kurma, Su Nian had already expressed his sincerity, so naturally, Kurma also had to show some of her own sincerity.

Kurma's sincerity was simple: it was Leticia's younger sister.

Lamia Dekuleiya I, who had been cursed and turned into a monster.

To protect her sister's prestige, she had shouldered the curse belonging to the Vampire on her own, eventually gaining power comparable to the Omnipotent Domain (Three-digit).

But as a price, Lamia herself was cursed such that if she became pregnant, she could not survive unless she ate the child.

Under the power of the curse, even if Lamia were still a virgin, she would give birth to a child through parthenogenesis; this was Lamia II.

As for the plight of the Vampire, Kurma confessed everything without reservation; there was nothing to hide.

Although she was the god worshipped by the Vampire, and the Creator of the Vampire.

Her purpose in creating the Vampire was merely to prevent chaos in the world's System Tree, letting the Vampire be responsible for monitoring it.

It was just that after the Vampire completed their destiny, she gave the Vampire a future, allowing them to become a part of humanity's future.

As for what happened later, perhaps it was because she hadn't put her heart into it when creating the Vampire, or something else, but the Vampire ran into problems.

After all, she was not as skilled at creation as Nüwa; she could completely be said to be quite poor at it.

In short, upon realizing that the Vampire had run into problems, she brought the Vampire to Little Garden and gave them a little compensation, which was Leticia.

Leticia's status as an initial Original Code Candidate, plus the Dragon's Shadow, allowed Leticia to become a Four-digit at the age of twelve; that was the compensation she made for the Vampire.

If nothing went wrong, relying on her remaining influence, once Leticia awakened her Simulated Star Creation Map, she would be able to solve the Vampire's problems, and even elevate the Vampire to a God Group.

But as everyone knows, if nothing is supposed to go wrong, that is when things go wrong; after casually settling the Vampire, she ran off, running to the outside world to play.

And the Vampire were also quite bold; relying on her remaining influence, they united with a group of idealists among the Gods and Buddhas to establish the Layer Master system.

But there is one thing everyone knows, which is that reformers do not have good endings.

The Layer Master system shook the interests of too many God Groups, so even with her remaining influence, the Vampire could not avoid being targeted.

Moreover, the fact that the Vampire were a race she had created was something many people listened to as if it were Mythology; not every God Group had an existence capable of knowing the secrets of Two-digit beings, nor did every God Group have such foresight.

There were always some bold God Groups that, in a fit of heat, did such things.

As for those who knew, they silently ignored it, and afterwards pretended to deal with the culprits.

They didn't even manage the rumors created by those Poets.

It can only be said that the destruction of the Vampire was the result of all the God Groups at the time promoting it together.

As for you asking about Ouroboros? It is true that Ouroboros has done all sorts of evil, but the blame for the Vampire really cannot be thrown onto it.

Ouroboros is a new organization formed only in the last few millennia, after the Dystopia War; it is a Demon King Alliance that Heitian set about forming only after becoming a Two-digit.

The destruction of the Vampire happened back in the Dawn Period; wouldn't you say it has nothing to do with Ouroboros?

You could say it has absolutely nothing to do with it.

In the end, when she returned, the Vampire had already met this fate.

The reason she returned was because Heitian had called her back in recent years to participate in the Vishnu project.

Otherwise, why would she come back? Little Garden is of no great help to her now.

(End of chapter)