[After you leave, Rona, who cannot see the existence of the Librarian, sits quietly meditating in the archive room according to your instructions, silently waiting…]

[You are going to the Abyss to seek reinforcements. You want to bring more than a hundred Demon Overlords back to the surface. Even if you can ultimately reach the Polar Star Society Headquarters in the Imperial Capital, under the School’s encirclement and pursuit, how many living Demon Overlords will still remain to help you?]

[Moreover, under the School’s encirclement and pursuit, by the time you lead the many Demon Overlords back to the Polar Star Society Headquarters in the Imperial Capital, it will probably already be several days later…]

[…]

[…]

[The best-case scenario, you successfully seek aid and escape the School’s encirclement to return smoothly, but the number of Demon Overlords you bring back probably would not be many, and they should all be in a miserable, wounded state.]

[A worse scenario is that under the School’s encirclement, the many Demon Overlords fail to endure the long-distance pursuit and are all annihilated on the way back to the surface and then to the Imperial Capital, with only you escaping disaster because of the life-saving spell Starrealm Leap.]

[The worst-case scenario is that not only do the many Demon Overlords die under the School’s encirclement, but even you fail to escape the pursuit and are captured alive and imprisoned by the School…]

[Rona absolutely does not want the worst-case scenario to happen, but if it really does happen, then she has long since mentally prepared herself to go to the School to rescue you…]

[…]

[…] 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

[What surprises her is that she does not wait very long before she hears the wooden door being pulled open, and then sees you returning to the archive room…]

[The scene of your return is completely different from what she imagined…]

[You return in Goat-Horn Demon form, but not a single Demon Overlord follows behind you. Not even one wounded Demon Overlord can be seen.]

[You carry on your shoulder a huge painting as tall as a person and walk leisurely into the archive room…]

[Rona is not unfamiliar with this painting. It is the teleportation painting Starlight Cage, used by the Polar Star Society to imprison all kinds of living materials…]

[Seeing this, Rona suddenly understands. So that is how it is…]

[You lean the painting diagonally against the wall, reach out to touch the canvas, and your whole body drills inside…]

[Very soon, under the Librarian’s shocked gaze, you lead one powerful Demon Overlord after another, each with a different form, out of the painting and back into the room…]

[Considering the archive room’s carrying capacity, you even specially excluded those particularly gigantic Demon Overlords from the support force.]

[Even so, once a bit more than half of the Demon Overlords file out and gather, the archive room is already packed so tightly that not even a drop of water could pass through, with no place left to stand.]

[Seeing this, the Demon Shaman immediately directs the Demon Overlords to lift those useless tall bookshelves and throw them, together with the densely packed books on them, out of the archive room…]

[With the space taken up by the bookshelves gone, the remaining smaller half of the Demon Overlords can finally continue coming out of the painting…]

[…]

[At last, the archive room can hold no more Demon Overlords, yet there are still several left inside the painting who have not come out. The Demon Shaman looks toward the especially conspicuous, empty wicker recliner at the side…]

[It casually picks up the obstructive recliner and throws it out of the archive room, finally making enough room to squeeze in one more Demon Overlords…]

[The Demon Shaman finally completes its task. It says to you respectfully, Noble Abyss Child, wherever your sword points is the direction the demon race charges!]

[You nod in satisfaction and say to the already dumbstruck Librarian, now you officially accept the special trial, so you can open the teleportation gate.]

[The Librarian, wedged among the many Demon Overlords, opens his mouth, only to realize he has already been squeezed so tightly that his feet are no longer touching the ground. Even without the recliner, he could sleep standing up.]

[And you, taking advantage of the crowding, openly squeeze yourself beside the well-figured female Great Sage Rona.]

After teleporting to the auxiliary capital, Lin Xun did not head to the Abyss immediately, but first made a trip to Coleman Workshop.

Master Coleman was still in closed-door seclusion, so he could only abandon the idea of using a teleportation trap device.

A teleportation trap device was basically a convenient entrance to a painting. Without such a convenient entrance, he instead hoisted the main body of the teleportation painting, the Starlight Cage, and ran straight to the Abyss.

After explaining his purpose to the Demon Shaman, the many Demon Overlords were filled with hot blood and surging battle intent, and with his help they voluntarily entered the painting.

Afterward, he used Starrealm Leap once more to return to the Polar Star Society, hurrying at full speed the whole way and wasting basically no time.

[The Librarian’s expression is complicated. Of course, your actions cannot be considered a violation. You merely made reasonable use of the rules.]

[The fact that nearly a hundred Demon Overlords are willing to join you in the trial and go intercept and kill a god-level Executor is due to your own management and leveraging of momentum within the chapter. That is your own ability.]

[Moreover, as your exclusive customer service representative, within reasonable rules he should favor you and help you. He has no reason at all to oppose this behavior of yours that looks like cheating, but is actually reasonable and compliant…]

[The Librarian does not know what to say, so all he can do is struggle to raise his staff amid the crowd. A deep blue teleportation gate appears out of thin air…]

[After thinking for a moment, before you and the many Demon Overlords enter the trial, he says one final thing to you: Clever Apostle, borrowing the power of others to complete any game process will correspondingly reduce the rewards, and the special trial is no exception.]

[Although this trial indeed has an extremely slim probability of success if external help is not used.]

[But in the future… if you can use your own strength to complete a process, it is best not to do this.]

Lin Xun curled his lips. If this hellish game had not set up such an almost impossible trial, would he really have gone and called in so many helpers?

[You nod and lead Rona, the Demon Shaman, and the many Demon Overlords into the teleportation gate…]

[Not long afterward, the archive room that had just been packed to bursting suddenly becomes empty and deserted…]

[Teleporting…]

[…]

[…]

[Teleportation successful!]

[You open your eyes and find yourself inside an extremely vast hall…]

[The hall has no outer walls. In their place stand thick pillars supporting the magnificent palace. Through the gaps between the pillars, you can clearly see that outside lies the deep, cold, silent endless sea of stars.]

[Rona, the Demon Shaman, and nearly a hundred Demon Overlords all appear behind you. They have teleported here together with you, and no unexpected situation like the last trial has occurred, making you quietly breathe a sigh of relief.]

[A sound like beating war drums has been echoing through the hall all along, and you cannot help but look toward its source…]

[At the deepest part of the hall stands an enormous squirming mountain of flesh, yet the Executor you are supposed to intercept and kill is nowhere to be seen.]

[You lead the many Demon Overlords to the mountain of flesh and discover that it is a giant spherical mass of flesh and blood, with dark purple blood vessels extending from it and connecting to the floor and the ceiling.]

[This giant spherical mass of flesh seems to possess extremely vigorous life force. All the flesh writhes together, producing muffled thuds like a beating heart.]

[You feel that the thing before you looks very familiar, yet for the moment you cannot remember where you have seen it before…]

[When Rona sees the mountain of flesh, her expression turns grave, and she immediately says to you that this is flesh-and-blood tissue used to incubate Starborn Spirits, containing extremely powerful life force.]

[This kind of flesh-and-blood tissue can not only be used to incubate powerful Starborn Spirits, but can also be used to strengthen special abilities bestowed by the stars, and rapidly repairing bodily mutilation and injuries is also one of its functions.]

[If she has guessed correctly, then the Executor must be inside!]

[Upon hearing that, you immediately command the many Demon Overlords to launch an attack on the flesh-and-blood tissue…]

[At that very moment, the mountain-like flesh-and-blood tissue suddenly explodes!]