Great! I'm surrounded by villains!-Chapter 448 - 367: The Sun King’s Last Stop

The ancient towering tree bore fruit, with the green luminescence swiftly spreading through the camp.

The initial panic quickly dissipated, replaced by a sense of calm, and even a touch of satisfaction.

The unfamiliar sensation left the Wolf Demon Girl at a loss, yet it seemed to stir some hidden memory within their bloodline.

She soon realized that this memory didn’t originate from herself but rather from some much more ancient existence, ancient enough to perhaps date back thousands of years, to that Dark Energy-infested era.

In that hopeless age, their ancestors had accepted a gift from the Void Demon.

Consequently, their bodies transformed, twisting from human into their current form, as the Scorching Sun Power deep within their souls became infected and assimilated until nothing remained.

Afterward, their ancestors were reborn, becoming one with the demons.

It was...

Exactly like the scene she was now witnessing.

The chaotic Dark Energy was purified, turned into a milder, more peaceful form of existence.

This power allowed the Wolf Demon Girl to experience a tranquility she had never known before, causing her for the first time to lower her proud head and seriously examine the changes happening to her.

Then, she found that her strength had not diminished.

Not only that, it had become purer and easier to control, while the bloodthirsty, mad aspects branded in their bloodline also healed.

With the disappearance of those negative emotions, for the first time, the Wolf Demon Girl was able to think independently.

Yes, whatever she thought at the moment, there would be no sudden restlessness to interrupt her train of thought.

The ancestors considered this restlessness as the price for their power; having accepted the demon’s gift, they had to be under demonic surveillance, any rebellious thoughts detectable under their master’s gaze.

And, gathering an army to strike back at the reality plane now seemed more like a decision influenced by the master.

Just as the lower demons were to them, they had no choice.

From the original Scorching Sun and Dark Energy, to the giant tree that suddenly emerged in the Land of Eternal Night, the Wolf Demon Girl suddenly grasped Duan Mingyuan’s identity, and the question of how he so easily controlled energy was also answered.

"You... no, what is your will?"

the Wolf Demon Girl asked.

Beneath that giant tree, the image of Duan Mingyuan in her eyes seemed to change as well.

As if looking through the shell of a human, she glimpsed a more profound and unfathomable existence, which inadvertently brought tears to her eyes and wrapped her in an indescribable joy, making her want to kneel before him.

This was the mark the Void Demon put on its children; in their master’s presence, they must perform the act of kneeling.

"This is Life Energy."

Duan Mingyuan didn’t answer the Wolf Demon Girl’s question but instead said, "On Blue Star, there exist beings similar to you, who the humans call Monsters, born with power that defies common understanding."

He was a Monster scholar, particularly skilled in the study of Fox Demons.

Yet despite searching through the Cloud Sea Academy’s library and the Imperial Court’s archives, Duan Mingyuan found no description of the origin of Monsters.

In the cultural heritage of Blue Star People, Monsters seemed to exist even before their own creation, and some believed they were merely a concept invented by humans through folklore. However, when Duan Mingyuan saw the interpretation of traitors in "Genesis," he suddenly had a new idea.

The children of the Sun King, after being seduced by the Void Demon, fell and turned into subset demons like werewolves, retaining the outline of humans but taking on demonic appearances.

So, what kind of creature is born when humans fuse with Life Energy?

"Blue Star is the Sun King’s last stop," he said with certainty.

This time, Duan Mingyuan stated with an affirmative tone, "The transformation from humans to monsters is the result of integrating with Life Energy."

Based on the characteristics of Life Energy, the monsters of Blue Star, despite their changed appearances, are emotionally stable compared to the Void Demons, and most monsters are even temperate in disposition.

After an indeterminate amount of time had passed, the Wolf Demon Girl finally spoke, "Do you mean to say the Sun King has fallen?"

After all, "the last stop" sounded very much like the end of the Sun King’s life.

Even the Void Demons dared not assert that the Sun King had completely vanished, with every tribe prepared to fight a decisive battle with the Sun King and His Angel Envoys on the plane of reality.

For the Void Demons, this would be excellent news; they should ignite the lower demons and hold a grand bonfire celebration.

Yet now, far from joy, the Wolf Demon Girl felt a certain sadness in her heart.

She stood from a third-party perspective, witnessing the fall of a belief.

"Nothing is eternal; the Sun King and the Void Demons are no exceptions. Perhaps He went to Blue Star in search of a way to continue Energy, or maybe He wanted to preserve His will through some kind of experiment," Duan Mingyuan speculated.

"But why Blue Star?"

Before Duan Mingyuan’s arrival, the Wolf Demon Girl had no inkling of such a planet in the cosmos.

Blue Star was not on the path of conquest for the Void Demons, at least not until they had leveled the territories of the Ashen Church.

No higher demon had ever mentioned anything special about Blue Star.

"Because the Sun King found an answer there, something that is missing from the ’Genesis,’ I wonder if the Land of Eternal Night has any similar records?" Duan Mingyuan inquired.

"... No, demons do not read books, nor do they have the habit of recording history," the Wolf Demon Girl admitted rather sheepishly.

In the culture of the Void Demons, reading and learning are considered idle activities, and every newborn demon first learns about fighting and plundering.

Every demon dreams of becoming a Warlord, which is the ultimate glory.

"’Genesis’ never mentioned the origins of humans or other creatures; both the faithful and the fallen are referred to as ’the chosen ones.’

It described an age shrouded in darkness, yet it did not mention any Chapters about the Sun King or the Void Demons creating life.

Neither of them are creators; they are merely chosen from among many beings to change the dark era.

The birth of life and the universe predates them both.

And at some point in the glorious march of the Ashen Empire, it seemed that the Sun King realized that He, too, might merely be a sojourner in the long river of history.

It is mentioned in the history of the Ashen Empire that there was a time when the Sun King exhausted all means to leave the planet that housed the empire, a quest for exploration, albeit at a great cost to the entire empire."

But with the abrupt disappearance of the Sun King, the heirs of the Ashen Empire were left without a clue as to what their king sought to find.

"So, He found on Blue Star... the origin of life?"

"At least, that’s what He believed," Duan Mingyuan confirmed.

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