Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest

Chapter 1621: The Battle Aftermath

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After that “intense battle” against the Lich and after obtaining a new Demonic Weapon, Elayne walked back to her family and friends, who greeted her with relieved smiles, it seemed the job here was finally done, and it was already getting dark too, so it was time to go back to the nearby village.

“So it turns out the Demon King of Death was behind this!” Rita said. “But how did that bastard even get in here?”

“When I fought that Lich he said something about not just being able to create Gates in Earth, but also in places connected to it… He also said his King had grown stronger,” Elayne said, rubbing her chin while they rode over the back of her divine beasts.

“Wait, what? Does that mean that he became so strong he can now create gates here?!” Jenny asked angrily.

“That’s definitely not good…” Mark said. “However, it feels like… it’s not completely overwhelming. I mean, if he truly had the power, wouldn’t it be better to create multiple Gates everywhere? He could have made one in the middle of that village and destroy it with his Undead hordes, but he didn’t, and I doubt that’s because he’s nice or something.”

“Yeah, the Lich did mention that he commanded an horde of ten thousand but couldn’t bring them here…” Elayne said. “I would assume that the Demon King of Death can’t create Gates that last for a while and perhaps has only sent his most Elite Soldiers here. He was a nameless and not even a Death General though, but he was definitely stronger than your average skeleton, and he had this wonderful demonic weapon. I would assume he sent a few dozen of his members around the Realm and told them to spread Nether and Miasma everywhere, probably through those Corruption Crystals we saw.”

“Well, that sounds a bit more doable, but it still alarming, especially because it’s not something we can stop, right? Even if we defeat them all, once we leave, more will appear… it’s troublesome,” said Lily, looking rather exhausted. “What can we do, Elayne?”

“Hmm… Don’t worry, we’ll find a way,” Elayne nodded with a confident smile. “If anything, we simply need to tell the King what’s going on, and that he needs to strengthen his forces some more. Maybe we can help them create new weapons, magic, or formations that’ll keep the Undead trying to sneak inside this Realm away from here.”

“I know it’s possible,” Katherine nodded. “The King is not a fool, and considering what we learned earlier, it appears that a lot of his forces are already working into taking care of things right now… even then helping out wherever we can… Well, that might be for the best. Although going out of our way to help others, deviating from our original path wouldn’t be really good. Let’s prioritize our business here, everyone. This Realm isn’t as defenseless as you may think. The people and nature here can fight back. This Realm would have fallen much earlier if that wasn’t the case!”

“I guess you’re not wrong,” Elayne nodded. “Anyway, just how many Owl Bears did we hunt?”

“At least over one thousand,” said Rita. “It’s amazing you can store all of that inside your Inventory. I thought it had a limited space?”

“Yeah but the items can stack, you know?” I said. “And I got like three hundred slots right now, I’ve been able to expand them using Gold. A single item can stack 99 times, so I simply used ten slots of the Owl Bear corpses. I also stored the bones of that lich, which might come in handy, and also that shattered Corruption Crystal.”

“Alright that’s great,” nodded Mark. “I believe that the other problems going on might be also provoked by Corruption Crystals… we better help whenever we can.”

“Hmm, I suppose so~” Jenny yawned. “Well! I’m getting tired and sleepy, and kind of hungry; shall we go have dinner guys?”

“Yeah, I’m feeling hungry as well,” Elena nodded. “Hey mom, that scythe has a demon inside?”

“Oh? Yeah, yeah,” Elayne nodded. “I’ve managed to create a contract with him using my chains and a few other things.”

“R-Really? And is that safe?” Mark was worried.

“Don’t worry, it’s safe,” Elayne said. “I had made sure it wouldn’t go out of control already; I did this and that…”

Elayne explained to Mark and everyone listening to her what she did, and that this demon was already a pretty weak one called Querlax or something, of course, the Demon had a few things he wanted to say about that, but he was unable to speak, and he was forced to just listen in silence.

“This probably means the other foes we meet might also have Demonic Weapons…” Said Mark. “A weird things was that the Black Hand had none, huh?”

“At least the ones we fought, yeah, it seems they don’t deal with demons…” Elayne said.

“But why though?” Rita asked. “I thought the bad guys could do anything as long as they could win… making contracts with demons feel like something completely in line with their morals.”

“I don’t know, perhaps it’s not a thing of convenience but of resources, perhaps they don’t want to share it with the demons, after all, that Nakuna fellow had devoured hundreds of thousands of souls to become as strong as he did,” explained Elayne. “Demons also demand souls for cooperation, but I would suppose they don’t want to share, even less if they’re confident on their own strength.”

“Those assassins were pretty damn weak though,” Mark said. “I was able to easily overpower that guy without even putting that much effort into it, are they all so weak?”

“I don’t know, we just happened to meet a small group that chased after us, and from what I learned, it seemed that only Nakuna could come here comfortably due to his abilities over Dreams and Nightmares,” Elayne said. “I did learn a bit more about them by absorbing part of the information in his memories but absorbing too much might be too troublesome and could alter my mind, so I am not doing that and will first process everything into separate information.”

“That sounds reasonable,” Mark said.

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