Chapter 19: The Gates of the Underworld
Early the next morning, I accompanied Lord Shalier to the city library. This ancient library has been a mysterious existence since its establishment, because the road from the underworld to the human world is located here, it is a chaotic area between the human world and the underworld, there are human haunts and demons control, so the boundary is unknown. Coming from the underworld and going to the underworld are two completely different concepts and two ways. The way to the underworld is death to put it bluntly, and the demons who come to the world from the underworld must go through the permission of the seven fallen angels, otherwise the demons who cross the world without permission will be destroyed by the guards of the underworld on the way here. A seemingly ordinary caretaker in the library may not be as simple as you think, and they are most likely the caretaker or trialist from the underworld. They guard this only path that leads to the human realm, and they are tasked with destroying the demons that have crossed the border. Their strength is comparable to that of the fallen angels, but they will not do that, because their status is given by God and they are destined to be mere keepers of hell.
When Shariye and I arrived at the library, we first met with the curator, Figure, who was in charge of all the demon archives and the leader of the Guardians' faction. The library's archives contain a list of all the demons, and of course my archives are here. Because most of the demons have lived for a thousand years, the memories are really not enough, so the heavy events that happened to each demon will be recorded one by one, and over time, there will be this demon archive.
"Oh, here you are." When we found the picture, he was sitting on a high moving ladder to sort through the filing cabinets. A coffee-colored solid sweater with his face that is both righteous and evil, showing his extraordinary temperament, a demon with such a demonic face is definitely a scourge in the world.
"Graphic." Shaliye's hidden angel wings spread out, and the entire archive became glittering with gold.
"Director." Except for the seven archons of the underworld who can call him by his name, we demons all respectfully call him the head of the archives.
"Oh...... Thunder Monarch, long time no see. Tuwen jumped from a ladder more than three meters high and landed lightly unscathed. He took off his round gold-rimmed glasses and flicked his wavy curls to reveal his perfectly practicable face. The director of this library would seem too young and handsome to any human, but the demons know that he is actually older than we are.
"Yes." I politely stood behind Shaliye and answered him.
"Can the seal be opened now?" Shaliye went straight to the point, and had already sent someone to the ward to send Jiayue over in advance, so he should have been well prepared.
"Of course, you can open it at any time." With a slight push, several iron cabinets more than three meters high in his hand were moved aside. On the wall behind the cabinet, the five-star seal of the path of the underworld was revealed.
"Let's get started." Shaliye stepped aside, Tuwen nodded, recited a few spells, and there was an extra black box in his hand. He opened the lid, and inside were five golden awls, the keys that opened the gates of the underworld. With the movement of his fingers, the five awls were each inserted into the five endpoints of the pentagram.
"In the name of Satan, the dark forces please open the gates of the underworld for me, and all the demons on the path of the underworld, all the demons whose names have been read, please come at my invitation! Come, Kazuki the Hades Cat from the Abyss, please follow my orders and appear immediately. After reading this summoning, a huge golden pillar of light suddenly popped out of the pentagonal shape in the middle of the seal, and soon all kinds of demons drilled out of the seal, they tried to take this opportunity to come to the human world to cause chaos, but Tuwen didn't give them a chance at all.
"You stowaways, get back to me." Tuwen kicked a few times in a row, and all the demons who crossed the border were kicked back into the seal by him. By the time Jiayue came out, I had already kicked back no less than three hundred demons, many of which were of the same level as me, and I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, fortunately, the watchman had a natural mission, otherwise with such an amazingly powerful power, he would not be at the same level as Lord Shaliye in the underworld.
"I'm sorry, it's too crowded on the road." The pillar of light suddenly disappeared, and Jiayue, dressed in black leather, appeared, and at this moment she looked like a sexy Thunderbolt in the movie. Gazuki walked up to Lord Shaliye with graceful cat steps, and did not call Shaliye an adult or call me, she had always been the most indulged pet of Shaliye, proud and elegant like her master.
"Then my mission is accomplished." The picture and text smiled warmly, and it looked like the warm sun in winter. With a flick of his hand, the key disappeared along with the black box, and the filing cabinet returned to its place.
"Thank you, Tuwen." Shaliye bowed slightly to thank him, and Kazuki stood next to me and glanced at me.
"It's my pleasure to serve you." The picture and text opened the door to the archives for Shaliye, and the three of us left the library without any extra greetings and thanks, the demon's communication is so simple, only obedience and service have no human feelings.
On the way back, I drove, with Gazuki sitting in the passenger seat and Lady Shalier sitting in the back. Banlu has already returned to the underworld, and it will be a few months at the earliest, and being in the same space with the two ruthless characters makes my nerves a little nervous.
"Thunder Monarch, from today onwards, Jiayue will temporarily serve your side in place of Spotted Deer, and she will take over all your affairs in the human world. Jiayue, you should familiarize yourself with your identity and responsibilities in the past few days. โ
"Yes, master." Kazuki agreed very happily, and with her confidence and wisdom, it was easy to deal with the mundane things of the world.
"Yes, Lord Shaliye." I agreed with some reluctance, as if I had seen my freedom waving goodbye to me.
"Do you look a little reluctant?"
"No reluctance." The presumptuous Kazuki called me by name, but I couldn't treat her like I did to a spotted deer, so I could only answer politely. Her compelling momentum has suppressed me since I was a child, and the demon monarch was bullied by a pet, and I am afraid that no demon will believe this kind of thing when it is said in the underworld.
"I'm not going to indulge you like that lowly Cerberus without limits, you must know that we are here to find the Spirit of Light, not to have fun." As soon as I took office, I was given a preventive shot, which is worthy of a month, with a clear purpose and strong targeting.
"Don't worry, I've never forgotten why I'm here."
"That's good." Kazuki didn't say anything more, she knew my character, and repeated inquiries would only irritate me. She knows how to grasp the proportions of her speech, and she stops at the point.
Back at the hilltop villa, Shaliye left all the room for power to Gazuki. On the first day she put a strict screening of the servants in my villa, and she reduced the number of my servants and orchard farmers from one hundred and fifty to only twenty. The next day, she found all the information of QM Group's employees for qualification review, and all those who did not meet her standards were eliminated, and QM laid off one-third of its staff in just one day. My stock went down one after another, and all kinds of negative rumors about the company's collapse were spread everywhere in the media. Worse than these two incidents, Charlier instructed her not to allow me to go out alone, and I had to take her with me when I went out.
"It's fun to spy on me, isn't it?" In my office, in order to make it easier for me to take care of her, Jia Yue directly moved her desk in, and I can't find a more appropriate word to describe her except for dedication.
"No, it's boring." Kazuki stood up, stretched, yawned, and said bluntly without hypocrisy. My life was as boring as she saw it, with only going back and forth between home and work every day, and the most I did was sign signs. His hobbies are riding the subway and watching movies, but these two things don't interest him at all.
"Take you to a nice place at night, you must like it." I was thinking about something else as I spoke.
"Where?" Jiayue's green eyes flashed with a hint of anticipation, although she warned me every day not to enjoy the world, but after actually coming to the world, she also found that there were many more interesting things here than the underworld.
"You'll know when you go." I pretend to be mysterious, the cat is also a cat, and anyone can know what cats like best.
"I'm arranging your itinerary, so you don't have to sell it." Kazuki shrugged off and leaned against the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, fiddling with her long nails.
"No, I'll arrange it for you tonight." I got up from my seat and took out my pocket watch to look at the time, and it was time for lunch, which was the most unappetizing.
I opened the drawer and took out a box and threw it to her: "You have this mobile phone, and it has my number stored in it, so that it is convenient to contact at night." โ
"Are you planning to get out of my sight now? My Highness. Jia Yue steadily picked up the phone I threw over, and immediately became alert.
"Yes." I smiled evilly, and the purple thunderbolts in my hands had gathered.
"I advise Your Highness not to take any chances." Jia Yue opened the phone case and took out the mobile phone inside, and then her whole body was wrapped in a black breath. She sensed my motives, and I wanted to escape her surveillance for a while, but I couldn't avoid a fight.
"It's too unpleasant to see each other all the time, why don't we see you in the evening?" Before I could finish speaking, I threw a purple thunderbolt at her, and she quickly dodged to the side and I missed.
"Bad guy." She said helplessly, and the blackness around her began to spread, and soon the entire office was shrouded in darkness.
"Want to use a dark night melody? This can't trap me...... "Kazuki is a formidable opponent, and many of her abilities make demons fearful, but Shaliye has privately taught me some techniques to counterbalance her in case of emergency, so I am not afraid to fight her for real.
"Really? What if it's a dark night melody with a forbidden spell? Kazuki rolled up her sleeves with ease, and with the spell in her mouth, golden runes flew out of her arms, and soon covered the entire black area.
"Oops." I chuckled in my heart, I really didn't know how to deal with this trick yet.
"Why don't you test your progress at this stage for Lord Shaliye now?" Thousands of golden spells gathered together and turned into a square cage of symbols, approaching me little by little.
"Are you playing really?" I took a few steps back, thinking about countermeasures in my heart, Jiayue has a dark forbidden spell flail soul, and I also have a thunder forbidden curse Heavenly Punishment, and when it really doesn't work, I can only take Heavenly Punishment a try.
"When did you see me play fake?" Kazuki's โกโก tail appears, a precursor to her attack.
"So faceless?" I try to stall as much as I can, because the Forbidden Curse Heavenly Punishment takes some time to prepare.
"Your Highness wants to save face and use your strength to earn it."
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