Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 944 - 442: The Most Powerful Abyssal God in History

Chapter 944: Chapter 442: The Most Powerful Abyssal God in History

[Fragments of memory within the Demon Shell gradually awakened...]

[...]

["The Ancient Grave" is the resting place for many ancestral demons, where only those with glorious honor and military achievements, at least of Demon King rank, are qualified to be buried...]

[You know this ’Abyssal Child’ must be an imposter, carrying the mission to resurrect the ’Abyss’ and to restore the glory of the Demon Clan, how could it possibly be a lowly ’Goat-horned Demon’?]

[As your challenge lies within "The Ancient Grave," you don’t wish for this damned ’Goat-horned Demon’ to disturb the ancestors, especially those in the deeper levels of the Grave, who have been resting here for endless eons.] 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

[Those ancestors resting in the deeper levels were once Demon Gods, heroes who killed countless enemies in the ancient war of the gods.]

[How could you allow them to be disturbed by the absurd demands of a fake Abyssal Child?]

[You are determined to defeat the ’Goat-horned Demon’ the moment you enter the Grave, you absolutely cannot let it reach the deeper levels...]

[...]

[The fragmented memories abruptly end there...]

Lin Xun’s eyes shone.

"Ancestors of demons at the level of Demon God, if I could get the shell of a Demon God..."

According to the memory of the ’Pain Demon,’ buried here are the powerful demonic ancestors who took part in the divine war, and their bodies have laid here for who knows how many long years.

After countless eons, the chance for an ancestor’s Demon Shell to remain intact and meet the conditions for possession is not great.

But as long as there is a glimmer of possibility, Lin Xun finds it worth trying.

Even if he doesn’t find a Demon Shell that he can possess, stealing some burial goods to take back wouldn’t be bad either. Surely the burial goods of a Demon God would not be mediocre.

Of course, that’s assuming the Demon Clan has the custom of burying treasures with the dead.

"A bunch of demons are still waiting outside the Grave. If I want to explore the Grave, I must make quick work of it; otherwise, if I drag on too long, I might arouse the demons’ suspicion."

[...]

[You are now in the first chamber on the first floor of the ’Ancient Grave.’]

[The chamber isn’t large, and its walls are covered with ancient, mottled murals. You glance over them hurriedly; the scenes depicted match the history recorded on the stone steles, only they are more specific and visual.]

[You quickly move through the chamber towards the next one, fortunate that you had defeated the ’Abyssal Pain Demon’ with barely a glance, leaving you ample time to explore.]

[After entering the second chamber, you find that this seems to be the true burial place of the demonic ancestors.]

[However, the demons’ burial methods are somewhat different from what you imagined...]

[You see neat stacks of black earthen jars in the chamber, most of which are only the size of ordinary buckets, with only a few jars about half the size of a person.]

[You rush forward to inspect them closely; these hundreds of jars are engraved with demonic script, detailing the great deeds of the ancestors within.]

[You have a bad feeling, as demons have formidable bodies, and most high-ranking demons are gigantic beings; these small jars absolutely cannot fit a complete demonic corpse.]

[You swiftly pick a jar and open it...]

[The jar contains what looks like black sand powder; aside from the full load of black sand, there’s nothing else inside the jar.]

[You open several jars in succession, including the biggest ones that are half the height of a person.]

[Even emptying an entire jar, apart from the sand powder, you find nothing else of value.]

[Looking at the familiar black sand powder in front of you, the memory in the Demon Shell revives slightly...]

[You recognize this powder; the demonic ancestors who fell in the divine war could often not keep their bodies intact, and the corpses brought back from the battlefield were rarely complete.]

[Demon horns are the most durable part of a demon’s body, difficult to be destroyed by magic power; in the divine war, often the demon would perish, but the horns would remain...]

[This led to the Demon Clan’s unique burial practice, of burning the remaining horns of the ancestors to soften them, then crushing them into chunks and powder to be buried in place of the body...]

[The black sand powder you saw is all that remains of the original demon horns.]

[Moreover, the Demon Clan isn’t particular about burying treasures with the dead, so it’s very likely that there are no burial goods in the Grave.]

[Thus, apart from countless jars, you find no other special items in the chamber...]

Lin Xun’s lips twitched.

It was a feeling of joyous anticipation at entering Treasure Mountain, only to discover that instead of treasures, what lay before him was a mountain of dung.

"What do I need these ashes for? Strictly speaking, these aren’t even ashes, but rather horn ashes..."

The ’horn ashes’ of the demonic ancestors cannot be added to the inventory, clearly making them useless.

[You know that the longer you stay in the Grave, the greater the possibility of an accident...]

[Seeing that the Grave doesn’t seem to hold any exploratory value, will you continue deeper or turn back?]

Lin Xun, not giving up hope, selects the option to go deeper.

After crossing several chambers, he arrives at the end of this level of the Grave, but all he finds in these chambers are more jars, having achieved nothing on his way.

[...]

[At the end of the chamber is a stone staircase leading down to the next level, flanked by two massive demon statues...]

[Do you wish to enter the second floor of the Ancient Grave?]

Without a second thought, Lin Xun pressed ’Yes.’