Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!
Chapter 255: Lili Raises the Banner of Rebellion in Splendor

Chapter 255: Chapter 255: Lili Raises the Banner of Rebellion in Splendor

Black Energy spurted out from Kaka’s body, enveloping his figure, and the thin, wing-like appendages instantly transformed into dark, ominous bat wings.

"I had intended to leave the All Things Library without a sound, but this turn of events was unexpected.

I don’t really care.

I’m mentally prepared to fight against those who have suppressed me countless times.

But I am very displeased, even more so than the first time I was suppressed.

Indeed, you should completely taste Despair.

Don’t regret it; if you hadn’t exposed me from the beginning, there might have been a possibility..."

Before the words could settle, Yang Yu drew his sword with one hand, chopping towards Kaka.

Faced with Yang Yu’s sudden onslaught, Kaka raised his hand, and the thick Black Energy swirling around him instantly formed a large hand, seizing the blade with ease and firmly grabbing Yang Yu’s sword.

"Your Attack is too weak, not even worth mentioning compared to me.

Do you know how I survived in the ruins?

It was not just I who was born with a consciousness at the beginning, but in the end, I was the only one left."

With a slight exertion of his hand, Kaka crushed the fine steel sword in an instant.

The surrounding Fairies widened their eyes in astonishment upon witnessing Kaka wielding the Black Energy.

Sisi stood frozen in place, dumbfounded, the once radiant figure reflected in her eyes had lost its luster. She understood that the one confronting Yang Yu was no longer the King she knew, was no longer their King.

How could she awaken their King, how to drive this consciousness from the King’s body, how to restore peace to the land of the Fairies?

A multitude of questions, along with a feeling of frustration, swelled in Sisi’s mind. She had naively thought she could help the King, but now she felt so utterly powerless.

"Sisi. Stop daydreaming. Even a fool can see your King is being controlled. Now the other Fairies can only rely on you. Hurry and lead them to safety."

In her bewilderment, Yang Yu’s voice brought Sisi’s thoughts back. She lifted her head to see another towering figure entering her vision.

The fact that the young man could see through the consciousness’s scheme so quickly indicated he was no ordinary person.

Now, with no other choice, he was the only one left to trust.

Biting her lip to hold back the tears forming in her eyes, Sisi nodded, flapping her wings as Yang Yu had said, leading the nearby Fairies quickly to refuge.

"Where do you think you can escape to? In the end, you will become the sustenance of Despair, which is also the destiny you were created for!"

Kaka fluttered his dark wings, and a gust of black wind swept out from the wings. Yang Yu stood in front of the retreating Fairies, blocking all the Black Energy.

"Stop the sneak attacks from behind; they only want to survive."

"Your human ways don’t apply to me; I don’t see anything shameful in sneak attacks."

Kaka fluttered his dark wings, trying to bypass Yang Yu and let the black wind of Despair spread, but Yang Yu’s figure also moved swiftly, obstructing Kaka firmly.

"Of course I know that human methods won’t work on you, so let’s change the approach. You say I don’t understand you – I actually think I understand you quite well.

Don’t you want to know how I saw through your scheme?

Well — you can also consider this me buying time for these Fairies."

It was impossible to say he was completely uninterested.

Within the ruins, "Kaka" had already destroyed the majority of the evidence, but Yang Yu still guessed his purpose from the scant clues.

To be honest, it was very curious about to what extent Yang Yu had understood and how he had come to that level of understanding...

Perhaps, it could be very valuable for reference.

"Forget it. Let them run if they want to escape! They can run from the monk, but not from the temple, and the moment they left, despair had already taken root and sprouted in their hearts, ready for me to harvest. Tell me what you know! Let’s see if you’re just feigning mystique!"

Yang Yu waved one hand wildly in the air and revealed a composed smile on his face, spilling all his thoughts.

Before entering the ruins, Yang Yu had a nagging feeling that something was off about Kaka, wondering if Kaka hadn’t taken his meds today, failed to control his second personality, or rather, was being manipulated by something else behind the scenes.

At that time, Yang Yu opened the panel to confirm, Kaka’s attributes remained the same, the status bar was empty, and no new tasks had popped up on the task interface, so he could only enter the underground ruins with his doubts.

But when he actually read through the murals, he immediately judged that the Fairy King Kaka was truly possessed by something.

Yang Yu had a wealth of game experience, had completed countless strategies, and had seen the joys and sorrows of countless worlds.

He had seen civilizations encountering gods during their development and had envisioned it as well.

If that scenario truly occurred, a civilization’s attitude toward gods could be one of three.

First, the civilization completely disbelieved in the existence of gods, raising the flag of rebellion against them – it was either their death or ours.

Second, the civilization worshipped the gods wholeheartedly. Whether to continue to advance or to conservatively regress was all directed by God.

Third, we’re just onlookers; you are gods, we are humans, we don’t interfere with each other, distance creates beauty – as long as gods or some people don’t go too far, there won’t be any dramatic development.

The attitude of a civilization towards the gods was not decided by all in the civilization but by multiple factions clashing, with the one more accepted by the masses taking the lead.

When the winds change, the attitude of the civilization toward the gods may also change.

Yang Yu had confirmed with Iyas and Bai Jin and they had never heard of the ancient civilization described in the mural; they had heard of many other ancient civilizations.

This also indirectly implied that that civilization had been completely erased from the annals of history, leaving only this one ruin.

Beyond that, there was nothing else.

Yang Yu did not know what the true purpose of the ruins was.

He could only make a bold assumption with all the information he had so far.

The most likely choice for the super ancient civilization was to disbelieve in the existence of the gods, to attempt to defeat gods with the technology they possessed, to launch a resistance against unknown powers.

And the ruins beneath Fairyland were likely a tribulation ground.

Human strength was still too minuscule in the face of gods. If one wished to attack gods, one must harbor a resolve to die and absolutely not flee in the heat of battle.

However, human hearts are extremely frail; even the toughest soldiers turn weak as soon as they touch their moral soft spots.

Only by completely overcoming fear, conquering the despair hidden in the heart, could one rebel against the gods without any fear and construct a ladder with flesh and blood for civilization to continue growing.

And this ruin was the site the super ancient civilization used to train their death soldiers.

As for the fate of that civilization...

It seems they did not succeed.

Devoted believers of the gods had already spread all over the world, and Bai Jin knew the process of worship in churches without having to attend them and knew well the goddess they venerated, and was convinced of her existence.

To Yang Yu’s surprise, Iyas candidly said that their elf clan was chosen by the goddess, thus they had such long lives and delicate beauty.