Chapter 280: Genesis and Apocalypse 9 (2/2)

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Just as I was basically stuck in an infinite loop of what ifs, Mo Na’s adorable voice suddenly jolted me back to reality: “Mama! How did Mama change all of a sudden?! Your wings are so pretty, Mama! Mama smells so nice too…”

Just as I lifted my head, my sight was immediately overwhelmed by Mo Na leaping towards me, completely entranced by the scent of my body. She directly wrapped her hands around me and started kissing my cheeks till my entire face was full of her saliva: “Mama, why are you standing there in a daze, is there something wrong with the statue?”

Now that Lucifer’s barrier was gone, Mo Na and the others had recovered their freedom as well. However, judging by the expression on their faces, they didn’t seem to be in the least bit aware of what had just happened. In other words, their memory of me had stayed at the point where I had just mentioned wanting to investigate the statue.

“Mama, what’s that, it’s so shiny!” Mo Na stretched out her arm to try and touch the Gem of Authority. Because the gem itself had no offensive properties to speak of, I simply handed it over to my little baby.

“That’s called the Gem of Authority, it can be used to control the Abyssal Golems.” I gently hugged Mo Na and explained as such with a smile on my face: “The Abyssal Golems are those black and red golems we fought not too long ago. With this gem, those golems now belong to us.”

“Mama, this gem is so nice, it feels comfortable just hugging it.” As she wiggled about in my embrace to find a cozy position, she continued fiddling with the gem. “Mama, how did your appearance change? At least Mama got prettier, Mo Na just knew Mama is prettiest in the world!”

“Master…you’ve evolved!” Before I could even answer Mo Na’s question, No.3 and Big 4 practically dashed to me and with a disbelieving look, blurted out as such. Had it not been for the fact that my soul signature hadn’t changed at all, they probably wouldn’t have been able to recognize me at all.

“How did you evolve into a Fallen Angel?” Sinmosa asked, having trotted up to me as well, with husband and child in tow. She first gave me a cursory sniff and upon confirming that it was really me, she then asked as such in an unsure tone: “How did you suddenly evolve in the blink of an eye? Did something happen that we aren’t aware of?”

As she said that, little Cinderel came scampering up to me to give me a friendly snuggle with her little noggin. Even though my appearance had changed drastically, her friendliness towards me hadn’t changed at all. She then stood on her two back paws and started pawing the air as if she wanted a hug too. I hurriedly had Mo Na made the necessary preparations after which I bent down to pick up our little doggy VIP. It was only after I finished hugging her that I finally had the time to answer Sinmosa’s question.

“It’s a long story…”

Yet just as I was about to embark on said long tale, I paused, unsure as to how to start. What happened before was definitely not known to them but I wasn’t exactly in a position to explain either, seeing as even I had difficulty processing the fact that I had just spoken to Lucifer. ‘I need some time to think…’

Unfortunately, that clearly wasn’t going to happen. Upon seeing my new form, the Black Blood Queen Ant immediately fell to the ground and crawled up to me in a prostrated form. Even with how much she was kowtowing to me now, her face showed no unwillingness at all. It was as if she was worshipping me.

“What’s going on with you?” ‘Why is that ant suddenly acting so reverently? The fact that she wasn’t even faking it, had to be the biggest surprise here.’

“Mas…master…!”

‘She’s actually calling me master now?! Wasn’t she all hardcore rebel just a while ago? How did I suddenly turn from her hated enemy to her master? Did she hit her head somewhere or something?’

Just as I was busy being perplexed about it, Nola’s gigantic mountain of a body came lumbering over to me. Upon reaching me, she curiously bent down to assess me. After pondering for a moment, she then spoke in an unsure fashion: “I remember the elders in my clan once mentioning that the Devil King of Sable Radiance once had a pair of wings like yours. However, his head didn’t have a horn, nor did he have a tail.”

“…so you’re saying the queen ant might have mistaken me for the previous Devil King?” Turning away from Nola, I fixed my gaze back on the grovelling queen ant. ‘I guess that’s possible too.’

Curious about my current form, Nola asked: “Oh right, how did you suddenly evolve? You were in front of us all this while but suddenly you just evolved…I can swear I didn’t even blink too…”

“Some things happened…perhaps all this might have just been an instant for you all, but for me…it felt like an entire century had passed…” Unsure as to where to start, I decided to give them an abridged version: “We can go into details next time, all you guys have to know now is that I’m now the Overlord of Purgatory…”

“Overlord?” Sinmosa threw me a disbelieving look: “You’re the Overlord?”

“That’s right, even though my strength hasn’t changed all that much…but I’m now the Overlord…”

(TL: The author added in a note here describing how Mo Ke looks. However, all that was written before the cover page of the novel was updated so…there’s really no point in me translating it now. Just go look at the cover picture of this novel, that’s how he looks like now. Mo Ke is roughly 170cm tall.)