Chapter 741 The Invasion's End & A Mysterious Egg
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CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
Lucifer, Emeraldine, Partner, and Maria's Lightning Divine Body Ego all crushed into pieces several blue colored jewels scattered around the city, which were being hidden with high level Illusion Magic conjured by proficient Vampire Illusionist…
Which were crushed into puddles of flesh and blood on the floor right at the side of the shattered jewels. The moment these jewels were shattered, blue-colored portals leading to the interior of the Frost Queen's dungeon disappeared on the spot, and the Monsters coming out of them quickly stopped invading the area.
"Hmph, to think Vampires, the Church of Light, and the Frost Queen would all ally together one day..." Laughed Lucifer. "This unironically sounds like a joke."
"I'm assuming these jewels were the ones responsible for the Gates opening and leading to her dungeon, huh?" Partner wondered. "I guess this is why they arrived out of nowhere so fast."
"Indeed, Brunhild just sent me a telepathic message, she said she crushed a jewel in the mountain, this is where they came from back there too." Lucifer answered.
"And the Vampire Illusionist, specialized in mirages and illusions were used to hide these really well." Maria sighed. "This is ridiculous…"
"But didn't the Vampires wanted to kill the humans as well? What is even happening? Why are they joining up with the Church?" Emeraldine wondered.
"Isn't it obvious? When they all have an enemy in common, even the worse enemies will band up together to crush it." Maria sighed. "Especially when they've been here much longer than all of us ever did, and have conquered several areas of the continent, they've been in a fight for decades while we all showed up only some time ago, it's obvious who they'll prioritize to get out of the way while they're still weak, to not get any more headaches."
"But this will give us an excellent opportunity to crush all three of them at once as well." Partner giggled maliciously. "Isn't it, master?"
"Oh yeah, that's what I'm planning." Maria smiled, as her last body ego fused back with her other egos, and her true form finally reformed itself. "Phew! I've worked way too hard! Before anything, we really need a break. I'm starving too, literally! I've spent so much Mana and Soul Energy I need to eat to recover it!"
Phantasmal Stomach had the power to give Maria Mana and Soul Energy by eating and consuming food, the higher quality they were, the more nutritious they would be, so she quickly regrouped with everyone else and gathered all the food, packing it in her inventory.
Although eating was a priority, and also taking a small break as they regrouped with everyone else, meeting each other, and also mourning the passing of a brave ant took priority.
Once the people of the city came out, they all surrounded the corpse of Lancelot, as they threw flowers around him, the goblins had this way of mourning the death, which was slightly similar to how the rabbit kin did so.
"Lancelot…"
"H-He's dead?"
"No…"
"But how, isn't he an Undead?!"
"His soul… it was destroyed."
"…"
Although it didn't seemed like that due to his appearance and other things, Lancelot spent a few months with everyone here. He worked as a hunter and guard of the city. And was rather nice despite his threatening appearance.
The children liked to climb over his spiky body, and he would often teach them how to treat the other Abyssal Ants well enough. He even had taken a small hobby, to sew. And he had sewed several hats and clothes to various Abyssal Ants so they could bear the cold better.
"Even when we prayed so much… Lancelot…"
"This isn't fair…"
"I-I remember teaching him how to sew… It was so weird back then, but over time I realized he had a rather gentle heart."
Maria looked at Lancelot as small tears flowed from her eyes.
She slowly carried him with her arms, his long arms and legs dragging along.
His lifeless body, now soulless.
However, as Maria carried him in silence to his grave, she suddenly felt something within Lancelot's abdomen.
It was swelled, and rather hard… He had something inside.
"Come to think of it, what was Lancelot's gender?" Wondered Maria internally.
She quickly placed Lancelot in the bed of flowers once more, and delicately, using some tools, she opened his abdomen.
What was inside surprised everyone…
It was an egg overflowing with mana… it was the mana of the people that prayed for them.
It all concentrated into this egg that had died with him, and somehow, kept it "alive".
"Lancelot was a female?" Wondered Partner, surprised.
"This egg…" Maria sighed, holding it and cleaning it. "Was this what he protected so much? He never told us…"
Maria felt a small heartbeat inside of that egg, it was alive, not an undead, it was completely alive. There wasn't much of an explanation of how this ever happened.
Many thought it was a miracle.
The egg had around the same size as a watermelon, and was completely white and slightly soft, like a giant boiled rice grain.
Maria quickly took out several coats and wrapped the egg with them, keeping it warm.
"We'll take care of your child, Lancelot." Maria sighed, as Lancelot was left underground, covered by flowers, dirt, and snow.
As Maria carried the egg to the castle, it somehow reacted with her own energy, and it slowly started to absorb her Mana…
"Huh? Is it something similar to Nyx?" She wondered.
"What's wrong?" Partner wondered. "Is the egg warm?"
FLAAASH!
And when Partner directly touched it, the egg reacted the most, mixing her absorbed powers with Maria inside, and then slowly beginning to rest as if nothing happened.
"This little egg… What did it do?" Partner wondered. "Well, whatever it happens, we'll take care of it! I'm even willing to raise it as my own kid."
"Haha, well, that's what we've been doing for a while now." Maria giggled for a bit, as the egg rested over a bed covered with cushions.
It glowed with a red and black aura, as the little baby ant inside started to slowly grow much more different than it originally would had been…
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