Chapter 1114
Chapter 1114 - 1100: Meeting
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"Give me a little more time,"
"It’s been a long time, we can’t keep dragging this out."
"I’m not ready yet."
𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺
"You will never be ready."
"At least, tell them something, give them a hint."
"Ha, you think I’ll let you drag me into this? No way!"
Looking at Lu Ping’an’s indifferent face, Kerdalais could only heave a sigh of helplessness.
In fact, she didn’t know how to face her two "sisters."
They should be mortal enemies, at least, she had sealed them away and even killed them... But she knew how much of that was "water under the bridge."
If she had really wanted them dead back then, they probably would have been thoroughly dead with no chance of survival.
So they were not enemies? Did she believe that herself...
She was very conflicted, so conflicted she couldn’t sleep... Uh, it seems like "AI" doesn’t need sleep anyway, so no problem.
But now, she had no way back, she had to face it...
"How will they see me, how will they treat me..."
For the first time, the fearless Deity was plunged into hesitation and unease.
But soon, she no longer needed to hesitate...
Suddenly, quite unexpectedly, Lu Ping’an opened the door and walked in with a smile.
He turned back and said to the guests with a smile:
"This is our Courtyard’s Administrator, codename ’White Claw’. If you have any needs, you can directly ask her, I believe she is very willing to help you..."
Under Lu Ping’an’s guidance, without any preparation, three pairs of eyes collided.
"Kerdalais!"
"How is this possible, how can you still be alive!"
When the two girls caught sight of the pure white figure, the "Saintess" dressed in a nun’s habit, they widened their eyes incredulously.
"Aaaaaaaargh! Die!"
The two little girls, unquestionably, went into a rage straight away.
In that instant, the young girl once again transformed in three stages, turning into a Rule-level young lady.
And her sister, in the moment they met, had already turned her entire body into a crystalized Demon, lunging forward.
Just in that flash, the oppressive force unleashed by the two "guests" surpassed several times what Lu Ping’an had ever endured!
Before, they were probably just sparring, but now... they were fighting for their lives!
"Aaaaaaaargh!" The entire time was echoed with rage and shrieks.
It seemed as if the sky itself was being torn apart by the Rule-level aftershocks.
Without need for communication, the shrieking woman and the rampaging girl’s desperate double assault formed a strange synergy; their coordination had never been better!
But then...
The vicious swipe hit nothing but the ground, and the malicious inversion curse technique made contact with nothing at all.
Their hands collided with each other, and when they violently turned around, all they saw was the phantom of the nun they had "passed through" with their own bodies.
"I am already dead..."
Kerdalais sighed; although she had run countless simulations in her mind, the outcome was always this.
But actually facing it still felt strangely unbearable...
On the other side, the man, utterly without mercy, covered his belly and laughed out loud.
He had been waiting for this moment for a long time, specially blocking Big Cat just to watch...
"Die! Die! Die!"
Fei’er stopped, but Eve was still in a frenzy, attacking with her eyes glowing a furious red.
Phantoms, Death, she wasn’t listening at all, her rage only drove her to try to tear apart the illusion before her, and the fury in her left no room for the previous "mother’s" entanglement; she just wanted revenge, for herself and her sisters...
But no matter how hard she tried, she could only hit the air.
Scratching furiously, she could only glare bitterly at her own "mother".
"Hahaha," meanwhile, Lu Ping’an laughed even louder.
But now, Fei’er, silently glaring, stood before Lu Ping’an, obviously expecting an explanation.
"Why ask me? She herself is right there."
"...I don’t want to talk to her, not a single word."
For the first time, Fei’er with her lips pressed together, showed her "girl" side in front of Lu Ping’an.
And the fact that she wouldn’t even cast a sidelong glance at reality made her feelings plain.
At the same time, the tearful blonde girl rushed over, lifting her head, her eyes brimming with tears, and, pointing at Big Cat, she became so emotional she couldn’t utter a complete sentence.
"Damn, I should have been off stage..."
This time, Lu—who had carelessly wandered into the melon patch to watch the drama—seemed stuck between the two, apparently without a solution.
"Forget it, seeing Kerdalais beaten is satisfying enough... As for the explanation, I guess we should start from when I was still an Ordinary Person, about a year and a half ago..."
The story Lu Ping’an told would probably seem like an over-the-top brag to anyone else.
But when the story begins with the fall of a Deity, and the "god" in question is standing quietly by the side, those words carried a significant level of persuasion and realism.
Actually, as per his plan, Lu Ping’an had intended to sneak away to enjoy the drama... ahem, that is, to give some space to this family.
But at that moment, he saw Big Cat sparing a rare "pleading" look, and while he laughed even more merrily, he also felt a tiny bit more empathy... as if.
He got too close to the action by accident and was being held back by two little girls who wouldn’t let him go, unwilling to communicate with Big Cat, so Lu Ping’an had to step in himself.
"...So that’s the rough situation. She is now not even a Ghost; after all, a ghost is still considered an independent entity, she’s just the Courtyard’s AI, the ’operating software’ of this Secret Realm—you all know that many Secret Realms have ’Virtual Godhood,’ right? It’s something similar..."
Lu Ping’an wasn’t intentionally painting Big Cat’s situation in dire terms to gain the girls’ sympathy... because Big Cat’s plight was genuinely dismal, the kind that’s dead without a place for their corpse and still pulled into the service of the murderer afterward.
He simply described the current situation, explaining that Kerdalais had become history, and that the "person" in front of them was probably just a "presence" that retained Kerdalais’s consciousness and "knowledge."
"Kerdalais is dead, make no mistake; her ’Corpse’ enabled my ascent, and as a frail being, I lacked the qualifications to wield such power. Therefore, according to her own ’survival of the fittest’ rules, she became an ’AI’, managing this land, managing this inheritance for me."
Probably, these two were the first to hear the whole truth of Lu Ping’an’s story.
Perhaps, they were also the only ones who had the right to understand everything.
"This... this can’t be possible..."
"A punch? Argument? She actually died due to her own argument?!"
Yet this reality left both of them somewhat doubting their life.
"It’s true..."
And when the always silent Kerdalais finally spoke up, the impact was heart-stopping.
The two could no longer hold back. Among their many speculations and imaginations, this was definitely not one of them.
They surely had many guesses about the downfall of the Mother Goddess, like Lin Nu causing trouble, a spy from Lin Nu backstabbing, Lin Nu descending to join other Deities against the Mother Goddess... They really didn’t expect that the Great Balance Disaster Beast, the invincible Kerdalais, truly fell to a Mortal.
"Anyway, Kerdalais is thoroughly dead, and I’ve inherited everything from her. If you don’t mind, you can call me... uh, father?"
"Get lost!"
"Stinky brother! Shut up!"
"That’s enough, Lu Ping’an! Please just leave!"
Alright, getting scolded by three people at once, yet Lu Ping’an was still all smiles... This time, he seemed to really walk away, but who knows, he might continue to enjoy the show from some corner.
— End of Chapter 1114 —