novelraw Chapter 260 -260-Fragments of History? I’ve Got a Whole Warehouse
Chapter 260 -260-Fragments of History? I’ve Got a Whole Warehouse
The Mind Demon King, Shaki, had actually collected an entire warehouse full of Fragments of History?
Caelan could not help drawing a sharp breath inward.
It had to be said—Shaki’s wealth was frighteningly vast.
If he could take all of those Fragments of History away with him, he would obviously be able to gain a much deeper understanding of the secrets of this world, perhaps even reach the ultimate truth itself.
But it was equally obvious that Shaki was only bringing all this up to lure Caelan into her trap, step by step.
Caelan narrowed his eyes, a faint smile appearing on his face as well.
"So what exactly do I need to trade in exchange for them?"
At Caelan’s serious question, Shaki froze for a moment. Then she covered her lips and burst into laughter, trembling with delight.
"Hahaha, you really are an interesting one!"
As she spoke, Shaki moved right up beside him and gently breathed a warm puff of air against his ear.
"Dummy, don’t you understand yet? What I want... is you."
...
At the outer perimeter of the royal palace’s rear garden, two guards on duty raised their weapons to stop an unauthorized intruder.
"Our apologies, but the rear garden is currently sealed off. No one is allowed to enter."
Evelyn paused for a moment, then her expression darkened.
"I came in with Caelan. He’s inside!"
At this very moment, Evelyn was actually a little uneasy.
A man and a woman alone together, with no one else allowed in to keep an eye on things—something was obviously off here!
Yet faced with Evelyn’s words, the guards remained firm in carrying out their duty.
"Our apologies. Even you are not permitted to enter at this time."
The guards were not trying to make things difficult for Evelyn. They were simply following the orders they had been given: hold this place.
In the end, Evelyn shook her head helplessly and gave up on entering the rear garden.
Still... once Caelan came out, she would definitely make him explain everything.
Evelyn turned and left. Meanwhile, in the rear garden, Shaki and Caelan formally entered the next phase.
"No more nonsense. First, you’re going to accompany me into a special Instance!"
The next moment, a portal radiating an unusual energy fluctuation appeared before Caelan.
At the same time, in the grand hall of the palace not far away, another portal emitting a similar aura was summoned as well.
Only, the one who called forth this portal was not Shaki herself, but Jester Tycoon.
"Everyone, let’s go in and take a look!"
In the next instant, the high-ranking demons present all stepped into the portal one after another.
This time, Evelyn was not stopped again, so she followed them inside as well.
But only after entering the Instance did she truly understand just how unusual it was.
The entire space was shrouded in a gray haze, as though covered by some kind of filter. But upon closer inspection, she realized that the grayness was actually made up of countless fine particles of dust.
Evelyn instinctively cast Appraisal, and what she learned made her blood run cold.
Those drifting particles contained a massive amount of known and unknown toxins. If someone accidentally inhaled that dust, the consequences would be horrifying.
If mishandled, it could even kill them.
Evelyn held her breath and cast a Purification Spell on herself before continuing onward behind Jester Tycoon and the others.
Only then did she realize with surprise that Jester Tycoon and his companions had also come prepared with something similar to Purification. Clearly, they had expected this.
After pressing forward for about ten minutes, a gigantic factory appeared before Evelyn.
Staring at the enormous facility still running at full capacity, Evelyn was completely stunned.
These demons of the abyss had actually transformed the entire Instance into a massive factory?
In the next moment, she noticed the workers constantly moving in and out of the factory.
These workers were the lowest castes among demonkind, beings so lowly that they did not even qualify to kiss a succubus’s toes.
So... this was the other side of the abyss’s decadent luxury?
Evelyn frowned.
...
Back in the rear garden, Shaki’s pink eyes gleamed brightly. She licked her lips, and an irresistible aura of seduction radiated from her entire body.
"Lord Caelan, what you just saw... was the truth of the abyss."
"Now the choice is in your hands. Will you leave? Or will you stay with me and... well, you know."
A trace of hesitation flashed through Caelan’s eyes.
He had guessed a little of the truth hidden within the abyss, but he had never imagined it would be this horrifying.
So the lavish, glamorous lives of the upper demons were actually built upon the endless labor of countless lower demons.
Caelan sympathized with the suffering of those lower demons.
But he also knew very clearly that this was not something that could be changed—at least not now.
If everything was truly to be changed, then the old order would have to be shattered and a new one built in its place. The world itself would have to be remade from the ground up.
At that thought, Caelan muttered inwardly to himself,
If I devote myself right now, maybe that would count as changing this world too.
Mm... since that’s the case, I guess I’ll just have to reluctantly accept it...
Just as Caelan was hesitating and about to nod, Shaki suddenly pounced and pinned him to the ground.
"Since you agreed, then let’s begin right now!"
"You don’t need to do anything. Just leave everything to me!"
Huh??? This urgent?!
Caelan swallowed with difficulty, his gaze darting all over the place, his heart trembling with unease.
Though he was usually good at talking big, when it came to the real fight, he was still a little nervous.
Especially since the Mind Demon Queen before him gave him a completely different sort of feeling.
"How about... we cultivate our feelings a little first? There’s no need to rush something like this!"
But Shaki gave him absolutely no room to negotiate.
As she struggled fiercely against the restraints, she spoke in a muffled voice,
"For our Mind Demon race, producing offspring is extremely difficult, so I need to seize the time. You understand, don’t you?"
"Don’t worry. I won’t drain you completely. After all, someone as outstanding as you—I wouldn’t want my future child to grow up without a father worth looking up to~"
As she spoke, Shaki had already begun to act.
Ever since she had witnessed Caelan’s performance in the arena with her own eyes, she had been unable to stop thinking about him.
As the Mind Demon King, Shaki had her own pride. She would never allow her child to be some mediocre weakling.
So over the years, she had kept searching for a suitable partner, but every candidate had fallen just a little short.
But the moment she met Caelan, Shaki immediately realized that the one she had been looking for had finally appeared.