My Goddess is Good at Pretending

Chapter 128: The Beaten Key

"Psst, excuse me. Holy Maiden Ely, I have something to talk about." Zi Xuan entered Ely’s bedroom while everyone was busy making preparations.

"Yes? Is there something, Xi Xuan?" Ely looked back. She had just finished her devil young master’s disguise and was about to wear her dark knight armor. Yuuki was also there to help her to wear it.

"Uhm, I won’t accompany you. I’ll wait for you here with Sakura." Zi Xuan put her fingers together.

"It’s okay. It’s dangerous for a pure spirit like you to go to an ancient secret realm with many ancient demons and monsters." Ely nodded in understanding.

"Then, please come back soon. Remember our deal!" Zi Xuan floated away through the window while waving her hand.

"Mm, I look forward to your cooperation in the future as well." Ely glanced outside. She didn’t even know what kind of request Zi Xuan wanted to make.

Nevertheless, she should take advantage of this mutually beneficial relationship for the common good.

"Alright." Zi Xuan raised her hand in reply and then returned to the Sacred Sakura tree. She tried to investigate this Immortal Tree more deeply, especially the tree spirit, Sakura.

"She is still suspicious and mysterious to me. However, her aura is pretty good... she may have been a renowned saintess of the upper realm, but somehow, she was thrown into the lower realm eons ago. She is a pure spirit, not a soul essence entity like the Klaus, right?" Yuuki combed Ely’s long lustrous black hair while glancing at the Sacred Sakura Tree.

"Yes, she is a young saintess from the upper realm. She has admitted it, right? She is still alive, and her body may be somewhere. She wants to ask me for help."

"Then, are you going to help her?"

"Yes. I can see she is lost and has no idea where to go. I have a feeling she will be with us for a long time to come."

"Do you intend to recruit her?"

"I haven’t considered it, but she is a good ally. In the past few days, she taught Sakura and my disciples about immortal cultivation formations. We can already be called friends, right?"

Ely and Yuuki chatted a bit. They didn’t care whether Zi Xuan listened to them because it wasn’t a secret.

Zi Xuan sat beside Sakura. She was one meter tall, but this tree spirit was only the size of her head. Apart from curiosity, she also thought Sakura was a cute tree spirit. Unfortunately, Sakura didn’t want to be touched by her.

Zi Xuan then glanced at Ely and muttered softly with somewhat complicated feelings. "Friends, huh..."

In her years of life experience, she didn’t have anyone she could call a friend. She was a famous young saintess, but-

Zi Xuan sighed and shook her head. Thinking back, she had no clear plans for the future yet.

After she took her body out of that coffin, she would find a way to return to the Divine World. She must know what happened to her family and clan.

However, she only knew her final destination. The process of how she would achieve that had not occurred to her mind at the moment.

The situation in the upper realm was obviously chaotic, and her family already encountered a misfortune. That was why she was sent to the lower realm. She would need more strength...

"..." Zi Xuan looked up at the bright white sky, praying for the safety and well-being of her family.

After Ely finished putting on her dark knight armor, she walked out. Everyone was ready to go.

Sylvia was still in her usual charming devil appearance but wore a fancy black dress with gold decorations.

Jophiel wore an all-white winter outfit with lots of pink accents. She wore a winter-themed veil with some embroidered mini snowflakes around it.

Gabriella wore her white-gold apostle cloak. She received devil eye makeup from Jophiel.

As for Yuuki, she used her demon fox tattoo technique as a disguise. The rest, she was still wearing her bluish-white winter outfit with lots of floral prints.

"Ready to go?" Ely asked, and everyone said their readiness.

The lazy magma black dragon got dragged by Sylvia as he was their mount.

Noir wanted to sleep and go into hibernation, but his master said they would go somewhere hot. Thus, he readily agreed.

’Holy Maiden Ely, you may not have realized it, but I feel the Artificial Hell Core Key has a hidden agenda against you. The realm core is always the God-tier artifact, but evil energy has nurtured that thing for a very long time. It retains its evil nature even though you have purified it.’ Zi Xuan reminded Ely via telepathy about her worries.

Ely took out the Artificial Hell Core Key from her storage pouch. It was unresponsive as she had not given any command.

Considering it was a God-tier artifact, she should store it in her inner space with the other SSS Rank weapons and artifacts.

Even though the Artificial Hell Core had ulterior motives, she had several God-tier items that were scarier than the hell itself. Celestia was just one of them. The Artificial Hell Core Key should behave around the seniors.

With that thought in mind, Ely placed the red key into her cleavage, specifically, her inner space.

*Clang*

The Artificial Hell Core Key fell into a mysterious and dark space.

There was a lot of fog and lots of objects floating against gravity. There wasn’t a gravitational force, though. Nevertheless, everything was dark.

The key knew the naïve holy maiden would take its surrender for granted. Also, its new master was not a devil young master, but she was actually a flawless ethereal beauty!

Instead of serving the half-dead God, it was far better to groom a perfect seedling. It could always slowly corrupt the pure maiden’s heart and nurture the holy maiden who killed the Evil God as the new Evil Goddess.

"..." The Artificial Hell Core Key examined its surroundings. It was supposed to be in the holy maiden’s cleavage, but somehow, it entered this dark, misty, and mysterious place. It was like a void.

The newcomer made several Heavenly-tier artifacts and God-tier weapons conscious. Not to mention, this inferior key dared to have malicious intent against the holy maiden. Whatever it was, that key deserved some lessons and beatings.

"!!!" The Artificial Hell Core Key jolted as it was surrounded by dozens of SSS Rank weapons and artifacts.

*Whamp!*

Many superior artifacts beat up the Artificial Hell Core Key so it could know its place.

"Hm-mm~" Ely was humming melodiously. She and her little group sat on Noir’s back. They flew above the clouds towards the southwest horizon.

She was oblivious to what happened in her inner space.

The Artificial Hell Core Key got severely beaten up and began begging for mercy. Unfortunately, the superior God-tier artifacts prevented the key from reaching the holy maiden.

It tried to escape from that space, but the lesson wasn’t over yet. The beatings continued, and the key finally gave in with great fear.

It swore and would never dare to have any evil idea toward the holy maiden. The holy maiden already possessed this many top-grade Heavenly-tier treasures.

The Artificial Hell Core Key wanted to cry as fate was truly cruel...

"Hmm?" Sylvia noticed an aura of despair from Ely’s bosom for a split second, but that was probably just her fleeting hunch. Ely was still humming happily with Jophiel.

"That city..." Ely muttered softly as she gazed at a great fortified city in the distance.

"That is the Reustin City, the Great Yan Empire’s 2nd frontline defense city closest to the realm’s border. That fortified city was expanded and strengthened due to the destruction of the first defence city. Is there something that catches your attention, master?" Gabriella explained a little as she noticed her master kept looking there.

"We’ve arrived near the border. Our organization has also opened a business there, right? We need to visit there on our way back. But, that’s me as a holy saintess." Ely put on her half-face respirator, then her dark knight helmet.

For some reason, she felt she was playing the role of a demon lord. She also had four gorgeous peerless beauties at her side and a powerful dragon as a mount. It was like the story of the demon lord, his harem, and his mount...

"Um, affirmative." Gabriella nodded in understanding.

"Alright. Now it’s my turn to help you as your partner, fufu~" Sylvia covered her mouth.

"..." Yuuki heaved a subtle sigh as she felt slightly sorry for the nightmare clan’s princess. Skyla’s real fiance was already long met his true demise. Even so, she didn’t think much of it.

Under the border between the turquoise sky and red sky, more than ten thousand ancient demons were developing a new environment on the former battlefield. On the east side, they built a large fortified city. On the other side, they planted a vast dark forest.

Noir landed smoothly between the ancient gate and the dark abyss.

The massive demonic magma black dragon’s arrival alerted the surrounding ancient demons. Still, they breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the Young Demon God on the dragon’s head.

That armored demon didn’t emit any aura of darkness, but they knew he was the Young Demon God.