Chapter 81: Chapter 80: Nymph’s Little Adventure
“It’s a Little Demon.”
After watching the shadowy figure disappear, Fina finally spoke in a low voice. She stared at the place where the Little Demon had gone, her expression extremely solemn.
“How could it appear here?”
“Perhaps because this place is connected to Hell?”
“Of course not, Mr. Fang Zheng.”
Fina immediately denied Fang Zheng’s guess.
“The Goddess sealed off this land, and all demons were annihilated. It is impossible for any demon to enter or exit here—even a Little Demon, which is the lowest rank among demons. The only possibility is if someone summoned it…”
As she spoke, Fina’s eyes widened and her voice grew fainter.
“Alright, it seems we now know how that thing got here.”
Glancing at Fina’s expression, Fang Zheng gripped the Sky-Cleaving Sword at his waist. Since the Little Demon could not have appeared out of thin air, someone must have summoned it. And in this godforsaken place, only those cultists would dare to summon a demon.
“Stay invisible, follow it, and see where that monstrosity is heading. Be cautious and maintain a long-range reconnaissance; don’t get too close. If you encounter any danger, retreat immediately. Do not engage, safety first.”
Hearing Fang Zheng’s command, the Little Angel hiding invisibly in midair immediately took action. She glanced in the direction the Little Demon had gone, spread her wings, and flew after it.
As a vanguard of the Devil Legion, the Little Demon was not very powerful, but it was cunning and vigilant. Generally, tracking such a creature is a daunting task, but for Nymph, it was simple—her invisibility camouflage could shield her from any prying eyes, and as an Artificial Angel, Nymph did not need to rely on sight to locate her target; radar scanning sufficed to lock onto everything.
Thus, while the Little Demon looked left and right, alert to its surroundings, it could never imagine that above it, in the clouds, a Little Angel was quietly hiding, using radar to track it.
So it goes, technology is truly the primary productive force.
Even though for the Little Angel, this was entirely black technology.
Under the “guidance” of the Little Demon, Nymph soon arrived at a vast ruin deep within the Dark Marsh. This place once was a bustling city, but now, only broken walls and remnants remained.
“Structures built by Ground Worms are always so fragile.”
Looking at the creation before her, Nymph hummed lightly. Fang Zheng did not know her origin, but Nymph was well aware of what humans in her world were like—what they had done, what they were doing, and what they intended to do… In Nymph’s view, humans in any world hardly changed.
However… this place was no longer Synapsus.
Thinking this, Nymph reached into her bosom and pulled out a silver-white card, frowning and sighing. This was an Omnipotent Card, unknown to Fang Zheng as one of the standard issue items for Artificial Angels. Using this card, they could connect to Synapsus and summon various objects of different natures, such as a Quantum Converter that could transform into any shape or a Dream Passage Door that could enter another person’s dreams. Unfortunately, this was not the world of Synapsus, so Nymph could not use this card to summon anything here.
This made Nymph somewhat annoyed; as an Artificial Angel, she was supposed to fulfill every command given by her master because that was the only way she held value. Artificial Angels need a master, and luckily, her master did not seem so strict and was quite kind to her, unlike…
At that thought, Nymph couldn’t help shivering, then she closed her eyes, shook her head with effort, and looked again at the ruins before her.
Although the ruins were thousands of meters below where Nymph was in the sky, this distance meant nothing to an Omnipotent Angel specialized in search, reconnaissance, and electronic intrusion. Nymph could even clearly see each blade of grass on the ground and a bee gathering honey from a flower.
Of course, there were neither flowers nor bees, only cultists laboriously sifting through the rubbish in the ruins.
What exactly were they looking for?
Nymph adjusted the frequency and could faintly hear the cultists muttering words like “Fragment” and “Core.” They were not only working by themselves but also had some creatures similar to the Little Demons she had tracked before scurrying around. Unfortunately, the city seemed quite large, and comparatively, these people seemed to be accomplishing very little.
Soon, Nymph saw a cultist unearth a strange object from the ruins, which looked like part of a sculpture. The cultist seemed quite excited, as he respectfully brought the fragment over to a Black Robe not far behind him, then handed over the piece. The Black Robe took the fragment, glanced at it, and nodded in satisfaction. The cultist then turned and went back to his digging.
Nymph watched as the Black Robe received the fragment and solemnly placed it in a wooden box next to him. She just scanned it lightly and immediately sensed many similar energies in the box. It seemed the cultists’ scavenging was quite efficient after all.
Hmm… Although her master’s orders were merely to recon, but… she couldn’t just do nothing.
Nymph of course didn’t know what these cultists were up to, but she was well aware that these people were her master’s enemies, and their current actions were clearly detrimental to her master. So, she had to prevent them from achieving their goal.
Although Nymph appeared delicate and cute, she was, after all, an angel, and specifically an Omnipotent Angel engineered for electronic warfare. Although Fang Zheng did not think she was much of a fighter, for Nymph, combat was her heavenly duty as well.
Of course, charging in like a fool was something only α and △ would do. As a β type Combat Angel, Nymph naturally had her own methods.
“Energy fluctuation scan, confirm, wide-area radar deployment…”
In the girl’s eyes, the focusing aperture began to rotate, and she successfully recorded the energy fluctuations of the fragments inside the wooden box. She then used this as a base to scan the entire ruins. Quickly, through energy resonance, she rapidly located several other fragments hidden in the ruins.
The whole process took no more than ten seconds, quick, decisive, and effective.
Nymph nodded in satisfaction, then disdainfully glanced at the cultists who were still laboriously digging on the ground. She turned and flew toward the other side.
Through energy resonance, Nymph quickly found another fragment, but…
“What on earth is this thing?”
Looking at the huge fragment buried in the soil, which looked like the upper half of a monstrous creature’s head, Nymph frowned in confusion. There seemed to be no such monster in her memory. However, that was unimportant. What mattered was that when Nymph excitedly arrived, she felt frustrated to discover that the fragment was larger than her entire body.
“This is troublesome…”
Nymph looked around helplessly. The sky above the ruins swarmed with the traces of Little Demons flying around. Although the fragment was not too heavy for Nymph, being an Artificial Angel, she was stronger than humans, but due to its large size, moving it might attract the attention of those Little Demons… Hm?
At that moment, Nymph suddenly directed her gaze to the forehead of the broken statue’s fragment, where she saw a dim, dirty-glass-like gem. While the gem looked more like a discarded object, a radar scan told Nymph that most of the fragment’s energy aura emanated from this small red gem.
With that thought, Nymph hurriedly walked over to the fragment, then stretched out her hand to prise the gem, which was as large as a grapefruit, from it. She then looked around, quickly resumed her stealth mode, and flew up into the sky to quietly depart.