1000 Years Later, Even My Weakest Follower Has Become A Demon King

117 The Night Before the Storm

Behind him was the phantom of a huge snake. The middle-aged man wrapped in death miasma raised a hand at Cass, and countless howling spirits took form in the air and attacked the latter like a tidal wave.

Upon seeing this, Cass stabbed the sword in his hand into the ground, and dazzling lightning instantly exploded where the sword came into contact with the ground. Countless bolts of lightning splattered, shattering the milky-white spirits.

The middle-aged man raised his hand again and planned on doing the same thing, but a bright silver sword beam slashed at him from the direction of the lightning. The space between the two of them cracked inch by inch. When the middle-aged man saw this, he could only turn into a ball of gray fog and pass through the sword beam before condensing into a human form.

Cass gripped the huge sword in his hand tightly and planned on taking this opportunity to pursue him, but everything around him stopped as if a pause button had been pressed.

“Sorry~ I was interrupted by an urgent matter. Wait a moment. I remember that the core of the spell is here. Hehe…”

A familiar voice appeared not far away. Then, the surrounding scene instantly changed from the gloomy tomb hall to the interior of a brightly lit tower.

The faerie, Liz, flew above a nexus in the middle, and the light of the spell dyed her entire body with a faint luster of red.

This was the Twilight Fortress’s trial tower. It allowed one to reproduce the enemies they had encountered through illusions. Cass usually trained his control over strength here.

“Shouldn’t you be resting at the Gardening Hall now?” Cass asked in confusion.

“William has just given the order that everyone in this fortress has to leave. The entire fortress will enter a complete lockdown from now on. No one is allowed to enter until he lifts it,” Liz flew in front of him and said.

Cass frowned and asked, “Did Lord William give a reason?”

Liz shook her head.

Cass picked up his two swords from the weapons rack and said, “Then, let’s leave.”

However, Liz shook her head again and said, “I bumped into William on my way over. He asked me to inform you not to leave. Rest well and wait for him at Twilight Hall with Judgment 4.”

“Did he say anything else?” Cass hurriedly asked when he heard the other party specially instruct him to bring Judgment 4.

Liz hesitated for a moment before saying worriedly, “He also wanted me to tell you that… the chance to take revenge on the true mastermind behind the previous matter has arrived.”

…

“Even if I obtain the three fragments, I can’t fully complete the ritual…”

Coles muttered after absorbing the third soul fragment of the Father of the Crows into his body.

Three soul fragments could only ensure that he obtained three-quarters of the power of the Father of the Crows. If he wanted to completely advance to the King of Hope and Despair, he had to use a sea of despair as fuel for the ritual before using the Seed of Hope as the final reversal.

The Seed of Hope was still in William’s hands. Without this key, he couldn’t complete the final metamorphosis. At best, he could reach the strength of a Void Sovereign, but he wouldn’t be immortal like Them.

Around Coles were four blasphemous statues—a girl covered in rout and rot; a pale youth hanging from a withered tree; an elder covered in a layer of filth; and an empress with a female upper body and a spider lower body.

However, for some reason, two of the eyes on the spider’s face in the last statue were empty.

As if someone had heard Coles mutter to himself, a whisper echoed in his mind.

Don’t worry. Everything is proceeding according to the net of conspiracies.

Then, the voice of a girl with a sticky feeling echoed.

Unprecedented hunger and corruption would spread throughout the Blackwater Province. When that happened, endless despair would echo in the Moon Realm.

Then, an exaggerated voice like a bard sounded.

As for the pitiful Calamity, he would face two cruel choices—either watch the citizens die of hunger in Currere, or head to the Moon Realm to stop the ritual.

Following that was a sharp voice that sounded like fingernails scratching a blackboard. It appeared in Coles’s mind, giving him a splitting headache.

If he chooses the former, you can use unnecessary despair to open the Moon Realm rift in Thorn City big enough for us to pass through. If he chooses the latter, hahahahahaha!

Finally, the whisper sounded.

The Calamity will definitely come to the Moon Realm on his own. Although the clown has burned away all the conspiracies that lead to the Calamity, this has exposed His true goal. The clown wants to support the former Calamity to become one of us.

When Coles heard this, the muscles on his face couldn’t help but tremble.

As if sensing his hesitation, the four voices echoed in his mind at the same time.

Don’t worry. We will give you a gift to make up for the missing quarter of your strength.

With that said, the four statues exploded at the same time, forcefully opening a temporary Moon Realm rift and pulling Coles in.

Then, you will forge eternity with us.

In the Moon Realm, surrounded by the four voices, Coles saw an endless storm in the distance, as well as an ethereal lighthouse in the center of the storm.

…

“Next scene! Next scene!”

Valk, who was wearing a gorgeous suit, sat in the VIP room and waved his staff as he shouted.

The dancing princess on the stage picked up her dress and rushed down. She didn’t even have the time to pick up her wig.

At the same time, a staff member who was familiar with the theater owner’s temper started moving the wheeled stage with a pulley, but the pulley ended up getting stuck by the wig the actress had dropped, and the entire prop cart stopped in the middle of the stage.

“Scissors, scissors, scissors!”

As the staff shouted, a pair of scissors hurriedly ran over. The former grabbed the scissors and walked to the screaming wig. Just as he was about to snip ruthlessly…

“Time out!”

Their boss suddenly shouted.

All the characters on the stage, including the wig and scissors, stopped what they were doing. They froze in place as if they had been literally frozen.

Valk took out a pocket watch from his chest pocket and opened it. The needles on it spun like an electric fan. Valk slapped the pocket watch hard before the three needles stopped.

They stopped at zero at the same time.

“It’s time.”

Valk nodded and threw the pocket watch behind him.

Then, He dug out one of His eyes like a wine cork. Then, He took out a pitch-black bead that emitted a cold light from His pocket and stuffed it into His eye socket with a pop.

“Ah… So Black Crow Gaze is there.”

He nodded thoughtfully and shouted at the Lunar Monsters on the stage,

“Inform the elephants, bears, wolfdogs, rabbits, and magicians to bring fire rings, rubber balls, and unicycles… Oh right, don’t forget to bring a beggar’s crown. In short, the exciting Valk Circus tour is about to begin!”

The butler named Reason appeared beside Valk at some point in time. It lowered its head and asked, “Boss, do you want to bring the clown?”

“There’s no need,” Valk replied.

The next second, He turned into a clown covered in bells. He wore gorgeous and exaggerated clown costumes, and His face was smeared with paint. His smile looked comical and terrifying.

“Just one clown is needed—me.”

…

In Zamara’s bedroom, seven curtains were closed.

The Calamity left. Other than asking Her for Black Crow Gaze’s coordinates, he didn’t ask for anything else.

But why coordinates?

This Lord of Nightmare didn’t understand.

He could have asked Her to send him over directly without needing the coordinates.

The coordinates were a one-time consumable that could open a temporary portal to a Moon Realm domain.

With Black Crow Gaze’s coordinates, the Calamity could even temporarily open a passageway from Currere to Black Crow Gaze.

This thing was also an item used for plane fusion, but it wasn’t as stable as a Moon Realm rift.

Typically, this was needed for Moon Realm Void Sovereigns to wage war. Back then, the Doomsday Watchers had also used this to counterattack the Moon Realm.

However, the Calamity was only one person. He no longer had the army he once had.

Even if he had, what use was it against the four Void Sovereigns?

What could he do with it?