Chapter 843 - Abdication

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The demon with the purest bloodline, unaffected by Genghis’ power...

Li Yi was stunned.

He had assumed that when Genghis fell, the Second Demon God’s power would decline as well. He had not expected the Second Demon God’s demonic bloodline to be even purer than Genghis’.

She had not been weakened in the slightest. How was he going to beat her now?

Li Yi had come here intending to take advantage of the situation. If he had known that the Second Demon God had not been weakened at all, there was no way he would come here to seek humiliation.

The beautiful and sexy Demon Princess was undeniably powerful. After all, her virgin first kill had lasted two years and seven months since the introduction of the Demonic Invasion up until the release of the Pantheon Mystery expansion pack. That was enough to show just how OP this princess was.

Aersith specialized in ranged attacks and she had extremely high ATK. Add that to the mechanisms set all around the spiral corridor, and it was very easy for players to take one wrong step, only to end up leaving the battle.

“Give up, human!”

Aersith held up her flute and was about to bring it down again when Li Yi summoned Alleria with a wave of his hand.

Alleria was a member of the Defiants’ Confederation. Since the spiral corridor was so full of mechanisms, his pets and mercenaries could not do much. The only reason Li Yi summoned her was to test if the Second Demon God, Aersith, really was the Mysterious Leader.

“Smack! Smack!”

Aersith sent two waves of sound flying at Li Yi and Alleria, injuring both man and pet.

‘Why didn’t it work?’

Li Yi was slightly taken aback. Alleria threw her Orange Quality Shield suddenly, sending it crashing toward Aersith.

“Fwoosh—”

The Orange Quality Shield had only made it halfway there when it mysteriously disappeared.

“Woooo woooo...”

Aersith started playing her mesmerizing flute, hypnotizing both Alleria and Li Yi into running all around the map at random.

“Thump!”

Alleria fell into a nail trap and died in an instant.

“Smack smack smack smack smack...”

Li Yi tripped an arrow mechanism and was shot full of several thousand arrows. His HP immediately hit rock bottom and he was laid flat as well.

Her dark purple Territory could nullify attacks, and her flute music could deal ranged attacks. Add that to the spiral corridor full of traps and the girl was practically invincible.

Li Yi lay on the ground, but he did not release his soul, nor did he resurrect on the spot. Instead, he wondered how to proceed from there.

“Before the demons retreated to protect the Foreignland, we had once been the leaders of the Pantheon Continent. Back then, all the races lived in harmony for several millennia. If it weren’t for the gods from Mount Pantheon...”

As Li Yi lay there, a corpse, Aersith began to murmur by his body. Her words were exactly the same as the nonsense Li Yi had spouted to the Mysterious Leader not too long ago.

She was the Mysterious Leader, no doubt about it!

This time, Li Yi was certain.

He had made up Aersith’s and the Mysterious Leader’s script on the fly. It was not anything like the Pantheon Continent’s actual history. Also, he had not said this to anyone but the Mysterious Leader, so how could Aersith know about it? The only explanation was that she was the Mysterious Leader herself.

“Lady Leader, you said you don’t like to fight, but what did you just do? Not only did you kill me, you even sent your own subordinate to her death, with your own two hands! Aren’t you being rather hypocritical?”

Li Yi was extremely glad that corpses could speak, because otherwise he would not have been able to talk to Aersith at all.

Aersith’s expression changed. “Hypocritical?”

“You say one thing but you actually believe another. You’re fake, a fraud, a liar.”

Aersith thought about it for a long time before saying, “If I don’t kill you, you’ll kill me. What’s wrong with me doing what I did?”

Li Yi had an idea and immediately resurrected on the spot. Right now, he was less than two meters away from Aersith.

Aersith held up her flute again.

“Lady Leader, I didn’t attack you first this time.”

Aersith put down her hands and turned around, her back facing Li Yi.

“I am Aersith, the previous Demon Emperor’s daughter. I am no Lady Leader.”

She seemed to prefer speaking to others with her back turned. Li Yi had seen countless videos of battles against her in the past life, and every time she won, she would turn around and show the players her sexy back.

“So you’re saying you’re not the leader of the Defiants’ Confederation, the Mysterious Lady Leader?”

Aersith shook her head forcefully. “No...”

When she said that, the color of the name above her head faded considerably. That proved that she would not easily attack the players unprovoked.

‘So it is you!’

Li Yi was even more certain now.

“Why did you call it the Traitors’ Alliance? Why would they be traitors unless the leader is a demon herself?”

Aersith did not reply, only showing him her back.

Li Yi suddenly realized how stupid he was being. Why was he talking so much to an NPC monster?

No matter how smart she was, she was still just a monster. Was there any need to talk to her so seriously?

Li Yi gave it some thought and then waved his hand, using Teleport to leave the Demon God Castle.

His Emperor’s Sword had the Teleport special skill, so he could use it from wherever he wanted. Naturally, that included the Demon God Castle.

Aersith had not become any weaker, so there was no point in staying at the Demon God Castle any longer. He might as well go back now and deal with the reconstruction of the Invincible Continent.

As a result of the monster’s raid, all of the Invincible Continent’s player cities, including the Celestial Capital, had been reduced to rubble. However, thanks to the Ruler of God’s Gift, every major city had been restored and even the Treasury had been restocked with extras.

In other words, although the Invincible Continent had been raided by a tide of monsters, they did not suffer too many losses.

All the major cities were as good as new, but the peace on the surface did not mean that everything was truly hunky-dory. The infighting among the Invincible Continent players when the Celestial Capital had been destroyed had left some deep emotional scars.

Jiaojiao had been one of the people hurt by it.

When Li Yi headed for the Demon God Castle to investigate the matter, she had already decided that she did not want to be Queen anymore. Li Yi was the one who asked her to wait a few days before making a decision.

“I’ve had enough of being Queen, and I’ve played enough on the throne. I’m done with it now. If you don’t want the role, recommend someone else. If you don’t have any recommendations either, I’ll just abdicate.”

The Iron Alliance’s higher-ups all met up over this matter, holding a conference in the Celestial Capital’s Palace.

Li Yi said at the meeting, “Jiaojiao’s abdicating, and I won’t take the throne either, so you guys can talk it over and select someone.”

Li Yi’s suggestion was for them to vote for the next King.

Flower Underpants was the first to take a stand. “If you or Jiaojiao take the throne, everyone will agree to it. But I don’t think it’ll work if we pick from one of us. We definitely can’t do as good a job as you did, and in the end, that’ll only lead to further dissatisfaction.”

Confused Fox agreed. “That’s right, there’s no way we can be as good as Lil Jiao was. It doesn’t matter who takes the throne, the results will be the same. They’ll get cursed out to hell and back.”

“If we’re nominating, I still suggest Jiaojiao,” said Shangguan Bailu.

“Jiaojiao, don’t abdicate. If you do, no one can replace you.”

Halfway through the meeting, before they even got to vote, several people tried to talk Jiaojiao into staying.

“I don’t want to do it anymore. It’s been several years now, I’m super tired of it.” Jiaojiao shook her head. She was not pretending; her heart was set on abdicating.

The Iron Alliance’s meeting lasted for over five hours, but it came to nothing in the end. They could not come up with even one candidate for King.

“Brother Yi, I’ll pass the throne to you now. You settle this, kay? I’m gonna go shopping for clothes with Ice and Qianqian, wahahaha...”

Jiaojiao passed the throne to Li Yi and logged off.

Long live the King, Li Yi...

However, Li Yi did not stay King for long. Within ten minutes, he decided to throw away this difficult conundrum.

Since the Iron Alliance could not come up with a suitable candidate for King, and since Li Yi did not want to give the throne to outsiders, he mused over it and decided to abdicate.

Since the King abdicated of his own will without choosing a successor, the entire country’s taxes fell by 10%, and the country returned to being leaderless. The continent’s name changed as well, returning to the Eastern Continent.

From then on, the Invincible Continent and the Invincible Empire was relegated to the pages of history.

It was an illustrious, nearly invincible history!

Li Yi’s abdication and the disappearance of the King sent shockwaves through the Pantheon World.

Opposing players were naturally ecstatic, but the players of what was once the Invincible Continent were shocked, furious, confused, and resentful...

“Heavy is the head that wears the crown, but it’s none of my business now. From now on, whatever happens to the Eastern Continent, it has nothing to do with me.” Those were Li Yi’s parting words.

Half an hour after Li Yi abdicated, Defiantly Tyrannical announced that he would be fighting for the throne in three days.

Now that the country had no leader, any faction could participate in the Throne Wars. The Three Major Guild Alliance had been suppressed by the Iron Alliance all this time, so now that Li Yi had abdicated, Defiantly Tyrannical believed that this was the best chance he had to seize the throne. He had tolerated the Iron Alliance for years now, so how could he let this opportunity pass?

It was not just the Three Major Guild Alliance, either. The other medium-sized factions around the Eastern Continent declared that they were participating in these Throne Wars as well.

The curtains had officially risen on the Eastern Continent’s most chaotic era since the servers were launched.

Three days later, Defiantly Tyrannical led his men to the Throne Wars. Altogether, there were over three hundred factions of all sizes gunning for the throne, and the only one to stay out of it was the Iron Alliance.

Just as the Eastern Continent’s Throne Wars were getting heated, Li Yi headed for the Assembled Gods Continent alone, beginning his last raid of the country.

The Assembled Gods Continent’s Celestial Capital had already been destroyed twice, so he just had to destroy it one more time for the Assembled Gods Empire to be relegated to history. With that, the Monarchy would also come tumbling down.

Li Yi had been waiting for this opportunity for some time now. Drifting Snow’s incessant testing of his patience had finally sent him over the edge, so although he did not want to be King, he was determined to destroy the Assembled Gods Empire at all costs.

Coincidentally, when Li Yi was heading toward the Assembled Gods Continent to destroy their Celestial Capital, Drifting Snow, Amber Sword Heart and their army of millions were also on their way to launch an ambush on the Eastern Continent amidst the chaos of the Throne Wars.

With the help of his Emperor’s Sword, Li Yi only used two hours to utterly annihilate the Assembled Gods Continent’s Celestial Capital.

[The Assembled Gods Empire had collapsed, and the Southern Continent had fallen into ruin!]

[The previous Castellan of Iron Wall City, Arthur, has declared his independence and established the Arthur Empire.]

[The previous Castellan of Iron Furnace City, Big Boy, has declared his independence and established the country, I Love Your Wife.]

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