Chapter 595: The Ring of Kingship of Asmodeus, the Cruel King

After Zhu Xingshu left, Ye Qiyan approached the rusty door.

An item specifically used to deal with a character like Zhu Xingshu couldn't possibly be weak.

He reached out and touched it, and the door's information appeared before him through the system's appraisal.

【Rusted Door - Inverted Pope (Level 12)】

【Seals revelation, imprisons souls】

【After retrieval, divination/fate revelation/precognition and similar abilities within a certain range become unusable.】

【The door of revelation closes, trapping souls in a cognitive prison】

【The door is sealed, with no means to open it】

Another sealing-type effect.

It sounded good from the description.

But that was just the description.

For example, an ordinary Level 8 weapon might boast earth-shattering power in its description, but could it actually deliver?

Of course not.

This door supposedly sealed fate revelation and similar abilities, yet that charlatan Zhu Xingshu had managed to leave behind that mechanical missive, proving she had already glimpsed a fragment of her own future.

Even that woman...

In a sense, seals existed to be broken.

So Ye Qiyan was actually more curious about one thing.

What would happen if this door were opened?

The meaning of a seal's existence was to be shattered by someone, just as the meaning of a door's existence was to be opened by someone.

The so-called "no means to open it" simply meant the right method hadn't been found yet.

Clatter—

The sound of tracks grinding against the ground caught his attention.

After storing the door in his inventory, Ye Qiyan looked toward the source of the noise.

At that moment, WALL-E came speeding toward him, his two camera-like eyes curving happily.

"WALL-E, found a treasure."

"Good work, WALL-E. You found it so fast—that's my boy."

Ye Qiyan patted WALL-E on the head.

The little cube robot grabbed his pant leg and started heading back the way it had come.

Traversing the world beneath the sea, a tree-shaped tower appeared before him at the bottom of the ocean.

Following WALL-E inside, they spiraled downward, winding through a labyrinth of twisting, maze-like passages until they finally reached the lowest level.

Here, there was a massive space.

At its center stood a gray-white altar.

Was this a Card Sequence altar?

No.

Because Ye Qiyan could see what lay atop that altar.

A human?

Or rather, a human corpse?

WALL-E waved his mechanical claw, eager to run toward the altar.

Clearly, the most precious treasure in this world that he had found was right there.

Ye Qiyan thought for a moment, then followed.

When he reached the top of the altar, he finally got a clear look at the entire corpse.

It was a charred body, impossible to tell whether it was male or female, young or old.

It lay curled up on the ground, as if it had suffered immense pain before death.

WALL-E approached the corpse and nudged an ancient ring on its bent finger.

"This is it?"

A single ring—the most precious treasure in this entire world.

WALL-E's strength wasn't enough to pull the ring off.

Lisette, who had been silently following beside Ye Qiyan, stepped forward.

A Skull-Piercing Thrust materialized out of thin air, striking the ring directly and knocking it off the corpse.

【Ring of the Cruel King - Asmodeus's Sovereign Authority (No Level)】

【Effect: None】

【Note: A relic left behind after the ancient king's death. This ring holds no power; it merely represents Asmodeus's royal authority.】

The moment Lisette touched the ring, the information appeared before Ye Qiyan's eyes.

He took the ring Lisette handed him, glanced at the charred black corpse on the ground, and shrugged.

"Damn, with all those prefixes, it sounds pretty cool.

I've never heard of any Cruel King, but hey, at least I'm taking something from your corpse. Might as well dig you a grave and bury you, huh? Or... take you outside?"

Ye Qiyan remembered Zhu Xingshu mentioning this place would explode in three hours.

Now, there was only about two hours and change left.

He thought for a moment, then simply summoned the Raven demon and had it stuff the corpse—along with the severed finger Lisette had cut off—into the burlap sack to carry out.

Since he was taking something from the dead, the least he could do was give them a proper burial.

That was something Ye Qiyan had never changed.

Twisting and turning, all the way up.

When they left this spiral tower,

Ye Qiyan could feel a strange oppressive pressure from all around.

The surrounding seawater was slowly pouring back into this underwater cavity called the Hanging Depths.

They needed to leave quickly.

He had no idea how that charlatan Zhu Xingshu had managed to tamper with this underwater world while under siege.

But she was a genuine top-tier human Train Conductor. Even if she was infuriating and unreliable most of the time, Zhu Xingshu's abilities were nothing to sneeze at.

Ye Qiyan parted the sea.

The Wandering Star Holy Sigil expanded outward to its maximum of 77 meters.

He walked forward.

Until he returned to the base of the Mesa where Miranda World's Main City stood.

The Raven demon released the corpse from the burlap sack.

At Ye Qiyan's command, it used its Claws and Black Feather Storm to carve a deep pit directly into the ground, burying the body inside.

"Done. Now there's no problem taking your stuff."

Ye Qiyan smiled, lifting his gaze to the top of the Mesa that pierced the sky, where the heavens were completely torn apart by three powerful and distinct forces.

Mr. Order, Agula Tengo, and Menrojina, who had used Equivalent Exchange.

The battle between these three was no longer confined to that city.

Or rather, every attack they unleashed now could destroy the entire Main City of Miranda World.

"Tsk, tsk, this is what top-tier Train Conductors look like. Pretty impressive stuff."

Lisette was peeling fruit for him with the Spell-Breaking Sigil. Hearing her master's voice, she looked up and spoke in her gentle tone:

"Master is also very impressive. And, Master will definitely become, the most impressive."

Ye Qiyan patted Lisette's head, and as the mechanical girl maid enjoyed the gesture, he reached over and pinched her cheek.

"You have way too much faith in your master, but..."

He paused, looking down at the three figures fighting in the sky through the lens of the Demon Card·Arrogance, his eyes gleaming with confidence and eager light.

"I'll keep getting stronger, until... no, there's no 'until.'"

His tone was that resolute.

The Train didn't go backward, and neither would he.

With the Sublimation talent, with WALL-E, with the Blasphemy Card... with so many companions by his side, he would keep moving forward with everything around him.

"Let's go. We're heading back into that city."

There was still one system task in this world.

【Kill Agula Tengo】

He had no idea what the reward 【Alter】 meant, and he didn't plan on recklessly jumping into those three's fight.

But as a Train Conductor, seeing a task with a reward and not trying to use his current abilities to take a shot? Wouldn't that be way too boring?

"This guy's probably injured, right?"