Chapter 2792: Traitorous Devils Yaranda & Zaranda

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Blossom District, Gideon Grim’s Camp

Outside the desolate dimension array formation, a humongous white snake coiled around the dome, resting its head at the center of it as if it were protecting a giant egg. Meanwhile, a girl sat atop its head. What was worth noting was that no blood drops from the blood storm were hitting her or the snake; they seemed to avoid them.

"Huh, even the moon has turned red," Corey muttered as she caught a glance of the crescent moon behind the red clouds covering the night sky. She looked around at the vegetation and ground bathing in blood and couldn’t help but mutter, "If this continues for another week, farms are going to be in serious trouble. And if it continues for a year or even couple of mouths, we will all kill each other for food before the second demon invasion."

"Nah, he already figured out a solution to digest soul energy in monster meat turning it into a delicacy. At this rate, we’ll all end up relying on dungeons to sustain and survive. Funny, isn’t it? A few decades ago, those things nearly wiped us out." Corey paused, absentmindedly stroking her snake.

"I guess he’s right... Innovation really is the key. If our innovation can’t keep up with changing times, civilization just stagnates till the inevitable collapse." She muttered this part more to herself than to her pet snake, who didn’t seem to care in the slightest.

What Corey didn’t realize was how much her thinking had already changed. She was worrying about things she wouldn’t have even noticed before—even if they’d smacked her in the face.

Just then, Lil’ Baem, who was resting its head on the dome, half-asleep and enjoying the peace with its master, suddenly opened its slit eyes and mouth wide, spraying out a cloud of gray mist that covered the air above them.

Corey didn’t question it; she immediately stood up and fused with Lil’ Baem in humanoid form. She now donned white scale armor from head to toe, covered in a golden tiny scale pizi, giving her an ethereal, goddess-like shade. The armor came with a white scaly tail, which seemed to have a mind of its own as it slowly waged.

Meanwhile, an invisible energy slammed into the cloud of gray mist covering the sky above the pet and master duo, revealing two humanoid figures. Lil’ Baem made use of its gray mist to stop the devil merchant code’s teleportation midway. The devils that were supposed to arrive within the array formation were instead stranded outside of it.

"Yaranda, Zaranda!!"

"Commander Corey!"

Corey seemed to know the two devil merchants that had arrived and they too seemed to know her or to be more accurate her past self Corey Park.

"I see betraying your comrades is paying you two traitors well," Corey remarked sarcastically, though a little pissed that these two traitorous bastards had become devils before her that too at the cost of her loyal comrades. Though she didn’t show it on her face, the rage in her heart was bubbling like a molten lava in a volcano about to erupt.

"Traitors? Commander Corey, you don’t get to use those words, because aren’t you the one who betrayed Lord Belphegor and then misled us all into betraying Lord Belphegor with you?" Yaranda, a red-skinned, bald, seven-foot-tall humanoid with hooves for legs and a straight unihorn sticking out of the back of its head, remarked sharply, refuting Corey’s words.

"Haha, Yaranda, you always had a sharp tongue. I will not bicker with you guys. Apologize—apologize to the comrades you betrayed, apologize to the comrades who lost their lives because of your cowardice and greed. Apologize!" Corey shouted aloud. Her voice almost drowned out the thundering of the blood storm above.

"Apologize? If anyone should be apologizing, it should be you. It was you who misled us all to our deaths for your little schemes to take over the Seven Princes of Hell faction. You apologize to our fallen comrades for lying to them. Apologize for misleading them to their deaths. It was your lies that got them killed. So, you apologize," Zaranda, a red-skinned, seven-foot-tall humanoid with long braided dark hair, hooves for legs, and a crescent-shaped unihorn sticking out of the back of its head, said aloud, turning the blame on Corey.

"Hahaha, fine, I will apologize to our comrades by offering your charred meat, Mortal Star!" Corey let out a war cry and launched the first strike, firing two marble-sized mortal stars at the two traitors after listening to what they had to say for themselves, forgetting that she was here on a covert mission. Her emotions got the best of her.

Seeing two miniature suns, each heading for them, the devils erected their shield and barrier skills, only for them to be evaporated into nothingness once the two miniature suns came into contact with them.

The miniature suns were marble-sized but packed the punch of basketball-sized miniature suns. This was possible because, while creating them, Corey was using Lil’ Baem’s almost semi-ruler-class strength. As such, she was able to condense much more into so little.

Those two devils never stood a chance against Corey to begin with. While Corey was regretting going overboard, as was no charred meat of the traitors left to offer to her fallen comrades as an apology, she heard a familiar voice complain.

"Damn, Corey. You had one job—just wait quietly—and you screwed that up too?"

...

After turning Gideon Grim into my calamity daughter gem, I tasked him with safely returning the victims to their homes and undoing his brainwashing on them, including those across the five regions and the empire that he didn’t mobilize this time around and was saving for the second demonic invasion. Waking the victims within a desolate dimension array formation, I handed the array core to Gideon, retrieving my limitless celestial blood fate domain.

Then, I came out of the array to find that the entire damn forest was lit like under the morning sun. Looking at the culprit, I couldn’t help but complain, "Damn, Corey. You had one job—just wait quietly—and you screwed that up too?"

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