D.E.M.O.N.S: Getting Summoned Weekly isn't so Bad Chapter 1058 - 1058 Chapter 1058 Shatter the World

1058 Chapter 1058 Shatter the World

It was hard to keep track of ti when everything was dark and Lian wasn’t interested in talking. It was made worse by the pain Lily experienced when she tried to do a bit of training with her spells. *Yup. Ok, you win body. I won’t cast anything until I stop hurting. Pain is your body telling you that you’ve fucked up sowhat and I should respect that. As much as I want new magic and feel the need to be stronger… it’s not worth crippling myself over. Which, could very much be on the table. I didn’t know what I did was a bad idea… now I have to hope it wasn’t a catastrophic one… or if it is, Nira can fix it.*

Eventually though, Lian had too many questions in her mind to avoid Lily forever. So she crawled over to the mphis and asked, “Ok… I… I’m still not entirely comfortable, or… I haven’t really dealt with the whole ‘Fake ng’ issue but… can you just go over it again? One more ti… just… as dull and clinical as you can be?”

“Sure… um… just let …” mumbled Lily as she transford for vocal cords and readied herself. Lily spent a minute getting the wording right and then let it flow, “To the best of our knowledge the original ng was replaced by the current ng within days or weeks of the twins’ birth. After that, Bang was replaced in short order and since then they have both continued to run the sect as best they could without letting people figure out that ng and Bang have been replaced.

“ng was chosen for this assignnt both for her na, her loyalty, and her affinity which happens to be illusions. Sothing their parent organisation did not account for however, is that ng, despite their training, still has one desire above all others and that was for children. So now that they are at risk, and Kat has called her out on being a fake, ng had a bit of a breakdown, and we are now working together to try and get the best result for everyone involved while keeping Bodeir safe, as Kat, Sue and I MUST do,”

Lian let out a long breath of air, “So I’ve never known the original?”

Lily shook her head, “No. Based on when ng was replaced there was no way for you to ever et the original ng,”

“Is the original ng alive?” asked Lian.

“I don’t know, and ng doesn’t either,” answered Lily.

“I… is there anything else you feel I should know?” asked Lian.

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“Um… hmm… well… maybe? ng, the current one that is, said a lot of things and Kat relayed most of that to while I was dreaming. One of them is that she understands you. As a cultivator with a talent for illusions she understands you a lot better then Feng and Bing and has claid you as her daughter as well… so… if Bing and Feng do run away, ng isn’t just going to leave you here,” said Lily.

“Ah” said Lian voice breaking as tears leaked from her eyes. She didn’t know how to feel about that. So much of her was screaming that it was wrong, that she shouldn’t be happy to hear that so assassin liked her on any level… but just as ng wanted nothing more than children, Lian wanted parents that didn’t hate her. ng had already been that substitute so to hear that Lian was just as precious to ng as her own children ant a lot. This fact further cented itself in Lian’s mind because technically speaking Feng and Bing were adopted as well.

Lily awkwardly pulled herself to her feet and did a few stretches as Lian went silent. The pain was lessening sowhat, but Lily suspected it had more to do with getting used to it then a true reduction in pain. Perhaps it would be a good reason not to try untested techniques with her spells. In the end, after a few stretched Lily just occupied herself with drawing shapes in the dirt on the ground. No sense interrupting Lian as her whole world gets destroyed.

Still, trapped as they were, Lian eventually had to speak, even if just to get her thoughts in order. “God this is such a ss. I don’t know what Bing is going to think when she finds out. I really wish I could be there for her… but I don’t know what sort of tiline we’re working on and the transport array should be unusable because of us. So I can’t even go through to help them.

“I still feel like shit. Not from the news, but I’m not exactly topped up on qi and I don’t know how long it takes to recover from extre blood loss so I’m a bit dizzy. I’ve got food and water in my storage ring so I’m not going to die, it just isn’t a fun experience. The real problem? I have no idea what I’m supposed to do with this information you’ve given . I was working myself right up you know?

“I’m sure you and Kat figured it out but I was pretty set to die on this mission. I was expecting to be left behind, captured, and then executed unless you managed to free . Then I would be branded a traitor and hunted for the rest of my likely short life. I knew that going in and I didn’t regret it for a second. If that’s what it took to make sure Bing was safe? That was all worth it to . If ng was found and rescued as well? That was a bonus.

“Now however, I find out that the ‘real’ ng has been an imposter for years and apparently nobody noticed. I also know that she loves and frankly I don’t know how to deal with that either. It was a lot easier when ng was just ‘My best friend’s Mom’ you know? It was a simple relationship, and I probably still leaned on her for affection and affirmation more than I should have as just my friend’s mom… but she isn’t that is she?

“Well now I’m still alive, and pretty safe, albeit quite lost. The ng I thought I knew was a just a mask, but likely one with more truth then the spy using it would be comfortable with. I have a ho to go back to, but not for long because the Mountain Shaker sect knows that ng is a spy. Which is annoying, despite it being true… and I just don’t really know what to do Lily…”

“Um… what was that about being lost?” asked Lily with a wince.

“Ooh… right…” Lian shared Lily’s wince though with nothing to provide the pair neither noticed. “So… I was pretty close to falling over while I was trekking through the snow, but I made it to the cave I thought was nearby, and I just sort of… kept walking till I passed out? I was however, more than a bit delirious the whole ti I was walking and now I’m awake my mories of walking through the caves have all sort of blurred together. Now I don’t know how deep we are, how many alternate paths there are, if we got turned around at all. Frankly, we’re lost,”

Lily let out an exaggerated groan, “Ugh, that ans we’re probably stuck down here then? Kat should be able to fine eventually once things calm down… but we’re stuck here by ourselves until then… why were you paying such little attention? Surely you didn’t want to be trapped here forever?”

Lian folder her arms over her chest and glared at Lily, though the darkness really killed the effect, “Yes Lily, I am aware that I made a rooky mistake now that I’m not suffering from exhaustion and blood loss. No ‘Thanks for landing the plane’ or ‘sorry I passed out on your first despite knowing you were missing most of your blood’ just ‘how could you not manage to rember a labyrinth while monts away from collapse?'”

Lily winced, apparently Lian had taken her mostly joking tone as true recrimination. “Lian it’s fine really, I wasn’t seriously complaining, or well, I was complaining and I was serious that it’s a problem but I don’t bla you for it, not really. I’m more annoyed you thought doing so much damage to yourself was an acceptable trade, but that’s not really what we’re talking about right now…”

“Well what else could I have done? We didn’t know ng wasn’t going to hurt Bing! I had a choice between wasting ti figuring more of the array out, or just sacrificing sothing decently significant. What would you have done if it was Kat that was in danger?” retorted Lian.

Lily hissed as she wrapped Lian up into a tight hug. “A gallon of blood is a cheap price,”