My Goddess is Good at Pretending

Chapter 591: Demon-Summoning Ritual

Despite the demonic beast’s terrifying presence, Aebony’s appearance still resembled a dog. Elysia came there not to exterminate the demon or monster, but to trigger the Caelum World’s law for breaking the forbidden rules. Therefore, she took out a table full of delicious meat and a magic contract.

"Please have a seat. We have come for you, Lord Aebony." Elysia sat on her seat.

"What is the meaning of this?" Aebony was flabbergasted. This nine-tailed vixen was so strange. She never once aimed for the abundant wealth and treasures in their surroundings.

As the fragrant and delicious aroma of the tasty meat served on the table entered its nostril, Aebony immediately suspected this nine-tailed vixen came to make an offering for whatever reason.

Since poison or other negative substances would pose no threat, Aebony simply accepted the offering and devoured the delicious-looking meat. The size wasn’t that big, and the table’s worth of meat was consumed in one go. Once Aebony’s taste buds began to savor the delicacy, the extraordinary deliciousness soon pampered itself from within.

"Now you have eaten my meat, so you must listen to my request. Form a contract with me, Lord Aebony." Elysia made a steeple of her fingers. A faint smile adorned her angelic face as she offered the contract.

"Hm, do you think we’re on equal standing, mortal?" Aebony licked its claws clean, responding dismissively.

"Hm?" Luna closed her eyes with a faint, intimidating smile. She exuded her 10th Rank aura.

"!!!" Aebony flinched in shock. It leaped to gain a safe distance and raised its wariness to maximum right away. The newly arrived vixens weren’t just random weaklings looking for some fortuitous encounters and treasures, but the real threat!

"Can we talk on equal standing now? My master wishes to make a good deal with you." Luna tilted her head slightly, without reducing her intimidating aura in the slightest.

"Demon fox, what do you want to achieve by doing this? I am just a guardian of this place." Aebony growled.

"You want more people to visit this place so they can try their luck for your trials, yes? If so, we will bring many people who will eagerly look for you. How about that?" Elysia tapped the table, pointing at the magic contract.

"Huh? And what do you wish me to do? This smells so fishy." Aebony sniffed into the air. The vixens were fragrant without a doubt, but that magic contract seemed like a trap.

"You just need to do what you are supposed to do. We do not ask you to do anything, but please spare the non-greedy people and give them at least the minimum reward if they pass some of your conditions." Elysia threw the magic contract, and it floated to the wary demonic dog.

"..." Aebony read the contract and it felt so strange. It was a simple deal without doubt.

The vixens would make some people visit this secret realm, and what would await them afterward would be left to this realm’s rules. The only special condition was for the non-greedy to be spared.

"Why do you want to send people to their deaths? Those who seek immeasurable wealth and treasures will most likely be my dinner."

"Isn’t that fine? There is no reward without risk. In the path of cultivation, the gain is always accompanied by the dangers. They are on their own."

"Just let you know, you’ll be punished by Heaven once I stamp this magic contract. I was a powerful demon of Hell. Aren’t you worried about losing your rights?"

"That’s even better. Stamp it now, Lord Aebony."

"You crazy fox, I don’t care anymore what business you want to achieve with this. I find it won’t bring any loss to me, so be it. Let me see what interesting things you will bring to me, keke."

Aebony stamped the magic contract without a care about the world. Whatever happened to the nine-tailed vixen afterward would be none of its business.

*Zap*

"..." Elysia felt the magic contract took an effect on Aebony. As an honorable Deity-level demonic beast, it would uphold the promise even though it was more than capable of removing the binding contract.

However, she felt nothing afterward. The Caelum World did not impose any punishment on her.

"Hey, you are the powerful demon from the Hell, right? Why did no slave seal or any other punishment fall on me?" Elysia felt dissatisfied. She felt like she was being scammed.

"I was an overlord in the Hell, but it was already a long time ago... but, that’s weird, and why can you get off scot-free?" Aebony was shocked. The cheeky vixen should have suffered under the world law, but nothing happened.

"Sigh, never mind. Just keep your promise, and we shall bring many ’greedy’ people here soon. The Cinder Isle Secret Realm will be called the Gray Mining Vault to them, so please treat it with care. See ya~" Elysia sighed. She stood up and waved her hand before leaving with Luna and Yusagi.

"Hey, you haven’t answered me yet. How do you know my name and this realm’s name?" Aebony dashed, blocking the exit path.

"You asked the obvious." Elysia flashed her divine aura for a second. As Aebony was frozen in shock, she left the Cinder Isle Secret Realm without waiting for anything.

"Holy Fox Goddess? What exactly did I just get myself into?" Aebony clutched his head, feeling depressed over its confusion. However, it was never that smart to begin with. Since the contract would bring more people, then it was as good as a win.

The only thing that was still left unanswered was how nobody could enter this realm. It had been so long since someone last visited this realm, and it was as if the realm portal had simply been buried by time, forgotten by all. Unfortunately, the question had not yet been asked to the Holy Fox Goddess.

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Elysia exited the realm portal and checked her neck, still no slave seal. "Well, then I shall try to summon the high-rank demon directly from Hell. Let’s see whether the world law will ignore me or not."

"E-eh?" Luna and Yusagi broke in a cold sweat.

"Wow, which one shall we try to summon? Let’s try one of the six Great Demon Kings of Hell." Elena emerged with interest. She pulled Ai and Zera from Elysia’s shadow as well because the next event would involve a wild great demon.

"We can’t be sure. We can only randomly summon a high-rank demon from Hell." Elysia shrugged her shoulders as she knew they couldn’t specifically summon the Great Demon King of Hell.

"Hm, it’s still random, huh..." Ai pondered about it. If it was summoning magic, she had a method to increase the chance, only pulling out the high-rank demon with her divinity.

Elysia installed a small teleportation array hidden in the passage’s ceiling and floor. She also put some magic mechanisms around the realm portal. "Let’s get out of here first. Luna, it won’t take long. Once we finish this, we can leave the rest for Ella’s team to solve."

"Mm, according to your command, master." Luna nodded in understanding.

After that, Elysia took everyone out of the underground passage via instant teleportation. A desolate hill in the middle of the forest became the place of choice for her demon-summoning ritual.

"Zera, imbue it with a bit of your dark energy." Ai pointed to the newly formed demon summoning magic circle on the ground.

"Alright." Zera did as she was told.

Ai then did something to modify Elysia’s demon-summoning magic circle. "Like this and this... Ely, this demon-summoning magic circle will prevent the weakling from emerging. Only those above 8th Rank can emerge to this world."

"Thank you." Elysia stood before the demon-summoning magic circle that glowed with an eerie demonic blackish-red sheen. "I’ll start the summoning chant now."

After Ai and Zera modified it, the initially blood-red demonic magic circle became much more ominous than it should have been. Any random demon below Demi-God would be thrown back if they tried to answer her call.

"From the abyss beyond the realm of mortals,

where the demonic darkness reigns supreme,

O, the sovereign lord of Hell,

I call upon the ancient name...

Through the eternal night,

answer my call in infernal might!"

Elysia spread her arms wide as she imbued a bit of her divine power to merge with Ai and Zera’s demonic power of darkness.

Her incantation was low and melodic, reverberating with the swirling otherworldly power. The wind began to howl, whipping through the trees and swirling the dust of the enchanted forest. A dark, ominous energy gathered, pulsating like a heartbeat.

The demon-summoning magic circle glowed with the ominous light and aura of darkness shrouded in hellfire.

The gravity’s pressure became heavier, the demonic aura became thick in the air, the sky became dark as if a storm was about to come, and the thunder roared as if to voice its anger.

A demonic gateway emerged in the middle of the demon-summoning magic circle, but each one who tried to crawl out was immediately thrown back, leaving strange-sounding demonic screams.

In the first two minutes, the pressure that descended from the sky was somewhat unbearable, but it could never prevent anything. More than thirty demons got thrown back. In the third minute, a massive demonic hand came out of the demon-summoning magic circle, but a slender hand emerged next to it.

It seemed they were struggling about something, fighting in the middle of the summoning ritual. Some profanities could be faintly heard, but it got disturbed and couldn’t be translated clearly. In the end, the massive demonic hand was defeated by the slender hand.

The earth trembled. From the depths of the demon-summoning magic circle, a pitch-black portal tore open, shimmering with a sickly purple light. A figure cloaked in shadows and hellfire began to materialize.

The Demon Queen of Envy appeared to the world. Her long, raven-black hair flowed like ink, and her ominous violet eyes glowed with a venomous intensity. Adorned in a crown of twisted thorns and a robe of midnight satin that shimmered with dark magic, her presence’s aura was both overbearing and terrifying.

When Demon Queen of Envy fully emerged, the sky above darkened further, a violent storm brewing as thunder cracked in the distance.

Her voice, silky and laced with malice, echoed across the forest as she gazed down at the fox summoner with a wicked smile. "You dare summon me in this wretched world, little fox? I shall give you a chance. Submit your soul to me right now. I shall fulfill your wishes and ensure you’re safe from the sky’s punishment."