My Goddess is Good at Pretending

Chapter 86: Celestia’s Aura Sword

Ely gave several tasks to the nightmare demons, including her temporary demon underlings. They urgently needed to capture the righteous cultivators, knights in shining armor, and wise mages.

As for the demonic cultivators and the others... She left that kind of person to their own devices as she had no interest in helping them.

The nightmare demons carried out the tasks, and Ely went to the secret realm’s portal to meet her disciples. She had to know about the outside world’s situation.

"My young lady, do you know why the young lord put his interest in the righteous young seedlings?" Daphne asked in wonder.

"Who knows? He might be fond of that kind of human to devour?" Skyla didn’t understand why, either.

"You don’t look happy, young lady."

"No, it’s nothing. He can devour or toy with those invaders to his heart’s content as long as it’s not nightmare demons... I wonder why he made such a bad impression on himself in the past."

"Hmm, young lord is considerate to his people and cruel to his enemies."

"You also barely know him, but you speak of it as if you are close to him. You are his new personal maid back then."

"Uh, yeah... Young lord’s previous personal maid died mysteriously..."

"She was killed by someone in the dark forest. That was done by our clan’s rivals for sure."

"Ah? Anyway, will the young lord be okay? He is alone."

"Even our ancestor is a bit afraid of his power. Can those invaders and monsters pose any threat to him?"

"But, young lady... it would be best to try harder to earn his affection. Otherwise, he may turn away from you because he is like a strong fragrant tree that attracts many birds and butterflies."

"Shut up and quickly finish our task. He might get angry if we take too long. Wait, I can see some humans over there."

Skyla gave a signal to the four protectors behind her.

She tried not to think about her past hostility because she felt guilty. After all, she used to hate her fiance. She also devised a thousand ways to cancel the engagement.

But after seeing his current power and demeanor, she changed her mind. It was just that... She felt she wasn’t good enough for him now.

Skyla and the others then rushed to the nearby battleground to catch some invaders.

At that time, the nightmare demon king also ordered the entire nightmare demons to capture the so-called righteous cultivators for their young lord. That task was relatively easy because the invaders were suppressed to the Core Formation Realm or below.

It was just like catching some rabbits in the forest. Once the demons encountered their targets, they immediately kidnapped them by force. Even so, they tried their best not to kill anyone.

Deep in the dark forest, a white tiger boy fell from the sky and arrived somewhere unknown.

He tried to run away when he found out things were going wrong. His group managed to find the exit, thanks to his luck.

However, countless monsters were already there. Those monsters have already started to invade the outside world.

The gigantic turtle suddenly went berserk and fired an elemental blast at its surroundings.

His group and the others were sent flying far into the dark forest. They returned to the danger zone and separated into an unknown area.

"This ancient secret realm is a nest of ancient demons and monsters... We have to get out of here quickly. But where am I?" Bai Yuchen tried to stand up despite his body screaming in pain.

He almost died from being hit by the elemental blast, and he was worried about his friends. However, he couldn’t do much for now.

There were many demons and monsters, so he quickly hid while recuperating.

Moments later, he felt something calling him. It came from somewhere near his hideout.

At first glance, it would look like an ordinary mound. However, a temple was buried there. Everything was made of black stone but covered by overgrown moss and vines.

Bai Yuchen crawled over there and entered through the opened gap between the vines.

A big stone gate was present before him. Thousands of mysterious runes were carved there, but he couldn’t comprehend anything. The only thing that attracted him was the mysterious call that asked him to enter the stone temple.

He pushed the stone gate. The runes glowed, and the gate opened by itself.

An eerier dark hall awaited him inside. The thick demonic aura spread out, but there was nothing worth mentioning inside other than a throne and a skeleton sitting on it.

A white spear pierced that skeleton’s chest and the weapon glowed slightly as if calling out to him.

"What’s this?" Bai Yuchen widened his eyes as a deadly battle of a particular spear master against countless demons flooded into his memories for a brief moment.

Sadly, the spear master was dead after slaying the Ancient Demon God.

He didn’t know whose memory it was, but he was already holding the white spear when he returned to his senses.

"Heartseeker, the Gift of Holy Might..." Bai Yuchen unconsciously mumbled something. He pulled out that God-tier spear and the demon skeleton suddenly turned to ashes.

*Boom!*

Countless memories and techniques instantly flowed into his brain. He couldn’t cope with it and immediately fainted. At the end of his consciousness, he saw the spear carry him out of the temple.

"Huh?" Ely looked back. It was only a brief moment, but she felt that a powerful weapon had just awakened.

Based on her hunch, it was more potent than her SS Rank weapon but far weaker than any of her God-tier troublesome weapons.

Unfortunately, Ely had no interest in possessing any more God-tier weapons or artifacts because they were hard to control. Just like this sword, Celestia.

A black odachi over two meters long floated on her back. The sheath and blade were about two meters long.

If she could wield this dark odachi, Celestia was still too long for her to use it as an excellent sword. After all, her body was only 165 centimeters, and the sword was two heads taller than her.

Nevertheless, Celestia’s aura repelled any demons or monsters from approaching her. Everyone was scared and immediately fled the moment they detected her within a two-hundred-meter radius.

"How good it would be if the God-tier weapon or artifact would listen to me like the Mythical-tier ones..." Ely heaved a subtle sigh.

Celestia was still sheathed and could quickly kill a 10th Rank monster. It was just a simple stab, and the enemy was melted into black liquid.

This God-tier sword was so scary. It devoured that monster’s flesh, blood, bone, spirit, soul, and everything... leaving only the waste behind.

Ely tried to do a little testing with the hovering sword on her back to slash a nearby big tree. She spun around, directing Celestia to cut the nearby tree.

*Slash*

The tree trunk was cut like tofu, but the sword was still sheathed!

"The scabbard probably has a sharp blade?" Ely touched the sword’s scabbard, but she wasn’t hurt. It was not sharp at all.

"Please wake up and help me..." Ely tried to grasp the sword’s hilt, but it was hard.

After a few jumps, she caught the hilt, but what next? She ended up floating above the ground as well.

"Hmm?" Ely felt she was pulling something, but the sword didn’t come out of its sheath.

She tried to pull it out, and a portion of Celestia’s dark aura moved to her hand. The darkness manifested into a long odachi in her hand. It was an aura sword!

*Slash*

Ely casually swung that two-meter sword of darkness out of curiosity, and the dark cleaver shot out like a crescent moon, cutting through everything in its path.

Even the giant boulder twenty meters from her position was split into two.

"Wow..." Ely was amazed by this aura sword’s sharpness. It was as light as a feather too!

After that, she let it go, and the darkness returned to the hovering sword at her back.

Upon that new discovery, Ely was cheering in her heart. She could use Celestia’s aura as a weapon too!

The question that came next was the nightmare demon’s soul sigil. She couldn’t find it stuck to Celestia. Therefore, she tried to send her consciousness to probe into her inner space.

She found several God-tier weapons and artifacts floating in a dormant state. At the spot where Celestia usually was, she could see a heart-shaped symbol with a spearhead on the bottom and a pair of demon wings on the lower half.

The soul imprint with the Nightmare Clan’s symbol... That thing was the cause of the nightmare demon’s misunderstanding.

’That’s really because Celestia...’ Ely’s assumption proved correct. She couldn’t find it before, but it was probably squeezed under Celestia.

Ely then continued her journey to the secret realm’s portal. However, Yuuki suddenly contacted her through the telepathy talisman.

’Ely, we have dealt with the monster tides and prevented the monsters from leaving the ancient secret realm. Do you know what actually happened? Where are you now?’ Yuuki observed the countless terrified monsters below.

She smacked the massive 10th Rank turtle with her ice, forcing it to block the exit path.

Ely then told Yuuki what she knew about the Ancient Night Secret Realm and the ancient demon invasion. Yuuki also shared the outside world’s situation with Ely.

’Is everything all right? Is the Guardian of Dream with you now?’ Ely was worried.

’Yes, Gabriella and the others are with me. The exploration team should be on their way to regroup with you. We are with other forces guarding the realm’s portal now. However, many elders entered the ancient secret realm to save their disciples. We didn’t stop them, though.’

’Alright. We’ll be back as soon as I finish the plan and counter-measures on my side.’

’Affirmative, but please be careful. Even if they mistake you for the nightmare demon, young lord, it doesn’t rule out the possibility the other ancient demons will turn their backs and hurt you.’

’Okay. Everyone is suppressed to 3rd Rank. So please refrain from entering the ancient secret realm.’

’It’s okay. Gabriella gave me several anti-debuff talismans. We also sold some to our allies at a fair price.’

’Well then. Please wait for our good news!’

Ely then ended her conversation with Yuuki. She could feel her disciples were near and immediately rushed to meet them.