Chapter 17: How Dazzling! The Taste of Freedom
An hour later, the divine mobile phone popped up a message.
[Old Duan, it's done. I've formed the Hero Squad.]
[It's just that this team... well... it's a bit hard to describe...]
[But it's formed, anyway.]
...[That's great! So fast?]
[I'm almost out too. We'll meet up then! I'll help you level up quickly and we'll tear through the Demon Realm!]
[By the way, who are the members of your Hero Squad? Are there any cute cat-girl maidens? Send me a photo.]
...[This...]
[Never mind. It's not convenient to take photos now. Maybe next time.]
...[Tsk, if you don't have a photo, what are you telling me? Or are all your team members girls and you're afraid I'll get angry?]
[Hahahahaha! How could that be! Even if you're super lucky, it's impossible for everyone around you to be girls! Impossible!]
[Forget it, I won't bother with you. Send it or not, I'm busy.]
...[What are you busy with?]
...[Busy solving a Rubik's Cube for the Demon Lord.]
[The other party has retracted a message.]
[Busy cracking a high-level magic sealing item! Anyway, I'll be able to break out soon! I'll fly over to find you then!]
[Wait for me, brother!]
...[Alright.]
...Ending the conversation, Lilith took a deep breath and looked at the Rubik's Cube in her hand, which had been restored according to the AI's instructions.
All six sides were the same color, emitting a soft glow.
"Phew... done!"
Being able to solve any problem with AI felt amazing, like cheating!
"Wuwuwu, what if humans in the future are replaced by AI!"
"..."
"Just kidding~ What do I care, I'm not worried~"
Having transmigrated to another world, why would Lilith still care about the technology of her previous life? As long as she enjoyed using it, that was all that mattered!
Then, she turned around, a sweet, perfect smile instantly appearing on her face, and bounced towards Asmodeus, holding up the Rubik's Cube:
"Ta-da~ Mission accomplished~"
"Demon Lord~ Demon Lord~"
"I finished it~ Look, look~ Isn't it amazing~"
The white-haired loli skipped and hopped, her smooth long hair drawing cute arcs in the air. Her eagerness for praise was enough to make anyone melt.
However.
Mid-run, Lilith suddenly paused!
Her red eyes, originally full of laughter, instantly turned ice-cold like knives, extremely serious! Then, she sharply raised her right hand and slapped her delicate pink cheek...!
Slap——!!
A crisp, loud slap echoed in the silent room.
Lilith's face was twisted to one side from the blow, and a red handprint quickly appeared on her cheek.
[Damn it, Old Duan! Calm down!]
[What are you doing? You are a handsome, dashing, heaven-and-earth-defying ultimate tough guy who is about to rule the world and start a harem! Not a succubus concubine who submits to the Demon Lord and only knows how to act cute and spoiled!]
[Wake up! That's the enemy! The enemy!!]
Lilith fiercely reminded herself in her heart.
On the other hand, Asmodeus and Hill, not far away, were both stunned by the slap.
"Uh..."
Asmodeus was full of confusion.
He took a few steps forward, extended a slender finger, and gently stroked Lilith's cheek with concern:
"You... why did you hit yourself?"
Feeling the cool touch from the Demon Lord's fingertip, Lilith's mouth twitched, and her gaze drifted:
"Tsk, it was... just a mosquito... Hmph..."
"A mosquito?"
Asmodeus frowned slightly and turned his head to look at the air, not finding anything.
But he didn't think much of it.
Looking at the restored Rubik's Cube, Asmodeus's eyes soon showed appreciation:
"As expected of my woman, well done."
Saying that, he reached out and dotingly ruffled Lilith's little head, regardless of whether she liked it or not.
"Hmm?!"
Asmodeus's hand was large and warm.
The gentle caress carried a reassuring magic, and along with his warm body temperature, it spread throughout her body from her scalp... At this moment, Lilith felt a tingle all over. Her succubus instincts made her close her eyes, and like a kitten being stroked, she instinctively rubbed her cheek against Asmodeus's rough palm.
[Hoohoo, so comfortable...]
Then the next second.
Slap————!!
Lilith slapped herself again!
[Wake up!]
"Uh..."
Asmodeus's hand, which was stroking Lilith, froze in mid-air.
Looking at Lilith's symmetrically red cheeks, he could only ask in astonishment:
"Still mosquitoes? Two of them?"
"Yes! Mosquitoes here appear in pairs, and they must be eradicated!"
Lilith spoke nonsense with wide eyes. Asmodeus was quite puzzled by this but didn't ask further.
Instead, Hill, who was sitting in the corner, hugged her knees, her head full of questions:
[This is the ninth layer of the Abyss... where would mosquitoes come from?]
...Anyway, the Rubik's Cube was solved.
At Asmodeus's command, Hill took the chaos cube and placed it back into the hidden compartment of the crystal gate.
Rumble—
With a sound of mechanisms operating, the black crystal gate, which had been sealed for hundreds of years, slowly slid open to both sides.
Immediately after, a winding spiral stone staircase appeared before the three, with a dazzling white light faintly visible at the end, like an exit to freedom.
"Let's go."
Asmodeus took Lilith's hand and was the first to step onto the stairs.
The three walked silently upwards, and the air inexplicably grew quiet.
Lilith lowered her head, seemingly well-behaved... but in reality, her mind was wildly fantasizing:
[Once I walk out of this staircase... it'll be outside, right?]
[Look at that light! Ah! How dazzling! It's the taste of freedom!]
[Once I'm out, the sky is the limit! With my peak combat strength body, if I focus on escaping, even Asmodeus wouldn't be able to catch me, right?]
[Hehehe... hehehehe!]
As the stairs went higher, the white light became more dazzling, and Lilith's smile grew wider!
Finally!
They stood at the edge of the exit.
Because the environment suddenly brightened, the eyes of the three demons couldn't adapt immediately. They could only squint, trying their best to observe the blurry surroundings.
It was at this crucial moment that Lilith took a deep breath!
She suddenly stopped, raised her fair left arm, and pointed forcefully to the left with an exaggerated expression:
"Woah! Over there!"
"Hmm?"
Asmodeus and Hill simultaneously looked to the left.
Who knew that the next second!
Lilith suddenly shook off Asmodeus's hand, and the pair of cute and sexy succubus bat wings on her back unfurled with a
"Bye-bye, everyone!!"
Boom————!
As the immense magic exploded in the air, Lilith, like a black lightning bolt, suddenly flew towards the vast'sky' on the right!
The biting wind howled in her ears!
The blurry scenery receded rapidly!
It was the feeling of freedom!
[Hahahahaha!]
[Ah hahahahahahahahaha!]
As terrifying laughter echoed in her heart, Lilith's mouth stretched to her ears:
[Finally, I ran away! I no longer have to suffer indignity by this perverted Demon Lord's side! Finally!]
[Just you wait, Asmodeus!]
Her eyes turned blood-red, and her maniacal, sinister grin made her look like a purely evil demon:
[Your life is mine! Everything you have is mine!]
[Wash your neck and wait, I will definitely come back... and personally kill you!]
At this moment, she even fantasized about that scene—finding Old Song, leveling up to max, the two of them with their arms around a group of cat-girl elf squad members, counterattacking the Demon Realm, and making the once arrogant Asmodeus submit beneath her skirt... oh no, beneath her feet.
[From now on, I'll reach the pinnacle of life! Marry a beautiful and rich woman!]
However.
Just as Lilith was overjoyed, thinking she was about to embrace the blue sky—
Bang————!
A dull, teeth-grinding thud echoed through the air.
"Ugh ah!!!"