Chapter 38: The Eastern Continent

After a delicious meal, Keke and Yiluo each harbored their own thoughts.

“Keke, lately have you felt that there’s anything about me that isn’t good, something I should improve?”

Suspecting that Keke had entered a rebellious phase, Yiluo ate the food Keke had made in small bites.

From time to time, her gaze swept over Keke, who had her head lowered and remained silent, as she probed indirectly.

“No, Miss Yiluo is the best.”

Keke kept her head down and didn’t dare look at Yiluo at all.

Her mind was full of images of secretly crawling into Yiluo’s bed at night, making her feel a little guilty.

“Really, nothing?”

“This is the first time I’ve ever had a maid, and I really have no experience being a master.”

“Whether it’s good or bad, Keke, you can tell me.”

“We can understand each other and improve together.”

Yiluo looked at Keke, thinking that sure enough, Keke seemed to be hiding something.

She could only continue pressing the issue.

“Mm… Master doesn’t need to change anything.”

“The only one who needs improvement is Keke, as a servant…”

“Miss Yiluo, Keke is done eating.”

“I’ll go prepare your bath.”

Hearing that Yiluo had never had a maid before and that she herself was the first, Keke became happy.

With a cheerful “ba-la-ba-la,” her hands sped up.

In just a few bites, she finished the food in her bowl, then shyly hugged the bowl and ran off.

Watching Keke’s hurried retreating figure, Yiluo inwardly thought—this is bad.

This clearly meant that Keke didn’t even want to say where she’d gone wrong and had simply given up on herself!

What should she do!

She had originally wanted to ask whether Keke had been feeling unwell lately, to see how to handle it.

But now even normal communication had become difficult!

Yiluo wore a worried expression.

She thought that after so many years as an agent, she’d never felt anything particularly difficult.

So why was being a master, being a parent, this hard?!

Sure enough, communication between parents and children was an eternal problem.

She’d look for another opportunity.

And so, while Yiluo was bathing, Keke cleaned up the tableware.

When Keke went to bathe, Yiluo casually picked up a book on continental geography and flipped through it.

When it felt like Keke had just about finished bathing and tidying up, Yiluo finally found an opportunity to go to Keke’s room to take a look.

She wanted to chat a bit and build some rapport.

Who knew that after knocking on the door, no one answered.

She quietly opened the door to peek inside, only to find that Keke had turned off the magic lamp and fallen asleep.

Uh…

Looking at Keke wrapped tightly in the blanket with only a small head showing, Yiluo noticed the little ears on her head twitch.

She immediately knew that Keke wasn’t actually asleep at all.

She was deliberately pretending to sleep and hadn’t opened the door.

If she exposed Keke now, the misunderstanding would probably deepen, and their relationship would become even more strained…

Yiluo shook her head, gently closed the door, and decided to wait a couple of days first and find another chance to communicate.

Back in her own room, Yiluo closed the door.

She didn’t choose to go to sleep.

Instead, she directly used her vampire energy to control all the books, forming a circle around herself like a small fortress.

She found a comfortable position and lay face-down on the carpet, which had been purified once with vampire energy.

One hand propped against the side of her face.

With the slender fingers of her right hand, she tucked her silver hair behind her small ear to keep it from blocking her view.

Snap—

With a snap of Yiluo’s fingers, the magic lamp landed atop the pile of books beside her.

The brightness gradually dimmed until it only illuminated the area around Yiluo.

Whether as a vampire or at the Demon King tier, Yiluo’s need for sleep was very low.

She could go several days without sleeping and be perfectly fine.

The first book Yiluo picked up was not related to the Holy Church.

Nor was it about demons, magical beasts, warriors, or magic.

Instead, it was a book introducing the history of heroes on the Eastern Continent.

On the Western Continent, it was basically very difficult to obtain information about the Eastern Continent.

So Yiluo found it extremely interesting that the Holy Church had not spread into the Eastern Continent.

Especially after learning that the most powerful beings on the Eastern Continent were the heroes of the various empires.

『About ten thousand years ago, there were more than three hundred empires on the Eastern Continent.

Due to its proximity to demon territory, even with the help of elves, dwarves, gnomes, and dragons, over the past six thousand years it still lost more than half of its land.

Only around sixty empires remained, with the population declining to less than one-tenth of its peak.

The elves left human territory on the Eastern Continent due to their queen’s summons.

The gnomes found a new underground kingdom.

The dragon race, due to low reproductive ability, gradually dwindled as well.

At that time, the demon race produced an outstanding leader of the Heavenly Disaster tier, whose momentum was at its peak, plunging the Eastern Continent into an unprecedented catastrophe.』

From just these brief lines, Yiluo could imagine how difficult life must have been for humans on the Eastern Continent back then.

In this world, humans were not at the top of the food chain.

There were simply too many beings stronger than humans.

『Three thousand five hundred years ago, the largest imperial capital on the Eastern Continent was approached by a massive demon army.

At that time, the great sage Tulag, over five hundred years old and having crossed into the Immortal tier, the strongest person on the Eastern Continent, created planar summoning magic.

Together with ten Saint-tier sages, he used blood as a medium to draw a magic array, summoning a strangely dressed young man from an unknown world.』

When Yiluo read this part, her small fists clenched tightly.

Her heart rate sped up, and even her breathing became quicker.

This was exactly what she longed to see.

What she had been searching for all this time in books!

“There really is a way in this world to summon people from other worlds!”

Although it was different from her own soul or memory transmigration, it at least proved that the barrier between worlds could be broken!

Yiluo had never felt herself so close to returning home.

She continued to rapidly flip through the book in her hands.

『The young man, named Locke, drew the holy sword of the imperial capital.

After slaying nine Demon King–tier demon generals under the Heavenly Disaster, he was severely wounded and defeated.

With Great Sage Tulag paying the price of his life, an Immortal-tier teleportation spell sent the entire city, including Locke, ten thousand miles away to a primeval forest.

Tulag then died standing amid the ruins with a smile on his face, and was forever revered on the Eastern Continent as the Eternal Great Sage.

His statues now number no fewer than one hundred across the Eastern Continent.』

Upon reading this passage, although Yiluo didn’t know how much of it was embellished, or whether the Eternal Great Sage truly died smiling as described, a surge of hot blood still rose within her.

A feeling of respect welled up from the bottom of her heart.

She, Yiluo, could not sacrifice herself to fulfill all her people.

Because she couldn’t do it, she admired those who could.

『Although Locke failed to kill the Heavenly Disaster before his death, he gravely injured it, forcing it to return to demon territory to recuperate.

The demon race fell into internal conflict over leadership succession, allowing humanity to catch its breath for a hundred years.

Locke was honored as the First Dawn Hero.』

『As planar summoning magic gradually spread, despite its extremely harsh requirements, the Eastern Continent gathered all powerful mages and summoned more than five hundred heroes over the course of a century.

Coupled with heavy demon casualties from their internal wars, humans reclaimed two-thirds of their territory.

For a time, the title of “Hero” became the most exalted existence on the Eastern Continent.』

Yiluo slowly flipped through the history of heroes on the Eastern Continent.

It could be said that heroes there were almost constantly fighting the demon race.

Every few hundred years, the demons would produce a Heavenly Disaster capable of unifying them.

And the Eastern Continent would then produce several supreme heroes to resist.

After several years or even decades, they would successfully kill it.

Then the Eastern Continent would once again fall into internal wars between empires.

This cycle would continue until the next Heavenly Disaster descended upon them.

And it had already been a thousand years since the last Heavenly Disaster unified the demons and invaded the Eastern Continent.

That invasion had nearly destroyed the entire continent.

In the end, it still failed.

After a battle lasting five days and five nights against five Immortal-tier heroes, all parties vanished without a trace.

To this day, their bodies have never been found.

Yiluo gently rubbed her temples.

Her small face was taut as she looked at the abruptly ending history of the Eastern Continent, feeling unsatisfied.

The Eastern Continent.

After she had supplemented herself with enough knowledge and intelligence, she would definitely have to make a trip there first…