Chapter 410 - Forgotten Prophecy?
Chapter 410 Forgotten Prophecy?
The trembling of the earth exceeded everyone’s imagination because it lasted all night and did not stop until dawn the next day.
Only, these tremors came much slower than they did at the beginning.
After dawn, through the news on television, Dante and the others found that the culprit responsible for the earthquake was actually a… tree that broke out of the ground?!
“This… this should be some kind of tree, right?” Lady was a little uncertain. “But doesn’t this thing look too disgusting?”
Yes, from the aerial images on the television, the appearance of this tree was too strange. On the incomparably thick bark, there were countless densely packed, blister-like things, making it look as though it had countless eyes. Anyone who saw it would feel goosebumps.
It was apparent that when this tree drilled out of the ground, it had been growing slowly in a spiral manner because its shape was entirely in a twisted spiral. In just one night, it had pierced out of the surface and grown nearly three hundred meters into the sky. Although its growth rate had decreased a bit, it was still continuing to drill out of the ground.
Thanks to it, Red Grave City had suffered immense damage because this tree was too large. Its diameter was about ten kilometers, and it was still expanding as the tree grew. Many of the buildings in Red Grave City at the center of the tree’s growth had disappeared…
Because these buildings were brought upward as this tree grew…
After breaking out of the ground like a sprout, it could actually take away tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of tons of soil and heavy objects. Such a tree species completely exceeded the cognitive ability of humans…
In the news, people could see numerous military helicopters circling this gigantic tree. No one knew where this thing came from and how it appeared in Red Grave City, but in any case, the disgusting bark had already given humans a bad premonition. The governments suspected that this might be another occult event, so they sent large numbers of troops to obtain first-hand research materials.
“Damn it. We can’t let those people approach it!” Dante said solemnly. “If this thing is something from the Demon World, it’s dangerous to go near it.”
“But… how can we stop them from approaching it?” Trish pointed at the people on the television screen with a headache. Logically speaking, with such a massive change, the residents of Red Grave City should have escaped as soon as possible. But unexpectedly, these bold people were still watching from afar, pointing at and discussing this gigantic tree.
“I’ll make a call!” Dante turned around and ran to the phone. Over the years, as he had been continually exorcising demons, he actually got to know some people with status whom he could talk to, but he did not know if it would be useful to contact these people.
Trish and Lady looked at each other helplessly. But at this moment, Lady noticed that Sareth’s expression was a little strange, and she could not help but ask, “Sareth, what’s the matter?”
Sareth said with a strange expression, “I… I think I’ve seen this kind of tree…”
“What?!” Everyone was shocked. “You’ve seen it?!”
“I don’t know if it is, but it looks… very similar!” Sareth gestured with both hands as he described. “Under the ice of Frostfire City, I’ve dug up a similar plant. It’s a plant that won’t die at the low temperature of negative one hundred degrees. But at this temperature, it’s in a dormant state, so it’s small, only about tens of centimeters. It can’t compare to the one on TV at all. I only thought of it when I saw the strange bark.”
Hearing Sareth’s words, even Dante, who was on the phone, could not help but turn to look at him.
Trish, Lady, and Dante all knew that Sareth came from a place called Frostfire City in the Abyss. If he had seen this plant in the Abyss, it meant that this plant not only existed in the Demon World… Or rather, demons had brought it to the Demon World from the Abyss… Only V did not quite understand, but he did not ask anything, thinking that the Frostfire City that Sareth mentioned was a place in the Demon World.
“Then, do you know what tree this is?” Lady asked.
“Yes, Mother Benia told me before…” Sareth nodded. “This thing is called the ‘Qliphoth’, but demons seem to prefer to call it the ‘Apple Tree of Hell’ because it can bear fruits. But it’s not easy. Mother Benia said that it’s usually extremely difficult for this kind of tree to produce fruits because it requires a lot of flesh and blood to irrigate it. Demons don’t have the conditions to cultivate it… But I don’t know if it’s like this here…”
“Qliphoth? Flesh and blood?” The ominous feeling in everyone’s hearts grew stronger and stronger.
V frowned and asked Sareth, “So, someone is controlling this tree to grow so big?” Upon hearing this, Dante immediately thought of Vergil. Combined with the commission brought by V, he immediately realized the seriousness of the matter. After hanging up the phone, he picked up his trench coat and his sword, Rebellion, and said to Trish and Lady, “Let’s go. We should set off. Red Grave City is at least hundreds of kilometers away.”
After saying that, he turned to V. “Do you want to go with us?”
V hesitated for a moment before nodding. “Let’s go take a look first.”
The four of them hurriedly walked out of the shop. Trish and Lady rode a motorcycle, while Dante and V rode another one. They stepped on the gas and prepared to leave.
At this moment, Sareth hurriedly chased after them. “Wait! Did you forget something?! What about me?! Where am I sitting?!”
“Stop joking, brat!” Dante rolled his eyes at him. “Kids should stay at home obediently! We’ll be back soon.”
Sareth was so angry that his face turned red. To be honest, it was not surprising that Sareth hated him at times. It was obvious that Dante did not want Sareth to follow him into danger, and what Sareth cared about the most was his age, but Dante had to use this to attack him every time.
“I can help too!” Sareth shouted at Dante.
“Haha…” Dante did not say anything and only laughed. With a roar, the motorcycle flew off.
Sareth ran after him for a few steps and then threw a stone at Dante and the others. But it hit nothing, making him say angrily, “Damn it. I’ll slap that guy’s mouth sooner or later!”
Sareth calmed down at this time. He recalled the demon he saw that night that had separated with V. That demon was indeed very powerful and terrifying, and it was at least at the demon lord level. Sareth thought that he would only be sending himself to his death if he faced this demon. The reason why he wanted to follow was that, firstly, he was angry that Dante was underestimating him, and secondly, he wanted to avenge Nero by killing a few demons. But after calming down, he began to think about what he could do. What he first thought of was to find Nero and then go with him to help. But then he remembered that Nero’s right arm had just been torn off, and he had to recover now. It was best not to get him to go, so this idea naturally ended.
Then Sareth suddenly discovered a situation. It seems like I’m free now?
Dante and the others had gone to deal with the emergency, and Nero was injured. This meant that no one was looking at him now… In that case, I can do anything now?
His eyes darted around, and the first thing that came to his mind was to look for the Demon Bible stele.
In fact, while chatting with V on the way here, V had already told him clues about the Demon Bible.
V had Vergil’s complete memory. In Vergil’s memory, when he was a child, he, Dante, his mother, Eva, and his father, Sparda, lived together as a family. At that time, his father appeared as a human, and Vergil and Dante did not know their father’s demon identity. In his childhood memories, Sparda had taught him and Dante to practice swordsmanship. He had also brought them out to hunt, and the manor where they hunted was far from their home.
When Vergil was young, he had seen a strange tombstone hidden in the woods behind the manor. At that time, he had asked his father curiously who was buried here, but his father sighed and did not answer him.
Now that he had grown up, Vergil recalled this memory and realized that his father might have already vaguely expected something at that time. After all, his father had betrayed his demon compatriots, and Demon King Mundus was not dead. It was foreseeable that the demons would take revenge on him, so his father might have prepared that grave for himself.
However, perhaps Sparda had not expected that the revenge of the demons would come so quickly. When Dante and Vergil were still young, the demons appeared. In this battle of revenge, their mother, Eva, was killed by the demons, and their father, Sparda, was missing. Fortunately, Donate had hidden and avoided the disaster, but Vergil had accidentally strayed into the Demon World during his escape. The family fell apart ever since.
This was an unbearable memory for Vergil, but… he had always thought that his father was not dead!
This was actually a simple deduction. Whether it was Force Edge; Dante’s sword, Rebellion; or even his katana, Yamato, they were all weapons made from the power of Sparda. Vergil believed that if his father died, then these weapons should lose their power. At least… their power would weaken, right?
But the fact was that the power of the weapons had not disappeared… So Vergil felt that his father should still be alive.
Of course, there was no news of Sparda. This was an irrefutable fact. Vergil was trying to find his father, but unfortunately, there were not many clues.
Since Vergil believed that his father was not dead, the tombstone that he had seen was an intolerable existence for him. Now that he thought about it, he felt that the tombstone was a little suspicious. The words on it were not human languages, so when Sareth and V had talked about the Demon Bible stele, V wondered if the tombstone his father had erected was this thing.
V was not too sure, but this was a clue for Sareth. So when he found that no one was obstructing him, he thought that perhaps he could go to the place V said to search first.
If he could find the stone stele and then think of a way to summon his foster father to this world, wouldn’t his foster father beat the demon that separated with V when the time came?!
Sareth, who was full of worship for Roy, thought happily as he set off.
Although the world of Ashan had already perished, the Dark Messiah who opened the cage and released the demon lords in the prophecy was still alive…
Now that the destiny of this Child of Taboo had diverged, could he still fulfill the prophecy?
Roy, who was far away in the Abyss, was waiting quietly…