Evil Dragon: The young dragon I picked up keeps planning on becoming an empress

Where am I?

The human girl before me... looks somewhat familiar, dressed in a tattered red mage's robe, wielding a magic wand, her otherwise attractive face now blackened as if scorched by fire, her hands bearing wounds, her body marked by sword injuries...

And this body...

Lance raised his right hand, observing it: a body carved from stone.

A familiar feeling.

Summoned by a believer...

His current state... was akin to a deity descending by the power of faith.

Only beings who became deities through the power of faith had the right to respond to their own believers, to descend into the statues carved by believers through the power of faith, and aid them in resolving a crisis.

Had he not become a deity through faith, why could he still descend into a stone-carved statue?

The human girl who summoned him... he remembered now, though her name eluded him, he recalled that she and another sword-wielding human girl had summoned him before.

A fire mage, how did she become a believer of him, the Evil Dragon Sword Ancestor?

Her insincere worship, her prayers... they wouldn't appear in his mind.

The surrounding environment... was a dark corridor, about five meters wide, with the walls on either side carved with various grotesque and bizarre demons, ghosts and goblins, and evil primordial beasts.

The style resembled that of... an Underground Devil Palace...

During his adventures in the Human World, he too had entered similar Underground Devil Palaces.

Besides monsters, treasures, and mimics, one could summon demons or trade with them through sacrifices in an Underground Devil Palace.

"Sword... Sword Ancestor, please save Caroline; a demon has seized her body," Aria said, excitedly standing up and then promptly kneeling on one knee, pleading for the Sword Ancestor to save Caroline.

It was indeed the Sword Ancestor who pitied his own believers; before kneeling to this Sword Ancestor, she had also worshipped the Fire God she believed in...

Alas, the Fire God did not respond to her...

After all, as a fire mage, it was not her place to bypass the Fire God and kneel directly before the statue of the Sword Ancestor.

Unexpectedly... driven to desperation, the Sword Ancestor truly responded to her prayer...

After returning last time, carrying the statue of the Sword Ancestor that she and Caroline had carved was indeed the right decision.

Buzz—

With a buzzing sound, crimson Array appeared on the wall of the dark corridor, and a girl with a ponytail and wielding a great sword stepped out from it.

"Where can you run to in here? Just like your companion, become my vessel, rest assured... I won't devour your souls just yet; I need them to move freely in the Human World when necessary...

Hmm? Divinity..."

The girl holding the great sword, with blood-red pupils, showed a grave expression; divinity in this dark, evil-filled Underground Devil Palace?

The human girl before me... had she been endowed with some divinity by a deity?

No, wrong.

Not the human girl before me, but the statue behind her... more precisely, the divine statue.

A mere statue cannot give birth to divinity; only a divine statue can possess it.

Such overwhelming divinity...

Has a deity descended?

A True God?

No, wrong...

The power of faith.

It was becoming a deity through faith.

This human girl, named Caroline, remembered this divine statue.

Evil Dragon Sword Ancestor.

She called this statue [Sword Ancestor].

Reverence...

The desire to kneel...

Those were Caroline's thoughts; she was still struggling...

Had she not struggled so fiercely, the human girl in front would have already become a vessel.

Human Sword Ancestor...

Should I probe?

If the divinity of this Sword Ancestor could be devoured...

A look of anger appeared on Caroline's face, but it quickly turned into a sinister smile.

"Caroline, hang in there, the Sword Ancestor has responded; just wait, he will soon clear out the demon possessing your body," standing behind Aria, Lance made no move; through Caroline's eyes, he saw what the demon possessing her looked like.

A humanoid demon.

Its fingers and toes were blood-red, the hands resembled eagle's claws, and its feet were similar to those of humans, only these demon's feet invading Caroline's body were larger and more grotesque, with bent toes.

Its appearance was like that of an Evil Spirit, with horns on its head and a long tongue protruding, eyes bulging outward.

Evil Spirit.

The demon possessing Caroline's body was called: Evil Spirit.

Such demons were categorized under ghosts; they had no physical form, loved to devour the souls of living beings, could enslave spirits, and powerful Evil Spirits could easily extract a living being's soul from its body and occupy it.

The power of the Evil Spirit was even stronger than that of a shadow demon.

These two young believers were rather unlucky to encounter an Evil Spirit...

The most straightforward way to deal with an Evil Spirit... was to confine it...

As for fighting...

Unless one could find a Transcendent specialized in souls, ordinary Transcendents would not be able to handle this kind of Evil Spirit Demon.

What... what is happening?

Sword Ancestor's statue... how... how has it begun to emit an evil aura?

The sacred presence before, and the golden light... how... how could it change... turn into black and red?

The Alyssa facing Caroline was terrified to discover that the golden light previously diffusing in the dark corridor had all turned black and red in a split second...

It's over...

Could it be that like last time... this time the one responding to her prayers was not the Sword Ancestor...

But that terrifying Great Demon from last time?!

Alya felt weak in the knees; she forgot... forgot that the summoned entity last time might not have been the Sword Ancestor, but instead, a Great Demon...