The trembling of the earth was beyond everyone's imagination. This was because the trembling lasted for an entire night, and it still did not stop until the next morning.
But compared to the beginning, this trembling was much slower.
After dawn, through the TV news, Dante and the others discovered that the culprit behind this trembling was actually a … tree that had broken out of the ground?!
"This … This should be some kind of tree, right?" Lady said uncertainly. "But doesn't this thing look too disgusting?"
Yes, from the aerial footage on the TV, the appearance of this tree was really too strange. On the incomparably thick bark, there were countless densely packed things that looked like herpes, making it look like it had countless eyes. Anyone who saw it for the first time would feel goosebumps all over their body.
It could be seen that when this tree drilled out of the ground, it had been slowly growing in a spiral because its tree sound was completely in the shape of a spiral. In just one night, it had already drilled out of the ground and grown nearly three hundred meters toward the sky. Although its growth speed had slowed down a little, it was still continuing to drill out of the ground.
Thanks to it, Red Grave City suffered tremendous damage because the area this tree occupied was too large. Its diameter was close to ten kilometers, and it was still expanding as the tree grew. Many of the buildings on the surface of Red Grave City at the center of the tree's growth had disappeared …
Because these buildings were brought to the top of the tree when it started to grow …
It broke out of the ground like a sprout and could actually take away tens or even hundreds of thousands of tons of soil and heavy objects. Such a species completely exceeded the cognitive ability of humans …
In the news reports, one could see a large number of military helicopters circling around this giant tree. No one knew where this thing came from or how it appeared in Red Grave City. But no matter what, the disgusting level of this tree bark had already given humans a bad premonition. The officials suspected that this might be another mysticism incident, so they sent a large number of troops to obtain first-hand research information.
"Damn it. We can't let those humans approach!" Dante said solemnly. "If this thing is a product of the Demon World, it might be dangerous to approach it."
"But … how can we stop humans from approaching it?" Trish also pointed at the people on the television screen with a headache. Logically speaking, with such a huge change, the residents of Red Grave City should have fled quickly. But unexpectedly, these bold people were still watching from afar, pointing at the giant tree and discussing.
"I'll go make the call!" Dante turned his head and ran to the phone. Over the years, he had been constantly exorcising demons, and he had actually gotten to know some people with status and could speak, but he did not know if contacting these people would be useful.
Trish and Lady looked at each other helplessly. But at this moment, Lady noticed Sareth's strange expression and could not help but ask, "Sareth, what's wrong?"
Sareth said with a strange expression, "I … I seem to have seen this tree before …"
"What!?" Everyone was shocked. "You've seen it before!?"
"I don't know if it is or not, but it looks … very similar!" Sareth gestured with his hands and described. "I once dug up a similar plant under the ice of Frostfire City. It's a plant that won't die at a low temperature of nearly a hundred degrees. But at this temperature, it will be in a dormant state, so it looks very small, about tens of centimeters. It can't be compared to the one on TV at all. I only remembered it when I saw that 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 Sareth had seen this plant in the Abyss, it meant that this plant was not only 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 much. He thought that the Frostfire City that Sareth was talking about was just somewhere in the Demon World.
"Then, do you know what tree this is?" Lady asked.
"Yes, Mother Benia told me …" Sareth nodded. "This thing is called the 'Qliphoth', but demons seem to like to call it the 'Apple Tree of Hell' because it bears fruit, but it's not easy. Mother Benia said that it's usually very difficult for this tree to bear fruit because it requires a lot of flesh and blood to water it. Demons don't have the conditions to cultivate it … But I don't know if it's the same here …"
"Qliphoth? Flesh and blood? "The ominous premonition in everyone's hearts grew stronger.
V frowned and asked Sareth, "So, is there someone controlling its growth behind the scenes for this tree to grow so big?"
Upon hearing this, Dante immediately thought of Vergil's name. Combined with the commission brought by V, he immediately realized the seriousness of the matter. After hanging up, he immediately put on his windbreaker, carried Rebellion on his back, and said to Trish and Lady, "Let's go. It's time for us to set off. Red Grave City is at least hundreds of kilometers from here."
With that, he turned to V. "Do you want to go with us?"
V hesitated for a moment before nodding. "Let's go and take a look first."
The four of them hurriedly walked out of the shop. Trish and Lady took one motorcycle, while Dante and V drove the other. They stepped on the accelerator 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. "Children should just stay at home obediently! It won't be long before we return. "
Sareth's face turned red with anger. To be honest, it was not strange that Sareth hated him sometimes. Dante clearly did not want Sareth to take risks with him, but what Sareth cared about the most was his age, but Dante always used this to attack him.
"I can help too!" Sareth roared at Dante.
"Hehe …" Dante did not say anything and just laughed. With a bang, he rode off on his motorcycle.
Sareth chased after them for a few steps and threw a stone in the direction where Dante and the others had left. But the stone could only hit nothing, and Sareth could only say in exasperation, "Damn it. I'll slap that guy's mouth sooner or later!"
In fact, Sareth had calmed down at this moment. He recalled the demon he saw that night after he separated from V. That demon was indeed very powerful and terrifying, and he was at least a demon lord. Sareth thought that he would only be courting death against such a demon. The reason why he wanted to follow just now was that he was angry that Dante had underestimated him, and he also wanted to kill a few demons for Nero to avenge him. But now that he had calmed down, he began to think about what he could do.
At first, he thought of finding Nero and then helping him with him. But then he remembered that Nero's right hand had just been broken, and he needed to recuperate at this time. It was best not to let him go, so this thought naturally stopped.
Then Sareth suddenly realized something. It seemed that he was free now?
Dante and the others had gone to deal with the emergency situation, and Nero was injured. This meant that no one was watching him now … In other words, he could do anything now?
His eyes darted around, and the first thing he thought of was to find the Demon Bible stele.
In fact, when he was chatting with V on the way here, V had already told Sareth about the clues to the Demon Bible.
What V had was Vergil's complete memories. In Vergil's memories, when he was young, he and Dante, his mother, Eva, and father, Sparda, lived together as a family. At that time, his father, Sparda, appeared as a human, and Vergil and Dante did not know their father's demon identity.
In his childhood memories, his father, Sparda, had taught him and Dante to practice swordsmanship and had taken them out to hunt. The manor where they hunted was far away from their home.
In that manor, when he was young, Vergil had seen a strange tombstone hidden in the woods behind the manor. At that time, he had curiously asked his father, Sparda, 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, Sparda, 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, and the grave his father had set up was likely prepared for him.
However, perhaps Sparda did not expect that the demons' revenge would come so quickly. When Dante and Vergil were still young, the demons appeared. In that battle of revenge, their mother, Eva, was killed by the demons, and their father, Sparda, was also missing. Dante was fine as he hid and escaped, but Vergil mistakenly entered the Demon World while escaping, and his family fell apart from then on.
This was an unbearable memory for Vergil, but … Vergil had always believed that his father, Sparda, was not dead yet! This was actually a very simple reasoning.
This was actually a very simple reasoning. Be it the Blade of Power, Dante's Rebellion, or even the Yamato he used, they were all weapons forged from the power of Sparda. Vergil believed that if his father died, these weapons should have lost their power. At the very least … their power should have weakened, right?
But the fact was that the power of the weapons had not disappeared … So Vergil felt that his father should not be dead yet.
Of course, it was an indisputable fact that there had been no news of Sparda. Vergil was actually trying his best to find his father's whereabouts, but unfortunately, he did not have many clues so far.
Since Vergil believed that his father was not dead, then the tombstone he had seen was something he could not allow to exist. Now that he thought about it, he felt that the tombstone was a little suspicious because the words on it were not human words. So when Sareth and V talked about the Demon Bible stele, V wondered if the tombstone his father had set up back then was this thing.
V was not too sure, but to Sareth, this was a clue. So now that he found that no one was obstructing him, he thought that perhaps he could go to the place V mentioned to look for it.
If he could find the stele and think of a way to summon his foster father to this world, wouldn't his foster father be able to beat the demon that separated from V like a game?!
Sareth, who admired Roy extremely, thought happily as he set foot on the road.
… …
Although the world of Ashan had perished, the Dark Messiah who opened the cage and released the demon lord in the prophecy was still alive …
Now that the fate of this Child of Taboo had gone astray, could he still fulfill the prophecy of the revelation?
Far away in the Abyss, Roy had been waiting quietly …
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