Death... and me
chapter-2064

As Sesame gathered the Demon Beasts, Roan noticed that there was one thing that didn't match up. He used his soul connection with the Soul Gem Orb to ask about that. 'Sister Orb, there is one thing I don't understand. When we arrived here, the system told us that the fragment was inside an artifact capable of doing Space Displacement. However, the fragment you acquired was truly just a fragment.'

'Not only that, Sesame said he saw it falling in this place pretty much right after the Universe was Divided in two. There is no way someone had the time to transform it into an artifact, right? Was the system wrong?' Roan was right. The system did say the fragment in this place was an artifact. (Chapter 2049)

[Hum... now that you said, it is weird indeed. The fragment we acquired was definitely the reason why the Swamp of No Return had its Space and Time Displacement ability. Now that it is gone, the Swamp is being reintegrated into the Underworld. Still, there was no such thing as an Artifact when I found the fragment in that Sphere of Space and Time light.]

Rean, obviously, heard the conversation. 'Wait, are you saying that we haven't acquired the real fragment we came here for?'

Roan nodded. 'That's definitely a possibility.' It was then that Roan remembered something. 'Of course, there is another possibility. Sister Orb, after you got the fragment, did you notice anything near the area where it fell?'

[Notice something? Not really. As soon as I got the fragment, I just left that area with you all. We got quite distracted by the earthquake that started in the Swamp and the possible coming of the Elder Devils of the Underworld.]

'Wait for Sesame to come back, and then we can check it again,' Roan had an idea.

Inside the Soul Gem Dimensional Realm, the people of the village began to settle themselves inside the houses. For them, everything happening was like a novel. Yet, the first thing they noticed when they arrived there was the Divine Energy in the air. It was a kind of thing they had never felt before. It made them feel strange.

Fortunately, Sister Orb was capable of talking to everyone in the Soul Gem DImensional Realm at once. [Alright, just ask me whatever you want. There is no need to make a queue. I can answer everyone's questions at the same time individually. You will hear my voice inside all your heads.]

Around two hours later, several Spatial Gates began to appear near the area where the village was previously located. From inside, tens of thousands of Demon Beasts in a dazzled state fell out nonstop. 'Rean, Roan, just send them all into your Dimensional Realm,' Sesame's voice echoed in their minds.

Rean looked at Celis, who was the real responsible for the management of the Demon Beast territories in the Soul Gem Realm. "Celis, you know where their races are located, so distribute them as you see fit."

Celis nodded and immediately used the permission given by the twins to send batch after batch of Demon Beasts into the Dimensional Realm. Forest, Deserts, Lakes, Sea, you name it. Demon Beasts fell into those places nonstop. As soon as they did, their absent minds came back to normal as they looked around, confused. Yet, it didn't last long as they had no sentience yet.

Sure enough, Celis soon noticed that the number of Demon BEasts far surpassed what the territories inside the Soul Gem Dimensional Realm could support. With that, territorial disputes started everywhere. Nonetheless, Celis and Kentucky looked at it with approval. "Only the strong ones will remain. Nothing better than natural selection."

Things continued like that for another half an hour until the Spatial Gates finally closed. Sesame then reappeared near everyone as he sighed in relief. "Phew... And these are all the Demon Beasts you can find here."

*Boom!*

Suddenly, the ground shook even more. But this time, it wasn't because of the disappearance of the Foundation Pillar's Fragment. Instead, it came from a specific direction, and it wasn't that far.

Sesame looked in the direction of the sound as his eyes narrowed. "Someone is attacking the wall."

That obviously caught everyone's attention. "Did the Elder Devils arrive already?"

Sesame immediately shook his head. "That's not possible. The effects of the Swamp haven't completely disappeared yet. Besides, the Elder Devils from outside the Swamp wouldn't venture inside so fast. They would be too scared of the Swamp. What if the power of making one get lost inside suddenly reappears? We know it won't happen, but they don't."

*Boom, boom, boom...*

Yet, Sesame knew that the one attacking the wall was any weakling. "Weird, this power is definitely at the Divinity Realm level. Did an Elder Devil really throw itself inside the Swamp knowing the risks?"

It was then that Rean and Roan remembered. "Right! There was one Elder Devil that got lost in the Swamp many years ago. We heard from Rui of the Light Devil Clan that he never returned. An Elder Devil might not find its way out of the Swamp, but it definitely wouldn't find it difficult to survive."

Sesame immediately nodded. "That's most likely the same Elder Devil, then." Still, Sesame looked away as if he couldn't hear anything. "Alright, we are done with the replacement."

Roan glanced at him. "Is it okay to leave that guy attacking the wall formation?"

Sesame nodded. "That's a formation that I kept running and in perfect condition all this time. I had a lot of free time, so I've never let it go to waste. Let alone him, even two Elder Devils wouldn't be able to break the formation surrounding this place. I calculate that the Devils will need at least five Elder Devils combined power to breakthrough, and that shouldn't happen anytime soon."

Seeing Sesame's unconcerned expression, everyone relaxed as well. "Alright, Sesame. Can you open a Spatial Gate to where we found the fragment earlier? There is something we need to check there."

Sesame then heard Roan's Divine Sense message, explained the reasons, and nodded. "Alright, let's go take a look."