God Tier Providence System Chapter 87

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What he was pondering was naturally the intelligence gathered by Adrian and the scene he had witnessed through the light screen.

Alex never expected Aurelia to use such a move.

After Lyra, Lily, and Selene had all failed to help Knox exact his revenge and returned in utter defeat, Aurelia actually played so shamelessly.

She directly deployed Princess Flower, Nyx.

An existence akin to a nuclear weapon.

Nyx was a mighty powerhouse at the fifth level of the Supreme Realm, the head of the Four Great Princesses.

An existence second only to Aurelia in the entire Heavenly Flame Capital.

Furthermore, she had an older brother named Nyron.

The heroic deeds of these siblings traced back to a major event thirty years ago, the Sixty-Year Demon Purge.

Thirty years was half a lifetime wasted for ordinary people, but for cultivators, it was just the snap of a finger. However, no one would forget the tragic price the citizens of the Heavenly Flame Dynasty paid for their survival.

At that time, Aurelia was in secluded cultivation, isolated from the world as she attempted to break through to the Saint Realm. During her seclusion, an organization named the Demon Shadow Sect emerged.

In just a few short months, they occupied half of the Heavenly Flame Dynasty’s territory.

The Demon Shadow Sect was a group of bloodthirsty fanatics who practiced demonic arts, drank blood, and killed like flies. They treated the laws of the dynasty as nothing.

Massacring a village or washing a town in blood was as common as a daily meal.

What was even more heinous was that they captured massive numbers of ordinary citizens to use as blood-food for their demonic beasts. Later, they forced the various provinces and counties to offer up three thousand virgin boys and girls every month, treating it like collecting taxes.

Such absolutely conscience-lacking atrocities finally incited the righteous indignation of the entire world.

Nyron, the Grand General at the time, ignored the objections of cowardly civil officials. Relying on his own prestige, he rallied three hundred thousand troops, formed the Demon-Crusade Coalition, and formally declared war on the Demon Shadow Sect.

Meanwhile, Nyx called upon the major aristocratic families and independent cultivators, uniting the cultivation world’s forces to hunt down demonic beasts everywhere.

Under the active rallying of the siblings, the Coalition’s numbers swelled to over two million. Their momentum shaking the heavens.

It was exactly under this united resistance that the Demon Shadow Sect was finally driven out of the Central Plains, fleeing far to the Northern Darkness and going into hiding.

That battle lasted for seven days and seven nights. The Coalition slew two million Demon Shadow Sect cultists and hunted down three and a half million demonic beasts.

But to drive them out, the Coalition also paid a devastating price.

With millions sacrificed, it could be called the most tragic and brutal battle since the founding of the Heavenly Flame Dynasty.

Nyron fought the main force for three days and three nights, ultimately perishing together with them.

In the bloody battle, Nyx’s consciousness was invaded by demonic energy, which occupied her brain. From then on, she became mentally deranged and unpredictably violent.

An absolute madwoman.

Even Alex had to admit that this war was indeed soul-stirring and incredibly epic.

Wait, what was I doing at the time?

Oh right.

He seemed to have been busy having his clan’s disciples scurry around collecting human and demonic beast corpses. Playing both sides by trading with the Demon Shadow Sect and the Demon-Crusade Coalition.

And selling various medicinal herbs at exorbitant prices and making an absolute killing.

Ahem, those things aren’t important.

What was important was that the siblings were not that simple.

As one of the protagonist’s most important mid-game harem members, Nyx relied on her deranged attribute and overpowered cultivation strength to take up a massive amount of screen time.

Whether playing the pig to eat the tiger or driving the plot forward, she had rendered outstanding service.

Only later did the original author reveal foreshadowing that spanned the entire early game.

Nyx didn’t actually go mad because demonic energy invaded her brain. Rather, during the Demon Purge, she absorbed a massive amount of demonic energy and accidentally awakened a sliver of her past life’s memories.

She was the reincarnation of one of the Five Great Ancient Emperors. The Soul-Severing Demon-Purging Divine Empress.

Even later, Knox went through untold hardships to find a drop of Ancestral Origin Spring Water.

He helped Nyx restore her past life’s memories and cultivation. She stayed by his side as part of his harem and one of his strongest combatants all the way to the grand finale.

As Nyx’s older brother and the protagonist’s brother-in-law, Nyron naturally carried a bit of Protagonist Halo himself.

Everyone believed he perished together with the Demon Shadow Sect Master. But in reality, although he fell unconscious and plummeted into an abyss, his body was not crushed to pieces.

Instead, he was discovered and rescued by a Saint who had been in seclusion for a thousand years.

That old Saint not only healed Nyron’s injuries but also passed down his entire legacy to him.

Later, when Knox and Nyx encountered danger, Nyron descended like a divine soldier from the heavens to save the day.

From then on, acting as the brother-in-law, he became a member of the protagonist’s core group, and precisely because of his status, he became one of the very few male supporting characters to survive to the very end.

Of course, none of that was important right now.

What was important was that Alex couldn’t quite figure out how to solve this troublesome problem.

Previously, when he learned that Knox had called in Lily, Selene, and Lyra, Alex had just laughed it off.

He had basically come up with countermeasures on the spot.

But this time, facing this Nyx, even with Alex’s immense resourcefulness and cunning, he felt somewhat at a loss.

First of all, Nyx was currently in a state of derangement and lacked conscious awareness.

Only that Soul-Tethering Bell currently in Knox’s hands could control her actions.