Paying Life Debts (BL)

Arc 2: 2.4

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Currently, it was the day of the festival, the birth of the Netherworld's one million years anniversary. From what he got from the system observation during his sleeping time, every year of the festival, The Nether Emperor allowed all the working dead spirits have three days off from work including those in the hell prison too.

The Nether Emperor enabled all the dead spirits that were currently residing in the Netherworld to participate in the festival which was held on the altar of the Nether God. These three days for the dead spirits were very special because during these days they got to have the Nether Light nourishing their soul. Even though the dead spirits didn't get the merit points, they were absolutely grateful and excited when the festival came.

The nourishment from the Nether Light for three days was the special gift that they ever received from the Nether God which could be a great factor to get a good life after completing the reincarnation. Thus, the more you absorb, the better. The Nether Light was violet in color with golden sparkle, shining through the dark sky of the Netherworld.

However, the Nether Light in these thousand years after the current Nether Emperor regime only came and shined on the first day of the festival. Did you ask why? That was because the current Nether Emperor had no Empress. That was right his majesty, the Nether Emperor didn't have Empress.

The Nether Light could only continuously shine for three days from the preying of the Nether Empress. However, there are 2 factors that influenced the decision of choosing the Empress. First, on the 3rd day of the festival, the fated person would bestow the power by the Nether God himself through the process while the Nether Emperor was preying on the same day.

Second, after the Nether God's blessing, then the Nether Emperor himself would decide whether that person was his fated one based on the crystal globe in the secret garden of the Nether Palace, which contained the Nether Emperor's soul. If the chosen one could walk inside, then it could be considered the first step of succession. Then while the chosen one was staying in there, the crystal globe glowed, it meant that that chosen one would be the Empress of the Netherworld.

Due to these 2 factors, all the chosen ones by the Nether God in these thousand years of the current Nether Emperor's reign didn't have anyone that could pass the 2nd step. All his subordinates had asked him this question from when the first chosen one was rejected. The answer that they got was 'My fated one hasn't appeared yet, what's the hurry?' or 'I'm waiting for someone else, they haven't appeared yet.'

These were all the words that his system heard from stalking the high-rank dead spirits. They told it to the new dead spirits that just registered recently. Nineteen thought that this phenomenon was interesting, he couldn't wait for the 3rd day of the festival.

The agenda for the first day of the festival is nothing but praying and having fun. All the dead spirits' souls would automatically absorb the Nether Light no matter what they did. It was just if you wanted to absorb more, you could stay in one place and focus on the absorbing.

Nineteen wanted to see the praying, but when he arrived he found that there were a lot of people, ah, no, dead spirits in front of the altar of the Nether God. He couldn't get through this crowd of dead spirits. He estimated that the dead spirits in here which were the area to the east of the altar was around one billion dead spirits based on his system calculated for him.