Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 199 Mission: 05-3 The Legendary Great Devil
Gifted game name: "Legendary Great Devil"

List of contestants: All those who possess the [Mark of the Beast].

The conditions for the contestant to win are:

1. Erect a statue of the "first beast" and find the breath of the "second beast".

2. Offer the kingship of the beast to the real beast.

Note: The game ends after the above two items are achieved.

Oath: Respect the above content and hold the Gift Game based on honor, flag and organizer authority.

[Six Hundred and Sixty-Six Beasts]

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As the countdown above her head finally reached its end, the glowing parchment fell from the sky and was caught by Nero. The full picture of this gift game was finally revealed to her.

At a glance, the game's content seemed pretty much what Lin had anticipated. While the identities of the "First Beast" and "Second Beast" remained to be determined, the second one was almost identical to Lin's assumptions, representing the return of the inheritance to the "Six Hundred and Sixty-Six Beast."

The contract specifically states that both conditions must be met simultaneously to achieve victory in the game. Therefore, the first condition represents the process of unlocking the seal and finding the legacy. Contrary to Lin's speculation, the [Beast of Six Hundred and Sixty-Six] seems to have some clues about the legacy, hence the explicit phrase "erecting a statue."

Participants need to erect a statue, or something close to a statue, before they can find the true heritage. But what exactly is this thing that needs to be erected?
Where is it?
Even as Nero was lost in thought, a hurricane swept through the center of this gloomy Gothic town, 666710 Outer Gate. Nero looked up, and in the dim sky, the hurricane appeared a deep gray-black. It instantly destroyed the surrounding buildings, swallowing up all the sand, gravel, and vegetation, completely consuming them.

It was obviously not an ordinary hurricane - rather, it was more like an air crusher that was turning everything put into it into dust and even smaller particles.

Even Nero, watching all this from afar, couldn't help but feel a little nervous. Was this wind part of the game? Or had one of the contestants lost their patience and started to take action?

The hurricane began to move. It was unstoppable, destroying and devouring everything in its path, moving slowly but steadily in a certain direction.

"It doesn't look like an attack from someone..." Nero frowned and muttered softly, "Is this part of the game? But there's nothing like this in the rules..."

Indeed, none of the key words in the game's rules could point to this terrifying storm. Nero looked up at the sky again and noticed that the countdown, which had already reached its end, was now moving forward in time. It now read "III," the Roman numeral for three, representing three minutes had passed since the start of the game.

Why do we need timing?
The answer was obvious: the need for a timer meant the game had a time limit. Although he didn't know when the timer would end, Nero instinctively felt that this method of counting minutes instead of hours meant they needed a number that couldn't be expressed using the hourly timer, a number with special meaning to them: "666."

Regardless of whether this conjecture is correct, if the rules of the game don't specify a time limit, there should be a clear, observable "marker" indicating the remaining time. A forward timer certainly can't display the remaining time, so the only way to indicate it to everyone is to...

Nero looked forward again and confirmed his thoughts.

It must be that horrible hurricane. It would likely grow as time passed, until it engulfed the entire gaming area. And if Nero's guess about the number was correct, the game's time limit would be 666 minutes: about eleven hours. Unfortunately, Nero looked down at the game paperwork, still unable to grasp the answer to the puzzle.

Where exactly does that which is to be erected exist? The answer does not seem to lie in the mystery.

So Nero came to the conclusion: instead of sitting here wondering, why not just try and find it? What if the Spartan legacy was something Nero had seen before? Wouldn't that solve everything?

So she spread her wings, leaped from the church bell tower, and then crashed into a massive gas explosion.

"Boom!"

Izayoi turned his head at the explosion and laughed as if he had seen something amusing. Leticia ignored the blast, her eyes fixed on the storm slowly approaching, her gaze solemn.

Izayoi withdrew his gaze from the explosion and turned back to urge, "Okay, it's about time you tell me what that thing is."

From the beginning of the game, the moment the hurricane appeared, Leticia entered this nervous state, which really puzzled Izayoi.

"That's one of the most terrifying legends in the Little Garden." Leticia sighed, took Izayoi's hand and walked to the back: "Let's leave as soon as possible, that thing is not something we can fight against."

"Oh?"

Izayoi was pulled away from the hurricane's path by Leticia, who was much shorter than him. Leticia then explained, "That thing is a natural disaster, a 'phenomenon,' a 'demon king' among 'demon kings,' pure destruction without self-awareness."

"The official name is [Decadence]."

The so-called "Wind of Decadence" is fearfully called "the wandering eschatology," "the tyrant at the end of time," and "the all-devouring demon king." It appeared with the birth of the Little Garden, devouring all gifts, life, and light, and bringing an "inevitable end."

In other words, it is the end of all finite things, the extinction of all existence, the death of all life, the "something" that will destroy the world at some point in the infinitely distant future, the embodiment of doomsday and the end.

"This is too cool, it's really cheating."

Izayoi couldn't help but be amazed.

Because, according to Leticia, the Wind of Decadence is impossible to defeat. Its true form lies at the end of endless time, a demonic manifestation of the inevitable destruction—the destruction of the universe. Furthermore, because all universes must eventually come to an end, whether through heat death, the Great Rip, or the Collapse, the Wind of Decadence's spirit is not only as massive as an entire universe, but even resides within the infinite multiverse, ensuring its eternal existence.

Even though the [Wind of Decadence] before them at this moment was only a tiny breeze like an insect's breath blowing against time, it was enough to destroy everything here.

　Chapter 2 will be published in the afternoon

　　
　
(End of this chapter)