Chapter 616: Death

"Hoh ya."

Luo De gazed from afar at the phantom of Mistral appearing in the sky and secretly winked.

But unfortunately.

This phantom might have been merely a self-running spell, or perhaps the crowd was too large—she simply ignored Luo De entirely.

As the lightning flashed and vanished, she merged once more into the Weave's celestial curtain, disappearing along with the Weave itself.

The halfling Lili walked over and kicked the clothes caked with ash.

She muttered, "What sudden madness did this guy have? Why would he dare challenge the Magic Goddess's prohibition?"

The battle site was far enough away that no one noticed Luo De had been the first to use psionics.

She said.

She looked up at the sky with reverence.

"Still, to kill a ninth-rank mage with a single strike—ascending to godhood is no empty boast."

Tally leapt over with a bounce and wrapped herself around Luo De's neck.

First, she nuzzled her face against his.

Then, her face pale with fear, she leaned close and whispered, "Master, don't use your psionic spells here again—Mistral zapped us twice right in front of us; I think she's deliberately warning or targeting us. Let's kill that mind flayer back home before it causes more trouble."

Luo De pried her off.

Her eyes glowed pink.

After speaking, she blew sweet, cloying breaths onto her own face and kept rubbing her chest against him.

Seeing the endless flow of transformation essence from 【Paradox Motive】, Luo De immediately knew the succubus had watched him fight and gotten turned on.

The tooth fairy Rosalia was badly wounded.

She nodded gratefully at Luo De.

Then she limped over to the ashes of the Piercing Mage Vincent and stomped on them fiercely, grinding them back and forth.

"Too easy a death—you got off lucky."

Luo De ignored her; venting like that wasn't bad.

He handed the girls some healing potions brewed by the aranea Yuna from his spell satchel.

"Rest here for now—I'll go help Hera."

Yuna possessed the innate spiritual art 【Alchemy Talent】, which, after multiple skill points, reached +11—her potions were superior to those on the market.

Saying that,

Luo De turned to go assist.

"No need."

Hera's languid voice drifted closer.

Mid-air, she descended in an arc, her scorpion tail hooked around the severed limbs of the aged Cardinal Davide.

Luo De knew her habit of avoiding contact with the ground.

He reached out and caught her snow-white feet, untouched by even a speck of ash.

Even carrying an old man, she felt weightless.

Hera gave Luo De a satisfied glance.

She hurled Davide, spitting blood all over his face, onto the ground, then shifted her posture and sat again on Luo De's shoulder.

Her warm, plump, snow-white thighs playfully squeezed his cheek.

Though it was foolish to fear a ninth-rank falling,

Luo De instinctively grabbed her ankles to steady her balance—he didn't know why, but this made Hera chuckle softly.

"You cannot resist the march of the new world."

Cardinal Davide spat a mouthful of blood and trembled as he spoke.

Luo De pointed upward:

"Mistral is far stronger than you imagine."

Lili pinched him secretly, her face filled with reverence, whispering, "Don't speak the Goddess's name directly, Luo De—be careful!"

"Oh."

Hera, a powerful ninth-rank, agreed: "After all, she is the first deity—we don't know her nature. To speak her name directly is disrespectful."

This one, like Tally, was also a troublemaker.

She slid her scorpion tail into the back of Luo De's shirt, rubbing his vertebrae one by one.

He didn't know what kind of massage technique this was, but Luo De felt a tingling numbness, and his lower abdomen grew hot.

"False gods cannot resist the true gods of other dimensions! Their return is inevitable! Since ancient times, they have left clear traces on this continent!"

Cardinal Davide suddenly flushed red, growing agitated.

"That's just your doomsday propaganda to fool the masses—do you think we'll believe it?"

Luo De shrugged.

"No! You will believe it! Luo De! Once you uncover the relics from the First Age beneath Shiying Town, you'll know it's all true! The true gods have existed since ancient times!"

Speaking of which,

Luo De immediately recalled when he used 【Source Tracing State】 to probe the memories of the Windwall Forest.

Fabio had said the First Age was an era when evil gods and outer deities ruled.

"What exactly was the First Age like?"

He had asked Mistral, the Magic Goddess, the same question—but she claimed something had obscured her divination.

Even if she wasn't fully skilled, and even if bound by the Weave's curtain and invasions from other dimensions,

still, for the Magic Goddess's divination to be obscured—that was absurd.

Cardinal Davide spat another mouthful of blood; his cloudy pupils faintly showed signs of ashen decay.

"No one will know. No one will know. Once it opens, all true gods will reveal themselves."

Saying that,

his head tilted, and he died.

Luo De was speechless.

He hated riddle-sayers, especially riddle-sayers who worshipped various cults.

Forget it.

Uncovering the secrets of the First Age might be too distant—focus on what's before you.

Luo De glanced at Eve, leader of the Shadow Hunter Guild; she sat wounded, clutching her pierced abdomen as she gasped.

"How do you plan to wrap this up?"

The conscription force was nearly wiped out—this isn't good.

It might even drag Shiying Town into trouble.

But then again, exposing Igo Cult's plan to purge all human emotion might be just as uncertain.

Eve paused, then said: "'The Conscription Force attacked the Campbell family; Cardinal Davide led the charge and perished alongside the evil.' How's that?"

She didn't yet know about Igo Cult's plan.

She hesitated.

Then added: "But we can't capture everyone in the labyrinth—that's a big problem."

"Don't worry—no one here will escape."

Luo De kicked aside the grass and saw the blood-red soil filled with resentment.

Naulin will take over this labyrinth and seal all exits—this had been arranged in advance, no need to worry.

"No."

Pale-faced Grand Leader Carter walked slowly over from nearby, his broken cloak wrapped around his severed arm.

He handed Luo De a wooden box containing the new pathogen, his expression resolute.

"I will expose and reveal Igo Cult's evil plan."

"Are you certain?"

"But Igo Cult controls nearly all of Can Guang City. My family has already asked Eve to announce my death—I'll go underground and fight Igo Cult to the end."

(End of Chapter)