Chapter 1226

Although I knew before coming that the chances of winning against the Director were slim, this is just too miserable...

Just like Leon, who lost so badly he went silent, facing a battle result that couldn't just be called a crushing defeat but rather a total collapse, the three cleaners from the Scorpio Branch could only shrink back into Leon's stomach, dejected and filled with despair.

Regarding this, one can only say that while three senior Level 2 cleaners combined might be able to scrape together 59 points of Contamination Value, they cannot scrape together a meticulously crafted set of Anomalous Objects capable of handling all situations, nor can they scrape together years of experience in handling Anomalous Objects, nor could they possibly have the reaction speed of a True God level.

Facing Leon, who lunged over with a blade, the Scorpio Director immediately released a batch of sturdier puppets; only after a slight probe did he discover the problem lay with the 【Silver Dagger of Cutting】, and he immediately turned to attack Leon's wrist instead.

Upon discovering that Leon would not be injured under the attacks and that his wrist could not be destroyed no matter what, the Scorpio Director changed tactics again, starting to use restrictive Anomalous Objects, trying his best to avoid direct contact with the 【Silver Dagger of Cutting】.

After Leon danced wildly with his blade, cutting six or seven puppet Anomalous Objects to pieces, finally, a speed-type puppet successfully avoided the edge of the 【Silver Dagger of Cutting】 and gripped Leon's wrist.

With the only weapon in his hand capable of breaking the 【Puppet Room】 restrained, and lacking other powerful means of attack, Leon naturally had only one path left: to surrender when faced with the siege of a group of indestructible dolls.

Leon, who had finished his tough talk, didn't even manage to reach the Scorpio Director; after rushing out only five or six steps, he was "buried" by a large pile of dolls that crawled out of the suitcase, pressed down firmly by many hands and feet, completing a standard light-speed wipeout.

And from the moment Leon bravely rushed up until he was taken down by a group of dolls, only twenty-some seconds had passed in total; the 【Whale Shark Puppet】 that had been tied up by tree roots hadn't even sunk to the bottom of the lake yet.

……

"Forget it if you don't want to talk."

Looking at Leon, who refused to communicate with him and sat there with a long face without saying a word, the Scorpio Director shook his head and gave up on continuing to communicate with a defeated opponent.

He was seen picking up a strange-looking estoc, casually making two swipes in the air, which cut the tree roots binding the 【Whale Shark Puppet】, and just like repairing other puppet Anomalous Objects damaged by the 【Silver Dagger of Cutting】, he controlled the two halves of the 【Whale Shark Puppet】 to slowly merge toward the center.

"Hey!"

However, just as he was waiting for the 【Whale Shark Puppet】 to restore itself, Leon, who had been silent until now, suddenly raised his head and asked:

"Director Edward, since you are so strong, why were you almost blown to death by artillery fire before?"

"You mean that..."

Hearing Leon's words, the Scorpio Director hesitated slightly, seemingly unsure if it counted as leaking secrets, but looking at Leon, whom he had already caught and who could no longer escape, he thought for a moment and answered:

"Two weeks before moving against me and Ruben and the others, the entire sprinkler system of the Kroke Kingdom had already been infused with diluted adrenaline antagonists. Although there is no feeling during normal times, the reaction speed at critical moments cannot be brought up, so I couldn't even activate my life-saving substitute puppet.

By the way, when you suddenly vomited at that time, I couldn't dodge and was covered in it; that was when the adrenaline antagonist was taking effect... It's a pity, if I had discovered this point at that time, perhaps it wouldn't have turned out like this."

"A little bit of medicine took you down?"

After looking at the Scorpio Director, whose expression was somewhat unwilling, Leon frowned and said:

"After Mona and the others died, they almost rushed back from the Dead World. At your level, even if the physical body is destroyed, you should be able to fight for a while relying on your soul, right?"

"Yes, but my soul was sealed."

After sighing faintly, the Scorpio Director chatted with Leon while waiting for the whale shark to merge:

"Prince Andre is a member of the King-Slaying Society. He invited people from the King-Slaying Society to help, killed a True God, burned its flesh and blood, and sent a portion of one of the members' power inside.

When I was preparing to let my soul leave my physical body, that portion of power sent down by the King-Slaying Society forcibly blocked my soul back. And the soul depending on the physical body is the rule of the present world; in the case of the physical body fainting, the soul cannot remain awake independently, and I was caught just like that." King-Slaying Society...

After firmly remembering this name in his heart, Leon continued to ask with a look of disgust:

"So you didn't even resist, and you were caught just like that?"

"That's not exactly true, I did resist a little."

The Scorpio Director shook his head and said:

"But Prince Andre's side dismantled and decomposed all the Anomalous Objects seized from the Gemini Branch's warehouse, used the decomposed materials to make something called 'Stance Stones,' and scattered them into more than eight hundred blocks of the Kroke Kingdom.

When I moved to counterattack, I was already at the end of my rope, and after being dispersed by those Stance Stones, the remaining 1/800th of the effect didn't cause any damage before being blocked; it's estimated it only made the entire Kroke Kingdom shake a bit."

After finishing the story of his failure, the Scorpio Director simply sat down cross-legged, smiled, and took the initiative to ask:

"Do you have any other questions? In return for you saving Ruben and the others once, before your Undying Anomalous Object effect ends and you are thoroughly killed by me, I can satisfy your curiosity a bit more."

"No more, the questions I wanted to ask have all been asked."

Hearing the Scorpio Director's words, Leon shook his head slightly, pondered for a moment, and said:

"Director Edward, let's do this: in return for you being so patient with me, after this matter is over, if you want to know exactly how you lost, I can also answer you properly once."

"?"

The Scorpio Director was slightly startled upon hearing this, then frowned and said:

"What do you want to say? I don't understand what you mean."

"Hiccup... you'll understand in a moment... oh, by the way..."

After letting out a hiccup full of the smell of alcohol, Leon, who had achieved his goal of stalling for time, grinned, then tilted his chin toward the Scorpio Director's feet and asked quite happily:

"Do you like beautiful feet?"

"???"

Completely unable to keep up with Leon's train of thought, the bewildered Scorpio Director had to follow his gaze to look at his own feet, and then discovered a human right foot sculpture with smooth muscles and clear joints, looking just like marble.

"This is?"

Amidst the Scorpio Director's puzzled expression, Leon smiled and explained:

"This thing is called 【Foot of Beauty】, an Anomalous Object I forged myself. Its effect is to make a person's right foot look exceptionally good. It belongs to you now."

"???"

It belongs to me? What do I need this thing for?

Still not understanding Leon's meaning, the Scorpio Director was about to continue asking, but suddenly discovered something was not quite right; the moment that "beautiful foot" appeared, it seemed as if something was suddenly "missing" in his heart.

At the same time, the 【Whale Shark Puppet】 that had already sunk to the bottom below, eerily turned its fish head, swung the fins at its chest and tail for a full-power sprint, and crashed head-on into the Machina Core at the bottom of the cooling lake.

Before the sound of this violent impact could even travel over, the two-meter-thick glass protective wall outside the Machina Core exploded with a bang in the Scorpio Director's shocked gaze, and a massive amount of lake water instantly poured in, crushing all the extremely precise machinery inside!

?!!!

(End of chapter)