Chapter 894: No. 17: What is the handling method that is completely different from that of the Beast King?

No. 17: What is the handling method that is completely different from that of the Beast King?

As long as one has the power of monsters, they can be liberated from time, space, and even the cycle of life and death.

Becoming a monster controller allows one to touch that supreme freedom.

That is why Chen cannot understand Peng's choice.

The choice of placing human lives above monsters.

When the two clash, the two boys who cannot understand each other both fall silent.

They are not meeting for the first time.

Although their previous interactions had some unnaturalness due to human interference, their wills were never twisted or altered from beginning to end.

It is merely because the existence of the person who could bring great change to life was obscured that the two ended up side by side.

Yet at this moment, their opposition, as incompatible as water and fire, becomes evident.

No need for endless debate, no need for emotional coercion based solely on one's own views; the two monster controllers, who know each other well, are silently dueling.

The giant beasts under their command never even let out a single wild beast's roar.

However, even if we describe their wills as evenly matched, it does not mean this battle could be tense in any way.

Tense?

It's completely one-sided!

There are also differences among monsters.

The difference in physical strength between the Falling Flowers Flowing Water monster and the Nitpicking monster is obvious.

Even without multiple companions sharing the burden to unlock the second stage, just the first-stage Gagula is enough to swiftly suppress Bu'erbai yinde.

It can even have spare energy to charge up, then directly shoot at the opponent, as well as at any companions who might hinder it, and at the location of Aomo Lindun, spewing out the monster's most destructive scorching light flow.

In this duel, Ma Zhongpeng's sole advantage lies in the purity of his control, which is recognized by the Beast King.

He indeed found an opportunity to release, allowing himself to avoid being melted together with Bu'erbai yinde, and further endeavored to alter the trajectory of the opponent's wave.

Frankly, this is quite taxing.

In another universe, he resolved to take on four opponents alone and seize the 'controller' for several seconds, but here he is not the Ma Zhongpeng who underwent a series of 'trainings'.

He is the Ma Zhongpeng who directly embraced the 'monster eugenics' ideology, lacking the courage from a series of people and events to face family problems, choosing freedom, which is also an escape.

No one would blame him for being wrong; on the contrary, he genuinely helped his fellow monster eugenics supporters get on the right track, created real social value that could be publicized in news reports, and even his mother, her companions, and his biological father take pride in him.

Only the distance of the heart, yet it is continually being pulled apart.

For him like this, seizing Chen's controller is truly a difficult task; relying solely on the weight of human life, he indeed shook the line etched by the light beam on the map, and then in the next second——

The pressure suddenly vanished.

But then, immediately after, his heart tightened.

What did he see?

"Ha, I actually made it in, Plan B is going smoothly~" someone sighed, their tone carrying a relaxed ease like a leisurely stroll in a courtyard.

And the one who sighed…… is that a person?

A demon?

Ma Zhongpeng widened his eyes in disbelief.

Slightly contracting and extending, it bore four wings with a texture between stone and metal, sharp, elongated claws, scale gaps emitting heat and faint light, and a face and horns like a monster's.

Moreover, as he stepped cautiously, on the ferocious face visible, there was also a black flame that seemed impossible to extinguish, flowing diagonally before the eye sockets.

The pale moon-like mark on its black chest, resembling a wound yet like an embedded crystal, only made it appear more ominous and ferocious.

With the waist as the boundary, the lower body silver-white, the upper body jet black yet adorned with countless silver patterns, this ferocious appearance fully matches the description of demons in the cultural education Ma Zhongpeng received.

It was even more ferocious and terrifying than he had ever imagined……

Although it also had a certain coolness.

Like the glowing patterns on its body, especially the particularly prominent serpentine coils on the right arm, and so on.

It made him feel utterly unfamiliar, shocked, and fearful of staying away, yet he couldn't help but glance at it a few more times.

Ma Zhongpeng, who had initially stopped Chen, never imagined that this was the Aomo Lindun who had previously been tied to a chair.

Also, inside this monster filled with various discolored circuits, he was so wary of the opponent that he forgot about Chen on the other side.

Until he heard the latter's words:

"Why are you interfering, Aomo Lindun?"

"Eh?"

"This, this is Mr. Lindun?" He only then realized, unable to help but stare again at the opponent, astonished, blinking several times.

He hadn't forgotten the initial Aomo Lindun, whose mere sight made one feel unable to step forward, clad in black armor with a skirt and cape, the chest bearing a moon pattern but more conspicuous was the white goat skull…… Was that the symbol of a demon?

He randomly guessed that the helmet of that armored figure also indeed had twin horns pointing skyward.

But those straight horns were quite different from the pair of silver 'candles' extending from the opponent's temples along the head shape to the forehead, then upward.

"Because this is the ideal space for efficient communication."

The demon examined the various circuit patterns here, then turned back.

"Moreover, in my view, nobody here needs to die, you included."

"…" Chen, hearing this, remained silent as his name suggests.

His eyelids drooped, his gaze also somewhat weary, as if he had seen something boring he couldn't be bothered to understand.

"Not answering? Don't want to answer? Think it's meaningless? Think I don't understand the cause of your opposition, and also think that monster controllers and existing society are opposed, with one side's wish only realizable by destroying the other?"

Upon saying that, he instead lifted his gaze again, reevaluating this outsider who should have merely stumbled into this world, bringing only the so-called truth, and otherwise knowing nothing about anything here.

"Not to destroy existing society, nor to kill all humans, but to create a place where monsters can survive, and such a place necessarily requires freedom……"

"Why not consider looking outside? Chen."

"Outside?"

Chen finally opened his mouth, his dark red eyes fixed on this demon who was also a monster controller.

"Yes, outside, a universe beyond the universe." the demon explained; in this posture, he didn't need to deliberately make any expression. On his unchangeable face, the large mouth formed by interlocking sharp teeth only needed to open a little to give the illusion of a grin.

"I brought you two gifts."

"The first is the universe I come from, where there is a society that allows monsters to live normally."

"The second is right outside this very universe."

"The existence known as Shima, the existence known as Naito—why they are hidden by the black curtain, you had no interest in learning before, but now I will tell you: this is the world crisis that most requires the power of monsters and monster controllers……"

——

"Has it stopped?"

"Huh? They're not fighting?"

"He can actually directly interfere with the monsters controlled by Chen……"

Reality.

Shijia, as well as the freed Gui She and badger, had their eyes darting back and forth between the demon in that crouched posture and the distant Gugula; still in the next second of surprise, they saw the other party lower their gesture.

The distant Gugula also vanished instantly.

"The negotiations went smoothly, everyone."

"Congratulations," the demon turned his head, returning to human form from the dissipating black particles, "you don't have to face the choice of death; you can all survive."

"Hah?"

Gui She, who had forgotten the pain, immediately tried to punch him, but instead the opponent's staff suddenly protruded from his hand and struck Gui She's knee; the next moment he clutched his knee and howled on the ground.

"The precondition is not to attack me and others so lightly; if you don't obey, I will tie you up again, just as you did to me earlier." Aomo, who had lowered his staff to the ground, looked at Gui She and smiled slightly, then immediately looked at the tense Shijia and badger.

"However, we still need a proper explanation and talk to meet up with Chen and Peng."

"By the way, just curious, do you have any spare uniforms?"