Chapter 2409: The Evil God's Faithful Love 14

At the same time, at the far end of the silent ice plain, the distant northern territories.

In the deepest part of the castle, Jin Chen sat cross-legged on the ground at ease.

Obscure energy fluctuations surrounded him, and he wondered if his primal Spiritual Power could merge with this world's Light Divine Power.

But it was somewhat difficult.

As Jin Chen prepared to increase his strength, he suddenly saw a figure appear in the howling wind and snow outside the castle.

【Eh, how could someone come to this place?】 Ling Gun Gun also exclaimed.

Jin Chen instantly restrained his aura, flashed, and appeared outside the castle's majestic Main Gate, covered in ice spikes.

On the snow-covered wasteland before the castle, a figure was trudging with difficulty.

Only then did Jin Chen realize that it was not a human, but an extraordinarily mighty lion.

……But it was also strange that the lion could get in.

Jin Chen covertly observed, condensing divine power at his fingertips, contemplating whether to kill it.

The lion stopped ten steps away from Jin Chen, its massive head lowered, emitting a low, weary and reverent roar.

Immediately, under Jin Chen's puzzled gaze, the lion's thick fur receded, transforming into an unusually tall and stalwart lion beastman.

His bare upper body was covered in wind frost and minor scars, with only an animal pelt wrapped around his lower body.

Jin Chen asked, "Who are you?"

The lion beastman dropped to his knees in the most devout posture, his amber beastly vertical pupils filled with utter despair.

"Great…… Dark Overlord……"

His voice hoarse and rough, "I am the high priest of the beastmen, Lai Ang."

Lai Ang never expected to truly find the Dark Overlord; after his excitement, he pulled from his bosom a small box carved from black beast bone.

He trembled as he opened the box, inside which lay a ring quietly.

The ring's face was an uncut peculiar crystal.

Jin Chen looked at the ring, then froze.

"……Where did you get this?"

How does this ring contain my primal Spiritual Power!

Lai Ang held the box with both hands, raised it high above his head, and pleaded with tears of blood.

"According to our tribe's oldest holy stone carvings…… a thousand years ago, when the beastmen faced extinction, even the Light abandoned us…… it was you, Great Dark Overlord, who saved us."

"You once promised that if one day the beastmen again faced a catastrophe that even the Light God could not save…… we could use this token to awaken you, who slumbers in the northern territories, and beg for your aid!"

Jin Chen:???

【……Well.】 Ling Gun Gun flipped through the original plot back and forth, 【This part isn't there!】

Jin Chen tilted his head, stared at the ring, feeling the same-origin aura within, his confusion…… really great.

He reached out, snatched the ring into his palm from afar.

But regarding the ring, the promise, the beast priest's mention of a thousand years ago.

The original body's memory had none, not a trace, and he himself didn't remember either.

"You…… sure?" Jin Chen asked again.

Seeing Jin Chen accept the ring, Lai Ang felt hope and hastily took from his beast-skin pouch an ancient scroll, its edges worn and curled.

He trembled as he unfurled the scroll on the cold snow.

On the scroll, a very crude picture was drawn:

A huge dark shadow shrouded the sky, driving away the terrifying monsters that devoured the beastmen tribes.

Below, the beastmen prostrated themselves on the ground, offering sacrifices to the shadow.

One of them clearly depicted Jin Chen giving the ring to the beastman priest.

Jin Chen could not help but believe the authenticity of this record.

Well, we can only set aside the memory issue for now.

As a proper Dark God, not remembering what he did would be embarrassing if spoken aloud.

"Get up and speak." Jin Chen's voice softened somewhat, "What has befallen the beastmen?"

Lai Ang rose, his tall frame trembling slightly in the cold wind, "Deep in our Emerald Forest…… a terrifying monster has appeared."

"It feeds on the souls and flesh of our beastmen, and several tribes have already been slaughtered to extinction."

"But…… outside the forest, those Temple Knights and noble private soldiers flying the Light banner have long been slaughtering half-beasts in horrifying numbers! Now…… even we purebred beastmen of ancient blood are not spared."

"They regard us as heretics and monsters, massively rounding us up, massacring, using our heads…… to exchange for the Temple's bounties and to prove their pious faith!"

Jin Chen: "……"

Very good.

He again cursed Ze Fei Luo Si.

"Follow me." Jin Chen turned and entered the heavy castle Main Gate.

He brought Lai Ang through the empty, cold corridors to a room filled with weapon racks, gesturing for Lai Ang to pick at will.

Lai Ang looked reverently at the weapons imbued with strong dark power.

Jin Chen also casually took a crystal ball resembling a dark purple nebula from the stone pedestal in the corner and threw it to Lai Ang.

"This crystal ball contains my power; at critical moments, it can help you repel the monster's corruption and temporarily intimidate those so-called Light minions."

Jin Chen lifted the black cloth; the box was full of such crystal balls.

Lai Ang's scalding tears burst from his beast eyes, mixing with the frost on his face as they slid down.

He again knelt heavily, "The beastmen will forever remember your grace."

Seeing off the thousands of thanks, he transformed back into a male lion, and Lai Ang bounded toward the depths of the wind and snow with hope.

Jin Chen returned alone to the empty room.

He sat on the cold throne, his fingertips unconsciously rubbing the ring.

"I feel like I'm a sponge."

Ling Gun Gun briefly lifted his head from the original plot, and casually replied: 【Very… yellow?】

Jin Chen: "……"

Jin Chen flicked its forehead.

"Squeeze the memories, and they're all gone."

Ling Gun Gun sighed, also feeling strange, sitting together with the host, 【Yeah, why… huh, you previously did the counterattack mission, could you have come here before?】

Jin Chen also thought so, but the problem is…… he doesn't remember.

He turned his head and saw that in the formation, his original Spiritual Power and the light divine power actually blended very well.

Jin Chen pondered.

Then he gave up.

When in doubt, sleep first.