Chapter 406: Apostle of Chaos

"Miss Ka Si Te Li Weng?!"

This name exploded in Lasi Tina's mind like a bolt from the blue. Hiding in the shadows of the corridor, her face instantly lost all color, and even her breathing stopped.

Ao Fei Ya Ka Si Te Li Weng!

Why is she here? And why is she with that commoner Yi La Na?!

Could it be... they are friends?

This thought made Lasi Tina feel like she had fallen into an ice cellar.

The two followers behind her were even more scared, their legs soft, almost collapsing to the ground.

They didn't care about the life or death of a commoner, but offending an Imperial Duke who truly held power would bury the future of their entire family!

They didn't even need Duke Ka Si Te Li Weng to speak; the lords of their lords would send their families out as political gifts at a cocktail party.

In a flash of lightning, a crazy thought occupied Lasi Tina's brain. A flash of ferocity crossed her face, and jealousy and fear intertwined into a vicious determination.

She suddenly took out the box wrapped in rune black cloth from the storage bag, her nails almost embedded in the wood, and used all her strength to lift the lid!

Since it's death either way—

It's better to take a gamble and make things completely big!

As long as things are big enough that even the Tower of the Great Sage can't cover them, the small matter of offending Miss Ka Si Te Li Weng won't count for anything.

Of course, it would be even better if this blind Duke's daughter died here!

There was no earth-shattering roar, only a darkness that seemed to be able to swallow all light, sliding out quietly from the box like a poisonous snake.

That black fog did not spread at all, but like having life, it drilled into the stone walls and ground of the labyrinth silently.

Before Lasi Tina could recover from what had happened, the entire labyrinth groaned in pain like a giant beast that had eaten something bad in the next second!

On the stone walls, countless blood-red patterns suddenly protruded like ferocious blood vessels, and pulsed like living pulses!

"Saint Xisi is above! This, what happened?!" Ha De, who was following Ao Fei Ya, had his voice changed by fright.

Only to see the surrounding walls seem to have turned into the flesh and blood of living things in an instant, squirming nauseatingly!

Dark red ominous fog seeped out from every stone crack, thread by thread, filling the entire corridor with a decaying fishy smell.

The pile of broken ice crystals on the ground began to melt, then emitted black death energy, merging into the eerie red fog.

They turned into nutrients for the labyrinth and began to hatch new Wailers!

Bei En swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and his voice answered tremblingly.

"Don't know... I feel... the walls... seem to be moving!"

"Run! Something is wrong here!" Before she could explain the ins and outs of the matter to Yi La Na, Ao Fei Ya made a decisive decision, grabbed her wrist, turned around, and ran away.

Bei En and Ha De quickly recovered and followed behind this little ancestor; they didn't dare to let anything happen to her in the labyrinth.

Otherwise, even if Prince Prince Prince Kelin forgave them, Duke Ka Si Te Li Weng would definitely tear them apart!

At the same time, Lasi Tina and her companions also fell into the panic caused by themselves, screaming and wanting to escape.

However, behind them, in that viscous dark red fog, a group of twisted figures emerged silently like monsters infiltrating from a nightmare, completely cutting off their retreat!

That was a group of humanoid monsters twisted to the extreme.

Their body structures were completely asymmetrical, and their limbs were of different lengths as if spliced at will. The skin was dead gray-black, with a texture like soaked wet mud.

They had no eyes, no nose, and the only organ on their faces was a mouth that was always wide open but could not make any sound.

Wailers!

Lasi Tina's face changed completely, turning into boundless fear.

She had only seen the description of this monster in a forbidden book; it was said that they were the servants of Awa Nuo, the Crown of Arrogance!

Unlike the "Fanatics" and "Mad Talkers" born from people's own inner demons in the main world, this group of twisted monsters came entirely from the demons of the outer domain!

But—

Why did they appear here?

She couldn't figure out why the magic device she bought for thirty gold coins would have anything to do with Chaos!

"Ah—!"

Anjie let out a heart-piercing scream; the fear of the unknown made her legs soft, and the corrosion in the red fog tore at the little sanity she had left.

She completely regretted it.

She regretted that she shouldn't have offered any plans to please Lasi Tina, and even more shouldn't have racked her brains to approach Yi La Na just to drag an innocent person into the water.

But it was too late to say anything now.

Driven by the instinct to survive, a flash of ferocity like a poisonous snake flashed in Lasi Tina's eyes, and she cast her gaze on a certain waste who only knew how to scream.

Keeping this guy is also a burden; it's better to let her hold off this group of monsters for her!

"... Anjie, help me one last time!" she said in a voice close to a whisper, while extending the trembling wand in her hand.

"La, Miss Lasi Tina?!"

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Anjie, who was in a panic, hadn't reacted yet when she suddenly felt her back being pushed hard by a huge force!

Then, her whole body stumbled forward uncontrollably, falling straight toward that group of monsters approaching silently!

Anjie looked back in horror, but what she saw were three cold and decisive faces.

Her "good friends" had no nostalgia at all, and didn't even look at her again, then turned and fled in another direction like crazy.

Despair instantly drowned Anjie.

In her field of vision, only those monsters with silent giant mouths remained, walking closer and closer to her with staggering steps...

"Ahhhh!!!" Anjie let out a collapsing howl, like a deflated balloon; besides screaming and rolling, she had no other way.

Watching that group of Wailers about to surround her silently, a corrosion that reached deeper into the soul than pure darkness found her first.

Generally speaking—

Chaos rarely chooses waste as a pawn.

However, Awa Nuo is an exception.

A waste without a bit of self in her mind, after her only faith collapses or is disillusioned, is simply the best puppet for the "Dominator" who is chosen!

She will become a "Fanatic"!

And obey the Dominator who manipulates her, until the last ember of life and soul is burned out.

Anjie, sitting paralyzed on the ground, stiffened, her eyes rolled back, and the last gleam in her pupils dissipated completely, becoming like a marionette with its soul drawn out.

Immediately after, her slightly fat body expanded crazily at an incredible speed, and her flesh and bones made a sound that made teeth ache!

In the blink of an eye, a bloated and deformed flesh giant almost filled half the corridor, and the neck piled with fat was like a giant worm.

'Do you know why you are so painful?'

'Because of betrayal!'

"The kind-hearted and harmless Miss Anjie trusted her master so much, yet her master coldly and ruthlessly betrayed her loyalty."

'Now, go take revenge.'

'In my name—'

'Toward everyone!'

Hatred surged like a tide, completely drowning the last trace of sanity in Anjie's heart; she thought of Yi La Na who snatched her opportunity with her beauty, Prince Prince Kelin who looked at her with lecherous eyes, Professor He Ke Tuo who was full of evil, and Master Moke who deliberately tripped her to attract her attention.

Of course—

What made her even angrier was Lasi Tina.

She had clearly dedicated all her dignity to Miss Lasi Tina, yet the latter didn't have a trace of hesitation when facing danger, pushing her into the abyss of nightmare.

If there was no power, she would probably endure it, or vent this evil fire on the younger students who were far weaker than her.

But unfortunately—

The evil spirit of the outer domain had set its sights on her; she was now awesome, and even had the confidence to knock Prince Prince Kelin down with one punch—although she wouldn't be so wasteful.

Reborn Anjie looked at her bloated and powerful body with satisfaction, shook off the mucus on her body, and cast her gaze toward the corridor not far away.

That was the direction Lasi Tina fled.

She grinned, squeezed past the Wailers who feared her, and chased after Lasi Tina in the direction she fled with heavy steps.

"What an ugly thing." A Li Si Te, silent in the darkness, narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at his work, but a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes.

The gray fog floating beside him just smiled and said slowly.

"The power of faith was perfectly injected and transformed into power; it promoted a waste to the Bai Yin Tier in one go... isn't this quite perfect?"

A Li Si Te snorted coldly and didn't speak, just stared straight at Ao Fei Ya who had returned, a smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

Never mind—

Anyway, his purpose was just to borrow a knife to kill someone; let this fat pig make a big scene, and then die carrying all the blame.

"Roar—!"

A deafening roar echoed in the labyrinth corridor, just like a crazy wild boar.

"What the hell is that!"

Lasi Tina's follower looked back and saw the flesh giant chasing after them, scared out of her wits, screaming and shooting several spells.

However, those fireballs and wind blades hit the monster, just like small stones thrown into a mud pond, only splashing a few ripples.

The monster grinned, not caring at all; a palm as huge as a cattail fan waved casually, and the violent palm wind easily slapped away the fragile magic, and by the way, slapped a female mage away like a broken doll, hitting the wall and fainting.

"Go to hell! Monster!" Taking advantage of the momentary pause in its movements, another female mage roared and sacrificed the magic scroll tied to her waist.

The golden light formed a net in mid-air, and just as a golden holy sword was about to condense, it was extinguished by a mouthful of old phlegm that flew over.

"Hiss—!"

Corrosive acid drenched the female mage; she screamed and covered her face, but the more she rubbed, the more miserable it became; before long, that face turned into bloody white bones.

Licking her lips with her tongue, Anjie let out an excited wild laugh in her mouth, as if her great revenge had been avenged. She then looked at Lasi Tina, rushed up with big strides, and desire for blood and revenge flashed in her two round pupils.

"Don't come over!" Lasi Tina was completely panicked, screaming and waving her wand, but before she could finish chanting the spell, a huge impact hit her abdomen, piercing through the protection set by the Bai Yin Tier magic accessory with the momentum of breaking through rotten wood!

"Crack—!"

The sound of the barrier breaking came!

Lasi Tina, who was punched in the abdomen, widened her eyes, and her eyeballs almost fell out of their sockets; she vomited blood and flew out, hitting the wall not far away hard.

"Boom—!"

Every inch of air in her lungs was squeezed out; Lasi Tina felt her internal organs seem to be out of place, and fishy sweet blood surged from the corners of her mouth.

"Giggle..." The monster let out a creepy laugh, deliberately slowed down its walking pace, and approached her.

Through that twisted face of flesh and blood, Lasi Tina vaguely felt familiar, and spat out half a sentence with a trembling voice.

"An... Jie?"

Hearing this name, the monster obviously reacted, and the raised corners of its mouth cracked even wider.

Seeing that the monster in front of her was indeed Anjie, Lasi Tina felt both fear and excitement in her heart. She struggled to straighten her body, as if she had grabbed a straw to survive, looked at the monster walking toward her step by step, and said in a pleading tone.

"Anjie! It's me! Lasi Tina... don't you recognize me? You... how did you become like this."

How did you become like this...

The monster, whose mood was originally quite peaceful, became even more twisted the moment it heard this sentence.

"Why... did I... become... like this..."

Intermittent sounds came from that bloated throat; it stared at the "friend" whose face had completely lost its color, just like a ghost from hell.

"Could it be... that it wasn't you... who made me become like this?"

Lasi Tina was completely stunned.

Before she could recover, a palm the size of a sand pot slammed into her right cheek, slapping her whole body away along with her fallen teeth.

Obviously, the monster didn't want to kill her so simply, intending to play with her for a while before sending her on her way.

Just at the critical moment when Lasi Tina's consciousness was blurred and she thought she was bound to die, a violent explosion suddenly came from behind the monster!

"Boom—!"

The violent shockwave sent the flesh giant staggering, and also made it stop its fatal attack, turning angrily toward the direction the attack came from.

Lasi Tina, paralyzed on the ground, caught a glimpse with her last remaining strength that the person standing there was Yi La Na; she, who had been abandoned by herself in the labyrinth, had not fled or hidden, but had killed her way back.

And beside her, there were Miss Ao Fei Ya and two other strange male apprentices; at this moment, they were standing in the choking dust, coughing.

"Actually... unscathed?"

Ao Fei Ya stared fixedly at the flesh giant who had only been pushed back a few steps and didn't have a single scratch on its body, her face full of disbelief.

Ha De and Bei En were the same, both with expressions of having seen a ghost.

"What the hell is this guy?"

"Could it be... a Chosen One of Chaos?!" Realizing this, their faces instantly became even uglier; that was simply not an existence that a few magic apprentices like them could deal with!

Not only did the flesh giant cast its creepy gaze toward them, but the surrounding Wailers also gathered around one after another.

These guys drilled out from the dark red walls that rose and fell like pulses, approaching them like unconscious zombies, as if they were endless.

The situation was critical; Ao Fei Ya hardened her heart, gritted her teeth, and took out another thick stack of magic scrolls from her storage ring!

On those snow-white scrolls, the incantation of the "Explosive Thermal Pressure Bomb" was drawn with alchemical ink, and each one exuded an energy fluctuation that made people palpitate.

Since one is not enough—

Then ten together!

Seeing Ao Fei Ya's action of pulling out the scrolls, Ha De and Bei En's faces instantly turned pale as paper, screaming and trying to stop her.

"Miss Ka Si Te Li Weng, no!"

"The labyrinth can't withstand such power! If used together, this place will collapse!"

"That's just right!" Ao Fei Ya had a crazy smile on her face, tearing open the scrolls in her hand and throwing them forward.

"Get out—of this world! Monster!"

The world seemed to have been pressed the mute button at this moment.

A fire-red ball of light, dazzling enough to burn the surrounding air, expanded instantly ten meters in front of her!

Anjie was stunned.

When facing that hot energy, its crazy eyes flashed with fear for the first time, and it moved its bloated body, preparing to flee.

However, just at this moment, a roar enough to tear the eardrums exploded, swallowing it along with the surrounding Wailers and even the corridor under its feet!

"Boom—!!!"

The violent energy collapsed the walls, tore the floor, and melted the ceiling!

Even the magic apprentices and assistants far away in the first and second layers were shaken and almost fell to the ground.

"What happened?!" Ku Er Si, wrapped in a blanket, raised his head in panic, looking around, and finally cast his pleading gaze toward the assistant beside him.

However, the faces of the two young assistants were also covered with dark clouds, their right hands gripping their wands tightly, the tips of the wands trembling slightly.

"Saint Xisi is above..."

"That's at least Bai Yin Tier... no, maybe it's Gold Tier magic!"

The middle-aged assistant frowned.

Compared to the explosion itself, what worried him more was that he smelled a trace of ominous aura from the hot dust.

That was something from many years ago.

A catastrophe called Chaos once swept through the barren snowfields, and it was only after the Great Sage personally took action that the chaos was brought to an end...

On the other side, the center of the explosion.

Lasi Tina couldn't react at all, felt a pain in her neck, and fainted unconscious.

Also fainting were her other two teammates.

And on the other side, a milky white light lit up in the center of the explosion, shrouding Ao Fei Ya and the three teammates beside her.

That light was emitted from the necklace on Ao Fei Ya's chest.

Her father, Duke An De Lie, handed this necklace to her before she set off, and told her to carry it with her and not to take it off no matter what happened.

Now she was just glad that she followed her father's advice...

Anjie, who was in the center of the explosion, let out a painful howl; all the flesh and blood on its body were like being splashed with burning asphalt!

It was not a true Chosen One of Chaos after all, just a puppet manipulated by the Dominator, with strength no more than above Bai Yin Tier and below Gold Tier!

No matter what, that was not destructive power it could withstand...

The aftermath of the explosion gradually dissipated, and the scene was a mess. Broken stones and broken walls piled up like mountains, and the air was filled with pungent smoke and dust.

The floor of the third layer of the labyrinth was completely damaged, forming a downward slope, and the area below happened to be near the core of the fourth layer of the labyrinth.

Perhaps in order to make the corrosion of Chaos as close to the labyrinth core as possible, someone hiding in the dark deliberately chose the battlefield here.

Using his bewitching whispers.

In the center of the ruins, the flesh giant transformed by Anjie lay on the ground, its huge body shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the black aura of Chaos dissipated thread by thread like steam.

She was already on her last breath.

Limping through the dust, Yi La Na, holding her wand, walked step by step to her former companion. She had noticed it just now; that twisted face was so familiar, especially those eyes, which were simply carved from the same mold as Anjie.

"Anjie... is it you?" Yi La Na's voice was trembling, and there was a slight sob, "Why... did it become like this?"

Ao Fei Ya told her everything and apologized sincerely, saying she had messed up and should have told her the truth earlier, instead of really letting her friend be in danger for the sake of adventure.

Yi La Na didn't blame her; people have times when they are immature.

It was just that she still found it hard to accept deep down that the friend she had been with day and night had been acting from the beginning, and everything was just to make her relax her vigilance...

The twisted monster's face showed rare shame and pain; it avoided Yi La Na's gaze, its voice weak and hoarse: "I... I don't know... but... it's too late... I don't pray for your forgiveness, I only beg you, give me a quick end..."

"No!" Yi La Na refused almost without thinking, blurting out, "There must be a way, as long as we find Master Moke—"

"Why don't you understand!" Anjie seemed to be stung in her most fragile nerve, suddenly breaking down and screaming, "This is the pollution of Chaos! Can't you see it?! Becoming this ghost-like me, I can't go back! Do you have to make me lose face again in front of everyone?!"

That shrill scream was like a groundhog stepped on its tail, and tears mixed with black dirty blood slid down her face.

In order to enrage Yi La Na and let this guy take action, she collapsed and roared everything out.

"Don't you understand?! I was instigated by Lasi Tina! I never treated you as a friend at all! And just now, leaving you alone in the labyrinth was also intentional! Didn't expect it, we planned it a month ago!"

Ao Fei Ya, who had long known all this, walked silently to Yi La Na's side and gently held her cold little hand.

Yi La Na listened quietly to all of Anjie's venting, a trace of unspeakable sadness surging in her green eyes.

However, her voice remained firm and was not shaken by this.

"Even so, I still beg you to calm down and go out with us..."

Anjie screamed wildly in collapse.

"Enough! Put away your hypocritical kindness! I will never go with you! You have to make me do it, right? Very good! You just wait there, wait until I recover—"

"This is not hypocrisy, nor is it kindness." Yi La Na interrupted it seriously, her clear voice resounding in the ruins, "But we must let people know the truth, dig out the truth that has not yet seen the light! And find out who it was that handed this power that doesn't belong to you into your hands..."

She took a deep breath and shouted at the lump of meat fallen in the dust with a voice more intense than ever before.

"How many more times—"

"Last time it was the apprentices who carried everything, this time it's also the apprentices, right! How many more apprentices have to carry the blame that doesn't belong to them!"

"Are we here at the Mage Tower to pursue truth, or to serve as pawns on the chessboard, playing that power game that isn't fun at all!"

"Answer me! Anjie! Do you think such a result is acceptable!"

That deafening voice shocked everyone present.

Ha De and Bei En opened their mouths wide, looking at this usually quiet classmate in disbelief, not expecting her to speak in such a tone.

Even Ao Fei Ya, who often discussed math problems with her, was also looking at her with a surprised gaze, as if she had re-recognized this girl who looked weak and wind-blown.

Anjie couldn't speak either; its body, which was collapsing, trembled violently, and timid emotions dominated its body.

"But... what else can we do... no one will be willing to help me..."

"There is one person who can."

Yi La Na paused, a light called truth flashing in her eyes.

"If it's Prince Prince Prince Kelin, he will definitely be able to see through the ghosts behind the fog, even if everyone is acquiescing or pretending to be stupid."

This name made Anjie's body shake.

However, it was also this name that stimulated someone standing in the shadows.

A slow voice, like a cold wind, suddenly blew from the shadows beside them.

Vaguely, Yi La Na heard a creaking sound, but it was not the friction of undead bones, but the grinding of teeth of jealousy.

"... She said she couldn't go back, why don't you listen to the opinion of your 'good friend'?"

Everyone felt a chill in their hearts and looked toward the direction the sound came from in unison, but when they saw the person coming, they widened their eyes in unison.

Only to see a mage wearing a dark blue mage robe standing there.

His figure was thin, with silver hair groomed meticulously and a neatly trimmed goatee, and a monocle on the bridge of his nose; he looked refined and polite.

No one expected to see him here, and even less expected that he would walk out of that black curtain at this time and choose to show his cards.

"Professor A Li Si Te?!" Bei En and Ha De exclaimed, while Ao Fei Ya, standing beside Yi La Na, was pale, her hands and feet cold.

As a member of the Ka Si Te Li Weng family, she, who had been influenced since childhood, could instinctively think of what it meant when a black hand hiding behind the scenes came to the front of the stage.

Either that person was ready for the curtain call, or they had played their last card and were ready to flip the table.

"Congratulations, the answer is correct... unfortunately, there is no reward."

A Li Si Te nodded politely to everyone, like an elegant professor commenting on students' homework in the classroom.

However, immediately after, this gentle professor used that ordinary tone to say words that made everyone feel like they had fallen into an ice cellar.

"To be honest, this farce has been performed until now, and it has already made me feel a little bored." He smiled and looked around at the ruins, sighing softly, "If I had known things would turn out like this, it would have been better for me to take action personally from the beginning... a group of guys who fail more than they succeed."

The moment the voice fell, he raised his right hand casually and pointed his index finger forward through the air lightly.

No incantation, no appearance of a magic circle, not even a trace of mana fluctuation!

Ao Fei Ya only felt her heart being gripped hard by an invisible hand; before she could react, she heard a crisp "crack"!

Only to see that on her chest, the necklace that her father, Duke Ka Si Te Li Weng, had personally put on for her, actually appeared with spider-web-like cracks out of thin air, and then turned into powder!

Ao Fei Ya subconsciously wanted to take out the magic scroll for saving her life from the space ring.

However, to her horror, the connection of mental power between her and the storage ring was actually cut off by an irresistible force!

"What did you do?!" Ao Fei Ya was both surprised and angry, holding Yi La Na's hand, and stepped back trembling.

The smile on A Li Si Te's face did not change at all, and he did not explain, as if he had just done a trivial little thing.

"Remember to carry life-saving things on you next time... although there won't be a next time."

His index finger flicked lightly, and the thick red fog gathered in his palm, turning into threads and shooting toward everyone's hearts.

This was his second set of plans.

If the dark cards deployed in the labyrinth were not enough to kill the lucky Miss Ka Si Te Li Weng, then he would personally take the field to clear out this Duke's daughter and everyone around her, and package them as dying at the hands of Chaos.

The scapegoats were still Lasi Tina and Anjie; they had the motive to commit the crime and the reason to be targeted by Chaos...

Of course, he would repent painfully in front of the Great Sage—

He came late.

Just at this critical moment, a colorful butterfly suddenly broke into everyone's sight.

It flapped its iridescent wings, like a creature that did not belong to this labyrinth, and flew in leisurely through the labyrinth wall.

A Li Si Te was stunned for a moment, and a trace of ominous feeling suddenly surged in his heart; he actually couldn't read the root of that power.

Before he could react, a slender figure flashed at the position where the butterfly danced and appeared in front of everyone silently.

Thousands of threads seemed to hit a clear and transparent mirror surface, and were cut off hard by an invisible curse.

He just stood there casually, as if suppressing an entire piece of chaotic space, destroying all fear and evil thoughts.

The person who came was Prince Prince Prince Kelin.

He came just right.

Including Yi La Na and Ao Fei Ya, all the magic apprentices present almost revealed hopeful light in their eyes in unison!

And that expression of being saved made A Li Si Te jealous to the point of madness.

"This farce should indeed come to an end, Mr. A Li Si Te."

Looking at the mage with cold eyes, Luo Yan's mouth curled into a faint arc, and he said in a slow voice.

"However, as for how it will end, that's not up to you." ===== CHAPTER 407 =====