Chapter 532: An innocent man is innocent, but holding a treasure is a crime

An innocent man is innocent, but holding a treasure is a crime.

"... You're lying. Lele'er hasn't died. I can feel that she is still alive. You don't need to bluff me."

?

Dezel only had one soul left, and it could actually feel Lele'er's life and death?

Why was this?

Just because they were of the same branch and were both scions of 【Prosperity】?

The feeling of being exposed to one's face was very bad, but at this moment, it didn't matter whether he was exposed or not, because Cheng Shi had already achieved the effect he wanted—the opponent was panicked.

Even if Dezel knew Cheng Shi was lying, it was still panicked. This meant its situation was very bad; it didn't want to, or even couldn't, run into an existence at the same level as itself, especially someone who knew about the fall of 【Prosperity】!

This made it very passive!

The 【Gift of Scars】 it had turned into couldn't be as free as a true Messenger's soul. Now it could only play the role of a mysterious existence in front of players who knew nothing, using "deception" to constantly complete its layouts and plans, hoping to find a host that could help it "resurrect."

But now it had run into a more brilliant liar. These two clearly knew nothing about each other, but Cheng Shi managed to act out a profound appearance of "I know you very well, but you know nothing about me."

Originally, this kind of disguise was hard to be effective in front of a Messenger, because players knew too little about them and lacked sufficient information to support it.

But Cheng Shi was different. Although he didn't know much about the gods, he happened to know enough about 【Prosperity】. He had heard too many stories about 【Prosperity】 from their mouths and had even witnessed the fall of 【Prosperity】 with his own eyes.

Therefore, the moment he faced Dezel, the scales of fate had already been filled with weights on Cheng Shi's side!

In this game of "lies," he couldn't possibly lose!

Cheng Shi smiled. He didn't refute Dezel's exposure, just smiled wickedly.

But with this smile, Dezel was even more panicked.

If it were just an ordinary player in front of it, it would only think the opponent had fallen into a delusion because they found it. But if the opponent were a so-called 【Prosperity】 hunter who knew everything...

"..."

Can't sit and wait for death!

Dezel moved. It couldn't run away, but it could use its remaining divine power to attack Cheng Shi. As long as it eliminated this "hunter," the current crisis would still have a turning point.

And the reason the 【Gift of Scars】 was called the "Gift of Scars" was because Dezel could still use the power of 【Decay】 to corrupt targets while absorbing the opponent's vitality to nourish itself.

It was just that as a trapped soul, every time it activated this power, it would wear down its sanity and memory, so it rarely used this power. That was also why it chose a priest who wasn't so aggressive as its first host!

During the time it traveled with Nangong, it only absorbed and didn't consume, so much so that by now, it possessed a very vast power of 【Decay】 that it could use.

Thus, it decided to settle life and death in one strike!

Cheng Shi wasn't a fool. He had thought that the opponent would attack, but he hadn't expected the timing of the opponent's attack to be so... rotten.

Who attacks in the middle of a conversation?

The best time to catch an enemy off guard is while talking. Thinking and communicating divert a person's attention, making it hard for the enemy to defend, and it's easier to succeed if you strike then.

But once the enemy is idle, besides defending, what else can they do?

Cheng Shi was like this. He had been defending against Dezel's underhanded tricks, keeping his heartstrings taut even while intimidating and lying. He thought he could at least dodge the opponent's sneak attack, but...

He knew nothing about power...

The 【Gift of Scars】 was, after all, a dagger turned from a Messenger. The power of 【Decay】 contained within it was too vast, especially under Dezel's nourishment of only taking in and not giving out; its lethality had reached a very terrifying level.

And this led to Cheng Shi defending, but not defending at all.

He saw the dagger suddenly open an eye, and then the entire dagger turned into a vine that spread and grew from under Nangong. And as these vines trembled and grew upward, fruits of 【Decay】 grew on the branches.

They were called fruits, but in reality, these things looked more like eyes!

However, unlike the mother of 【Prosperity】, these eyes weren't bright and spirited; instead, one or two of them looked like melted wax eyes hanging crookedly. And when all the drooping wax eyes opened simultaneously in a bizarre way, countless strands of gray-white light shot out instantly and hit Cheng Shi. These gray lights even turned into withered vines of 【Decay】 and bound him to the spot!

No one knew that this dagger wasn't just a simple violent output weapon, but a terrifying and shocking control prop. Even though it had abandoned 【Prosperity】, Dezel still inherited the appearance of 【Prosperity】. Even though these branches, which should have been emerald green vines, had turned into gray-white, rotten withered vines, the form was correct, and it was of the same lineage.

Cheng Shi was hit. The vast power of 【Decay】 instantly rotted his skin and flesh, decayed his spirit, and the rays that devoured vitality were like scraping knives of slow execution, shaving away his vitality piece by piece. In the blink of an eye, Cheng Shi became honest.

He was shocked, then... slightly shocked, and finally, his heart was as calm as water.

"..."

Because he suddenly discovered that in the face of this terrifying slow execution of vitality... he simply wouldn't die.

The authority of "Vitality"!

This power of authority, which came from Dezel's mother, was currently protecting Cheng Shi like a true mother, sparing him from the attacks of her own child!

How absurd this scene was if told to others, so much so that Cheng Shi almost laughed out loud.

The dead 【Prosperity】 finally stopped chasing him, but she was still "abusing" her own child.

He didn't know what Dezel would think after seeing this scene...

What would it think?

It was crazy!

Dezel was crazy!

It couldn't believe at all that it could see the authority of 【Prosperity】 on someone else!

The 【Gift of Scars】 was, after all, a creation of 【Decay】. One could tell from the name that what it brought to others was always 【Decay】, not 【Death】.

It could bring endless 【Decay】 to people, making enemies look like withered bones, and then let the host holding it kill the target. This was also the reason why all assassins coveted it, because it was too easy to use!

However, when its host was asleep because of the smoke, and its target had the authority of 【Prosperity】 buried in their body, what else could Dezel do?

Besides incompetent rage, what else could it do!?

"Impossible! Fake! It's all fake! She couldn't possibly share her authority with others!

She is 【Prosperity】, she is 【Prosperity】 who covets the universe and assimilates everything!

Even if she dies, she couldn't possibly share a shred of authority with others!!"

"..." ===== CHAPTER 533 =====