Chapter 3686: Death, Fate, and Angels

Compared to the clone, the main body's appearance had not changed, but anyone could see that the power of Mr. Snake standing in front of the temple at this moment was far from what that clone just now could compare to. He was like a black hole absorbing light, like the incarnation of destruction, like a mass of black fog that could never be seen clearly, and like a giant snake that could open its mouth to swallow the world at any time:

"I have not completely escaped, and my appearance at this moment is nothing more than a momentary performance."

The broken sword in the clone's corpse's hand was recovered by him and tucked into the waist of his robe. Compared to that clone just now, the "Mr. Snake" of the main body was not only more strange and powerful, but the slipperiness when speaking was also more obvious.

The snake pupils looked at Xia De:

"God-Awakener, very brilliant. Your preparations and arrangements are all very brilliant. I originally thought that the story I arranged for the fifth act was flawless, but I didn't expect that you could really find the antidote to the love curse."

There were so many people present, yet he only spoke to Xia De, not even looking at Stella, or the other four candidates who had returned from afar:

"The story has not yet reached the final act. You have already obtained the first kind of fate, and defeated the enemy I arranged for the story of the fifth act.

But I still stood directly in front of you. Although I cannot directly take action against the candidates, I already have the power to appear briefly at this moment. Tell me, what kind of fate can stop me this time?"

"You can only be considered an enemy in the final act."

"Yes, but on the stage of drama, can't the final enemy do some bad things before the final act begins to strengthen the protagonists' determination? For example, guess how many people I can kill tonight?"

The snake asked so. Xia De did not speak, but looked down at his own feet.

Thus, the snake-faced man also looked down at his own feet, and the others beside Xia De also made similar movements. When Shivi saw that the ground under her feet was somewhat reflective, she realized that the ground had become so flat at some point.

And what was reflecting was not the ground, but the calm water surface.

At some point, everyone and that temple were standing on the calm black water surface. The power of the relic 【Blurry Curtain】 seemed to have become a bit too powerful. The Ringed Shushi felt carefully again, clearly feeling...

"Death!"

Mr. Snake in front of the temple looked up and said. Along with his action of looking up, on the side of the temple and the crowd, a ray of moonlight in the distance pierced through the darkness.

The thick darkness that came because of the snake's power was quickly dissolved by the moonlight from afar. When people turned their heads to look to the side, the huge silver underworld moon had already risen from the distance of the dark water area. The moonlight illuminated the roof of the temple from afar, illuminated the side faces of Xia De and the people around him, but left Mr. Snake alone in the shadow in front of the temple building.

Silent, this place seemed to be eternal.

Clearly people could feel death, but it just so happened that the death here did not harm all the living people.

This was not Xia De's power, and all of this was not Xia De's handiwork. Grace and Helen, who had left, found the helper they should have found. From the front of that huge underworld moon on the side, a figure walked toward here.

That was not a departed soul, but also not a normal mortal object.

He had his back to that underworld moon, and the serene light depicted the outline of his body, but no one could see his specific appearance clearly. But everyone could see that as he walked over, the wings unfolding from behind him.

At first, he walked along the water surface, but as the wings spread, the figure came into the air in the silence. Most of the six wings behind him were already charred, but the halo appearing above his head, the horn appearing in his left hand, and the sickle appearing in his right hand all explained what he was.

Souls appeared around at some point. They did not approach this area with the temple and living people, but walked along the water surface from afar toward the underworld moon in the distance. After the souls bypassed this area, they merged again under the angel quietly floating in front of the underworld moon.

At this moment, his image could finally be seen by people. Under that angel halo was a charred skull face, and what he wore on his body was a tattered black robe.

This was not a phantom, and not a summoned object summoned out. The first angel created by the Ancient Gods, the angel who announced death and the end, floated in front of the underworld moon and looked at Mr. Snake. The doomsday fate that had briefly walked out of the temple no longer had the relaxed expression from just now:

"Angel who announces the arrival of doomsday, I have appeared, and you have indeed appeared as well. I was originally still wondering, in Mr. Ring's script, what would be arranged to stop my appearance this time, I didn't expect it to be you."

The snake spoke softly in an ancient language. He no longer cared about the people confronting him, turned and left the shadow, and also appeared under the underworld moon, still standing at the temple gate facing the angel.

"This is not Mr. Ring's script, this is the effort of mortals."

Xia De really wanted to tell that snake this, but he did not speak.

It seemed his guess was correct. The skeleton kept by the Old God-King of Graves really had extraordinary power. He originally only used "the priest obtaining the skeleton and displaying power in the life and death created by the Blurry Curtain" as a backup plan for the decisive battle against the "Lover." He didn't expect the Lover to be directly defeated by Iluna because of Ellie, and Mr. Snake appeared afterward.

There were too many coincidences and inevitabilities in this, so much so that even Xia De could not tell clearly whether Mr. Ring had arranged everything. While one side was strengthened, the other side would take out other means. In the end, it was still a confrontation between the strong, but at least at this moment, Xia De knew that his side still had the qualification to fight.

He did not know how long the priest could support this state now, but that snake that had not completely gotten rid of the seal clearly could not ignore this power.

The snake and the angel confronted each other in front of the underworld moon. Both sides did not make any movements, only the angel's six wings, most of which were charred, swayed slightly in the moonlight.

But the oppressive atmosphere and the collision of invisible power still made the people in front of the temple feel suffocated. The existences in the ancient myths had a brief confrontation that mortals could not understand in front of the underworld moon, and the snake did not seem to be at a disadvantage.

Thus, the angel looked at the water surface under his feet.

His halo formed a reflection on the black water surface. The black water surface would not have a shadow, but it just so happened that the golden halo left a silver shadow under the illumination of the underworld moon.

"Why didn't Ellie appear here... Where did the death curved arc in Ellie's hand go now?"

Stella suddenly had such a thought, and the silver ring-shaped shadow on the water surface had already completely covered the black curved arc submerged in the water at this moment. The Death Angel's ring overlapped with the death curved arc, and thus that silver light shadow flew out from under the water surface.

【Death】 was thus complete. The complete 【Ring of Death】 floated in front of the Death Angel. The silver ring was branded on the front of the tattered robe on the angel's body, and immediately the blade part of the black sickle held in the angel's right hand also turned into a color almost consistent with the underworld moon.

That was the fate of death, that was...

The sickle swung down—

"Destined Death!"

The angel did not speak, but this phrase appeared very clearly in everyone's heart.

The sickle in the angel's hand was not huge in size, but when it swung down, it seemed to be aimed at the entire world.

What happened afterward, except for Xia De, Iluna, and the Red Butterfly twins, no one had any memory. The swung sickle collided with the ring floating above Mr. Snake's main body. The calm death even trembled because of this, but it quickly returned to calm under the illumination of the underworld moon.

At the moment when people could realize the memory loss, the angel and the snake had already returned to the confrontation without any movement. The angel still held the sickle and horn, as if there had never been any movement, while Mr. Snake seemed to have stepped back two steps out of thin air, only his complexion had not changed at all.

"Do you want to fight the Death Angel who possesses Destined Death in true death?"

This question almost did not need to be thought about. Although the angel was not in a complete state, there were still mortal powerhouses here, and the "God-Awakener" was bathed in the light of the underworld moon, so it was hard to say whether he would display other powers.

The snake then decided to retreat actively. He reached out and waved, and the blade part of the black light sword that had been snapped by Xia De and did not know where it had fallen flew toward him from the distance. Although the blade was broken, there was still a chance for repair.

It was just that the unexpected black light pounced toward that blade like a hawk. The black crow descending from the sky accurately grabbed that half of the blade.

The crow spread its wings and flew to the other side of the temple, its scarlet eyes staring at that snake, and the snake also recognized what this was.

He looked at the angel, looked at the "crow," and then looked at the "God-Awakener," his eyes finally falling on the five candidates, with a smile on his face:

"Indeed brilliant, even I have to applaud for this.

It seems this is indeed not the time for me to show my face. The final act has not yet arrived. As an enemy who should only appear at the end of the play like me, even if I revealed my face, I really cannot do too many things. The God of Fate has arranged the script for everything, so be it, this appearance of mine is over."

He no longer cared about the two souls in that broken blade. The sword handle part transformed from the demon essence was after all still in his hand.

The snake had already understood the current situation. He retreated back into the shadow of the temple. Darkness shrouded his body, leaving only that pair of snake pupils still clearly visible. He asked Xia De again:

"God-Awakener, the current scene is already grand enough. Then at the end of this story, do I have the qualification to see your god?"

Xia De answered him:

"I think there is no need for the god to appear, mortals can make you disappear completely. There are three fates, and there are two acts left before the end. More fates will come as the times require. You can look forward to more mortals realizing their own fate and joining our team."

The snake seemed to be laughing, and the snake pupils also disappeared into the darkness. Amidst the strange hissing sound, that temple illuminated by the underworld moon disappeared like a pencil drawing erased by an eraser.

Mr. Snake left completely, so Xia De looked toward the direction of the angel and nodded slightly. Thus, the underworld moon in the distance fell back below the water surface, and the world returned to darkness.

And when the moonlight and starry sky of the real world shone on people again, their positions had returned to the rugged basin in that hidden area, and the pitted ground still retained the traces of the battle just now.

Crimson electric arcs jumped in the black puddles, the sounds of battle on the snowfield not far away gradually became clear, and the snowflakes that drifted down at some point fell on everyone's shoulders.

People who witnessed that scene just now did not speak immediately, while Stella noticed that Ellie, who seemed to have disappeared after handing the ring to Xia De just now, was running happily toward everyone in unicorn form at this moment.

"The battle of fate hasn't reached the end yet, and this kind of situation has already appeared?"

More than one person thought so at this moment. The witches were relieved, after all, no matter what, Mr. Snake was forced back, while the old man Zarathustra was thinking about the scene where the curved arc under the angel's feet turned into fate just now.

The two cultist candidates retreated silently. Having experienced what just happened, they had to pass the information out. Grace and Helen also left silently, after all, Xia De, the angel, and the crow had disappeared after the darkness retreated.

PS: Still brilliant, right... The end of this volume will be even more brilliant.

This volume of the priest's side story is considered over. There are still some loose ends at the doctor's side. After all, the book has reached the second half, and it is time to gradually reveal the information about the "Primordial Demon." ===== CHAPTER 3687 =====