Chapter 415

Xia De stood there dumbfounded looking at the water surface, and that beautiful human head had completely stuck to his back. Countless hands dripping with water grabbed the fate ring so that it would no longer rotate, and strips of legs imprisoned his body.

It was gradually wrapping around him, and its mouth whispered in Xia De's right ear:

"People call me 【Desire】, but you are..."

It got closer to Xia De, wanting to truly lie on Xia De's back, clinging to Xia De's ear and speaking intimately.

It was just that, accidentally looking at the pool of water with Xia De's eyes, in the picture, the silver-haired woman in the mirror was still blurry in Xia De's view, but the thing that claimed to be 【Desire】 lying behind Xia De actually saw the silver-haired woman in the mirror looking directly outside.

It also could not see the silver-haired woman's face clearly, but those eyes...

Xia De could not hear the sound, but it heard it. Those silver eyes stared outside the mirror, outside the water surface, staring at the human head behind Xia De:

【Only I can speak in this position.】

The ancient language represented true time. As if the wind from the distant past blew to the present, the ancient grammar crossing several eras made the woman's head recall the past in that ancient language that had not been heard for a long time, a very distant past, a past that had long been worn out for relics.

It was stunned.

And Xia De suddenly frowned, then turned his head to look back, staring at the human head's eyes at close range:

"Wait, you said I am a man, and you said I am a person of the Sixth Era?"

"What?"

The human head saw the wisdom brilliance representing normal thoughts in Xia De's eyes.

"I am of course a man, but the Old God told me that strictly speaking, it is not the Sixth Era now. Wait, so you don't even know this? Ha, I thought you were how powerful, I didn't expect that I was actually bluffed by you."

Speaking of this, Xia De, looking at those eyes, completely sobered up; he said very seriously to the human head behind him:

"Also, don't, don't speak in my ear."

Only then did he realize that he was entangled by that monster; after a little panic and nausea, he immediately understood what he had to do.

Behind him, the spiritual light of the silver-white 【Gluttony】 and the black-iron 【Greed】 almost fused into one. The high-temperature wheel ring spraying steam and rotating rapidly forced those hands to let go of the fate ring; at the same time, Xia De's right index finger pointed behind him:

"Silver Moon!"

In the narrow dark room, the extreme holy silver light erupted like the sun, and the legs that locked Xia De's body let go bit by bit.

Plop~

Xia De felt a lightness behind him, then heard the sound of a heavy object falling into the water, and noticed that the splashed water wet his pants. But he did not go to check the pool again, but took a step, from this end of the pool, directly to the door at the other end.

He wanted to rush out along the opened door, but the voice behind him stopped him. The head's voice was still sweet, but Xia De vaguely felt that it was a bit listless, but still asked like humming a song:

"You won, don't you want to know the method to obtain that golden pearl?"

Xia De did not even move; a string of water droplets flew from behind him, and in front of his eyes, they formed dense ancient letters.

During the "Sea Return" ritual, that golden pearl would be buried in the heart of that huge mermaid corpse that summoned the tsunami. A terrifying incantation could separate that pearl from the fish-man's abdominal cavity, and now this incantation was in front of Xia De.

"In that golden pearl, there is the power of gods, which is why I was sealed until now; those fish-men thought I was just a sea siren. It's just that if you dare to touch that thing, the god's gaze will look at you, the thief..."

She seemed to pause on purpose, and it took several seconds before she said:

"But if you can pollute the Sea Return ritual with blasphemous methods before touching the pearl, the god will not bother with you. After all, for a high-dimensional great being, it is not enough to disgust oneself for a thief."

Xia De wanted to speak, but immediately heard something fly out of the water, and then fall behind his feet.

Looking back, it was actually a small piece of fresh meat with red blood:

"What do you mean?"

"I said, as long as you look at me, I will give you the answer, and a gift. This is the gift."

In the pool, only the woman's head was exposed to the water surface. Now Xia De knew what was under the water surface, so there was no fantasy about the flesh.

"What is this?"

The woman lay by the pool and chuckled, reaching out one of her arms, letting Xia De see the bloody wound on it. The perfect skin and flesh were destroyed, but this increased the charm of that fair arm even more:

"Haven't you already guessed it? This is my flesh; eat it, and you will gain new power.

Your enemy is the fish-man, but are you sure you can beat them in the water? You are only at the second tier; I think even on land, you can't beat them, right? My flesh and blood can make you perfectly adapt to the environment in the water, increase your lifespan, and give you short-term powerful strength. Even... there are other permanent powers."

Xia De had heard the rumor that eating mermaid meat could lead to immortality many times in this world. But the mermaid race itself could not be immortal, and eating their meat certainly could not have any special power.

The relic claiming to be 【Desire】 in the pool did indeed look like a mermaid... a very strange mermaid. Eating its meat was equivalent to eating a part of the relic.

This kind of thing sounded quite crazy, but Xia De did not hesitate much.

Waking up from the true reflection of 【Desire】, although he did not gain power that could be revealed, the outsider felt a firmness he had never had before. He truly understood himself, understood his heart, which was more precious than any power.

The woman in his ear chuckled, and the woman in the pool also chuckled. The piece of meat by his feet was rapidly turning black and stinking; everything was decided by Xia De.

Enduring the nausea, he bent down and picked up the piece of fresh meat. This sticky thing was probably more disgusting than the most disgusting thing he had ever eaten, which was those frog materials.

"How is it?"

He asked in his heart.

【A polymer of pure elements and spirits; eating it will definitely affect your mental state.】

"How does it affect?"

【Cannot give you an answer.】

"Also, just now I saw in the pool..."

Only this thought carried a sense of shame.

【Outsider, I don't mind anything, including your suspicion of me all along.】

"What choice will your greed make? Or, will your courage make you try?"

The head of 【Desire】 looked at Xia De with a smile by the pool; if normal girls lay by the pool, they would be able to see fair shoulders. But this thing could only see that head:

"Do I need to swear to the Ancient God again, that there is no malice this time?"

Xia De weighed the piece of meat and answered in a very serious tone:

"Swearing is not necessary, but can courage and recklessness really be distinguished? No, in my opinion, the difference between the two lies only in what the final result is, not in what kind of status quo the judgment is based on."

His fingers slashed lightly, and the moonlight between his fingers shaved off a thin piece of meat. His control was not bad; that thin-as-cicada-wing piece of meat was even completely translucent, but it also allowed Xia De to see the muscle texture as fine as hair.

Carefully putting this thing into his mouth, the fishy and stinking taste immediately spread to the entire oral cavity. Xia De did not dare to chew to experience the taste, but swallowed it directly into his stomach.

Abundant spirits spread to every corner of his body; that wonderful powerful feeling was even more effective than the soup on the bone pirate ship.

"Can you make a further judgment?"

【No toxins, no curses, it can indeed temporarily provide you with the power of dark desire. But if you eat all the meat in your hand, even if you are in the state of divine radiance now, for at least a month, your various desires will be magnified.】

The woman in the pool did not urge Xia De; Xia De stood where he was and considered for a moment, closed his eyes, and stuffed all the meat he was holding into his mouth.

"Ugh~"

Swallowing it directly through his throat, subsequently, an intense feeling of vomiting made him tremble all over and kneel directly on the ground. One hand supported the ground, and one hand covered his chest. This feeling of vomiting was not just because of the terrible taste, but because when all those pieces of meat were swallowed, accompanied by the rapid accumulation of spirits in his body, the body seemed to have absorbed something from those pieces of meat.

The muscles all over his body tightened, blood vessels protruded, and it seemed like small worms were squirming under the skin. Pitch-black patterns centered on the stomach and spread to all parts of the body, as if Xia De's whole body was covered with black rune chains.

And besides the abnormality of the body, Xia De felt the world spinning at this moment, as if he had fallen into a bottomless dark abyss; while falling, various abnormal pictures, crazy illusions that even he was afraid of and addicted to, were displayed in front of him one by one.

His brain was completely unable to perceive the real reality; endless emptiness and crazy cravings urged him to get the things he wanted to get.

But the benefits of eating this lump of meat were also displayed at the same time; the fate ring that had just been retracted by Xia De automatically emerged behind him. It was just that accompanied by the gradual accumulation of black-iron spiritual light, no new spiritual runes were produced.

【Gluttony】 and 【Greed】 vaguely overlapped at this moment. The two-color spiritual light of the two was not intense, but had a kind of simple and heavy feeling.

Accompanied by Xia De's constant retching while supporting the ground, her voice appeared in his ear, and the whispering voice still carried a smile:

【In the pool of desire, you looked at me. Don't fear the dark desire; sin is also a part of you. What you devoured is the flesh and blood of desire, and what you got is the power you have not discovered.】

【Relic - Desire, gave you new power.】

The black light spread to the entire fate ring; that strange luster made the woman in the pool maintain a smiling expression, her eyes slightly narrowed:

"Sin..."

【Outsider, you have obtained the sorcery - Chain of Great Sins. The chain forged by your desire imprisons enemies with desires.】

The black light on the surface of the fate ring finally turned into black flames burning on the fate ring with the rotation of the brass wheel ring. This flame flowed from the fate ring to Xia De's body with the formation of the sorcery. The black patterns on the surface of the skin gradually overlapped with the flames, and accompanied by the sound of clanging, the materialized pitch-black chains appeared in Xia De's hands.

The sorcery 【Chain of Great Sins】 had a strange name, and it was actually not a sorcery corresponding to a single spiritual rune; the new sorcery was simultaneously related to the two spiritual runes 【Gluttony】 and 【Greed】.

You know, even Professor Garcia's maze - Desolate Wilderness, only corresponded to three spiritual runes.

Although the name of the sorcery was a bit bluffing, it had no attack power. The effect was very simple; this black chain that seemed to be able to absorb light had no aggressiveness, but it could be used to lock enemies. And the stronger the enemy's desire, the stronger Xia De's desire, the stronger the chain's blockade.

It was not just blocking action ability through binding; this chain could even block the extraordinary power of ring-warlocks. Although it could not directly enhance Xia De's combat ability, it was also a very useful sorcery.

With the formation of the sorcery, Xia De's consciousness was also recovering, but the fear and emptiness of falling into the dark abyss remained for a long time before truly disappearing.

After a long while, Xia De realized that he was supporting the ground and panting heavily.

The spirits in his body had indeed increased; the current state, combined with the witch's golden ring, was almost enough for Xia De to use the maze 【The Little Match Girl】 incompletely once. It was just that this power that did not belong to him was flowing away rapidly; he could not waste time.

Looking down at his arms and hands again, those strange black patterns had disappeared, and it seemed like nothing existed in his stomach. Shaking the black chain in his hand, the strange metal made the user of the sorcery feel a bit uncomfortable.

The pitch-black metal was cold, as if it could absorb light and did not emit any light. Although it looked like a chain, every link was an ancient rune. All the rune styles were different, but these runes translated into Deraerion Common had only two meanings:

Gluttony, Greed.

More sorcery information was told by "her" in his ear; the length of the chain could be extended as needed, and Xia De could also manipulate the chain to move, but it must be within the field of vision.

"It looks like such a high-level sorcery, but it actually has no attack power."

He stood up after a while, and then felt that his body was a bit abnormal.

"Hmm? How come I feel... this body has become stronger again?"

He himself was pushed to the second tier because of divinity, and his physical fitness was far beyond ring-warlocks of the same level, and now he actually had that feeling of physical fitness becoming stronger in a short period of time.

And it was not just the strengthening of physical fitness, that was probably an illusion; Xia De actually felt that his skin had also become much better.

After all, the original owner was a tramp, and a few months were not enough to recover the impact of several years of tramping on the skin. And now, although the skin was not as exaggerated as the woman in the pool, it was definitely not in the previous state.