Chapter 423

Confirming that the old fish-man was dead, the thirteen-ring mage wearing the holy emblem pendant shook his head and spoke first:

"I don't know what grudges you have, but I am leaving here now. The high priest of the Scarlet Secret Sect is dead, and there is still much to be done outside. Although the Sea Return is destined to fail, we must still minimize the casualties as much as possible."

"Oh? Can't you see that he is the second Chosen One?"

The witch pointed at Dac Dac Nisi, who frowned slightly, clearly still not understanding the reason he was being hunted until now.

"Of course I know."

The believer of the True God nodded, looked at Dac Dac Nisi, and carefully memorized his appearance:

"But compared to the Chosen One, whom I don't know how to deal with yet, saving the innocent who can be saved is my responsibility. I would very much like to take him back to the Church, but compared to the Whispering Poetry that I don't know the truth of yet, I would rather do more practical things."

He prayed softly to the god, then nodded slightly to Xia De to show respect, before leaving from the corridor.

"Look, although the people of the True God Church are sometimes hateful, most of the time they are worthy of respect."

After the figure of the thirteen-ring mage completely disappeared, the witch said to Xia De again.

"What is a Chosen One?"

Dac Dac Nisi asked softly. Xia De and the witch naturally would not answer him, but the half-demon on his right hand actually spoke:

"I seem to have heard of this..."

Naturally, it was not a human language; that language itself seemed to represent evil, the tone sounding like slimy insects crawling on liquid.

"Yes, I remember now, that is the witch's Great Prophecy. Look, I just found out too, you are actually the chosen person."

The voice sounded somewhat like the tone 【Desire】 used when bewitching Xia De; it was bewitching Dac Dac Nisi. Xia De would bet that the demon had long known about the "Chosen One."

"The chosen person? Is this some kind of knight novel plot?"

Dac Dac Nisi repeated, his brow furrowing slightly.

"Your strange dark power, haven't you ever doubted it yourself? The frequent abnormal phenomena you encounter, aren't you curious? The whispers you hear in the darkness, are they really just hallucinations? Oh, my Dac Dac Nisi, there is only one truth..."

The half-demon on his right hand wrapped around his neck and whispered in his ear, but both the human and the demon's eyes looked at their enemies:

"What is the truth?"

"Perhaps you can use the 【Puppeteer's Script】, and we can try to find the answer together. Perhaps it's a ritual, yes, perhaps a ritual will allow you to fully understand your power."

The ancient demon seemed to know more things.

"Script..."

"Ivan Dac Dac Nisi, do you really believe in the philosophy of the 【Blood Spirit School】? Is the Jin Huang Human so easy to achieve? Don't you want to obtain more powerful strength through other means?"

The demon asked in a low voice. Dac Dac Nisi's eyes narrowed slightly, and then he suddenly inserted his left hand into the demon's mouth and pinched out a brass ring from it.

The expanded right hand immediately shrank back to the size of a normal arm. The mouth in the palm opened and closed, seemingly wanting to say something, but it could not make a sound.

"The Poet-level relic 【Fish-Training Ring】 allows intelligent life forms that cannot speak human languages to speak. This relic originally belonged to the Scarlet Secret Sect and was used to tame large sea beasts that could not speak. Now it is used by Ivan Dac Dac Nisi to let the demon speak."

The witch said softly. Xia De immediately thought of his cat; if Mia could get this ring...

"This relic is useless only for creatures like cats and penguins that like to eat fish. Although it is only rated as Poet-level, I didn't expect it to be useful for evil spirits and demons."

Xia De immediately lost interest in this ring.

"Witch, what exactly do you want?"

Dac Dac Nisi asked.

"I want to kill you, but killing you will release the demon inside you, so I cannot kill you."

She said in a low voice, as if whispering to someone:

"It's a pity that the demon expert among us is not in the Old Continent now..."

She suddenly looked at Xia De. Xia De's heart jumped, but he was very sure his identity had not been exposed.

"Help me catch him, the promised twenty thousand pounds will not be a copper short."

"That is of course no problem."

Xia De nodded.

The witch reached out and pointed at Dac Dac Nisi. A bright yellow beam of light shot out from her fingertips, but as darkness appeared between the two, that beam of light also disappeared.

"Do you only know this one move?"

The witch's life ring finally appeared behind her, and the dense spiritual runes radiated spiritual light in turn. Before Xia De could interpret her core spiritual rune, dozens of beams of light shot toward the front from the surface of the life ring.

The dark area controlled by Dac Dac Nisi only swallowed two of the beams, and the remaining dozen beams bombarded the direction of Dac Dac Nisi with power even greater than a steam cannon.

He dropped a leaf, and the spiritual rune 【Wind】 behind his back flashed with spiritual light. The man who coexisted with the demon was truly like a leaf in the wind, nimbly dodging those deadly spiritual rune attacks, but even so, the side of his body was still grazed by one of the black beams.

That beam of light was like an eraser, directly erasing a quarter of Dac Dac Nisi's waist area. But he was immediately swallowed by the dark whirlpool, and when he appeared again, the lost part of his body was filled by darkness; the writhing darkness became part of his body and rapidly grew flesh and blood.

Xia De had seen this appearance on the fish-bone pirate ship, only at that time, half of his body was this kind of terrifying darkness.

A clattering sound appeared in his ears. Dac Dac Nisi frowned and looked up, and black chains clinging to the ancient pillars of the temple descended from the sky. He wanted to dodge again, but he did not expect that these pitch-black chains controlled by Xia De would actually cling to his life ring.

The 【Chain of Sin】 could only have a momentary effect on a twelve-ring mage, but Dac Dac Nisi was only a six-ring.

"What?"

The middle-aged man looked behind him in surprise. Although the life ring was a tangible substance, it also had non-existence when facing attacks. Very few things could directly attack the life ring; this was considered common knowledge among Ring Mages.

The chains struggled to wrap around the life ring, and the brass ring that had been spinning was actually slowing down. While the flesh and blood of desire could still exert its effect, Xia De could be equivalent to a mid-tier approaching high-tier Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi. Coupled with the fact that the opponent's inner desires were not low, it was normal for the 【Chain of Sin】 to be effective.

"Miss, quickly!"

Xia De immediately prompted the witch, his hands grasping the chains extending from his sleeves. The chains wrapped around the life ring, but the life ring was also resisting; the harsh sound of metal deforming and sparks showed that Xia De could not hold on for long.

Miss Miss Feilian took a deep breath, and the light on the life ring behind her disappeared completely. Then, Xia De actually faintly saw golden-colored stairs behind her.

"This is something I learned with great difficulty—"

She raised her right hand high, and the luster of her fingertips and her familiar movements made Xia De look over in astonishment.

"Miss Feilian's Witch Light!"

The witch shouted loudly. The golden light was not a beam, but a shockwave spreading to the surroundings. The blinding light shot toward Dac Dac Nisi, who could not move because his life ring was fixed, as if to destroy all obstacles in front of him, twisting the boundaries of time and space.

It passed by Xia De, but only made Xia De tremble all over as he felt this power; he felt he seemed to have understood something.

The large dark whirlpool summoned by Dac Dac Nisi wanted to swallow this blinding and violent golden light, but the full-force strike of a twelve-ring witch was simply not something the not-yet-fully-awakened Chosen One could resist.

Coupled with being bound by Xia De at this time, he could only stand still and take this strike head-on. And just at this moment, that right hand that could no longer speak actually expanded actively. This time, what expanded was not flesh-colored, but black muscle.

The entire arm was like a massive parasite living on the middle-aged man. Amidst Dac Dac Nisi's heavy panting, his right half of the body turned into a black texture like oozing pus.

The oozing, pus-like black right arm and body, which expanded like an eruption of plasma, were at least three times larger than the left side of his body. Xia De was very curious about how he managed to stand steady.

Dac Dac Nisi naturally would not answer this question. He blocked his front with his expanded massive arm, and then paid the price of his entire right arm almost evaporating, truly blocking the witch's strike head-on. And when Miss Miss Feilian wanted to make another move, Dac Dac Nisi, whose right eye was covered by black pus and whose left eye faintly had red light, actually smashed the ground with his massive black right hand, which was rapidly flowing with pus and recovering.

This ruin itself was a spatial dislocation caused by abnormal spatial phenomena, and beneath the temple, naturally, were rolling waves.

That hand smashed onto the floor, causing the ground to tremble again. The temple floor, which even the old fish-man priest's self-destruction could not destroy, was actually smashed into a hole, and blood-red seawater surged into the temple like a fountain.

He wanted to jump in, but the life ring behind his back was still bound by the black chains. Dac Dac Nisi looked at Xia De, and the red light in his eyes made Xia De feel as if his soul had been punched... punched with the force of Little Mia.

"Hmm?"

Xia De glared fiercely at Dac Dac Nisi, and the red light in the latter's eyes flashed abruptly, as if he had seen something incredible.

"Sin?" (Demon language)

The massive black right arm grabbed the chains and dragged them fiercely, wanting to pull Xia De in front of him. Xia De stumbled forward, knowing in his heart that the opponent's unreasonable physical strength was far greater than his own, so he could only cancel the sorcery, retract the chains, and watch that massive monster jump into the waves beneath the hole in the floor.

The floor was healing slowly, as if the temple had a life of its own.

"Are you chasing with me?"

The witch looked at Xia De, and Xia De immediately took a step back:

"The other party is the first candidate for the Chosen One, and I am seriously injured now. You can see my state, Miss; I don't have your power, I can't do anything."

When facing the witch, he was generally very honest.

"Cowardly man."

Miss Miss Feilian clearly did not believe this rhetoric. The lady with brown curly hair sneered and jumped into the hole in the floor.

Xia De heard a strange conch sound coming from below, but it was not the weird sound of the Scarlet Secret Sect, but rather a light and pleasant sound. There was a large group of creatures swimming underwater, but it did not sound like fish-men.

"What Miss Miss Feilian summoned is not important... The ability to manipulate darkness is truly troublesome, and there is also the demon on him, the demon... If the witch really can't catch him, Dac Dac Nisi will still have to find Yin Yi Yi Lu Na to suppress him when he arrives in Tobesk..."

He stood in the ancient temple thinking, and after confirming that the crack in the temple floor caused by the impact had completely closed, he bent down to pick up his fishing rod and left that place.

Only Xia De was left here. The dim light made the shadows of the statues throughout the temple look extraordinarily terrifying. After the battle ended, a bizarre silence descended. The Outsider turned around with a solemn expression and looked at the bleeding bone holy emblem hanging in the deepest part of the temple.

He adjusted his clothing in silence, putting aside the matters of the witch, the fish-man, and the demon for the time being, and let himself calm down. He took a deep breath, then approached the holy emblem step by step.

Although he didn't know what would happen, the sense of ritual was still necessary.

After saving Princess Lei Lei Qianya, he had no intention of achieving any goals in Lengshuigang. He would let the Church deal with the fish-men because the Church's preparations were very proper; he would let the witch chase Dac Dac Nisi because he was already prepared to let Yin Yi Yi Lu Na deal with the guy possessed by the demon in Tobesk.

The only thing Xia De wanted now was divinity.

With divinity, no matter how bad the situation was for Xia De, it would no longer be a problem.

【Outsider, your desire at this moment is truly intense.】

She whispered in his ear.

"No, I just know what is important."

In his eyes, there was only that golden light.