novelraw Chapter 353: Lord K’s Provocation
Chapter 353: Lord K’s Provocation
In Horror World, Dark Hell, at the City Lord’s Mansion!
Alexander’s figure, accompanied by a flash of white light, appeared in the City Lord’s Mansion. He immediately called out, "Someone come here!"
A female guard named Ruby quickly stepped in. Before Alexander could ask, she swiftly began, "City Lord, it’s good that you’ve arrived!
The Endless Abyss army has already assembled outside the city. They’re rapidly arriving through the portal, already numbering in the hundreds of billions, and still more are coming. Now, the entire Dark Hell is surrounded by them!"
"They’ve arrived so quickly?" Alexander was somewhat surprised but he quickly brushed off the concern.
The Endless Abyss? He didn’t regard it as a threat at all.
What’s so terrifying about an army of a hundred billion or a trillion? Not to mention Su Rong and others who were sweeping through the entire Horror World, even those survivors who were about to enter Dark Hell were a hundred million Ghost Emperors!
Moreover, they were all forbidden Ghost Emperors. Even an ordinary person, possessing the power of the forbidden, could easily defeat ten of their peers, right? This was an overwhelming strength!
Could the Endless Abyss muster ten billion Ghost Emperors? The whole Horror World didn’t have that many. Forget about Ghost Emperors, they couldn’t even gather ten billion ghost kings!
Even if the Endless Abyss really gathered all the ghost citizens from the Third Ghost Realm, amassing an army of one or two trillion, Alexander would only find it insufficient rather than too many. He might even give it a five-star rating.
With 90% of that army being mere soldier ghost, any forbidden Ghost Emperor on Alexander’s side could slap a swath of them to death, or with a single fart, could knock out 500. There was nothing to worry about.
The pressing matter was to confirm the idea in his mind. He asked, "Where is the nearest well around here?"
"Water well?" Ruby was clearly taken aback by Alexander’s unexpected question during such a critical moment. She responded in confusion, "City Lord, are you hungry? There are many ghost fruits in the City Lord’s Mansion, and Xiao fish isn’t very tasty, nor does it have much Ghost Energy."
"Stop the nonsense! Where is the nearest well?" Alexander, not in the mood for small talk, demanded sternly.
Having commanded dozens of major battles, especially revered as a god by a hundred million Ghost Emperor survivors in the real world, Alexander’s imposing manner was truly fearsome, immediately intimidating the guard.
Ruby’s beautiful face showed a trace of fear, her bright eyes quickly filling with tears, her lips pouting in a mix of fear and grievance as she replied, "Wells can be found everywhere in the city, especially in ordinary residential houses. They usually have one."
No sooner had she finished speaking than Alexander’s figure vanished from the great hall of the City Lord’s Mansion, moving so fast that it exceeded the Ruby’s visual range.
"Wah... the City Lord is bullying me! He’s not nice!" As soon as Alexander left, Ruby burst into tears.
"Cough!" A soft cough sounded from the doorway.
Recognizing it as Alexander’s voice, Ruby instantly stopped crying, breaking into a sweet smile, and turned around to say, "Lord City Lord, I was just joking! I like you the most..."
But before she could finish, she saw the empty doorway. There, piled up were heaps of black beetle corpses and thousands of Ghost Pills.
Alexander’s voice, growing distant but still clear, reached her ears, "Distribute these, everyone still in the City Lord’s Mansion gets a share!"
Ruby, unfamiliar with the corpses of black beetles, could still sense the terrifying and pure Ghost Energy emanating from them. This was Ghost Energy comparable to the Emperor crystal level!
Ghost bodies are not made of flesh and blood, and there’s no waste in absorbing ghost crystals. Just one beetle could elevate her to the realm of a Ghost Emperor. Moreover, even if she didn’t recognize the black beetles, she knew what Ghost Pills were — they could potentially grant the power of the forbidden.
"Lord City Lord! I love you to death!" Ruby, her demeanor quickly shifting from aggrieved to ecstatic, yelled excitedly towards the outside.
To be honest, Ruby’s appearance was certainly no less beautiful than someone like Annie, and she was equally adorable and charming. However, Alexander’s mind was no longer on women. After all, the most pressing matter was to quickly strengthen his power and attack the Mist world, which was key!
Leaving the City Lord’s Mansion, Alexander, without a word, directly entered the nearest residential house.
The residents here had already been conscripted by Alexander to conquer the Horror World, leaving the room empty and sparse, with few pieces of furniture.
He passed through the front room and went straight to the backyard. Beneath a black ghost locust tree, an ancient-looking well immediately caught Alexander’s eye.
Unlike ordinary wells, this one had no water pump, not even a bucket for drawing water, only an iron hook tied with a rope. Just by glancing at it, Alexander understood how to use it.
Looking into the well, this was Alexander’s first encounter with a well in Horror World. The depths were dark, the walls of the well uneven, and occasionally soil and rocks would fall to the bottom.
In the real world, this would definitely be considered a poor-quality well, probably even inferior to the ones used for irrigation in fields. But since its function in Horror World was different, Alexander had no reason to complain. He looked again towards the bottom of the well.
It was still endlessly dark, as if the well didn’t lead to the hell’s interior but to an infinite void.
In that boundless darkness, silver fish, each the size of two fists, swam slowly. These fish were entirely silver and had the shape of normal fish, but they lacked mouths and eyes.
Countless silver fish swam in the dark depths of the well, resembling a dazzling, moving sea of stars, exceptionally brilliant and eye-catching. Indeed, it was a magnificent sight! If his idea worked, these weren’t just silver fish; they were golden, glittering Ghost Pills!
Alexander grabbed the iron hook lying nearby and cast it down into the well. With the strength of an Inheritance Ghost Emperor, he threw it powerfully. The hook, attached to a hundred-meter-long rope, plummeted down like lightning, piercing through at least dozens of Xiao fish and hooking them onto the rope.
The rope, tied to the branch of the ghost locust tree above, snapped taut, breaking the thick branch. Alexander caught the rope’s end just as it was about to fall into the well and yanked it outwards. The hundred-meter rope was swiftly pulled up, and on the rope attached to the hook hung a large string of dozens of Xiao fish.
Without a moment to spare for a closer look, Alexander targeted one of the fish and used the ghost chef’s transformation ability. Ghost Energy burst forth, and one Xiao fish exploded, turning into a mist of Ghost Energy. Eventually, in Alexander’s hands, it coalesced into a peanut-sized Ghost Pill.
It worked! Looking at the Ghost Pill in his hand, Alexander was ecstatic. The transformation of Xiao fish into Ghost Pills meant he could obtain an endless supply of Ghost Pills from the underworld.
This meant that every ghost citizen in the entire Horror World, even the most ordinary ones, could possess the power of the forbidden and have the strength to fight against the Mist World.
The strategy of Alexander against the Mist World was simple yet extremely brutal: to overwhelm the Mist World with the sheer numbers of ghost citizens from Horror World, counted in the trillions.
Without a doubt, this process would be extremely cruel. Countless ghost citizens would die tragically, and there might even be total annihilation.
Alexander wasn’t a heartless executioner. Even though Horror World was entirely populated by ghosts, and countless survivors had died tragically in Horror Instances, the nature of ghosts remained that of sentient, emotional beings.
Most ghost citizens were innocent; many had never even seen a living person in their lives. But Alexander had no choice; he had to do this. Otherwise, facing the relentless encroachment of the Mist World, the entire Horror World would eventually become fodder for the Mist World, consumed bit by bit in an endless cycle, just like Cangshan City.
To establish something new, one must first destroy the old. Numerous heroes like Hades had already demonstrated the wrong path.
Now, the only way left for Alexander was to gather the entire strength of Horror World and launch a direct assault on the Mist World. The existence of Xiao fish filled the most crucial gap for Alexander.
Looking at the endless silver starry sky beneath the well, Alexander hesitated for a moment before preparing to leap down. He didn’t need a duplicate; he was certain that there would be no danger below and that everything would go smoothly.
However, what Alexander didn’t anticipate was that trouble would find him first, even before he could descend.
"Alexander! The new Ghost Emperor, do you only dare to hide in the city? The entire Dark Hell City is empty, and you’re still cowering inside, acting as the City Lord of Dark Hell. Isn’t that laughable? Or do you think the small walls of Dark Hell City can stop our attack? Come out and face your death! I want to avenge the deep hatred of my brothers!"
A loud shout, like rolling thunder, converged towards Alexander from all directions. This voice was all too familiar to Alexander; it was none other than Lord K, whom he had tricked countless times and who had even lost an arm to Louis.
"This bastard," Alexander forced to temporarily abandon his plan to explore the space beneath the well.