novelraw Chapter 401: Souls Without Despair, The Second
Chapter 401: Souls Without Despair, The Second
The laughter carried an unusually terrifying distortion, like a saw cutting through wood.
On the dark green mask, the expression was extraordinarily ferocious; the calmness it was once known for had completely vanished.
This face was almost never so hideously hateful, resembling a demon emerging from the depths of hell.
Even the masks of Wrath and Gluttony had never shown such an expression before.
The Despair Divine Envoy instinctively took a step back, somewhat hesitant and wary.
Leaving aside why this room belonged to him, first of all, this thing probably eats children...
After feeling the opponent's oppressive aura for a few seconds, Lu Ce suddenly lowered his head and directly fell asleep!
Sin: zZZ
Since the start of this game, he hadn't been able to sleep, but now he finally entered a long-lost dreamland.
This closed eye was unusually deep, almost comparable to death itself, without a trace of breath leaking out; the previously restless energy in the entire room instantly vanished.Despair Divine Chosen: ......
"Hey?"
He cautiously called out, then began scanning the room with a somewhat grim expression.
Tsk, how could this happen? Was he schemed against?
He was schemed by a woman he didn’t even know where she came from and lured into this room?
This was already the third active challenge opportunity; this was the third time, yet it couldn’t leave.
He didn’t believe any player could really defeat him. The reason he chose the weak was simple: partly for insurance, partly for despair!
Only by toying with those weaklings, letting them struggle in an unbearable hell, and then brutally suppressing them!
That was how despair was created, and that was what mattered to him.
Thinking of the first player he found this time, he chuckled...
When he used illusions to make her mistakenly believe the Exit Coin was useless and slowly ground her down, that feeling was what he wanted to collect.
But...
The Despair Divine Envoy looked somewhat troubled at the figure in front of him—the one wearing the dark green mask, now sleeping as if dead.
Would this guy despair?
This clearly mentally challenged person probably didn’t even know what despair felt like; even if he killed him, it seemed like just wasted effort.
But on the other side, Chiyo Eine’s points...
"Tsk!"
For a moment, he felt cornered.
The rules of this game only said that the first rank would achieve a perfect clear but didn’t specify how others could be considered to have cleared it!
This game was under his control; in his plan, as long as he achieved a perfect clear, whatever happened afterwards was casual!
These people were all his "nourishment."
But the problem was, now he was being cornered by a Chiyo Eine!
Sin hadn’t achieved it, The Creator hadn’t achieved it, Perfect Life hadn’t achieved it either.
And yet a Chiyo Eine was about to perfect clear?!
Although afterward those people would find Chiyo Eine and lower her points, it was still not safe.
Why didn’t they hunt each other!
And on top of that, he was tricked here by an unknown woman? A strange man had just delayed him for so long?
"This game... why are all these weaklings so troublesome one by one!"
"What’s going on? Why does this mode feel so wrong..."
Is this how normal player competitions should be?
These people didn’t seem like they were on the same side at all!
He bit his teeth hard; on the pitch-black face, the blood-red mouth slowly opened, starting to grin again.
"It doesn’t matter, you’re the same!"
He was just more cautious, more cruel, that didn’t mean he was really weak.
He never believed he would truly lose to a player.
He looked at the ground where the challenge mode words were displayed.
"Wen!"
The font in Room Nine was "Wen."
"Hehe, then that’s just perfect."
His whole figure began floating forward on the ground, and in the blink of an eye, he appeared before Lu Ce.
He grabbed the other’s head with both hands, forcing him to look up; his face emitting black smoke pressed directly against the dark green mask in front of him.
"Waiting for me? Good kid!"
"I’m here, why are you sleeping?"
Lu Ce: zZZ
His sleep quality was different from before; even the Despair Divine Chosen doubted if this guy was already dead.
But that was obviously impossible, so black smoke instantly spread; black light enveloped both their heads. The Wen Duel began!
Entering the dream with despair!
"Hehehe~"
The laughter of the Despair Divine Envoy echoed throughout the room; the space continuously distorted. Dealing with Sin was no joke.
He unleashed his full power from the start, completely different from facing Jiu Tian.
Making the person in front of him despair was not a simple task.
But moments later, he realized something was wrong.
All of his mental attacks, after entering the other’s already sleeping brain, vanished like mud sinking into the sea!
Such a deep sleep, the dream should have been clearer, but the reality was completely opposite; it was as if he had hit an impenetrable wall!
No matter what emotions, images, or woven human tragedies—various despair-inducing scenes flooded Lu Ce’s mind.
But he showed no reaction.
It was as if he had long adapted to all despair; the deepest pain was buried in his soul, yet the flame ignited from the ruins kept burning.
No matter what thoughts, failures, death, loss of loved ones, or torture were poured in, they disappeared deep within this person’s consciousness.
Instead, the Despair Divine Chosen’s own awareness was painfully scorched by a fiery sensation!
"Damn! What the hell is this thing?!"
...
In Room Three, Xie Antong had already received Chiyo Eine’s voice.
In the public channel, she said she had gained two points.
"Chiyo Eine, come to me! Room Three!"
Saying this, she turned her head to look at The Creator and Perfect Life who was healing.
"Sin’s room is nine."
"You two, you’re free to do as you please."
Perfect Life smiled and said:
"What, now you want to swallow the tiger by letting us two help?"
"He’s probably already matched up with Juege," Xie Antong said calmly, "so like I said, you’re free to do whatever; I can’t control you."
The next second, Chiyo Eine appeared in Room Three. Seeing the lively crowd, she was startled.
She thought these two had come at her and instantly went on guard.
"It’s fine, don’t mind those two."
Xie Antong looked at Chiyo Eine.
"Stay here. If things go wrong, start a duel with me."
"In your Japanese words, you’ll be my... second!"
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