novelraw Chapter 506: Tongue Extraction Begins! The King of Hell Is Behind You!
Chapter 506: Tongue Extraction Begins! The King of Hell Is Behind You!
Under the somewhat grave gaze of the Bearded Divine Messenger, Lu Ce at this moment truly seemed unstoppable!
He wasn't matched into the top-tier player rooms; the ones entering next were all relatively average rooms whose intensity hadn't been boosted yet.
These kinds of rooms were quite deadly for other players, but for the current Gluttony, they posed no real threat anymore.
Lu Ce had genuinely begun speedrunning!
Each light lit up faster than the one before.
After some time passed, the number of green dots above had shockingly reached six!
In such a short period, he had already completed one-third!
This heaven-defying efficiency threw off the Bearded Divine Messenger's rhythm.
He had considered that someone might actually press the green button, but in his judgment, that should have happened in the late stages of the game.
But now, with hardly anyone dead yet, this guy had already reached such a level.Although six rooms were now executing punishments simultaneously, the efficiency was still far too low.
Sin's clearance speed was simply a bit too fast, making his error correction barely keep up, leaving him truly somewhat flustered.
"However... it's not a major problem!"
"You don't really think it's that simple, do you......"
......
In the room, as Lu Ce, who had already lit six green lights, arrived in a brand new room, he was greeted head-on by a sharp spear!
Gluttony almost instinctively opened his mouth, but his body's reflexive instinct made him avoid the attack by sidestepping slightly instead of catching it with his mouth.
Clang!
A clear, resonant ring echoed as the weapon sliced through the air, causing a hum in the space that vibrated in unison.
— A Legendary-grade weapon.
Furthermore, this thing didn't originate from the execution room itself, but from a player here.
Judging by his skill, he was likely among the world's top five—clearly an experienced player.
He had long been vigilant about Lu Ce's arrival; that previous strike was a prepared attack!
The two briefly locked eyes; both were experts who needed no words. The spear-wielding master before him instantly unleashed his spear like a dragon.
The spear's image instantly enveloped Gluttony, pouring down like a heavy rain.
A ferocious grin spread across his red face. No need to ask for reasons, no need to know the other's name—the two instantly engaged in combat.
Meanwhile, in the room, a massive stone mill began slowly rolling.
— Stone Mill Hell!
At a glance, Lu Ce knew the material of this thing was probably similar to the garlic pounding hammer in his own room.
Fighting someone while under the execution of such a device...
Was truly a test in itself.
Watching the battle between the two, the audience was somewhat puzzled.
[: Why is he attacking? What is this person doing?]
[: Don't get it. In a way, Sin coming here to clear the stage also shares the punishment burden, right?]
[: Yeah, even if you're worried about not surviving the punishment, is fighting Sin really the rational choice?]
......
The crowd didn't fully understand, but in the Tongue-Ripping Hell, Xie Antong clicked her tongue unsurprisingly.
She knew that Lu Ce's current actions would face many obstacles, one of which was "other players."
In this game, players were never on the same side!
What enabled her to influence so many high-level players with just one sentence before? Wasn't it precisely their mutual suspicion!
Only one person could atone; only one person could succeed.
So, what did the green lights Lu Ce was creating mean?
Those continuously lighting green lights looked peculiar, making people sense they were impressive even without understanding.
But then what?
Would every player in each hell just watch like this?
What was atonement? Could those lit green lights be a form of atonement?!
Then how could the players in the relevant rooms just watch Sin continuously speedrun!
If he speedruns, how do other players continue? That was originally their own room!
Driven by this distrust, this veteran spear user directly started fighting Lu Ce.
Not only that, but now, within the six selected rooms, everyone had started pressing the gray buttons instead of hesitantly pressing red.
No other choice; with a Sin acting as a shit-stirrer here, everyone could only go all out. Delaying was probably useless.
"But, is that all?......"
The veins beside Xie Antong's eyes bulged, clearly from overusing the All-Seeing Eye. She quietly looked up at the things on the ceiling.
She looked at the lights up there.
Suddenly, one of the six lit green lights turned red again!
"Just as I thought!"
Xie Antong's eye twitched as she looked at the display above; this was her biggest worry.
She didn't know what those green buttons represented, but red meant "Conviction."
However, after Lu Ce turned a room's light green and moved to another room, the people in the original room were still there!
Lu Ce hadn't eaten these people; they were still alive.
Then... they were completely capable of being "Convicted" again!
That's right, this was the method the Bearded Divine Messenger relied on.
Although the game had derailed, it... could still be corrected.
"Tsk~" Xie Antong sharply inhaled a cold breath.
If that was the case, then how was this game even playable.....
"He shouldn't have held back."
Initially, when she saw Lu Ce was Gluttony this time, she was somewhat afraid he would eat people.
But seeing the current situation, she felt it might have been better if he had actually eaten everyone earlier!
Just as she was thinking this, the room beneath her suddenly began violently shaking.
It was her turn again; the Tongue-Ripping Hell was activating once more!
The pile of torture tools she had messed up now squeezed and crashed against each other, trembling in the air. A phantom of a little devil emerged from within, staring at her with intense hatred.
Xie Antong assessed the weapon's load-bearing capacity, figuring it probably couldn't get out.
But the next second, the little devil's power instantly surged. With two crisp explosive sounds, the Epic weapon pinning the torture tools snapped instantly!
Xie Antong was quite surprised, not understanding why the room's intensity had increased. All the torture tools instantly attached themselves to her body, interlocking in the blink of an eye, locking her there in a reverse-joint manner.
Floating in mid-air.
"You dare... look down on me?!" the blue-faced, fanged little devil shrieked sharply.
"You... can talk?" Xie Antong, her entire body locked up, feeling pain even moving a finger, asked with apparent difficulty.
"Hehehe, do you know the saying 'The King of Hell is easy to deal with, but his little devils are hard to handle'?" the little devil cried out triumphantly.
"That phrase isn't actually praising you..." Xie Antong felt somewhat speechless, simultaneously tilting her chin towards the space behind him.
"Besides, it seems the King of Hell behind you has arrived."