Ahes doesn't want to get involved with the Lord of Decoration. After all, his current identity is just a traveler going to the Twilight Kingdom. I believe that it won't be long before a local god lord comes to drive away the Decoration, as Gluttony said.
That rascal.
Thinking about it, Ahes also lay on the bed and fell asleep.
In the dense black forest, people in black robes were bowing their heads and kneeling on the ground. In front of them was a girl who looked out of place with those around her.
The girl has platinum hair, blue eyes, and is dressed in white. There is an aura of indifference surrounding her body.
Then, a girl carrying an oil lamp and a box walked through the crowd. It was the girl who had met Ahes once.
The girl came to kneel down in front of the girl and opened the box. Inside the box were two hearts and two pairs of eyes.
"Well done." The girl opened her thin lips and said, her cold voice seeming to penetrate people's bones, "I will give you the power to become my disciple."
As he spoke, some black energy gradually appeared on the girl's body, and the black energy gradually entered the girl's body. As the black energy disappeared, there seemed to be something missing in the girl's eyes, and then she retreated silently.
This girl is none other than Icarus, the Lord of Pretences spoken of by Gluttony.
After the girl retreated, a contract gradually appeared in Icarus' hand.
"[Book of Equivalent Exchange]? It's a boring thing." Icarus glanced at the girl and put the contract away. He put his hands on his heart and eyeballs. The moment he put them on, Icarus
A mouth appeared in Carlos' palm, and the mouth quickly devoured the heart and eyeballs cleanly.
While nibbling, Icarus seemed to feel something.
"I smell the breath of ashes." Icarus raised his eyes and said. As soon as he finished speaking, the believers stood up one after another. There was no look in their eyes, like long-dead corpses.
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"Wake up." A voice came from Ahes's mind, causing Ahes to wake up immediately. He stood up and saw that Lucia was still sleeping beside him, and there was no one around him.
"Are you dreaming? Damn it, I finally slept so well." Ahs said while rubbing his eyes.
When he came to the bathroom, Ahes seemed to hear something when he was washing his face. He opened the curtains of the bathroom and saw that a large number of people wearing black robes had gathered outside. They were holding torches or steel forks.
Like a warrior going to defeat some witch.
But soon, Ahes felt something was wrong. These people were obviously walking in the direction of his hotel.
Before Ahes could understand what happened, a crowd noticed him and threw the torch in his hand towards him. Ahes was shocked and hid quickly, and the torch smashed the window.
It fell in, and the flames directly ignited the curtains.
Before he could put out the fire, steel forks, shovels and other objects were thrown towards the window, so Ahes could only retreat from the bathroom first.
As soon as he came out, Ahes heard a rapid knock on the door. Soon, the knock turned into a banging on the door.
"Damn, what happened? Do they think I'm some kind of witch?" Ahs said, and rushed to Lucia and patted her. Seeing that Lucia hadn't woken up yet, Ahes gave her a big slap in the face.
"Wow!" The effect was obvious, Lucia woke up directly, "What are you doing, you slapped me in the face while I was sleeping!"
"There's no time to explain, hurry up and leave!" Ahes said after opening his suitcase and putting as much money as possible in his pocket.
At this time, another object was thrown out of the window, this time it turned out to be a Molotov cocktail.
Before the Molotov cocktail exploded, Ahes hugged Lucia's waist, smashed the glass and jumped out of the window.
Fortunately, there is grass below, otherwise Ahes' legs and tailbone would have been broken without the Book of Eternal Life.
"What's going on?" Lucia asked in surprise when she saw the people holding various weapons around her.
"How did I know? These guys suddenly went crazy." Ahs said, preparing to use the Book of Black Mist.
But before he had time to use the Book of Black Mist, a bullet suddenly penetrated Ahes's shoulder from behind. Ahes was in pain and turned his head to find that the crazy crowd ignored the fire caused by the Molotov cocktail and stood directly in front of the flames. He shot himself.
"These lunatics!"
Ahes slammed his hand on the ground, and a large amount of black mist poured out immediately. The black mist surged towards the crowd, gradually corroding the bodies of those people.
But the number of people was too great, and like the puppets possessed by the Book of Ghosts, they were not afraid of pain at all, and would only attack themselves as if they were lost.
A man who was being corroded by the black mist fired directly at Ahes regardless of his physical injuries. Because Ahes relied too much on the Book of Eternal Life, Ahes did not react so quickly. This time the bullet penetrated Ahes' thigh. .
"Ugh!" The severe pain made Ahes kneel on the ground.
"Hey, Lord of Gluttony, can your strength cope with this situation?" In his mind, Ahes asked while holding back the pain.
"It's a pity that my power won't do anything in this situation. I can swallow some people's memories, personalities, combat skills, and combat experience and turn them into my own. It's okay.
Transform into a devourer to fight. At the same time, I can also swallow some of the attacks caused by the contract and reflect them back. This is the power you can use, but in the current situation, these guys have no memory, personality or fighting skills to speak of. , and they don’t have any contract.”
Ahes was breathing heavily, the laceration caused by the gun muzzle was bleeding more seriously, and the black fog slowly began to disappear.
"Should we combine the Book of Mists and the Book of Noble Phantasms to give it a try?" Ahs thought through gritted teeth as he looked at the crowds raising their muskets.
Just when they pulled the trigger, a pair of huge black wings suddenly stretched out and blocked Ahes' front. Before Ahes could react, Lucia grabbed Ahes' collar and pulled Ahes away. Hess picked it up and looked up. Hess found that the wings were growing out of Lucia's back.
The people underground still raised their muskets toward the sky without giving up, and Ahes immediately took out the Book of Noble Phantasms.
"Give me a weapon that can cause area-of-effect damage." Ahs thought, and reached out to the Book of Noble Phantasms.
After reaching in, Ahes touched a round object. When he took it out, he found that it turned out to be a grenade.
"It's actually something like this. It's a little different from what I imagined." Ahes looked at the blue grenade, pulled the safety cover, and threw it down.
The moment the grenade fell to the ground, a blue light bloomed from it, and the next second, the people on the ground turned into ice sculptures.
"...Okay, it's not much different from what I imagined."