Life Game In Other World
Chapter 514: ’Master’ and ’Guest’ (Main - for Monthly Pass)

Chapter 514: Chapter 514: ’Master’ and ’Guest’ (Main Chapter for Monthly Pass)

"Holy shit,"

The gaunt man who had turned to run heard this voice and suddenly froze in his tracks. He glanced ahead, then at He Ao behind him, then his body jerked and he fell to the ground stiffly.

Seeing his comrade fall, the scar-faced man glanced at He Ao behind him, flipped over, rolled to the wall, closed his eyes, and also prepared to feign death.

But just as he closed his eyes, a soft voice came to his ears,

"Big brother, don’t you want to continue playing with me?"

The voice was sticky and sweet, with a hint of a low panting.

Even though his eyes were closed, his body still reacted, pitching a tent.

He Ao lifted his head and looked in the direction the voice was coming from.

A tall figure slowly walked down the green-lit corridor.

This was the most human-like ’creature’ He Ao had seen since entering the building.

She appeared to be in her twenties, somewhere between maturely charming and youthfully naive, but with each movement, there was a hint of someone experienced in the ways of the world.

A thin layer of dark red, scale-like armor covered her body, but only the essential parts, revealing swathes of pale skin on her slender arms, undulating waist, and long legs.

She wore no shoes, her bare feet against the smooth floor, taking steps towards He Ao.

The scales on her body twisted slightly with her movements, clinging so closely they perfectly outlined the curves of the covered areas.

Setting aside those non-human characteristics, she looked like a very seductive doll.

"Oh, a little brother has arrived?"

The woman’s gaze shifted from the two gaunt men lying on the ground, and her voice shifted from sticky sweetness to a seductive magnetism, as fine black scales emerged from beneath the pale skin of her right leg, wrapping around her voluptuous thigh.

She stopped walking, one leg sheathed in black scale ’stockings’ and the other bare, crossing her legs as she looked at He Ao, "Want to play with sister for a while?"

He Ao focused on the woman’s face, this ’woman’ was someone he ’also’ recognized.

Leanna, the third person in the private intelligence given to him by Li Le.

She was also C-level.

A core member of the World Tree.

Her presence here meant that Li Le’s intelligence was indeed reliable, all four people he had found were core members of the World Tree’s Rodan branch.

Although in a sense, these four people were no longer themselves.

He Ao looked at Leanna in front of him, did not speak, but lifted his sword and took a step forward.

"Little brother wants to play something more thrilling?"

Leanna squinted her eyes, and fine scales formed a long tail behind her.

In the dark and dim space around them, a warm feeling began to diffuse.

The rising warmth lowered He Ao’s guard, like an invisible attack, eroding his will.

Leanna watched He Ao, her lips slightly parted, and in her brown eyes, it seemed there was a sparkling pink, heart-shaped brilliance.

The atmosphere around them gradually became more ambiguous.

She seemed utterly defenseless, as if she was anticipating He Ao to assault her, yet also with a hint of fear.

This seductive yet vulnerable air invisibly provoked a desire to conquer.

In the air, there seemed to be a certain ambiguous scent drifting, stirring He Ao’s will.

The distance between the two was getting closer until He Ao stood in front of Leanna.

Leanna gazed at He Ao, and he returned her gaze.

They stared at each other like this for nearly two minutes.

Finally, Leanna blinked her eyes and said with a magnetic voice laced with a touch of weakness, "Little brother, what do you want to do to me?"

He Ao tilted his head, looking at her with confusion.

Leanna’s seduction was strong, carrying a kind of psychic influence power, but minus the psychic influence, her skills were actually far inferior to Dancing Girl’s.

For He Ao, such a degree of psychic influence was almost equivalent to having no effect.

"Little brother, are you really sure you don’t want to do anything?"

Leanna took a step forward, her skin pressing against He Ao’s, while at the same time, her tail slowly coiled around to He Ao’s back, aiming for his spine.

"Brother, let’s play together, it’s really fun," she said.

At this moment, the short-haired man who had been lying stiffly began to get up languidly, his eyes flickering with a strange glow, as he reached out and grabbed He Ao’s shoulder.

Simultaneously, another man with a scarred face also slowly approached He Ao from behind, "Little brother, it’s really fun, once you try it, you’ll never forget it."

He too reached out, attempting to grab He Ao’s shoulder.

The slender tail also slid to the position of He Ao’s coccyx.

Upon realizing that she couldn’t seduce He Ao, Leanna obviously prepared to switch to a more violent method to ’deal with’ He Ao.

She lifted her head, her sticky voice ringing in He Ao’s ear, "Little brother, your body is wonderful, I’ll keep it, and from now on you’ll stay here and keep sister company forever."

In that instant, layers of sharp scales flashing with a cold light covered the tail, and it stabbed out fiercely.

In the blink of an eye, Leanna’s body stiffened, and the two gaunt men who had been standing by He Ao’s side also fell to the ground.

Blood flowed out along the pure white sword that had penetrated her chest, also slicing open Leanna’s pale palms that were holding the blade.

He Ao gripped the bone sword with both hands, sidestepping to one side, as the attacking tail collided with the hilt of the bone sword, and the blade itself was plunged into Leanna’s chest.

Just now, He Ao had not exerted any force; it was the tail that collided with the bone sword that had fiercely pushed the sword into Leanna’s body.

However, this attack did not take Leanna’s life; although the bone sword destroyed one of her energy gathering points, she possessed more than one such point.

She jerked backward, forcefully pulling away from He Ao and by doing so, ’extracted’ her body from the bone sword.

Following that, a dense scale armor covered her wound, stopping the gushing blood.

Then she raised her hand, smearing the fresh blood on her flamboyant red lips, and looking at He Ao, she smiled and said,

"Little brother, you’re really impressive; I really want to taste what your body is like."

He Ao didn’t respond to her, but instead changed his grip on the sword, and his figure suddenly vanished.

At the same time, Leanna arched her body, flipping to one side.

And then she collided head-on with the pure white sword light.

He Ao had anticipated her movement.

She could not dodge in time and was about to collide with the bone sword.

In that instant, her body suddenly tensed up, with a ’△’ and ’＋’ symbol appearing above each other on her forehead.

In a flash, the shadows in the entire corridor surged wildly, violently merging into Leanna’s body.

These twisted shadows tore through her back, like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon, squeezing two pitch-black wings out from her snow-white skin.

Diana’s own strength was not as strong as when He Ao killed Rose in the club, but the power of the Mysterious Shadow contained in this building far exceeded that of the small courtyard in the club.

The white bone sword clashed with the pitch-black wings, emitting a crisp sound.

He Ao mobilized his Divine Sense to glance at the Leanna standing before him.

She had three energy points, one on her left wing, another right at the center of her chest, and the most radiant one at her brow.

He Ao had just destroyed the one at her chest, leaving two remaining.

While He Ao was watching Leanna, the slender tail attacked once more.

"Little brother, stay and keep your sister company," she said.

Leanna’s blood-stained lips parted slightly, revealing a sultry smile.

At the same time, a strong mental influence entered He Ao’s mind.

He Ao’s body went limp, the bone sword slipped from his hand, and he fell into Leanna’s arms.

Seeing He Ao’s action, Leanna seemed slightly surprised, but she quickly opened her arms confidently, turning her soft body towards He Ao.

"You see, since you were going to come over anyway, why struggle for so long?" she said.

Her voice was gentle and mellow, but the tail that struck at He Ao from behind did not stop.

Crack—

The bone sword fell, making a crisp sound, and then bounced slightly after the collision.

Boom—

Within the crisp sound, a muffled noise also rang out simultaneously.

Leanna stared blankly at He Ao, blood trickling down from her brow.

She couldn’t see what weapon He Ao had used; it seemed to be an invisible stick that had struck her brow.

Meanwhile, He Ao’s toes hooked into the gap where the sword bounced, flicked upward, and the bone sword tumbled into the air before landing securely in his empty left hand with a bang.

He griped the useless bone sword tightly, his body spun sharply, and the sword light drew a beautiful upward arc through the silent shadow, across the black feathers, slicing off the huge left wing.

Then He Ao sheathed the sword with a backhand movement, clipped the Miracle Wand, which still had the effect of "Silence Concealment," back at his waist, and without looking back, headed towards the stairway entrance.

Boom—

A muffled sound came from behind, the noise of Leanna’s body hitting the ground.

He Ao’s steps passed over two emaciated men lying on the ground.

They had both been feigning unconsciousness, but now they were truly passed out.

The obviously slackened skin on their exposed flesh indicated that they had become emaciated in a very short period, and their skin, which had been taut before, didn’t match their suddenly slimmed bodies, resulting in large areas of looseness.

As the two men lay on the ground, a certain kind of smile still lingered on their faces.

It seemed that the ’game’ Leanna had played with them earlier had indeed brought them joy.

And at the same time had drained them to this state.

However, in such a terrifying building, their lives had been spared up to this point, perhaps because they had become Leanna’s ’reserve supplies.’

Luck and misfortune coexisted.

He Ao picked up the two men and casually tossed them into a creepy office, then his steps continued forward.

The monsters in the courtyard dared not enter the building, and the monsters on the first, second, and third floors had been cleared by He Ao, so lying here, the two men were relatively safe.

The shadow at the stairwell was gradually dissipating as He Ao ascended step by step.

Leanna’s strength was actually much stronger than the monsters on the first and second floors before; not only did she have the ability to influence the mind, but her body was also enhanced, and she could even use the power of the shadows in the building. Even among C-levels, she was considered one of the top contenders.

However, up until now, He Ao had not used his "Super Memory" power; he had been relying on his own physical strength and part of his "Divine Sense" to fight.

Soon, He Ao reached the fourth floor.

The stairs from the fourth to the fifth floor were not blocked by shadows, which proved that the core of the fourth floor had already disappeared.

Instead of rushing to the fifth floor, He Ao entered the corridor of the fourth, where it was as empty and silent as Death itself.

The fourth floor didn’t have as many offices – half of the space was opened up to form a large open-air stage, apparently a dedicated ’performance’ stage for a certain individual.

He Ao walked down the hallway to the front of the stage, then stopped in front of the nearest office to it.

The door of this office was open, the desk and bookshelves inside jumbled together, and on the floor mixed with some dry blood.

He Ao sheathed his bone sword and entered the room, crossing over the collapsed bookshelves and wooden desks, and made his way to the office window.

In a corner near the window, there stood a small low cabinet splattered with dry bloodstains. The first drawer of the cabinet was pulled open, with some bloodstains inside.

However, unlike the naturally splattered bloodstains on the surface of the low cabinet, there was a clear, neat blank spot in the drawer, as if a rectangular card had once been there, blocking the splatters of blood.

And the size of that card was exactly that of a six-inch photo.

This here was likely Gade’s former office, and in that drawer lay the blank photo Gade had left behind as a record.

He Ao’s gaze lifted from the small cabinet and looked out through the window.

Different from the pitch darkness seen from the outside, looking outside from within the building, one could faintly make out the hazy scenery.

This office boasted a good view, not only of the courtyard below shrouded in mist, but also the still, vague streets outside the courtyard, and even a glimpse of the bustling main street of Nuke Street beyond.

Gade had mentioned in his records that he saw Lani nearby from the Rodan branch, and it must have been from here.

At that time, the power of Shadow hadn’t been as strong, so the visibility should have been better than it was now.

While He Ao watched, a swiftly flickering figure was speeding across the quiet streets outside, passing through the wide porch and reaching the courtyard shrouded in shadows.

And the moment he stepped into the courtyard, he seemed to sense something, looking up in He Ao’s direction.

Their gazes met across the veiled shadows.

The in-charge of the World Tree’s Rodan branch, the Puppeteer.

The World Tree held no belief in ’martial morality’ – that He Ao had come all the way here without encountering the ’hospitality’ of the building’s owner only proved that the master had just been ’away from home.’

Now, the master of this building had returned.

——

In a dimly lit ’tunnel’, the undulating car roof caused the bright lights to slightly tremble.

He Ao’s clone sat at the spacious dining table, with the ceiling lights shining down on a bubbling pot in front of him.

As the countdown on his phone reverted to zero, he picked up the pot single-handedly, aligning its mouth with a Mithril Test Tube standing to one side and tilted it slowly.

A pale grey semi-transparent liquid flowed smoothly along the edge of the pot, drawing out a slender stream into the Mithril Test Tube.

The liquid in the test tube rose steadily until two-thirds full, at which point He Ao stopped the pour and took out a stopper to seal the Mithril Test Tube.

He then picked up the tube, gently shook it, and observed the swaying grey liquid inside.

This was the reagent he had concocted using the Talent Sequences extracted from Jin Ya’s body, along with some auxiliary materials exchanged from the Research Institute.

The Secret Medicine of ’Talent Sequence 72: Secret Art Mage.’