Mystery Paradise: Wishing Power Demon
Chapter 394 - 393 Death in Battle

Chapter 394: Chapter 393 Death in Battle

Chaoyang realized that the visual connection between him and Cui Zhen’en had been interrupted.

He could hear her intermittent voice as if muffled by a blanket, but his own words could not reach her.

This is not normal...

He opened his eyes, intending to connect his consciousness to an external split body outside the room and try again from a different position, but this attempt also failed. The moment Chaoyang opened his eyes, he sensed that he had lost contact with his split body. The panoramic view he had cultivated became narrow and cramped, and he could no longer receive the additional images and sounds in his heart.

Even the act of opening his eyes felt sluggish, as if he was not in an empty, old room, but stuck deep in a quagmire.

No, this isn’t right!

The problem wasn’t on Cui Zhen’en’s side...

It was within himself!

Chaoyang’s internal alarms were blaring!

He raised his head at an extremely slow pace, and as his gaze gradually lifted, he saw a pair of feet... feet resembling those of a human.

Why would a stranger suddenly appear here?

In his astonishment, Chaoyang continued to look upwards—although the process of shifting his sight from the floor to eye level seemed to take several seconds. He saw a pale-faced man who had, at some unknown time, appeared in the center of the room, wearing a high top hat that nearly touched the low ceiling.

And the man’s face... it looked surprisingly familiar!

There was no time to ask who the man was...

This person was definitely not of good nature!

Chaoyang’s right hand reached toward the wooden bed where a rifle for self-defense was placed, but a tangible sense of delay made each of his movements incredibly stiff. In the next second, two black lines shot out from the man’s chest, pinning Chaoyang’s arm to the wall! The intense pain made him groan, and his thought processing speed increased slightly—

Finally, he remembered who the man was.

The slender fingers, the bloodless skin, looking younger than he would fifteen years later, with not a single wrinkle on his forehead. But those indifferent, condescending eyes were the same as the ones from fifteen years later.

He was Li Qiang Ola.

The missing Count of Magnificent Castle!

He had never expected to encounter him in the City of Defense!

Things were not looking good... The situation was dire! Although this body belonged to Bariff, it was essentially his true self, and if he died here, there won’t be a Paradise Master to resurrect him!

Although Chaoyang had reassured the Magic Goddess, believing that once the crisis of the Evil God was resolved, everything might return to normal, what if they lost to the Evil God?

This death might very well be true death!

"You know me?" The man finally spoke, a hint of surprise showing through his icy demeanor, "Is that how you ended up looking into Franwick?"

So the Causal Sect had always been monitoring Franwick Yuss? Did his action of sending an Angel and Kokomoqi to investigate attract their attention?

"But I have never seen you. You are not the true scholar Bariff, and the strength of your soul far exceeds that of an ordinary person... What is your purpose in the City of Defense?"

"You want to know?" Chaoyang spoke slowly, against the viscous feeling in the air, "Fine, let’s make a fair trade... You tell me first, what’s the purpose of the Causal Sect in the City of Defense?"

He needed to buy time.

He had realized that this viscosity and isolation were similar to a barrier, like the ability the Divine Envoy of the Causal Sect had demonstrated on the Joyous Goddess. It presented itself as a bright red sphere, with a distinctive aura of the Evil God. Once Ailuodi discovered he was out of touch, she should immediately realize that something was wrong with his hiding place!

Li Qiang Ola raised his hand, wearing a mocking smile on his face.

Suddenly, several black lines emerged, piercing through Chaoyang’s neck, chest, and abdomen. Blood surged into his trachea and lungs, leaving him to make a hissing inhaling noise, while the excruciating pain of having his vitals severely injured tore through his consciousness like a pair of massive hands!

"If it were any other time, I might be interested in prying your mouth open bit by bit. As for your secrets, it doesn’t matter if I don’t know them, for my master will ultimately know everything..."

"As long as one is human, they cannot escape the fate of Gui Yi."

Li Qiang stepped forward, squatting down in front of him and pulling out an engravings-covered bronze tube from his embrace.

This item had appeared before in the secret gatherings of the Causal Sect, used to contain the "seed" of the Evil God.

By now, Chaoyang’s heartbeat and breathing were rapidly failing, and even though he wanted to resist the control of the Evil God’s power, his body was already unable to move. In the final moment before his consciousness faded, he saw the other man insert the needle-tipped end of the bronze tube into his neck.

After Li Qiang finished the deed, he reached out to check Chaoyang’s pulse, confirmed its cessation, and then rose to leave.

"Everything you possess will become the strength of my lord; rest in peace."

...

Just as Ailuodi charged into the beach battlefield, a surge of wishing power flooded into her body, the intense shock causing her momentary stupefaction. After coming to, she stood stock-still in horror—

"Chaoyang?"

There was no answer.

Not only that, she found that the pact connecting the two of them had ended.

Theoretically, this pact connecting an Angel and a Demon had set a goal seemingly unattainable by conventional means, thus it’s difficult to end the connection by fulfilling the pact.

But now that the pact had disappeared, she had gained a large amount of wishing power...

This only occurred under one circumstance: when the Demon no longer had the strength to fulfill the promise, ending the pact in failure, and she would inherit all the wishing power of the other party.

The moment this thought crossed her mind, Ailuodi felt a chilling numbness in her limbs and a terrifying void in her heart.

Had something happened to Chaoyang’s main body?

Almost without thinking, her body reacted faster than her mind. Spreading her wings in front of everyone, she paid no mind to the shocked gazes from the laborer warriors as she soared into the sky.

"Hey, where are you going?" Kokomoqi shouted in surprise.

At the moment, she had no mind to answer; after quickly confirming the direction of her hideout, she conjured a whirlwind and flew towards the Lower City District!

In her urgency, she even invoked the Speed of Wind.

In less than a minute, Ailuodi had located the bungalow where Chaoyang was temporarily residing. She chose not to enter through the door but instead plummeted swiftly, crashing through the roof of the house!

The instant she landed, the storm in her hands had already condensed into an invisible sword, and her sensory abilities heightened to the utmost.

But there was not a trace of life within the house.

Only then did Ailuodi calm the storm, glancing around... The moment she turned her head, all the blood in her body seemed to freeze!

She saw Chaoyang lying face-up on the wooden bed, the blood that had flowed from his lower body almost formed a small puddle. No one could still be alive after losing so much blood, and he was no exception... The green light of life had completely vanished, and he looked no different from the bed frame or table beside him...

Stumbling over to bed, Ailuodi placed her ear against his chest, knowing full well it was futile, but still unwilling to believe the Demon was dead.

Hadn’t you promised to keep supplying me with wishing power, huh!?

Wake up!

How could you break your word!?

Ailuodi collapsed onto Chaoyang, her hands slowly embracing his head, clearly wanting to wake him, but as soon as she opened her mouth, the unspoken words got caught in her throat, turning into silent sobs.

She wasn’t mourning for the Demon.

Her mind was flooded with memories of her daily life with Chaoyang.

As a companion, he had unwittingly become woven into the fabric of her life.