The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 155 - 115 Backstab_2

Chapter 155: Chapter 115 Backstab_2

"Only when all the sacrifices are dead will Satan truly descend."

Zhou Yuan’s guess was confirmed. Immediately, he suddenly broke into an excited smile and shouted with excitement,

"Lord Satan, how did I do?"

"Hm?" Satan was puzzled.

Maeve was also taken aback, stunned.

"I am your loyal follower!"

Zhou Yuan shouted fanatically, "I came here to help you complete the ritual successfully!

Among the remaining people, there should also be your loyal followers, right? Even if five people have already died, they will continue to fight until none are left."

"Good, good, good!" Satan said the word "good" three times in a row, showing how surprised it was. Then it began to laugh sinisterly, "You’re right, four of those people have long been my loyal followers."

With extremely high charm value and the fact that Zhou Yuan killed the movie protagonist to help Satan complete the ritual, Satan fully believed Zhou Yuan’s words.

This also unraveled one of Zhou Yuan’s doubts.

— Since Maeve only needed to kill five people to meet the ritual’s conditions, why did people keep dying in the previous movie plot until no one was left alive?

The answer was that there was more than one killer, and some of the protagonists weren’t killed by Maeve.

Among the nine movie protagonists, some had already become Satan’s loyal followers. They knew the true conditions of the ritual, so even if Maeve only killed five people, the remaining people would continue to fight.

By that time, Maeve had already begun her plan to seize the demon’s body. If nothing unexpected happened, with her strength, she would certainly succeed.

But with the death of the last person, the conditions for the ritual were met, and Satan descended. All of Maeve’s calculations would turn to ashes.

Although Maeve had already become the strongest exorcist, she could never escape the identity of a "sacrifice." In the face of a fully descended Satan, under the compulsory effect of the ritual, she probably had very little power to resist.

Thus, the movie would reach its conclusion—Satan’s descent into the world.

In the last round, Zhou Yuan’s act of blowing everyone up caused the ritual to be completed ahead of schedule, leading to Satan’s descent, which forcibly ended the movie.

"Maeve, your betrayal was always part of my plan. You are the most crucial part of my descent plan!"

Satan murmured maliciously, "One betrayal sent me to Hell; another will bring me to the human world. Everything is predestined, a cycle of fate!"

"No!" Maeve cried out in despair, struggling to resist. At the same time, she looked at Zhou Yuan with venomous eyes, "You damn heretic!"

Boom!

Hellfire blazed, and the thick smell of sulfur spread like a storm. At the top of the demon’s head, a solemn yet ferocious black flame crown faintly appeared.

The King of Hell was gradually descending into the human world.

"Lord Satan, I pledge my loyalty to you!"

Zhou Yuan was ecstatic, dancing with joy like a fanatic who had seen his believed deity.

"Hahahaha..." Satan spread its bat wings and laughed up to the sky. Maeve’s consciousness had nearly vanished, and it was rapidly taking over her body.

Banished to Hell by God for thousands of years, it had always longed to escape its prison. Now, after millennia, its wish was finally about to be fulfilled.

The human world, here I come!

This beautiful world would be set ablaze by the wrath of the King of Hell. All the followers of God would hang on crosses, roasted by the fires of Purgatory!

Just at the height of its euphoric complacency, Satan suddenly felt a sharp pain in its chest.

Looking down, a holy exorcist blade had pierced its heart, radiating a brilliant light.

"You..." Satan’s eyes widened in shock, looking at its loyal follower, incredulous.

"You believe everything I say?"

Zhou Yuan found Satan endearingly naive, "You’re easier to catch than the fish in my hometown lake."

"Ahhh!!!" Satan roared in pain, its body began to flicker with faint yet visible light. The light grew more and more dazzling, finally erupting like a volcano reaching its limit.

Holy rays burst forth, tearing apart the demonic body with brutality. The entire stone chamber was illuminated by this radiant light, glowing brilliantly.

Bang!

With a loud bang, the demonic body exploded in the bright light, reduced to ashes.

Even the King of Hell, Satan, could not escape death under the holy blade’s lethal effect. From now on, Hell would have no ruler.

Since Satan had taken over most of the demon’s body, the holy blade destroyed it as well, and Maeve’s remaining bit of consciousness also vanished into smoke.

A tiger killing two lambs.

Zhou Yuan had chosen the easiest tactic—lure Satan out and then stab it to death with the holy blade, taking Maeve down in the process.

[Task "No One Survives" Completed]

[Task Evaluation: S (Experience and Star Coin rewards boosted to 150%)]

[Comment: Even the head demon was bewildered by your trickery. Maybe you should increase your charm a bit more and present yourself as a walking saint on Earth, relying on your looks to make a name. ]

[Task Reward 1: Experience Points*1200]

[Task Reward 2: Star Coins*6000]

[Task Reward 3: Fine Quality Skill Scroll*1]

[LV23→LV24!]

[Experience Points: 1050/1250]

[Available Attribute Points: 1]

[Teleport Countdown: 9:59]

Zhou Yuan put away the [Sharp Knife], then took out a vacuum cleaner from the panel and began to vacuum the scattered ash.

"What are you doing?" Chen Guangxi was puzzled.

"Collecting materials." Zhou Yuan said as if it were only natural, "These ashes are Satan’s remains, which have unique uses in mysticism. They can be sold for a lot of money.

Moreover, those green torches, although unassuming, are actually supernatural items."

Having gone through a dungeon, Zhou Yuan had to take everything he could; he wouldn’t let anything go to waste.

Soon, the vacuum cleaner was filled with ashes, Zhou Yuan found a disposable plastic bowl to collect them.

[Name: Satan’s Ashes]

[Quality: Perfect]

[Effect: Can be used in forging, alchemy, mysticism rituals, and various other purposes.]

[Remark: These ashes have a strong smell of sulfur.]

[Selling Price: 20,000 Star Coins]

Oh my, it turned out to be of perfect quality!

Zhou Yuan was ecstatic. Moreover, this thing could sell for 20,000 Star Coins!

He hurriedly took down the green flame torches from the walls, a total of twelve, each worth 50 Star Coins, totaling 600 Star Coins.

After a brief consideration, he squatted down, took out a spoon, and scooped a spoonful of yellow-green mucus from a cocoon: "Ew, it smells terrible."

However, this stuff could also be sold.

Zhou Yuan quickly started using the vacuum cleaner to suck in the mucus, then called Fang Qing over to help scour the place.

[Name: Nurturing Broth]

[Quality: Rare]

[Effect: Can be used in forging, alchemy, mysticism rituals, and various other purposes.]

[Remark: An essential condiment for the secret small burger recipe.]

[Selling Price: 5,000 Star Coins]

Zhou Yuan was thoroughly satisfied as he clapped his hands. This time the harvest was plentiful.

Moments later, the teleport countdown ended, and he vanished on the spot.

In the containment room, the screen went black, the movie disc ejected automatically and quickly burst into flames, turning to ash at an incredible speed. The ashes dissolved into the air, leaving no trace behind.

"Hmm... Self-destruction?"

Chen Guangxi raised an eyebrow. This anomaly was quite strange; rarely did a disc self-destruct in this manner.

"Mom, why did the disc ignite itself?" Ding Yi asked the scarred-faced woman in puzzlement.

A scholar answered her, "Because someone ’completed’ it. Perhaps the events that happened in the movie are part of past history or something that occurred in a parallel universe. The intended ending changed, triggering some kind of interesting development... but the anomaly has self-destructed, so further investigation isn’t possible.

In any case, don’t think too much about it. Anomalies can’t be viewed through the lens of common sense."