Chapter 858: The Book of Betrayal
Chapter 858 -843: The Book of Betrayal
“Link, come back!” As Lin Jun broke through the center of the Fungus Giant, revealing a space rift, the Demon King realized all this was Lin Jun’s scheme.
No wonder even in the fiercest part of the battle, the Fungus Giant never fully pressed in.
The Demon King initially thought it was the mushroom’s cautious nature, but now it seems it was to conceal that temporarily opened rift!
His arm transformed into slime, stretching continuously, trying to grab Link. But he also knew that Lin Jun had been enduring for so long, and would not let him resolve it easily.
As expected, almost at the same moment Link passed through the rift, a massive energy fluctuation appeared in the adjacent cave—No. 7’s self-destruction!
The Demon King quickly reached out, speaking once more: “Chaos… Damn…”
However, this time [Honesty] could not be smoothly activated.
A curious voice of innocence came from the belly of a Royal Guard Puki on the ground below: “What is ‘chaos’?”
Another Puki emitted a somber male voice: “Is your [Honesty]’s ‘fuel’ not sufficient?”
Boom—!
The terrifying aftermath of self-destruction swiftly spread through the passage, turning everything it touched into ashes.
The star-like glow of magic power within the Demon King’s transparent body flickered dimly at a rapid pace, squeezing out all the magic power to turn into rock, light wall, shield, blocking in front of himself, only to be engulfed by the aftermath.
Not only the cave where Lin Jun is fighting the Demon King, but several caves connected to it also suffered destructive damage from [Leviathan]’s self-destruction.
Even the Three Races Alliance Army far above, cleaning up the aftermath, felt the powerful tremors akin to an earthquake.
The tremors lasted for a long time, and when everything calmed down, only a pile of collapsed ruins was around the Demon King.
Fungal mat, Puki, even the cave itself disappeared in this self-destruction.
As for the Demon King himself, his transparent body was dimmed like never before, with only a sparse glow of magic power still flickering within.
The pages of the Yellow-covered Book trembled open, revealing several rigid words:
[Boss… No, Lord Demon King, maybe we should retreat first…]
The power of that self-destruction, if the Demon King hadn’t blocked it, even the cover of the Yellow-covered Book, no matter how sturdy, couldn’t have held out.
The Demon King sensed the surroundings, and although there was temporarily no threat nearby, there was also no magic power available for him to replenish.
The rift from which Link left had long since disappeared.
This place is, after all, the mushroom’s base camp, and indeed there is no reason to stay any longer.
In the distance, the vague buzzing sound of a Drilling Puki digging a tunnel was heard, and the Demon King no longer hesitated, sketching a temporary Teleportation Array underneath himself with the remaining magic power, flickering and disappearing from the spot.
However, as his senses restored instantly, the Demon King did not appear in that sealed chamber disguised in the Molten Fire Dungeon!
The cold wind howled past, and he appeared on a certain ice field in the Far North.
“Space… was distorted.” Sensing the traces that had not completely dissipated, the Demon King almost instantly judged the problem’s cause, “Void Realm? Have you also pulled in the big dragon?”
However, the Demon King quickly had no time to think about these minor details.
In front of him, the giant Ji Divine Soldier had already fired the Ultimate Resonance Cannon that had been stored for who knows how long.
On the ground, countless white Puki, almost blending with the snow, continuously extended their tentacles toward him in the sky.
The only good news was that this was the outside world, and even though the fungal mat was extracting hard, there was still a lot of magic power lingering in the air, giving the Demon King a chance for one last struggle.
However, faced with the imminent peril, the Demon King didn’t act immediately.
From his impressions of several encounters with Lin Jun, the opponent shouldn’t leave such a large gap when there’s an opportunity to lay an ambush.
But the Demon King’s expanded senses did not detect any hidden attack.
“Where exactly…”
Just as the Demon King, following his instinct, was about to look up, a very subtle Spiritual Force Field emanated from the Yellow-covered Book in his hand.
At this moment, influenced by it, the Demon King abandoned further observation and focused his attention on the gradually approaching Ultimate Resonance Cannon.
To dodge the Resonance Cannon, he conjured wind beneath his feet, lifting himself swiftly.
However, the next moment, he suddenly reacted.
“Ah Huang?”
“Murderer, wicked Slime!” A pair of black claws covered with dense dragon scales landed on the Demon King’s shoulder, and an irresistible force pushed the Demon King down hard!
With a 180-degree rotation of his visual core to behind, the Demon King met a pair of angry golden vertical pupils.
With the Soul Cloak running at full force, Xiao Hai’s attributes were infinitely close to Link at this moment, grabbing the Demon King, plummeting toward the ground like a meteor.
Magic power surged around the Demon King, still trying to cast magic, but Xiao Hai first pierced through with his tail, then opened his mouth full of sharp teeth, fiercely biting at the Demon King’s head.
“Give Xiaonuo back to me!”
Corrosive Dragon Breath directly poured into the Demon King’s body through the opening, causing numerous nerve nodes in the Slime Man’s slime body to necrotize rapidly under the corrosion of the black mist.
Below, countless Slime tentacles gathered together to form a squirming white grassland, seemingly trying to catch the falling Demon King.
Then, the Ultimate Resonance Cannon arrived.
Before the Resonance Cannon could engulf everything, Xiao Hai, with the [Ahhhhh], [Help] screaming Yellow-covered Book, retreated and traversed space to fall at the horizon’s end.
A giant mushroom cloud rose on the desolate ice field…
…
Pop—
After the dust settled, the newly squeezed Marshal Puki, rolling the Yellow-covered Book, swaggered onto a quivering puddle of slime.
The Resonance Cannon as the final insurance attack arrived slightly earlier than Lin Jun’s script, preventing the Demon King from being directly “finished off” by the Pukis below.
And though the Resonance Cannon was immensely powerful, and Xiao Hai’s attacks were forceful and profound, at most they could limit, injure the Demon King who possesses [Undying].
Just like now, even nearly turned into a blob of rotten jelly, the Demon King’s panel still hung above.
But in this way, Lin Jun could calmly set up the Memory Crystal to properly record the glorious moment of defeating the Demon King.
“Why…?” With his soul having shattered from the previous touch, the Demon King’s voice was rarely filled with a hint of confusion.
Yet the Yellow-covered Book clearly understood the meaning behind it.
[Lord Demon King, as I’ve long said, all this is for my soul]
Having once again and thoroughly betrayed the very creator, the Yellow-covered Book showed no remorse, as if the Demon King hadn’t imbued “morality” during its creation.
[I merely chose the path more likely to achieve the goal, nothing more]
“It… cannot create a soul…” The Demon King was utterly certain of this.
[The Boss indeed cannot create a soul for me]
[But it can give me a new opportunity, one that you absolutely cannot!]
[Don’t count the time you vanished, I have diligently served you for over two hundred years. This time, for the one and only wish of my life, please sacrifice yourself!]
The Demon King did not respond, as Marshal Puki, posing in front of the Memory Crystal, had decisively tapped his tentacles onto it.
“Goodbye, Old Deng!”
[Soul Touch]