Chapter 551 - 314: I Am the Abandoned Pawn

Chapter 551: Chapter 314: I Am the Abandoned Pawn

Lu Cang said nothing, merely watching as the vast ocean coalesced into flesh, all of it becoming an extension of his opponent’s body.

Having suffered a setback, Luo Mo began to constantly sever its connection with Lu Cang.

It also tried to corrupt Lu Cang’s magic, twisting it into its own.

’But... what’s going on with his magic?’

’Tier Five Magic... it can’t be corrupted?’

It remained firmly under Lu Cang’s control.

The person before it was strange in countless ways, and the thing inside his body was still wreaking havoc from deep within.

As a Demon, it felt a vague premonition.

The faint premonition of its own death.

CRACK!

All around, endless chunks of flesh once again manifested from the Abyss of the Sea—

Lu Cang felt a numbing, buzzing sensation as his body began to mutate, but the mutation was suppressed almost instantly.

"I had no desire to be your enemy, yet you force my hand!"

"Human! Was I too merciful!?"

BOOM—

Rifts tore open in every direction!

Pitch-black, deep voids appeared, and from within them, shadowy tentacles began to spread!

It was calling its Nest for reinforcements.

The shadowy tentacles propped open the fractured voids, trying to tear the rifts wider.

’Looks like they won’t be here for a while.’

Lu Cang had no intention of wasting this opportunity!

As time stood still, Lu Cang made his move.

In the span of a single thought.

SPLURT—

Lu Cang sliced the entire ocean of flesh into countless fragments!

Luo Mo was utterly minced. Lu Cang watched as its Date of Death ticked down!

After the one-second time stop ended, Lu Cang had to find his opponent all over again. It had a life-saving magic similar to Death Replacement.

Even when sliced to pieces, it could escape to a distant location.

A process that was very difficult for Lu Cang to track.

But now, he had Roya.

The moment the fleshy remains vanished, a new Luo Mo appeared in the distance, clutching its own throat as it tumbled out of the darkness!

"Hey, kid, I’m over here!"

’This Roya...’

’When is he going to get the hell out of my body!’

BOOM—

The surrounding space grew violent. It felt as if, in some distant place, the passage to the Nest was about to break open.

A Tier Eight Demon would soon arrive!

WHOOSH!

A corrupting wind swept past!

BANG!

In the very next instant, its new body exploded, and several more years were shaved off its Date of Death!

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!—

In less than a second, brilliant flashes of light erupted from all corners of the Abyss of the Sea.

Time and again, Lu Cang precisely located Luo Mo.

And sliced it to pieces!

’Vanishing is useless. Escaping is impossible...’

’I can only let Lu Cang shred me to pieces, over and over.’

’But...’

’Shredding me?’

’What’s the point?’

The sense of crisis in its heart deepened, but Luo Mo still couldn’t fathom it... It saw no sign that Lu Cang had any way to truly kill it.

’This is a pointless exercise. Even if he keeps this up forever, it means nothing.’

BOOM!

A sky full of fleshy debris exploded.

But Lu Cang’s movements were only getting faster.

There were brief intervals between time stopping and flowing again. Lu Cang used these incredibly short gaps to locate Luo Mo’s new position each time it reappeared.

’Putting aside my biases, the constitution of a Demon... is actually quite ingenious.’

Lu Cang watched its Date of Death continue to dwindle.

Meanwhile, the surrounding tentacles grew larger and larger.

He had no stacked resistances against these new enemies... unlike the astronomical mitigation he’d built up against the one before him.

’Against other Tier Eight Demons, I’m as fragile as glass.’

’I’m not sure if I’d be killed instantly, but if those reinforcements arrive, things will get ugly.’

However, seeing the giant tentacles, a flicker of excitement sparked in Lu Cang’s heart. ’If I could fight another Tier Eight Demon, it might lead to new insights.’

He pushed aside all distracting thoughts and focused on the enraged face in the distance.

Date of Death: 8 years

’I’ve already cut its Date of Death down to eight years.’

’All that’s left is the final blow.’

’If I hadn’t run into this Roya fellow and gotten his help, I might have actually had to use An Su to kill Luo Mo...’

SPLURT!

Luo Mo felt a golden Flame manifest on its body once more.

’It was never my choice to appear here. I never wanted to stay in this place and let Lu Cang kill me over and over.’

’I’m only stuck here because of that creature called Roya.’

"I told you! It’s useless!"

"Your attacks are completely useless against me!"

"You’re incorrigible!"

"What does it matter if you cut me down a million times!"

Luo Mo’s voice echoed between heaven and earth.

But this time, after slicing through Luo Mo, Lu Cang didn’t give chase.

He simply stood his ground.

He watched from a distance as Luo Mo materialized once more.

Seeing Lu Cang remain motionless, Luo Mo froze for a second.

’Just now, in the span of a few short seconds, Lu Cang had flickered an untold number of times, shredding my body over and over!’

’His speed... it was like light.’

’But why has he stopped now?’

"Have you finally realized? Your attacks are utter—"

Lu Cang calmly lowered his sword.

He looked at Luo Mo as if it were already dead.

Only then did Luo Mo realize how piercing and clear Lu Cang’s gaze was... as if it could see straight into the very Source of Death through his eyes.

That Source of Death gradually grew larger.

It became clear and distinct.

It felt as though it were calling out to it, and a horrifying sensation instantly surged from the depths of its being!

"No!"

It had suddenly realized something.

But Lu Cang’s icy gaze signaled the end.

Date of Death: 1 day

This was the last day.

"Luo Mo." ℯℯ𝑙.

"There is indeed a blood feud between us, one that cannot be reconciled."

"Are you certain you don’t know the method to turn a Demon back into a human?"

Lu Cang’s tone was even. Though his aura was faint, he was interrogating the far more powerful Luo Mo.

"I told you, a Demon can’t turn back—"

Lu Cang shook his head, his gaze never leaving it.

His gaze alone reduced the countdown of its life from one day to zero.

THUMP—

Luo Mo felt its heart, far away in the distant Nest, begin to pound violently!

’Something’s wrong!’

’My heart!’

’It’s been... pierced!’

’There’s a traitor in the Nest!’

’A Demon, in the deepest level of the Nest, has backstabbed me.’

Luo Mo stared at Lu Cang in terror as its consciousness began to fade.

The sensation of Death was completely abrupt, arriving without any warning.

In a single instant, Luo Mo felt the Source of its life extinguish.

Luo Mo stared at the person before it.

’Did this human before me anticipate my death? He knew I was going to die right at this moment.’

’Could it be... that this man is actually connected to the Nest...’

’There’s a conspiracy!’

’Am I just a laughable pawn in some grand scheme?’

Sensing its life had reached its end.

Luo Mo was stunned for a moment, then let out a desolate laugh.

Death had come so suddenly.

A thick sense of fatalism washed over it in an instant. With a wretched smile, it said, "So, it turns out you weren’t the one being used as a pawn."

"I was the pawn that was sacrificed."