Chapter 469

Seeing Aquarius give way, Leon couldn’t help but let the corner of his mouth twitch slightly before immediately asking:

“So what’s up with the Crocodile Kingdom? Why are they so crazy about finding energy that they’d even start a war with other countries?”

“…”

“And what’s the deal with the Gemini Division? What exactly did you and Apheta 01 talk about? Why after your conversation, you gave up on the Gemini Division and left with Nicole? How’s the royal family of the Crocodile Kingdom doing now? They…”

“Damn it! Is that one question?”

“Uh… You can consider it as me still asking the first question ‘What’s up with the Crocodile Kingdom,’ and the smaller questions afterward are all parts of this big question.”

“…”

If you calculate it like that, why don’t you just ask me what happened in the last hundred years!” “Just one! No more!”

“Aren’t you hoping for Nicole to have a better life?”

“Do you want to die? If not, I’ll put you out of your misery!”

Tsk… So stingy!

After silently complaining about Director Aquarius in his mind, Leon had no choice but to pick the question he wanted to know the most from the pile.

“What’s going on between Apheta 01 and the Gemini Division?”

“I’m not familiar with her either!”

Afraid of being further entangled by the sticky Leon, the Aquarius Director didn’t even bother counting how many questions that sentence counted as and directly hinted:

“It’s unfamiliarity akin to the Doe of Afflicted Flesh!”

Meaning… Apheta 01 is also a member of that organization? You guys even recruit AIs?

In the midst of Leon’s astonished gaze, the Aquarius Director rapidly said: “As for the Gemini Division, all its members are now under control and cannot disobey her orders. The entire Crocodile Kingdom belongs to her, operating according to her will… Farewell!”

“What exactly is her will?”

“Aquarius?”

“Are you still there?”

“…”

Looks like she really left this time…

After pressing the knife twice and hearing no response, Leon couldn’t help but tsked once, then pulled the letter opener out from his neck, pushed the female journalist’s butt, and said listlessly: “Move aside, I need to get out.”

“Wait a bit longer!”

Unaware of the conversation between Leon and the Aquarius Director, the female journalist who was blocking the dog’s mouth warned cautiously: “The Aquarius Director might not have left. What if she attacks you when you come out?”

But your dad already fought with me, and not only that, we chatted for a while too…

“No problem… I think she should be gone…”

After casually fobbing off, the soul transparent like a plastic bag, Leon used his last strength to pry open the Hound God’s mouth, carefully crawled out, and then sat down on the ground.

This time, it’s really… Although my soul is intact, being swallowed by the dog and getting slashed at the neck has truly been painful. It feels like my soul is starting to float away…

“Are you okay?”

After pulling Leon up, seeing Leon’s soul becoming unstable and light as gossamer, the female journalist couldn’t help but worriedly asked:

“Maybe you should go back inside and hide? Your soul condition isn’t good, and near the Gate of the Dead, winds occasionally blow from the World of the Living. Don’t let yourself be scattered by the wind.”

“…”

Indeed, if you weren’t holding me, I might have floated away with the wind.

After sensing his terrifying lightness, Leon couldn’t help but sigh. Though he didn’t go back into the dog’s mouth, he still walked around the corpse of the Three-headed Dog God half a circle, found a sheltered place, and crouched down.

Suddenly opening his eyes, Leon was surprised to find that the Three-headed Dog God behind him was releasing an indescribable, terrifying attraction over his entire soul, making him want to…

Take a big bite! “Stop looking, I feel the same, but it’s not hunger.”

Noticing Leon’s gaze, the female journalist quickly reminded:

“Though your soul is intact, over eighty percent of it has been digested by the Hound God and incorporated into its body. Therefore, due to its own weakness, your soul is instinctively craving to take back what it lost from it.”

“Oh, that makes sense…”

After hearing the words of the female journalist, Leon nodded understandingly, then hesitantly asked: “If I eat it, can I recover the part of my soul that’s missing?”

“What?”

Baffled by Leon’s question, the female journalist looked perplexed and said: “You… Say that again. What do you intend to do?”

“I mean, can we eat it?”

Sniffing the “delicious” Three-headed Dog God, Leon’s eyes turned green with hunger as he gritted his teeth:

None of the content within the book mentioned above is available!

“With my current soul strength, I can’t control my body at all. I’ll probably have to lie in bed for a year or two, during which I won’t even be able to drink water without someone feeding me… I think this isn’t right! We must reclaim what we’ve lost!”

“But… but it’s a True God…”

Looking at the huge corpse of the Three-headed Dog God, Leon felt somewhat hesitant inside, feeling a bit nauseated about eating something that talks.

But thinking about possibly being unable to control his body due to the weakness of his soul and lying paralyzed in bed for a year or even longer, Leon immediately regained his determination.

There’s less than a month until the Taurus Director ascends, and that damn Aquarius Director doesn’t know what tricks he’ll pull. How can I be lying around at such an important time?

Besides, the princess hasn’t ascended yet, and the situation isn’t entirely stable. Moreover, the mysterious organization targeting the royal family is still active. There’s also the Doe of Afflicted Flesh suspected of causing Senior Emma’s tragic life, and Apheta 01 likely planning to invade the Thrush Kingdom in the future…

With so many critical matters waiting, letting myself do nothing and lie in bed for a year, needing others to feed me water, help me use the restroom?

Go to hell!

“True God, my ass!”

Having made up his mind completely, Leon took a deep breath and, with a look of horror on the female journalist’s face, pulled out a wooden-handled silver-bladed paper cutter and slashed down hard on the Hound God’s body.

“Who cares what kind of god it is, since it wanted to eat me earlier, I now have the right to eat it. That’s what fairness looks like!”

…

As Leon began cutting pieces of flesh from the Three-headed Dog God with the paper cutter, a mournful howl suddenly echoed from the top of the End Cliff at the deepest part of the Deathscape.

That howl filled with intense resentment tore through the gloomy skies of the Deathscape, spreading from the depths outward, making all the aimless dead on the No Return Road look up, and drawing the attention of every living thing in the Deathscape.

An Angesi’s cry?

Every creature in the Deathscape who heard that howl simultaneously showed expressions of shock on their faces.

Reasonably speaking, as the guardian death hound, the Three-headed Dog God’s activity range should be limited to near the Gate of the Dead and shouldn’t intrude too deeply into the Deathscape.

But now, its howl suddenly appeared at the deepest part of the Deathscape, echoing back from the End Cliff where the dead culminate, meaning only one possibility…

The death-guarding hound god has been killed! In the face of this unprecedented change occurring once in a thousand years, the entire Deathscape woke up with that single bark, and almost all the Sovereigns of the Deathscape sent their ambassadors to investigate, with the impatient ones even choosing to go themselves.

Countless streams of extremely concentrated death energy tore through the night sky, like hot oil dropped into boiling water, scorching the deep gray sky until it bubbled, and darkly covered the land of the Deathscape.

And the Death-Announcing Crows circling the No Return Road were terrified by this anomaly, interrupting their work guiding the dead, scattering chaotically in all directions.

Finally, even the No Return Road itself, spanning the Deathscape, trembled with the upheaval of the Deathscape, issuing incomprehensible roars toward the statues standing by the roadside.

“Let me send someone to check! I must know who did this!”

(End of Chapter)