Chapter 605: 83. Why Not
“Buzz buzz buzz!”
Within the Lust Gate surrounded by white sand and a pink atmosphere, as the violent tremors affecting the entire dynasty gradually calmed down, the gates of the Sidi Fortress, which had been silent for an unknown period, began to slowly open uncontrollably, releasing a terrifying aura like a tide.
The air was filled with the scent of lust mixed with the fearful essence of the little demons and demon attendants, caught by the suddenly appearing gentle breeze and blown back to before the Sidi Fortress. The two figures that had just stepped out took a deep breath, feeling the changes in the area.
The visitors were none other than the Demon Gods Barbatos and Agareus, who had arrived through the teleportation portal from the ground.
Agareus adjusted the glasses on her nose and surveyed the surroundings before speaking to Barbatos.
“The soul of Sidi has already left the body; I don’t smell his soul here.”
“From the moment we were denied entry, didn’t you already know he was awake?”
“Haha, you’re so fortunate. Fisher only likes ladies, not men. Otherwise, who knows what Sidi was doing below that he wouldn’t let you in.”
“If you can’t speak, then don’t, Agareus.”
“Haha.”
Barbatos’s expression was not pleasant, and even speaking to Agareus had a hint of gritting teeth in it.
Anyone encountering such a situation would be suspicious—like trying to get home but being denied entry by a partner. Humans and other races would react this way, and Barbatos, as a Demon God, was no exception to this simple thought.
However, he did know about the relationship between Sidi and Eil. If Eil had awakened, he was most likely called back by Eil.
Barbatos wanted to find Sidi quickly, but before that, he and Agareus had more important matters to attend to.
That Fisher Benavides was definitely here too; they just didn’t know why he had come.
“Where is he, at the Competitive Gate?”
Upon hearing Agareus’s question, Barbatos remained silent, but an invisible breeze suddenly spread out around him. The wind, like a messenger, quickly traversed the areas behind various doors, sensing any suspicious movements.
“Whoosh whoosh whoosh~”
A few seconds later, Barbatos lightly pinched his hand, and a responding breeze flew back into his palm, swirling as if trying to tell him something.
“No, he’s not at the Competitive Gate; he’s at the Performance Gate. Wait, even sensing our aura, he still doesn’t run away, but rather is coming toward us?”
“.”
Agareus did not respond but lightly tapped her toes on the ground, then floated toward the Performance Gate, with Barbatos quickly following behind.
They did not rush because after Barbatos reported Fisher’s location, both of them sensed that Fisher was stationary at the spot where the Lust Gate led to the Performance Gate, seemingly waiting for them.
But even so, this distance was just a few steps for the two eighteenth-ranked Demon Gods. Before long, they crossed that long distance and reached the edge of the Lust Gate.
From afar, their figures walking among the lava and rocks entered Fisher’s sight, and despite being almost a kilometer apart, the silhouettes of the two Demon Gods, shrinking to mere specks, still firmly held Fisher’s gaze, as if everything around him would be swallowed.
Facing two eighteenth-ranked beings was pressure for Fisher, akin to confronting the Duke of Peach back on the Tree Continent.
But back then, he could rely on Renee’s mark on his chest to attempt a self-detonation, while now Fisher could only rely on himself.
“Mister Fisher.”
Agareus’s voice came from a distance. Fisher clearly saw her adjusting her glasses, as if shadows were reflecting in her eyes from the frames. She stood with her hands behind her back along with Barbatos several hundred meters away, greeting him.
“Last time, I only sent a servant to greet you; I didn’t have the chance to meet you in person. I didn’t expect you to come to our home directly as a guest. Did you arrive through Eil’s portal?”
“.”
Fisher didn’t reply, but Agareus and Barbatos did not get angry. The next moment, they had crossed nearly a kilometer and were almost in front of him, with only a few dozen meters separating them. Agareus’s expression became increasingly curious.
She pointed to Fisher’s chest, and the glow of the nearby lava cast thick shadows on her eager face, accentuating her “human” features with an eerie appearance.
“I’m particularly curious; not only do you have Baemon’s mark, but now that I see closely, the aura of Eil’s mark beneath Baemon’s mark has not completely disappeared. Both of them bestowed their precious marks upon you. Given Eil’s temperament, didn’t she kill you?”
Fisher paused for a moment, then looked at Agareus and smiled, “Almost.”
“.”
Agareus and Barbatos both froze slightly, and it was Agareus who couldn’t help but laugh first. She shook her head and looked at Fisher, saying, “I wonder how the Dragon Queen would feel when she hears about this. However, seeing that she is currently besieged and you’ve come here to look for Eil, it seems you don’t care much for her. I don’t know how you ended up entangled with Eil in Saint Nali and how you got involved with that guy Baemon.”
“. I also can’t figure out how you two could so easily be deceived by Baemon. The base she used cannot rescue you from the Mother’s seal. The freedom and promises she gave you are both false, which makes it all the more remarkable that you could hide so long in the weak human world.”
“Is that so.”
Even after Fisher finished everything, Agareus and Barbatos did not show any expression, as if completely unmoved.
Barbatos shook his head directly and said, “You’re stalling for time, or do you think that with your currently secretly inscribed magic, you can defeat us?”
“.”
Fisher remained silent, but behind him, in the massive tunnel linking the Lust Gate and the Knowledge Gate, thick shadows constantly revolved on the walls, inscribing magic rune patterns like a kaleidoscope.
Those shadows were all connected to Fisher, who stood before the tunnel, evidently formed from the black mud extending from within him, representing several mythical magics.
Agareus looked curiously at the sprawling black mud behind him, then she smiled and looked at Fisher, saying, “You’re so clever, and you know Baemon so well. You should understand that our target is your red dragon race. The reason we’ve waited so long without directly capturing and killing her is that we are waiting for an opportunity.”
Yes, Fisher always knew that Raphael was the key to opening the Apocalypse Prophecy, and they were waiting for the right moment to fulfill that prophecy.
But they might not know the prophecy; what moment did Hela tell them to wait for?
Thinking this, a foreboding feeling suddenly rose in Fisher’s heart, for the next moment, Agareus softly spoke up, “The moment we are waiting for is now, waiting for the chaos within you to grow strong enough to seize that blessing of Fei from the dragon race.”
“!”
Fisher’s pupils slightly constricted, but at that moment, his body felt an unprecedented sense of crisis. He instinctively retreated a long distance until he gasped for breath back within the tunnel, only to find that the ground beside Agareus had begun to twist as if it had come alive, growing flesh and tendrils.
“Come, let us take you back. I’ll reunite you with your dragon race girlfriend, and then our business here will be concluded. I’ve spent enough time with that human scum; it’s time to end everything.”
Agareus’s tongue elongated and licked her lips, as if a certain power within her body repelled with the chaos currently within Fisher, creating a resistance.
That was the power of life chaos.
“Be careful, don’t forget the fate of Fei. Go all out to avoid a long night full of dreams.”
“. I know.”
Barbatos softly spoke up, reminding Agareus of the cautionary tale.
They certainly remembered that scene when Fei, who had participated in the Mythical War, returned injured from the destruction of the God of the Ocean to the Dragon Court during the Soul Disaster.
Although his failure was directly caused by the overwhelming chaos and his injured state, they all knew that if the Dragon God had been more cautious and not underestimated the disaster caused by a Trans away from the beginning, then he would at least have had a much greater chance of survival.
It was well-known that the World Tree died due to chaos; it was just that Fei arrogantly thought it was because he stole the roots of the World Tree that she couldn’t withstand the chaos. His arrogance put his power first, neglecting the very chaos itself.
Even when he heard that the Duke of Peach could use that power to contend with the Heavenly Lock, he didn’t take it to heart because by the time he went to the Tree Continent, the Duke had already been killed by a mysterious person using strange powers.
Repeated negligence finally made Fei pay the price, not only disappearing from the annals of history but also causing everything created by his descendants to vanish.
Facing the chaos currently surging within Fisher, Agareus and Barbatos both took on fighting postures. Their relentless demeanor made the pressure on Fisher surge, as if he were being hunted once more by Heya’s Death.
Sweating coldly, he still remained calm, retreating forcefully into the cave while internally calling for Cupid to return the black mud into his body while activating the inscribed mythical magic.
“Buzz buzz buzz!”
“Self-created mythical magic, Dream and Soul Dual Ring First Kill Magic No. 1”
As he retreated into the cave, two dreamlike circular heads exploded in an explosion, devouring everything outside like black holes.
“Whoosh!”
But the next second, an arrow encased in a storm shot through everything, aimed straight for Fisher’s face.
The raging wind disheveled his black hair; he stomped on the ground hard, spinning like a top in mid-air for seven hundred and twenty degrees. Just as he turned back to face the ground, a terrifying shadow instantly appeared before him—it was Agareus, grinning ominously.
She still wore her somewhat nerdy black-framed glasses and had a petite figure, but both her hands seemed to be driven by the power of life chaos and became as quick as lightning, targeting Fisher’s spine and lower body.
In the hazy dust ahead, Barbatos was also rushing over, holding a bow and arrow.
They intended to knock him unconscious but did not wish to kill him directly.
Fisher interpreted their intentions, feeling that they were not going all out to kill him, unlike the Duke of Peach who aimed to eradicate them.
This might be an opportunity to buy more time.
In that electric moment, Fisher’s brain operated at its limit, and his thoughts became exceptionally clear.
“Cupid!”
He had grown accustomed to viewing the black mud in his mind as another existence. Although fundamentally it was part of him, he discovered that this separation helped him control the madness brought by the black mud; because by temporarily dividing it from himself, the madness belonged to it and not to the rational self he urgently required.
He summoned the abyss of his inner consciousness and wrapped it around his hands to block Agareus’s attack, while simultaneously paying attention to another mythical magic inscribed during the battle, using it to stop Barbatos.
“Self-created mythical magic, Space and Time (Fate) Dual Ring First Magic”
“Deng deng deng!”
In the next second, the spaces and time in the cave began to warp, while Fisher, wrapped in black mud, resisted against Agareus.
Agareus almost instantly saw through the properties of the black mud; she knew that substance absorbed the souls of other beings, so she wouldn’t foolishly engage with it. Thus, in Fisher’s astonished gaze, her arm twisted instantly, transforming into countless thick, mythically empowered tentacles.
This was the power of life chaos!
“Deng deng deng!”
Those tentacles moved like spears and whips, faster than the black mud controlled by Fisher, circling wildly and striking him. In an instant, sounds of bones cracking and muscles and blood exploding rang out from Fisher’s body.
The intense pain caused his soul to tremble involuntarily, and his reason made the most rational decision instantly, as he immediately wrapped himself in black mud and spun to evade Agareus’s attack, rolling several times in the air before crashing against the cliff edge a hundred meters away.
“Cough cough!”
Fisher lay on the ground, the flesh torn open by Agareus’s tentacles forming gaping bloodholes as wide as bowls. He could only cover the wounds with black mud and then raise his eyes to look in Agareus’s direction.
She stood still, her hands gradually returning from tentacles to normal. Then, after glancing at Barbatos, who was walking out of that mythical magic behind her, she smiled at Fisher, saying, “Your thinking is quite clear. I wonder, are you more capable than that human who stole treasures of knowledge from me? She tried her utmost to obtain methods of entering the myth using life chaos from me; I wonder if she achieved her goal before her death.”
Barbatos walked to her side, adjusting his robe that had been disordered by the mythical magic, looking at Fisher on the ground and saying, “Hurry up, he… wait, on your face…”
Before Barbatos could finish his sentence, his attention was drawn to Agareus’s face, where he suddenly noticed that a small wisp of black mud was stirring on her skin.
The black mud had not extracted her soul, so Agareus didn’t notice it for the time being. But in Barbatos’s surprised gaze, the black mud transformed into an extremely tiny and minuscule magic rune on Agareus’s face.
Barbatos turned to look at Fisher, only to see him gritting his teeth, seemingly exerting all his effort to manipulate the black mud to form magic.
But Barbatos’s warning came too late, for in that moment he spoke, the black mud had already formed a dual ring magic of “Lightning” and “Destruction.”
“Ten Ring Dual Ring Magic, Hunt the Giant Dragon Spear!”
“What?”
Agareus looked towards Barbatos, but the next second, a colossal thunder spear capable of piercing the firmament exploded from the tiny point on her cheek, instantly engulfing her head.
“Sizzle sizzle sizzle!”
Barbatos raised the robe on his hand to shield himself from Agareus’s exploding head and half of her body, as the pieces and blood “dripped drip-drip” onto his clothing, soaking his robe like rain.
“Thud!”
In the next moment, Agareus’s head, blown off by magic, fell powerless to the ground, leaving Barbatos somewhat speechless.
“Cough cough.”
Fisher certainly knew this could not kill Agareus, but he had to delay as much as possible. Yet he lay prone on the ground, watching Barbatos take no action, while Agareus’s motionless, mutilated body really showed no sign of life.
This situation left Fisher momentarily stunned, instinctively developing the illusion that “I really killed Agareus.”
But an illusion was still an illusion, because the next second, he suddenly felt pain in his neck.
He looked down, only to find that the area where his collarbone connected to his neck was slightly swelling, as if a lump had formed in the blood vessels beneath his skin, growing rapidly—almost instantaneously, it ballooned from being less than a centimeter to twenty or thirty centimeters.
He painfully pressed his neck, but still could not stop the growing lump until the flesh and skin could no longer contain it.
“Uh!”
“Bang!!”
Fisher’s pupils suddenly narrowed, his eyes widened to an unprecedented degree, revealing all the pain he was enduring, and then that massive flesh lump on his neck suddenly swelled and ruptured, releasing a blood mist six or seven meters high, exploding his neck and taking his right arm and abdomen with it.
“Pfft!”
He fell to the ground, expression stiff, while from his body, a small, blood-soaked figure resembling an alien burst forth, standing beside him with a smile, looking at Fisher, who lay motionless in a pool of blood with wide-open eyes.
“. Not a bad thought. If it were a careless sixteen-tiered fellow, they might have fallen for your trick, but unfortunately, being our enemy is a bit too challenging for you. Come, let us take you to meet your dragon race girl again. I wonder if she will feel heart-wrenching when she sees you in this miserable state.”
“Boom!”
At this moment, a rich scent of sulfur and saltpeter suddenly approached, and a crimson light resembling a meteor shot in from afar, directly striking toward Agareus.
Agareus paused slightly, sensing the incoming punches and kicks within that red meteor, and retreated while raising her hand, blocking the elbow strike with her left arm and the two kicks with her right, casually stepping outside the scope of Fisher.
“.”
Compared to the attack of the red meteor, Agareus seemed more like she was retreating voluntarily, her originally bloody smile faded as she regarded the arriving figure.
At that moment, standing before Fisher was the Demon God Eil, shaking a bursting fireball.
Agareus relaxed her fighting stance slightly, then patted her arm that had been struck by Eil, smiling as she said, “If it were the real body of Eil, I could not have defended against such a skillful attack. Unfortunately, you are currently in a state of soul separation, unable to exert your combat skills, let alone keep up with my eyes.”
Eil, however, paid no attention to Agareus, her gaze filled with worry as she looked at Fisher, who lay bloodied on the ground. Whether it was because she felt Eil’s gaze, his previously stiff body began to tremble little by little, proving that he was still alive.
Eil couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. After exchanging looks with him, she then relaxed her fighting stance and looked at the Agareus and Barbatos whom she hadn’t seen for a long time.
Agareus watched Eil turn to care about Fisher, and couldn’t help but let out a self-mocking laugh, saying, “It seems the one feeling heartache is not that dragon race, but rather my dear friend.”
Barbatos lightly jumped forward, looking at Eil standing in front of Fisher, and after contemplating, he said, “Don’t rush, Eil. We are not enemies. What we need is not him; we just temporarily require his assistance to seize that blessing from the dragon race. After that, he will still be alive, still be yours.
“And once we take the blessing, that dragon race will disappear, and you’ll no longer have that hindrance between you and him, and we will all regain our freedom.
“Why not, Eil?”
