Volume 2, Chapter 69 – Coburn’s Wailing… Which Was Completely Useless

“Heh, hehe, was it this easy…”

Staring at the ruby collar in his hand, feeling the Augury Force continuously flowing from within the ruby, Coburn’s smile grew increasingly fierce.

The fear and anxiety in his heart vanished completely at this moment.

Slowly turning to face the blue-haired girl who remained stunned in place, Coburn spoke with immense contempt, as befitting a victor.

“When all is said and done, Lianna, you’re still too green. Now without the Sacred Stone, I’d like to see you… hmm??”

Before his arrogant words could finish, Coburn froze in place, his blue eyes suddenly filled with intense bewilderment.

Lianna’s figure still stood silently in the distance, in front of her mother Funisa.

But in front of him, somehow, a strange and enormous crimson eyeball connected by black liquid had appeared.

The blood-red eye was hollow and eerie, staring at him unblinkingly.

At this moment, the smile on Coburn’s face froze, and a chill that penetrated to his soul spread through his body.

“This, this eye, wha-what kind of joke is this?!”

A terrifying thought immediately surfaced in Coburn’s mind.

The next moment, Coburn immediately shook his head, refusing to accept such an outlandish idea.

No, impossible, that monster was already eliminated.

It’s impossible!

Though forced to retreat two steps under the giant eye’s stare, Coburn still wore a fierce expression, angrily questioning:

“Lianna! What trick are you pulling now?!”

“Crimson Spectre Eye.”

“What?” Coburn’s heart trembled.

“I believe that’s what you call this thing.”

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“Lianna, don’t, don’t bluff me, that thing… how could it appear just one at a time…”

“Not enough? Very well.”

The blue-haired girl spoke indifferently.

As these words left her mouth, the ground beneath Coburn’s feet suddenly twisted.

The next moment, hundreds of blood-colored pupils appeared without warning on the floor and walls, staring fixedly at Coburn like demons’ eyes. Each pupil flashed with cold light, as if they could pierce directly through Coburn’s soul.

In an instant, the originally dim secret chamber was covered in this blood-red light.

A suppressive, suffocating atmosphere descended silently.

At the same time, slightly turning to look at Coburn behind her, Bai Lianyue’s eyes visibly transformed from their original beautiful emerald color to a malevolent dark red.

“By the way, stop calling me Lianna, I have a name.”

“Wh-what?”

“Gaia Lobir… a name you gave me, actually.”

As the words left her mouth, Bai Lianyue’s lips curled slightly upward, a bewitching smile displayed before Coburn’s eyes.

The moment this smile entered his sight, Coburn’s heart violently shuddered, as if gripped tightly by the claws of an abyssal demon.

Then, as if to further prove her words, as Bai Lianyue’s smile appeared, a terrifying and gloomy aura erupted from the girl’s slender body, sweeping through the entire secret chamber like a storm. The air seemed to solidify in that moment, oppressively suffocating. The curse power, eerie as the wailing of ghosts and gods, surged like a tidal wave, instantly enveloping Coburn.

Coburn’s body suddenly sank, as if pressed by an invisible giant hand. His knees weakened, uncontrollably falling to the ground.

His face instantly turned pale, cold sweat seeping from his forehead, his breathing becoming rapid and disordered. He tried to struggle but found his body seemed nailed to the ground, unable to move at all.

Intense fear spread like a virus through Coburn’s heart, preventing him from even thinking about mobilizing spiritual energy to resist.

“Heavens above…”

Though his heart continually refused to accept it, after feeling the suffocating curse power’s pressure and the corrosive aura that could drive one to mental collapse, Coburn had to face this cruel reality.

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The girl before him, identical to Lianna… was not the experimental subject he could manipulate at will, but the Sovereign of Corrupted Beasts feared by all…

The Terran Malevolence… Gaia Lobir.

You’ve got to be kidding?!

Wasn’t that monster eliminated by the Covenant?

Why would she suddenly appear here? And in Lianna’s form?!

Helgaena, she… wait? That person, she never eliminated the Terran Malevolence! She was acting with the Terran Malevolence?!!

Realizing this, Coburn instantly felt the urge to dismember that Maretide Kingdom’s Divine-Graced Maiden and feed her to pigs. If he had known Lianna was the Terran Malevolence in disguise!

Even with a hundred times more courage, he wouldn’t have tried to confront her!

“Wha-what, what exactly, do, do you want to do?”

Consumed by fear, Coburn asked tremblingly.

Faced with this question, Bai Lianyue didn’t directly answer, but continued silently observing the woman before her.

“Why did you make her like this?”

“……”

Coburn was taken aback, seemingly not understanding why the Terran Malevolence would ask this.

But guided by fear, the patriarch chose to tell the truth,

“Be-because, this woman was very, very disobedient, to make her abandon thoughts of escape, we disabled her limbs and meridians…”

“Oh.”

Bai Lianyue nodded indifferently.

“Then to prevent you from escaping, should I do the same? That should be fine, right?”

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“Huh?”

Coburn’s eyebrows twitched in confusion.

The next instant, before the House Anloxi patriarch could react, the blood-colored eyes surrounding him suddenly contracted, and an invisible twisting force directly enveloped Coburn’s limbs and chest.

The next moment,

“AAAAAAHHHHH—”

Accompanied by Coburn’s heart-wrenching screams, his limbs visibly withered and, after a twisted convulsion, suddenly exploded into a blood mist. Not just his limbs—the meridians near Coburn’s Primordial Core in his chest also ruptured completely in a series of contortions.

Without meridians to conduct spiritual energy, even though Coburn possessed peak Divine Martial Realm strength, he could not utilize it.

Regeneration was impossible.

In the blink of an eye, the House Anloxi patriarch became a cripple, lying pitifully on the ground, wailing continuously.

However, amidst his wailing, as if remembering something, a flash of light suddenly appeared in Coburn’s bloodshot eyes.

Supporting himself with his stumps, Coburn tremblingly raised his head,

“Gaia Lobir!! I… I, I want to play your Salvation Game!! Let’s, let’s make a bet!!”

As one of the top figures in the Westivian Covenant’s social pyramid, Coburn naturally knew about this game.

At this moment, the Salvation Game instantly became a lifeline in his heart.

Even though the chances of winning the Salvation Game were extremely low.

That was at least hope…

He was the patriarch of House Anloxi, the man destined to lead House Anloxi to become the number one power in the Westivian Covenant… how could he die here like this?!

However, ideals are full, reality is skeletal.

Coburn wanted to play the Salvation Game, but the Malevolence lady had no intention of giving Coburn the opportunity to participate in this game.

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“Sorry, the Salvation Game has a threshold… not just any Tom, Dick, or Harry can play.”

“Wh-what?”

As these words reached his ears, Coburn froze in place. After a brief moment of shock, terror and distortion immediately appeared on Coburn’s face. Seemingly realizing the killing intent contained in the surrounding Crimson Spectre Eyes, Coburn hurriedly shouted:

“Wait!! Gaia Lobir! I am the patriarch of House Anloxi, I can help you in many ways!”

“You must have your own purpose for invading the human world, right?! I can help you!”

“You want the Divine-Graced Maiden, right? I, I, I can introduce her to you!”

“I’m a person of some status, I can give you anything you want!”

“If you want more souls, I can help you infiltrate Klavino, then you can feast however you want!”

“I am absolutely more obedient, more useful than your other contractors! Please…”

However, Coburn’s attempts at self-promotion didn’t earn him anything, but rather made Miss Bai Lian’s expression increasingly cold.

“So noisy…”

Although she had forgotten many things, and her mind had become somewhat slow, the Malevolence lady still maintained her principles.

Those who harm her children… those who betray their companions… don’t deserve the chance to live.

“Why don’t you be quiet?”

As the words left her mouth, Bai Lianyue’s left hand silently split open. The next moment, under Coburn’s terrified gaze, the split arm instantly transformed into horrifying black liquid, surging toward Coburn like a flood.

“No, no, give me one chance…”

Unfortunately, before he could finish, the grotesque black liquid wrapped around Coburn like the claws of hell.

With his limbs disabled and meridians destroyed, Coburn didn’t even have a chance to struggle before being completely submerged…