Volume 3, Chapter 32 – If Not for That Old Woman? Would You Even Be Alive Today?

This uninvited guest who had entered the presidential office pushed a silver food cart. The wheels made a slight creaking sound as they rolled, seeming to foretell the arrival of something ominous.

His steps were steady, and the corners of his mouth curved into a faint smile, carrying a somewhat sinister meaning.

Shortly after, the food cart slowly came to a stop at the entrance of the President’s office.

“Ruerdeng! Why are you here?!”

Staring at the face of this Maretide Kingdom ambassador, Shawn Ge also sternly questioned him.

With clenched fists, the silvery-gray spiritual power began to slowly mobilize within Shawn Ge’s body, gathering toward his fists.

Obviously, at this moment, the timing of Ruerdeng’s appearance here was highly unusual.

On the other side, facing the wary gazes of both Lakbi and Shawn Ge, this Maretide Kingdom envoy named ‘Ruerdeng’ acted as if nothing was wrong, waving at the two and displaying a friendly smile.

“Good evening, Mr. President, Sir Shawn Ge. No need to be so cautious, I’m just here to deliver a gift.”

“A gift?”

Shawn Ge frowned.

“Yes, a gift for the President. Isn’t today your daughter’s birthday, Mr. President? I specially prepared a birthday cake for her.”

With a slight smile, under the solemn gazes of both Lakbi and Shawn Ge, the man elegantly extended his hand and gently lifted the cover.

Instantly, a pungent stench of blood and decay filled the entire room, like the foul odor of an opened tomb, making one’s stomach churn.

“This, this is?!”

What came into view wasn’t a beautiful birthday cake, but a horrifying object filled with the stench of corruption—the cake’s surface was crawling with writhing maggots, greedily devouring the blackened, rotting cream, leaving behind numerous tiny holes.

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At the top of the cake were two severed human heads!

The faces of the two heads were distorted, eyes bulging, mouths agape, as if they had experienced extreme terror before death, frozen in this horrifying moment. Dried blood trailed down their necks, intertwining with the mold on the cake, forming an extremely terrifying scene. Maggots freely crawled between the eye sockets and the corners of the mouths, seemingly tearing at the remaining flesh, making this sight even more bone-chilling and eerie.

More importantly, these two human heads belonged to Lakbi’s wife and daughter.

In an instant, the President’s heart almost stopped beating and shattered. Unprecedented pain and sorrow, like a broken dam releasing floodwaters, spread through Lakbi’s inner world in an instant.

“Mili, Annie?! No, no… how could this be…”

Lakbi trembled, retreating several steps.

Compared to Lakbi who was consumed by grief, Shawn Ge was much calmer.

The moment he saw the President’s wife and daughter’s collected heads, the identity of the person before them no longer needed questioning—he must be the mastermind behind this kidnapping case!

And this person’s visit to the President’s office now was clearly not just to intimidate, but definitely to harbor malicious intent toward the President.

Since that was the case…

“Boom!”

With a thunderous sound, the ground beneath Shawn Ge’s feet and the wall behind him suddenly shattered. This Celestial Augur Knight directly released his spiritual power, and under the powerful propulsion, he shot toward Ruerdeng like a bullet, unhesitatingly swinging his iron fist.

The momentum was tremendous, with a single strike breaking through the air.

However, facing Shawn Ge’s terrifying attack, Ruerdeng merely glanced at him indifferently. What appeared in his blue eyes wasn’t fear, but contempt. Then, as a dark purple strange light emanated from Ruerdeng’s chest, streaks of purple cracks instantly spread from his chest, directly covering Ruerdeng’s entire body.

This ambassador’s pupils also transformed into a deep dark purple in this moment.

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The previously refined and cultured aura instantly vanished, replaced by a suffocating coldness and a madly expanding abyss-like malice.

Ruerdeng’s consciousness seemed to be controlled and replaced by another more powerful presence in this instant.

“It’s not your turn yet. Get lost.”

A strange, gloomy, and slightly insane voice drifted out from ‘Ruerdeng’s’ mouth.

Cold and filled with suffocating pressure.

In the next moment, the blue-haired man casually raised his hand. A terrifying vibration suddenly spread out, hitting Shawn Ge with the force of an avalanche! In just an instant, the spiritual power field gathered around Shawn Ge was crushed.

“BOOM!!”

With a huge explosion, Shawn Ge spat blood, his entire body flying backward, smashing through the wall behind him and crashing into a distant building!

Such a loud noise also temporarily freed Lakbi’s thoughts from grief. After pressing his chest to suppress his sorrowful tears, Lakbi stared intently at the blue-haired man before him.

Though his energy still registered as human when sensed?

But why could he use curse power?

And it was curse power of such high intensity that it could blast away Shawn Ge.

“Who exactly are you?”

Having calmed down, Lakbi suppressed his inner grief and anger, seriously questioning the blue-haired man.

“A Malevolence… or a Vassal?”

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Facing this question, the blue-haired man’s eyes narrowed slightly, with a trace of contempt quietly flowing from his dark purple pupils.

“What if I am? What if I’m not? What difference would it make if you knew?”

“How did you get in here?”

Staring at the terrifying figure holding the cake and walking toward him step by step, Lakbi asked again through gritted teeth.

Lakbi was now certain that the being before him was definitely a terrifying existence similar to a Malevolence’s Vassal.

While feeling intense unease, confusion also continuously welled up from the bottom of Lakbi’s heart.

It’s worth noting that this was Clavino, the capital of the Covenant.

This was the most heavily guarded area in the entire Westivian Covenant.

Countless mechanical guards, curse power detectors, perception fields… and the dome barrier covering the entire city.

Logically, if a Corrupted Beast had infiltrated, they couldn’t possibly have failed to detect it!

“What exactly did you do? How did you break through the barrier?”

“Barrier?”

As these two words reached his ears, the disdain on the blue-haired man’s face grew more intense.

He wasn’t in a hurry to kill Lakbi.

After all, the current Covenant President was, in his eyes… already like a fish in a barrel, able to be toyed with until death at any time.

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So, after a brief silence, the man let out a scornful laugh:

“How did I break through? Hehe, over these thousand years, you’re allowed to develop technology to target us? To create toys like Rashiel?… But we’re not allowed to develop special Abyss Hex Arts to shield against barrier perception? Hey, Mr. President… you’re truly naive.”

“Shield against perception?”

“Hehe. Moreover, your barrier, at most, can only stop some Vassals and lower-level Corrupted Beasts of weaker strength. To try and stop me? That’s a pipe dream. If I want to come, I can come anytime.”

Listening to these deep, hoarse words, a trace of fear involuntarily seeped into Lakbi’s angry expression.

But the next moment, Lakbi shook his head vigorously.

“Impossible… nonsense. The dome barrier combines spiritual power, barrier techniques, and nuclear kinetic energy. It’s our country’s high-level defensive barrier. If you really had the ability to casually break through such a defense, our struggles wouldn’t have dragged on until now…”

“Hmph, ha, haha, hahaha!”

Hearing this, purple light overflowed from the blue-haired man’s eyes. He clutched his chest and let out a frenzied and chilling laugh. The sound of his wild laughter, mixed with the purple curse power emanating from his body, rushed toward Lakbi with overwhelming force, directly causing the President to lose balance and suddenly drop to one knee.

“Haha… it seems calling you naive was still giving you too much face. This… is stupidity.”

“What?”

“You think you inferior species have survived until now… because of your strength? Because of your Divine-Graced Maidens, Celestial Augur Knights, and all sorts of explosive toys?”

Raising an eyebrow, a rare trace of sympathy appeared in the blue-haired man’s eyes as he looked at Lakbi.

“Let me tell you… you’re still alive today only because that old woman always interferes with our affairs! Without that old woman, you would have been gone long ago!” the blue-haired man hissed coldly.