Volume 7, Chapter 38 – Yunchou’s Promise

The originally quiet world became noisy.

Just a moment ago, the world Tianyin was in had been unbelievably quiet.

As the power of Lust was fully brought under control, the “shackles” that had been restricting her body were set free.

And at this moment, it was as if countless people were whispering right beside her ear.

“What a cute little thing… I really want her…”

“She’s so cute, why isn’t she mine? If she were mine alone, how great would it be to hold her and sleep every day like this?”

“Silver hair, and a loli too! She’s so cute I could dote on her for a lifetime…”

“Why does a mere little girl get to have Throne-tier power? Why can’t I have it?”

“…”

All kinds of things like that.

Countless malicious voices echoed in Tianyin’s mind. As those voices rang out, Tianyin’s expression, which had been at a loss at first, gradually returned to calm.

The ability of Lust is “emotion” and “desire”.

But putting it that way is far too broad. In truth, Lust’s real ability is “the mind”.

Inside the mind are all kinds of mental states. Everyone has a one of a kind inner world, and people with different inner worlds also have thoughts different from everyone else’s.

And as the controller of Lust, Tianyin could sense these “minds” before anyone else. And as long as someone had ever been influenced by Tianyin, whether a player or an NPC, Tianyin could hear the most genuine “thoughts” in that person’s heart.

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And after stripping away all disguise, the truest thoughts that players, or even NPCs, possessed were so full of malice.

Yes.

Malicious wishes, malicious thoughts, malicious hearts.

At this moment, Tianyin experienced, like never before, what people’s hearts were.

This was Lust.

This kind of power could manipulate other people’s hearts. Not only that, for anyone who had been affected by this power, Tianyin could very easily hear the most real thoughts in the deepest part of their hearts.

Of course, hearing it like this sounded like a good thing. But in a certain sense, it also invisibly dealt Tianyin a shock she found hard to accept.

People’s hearts are dark.

After Tianyin understood the source of those whispers, that conclusion came to her almost instinctively.

Of course, she couldn’t decide something like this immediately, and Tianyin also didn’t want to believe this was what reality was.

So Tianyin chose, by instinct, to forget and ignore the whispers at her ear, shifting her attention to the outside world.

「Xiaoyin… what’s wrong?」

At this time, Samael’s concerned voice suddenly rang out.

And although Samael was attached within Tianyin’s body, Samael couldn’t hear the voices Tianyin was “hearing”.

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So, in Samael’s perception, right after Tianyin truly gained control of the power of Lust, she suddenly fell into a motionless silence.

After a long time, Tianyin, who had stayed silent all this while, slowly closed her eyes, then let out a complicated sigh.

『I’m fine, Samael… I just suddenly feel kind of down…』

It was true that Tianyin’s mood right now wasn’t very good.

After all, the main reason was those countless malicious whispers by her ear, packed full of twisted wishes, after she fully controlled Lust.

『Did something happen? Or is there a problem with the power of Lust…?』

Even though Tianyin didn’t want to say it, this kind of covering it up only made it impossible to hide from Samael, who understood Tianyin the best.

So after Tianyin said she was fine, the worry in Samael’s heart grew heavier instead.

“…”

However, Tianyin didn’t want to talk about this matter at all, because to Tianyin, those whispers were just something unimportant.

No matter how malicious the whispers from those affected people were, Tianyin could choose not to care.

Because for Tianyin, what she cared about was what the people she cared about thought. As for the filthy opinions of other irrelevant people, even if Tianyin knew them, she could just ignore them.

Of course… it also wasn’t a solution to let it keep whispering like this, but Tianyin had a kind of intuition that if she quietly waited a little while, those whispers coming from different people’s hearts would slowly disappear.

“Well… as long as Xiaomengyao, Sister Xiaomu, Lucifa, and the others are here, that’s enough…”

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Tianyin’s “world” really was very simple. As long as she had the people she cared about by her side, that was enough. She didn’t need to care about too many people’s opinions, she just needed to stay wary of those people.

After silently thinking for a moment, Tianyin felt the heavy feeling in her heart from just now become light again.

But just as Tianyin was about to pull herself together, a thought suddenly sounded in her heart.

What if… Sister Xiaomu and the others also have malicious wishes?

And when that time comes, what should I do?

“…”

Tianyin didn’t know how to answer that question for a moment.

And as Tianyin felt troubled by the power of her Lust, all the participating players whose matches had already ended also left Dawn’s territory one after another.

Yunchou also knew that Tianyin didn’t welcome him, so he chose to leave from the start.

Using a teleportation item, he returned to Storm City, and after returning to his own base camp…

Yunchou personally received a girl wearing a pitch-black dress, whose appearance looked incomparably beautiful.

“Abyssal Lord… or should I call you Dragon of the End…”

“The title Dragon of the End isn’t remembered by many people anymore. I prefer the name Abyssal Lord.”

The girl smiled, but that smile carried a hint of “madness”.

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“Now it’s time to fulfill our agreement, Yunchou…”

The girl’s words seemed to carry a hidden meaning.

Of course, as for the agreement the girl mentioned, Yunchou naturally understood it perfectly.

So after hearing the girl’s words, Yunchou nodded with a look of understanding.

“My honor.”

“Abyssal Lord, as the location and passage for entering the Main World, I’ve already prepared everything.”

“Next, all that’s needed is for my lord’s demon army to descend through these passages.”

“And in order to better fulfill my promise, next, half of the Kingdom’s territory, I will hand it all over to your Inferno to control.”

“Hahahahahahahahaha, you finally managed to become the Kingdom’s leader, and you’re giving up half the territory like this, are you willing to accept that?”

“Of course I’m not willing.”

Facing the Abyssal Lord’s teasing, Yunchou answered very seriously.

Then, his eyes narrowed slightly.

“But… even so, what I promised, I will still do. Because this is the agreement between me and you, Abyssal Lord…”