Chapter 124. A Ga Beneath the Moonlight (12)
Whoosh—
A sound like the resonance of a bass note fired from the Silent Hamr's muzzle, vanishing in an instant in the direction the barrel was aid.
Without a shred of surprise, Luo Nan had drawn one of those five death-chances.
"So it turns out…… I'm nothing more than a villain occupying the Joker's Ecological Niche. The protagonist's good fortune—how could it possibly spare a glance for ?"
In a flash, Luo Nan broke into a liberated smile.
Then, that smile shifted, turning grave and solemn.
As for why Luo Nan had the gap between the round firing and striking its lethal target to complete this switch of two expressions……
Naturally—
He hadn't fired at his own head!
His target was Aeldelin Xueting.
"Good thing this performance was consistent as ever—no luck showing up where it's not needed."
This was Luo Nan's plan.
Including the three gas of different thes he had designed, his deliberate concession in Round Two, and even…… the act just now of invoking a previous-life famous maxim to refuse Aeldelin's temptation.
It was all for this one shot.
Things had also gone just as he had anticipated—even the purest Purifying Light rounds produced by the dillion family's Refiner under constant high-grade illusion-breaking rune engraving, from the Dawn Church, still could not threaten the crimson-haired beauty before him by a single hair.
Only that crystal round blazing with brilliant holy light and trailing a sacred beam of light was seen quietly hovering thirty centiters in front of Aeldelin.
Unable to advance even one milliter further.
"……"
"……"
The two people inside the white pavilion fell montarily silent, facing each other with nothing to say.
Luo Nan was waiting for Aeldelin to make her move.
While Aeldelin was gazing sowhat blankly at the handso young man before her.
Three seconds later, she seed to co back to herself; she extended her jade hand and "plucked" the crystal round floating in front of her.
Aeldelin raised this round up to her eyes and examined it carefully. "The power contained within it…… does indeed give just a touch of discomfort~~"
"But…… Mr. Luo Nan, you can't possibly think that sothing like this…… is enough to threaten , can you?"
Two slender jade fingers applied the faintest pressure; the crystal round in her grasp imdiately crumbled to dust, scattering with the wind.
The holy light sealed within it dissipated into nothingness along with it.
Aeldelin rose from her throne; her black gauze ceremonial gown was like darkness in motion, and in her eyes blazed a fierce, engulfing vivid crimson.
The expression on the crimson beauty's face was as still as water; the interest and that flicker of appreciation she'd had for Luo Nan were long since gone from her face.
What remained was only post-humiliation…… cold indifference, like the chill of winter.
Tap, tap, tap—
Threads of blood spread from her high-heeled shoes across the ground; countless spider lilies blood along her path of movent, creating a road of 'the other shore' from which there was no return.
With each step Aeldelin took closer, Luo Nan's heart lurched once.
A sky-filling, oceanic demonic aura—far exceeding what had previously been pressing down on his shoulders—descended abruptly.
Luo Nan felt as though his breathing had seized, as if the vivid crimson spider lilies had taken root within his body out of thin air, stealing away all his oxygen and suppressing the beating of his heart.
'Holy sh—, this is…… Aeldelin Xueting's true power!'
'She wasn't even being serious before!'
A sweetness surged up in his throat; Luo Nan knew his organs had already been made to bleed internally by such demonic pressure, and even his bones and joints seed on the verge of fracturing and dislocating.
Aeldelin walked unhurriedly to less than one ter before him.
At this distance, all Luo Nan needed to do was raise his elbow and he could touch her bewitching, desire-dripping, alluring figure.
She raised her lotus-white arm and, with gentle ease, pried the Silent Hamr from Luo Nan's death-grip, holding it in her own hand to toy with.
She mimicked Luo Nan's motion of changing rounds, swung open the magazine, glanced at the four crystal rounds remaining within, then snapped it shut again.
After a spin, Aeldelin raised the revolver, aid at……her own head.
Click—
The trigger was pulled, it clicked on empty, the round did not fire.
After completing this action, she tossed the Silent Hamr casually to one side—as though discarding trash.
"Mr. Luo Nan—honestly…… you've given quite a surprise again……"
"Th-th-thank…… you…… Lady…… Aeldelin…… for the…… com-complint."
Under the sky-filling demonic aura, Luo Nan could not even speak coherently at this mont.
Aeldelin gave a faint smile; in her eyes surged a destroying crimson glow; at the tip of the pair of jet-black spiraling demon horns at the top of her head, a vivid light likewise flickered to life.
The crimson beauty stepped forward once more, almost pressing her figure against Luo Nan's.
She raised a hand and touched Luo Nan's features. "It has been…… a very long ti since anyone tricked like this~~"
"Tell …… how should I 'reward' you?"
Just this distance—it was already enough!
Sothing stirred in Luo Nan's heart; he quietly called upon "the Point" where his power was stored.
"How about…… pulling your soul out to make a howling lantern? Let you feel my 'affection' for you through all eternity—"
"Or perhaps, transforming you into a rat and throwing you to the bottom of Naraku, letting you mingle intimately with those fellows there?"
"Or yet again……"
"……"
Hearing Aeldelin casually enurate those hair-raising "reward asures," cold sweat broke out on Luo Nan's forehead.
'Holy sh—, this person was truly this cruel, this evil, this treacherous, this temperantal, this unscrupulous in all things……'
"But it doesn't matter—this young master…… will not go along with your wishes!!!"
"The Point" opened in an instant.
Surging Battle Aura in that mont rushed forth like a river, breaking through the seal and obstruction of the sky-filling demonic aura, flooding entirely into his right arm.
"Thunderflash Step—rise!"
Luo Nan at this mont drove his only martial technique at full force regardless of the cost, without a second's thought for whether it might leave lasting damage on his right arm.
He roughly yanked the Truth-Piercing Star Spike pendant from where it hung around his neck, gripped it in his palm, and without an instant's hesitation, raised his hand and thrust.
Rrriip—
The sound of fabric tearing.
Luo Nan breathed out a sigh as if a great weight had been lifted.
"Finally…… pulled it off……"
"Though the spot struck isn't ideal……"
The twelve-faceted cone body Luo Nan was gripping had sliced through Aeldelin's black gauze ceremonial gown and struck her—left-side snow-white, full northern hemisphere, speckling that cone surface—which resembled a frozen night sky—with spots of vivid red; Luo Nan shifted his gaze away from that pair of upstanding, rounded fullness and t the rose-red eyes head-on.
He gave a faint smile and said:
"Function One—Pierce Illusion."
The instant the Truth-Piercing Star Spike activated, the vivid crimson, the pure white, the blood-red great sun, the pristine Twin Moon Deities—all vanished abruptly. The entire world returned to the Moonlight Greenhouse Luo Nan knew well.
The Twin Moon Deities' clear light pierced through the glass do once more, bathing the two of them.
"This is……"
Aeldelin's brows arched faintly; she felt only a naless, irresistible force smash apart her illusory domain and surrounding territory.
"Not over yet, Lady Aeldelin!"
"Function Two—Drain!"
No sooner said than done; Luo Nan's right hand—gripping the Truth-Piercing Star Spike, nearly buried within that jade-white softness—felt a vast, grinding force instantaneously use the skin contact between the two of them as a bridge, surging fiercely into his own body.
"It ca! Worthy of Aeldelin—even just this insignificant trickle of power can…… feel incredible!"
Luo Nan felt the cultivation bottleneck he'd been stuck at for over ten days at Tier One Mid-Stage shatter in an instant; the previously blocked ridians cleared in a breath, his Battle Aura rising like a tide, vast and surging.
"I broke through! Tier One Late-Stage!"
No ti for joy; Luo Nan knew clearly he was still in danger.
Having gotten over the initial shock and panic, Aeldelin had now also snapped back to her senses.
She could feel her power being continuously siphoned away through the twelve-faceted cone body piercing her skin, as well as through the point where this person was pressed flush against her chest!
"So that's how it is…… it seems I've underestimated you, Luo Nan von dillion."
Aeldelin grasped the situation in a single instant.
It turned out…… the man before her had been planning from the very beginning to use this ace in the hole against her.
All three rounds of gas, all three different experiences, were nothing but his opening maneuvers.
All of it—tactics to stir her interest and her emotions.
These three rounds of gas, as well as that final 'Fate' gamble; those five deaths and one life; that 'for the sake of freedom, both can be cast away'; with all of these combined, the man before her could ignite within her the fury born of her 'cowardice' and 'shalessness' toward him.
Could make him…… get this close to her.
No wonder he had insisted on sending those two little girls away before Round Three began……
So it was to flip the table on her all along.
One had to say—the anger that had been building in Aeldelin's heart instantly dissipated; replacing it was a creeping, soul-pervading……
Excitent!
"This truly is…… so terribly interesting~~" Aeldelin's cheeks flushed crimson, her eyes hazy.
Her voice even carried so sort of pleasure at having been satisfied.
Only to see her reach out and grip Luo Nan's right arm, and say softly: "I have taken a great liking to you, my…… Luo Nan."
"I take back what I said before—you, Luo Nan von dillion, will be my most beloved~~"
"But before that, I still need to give you a proper punishnt—after all…… my belonging must not be too unruly~~"
Saying this, Aeldelin revealed a dangerous smile.
Luo Nan kept his expression unchanged; his right hand gave a slight twist, causing the crimson beauty's chest to swell with a surge of ripples.
"Lady Aeldelin—do you think…… it's over already?"
"Mm?"
"Function Three—Seal!"
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