Chapter 562: Devourer of Desires
Chapter 562: Devourer of Desires
Janet’s death completely crushed the morale of the evil organization’s spectators.
Especially as they could only watch Ling Zhan torment Janet helplessly.
“Damn it! That cursed non-specialist!”
“Just wait until you face our Demon Arrival Holy Son or Holy Daughter! If we don’t beat the crap out of you, we lose!”
“We’ll torture him to death! Just looking at him pisses me off!”
These followers of the evil organizations could only resort to harsh words to vent their frustration.
The competition continued.
It remained a brutal slaughter between both sides.
To outside spectators, each risky clash was thrilling and terrifying, but to members of the national reserve squads, it was nothing extraordinary.
On the battlefield, they had witnessed far worse.
Seeing corpses strewn everywhere was relatively mild.
Have you ever seen monsters using human corpses to build towers?
That’s why these reserve members weren’t surprised.
When they saw a participant from the national legions get killed, they only showed a trace of pity before quickly regaining composure.
Does this mean the national legions are indifferent to their comrades?
That’s certainly not the case.
Their calmness stemmed from the knowledge that they too might meet the same fate one day.
Maybe tomorrow, or perhaps someday.
Those who survive on the battlefield rarely meet a peaceful end.
To outsiders, becoming a reserve member meant they were geniuses among geniuses, unparalleled talents.
In reality, the dangers they faced and responsibilities they bore far exceeded those of ordinary legion members or gold-seeking adventurers.
Just as when Ling Zhan first arrived at the Hundred Ghosts Fortress, his superior immediately sent him to lead a team against a Ground Ghost General.
Adventurer legion members might be on the front lines, but they mostly dealt with minor monsters. Rarely did strong creatures appear among them, and they received buffs from support troops, leading to a relatively low death rate.
For the reserve squads, failing their special missions meant near-certain death, with a fatality rate of 90%.
That’s why reserve members had long become indifferent to life and death; they had to.
Without this detachment, they’d be consumed by despair.
Next, the captains of top squads took to the stage.
Third squad captain from the Free Federation, Stein, faced the Dark Church’s Holy Daughter, Livia.
Fusang Nation’s first squad captain, Gojou Takekou, faced a Cyclops from the Blood Hammer Guild.
Second squad captain, Ninomiya Sae, faced the third Demon General of the Demon Arrival Organization.
Among these three matches...
Only Ninomiya Sae managed to defeat her opponent.
The other two met tragic deaths.
The Free Federation’s legion leader stood up abruptly, his face dark with rage.
The reserve members of the Ghost Extermination Squad showed grief on their faces upon seeing Gojou Takekou’s death.
Gojou Takekou, the vice-captain’s son, was a genius expected to reach level 100 and tier-four.
Unfortunately, he lost to that Cyclops in this battle.
The Cyclops’ ability was extraordinarily eerie. Within a specific area, when it closed its eye, its opponent would lose all sensory perception.
It seemed that even opening or closing its eye was entirely under its control.
This left Gojou Takekou in utter despair.
He never expected his opponent’s talent to be so bizarre, nor realized he was trapped.
Can you imagine?
During a fight, the opponent suddenly uses a “lights out” move on you.
Then you’re completely blind.
At this level of combat, the fights are considered mid-to-high tier.
The strongest deathmatch under level 100!
In lower-level fights, even if you made a mistake and got caught, you might escape because the opponent’s stats weren’t strong enough.
But in these high-level matches, one mistake was like handing a knife to the enemy, allowing them to kill you directly!
No excuses.
Stein, known as the Storm Demon King, faced the Dark Church’s Holy Daughter, Livia.
Livia, dressed in a black skirt with a Lolita-style appearance, looked petite and adorable, like an ant before the Storm Demon King, as if she’d be blown away by the wind.
Yet the outcome was completely unexpected.
Just when everyone thought Stein’s storm would crush Livia effortlessly...
Stein suddenly dropped dead.
Yes...
He just abruptly dropped dead without warning.
The entire audience was utterly stunned, unable to understand what had happened.
Not just the spectators and reserve members.
Even the tier-four legion leaders furrowed their brows at this moment!
Because...
They couldn’t understand what had just occurred either!
It seemed like a curse attack, but far more absurd than typical curse spells!
It was almost instantaneous.
What exactly happened?
A same-level instant kill!
“No, wait...”
“It must be because some sort of talent prerequisite was fulfilled, allowing her to kill a same-level powerhouse so easily!”
Although they couldn’t discern the method used, the experienced legion leaders quickly pieced things together.
As the legion leaders speculated...
Stein had indeed fulfilled a prerequisite condition.
That condition was ‘desire.’
Livia’s SS-tier talent was called “Devourer of Desires.”
Its activation prerequisite was for the opponent to harbor any form of desire toward her.
Once triggered, she could devour their desire along with their soul.
Resulting in instant death.
This SS-tier talent was the reason Livia’s childhood was a living nightmare.
She was an orphan.
On her sixth birthday, she unknowingly awakened this talent.
She didn’t even realize it herself.
As a result, the orphanage director, who was celebrating her birthday, laced her cake with sedatives...
Yes, the director was a despicable scum of the earth.
But he had no idea Livia had awakened this talent.
When it inadvertently activated, the director, along with his desires and soul, was devoured by Livia.
He died instantly.
Livia later killed many more people uncontrollably.
When a friend felt ‘hatred’ toward her, they died.
When a man felt ‘lust’ for her, they died.
All desires were devoured.
This...
Was the SS-tier talent of the Dark Church’s Holy Daughter.
Stein’s ‘desire to win’ was also a form of desire.
Thus, his soul and his desire to win were devoured entirely.
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