Chapter 655 - Petty Tricks May Be Pretty Useful (2/2)
He suddenly turned his head back, only to see a man floating at the same altitude he was.
The man had an androganyous face. His features were smooth and fair. He looked quite handsome, but he had curved eyebrows, tiny red lips, and freckled skin. He wore a white cloak and white pants, but no shoes. His feet were reflecting glimmers of sunlight.
Roland subconsciously flew back on the cloud, but the man followed him just as quickly.
No matter how Roland flew and halted, he remained five meters in front of the cloud.
Even more unbelievably, Roland couldn’t detect any magic waves from the man.
Also, Roland found that the space around him was disrupted. The man nullified the spatial magic within a certain range just by standing there.
Roland had seen a similar situation from Morris earlier.
A Demon God!
Even if he weren’t, he must be an expert on the same level as Morris.
Roland wanted to run, but he couldn’t use spatial magic, and he couldn’t fly as fast. How could he flee?
“Who are you?” Roland wasn’t in a hurry to run anymore and stopped. “Are you a Demon God?”
The man had gray hair and looked at the cloud under Roland’s feet with great interest. “This spell that you modified is quite interesting. Can you tell me the mechanism behind it?”
Roland chuckled. “Do you think I’ll just share my knowledge with a random stranger?”
“My name is Paimon. We aren’t strangers anymore.” The man smiled.
Paimon! That’s a familiar name… Roland was stunned for a moment. He then realized that it was the name of the guy who made a portal and set up a trap for him with causal magic
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“I know who you are. You are the maker of the
portal.”
Paimon nodded and smiled. “I can tell that you triggered my teleportation array.”
The guy’s eyes were filled with mockery.
Roland was rather angry. “Is it fun to set up other people?”
“It indeed is,” Paimon admitted openly. “You are a fun man too. Do you want to be my subject?”
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Heh! Roland scoffed again and considered how he could leave the place.
“If you’re unwilling to, I’ll have to extract your soul.” Paimon raised his hand and snatched at Roland. “However, I prefer to get a complete life, so let me ask again. Do you surrender?”
Roland sensed a claw-shaped mental cage forming around himself.
Almost all the magical elements were blocked by the cage.
A Demon God!
He had to try his best without keeping any secrets anymore.
Roland was never one to waver. He always set his decisions in motion immediately.
He quickly transformed into a fiery Elemental Lord and then took out the magic power brick from his system Backpack. He was about to put it in his stomach, when unexpected changes happened.
Paimon’s eyes glittered, and his grimacing expression became solemn.
He saw the magic power brick in Roland’s hand and quickly snatched with his right hand. Roland was restrained by five streams of mental power and couldn’t move anymore.
He couldn’t move even though he was in the form of fire elements, and his movement of stuffing the blue magic power brick into his belly was frozen.
Paimon floated close and extended his finger about one meter away from Roland, and the magic power brick fell out of Roland’s hand and into his.
He observed it carefully for a moment and asked Roland, “Where did you get this cornerstone of a floating city?”
Although Roland was restrained, it was still possible to communicate with mental power.
“I picked it up by chance.”
Paimon, however, was unconvinced. He extended his left hand and scratched the magic power brick with his pretty fingernail.
The unbelievably hard magic power brick dropped a layer of blue powder under his scratching He then tasted the powder and said, “It’s a state-of-the-art cube of magic power that’s filled with your aura, yet you claim that you picked it up. Do you think I’m an idiot?” Roland chuckled. “Who knows?”
Although he couldn’t move, and he was sure that he couldn’t defeat the guy, Roland didn’t think that he had to beg for mercy.
The guy might be a Demon God, but so what? Even though he might lose a lot of EXP after dying, his level wouldn’t drop.
He could always accomplish more quests and try to make up for the EXP he lost. He could be resurrected.
“Surrender the method with which you made this, and I’ll set you free.” Paimon tossed the magic power brick in his hand.
Roland was still chuckling.
Paimon drifted close and extended his left hand. Then, he raised Roland, who was still in the form of fire elements, as if he were grabbing something solid.
“Young human, don’t test my boundaries. I know that the Golden Sons are fearless of pain, but I can torture your soul.”
Roland’s fire element body flinched. Then he said, “You must let me go first and give the magic power brick back to me. I got that thing with tremendous effort. You can’t steal it from me, or I won’t tell you how to build a floating city.”
“Okay.”
Paimon loosened his hand and threw Roland back to the cloud. He then tossed the magic power brick back to him.
Paimon didn’t think that Roland couldn’t flee from him, not even with a body of fire.
After all, the strength gap between them was too huge.
After reclaiming the magic power brick, Roland turned back into human form.
His human form was far less powerful than the fire element form. Paimon was even more relaxed to see that.
He didn’t believe that the guy couldn’t escape from a Demon God. After turning back into a human being, Roland took a deep breath.
Then, the black scythe appeared in his hands and was stuck to the magic power brick.
Huh?
Paimon was briefly stunned to see the black scythe. Then, his face greatly changed, and he reached for Roland’s neck.
His move was as quickly as lightning.
But it was too late.
The magic power brick underwent a transformation the moment it touched the black scythe.
A great amount of black fog emanated from the scythe.
Paimon’s hand touched the black fog as he reached out.
Yet, it was blocked by the seemingly unsubstantial fog. His right hand was merely thirty centimeters away from Roland’s neck but couldn’t press on anymore.
“Nether God!”
Paimon roared at the sky.