Chapter 821 (1/2)

It seemed to Hao Ren that the translucent shadow had said something to him before it vanished. He was certain he had heard a few words, but he could not make of what that meant nor why she did it.

Everything had quieted down and Vivian had absorbed the light dots. Hao Ren shook his head, trying not to think about what he had just heard and seen. “Is she dead?” he asked.

“Not really,” Vivian shook her head and pointed at herself. “She has come home. Here.”

“So you got her memory?”

“Some and it’s better than what I expected,” Vivian said with a sigh of relief. “At least I now know what this so-called ‘evil spirit’ is all about.”

“Tell me later.” Hao Ren noticed that Vivian was exhausted judging from her expression. The magic circle had drained her. The space began to fall apart as the living tissue was wilting and cracking. It was as if watching plants withering in a sped-up video, the organ turned black, decomposed, drifted out into the low-gravity space before falling towards the chaotic arc into the center of the planet, all happened so fast. Hao Ren quickly held Vivian. “Let’s get out of here,” he said.

He tucked the MDT in his pocket and lunged out with Vivian to the outside. On the outside, he found that the tentacles that connected like a cable bridge to the organs began to break apart. The living tissues that once held the ‘prison’ in place also began to disintegrate. Debris were falling like meteorites from above. He could vaguely recognize the debris judging from their red color; they were body pieces of the demon-god Vivian.

Vivian was nervous. “Is this planet going to end just like this? Is this place the weakness of the First Born?”

Hearing that, Hao Ren quickly sent out the probes and checked the situation in other parts of the planet. He breathed a sigh of relief. “The damage is local and only to this space. This space was where heterogenization and the severe union and distortion between Vivian MK-II and the First Born happened.”

Vivian tweaked him on his arm. “That’s a bloody weird name!”

Over on the safe island, a massive water enchantment was shielding them from the chaos in the surroundings. Nangong Wuyue was looking into the distant battlefield anxiously. She saw the demon god disintegrating and knew that Hao Ren and Vivian had made it. Only when the two of them came back safely, she breathed a sigh of relief. As always, Lily was the one jumping up to Hao Ren. She went around and sniffed him for a while and then looked at him, whose clothes was tattered. “Dang! You look like shit!”

“Just some minor bruises and it’s already healed,” Hao Ren said as he looked at the others. “Are you guys okay?”

Hessiana came out from behind Turcan and Kassandra, feeling embarrassed. She tucked away her bat wings and bowed her head. “Ma’am Vivian, I’m sorry that I was of no help.”

“It’s okay. You’ve done well, much better than I did last time,” said Vivian, smiling. Hao Ren looked on, noticing Vivian’s changed attitude towards Hessiana; she was a lot gentle this time. “What about others?” Vivian asked.

Nangong Wuyue raised her tail and wagged a couple of times. “We’re fine, except Sanba. He is still disoriented. Probably the mind control thing is still ringing in his head.”

Nangong Sanba was lying on the ground with a figure-4 leg cross. Hao Ren gave him a sideways glance. “More like he is faking it. A good beating is all it takes to shake him up.”