Chapter 914 (1/2)

Right from the start when Hao Ren began to rummage in his dimensional pocket and take out loads of funny stuff, Hasse had been staring at him, unable to make head or tail about what he was doing nor talking. Now, he could not help but ask: “Are you affected by the roulette?”

He thought that Hao Ren had succumbed to pressure and lost his mind.

Hao Ren finally found a few pieces of paper, which were the labor contract he signed with the Goddess. While lamenting that time flew, he was stunned a little hearing Hasse speaking. “What?”

“Are you going to use these things to sealing the Solar Roulette?” Hasse pointed to the papers in Hao Ren’s hands.

“Never try, never know,” Hao Ren said and nodded matter-of-factly, but he knew it would work. It was not the first time he was using the divine contract to get difficult things done. The stuff that the Goddess gave him always worked like a charm despite them sounding and looking weird.

While Hasse was hesitating whether he should knock Hao Ren out before the Solar Roulette deranged him, Hao Ren already went up to the altar with his labor contract in his hands. Standing beneath the ten-meter Gilded Disc, Hao Ren felt like he would be crushed like a bug at any time if the thing fell. When he held the papers near the disc, the incredible happened.

The disc emitted an incredible sound, as if a sigh, and also the grinding sound of metals that reverberated throughout the hall. When listening carefully, it was as ethereal as an illusion. The Gilded Disc ground to halt slowly and the patterns on it stopped pulsating. All these things went into torpor before the supreme divinity.

The liquid black substance beneath the Gilded Disc faded as the divine contract approached and quickly moved away as if fearing of authority.

Hao Ren was delighted. “It works!”

Hasse looked like an idiot. “What the hell is this?”

The poor senior demon hunter tried to rationalize what he saw. He guessed that the few sheets of paper in Hao Ren’s hands were probably filled with some mysterious runes, or that Hao Ren was casting powerful magic with the papers. As a traditional demon hunter, he would instinctively filter anything had to do with gods out of his mind.

Vivian patted Hasse on his shoulder. “Didn’t I tell you that you should just treat him as a robot cat, and don’t try to rationalize?”

The divine contract had produced an unexpected effect. Seeing that he was able to suppress the black substance on the Gilded Disc and there was a sign of dissipation, he realized that he might be able to do a better job—not just sealing up the Gilded Disc but also cleansing it entirely if the divine power of the contract was strong enough.

He affixed the few pages of the contract on the parts of the Gilded Disc where black shadow corruption was most severe. Unable to find glue, he used his saliva as adhesive.

Hasse had given up thinking entirely and just watched quietly. In this ancient secret realm, on this ancient and mysterious altar, Hao Ren was clinging to the altar and sticking the papers onto the world’s oldest divine artifact using his saliva. The most incredible thing was that it did work in taming the powerful and dangerous object. Hasse felt that it was time for him to retire; the world was changing too fast, and he thought he could not keep up anymore. Perhaps he could work as a janitor at headquarter after retirement, but he did not know if he could still recover from his shattered worldview.

On the other hand, Hao Ren saw his trick worked. On the contract papers with the name of the Raven 12345 on, a soft white light was purifying the tainted Gilded Disc. The shadows dissipated in the air like a puff of smoke; they were not being suppressed or sealed but eliminated.

“I should have thought of this early.” Hao Ren looked at the results with satisfaction.

“You are full of surprises,” Y’zaks said, blinking.

Hao Ren let out a subtle smile, taking that a compliment. At this time, the shadows on the Gilded Disc had almost completely dissipated. Hao Ren glanced at the part that had just finished purification and found something suspicious.

After the black substance disappeared, it left behind some light marks, which were not the previous contaminant, but dark-red stains, some sprinkled liquid that had dried up.

Vivian noticed Hao Ren’s startled expression on his face. “What happened?” she asked.

“I don’t know what it is, the surface of the disc is a bit dirty,” Hao Ren said casually. He could not help himself but reach out to touch them. “It looks like—”

*Boom!*

A loud bang suddenly arose. Hao Ren felt a sense of wooziness as if he was thrown from space to the ground, slamming down in a whirlpool. After struggling to recover his senses, he opened his eyes and found himself falling in a foreign place.

“Ouch! It hurts.” Hao Ren got to his feet. He found himself standing in magnificent ruins. It was a palace. Massive pillars and incredible majestic sculptures were falling around him. The hall covered with red spar was being torn apart by a violent quake. Above him was a colorful crystal dome that had been punctured with a huge hole. Through the hole, he saw fire in the sky and sulfur rain pouring down together with the burning pieces into the world like rainstorms, and there were loud explosions in every direction.

“Vivian?” Hao Ren called out to his teammates. “MDT?”

His voice vanished in this chaos, and no one answered him. His shared mind connection with the MDT had also gone silent.