Chapter 42.2 (1/2)

Before Xiao Tangqiu could carefully study the Ouroboros pattern on the cover of the book, Lippinobert opened it. He let out a strange, creepy laugh from his throat. “Don’t worry, darling, you’ll soon be a part of my body…”

Xiao Tangqiu laughed bitterly, “Can I refuse?”

“Why refuse?” Lippinobert smiled coldly. “Come, become a part of me. Your body and soul will become a part of me, a part of her…”

Xiao Tangqiu subconsciously took a step back, but before he could run away, his foot was caught by something. He looked down and saw countless puppet hands sticking out from under the floor of the church, firmly holding his feet.

Xiao Tangqiu couldn’t move despite struggling vehemently. The hands that stretched out from the ground were as powerful as iron chains and held him firmly.

Lippinobert looked down and flipped the book as if he were looking for something. Soon, he stopped on one of the pages. “Found it…”

His voice was somber and cold, and every word sounding sinister. “Demon sacrifice… sacrifice your souls… Call her dead soul back to earth…”

Xiao Tangqiu struggled violently. At the same time, the gears in his brain were also rapidly turning. Lippinobert’s purpose was obvious – this terrible man was going to offer his soul as a sacrifice!

Not only is his soul, but perhaps all those players who had died plus the souls of Shen Yuan and his team! Lippinobert was going to sacrifice all their souls to summon the dead of Lily Marlene!

Lippinobert had sacrificed so many of them, including his own relatives and the entire town of Daemon, just to summon the dead soul of a woman he imagined… This man was completely insane!

Xiao Tangqiu felt fear and despair. He was much more desperate now than in the previous instance. Although Fang Lan of the previous instance was also terrible, it wasn’t invincible after all. However, Lippinobert was abnormally strong, seeming impossible to defeat… Was this the gap between a D-level mission and S-level mission?

He couldn’t help but think of Yun Jizhou, who suddenly woke up at the end of the last instance. Right when he was about to be killed by him, he had felt the exact same way as he did now – despair and fear. He didn’t even have any more courage to struggle and only hated his own fragility and insignificance.

Maybe the way you feel before you die always remains the same…

Right when Xiao Tangqiu lost all hope, a figure suddenly appeared at the door of the church.

His heart skipped a beat, could it be…

However, in the next second, he was disappointed.

The man who appeared at the church door wasn’t the one he imagined, but someone he hadn’t thought of at all.

“…It’s you? Why are you here?!”

Xiao Tangqiu was shocked, subconsciously blurting out.

“Quickly, run! Don’t come in here!”

The man who came inside the church was the young man who had begged to join their team this morning. He entered the church with something in his hand.

Xiao Tangqiu thought that the young man had found the church by mistake at first and shouted at once to get him to run away. However, when he saw what the young man was holding, he was left speechless.

The young man was holding five heads in one hand!

The incisions on the necks of these five heads were crooked and messy. They seemed to have been sawed off bit by bit by a blade that wasn’t particularly sharp. There was still blood dripping. Obviously, the whole incident had just happened.

The five heads belonged to the other three old players, the middle-aged man… and the little boy who had run out and disappeared. Their expressions were extremely painful and contorted. They looked like they had died nursing a grievance.

Xiao Tangqiu stared at the five heads in a trance, his hair standing on end. Then, he looked at the young man in disbelief. Although the young man was obviously not a good person, he didn’t seem so cruel and cold either…

Just then, he realized that the young man’s broken arm was made out of the same material and joints of a puppet!

The young man came up to Lippinobert with the heads in his hand. He looked humble and ingratiating, “Master, I have brought the remaining five people…”

Lippinobert frowned slightly, as if he were not satisfied. “Why do you only have their heads? Where are their bodies?”

“They were uncooperative so I had to kill them and bring their heads.” The young man sounded like an annoying yes-man, “They were too ignorant to know what an honor it is to be Master’s sacrifice …”

Lippinobert said coldly, “Enough, put them down. How many others are left?”

The young man trembled and mumbled, “I couldn’t find them just now…”

“Forget it. Anyway, I have enough offerings.” Lippinobert turned to Xiao Tangqiu, his gaze cold and gloomy. “With so many offerings, this time the sacrifice will be successful…”

Xiao Tangqiu gritted his teeth and looked coldly at the person and the puppet in front of him. It wasn’t until now that he fully understood what had happened. The young man was already dead. Yesterday, that group of newbies had left the castle without authorization… All the other newbies were dead, so how could the young man have escaped alone?

The young man must’ve died yesterday, was then made into a puppet by Lippinobert, and returned to their group of players, becoming the 13th “person” among them.