Chapter 653: Chapter 370: Xia Pingzhou’s Third Contracted Demon (Double-Length)

In the dead of night, the pitch-black shroud silently enveloped the sea and Hai Fan City, yet the forest on Hai Fan Mountain was brightly illuminated.

Lanterns hung from the trees, casting a warm glow, resembling thousands of giant fireflies hovering at night.

"Wrath" and "Sloth," among the Seven Deadly Sins, quietly left the forest.

Before long, the two arrived in front of Spirit Heart Lake.

The silver cross that Wrath resided on rose into the air, while Sloth mounted her flying broom.

After a while, they flew over the vast Spirit Heart Lake, passing through the long tunnel formed of thorns and flowers. After leaving the territory of the Year Beast Monarch, they reached the maple forest on the mountainside.

With no one around, they finally found a place safe for conversation.

"The Child of the Year Beast... looks a bit off," the skeletal figure on the silver cross raised its head and said.

"Off, what do you mean?" the girl beside him, dressed in a shrine maiden outfit and wearing a pointed witch’s high hat, asked.

She rubbed her dark circles, lifted her head to let the bright moonlight fall on her face, and luxuriated in a stretch. The sea breeze swept through the maple forest, engulfing the entire forest in vast rustling sounds.

"At the very least, I can be sure its attitude towards us is anything but friendly..." the Furious Demon mused, "If it were just an ordinary demon, it wouldn’t matter, but it is the offspring of the Year Beast Monarch."

"Then tell me, what do you plan to do?" Sloth yawned lazily.

"Maybe... we should leave?"

"Aren’t you taking this a bit too seriously?" Sloth asked, "The Child of the Year Beast hasn’t been on this mountain for ten years. What could it possibly say..."

At that moment, her words abruptly ceased, and then both demons’ expressions suddenly changed.

Almost simultaneously, they lifted their heads to see a point of eerie green light suddenly flashing from afar. Immediately after, a diamond-like trail appeared from deep within the maple forest, shooting toward them along the ground.

In an instant, the Queen Giant’s twin blades spun, the blades almost merging into a storm. Wherever this eerie green wind passed, the maple trees along the way were all sliced in half, the fallen leaves on the ground swirling up with a rustling sound.

"So fast..." the Furious Demon squinted, speaking almost hoarsely.

"Soul Devouring," a seemingly ordinary passive skill on the "Soul" branch of Chess Species Two, its effect being: "After killing a demon, this chess piece has a certain chance to gain a slight attribute enhancement."

As a Chess Player, Xia Pingzhou’s "Spirit" and "Speed" attributes correspond respectively to the Chess Species’ "Strength" and "Speed," but the Chess Species’ attributes are naturally lower than the Chess Player’s.

If the Chess Species’ attributes were originally supposed to be a "weakened version" of the Chess Player’s attributes, then the Queen’s Statue has already surpassed this rule.

In the Tokyo region, after purging countless demons, the Queen Giant naturally accumulated a vast number of growth attributes through the "Soul Devouring" passive skill.

Little by little, it accumulated, revealing its potential, even vaguely surpassing the Chess Player’s own attributes.

Adding to that, Xia Pingzhou’s "Spirit" and "Speed" had already reached the minimum standard of the Catastrophe Level.

It could be said that the current Queen Giant’s physical prowess was enough to rival a body-centric elite at the Catastrophe Level.

Xia Pingzhou had even wondered if there was no limit to the attributes the Queen’s Statue could gain through "Soul Devouring."

Suppose there truly were no limits, then, after slaying millions of demons, even if the Queen’s Statue’s attributes reached Mythical Level, he wouldn’t be surprised.

In contrast, Xia Pingzhou’s other Chess Species’ attributes lagged far behind, after all, he had poured all his resources into the Queen.

And the other chess pieces had now somewhat turned into appendages of the King, serving as essential sacrifices to activate the King’s powers.

Thus, at this moment, it’s natural for the Furious Demon to be astounded by the speed and strength of the Queen Giant, even struggling to visually track its trajectory.

The Queen Giant, like a whirlwind of lightning, wielded daggers imbued with a diamond shine, spinning almost like a top. It swept up fallen leaves, felled trees, and rampaged through the forest like a storm.

By the time Wrath regained consciousness, the Queen had already closed in, standing right between it and Sloth.

At this moment, standing silently under a tree in the distance of the maple forest, Xia Pingzhou watched the scene with his dark eyes.

If the Furious Demon were truly slain from such a distance with a single blow, he mused, then this Contracted Demon was not worth keeping.

The next instant, the Furious Demon reacted. Its skeleton-like body suddenly liquefied, becoming a turbid white liquid that poured into the interior of the silver cross.

It was as if water had melted into water.

Immediately after, the silver cross abruptly transformed, turning into a colossal shield. The bone white, with a scarlet eye engraved at its center, featured the cross pattern running vertically through the entire shield.

The whole thing gave off a sense of sacredness intertwined with eeriness.

The shield formed by Wrath blocked the oncoming storm of blades. This second seemed fleeting, yet the Queen’s twin blades had already struck the shield over a hundred times.

Meanwhile, the Lazy Demon quickly mounted the flying broom, retreating over a hundred meters.

At this point, she suddenly turned her head and discovered a figure in black and white Japanese school uniform appeared behind her.