Abyssal Chronicles-Chapter 966 - 967: Drastically Changing Emotions

Shuoyue’s originally pretty face had turned deathly pale, with blood stains all over her blue-gold long hair. Her beautiful eyes only held the last traces of terror, despair, and helplessness left before her death.

"Oh ho?"

Looking at the head presented by Coria with both hands, Zuoben couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows. The gloomy expression on his face for a long time showed signs of clearing up at this moment.

"After infiltrating the Ainor Chamber of Commerce for so long, there was no news. I thought you had already failed, Coria."

"This subordinate was merely hiding within the Chamber of Commerce, waiting for an opportunity to act."

"You don’t seem to have suffered any injuries?"

"After all, there was no intense battle. This subordinate seized the moment when Shuoyue let her guard down and killed her with a single strike."

"An ambush?"

"Yes."

"Don’t you feel ashamed?"

"It doesn’t matter. As long as victory can be achieved, the means are irrelevant."

Coria, or Bai Yanluo, responded with a carefree smile.

Zuoben was satisfied with this answer and curled up the corners of his mouth:

"Not bad. At least better than those guys who wanted to defeat the enemy head-on and ended up returning in a miserable defeat."

With that,

Zuoben glanced meaningfully with the corner of his eye at the tightly closed room not far behind him.

But in any case,

The good news brought by Coria undoubtedly improved Zuoben’s previously depressed mood.

At the very least, Among the four Church Wings who took action, one achieved success. Although the expected goal wasn’t reached, having Shuoyue’s head should be enough to provoke Bloody Butterfly. Moreover, this face must have been quite desperate before being beheaded, right? She probably already cried out for her ’mommy’ in her heart?

With such a wonderful expression,

Once Shuoyue’s personally delivers it to Bloody Butterfly, everything will be perfect.

Bloody Butterfly, who dotes on her child, will most likely go berserk because of this!

Thinking of this, a trace of frenzied smile gradually surfaced on Zuoben’s face,

"Well done, Coria~"

It seems leaving you behind back then wasn’t a bad choice either.

While speaking, Zuoben stepped forward and joyfully reached out to take the head presented by Coria.

However,

The moment Zuoben’s hands touched this head, the smile on his face instantly froze in place. Not only that, in the next second, the smile quickly dissipated, replaced by a bone-chilling coldness.

This head,

Indeed has remnant Shadow Power, indeed has Mengxi’s aura.

But,

There isn’t much residual soul power.....

More importantly,

The structure of this head, is it a human head?!!!

"You Fool!!! You were tricked!!! This isn’t Shuoyue’s head!!! It’s fake!"

With eyes suddenly narrowing and mood doing a complete 180, Zuoben’s expression greatly changed. He furiously smashed the head on the ground. Seeing this, Bai Yanluo, who was just looking smug and trying to take credit, instantly had her expression change drastically. She hurriedly knelt on the ground in panic and lowered her head.

"Fa-, fake?! How, how is that possible?!"

Staring at the girl’s head smashed on the ground, Bai Yanluo said in disbelief.

"Prime Minister, this... this was personally cut off from Shuoyue’s body by this subordinate. How could it possibly be fake?! This subordinate definitely didn’t fall for her illusion!"

"You indeed didn’t fall for an illusion, but what you attacked wasn’t Shuoyue’s real body at all!"

"Not the real body?! How, how is that possible?! Was it a clone? But, but if it was a clone, how could it have flesh and blood, and be so real?"

"It’s not a simple clone."

Biting his lip, Zuoben spoke in a low voice with complex emotions.

Recalling the biological experiments conducted by the Ainor Chamber of Commerce some time ago, Zuoben had a general guess in his heart.

"This thing, is probably a puppet created by Shuoyue using her own cells combined with a human body. It has all the characteristics of a human, completely eliminating the worry of exposing the Abyssal Demon identity. As for Shuoyue herself, she only needs to hide in a concealed place and remotely control this body."

"How, how did this happen?"

"Hmph, I was wondering, how could you defeat Shuoyue so easily without even activating Goddess’s Blessing. That cautious monster can’t be won just by ambushing. Damn..... We were played."

With that, The furious Zuoben suddenly raised his foot and directly smashed Shuoyue’s head on the ground into a pulp. The splattered blood directly dyed his boots red, and even splashed onto Bai Yanluo’s face.

"I-, I’m extremely sorry, Prime Minister. This, this was this subordinate’s miscalculation... Please punish me."

Bai Yanluo lowered her head in trepidation. The previous arrogance in her words was gone, replaced only by a strong sense of self-blame.

"Forget it..."

Sighing, Zuoben replied in resignation.

"Shuoyue, indeed lives up to being the most cunning Demon Kings. If I hadn’t directly touched it, I’m afraid I wouldn’t have noticed anything amiss with this disguise."

No longer paying attention to Bai Yanluo’s frantic apologies, Zuoben thoughtfully turned his gaze towards the direction of the Purple Night Palace.

On this day, Zuoben’s mood was like riding a roller coaster, up and down. But undoubtedly, his emotions had now fallen into a trough.

After confirming that Shuoyue’s head was a fake, Zuoben’s attack plan could be said to have completely ended in failure.

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Originally thinking that at worst they could kill two Demon Kings, Who would have thought in the end,

Not a single one succeeded.

Did I underestimate those monsters? Or overestimate the abilities of my subordinates?

After receiving the blessing from the Goddess, the combat power of the Church Wings should already be no weaker than the Demon Kings. Having obtained the blood of 9th-level powerhouses, why is the gap so big?

In the end, Is it still a matter of experience? After all, it’s only been recent years since the Church Wings gained power and became god-level powerhouses. But in any case, Failure,

At this moment, it’s already a done deal.

Dwelling on the reasons any further is meaningless.

Forget it, At this point, there’s no turning back. The actions of the Church Wings have already shattered the false image of peace. Those Demon King monsters will probably launch a counterattack soon.

Since that’s the case,

As if thinking of something, a trace of cruel smile that sent chills down one’s spine gradually appeared on Zuoben’s face.

"Prime Minister?"

Seeing Zuoben smiling in a way that made people’s hearts tremble, unlike usual, Bai Yanluo couldn’t help feeling a chill down her spine. She asked tremblingly while kneeling on the ground.

Of course, Zuoben didn’t pay attention to the uneasy Bai. He turned around and walked straight towards the tightly closed room not far away.

The next moment, Zuoben slowly pushed the door open and entered.

What caught his eyes were cute kittens one after another, and a short-haired girl sitting on the bed in a daze. As for Luca who had entered the room earlier, he had long disappeared without a trace, not leaving a single drop of blood or wisp of soul, as if he had vanished into thin air.

Zuoben didn’t care about this. He just slowly walked to the bedside and came to the side of that short-haired girl.

Sensing Zuoben’s presence, the girl slowly opened her eyes. While petting the little calico cat in her arms, she blinked curiously with those innocent eyes, gazing at Zuoben’s face.

Under the girl’s naive gaze, the corners of Zuoben’s mouth slightly curled up, revealing a kind and gentle smile different from before.

Then, Zuoben slowly raised his hand, wiped away the remaining trace of red liquid from the corner of the girl’s mouth, and respectfully asked,

"Are you still hungry, my dear Goddess?"