Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 1008 - 75: The Role Reversal of Hunter and Prey

Li Mumu slammed into the streetlight post with a howl, clutching her head and squatting down in pain.

It’s been a long time since she felt such sharp and intense pain.

Although she used to lose her head occasionally, this was entirely different.

The main issue was being unprepared.

Before she could fully comprehend the pain in her forehead, a pungent, spicy gas invaded her mouth and nose, causing her to cough uncontrollably.

Tears and mucus flowed freely, her head buzzing, completely incapable of rational thought.

Once she managed to recover from the agony, she covered her mouth and nose and stood up, realizing she was on a fog-filled street.

The surroundings were tangled with complex metal pipes, wrapped around ancient Western-style buildings, with the dim streetlights illuminating only a few meters around. In the distance, the sound of machinery could be barely heard.

Where am I now? Wasn’t I just gang-fighting Asmod?

Speaking of which, this was already the second time the three of them faced off against the Great Lords of Hell.

The last time they were forcibly imbued with the power of two Demon Lords by Florence, and this time they were facing a Demon King directly.

There actually wasn’t such a big conflict...

Hell contains the seven Great Monarchs, seven Great Demon Kings, but the sequence is very chaotic, not so rigorous; if it were rigorous, it wouldn’t be called Hell.

In conventional terms, those who control the authority of the Seven Original Sins are generally referred to as Demon Kings, but Monarchs are different and represent a certain taboo term.

In layman’s terms, it’s the old immortals surviving from ancient times, figures too formidable for Heaven to handle, so they were lumped into the Hell faction.

Another explanation is that, to unify belief, divinities worshipped by other nations were forcibly incorporated into one’s own scriptures, and over time, these gods were gradually pushed into the trash bin that is Hell.

The famous Lucifer, Shariel, Rahab, Mephisto, Behemoth among the seven Monarchs originally had angelic images, then became Fallen Angels, degraded all the way until kicked out of the Bible...

The rank of the seven Demon Kings is somewhat lower, like how Wang Yunxiao and the others cultivate the Twelve Laws System now, they cultivate the Seven Original Sins system, akin to the indigenous natives of the Hell faction.

The true names of Monarchs and Demon Kings have different records in various texts, partly due to the chaos of Hell’s environment, partly because of the complex factors of real-world faith conflicts.

But after all being said and done... isn’t Asmod’s strength a bit lacking?

Although Xia Yubing, who had just completed her retreat and her power rising to a new level, lay as the ace, Li Mumu was prepared for a three-day and three-night battle against her opponent, after all, this was a legendary Demon King...

Yet before an hour had passed, this guy chickened out.

Though it’s true Shen Qingxi hitting your family’s grave with the Gonggong engine was excessive, as a Demon King, surely you have more than just that one city?

Li Mumu felt her hidden Hell rank skyrocketing.

It’s well known that competitive games generally have a hidden ranking setting; when you win several rounds consecutively, you’ll be matched with immortal opponents and crappy teammates. When you lose several rounds in a row, the system will match you with bots.

Hell actually has a similar setting.

Uncompromising figures defeating other Demon Lords, Demon Kings, and Monarchs are seen as newly ascended Demon King Monarchs by Hell’s demons.

The position of the Rebellious Lord back in the day was established this way.

Now, Li Mumu vaguely feels that the three of them seem to be following this trend.

What a tonic, I, the Guardian Mountain God of West Spring Mountain, am not stupid enough to snatch a title of Demon King...

Only now did Li Mumu belatedly start searching for her down-and-out teammates.

Turning around, Xia Yubing lay motionless in the ruins, already cooled (though she was always cool).

Shen Qingxi was hanging on the streetlight.

Li Mumu didn’t have much to say about Shen Qingxi being hung on a streetlight; the issue was this guy seemed cooled too.

Swaying back and forth like a forlorn doll, showing no signs of life.

It’s over, both teammates are down, my head armor is shattered, and my ammo is empty.

How did things turn out like this?

Did I lose my memory again?

Li Mumu climbed up the streetlight with both hands, rescuing the forsaken doll hanging there while recalling her combat process just now.

It’s not a memory loss issue.

It’s that Asmod’s escape direction was wrong!

It didn’t flee to its lair but escaped to another world.

At the time connected with the Thousand-Year Dynasty World, the Real World’s Lanton!

Li Mumu had some understanding of Lanton, partly based on Shen Qingxi’s description, partly from the information provided by the Mechanical God Sect cultivators residing at West Spring Mountain.

Lanton’s true isolation wasn’t very long, it was a gradual sealing process, with some ongoing interaction with the outside world three years ago.

The United Kingdom’s Imperial Academy of Sciences in the last century gathered the world’s top scientific talents; they foresaw the dangers posed by the Temporal Tide oscillations, and the century’s end crisis, specifically formulating a plan for it.

Centered around Lanton’s main urban area, they built a sanctuary able to resist these Temporal Tide oscillations.

The principle of this sanctuary’s operation was to create Absolute Truth within its protective range, unaffected by external factors.

In layman’s terms, all mathematical laws, physical variables, energy conversions inside the sanctuary were fixed, ensuring no changes occurred. It’s colloquially known as a Magic Prohibition Zone.

This explained why Xia Yubing and Shen Qingxi came rushing in only to collapse instantly.

Needless to say for Xia Yubing, and Shen Qingxi... accidentally got hung on a streetlight, losing her ability to transform, was hung and truly dead, quite fitting if you think about it.

Li Mumu surviving wasn’t merely luck; as a professional player, she has engraved the awareness of emergency evasive frame invincible rolls into her DNA.

Though the Real World lacks invincible frames, instinctive dodging defense indeed spared her life.

What about Asmod though?

Li Mumu looked around and didn’t see the demon’s corpse.

Well, that’s interesting...

But the priority now is finding a way to leave here.

Otherwise, over time, who knows if those two might permanently cool off.

Li Mumu rubbed her fingers together, grabbed hold of one of the corpses, and started walking in any random direction.

This godforsaken place’s fog is too thick, making it hard to distinguish the southeast from northwest. Now, she had to figure out how to find an entrance to underground, since it was once an area where the Mechanical God Sect was active.

She had no idea how far she’d walked until she was nearly exhausted when finally she noticed a light source somewhat different from the streetlight’s glow ahead.

Approaching, Li Mumu discovered it was an old clinic.