Chapter 962: Crazy Director Cornelius

Looking back now, after leaving the Fairy Kingdom, Old James probably went to the Theocracy.

Because at that time the loyal old butler Oswald was always with old James.

Even before and after the Loki incident, Aiwass's sister Freya had contact with Oswald. At that time, Oswald gave Freya some hints from James, indicating that Oswald was able to contact James at that time. So after James left the Fairy Kingdom, he should have reunited with Oswald first.

Originally, Aiwass always felt that his adoptive father was unfathomable and was always in awe of him. One of the reasons was that Aiwass knew that his adoptive father would become a world-class boss in the future and lacked understanding of him.

Fear is born from the unknown.

But now Aiwass already knew why his adoptive father embarked on the path of being a boss in the first place - he originally thought that he could see into the future, but after the ceremony of the Ring of Tail was completed, he suddenly realized... the direction of development of this world was completely different from what he knew!

It was probably from that time that James lost the calm and composed demeanor that always seemed to have everything under control. It was also from that time that James realized that he had to seek change - so he began to frantically arrange conspiracies and seize power by any means necessary.

Old James's initial understanding of the world did not include possibilities above the sixth energy level!

Therefore, he must not be strong enough during this period! Because in his cognition, the possibility of "fighting against Tiansi" never existed!

This also made Aiwass admire his adoptive father even more:

Aiwass now fully understood the meaning of "knowledge is toxic"... Once acquainted with certain erroneous or outdated information, its harm could be far greater than knowing nothing at all. It wasn't just about finding the right path, but also about discerning the unreliable from among the countless pieces of information, common sense, intelligence, and secrets he possessed.

For Aiwass, who knew fewer secrets, this was already extremely difficult.

Not to mention old James, who has memories of his past life and has mastered the secrets of stargazing.

——James, despite being disturbed by a lot of false information, relied on his own ability to find the strength to overtake others, and as a result, his strength increased by leaps and bounds during the version update and he became the world boss!

...But even such a powerful old James is still under the control of Huantiansi.

Unlike his grandfather Jacob, an apostle of the Huantian Division, Old James wasn't a subordinate or follower of the Huantian Division. Instead, he, like Aiwass, was a crucial pawn of the Huantian Division. From this perspective, he could be considered one of the Huantian Division's victims.

After James, a young man who once mastered the secrets of stargazing, was approached by Anna, a loyal apostle of the Celestial Circle. For the innocent boy, Anna's allure was irresistible... and thus, Freya naturally followed.

Anna also summoned the soul of the "survivor of the apocalypse" and implanted it into James. However, as a Night Demon, she shouldn't have such abilities... This power involving reincarnation must be connected to the Huantian Division. Therefore, James' birth was planned by the Huantian Division at least a week ago, and his soul must have been brought back by the power of reincarnation!

Aiwass didn't know what exactly Huantiansi had planned for Old James, but he was clearly aware of one thing:

——Now is the time to break the deadlock!

As Tiansi has just landed and the world level cap has not yet been opened, old James has not yet started to become stronger by leaps and bounds... At most, he is just a fifth-level astrologer.

And Aiwass has become so powerful that ordinary fifth energy levels can only last a few rounds in front of him.

Their relationship of strength and weakness, at least at this moment, has quietly changed.

Who would have thought that Aiwass would suddenly run to find old James on the eve of the match against the Fallen Angels?

——At least Huan Tiansi would never guess it! Because even Aiwass himself hadn't had such an idea two days ago!

Now Anna is dead and her soul has not been sent to Huantiansi's kingdom of God, but no one knows when Huantiansi will react. The window of opportunity left for Aiwas is very short - so this attack must yield results no matter what!

But when Aiwass prayed to the Lord of Scales and Feathers for higher divine arts, he received good news.

Aiwass no longer needs to go to the Theocracy to find someone... because old James is now in Xingtan, and not far from him.

He had indeed heard that Old James seemed to be going to the Star to attend a party or some other event. But Aiwass had not expected that after the Fallen Angels had controlled the Star for half a month, Old James would still stay on the Star.

Aiwas asked the Lord of Scales and Feathers for a spell to conceal the stars, put on a cloak and moved forward at high speed in an invisible state, moving silently and at high speed along the locked position in his consciousness!

But the further Aiwas walked, the more he felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

——This is not a residential area, but a blocked ruins area.

Because of Xingti's special archaeological system, they will circle out ancient relics of archaeological value and usually do not allow anyone to develop them, waiting for archaeologists from other countries to enter at their own expense to help them retrieve the things - if the army is allowed to go in directly for "archaeology", the things inside will be too easy to be damaged or embezzled, so it is better to leave them here to attract talents.

Once all the valuable things have been dug up, the site can be converted into a tourist attraction.

The Xingtan Army was now crippled, and the security lines here were shabby. You could still see the roadblocks and iron walls blocking vehicles, the wires tangled around the walls, and the barbed wire coated in poisonous ointment above them. Not only were they forbidden from entering, but even looking in from a distance was forbidden—after all, even looking in cost money.

But because of this, this relic area can still preserve the appearance of the Hellassar Empire era as much as possible.

This gradually gave Aiwas a sense of familiarity.

——He seems to have been here before.

Thinking of this, Aiwass's pace gradually slowed down.

He looked around and felt more and more familiar.

As Aiwas continued to move forward according to the location, he suddenly froze.

Everything before her eyes overlapped with the scenes in Selene's memory.

"Theresa's Monastery..."

Aiwass murmured softly, his brows slightly furrowed.

Why... would my adoptive father come here?

It seems that the only things here that have some value are Sister Sasha's... that is, Wu Tiansi's hands now.

Does he want to use this to obtain the fragments of Tiansi?

Thinking of this, Aiwass called upon the power of the Lord of Scales and Feathers to make himself invisible.

Because the sound of fighting could be faintly heard from the front.

Aiwass remained invisible and approached the monastery.

Suddenly, an almost insane roar was heard from the courtyard inside the monastery.

“Aa ...

It was a wild beast as crazy as a werewolf.

His messy, dry, blood-red hair reached down to his thighs, and he had a dark red beard that extended to his temples, connecting with the hair there, while the beard on his chin fell down to his chest.

The guy's body was so dry that he looked like a patient who had been ill for a long time, but some muscles could be seen - those dark brown muscles were directly covered on the bones and wrapped in skin, which looked like dehydrated beef jerky.

His expression was extremely ferocious, drool dripping from his eyes, which were mostly white. The whites of his eyes had turned dark brown, leaving only his slender, cat-like, bright red pupils visible.

—Evans knew it.

This mad beast is the boss of this dungeon, a fifth-level Moon Child, the "Bloodmane Beast," who has lost his mind due to a long period of lack of blood.

Hundreds of years ago, he had another respectable name.

Director Cornelius, the person in charge of external affairs of the Moon Manor.

He had been rude to Aiwass when he had played "Number 14" in a promotion ceremony. Now, seeing that he had completely lost his rationality as a child of the moon, Aiwass felt both gloating and a little disappointed.

He and several other Moon Children from the Huyue Manor were bound to Teresa Monastery by blood pact, unable to leave. Furthermore, due to the Star Antimony restrictions on archaeological excavations, the ghosts and Heartless Moon Children here occasionally let out frantic howls, scaring people away from entering.

Aside from some self-proclaimed "adventurers" who secretly circumvented the Xingti cordon by digging tunnels or leaping, no one had dared to enter for hundreds of years. The Heartless Moon Child, starving for so long, had gone mad, tearing anyone apart and devouring them whenever they saw one.

As long as they drink enough blood, they can recover from this state of mindlessness.

However, there were too many hungry Moon Children, and not enough food to go around among the unlucky ones. This led to them wandering more and more frantically, their aggression gradually increasing, but no one could regain their sanity.

——But what good would it do even if I gained sanity?

Even when they were still rational in the past, they were unable to escape the constraints of the blood pact.

Even if the Huyue Manor was destroyed, those Moon Children who had once served it but escaped before it perished could not escape their fate—they were locked here by the blood pact signed by the founder of Huyue Manor. They were like guard dogs chained to the door of an empty house.

But these dogs will not die of starvation, they will just go crazy from starvation.

The one fighting against this mad dog now was another person that Aiwass felt familiar with—

——Oswald, the guardian spirit of the Moriarty family.

He was surrounded by moon children who had transformed into white stone statues.

That was when there was a lack of purification ability, and the only way was to kill the Son of the Moon again and again until the blood in the Son of the Moon's body was completely drained and the vitality was completely exhausted, and he became "pale".

Without his companions and without the armor of the Papal Guard, Oswald had a hard time standing against Director Cornelius, now known as the "Blood-Maned Beast."

Oswald swung the sword with his right hand and pulled the transparent thread with his left hand.

The aftermath of the dagger swung in the right hand was enough to shatter the stone wall dozens of meters away, but when the sword blade hit Director Cornelius, it only made a crisp sound of metal colliding.

——Evans had seen the power of that thin line.

When it is swung, it can instantly cut through the palace walls of the Palace of Silver and Tin that are reinforced by preservation magic!

Even the war machine that Xingti is proud of, the war fortress that is heavier than a tank, can be cut in pieces with just a slight raise of the hand.

But they could only cut bloody scars on Director Cornelius's body - they couldn't even touch the bones.

After the thread was pulled out and thin streams of blood splattered like willow leaves, the hideous wound entwined itself like a living thing, healing itself. However, due to its lack of vitality, Director Cornelius could only hastily heal it into a scar, unable to completely erase it.

The more hurt he was, the crazier he became.

It can easily crush stone slabs with a single step, and can leap over 20 meters high. It can even walk freely on surrounding buildings and jump back and forth as if it were walking on flat ground.

He was like a bright red shadow, running back and forth at an extremely fast speed. Just by jumping back and forth, the surrounding buildings could be seen to constantly erupt with clouds of dust and emit unpleasant creaking sounds.

——Those buildings couldn’t even withstand the reaction force of his jump!

"Ooooooooooooooooooooo… Meat! Or… kill me…!"

Director Cornelius roared incoherently.

Although I don't understand it at all, the meaning is clear enough to understand.

——Either give me flesh and blood, or kill me.

By the time Aiwass heard its roar and rushed over, Oswald had already suffered some minor injuries. The blood that had flowed out drove Director Cornelius even more crazy...

...to the point of not noticing the other person at all.

Old James stood about fifty or sixty meters away with a solemn expression.

He pointed to the center of the battlefield and recited in a low voice.

There were constellation maps flowing around him - these constellation images surrounded him like a shield, and with each circle new stars would appear and new constellations would gradually be formed.

His left eye burned with azure flames, while his right was turquoise.

He held his cane in his left hand and pointed forward with his right.

As he chanted, an inexplicable gravity suddenly pressed down on Director Cornelius.

——Space-time constraints·Five times gravity!

A stumble caused his hands to pierce the ground. The solid stone slab was like tofu in front of his hands that were dry like claws, and he easily turned out two stone flowers.

Oswald took the opportunity to launch a surprise attack.

As high-level divine arts descended upon his body, his speed suddenly increased three times.

The long sword in his hand chopped off the neck of the red-haired beast like a guillotine—

——Bang!

There was only a crisp sound of breaking, and the scarred sword in his hand shattered out of thin air!

At this moment, old James raised the crutch in his left hand.

A ray of light as hot as the sun suddenly shot out!

This attack was extremely familiar to Aiwass.

This is the fourth-level divine spell of scorching ray, the same one fired by the Cruel Preacher!

——Simulation·Scorching Ray!

Using a mage's abilities to simulate spells from other paths would be a level more difficult. Therefore, Old James' true level should be at least the fifth level of the Path of Wisdom and the Path of Adaptation!

Suddenly, he was pressed down by five times the gravity, and before he had time to adapt, he was engulfed by the scorching light - this attack was sure to hit.

This is a fairly advanced spellcasting technique, a double spell!

Chant two spells of different energy levels, different professions, or even different paths at the same time, and synchronize them to activate them "at the same time."

This attack immediately dealt a near-fatal blow to the red-haired beast—a mere fourth-level spell, yet its effect surpassed all previous spells combined. Director Cornelius screamed in agony, a mixture of pain and relief, as he gradually transformed into a pale stone statue, his features gradually becoming blurred...

but……

This should have been something Oswald could easily accomplish with divine magic, without the need for a mage to simulate it...

"...Mr. Oswald."

Suddenly, Aiwass's voice echoed from the void. Instead of a sneak attack, he openly removed his invisibility and appeared in front of the two men.

He looked at Oswald, who was panting, and asked softly:

"What's your... level on the path of devotion?"

Update completed!

(End of this chapter)