"I can give you my power... Please bring her back. Only you can help her. Grace is not enough now."

Louis really wanted to swear at this moment.

If you really think so, is it necessary to say it now?

But Louis sighed.

“Can the power of others be lent to others?”

"Normally you can't, but you can."

Black Swan's voice sounded somewhat sad.

But Louis shook his head and said, "How can I trust you after what has happened?"

If it was before, Louis could still find a reason for the Black Swan, such as she didn't know that the Little Swan might encounter such a thing.

But the Black Swan’s words have made it very clear.

That is, she at least guessed that the little swan might be attacked in this area.

Legendary-level attacks are rare among the entire continent.

Even if the royal family spends huge amounts of money to train new legends, they generally don't impose too many restrictions on the legends.

Because when you reach the legendary stage, you can go almost anywhere in the entire continent.

If this were not the case, there wouldn't be so few legends active in the open.

Most of the time, the strongest person people can see is only LV20.

It can be said that if encountering such a monster, even if the little swan is protected by the head maid, it will inevitably face huge risks.

"It will be difficult to gain the trust of others again next time if you betray someone once."

Louis said seriously.

The Black Swan said nothing.

After a moment, Louis looked up in surprise.

Because he found that the scene around him had undergone some surprising changes.

The falling yellow leaves lingered in the air.

The adventurers who were fleeing in panic stopped.

The smoke and dust that was still spreading around seemed to solidify.

…

It was as if the whole world had stopped at this moment.

No! That's not right!

It's not "as if"! It's time stopped!

A spell similar to the Nine Swords Martial Arts [Time Stop].

He saw a dark shadow moving.

It was as if a black wave appeared on the flat ground.

The wave dragged the black swan's body through the stagnant crowd and came to Louis.

She looked at Louis with some complexity.

"Can I trust you?"

Black Swan said softly.

Louis almost showed a black question mark face.

What does "I can trust you" mean? Shouldn't he be the one to say this?

Black Swan glanced at Louis with a complicated expression.

"Forget it, there's no time. If you really want to help her... then eat me."

Louis directly placed the Tianxin Sword across the black swan's neck: "What are you thinking about?"

He squinted at the woman.

Black Swan raised his head and said, "If I wanted to stop you, I could have directly restricted your actions instead of allowing you to move around in the area where time has stopped."

“Tsk.”

Louis put away his sword unhappily:

"I hope you can give me a suitable reason."

"Okay." Black Swan slowly squatted down and kissed the back of Louis' hand, "Greed, please wake up."

Louis was stunned for a moment.

The next moment, a faint pattern was left where the black swan kissed.

In an instant, he felt that the power of the great sin that was dormant in the deepest part of his body was boiling at this moment.

Pitch-black storms spread out from his palms and instantly wrapped around the black swan.

The Black Swan had an uncomfortable expression on his face, and his aura was fluctuating wildly.

Louis didn't realize anything at first.

But the next moment, he was surprised to find that he could actually feel the breath of the black swan.

To be precise, the professional level of Black Swan is declining at an alarming rate.

LV20, LV19, LV18...

Just like a landslide, it dropped to LV9 in a short period of time.

Corresponding to it.

It was the terrifying power that continued to spread within Louis' body.

His career rank began to rise at an astonishing rate.

LV9, LV10, LV11...

Then, silently, his strength rose to the legendary level.

As his strength increased, he felt as if there was an active volcano in his body.

I always want to find a place to vent something.

"What is this?" Louis felt his career level rising in a daze, and finally couldn't help showing a shocked expression.

"Greed feasting is a special method limited to the seven deadly sins." Black Swan said calmly.

"...Blood battle in the abyss?"

Louis subconsciously spoke of the ritual that ordinary people would never want to participate in.

That ceremony can be said to be the foundation of the Abyss's fortune.

In each bloody battle in the abyss, the winner will devour the power of the loser, and then grow rapidly at a speed far beyond the ordinary.

Among the Abyss Lords today, there is never a shortage of those who can kill opponents of the same or even higher levels one after another in battle, and then grow into Abyss Lords in a very short period of time.

The reason is that the bloody battle in the abyss will cause the power of sin in the demon's body to be continuously devoured and then enriched in the demon's body.

It can even be said that most of the strong people in the Abyss were promoted in this way.

"Similar to the bloody battle in the abyss, I..."

Black Swan was about to say something, but suddenly felt something was wrong, shook his head and said:

"I'm going to leave here first, and then I'll talk to you directly through telepathy."

"If you still have doubts about my actions at that time, I will choose to accept it."

"Also, your current legendary strength is just an illusion. It's the result of my compromise. It won't last long."

"So after you enter the Shadowfall Underworld, use your power carefully. Once this power is used up, I won't be able to help you anymore."

Louis glanced at her.

Seeing the visible fatigue on her face, he seemed to see the appearance of a little swan in a trance.

Louis shook his head.

What a joke.

She is no little swan.

And Louis was sure that even if the black swan was, as she had said before, a time body differentiated from the cygnet.

But now at least she wasn't quite a swan.

Louis was absolutely sure of this.

He was familiar with the power within the cygnet.

It can be said that although both are serious sins, the "taste" of the little swan is really easy for him to distinguish.

But now, after absorbing the power of the black swan, he clearly felt the "taste" of the black swan, which was different from that of the little swan.

It was as if the taste of Little Swan was mixed with something else.

However, this huge force...

Let him believe in the black swan once more.

In other words, if this method could help him bring Little Swan and Lumi back, then he would choose to accept it.

"Yes, to be precise, I can only do this in the shadow plane."

The black swan looked up, Tianbian frowned and said, "I don't have time, I have to leave first, I will talk to you about the situation later."

After saying that, he disappeared from Louis' side without caring about anything.

The next moment, the still time seemed to start flowing again.

When Louis looked up again, he found that everyone's eyes were looking at him.

So he waved his hand and said, "Go, go down and save people."

William opened his mouth.

He couldn't understand why Louis raised his career level to legendary in just a few breaths.

But the situation is urgent now, he doesn't have time to think so much, and can only follow Louis into the shadow plane.

…

As a force that made everyone uncomfortable spread, Louis and his group entered the shadow plane.

Perhaps it is because the Shadow Plane is now close to the Star Continent and has an anchor point in a specific location.

So their landing location is basically fixed.

He even saw several model-level adventurers sitting on the ground with sad faces.

"Hey, brother, you guys are unlucky enough to be dragged into this too?"

One of the adventurers even waved his hand at them.

Louis didn't reply.

He had just taken a quick glance and understood that the people who had fallen into the shadow plane were either wanderers or Nine Sword professionals who had mastered the Shadow Hand style.

The power systems of these two types of people both involve the use of the shadow plane.

But just as the turbulence of the magic network will inevitably affect the magicians' casting of spells.

The turbulence in the shadow plane will inevitably affect the performance of the Wanderer and the Shadow Hand Nine Swords.

William on the side said, "The Hero's Ceremony has disrupted the surrounding space, and now they are greatly affected."

"If the spatial turmoil between the two worlds is not calmed down soon, they will probably have to spend quite a long time here."

Louis nodded.

He asked a few people if they had seen the half-elf flying in the air holding the beautiful blonde girl.

Several adventurers glanced at them.

"Are you here to rescue people?"

Louis nodded.

The adventurer pointed in a certain direction and said, "They are being chased by that big iron block. If you want to save them, do it as soon as possible."

Louis nodded and led everyone to fly in that direction.

After they left, the adventurer next to them said to the adventurer who was showing the way:

"They're called the Moonlit Cat Group, right? That's a cute name."

"Why, do you want to find an opportunity to cooperate with them?"

"No?"

"Okay, if I have a chance to go back, I'll talk to the people in the group so that they can trust this adventure group a little more."

"Yeah... after all, they chose to come back to save people."

"I hope they are okay. It will be more pleasant to work together as an adventure group that is friendly enough to its own people."

Yes.

Adventurers are a group of profit-seeking creatures.

To put it bluntly, most of them choose to enter this industry just to make more money.

When seeking profit and avoiding harm becomes a habit, it becomes difficult to treat others sincerely.

But even if they choose to seek benefits and avoid harm, it does not mean that they do not like to cooperate with a sincere team.

It is precisely because they cannot get what they want that they value such partners even more.

…

And the other side.

Louis asked the black swan while he was on his way:

"So, why did you want to harm the little swan?"

Black Swan's unpleasant voice sounded: "What do you mean by entrapment? We were targeting her from the beginning. She has the cocoon of the goddess of darkness in her body."

Louis: ??? What do you mean? How can there be such a thing in the body of the little swan? "Didn't the goddess of the dark night die a long time ago?"

Black Swan: "She is dead, but not completely dead. At least there is still one in the nest. I wonder if it is a freak of her residual soul, and she wants to ascend to the throne of God again."

Louis: "Why is the cocoon of the goddess of night inside the little swan?"

Black Swan: "Go ask our dad why he became so strong back then?"

Hiss! Louis, who was on his way, felt his scalp tingling.

Did he touch upon some ultimate secrets of the Unther royal family? Was this something he could listen to? The Black Swan continued, "The remnant soul in the Kingdom of Shadows has no chance of ascending to the throne of God again. Even if the cocoon in the Little Swan's body is retrieved, it will be useless."

"But even if it is useless, it does not mean that He will allow Himself to completely decay and perish."

"The closer you are to death, the crazier you become."

"It was because he lent the Mad King that power that the world became in chaos and so many armies of the living dead appeared."

"It can be said that He is always trying to take back the resurrection cocoon of the Dark Night Goddess from my clone."

"However, the goddess has no chance of reviving, and the cocoon has been completely absorbed by my clone."

"So now he only wants to kill my clone, and then try his best to extract the cocoon residue from her body."

Louis became even more annoyed after hearing this:

"Then we shouldn't let the little swan come here!"

The Black Swan snorted and said:

"It's useless. If she doesn't come, the Shadow Country will go find her themselves."

"Don't forget what she was like in her previous life."

"If I hadn't protected her at the time, she would have died immediately, and she was still swearing that nothing would happen to her..."

Louis was shocked.

Little Swan did say that she had fallen asleep in the temple of the Goddess of Darkness in a previous life.

But she had no idea that she had already been attacked while she was asleep.

Louis frowned and said, "Then, the second question, the principle of Gong Tao is a bloody battle in the abyss, but why can I absorb your power? And this increase in power is only temporary, right?"

The Black Swan snorted unhappily.

That voice has a bit of the flavor of a little swan.

"Don't you see what level you are at now and what level I am at now?"

"If I hadn't given up resisting, I would have temporarily given you my power to devour."

"If all the great sins did not come from the same source, how could you possibly absorb my power?"

"Above legend and below legend are two completely different realms."

"Even if you devour me now, it's only because I didn't resist."

"If I resist, the power will return to me."

Louis narrowed his eyes and asked one last, rather pointed question:

"So, who are you?"

"Don't tell me you're Olivia."

"Don't try to hide this from me. This is the basis of our cooperation."

"You are definitely not Olivia, at least not completely!"

The Black Swan was silent for a while.

Finally, she sighed softly and said:

"I am Olivia, but as you said, I am not entirely"

"Aren't you curious about why I don't want to get close to here?"

"Because if I get close to here, that thing from the Shadow Country will want to kill me, and it's no easier than killing a chicken."

"After all, I am a fake who stole His faith."

"He is a fictitious god created by the Kingdom of Shadows."

"When a fake meets the real thing, it will break into pieces at the first touch."

(End of this chapter)