"Your prey fears you. You have obtained 5,000 Fear Points!"
Shen Hao received the game system's notification, and it surprised him. For a moment, he wondered if he had misheard.
But on second thought, it had to be right.
The Fear Points he obtained depended on the other person's strength. The stronger someone was, the harder it was for them to feel fear.
But once they did feel fear, they generated a great many Fear Points.
The Bloodied Sovereign was an evil god from another world. If Shen Hao could make him feel fear, even the slightest trace of it, he could obtain a great many Fear Points.
Shen Hao looked at the Bloodied Sovereign before him, a smile appearing at the corners of his mouth.
Now, the hunter and the prey had swapped places.
The Demon Eye had given him an extremely powerful ability. Perhaps that was why the Bloodied Sovereign was afraid.
He had gained another ability.
[Gaze into Death] "You possess the eyes of a Demon. You can see the end of all things. You can use it on only one target at a time. Each use consumes 10,000 points of Demon Power. Note: You can currently use this ability twice, as the Demon Eye itself contains a certain amount of Demon Power."
He could see the end of all things, and the Bloodied Sovereign before him was naturally among them.
He walked toward the Bloodied Sovereign. This time, he was not being controlled by the Bloodied Sovereign; he was walking over of his own accord.
"Thank you, but... please die!"
His scarlet left eye gave off a faint bloody glow, and the scene before Shen Hao changed.
Everything around him turned gray and white, as though the whole world had lost its color in an instant.
No, there was still a trace of color in this world.
It was a thin red line, pulled taut and only as thick as a needle. There was no telling what it was made of, where it came from, or where it led.
The thin line was incomparably tough. Even the Demon Blade in Shen Hao's hand could not sever it.
But on closer inspection, it had many weak points. Though they were all tiny, every one of them was fatal.
As long as he could see those weak points, he could break the line with the lightest touch of a finger.
Those weak points were the end, the death of all things.
The Bloodied Sovereign let out a roar. He seemed to have sensed the danger.
The surrounding walls and floor began to squirm again. This time, they were utterly frenzied.
Countless hands reached out from the walls and floor, grabbing Shen Hao's legs and shoulders and tearing at his body, trying to rip him to pieces.
But this could only be their final frenzy.
Shen Hao's finger gently touched a weak point on the line.
Bang!
The thin red line snapped.
In an instant, the hands gripping Shen Hao lost their strength and fell limp, and the floor and walls stopped squirming.
Before him, the Bloodied Sovereign's face was filled with rage and unwillingness.
But now it was too late.
The entire castle collapsed and crumbled completely. The flesh-like matter melted rapidly into a viscous liquid that soon seeped into the ground.
Not a trace remained on the ground.
In just a few minutes, the entire castle had vanished completely, as though it had never appeared at all.
The Bloodied Sovereign was dead.
But Shen Hao knew that what he had killed was only part of this evil god, perhaps even a very, very small part.
But even a mere part was an extremely powerful existence.
If not for the Demon Eye's Gaze into Death ability, he could never have killed this evil god.
Shen Hao glanced around. Many people were still lying on the ground. They were students from his school who had been swallowed by the blood-red castle earlier.
They were still breathing and should all still be alive. Perhaps they had been frightened, or perhaps for some other reason, they had passed out.
Shen Hao paid them no mind. He saw that there was still some liquid on the ground.
He reached out and touched it. Finding that it could be stored in his game inventory, he put it away.
[Fallen Deity's Blood] "His betrayal and greed stripped him of a deity's glory, turning him into a chaotic, evil, bloodthirsty monster. Fallen Deity's Blood can turn a person into a mindless monster."
Shen Hao did not know what use it had. He might never have any use for it.
But he put it away anyway. There was still plenty of space in his inventory, and it was empty regardless.
Now that the one enjoying the blood banquet was dead and the Blood Banquet Ritual had been interrupted, he should be able to leave the school.
He immediately headed for the school gate, but as soon as he stepped outside, he was teleported back to where he had been.
Looking around, Shen Hao finally understood that the power keeping them from leaving the school did not belong to the Bloodied Sovereign, but to Jiang Zhennan.
Could he be a Boundary System Ability User?
Boundary System Ability Users were exceptionally rare and could create barriers.
Within their barriers, they were almost invincible.
He could also use Gaze into Death to break this barrier, but that would be too wasteful.
It seemed he had to kill Jiang Zhennan to leave this place.
Once he killed the Ability User, the barrier would naturally shatter.
Shen Hao swept his gaze around but saw no sign of Jiang Zhennan. Still, he knew the old man had to be here.
"Jiang Zhennan, come out! Don't you want to avenge your son?"
As soon as Shen Hao finished speaking, a figure appeared before him.
"I must admit, I'm surprised you didn't die."
"But all the better," Jiang Zhennan said. "Since you weren't fortunate enough to become part of the Bloodied Sovereign, I'll deal with you myself!"
"That's right. I ended your bloodline, so you should deal with me yourself!"
Jiang Zhennan was enraged. No matter how deeply he concealed his feelings, he could not face the man who had killed his son without anger.
"Let me show you the difference between us!" Jiang Zhennan roared,
"Soon, you'll die a very ugly death!"
Just then, several enormous figures suddenly appeared behind Jiang Zhennan.
Each figure was like a giant, two stories tall. They wore armor and held enormous long-handled battle-axes.
Boundary System Ability Users could create anything within their barriers. It was precisely this ability that made them almost invincible inside their own barriers.
A look of madness appeared on Jiang Zhennan's face.
"Soon, you'll regret what you've done. You'll even regret coming into this world.
Because they won't kill you easily. They'll only cause you pain and subject you to endless torment!"
"Thank you," Shen Hao said. "Pain, torment—what wonderful things."
Jiang Zhennan was furious. "Good, good. I hope you'll still be able to..."
Shen Hao suddenly struck while he was speaking, slashing the Demon Blade straight at Jiang Zhennan.
Although Boundary System Ability Users had bizarre abilities, their physique attributes were quite ordinary. Jiang Zhennan's physique might even be inferior to his.
The Demon Blade cleaved diagonally down from Jiang Zhennan's shoulder, cutting him in two, but the severed corpse vanished as soon as it hit the ground.
Jiang Zhennan appeared behind him. "It's no use. You can't kill me. This is my domain, and I'm the king here!"
"Even in your domain, I can still kill you!
It'll just be a little more trouble."
A bloody light flashed through Shen Hao's left eye.
Jiang Zhennan's expression changed abruptly. At that moment, he felt a strong sense of danger.
He did not know why, but he felt that the person before him could take his life!
The giant warriors immediately moved, raising their weapons to hack Shen Hao into pieces.
Now, Jiang Zhennan could no longer concern himself with tormenting Shen Hao.
He even had a feeling that perhaps it was not that the Bloodied Sovereign had been unwilling to consume Shen Hao, but that he simply could not.
He even felt fear!
Fear of the young man before him.