Yesterday's third update: Chapter 2591! 3/4!
Heaven no longer bustled as it once had. Every powerful army had been dispatched, and the central position where Belial resided was no place ordinary angels could enter.
Before him lay an unfinished game. The territory occupied by the white pieces was being swallowed up piece by piece, seeming to foretell the Angel Race's defeats across the three great battlefields.
Yet he wore a brilliant smile. Taking a light sip of white wine, he looked at Zhan Rourou, who was sealed upon a cross, and said, "Your Highness Rourou, do you think I can succeed this time?"
The listless Zhan Rourou opened her eyes and stared at Belial, wishing she could carve him into a thousand pieces.
She spat, "Dream on!"
Belial grinned. "I have accounted for everything, whether it be human hearts or interests. My great undertaking is about to succeed."
"No. You're feeling guilty. You're lost!" Zhan Rourou laid bare Belial's state of mind in a single sentence.
Crack...
The wineglass in Belial's hand shattered. He let it slip from his palm and said, "You're right. I do feel a trace of confusion. Even now, I cannot calculate how Xu Kun, this anomaly, will ruin this grand game of mine. He came for you, so you should know him well, shouldn't you?"
"Why don't you clear up my doubts?"
Belial's plan had proceeded extremely smoothly. To him, Heaven's death knell was the most beautiful melody in the world.
Should his grand plan succeed, he might tread upon mountains of corpses and mock the gods for their incompetence.
But though he knew that an anomaly still existed within the entire plan—an anomaly that could ruin everything—he could not grasp it no matter what he did.
As the plan advanced step by step,