Demons whispered, demons roared

"Celestial King?"

Lin Yu looked at Okfielst with a puzzled expression.

"Yes, Your Celestial King... she or you, the two of you are the most capable of accomplishing this," Okfielst said. "After all, my client doesn't care how I achieve my goal... the Contract we signed doesn't stipulate how I should complete the task."

Lin Yu frowned. "So you really did cooperate with other 'Player'? Who are they?"

Okfielst sighed, "How could I possibly reveal the identity of the person who signed the Contract to you? Please understand... the Contract is sacred and inviolable!"

Lin Yu looked at Okfielst, staring at him for a long time before finally speaking, "So, since you don't intend to kill me, what do you intend to do?"

Okfielst pointed to his neck. "Of course... I was killed by you."

Lin Yu narrowed his eyes. "Are you kidding me?"

"I'm not talking about me as a 'Demons,' of course. You can't erase my existence anyway; that's asking too much," Okfielst said. "I'm talking about... you killing this 'body' of mine, this guy called 'Knight.'"

Lin Yu's breathing slowed slightly upon hearing Okfielst's request.

His demeanor remained completely consistent with the change in the character of "Schreiber," and he calmly said, "You're already inside his brain, can't you just do it yourself, or 'commit suicide'...?"

Okfielst laughed, "Unfortunately, my ability to World-Crossing barrier is also due to a 'special Contract '... which means I can't hurt him, I simply can't."

"Furthermore, I need to find someone powerful enough to kill this 'Knight' using 'violent' means—that's why my first choice is 'Celestial King'."

Lin Yu remained silent, Okfielst continued to whisper.

"This won't do you any harm—though I can't reveal my motives, believe me, it will disrupt some of the 'plans' and 'arrangements' made by that Demigod among you called the 'Diviner'."

You probably don't want his goal to Make It Real either, right?

As Okfielst spoke, Lin Yu calmly replied.

"Of course... but I don't intend to cooperate with you."

"I can stop him myself—in a way that doesn't require sacrificing this 'Knight's' life."

As Lin Yu spoke, Okfielst scrutinized Lin Yu with his pure black, Knight eyes, as if trying to see through the "Yayu" body to examine the "Schreiber" soul.

"You... you... I really don't know why you were chosen as the successor of the Third Pillar."

Lin Yu looked at Okfielst and smiled, "Oh? Why do you suddenly say that?"

"Although I don't know much about the other Demons, I've exchanged some information with some of your 'Player' and have roughly deduced that the Third Pillar seems to have a true blood relative, Bloodline- related kin, surviving among you," Okfielst began. "Have you seen her? You should have... Hmm, she didn't leave her legacy to her blood relatives, but she left it to you, at least the legacy of the Night Valley Realm."

"At first I thought it was because you were just like her—equally intelligent, cruel, and insidious... Ah, but now I'm confused. You seem to be less than one ten-thousandth of her."

"She's not the type to abandon an 'efficient' solution for some weird insistence..."

Lin Yu interrupted Okfielst.

"Efficient? Sorry, I don't understand... You seem a bit too arrogant."

"While I don't know the full picture of your plan, I don't think wasting the life of a potentially 'Player' is 'efficient'—you seem to assume you're always right, Demons, which is a very dangerous sign. It means you might be an overly arrogant fool."

Lin Yu spoke in a very unfriendly tone.

"As for why the Third Pillar chose me and not her blood relatives..."

Of course, it's because I'm her blood relative— Lin Yu couldn't possibly reveal this real reason.

He paused for a moment, then spoke.

"Because I truly understand her better... I understand her far more than you do. Your simplistic interpretation of her as insidious and cruel shows that you're so narrow-minded that you can't fully grasp her Wisdom. Well, that doesn't surprise me. After all, you're just a Demons. Your mind and soul are inherently chaotic. Your 'rationality' is constrained by your magical attributes. You're inherently inferior in the realm of 'thinking.'"

Lin Yu raised his finger as he spoke.

"Demons, next I will... banish you from this creature's body, banish you from our world."

As Lin Yu spoke, Okfielst let out a haughty and cold laugh.

"Ha, ha, ha! How ambitious, the great 'Schreiber'... harboring a savior complex, well, I admit, you really do resemble that guy from the Third Pillar a bit."

"But..."

Okfielst breathed, and surging magic flowed from the Knight's body, causing his limbs to deform—black crystals crawled onto the surface of his joints and skin, blackened blood vessels rose and burst from beneath the skin, and surging magic poured into the spear in his hand, causing cracks to appear on the surface of the spear, from which billowing black smoke rose.

"I will kill you, human—you will pay for your words and deeds!"

Okfielst spoke, his voice booming like a wild beast from his chest.

He took a step forward, his body contorted as he hurled the black, cracked spear in his hand toward Lin Yu!

"Boom!"

The spear pierced towards Lin Yu's body, unleashing a torrent of Abyss magic mixed with some high-level magic unique to the Second Pillar.

Lin Yu could sense at this moment... what exactly was the power of Okfielst's Authority?

Those magical powers contain the evil of life, the evil of nature, a special kind of magic that constantly expands and erodes, it is...

The power of "corruption".

The magic surged, threatening to drag everything in the world into decay and decay. It was the most violent plague, the most potent poison, and the natural Law Living Beings feared most but could not defy.

Clusters of grayish-purple flames rose up, but where they burned, no ashes were left, only decaying and old silt.

"That's really impressive..."

Lin Yu sighed.

This was indeed a method that exceeded the limits of the "Yayu's " abilities and was difficult to deal with.

The methods of Pillar-level Demon are far too overpowered for someone whose strength on paper is only "Tier 1".

Even if it's just Projection or a "Doppelganger" that uses loopholes to exert its abilities, it's already beyond the scope of something that can be bridged by skill and fighting spirit.

But thankfully...

Lin Yu had already revealed that he was not playing the "Yayu" but rather "Schreiber," who had been manipulating the "Yayu" using some kind of "mental means" after his original body disappeared.

Furthermore, with Lin Yu having already cracked the Knight's [Honorable Arena], at this moment... Schreiber's greatest advantage naturally becomes apparent.

He hypnotized tens of millions of people... At this moment, Shenzhen is Schreiber's home ground.

He can mobilize a mental network of tens of millions at any time to enhance his Mental Power and Soul Power!

From the very beginning, Okfielst, this Pillar-level Demon, had been using several nearby "Reality Loophole" to extract the magic of "Corruption".

Now, it unleashed all that accumulated magic power at once, creating an attack with power almost as if its own body were present.

But even so...

This level of attack was... for Lin Yu.

Still, not strong enough!

There was no need to use any [Item] such as [Azure Sea Sky Dome]; the Soul Power and Mental Power enhanced by the Mental Power Network alone were enough to block out this terrifying "corrupting magic".

"Is that all? Demons!"

Lin Yu asked loudly, looking at Okfielst opposite him.

"Of course it's not 'just that'," to Lin Yu's surprise, Okfielst was calmer and more confident than he had expected. "Watch closely, human... Meinie! Fulfill our temporary Contract!"

Okfielst spoke, he held out his hand.

Lin Yu sensed another terrifying aura suddenly appearing behind him.

A kind of greedy, damp magic, also emanating from the Abyss of Night Valley, surged forth.

Lin Yu turned his head and saw crimson and sharp materialized magic rushing towards him.

Almost without thinking, Lin Yu once again used his Soul Power to block the materialized magic.

But this time...

"Trying to use Soul Power to stop Meinie? I've never seen a more ridiculous decision."

The moment the words left his mouth, Lin Yu felt that the materialized magic power had actually merged into his own magic power.

A deep-seated rage and bloodthirsty frenzy seized his soul, as if dragging him to the brink of losing control.

Lin Yu reacted almost instantly.

"Crack!"

He immediately threw out his infected Soul Power and even his soul, and crushed it ruthlessly with his Mental Power.

"Hiss--!"

The crimson fragments, mingled with the soul, emitted piercing screams, which quickly turned into curses.

"Okfielst! I curse you! You bastard, you breach-of- Contract traitor!"

I curse you!

Lin Yu sensed the malice directed at Okfielst, and then he sensed...

The crimson, twisted magic that had already engulfed and infected his soul, carrying the will of another Demons, expanded at this moment, as if it were about to indiscriminately attack him and Okfielst.

Such an impact, of course, wouldn't harm him...

However, at the moment the impact erupted, Lin Yu suddenly realized that under the continuous attacks targeting his soul and will, his mind had become somewhat scattered, causing him to overlook something.

Something that should have been very important.

On the field now, it's not just him and Okfielst.

Besides...

"Oh no... Liuli!"

Lin Yu subconsciously looked at the ground beside him. Liu Liuli, who was still unconscious on the ground, was awakened by the huge impact and sat up with a pained expression.

She looked at Lin Yu, not even realizing that the current "Yayu" was actually "Schreiber".

"Yayu... I..."

Before Liuli could finish her sentence, her eyes dimmed, and blood-red, sharp crystals continued to ooze from her body.

Her life and soul vanished completely in just a few seconds.