Outside the Inner City door of Scarlet City is a Dark Red Main Street that is wide enough to accommodate hundreds of giants walking in parallel.
Su Ye followed Kruuru and stepped into this building belonging to Ultimate City of Destruction and Slaughter.
On both sides of the street, there are many buildings of different styles, which can even be said to be bizarre.
There is a spire made entirely of bones, with Lava luster flowing through the gaps.
There is a strange palace suspended in mid-air, surrounded by countless inverted Black Stele.
There is a flowing structure that is constantly changing shape and is completely constructed from solidified Dark Red Energy.
There is even a two-story building that looks like Blue Star coffee shop, but has a neon sign of "Soul Brewing·Remnant Dream".
And the streets were even more bustling, crowded with... species that Su Ye had never seen in his life.
Insectoid Warrior is ten meters tall, covered with Ice Blue Carapace, and has Dark Red lightning wrapped around its six jointed arms.
Upper Body A stunningly beautiful woman, but her lower body is Poisonous Fog a monster Succubus wrapped around a giant scorpion tail.
Elemental Lifeform, whose whole body is composed of pure energy, constantly switches between the form of flame and Lightning.
There is even a strange creature that is made up of hundreds of eyeballs of different sizes and floating in the air. Each eyeball is rotating independently, scanning the passers-by.
But more of them are still humanoid.
Or at least something close to humanoid.
Humans, Winged Human, Elf, Orc, and various Su Ye races that cannot be named, but have similar upright bodies and limbs.
"It's lively, isn't it?"
Kruuru is walking in high heels, walking briskly, as if Garden is walking behind her home.
She turned a blind eye to the looks of awe, passion, or fear around her, and just casually introduced Su Ye.
"The number of races in Scarlet City... there are about three hundred or so? I haven't counted them carefully."
"Anyway, the ones who can enter Destruction Paradise are monsters who have mastered Law of Destruction from all over Divine Realm and from their respective races."
"Law is Pass, race... just skin."
Su Ye nodded silently, keeping these words in mind.
His eyes swept across the strange shops on both sides of the street, and finally he couldn't help but ask.
"Pubs and restaurants... are they here too?"
Aren't there all soul bodies here?
Although... it doesn't look unreal at all, just like having a body.
But after all, it is a soul body. Can it be consumed in a place like this? Can it also be eaten?
"Of course."
Kruuru nodded matter-of-factly, pointing to a three-story building not far away that exuded warm orange light and was incompatible with the surrounding dark tones.
"That Scarlet Tipsy is a store I often go to. It tastes pretty good... Why do you think you don't need to eat in your soul state?"
She chuckled lightly, with a bit of teasing in her pink eyes.
"Little guy, your soul can also be hungry. It's not physical hunger, it's the feeling of emptiness caused by the operation of Law and the consumption of soul power."
"What the pubs and restaurants here sell are not ordinary food, but conceptual energy that has been specially processed and can be directly absorbed by the soul."
"A cup of Abyssal Tear can keep your soul at its peak activity after a high-intensity battle for three days and three nights."
"A serving of Flame Soul Roasted Meat can permanently and slightly enhance the soul's resistance to high temperatures Law."
"Even..."
She lowered her voice and brought her pink lips close to Su Ye's ear, with a somewhat mysterious bewitchment.
"Some top-notch treasures that require a massive amount of Destruction Coin can directly stimulate the soul and produce... soul comfort that is ten times or a hundred times stronger than physical pleasure."
"That feeling, tsk tsk, in your human terms... I wouldn't change it even if I gave you Sovereign."
Su Ye kept a little distance without changing his expression.
"Sounds good."
"Tsk, you have no interest in that little brat."
Kruuru shrugged, not annoyed at all.
She suddenly stopped and her eyes fell on a short figure pushing a transparent car through the crowd.
It was a creature less than one meter tall. It was covered with gray, rock-like skin. It had no facial features and only had a gap in its chest and abdomen that was constantly opening and closing, with silver-white liquid flowing from it.
"I'm lucky, I met Flavor Merchant."
Kruuru walked up and chatted with Faceless Creature for a few words.
After a moment, Kruuru flipped his wrist, and two Destruction Coin fell into the gap in Faceless Creature's chest.
The crack closes and squirms.
Then, like blowing bubbles, he spit out two lumps...
Marshmallow.
Yes, it's marshmallows.
Fluffy, pink and white, threaded on a thin transparent stick, and still squirming slightly... marshmallows.
Kruuru took two balls of marshmallows and handed one to Su Ye.
"Since you are handsome enough and match my taste, I'll treat you to it."
Su Ye looked at the squirming marshmallow in his hand that smelled like a mixture of blood and nectar:...
He was silent for three full seconds.
"Are you sure this is for people to eat?"
"Of course it's not for people to eat."
Kruuru is confident.
"This is a soul snack specially made for us Demon Race, and it is my favorite Blood Honey Dew flavor."
As she spoke, she opened her pink lips and took a bite of the marshmallow gracefully.
Pink and white sugar strands melted between her lips and teeth.
Kruuru narrowed his pink eyes, with an expression of extreme enjoyment and almost intoxication on his face, and a contented hum came from his throat.
"Hmm~~~This is the feeling... my soul is trembling..."
She licked the remaining sugar strands on her lips and looked at Su Ye, with a smile in her eyes as if she had succeeded in mischief.
"As for humans... I heard that eating this stuff tastes like chewing a rusty iron nail dipped in bile."
Su Ye lowered his head and looked at the wriggling ball of "marshmallows" in his hand, whose color gradually changed from pink to white to an ambiguous Dark Red.
Rusty nails?
Bile?
He frowned slightly.
Then.
Under Kruuru's slightly surprised gaze, he bit down.
Click.
The taste is very weird.
The outer layer is crispy and melt-in-your-mouth... sugar?
But what exploded immediately was the strong smell of rust, the sweet smell of blood, and a faint, extremely bitter aftertaste.
It's really unpalatable.
It tastes so unpalatable that people like Su Ye, who are not picky eaters, frown and subconsciously want to vomit.
But he didn't vomit.
He chewed and swallowed without changing his expression.
Then, he took a second bite.
The third mouthful.
Until the whole bunch of weird "marshmallows" are eaten cleanly.
Kruuru still held another ball of marshmallow in the air, his pink eyes widened slightly, showing a rare expression of surprise.
"... Are you really not afraid of death, or are you losing your sense of taste?"
Su Ye swallowed the last mouthful and felt the extremely subtle but clear... some sense of gain from Soul Depths.
The soul barrier seems to have solidified a little, and the flow of soul power has become a little smoother.
Although the gain amplitude is so small that it is almost negligible, it is indeed... a positive gain.
"It tastes bad."
he commented calmly.
"But it works."
Kruuru was stunned for two seconds.
Then, she suddenly smiled, very happily, her pink eyes turned into crescent moons.
"Hahaha... interesting, really interesting."
"In order to become stronger, I can even swallow the Demon snacks that dogs don't eat without changing my expression."
"I kind of believe now that you can kill Demon God at Outside World."
She put away the remaining marshmallows and threw them to a Demon Race strong man passing by without eating any more.
The strong man caught it in surprise and bowed repeatedly.
"Let's go, let's take you to the really important place."