You Can't Fucking Do This!

The basement fell silent.

Gu Xin was thinking. A deep-purple void rift flickered in and out of sight, its eerie glow reflecting off him and making the youth's figure seem strange and unreal.

Gu Xin said nothing, and neither Asma nor Ula dared to speak.

That burly, muscular goblin brother was simply too intimidating, not to mention the monster's compound eyes appearing in the purple void behind Gu Xin.

This youth was definitely an extraordinarily evil human!

Asma only hated himself for being blind back then. How had he been deceived by that pure and innocent aura and actually brought him home?

Damn it!

Another two minutes passed, and beads of sweat had already formed on Asma's forehead.

"Y-Your Excellency?"

Asma called out tentatively.

"Hm?" Gu Xin, his thoughts interrupted, looked at Asma with displeasure.

"According to our agreement..."

Asma reminded him cautiously. He decided that once he got out of here, he would immediately flee Yin City!

This place was simply too dangerous.

"What's the hurry? I'm not done asking yet." Gu Xin's tone was calm.

Asma fell silent.

"Third question. Recently, there have been incidents in Yin City of demihumans attacking civilians. Was that your doing?"

Gu Xin asked again.

"Th-This has nothing to do with us, Your Excellency. Those are demihumans—we are genuine humans." Asma was startled.

He had followed that news as well. It was said that the victims' internal organs had all been eaten clean. Did the two of them look like such evil people?

"Hard to say." Gu Xin gave him a sidelong glance.

"Your Excellency, even you can't strip us of our human status." Asma's mouth twitched as he hurriedly explained.

"Although we perform sacrifices, we do not damage the bodies of the offerings. If the offering is not a pure virgin or an untainted youth, my lord would not like it either."

"So the culprit really was a demihuman?"

"Eating internal organs is such a savage, bloodthirsty act that it was most likely a demihuman. They are barbaric and stubborn, and they enjoy raw food. But... it could also have been an evil cult."

Asma voiced his speculation uncertainly.

"I see."

Gu Xin took a sip of cola and nodded.

"Then, the last question."

"Please ask."

"Did you kill Toyokawa Shoko's father?"

"Is that what she told you? A bitch is a bitch. Your Excellency, please don't believe her. She and her father are both lying frauds."

Asma sneered.

"?" Gu Xin raised an eyebrow.

"Her father was originally one of our believers as well, but he betrayed us and revealed our whereabouts to the Unclean Ones."

Asma gritted his teeth. If not for that traitor, how could they have suffered such devastating losses that only he and Ula remained?

Even now, merely thinking about it made Asma want to tear that man apart alive.

"Alright, I understand." Gu Xin nodded knowingly.

"Not bad. You cooperated well. I've asked everything I wanted to ask."

"Then, Your Excellency, you..."

"So, you can be on your way now."

Gu Xin smiled with remarkable warmth.

"Wait! Your Excellency, that's not what you said before." Asma's expression changed drastically as he hurriedly spoke.

"I said I would show great mercy." Gu Xin tilted his head. "So, I'll keep our agreement and send you to meet your Pale Lord."

"You love Him so deeply, so surely you want to remain by His side, right? Therefore, I'll grant your wish."

"After all, I'm such a kindhearted person."

The corners of Gu Xin's mouth slowly split into a deeply compassionate smile.

"No! Don't do this! You can't fucking do this!"

"How can you go back on your word like this? The Lord will punish you, you..."

Asma snapped.

"You're both so damn noisy. You evil cultists should just die obediently, Baron Nashor."

ROAR!

A deep growl came from the Void as dark-purple Void magic bore down upon them.

Asma and Ulan instantly found it hard to breathe. Their eyes bulged, bloodshot and red, veins standing out across their bodies.

Baron Nashor's magical pressure was simply too terrifying for two mere second-rankers.

Within seconds, the Void magic dissipated. The two helpless cultists had been crushed to death by Baron Nashor's magical pressure.

Blood flowed from all seven of their facial openings, their eyes wide with pain and rage, their expressions those of people who had died with lingering resentment.

"Looks like I'll have to use a gentler method next time. Thankfully, most of their integrity was preserved."

Gu Xin frowned slightly as he examined them closely, then inwardly let out a sigh of relief.

He had been afraid Baron Nashor would crush their corpses beyond use.

As for being scared? That was impossible.

As an outstanding cardmaker, Gu Xin was most accustomed to handling all sorts of biological corpses.

"Big guy, clean this up. And wipe the blood off their faces while you're at it."

Gu Xin stretched lazily and gave Macho Goblin an order.

"Ge!"

Macho Goblin gave a textbook salute, then immediately got to work.

It first dragged the two corpses aside, then fetched a bucket of clean water and skillfully cleaned the blood off the floor.

Then, using a rag, it gently wiped Asma's and Ulan's heads.

Most importantly...

"How the fuck can you still get hard in a situation like this? You absolute freak."

Gu Xin truly couldn't hold it together anymore. This Macho Goblin was just too much.

What the hell? He had made more than one [Goblin] series card, so why was Macho Goblin the only one so unsatisfied with its desires?

It was seriously ridiculous.

Macho Goblin smiled sheepishly and continued cleaning.

"It's already ten-thirty. It's getting late, but..."

Gu Xin checked the time. After all that fuss, it was already half past ten at night.

But having just acquired two human corpses, Gu Xin was itching to give it a try.

"One try. Just one!"

Gu Xin licked his lips and turned his gaze toward the long cabinet of materials against the wall.

"Mr. Asma, my dear friend, please bless me!"

Gu Xin had Macho Goblin put Ulan's corpse into the freezer, then mercilessly tossed his so-called friend Asma into the alchemical furnace.

"[Cultist] + [Corpse Hound] + [Dark Element]... There shouldn't be any problem."

After thinking it over and confirming there were no issues, Gu Xin tossed in the remaining two materials as well.

"No, this time it'll be a humanoid card. Let's add a piece of equipment too."

Gu Xin threw a pair of gloves into the furnace: [Spiked Gloves], which he had found on Asma's body.

This suggested that Asma might have been a pugilist-class professional. Well, though he had never gotten the chance to show it.

[Cultist] + [Corpse Hound] + [Dark Element] + [Spiked Gloves].

With all four materials in place, Gu Xin slowly closed his eyes. Magic surged forth, continuously pouring into the furnace.

Come on, my first humanoid card. Would it succeed?

No. It had to succeed.

Alchemical furnace, activate!