The enormous eyeball squeezed into the Sanctum, its surrounding green tentacles spreading outwards, shattering large sections of the magic array with a mere movement.
The magic circles in the Sanctum lit up one after another.
However, under that terrifying pressure, the newly risen golden light quickly dimmed, and numerous cracks appeared on the wall.
Chen Mo raised his head, the black flame in his left eye throbbing slightly.
Who is this?
" The Eye Demon Shuma Golas, this is only a part of it, or a part of its incarnation."
The Ancient One remained seated at the table, her wrist still held by Chen Mo, but her tone was perfectly calm.
Chen Mo looked at the eyeball above his head.
It's just a tiny bit, yet it can suppress the New York Sanctum across dimensions. If they brought the real thing over, it could probably swallow an entire Earth whole in one bite.
I wonder what it tastes like.
" Chen Mo, don't do anything reckless."
The Ancient One at him.
"I didn't say anything."
Your eyes have said it all.
Chen Mo coughed.
"It's normal for young people to have good appetites."
The Eye Demon's pupils contracted slightly.
A green tentacle extended from below the eyeball, directly coiling towards the Ancient One's soul. As for Chen Mo, who was standing in the way, he was only glanced at casually.
Clearly, this weak avatar was not worth the Eye Demon's attention.
"Oh? Who do you think you are?"
Chen Mo's body was rapidly covered with black and red armor, and his right hand transformed into a ferocious longsword.
But before he could even make a move, the Ancient One had already flicked her finger.
A wisp of black flame was instantly drawn from Chen Mo's left eye, flowing along the point of contact between the two and into the depths of the Ancient One's soul.
"Old man, those are my employees' equipment."
"May I borrow it?"
The faint black flames didn't attack the Eye Demon, but instead landed precisely on a pile of IOUs.
The next second.
Deep within the Ancient One's soul, hundreds of contract marks awakened simultaneously.
The crimson lightning erupted first, blasting towards the Eye Demon along the green tentacles. Immediately afterwards, darkness, fire, ice, and a large amount of unidentifiable high-dimensional power surged forth simultaneously.
The Sanctum, which had been perfectly peaceful just moments before, was instantly filled with energy from various dimensions.
Those forces did not attack each other.
They all had their eyes on the Eye Demon.
The Ancient One's soul has already been marked by hundreds of creditors. Before the settlement is completely completed, any entity that tries to monopolize this shared asset will trigger the instinctive backlash of all the contracts.
"Holy crap."
Chen Mo was dumbfounded.
"So this isn't an IOU, it's a counter-attack armor?"
The Eye Demon let out a cold laugh, or at least it was a cold laugh judging from his eyes.
A massive, eerie power erupted, instantly shattering more than a dozen dimensional energies at the forefront. Its tentacles swept across, forcefully dispersing large swaths of flames and lightning.
Quantity cannot compensate for differences in quality.
The Eye Demon didn't even use its true form; the part of its body that squeezed in was enough to suppress most of the creditors' power.
The smile on Chen Mo's face gradually disappeared.
This thing is far more dangerous than Cul.
If his true form could enter the real universe, he would like to try taking a bite. But now, relying only on this avatar, rushing in would basically be like offering the opponent a sample.
The green tentacles reached out towards the Ancient One once more.
Just then, several more marks lit up deep within his soul.
A stream of scarlet fluid.
A ball of golden energy without a fixed shape.
There was also an endless expanse of darkness.
The Eye Demon stopped moving.
It ignored the other creditors, but stared at those few forces for a long time. For the first time, a clear sense of apprehension appeared in its enormous pupils.
"Yao, you're still playing these pointless tricks."
The deep voice came directly into the Sanctum.
The Ancient One straightened her sleeves.
"Any trick that works isn't boring."
The Eye Demon did not make another move.
Its tentacles quickly retracted, and the green flesh that had squeezed into the Sanctum began to retreat out of the spatial rift.
Chen Mo immediately raised his hand.
"Since you're already here, aren't you going to leave something behind?"
A wisp of black flame landed on the edge of the flesh, and a large area of green tissue instantly lost its activity.
The Eye Demon suddenly rolled its eyeballs.
Before it could lock onto Chen Mo, the Ancient One had already waved her hand, and a golden magic circle covered the crack, pushing it completely back out of the dimension.
The space closes rapidly.
At the last moment, a small section of charred tentacle fell out of the crack.
Chen Mo reached out and caught it, then stuffed it directly into his chest.
The Blacklight cells quickly enveloped the tentacles and began to devour and decompose the energy within them.
You really eat everything.
Why shouldn't I eat what I found through my own efforts?
As soon as Chen Mo finished speaking, a series of explosions suddenly came from inside the Sanctum.
The power of those creditors did not disappear immediately.
A large amount of energy scattered across the walls and the ground, constantly eroding the physical space. Several clumps of black liquid even began to split on their own, attempting to transform the Sanctum into an environment suitable for their existence.
The Ancient One formed hand seals, and golden magic transformed into a circular barrier, compressing all remaining energy into the center of the room.
" Chen Mo, Black Flame."
"Payment is charged per visit."
"That tentacle isn't enough?"
"Take a deep breath, deal."
Chen Mo raised his right hand, and the pitch-black flames fell into the barrier.
The compressed dimensional energy quickly extinguished, and some stubborn remnants tried to tear through space to escape, but were blocked one by one by the Ancient One's magic array.
Seconds later, all the contamination turned to ashes.
The Ancient One patted his robes and sat back down in his chair.
"Now you should understand the consequences of forcibly touching me."
Chen Mo did not answer.
He stared at the Ancient One, his eyes growing brighter and brighter.
Contracts with hundreds of dimensional demons, plus a physical body whose contract could expire at any moment. This is hardly a Sorcerer Supreme; he's clearly a top-notch fishing spot, laden with bait and equipped with a built-in baiting function.
"Old mage, let's cooperate."
"What you up to?"
"I'm using you as bait."
Chen Mo excitedly sat down at the table.
"You lure the creditors over, I'll lie in ambush. We'll take them one by one, two by two. The corpses are mine, and we'll split the spoils according to our work. Your debt is wiped clean."
The Ancient One frowned deeply.
Have you considered what roles might be involved among those creditors?
"I've considered it, that's why I let you pick the easier ones first."
"But if handled improperly, all the creditors could come at once."
"Wouldn't that be better? It would save us the trouble of notifying everyone individually."
The Ancient One stared at Chen Mo speechlessly for a long time without saying a word.
The consequences are unpredictable.
"It's alright, there's no such thing as a sure thing in business. Let's start with the weaker ones, and we'll see how we divide the profits..."
Bang!
The spatial rift, which was not yet completely closed, suddenly expanded.
A mutilated corpse dressed in a scarlet robe crashed down from the middle, landing right in front of the two of them.
The tea table shattered in two on the spot.
Most of the corpse's torso had been eaten away by something, and fine tooth marks remained between the broken ribs.
Its only remaining hand was tightly clutching an old-fashioned piece of paper.
The other severed hand rolled to the Ancient One's feet, Five Fingers suddenly tightened, grabbing his robe.
Chen Mo looked down at the broken tea table, then at the Ancient One.
"Look, business is coming to us."