purgatory artist

Chapter 217
Snakes soar in the sky.

The fruits scattered by it turned into powerful beings in the air.

"I want to live a few more days, I want to live a few more days!"

A strong human being roared like crazy.

He dashed down, blasting into the ant colony like a shooting star, wiping out large swathes of magic ants with every shot.

The ant colony was naturally not to be outdone, and immediately launched a counterattack.

For a moment, the whole world seemed to be in ruins.

The earth shook, cracked, and collapsed.

At this time.

On the side near the river, in a cave under the city wall.

Under a cracked carapace of the magic ant.

Lilith's voice sounded quietly:

"Hey, Stone, there are a lot of corpses of magic ants outside, how about I get two and let them take us to the river?"

The little stone said, "Don't do it. Although it's chaotic at this time, if some magic ants leave the battlefield and run towards the river, it's likely to attract the attention of those two guys."

"It makes sense, but are we going to stay here forever? It's very dangerous here, we almost died just now." Lilith said.

"Wait a little longer." Xiao Shizi said.

"Hmph, I have a lot of experience in hiding, why don't you listen to me." Lilith said.

"That's right, your hiding skills are great, but when it comes to survival, I suggest you listen to me." Xiao Shizi said.

It emphasized its tone and continued: "In the face of these two monsters, we have no room for redemption."

Lilith stopped talking.

time flies.

The roar outside grew louder.

The entire devil's city has been reduced to ruins, and then turned into a huge sunken pit, and the river began to flow backwards towards the city.

A fissure in the ground meanders through.

Carried by the current, the pebbles rushed directly into the depths of the ground, and hit a corpse of a devil buried deep in the ground.

It still doesn't move, just waits quietly.

suddenly--

The roar outside died away.

"Huh?" Lilith asked in surprise.

"Hush—be quiet, let's hear what's going on." Xiao Shizi said.

After a few breaths.

The woman's voice sounded in the sky: "Queen Ant, I'm going to attack with all my might."

The Queen Ant rumbled: "I'm not afraid of you."

"Prepare to die." The woman said indifferently.

Having said that, there is no sound.

It was dead silence outside.

Small stones lay motionless deep in the ground.

suddenly.

Lines of burning small characters appeared in front of his eyes:
"Because this sequence has collected the core cards of the 'Fool' sequence, and has thoroughly mastered everything about 'The Fool', this sequence can view the relevant information of the 'Fool' sequence."

"Please note that the information interaction relying on 'The Fool' is taking place, do you want to check the relevant content?"

Xiao Shizi said: "Look at it."

In the void, lines of small characters quickly appeared:
"The information interaction based on 'The Fool' is as follows:"

"Vicious Serpent: 'Find it?'"

"Queen Killing Ant: 'I found it, the fluctuations generated by our battle really caused a strange sequence of observations, I have discovered where it is, my advanced troops are destroying that shelter, all souls are running away Don't drop'."

"Vicious Serpent: 'But my target was not found, unfortunately.'"

"Queen Tu Ling Ant: 'Don't worry, the souls of the two mysterious sides are rare, but according to the agreement, [-]% of the souls on my side are for you.'"

"Queen of Killing Ants: 'In previous years, you occupied the territory near 'The Fool', the easiest way to obtain high-quality human souls...but 'The Fool' has been closed...you still don't want to go back with me?'"

"Vicious snake: 'The reason why I communicate with you with 'The Fool' is to let you see this.'"

"——Reminder: The Vicious Snake shared a piece of information with the Queen of Slaughtering Ants."

"The information is as follows:"

"Purgatory warrant."

"Find and capture a tester who escaped from the 'Fool 3-6912' sequence, named 'Liu Ping', human male, 14 years old, professional knight, short hair, black pupils, polymath, card master, There are cards but no books."

"Reward: 1 human souls."

"Queen Tuling Ant: 'You didn't catch him?'"

"The Vicious Snake: 'I wanted to play around, so I let him go temporarily, but I didn't know his importance until I received the arrest warrant'."

"The queen of killing ants: 'Then there is no way—maybe it was eaten by me, or maybe it was eaten by those snoopers, but it's not here—even the ground here has been plowed back and forth several times, and there is nothing unusual'."

"Venomous Snake: 'At present, it seems that we have no choice but to give up this arrest warrant—by the way, I wonder if you have noticed that among the many snoopers, there is a guy who is five levels weaker than us.'"

"Queen Tu Ling Ant: 'How dare such a strength dare to spy on the sidelines, trying to see the situation where we are both losing, and then benefit from it? Why don't we eat it!'"

"Vicious Snake: 'Go'."

All the small characters slowly disappeared.

In the sky, the woman's voice sounded again:
"Queen Ant, you plot against me!"

Then the queen ant's proud voice sounded: "Who told you to be so arrogant - don't run!"

"Hmph, see you next time."

Two deafening voices broke through the air.

time flies.

The world gradually became quiet.

The small stone was lying deep in the ground, still motionless.

The two monsters actually communicated with 'The Fool'.

—Are they somehow connected with the devils of purgatory?

It seems so.

After all, that vicious snake has been guarding the outside of the 'Fool', maybe it's not just for the soul.

In fact, it itself is inextricably linked with purgatory.

"Liu Ping, those two monsters have already left." Lilith said.

"Do you know their roots?" Xiao Shizi asked.

"I only know that the snake has a card book called 'Vicious Fruit' in its hand. As for the ant queen, the book in its hand is my mortal enemy."

"I see……"

"Liu Ping, there is a devil's wreck next to us, why don't I let it dig a path and lead us out." Lilith said happily.

"No, don't move." Xiao Shizi said.

"What are you still worried about?" Lilith asked curiously.

"Wait a minute, trust me, I have more experience in this area."

"What do you mean?"

"hunting."

"……All right."

After a day and a night.

The whole devil's city is constantly poured with river water.

finally--

It was submerged by that broad river.

The soil above the pebbles was gradually washed away by the river.

Another half day passed.

All kinds of grotesque aquatic creatures appear in this newly developed waters.

A crustacean with three pairs of eyes dug through the sand and found the small black stone.

It held the stone with its pincers and threw it back slightly.

——This is where it builds its nest. It only needs soft sand, and stones will hinder the comfort of the nest.

The black stones floated lightly in the water and landed in a pile of stones again.

It found that the devil's corpse buried in the soil was also lying beside the stone pestle, gently floating back and forth with the current.

Until then-

Xiao Shizi finally spoke out:
"Lilith."

"Why? We've been in the water for a few days, and you just remembered to call me?" Lilith said angrily.

"I remember you can control fish?"

"Yes."

"Get a fish—one of those pebble-biting fishes—is there any fish like that?"

"No, but there is a scavenger fish that eats everything."

"Okay, that's it."

After counting interest.

A large fish with a length of several meters came rushing over and ate the devil's corpse in a few mouthfuls.

When it was eating, it accidentally rolled some sundries around it into its mouth.

——The small black stones were also swallowed by it.

After a while, the big fish finished eating the carcass and swam away contentedly.

It was full and began to swim freely in the water.

After about a quarter of an hour.

The big fish floated up slowly and came to the surface.

It suddenly discovered a strange thing——

Directly above him, a skull is leaning over to observe carefully.

After seeing a scavenging fish floating up, the skull slowly retracted.

— This is a skeleton.

It is suspended above the river water.

——On the turbid and rushing river, one after another skeletons were suspended in the air.

These skeletons looked down at the river below, as if they were monitoring something.

Look around.

Not only are countless skeletons densely covered above the river, even the distant land is full of patrolling and wandering skeletons.

——This river and the surrounding land are under the monitoring of the skeleton group.

When the big fish floats, there are other fishes in the water that also float and sink with the river.

In the waters here, there are large pieces of wreckage, so scavengers can be seen everywhere.

Those skeletons seemed to have known about this situation for a long time, they just glanced at it and stopped paying attention to it.

So the big fish dived into the water again and swam toward the depths of the river.

"Liu Ping."

Lilith's telepathy sounded again.

"What?" Xiao Shizi responded.

"Thank you this time." Lilith said.

"You're welcome, by the way, what is a refuge?" Xiao Shizi asked.

"You don't even know about the refuge? How did you survive in the eternal night?" Lilith asked in surprise.

Little Stone was silent.

——However, the refuge was also discovered by those two monsters.

I am afraid that all the souls inside have been eaten up by them.

"...Forget it, we'll talk about it later, now you control this fish carefully, let it move according to its natural habits, don't rush to escape from this water area." Xiao Shizi said.

"Okay." Lilith said happily.

Two days later.

The big fish swam out of this water area and came to a river that was not monitored by skeletons.

(End of this chapter)