Chapter 3: Long-term acceptance of Su Xiao's treatment had made Sha's willpower extremely strong.
Therefore, absorbing this amount of "Pure Abyss Power" was not enough to turn Sha into a puppet of the Sky City. She had not yet lost herself. For Sha, who was solely pursuing limits and strength, the "Pure Abyss Power" possessed by the Sky City was a supreme treasure.
After this "life-and-death battle" with Su Xiao, where she barely survived and returned to the Sky City, what would the three "Council Elders" do? The answer, of course, was to bring out even more "Pure Abyss Power" to continue strengthening Sha, this puppet. The Dark Twins and Black Hole Azler were already dead, and the Ancient King had not yet awakened. They needed Sha, this puppet, to block the menacing Law Destroyer.
Thus, a situation formed where it seemed Sha was being used, but in reality, she was ruthlessly fleecing the three "Council Elders." When she had fleeced enough wool, Sha would then strip away the "Dark Blood Will" that she hadn't absorbed within her body and immediately escape her current perilous situation.
Sha craved power, that was true, but she wasn't stupid. Absorbing "Pure Abyss Power" had side effects, yet "Pure Abyss Power" was ownerless, one of the two supreme powers. In contrast, if she absorbed the "Dark Blood Will," what awaited her would undoubtedly be a dead end.
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Inside the guest room of the luxury cruise liner, Su Xiao put down the communicator. Although his target this time was the Sky City, before going there, he needed to first visit Shadow City, which was nearly a hundred kilometers away, near the coast.
If Night City was a place of extravagance and chaos, then Shadow City, located on the edge of the Wizard Continent, was a dark forest. A more intuitive analogy would be: Night City was equivalent to the trash can of the Wizard Continent, gathering filth and lawless elements, while Shadow City was the garbage dump. Unless they had absolutely no other choice, some fugitives and thugs would rather go to sea to gamble on a chance of survival than come here.
Because of this, this large city with a population of millions and a "simple and honest folk" had become the most active area for the Dark God Cult. The headquarters of this world's Dark God Cult, the Dark Cathedral, was located here.
Su Xiao's trip to Shadow City this time was not to directly enter the city and clash with the Dark God Cult. When he first entered this world, he had already contacted Kaiser, with the goal being the Dark God Cult's treasure vault. After Kaiser's arrangements, the timing was ripe.
Looting the enemy's treasure vault not only caused no pangs of conscience but instead brought a feeling of relief.
Moreover, Kaiser had his unique Goblin Formula. Compared to the Law-Destruction Faction's bandit logic, the Goblin Formula mainly highlighted the word "shameless." It went:
The Dark God Cult's treasure vault = A thorn in the side of many enemy forces of the Dark God Cult = The Dark God Cult has many enemies = Coveted by many = Highly likely to be looted = Why not let Kaiser help them keep it safe? = Fundamentally solves the problem of the Dark God Cult's treasure vault being looted.
According to this logic, the Dark God Cult should even thank Kaiser for helping them solve the risk of their treasure vault being looted at its root.
If the high-ranking members of the Dark God Cult knew this explanation, they would surely be furious. For so many years, they had been the ones harming others; when had they ever suffered such treatment?
But they didn't know that an even more "surprising" situation awaited them, along with a series of particularly vivid "pain masks" that had been prepared for them.
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[Author's Note]
On rainy days, this mosquito's neck is really in bad shape. I originally wanted to write 8000 words, but only managed to write nearly half of that. Sorry, rainy days are truly unfriendly to this mosquito's cervical spondylosis.