Reborn into A Slash Game-Chapter 42 - Devourer: Please Let Me Eat My Fill
Chapter 42 - Devourer: Please Let Me Eat My Fill
The memory orb on his hand was only the size of a goose egg. It was transparent with soft specks of light pink. Like Vixanne, it encompassed a beauty that would never leave the memory of anyone who sees it.
Suo Fei seriously regarded it for a long time before carefully putting it away. He then raised his head to look at Manzy.
The emerald clip that had been holding his hair in place had dropped off. His silver hair glistened behind him like a waterfall. The coldness in his countenance had been replaced with vexation and remorse. His silver eyes were filled with deep concern. A tinge of fear could also be seen within them.
Seeing the aloof and remote Elven prince in this dishevelled state left a bad taste in Suo Fei’s mouth.
He didn’t like Manzy and had an unpleasant first impression of him. Manzy’s outlook on relationships was messed up, but at this moment, Suo Fei felt that Manzy Argoux had true feelings for Sofey Evans.
From the perspective of a bystander, Manzy’s love was selfish. He made trouble out of nothing and his behaviour was somewhat ridiculous. However, it would probably be another story if the real Sofey Evans was here.
Everyone—No. Every couple had a different view on love. If they think that it’s love and accept one another, then a bystander had no right to question their relationship.
Love had always been only between two people.
Suo Fei was clueless as to why he came to this world. He didn’t want to occupy Sofey Evans’ body, but he was already occupying it. He didn’t know where the original Sofey Evans went, but he knew that if he was Sofey Evans, he would have been in love with the Elven prince before his eyes.
Suo Fei let out a sigh as he drew nearer to Manzy Argoux. He took out a white bead that was surrounded by a glowing halo of light from his interspatial bag and placed it on Manzy’s palm.
Manzy stared at him in a daze. The two white beads on his palm flickered with excitement due to being close to one another.
This white bead was called the heart bead, which was the beast core from twin ferocious beasts. These ferocious beasts would never separate with their partner even until death. Their beast core had this ability: They would respond and be interdependent to each other for a lifetime. No matter how far they were to each other, they would always be linked at heart.
Heart beads were a marvellous existence in Yalance.
It symbolised genuine love. Lovers who own a pair of heart beads were favoured by God as it upheld the vow that they would never part. But now, Suo Fei handed back the heart bead.
Suo Fei was unaware of its significance. In the game, there were only lust, possession, and extortion. There were no feelings involved. Thus, it was impossible for him to encounter things like the heart bead.
He only returned the heart bead to Manzy because it was something that Manzy gave to Sofey Evans and Sofey Evans was not him.
Suo Fei looked at Samael and quietly said, “Let him go.”
Samael obediently willed the Asura Blade back to its harmless dagger appearance without hesitation.
Suo Fei stepped forward and took Samael’s hand. Then, he calmly looked at Manzy as he slowly uttered out:
“Your Fey⸺Sofey Evans, is dead.”
Manzy blankly stared at him. His hand that was holding the two heart beads trembled slightly.
Suo Fei looked on with indifference and continued, “I killed him. I’m a murderer but,” his tone became increasingly unfamiliar, “I won’t give you the opportunity to take revenge.”
⸺I transmigrated to this body. Whether or not it’s intentional, I am the murderer who killed Sofey Evans. But I want to live. So, I won’t give anyone the opportunity to take revenge!
Perhaps Manzy would be unable to understand the true meaning of his words, but it didn’t matter. Suo Fei had already said what he wanted to say.
Manzy was still in a daze.
Suo Fei turned around and spoke to Samael with his head down, “I want to get out of here.”
It wasn’t until the two had vanished into the depths of the unnamed forest that Manzy woke up from his daze. The heart beads slipped from his hands and shattered on the ground. The transparent and smooth crystal surface had turned into sharp shards. The liquid inside the heart bead was unexpectedly bright red—just like the color of one’s heart.
Manzy slowly kneeled down to the ground on one knee. He held the shattered heart bead on one hand. The fragments cut his hand and his blood intermixed with the red liquid inside the heart bead into an indistinguishable amalgam.
He slowly raised his head and looked at the direction where Suo Fei was heading. His silver eyes were filled with determination and paranoia, “Fey, you’ll never leave me.”
Samael moved in a fast but stable manner. Suo Fei’s head was leaning on his chest. His own chest was tight as he clutched onto Samael’s clothes. He was only able to recover his senses when the whistling sound of the wind ceased and quietness resumed.
Samael had stopped.
Suo Fei’s hair had become messy and frizzy after rubbing against Samael’s body and being blown by the wind. He took a look around and was given a shock.
It turned out that they had already left the unnamed forest. Past the unnamed forest was the Bois Canyon. Bois Canyon was a land of adventure which was as famous as the Knuhl Forest. The number of ferocious beasts living in Bois Canyon was by no means inferior to the Knuhl Forest.
Standing in front of them was a huge ferocious beast that was five meters high.
Although the ferocious beast was huge, its appearance was by no means unusual. It looked like an enlarged version of a buffalo. Well, an enlarged buffalo was still frightening. Especially at such a close distance.
Suo Fei completely recovered his senses from the shock.
He dumbly stared at the huge buffalo.
The buffalo reacted by uttering a long cry.
Suo Fei went silent. Game designers, you guys are really cutting corners. This is, in fact, just a buffalo. You designed it to be a buffalo, but regard it as some ferocious beast in the game.
The buffalo cried out for a long time before finally looking down at the two ‘small ants’. Although the ants were small, they were barely enough for the buffalo. The buffalo opened its mouth wide, wanting to swallow the two.
Suo Fei closed his eyes and observed a brief moment of silence for the buffalo.
A long cry entered his ears, followed by an earth-shaking crash.
Suo Fei opened his eyes, his gaze falling onto the buffalo that had been cut into halves. It had been hacked to death in a simple and crude manner that contained a hint of fury.
The buffalo’s fur was light gray which had a good lustre. Suo Fei, who was still in a melancholic mood, thought that he might be able to lighten his mood if he tired himself out. Thus, he jumped down and Samael handed him the Asura Blade.
Suo Fei started the huge skinning job. He attentively peeled the fur from beginning to end. In the past, he peeled the fur as he wished. At this moment, he was especially attentive in hopes of diverting his attention.
When one was busy, they would become focused and wouldn’t think about anything. This attentiveness would lull the mind into a comfortable empty state. Suo Fei immersed himself in this state. When he completed skinning two impressively whole pieces of fur, Samael was shocked.
Too meticulous. Even the finest details were excruciatingly skinned off. At first glance, it looked like a living creature and had a particularly strange feeling to it.
When the little cub who had vast experience and extensive knowledge saw the two pieces of fur, its body tensed up as he remembered a long-lost forbidden technique.
It was a gruesome and terrifying technique. Extremely horrifying.
The forbidden technique was not difficult to cast. The only difficulty was the skinning part. As long as an intact piece of fur was obtained, one could easily create a beast puppet.
Beast puppets were different from tamed beasts. They were incomparably loyal and immensely powerful. Most importantly, they were immortal. They could live forever as long as the puppeteer who made them didn’t die.
Suo Fei… had the aptitude to be one. However, this was an extremely ruthless technique.
The little cub contemplated but decided not to speak about it.
The elf is not an evildoer. He doesn’t need this kind of evil power.
Suo Fei was exhausted after completing his work, but his mind was still out of sorts. He still couldn’t stop thinking about the earlier matter.
Vixanne died. She died because of him. It was like a thorn, persistently piercing deep into his heart.
If only he was a little more attentive, a little wiser, and wasn’t so careless, he could’ve noticed Vixanne’s abnormality. He could’ve stopped her in time. He could’ve not fallen into this situation.
However, there was no medicine that would cure one’s regrets in this world. What-ifs were absolutely useless.
Samael and the little cub knew why Suo Fei was sorrowful.
The little cub silently padded towards the buffalo and swallowed the whole buffalo in one mouthful. Then, it silently padded towards Suo Fei and let out two soft roars.
Suo Fei couldn’t understand what it was saying. He assumed that it was comforting himself, so he rubbed its furry head.
However, Samael turned his gaze sharply to the little cub.
‘What did you say?’
The little cub was startled. It had always thought that neither of them could speak the beast language and did not expect that the demon actually could!
It remembered what it had said and was a little nervous. It didn’t know whether he should talk about it or not. It had never divulged this information to anyone, nevertheless, nobody had said that it couldn’t be divulged.
After a pause, it looked at Samael’s sharp eyes and repeated his words, ‘Somewhere, there is an artifact that can resurrect the dead.’
‘Where is it?’
‘Salvag’s treasury.’
The conversation between the person and the beast caught Suo Fei’s attention. He couldn’t understand what they were saying, but he also realized that Samael could converse in the beast language.
He looked at Samael in confusion.
Samael clasped his hand and gently relayed their earlier conversation.
Resurrection? An artifact that can resurrect the dead?
Suo Fei was stunned. Vixanne can be resurrected?
He hurriedly looked at the little cub for confirmation.
The little cub affirmed, ‘There is an artifact that had been lost deep inside the treasury that is able to resurrect the dead.’
“But, where is this Salvag’s treasury?” Suo Fei had never heard of this place despite having explored the whole Yalance. How could he have not known that there was such an important place?
The little cub was silent for a while before saying, ‘My mission is to open Salvag’s treasury. However, I have to be in my ultimate form which I am currently incapable of transforming into.
Suo Fei was stunned. The little cub’s words were intriguing. According to it, his mission was not to guard the treasury but to open it. So to say, this place had been destined to be opened?
The little cub didn’t confirm nor deny it.
Samael asked him, ‘How do we restore you to your ultimate form?’
‘Let me eat to the fullest.’
Samael: …
‘How do we do that?’
The little cub was meditating: ‘If we were to use the buffalo as an example, I would have to eat three thousand of them to be full.’
Samael: …
He conveyed his words to Suo Fei and Suo Fei followed in response: …
Seeing both of them remaining silent, the little cub quickly added, ‘If we were to use the Frostflame Beast as an example, three hundred of them would be enough…’
Suo Fei: Please give me a rage comic’s emoticon, thank you.
The little cub strugglingly straightened its back, ‘You see. I’ve grown so much since I ate the Frostflame Beast.’
Suo Fei earnestly examined the little cub and was barely able to see a protrusion on its back.
The dead fish-eyed Suo Fei: You’ve grown a tumour?
Little cub: Tumour, my arse! That’s the wings of this divine beast!
The young cub wasn’t joking. In fact, with the amount it was currently eating, it would take at least thousands of years for it to eat its fill and Salvag’s treasury should only open after thousands of years.
However, it met Samael and Suo Fei. And Suo Fei was determined to resurrect Vixanne.
As such, Suo Fei rolled up his sleeves, ready to go all out for Vixanne.
The little cub quickly added, ‘This would also be a form of training for you two. You demon might be powerful, but you elf is too weak. Salvag’s treasury is an extremely frightening place. At your current level, entering the place is simply courting death.’
As a result, the largest canyon in Yalance⸺Bois Canyon, was in deep trouble.
The author has something to say:
For the record, I am a fan of Game of Thrones and One Piece. I loved them very much for the past two years or so! And for the past two years, I’ve always been wanting to write a story. Yoshi! The day where I can see the grown-up Samael and Suo Fei sweeping across Yalance has come at last!
