Seeing Ning Feng leisurely leading the two of them to follow the maid, Anthony's expression was twisted and veins appeared on his forehead.
The forward body was pulled hard, and Anthony turned around suddenly, glaring at the person who was blocking him.
"Don't hold me!"
Snapped!
The loud and clear voice echoed in the dimly illuminated palace corridor, directly distracting Anthony's roar.
The unfamiliar voice sounded in his ears, and Anthony's perverse expression froze.
In disbelief, he raised his hand and touched the left side of his face, feeling the remaining touch on it.
Um!?
Looking at Sophie in front of him, he slowly retracted his right hand. It took a long time for Anthony to understand what happened at that moment.
It seems like... I've been slapped?
By his fiancée.
Sophie is just an ordinary person, a noble courtesan with no power, while Anthony is a fourth-level melee-type awakener.
Logically speaking, a slap in the face cannot cause much harm to him.
Melee-type awakened people are no strangers to pain, but this humiliating action is an injury on another level.
The pain was minimal, but the additional magic damage from this action was indeed much higher than it originally was.
Too much too much!
His eyes widened, and he was in a daze for a while, watching Sophie speak hoarsely:
"You hit me? Even my father never hit me?"
As he muttered to himself, the veins on Anthony's forehead throbbed, and his breathing became frighteningly heavy.
"You actually hit me because of him?"
For a man, you slapped me!?
"you……"
Snapped!
Same position, but harder and faster.
"you……"
Snapped!
Two consecutive slaps in the face caused Anthony's anger, which had reached its peak, to fall into a deathly silence.
Anthony:...huh?
My mind seems to be blank... What happened?
Before his mind could think clearly about what happened, his body had already moved on its own, gripping Sophie's neck and pressing her hard against the wall.
boom.
He raised his right hand high, as if he was going to slap it back hard in the next second.
And with his strength, if this palm strikes Sophie, who is just an ordinary person, there will be no other result except having her head smashed.
But even though her body was lifted up and she felt suffocated and uncomfortable, Sophie's expression did not change.
Looking coldly as she was about to think about her fiancé, Sophie said coldly:
"Are you going to kill me?"
"Anthony Eli."
!!!
When he heard this title, Anthony's back suddenly felt cold, the blood in his eyes faded a little, and he paused in raising his arm.
full name……
A woman is calling me by my full name!
Danger!
The habitual uneasiness in his heart made Anthony wake up and look at the woman he held in his hand.
!!!
Boom.
Anthony suddenly let go of his hand, and Sophie, who lost her support, fell unsteadily to the ground.
"Ahem..."
Raising her hand to rub her lightly bruised neck, she looked up at Anthony who was standing there blankly and said lightly:
"Calm down now?"
His palms trembled slightly, and Anthony took a step back, terrified of what he wanted to do just now.
Did I just want to kill Sophie?
Killed his childhood sweetheart and fiancée?
Holding on to the wall, Sophie stood up with difficulty and said softly:
"Calm down, it wasn't your problem just now, your current state is very abnormal."
Even if his fiancé is in trouble in his private life, he is still the orthodox heir of a great nobleman, and there is absolutely no shortage of education.
Judging from his performance just now, there is no sign of Cheng Fu at all, he looks like a crazy manic patient.
And relying on her understanding and investigation of Anthony over the years, Sophie knew very well what her childhood sweetheart was like.
Anthony may be arrogant, and may not be smart enough in many political situations, but he is definitely not that kind of brainless idiot.
What happened before happened too suddenly. Sophie and Ning Feng didn't even start to exchange greetings. Anthony rushed directly in front of her and faced Ning Feng.
He blocked her completely behind him and glared at the approaching Ning Feng, as if facing an uneasy factor that would take her away from him.
This is very abnormal.
Ning Feng and Anthony have never interacted with each other, and there is no conflict. It is very abnormal for Anthony to behave like this.
"Calmly recall what you felt just now?"
"Feeling? I just...ah!"
When he thought about it again, a chuckle appeared in his mind, followed by a stinging pain as if his brain was being punctured, causing Anthony to let out a scream.
Boom.
Anthony knelt down heavily and covered his head, his face began to look ugly.
"...I feel that he is very dangerous, very dangerous."
"Don't let him get close."
There was a disgusting and repulsive aura about that man, which was very dangerous and frightening.
It feels very strange that a fourth-level arcane knight can actually have such fear.
Perhaps just like what Sophie said, his current situation is very wrong.
There was something invisibly controlling his thinking, and he was constantly being affected, but it just exploded at that moment.
"There is something..."
"There is power affecting my thinking, Sophie, I...hiss!"
Severe pain reappeared, Anthony's teeth suddenly clenched, fine bloodshot eyes appeared, and his body shook uncontrollably.
"Ahhh!"
Anthony kept staring closely at Sophie in front of him, stood up suddenly from the ground, and turned his back suddenly.
"I...I don't feel very comfortable right now."
"Leave me alone!"
Clang!
Pulling out the fallen long sword from the ground, inserting it into the scabbard with some slowness but unusual force, Anthony strode towards the opposite direction of their room.
"Anthony! Wait a minute, there are still things I haven't thought about clearly..."
Sophie called, but this time her obedient fiancé did not respond, but instead quickened his pace.
"Wait a minute!"
Staggering forward, Sophie raised her hand to grab Anthony's hand.
"Do not touch me!"
Before touching it, Anthony roared and turned back, and Anthony's left eye was completely stained with blood.
The same scarlet color as the moonlight hanging high in the night sky!
!!!
The penetrating gaze made Sophie stiffen, her shoulders tremble, and she subconsciously retracted her hand.
In response to her reaction, Anthony's expression darkened significantly, he turned his head and said hoarsely:
"Go back quickly, go back to your room."
"...Don't come near me, leave me alone."
The proud knight, dragging his broken body and will, trudged forward alone.
The noble lady who regretfully raised her hand again bit her lip and watched his back gradually disappear into the corridor.
"Anthony..."
Sophie bit her lip hard as she watched her fiancé walk away in a depressed mood.
Tsk!
Shaking her head vigorously, Sophie forced herself to regain her composure and looked in the direction where Ning Feng and the others had walked away.
"Ning Feng, why does he appear here? In the information I obtained, he is clearly not there."
"Who is behind this?"
Without thinking too much, the name was about to come out, and Sophie asked softly in her heart:
"Grandfather...what is your purpose in doing this?"
…
…
"The people of Eli's family are as bad as ever."
"Isn't it right? Didn't you restrain yourself in the end? Can this be considered bad?"
"Keynes, your grandson-in-law doesn't seem very smart? Is he a little too irritable?"
The legends on the cruise ship chatted and expressed their opinions from time to time.
The number of light curtains has been reduced a lot, and some of the outstanding ones have been specially enlarged.
The final unfolding of the encounter between [Devil] and Sophie just now made many legends find it interesting.
It was actually Anthony who chose to retreat, and his current situation was obviously not right.
"Keynes, it's boring to keep it secret for too long. Isn't it time to reveal some details to us?"
"What is the background of this competition and what is its ultimate purpose?"
It's a pity that no one in this world likes the Riddler.
The patience of these legends has almost reached its limit when it comes to Keynes's avoidance of talking about it.
Even if you have the support of a great mage, you can't go too far!
It’s time to say it!
"Ahem... Regarding your doubts, it's time to reveal some details to you."
Finally, under the unkind eyes of the several legends, the old man coughed lightly and tapped the deck with his stick.
"First of all, unlike previous competitions, the real end point of this Star Chaser Competition is..."
"observe."
observe?
"Yes, just observation."
"Everyone here, and every spectator who can see these contestants through any means, is observing."
"Watching their reactions and choices in desperate situations."
"Watch them. What will they give up? What will they hold on to?"
"Observation is the real purpose."
There was silence on the deck for a while. After Keynes' explanation, everyone not only failed to understand, but became even more confused.
what the hell is this?
While the other legends were thinking about the profound meaning, Augustus' eyes moved slightly, looking at the contestants on the screen and whispering silently:
"[Observed person]..."
…
…
"The guy just now seems to have been seriously affected."
With a smile on his face, Ning Feng held his head high and walked forward slowly, following the pace of the maid, thinking about the episode just now.
It's not even a classic trick of showing off and slapping someone in the face, because the other party didn't give Ning Feng a chance to prepare, and he suddenly acted recklessly.
It's really regrettable.
Although the other party's face is worse than mine, it can definitely rank among the top one percent in the aesthetics of the entire biosphere.
"It feels like..."
The other person's handsome appearance seemed to have changed into another look in Ning Feng's eyes in a daze.
He looked like an undead with a shriveled body and empty eyes.
Although he is still normal at the moment, with the strong aura on his body, sooner or later he will become something else.
"This world is assimilating outsiders."
Assimilation, corruption, pollution...The moonlight is like Pandora's ink cartridge.
While the awakened ones regain their strength, pollution also follows, subtly changing their hearts.
The darkness inside is amplified, the mood becomes irritable and irritable, and even the body is silently undergoing changes.
"I just forcibly aroused the aura in that little brother's body. I hope he can save himself after realizing it."
Ning Feng had no choice and would not take the initiative to help Anthony eliminate the pollution on his body. That would inevitably expose a lot of his trump cards.
"Although I definitely won't appreciate it, I've helped you all. It just depends on how much you can do."
Deliberately mobilizing emotions to make Anthony arouse the anger in his heart is the best he can do.
"It's only been less than two days, is the situation already so serious? Jia Silin's family is really not a good person."
The impact of this pollution is all-round, not only Anthony, but also the tool people under his control have not escaped.
"Even this tool man, I don't dare to let him wake up now..."
If he wasn't still in a confused state of mind, Rhodes might be in a similar situation to Anthony and would probably turn back and attack.
no.
How can a tool man bite someone?
This is absolutely impossible, so just continue to control it first.
However, Ning Feng made another discovery regarding this pollution:
"The degree of pollution seems to be related to strength..."
Rhodes and Anthony, who were at the fourth level of strength, were the most affected. Chu Yu, who was at the third level, looked wrong but could still control himself. He could barely notice anything at the second level.
But what really made Ning Feng come to a conclusion was the simple Sophie just now.
As an ordinary person, she was also under the moonlight, but she was not affected at all!
Can she withstand it? Ning Feng didn't believe it.
The conclusion is obvious:
"Only for the awakened...the higher the strength, the greater the impact of pollution."
Very intriguing pollution.
"As for what kind of power can make a fourth-level awakened person lose the ability to control himself silently? It seems that there is no need to think about it, right?"
Turning his head to look out the dark window, Ning Feng tried to see the red moon in the sky through the thick clouds.
"Only [gods] can do it, right? In other words, the one who plays [gods]."
Is the king the ultimate goal?
no.
God is.
While Ning Feng was thinking, the maid leading the way stopped and turned around to salute respectfully.
"We are here, but His Majesty the King only summoned you. Please ask the others to wait in the lounge with me."
After saying that, the maid, who made Ning Feng feel that he was stronger than Anthony, led Chu Yu and Rhodes to the other side without any explanation.
After signaling Chu Yu to cooperate first, Ning Feng looked at the huge rusty iron door in front of him and raised his eyebrows.
"Study? Are you sure this isn't the meeting hall? Forget it, let's go in."
Click click click.
There was a creaking sound, and the tall iron door was slowly pushed open by Ning Feng, and he walked in without hesitation.
Buzz.
After entering, his shoulders sank. Ning Feng raised his eyebrows and quickly shook his head helplessly.
"Ah haha, this feeling is really legendary..."
What a legend!
I really attract the love of legends.
There was no glorious scene in front of Ning Feng's impression, it was still a dilapidated scene of ruins.
Continuing to move forward, Ning Feng finally saw the light of fire after walking for a while.
It was a sky-high fire that almost ignited the entire room, burning blazingly behind a tall figure sitting upright.
"You came."
Da Ma sat on the throne with a golden sword, his giant sword stuck on the ground in front of him, and his hands resting on the hilt of the sword.
The king who turned into a skeleton spoke calmly to the approaching demon:
"Stranger."
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I've been feeling a lot of discomfort lately, and I went to the gym yesterday to vent my anger...
As a result, my arms are very awkward today and my chest muscles are sore...