Chapter 199

"Huh..."

Will opened the door.

Behind the door was still a dark world.

"Hmm? The challenge is..."

Will was halfway through his words when he realized what the deepest level was like. He was startled, then slowly raised his head.

He saw that above his head was an ordinary...

slime.

Chapter 228 Heart

"..."

Will looked up at the slime.

He was really scared.

Just seeing its eyes looking up, Will's heart trembled, and he felt afraid to breathe.

"Hmm..."

Of course, this kind of fear.

It might be a conditioned reflex.

He often dreamed of such a scene in his sleep, where he walked into the first floor of a dungeon, then raised his head, and was smashed to death by a slime.

A very simple, very straightforward, and very funny way to die.

"Ah?! How could it be this kind of thing?! You, you, you, you... What are you afraid of?!"

It seemed that even Lucifer, who was watching the show outside, couldn't help it, and her roar resounded in the reverberating radio.

However, Will understood that the slime that appeared in front of him now was not his real "fear".

In Lucifer's hands, fear is always a "story" full of hints and concreteness, and what Will is really afraid of is often hidden behind this story.

For example...

The slime hanging above Will's head is just like a "Sword of Damocles" tailor-made for him, except that this thing is timed.

One day, it will fall and use "fate" to sentence him, symbolizing his death.

So, deep in his heart, he is actually afraid of his own death.

He thought he had gotten used to it, but sure enough...

Since he saw such a scene here, it proved that...

He was still like an "ordinary person" living in this world, afraid of his own death and wanting to continue living——

"Uh..."

Will looked at the shaky slime and didn't know what to say for a moment.

"...I'm just afraid of this thing, just like some people are afraid of mice, some people are afraid of cockroaches, and some people are afraid of spiders. Isn't it normal?"

"It's not normal at all!" Lucifer pouted, "Besides, this memory is so difficult to read. How come you haven't experienced it? Otherwise, I will definitely check it out."

"So, if you want to overcome this fear..."

Will raised his staff and aimed at the "powerful" slime.

With a simple fireball spell without even chanting, it was destroyed from the sky.

——It was originally such a simple thing.

——It was so funny that the original young master was smashed to death because it was so simple!

At the moment when Will did this, the black dome seemed to be broken, and light shone from the sky.

Will returned to "reality".

Back to the final BOSS level of the tenth demon city.

He looked back and saw that Shuna was still standing at the end with her hands folded against the wall. She did not move and said nothing.

It seemed that he had not "displaced" on this level. In addition to hypnotizing him, Lucifer's mental ability also pulled him into another space.

"You cheated. Who would be most afraid of a slime that can be dealt with so easily!"

Lucifer had taken off her strange armor and put it on the ground. She sat on a chair with her hands folded, and seemed a little angry.

In addition to being angry, she looked a little weak, and her usually rosy face looked a little pale under the light.

"This is the 'most terrifying space' I have studied for several months and spent more than half of my energy to create for you, but you... you just defeated it casually like now!"

Will understood.

This guy is just like a child, just like a math problem of three-digit addition and subtraction that he designed with great difficulty, but was suddenly solved by a college student using a calculator, so he was so angry.

"Woo, I'm so scared, after all, this thing left a deep shadow on my childhood..."

Will tilted his head and put on a "pitiful" expression to show his weakness to Lucifer--

"Lady Empress, didn't you feel that my heart was beating so fast that it almost jumped out of my throat when I saw it?"

"..."

Lucifer was a little "disgusted" by Will's tone and shrank back on the chair.

"Okay. Since we're here..."

Lucifer slapped the button on the chair, and then a white flag popped out from the back of the chair very... handsomely?

It was as white as if it had just been made, and it seemed that it had not been used yet.

"... I give up."

Sitting under the white flag, Lucifer stood straight.

No, what kind of dungeon empress is she? ! It would be fine if he could clear each level like a ride in an amusement park, but now he has even pulled out the white flag.

Is this a natural comedian?

"You don't seem to be hurt much? Don't you want to keep fighting?"

"I told you. This is my 'third stage', and I have used up all my strength. I just didn't expect that even the 'most terrifying thing' couldn't defeat you."

Lucifer's tone was a little unconvinced, but her expression and movements were quite helpless.

"Anyway, you'll die if you fight, so it's better to look decent."

"You can survive until now, thanks to the lack of people here."

Will sighed, what kind of show-off queen is she?

"As for whether you want to destroy this place and whether you want to kill me, it's up to you. And... I promised."

Lucifer said, throwing a small wooden box into Will's hand. From the outside, it looked like a coffin.

"This is……"

Will started to open the box, and inside the box was...

A heart.

Even the beating heart, which was a little smaller than Will's fist, was moving quite powerfully, but was not pumping blood outward. It's like it's been washed clean.

"My heart, isn't this what you want?"

Lucifer spoke calmly.

Will looked up and saw traces of bandages on Lucifer's shoulders when she was wearing a shirt.

Did she take out her heart? ! Should I say that this is really a very "evil" behavior?

It is for this reason that she has been refusing to use spiritual skills to fight with her fancy methods, and...

Are you a little weak now?

"Oh, be careful. It's very close to me, so it's still jumping. It doesn't matter. After you take it away, it should stop moving."

"..."

"Why, why don't you say anything? Because...because I actually can't control what trophies will be left behind after I die, so I might as well prepare it for you in advance."

Lucifer seemed a little nervous, and her tongue curled up as she spoke.

"What if after I die, I am left with some devil's tail, or even worse, wings, and my heart is not well preserved, you will... be unable to save your beloved little princess, right? Bar?"

Lucifer's tone was not happy, and her words were as sad as her last words.

"The creatures in the dungeon don't seem to survive on superficial organs, so taking out the heart is just a slightly bloody process, and in doing so, you don't have to take out the heart with your own hands!"

Lucifer turned away and looked elsewhere.

"Okay, you...you have to leave this dungeon. As...as the empress here, I...I am...very happy to be able to...meet the challenger in three months... ...You...you go quickly...don't...don't cry."

Lucifer began to sob as she spoke, then wiped her tears with her hands.

She clearly convinced herself that she couldn't shed tears even if she was about to be captured.

She clearly reminded herself that as an empress, she should face the adventurers with her strongest side.

She clearly told herself that there were many dungeon emperors who could not reach the end, and she was not a special case.

However, it was obviously the first time to meet such a powerful and enthusiastic adventurer, and it was obviously the first time to play a whole BOSS battle. Why should such a happy thing be associated with the dissolution of the dungeon?

"...Well...isn't it? Are you really crying?"

She opened her eyes and saw Will in her blurry vision, holding a small box with a heart, bending down and looking at her with concern.

Chapter 229 Blindfold

"Look...look at what I'm doing. Have you never seen the empress of the dungeon cry?"

Lucifer wiped her tears.

"Indeed...I have never seen it..."

With red eyes, Lucifer pretended to be calm before she died heroically and said:

"What's the point of crying before you die...?"

"No, the main reason is that we..."

Will was only halfway through his words when he was interrupted by Shona behind him:

"We won't kill you - isn't this what we promised before?"

"Eh? I... I thought you were... harsh words to me before the war?"

"Where did you learn this from? Hello!?"

"Everyone says that adventurers will use harsh words to motivate themselves before challenging a super boss!"

"Sometimes... the inexperienced empress is really difficult to deal with..." Shona sighed, "Also, Will... Counting it all, since I entered Qiming Star, have we actually not killed anyone at all? The emperor who has the clue?"

She looked a little more tired than before, as if she had just woken up from a long dream.

"Let me think about it, for example, the old man who joked about the rock fire and iron wall was not ours. Hmm... Keluodai at the Moon and Ice Pole was only conquered two weeks after we entered."

"Yes, all kinds of painful punishments are used to make them obediently vomit out everything they know."

Lucifer no longer cried because of sadness. She took two steps back. In her eyes, the two of them seemed to be evil people looking at her fiercely.

"The heart, heart, heart, heart, heart, heart, oh ... what do you want to do? Don't use your feet to a female emperor!"

However, the next second she realized that these two "friends" she had just met were teasing her.

otherwise……

He really wanted to kill her and conquer this dungeon, but he had done so a few minutes ago.

"Of course I should keep such an interesting dungeon and come here for vacation from time to time, right? Shona."

Will smiled as he closed the heart box and handed it to her.

"I always feel like... this... this is like some kind of relic, and... using a friend's sincere heart as a gift to your fiancée is a bit of a joke from hell."