Infernal Artist

Snakes fly 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 roared like crazy.

He rushed down quickly, blasting into the ant colony like a meteor, wiping out large swaths of demon ants with every move.

Naturally, the ants were not to be outdone and immediately launched a counterattack.

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

The earth is constantly shaking, cracking, and collapsing.

At this time.

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

Under a cracked demon ant carapace.

Lilith's voice sounded quietly:

"Hey, Shitou, there are a lot of demon ant corpses outside. How about I get two of them and let them take us to the river?"

The pebble said: "Don't. Although it is chaotic at this time, if there are magic ants leaving the battlefield and running towards the river, it is very likely to attract the attention of those two guys."

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

"Wait a moment." Xiao Shizi said.

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

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

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

Lilith stopped talking.

time flies.

The roar outside became stronger and stronger.

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

A crack in the ground snaked its way.

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

It remained still, just waiting.

suddenly--

The roar outside disappeared.

"Huh?" Lilith said in surprise.

"Shh - be quiet, let's listen to what's going on." Xiao Shizi said.

A few breaths have passed.

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

The queen rumbled, "I'm not afraid of you."

"Prepare to die." The woman said indifferently.

At this point, there was no sound.

There was dead silence outside.

The pebbles lay motionless deep in the ground.

suddenly.

Lines of burning small characters appeared before his eyes:

“Since this sequence has collected the core cards of the ‘Fool’ sequence and has completely mastered everything about ‘The Fool’, this sequence can view the relevant information of the ‘Fool’ sequence.”

"Please note that information exchange based on 'The Fool' is taking place. Do you want to check the relevant content?"

Xiao Shizi said: "Look."

In the void, lines of small characters appeared quickly:

“The information exchange relying on ‘The Fool’ is as follows:”

"Vicious Snake: 'Have you found it?'"

"Queen of the Soul-Slaying Ants: 'I found it. The fluctuations generated by our battle indeed caused a strange sequence of observations. I have discovered its location. My advanced troops are destroying that shelter, and all the souls are running away. Don’t fall off’.”

"Vicious Snake: 'But my target was not found, what a pity.'"

"Queen of the Soul-Slaying Ants: 'Don't worry about it. Although the souls of the two mysterious sides are rare, according to the agreement, 30% of the souls are for you.'"

"Queen of the Soul-Slaying Ants: 'In the past years, you occupied the territory near The Fool, and it was easiest to obtain high-quality human souls... But the Fool has been closed... Why don't you go back with me?'"

"Vicious Snake: 'The reason why I use 'Fool' to communicate with you is to show you this."

"——Hint: The Vicious Snake shared a piece of information with the Spirit-Slaying Ant Queen."

"The information is as follows:"

"Wanted in Purgatory."

"Find and capture an examiner who escaped from the 'Fool 3-6912' type sequence. His name is 'Liuping'. He is a human male, 14 years old, a professional knight, short hair, black pupils, a scholar, and a card master. There are cards but no books.”

"Reward: Ten thousand human souls."

"Queen of the Soul-Slaying Ants: 'You didn't catch him?'"

"Vicious Snake: 'I wanted to play with him, so I let him go temporarily, but I didn't know how important he was until I just received the wanted order.'"

"Queen of the Soul-Slaying Ants: 'Then there's nothing we can do - maybe it was eaten by me, maybe it was eaten by those snoopers, but it's not here anyway - the ground here has been plowed back and forth several times, and there is nothing strange about it.'"

"Vicious Snake: 'For now, it seems that we have no choice but to abandon this wanted order - by the way, I wonder if you have discovered that among the many snoops, there is a guy who is five levels weaker than us.'"

"Queen of the Soul-Slaying Ants: 'How dare you spy on us with such strength, trying to see a situation where both of us lose, and then benefit from it? Why don't we eat it!'"

"Vicious Snake: 'Go'."

All the small words slowly disappeared.

In the sky, the woman's voice sounded again:

"Queen Ant, you plotted against me!"

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

"Hmph, see you next time."

Two deafening sounds pierced the air.

time flies.

The world gradually became quiet.

The pebble lay deep in the ground, still motionless.

These two monsters actually used 'The Fool' to communicate.

——Do they have some connection with the devils in purgatory?

It looks like that's it.

After all, that vicious snake has always been guarding the outside of the Fool, perhaps not only coveting souls.

In fact, it itself is inextricably linked to purgatory.

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

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

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

"I see……"

"Liu Ping, there is the remains of a devil next to us. How about I let it dig a path and take us out." Lilith said happily.

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

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

"Wait a minute, believe me, I am more experienced in this area."

"Which aspect are you referring to?"

"hunting."

"……All right."

After one day and one night.

The entire devil's city is constantly filled with river water.

finally--

It was flooded by the wide river.

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

Another half day passed.

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

A crustacean with three pairs of eyes dug through the sand and discovered the small black pebble.

It grabbed the stone with its pliers and gently threw it back.

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

The black stones floated gently in the water and landed again among the pile of stones.

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

Until then——

Xiaoshizi finally spoke:

"Lilith."

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

"I remember you could control fish?"

"Yes."

"Find a fish—a fish that likes to swallow pebbles and play with them—is there such a fish?"

"No, but there is a scavenger fish that will eat anything."

"Okay, that's it."

After counting the breaths.

A big fish several meters long swooped over and ate the devil's corpse in a few bites.

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

——The black pebbles were also swallowed by it.

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

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

About two quarters of an hour later.

The big fish slowly rose up and came to the surface of the water.

It suddenly discovered a strange thing——

Directly above him, a skull was approaching to take a closer look.

When he saw that what was floating up was a carrion fish, the skull slowly took it back.

-This is a skeleton.

It is suspended above the river water.

——Above the murky flowing river, skeletons one after another were suspended in the air.

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

Look around.

Not only were countless skeletons densely covered above the river, but the land in the distance was also full of patrolling and wandering skeletons.

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

When the big fish floats, there are other fish in the water flowing up and down with the river.

There are large areas of debris in the waters here, so scavenging fish 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.

"I want to thank you this time." Lilith said.

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

"You don't know about the shelter? How did you survive in the eternal night?" Lilith said in surprise.

Little Stone was silent.

——However, the shelter was also discovered by the two monsters.

I'm afraid all the souls inside were eaten clean by them.

"...Forget it, let's talk about this later. Now you carefully control this fish and 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 the water and came to a river where there were no skeletons to monitor it.