Infernal Artist

Nightmare Manor.

All the waiters gathered in front of the castle, standing in two neat rows, in complete silence.

The owner of the manor stood on the steps, with his hands folded, and said:

"Calm down, don't do anything impolite, and maintain the same behavior and attitude as the companions around you, otherwise I can't guarantee your fate."

"Yes, sir."

The waiters responded in unison.

The owner of the manor took out a pocket watch and looked at the time, nodded and said: "There are still five seconds."

Everyone stood holding their breath.

Deep in the sky, a dull roar suddenly sounded. . .

A dark gray mist fell from the clouds, falling like a meteor, and created a huge crater on the lawn in front of the manor.

The owner of the manor bowed gracefully and said: "Welcome to the manor, Lord of Nightmares, King Luo of Nightmares for all living beings' souls."

A black figure floated up from the crater.

I saw it was six meters tall, with a deep black light emitting from all over its body. It was human-like in shape, with seven or eight long black hands growing out of its back, trembling gently with the breeze.

It has a face similar to that of an adult human male, with an expression full of peace and compassion.

"Are all the fruits I want ready?" it asked.

"Yes, my master, everything is ready." The manor owner said.

He pulled out a complete set of cards and respectfully sent them into the void.

The card flew over and landed in front of the Nightmare King Luo.

"Yes, these souls have been cultivated to a very high level..."

Nightmare King Luo looked at the card. Among the long black hands on his back, a hand suddenly stretched out from a distance and grabbed one of the many waiters.

A large mouth full of sharp fangs appeared in the void.

The waiter didn't even have time to scream, before he was dragged into the mouth and disappeared.

"Huh? The waiter you hired recently is pretty good."

Nightmare King Luo lowered his head to examine the cards, and his long hands flew out with a "swish", grabbed the group of waiters, and threw them all into the air.

One after another, large mouths full of fangs appeared.

They bit the waiters, and with a slight movement, they swallowed the waiters into their mouths and chewed them continuously.

For a moment, the sound of chewing and wailing and screaming were everywhere in the void.

The owner of the manor bowed his head humbly and said, "It is an honor for me to be praised by your lord."

"But I heard that the guy with tentacles all over his body came here recently. What did he come for?" Nightmare King Luo asked.

"It hosted the first wave of attacks from the Nightmare Tide, so it stopped by to take a look." The manor owner said.

"It's obviously trash, but it wants to be the first to harvest the souls of the Evernight World. Does it think that Evernight is that simple?" Nightmare King Luo said.

The manor owner lowered his head, kept smiling, and said nothing.

King Nightmare Luo waited for a while, and when he saw that he didn't speak, he said: "Yes, it is really not convenient for us, Lords of Nightmare, to talk about it in front of you servants, so I'm leaving."

"Sir, there is one more thing." The manor master said.

"What?"

"The Death Soul Experiment in Hell is having some trouble."

"About the experiment of the soul? - You servants are commendable for trying every means to make the soul more delicious."

Nightmare King Luo thought for a moment and then said, "Okay, I'll go there myself."

"Thank you, sir, for helping us solve our problems." The owner of the manor said with a deep salute.

"It's nothing, just some souls with different tastes... It's really a wonderful thing to watch them struggling desperately in my mouth... even those souls that have gone crazy."

The words fell.

Nightmare King Luo gradually disappeared from the void.

It was not until dozens of breaths later that the manor owner slowly raised his head and exhaled softly.

He looked around the empty manor and murmured:

"No matter which master comes, I have to recruit a new group of subordinates... Tsk."

…

the other side.

hell.

Liu Ping asked:

"Are you trapped here?"

In the large glass vessel opposite him, a female corpse wearing a red robe floated in a transparent solution.

Surrounding this large glass vessel, there are more glass vessels as narrow as coffins, filled with various living beings.

Clearly, this is the work of nightmare monsters.

"No, I'm not trapped here," the voice of Gaia, the Mother of the Earth, sounded from the crimson ring on Liu Ping's hand:

"This is just my remnant, it has no power anymore - you have to find my eyes, everything I have is in my eyes."

Liu Ping looked towards the female corpse, and sure enough, he saw that only a pair of deep eye sockets were left in place of the female corpse's eyes, and the eyes had long since disappeared.

"Hiding the spirit with eyes is a wonderful idea." God praised.

"Go away, old man, if you have the courage to stand up and fight, I will not end up like this." Gaia, the mother of the earth, said irritably.

"You can't force anything in this world, dear lady," God sighed.

Liu Ping coughed lightly and asked, "Madam, where are your eyes?"

"It is trapped in a completely dark place. I can sense it - coming this way." Gaia, the Mother of the Earth, said.

A ray of red light emerged from the ring, passed through the hall full of glassware and corpses, and pointed to a small door on the wall.

Liu Ping jumped up and reached out to open the door.

Wow——

The door fell straight down and shattered on the ground.

Liu Ping was about to take action when he suddenly saw lines of burning small characters appearing quickly:

"Notice!"

"This sequence senses an unprecedented danger and temporarily loads the mission system."

"Immediately release survival tasks:"

"You must seize the moment and leave hell immediately."

"—or you must engage in a losing battle and survive until the very end."

"Just choose one of the two, and you will be rewarded at the end of the mission: a brand new scene."

"Mission failed: total death, the end of everything."

Liu Ping was startled.

"What happened?" he asked.

"The situation is urgent, please act immediately!" Sequence responded.

At the same time, a line of small words that kept flashing appeared in the void:

"Abnormal fluctuations have begun to appear. This characteristic cannot be possessed by ordinary nightmare servants. It should be another nightmare master."

The Lord of Nightmares?

Liu Ping thought carefully and suddenly discovered something.

Since replacing Delia, the teachers, parents, ladies, waiters, manor owners, etc. that he has come into contact with all play the role of cultivators of the souls of all living beings.

Even he and God teamed up to blow up the world, and it was called "Dense Food Town".

All of this serves a certain existence, and that is——

The Lord of Nightmares.

Since the sequence says "another Lord of Nightmares", this proves that there is more than just one Lord of Nightmares.

What are these beings like?

...No, I can’t leave.

This matter must be clarified.

Liu Ping sighed and said: "Madam, God, it seems that a nightmare lord is coming. I plan not to escape for the time being. I will first find Madam's eyeballs, and then leave hell through that secret path to get back the Holy Kingdom - you Can you help me?"

"I will try my best to help you." Gaia, the Mother of the Earth, said.

"God is with you," God said.

"Okay, then let's move on!" Liu Ping said as he geared up.

He quickened his pace and walked through the long corridor and entered a brand new hall.

I saw a huge monster standing in the center of the hall.

It seemed to be the product of countless souls fused together, with painful faces constantly appearing all over its body.

A man holding a violin stood aside, gently pulling the strings and releasing soul-stirring notes, trying to calm the monster down.

Lucifer!

He noticed Liu Ping's appearance and immediately said, "Don't get close, it's very dangerous."

"Lucifer has lost his power and can only temporarily suppress this monster, but you can kill it. The countless souls in it should be liberated, and they will guide us to find the eyeball." The voice of God came.

Liu Ping grabbed a spear with a sharp scream from the void and threw it with all his strength——

The monster was immediately penetrated.

Countless faces on it looked at Liu Ping and shouted bitterly: "You deserve to die!"

"Be careful, it's a wraith spell. You will be cursed to death, but this spell has weaknesses. If you know how to fake death, you can be exempted." Gaia, the Mother of the Earth, reminded.

Liu Ping shrugged and said, "I listen to you, you two."

He swayed slightly, fell to the ground, and said, "Ah, I'm dead."

"Look, does this behavior look like you? You men are all of the same virtue." Gaia, the mother of the earth, said to God.

"……"God.

Waited for a breath.

All the curse fluctuations in the void really calmed down.

Liu Ping got up from the ground and looked at the monster, only to see that it was nailed to the stone pillar with a spear. After struggling for a long time, he could not escape.

Gray stone gradually spread from the point where the spear was pierced, quickly turning the entire monster to stone.

It gradually transformed into a huge, eerie sculpture.

"Liu Ping, the Petrified Spear can only petrify it, and it will take one more blow."

Andrea said.

She handed over a three-meter-tall steel sledgehammer from the void.

"Is there any smaller one?" Liu Ping asked.

"You can knock this farther away." Andrea said.

"Give me a hammer and I'll throw it over," Liu Ping said.

Andrea thought the same thing, it was safer this way.

"Okay, I'll look for it - I got it!"

A palm-sized silver hammer appeared in front of Liu Ping.

Liu Ping grabbed the mace and threw it at the petrified monster with all his strength——

Only a flash of silver light was seen.

Large swaths of gravel flew apart and fell to the ground.

The monster is no more.

at the same time.

On the other side of the castle——

At the gate of the castle, stood a humanoid being covered in black.

The Lord of Nightmares, King Luo of Nightmares!

It was six meters tall, and a black hand deep on its back pushed forward gently.

The gates of hell burst open.

King Nightmare Luo walked in and looked around at the blood and countless corpses on the floor of the hall, with a slightly mocking smile gradually appearing on his face.

"OK……"

As soon as it said two words, all the corpses in the entire hall jumped up, stepped on the bloody water, and fled madly towards the back of the hall.