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When Duanmu Huai set out on his return journey, Gion… everything was normal.

Well, after all, after Cthugya was swallowed, Duanmu Huai only needed to go back to the night before when nothing happened. So Gion, which was originally flooded by the flood, has now restored the original prosperity of the flower street.

Duanmu Huai naturally also obtained Cthugya's old essence, and decisively chose to merge.

After all, he came for this.

After fusing Cthugya's old essence, Duanmu Huai also obtained Cthugya's ability—devourment.

At first glance, this ability seems to have nothing to do with flames. But this is also normal. Flames are just a manifestation of Cthugya, just like the black flames from the destined death that Duanmu Huai used when he was the God of Destruction. Devouring is the essence of Cthugya, and flames are the manifestation of devouring.

As mentioned before, Cthugya devours the spirit, not the body. Therefore, when it burns something to devour it, it is more like eating chestnuts or walnuts, destroying the shell with flames, and then digging out the delicious inside and eating it in one bite.

It's just that Cthugha's devouring ability is only effective for the spirit, and unlike the shadow, it extends to the information level - well, it can be said that it is specifically designed to defeat Nyarlathotep.

If it were another one, Cthugha wouldn't be so easy to devour the other party, but who said Nyarlathotep likes to do this kind of spiritual tricks the most, who else can it defeat?

But this move is not without problems, because devouring the spirit means devouring the other party's memory and emotions. In fact, at the moment when Duanmu Huai merged with Cthugha's old essence. The spirits, memories, emotions of the civilizations that Cthugha had devoured before, as well as the memories and spirits from Nyarlathotep's clones and other old rulers, all rushed into Duanmu Huai's brain.

Can Duanmu Huai stop it?

Of course he couldn't stop it. Duanmu Huai's spirit was still a pure human being, not like the indescribable Old Ones like Cthugya. But fortunately Duanmu Huai had thought of this a long time ago—he still had a shadow!

The characteristic of the shadow is that it can scan and store information, which is equivalent to a large server. When Duanmu Huai needs information, he can directly retrieve it from the shadow. So when Cthugya's swallowed up a lot of information rushed towards Duanmu Huai like a tsunami, Duanmu Huai decisively packed them all and threw them into the shadow server.

To be honest, Duanmu Huai was also sweating coldly after doing this step. But he certainly wouldn't swallow these spirits and merge them with himself. In fact, as one of the Old Ones' abilities, the shadow itself also has the ability to change. In other words, Duanmu Huai can completely turn himself into another person according to the data information stored in the shadow.

For example, if he wants to become an idol, he just needs to scan it, and then he can become a young and beautiful girl idol. From top to bottom, from inside to outside, they are exactly the same.

But Duanmu Huai has never used this ability. The reason is very simple. When Duanmu Huai becomes that person, although his memory is his own, his way of thinking and emotions are completely transformed into the scanned person.

For example, the girl idol is afraid of mice, but Duanmu Huai is not afraid. But when he becomes that girl idol, he will scream when he sees mice.

Then the question is, what if Duanmu Huai is afraid of mice when he returns to his original state?

Mental things are very strange, no one can tell clearly, and Duanmu Huai does not want to take risks, so he would rather spend effort to create a shadow clone than change himself. After all, according to Duanmu Huai's experience, those judges who think they are very stable and there will be no problems usually overturn in the end.

So it is better for him to be more sincere.

Because of this, Duanmu Huai will not merge the spiritual power that has been swallowed, but just pack them as data and put them in the shadow. He plans to start the destructive power directly after returning from this trial and burn it completely.

But speaking of this, Duanmu Huai remembered a mission he had encountered before, a typical story of a hero fighting a demon king, and the demon king was best at mental control, but it had never been revealed. Then when the hero team fought against the demon king and beat him to the brink of death, the demon king decisively used this trick to forcibly convert his own and the hero's souls. Then he killed the demon king's body that had been transferred by the hero's soul. Then he returned to the court as a hero who destroyed the demon king.

However, this was the real plan of the demon king. After that, it went wild in that country in the name of the hero, and corrupted the queen, princess, general, and others of that country. Even the members of the adventure team who had adventured with the hero were corrupted and became loyal subordinates of the demon king.

Then the hero became the king, commanded his army to sweep across the entire planet, eliminated all opponents, and became the king of that world.

At that time, the players watched this mission and shouted that it was addictive. After all, the princess's evil training was too exciting!

Unfortunately, it is an online game after all, so players can only imagine the process through those records, and cannot watch the replay, which is a bit regrettable.

Of course, it is fun, but you still have to issue an extermination order.

It can be seen from this task that those who play with the spirit have a dirty mind, so Duanmuhuai has no intention of actually swallowing Nyarlathotep. Maybe that guy is planning to feed Cthugha with his own clone, and then occupy the nest and control Cthugha. So Duanmuhuai just hopes to make Nyarlathotep retreat. After all, since it ran away when it saw Cthugha, once it knows that it has the same ability as Cthugha on this planet, it will definitely do the same. Choose to escape from here.

For Duanmuhuai, this is enough.

Of course, in Duanmuhuai's view, this ability is only secondarily useful for dealing with Nyarlathotep. For him, the best use is to deal with the sin of obsession and treachery!

Duanmu Huai has always had a headache on how to deal with these two bastards. The Wrath of Violence and the Stain of Corruption are both easy to talk about, and the power of the God of Destruction is best at dealing with them. But the Evil of Obsession and the Treacherous are more difficult to deal with. Like Nyarlathotep, they both like to play dirty, and they are not as upright as the Wrath of Tyranny.

To deal with these guys, you have to scratch their painful feet - nothing can make these bastards feel more painful than directly devouring their spirits.

Especially for the evil of obsessiveness, Duanmu Huai has never had any effective way to deal with this pervert. Now, he is ready to directly devour its spirit so that it can no longer experience any feelings. I believe this is the best way to deal with the evil of obsessiveness. It will definitely be a torture comparable to hell.

However, this requires more attempts to fully master.

Not only that, after Duanmu Huai returned this time, he also brought an unexpected surprise to the girls.

"Uh...Brother? What is this?"

Looking at Duanmu Huai with his upper body bare and posing in a toned pose in front of him, Shajiuye looked confused. Shesta next to him was silent, and Shionji Yuko and Abigail looked confused.

"Hmph, how is it? Isn't it very impactful?"

Duanmu Huai raised his hands.

"I have a blue dragon on my left, a white tiger on my right, an old ox on my waist, and a dragon's head on my chest! If someone stands in the way of someone, I will kill someone, if someone stands in the way of Buddha, I will kill Buddha..."

"The teacher is back!?"

However, before Duanmu Huai finished speaking, he saw the door of the office being pushed open by Mianmu Zuotiao, and the door directly hit Duanmu Huai, interrupting his speech.

"Huh? Teacher, what are you doing standing here?"

"Nothing."

Duanmuhuai touched his nose. Fortunately, he didn't take the machete.

"By the way, why do you want a tattoo?"

Siesta drank her coffee and complained wordlessly.

"Isn't this pretty cool? I'll give it a try. It's just a sticker, not real."

Of course Duanmuhuai was talking nonsense. In fact, after devouring Cthugya's ability, Duanmuhuai felt that his old abilities were too many and difficult to distinguish. So I simply showed them in the form of tattoos, which made it easier for me to remember and use them - just like setting shortcut keys when playing games.

The green dragon on the left arm is the black shadow, the white tiger on the right arm is Cthugha, and the huge dragon head behind him is the Thousand Eyes, Thousand Throats and Thousand Whiskers.

Because Duanmuhuai is tall, his back is also very broad, and the dragon head behind him is full of impact. Especially for those with high inspiration, if you look carefully past the inspiration, you can see that the dragon head tattoo is actually made up of dense eyes, tentacles, and open mouths... and it is still squirming. .

Well, trypophobia is exclusive.

"Quite handsome?"

"Yes, I watched a very popular movie over there in Kansai."

"Ah, that dragon among men? I also read it... Brother said that the protagonist in it would show his tattoos when fighting."

Hearing this, Shajiuye also suddenly realized.

"That's right, that's right."

Duanmu Huai nodded. When he was passing time in Gion, he also went to watch the movie. I have to say that the scene where the protagonist took off his clothes and exposed his tattoos during a fight was really shocking. So when Duanmuhuai wanted to set shortcut keys, he thought of this.

In future fights, he will take off his clothes and reveal his tattoos. How cool!

"but………"

"but?"

"I've always been curious. The protagonist in it is wearing a suit. Why can he take it off all at once? A suit is not that easy to take off, right?"

Shajiuye raised his doubts, while Duanmuhuai tilted his head.

"Will it? I think it's very simple."

Just grab a handful of clothes and tear them apart, which is completely effortless for Duanmu Huai.

It's just a bit expensive for clothes.

But his clothes are shadow prints.

Well, that's no problem.

"Really...I think it's very difficult..."

Duanmuhuai didn't pay attention to Shajiuye's muttering. He raised his right hand and clenched his fist. Feel the hot devouring power flowing through it.

Hehehe... Now Duanmuhuai can't wait to find Nyarlathotep for a fight.