Chapter 270 That could be tasty! Let me lick it!
While the Demon, The Symbolist Faction, and the Devourer Faction were busy dealing with their own conflicts, the remaining faction, the Celestial Faction, were busy dealing with their own situation too.
All the Celestials, along with the kimono woman and her Companions were currently at the surface of the Red Moon, with their bodies tense for any kind of sneak attack.
Their eyes were busy looking all around them, but the only thing that they could see were the almost endless amounts of Red Sand.
There were no suspicious movements here in the Red Moon or whatsoever, not even an indication that something alive was here.
"So, this is the Red Moon. I thought that I will see something hostile here. But from what I can see, this place is eerily quiet…" The one who muttered these words were the Kimono woman, who was currently adjusting her mask. "I thought there could be a trap or something in here. It seems like I am mistaken…"
The Kimono woman continued on looking all around her, as she tried to look for signs of any possible hidden enemy.
But she still did not find any, which prompted her to just give up.
The Kimono woman then turned her head to the left, until she was face to face with the bratty-looking teenager from earlier.
This teenager was busy chewing on her gum, giving the Kimono woman a disregarding look as she stared back at her.
"What is it, Delia?" The teenager replied as she started to glare at the Kimono woman, whose name was revealed to be Delia. "What do you want from me now?"
"Tong"er, do you feel anything weird on this place? Or do you detect any kinds of spiritual anomaly?" Delia replied, seemingly unfazed with the rude reply by Tong"er. "You know that you are the best regarding the metaphysical right here…"
"Hmph, you don"t need to praise me like that. Of course I am the best!" Tong"er replied angrily, although some shades of red could be seen on her cheeks. "You want me to do a spiritual search? Heh, I can easily do that!"
"That"s my girl!" Delia happily replied as she stuck her tongue out. "I knew at the moment that I tasted your skin that you will be a great ally for me! Hah, I"m so happy that you joined me… It really makes my tongue tingle…"
"Ugh, please stop talking, that"s just disgusting!" Tong"er replied in disgust as she let out a s.h.i.+ver. "And please, put back your tongue inside your mouth! It"s very creepy!"
"Eh? But I can taste the air better when my tongue is out…"
"Ugh ugh ugh. Just please stop."
"Fine…" Delia could only reluctantly pull her tongue back in her mouth, looking quite bereaved as she did so.
"Hmph." Tong"er took no notice of this as she started to rummage through her pockets.
1 second later, and Tong"er drew out a piece of white rectangular paper, which suspiciously looked like a paper talisman.
Tong"er held this paper between her index and middle finger while she started to mutter a chant.
The chant used by Tong"er was quite indecipherable, as if there was some kind of power that was preventing anyone from fully understanding Tong"er"s chant.
All that Delia could hear right now were gibberish, making her uninterested on listening on Tong"er.
10 seconds after Tong"er started her chant, an unseen force field propelled out of her body, spreading outwards until it fully went through the whole Red Moon.
While this was happening, Tong"er"s eyes were closed in concentration as she kept a tight grip on her paper.
The unseen forcefield did not return, as it faded away once the whole Red Moon was affected by it.
The paper talisman then crumbled into dust, fading away into the air as Tong"er opened her eyes.
"Delia, when I used my spiritual sense to scan this whole place, I noticed something particularly weird at that spot." Tong"er said as she pointed at a ma.s.sive sand dune 5 kilometers away from them. "Inside that sand dune, I detected an object that was stuck in Limbo."
"Limbo?"
"Limbo, which I meant as the state between life and death." Tong"er replied quickly as she pulled out another paper from her pocket. "Any living beings inside Limbo can be considered to be both dead and alive at the same time, which can be a consequence of injury or some kind of cultivation requirement. Nonetheless, living beings that places themselves in a Limbo state were always rare…"
"Hoho, so that"s why I thought this planet was empty. So there was something like that here… Interesting! I wonder how that object would taste like…" Delia muttered deliriously as stars appeared on her eyes. "A living being that was both dead and alive? Hah, that might taste good!"
"Ugh, please stop that." Tong"er muttered in exasperation as she shook her head. "If we look at the clues here, it"s quite obvious that this being that"s in Limbo is the Red Moon"s Prisoner! I don"t recommend that you lick this prisoner… who knows, it might wake up…"
"Heh, but you just said that this being is in Limbo. I doubt that it will just wake up suddenly." Delia replied quickly, as if she was in denial right now.
"But even if that is true, you should still not lick him. It"s just so…"
"Wrong? Heh, you know about the things that I have licked before!" Delia replied as she shook her head. "Something like this? It"s nothing for me!"
Before Tong"er could let out another complaint, Delia snapped her fingers as she summoned someone to approach her.
"Oi Adjudicator. Bring your useless a.s.s here."
u003cu003cu003cI"M COMING NOW, ENVOY…u003eu003eu003e Rustling sounds could be heard as the 14-winged angel landed behind Delia.
Right now, the angel had a downcast expression on her face, which looked quite similar to the face of a child that had been punished.
"I still could not forgive your failure to kill the Envoy of the Abyss Plane earlier." Delia said as she gave a cold look at the angel. "But I already punished you for that, so I will forget that matter for now."
"u003cu003cu003cI AM REALLY SORRY ABOUT THAT ENVOY. HIS ATTRIBUTES… WERE JUST THE SHEER COUNTER AGAISNT MY POWER. I HAVE NO WAY TO WI-u003eu003eu003e
"Yeah, yeah, I get it. Just drop it for now, ok?"
"u003cu003cu003cAGREED, ENVOY.u003eu003eu003e
"So, what I wanted for you to do was to take out whatever object was inside that sand dune." Delia said as she pointed at the sand dune that Tong"er had detected earlier. "There"s a high chance that the prisoner of the Red Moon was inside that dune. Tong"er said that whoever was in there was currently in Limbo, which technically makes it harmless. But I could not just get that object without any precaution. That"s why you, a powerful Divine Being, will be the one that makes sure that it will be safe."
u003cu003cu003cENVOY, YOU WANT ME TO PULL THAT THING OUT?u003eu003eu003e
"What, do you have any problems with it?"
u003cu003cu003cNOTHING AT ALL ENVOY. NOTHING AT ALL.u003eu003eu003e
"Then don"t waste our time here. Do it now!"
u003cu003cu003cAFFIRMATIVE ENVOY!u003eu003eu003e
The angel, under the glare of Delia, was left with no choice but to approach the indicated sand dune.
By using her ma.s.sive wings, the angel blasted the sands on the sand dune, revealing something residing inside the dune.
The angel, who hesitantly reached out her hands to obtain the object, suddenly stopped on her tracks as she stared in front of her.
Her breathing then started to hasten as her face started to turn red.
Her exaggerated reaction became more animated as she continued to stare at the object.
u003cu003cu003cNO WAY…u003eu003eu003e The angel breathed out as her eyes widened imperceptibly. u003cu003cu003cHOW COULD THIS BE HERE?u003eu003eu003e
What the angel saw inside the sand dune was a hand which was the size of a mountain.
The hand itself was red in color, with its nails looking quite sharp and dangerous. There were some engraved symbols at the body of the hand, along with some metal beads pierced through the fingers.
There were also Origin Devouring Chains that were wrapped all around the hand, making it quite obvious that this hand was indeed, a body part of the Red Moon"s prisoner.
"…"
The angel spent the next few seconds just staring at the hand wordlessly, as if she was struggling to articulate herself.
The angel then looked back at Delia, who was looking at the angel with a frown on her face.
The angel seemed to want to say something to Delia, and it took the angel some moments before she could talk.
u003cu003cu003cENVOY, THIS RED PRISONER… IS SOMEONE THAT IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS!u003eu003eu003e The angel said these words hastily, as if she was trying to say everything that she can in a short amount of time. u003cu003cu003cENVOY, I KNOW THAT YOU HAD SEEN MANY KINDS OF DANGERS ALREADY, BUT THIS ONE RIGHT HERE IS A DIFFERENT CASE! WE SHOULD BE EXTREMLY CAREFUL OF HIM!u003eu003eu003e
"You... for you to say something like this, does that mean that you recognize the kind of being this Red Prisoner was?" Delia replied as she began to look at the red hand with wariness. "Faster, tell me everything that you know right now!"
u003cu003cu003cENVOY, IF MY SUSPICIONS WERE RIGHT, THIS RED PRISONER THAT WE ARE SEEING RIGHT NOW… IS MOST PROBABLY A DEMON FROM THE GOETIC ORDER!u003eu003eu003e
"The Goetic Order? Wait, isn"t that-"
u003cu003cu003cTHE ONE THAT WE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE, ENVOY.u003eu003eu003e The angel replied as she let out a sigh. u003cu003cu003cTHE GOETIC ORDER WAS COMPOSED OF DEMONIC BEINGS THAT WERE ONCE THE ALLIES OF THE HOLY ORDER. SOME COMPLICATED THINGS HAPPENED IN THE PAST, WHICH LED TO THE MEMBERS OF THE GOETIC ORDER BREAKING THE ALLLIANCE WITH THE HOLY ORDER. ONCE THAT ALLIANCE WAS BROKEN OFF, THE GOETIC ORDER AND THE HOLY ORDER BECAME HOSTILE WITH EACH OTHER, WHICH LEAD TO COUNTLESS SKIRMISHES BETWEEN THE TWO ORDERS. UP TO THE DAY THAT I WAS CAPTURED, THE HATE BETWEEN THESE TWO ORDERS WERE STILL SKY HIGH, AND I WILL NOT BE SURPISED IF THAT HATE STILL EXISTS UNTIL NOW. THE DEMONS OF THE GOETIC ORDER HAD THEIR OWN KINDS OF a.s.sORTED ABILITIES, MAKING THEM QUITE FORMIDABLE FOES. THE HOLY ORDER INDEED GOT HEADACHES FACING THE MEMBERS OF THE GOETIC ORDER…u003eu003eu003e
"Are you sure that the Red Prisoner was really a demon of the Goetic Order? I mean, what we only saw right now was just a red hand, right?" Tong"er muttered as she spat out her chewing gum. "Maybe you"re just being a paranoid sissy."
u003cu003cu003cGREAT SPIRT MASTER, I AM SURE WITH WHAT I AM SAYING. AFTER ALL, I HAD ALREADY FOUGHT AGAISNT THE OWNER OF THIS RED HAND.u003eu003eu003e The angel replied as she gave the hand a pointed look. u003cu003cu003cTHESE ENGRAVINGS THAT YOU SEE ON THIS HAND RIGHT NOW… I HAD ALREADY SEEN THEM THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO. EVEN IF THAT LONG TIME HAD ALREADY Pa.s.sED BY, I AM SURE THAT THE ENGRAVINGS THAT I CAN SEE RIGHT NOW ARE EXACTLY THE SAME TO THE DEMON THAT I HAD SEEN BEFORE! THERE IS NO DOUBT, THIS HAND RIGHT HERE IS OWNED BY A DEMON FROM THE GOETIC ORDER!u003eu003eu003e
"…"
"…"
After saying these words, the angel started to look agitated, as if she was itching to do something to the hand right now.
Delia and Tong"er noticed this, making these two raise their eyebrows in curiosity.
"Oi you angel. What do you want to say now?" Delia said as let out her tongue.
Her tongue then started flickering in the air, quite akin to the way that a snake uses its long tongue to taste the air.
"I can taste fear and excitement on the air around you. I can also taste irritation and vindication around you. You seem to have come up with a good idea. Please do tell it to us now."
After Delia said these words, the angel gave Delia a relieved look before she started to talk.
u003cu003cu003cENVOY, I KNOW THAT IT MIGHT SOUND PRESUMPTOUS, BUT I WANT THIS DEMON TO BREAK OUT OF HIS LIMBO. I… WANT TO BRING THIS DEMON BACK TO THE STATE OF LIVING! ENVOY! I KNOW THAT YOU DON"T LIKE THAT SOUND OF THAT, BUT PLEASE TRUST ME! IT WILL BE THE BEST FOR ALL OF US!"