The dark red earth writhed incessantly. Twisted, indescribable tentacles extended and intertwined from the surrounding walls. At the tip of countless tentacles, a figure hung suspended in mid-air. The perfect body was tightly bound by the tentacles, completely enveloped into a sphere, leaving only the head exposed.
An exquisite face, an expression as cold as ice, and a pair of dark pupils in which the flames of revenge slowly danced – it was Nina who was hanging in mid-air.
"Big sister, as expected, you're so strange. Not only are you not resisting, but you're not even a little afraid."
Below, Sally, sitting on a giant slime, tilted her small head, looking up at Nina, who stared blankly at her, and said with curiosity and surprise. She knew that whether it was the commoners or the adventurers, they would be scared half to death when they saw these 'cuties'.
Sally had even once, out of curiosity, told a so-called high-level adventurer that if he experienced countless tentacles up close, just like Nina was now, she would let him go. Unfortunately, that so-called high-level adventurer completely lost his mind in less than ten seconds.
And now, Nina not only didn't resist when she used her tentacles to trap her, but she didn't even show a trace of fear from beginning to end, only looking at herself with a cold face.
"Sally, I don't care what you and Lu Minghao want to do. I just want to live and complete my revenge."
In mid-air, Nina completely ignored the tentacles wrapped around her body and the large eyeballs close at hand. These indescribable existences, which seemed incomparably terrifying to others, were completely ignored by Nina. Now, she was only living for revenge.
Even, to complete her revenge, Nina was willing to become such a monster.
"Revenge? Can you tell me, what is your so-called revenge?"
At this moment, the tip of a tentacle in front of Nina began to wriggle constantly, and an ice-blue slime the size of a fist emerged from it, looking at Nina.
"Minghao!"
Below, Sally, who was swinging her small feet while sitting on the giant slime, saw Lu Minghao suddenly appear above and her big eyes lit up. She jumped down with a forceful push of her feet, only to make the giant slime under Sally's feet suffer, being directly crushed.
"Minghao, Sally misses you so much."
Sally, who had just landed beside Lu Minghao, directly picked up the fist-sized slime in front of her and rubbed her small face against it non-stop.
"Okay, Sally, don't be spoiled."
Lu Minghao looked at Sally, who was rubbing against him like a kitten, and smiled gently. His round body moved slightly and jumped out of Sally's hand, [Mimicking] into a human shape.
"Oh! Sally understands."
Looking at Lu Minghao, who had transformed into a human form, Sally smacked her small mouth, a hint of disappointment in her eyes. She still wanted to stick Lu Minghao's clone into her demon horns, but unfortunately, Lu Minghao transformed into a human form before she could even start.
"Slime, Lu Minghao, you're a slime?"
Opposite, Nina, who was watching Lu Minghao transform from a slime into a human form, had a hint of surprise in her originally cold expression. She carefully sized up Lu Minghao and asked. She knew that she had cleaned up countless slimes in the sewers with the captain and the others, and it was the first time she had seen a slime like Lu Minghao.
"Yes, I am indeed a slime. Also, Miss Nina, can you tell me what your so-called revenge is about?"
Lu Minghao nodded, squatted down in front of Nina, and looked at her with a gentle smile. When Nina said the word revenge just now, Lu Minghao's ultimate skills [King of Evil] and [King of Original Sin] simultaneously received a large amount of nourishment from Nina.
That nourishment was completely composed of pure hatred and anger, which was enough. It was simply the most perfect nourishment for Lu Minghao's two ultimate skills. Therefore, Lu Minghao became slightly interested in Nina's so-called hatred.
"Eastern Empire......"
Nina raised her head, looked at Lu Minghao in front of her, and the dark flames of revenge in her eyes began to dance constantly. Her originally cold expression became deathly still, and her tone revealed an unresolvable hatred and anger as she spoke the four words 'Eastern Empire'.
"Eastern Empire, interesting?"
After hearing Nina's words, Lu Minghao had a surprised expression on his face, and the corner of his mouth unconsciously twitched into a terrifying arc. Lu Minghao clearly remembered that when he had just been born, he was chased by an experimental subject from the Eastern Empire to the point where he had no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth.
If he hadn't been lucky enough to find the entrance to an underground water vein in the end, Lu Minghao was certain that he would have become an experimental subject of the Eastern Empire. Perhaps he would have been dominated by the Emperor's [King of Justice], completely losing himself and becoming a slave of the Eastern Empire.
"Yes, it's the Eastern Empire. Back then......"
At this time, Nina didn't notice Lu Minghao's strange expression. Her whole person had completely fallen into memories and began to slowly narrate what had happened in the past, including the fact that their home was used as an experimental site by the Eastern Empire, all her relatives and teammates became the nourishment for the experimental subjects, and finally, only Nina was left alive.
"Now do you understand? What's living now isn't the Nina of the past, but the revengeful witch named Nina!"
After speaking, Nina raised her head and looked at Lu Minghao with a deathly still expression, and the flames of revenge in her eyes seemed to be completely ignited. At Nina's heart, a ball of dark flames also began to burn fiercely. On that day, Nina had completely died, and what was left was only the revengeful witch named Nina.
"I didn't expect it to be you. Long time no see, Nina."
"Long time no see?"
Nina raised her head and looked at Lu Minghao with a puzzled expression, not understanding what he was saying. Nina didn't remember knowing Lu Minghao before.
"Do you remember the monster corpses that suddenly disappeared when you were cleaning the sewers?"
As he spoke, Lu Minghao tapped his toes, and all the tentacles that were wrapped around Nina retracted into the walls. Looking at Nina, who had completely changed, if Nina hadn't said it herself, Lu Minghao would have never thought that the revengeful witch in front of him, with her long black hair, perfect figure, and cold face, would actually be the once slightly naive Nina.
"Are you saying that those missing monster corpses were you?"
At this time, under Lu Minghao's reminder, Nina also remembered what had happened in the past. At that time, after discovering that the monster corpses had disappeared, Nina's adventurer team was worried and directly evacuated the sewers.
"Yes, no need to thank me. I just helped you clean up some unnecessary 'garbage', but I didn't expect to meet a fellow villager here."
Lu Minghao looked at Nina in front of him, and the smile on the corner of his mouth became more and more gentle. It is said that when fellow villagers meet fellow villagers, they stab each other in the back, but Lu Minghao wouldn't stab Nina, he just wanted to make her his 'tool'.
