mtl008 Chapter 231 Erdos's Confession
Chapter 231 Erdos's Confession
Glazed Palace
The red moon cast mottled light and shadows through the painted glass windows, cutting the floor of the bedroom into broken dark red blocks.
Yang Xining took off the heavy crown, tucked the purple-gold bat wings under his silk nightgown, and his fingertips unconsciously stroked the crown mark on his forehead that had not yet faded.
The crystal mirror reflected her current appearance—her left eye was as dark purple as the deep sea, and her right eye was burning with dark golden devil flames. She looked completely like a half-god, half-demon.
"Come out, Erdos," she said suddenly, her voice as cold as ice. "You still haven't gotten over your habit of hiding in the shadows and spying."
The air twisted slightly, and a young man in black robes slowly walked out from the darkness behind the pillar.
The scarlet eyes flickered under the hood, and the pale face looked more haggard than before.
He looked at Yang Xining now, and his Adam's apple rolled unconsciously.
"Congratulations, Your Highness, on your coronation." He performed a standard demon salute, his voice as dry as sandpaper.
The purple-gold whip wrapped around his throat without warning.
"How dare you come to see me?" Yang Xining turned around abruptly, the energy pulsating from the whip of light burning the demon's skin, making a sizzling sound. "Erdos, no, I should call you... my dear cousin."
"You know..." Erdos did not dodge or evade, allowing the whip of light to cut into his flesh.
Black blood flowed down the neck, leaving dark marks on the black robe.
"When you tricked me into coming to the Demon Realm, you didn't think about this day, did you?"
"I've thought about it..." He laughed hoarsely, and suddenly grasped the light whip. The demonic energy and purple-gold energy collided, producing dazzling sparks. "I think about it every day."
With this force, he suddenly closed the distance, close enough to see his own reflection in Yang Xining's pupils.
"Yang Xining, do you know? I have been monitoring your life for eighteen years." Erdos' voice suddenly became morbidly gentle, "I watched you do morning exercises every day, taught those four people horse stance, and watched you rush to the hospital carrying the feverish Mo Junli on your back..." His red eyes showed a strange luster.
"This kid is such a pervert." Satan's skeleton phantom suddenly emerged from Yang Xining's shoulder, waving his bony claws in disgust.
The light whip suddenly tightened, and Yang Xining's eyes were filled with murderous intent: "You actually—"
"I was also responsible for the car accident five years ago." Erdos suddenly interrupted her, a twisted smile on his face. "My mother ordered it. Mephisto killed all her relatives, and I'm the only one left..."
Yang Xining's pupils shrank to the size of a needle tip.
The light whip suddenly split into dozens of thin filaments, which pierced into Erdos' joints all over his body like a living thing!
Black blood splattered on the glazed window, blending with the red moonlight.
"Go on," she said, her voice horribly soft. "Tell me how you envied our friendship and then cold-bloodedly crushed it."
Erdos trembled in agony, letting the black blood flow out, but he still smiled. "...That year when you were camping, Mo Junli suddenly had a fever, and you carried him to the hospital. I watched from the shadows of the trees, and I felt your back was warm. I suddenly wanted to... I wanted to know what it felt like to be carried on someone's back."
His red eyes shone with a strange luster. "Then I secretly injured myself and showed up on purpose for you to find out. You were so stupid. You really carried me to the infirmary... Although Qi Lin, that jealous guy, intercepted us halfway!"
Yang Xining's pupils shrank slightly - she remembered this.
She even complained to Qi Lin at the time: "That gloomy student looked very thin, but I didn't expect him to be so heavy."
Thinking of this, she relaxed the whip slightly.
“Why are you telling me this?”
"Because..." Erdos suddenly coughed violently, and black blood splattered on the hem of Yang Xining's nightgown. "I know that no matter what I do, I can't clear my name. I just want to make myself feel better. So I specially brought you the first piece of the Sea Spirit Pearl. The Sea Spirit Pearl can not only awaken your bloodline..."
He panted and leaned against the pillar. "It's also the only way to remove the blood curse on me. Mother wants us to kill each other... She even plotted against her own son...
He trembled as he tore open his clothes, revealing the rotting magic pattern on his heart - a twisted thorn pattern entwined with the curse of no evil.
"Yang Mingjun, Dias, and your mother are all on the third level of the Chaos Land..." Erdos's breath was getting weaker and weaker. "Go and save them..."
The bedroom door was suddenly knocked open!
Lanlingchi rushed in with a sword, followed by Monet and Negar.
“Xining! We found out—” Lan Lingchi’s voice stopped abruptly.
He looked at the dying Erdos in shock, then looked at the bloodstains on the corner of Yang Xining's robe, and the tip of his sword unconsciously dropped.
Yang Xining did not look back.
Her left hand condensed the healing blue light of the Sea God, her right hand was wrapped with the dark red flame of the Demon King's destruction, and her purple-gold wings were fully spread behind her.
"Choose, Erdos." She dangled the two powers before Erdos. "Redemption... or liberation?"
Erdos raised his head, and the pair of dazzling wings were reflected in his red eyes.
His bloodstained lips slowly curled up: "Kill me... then go to the Land of Chaos... and feed my body... to my mother..."
Under everyone's shocked gaze, he suddenly used his last bit of strength to pounce on the dark red devil flame!
"I want to see...if she will go crazy for me..."
The moment the flames engulfed the black robe, Lanling Chi rushed forward and pulled Yang Xining away.
The demon twisted into a charred skeleton in the firelight, but let out a hoarse laugh of relief.
A dark red crystal rolled down from the ashes and was caught in mid-air by Satan's bony claws.
"Talomati's Blood Curse Crystal..." The skull's will-o'-the-wisp's eyes twitched violently. "What a good thing! It can be used as bait..."
Negar suddenly knelt on one knee: "Your Highness! The Seventh Legion is ready to go!"