The heart continued to beat, and with each thud, the blood patterns on the walls faintly glowed.
Yadasai gazed at this heart, his eyes gleaming with greed beneath his bone helmet.
This was the heart of a lord-level Magical Creature.
It was something Barfiment had once obtained by chance. His original plan was to homogenize the heart through the blood patterns drawn on the walls, and once its frequency matched his own, he intended to transplant the heart into his body.
However, Barfiment is now dead.
The heart naturally became ownerless. The reason Yadasai had hurriedly left the underground hall was to get to it first.
Yadasai had spent quite some effort to break through the barrier outside. Now, the moment to harvest the fruit had finally arrived.
Yadasai reached out, slowly extending his hand towards the heart.
Just as Yadasai grasped the heart, before he could even feel the strong surge of power, a faint roar suddenly reached his ears.
He looked towards the source of the sound with confusion.
The sound came from the underground hall. When Yadasai looked that way, he was stunned to find the hall enveloped by a layer of light patterns, hiding everything from view.
He recognized this light pattern—it was an Inscription!
All the Inscription hubs had already been destroyed, so why did an Inscription appear? And that roar earlier, Yadasai was familiar with it… it was unmistakably Jupiter’s!
Yadasai had previously found Jupiter unconscious in the underground hall, his energy nearly all drained by that uninvited guest.
Subsequent events had caused Yadasai to stop paying attention to Jupiter, who was in a deep coma.
Could it be that Jupiter had now woken up?
It didn’t matter if he had awoken, as his strength had already plummeted to the rank of a greater demon, which wouldn’t have much impact. But why did the light patterns underground reappear just now?
Doubts rose in Yadasai’s heart. Initially, he had planned to continue up the Void Tower to seek Milo Taurus’s room for hidden objects. Now, because of the sudden change in the underground hall, he no longer had the desire to do so.
After storing the heart, Yadasai quickly ran downstairs.
Yadasai was not the only one who sensed the anomaly underground. When he arrived on the first floor, he happened to see Popota, bulky and as grotesque as an alien, walking through the corridor.
Yadasai looked at Popota with the same malice as before, but he did not act.
At that moment, Popota’s eyes contained two complex emotions: extreme coldness and extreme madness. Though contradictory, they were perfectly merged within him.
He also saw Yadasai, but he just sneered at him and passed by, heading towards the underground hall first.
Yadasai hesitated for a moment before following.
As he descended the stairs, he saw Popota standing quietly at the entrance to the underground hall, looking inside through the door’s gap.
Yadasai noticed that Popota’s gaze became even more unfathomably weird, adding to his previous extreme emotions.
Could something strange have happened inside? And why was Popota standing at the entrance without going in?
It wasn’t until Yadasai came downstairs that he discovered, to his astonishment, that the door was wrapped in a layer of light patterns and was utterly unenterable.
Even though there were light patterns, one could still see the inside of the hall.
When Yadasai looked inside, he was instantly frozen on the spot.
What did he see!
The statue of the Cruel Scholar in the center of the hall had its wings spread out?! The statue was the medium for the descent of the Scholar’s consciousness, and if it moved, it meant the consciousness of the Cruel Scholar had descended once again!
Why had it descended? Was it planning to intervene in the game between the Deep Lord and the Abyssal Demon Eye again?
Yadasai thought to himself, feeling it almost impossible. But for what purpose had the consciousness of the Cruel Scholar descended?
With doubt, Yadasai’s gaze shifted slowly and looked towards the other side of the hall. When he saw the scene before him, he was stunned.
Why was the owner of the Misty Cabin here? And his actions, they seemed as if he was… feeding Jupiter?!