Chapter 55 The Vertical Pupil in Grace's Mind
Chapter 55 The Vertical Pupil in Grace's Mind
The gray-black bat's dark red eyes scanned Sophia's bedroom but found no trace of her soul.
If the soul is not in the body, and it is not in the room after leaving the body, then where did the soul in this human girl's body go?
It is a Soul-Devouring Beast, a high-level demon that feeds on souls. The souls of ordinary people hold no attraction for it and cannot arouse its appetite.
A few days ago, when it passed through this human-inhabited city, it smelled a delicious and sweet soul. The aroma emanating from that soul made it eager to feast on it.
In order not to alert the powerful beings of this human city, it planned to devour the sweet-smelling soul silently at night.
However, an unexpected event occurred: the sweet fragrance it could smell during the day mysteriously disappeared at night.
This situation lasted for several days.
Until tonight, it followed the sweet scent emanating from that soul and tracked it here, locking onto the 'food'. Just as it was preparing to savor the human girl's soul, something strange happened again.
The human girl's soul disappeared again.
I could still sense it just now...
Undeterred, the Soul-Eating Beast flew into Sophia's bedroom. After circling Sophia once, confirming that the human girl's soul had mysteriously vanished again, it reluctantly flew out of the bedroom and landed on a large, leafy tree...
Anna frowned slightly as she returned to her bedroom after using the restroom. There was a faint odor in His Highness's bedroom.
The evening breeze blew into the bedroom from the balcony, and the faint odor disappeared.
Anna went to the balcony, closed the balcony door, pulled the curtain closed, and found a place to sit down.
The Soul-Eating Beast, hidden in the tree, stared at Anna for a while, then closed its eyes. Her soul was not as sweet as the human girl's soul on the bed.
Another slightly sweet-smelling soul appeared in the city, but its deliciousness still couldn't compare to that of the human girl's soul on the bed.
It could barely be considered an appetizer.
Go eat that appetizer first, and then eat this 'main course'.
The gray-black bat opened its eyes, glanced at Sophia on the bed, and then flapped its wings and disappeared into the night sky.
Around 10 PM, most people in Twin Moon City were asleep, with only a small number still awake.
Grace was one of the few who didn't sleep.
She leaned against the second-floor window, holding a bottle of wine, admiring the bright moonlight in the night sky.
I was replaying the events of the day in my mind.
Princess Sophia is innocent, naive, and a little naive.
Thinking of this prince, Grace couldn't help but laugh. The princess seemed unaware of the meaning of "the wickedness of the human heart".
And then there's herself; she never imagined that her dried-up, cracked demonic sea would one day be able to recover.
Princess Sophia, Lord Destin, Lord of Thunder...
Is Lord Destin, the Lord of Thunder, actually a fictional character created by Princess Sophia?
It seems very much made up.
But... the existence of the Life Essence and the Soul-Soothing Liquid made her feel that the Thunder Lord Diding was not something Sophia had made up.
Even with Princess Sophia's abilities, she couldn't obtain those two divine items.
Even the royal family of the Kingdom of Roland could not possibly possess these two divine liquids.
In this way, the mysterious and powerful Thunder Lord Destin that Princess Sophia mentioned... doesn't seem to be a fabrication.
The Lord of Thunder, Destin, is too mysterious.
There is no legend of this person in the North...
Not to mention the North, before this, there was probably no legend of this person in the entire Kingdom of Roland.
To be revered as the "Lord of Thunder" by so many powerful figures, one can only imagine just how powerful this mysterious Lord Diding truly is.
Grace picked up the wine bottle, took a sip of red wine, and was piecing together the image of the Thunder Lord, Destin, in her mind when she suddenly threw the bottle away. With a wave of her hand, a huge fireball instantly formed.
The fireball completely engulfed the entire window.
She quickly retreated into the house, staring intently out the window. For a moment, she had a feeling that she was being targeted by a demon.
Without hesitation, she used a fireball spell to seal the window.
There's sound!
The thought had barely formed when an unseen force blasted a large hole in the fireball blocking the window.
A dark gray shadow passed through the large hole and opened its mouth to let out a strange cry at her.
Grace reacted incredibly quickly; the moment the dark gray shadow appeared in the room, she raised her hand and created a wall of fire in front of her.
But the strange cry of the gray-black shadow transformed into an invisible force that pierced through the wall of fire and struck her body.
Grace was in a daze, and by the time she realized something was wrong... it was too late.
Soul-devouring Beast!
High-level monsters.
To kill such a high-level demon, one must wear a special device that can counter the abilities of the Soul-Eating Beast.
My feeling from a few days ago was right; a high-level monster had indeed infiltrated Twin Moon City.
She has just recovered, and her perception has not yet returned to its peak. If she is attacked by the Soul-Devouring Beast tonight, she probably won't survive.
However, her fireball spell must have alerted the mages and mercenaries in Twin Moon City. Hopefully, they can eliminate this Soul-Eating Beast.
The soul was devoured....
That was a gruesome way to die.
As the triangular mouth of the Soul-Eating Beast drew closer and closer, Grace thought of the mysterious and powerful Thunder Lord, Distin, whom Sophia had mentioned.
"Lord Didin, Lord of Thunder, I am your follower Grace Raynor. If you can sense my presence, please save me!"
On the verge of death, Grace, with a do-or-die attitude, fervently begged the Lord of Thunder, Destin, to save her.
After praying to the Lord of Thunder, Destin, three times in a row, Grace laughed. It seems she's also afraid of dying...
In order to survive, he actually became a fanatical believer whom she once despised the most.
Grace closed her eyes, and the moment she did, a huge, cold, lightning-filled vertical pupil suddenly appeared in her mind.
indifferent, domineering...
.....
Outside, the Soul-Eating Beast, seeing that the "appetizer" before it had given up resistance, flew directly to Grace's nose. Just as it was about to peck through Grace's brow and devour her soul...
A power that made its heart pound suddenly emanated from the 'Appetizer'.
Startled, it quickly flapped its wings and retreated.
It saw the "appetizer" that had been waiting to die with its eyes closed open, and as it realized the danger and tried to escape, a huge claw flashing with bluish-purple lightning... emerged from Grace's left eye and grabbed it.
Before Grace lost consciousness, she saw a giant claw crackling with lightning emerge from her left eye, grab the Soul-Eating Beast, and crush it...
Lord Destin, the Lord of Thunder, actually exists...
As soon as this thought crossed her mind, Grace completely fainted.
Not long after she fainted, Aston and several mages soon appeared outside her house.
Aston leaped from the first floor to the second-floor window and entered the room.
As soon as he entered the room, he saw Grace unconscious, and the lingering, not-yet-completely-dissipated bluish-purple arcs of electricity in the room.
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