Me! Cleaner!.

Chapter 1135 Testing
Let me show you my skills... I'm afraid after you see this, you won't need anyone to play for you, and you'll be ready to fight me right away!

Looking at the smiling mermaid woman before him, Leon, unable to manage a smile, closed his eyes and then said with considerable difficulty:
"Couldn't you have discussed these things with me first?"

"That won't work."

The mermaid beauty shook her head as if it were the most natural thing in the world:

"Only when I didn't tell you beforehand, making you misunderstand me as a bad guy, and now that the secret has been revealed and you realize that I had always intended to help you, will you feel the deepest guilt towards me, and only then will you be able to treat Wendy and my people better in the future."

"..."

"Just kidding~"

After waving her hand at the silent Leon, the mermaid beauty began to explain earnestly:

"Actually, it's because of your personality. If I hadn't gained the upper hand and surrendered voluntarily, given your overly cautious nature, you probably wouldn't have let me get close to the Root no matter what. Then, naturally, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to devote myself to the Root to revive my people."

Furthermore, if I hadn't concealed my intentions and prematurely revealed my plan to cooperate with you, the Four Pillars of Deity would likely have forcibly seized control of my body much earlier, wiping out your Cleanup Bureau in one fell swoop, without even giving me a chance to resurrect.

"..."

I can roughly guess what you're talking about... but if you're really going to do this, then what the hell have I been preparing for?!

"Leon!"

Just as Leon's fists clenched and unclenched repeatedly, and he began to regret the "bottom line" three-piece set, the mermaid beauty's expression suddenly turned serious, and she spoke up to remind him:

"My will has been corrupted. The Four Pillar Gods probably already know my plans and are trying to forcibly take over this body. Be careful..."

"You guys did a great job!"

A faint blue halo flickered, and the previously silent seashell earring, its jagged edges parted again, speaking with a hint of annoyance:

"So it turns out that the two of you had already colluded before we even went to the Underworld to find you!"

"How can this be called collusion? You're being incredibly rude!"

Upon hearing the voice coming from her earring, the mermaid woman frowned and corrected her with displeasure:
"It should be called flirting! Or rather, having an affair, having a secret relationship, or secretly carrying on a brothel!"

"..."

"Besides, wasn't it you guys who helped us get together?"

After silencing the Blue King with a single sentence, the mermaid beauty, who had gained the upper hand, laughed:

"When you went to the Abyss Realm to find me, I already warned you that those who treat time lightly will become puppets of time. Time is not something you have the right to play with."

Throughout the entire Old Land, there are at least eighty or a hundred people who can access time, and there are even those more powerful than you. But none of those who actually manipulate time to achieve their goals have been able to get the results they want.

Even though we made contact earlier than you planned, the real beginning still lies with you. Before you attempted to manipulate time, the future was uncertain, but once you started doing so, your fate was already sealed.

"maybe."

After giving a noncommittal reply, a touch of crimson blood crept onto the seashell earring, in addition to its clear blue light.

The blue representing the cicada and the red representing the Crimson King twisted together like a spiral, and then, starting from the seashell earring, it quickly spread to other parts of the mermaid's body, completing the entire process of domination in less than a breath.

"Ok?"

After seizing control of the mermaid's body, feeling the unhindered flow of energy, her left eye glowed with a deep red "Evangeline." She frowned slightly, a hint of confusion in her voice, and asked:

"You're not going to resist? You're just going to give your body to us like that?"

"It's no use resisting."

After happily shaking its shell body, the mermaid woman's will, squeezed into the earring, replied with a smile:
"Even if the sample is my corpse, this body was ultimately created by you. No matter how hard I try, I can't possibly take it from you, so what's the point of resisting?"
"Instead of wasting time with you now, it's better to wait until you and Lyon are locked in a fierce battle, right at the crucial moment when the outcome is about to be decided, then suddenly appear and seize control for a few seconds, sending you all packing, isn't that right?"

"..."

Yes, absolutely right.

After listening to the mermaid beauty's words, and looking at Leon, who remained silent for some reason, and the two kings, Qing and Hong, who had easily taken control of their bodies, they felt not relaxed, but rather an immense pressure surged within them.

Given the God of Food's personality, he must have prepared more than one method to deal with the Lord of the Abyss. The Lord of the Abyss has taken the initiative to retreat and preserve his strength, and may launch a counterattack at any critical moment, taking both of their souls with him. The chances of winning this battle are extremely slim.

However, if they were to retreat voluntarily and allow the Abyss Ruler to collude with humanity, devouring the entire Abyss Realm and humanity, they would likely receive an unprecedented strengthening, perhaps even gaining the potential to rival Number 1...

Then we have no choice but to bite the bullet and go for it!

Unwilling to see the two worlds merge, "Evangeline's" expression grew increasingly solemn. Her two eyes, one blue and one red, were fixed on the "confident" Leon, and she decisively raised her arm, which shimmered with colorful light, toward him.

"Be careful not to get bumped!"

The moment the two kings, Qing and Hong, made their move, the mermaid woman inside the seashell earring spoke up to warn them:

"Your own immersion value is not yet eighty points, so the source you possess is only the color of the source, while the immersion value of my body exceeds eighty points, and I have already condensed the color of the source into the essence of the source. The difference between the two is equivalent to the difference between mist and water droplets."

Don't try to take my Root Essence head-on. You can't... okay, you did, but even if you can, don't force it. Forcing it will consume a lot of Root Essence. Once the consumption rate can't keep up with the replenishment rate, then... wait? How come your replenishment rate is so fast?

Watching Leon catch "her" hand covered in the Essence of Origin with his bare hands, and then use quantity to overcome the difference in quality, forcing "her" to retreat, the mermaid beauty clicked her tongue, suddenly feeling that she seemed a little superfluous, and then couldn't help but ask curiously:

"Leon, how did you do that? Why is the aura of your origin so much stronger than before? You can even trade blows with me now?" "..."

You bastard...didn't you promise to guide me? Why are you digging into my background for them instead?

After rolling his eyes at the seashell inhabiting the mermaid, Leon ignored her abstract question and silently took a deep breath, drawing a mouthful of Origin Color from a certain third-generation elder who wished to remain anonymous, and replenishing it to himself.

"Hey, you'd better use it sparingly!"

Weakened by Leon's intense extraction, the third-generation old man, who had merged into Leon's body thanks to the assimilation effect of the Ophiuchus's secret technique, couldn't help but complain:

"Didn't that mermaid warn you? You should have kept your distance!"

"Holy crap! You're actually going to go head-to-head with her? So you don't care if it's not your problem, and you're just wasting your energy like this?"

'Slow down...slow down! You're running out of steam!'

'Bastard! I treated you like a disciple, and you treat me like a treacherous outsider?'

'Shut up! Should I hit you or you?'

After yelling at the noisy third-generation old man through his consciousness to shut him up, Leon continued to draw upon the color of the Root, exchanging quantity for quality to clash with "Evangeline," while staring at the constantly trembling [Root] badge on the badge panel, calculating how many more times he could last.

[Through firsthand experience with the highly condensed essence of origin, you have gained some insights into the methods of refining origins. Your immersion value has increased by 0.02 points, and your current immersion value is 75.5.]

Your hidden variant badge "Confronting the Root (3)" is advancing, current progress 75.5/80.

[Through direct contact... your Infiltration value has increased by 0.1 points, currently at 76.5.]

[Your hidden variant badge... Current progress 76.5/80]

[Improve by...]

Your progress...

wrong!

Not daring to use the Mermaid Beauty's own power and truth, she only used the more "pure" Origin Essence to fight Leon more than ten times. She discovered that Leon's Origin Essence replenished at an astonishing speed, and his aura would become stronger with each fight. The two kings of the blue and red couldn't help but feel a chill.

Just as the Lord of the Abyss said before, given the cautious nature of the God of Food, he must have already prepared the corresponding abnormal object. If the two of them rashly use the Lord of the Abyss's ability, they will most likely be met with a highly targeted countermeasure.

Therefore, the two of them abandoned other methods from the beginning and chose the purest head-on confrontation, hoping to create a gap by relying on the advantage of "quality" and directly use the more "pure" Root Essence to quickly deplete the power of the God of Food.

According to their plan, they would wait until the God of Food was forced to fight them head-on, causing his source color replenishment to be slower than it was being consumed, thus revealing a weakness, before using other means to deliver a fatal blow.

But the current situation is completely different from what the two of them had expected. Although the God of Food's source color is much worse in quality, it is surprisingly abundant in quantity, as if someone is risking their life to replenish it for him. No matter how much they consume it, it will never run out.

What's even more alarming is that the God of Food, who should have actively avoided this kind of drain, made no attempt to avoid it at all. Moreover, after each instance of this drain, his aura would become slightly stronger, and the feedback during the next clash of origins would also be enhanced.

In just a few minutes of probing each other, the God of Food's aura had already risen from the level of an ordinary pillar god to a level close to their own, and was even soaring toward the line of eighty Leon points.

Although there's a formidable hurdle between 79 and 80 Lyon points, and it's not necessarily something that can be easily crossed, but...

What if he really can?
Seeing Leon, who seemed dissatisfied with the current intensity of the clash and even recklessly mobilized a large amount of Origin Color to actively seek out a head-on battle with the two of them, the pressure on the Blue and Red Kings grew larger and larger, gradually exceeding a certain threshold.

The God of Cookery was either a madman who knew he couldn't win but still insisted on fighting, or he had some trump card that the two of them didn't know about and was preparing to use their training to break through. The two kings, who dared not gamble, ultimately chose to believe the latter and took the initiative to step back and create distance.

Phew... I finally managed to intimidate them...

Seeing the "mermaid beauty" who had given up on a head-on confrontation and retreated, now scrutinizing him with suspicion, having almost completely drained the roots of the three generations of old men, Leon, who was also extremely nervous, couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

Evangeline has caused a lot of harm!
The unexpected turn of events she created rendered all her preparations futile. If she hadn't been cautious enough to bring the three generations of old men along, she probably wouldn't have even survived the head-on confrontation just now!

In that fundamental clash just now, if I had shown any resistance, my opponent would almost certainly have seized the opportunity to pursue and continue to wear me down at the root of the problem. This would have been a huge disadvantage for me, given my speed disadvantage.

Fortunately, the other side backed down first, intimidated by their own bluff, and didn't dare to fight to the bitter end. They proactively interrupted the pure source collision. Otherwise, it would have been hard to say whether their badge would have advanced first, or whether the other side would have exhausted their own and the third generation of the old man's power first.

"Tsk."

Using the effect of [Master of Performance], Leon clearly expressed his disappointment with the Root's defeat and the end of the war of attrition. While desperately replenishing the Root he had just consumed, he took out a dark blue water crown and placed it properly on his head.

Immediately afterward, under Evangeline's wary gaze, Leon took out a scepter pieced together from bone rings and a belt that faintly emitted countless painful howls, completing the equipment and linking the aura of the three-piece [Bottom Line] set together.

Is this the abnormal object that the God of Cookery has been creating these past few days, specifically to target the Lord of the Abyss?

Seeing the three new pieces of equipment that were clearly part of a set on Leon's head, in his hands, and at his waist, and sensing the same aura that the mermaid beauty possessed, the eyes of the two kings, Qing and Hong, immediately showed a deep sense of apprehension.

He hadn't even activated the three anomalous objects yet; he had only briefly shown them to his body, but the body he was controlling was already affected, displaying an overwhelming and uncontrollable sorrow, as if tears were about to fall.

What's even more terrifying is that these three extremely high-ranking abnormal objects seem to contain "materials" from the Sea Abyss Ruler, and they are constantly maintaining a frequent connection with her.

Especially the belt that was emitting wails, those millions of overlapping sounds of pain, almost every one of them was fiercely tugging at the remaining will within the body of the Sea Abyss Ruler...

no! Absolutely not!
Unaware of the sudden silence from the seashell earring beside their ears, and sensing an overwhelming sense of crisis that seemed to come from an instinctive source, the two kings of Qing and Hong immediately made the most correct decision without any communication.

No matter the cost, we must stop him from using these three things!!!
　Two-in-one... Or 2...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)