What's wrong with me, a mage, loving to farm?

Chapter 167. Mastering Demonic Power, a Paradise for Gluttony

Kroya stared at the castle, feeling the orange magic within her body pulsating. This special magic belonging to the Orange Song boiled over the instant she saw the castle.

They even started spreading from around Kroa, blooming into small, rose-like flowers on the ground, gradually spreading and expanding.

Ultimately, it enveloped the entire castle.

In fact, Kroya was aware of these magical extensions and expansions, and he also knew that he could control them. With just a thought, the boiling magical power would return to calm.

However, he did not restrain himself, or rather, he actively indulged in these magical powers, wanting to see what kind of effects they could create.

Before the orange flowers could even grow on the castle, a hurried figure rushed out.

He ran while waving anxiously, shouting, "No! Sir! Don't let them come any closer!"

This figure was none other than Jitter. After sensing the magic within those orange flowers, he felt a chill run down his spine.

Those flowers... wanted to devour him as nourishment!

The demon, which is formed by the concept of greed, is greedy for everything. As a result, after being devoured by humans, it will be devoured by Xiaohua.

I wonder what kind of expression its kind in the abyss would make if they saw it like this.

"Don't come any closer." Kroa reached out and gently touched him.

Immediately, a magical prison formed by three colors of light trapped Git inside. This was the simplest form of magical confinement, but because the magic was special, its strength was also special.

Poor Jitter was locked inside, and magical ropes mercilessly wrapped around his body, binding him tightly.

He did not resist during this process, but his body did not leave the castle at all; he remained standing at the castle entrance.

Kroya carefully examined him. This guy was no longer human; the Celestial Imprint clearly showed that his name was—

【Mammon's Flower of Greed.】

Beneath his seemingly human body were countless intertwined flower vines, densely packed, supporting the surface of his skin.

After watching for only a short while, Kroya felt an inexplicable sense of extreme disgust that lingered in his mind.

He saw those flower vines as if he had seen something unbearable, an emotion he had never felt before, not even when facing the most disgusting magical beasts.

This is a very strange emotion.

He first felt a sense of closeness, then suddenly felt disgust, to the point of feeling extremely nauseous, almost to the point of vomiting.

His aversion caused the orange flowers to continue to grow wildly, soon reaching the castle walls and radiating a warm orange glow in the wind and snow.

The priest, dressed in solemn and elegant robes, had already jumped down from the castle window and approached Chloe familiarly.

He laughed and said, "Friend, don't be angry or disgusted."

The priest's voice was solemn and dignified, like a choir singing hymns, and it also possessed a special power that could soothe the spirit.

If it were someone else, they might actually be able to be appeased, but who is he trying to appease?

That's Chloe! Chloe, with her Orange Hymn and Serenade!

When Kroya didn't want to be quiet, no one could appease him, so he waved his hand without any politeness.

"Please be quiet."

The three-colored light formed a prison and locked the priest inside. This time, the priest was dumbfounded—he had used the divine magic from "God" in the Salt Mountain, but it had no effect.

He immediately dared not make any rash moves and could only watch helplessly as Kroya led Gitte's cage into the castle and closed the castle gate behind him.

Naturally, no one could see what was happening inside the castle.

"What a powerful mage... um?"

The priest suddenly felt the salt stump he carried close to his body in his pocket throbbing, so hot it seemed about to fly away.

"Are there any creations of God around here?"

His eyes lit up instantly, filled with fervor and excitement.

……

Inside the castle.

Kroya casually tossed Git aside and began to use his own power to cleanse the man's body, trying to completely eliminate the feeling of disgust he had for him.

The orange light was like a high-pressure water gun, mercilessly washing over Jitter from the outside in. However, the latter did not feel any pain; instead, he felt as if impurities were being washed away.

Under the influence of these forces, the vines inside his body gradually washed away all traces left by the demon, leaving only the purest, translucent orange vines.

That was simply "greed".

Only then did Kroya nod in satisfaction.

"That's cleaner."

After dealing with the "filth," he began to unceremoniously absorb the greedy power within it.

The flower he transforms into with his magic is the medium through which he can draw upon the power of greed.

Orange pollen gushed from the vines, rushing towards him, creating a somber yet dangerous melody under the guidance and sway of the music.

As he channeled the power, he also channeled his own golden eternal magic back into the flower vine's body, using it as an anchor point.

He can detonate it at any time if he wants.

Each time a force gathered into his body, the hidden chapter of the Orange Song would light up a little, until he had completely absorbed all the power of greed within the castle.

The chapter that was barely legible before was finally complete, and a lot of new content appeared.

Kroya immediately read the entire chapter from beginning to end.

He discovered that the new content in this chapter did not simply denigrate Mammon, but rather felt that His ascension to demonhood under the influence of greedy desires was a very diligent act.

He obtained the power he desired through the power of desire.

The sun shines its light on all things, regardless of whether they take different paths. Greed can create kings, and it can also create demons.

Because everything originates from the light of the sun, even the devil.

Therefore, the power of this chapter is to transform the power of greed into the "magic" of the devil, and to arouse the greed in people's hearts, the greed for a certain thing.

In other words, in addition to his original magic and the holy magic from the mushroom, Kroa can now also manipulate demonic magic.

"...I thought it would be about absorbing this magic power and then eliminating greed, but I didn't expect it would be about using greed."

Kroya really hadn't expected it to turn out this way.

But it must be said that this is in line with the sun's high standards, without any clear likes or dislikes, only the impartial way of spreading light to all things.

Even demons have the right to enjoy sunlight.

It's like a narrow-minded sun that sees all evil as the enemy; it always feels like it has a very clear bias.

As he looked at the special demonic power gathering at his fingertips, along with the power of greed contained within it, he immediately realized that this thing was probably of great use.

It's important to understand that while some magicians may practice demon magic, they only use their own magical power to simulate it, whereas true demonic power is full of disorder and chaos.

For a mage who needs to control their own magic, true mastery is almost impossible.

Because there is a fundamental difference—how can a mage of order learn the demonic power of chaos?

The demon's magic, unless one is invaded by a demon or undergoes some inhuman transformation—which is almost equivalent to becoming a demon.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for humans to control demonic power.

Of course, that's how it's described in the book.

That's not necessarily true now, because a human capable of controlling demonic magic has appeared.

Not only can Kroya control this magic, he can even cast some demonic magic, for example...

"Lower-plane portal".

After gaining control of the demons' magic, he seemed to have a sudden inspiration and immediately learned a spell for creating a lower-dimensional portal.

This is the magic included in "Mammon's Infinite Greed".

Out of curiosity, Cloa tried to perform it.

He stretched out his palm, and an orange halo rose from the ground, forming an extremely complex magic circle composed of demonic script.

What Kroa didn't know was that... the spatial barrier of the prime plane was actually exceptionally strong, and there was also a star-covered celestial array set up by the Titans at the invitation of Mage Ilister and Pope Saint Martin.

Even a powerful abyss lord like Lady Fungus could only lure people in and then use the unique environment of the Yavana Sacred Mine to create a stable spatial passage.

The Pit Lord, on the other hand, returns to the lower plane to fight and obtain various resources.

In other words, maintaining a spatial passage to the lower plane is very difficult—otherwise, those demons would have already come to the prime plane and opened a portal to bring people here.

However, he made this breakthrough quite easily.

He was using the power of the "Sun" to create this opening, which would neither alert the main plane barrier nor be monitored by the Starry Sky Array.

This is the sun, the sun that shines on the earth. It's normal for it to appear anywhere, just like having an administrator account in control mode.

"Ding ding ding..."

The orange halo pulsed, emitting a crisp chiseling sound as it carved stone, quickly outlining a portal made of magical bones. Behind the light curtain lay a scorched earth, deathly silent and chaotic.

Even just a sliver of energy emanating from the light screen was enough for him to sense the chaotic and violent aura within.

Without a doubt, that is the abyss.

However, the layers shouldn't be very deep. Although the magic inside is violent, it doesn't have the power to destroy everything—it's said that the magical winds of the abyss can blow everything into the most primordial dust.

Kroa: "..."

He just tried it casually, and he didn't expect it to actually succeed?

Jitter, who had been drained of his life force, stared wide-eyed. The flower vines inside his body were stirring restlessly. He sensed the aura behind the portal—the abyss!

Once you can get inside, it's just like going back to your hometown!

"Um?"

However, just as this desire arose, Kroya sensed it and glanced at it directly.

His eyes conveyed warning and threat.

How dare a mere demon, whom he used as a tool to supply magic, dream of returning to the lower plane?

Under the intimidation of that gaze, the vines immediately curled up and dared not make any movement.

It was heartbroken!

As Mammon's creation and the embodiment of desire, it had absolutely no chance of fighting back against Kroa, who could devour and transform desire at will. Kroa was its natural enemy and nemesis!

After suppressing the flower vines, Kroya finally had the energy to observe the scorched earth behind the light screen—as far as the eye could see, there was no life at all.

However, it only appears not to be.

He saw some small grasses growing tenaciously in the scorched earth, their bodies deep red, their leaves incomplete, as if they had been gnawed by something.

"Oh?"

Faced with the unknown magical plant, Kroya was naturally very curious. After thinking for a moment, he casually summoned a fire slime and pointed it in that direction.

The latter immediately hopped and skipped into the doorway, and soon brought back a small, deep red plant. Only after it was brought back did Kroya realize that something was wrong.

This thing feels just like meat, and even has a distinctive meaty smell, completely different from the plant protein of the Bloodgrass Fungus that disguises itself as meat. This... is meat.

It even emits a roasted meat aroma due to being in a scorching environment for a long time. This aroma is so obvious and tempting that it makes people's mouths water.

The omnipotent Protoss Imprinting technique immediately provided the answer—

【The Gluttonous Meatball Grass】.

Its astral body is very simple and doesn't look special at all, but it is wrapped in a very special kind of magic.

Similar to, but not entirely the same as, the allure of greed, it also conveys a sense of consciousness—

"Eat me!"

"I taste delicious!"

"Aaaaah! Eat me!"

This consciousness was extremely strong, to the point of being deafening.

Anyway, listening to it made Chloe's temples throb, and for the first time, she blocked out the consciousness coming from the magical plant—it was really annoying to listen to.

Even though she knew the name of the thing, Kroya still picked it up, waved it at Git, and asked curiously:

"There seems to be a strange magical power in this place. Do you know what it is?"

After observing for a while, the latter still managed to get information through the flower vine of the Mammon flower inside his body, and said with some doubt, "Master, this seems to be the creation of the Gluttonous Demon."

"These magical plants were created by Him to satisfy His insatiable appetite."

This answer was somewhat expected.

However, his expression seemed rather interesting.

Kroya nodded slightly and continued, "Your expression...is this something rare?"

"..." After a brief silence, Gitte said uncertainly, "The flower vine inside my body tells me that His abyss was sealed after Gluttony died."

Even legendary mages and gods cannot fathom which level of the bottomless abyss this abyss lies on.

To be honest, although he had witnessed Kroa's power, he still found it unbelievable that the other party was able to find the Lost Abyss.

The reason he was willing to believe in the devil was because the devil could give him power, and with power he could deal with anything.

Instead, a mage stronger than a demon appeared.

He felt that he was really lacking in knowledge. Were all the magicians in the world like this, or was the one in front of him the most special?

Just when both the human and the demon were wondering what was going on...

Suddenly, a platinum-gold holy light descended.

An angel with flapping wings flew out of the portal and landed beside Kroya, its eyes fixed on the portal to the lower plane.

He murmured softly, "Paradise, this is paradise for gluttony."

"Demon, please be quiet!"

He glanced at Git, who was already imprisoned by the tricolor light, and countless ring-shaped halos appeared out of thin air, locking him inside. The entire demon fell into a state of stillness.

Clearly, demons have no power over angels.

Kroa even thought that this guy would casually kill the demon.

In so many myths, legends, and poems, angels and demons are mortal enemies.

"You're awake?" Chloe raised an eyebrow. "I saw you were still sleeping before, are you awake now?"

"I was awakened by the creation of salt, and I sensed the abyss once more." A rare look of surprise crossed His face: "Lucky friend, you have found the paradise of gluttony."

"Wait, what is this creation of salt that could wake you up?" Kroa interrupted Him.

This time, the angel answered quite readily:

"That was the creation of the goddess Kreha, the goddess of life. The limb reassembly you have learned is her divine magic."

He once hurled a salt stake at a civilization, capable of destroying everything, turning the plane into a world of salt.

That was His most prized work, an alchemy of absolute transformation of matter and life.

"The goddess of life from the Miracles of Light?" Chloe continued, "You mentioned salt. What does that have to do with the Church's Salt Mountain?"

The angel did not answer: "My friend, it is too early for you."

"Alright, I just met a priest outside. I know he's from the Salt Mountains. What power do you mean by the creation of salt?"

Since He had said so, Chloe did not press him further, but instead brought up the question He had raised about the salt creation.

"That's exactly what I wanted to tell you." The angel gave a strange smile: "The gluttonous demon once had contact with Kreha, which angered this goddess."

The goddess of anger hurled her salt stakes into the kingdom of the gluttonous demon Beelzebub, so that all of His food was stained with a thick layer of salt.

Even Beelzebub couldn't eat the food affected by the salt, and angrily threw it away, so... the power of the salt stake could remove Beelzebub's power.

If you wish to claim this paradise, the Salt Stakes are indispensable.

It is said that Beelzebub's paradise contains all sorts of food, all appearing in the form of magical plants or magical beasts.

This is no longer a hint, it's an explicit statement.

Kroya looked at the flickering portal, then at the meat-filled grass beside him, and his heart was naturally filled with anticipation.

He was genuinely interested in magical plants and beasts like these.

Of course, we need to see if it works first.

That priest... had no choice but to pay, whether he wanted to or not.

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(End of this chapter)