Chaos Devourer System - Chapter 696: Elytrion, A Forest Soul

Chapter 696: Elytrion, A Forest Soul

“Please! Don’t…hurt…me!” the strange creature struggled to say, but Zeras’ hold never for once relaxed as he slowly crushed apart the neck bones, halting once the creature’s life was about to completely slip away.

“I told you it wouldn’t be funny once I got my hands on you. You’ve had your fun playing your stupid games on me, and now I’m having mine…” Zeras said as he tightened once more, causing the creature to hold on tightly to his hand with a begging expression.

“Please…spare me…”

“Oh, you want me to spare you?” Zeras asked as he stopped his squeezing before releasing his hands, causing the creature to fall down on both knees, its body slipping down the tree and roughly smashing against the ground.

COUGH

COUGH

COUGH

The sound of coughing could be heard as Elyion coughed out his lungs, its chest furiously pumping blood around his body and into his neck.

THUMP

The ground before it gave way as its supposed fun prey landed before it crouched, its cold eyes scanning him up and down.

He had felt as the boy and the girl entered through its territory, but it had refrained from attacking them as he got quite the goosebumps from the male. But who would have thought the young man would dare to return back to its territory? That had deeply infuriated it, and it had decided to play the young man to his death.

He had sent all of his soldiers to him but had watched with wide-open mouth as all of his soldiers had their hearts and brains snatched away by the young man.

Even its own camouflaging arts failed as he was found and grabbed by his prey. The night was definitely its worst through all of its days here.

“You want me to spare you, huh? That’s really easy. I might be willing to ignore the fact that you just sent all of your controlled puppets after me, and actually let you live,” Zeras said with an amused expression as he sat down before the tiny creature.

“Oh…you…you will?” Elyion asked in a mixture of happiness and caution. The last thing he would do right now was trust this monster of a person, but he was definitely clinging to his poor life.

“Yes, I would. I just have a request or two from you and we both will be fine. So far, we never cross paths again,” Zeras said truly.

When he and Felicie had walked through here in the morning, Zeras had felt a cold chill down his spine as he walked through, and he could feel the gaze of something around his back.

But no matter how much he sent his perception around, he just couldn’t find the figure responsible. It was like every tree in the forest was staring at them.

Fortunately, and in some mysterious way that Zeras couldn’t explain, they had been able to pass through the forest area unharmed. But Zeras knew there was definitely something wrong with the forest. There was a strange being within. One enough to make his spine tingle.

That was why he had prevented Felicie from going. And just as he had feared, when Zeras really came in, he had been attacked by the strange beasts in the forest.

Looking at their eyes, he could see they were controlled by something and after a long battle, he had been able to subdue the beasts and from the creature’s panic, he had been able to track it down.

And the creature was none other than the human-monkey sitting before him. He had no reason why such a tiny creature could make his spine tingle nor did he understand how the creature had been able to control beasts that were stronger than it, even with its own lack of mana. And the creature was also intelligent and could even talk! It was definitely a sight to see, so he felt killing it would be wasteful. Such a special creature deserved a second chance.

“Ok. Ok. I’ll do anything. Just let me live, ok?” Elyion asked as Zeras nodded.

“Firstly, you know this area well, don’t you? This forest area and the mountain area before us. You definitely do, don’t you?” Zeras asked interestingly as Elyion nodded continuously.

“Good, good. Then tell me something none but you know about the mountain,” Zeras asked as Elyion’s eyes furrowed, staring at Zeras.

“Tell me something interesting about the mountain up ahead. If it’s not interesting enough for me, then you’re as good as dead. You understand what I mean, right?” Zeras said as he slapped the creature’s long hair around, and Elyion could only swallow as its brain browsed everything it knew about the mountain and he quickly found the most interesting one.

“Ok, there is something nobody except for me knows about the mountain,” Elyion said as he looked in fear around the forest area before looking at Zeras in slight fear.

“Oh, and what is that?” Zeras asked curiously.

“The mountain, that seemingly endless plain that you see,” Elyion said as Zeras nodded.

“It is alive!” Elyion said as Zeras looked at him for a while before chuckling, and quickly it expanded into a full-blown laughter.

“You, you’re so smart! I wanted something so interesting and you simply told me a pile of rocks is alive. Just how cunning is that brain of yours?”

“I’m not joking. The mountain is alive!” Elyion pressed on as Zeras’ laugh receded, sensing the seriousness in the creature’s tone.

“And how do you know that?” he asked.

“I do because I have tried to cross the mountain too once. Ever since I could open my eyes, all I knew were these boring leaves of the tree. I needed a new vision, so I decided to move out of the forest.

Going out, I saw the mountain up ahead and excitedly, I climbed up it and began my journey.

But one night! One night, I saw a horrific scene!”