Chapter 1405
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Chapter 1405 Burning Contract
When the Great Xia had no divine guardians, it was absolutely the perfect untouched land for the world-ending Brahma to target. So he recruited Yue Huai as his agent who carried out his will, establishing the Ancient God Church within Great Xia’s borders. He attempted to guide numerous evil gods to gather in Great Xia and tame its citizens as their followers, using this to stage a comeback and return to the Temple of Gods.
Li Qingqiang clapped his hands and smiled, “However, now that Great Xia’s gods have awakened, and with Yue Huai dead, the Ancient God Church has largely collapsed. His plan is destined to fail.”
“So that’s how the Ancient God Church came to be.” After hearing this explanation, Lin Qiye and the others finally understood.
Li Qingqiang glanced at the sky and said, “I heard you killed a Makara, which is quite impressive. Rest well tonight. Tomorrow, Tang Yusheng will continue your potential training.”
Recalling the scene of Tang Yusheng transforming into Bai Ze and beating Yue Huai, everyone trembled inwardly.
They exchanged glances and smiled bitterly:
“…Yes, sir.”
…
After everyone dispersed, An Qingyu immediately returned to the forest, dragged the dismembered black crocodile corpse back to the air raid shelter, and began preparing various surgical instruments for a long-awaited dissection.
Seeing this, Lin Qiye and the others consciously took detours back to their rooms. Once An Qingyu began his dissection, he wouldn’t stop midway. Judging by the current time, he would likely pull an all-nighter.
Lin Qiye lay back on his bed but didn’t immediately fall asleep. Instead, he sank his consciousness into the Gods’ Mental Hospital in his mind.
It was already late at night, and the hospital was completely silent.
The staff dormitory lights were out, and all the lights in the ward were turned off. In the dark, empty courtyard, Lin Qiye, wearing a white coat, walked straight toward the director’s office.
He opened the secret door to the dungeon and quickly walked in.
Walking through the dim corridors of the dungeon, looking at the empty cells on both sides, Lin Qiye felt a long-familiar sensation.
Since his strength had increased, [Nightfall] rarely received missions dealing with “Mysteries.” Most of the time, they were dealing with various divine realms and agents in the mist, so it had been a long time since a new “Mystery” had been imprisoned in these cells to become his attendant.
From Li Qingqiang’s words earlier, Lin Qiye already knew these black crocodiles were “Makaras” from Indian mythology, legitimate divine beasts. Although their combat power couldn’t compare to the thunder beast he already possessed, they were special forces with clairvoyance. If he could recruit one as an attendant, it could prove useful in many situations.
Moments later, Lin Qiye slowly stopped at the door of a cell.
Behind the cell, a shadow that occupied almost the entire floor took shape, transforming into a black crocodile with two pale green eyeballs extending from its tail, its size several times smaller than in the outside world.
Lin Qiye glanced at the panel on the cell wall:
”
Criminal: Makara
Choice: As a mythological creature killed by your own hands, you have the right to decide the fate of its soul:
Option 1: Directly erase its soul, making it completely vanish from the world.
Option 2: Let its ‘fear value’ of you reach 60, and you can hire it as a hospital attendant to care for patients while providing you with protection to a certain extent.
Current fear value:
”
Seeing the Makara’s fear value, Lin Qiye raised an eyebrow, seemingly surprised.
In his impression, while the Makara was indeed killed by his own hands, it was still a divine beast. How could it so easily develop fear? He had merely killed it with a sword and cleaver, surely it couldn’t be that fragile?
Had he done anything else that would cause it to fear him?
Lin Qiye pondered for a moment, then suddenly recalled the scene of him singing to it in the dark forest, dominating its soul…
Hmm…
Lin Qiye coughed lightly, his expression somewhat embarrassed.
Regardless, the Makara’s fear value reaching the threshold was a good thing. At least he wouldn’t need to use Wangcai, his trump card.
Lin Qiye skillfully grabbed at the air, and a contract appeared in his palm. Under the influence of the fear value, after some intimidation and enticement, the Makara yielded and tremblingly extended its hand, preparing to press its print on the contract.
Just then, something unexpected happened!
Before the Makara’s claw could touch the contract, the latter suddenly transformed into a ball of intense fire, rapidly burning in mid-air!
The scorching flames burned Lin Qiye’s fingertips. He frowned and quickly released the contract. The burning contract slowly floated to the ground, turning into black ashes and disappearing without a trace.
“How could this happen?” Lin Qiye’s brows furrowed, his eyes full of confusion.
A self-immolating contract was something he had never seen in the hospital before.
Could it be that the hospital itself was unwilling to let him sign a contract with the Makara?
Lin Qiye suspiciously looked at the Makara in the cell. The latter seemed to sense the unusual atmosphere and instinctively backed up several steps, growling deeply.
Lin Qiye refused to give up and grabbed another contract. This time, before he could even hand the contract to the Makara, it burst into flames again!
Looking at the contract continuously burning to ashes on the ground, Lin Qiye felt inexplicably uneasy.
He looked at the Makara in the cell again and, after a moment’s hesitation, gently raised his hand: “Forget it, you should just disappear.”
The Makara was a species under the world-ending Brahma, who was undoubtedly an evil god. Perhaps there was an inherent problem with the souls of this species that prevented them from becoming attendants. Lin Qiye didn’t insist.
After all, the hospital already had numerous attendants, and one Makara didn’t mean much to Lin Qiye.
As soon as the words fell, the Makara in the cell suddenly began to expand like a balloon filled with air, and then violently exploded.
Splattered flesh and blood hit all four walls of the cell, quickly disappearing as if invisible mouths were devouring its body.
Watching the Makara’s remains gradually disappear, Lin Qiye’s uneasiness lessened slightly. He stood there for a long time before turning to leave the dungeon.
Under the dark night sky, Lin Qiye, wearing his white coat, walked step by step through every inch of the hospital grounds—the ward, staff dormitory, courtyard… even the large iron gate at the entrance.
Everything was quiet and peaceful, without any abnormalities. Standing at the door of the staff dormitory, he could hear Li Yifei’s earth-shaking snores, giving him a strange sense of reassurance. The last trace of doubt in his heart was temporarily dispelled.
Lin Qiye resisted the urge to drag Li Yifei out of bed in the middle of the night to have a few drinks with him. After wandering around the courtyard for a long time, he finally withdrew his consciousness from the Gods’ Mental Hospital.
