Chapter 202
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Chapter 202: Tragic Delirium
Delirium frowned deeply as he stared at Lin Qiye. After a long moment, he slowly spoke: “Interesting… your secrets truly exceed my expectations.”
“However, you dare to appear directly before me – how foolish!”
Before his words had even finished, a cold light burst from Delirium’s eyes as he swiftly rushed in front of Lin Qiye, his ghostly glowing palm striking like lightning toward Lin Qiye’s chest!
Nothing happened…
Delirium stared blankly at his palm pressed against Lin Qiye’s chest. The ghostly light was being rapidly devoured by that white coat. His peak Sea-realm soul attack landing on the surface of this clothing vanished without a trace, like a mud ox entering the sea.
How could this be possible?!
Delirium’s mind was shocked. Soul combat had always been his specialty – other souls were as fragile as paper before his divine realm. But Lin Qiye had received his soul attack without moving an inch?!
Lin Qiye’s lips curved slightly upward as he looked at Delirium with narrowed eyes and spoke leisurely:
“You think you can harm me in my psychiatric hospital?”
In this hospital, he was the sovereign.
Any attack launched against him was ineffective.
He reached out and grabbed Delirium’s wrist, throwing him backwards with force!
Delirium’s vision blurred, and after a bout of dizziness, he crashed heavily to the ground.
He quickly got up, but suddenly froze, finding himself no longer in the original hall but in a spacious courtyard.
Not far away on the lawn, a noble lady wearing a black star-patterned gauze dress sat leisurely in a rocking chair, holding some needles and thread as if knitting a sweater, mumbling something while a happy smile graced her lips.
She showed no trace of any aura, appearing just like an ordinary person.
Unable to see Lin Qiye, Delirium hesitated briefly before walking toward this seemingly ordinary noble lady.
Meanwhile, his hands behind his back began glowing with an eerie light.
He had figured out that this place was extremely strange, and all attacks against Lin Qiye would be nullified. In that case, he would have to find another way to break through.
For instance, the noble lady before him was a good choice.
Just as he took a step forward, the lady in the rocking chair paused, turning to look at him, her gaze fixed on Delirium as if contemplating something…
Delirium’s eyes narrowed slightly as he quickened his pace, appearing before the lady in the blink of an eye, raising both hands…
Thump!
Nyx suddenly embraced Delirium’s body, excitedly flipping him over and holding him in her arms like a mother cradling an infant, showing a kindly smile.
“My great-grandson… have you come to see your great-grandmother?”
Delirium, a 140-pound grown man, was truly being held like an infant in Nyx’s arms without any sense of awkwardness, and crucially… he couldn’t resist!
Delirium struggled mightily to escape Nyx’s embrace, but no matter how hard he tried, his limbs were as if nailed in place, completely immobile.
The most terrifying scene appeared – as Nyx gently rocked his body with that kindly expression, his body began visibly shrinking. In just five seconds, he had shrunk to one-third his original size. From afar, he truly looked like a little boy being held by his grandmother.
Delirium looked at that kindly smiling face in horror, his scalp tingling. He knew that what was here wasn’t his physical body, but his soul!
He could clearly feel his soul being frantically absorbed by this noble lady!
If this continued, his soul would be completely annihilated in the lady’s embrace!
Just as Delirium struggled in despair, Nyx actually released his body voluntarily, gently placing him on the ground and taking up the half-knitted black sweater to put it on him.
“My good great-grandson, try on the sweater great-grandmother knitted for you. Is it comfortable?”
The half-finished black sweater was put on Delirium’s small body, and then every black thread of the sweater seemed to come alive, frantically wrapping around him, nearly choking him.
The ultimate darkness used the sweater as a medium, continuously gnawing at his body. Delirium could clearly feel his skin being corroded inch by inch by the night color!
Bone-chilling pain filled his senses as he curled up on the ground in agony, struggling to remove the black sweater, but it was as if it had grown into his skin – it wouldn’t budge no matter how hard he tried.
His awareness of his own body was gradually disappearing, with half his body seeming to fall into an endless abyss, leaving only endless pain and cold…
“Ahhhhhhh!!!” Delirium’s screams echoed across the entire hospital.
At this moment, a window on the hospital’s second floor opened, and Lin Qiye in his white coat called out:
“Mother, don’t kill him. I still have use for him.”
Nyx turned her head, smiling and nodding at Lin Qiye, “Alright.”
Nyx’s fingertip lightly hooked, and the sweater entangling Delirium turned into a streak of night color, flying back to her hand. She unhurriedly walked to the barely breathing Delirium’s side, her expression gradually turning cold.
“Daring to hurt my child, you should have had your soul scattered… Since you still have use, I’ll spare your life for now.”
Nyx grabbed Delirium’s collar and casually threw him. Delirium’s vision blurred again before he crashed heavily to the ground.
This time, he was in a simple study.
At the wooden desk in the center, a young man wearing a blue robe sat intently reading “The Middle-aged and Elderly Health Manual,” not even glancing at him.
Beside him, Lin Qiye in his white coat looked with interest at the utterly wretched Delirium and slowly spoke:
“Lord Merlin, what do you think?”
“He’s just a projection. Even if his soul is annihilated here, it would only have a slight effect on his main body. Killing him wouldn’t be worth it,” Merlin said calmly, putting down his book.
“Is there a way to affect his main body?”
“Yes.” Merlin’s profound gaze seemed to see through Delirium completely. “Although it’s just a projection, the soul comes from the main body and has countless connections with it.”
“My abyssal magic can use this connection to affect his main body. Though I can’t kill him from afar, I can cause negative effects on his soul itself.”
“Negative effects? Like what?”
“Like… forcibly squeezing a soul from a distant plane into his soul.”
Lin Qiye started. “Two souls in one body?”
“That’s the idea, but if the other soul is troublesome enough, it could maximally reduce his main body’s control over itself, causing mental confusion…”
“In severe cases, being driven to suicide isn’t impossible.”
Lin Qiye raised an eyebrow, looking at the terrified Delirium on the ground with an ambiguous smile. This gaze made Delirium shudder.
“Turn him into a mental patient… sounds pretty good.”