I sparked a mysterious resurgence in Marvel.

Chapter 348 The next time we meet, we'll be enemies.

As Cassius's brain was gradually drained, Metis's face grew paler and paler.

He looked as if he had been pulled out of the water, his whole body was soaking wet.

After the last drop of brain matter in Cassius's mind disappeared from Metis's fingertips, Metis sighed, his face pale.

"As expected, the information of that kind of existence is simply beyond the capacity of ordinary human neural memory to contain."

Metis, who had almost acquired all of Cassius's memories through devouring, searched through Cassius's entire life's memories, but apart from a few vague images, he still couldn't obtain the information he wanted.

However, Metis did not mean anything by this.

In mysticism, many important pieces of information and memories are not stored in the physical body, but rather in the soul.

For many powerful beings or those with special abilities, the physical body is sometimes not indispensable or irreplaceable, but the soul... is eternal and unique.

Therefore, having failed to obtain the information he sought from Cassius's mind, Metis revealed his true intentions.

The next second, a seed suddenly appeared out of thin air in Cassius's heart, emitting wisps of light.

Immediately afterwards, this seed of nothingness suddenly flashed and entered Cassius's soul, and quickly took root and sprouted in Cassius's soul, which was filled with madness, depravity and pain. Then, using Cassius's soul as nourishment, it grew rapidly.

In just a few seconds, a gray soul flower bloomed on Cassius's extremely weak soul, which was on the verge of being completely destroyed.

And at the very moment that the multi-soul flower bloomed.

A terrifying aura suddenly burst forth from Cassius's soul. Immediately afterward, Cassius's extremely weak soul suddenly solidified, and even the aura of madness, chaos, depravity, and pain within that soul was cleared away.

When absolute reason once again took hold of Cassius's soul, the once weakest, yet most terrifying Cassius reappeared before Metis.

Looking at the soul flower slowly blooming before him, nourished by his own soul, and at Metis, who was connected to him spiritually, Cassius revealed an expression of understanding and disdain.

"What if these are your backup plans, the ones you've set up inside my body?"

"Then you've disappointed me greatly, Metis."

"With these ritual runes and the soul fruit from this soul flower, how much of the secrets within my soul can you steal?"

Hearing these words resonate directly within his soul, Metis said calmly:

"I don't need to know too much, just to get what I want, that's enough."

Before he could finish speaking, Metis's soul took a step forward and appeared directly in front of the soul flower in front of Cassius. Then, he extended his finger again and pressed it against the peculiar soul fruit in the heart of the soul flower.

next second.

Metis eagerly swallowed the still somewhat unripe soul fruit with his split index finger.

After the Soul Fruit was devoured, a series of hidden and strange pieces of knowledge quickly filled Metis's mind.

The longer Metis spent with Cassius, the more he sensed the man's mystery and terror.

He was just a mortal, yet he possessed forbidden knowledge unknown even to gods and demons.

If it weren't for the fact that, for some unknown reason, Cassius had repeatedly and recklessly sacrificed his sanity and even his life to acquire and plunder forbidden powers that didn't belong to him in order to quickly gain immense power, thus becoming somewhat obsessive and dull-witted...

Even if Metis was eager to resurrect his mother, he probably wouldn't dare to scheme against that terrible and insane man in this way.

So, after seeing Cassius conceal the madness in his soul and once again become the terrifying man she remembered, she was deeply moved.

Metis swallowed the unripe green fruit without hesitation.

Cassius, standing in front of Metis, did not stop Metis from devouring the Soul Fruit that had grown from the nutrients emitted by his corpse.

They seemed not to care about it at all.

"To resurrect your mother? It seems the experiences of this life have made you far too weak, Metis."

"In that case, let me lend you a hand!"

Suddenly, an extreme madness appeared in Cassius's eyes.

next second.

Cassius's soul, under his active control, willingly merged into the slowly blooming soul flower.

Transform your own soul into nourishment, actively nurturing that slowly blooming soul flower.

As Cassius actively engaged with the process, the Soul Fruit that Metis touched with his index finger suddenly grew and matured at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Just a few seconds.

Cassius's soul suddenly transformed into specks of light and disappeared into the soul fruit that was being rapidly ripened.

As the gray soul flower withered completely.

The Soul Fruit, which contained countless secrets of Cassius, had fully matured and then fell into Metis's hands.

"That guy..."

Recalling the eerie smile Cassius had given him before his soul dissipated, Metis felt a strange unease creep into his heart.

However, when he recalled the forbidden desire that appeared in his mind, he realized that it was the one he wanted most.

Metis immediately put that slight unease behind him.

She would be willing to pay any price to bring her mother back to life.

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When Cassius's soul completely disappeared into the Soul Fruit, his soul vanished.

His physical body outside the world also turned into ashes in that golden-red light.

After Cassius vanished into thin air, Metis, who was located on one side of the golden-red magic circle, suddenly opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of foul blood.

"puff·····"

This was accompanied by the spurting of foul blood.

Metis’s life force was rapidly fading away over several decades at a terrifying pace.

In that instant, her once lustrous black hair lost all its shine and turned into pale white hair.

White hair in childhood.

Even the life force within Metis, in Erin's spiritual vision, resembled that of an eighty or ninety-year-old man, as fragile as a candle flickering in the wind.

It was as if what Metis spat out was not a mouthful of foul blood, but rather decades of her lifespan.

Upon seeing the changes in Metis, Erin frowned slightly, then took out a bottle of [Potential Healing Potion] from his spatial ring.

Then he opened it and fed it to Metis.

As the effects of the potent healing potion rapidly circulated within his body, Metis's pale face finally regained a sliver of color.

Feeling the warmth rising within him, Metis lowered his eyes and whispered:

"Thanks."

Ok?

Upon hearing this, Erin glanced at Metis in surprise.

They seemed somewhat surprised that this annoying brat had actually learned to say thank you.

It seems that the past few months have indeed helped this guy grow a lot.

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After catching his breath and regaining some strength, Metis chanted an incantation while slashing open his wrist.

With a burst of golden-red light.

The blood gushing from Metis's wrist, under the influence of a strange force, floated in mid-air and transformed into two crystal-clear blood crystals the size of marbles.

After the blood crystals completely solidified, two beams of gray soul light suddenly shot out from between Metis's brows and landed on the two blood crystals.

With a gentle push, Metis propelled the two blood crystals floating in mid-air in front of Erin and Tamamo-no-Mae.

After doing all this.

Metis staggered and almost fell to the ground.

"I have transferred the knowledge and secret techniques I obtained from Cassius's soul into these two blood crystals. Just place these two blood crystals between your eyebrows and activate the forbidden knowledge they contain, and the knowledge and secret techniques within the blood crystals will flood into your minds."

"However, the forbidden knowledge about evil gods does not exist in the world. Even if I use my own blood to temporarily shield that knowledge from being leaked, it can only be hidden for three minutes. After three minutes, a part of the forbidden knowledge in the blood crystal will be erased by heaven and earth."

"As for whether or not to read the knowledge within this blood crystal, that's up to you."

After saying that, Metis cut off a strip of cloth from his person and tied it to his wrist, which was pale from blood loss.

It's unclear whether it's due to Metis's unique constitution or the lingering effects of the potent healing potion she just drank.

Metis had cut a deep gash on his wrist, almost severing a blood vessel, but only a few seconds had passed.

The wound on Metis's wrist began to scab over and heal.

Erin estimated that even if Metis didn't tie her wrists with cloth, the wounds on her wrists would heal completely within minutes.

However, seeing Metis bandaging his wounds on his own, Erin didn't say anything more.

Instead, he turned to examine the blood crystal in front of him.

With a slight lift of his hand, he stored the blood crystal in his spatial ring, but Erin did not immediately absorb it.

Since it concerns evil gods and so-called forbidden knowledge, Erin has no intention of recklessly absorbing the knowledge within this blood crystal.

Even if Metis's impression of him changed slightly, it would still be the same.

After walking to a corner, Erin took out a set of divination tools, placed Metis and Tamamo-no-Mae in the middle, closed his eyes, and began to divine.

With the threat of the demonic pact that was just signed, at least on the surface, Erin doesn't need to worry too much about Tamamo-no-Mae and Metis taking advantage of this time to launch an attack on him.

So, Erin took the opportunity to do some divination.

of course.

External divination is merely a smokescreen.

The real Erin took the blood crystal into the Balance Space and, with the help of its position, began to perform true divination.

Several tens of seconds later.

Erin obtained the definitive answer from the balance space.

After opening my eyes again.

Without hesitation, he took out the blood crystal, placed it between his eyebrows, and then used his mental power to activate the blood crystal, bringing all the knowledge that Metis had sealed within it into his mind.

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Not far away.

Tamamo-no-Mae, who let Erin do as he pleased, narrowed her alluring eyes slightly as she looked at the divination tools in Erin's hand.

Just now, she seemed to sense a mysterious force being drawn by Erin, which then landed on the divination tools in front of Erin.

"The art of divination, huh? Interesting."

While playing with the crimson crystal in his hand, he observed the changes in Erin's body after absorbing the crimson crystal.

As the three-minute time limit approached, Tamamo-no-Mae, who still hadn't seen any obvious changes in Erin, carefully placed the blood-red crystal between her eyebrows.

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A few minutes later.

A spatial fluctuation suddenly emanated from this upside-down world.

Then a circle bursting with golden and red sparks suddenly grew larger and larger in the upside-down world.

Almost the instant the golden-red circle appeared, Erin and Tamamo-no-Mae, who had kept their eyes closed, opened them simultaneously.

Looking at the almost iconic gold and red portal, Tamamo-no-Mae covered her mouth and chuckled, "The troublemaker has arrived. It seems this time I won't have a chance to have a proper chat with you, young master."

After giving Erin a deep look with her captivating eyes, Tamamo-no-Mae's nine fox tails swayed gently, and soon a thick mist slowly rose behind her.

"I hope that next time, I can have a proper conversation with you, young master."

As the words fell, Tamamo-no-Mae's figure became ethereal amidst the rising mist.

It seems as if they used some kind of secret technique to leave this space directly.

Erin shook his head slightly upon hearing this: "Next time? The next time we meet, we'll be enemies."

Just then.

The king and two other temple mages also stepped into this upside-down world through the portal.

As soon as they stepped into this upside-down world, they turned their heads and saw the stunningly beautiful figure slowly disappearing into the mist, along with the nine swaying fox tails behind her.

Almost instantly, the king and the other two temple mages with Eastern features changed their expressions and assumed a defensive posture.

"Nine-tailed fox."

As the Supreme Temple that protects the dark side of the world, the lineage of the Sorcerer Supreme has dealt with Tamamo-no-Mae more than once.

That's why they understood even more how terrifying this demon was.

Therefore, the moment they saw Tamamo-no-Mae, they became extremely wary, as if facing a formidable enemy.

But only a few seconds later...

Tamamo-no-Mae, swallowed by the mist, completely disappeared before their eyes.

Even long after Tamamo-no-Mae disappeared, the king and the other two temple mages remained vigilantly watching their surroundings. Having witnessed Tamamo-no-Mae's terrifying illusions, Erin naturally understood what they were worried about.

However, having already scanned the surroundings with her spiritual vision and confirmed it again with divination, Erin knew very well that the terrifying woman had already left.

"Alright, stop looking, that guy's already gone."

(End of this chapter)