Purgatory Artist-Chapter 404: The Walker, the Clown, and the Knight

On the ground.

The heads of the witches squeezed together and continuously attacked the other heads around them.

As they fought and killed, they quickly took over a large territory.

The skulls that were killed by them quickly turned into white bones, which then turned into fine powder and were completely absorbed by the ground.

Liu Ping wiped the sweat off his forehead.

These Demonesses are so cruel, it's a good thing that I didn't hesitate at all when I attacked, otherwise, my life force would have already been sucked dry, my head chopped off and become another member of the ground.

Lines of burning text appeared one after another:

[You've provided seven heads for the Underground Palace of Nightmares]

[You've triggered the Underground Palace of Nightmares' reward]

[You need to arrive at the nearest rendezvous point to exchange for the Underground Palace of Nightmares' reward]

All the lines of text flashed by.

Rendezvous point?

Why does it sound so simple?

Liu Ping temporarily let go of this thought and turned to the Demoness who was shivering in the corner.

She was the only survivor.

— — -because I wanted to test the effects of the Nightmare ritual.

Then — — -

Liu Ping lightly pulled something from the void of space.

He pulled out a long whip covered in grey spikes.

Seems like this is what I extracted from her body.

"A whip" Liu Ping sighed, "why do all women like to use whips, can you answer me?"

The Bewitching Demoness covered her neck with both hands and begged with a fearful expression: "Don't, don't kill me! I beg you! "

Liu Ping casually swung the whip.

Bam!

The whip instantly turned into a dark green poisonous snake that circled around his feet.

[You've unleashed this item's Shadow of Evil: Bewitching Snake]

[It will continuously absorb the enemy's life force during battle until it is killed]

[— — This is the item's Shadow of Evil's transformation after completing the Nightmare ritual]

Reading the description in the void of space, Liu Ping silently muttered in his mind:

"It's quite strong, very suitable for the current world and atmosphere, but I need to overturn this world — — -"

"Please give me something different."

Bam!

He clapped his hands. The dark green poisonous snake on the ground trembled and turned into a large colorful snake.

This snake no longer appeared ferocious and instead panted heavily at his feet, looking rather cute.

A line of burning text appeared:

[The Shadow of Evil has completed the Clown's specialization.]

[Due to the Evil Shadow's relatively high level, the Clown's Specialization has also undergone a strange change]

[Congratulations!]

[You have obtained a new battle pet: Devouring Snake]

[Note: The Devouring Snake will listen to your command and continuously devour the enemy's attacks during battle]

[— — You must defeat the enemy before it dies from overeating, or it will very likely die from overeating.]

As Liu Ping watched, he suddenly felt some movement in the passageway.

The ground trembled slightly.

Moments later.

A lizard with two heads blocked the way.

Its body was almost as big as the entire passage, so when it blocked the passage, no one could move forward.

The lizard stuck out its tongue and bit at the Bewitching Witch who was kneeling on the ground.

"Hey, that's my captive."

Liu Ping shouted.

The lizard looked at him in disdain with its vertical pupils.

A line of burning words suddenly appeared in front of Liu Ping's eyes:

[You've been struck by the Eye of Nightmare: Intense Nightmare Illusion]

[This is an extremely powerful Ocular Technique. It has reached the 'Advanced' level in your classification of the Occultism power]

[Your consciousness will be separated from your body for 10 seconds]

10 seconds?

If I can't move for 10 seconds, it'll be too late!

— — the Bewitching Witch absorbed half of my life force with just a twist of her waist. The lizard glanced at me and I couldn't move for 10 seconds.

How could these nightmare-type entities be so ferocious?

Liu Ping temporarily suppressed that thought and quickly shouted: "Devour!"

The Snake Eater on the ground abruptly raised its head and bit down on Liu Ping's leg!

Liu Ping was instantly able to move again.

But the Snake Eater appeared to be floating in midair, as if its soul vessel had already been separated from its body.

Liu Ping immediately wielded the Baina Blade — —

"Cut off its eyes, that's the Law of Occultism it manifested."

The Baina Blade sent his voice.

At the very next moment.

Liu Ping disappeared.

He charged straight at the lizard, the Blade in his hand sliced through the void of space, drawing a thin line in the air.

In the blink of an eye — —

The lizard couldn't help but give up on the Bewitching Witch and turn to face Liu Ping's attack.

It opened its mouth and spat out a faint purple flame at Liu Ping.

Wherever the flame passed, the heads on the ground would be reduced to dry bones.

But Liu Ping didn't seem to notice and continued to charge straight at the purple flame.

" You want to fight me? You won't even know how you died "

The lizard scoffed.

Suddenly, a voice came from above its head: "Unless you surrender, I'll kill you."

Liu Ping crouched on top of its head. The Blade in his hand had already pierced through its eye sockets, just a bit more and he would've been able to pull out its eyeballs.

" Impossible — — "

The lizard barely managed to look forward, only to see the purple flame it spat out hit the human male who was flying towards it.

The human male was instantly reduced to nothingness.

It was an illusion!

The lizard crouched on the ground and roared: "Spare my life, I'm willing to give you something as compensation "

Liu Ping wielded the Blade in one hand, wrapped his arm around the infant girl, and pulled his other hand out from the void of space.

He pulled out the Clown Card, put it back into the card book and activated [Warden Knight].

"In this battle, do you admit defeat?" Liu Ping asked.

" I surrender. " the lizard hurriedly answered.

Bam!

It turned into a Card and hovered in the air.

Lines of burning text silently appeared:

[You've deactivated your Profession: Clown]

[You've activated your Profession: Warden Knight]

[Using 'Shadow of Nightmare', you can simultaneously take on the role of Nightmare Walker and Warden Knight without any conflict]

[In Warden mode, your enemy has been defeated]

[Its soul belongs to you]

Liu Ping held the Card and carefully observed it.

The lizard on the Card appeared dejected, glancing at him, it became even more dejected.

"That's enough. You should be satisfied that I didn't chop off your head."

Liu Ping chuckled.

This lizard's Iris Technique is quite powerful, being able to lock someone down with a single glance, it'll be very useful to me!

The lizard stared straight at him: "How did you appear on top of my head just now?I clearly used all my power to lock down any spatial technique's trigger mechanism, You definitely wouldn't have been able to teleport here."

Liu Ping smiled and replied: "It was a very simple movement technique, it didn't use any spatial techniques — — -"

"In other words, I directly ran here."

In reality, I did use a movement technique that I'm used to in combat.

The only difference is — — -

I've mixed the Occultism power into my movement technique: [Deception].

This allowed me to create a blurred image of myself on top of the lizard's head without it noticing.

Sure enough, the two Occultism powers that I carry with me are the truly powerful ones.

Liu Ping glanced at the lizard.

The lizard didn't believe him, but it couldn't do anything about it.

"Let's go to the nearest rendezvous point." Liu Ping told the Demoness.

"Alright, I'll lead the way, is that alright?" the Demoness asked with a trembling voice.

"Let's go." Liu Ping said.

The Demoness stood up, stepped on the skulls all over the ground, and walked towards the depths of the tunnel step by step.

Liu Ping followed behind her, looking at the skulls that filled the tunnel with interest as he walked.

The skulls all closed their eyes, not daring to look at him, afraid that this Nightmare Walker would kill them on a whim.

After walking for about 10 minutes.

The tunnel suddenly opened up, it was a wide square.

In the middle of the square, there was a large ring, on which a group of monsters were fighting with all their might.

"Sir, please allow me to go and kill them." the Bewitching Demoness said.

"Oh? You want to go? "Liu Ping asked.

"Yes, a day's time is almost up, and I haven't killed a single existence, the underground palace will take my life" the Bewitching Demoness said anxiously.

"Go" Liu Ping calmly said.

The Bewitching Demoness nodded, then leapt onto the ring and started fighting with the monsters.

She only managed to block a few attacks before showing a pitiful expression. Her frail body swayed back and forth under the attacks of the monsters, dodging all the attacks for a while.

The monsters around her fell to the ground one by one.

[Life Drain]!

Liu Ping sighed with lingering fear.

This was an invisible and terrifying power, if one wasn't careful enough, they would really be sucked to death by it.

Liu Ping narrowed his eyes to observe the battle, then suddenly heard a series of noises.

Clack, clack, clack!

A large clock appeared in the middle of the square.

The clock's hour hand, minute hand, and second hand were all pointing at 12 AM.

Clang — — clang — — clang — —

The sound of the clock rang.

All the fighting on the ring stopped.

At this point, the noisy square fell into silence.

The monsters all showed solemn expressions, carefully glancing at one another.

Suddenly.

One of the monsters screamed: "Ah — — no!

I clearly killed an existence and offered its head to the underground palace, why — — "

Its body slowly sank into the ground, leaving only its head above the ground.

Another monster next to it laughed: "Ahahaha, seems like you're the one with the least kills today, if you don't die, who else will?"

Along with its maniacal laughter, the surrounding monsters all showed expressions of relief.

Liu Ping coldly observed from one side and slowly understood.

At the same time, lines of burning text quickly appeared in front of his eyes:

[You've understood the rules of the Nightmare Underground Palace.]

[The existence with the least kills in a day will be turned into nourishment for the underground palace]

[Your kill points are: 7 heads.]

[The Nightmare Underground Palace will grant you an appropriate reward]

All the text disappeared.

Bam!

A small black box appeared in front of Liu Ping.