Chapter 647: You Dare Threaten Me?

Chapter 647: You Dare Threaten Me?

"Are you joking, sir? I believe that having just concluded your affairs outside and returned to your base, the thing you ought to do most is relax your body, and then formally begin managing your faction. For instance, by first firmly grasping the Whip of Order in York City within your own hands, formally delineating the boundaries of authority with your immediate superior, Director Sues, and then..."

"Clap!"

Karen opened the window, allowing the cool outside breeze to enter and stir his hair.

"...And then, while steadily developing, actively welcome or manufacture certain incidents to involve yourself in, just like this business with the Earth Vault Cult, so as to profit. As for manufacturing incidents, please believe me, I am a professional. I can manufacture the corresponding incidents according to your needs to accelerate your development."

Karen took down the Sword of Diamans from his back, turned around to face Dai Shan, and said very calmly:

"I didn't invite you here to help map out my life."

"Hehehe..." Dai Shan covered her mouth and let out a laugh. "You aren't going to tell me that you made no preparations whatsoever, and brought only a little bone dragon here just to verify my identity and then try to kill me?"

A smile also appeared on Karen's face as he countered:

"Why not?"

"No, I don't think you would do something so impulsive and irrational. Just like your style of fighting, you do not like this approach. Before you do anything, you are habitually accustomed to planning, and then..."

"Buzz!"

The Sword of Diamans thrust forward. Dai Shan extended both hands to clamp the blade; her hands were very beautiful.

Karen's other hand reached forward, gripping her throat, and pinned her entire body down onto the desk.

Dai Shan's voluptuous thighs directly hooked around Karen's waist, intertw

"You can keep threatening me." Karen shook his head. "But I will not care."

His outstretched arms retracted, and Karen pulled himself into a tight embrace.

"Buzz!!"

The white bones surrounding the pipe began to retract along with Karen's movement, like the massive rib cage of a dragon constricting at this very moment.

This was a crushing hug, relying on the physical hardness of the small bone dragon's body; compared to this, the previous cage of order seemed remarkably gentle.

Everything, it seemed, fell quiet.

Karen looked over, and the spot where Daishan had originally stood was now completely closed and mended by overlapping bones.

However, very soon, cracks appeared on the bone structure, first a single line, and then a whole patch.

Karen sensed the wave of pain transmitted to him from Kanna.

"Clatter..."

Large fragments of bone peeled away, and Daishan still stood there, except the skin on her body had completely split open, leaving behind a form that resembled a flowing gel-like substance.

It looked soft, but it had to be extremely hard, otherwise it would have splattered into juices during the previous strangulation.

Only that face retained its original appearance.

Daishan opened her clenched fist toward Karen, and the face of the middle-aged woman remained intact under the protection of her palm as the woman spoke:

"When I worked at the funeral parlor, I didn't use this puppet; that was my original body."

Karen nodded and said, "I know."

If she had moved around his backyard using this body, even if Alfred failed to notice, his house still had a dog.

"I originally wanted to meet you in my original body, but I thought it over and didn't dare, because my original body is truly weak... In my plan, twenty years from now, I would use my original body to meet you, and then kneel before you to kiss the surface of your boot.

In the most candid way, to offer you all my loyalty.

But you, you were too impatient.

I will ask you one last time, do you really not intend to negotiate?"

Karen did not answer, the sword in his hand raised once more, and clad in the Dragon God Armor, he charged yet again at Daishan ahead of him.

The two sides engaged in a rapid, fierce clash within the narrow sewer, Daishan's body solidifying time after time to resist Karen's offensive, but Karen believed she could not possibly sustain this forever.

"Puff!"

Finally, as Karen drove his sword into her chest, her body instantly liquefied, invading directly through the gaps in Karen's Dragon God Armor, attempting to complete the assassination on Karen.

She had found a way to crack the formidable defense of the Dragon God Armor; she was truly fighting with her brains.

In this regard, she was very much like Karen.

Karen spoke, "It's going to hurt a little."

The aura of the undead began to pour frantically out of the Dragon God Armor, just like Molindi's heart in the cave back then, and what Karen had to do was exactly what Neo did at that time.

A ball of the fire of light appeared in his palm, instantly blanketing his entire body as he executed an "ignition."

"Boom!"

The forces of two opposing attributes collided violently, and although the scale of the explosion was not as exaggerated as when Neo ignited Molindi back then, with Karen and Kanna subconsciously compressing the range of the blast, the destructive power of this explosion within a unit area was utterly terrifying.

After the explosion ended, the white bones detached from Karen's body, and Kanna's form condensed at Karen's back; the little girl slid down and fell into a coma.

Karen himself knelt on one knee with his sword, his body entirely charred black, and if one sniffed closely, one could even smell a fragrance like roasted meat.

"Drip... drip... drip..."

Puddles of silver sludge peeled off Karen's body, pooling into a small depression in front of him, looking as though they wanted to condense into a human form, yet failing several times after only forming up to the thighs.

Ultimately, she chose to give up, only condensing a face and a pair of shoulders.

Karen still looked at her very calmly.

And this time, she finally didn't ask Karen if he was mad again, because she was certain that the man before her eyes, whom she favored and even worshiped, was truly mad!

She spoke, "You did this on purpose; the moment you returned here, you made no arrangements at all and came straight to find me, because you knew clearly that only in this way would I come out to meet you, would I want to communicate with you, and would you have a chance to truly fight me.

You intentionally changed your style of doing things just to leave me not knowing how to respond!"

Karen remained noncommittal.

But the woman was right; he did not know how many pairs of eyes she had in York City, but judging by her deployment of forces in the Earth Vault Cult, Karen did not believe she would be clean in York City.

To put it bluntly, even inside his own Whip of Order headquarters, there might be her people, or even her identities!

One had to know that she was an old monster who had also been in contact with those mysterious organizations; her lifespan ought to be longer than he imagined.

Faced with such a character who loved to hide in the shadows, the most effective method was to change his past style and "communicate" with her in the most reckless manner.

This was the inspiration given to Karen by Dina's suicide during that selection assembly.

"The power of light..." Doubt surfaced in the woman's eyes, "Just how many secrets do you have?"

Karen raised his sword, and with a "puff," the great sword pierced through the woman's face as the fire of order began to burn, roasting this face of hers.

Her face began to distort, and then, a powerful soul force surged out from this face, attempting to enter Karen's body.

Karen made no defense, but this soul force suddenly halted again, returning to the face that was being burned into continuous distortion and bubbling.

"I dare not enter your soul; I dare not use a soul offensive against you."

Karen still said nothing, continuing the burning.

"I have more powerful puppets, I possess the most high-end puppet forging technology of the Principles Cult, and I even have ancient techniques that have been lost even to the Principles Cult; if I wish, I can return again tomorrow to defeat you in a more powerful posture, or even... torture you to death!

When that time comes, you had better not hide inside the headquarters building, too afraid to come out."

Karen spoke, "Actually, you have always had the opportunity to kill me."

"Yes, I only admire you; I didn't intend to kill you!"

"Is that so?" Karen's eyes narrowed slightly, "You didn't intend to... or you didn't dare?"

"Are you trying to tell me something?"

"You should know in your heart, but I don't mind telling you directly; your premonition is correct, if you kill me, you will inevitably die too."

"Are you threatening me?"

"This is a statement of fact, not a threat."

"Fine, I can choose not to make a move on you personally, but after this puppet is completely scrapped, I will go and spread your secrets; do you want to see that situation?"

"I don't mind, you can go and spread them; you have been to the Allen Manor, so you should understand that once my secrets are made public, heh, will I be hunted down by the Cult of Order? Or will I immediately live a better life?"

"You..."

"Sometimes, striving can be addictive, but it can also make one weary; I don't want to make my secrets public, and I will keep my own secrets, but if an irresistible force appears, I would instead heave a long sigh of relief.

At the very least, I wouldn't have to keep nesting in York City to continue playing political games; directly obtaining the treatment of a Son of God is actually quite happy, isn't it?"

Daishan: "..."

"You should be able to tell that these are my true words. Furthermore, the current me is indeed powerless against your original body; I myself do not possess enough strength, nor do I possess a large enough force, to truly threaten you."

But if you truly wish to grant me this opportunity, I will secure a highest-level wanted order for you from the Church of Order, at the cost of making any concession to the Holy See and the Temple!

I will inform the High Priest that a certain individual has been covertly watching him from the shadows for a very long time, and has even tampered with the personnel around him.

Hehehe...

You should understand the temperament of our High Priest far better than I do;

Therefore,

Are you prepared to endure the true gaze of the Church of Order?"

"Do you honestly believe I fear death? Having lived for so long, life and death have anciently ceased to—"

"But you do have something you care about, something countless times more precious than your own life." A smile surfaced on Cullen's face. "Before my return, I witnessed with my own eyes the Church of Order crushing the rebellious faith of the Dragon God. I know you hold many identities, but I am certain you are a true believer of the Crypt Church.

Perhaps,

Ending your personal life is far less exhilarating than utilizing the might of Order to erase the very legacy of the Crypt Church, wouldn't you agree?"

"How dare you..."

Cullen drew the greatsword back, bringing that still-burning face close to his own:

"Listen well, I despise living under the surveillance of prying eyes. This is my final warning to you:

Should I ever perceive your gaze near me again, I will turn into a mad dog just like today, sparing no expense to make you pay the price!"

The woman replied, "I... promise you."

Amidst the flames of Order, the human face upon the greatsword uttered these final words before dissolving entirely with a sharp snap.

Cullen retracted the greatsword, hoisted the unconscious Conna onto his shoulder, and floated upward to leave the sewer, the ground of this entire street having already completely collapsed; on the periphery, several whips of order squads had rushed over upon hearing the commotion, and immediately saluted Cullen upon recognizing him:

"Greetings, Lord Minister."

"Greetings, Lord Minister."

Cullen swept his gaze across the surroundings and said, "Disperse, everything is fine now; a remnant of the Light just attempted to assassinate me, and I have already slain them."