Chapter 212: Chapter 185 You Hurt Me Chapter 212: Chapter 185 You Hurt Me Selena didn’t care that Red Hat had eradicated her stronghold.
As “Tactile,” the concept of “failure” did not exist in her dictionary, only “delayed success.”
All resistance would become welcome, all distancing would turn into drawing near, all death would become reunion.
Just like a story whose conclusion had already been written, no matter how the process changed, the final chapter was still destined to arrive on schedule.
The only thing she cared about was Ash Heath.
The fact that The Gods of Four Pillars did not respond to her sacrifice was enough to illustrate the importance of this man.
Interestingly, The Gods of Four Pillars had also not responded to the man’s sacrifice.
Although to others, it might have seemed like a comical act of desperation for Ash to reverse sacrifice the believers of the Four Pillars God Sect, that was not how Selena saw it.
If she hadn’t been presiding over the ritual, if she hadn’t been in the underground hall, if she hadn’t been part of Ash’s sacrificial declaration, had any of these not been the case, perhaps Ash would have succeeded.
Because The Gods of Four Pillars were unwilling to sacrifice Ash, it meant that his words could draw the serious attention of The Gods of Four Pillars. According to Selena’s experience, The Gods of Four Pillars rarely paid attention to beings in the mortal world, and the only exception she knew of was “Tactile.”
Despite not knowing how Ash, as “Tactile,” had ended up in such a miserable state, since he possessed that identity, The Gods of Four Pillars would fulfill some of his reasonable requests, such as performing a sacrifice. Therefore, in the ritual just now, it was highly probable that The Gods of Four Pillars could have responded to his sacrifice.
But in the end, The Gods of Four Pillars had not responded to him, nor had they responded to Selena, not even stirring the slightest bit.
The Gods of Four Pillars seldom “neglect” Tactile, and Selena thought there was only one possibility for this to occur: there was no consensus among The Gods of Four Pillars themselves.
If they had all decided to support Ash or Selena, then surely one side’s sacrifice would have been successful. But since they both survived, it meant that there were differing judgments within The Gods of Four Pillars about their value: some believed Selena was more valuable, others saw more potential in Ash.
It was just unknown whether the support for Selena and Ash was 3:1, 1:3, or 2:2.
Moreover, Selena recalled that a few days ago, The Gods of Four Pillars had unusually issued a divine oracle, demanding that the next sacrifice include “someone from the Exotic Realm.”
It was quite rare for The Gods of Four Pillars to suddenly crave so, and at that time, Selena didn’t think much of it and directly tasked the Funeral Service Office with finding someone from the Exotic Realm, which resulted in them capturing Ash Heath.
Now in hindsight, the oracle was clearly a deliberate arrangement for Ash to come to this stronghold, then to replace her—within the same Kingdom, there was no need for a second Tactile.
From the moment the oracle was issued, Selena was destined to make way for Ash.
While “Tactile” was important, when there were two “Tactiles,” The Gods of Four Pillars would start picking and choosing, retaining only the best one and discarding all the others.
It was just unknown why The Gods of Four Pillars suddenly changed their minds, no longer allowing Ash to replace Selena, but also not deeming Selena more important than Ash, hesitating and unable to reach a unanimous decision.
So the task for Selena became quite simple—to relieve The Gods of Four Pillars of their worries by eliminating the wrong choice.
Ash was initially stunned by this unexpected head-on charge, but soon found it wasn’t as painful as he had imagined.
He looked at Selena, who was bleeding from a broken forehead, with a bewildered gaze and asked, “What are you doing?”
While Ash’s rugged forehead was unscathed, Selena’s delicate brow had been split open.
Selena extended her small tongue, seemingly attempting to lick the blood that had dripped to the corner of her mouth, but her tongue was too small and it took considerable effort to get just a little taste. She said gleefully, “Look, I’m bleeding.”
“Yes, what about it?”
“Although I look down on those who only rely on the ‘Gospel Book,’ I must also admit that what the ‘Gospel Book’ says is true,” Selena continued. “‘Do not harm me’ is advice that you must heed.”
“You’ve harmed me; now you must pay with your life.”
Ash looked at the fresh blood on Selena’s forehead with an “Why is it always me?” expression of a cancer patient: “But you were the one who ran into it, so you got hurt! You can’t blame that on me, I didn’t even hold you accountable for intentionally hurting someone, which is already me being respectful and caring! You are deliberately staging an accident!”
“Are you angry? Upset? Come hit me then.”
Selena stuck out her tongue teasingly and smiled broadly: “The moment you hurt me, my touch had already reached you. If my touch can absorb your death, it might become even stronger, right?”
Ash felt something was wrong: “What exactly is ‘touch’? A miracle? Or some special ability?”
He had heard the term from Professor Selin but had never been able to find related information. Now, he had jumped ship to a new kingdom only to find himself still entangled by the Four Pillars God Sect—it was just like discovering that his new company had long been controlled by his former, unscrupulous employer.
“Touch is just touch,” Selena said, looking at Ash strangely: “If you’re asking what my touch is, didn’t I just tell you?”
“Huh? Can you say it again?”
Selena tilted her head and revealed a sweet smile:
“Eternal Damnation follows you, always there.”
That’s when Cleos and the other Red Hats managed, through Earth Magic and Water Magic, to temporarily plug all the gaps. She, tears blurring her vision, glared at Selena and fired her gun towards the half-flooded Silver Throne!
As long as the Silver Throne collapsed and exploded, Selena would naturally fall into the water and drown!
The elves’ gunplay was precise, hitting the base under the water just right, and the Silver Throne immediately disintegrated amidst the sound of crackling electricity. Selena was soaked in the water, like a doll that couldn’t even paddle, sinking like a plush toy beneath the surface.
However, Selena remained calm, showing not the slightest fear of drowning.
Hearing strange noises from beneath the Silver Throne, a circle of vortices appeared around Selena. The water level dropped visibly fast. Cleos bit her lip in fury, but she stopped herself from raising her hand again—she couldn’t directly harm this monster in the guise of a girl, or it would be her who ended up dead!
“You are afraid, Cleos.”
Selena lounged comfortably in the water, letting her body be sucked into the currents below.
“But what you’re really afraid of isn’t me, it’s the divine Gospel.”
“What good is a gun with the safety on, anyway?”
Leaving that remark behind, Selena was sucked into a small cavity that had appeared after the collapse of the Silver Throne. Fortunately, the cavity was too small, or Ash would have been swept away by the vortex as well.
Cleos rushed over and upon inspection, became so furious her ears stood on end—beneath the cavity was a passage to the Void Realm!
Moreover, it was a dissipating Void Realm passage, with Void Turbulence rapidly spilling out. Just as Ash leaned over to look, the Void Turbulence had dissipated into nothingness, eliminating any chance to pursue and kill her now!
“Damn it, damn it!” Cleos shot a few times into the passage in rage, then suddenly collapsed to the ground, biting her lip unwillingly and wiping her eyes with the back of her hand: “She got away… and it was by my own hand…”
Ash hadn’t expected Selena to escape like that either, and not by using Technique Spirit, nor through a miracle, nor by summoning The Gods of Four Pillars to come down and clobber kids. It was because Cleos lifted the floor, leading to the vile criminal of Eternal Damnation being sucked into a dissipating Void Realm passage below.
Her true form had done nothing, not even moved. If Cleos had done nothing, they might have caught her now. But that was impossible—just as the presence of subterranean rivers surrounding the underground hall was a natural law, so was Cleos’s fear of Eternal Damnation preordained.
This is… Eternal Damnation follows you, always there.
She was the law of calamity.
Although the pain on his forehead had nearly faded away, a chill arose in Ash’s heart—Selena’s head bump was definitely not a prank but a calculated move to trip him up! With Selena’s favor, coupled with the fact that Ash had left without resigning and taken off with the loot, thus costing the Four Pillars God Sect the Kingdom of Blood Moon’s market, the directors of the Pillar God were certainly not pleased with Ash!