'That "staff" is... the aura of time? A Great Beast?'
Lucifer dropped his flippant attitude, his pair of blood-red eyes locked onto the black lock and white key on Mostima's back.
During his time in Kazdel, Lucifer had had many private conversations with the Blood Demon Overlord. In one of them, the Overlord had mentioned that thousands of years ago, he had led the Blood Royal Court to slaughter a Great Beast that controlled the sequence of time. It was just that the Overlord did not feel at all proud of that beast hunt. Not to mention that the Overlord was still young at that time and needed the help of other members of the Blood Royal Court to reach his full potential, unlike the powerhouse he was now. And at that time, the Great Beast had no intention of resisting, and unlike a defense tower, it was just a stationary target, letting the Overlord empty its health bar and completely destroy its physical body.
But the Great Beast that controlled the sequence of time did not die. Its consciousness could still observe the present world through the fragments of its body.
Lucifer could recognize that the "staff" on Mostima's back was precisely a fragment of that Great Beast. Although it was only a small part of a fragment, it was a Great Beast after all, a being with both stats and mechanics.
'Hmm... I only slowed time for a little over two seconds, but he still noticed?'
Mostima met Lucifer's gaze, a hint of caution in her greenish-blue eyes. 'His target isn't my staff, is it? This is troublesome. If we fight, it'll be bad...' Just from his stance, she could tell that Lucifer was terrifyingly strong. This was the first time Mostima had met a Sarkaz who could put so much pressure on her. With the previous incident as a lesson, Mostima couldn't help but worry about how she and Fiammetta would fare against Lucifer.
Just as Mostima was running through emergency combat scenarios, Lucifer spoke again.
"Want some more?"
Lucifer took out another chocolate biscuit and pointed at the candy shop behind him. No matter what, Lucifer didn't want to cause trouble for himself. He felt it was better to just surround and destroy them together. Besides, Lucifer wasn't some extremist Sarkaz who saw a Sankta and immediately saw a blood feud, wanting to shove a gun in their mouth.
"—Alright."
As the saying goes, a good matchmaking system will always have a fledgling phoenix where there is a sleeping dragon. Mostima was also not one of those Sankta who hated the Sarkaz with a passion and were irreconcilable enemies. To be able to turn an enemy into a friend was naturally the best possible outcome. And Mostima did not dislike a Sarkaz who was willing to show goodwill to a Sankta. After all, this was not just rare; it was exceptionally so.
"Wait, how did you two just get along like that? Aren't you going to ask my opinion?!"
Fiammetta, who was nominally in charge of monitoring but was in fact actually monitoring Mostima, became even more agitated at being ignored.
Lucifer said nonchalantly, "Don't you know? Stand users are fated to attract each other."
"What the hell is a Stand User?!"
Faced with the term Lucifer had said, Fiammetta had never heard of it before. Mostima, on the other hand, was thoughtful. "Stand User… that's an interesting codename. Executor, why don't you change to this codename? I can be your Stand, you know."
"You f*cking…"
My fists, they're getting hard.
Lucifer, on the side, indicated: It matches, it all matches.
Thanks to Lucifer's world-shocking wisdom in defusing the confrontation, Mostima and the others pushed and shoved their way into the candy shop.
"Oh, oh, there are so many kinds of candy. It's a pity there's no cake."
"Wake up, this isn't Laterano. Not every shop can make desserts."
Looking at the dazzling array of candies, Mostima was both surprised and delighted. It wasn't that she particularly liked to eat candy, but because the consumption of the entire store was being paid for by Young Master Lucifer, Mostima could leech off him without any restraint.
"..."
Lin Keri was somewhat numb. He felt that his life in the past year had not been as colorful as this one day. First, a peerless powerhouse suddenly appeared in Penguin Logistics, and then he saw a Fallen Sankta, who seemed to have come from the Holy City of Laterano.
As for the Angry Bird? No one cared.
"This one, this one, this one, and this one."
Mostima, like a repeating machine, picked out her favorite candies from the shelves one by one. Fiammetta, in the corner, covered her face, an expression on her face as if to say, I don't know her.
"…Stop causing trouble for him. We need to hurry up and find a job to earn some funds, otherwise we're going to starve to death in a foreign land."
"I know you're in a hurry, but don't be in such a hurry first."
Mostima leisurely comforted Fiammetta. However, it was precisely Mostima's carefree attitude that annoyed her.
And Lucifer, who was standing on the edge with an OMO face, preparing to act as a wallet, was delighted when he heard this.
"Looking for a job? I'm an expert at that!"
Lucifer immediately pulled up the recruitment benefits of Penguin Logistics from his phone. Fiammetta and Mostima leaned over and were both shocked by the employee benefits of Penguin Logistics.
Is this really the kind of treatment a corporate slave should have?
The ever-cautious Fiammetta expressed her suspicion first. "…I get the feeling you're like some kind of pyramid scheme trying to trick us into joining to boost your performance."
"Although there is a stipend for that, the money doesn't matter. The main thing is to make friends with the newcomers." Lucifer showed a half-smiling expression. The walking-stick tyrant's jeep monster is already itching to move!
"I approve. Anyway, there's no harm in just taking a look, right, Stand User?"
"You really like to do as you please… wait, what did you call me?!"
The red vs. blue conflict started again. Not intending to participate in this argument, Lucifer turned to find Lin Keri to settle the bill. "Counting the chocolate I ate before, how many Lungmen Dollars in total?"
Lin Keri looked at Lucifer again and again, then waved his hand in dismissal. "No need. This old man is in a good mood today. I won't charge you this time."
"How can that be?" Although Lucifer said that, his body honestly put his wallet away without a hint of hesitation. "The boss is generous, may the boss be healthy, I wish the boss will never die."
"..."
Lucifer's set of undead-style blessings left Lin Keri completely stumped.
Lucifer, without any politeness, turned his head and took Mostima and Fiammetta to go get some gold coins from the Emperor.
Watching the three of them board that Showa-era jeep one after another, Lin Keri couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
'I couldn't get anything out of him while chatting just now. Could it be that this guy is really a so-called Aegir?'
After a long silence, Lin Keri picked up his phone and dialed a number.
"…Wei Yenwu, do you have any contacts on the Aegir side?"
"…Lin Keri, are you sober? Did you eat too much sugar and are now hallucinating?"
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