Chapter 261,008: You Have Successfully Obtained Me

Chapter 261, 008: You Have Successfully Obtained Me

"hastur Campbell!" 

Ince Zangwill said this name through gritted teeth.

He never thought he would ultimately fail to escape the pull of fate and be cornered by this hastur at his weakest moment.

hastur smiled and said, "You don't need to look so ugly and make such a ferocious expression."

"I won't just sit and wait to die!" Ince Zangwill refused to fall here today. He took out 008 and was about to start writing at extreme speed. 

At this moment, a bright light flashed. His right hand gripping 008 was directly severed, and 008 fell to the ground.

He then noticed that on the ground besides the fallen 008, there was an exquisite mirror. 

Someone was hiding inside the mirror and attacking him!

As this thought arose, a scream of resentful souls echoed in his mind!

His reaction was delayed for a moment. At the same time, ice gathered, freezing him from feet to head into an ice sculpture.

By now, hastur had activated the ability of the War Insignia, donning full armor and holding a golden greatsword that slashed down from the air!

Just as the golden sword was about to shatter the frozen Ince Zangwill into ice chunks, he finally re-entered his mythical form again.

His swelling flesh burst through the icy restraints. Two extra arms grew out, blocking the falling golden sword.

"So you're even weaker than I imagined!" Ince Zangwill sensed hastur's true strength in this contact, which surprised him. 

The mysterious existence that could threaten 008 was actually weaker than him in direct combat!

After the surprise came extreme rage. 

His other arm swung and slapped hastur's shoulder with a loud bang. 

The armor dented, but hastur's figure did not retreat half a step. Instead, he appeared even taller.

The eyes exposed outside the armor glowed crimson. The golden greatsword that had been blocked broke free from the two arms' grip with the added force and smashed down, severing Ince Zangwill's left shoulder! 

"Desire!"

An ethereal, elegant voice rang out. Ince Zangwill's mind, about to counterattack, was thrown into chaos and began to lose balance.

His desires sprouted like mushrooms after rain, constantly assaulting his already fragile mental defenses.

Seeing this, hastur cooperated with Sharon's move, using the extraordinary ability of the Black Night Path. The mental attack took the form of a huge hammer, completely shattering Ince Zangwill's last mental defenses. 

He was completely controlled by desire, falling into utter madness.

At this point, his mythical form mutated again.

His flesh swelled several times, becoming a huge ball of flesh with eight arms growing long white feathers. His head sank into the flesh, his face split open, exposing clusters of oozing eyeballs.

He looked like a giant spider monster with eight arms. 

"Let's go!"

hastur did not hesitate, taking the mirror and 008 from the ground and leaving.

He had no intention of staying to fight the monstrous Ince Zangwill to the death.

His life was more precious than Ince Zangwill's. If he had to deal with Ince using the fate talisman Weir gave him, he felt it would be too wasteful. 

It was better to leave the crazed monster Ince Zangwill here to self-destruct.

Moreover, the one truly targeting Ince Zangwill tonight was not him.

He had only heard the commotion and brought Sharon to see what was happening.

But they happened to encounter Ince Zangwill frantically fleeing, so he got the idea to target him and take 008 away.

hastur retreated some distance, but the maddened Ince Zangwilldid not give chase, only wildly destroying everything around him.

Now he had completely lost his rationality. As for whether he could regain it, hastur had no relevant experience. 

hastur looked down at the mirror in his right palm and smiled, "Let's go back to sleep."

This statement seemed a bit ambiguous, but nevermind.

"Don't we need to completely eliminate him?" Sharon asked.

"To resolve that crazed half-god monster, we would inevitably get bogged down in a long battle and may even get injured. It's better to leave him for others to deal with." 

hastur spoke, raising his left hand holding 008, "We've already obtained the most important thing from him."

"Yeah, okay."

After a brief exchange, hastur's figure disappeared.

After he left, a shocking scene of a meteor falling from the sky appeared again in the heavens.

...

Deep into the night, in a room, Aisala was pouting with an unhappy cat face, staring resentfully at her owner who had just returned.

She really wanted to go join in the excitement too, but was assigned the task of guarding the luggage in the room. 

Meow, did they really think a cat wouldn't protest being bullied like this?

hastur had no time to placate the about-to-bristle Aisala, letting Sharon take over soothing her instead.

The most important thing now was how to seal 008 to prevent its aura from leaking out and drawing Adam's attention.

Ince Zangwill was someone Adam had been watching closely. Tonight's loss of 008 would definitely attract Adam's investigation.

Throwing it directly into the Star Palace Hall was safer, but also had risks. This was his biggest secret now, he couldn't easily reveal 008's existence to it.

"Weir's fate concealment may be able to interfere with Adam's investigation of 008." 

hastur took the fate talisman from his shirt pocket and found a thin string to tie the talisman to the tip of 008's feather, like attaching a small ornament.

"Want to hang another one?" Sharon walked over holding Aisala, seeing hastur's actions and guessing his intentions.

"No need, if this doesn't work, adding another won't change anything." 

"What are you wary of?"

"The master hidden behind this quill pen."

"You shouldn't have brought it back."

hastur smiled, "Since I encountered it, I couldn't just watch it slip away from me. Plus, this thing is very useful and can help us achieve many things." 

"Yeah, be careful."

"Meow."

Aisala also let out a meow, meaning she would generously forgive them for abandoning a cat, considering they went out on an adventure.

"Seeing as you obediently stayed behind today, tomorrow's breakfast will allow you one small fish treat."

"Meow?"

hastur ignored Aisala's protests and went to the desk, taking out a blank sheet of paper. It was time to have a chat with 008.

"Move on your own, I know you can sense what's happening outside." 

hastur placed 008 on the blank paper. To Sharon and Aisala's astonishment, the quill pen actually stood up by itself. Without needing ink, it began writing lines of text on the blank paper.

"Ince Zangwill has ultimately failed. Even when he took me away, I knew he wouldn't amount to much. With my help, he only used me to scheme for a chance to advance to Sequence 4, severely lowering my status." 

"He repeatedly failed miserably in places like Tingen. His stupidity really made an impression. Later, I realized Ince Zangwill was not a qualified master, so I decided to abandon the darkness and come to your side." 

"During this time, I rewrote much of Ince Zangwill's fate to maintain a certain connection between him and you."

"Finally tonight, you successfully obtained me from Ince Zangwill." 

hastur raised an eyebrow, unconcerned. "You think I need your help?"

"I'm just a pen. Whoever holds me becomes my new master. Providing help to my master is my duty." 

hastur laughed, "You're not thinking of how to write me to death, are you?"

"Great master, being the pen in your grasp is already my greatest honor. How could I dare have such defiant thoughts?" 

"You need to improve your lying skills." 

"As you say, master. Next time I will practice hard to try and deceive your perspicacity." 

Heh, those words really deserved punishment.

So this was how 008 interacted with Ince Zangwill? No wonder his luck was so poor.

"Meow?" Aisala, who had been watching for a while, jumped down from Sharon's arms onto the desk, staring intently at 008. This quill pen that no one was holding could actually write by itself - how amazing!

"Oh, it's the foolish little kitten. Do you need me to write you an adventure story script?" 

"Meow?"

"Don't doubt it, my abilities exceed your imagination. You just need to choose to believe." 

"Meow?"

"You say you can't read words yet? Your master really didn't teach you? How irresponsible. It's a pity I can't speak with you, otherwise I could teach you to be a language master fluent in all tongues." 

hastur had seen enough. He reached out and scooped up the curious Aisala, warning her not to approach 008 casually in the future.

With 008's ability to beguile hearts and minds, if Aisala learned to read, she would definitely be deceived into spinning around in circles.

"This pen..."

Sharon also noticed 008's uniqueness - a sealed object with a complete self-awareness was always very dreadful. 

Noticing Sharon's gaze, 008 wrote on the blank paper again: "Oh, beautiful lady, the future mistress, is there anything you need my help with?"

(End of Chapter)