Purgatory Artist
Chapter 572: Servant and King of Nightmare

Chapter 572: Servant and King of Nightmare

The Nightmare Manor.

All the servants had gathered in front of the castle, standing in two neat rows in complete silence.

The Manor Lord stood on top of the stairs with his hands clasped behind his back and spoke:

"Remain calm, do not do anything impolite, maintain the same demeanor and attitude as your companions, otherwise, I can’t guarantee your outcome."

"Yes, Lord."

The servants replied in unison.

The Manor Lord took out a pocket watch to check the time, then nodded: "5 seconds left."

Everyone held their breaths and stood still.

Deep in the sky, a resounding sound of explosion could be heard.

A mass of grey fog descended from the clouds like a meteor, creating a large crater on the lawn in front of the manor.

The Manor Lord gracefully bowed and spoke: "The manor welcomes you, Lord of Nightmares, Nightmare King of the souls of all living beings ..."

A black figure floated up from the crater.

It was over 6 meters tall, exuding a deep black glow from head to toe. It had a humanoid form with 8 long black arms growing from its back that lightly moved with the wind.

It had a face similar to that of an adult male, its expression full of peace and compassion.

「 Have the fruits I requested been prepared? 」 it asked.

「 Yes, my master, everything has been prepared 」 the Manor Lord replied.

He drew a full set of Cards and respectfully tossed them into the void of space.

The Card flew over and landed in front of the Nightmare King.

「 Very good, these souls have all been nurtured to a relatively high degree ... 」

As the Nightmare King observed the Cards, one of the long black arms on its back suddenly reached out and grabbed one of the servants.

A large maw full of sharp fangs appeared from the void of space.

The servant didn’t even have time to scream before he was dragged into the maw and disappeared without a trace.

「 Ah? The servants you’ve recently recruited aren’t bad 」

The Nightmare King looked down at the Cards, then the long arms on its back shot out with a ’shua shua shua’ sound, grabbing the servants and throwing them all into the air.

Maws full of sharp fangs appeared one after another.

They bit those attendants and gently pulled them back. Then, they swallowed the attendants into their mouths and began to chew.

For a moment, the sound of chewing and screams filled the void of space.

The manor lord humbly lowered his head and said, 「It is my honor to be praised by my lord.」

「But I heard that guy with tentacles all over his body came here recently. What did he come here for?」 Nightmare King asked.

「The first wave of the Tide of Nightmares was led by him, so he dropped by to take a look, 」 the manor Lord said.

「It’s clearly trash, yet it wants to be the first to harvest the souls of the Evernight World. Does it think the Evernight World is that simple?」 Nightmare King said.

The Manor Lord lowered his head and maintained his smile, not saying a word.

The Nightmare King waited for a moment, and seeing that he didn’t say anything, he said, 「Yes, it’s not convenient for us, the Lord of Nightmares, to speak in front of you servants. I’ll take my leave.」

「Sir, there’s one more thing,」 the manor lord said.

「What?"」

「The dead souls experiment in hell has run into some trouble.」

「Experiments on souls?」

「You servants are always thinking of ways to make the soul more delicious. This is commendable. 」

The Nightmare King pondered for a moment, then decided, 「Alright, I’ll go there myself.」

「Thank you, my lord, for helping us solve our problems.」The manor lord bowed deeply.

「It’s nothing. It’s just some souls that taste a little different ... Watching them struggle in despair in my mouth is really a wonderful thing ... Even those souls that have gone mad.」

As soon as he finished speaking.

The Nightmare King gradually disappeared from the void.

Only after a few moments did the manor lord slowly raise his head and exhale softly.

He looked around at the empty manor and muttered, 「No matter which master comes, I’ll have to recruit a new batch of subordinates ... Tsk.」

...

On the other side.

Hell.

Liu Ping asked.

"Are you trapped here?"

In a large glassware opposite him, a female corpse in a red robe floated in a transparent solution.

Around this large glassware, there were many other glassware as narrow as coffins, filled with all kinds of living beings.

Obviously, this was the work of the nightmare monsters.

「"No, I’m not trapped here." 」From the crimson ring on Liu Ping’s finger, Gaia’s voice sounded.

「"This is just my shell. It no longer has any power. You have to find my eyes. Everything I have is in my eyes."」

Liu Ping looked at the female corpse. Indeed, there was only a pair of deep eye sockets where the female corpse’s eyes should be. Her eyes were long gone.

"Hiding God with your eyes. This idea is quite ingenious." God praised.

「"Get lost, old man. If you had the courage to stand up and fight, I wouldn’t have ended up like this."」 Gaia said irritably.

"You can’t force things, my dear lady." God sighed.

Liu Ping coughed softly and asked, "My lady, where are your eyes?"

「"It’s trapped in a place of complete darkness. I can sense it coming here."」 Gaia said.

A ray of red light emerged from the ring, passing through the hall filled with glassware and corpses. It pointed to a small door on the wall.

Liu Ping jumped up and reached out to open the door.

Crash.

The door fell down and shattered into pieces on the ground.

Liu Ping was about to take action when he suddenly saw a line of burning words appear quickly.

[Attention!]

[This sequence has detected an unprecedented danger. The mission system has been temporarily added.]

[Immediate release of a survival mission:]

[You have to hurry up and leave hell immediately.]

[Or you have to participate in a battle that you are destined to lose and survive at the last moment.]

[Choose one of the two. At the end of the mission, you will receive a reward: a brand new role.]

[Mission failure: complete death, the end of everything.]

Liu Ping was stunned.

"Did something happen?" he asked.

[The situation is urgent. Please take action immediately!] The sequence responded.

At the same time, a line of flashing words appeared in the void.

[Abnormal fluctuations have begun to appear. This characteristic is definitely not something an ordinary Nightmare Servant can possess. It should be another Lord of Nightmares.]

Lord of Nightmares?

Liu Ping thought about it carefully and suddenly realized something.

Ever since he replaced Delia, the teachers, parents, noblewomen, servants, manor owners, and other existences he came into contact with were all acting as the nurturers of the souls of all living beings.

Even when he and God worked together to blow up that world, it was called Secret Grain world.

All of this was for the sake of a certain existence, and that was ...

Lord of Nightmares.

Since the Sequence had said "another Lord of Nightmares", it proved that there was more than one Lord of Nightmares.

What were these existences like?

... No, he couldn’t leave.

We must get to the bottom of this.

Liu Ping sighed and said, "Madam, God, it seems like a Nightmare Lord is coming. I don’t plan to escape for the time being. I plan to find the Madam’s eyeball first, then leave hell through that secret path to take back the Divine Empire. Can you guys help me?"

「"I will do my best to help you,"」 Gaia said.

"God be with you," said God.

"Alright, then let’s continue forward!" Liu Ping rubbed his fists and said.

He quickened his pace, passed through the long corridor, and entered a brand new hall.

In the middle of the hall stood a huge monster.

It seemed to be the product of countless souls fusing together, and painful faces kept appearing all over its body.

A man with a violin stood at the side, gently plucking the strings and releasing Soul Calming Notes, trying to calm the monster down.

Lucifer!

He noticed Liu Ping’s appearance and immediately said, "Don’t go near it, it’s very dangerous."

"Lucifer has lost his power and can only temporarily suppress this monster, but you can kill it. The countless souls on its body should be released, and they will guide us to find the eyeball," said God.

Liu Ping grabbed a spear that was emitting a sharp cry from the void and threw it with all his might.

The monster was instantly pierced through.

The countless faces on its body looked at Liu Ping and roared with hatred, 「You deserve to die!」

「"Be careful, it’s a Wraith spell. You will be cursed to death, but this spell has a weakness. If you have skills that can fake your death, you can be immune to it,"」 Gaia reminded.

Liu Ping shrugged and said, "I’ll listen to you two."

His body swayed a few times, then fell to the ground and said, "Ah, I’m dead."

「"See, doesn’t this look like you? You men are all the same, "」Gaia, Mother Earth, said to God.

"..." God.

After waiting for a moment.

All the fluctuations of the curse in the void of space indeed calmed down.

Liu Ping got up from the ground and looked at the monster. It was pinned to the stone pillar by the spear, unable to escape even after struggling for a long time.

Grey stone gradually spread from the point where the spear pierced, quickly petrifying the entire monster.

It gradually turned into a large, eerie statue.

"Liu Ping, the Petrifying Spear can only petrify, you still need to hit it once."

Andrea said.

She handed over a 3-meter tall steel hammer from the void of space.

"Do you have a smaller one?" Liu Ping asked.

"This can be knocked further away" Andrea said.

"Give me a hammer, I’ll throw it" Liu Ping said.

Andrea thought about it and agreed, it was safer this way.

"Alright, I’ll look for it!"

A palm-sized silver hammer appeared in front of Liu Ping.

Liu Ping grabbed the hammer and threw it at the petrified monster with all his might.

A silver light flashed.

Large pieces of gravel flew out and fell to the ground.

The monster no longer existed.

At the same time.

At the other end of the castle.

A pitch-black humanoid figure stood at the entrance of the castle.

The Lord of Nightmares, Nightmare King!

It was 6 meters tall, a black hand pushed forward from the depths of its back.

The gates of hell opened with a bang.

Nightmare King walked in and looked around the hall filled with blood and countless corpses, a slightly mocking smile gradually appeared on its face.

"Alright ..."

As soon as it said that word, all the corpses in the hall jumped up, stepped on the blood, and madly fled towards the back of the hall.

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