Lord of Prayer

Having run out of patience, Zhou Chen used Alchemy to unlock the front door and burst into the villa, heading straight for the bedroom door on the second floor.

Cries of pleasure echoed nonstop. The bedroom door was ajar. On the large, soft bed, Liu Ling and Lady Daisy were passionately entangled, their expressions entranced. They looked as if they had completely lost their sanity, dominated by the desire to mate and procreate. Wave after wave of euphoric pleasure, like an ocean tide, assaulted their senses, causing them to sink completely into lust, unable to pull themselves free.

After a brief glance, Zhou Chen knew Liu Ling was a lost cause. The guy was crazed and impossible to communicate with; his mind was likely filled with nothing but the urge to procreate.

’I don’t know if this condition can be reversed yet. I’ll find the others first…’ Zhou Chen silently backed out of the villa, not forgetting to fix the broken lock on his way out.

Back on the street, he pricked up his ears and heard a chorus of heart-pounding, blush-inducing cries of pleasure rising and falling nearby. Clearly, it wasn’t just Liu Ling and Lady Daisy; many others in the area had also succumbed to lust.

After a moment of thought, Zhou Chen quickly left the area and its incessant cries.

He had a good idea where Renie was.

An internet cafe.

Zhou Chen soon found Renie in a corner, playing a game. Her expression was exceptionally focused, her concentration more intense than ever before, completely immersed in the Game World.

“Renie?”

Zhou Chen called out tentatively, but Renie didn’t respond, her focus fixed on her game.

’Looks like Renie, just like Liu Ling and Han Danqing, has been corrupted by desire… They’re all strong, so how could they be so powerless to resist…’

Zhou Chen’s brow furrowed. He waved a hand in front of Renie’s eyes, trying to get her attention.

“Get lost!”

Her line of sight blocked, preventing her from playing properly, Renie became exceptionally irritable and threw a punch without another word.

Zhou Chen dodged to the side. He thought he had managed to snap Renie back to her senses, but she instantly reined in her temper and went back to intently playing her single-player game.

She was just like a hopelessly addicted gamer girl.

No one else in the internet cafe noticed the small altercation. Every other customer was glued to their screens, keyboards clattering away. Everyone was addicted to their games, completely lost in them.

—An area-of-effect spiritual infection!

And the sources of the infection were Renie, Liu Ling, and Han Danqing—Ascenders with powerful Spiritual Power!

Under the influence of some unknown power, their own personalities had been amplified. For example, Han Danqing’s penchant for slacking off and sleeping, Renie’s for gaming, and Liu Ling’s for procreation. This, in turn, created a strong spiritual radiation that spread and influenced the ordinary people in the surrounding areas. It explained why so many people in Liu Ling’s district had been overcome with the desire to procreate, and why everyone in Renie’s internet cafe had become addicted to games.

As for Han Danqing, since he was sleeping on the outskirts of Akita Town, he hadn’t affected any ordinary people. If he had been inside Akita Town, an entire district would have undoubtedly fallen into a silent slumber.

By now, Zhou Chen was starting to see the pattern.

Renie, addicted to entertainment;

Liu Ling, addicted to procreation;

Han Danqing, addicted to sleep.

They corresponded to Gluttony, Lust, and Sloth, respectively.

’The Seven Deadly Sins…’

Zhou Chen thought about the recent cases in Akita Town, and they too could be mapped one-to-one with the Seven Deadly Sins.

Road rage corresponded to Wrath;

Killing an infant due to one’s own infertility corresponded to Envy;

The serial rape-murders corresponded to Lust;

There was also Greed, Gluttony, Envy, and Pride…

’Hmm… Yan Wu has a terrible temper because of his Forbidden Object. Does he correspond to Anger?’ The thought occurred to Zhou Chen almost instantly.

If Ascenders were being infected and turned into one of the Seven Deadly Sins, then Yan Wu would undoubtedly become the embodiment of Wrath.

’I wonder how the others are doing. Are they investigating the anomaly, or… have they already become part of it?’

After much hesitation, Zhou Chen decided to try and wake Renie. The Demon had likely already recovered its strength, or perhaps grown even stronger.

According to the intel, it had even defeated a Tier Three Ascender in a head-on confrontation. One more person meant that much more power to fight it.

First, Zhou Chen tried something simple—placing the Tinfoil Hat on Renie’s head.

He didn’t know why he hadn’t been affected. Maybe it was because he hadn’t been in Akita Town for the past two days, or maybe it was because what Old Jack said was true: the Tinfoil Hat could resist the brainwashing of an evil power.

At this thought, Zhou Chen connected what Old Jack had said to the current situation.

The Illuminati was the Demon.

The Brain Control Device used to secretly brainwash the public was the same as the evil power unleashed by the Demon. This invisible force had influenced the minds of many town residents, causing the crime rate in Akita Town to skyrocket, and had even affected a group of Ascenders. Calling it brainwashing was certainly not an exaggeration.

Taking the association a step further, could the seven bizarre names—Big-chested Lizardman, No. 42 Concrete Mixed with Spaghetti, Blue Air Duct Organ, Wild Trigonometric Function, Purple Yogurt Shooter, Great Tit and Kitten, and the most evil and dangerous Sunshine Rainbow Little Pony—refer to the demons corresponding to the Seven Deadly Sins?

—Lucifer of Pride, Leviathan of Envy, Samael of Wrath, Belial of Sloth, Mammon of Greed, Beelzebub of Gluttony, and Asmodeus of Lust.

Once that Demon finished its preparations, perhaps it could summon the Hell Demons recorded in Religious Theology and destroy Akita Town.

But how could a homeless man like Old Jack know about such things? Perhaps he really was a natural-born Spirit Seer, and even possessed some precognitive abilities? People like that were rare, but they did exist.

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