This series of actions naturally caught the attention of the World Serpent organization.
Shuten-dōji, surrounded by darkness, drank sake while listening to his subordinates' reports.
"Several third-tier trash were killed? Heh, whatever, they're not important."
"Hmm? The Humanoid Abomination was also taken care of? That guy had some strength."
Shuten-dōji's expression turned slightly serious.
Although the Humanoid Abomination was also 'trash' to him, this guy's strength was already quite good.
"Someone is causing trouble, using Holy Light power? Named Heras? Never heard of him."
Shuten-dōji hugged a sake gourd that was bigger than his entire body.
With a cute, androgynous face, he took a few sips of sake, his eyes becoming blurred, looking drunk.
"Let the Soul-Devouring Succubus contact him and investigate the relevant information."
"Can't she switch to being a member of the Holy Temple? Let her use that Holy Seal to contact them and ask about it."
He muttered, still looking drunk.
"What? The Soul-Devouring Succubus can't be contacted? She seems to have been captured alive? Are you kidding me!"
In an instant, Shuten-dōji sobered up, looking angry, his voice becoming violent.
"What are you all doing? Investigate, investigate immediately, I want to know everything."
He roared, urging his subordinates to act quickly.
Chapter 677: Personally Taking Action
The World Serpent's efficiency was still very high. Before long, the investigation had yielded some results.
The subordinates presented the relevant information to Shuten-dōji, and the leader remained silent throughout.
"A giant birdcage constructed from Holy Light, which can also continuously shrink, this method is truly admirable."
Shuten-dōji said, he couldn't bother drinking now, his entire expression was terrible.
In fact, as Jiang Wang had previously guessed, his power system was indeed inextricably linked to the Abyss.
To be precise, the Abyss was a part of his power, so he felt that masters using Holy Light were very incompatible with him.
Fighting against these stubborn people of the Holy Temple made him feel very uncomfortable.
"The amount of Holy Light, or the control over Holy Light, is simply too terrifying."
Thinking of this, cold sweat had already appeared on Shuten-dōji's forehead.
"We've seen this person before, and even that Humanoid Abomination reported the relevant situation."
The person speaking was a strange guy wearing sunglasses, a high-ranking member of the World Serpent.
He was called 'Bat King', specialized in using sonic secret techniques, and had very strong combat power.
"His name is Jiang Wang, a new member of the Holy Temple, and he is the newly appointed Title Knight."
Bat King said, crossing his arms in front of his chest, striking a cool pose, and leaning against the wall.
"In a short period of time, he possessed such amazing combat power, and he rose rapidly, directly becoming a Title Knight."
"Without a doubt, this person must have made a vow to the Holy Light, which is why he is so strange."
Shuten-dōji said, narrowing his eyes, subconsciously reaching out to touch his sake gourd.
From God's perspective, his guess was absolutely wrong.
But if you think from his perspective, inferring with universal rationality, this is the only explanation that makes sense.
To gain such exaggerated power in a short period of time, it could only be a Holy Light oath.
In Shuten-dōji's memories, in the world where he was born, there was such a monster.
Someone who had just started with Holy Light, not even reaching the Void Breaking Realm.
But relying on the Holy Light oath, he burst out with amazing power in one breath.
The power of a full-strength strike was comparable to a third-tier Void Breaking strike.
In that battle, Shuten-dōji was defeated miserably and could only leave his world in disgrace.
And that person also died directly.
At this moment, Shuten-dōji felt a stabbing pain when he reached out and touched his abdomen.
The oath that person made was just a simple sentence.
"My Holy Light will only be used to deal with the evil Shuten-dōji."
That was all, an ordinary sentence, but it gave that person the power to absolutely restrain Shuten-dōji.
Of course, if you look closely, there must be the power of the world's consciousness pushing behind it.
Moreover, Shuten-dōji was only just born at that time and was wreaking havoc on the world, and his strength had not yet grown to its peak.
At that time, he was only a mere first-tier Void Breaking.
As time passed, a long time later, Shuten-dōji returned to his hometown and turned that world into ruins.
"I'm afraid the oath he made was against our World Serpent."
"Probably something like 'Holy Light power will only be used to deal with the World Serpent'."
"That's why the Soul-Devouring Succubus was suppressed and her life and death are now uncertain."
Shuten-dōji said, his expression uncertain, he reached out and touched his abdomen.
If you lifted his Japanese-style kimono, there would be a hideous scar on his abdomen.
It was the powerful penetrating wound that person had stabbed him with back then.
"Our plan has entered the final accelerated period, and it is already unstoppable."
"But this guy is a scourge after all, it's better to find an opportunity to get rid of him."
"It seems that people from the World Serpent are not suitable to take action, so let the mercenaries do it."
Shuten-dōji said, revealing a smile.
If the other party's Holy Light oath was aimed at the World Serpent, then as long as they arranged for people from other organizations to take action, there would be no problem.
And in the nine million worlds, mercenaries naturally exist, and there are a lot of them.
Even some well-known large organizations have mercenary matching functions, let alone specialized mercenary organizations.
Organizations like 'Heart of Steel' often send robots to assist in combat.
Small newly established organizations also start as mercenaries in order to accelerate development and establish a reputation.
After all, for an organization to develop, it needs resources, connections, and more members.
Becoming a mercenary and completing some work, regardless of whether it can be made public, regardless of who the employer is.
As long as they can earn resources, they will definitely do it.
And the World Serpent is definitely the biggest customer of the mercenaries, because the 'resources' they provide are the origin of the world.
If it were other resources, they would probably have to find some intermediaries to exchange them.
After exchanging them several times, they can finally get the resources they want.
And the fundamental purpose of exchanging resources is of course to improve their strength.
The origin of the world is an absolute hard currency, as long as you get it, you can use it, there is no middleman to make the difference.
Although the things that the World Serpent hires them to do are 100% dirty work, they have always been indifferent.
"Let the Blood Saber Society go, or the Sword Demon Sect?"
Bat King asked, it seemed he had to work overtime.
Shuten-dōji blatantly told him this kind of thing, obviously entrusting this matter to him.
In order to ensure that this operation was foolproof, they had long found reliable mercenaries.
Bat King had long made friends with them.
"Let them go together, be sure to kill this guy, I won't feel at ease if he doesn't die."
Shuten-dōji said, continuing to touch the wound on his abdomen.
The reason why he feared the Holy Temple and was afraid of the Holy Light was probably rooted long ago.
The Holy Light is indeed the light of salvation that illuminates the nine million worlds.
But for villains like him, it will only reveal a lot of shadows.
"I understand, I will properly deal with this guy named Jiang Wang."
"Then, what should we do with that person named Heras?"
Bat King asked, narrowing his eyes.
"Of course, I will personally take action, although I don't know where he came from."
"But the Holy Light system, the fourth-tier Void Breaking strength, only I can steadily suppress him."
Shuten-dōji grabbed the sake gourd and took a hearty gulp.
Chapter 678: The Strongest
The codenames of the members of the World Serpent organization were not actually thought up by themselves, nor were they given by the organization's higher-ups.
They were 'nicknames' given to each of them by people outside.
As the nicknames were called, they became their codenames within the organization, and the members became familiar with each other by calling them.
Of course, there are some exceptions, and Shuten-dōji is one of them.
