Princess swallowed the food. Without Divine Radiance and Xia De's peculiar soul, just the power of one almost caused the Sorceress to lose herself in endless desire.
“This...”
She couldn't imagine how Xia De had managed to eat that thing whole just now.
“Not enough!”
The captain said, rapping his fingers violently on the table, urging her to continue...
So Princess gritted her teeth and took another one, hesitating for a moment before throwing it into her mouth.
“Oh!”
She had to lean on the table to stand steady; for a moment, she almost felt that this ship was about to take her insane soul away.
“Not enough!”
The captain said again, his merman face particularly ugly, and his voice surprisingly contained the sound of waves.
Princess looked at Xia De's back, touched her ruby earring, pulled out a slender red ribbon, and wrapped the third bean with it before putting it into her mouth.
The evil spirits watched her, and the cold, damp wind rapidly dissipated her body temperature. She closed her eyes tightly, and it was a long while before she opened them; the red-haired girl felt she had reached her limit.
“Do you know what I'm going to say?”
The captain asked loudly, the nine rings on his hand sparkling, and the restless sailors made even more terrifying and eerie sounds.
Princess clenched her fists:
“What do you want to say?”
“What you ate...”
“Not enough!”
Clang~
It was as if someone had rung a small bell by their ear; the light and pleasant sound of the banquet starting instantly suppressed all other surrounding noises.
“What?”
Blood-red light appeared in the cabin at some point. Xia De, who had been slumped on the table, pressed his hand on it.
He raised his head, with an expression as if he wanted to devour everything in front of him. His eyes looked at the captain opposite him, his black coat transforming into blood-red, his Destiny Ring automatically appearing behind him, and the light blossoming from the gluttony Ling Rune almost suppressed all other light in the cabin.
He had deliberately agreed to the final gamble because “she” had already warned him about what was going to happen, and he understood what would occur.
Xia De, dressed in red, sat at one end of the long table laden with a feast. As he stood up, the dilapidated wooden table he was pressing on quickly grew longer and wider, a white tablecloth silently appeared, more food filled the gaps on the table, and the previously tasteless food began to emit a fragrance.
The dinner plates became shinier, golden candelabras landed one by one in the center of the tableware, and the warm candlelight illuminated all the evil spirits, as well as the astonished expressions of the merman captain and the red-haired girl.
“A Mystic Lock of falling snow!?”
These were the captain's words, and the last “Not enough” just now was spoken by Xia De.
The familiar long table appeared, only there were no dried corpses wrapped in white cloth hanging from the ceiling. Instead, the Ling Rune - the little match girl lit up, snowflakes slowly drifted down from above, and the sickly green light and blood-red light intertwined, making the cabin even more dreamlike and hazy.
This was a Mystic Lock. When the hunger Xia De felt broke through a certain limit, the extreme desire for Gluttony connected with the Ling Rune, which in turn awakened the power that had settled in his soul from devouring a god.
The Blood Feast Lord desires to eat, gaining power through the Blood Feast, but the god endures the violent desire to eat at all times. Xia De perfectly replicated this peculiar state, thereby connecting to the true power belonging to gluttony.
The use of a Mystic Lock requires an excessive amount of Ling, and the Ling accumulated from eating too many things he shouldn't have, which had nowhere to be unleashed, finally found its purpose. In the state of Divine Radiance, led by the gluttony Ling Rune, the power belonging to that evil god manifested on Xia De.
This was not the Mystic Lock of gluttony, because Xia De had not truly experienced the man-eating power of the Blood Feast Lord. Therefore, gluttony was not enough to form a completely new Miracle, so the immense Ling and the power of gluttony originating from the god displayed its might through Xia De's currently most energy-consuming Miracle - the Mystic Lock 【the little match girl】.
This was not a permanent transformation. If Xia De ever had the chance to be this hungry again, and if his Ling was unusually abundant at the time, and he also had the anomaly of Divine Radiance on him, and if he was sitting at a long dining table full of “people”, fulfilling the ritual of the Blood Feast Lord's divine descent, then this scene might be recreated.
Snowflakes drifted down over the long dining table laden with food. When they fell on the food, they made it even more lustrous. The top of the cabin disappeared, and the deep night sky illuminated the area, with the silver Moon quietly echoing the stars.
The sound of waves appeared from somewhere, but it could not disturb the scene at this moment. The cabin environment became increasingly illusory, the ground subtly swayed, and on the dilapidated wooden floor of the cabin, a street pavement made of long flagstones spread out underfoot in the Moonlight.
The order of the snowy night street overcame the chaos of the pirate ship.
Snow fell from the night sky under the silver Moon, the long table was placed on the snowy street, the tranquil street made of long stones stretched into the distance, and on the streets on both sides of the long table, elegantly designed black iron streetlights lit up one by one, their bright yellow warm light illuminating the shops along the street, illuminating the strange streetscape, and simultaneously illuminating the evil spirits, illuminating the captain, illuminating Xia De, and illuminating Princess behind Xia De.
The round stool beneath him transformed into a luxurious golden-backed chair. Dressed in red formal wear, Xia De leaned back comfortably on the chair's backrest, while Princess beside him instinctively reached out to rest her hand there. He was physically comfortable, yet he had to endure the intense pain of being unable to eat, and the golden light marks on his body, like burning embers, perfectly highlighted Xia De's peculiar posture at this moment:
“Not enough!”
His palm slammed onto the table. Such power was displayed due to hunger, but the feeling of hunger grew even stronger. The urge to eat made his power active, stimulating the power settled in his soul.
And the evil spirits sitting at the long dining table at this moment all became guests of the Blood Feast.
They roared, they screamed, but no one could leave the dining table. The falling snow gradually melted their outer shells, and the tablecloth absorbed their power. The pirates wanted to snatch wealth that didn't belong to them, but when a stronger power appeared, they were the ones being plundered.
They shouldn't have made Xia De so hungry.
A blood-red mist silently drifted over the snowy street. The evening wind swept the snowflakes in all directions, and the flying blood stained Xia De's shoulders white, yet it also made the Lord of the Blood Banquet appear even more divine.
At this moment, Xia De was certainly not comparable to the god who held the Blood Feast back then, but a Mystic Lock that could only be fully deployed at high rings, coupled with a hint of Divine Radiance, was enough to suppress this ship.
“You win, get out of here quickly!”
The merman captain, sitting at the other end of the long table covered with a white tablecloth and laden with abundant food, had already realized something was wrong as the surrounding cabin environment was continuously encroached upon by the snowy night. At this moment, he decisively gave up the struggle with Xia De, but Xia De, who was trying to maintain his sanity, shook his head:
“Not enough!”