Chapter 694: Chapter 694

Seeing the watch marks on the Aquarius Director’s face, Leon’s expression instantly stiffened slightly.

Although it was still unclear what exactly Aquarius intended to do, one thing needed no consideration: whatever he was planning, it was definitely not good for Leon, so...

Beat him! Beat him hard!

With the power reserve in his body far exceeding that of the average True God, Leon activated [Cursed Mercury] and [Hand of Screams] to their limits, almost like he had grown hundreds of arms, unleashing a merciless beating on the Aquarius Director.

But the real killer move wasn’t this brutal beating; it was a small, snow-bright silver knife tip protruding from the blind spot of the Aquarius Director’s vision, from the nightmare mirror on Leon’s crown.

Accompanied by a laugh echoing in the soul, the Aquarius Director, whose veins bulged from the pain, showed a strange smile on his face. Then, his arm bent backward abruptly, dislocating his own joint, and he gripped the blade of [Silver Dagger of Cutting].

At the same time, the watch hands engraved on the Aquarius Director’s face completed their rotation with a click and, in Leon’s incredulous gaze, began to spin rapidly in reverse, rotating five full circles, and then...

With the Aquarius Director silently mouthing the words with a smile, he, battered and bruised, whisked away the already unconscious nightmare Leon, swayed slightly, and then retreated in a bizarre way, like the hands of a clock, disappearing instantly into the Climb Moon Well Path.

"That damned old eel!"

With an annoyed curse, the Director of Sagittarius behind Leon slammed his own thigh and shouted to Leon, who wanted to chase after him:

"Don’t chase him. He probably cut away five minutes of time from the Goddess of Pleasure Dreams. The Aquarius now should have returned to the place she stayed five minutes ago."

Cut away five minutes? How does that work?

"I’m not very sure either. He’s kept this thing well hidden and hasn’t used it before."

Pointing to his own eyes, the Director of Sagittarius replied with a sullen face:

"But from what I observed of the effect, this should be one of the abnormal objects he created from the remnants of the King of Time, likely able to forcibly strip away and borrow time from a target at the cost of his own time.

Damn it! When he summoned the Goddess of Pleasure Dreams before, it wasn’t to have her attack you, but to take away her five minutes and use it to escape from my grasp!"

After simply explaining the operation of Aquarius Director, the sullen Director of Sagittarius pulled out a box filled with organs from somewhere, then took out his stabbed heart and directly replaced it with a new one.

The heart he replaced, after wriggling slightly twice, immediately lost its color, becoming an eight-legged grey spider, and after letting out two screams, it went motionless.

Next, under Leon’s stunned gaze, the Director of Sagittarius rummaged through the dazzling box, subsequently replacing most of the vital parts of his body.

The eyes he removed turned into two black pearls emitting an eerie aura, his Adam’s apple turned into a peculiar fish spine, and his brain was a large almond with a mouth and teeth, constantly letting out screams.

Even more appalling, he even replaced the second leg from the left to right, something most important to a man, with a crooked one-eyed octopus...

Geez... You’re playing on a whole other level of weird!

"Why are you so surprised?"

Glancing at the dumbfounded Leon, the Director of Sagittarius frowned, then said somewhat speechlessly: Updates are released by novel[f]ire.net

"I’m not stupid. With an Ascension Test turning out and Pisces suddenly making no move, with everything so uncertain, how could I possibly come here with my real body?"

So... this isn’t your true body?

Upon hearing that only a fake body of the Director of Sagittarius had come and that he hadn’t actually turned his "friend" into an octopus, Leon couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief, then he curiously asked while looking at the parts he had replaced:

"Then what are these..."

"These are just some necessary little means."

Upon hearing Leon’s question, the Director of Sagittarius, having a square face that gave off an honest and steadfast aura, raised his thick eyebrows with a righteous look and replied:

"I’m kind of a short-tempered person, and my attitude has always been the most hardline among the directors, so there’re plenty who want me dead. Of course, I have to have some countermeasures prepared.

Unfortunately, Aquarius stabbed only my heart this time, [Phantom Spider] is concealed but a bit slow to effect; even though I’ve been stalling, it still wasn’t enough to consume his Leon Value entirely, leaving him with the strength to activate the abnormal object and run. If he had stabbed my head, things would’ve been different."

No wonder Aquarius didn’t fight back, turns out he was caught in your trap, his Contamination Value almost entirely consumed.

Whoa... Your sly tricks really don’t do justice to that righteous face of yours...

Looking at the regretful face of the Director of Sagittarius in front of him, Leon couldn’t help but twitch his mouth slightly, holding back a million complaints. But just then, he suddenly remembered something, hurriedly asking:

"Your Excellency Sagittarius! Aquarius has been disguising as Senior Amien all along, so now she is..."

"Don’t worry, she’ll be fine."

Calmly waving a hand, the Director of Sagittarius replied with a somewhat complex expression:

"We didn’t just sit around while staying at headquarters. When you and Edward were investigating Crolock Kingdom, we went through some old records and even found Aquarius’s lab at headquarters, gaining quite a bit from it.

Well... let me put it this way, if Aquarius still hasn’t given up and still wants to replace the... replace the Director of Taurus and ascend to the palace, then he would definitely control his actions, not harming any humans easily."

Puzzled by the Director of Sagittarius’s words, Leon asked in surprise:

"Why? Is there some hidden requirement that to ascend the Watcher’s Palace, one cannot harm others?"

The Director of Sagittarius nodded and said:

"You probably know from Olivia by now, the Watcher’s Palace was born out of the will to protect humanity, and the souls of those who have massively harmed humans would inevitably cause conflict with the Watcher’s Palace.

The original Aquarius did a lot of bad things, and this conflict has escalated beyond salvation. But having ’died’ completely once, even losing more than half of his soul, he can now be seen as a new individual.

And Aquarius is a perfectionist; to ensure compatibility with the Watcher’s Palace and reduce conflicts before and after his ascent, he’d certainly control his actions, avoiding harm to human lives as much as possible."