Chapter 151 - The Great Sin Beast
[Platinum-tier special item, Great Sin Mask (complete)]
[Effect: able to resist attacks from platinum-tier elites. This item is bound to the host’s soul and can not be taken or lost unless the host dies.]
[Additional effect: The Great Sin Beast (the Great Sin Mask) is made from the souls of seven platinum-tier magical beasts that can devour their own desires. The person who obtains this mask can let the magical beast’s soul possess his body and transform into the Great Sin Beast.]
[Lucifer, Beast of Pride: a magical beast that lives in the bottomless abyss. It has the appearance of a giant snake and twelve black wings. It is skilled in both the light and dark elements of magic. It often uses its body to replace the sun in the sky to charm travelers. Hence, it is known as Pride, and it has a special ability to judge and exempt people.]
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[Beelzebub, the beast of Gluttony: a magical beast shaped like a giant goat and has mouths all over its body. It is skilled in dark-elemental magic and curses. It is also proficient in spreading diseases. It has a special ability to devour and taste delicacies.]
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[Mammon, the beast of Greed: a magical beast with a single eye. Its entire body is golden, like a giant coin. It often attaches itself to coins and causes merchants to go bankrupt. It also leads people to make wrong decisions. It is skilled in both earth and dark-elemental magic. It can control luck. It has a special ability to increase fortune and good luck.]
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[Samael, the beast of Wrath: a red dragon that hovers in the eternal forest of the south. It feeds on the sap of the tree of life. Its red blood is highly poisonous. It is a magical beast that spreads death. It is skilled in both dark and light-elemental magic, as well as fire magic. It has the ability to enrage people uniquely.]
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[Belial, the beast of Sloth: a bird-elemental magical beast with four wings and looks like a god. It lives at the top of the sky and occasionally creates storms. It is skilled at both wind and dark-elemental magic. It has special powers such as energy storage and invisible hands.]
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[Asmodeus, the beast of Lust: A magical beast that looks like a dog with three heads. The three heads represent a human, an ox, and a goat. It is proficient in dark and fire-elemental magic and has mastered high-tier combat aura. It is said to be the guardian of Hell’s gates, with special abilities such as a high-tier charm and a fondness for death.]
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[Leviathan, the beast of Envy: a giant beast that is shaped like a whale. Its body is covered with spikes. It lives in the depths of the endless sea. It often creates whirlpools to devour ships. It is skilled in both water and dark-elemental magic. It possesses special abilities to force equality and shadow clones.]
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[Additional skills: protection of the evil god, Death Ray, perfect mimicry, emotional resonance, Primordial Demoness summoning, emotional absorption (absorbs the emotions of others and turns them into one’s own power).]
Watson was initially pleasantly delighted by the platinum-tier Great Sin Mask information that emerged in front of him. He had no idea that the Great Sin Mask contained the souls of seven platinum-tier magical monsters. It was no surprise that he had so many talents. The capacity to morph into seven platinum-tier magical animals was akin to mastering the entire mask.
He felt a sense of peace in his heart.
He felt his emotions were particularly volatile when he wore the incomplete Great Sin Mask. That was because the mask contained endless negative emotions devoured by the seven types of magical beasts. It would awaken the dark part of his heart if he were not careful.
Watson no longer had any evil thoughts when faced with the massive amount of emotions stored in the mask. Instead, his heart was filled with love because those emotions were a part of his body. He could even sense which person had left those emotions behind.
The Great Sin Mask had been around for a long time in the kingdom. During the regime, millions of believers put wishes on the mask. Those feelings were like rays of light. Watson touched one of the glowing balls and immediately sensed a scenario.
It was a majestic temple. A strong man with a full beard was kneeling respectfully on the ground and praying to a certain kind-looking woman. The woman was in a gorgeous church robe, and her face was hidden in the gentle light, so it could not be seen clearly. One could only feel the angel-like temperament of her body.
“Lady Avril, I repent. I am not an upright person. My wife is sick, but I have fallen in love with a prostitute in a brothel in the royal city and spent a lot of money on her! “I have committed the sin of lust. I beg you to forgive my sins and eliminate my sinful thoughts. ”
“Stray Lamb, you know that multiple desires will trigger sin. It is hard to go back in time and correct a mistake. I absolve you of your sins.”
The woman spoke in a beautiful voice. Then she used the beast of Lust, Asmodeus, to devour the emotions that the burly man wanted to throw away.
Watson touched another ball of light, and the scene changed.
The scene was on a cold street. A girl in shabby clothes knelt on an empty road as she held a burnt match in her hand. “Other children have parents. Why am I the only one who doesn’t? I don’t expect my parents to come back. I only hope that I can eat delicious food every day, earn a little more money, and live a comfortable life…”
At that moment, a pure white hand reached out and stroked the girl’s hair gently.
The match in the girl’s hand that was about to go out exploded with an even more intense light. In the light, the girl saw her parents walking toward her with a smile on their faces. Their hands held plates of turkey meat that the chef had prepared. One servant walked about the spacious and bright room, one after another. The flame in the fireplace was warm and sunny.
The girl’s eyes were moist; the corners of her lips lifted gradually, and she lost her vitality in her smile. A pair of slender but powerful arms carried her as she murmured softly.
“Perhaps it’s because they don’t know what they’re dreaming of; homeless people are on the lookout for phantoms! It is called the sin of greed, a sin of beauty.”
The scene shattered again.
Watson understood that each ball of light represented a memory, and those memories were left behind by Queen Avril, who was transformed into the Great Sin Beast to solve her believers’ problems.
“Lady Avril, I accidentally killed a bandit outside the city. I beg you to forgive my sins.
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“I have fallen in love with a married woman. Every day, I would hide outside her courtyard to peek at her. I know that she is not happy because her husband is a violent person. I want to take her away, but I know that that is not right. What should I do?”
“Lady Avril…”
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Voices filled with prayers rang in Watson’s heart; it made the corners of his eyes wet. He suddenly understood what the Great Sin Mask was. That platinum-tier item was a vessel forged with the souls of evil magical beasts. It allowed people to be redeemed in repentance and to see hope.
Watson also understood who the former owner of the mask, Avril, was. She was a woman who was as kind as an angel and made him feel bizarrely at ease. He had heard some rumors—Queen Avril became an evil person after the Great Sin Mask influenced her. That was just nonsense.
The Great Sin Mask’s only food source was a sin. It was like eating bread, one would find out whether the bread was good or bad, but they would not become bad just because the bread had gone bad.
The sin would vanish if the power were released, and the host would be unaffected. Other mysteries seemed to surround Avril’s death. Of course, that was not the time to investigate them.
Watson, who had just fused with the entire Great Sin Mask, decided to put its power to the test.
“Great Sin Mask, I want to transform into the beast of Pride.”
An invisible force lifted Watson’s body as he opened his arms. A black mist erupted on his body, condensing into flesh and bones before forming a hard scale armor. Watson’s body transformed from a child to a thick, long python that could stretch for a hundred meters. The python’s eyes were white-hot like the sun, and it sprouted twelve massive black wings on its back.
The wings flapped gently as a strong wind emerged. Watson gradually rose and roared toward the sky as if dissatisfied with the sun that hung there and the stars concealed behind it.
Roar!
Why were there stars in the sky?
Why were they shining? Why could he not be the one to bring light to the world?
Watson was unhappy, so his cries reverberated around the castle. The sound waves rolled and suppressed the magical beasts in the castle and caused them to tremble. The sound was not inferior to when he fused the Golden Flash into the Platinum Dragon King.