Chapter 1368 The Mysterious Alec
Watching Alec steadily approach him, Jonathan held the Heaven Sword in a defensive stance.
Jonathan threatened, “I can kill him, and I can kill you too. I suggest you think it through before you make a move!”
A playful smile flickered in Alec’s eyes.
Alec halted and posed his final question, “Jonathan, you have many tricks up your sleeve, but they’re all just clever shortcuts. Michael died by your hand because he was foolish. Do you think every Divine Realm being is as naive as him? I’m only going to ask you one thing now. Will you submit to me? I truly admire your tactics. If you choose to submit, I can push the blame for Michael’s death entirely on Damoyed. How about it? Will you consider it?”
Sirius came up to Jonathan, standing shoulder to shoulder with him.
“Jonathan, what do you plan to do?”
“There’s not much I can do.”
Jonathan looked indifferently at Alec in front of him.
“Do you really think that if we compromise with him now, he will let us off the hook? Being a pawn of others will inevitably lead to destruction one day. I wonder what kind of outcome the Blackwood family is hoping for. What I, Jonathan, desire is to break free of the chessboard and become the player!”
Upon hearing Jonathan’s words, a hint of murderous intent appeared in Alec’s eyes.
“So, there’s nothing more to discuss! Then die, you shall!”
Alec spoke darkly, and before Jonathan could react, he had already disappeared from their sight.
“Behind you!”
With a loud shout, Sirius thrust out the rune spear in his hand.
The spear brushed past Jonathan’s neck toward Alec, yet the latter didn’t dodge at all. He simply reached out and held the spear in place.
“Kill him!”
Jonathan, knife in hand, spun around to strike behind him, but ultimately, he was a step too late.
Bang!
Alec had directly pierced through Jonathan’s elixir field. Jonathan instantly lost all his strength and was easily suspended in the air by Alec with one hand.
“For me, an Asura like you is nothing more than a bug.”
With a cool gaze, Alec looked at Jonathan, his eyes filled with amusement.
“Don’t worry, I won’t let you die so quickly. I will personally torture you within the divine space until you reveal all your secrets.”
As he spoke, Alec pulled out his hand, which was covered in fresh blood. In the moment before Jonathan could fall, he directly slapped his hand atop Jonathan’s forehead.
That was the fastest way to pull him into the divine space.
As long as Alec managed to touch Jonathan’s forehead, even for a fleeting moment, he could make Jonathan suffer for decades within the divine space.
“Get lost!”
With a roar of fury, Sirius abandoned the rune spear in his hands. He took half a step back before swinging his arm, landing a punch on the body of the spear.
The spear shuddered and shockingly shattered Alec’s palm into a mist of blood.
Within the mist of blood, Sirius once again gripped his spear, aiming for Alec’s neck.
“Go back!”
Alec looked at his disappearing left hand and spoke in a cold voice.
As Alec spoke, the blood mist floating in mid-air surprisingly began to retract rapidly along its previous path. A moment later, it astonishingly reformed into a complete palm, reconnecting with Alec’s wrist.
Smack!
This time, Alec directly grabbed the handle of the rune spear.
“Since you’re so nosy, you do it then!”
With a forceful pull on the spear, Sirius was unexpectedly yanked right in front of Alec.
The runes dissipated and reassembled in front of Sirius, transforming into a pure black shield.
But this shield, which even Michael couldn’t easily break, seemed to have no resistance at all under Alec’s meek slap. Alec’s hand penetrated the shield and landed smack on Sirius’ forehead.
“Let him go!”
Jonathan’s voice echoed from afar.
At that moment, the injury to his elixir field had already been healed by his life force.
However, the previously expended mental energy could not be recovered.
Having been tormented by Damoyed in the divine space for over ten thousand days, Jonathan naturally understood the fear brought by that moment.
Two high-grade, magical long swords transformed into afterimages, slashing towards Alec’s face.
Alec threw out a shield for defense.
Sirius slipped from Alec’s grip, crashing heavily onto the ground.
The divine space was truly magical. Although everything within it adhered to the will of the spell-caster, time evidently remained fair to all.
For instance, as Alec mentioned previously, after they captured Damoyed, he wasn’t the one who tormented Damoyed in the divine space.
There was actually a roster consisting of more than twenty Divine Realm beings from the Land of the Gods.
That was because once the other party was drawn into one’s divine space, the amount of time they spent there would be equivalent to the same amount of time spent by the master of said divine space.
Damoyed was tormented, yet he endured for thirty years, purely driven by the hatred in his heart.
Even a perpetrator, even if they were a demon from hell, would find it challenging to inflict harm for thirty years without a break.
Perhaps the perpetrator himself would have fallen apart before the prisoner succumbed.
Some had considered a plan akin to multitasking, which involved immersing a part of one’s spiritual sense into the divine space to torment others while the spiritual sense continued to live normally in the outside world.
While the method had been attempted in the past, significant conflicts often arose after the two parts of the spiritual sense spent a long time in different worlds. Even if one tried to dissipate the divine space, it was already impossible to force the separated spiritual senses to merge into one.
In the end, the unfortunate cultivator was driven to madness by his dual spiritual sense and chose to end his life at the foot of a cliff.
Since then, even those with the most powerful cultivation levels wouldn’t dare to take such shortcuts.
Naturally, Alec’s divine space was also affected by this law.
His spiritual sense could only choose to be either outside or within the divine space. There was absolutely no third possibility.
Even though it was just a fleeting moment, Jonathan managed to force out Alec’s spiritual sense, thereby saving Sirius.
Within the divine space, it was impossible for Jonathan to determine how long Sirius had been tormented.
Perhaps it had been a whole day or even ten years.
“Sirius!”
Jonathan used his magic to bring Sirius in front of him, and without uttering another word, he threw Sirius into a Coffin.
The Coffin, originally intended for the deceased, had now become an unexpected sanctuary.
In the span of a single day, Joshua, Hayden, and Sirius were all thrown into Coffins, their fates unknown, left to slumber in uncertainty.
It must be said that the situation in the small world was rather chaotic.
The sight of Alec’s resurrected hand left Jonathan feeling uneasy.
Knowing he was no match, Jonathan initially planned to trap Sirius in the Coffin and flee.
But to his horror, he discovered that the formation of the Coffin was out of control. The opened Coffin lid, he found, could not be closed whether its occupant was dead or alive.