Chapter 43 - Heaven's Gift

Lando, held in the Demon Lord’s unusually long arms, felt safe at that moment, even though he wasn’t human.

He seemed pretty reliable!

Being alive felt great!

Lando had escaped death, and although she was seriously injured, she felt unusually happy.

“You are such a loser!” The Demon Lord’s voice came out of nowhere.

“You can’t say that, Lord Aknon.

I’ve not even made that move yet!

Besides, spatial magic naturally restrains my skills.” Lando looked at the arm reaching out from the abyss and spoke discontentedly, hoping Aknon could hear her.

“Damn dimensional suppression!” Aknon, annoyed, seemed attacked and abruptly let go of Lando, tossing her out like trash.

After ditching Lando, the arm withdrawn quickly from the abyss, and the Demon Lord’s presence disappeared instantly.

“I XXXXXXXX” Lando, thrown by the Demon Lord, felt as if ten thousand alpacas were stampeding through her heart.

She was supposed to be the spokesperson for Hell’s forces, was it really okay to just throw her aside like that?

“Lord Aknon, don’t let me see you again!” Lando felt the chilling fall from the sky.

She had sacrificed all her magic power and much of her life force in the previous battle.

Now, she was practically a zero-point-five piece of trash in combat, falling from such a height—she was definitely doomed!

“Sigh!

To think that I, an old lady, would die without ever having touched a man?

Had I known, I would have used the living test subjects for fun instead.” Before death, Lando deeply regretted her enticing figure and beautiful face remaining untouched.

“Oh God, send me a man before I die!” Lando cried out loudly, expressing her wish.

Perhaps God did listen, as Lu Hong, bathing in the river, suddenly felt a sense of crisis.

“Huh?” Lu Hong looked up: “My X!”

Before he could react, bang, Lando crashed directly on Lu Hong, and both plunged into the river.

Fortunately, Lando’s body, enhanced by magic power, along with the water’s cushioning, meant neither was seriously injured, just knocked out.

“Am I dead?” After an unknown time, both were washed ashore.

Lando, groggily opening her eyes, saw a naked man beside her and could hardly believe it: “Lord, did you actually hear my prayer?!”

“Thank you, Lord, thank you so much!” Lando flipped over Lu Hong, his muscular body making her head spin for a while.

Moreover, to bathe safely, Lu Hong had fought off all nearby demons.

His unhealed, scar-ridden body appeared intensely fierce.

Under the strong muscles, marked with crisscrossing scars, in front of Lando’s bizarre aesthetic, this was truly a rare piece of art.

“Such a man~” Lando was immediately attracted by this manly, naked man.

Thinking back to the noble men she had captured for experiments, each one with flawless bodies and powdered faces, none had the charm of a robust man.

“This must be a gift from heaven!” Lando pounced on Lu Hong, touching his scars as if each one told her a moving story.

“I can’t hold back anymore!” Lando tore off her wet clothes, starting a 404 scene.

Stimulated by the body, Lu Hong slowly came to.

Opening his eyes: “My X!”

He jumped, scared.

What the hell was happening?

Wasn’t he just crushed?

How did a woman suddenly appear and start performing a 404?

“Um, um,” Lu Hong tapped Lando, still immersed in joy.

“Huh?”

“Can you get off me?” Lu Hong was comfortable but rationality told him he must not wrong Danni!

“No!

You are a gift from heaven!” Lando flatly refused Lu Hong’s suggestion.

“Get lost!” Lu Hong slapped Lando’s face, sending her flying.

After taking a slap from Lu Hong, Lando rolled three times before stopping.

“How dare you hit me?” Lando, covering her burning cheek, said angrily.

“What’s wrong with hitting you?

I was just taking a bath, how did I end up getting raped?” Lu Hong quickly got up, pointing at Lando: “Who are you?

How dare you covet my beauty!”

“Covet your beauty?

Do you know who I am?

How dare you speak to me like that?” Lando said sternly.

Slap slap!

Faced with this crazy woman, Lu Hong slapped her again.

“You dare to hit me?

Try hitting me again!”

Snap snap!

Lando’s expression began to gradually distort.

“You…

you’re so cool~” Having eaten her fill of slaps, Lando had learned her lesson and looked at Lu Hong with admiration.

Is she a freaking fan girl?

“Who exactly are you?” Lu Hong asked sternly.

Seeing a human in this hellish place was definitely abnormal, and judging by the woman’s age, she could not possibly be a student.

“Me?

I am…

I am a teacher.

Yes, I’m a teacher.” Lando remembered that the only place where humans could still exist in hell was that low-level dimension.

She initially wanted to claim she was a student, but realizing he wasn’t a fool, she opted to make herself sound a bit older.

“You’re full of shit!” Lu Hong slapped Lando on the face again, annoyed: “I’ve seen a few of the teachers from the eight major academies, none as pretty as you.”

He said I’m pretty?

Complimenting me in such a surprising way, this man is really unique!

So honest, so genuine!

“Speak up, where exactly are you from!” Lu Hong picked up his clothes and tossed them to Lando, feeling malnourished just by looking at a naked woman.

Ah!

He draped his clothes on me.

Are these his clothes?

Such a strong masculine presence!

So gentle!

So handsome!

“Can you stop being such a fan girl!” Lu Hong raised his hand and delivered two more slaps, bringing Lando back to her senses.

“I…,” Lando’s brain raced and finally thought of a plausible excuse: “I was sent by the empire to rescue you.

I never expected to get attacked and injured as I was breaking through the hell rift, and that’s how I ended up here.”

“Ha!

Fine, I’ll believe you for now.” Lu Hong looked at the girl making excuses and didn’t puncture her story, considering she had no magic power inside her body and posed no threat, so he didn’t bother too much.

“Put on the clothes and follow me.” Lu Hong picked up his Divine Sword from the riverbank and walked ahead, signaling Lando to follow.

“Hey?

Where are you taking me?” Lando asked, puzzled.

“Where else?

I’m taking you to survive!

You have no strength at all; I don’t know how you even got into this dimension,” Lu Hong said irritably.

Is this man going to protect me?

That’s so cool!

Lando happily followed behind.

“By the way, why is there such a big wound on your chest?” Lu Hong, seeing the woman keeping up, asked out of curiosity.

“It was from fighting a bad guy, but it’s been treated a bit already; it’s nothing serious now,” Lu Hong referred to the stab wound brought by the Weili Space Blade, but indeed, it had been casually treated by the hell lord previously, leaving only a scar now.

“Oh,” Lu Hong nodded.

“What about the scars on you?” Lando continued to inquire.

“Me?

I’ve been getting beaten up by demons these past few days.”

“Must be tough fighting demons alone?” Lando asked curiously.

“Not really, it’s just that demons are social creatures.

Poke one and it’s like kicking a wasp’s nest; too many of them.” Lu Hong sighed.

These past few days, after briefing Lock Fan on some matters, he began his solitary training.

Lu Hong couldn’t always move with the elite team as it didn’t fit his style.

Plus, if the elite team killed demons, wouldn’t they be stealing his experience?

But Lu Hong couldn’t really leave them far behind.

After figuring out the surroundings, Lu Hong’s movements always revolved around the direction the elite team was heading, ensuring he could rush to support them at the first sign of danger.

Of course, support wasn’t really needed, as any group of demons that posed a threat to the elite team had been single-handedly defeated by him.

This didn’t mean Lu Hong was extremely powerful, tackling thousands of demons in one go; after all, Lu Hong was agile.

If he couldn’t beat them in one go, he’d fight them several more times as few demons could catch up to him.

“Here, have a fruit.” Lu Hong led Lando into a fiery red jungle, casually plucking an extremely unappealing rotten fruit and handing it to Lando.

“I’m not eating that, it looks disgusting!” Lando complained.

“Eat it!

Or I’ll smack you!” Lu Hong said menacingly.

“Alright…,” Lando reluctantly agreed, knowing she had to bow her head under someone else’s roof.

With a sense of grievance, Lando closed her eyes and almost bit Lu Hong’s finger as she took a bite.

“Is it good?!” The seemingly disgusting rotten fruit unexpectedly melted in the mouth, a sweet flavor rushing into Lando’s stomach, instantly turning into a surge of pure magic power that filled her severely depleted reserves.

“What kind of fruit is this?

Why is it so delicious?” Lando was unsettled at this moment; she prided herself on being the most knowledgeable about hell in this world, even more so than the Sect Hierarch Ze Xiu who had entered hell fewer times than her, yet she had never heard of this kind of fruit.

“This is Demon Excrement Fruit, only growing in mid-to-low-level demon dimensions.

The name might not sound nice, but the taste is okay, and it can slightly replenish magic power.

Eat more of it if it’s not a bother.” Lu Hong slapped away Lando’s attempt to pick a tempting blue fruit nearby.

“But remember not to eat the blue fruits that grow alongside the Demon Excrement Fruit; they are highly poisonous and can kill you in minutes!”

Humans are visual creatures, and for those new to surviving in hell, this blue fruit could be deadly.

In fact, dozens of the thousand students from the seven major academies who desperately sought survival had perished from these fruits.