Chapter 977: Boss

Gu Qing Shan released his inner sight and knew immediately who was on the other side of the door.

Lin walked up to him and muttered: “It’s that person, seems like he’s quite strong”

“Hm”

Both of them were a bit surprised.

With their respective strength, they would immediately notice if someone came near them.

But neither of them noticed he was there before he spoke up.

“Gu Qing Shan”

Laura called out and pointed at her arm.

Gu Qing Shan nodded.

Indeed, this is the person I saved using the wooden arm.

It said that this is my mutual saviour, I saved him, so he would also save me in the future.

I can’t be cold to him.

If possible, it’s best to keep him close.

“Please come in” Gu Qing Shan spoke.

The door was opened.

A man wearing sunglasses and a set of casual clothing with a refined appearance appeared in front of them.

“Who is this?” Zhang Ying Hao asked.

Gu Qing Shan shook his head and turned to the man: “I still don’t know your name; do you mind telling me?”

The man smiled and replied: “My name is Boss”

“Boss?” Zhang Ying Hao couldn’t help but repeat the name.

What kind of convenient name is that?

If that’s really his name, everyone he greets would have to call him ‘Boss’ in return.

Everyone had various thoughts.

But none of them noticed that the Demon Dragon had closed his eyes, silently regretting something.

At that time——

I really shouldn’t have taken him to see a mafia movie…

“That’s right, I’m Boss, and Boss is me, gentlemen, nice to meet you” the sunglasses man replied.

“Nice to meet you, have your wounds healed yet?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

“It’s actually like this” the man cleared his throat and told them: “Quite a long time ago, I suffered a considerably terrible injury, then something else happened in the past few years that caused my wounds to become even worse, making it so that I had to go look for a way to recover”

“But then, as you know, not to long ago, I was caught up in a dangerous battle, causing my wounds to worsen again to the point of near-death——- and then you saved me—– in reality, I was already feeling a bit dejected, so death would have been nothing but sweet release”

“At the moment, the most I could do is move around a bit, full recovery is practically impossible”

Listening to him, everyone fell into thought.

This man called ‘Boss’ had been through quite a lot.

“Then—- you’re just called Boss? You don’t have any other names” Gu Qing Shan tried asking.

The man had a reminiscent look and replied: “Actually, I was called Handsome Guy before this, but after I found out that the name was a bit shallow, so I changed it to Boss”

Gu Qing Shan was surprised: “Didn’t your parents name you?”

“I’ve never met the entities you call ‘parents'” the man replied.

Laura went behind Gu Qing Shan and pulled on his sleeves.

——-never seen his parents before, he didn’t even have a name, as well as having been through so much hardship and wounded so heavily that he almost died.

This man had been through a considerably bitter life.

Gu Qing Shan nodded and expressed his understanding to Laura.

Laura then took out her backpack, searched for a few healing treasures, then handed them to Ilya so that Ilya could give them to him.

“Take them, they are all healing treasures, perhaps they might be useful to you” Laura told him.

“No, no, no. My body is different from normal people” the man refused her, but his smile contained a bit more warmth: “These things won’t be of any use for my wounds, there should only be one thing that can truly heal me”

“What is it?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

“Healing items that manifested from pure Soul Points” the man replied.

Everyone went silent, then turned their gazes to Ye Fei Li.

Ye Fei Li opened his palm and activated his ability.

A canned drink appeared in his hand.

Ye Fei Li then tossed the canned drink to him.

The man caught it, then looked confusedly at it for a long while.

“…Should I simply consume this thing whole, or how do I open this?”

“There’s a tab right there”

“Ah, I see it, then what?”

“Pull on it with some force”

“Hm”

Ka-chak!

The man opened the can, then drank the entire thing in one gulp.

He closed his eyes for a bit.

“Just like I thought, it’s effective” the man smiled.

“Have you recovered?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

So you were only guessing that it would be effective earlier…

“It’s impossible to heal me completely, but my wounds are no longer worsening. This is already quite an achievement, as long as I can drink more at regular intervals from now on, I’ll always be able to get better” the man replied.

His attitude suddenly turned serious and slightly bowed: “If that’s the case, I hope that I can remain here until my wounds fully recover”

Laura nodded.

Gu Qing Shan also nodded.

Seeing how easily convinced they were, Zhang Ying Hao cut in: “It’s fine if you remain here, but I believe you should know the current situation of the 900 million World Layers. We’d have to face a lot of dangerous situations so it’s unlikely that we would be able to take care of you”

——-so, this man can unironically name himself Boss, how interesting.

He seems to be quite a strong person as well.

But does that mean we can leave him here to sponge off of us?

Hell no!

“Take care of… me?”

The man showed a confused smile and repeated those words.

“There’s no need to take care of me, and as the payment for letting me stay here, I can do quite a few things”

“Like what?” Zhang Ying Hao asked.

The man walked forward and slowly spoke: “In truth, I can also participate in battles, I’m quite strong you know, not to mention my other abilities, like—— beast taming”

The man placed his hand on the Demon Dragon’s head.

The Demon Dragon immediately smiled as brightly as he could and respectfully spoke: 「 Are you Boss? Hello Boss! 」

“Did they demand something from you?” the man asked.

「 Yes, they wanted to learn a secret from me 」the Demon Dragon replied.

“Then what were you going to do?”

「 I was going to tell them fake information 」

“If I request you to tell them the truth, can you do it?”

「 Yes 」the Demon Dragon replied.

Everyone watched this in shock.

“As long as they’re a beast, I can tame them. This is my ability” the man explained.

“But that guy you just tamed was an Abyssal monster” Zhang Ying Hao muttered.

“Hm, regardless of where it came from, as long as it’s a beast, I can tame it” the man informed them.

Everyone went silent.

The Eternal Abyss was currently invading the 900 million World Layers.

More and more monsters from the Abyss were currently showing up one after another, and more frequently as well.

In a situation like that, this ability was truly too useful.

—–maybe he can catch some sort of especially powerful monster to use as a subordinate?

Something similar to the Demon Dragon would certainly be very useful.

The man then continued: “Some of my abilities are trump cards, so I can’t tell you, but I can show you another of my ability”

“What is it?” Zhang Ying Hao asked.

“Summoning” the man replied.

A dark crimson flame erupted from his palm as he drew a circle in the air, followed by various runes of flame.

“A Devil Flame and a unique summoning circle”

Laura nodded in understanding.

Regarding knowledge alone, no one in this room was probably able to match her.

——–she had seen and judged too many treasures from many worlds, which naturally gave her an understanding of the uniqueness of various worlds.

Lin herself was only knowledgeable about things during the Age of Old and the time before that, but since she had been focused on nothing but her own plans for the past few ten thousand years, she didn’t get to come into contact with as many new things like the little monster Laura, who saw more extraordinary things every day than normal people see in their entire lifetimes.

Laura sent her voice to Gu Qing Shan and Lin: “This guy might be a Devil from Purgatory”

“I know” Gu Qing Shan replied.

——-no wonder he didn’t want to inform them his name.

All fiends and devils hide their true names out of fear that someone would find it out.

“Are you sure that’s a technique of evil creatures?” Lin asked.

“Yes, the fire in his hand is the Prison Flames at the deepest part of Purgatory, an object of endless power” Laura said

Lin slowly calmed down.

It wasn’t that entity.

That personage is the most terrifying sovereign of the Abyss, why would they lower themselves to play with fire from Purgatory?

Lin reflexively sighed in relief.

Meanwhile, the Demon Dragon was silently maintaining a low profile and lowered his head to make sure that no one noticed his expression.

That fire—–

It was actually something the master randomly took from a passing-by Archdevil of Purgatory to make a campfire.

Then, is the master hiding his identity in order to infiltrate them?

“Catch”

The man told Zhang Ying Hao.

He lightly pushed the summoning circle of crimson flame towards Zhang Ying Hao.

Zhang Ying Hao received it with his hand.

The crimson flame circle suddenly vanished.

Zhang Ying Hao silently sensed himself and nodded: “This is a devil covenant, but what does it do?”

The man took out a book from the void of space and turned to a certain page.

The page depicted Zhang Ying Hao.

He put his hand on the page and muttered: “Summon”

Sha!

Zhang Ying Hao vanished from where he was standing and appeared in front of the man.

“You can summon me?” Zhang Ying Hao was shocked.

“Ah, that’s right. Humans liked to summon evil creatures, so I studied and created this summoning technique to do it in reverse and summon a human”

Gu Qing Shan asked: “Is there a spatial or temporal limit?”

“They must be within the same time flow, but it can bypass any spatial limit” the man replied.

Everyone went silent.

That was quite a considerable power.

In a war, regardless of how far it was, he would be able to gather everyone in one place.

From a certain point of view, this ability might even prove to be a decisive factor in overturning a situation.

Not to mention how this man was able to tame even an Abyssal monster…

“How is it, can I remain here?” the man asked.

Gu Qing Shan gladly replied: “You’re very welcome to join us”

Laura cut in: “But since you’re an evil creature, and we haven’t gotten to know you well, we can’t fully trust you yet. There must be a sort of protective measure”

“Understandable” the man nodded.

Laura took out a ring and handed it to Ilya.

Ilya then presented the ring to the man.

“This is one of the most powerful treasures I have, it’s a Causality item called [The Ring of Loyalty]” Laura explained.

“Causality huh? Quite powerful indeed, what does it do?”

The man checked the ring in his hand and displayed a solemn expression.

Laura replied: “It has a powerful enforcing effect. I want you to wear it and swear that you will help Gu Qing Shan——-”

Gu Qing Shan suddenly cut Laura off and told him: “You must swear that you won’t try to harm everyone here, everything else is up to you”

At first, the man’s expression turned a bit solemn, but after hearing Gu Qing Shan, his smile returned.

“Such a loose condition?” he asked.

“We don’t like to be under too many restrictions either” Gu Qing Shan replied.

The man praised: “I’m quite similar to you in that regard”

He then put the ring on.