Transforming Succubus: Almost Doomsday

"But Harvey didn't do that. He just created the Ladder to Heaven and repeated what he had done in Area A."

"Harvey was so powerful, his ascent up the ladder was so swift, without the slightest pause, and amidst his mad laughter, we started laughing too..."

"I finally felt the terror of that laughter... It was not laughter linked to desire, it was an evil laugh. That laughter began to dissolve one's sanity little by little..."

"Harvey ascended to the sky again, and Area B and Area A seemed to mirror each other, both harboring that bell."

"But this time, Harvey didn't act as he did in Area A, he didn't even touch the bell. Hahaha... he just told us—'Area A and Area B share the same sky, to destroy this realm, to escape the rule of desire, ascend the ladder, and ring the ancient bell.'"

The story ended there.

In the eyes of the old man, or to everyone here, Harvey went mad, and in that final moment, Harvey was "destroyed."

He was the embodiment of justice, defeating Boluke and the team of Aiou Luo Zan with a thunderous resolve.

He had always been compassionate, everything about him was fine. But just after touching the ancient bell... Harvey changed.

Harvey left the Land of Joy.

Afterward, the old man tried to do as Harvey had said, trying to climb the ladder.

But the old man wasn't Harvey, he only climbed a few steps before he could no longer bear the sorrow... and fell from the path to heaven.

Boluke, to prevent another like Harvey from emerging, also made an example in Area B, severing the old man's legs.

After finishing the story, those creeping crawling people had already moved closer to Zhou Baiyu.

They were waiting for a hero.

A hero like Harvey, who could walk toward the heavenly ladder.

"Save us, young man, save us!"

The old man finished the story, taking his last breath, his time left in this world wasn't much.

He truly hoped that this man, who did not burst into laughter, who wasn't instantly corrupted by it, was the next Harvey.

And the emotions of those around him soared, turning all anticipation into laughter.

They had been trapped in this place for far too long.

Their endless desires fed the heavenly-seeming realm, yet they lived in hell.

Resentment, loathing, craving, and even pleading, all emotions mixed together, could only express joyous laughter.

Zhou Baiyu certainly did not want such a world to exist.

In the name of joy building a hell, such lowliness, such evil certainly had to be purified.

He wanted to save the people here, wanted to destroy this realm.

But he didn't understand, why exactly had Harvey failed?

Why did Harvey know that ringing the bell would dissolve the realm? Why did Harvey say that there were two gods here?

Harvey was undoubtedly very powerful, his strength even overwhelming those at the Demon Emperor level.

Boluke, Aiou, Luo Zan, had no fighting chance in front of Harvey.

So this is the strangest part, isn't it? Why then did Harvey suddenly fall into madness in the last moment, continuously emitting mad laughter?

Was he defeated? If so, by whom?

A series of doubts made Zhou Baiyu feel that this place might be far more complex than he had imagined.

This paradise built of desire and hell seemed to harbor some even more evil elements.

Zhou Baiyu suddenly thought of something.

Mad laughter, evilly maniacal laughter that could dissolve others' sanity and make one see illusions.

Why did that sound so familiar?

He suddenly remembered, there was an asylum, within it a source—the Mad Laugher.

The president had also mentioned something, he heard the call of his kin in the asylum.

His sanity also started to crumble bit by bit under the influence of the mad laughter, his corruption value soared to seventy-nine.

Zhou Baiyu's eyes widened.

He was thinking at the time, why would there be an asylum in the apocalypse?

Though those madmen were powerful, they were all unraveled by the president, indicating they weren't strong enough to deter the Demon Clan.

Then there was only one answer.

The asylum concealed a top-tier power, one so formidable that no Demon Emperor wished to provoke him deliberately.

Could that person be Harvey Nierbas?

If that person was Harvey, why would he confine himself in an asylum?

He thought carefully, in the Demon Clan Arena, he thwarted a close conspiracy, and then triggered the new Land of No Light clue.

This goes to show that the Demon Clan Arena was indeed a major event.

So as the linking endgame mode's asylum, it seemed disproportionately trivial.

At this realization, Zhou Baiyu suddenly understood.

"Harvey must hold some secret, if the person in the asylum is Harvey, if the areas experienced by the president and I hold the same importance..."

"Then Harvey is that core."

"And only by ascending the ladder, can one experience Harvey's memories."

The old man had felt Harvey's memories while climbing the ladder, thus he was able to vividly recount the situation of Harvey climbing the Ladder to Heaven.

"Only by ascending the ladder, will everything become clear."

Whether it was the pursuit of truth or the redemption of these people, the answer lay at the same place.

But Zhou Baiyu didn't immediately start climbing the ladder.