Chapter 674 - 663: Death God
Chapter 674: Chapter 663: Death God
[Spirit of Virtue: Access to Seat of Navigation granted]
[Status: God Descension]
Before Lin Jun could take a closer look, a faint black mist began to spread from all directions.
The information on the panel twisted and blurred little by little, eventually disappearing completely.
Good news, the reason for the panel malfunction has been found.
Bad news... the opponent is a God!
To actually make enemies with an evil god?
As a Hero, Lin Jun naturally wouldn’t back down!
Unfortunately, the Sword Saint stepped forward first.
Even if the opponent was an evil god, Lin Jun couldn’t engage in unfair and unjust behavior by using numbers to bully the lesser.
Thinking this, Lin Jun controlled the Lizardman Puppet and a group of Pukis, silently retreating.
Retreating naturally, gracefully, as if making room for the Sword Saint hanging upside down.
Yes, that’s right, leaving it to the Sword Saint.
Yet, outside was also pitch black, the darkness at some point had enveloped the entire area.
A Puki tried rushing into the darkness, then unsurprisingly dissolved.
Most critically, that small lump of soul shattered as well.
Lin Jun thought again, believing the Sword Saint shouldn’t fight alone like this, it’s team spirit, camaraderie, qualities every competent leader should possess.
Darkness capable of directly harming souls was something Lin Jun was seeing for the first time, is this the power of a god?
The pitiful Sword Saint had already wilted, considering the displayed abilities of the opponent, the remaining battle prowess would probably barely count to the opponent.
However, Lin Jun didn’t panic.
Even if the opponent could harm souls, the amount of soul Lin Jun had trapped wasn’t much, if crushed, a few extra breaths would restore him, being thick-skinned he feared nothing.
The only potentially dangerous one would be the Sword Saint, unsure if the Sword Saint’s soul being eliminated would mean "Extreme Sword" would be directly reclaimed by the mushrooms, or would it accompany the Sword Saint in death?
Thinking of the possibility that the hard-earned "Extreme Sword" might disappear brought Lin Jun anguish.
Perhaps... apologize?
Sorry, if I’d known you were so powerful and could descend as a god, I wouldn’t have slaughtered all your underlings?
Just as Lin Jun earnestly considered having the Pukis stack into a mushroom tower and sincerely apologize to save the feeble Sword Saint’s little life, a thought appeared in the Fungal Network.
"No need to be tense, I bear no hostility."
That voice, or rather that thought, had a peculiar familiarity.
As the words fell, the giant tentacle in the darkness loosened.
The Sword Saint fell from the sky, mushroom cap down, landing with a "poof" on the ground, bouncing twice, finally lying crooked and limp.
Failing Sword Saint.
"You are... the one in the mist?"
Lin Jun remembered.
When he and Old Dylan were at sea encountering that mist, upon leaving it, a thought lightly said "Keep going" in the Fungal Network.
At the time, he thought he’d encountered something sinister.
"Yes, we finally meet." The girl walked through the darkness, casually picked up a Puki, "Back then, only at the blurred boundary of rules did I have a chance to converse with you, but unfortunately... you left too swiftly."
The girl continued, "However, even without my help, you’ve done very well."
"Really, very well."
"Huh?" Lin Jun listened in a fog, tried asking, "So... you were the one who summoned me to this world god?"
The girl nodded, "It was I who placed you into the world."
For now, setting aside the possibility of this shameless god lying and deceiving an innocent brave little mushroom, assuming she’s speaking the truth.
Given this, the fact that Fishman who also believed in Death God was so compliant to him suddenly seemed explainable.
Did Elder Fishman know something all along, yet kept quiet about it!
Lin Jun mentally took note.
Still...
"Why a mushroom?" Lin Jun wanted to ask this since his first day here.
The girl’s head tilted slightly to one side.
The action was extremely subtle, nearly imperceptible unless Lin Jun had been staring at her intently.
Then her head returned upright.
"It’s all the choice of destiny." Her tone remained flat.
Lin Jun: "..."
Had it been anyone else, Lin Jun would’ve personally sought answers through action, but given she’s a god, if she claims it is, then so be it.
"Then, summoning me here, what do you want me to do?" Seeing Death God remained approachable, Lin Jun asked on.
"Save this declining world, you’re already doing it, aren’t you?"
Hm?
Lin Jun’s mushroom cap tilted slightly.
That can’t be right?
He did shout about saving the world daily... slogans are free to shout.
But from a practical standpoint, covering the world with a Fungal Mat, transforming everything into the power of Mushroom Garden doesn’t quite align with usual "saving the world" meanings, right?
Yet Death God claimed he was "already doing it."
Thinking about it, perhaps gods aren’t concerned with the world’s form?
As long as the world persists, whatever form it takes counts as "saved?"
While Lin Jun pondered, darkness flowed beneath the Pukis’ feet, extending nearby to Jini’s corpse.
The dark mass gently enveloped and devoured the corpse.
"A hard-working good child deserves candy." Death God’s tone indeed seemed as though giving a reward.
Lin Jun couldn’t quite understand but still pointed at the Lizardman Puppet: "What about this one? Oh, and there’s still a Catman outside."
"No matter." The girl’s gaze swept past the puppet and towards the distant Catman Priest, "You’ve realized their wishes already, even if they themselves remain unaware."
"What do you mean?"
What wish had he fulfilled for them?
Becoming puppets, or loving and killing beloved friends?
Sadly, Death God clearly wasn’t inclined to further explain.
"Sacrificers of others, forever fall into the Abyss, self-sacrificers, reborn anew."
"Continue your efforts, I will also aid you."
As the words fell, the watery darkness began to slowly recede.
Not only this space, even the darkness that had trapped Lin Jun for so long outside was simultaneously retreating.
With the exit cleared, Lin Jun truly believed that this god bore him no malice.
In Death God’s hands, darkness transformed into a pitch-black stone, with no aura of significance, appearing as an ordinary black stone.
Death God placed the stone on the Sword Saint Puki, black mist flowed from the stone, enveloping the Sword Saint, dyeing him into a Black Puki.
It wasn’t simple dye; in Lin Jun’s perception, aside from direct Light Perception, no other sensory Skills worked on the Black Puki.
Even the panel wasn’t exempt, Death God’s power even shielded the panel.
Truly an assassin Puki!
The darkness exhausted itself, the giant tentacles also vanished, and the previously obscured panel reappeared.
The [God Descension] on the girl’s panel was gradually fading.
"Keep going, little mushroom."
At that moment, an arc of moonlight cast with shadows flashed between Puki and the girl, the Sword Saint’s dark Tentacle Blade pierced the girl’s heart effortlessly.
Lin Jun: "What are you doing?!"
Sword Saint: "Huh?"
Lin Jun suddenly remembered, all prior communication with Death God had been single-person thought exchanges, Sword Saint was completely outside the situation!
Maybe... parasitizing?
Still harboring some caution towards Death God, considering they had just gifted something significant here, turning back to slay their relay could be a tad dishonorable.
But with the heart pierced, then maybe...
However, the girl did not respond to the approaching Puki, nor retaliate against the Sword Saint who attacked her.
She merely leaned against the wall, gradually departing the hiding spot, eventually stepping into sunlight, falling upon the Fungal Mat.
Sensing mycelium automatically attaching to her dying form, Mira calmly closed her eyes.
[Obtained: Spirit of Virtue]