Chapter 762 - 749: Collapse
Chapter 762: Chapter 749: Collapse
The Sword Saint desperately maintained the sea wall built by the entire ocean. However, as Chis’s mutation intensified, anomalies began to spread from its body.
The rift of the Abyss tore through Chis’s flesh, spreading in all directions.
Not a crack in the earth, nor a rift in space. Wherever they spread, the rules there began to collapse.
Upon touching the sky, the sky lost its color, turning from blue to gray-white.
Upon touching the earth, gravity became chaotic, rocks floated upwards, seawater surged, indistinguishing up from down, left from right.
Upon touching the sea wall, one of the giant walls imbued with the power of the Ocean Staff suddenly flickered, and then, to the Sword Saint’s amazement, completely disappeared.
It wasn’t torn open; it disappeared, as if the wall had never existed.
The Sword Saint had no time to be surprised as the garbage information leaking from the Abyss flooded into his consciousness.
Countless fragments of characters, noise, distorted perceptions, inexplicable symbols, all mixed together.
Though he only came into contact with a slight amount of the leakage, his thoughts felt weighed down, extremely sluggish. Every thought had to struggle to emerge from a mire, to the extent where he couldn’t even control his own body.
The Ocean Staff slipped powerlessly from his tentacles, and the sea wall, losing its support, collapsed with a thunderous crash, transforming into colossal waves crashing below.
Not far away, Sofia and others fared no better. Everyone clutched their heads, struggling to maintain their last thoughts, and, facing the oncoming waves, could only resign themselves to fate, praying the battered ship beneath them could withstand the test.
"Fusion... Unity... All become me!" Chis’s laughter emanated from the ever-twisting flesh, "Mushroom, I have to thank you. It is your pursuit that finally perfected me!"
Its voice grew higher and shriller.
Its body continued to twist, merging with those failed projects, replacing order with chaos.
Then, Lin Jun’s "gaze" descended through those tenuous fungal mats on the sea surface.
The laughter abruptly stopped.
"Why aren’t you laughing anymore?" A ragged cloth bag floated adrift on the sea surface, "Continue to thank me, say thank you!"
However, the skill bar, now engulfed in darkness, left Chis unable to even speak.
[Seven Sins of Envy: Sealing an individual’s abilities]
Lin Jun could directly apply this effect to the individual through the Fungal Network’s vision, and Chis’s Abyss-derived skills were still skills, all under the sealing effect.
The Eye Worms hidden in the sea and flying high above began to fall powerlessly into the sea like kites with broken strings.
Yet this was just the beginning, a terrified scream burst forth from the Flesh Pillar on Chis.
"Where is this? What’s happening to me? Ahhhh!" A Blood Race, half of its body merged with the Flesh Pillar, twisted its remaining upper half desperately, its face filled with fear and confusion.
Subsequently, more voices emanated from each Flesh Pillar.
The controlled flesh puppets briefly regained themselves.
Some cried, some called for help, some hoarsely shouted "kill me."
While on the other side, the Giant Dragons and sea monsters atop the Flesh Pillars also regained their self.
"How dare you... dare turn the great dragons into this!"
The remaining three dragon heads roared as they attacked the Flesh Pillar, breath attacks, bites, the three dragon heads working together to forcibly tear the thick Flesh Pillar apart.
The pillar collapsed with a boom, and the three dragons entangled with it fell, although not directly dead, they entered the countdown of life.
Among them, the Red Dragon glanced towards the sky, noticing the figure with the pitch-black dragon wings.
"Svirgis..." Its dimming golden vertical pupils suddenly brightened, "You... have also set foot on the Ancient Dragon Path, yet still hovering? Come... Fight!"
It struggled to lift its dragon head, releasing a weak dragon breath towards Xiao Hai.
The other two dragons also strained to lift their heads, emitting battle cries towards Xiao Hai.
Xiao Hai tilted its head, then transformed into a hazy black shadow, darting skyward, vanishing into the clouds that had regained their color.
Seeing this scene, a tinge of fear unexpectedly surfaced in the three dragons’ eyes, the Red Dragon hoarsely cried out with dissatisfaction: "Come back! If you are... a dragon, then come back and fight! Bring my power into the Ancient Dragon Path as well..."
Its cry was in vain, the weak dragon’s roar couldn’t even sustain its anger, let alone reach the clouds.
Yet the next moment—
A black meteor fell from the sky!
A flash of surprise passed through the three dragons’ eyes, they spent their last bit of strength to lift their heads, biting towards that meteor.
Bang—!
Flesh flew, the Flesh Pillar along with the bodies of the dragons, completely exploded.
[Ancient Dragon Path 40%]
The island crab used its remaining claw, one claw at a time, to dig through the meat column beneath it. The mages fused with it driven their remaining Magic Power, churning themselves and the column into a mass of wounds, each explosion accompanied by the splatter of flesh.
Even those Abyssal creatures on Chis halfway through transformation, began to attack wildly out of control, most attacks landing upon Chis itself.
After sealing the skills, Lin Jun had done nothing, and Chis was already on a rampant drive toward self-destruction.
It couldn’t even utter a wail or roar, merely let those puppets it once devoured bit by bit destroy its massive body in their brief clarity.
Lin Jun pondered whether to use telepathy magic, to listen to Chis’s final wail.
Suddenly, the flesh piece of the Heart of Chis twisted violently, numerous wounds simultaneously tearing open.
Purple Blood spurted, the wounds scraping out "pu-pu" sounds.
Amazingly, these otherwise meaningless sounds eventually converged into a language Lin Jun could understand!
"Mush... room..." murky, twisted, each syllable squeezed out with Purple Blood oozing from the cracks.
Yet Chis managed to voice it, not through skills, not through magic, just pure sound from the friction of flesh and blood.
"A bit capable, indeed." For this, Lin Jun couldn’t help but praise.
"You... won again... you always... will win..." Each of Chis’s syllables, accompanied by the squeezing out of numerous Purple Blood, but it was indifferent, "I... ultimately couldn’t... replace you..."
"Replace me?"
"You... are... unity..." Death impending, Chis’s action of squeezing out sounds grew increasingly sluggish, "I... really... just want... to win... once..."
"So... hungry..."
As the last word fell, it resembled a sigh, also like a sob.
The ocean turned purple, Chis’s flesh completely lost vitality, the panel vanished from Lin Jun’s vision.
Disappearing along with it were the panels of those flesh puppets, they greeted their belated death.
The massive central chunk of flesh fell away, exposing within it the Abyssal core that had solidified into a black cube.
"Information Cube?"
A Puki hopped across the flesh piece, extending a tentacle to touch the cube.
[Project Name: Unified Integration (Abandoned)]
[Time: 0.0.225]
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[Place all souls in one body, thus maximizing the Ark’s computational power to convert ether...]
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[Simulation calculations failed, a shared body cannot unify the wills of different souls...]
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[Time: 1.214.73]
[Unified Dream Project succeeded, this project ceased]