novelraw Chapter 575: Let's Give Her Moral Support
Chapter 575: Let's Give Her Moral Support
And without a doubt.
At moments like this, he himself was actually the most in danger.
Because if everyone else was dead and still hadn't found him, their attention would naturally shift elsewhere. Lynn had long since noticed that both sides of the corridor had already been sealed with flesh.
In their eyes, he should still be somewhere in that long corridor.
Using elimination, sooner or later they would have a chance to find him.
And if they focused on the eyeballs embedded in the wall, someone with the right intention would surely notice that one eyeball had no signal.
The one without a signal would inevitably be him.
But Lynn was not worried.
Because compared to him, the real threat at this moment was clearly that mechanical girl.
He had also noticed that Silver Fantasy had already charged up to the sealed flesh and begun tearing it apart.Ssssss—
A series of grating sounds of flesh being melted and shredded rang out.
At the end of the corridor where the blockage stood, Silver Fantasy—glimmering with a halo and wearing her helmet—had driven her monomolecular blade straight into that mass of flesh and ripped a long gash open.
"She must be using part of the Root-level power that the God of All Machines fed into her, otherwise she wouldn't have the ability to breach Leviathan's flesh," Lynn analyzed seriously.
He had that power inside him too, he could feel it.
But obviously.
He could not use it.
"Hurry up, hurry up! If you don't bring the boss out soon, that mechanical chick is gonna bolt! Move faster, you lot! Not even a bit professional!"
Lynn (╯‵皿′)╯︵┻━┻ was fretting for the Plague Doctor, feeling a pain in his chest.
Zuo Zuo: "……"
Alice let out a small sigh, and was about to say something more when suddenly—
A cold gust of wind swept down the corridor, brushing past the eyeballs embedded all along the walls.
Alice went instantly alert, whispering warily:
"Brother! It's coming."
At that same instant, the lighting in the corridor dimmed, a chill spread through the air, and the darkness erupted with the shrieks of evil spirits.
The darkness surged toward the spot where Silver Fantasy was working.
Silver Fantasy's pupils shifted slightly.
An icy wind whooshed across her back, and even with her mechanical body she distinctly felt waves of cold in her consciousness.
As if countless snarling evil spirits were staring at her with murderous hatred.
And in that instant,
a hand that looked like it had been skinned reached out from the darkness and seized Silver Fantasy's shoulder.
With almost no hesitation, Silver Fantasy ripped out her monomolecular blade. Her gaze was cold. The blade sliced at a tricky angle, severing the bloody hand that emerged from the darkness.
She flipped backward and landed hard.
The severed hand hit the ground, then instantly dissolved into deep black mist and drifted away.
On her shoulder, a faint black handprint lingered. The injury wasn't severe, but unusually, it managed to corrode even the mechanical body built from Dead Star Crystal.
"Detecting evil ghost aura—switching to spirit mode—restructuring unit—"
As the prompt sounded within her system, data patterns flowing across Silver Fantasy's body shifted to a green glow. Her optics quickly locked on, coldly acquiring the silhouette of that monster.
"It's here, it's here!"
Lynn, with a little excited, sly smile, nastily watched the darkness through Evil Spirit Vision.
"Whether we can floor this mechanical girl depends entirely on you."
Immediately a panel describing the shadow in the dark popped into Lynn's view.
[Meat Reconstruction Project · Abhorrer No. 3]
[Level]: Death Omen
[Alignment]: Chaotic Evil
[Race]: Flesh Aberration, Necrotic Aggregate
[Combat Ability]: An unending puppet driven by infinite hatred.
[Description]: The Abhorrer was created by the Plague Doctor Alignment's flesh reconstruction project. Its original body was the chieftain of a Dark Elf tribe. After being imprisoned by the Plague Doctors and leveraging the Dark Elf's strong affinity for Cursed Arts, he was transformed into a thoughtless aberration. After massive infusions of accumulated hatred, he has now become a flesh machine of hatred specifically tasked with slaughtering "Silver Fantasy."
With the panel's appearance,
the shadow in the dark writhed constantly. Corpses in the vicinity were drawn in by that force, being gradually absorbed and stitched together into a grotesque creature that pressed dozens of human faces into a single mass.
"Roar—"
The Abhorrer let out a fierce, twisted howl and lunged at Silver Fantasy. Its monstrous arm, like a fist, lashed out with a brutal strike.
Silver Fantasy's eyes were cold. She said nothing. Not only did she not retreat, she met the attack head-on. Her monomolecular blade erupted with extreme heat, and with one stroke she cleaved along the incoming fist, slicing off half of its shoulder.
At the material level, the destructive power a Supreme Unit can unleash far surpasses any creature of the same rank.
But the Abhorrer was clearly not a mere flesh wraith. With a pained shriek as its shoulder was sliced, its body dissolved into nothingness and reappeared instantly behind her. Sharp void claws launched an assault against her consciousness.
"Just as you guessed, Brother."
Using Lynn's perspective, Alice had already seen through the monster's nature.
"It is indeed a conglomerate of hatred, and all that hatred is targeted at that mechanical sister. The curse has formed. In this situation, the evil spirit will keep resurrecting over and over. Unless that mechanical sister is killed, it will never disappear."
Lynn steadied a huge eyeball with a tentacle and said:
"That's fine. The longer it fights, the noisier it gets, and the safer we are. We should also trust her strength. She carries part of Root-level power, so the chance she'll be killed is low. Of course, it would be best if she died..."
Alice: "So what should we do now?"
Lynn: "Give her moral support. Lend whatever little strength we have to cheer her on."
Alice: "Go, go!"
Zuo Zuo: "Go, go!"
Miaomiao: "Meat-clamp meow!"
Then, hidden by the darkness,
if one looked carefully, one could faintly see a large eyeball on the wall—like a background prop—shuffling along in small, furtive movements, inching toward the gap Silver Fantasy had just created leading outward.
A perfect background prop.
Not noticed by anyone.
Silver Fantasy, meanwhile, had been filled with rising fury. Her murderous gaze swept repeatedly over the corpses in the corridor because she was certain that the enemy was hiding somewhere in that passage.
If she could find that guy, she would kill him first!
[Ding! Silver Fantasy's anger toward you +20]
[Ding! Silver Fantasy's anger toward you +30]
During that fierce fight down the corridor,
Lynn had already made his way to the corner of the flesh wall sealing the path. Just as he was about to slip outside, his tiny tentacle accidentally brushed against some scraps of flesh cut out by Silver Fantasy.
Immediately, the system alerted in his ear.
[Ding! You discovered Root Material: Leviathan Flesh Tissue x1]
A brief pause.
There was even an unexpected reward?
Well then, sorry not sorry.
And so, in the gaps while Silver Fantasy and that aberration were fighting to the death,
the eyeball that Lynn had become extended a tentacle and industriously stuffed the flesh scraps into his body.
Free material is free material—why pass it up?
Besides, flesh tissue from a Root creature is essential for refining various elixirs. Stocking up is never a bad idea.
Sorry, Miss Intelligence Machine.
(๑´ㅂ`๑)
You hang in there. Once I master gathering I'll run off. We'll meet again someday!
[Ding! You obtained Leviathan Flesh Tissue x1, your gathering experience +1]
[Ding! You obtained Leviathan Flesh Tissue x3, your gathering experience +1]