novelraw Chapter 170-2: Melody of Knowledge, The Gazing President of the Multivision Association (Part 2)
Chapter 170-2: Melody of Knowledge, The Gazing President of the Multivision Association (Part 2)
Chapter 170-2: Melody of Knowledge, The Gazing President of the Multivision Association (Part 2)
Over ten minutes later, text finally appeared.
[The carriage gradually came to a halt. The door opened by itself. Rona stepped down first in measured strides…]
[You and the Battle Angel – Valkyrie followed close behind.]
Lin Xun let out a faint sigh.
No behemoths had shown up, leaving him slightly disappointed.
[Through the pale mists, you beheld an expanse of brick and stone ruins. The area sprawled so far that the boundaries were completely hidden beyond the fog’s reach.]
[You followed Grand Scholar Rona’s footsteps deeper into the ruins…]
[Before long, Rona stopped. In the piled bricks before it, a gap barely wide enough for two people to pass side by side appeared.]
[Rona told you that the Multivision President’s hidden laboratory lay right beneath your feet.]
[You silently committed the place’s appearance and bearing to memory, then followed Grand Scholar Rona into the dim crevice among the stones.]
[The Eyeball of the Subterranean Oculomass Demon allowed you to see clearly even in the darkness. Your gaze passed over Rona’s graceful figure and spotted, not far ahead on the floor, a Refined Copper hatch.]
[As expected, Rona walked over to the hatch and lifted the metal plate…]
[A stone stairway leading downward appeared before your eyes. From its far end, a glimmer of lamplight shone faintly.]
[Rona nodded to you, indicating you should prepare for battle.]
Lin Xun smiled faintly. His strength was no longer what it used to be, he was no longer the feeble rookie who needed Rona to serve as the main force in front.
The Direct Vision President’s shell should, in terms of base power, be stronger than the Multivision President’s.
However, once Lin Xun possessed it, with his meager Knowledge stat, he would likely be far outpaced by the Multivision President.
But his President shell had learned a Legendary-grade skill and benefited from seventy percent of his soul enhancement effect.
Facing off, he reckoned his chances of victory were quite good.
What’s more, he still had Rona and the Valkyrie, two formidable allies, by his side. Killing the Multivision President was practically a foregone conclusion.
[You gripped your staff tightly. The Battle Angel – Valkyrie also drew an arrow from her quiver and set it on her longbow.]
[Grand Scholar Rona led you down the steps. Soon, you reached the end of the staircase.]
[Before you lay a vast laboratory, filled with all sorts of instruments and jars brimming with preserved eyeballs.]
[On several of the worktables lay huge, bloody corpses…]
[The bodies fell roughly into two types. One sort had curved horns on their heads, their forms grotesque and incomplete, their skin entirely flayed away.]
[Drawing on memories from your last illusionary book – Journey into the Abyss, you recognized these as corpses of Abyss Demons.]
[The other corpses were clad in pitch-black chitin, speckled with star-like patterns. They had inhuman mouths, and their heads all bore two or even many gaping, bloody holes, clearly where the eyes had been carved out.]
[You identified these as corpses of starborn beings.]
[The arrival of uninvited guests drew the attention of some presence deeper within the laboratory…]
[The enormous mountain of flesh suddenly twisted its colossal body and turned to gaze at you.]
[The monster before you looked as if it had been molded and stitched together from the corpses of multiple Abyss Demons. Its deformed bulk was covered with limbs of all shapes and sizes. Where the demon bodies joined together, the flesh bore marks like melted wax.]
[In the palms of its countless jumbled limbs, eyeballs of every size were embedded.]
[Because of your abrupt arrival, it raised innumerable hands and feet, directing them all toward you.]
[The dense, swarming gazes made your entire body go cold and filled your heart with dread.]
[You clenched your teeth and struggled to ignore the oppressive stares.]
[You noticed that none of the fused demon bodies had heads. The single head of the entire mountain of flesh sat atop the heap…]
[Compared to the vast body, the head was grotesquely small and disproportionate, when you looked closely, that face was one you knew all too well: the President of the Multivision Association.]
[The mouth on top of the fleshy summit began to open and close, and from within came the President’s voice. It laughed twice and declared it had been waiting here for you a very long time.]
[Its path to godhood had been blocked by you, the Apostle of Omniscient True Knowledge. How could it ever let that go?]
[Its secret laboratory had once been blessed by the supreme Radiant Stars. The gaze of Omniscient True Knowledge could not reach this place…]
[At last, it could act without restraint. At last, it no longer had to endure the gaze of Omniscient True Knowledge, and could slay you on the spot.]
[As long as it could seize back the Ring of the Radiant Stars, completing the most vital piece of the puzzle in its godhood…]
[It would become a god!]
[The Gazing President of the Multivision Association looked over at your two companions beside you, scorn writ plain across its face.]
[It urged you to surrender the Ring of the Radiant Stars, to abandon yourself to the embrace of the Radiant Stars, to become its servant… if you did so, it might spare your life.]
[Under the gaze of the Gazing President of the Multivision Association, you felt a crushing pressure.]
When Lin Xun stepped into the laboratory and saw this scene, his first reaction was nothing but gloom.
The Multivision President had turned its body into this horrific mess, if he still managed to possess it now, that would mean this cursed game had well and truly bugged out.
At this point, never mind the President’s True Name item, even the President’s shell was obviously out of the question.
When he saw the game text mention crushing pressure, his heart sank.
Every time the game displayed such a description, it meant the gap between him and the enemy was immense, charging in head-on was guaranteed death.
He and the Valkyrie could die and revive with soul strength.
But if Rona died, it would be a true, permanent death.
Even if Rona would eventually depart to the Imperial Capital for advanced studies after defeating the President and their paths would part forever, perhaps never crossing again…
Rona had helped him many times. No matter what, it was still an important ally in the story.
[Apostle caught in a dilemma, what will you do?]
[1. Hurl away the Ring of the Radiant Stars to distract the Gazing President of the Multivision Association, then flee together with Grand Scholar Rona and the Battle Angel – Valkyrie. Perhaps you can escape this place safely and preserve everyone’s lives.]
[2. Raise your staff and chant a spell to attack, ordering Grand Scholar Rona and the Battle Angel – Valkyrie to join you in assaulting the Gazing President of the Multivision Association. Maybe you can slay it here and reap unimaginable rewards.]
[3. Silently recite the holy name of Omniscient True Knowledge, praying that the slumbering True God will turn Its gaze upon you. Perhaps the Gazing President of the Multivision Association is lying to you, and this place cannot truly block the True God’s sight. You must trust that you are always Its most favored child.]
The text of the options before you glowed bright red and trembled without cease.
Lin Xun narrowed his eyes, staring at the three choices as his mind raced, pondering which to pick.