novelraw Chapter 328-2: Legendary Divinity, Origin of the Wet Nurse (2)
Chapter 328-2: Legendary Divinity, Origin of the Wet Nurse (2)
[You have entered an apocalyptic chapter.]
[Chapter 76,324,956]
[A powerful wandering soul awakens in a mucus-filled sac…]
[You are on the second floor of the Ancient Nest. The ring-shaped passageway is silent, dark and oppressive.]
[Will you take the lift and leave the nest, or go to the third floor to chat with Oathbreaker Flanda?]
There was still one location left unexplored in Tentacle City, the Crawler Tribe.
Lin Xun planned to go there alone. If he ran into trouble or a particularly good vessel, he could use the Firefly Stone to summon Kim over.
“The Firefly Stone… Right, what would happen if I showed Flanda the Firefly Stone that Kim gave me?”
Kim did not have the ability to drift at the edge of the web of consciousness and could not enter the Ancient Nest, but that did not prevent Flanda from learning about Kim’s situation.
Lin Xun realized there might be a story event hidden in this and immediately took the lift to the third floor of the nest.[…]
[The lift stops, and Oathbreaker Flanda is hanging in the open space at the center of the platform.]
[If you ignore her huge, twisted lower body and look only at the upper body of Flanda, who holds her arms around herself…]
[Then the Oathbreaker before you is without a doubt a voluptuous and stunning girl.]
[Oathbreaker Flanda seems to sense your arrival. She slowly opens her eyes, her gaze filled with delight.]
[She smiles in greeting and says that she is glad you have come to visit her, Oath bearer.]
[In the endless darkness and loneliness, having a single friend who remembers her is already a great joy. She does not even dare hope that you might come more often to chat with her…]
Lin Xun opened the Inventory and clicked on Kim’s Firefly Stone.
[You take out the Firefly Stone Kim gave you and show it to Flanda.]
[Flanda lightly furrows her brows and stares fixedly at the Firefly Stone in your hand. She says, ‘Oath bearer, the Firefly Stone you are holding carries… carries a somewhat familiar aura.’]
[Could you give her the Firefly Stone so she can examine it more closely?]
[As she speaks, Flanda wriggles her lower body closer to you. The tubes connected to her abdomen stretch taut and creak.]
[She ignores the intense pain of tearing flesh and blood. Her gaze remains fixed on the Firefly Stone in your palm.]
[You step forward and hand her the Firefly Stone.]
[Flanda cradles the faintly glowing stone, closes her eyes and seems to be remembering something…]
[Only after a long time does she open her eyes again and sigh, so it was that test subject from many years ago. Being able to learn that it is still alive is truly wonderful.]
[Flanda returns the Firefly Stone to you and continues to tell you about that test subject. The story is rather complicated and must be told from the very beginning.]
[Oath bearer, you must have been very puzzled about why the Ancient Nest is completely different in style from the outside world, to the point that the two do not resemble each other at all, right?]
Lin Xun really did feel that way.
The other exploration locations all looked similar to a Western medieval setting, whether it was the architecture of Tentacle City or the monastery outside the divine kingdom.
Only the Ancient Nest and the War Hatchery had a completely different art style. Everything inside was made of flesh and blood tissue turned into mechanical facilities.
The Ancient Nest could still be explained as a hidden map, but what about the War Hatchery?
[Oathbreaker Flanda slowly tells you that actually they… that is, the Desire Wet Nurse and her direct children, are not the natives of this world either.]
[She and her mother came from another world far beyond the distant starry sky.]
[That world worshiped the evolution of life and was obsessed with modifying flesh and blood in order to seek transcendence…]
[Perhaps because unrestricted modification of life violated the laws of survival, their world headed toward destruction.]
[The Desire Wet Nurse did not stop just because that world was destroyed. She led her children in searching the vast starry sky for another place to conduct experiments… and ultimately arrived here.]
[The life form of the Firefly followers was utterly unique. It was a field of life that the Desire Wet Nurse had never imagined and never touched upon.]
[The Desire Wet Nurse was wild with joy, because this world was precisely the experimental ground she had dreamed of.]
[At first, the Desire Wet Nurse wanted to study the life essence of the Firefly followers through parasitism.]
[Thus, this nest was created. Flanda, as the youngest and most favored child of the Desire Wet Nurse, was granted the ability to control the nest and became the pioneer in researching methods of parasitism.]
[They captured large numbers of Firefly followers, that is, aberrated beings, for experimental modification and extraction of life factors that could be replicated.]
[Test subjects died one batch after another, yet progress on the parasitic experiment was extremely slow. The experimental subjects that possessed parasitic ability were all defective products.]
[Naturally, the Desire Wet Nurse would not halt the experiments because of the deaths of the natives of this world. In her view, true transcendence was the most important goal.]
[The large-scale capture of aberrated beings drew the wrath of the native god of this world, Primordial Firefly.]
[Primordial Firefly ordered the Desire Wet Nurse to leave this world, but how could the Desire Wet Nurse possibly give up her research, give up her hope of attaining transcendence?]
[So the war of the deities erupted.]
[The Desire Wet Nurse had crossed a vast starry sky and expended much of her divine power along the way, so she was at a great disadvantage in the early stages of the war.]
[Even so, the earth was reduced to a wasteland in the divine war. The residual might of the gods’ power clashed and burned without cease, making the land entirely unsuitable for life to propagate or survive.]
[The Desire Wet Nurse led her children to open up a new battlefield, which was underground.]
[The laboratories that studied life factors in various places also moved underground as the fires of war spread.]
[As the war continued, Flanda could clearly feel that the residual divine power from the clashes was not only spreading along the surface but was gradually seeping into the depths underground.]
[And the war beneath the earth was still raging. If the war did not stop, this world would eventually be destroyed as well.]
[Flanda could not bear to see all living beings perish together with the world, and in her heart there gradually grew the seed of breaking her oath.]
[Just then, the first semi-finished parasitic subject was born in the laboratory.]
[Flanda knew that if her other older brothers and sisters discovered the existence of a semi-finished subject, then the parasitic experiment would soon advance to success.]
[Once the Desire Wet Nurse obtained new life factors, the divine war, in which she was at a disadvantage, might become evenly matched, and the flames of war would spread endlessly.]
[Flanda thought for a long time and finally made up her mind. She would conceal the existence of the semi-finished subject so that the Desire Wet Nurse would lose the divine war and no longer ravage this beautiful world.]
[She hid the truth from the Desire Wet Nurse and secretly sent Kim out of the laboratory…]
[Because of her broken oath, the parasitic experiment hit a bottleneck, and the Desire Wet Nurse’s disadvantage in the war grew greater and greater…]
[Flanda had originally thought that everything would develop as she had expected, but reality often runs contrary to one’s wishes.]
[The Desire Wet Nurse had already gone mad. To win the war, she did not hesitate to burn her divine body in an attempt to thereby grasp the fundamental life factors of all beings in this world.]
[If the Desire Wet Nurse failed, then the divine war would also be a failure. She and her children would not be able to cross the starry sky to search for the next world and would only fall here…]
[…]
[The result is evident before your eyes. Not only did the Desire Wet Nurse not fail, but she also became stronger because she obtained life factors never before witnessed, far stronger than she had been before coming to this world.]
[In the subsequent divine war, Firefly was pushed back step by step, while the Desire Wet Nurse gained overwhelming advantage and occupied most of the underground world.]
[The war was still ongoing, and the dire consequences of the spreading flames of war were quietly gestating.]
[Oath bearer, you came here from an upper-layer space… She is speaking of the upper layer outside the divine kingdom.]
[Do you think that is the surface?]
[No. That is underground too.]
[It is an extremely deep underground, a deep subterranean space many layers beneath the ground.]
[And the true surface is far, far away from here, so far that she has already forgotten the warmth and color of sunlight.]
[The residual divine power of the war seeped down from the surface into the depths, suffused with surging and irresistible might, making it impossible to fly and impossible to live.]
[Because the flames of war have not subsided for so long, divine power is still constantly seeping and spreading. In the end, all underground spaces will also become forbidden zones for life.]
[This world… will ultimately be destroyed.]