novelraw Chapter 333: Umbilical Cord and Divine Body
Chapter 333: Umbilical Cord and Divine Body
[…]
[You take the lift to the third floor of the nest and soon see Oathbreaker Flanda with eyes tightly shut and arms crossed over her chest.]
[Sensing your arrival, she slowly opens her eyes.]
[Flanda hesitates for a moment, then finally speaks…]
[Oath bearer, she is very glad you have come to visit her again, but will this not delay your journey? After all, the mission the Primordial Firefly has bestowed upon you is incomparably arduous…]
Lin Xun opened the inventory and clicked on the item.
[You take out the Shriveled Replica Umbilical Cord and display it to Flanda.]
[Flanda’s eyes widen as she stares fixedly at the shriveled tubular flesh in your hand. She cannot help but speak. You killed the Broodmother?]
[You nod. After her shock, Flanda quickly begins to explain to you…]
[…][In the early stages of the war, the Desire Wet Nurse constantly captured aberrated beings to dig into and research the Primordial Firefly’s life factor.]
[Cracking the main deity’s life factor was exceptionally difficult. Even the supreme Desire Wet Nurse was at her wits’ end.]
[Although she did not manage to crack the Primordial Firefly’s life factor, it did not stop the Desire Wet Nurse from extracting some lower level life factors from the aberrated ones.]
[The Desire Wet Nurse then concretized the stolen life factors into physical umbilical cords and, using the cords as cores, modified and created the tribe broodmothers.]
[The Broodmother could continuously reproduce and copy offspring according to the life factors contained in the umbilical cord, providing an unending supply of soldiers for the front-line war.]
[Inferior life factors could not produce powerful warriors. Even after cracking part of the life factors and creating many different tribe broodmothers, the Desire Wet Nurse still could not change the course of the war and continued to suffer defeat after defeat in the war of the deities.]
[Do you still remember what she once told you, that in the final stage of the war, the Desire Wet Nurse made a desperate gamble, burning her own divine body in an attempt to learn the origin life factor of all life in this world, that is, the Primordial Firefly’s life factor?]
[Although the specific process is unknown… the final result was that the Desire Wet Nurse succeeded.]
[The Desire Wet Nurse cracked the Primordial Firefly’s life factor. The loss of her divine body was a huge price and caused her power to weaken drastically.]
[Yet even the Desire Wet Nurse herself did not anticipate that the Primordial Firefly’s life factor would be so powerful.]
[Even without a divine body, the increase brought by obtaining the Primordial Firefly’s life factor far surpassed the decline in power caused by losing the divine body.]
[The Desire Wet Nurse was overjoyed. She had grasped all the life factors of this world and cracked the life origin of a main deity.]
[Using this, the Desire Wet Nurse created even more powerful and perfect Ascended beings and even modified her own direct offspring into the image of this world’s native gods, Flanda among them…]
[It was no surprise that the war situation reversed.]
[Flanda knew that the Desire Wet Nurse’s ambition did not end there…]
[Perhaps because the Primordial Firefly was too powerful, the Desire Wet Nurse wanted to concretize the most fundamental life factor into an umbilical cord and use that umbilical cord to modify and create a divine body unlike any ever seen before.]
[This divine body would not only be able to contain the Desire Wet Nurse’s godhead, divinity, and divine soul, it would even be able to contain the Primordial Firefly’s…]
[Because the Desire Wet Nurse’s goal was not merely to occupy this world, but to kill the Primordial Firefly and ultimately devour the Primordial Firefly in pursuit of true transcendence.]
[…]
[The umbilical cord in your hand is indeed an early replica, but it also contains incomplete, lower level life factors.]
[No matter how lowly and crude the life factors within it are, they still originate from the Primordial Firefly and are inseparably connected to the Primordial Firefly.]
[It is like streams gathering into small rivers, small rivers into great rivers, and great rivers finally flowing into the sea.]
[From this umbilical cord that is like a small stream, you may be able to find the true sea, that is, the umbilical cord the Desire Wet Nurse concretized from the Primordial Firefly’s life factor, or even the divine body itself…]
[…]
“Holy crap?!”
Lin Xun felt as if a colossal pie had suddenly fallen from the sky and smashed right into him.
The sudden joy was so overwhelming that it made him feel a kind of unreal, illusory sensation.
“The true umbilical cord and divine body… that is a main deity’s divine body!”
“Even a demigod is at mythic level quality. A main deity has to be at least two or three grades higher than that, right?”
“If I could obtain the Desire Wet Nurse’s divine body, wouldn’t that make me invincible?”
As he thought this, Lin Xun quickly calmed down.
After thinking it through carefully, he realized the hellish game could not possibly grant an Apostle such a wildly out-of-scale reward in a sixth difficulty.
Even if it really was possible to obtain a divine body, it absolutely would not be something achievable at the current difficulty.
“The hidden side quest has already been triggered, there is no way I am just going to leave it alone, right?”
Lin Xun knew the probability of gaining a divine body was extremely slim, perhaps even lower than the chance of winning the top lottery prize ten times in a row. The difficulty of the hidden side quest would also certainly be incredibly high.
But high difficulty also meant high returns. As long as there was the slightest chance, what did it matter if he died a few more times.
Even if he ultimately did not obtain the divine body, conquering such an ultra high difficulty hidden story would still grant other rewards.
[You say farewell to Oathbreaker Flanda and leave the Abandoned Ancient Nest…]
[…]
Lin Xun decided to use the second method of using the Replica Umbilical Cord.
According to the item description, directly using the item only gave a certain probability of obtaining the location of the Desire Wet Nurse’s Umbilical Cord.
In Flanda’s explanation, not every river ultimately flows into the sea. Some rivers flow into lakes, and some rivers dry up downstream…
“Heh, even if you only flow into a lake, I can dig you open and make you connect to the sea.”
He first performed a full set of superstitious ritual steps, then opened the inventory and used the fate-changing artifact that defies Heaven, Sakura Falls Yasaka Curved Jewel.
[You take out an ancient hook-shaped magatama gem that gathers great Fortune and pray devoutly…]
[…]
[You consume 8 points of Luck Value from Sakura Falls Yasaka Curved Jewel, slightly increasing your own Luck attribute!]
[Current remaining Luck Value 92/100. Do you want to use this item again?]
[Using the item again will overwrite the previously gained Luck boost…]
Lin Xun’s mouth twitched. He felt a bit unlucky.
[…]
[You consume 12 points of Luck Value from Sakura Falls Yasaka Curved Jewel, slightly increasing your own Luck attribute!]
[Current remaining Luck Value 80/100. Do you want to use this item again?]
“Is today just a bit of a bad luck day?”
After repeatedly using the fate-changing artifact, he finally confirmed that today was not an auspicious day for opening blind boxes.
Every time he used Sakura Falls Yasaka Curved Jewel, the Luck Value gained never exceeded 20. Once the Luck Value dropped below 50, he stopped using the item.
The fate-changing artifact’s Luck Value recovery was very slow. Rather than keep using the item and rolling a Luck Value lower than fifty, it was better to wait until Luck Value was full before using it again.
“What a shame that the Lucky Gold Coin did not trigger…”
The reason the fate-changing artifact was so powerful lay in the fact that it allowed trial and error.
Unlike the Lucky Gold Coin, which could only be used to go all in one time. Before opening the blind box, nobody knew whether it would activate or not.
Sakura Falls Yasaka Curved Jewel, on the other hand, allowed you to stop once you saw the Luck Value was not high and try again another day.
“I have already fully explored all of Tentacle City’s locations. The next part of the story should be to go find Kim and get the subsequent map stages…”
A sudden idea popped into Lin Xun’s mind. If he killed Kim the moment he first met him, would that be equivalent to hard-locking the progression?
Or perhaps killing Kim would drop a huge pile of map items?