novelraw Chapter 346-1: Firefly Kim? (1)
Chapter 346-1: Firefly Kim? (1)
Several of Lin Xun’s Shells had lost the extreme evil factor, but their compatibility with that factor still remained.
Perhaps it should not be called bodily compatibility, but rather compatibility at the soul level.
Because at this moment, whether it was the special attribute Calamitous Fallen Karmic Fire or Calamitous Fallen Dragon Embryo, both still retained their original state.
Even a Shell like the Fire-Worshipping Heartless Ninja master, which had completely lost the extreme evil factor, could still continue to produce the effects of the Calamitous Fallen attribute during attacks.
He closed his eyes and pondered for a long time, then finally let out a long breath.
An extremely bold, insane plan formed in his mind.
The key to his comeback was the Mature Fruit of Evil, and the key to completing the necessary condition for that comeback was an item he had obtained earlier, the Shriveled Replica Umbilical Cord.
Through this item, he had learned the location of the Wet Nurse’s Umbilical Cord, and that place most likely contained an inferior, defective divine body made by the Desire Wet Nurse.
As long as he could obtain a divine body, even the trashiest divine body, he would have hope of turning the tables!
“You want to become the new Extreme Delusion Fruit?”“Then let’s see who becomes the Extreme Delusion Fruit first!”
He would return the humiliation the Desire Wet Nurse had inflicted on him a thousandfold, ten thousandfold!
Lin Xun left Forbidden Lake and headed to Bush Cricket City to check the situation.
The Pilgrimage Angels perched atop the Emerald Sacrificial Ground were no longer in their original white butterfly form, but instead had snow-white scaled wings covered in pitch-black patterns. They did not look like Ascended ones, but rather like aberrated ones.
The crazed rebel troops wandering around the sacrificial ground slowly began to change under the influence of the extreme evil factor.
Although their outward appearance still remained the same, the madness in their eyes was gradually covered by malice.
At this rate, it would not take long before these Ascended Rebel Soldiers became Extreme Evil Rebel Soldiers.
Lin Xun continued on to the Plaza Beneath the City and Belatu Estate to take a look.
The structures hidden deep underground had not yet been swept by the blizzard.
This was likely because the number of Pilgrimage Angels was limited. If the Desire Wet Nurse wanted to spread malice on a large scale, the primary target would definitely be to first contaminate the surface cities with large populations.
After contaminating the cities, it would then continue spreading malice deeper underground.
“There isn’t much time left for me…”
Kim was still alive and well, continuing to manage the castle for him. The Desire Wet Nurse had not come over to crush this little bug, nor had it taken back control of Bush Cricket City.
Perhaps in the Desire Wet Nurse’s eyes, after spreading extreme evil, the entire divine kingdom would become a paradise of extreme evil, so taking back control of Bush Cricket City had no meaning at all.
Moreover, Lin Xun even inferred that.
Given the Desire Wet Nurse’s ruthless style, it would very likely shrink the troops on the war front, withdraw most soldiers, and then begin producing soldiers with full force.
Because with each additional soldier, malice could grow by one more share.
Every share of malice was power food for it after it obtained a new divine body.
Compared to becoming a god in a new form, the gains and losses of the war front became unimportant instead.
Lin Xun turned and headed to Tentacle City.
Tentacle City was also filled with swirling heavy snow. The out-of-control guards still remaining in the city were gradually transforming toward extreme evil.
All of this was within his expectations. What he cared about was not these things.
What he truly cared about was that if he wanted to turn the tables, he could not expose his actions.
He still remembered that Oathbreaker Flanda had once said that the unique ability granted by the Primordial Firefly drifted at the edge of the web of consciousness, and could only make the Desire Wet Nurse’s gaze temporarily overlook him.
But once he attracted the Desire Wet Nurse’s attention, that gaze would follow him until the end of his life.
From the moment he sacrificed a Shell, the Desire Wet Nurse should have been watching him in secret.
It had probably long known that he was colluding with Oathbreaker Flanda.
As for why it did not kill the main-body Flanda, it was likely because, like him, Flanda was still someone with value to be exploited.
It could continuously provide life materials for the Desire Wet Nurse to create Flanda clones.
But now, did the Desire Wet Nurse still need Flanda?
Judging from how the Desire Wet Nurse casually killed Belatu, as long as it felt it was necessary, it would also kill Flanda without hesitation.
Lin Xun could not be sure, but he had no other choice and could only try.
His heart hardened as he went straight to the Abandoned Ancient Nest.
[…]
[The elevator gradually comes to a stop…]
[Oathbreaker Flanda is still in the center of the nest. It does not look like it has suffered any harm.]
[She senses your arrival and slowly opens her eyes.]
[You tell her everything about the clone and the Desire Wet Nurse’s plot, seeking Flanda’s help…]
[After hearing you out, Flanda frowns slightly. It thinks for a long time before telling you…]
[Once you draw the Desire Wet Nurse’s gaze, it is basically impossible to shake it off.]
[Unless the Desire Wet Nurse shifts its gaze on its own, or…]
[Actually, there are two other methods that can block the Desire Wet Nurse’s gaze, but neither of them is very feasible…]
[You hurriedly ask what methods they are.]
[But Flanda shakes its head and tells you that to explain it clearly, it has to start from this world’s origin…]
[At the beginning of this world’s birth, life did not possess independent consciousness. It only knew to eat and reproduce. Among the insect-people, killing over food disputes never ceased, hindering the development and progress of civilization.]
[The supreme Primordial Firefly wove a web of consciousness, a web of consciousness that could encompass all things in the world.]
[Every lifeform would merge into the web of consciousness and receive guidance from the supreme Primordial Firefly.]
[From then on, unconscious slaughter subsided, and civilization was able to grow strong and grand with consciousness.]
[The Primordial Firefly was originally the sole ruler of the web of consciousness, but with their civilization’s invasion, the Desire Wet Nurse not only seized the lands of the former divine kingdom, it also carved up the web of consciousness.]
[Now, the vast expanse of white grid within the web belongs to the Desire Wet Nurse and its Ascended ones. Only the remaining small patch of black grid belongs to the Primordial Firefly.]
[To block the Desire Wet Nurse’s gaze, the first method is to completely merge into the black grid and receive the Primordial Firefly’s protection… rather than protection, it is closer to guidance and control.]
[When you abandon your self-awareness and become a ‘swarm’ under the Hive Consciousness, the Desire Wet Nurse cannot watch or control a swarm that does not belong to it.]
[It knows you definitely will not choose the first method. That is also the reason the Primordial Firefly granted you a unique ability.]
[And the second method is even less feasible.]
[The divine war between the Desire Wet Nurse and the Primordial Firefly is not only a dispute over territory and space, it is also a war for the web of consciousness.]
[The fierce war caused part of the web of consciousness to fracture, peeling away from the entire network and becoming an independent existence.]
[Those peeled-off consciousnesses were no longer guided, and reverted to an unconscious, out-of-control state. That is, the mad insect-people you saw…]
[You are an individual with independent consciousness. Even if you exist within a peeled-off grid, you can still act according to your own will. At the same time, neither the Desire Wet Nurse nor the Primordial Firefly can watch you through the web of consciousness, nor control you.]
[But your identity is a Firefly Favored Servant. For the Primordial Firefly to grant you a unique ability that drifts at the edge of the web of consciousness is already a kind of… compromise.]