novelraw Chapter 358-2: Head to the Sacred Nest! (2)
Chapter 358-2: Head to the Sacred Nest! (2)
[Not long after traveling, the Military Mole Cricket stops and arrives at its destination.]
[A foul stench surges into your nose along with the moisture. You are in a dark, damp passageway. Filthy water covers your ankles, making you feel nauseated and want to vomit.]
[Flanda jumps down from the abdominal cavity. Without her feet touching the ground, she floats in midair above the river formed by the black filthy water.]
[She tells you that this is the sewage location at the very bottom of the outer layer of Sacred Nest.]
[Because the entire Sacred Nest is a single integrated building, no kind of Mole Cricket can directly burrow into Sacred Nest. At most, they can advance to the outer layer of Sacred Nest.]
[Kim follows and jumps down from the Mole Cricket’s abdominal cavity, unable to resist covering his nose and retching repeatedly. Seeing you and Flanda look over, it gives an embarrassed smile and says that the Shadow Dancer container’s sense of smell is too sensitive, and it will be fine after getting used to it.]
[Seeing that Flanda is floating with its feet not touching the ground and can avoid the filthy water, it feels a bit envious. But it cannot do the same, so it can only hook an arm over your shoulder and sigh that you are brothers in misery.]
[You beat your bone wings and also float up. Under Flanda’s lead, you advance forward.]
[Kim’s face turns miserable. He can only wade through the filthy water and follow…]
[Not long after, a humanoid shadow appears in the darkness ahead.][You focus your eyes and see that it is a confused, wandering Ascended. Its eyes are filled with malice, its mouth split to the ears, silently giving a bizarre laugh.]
[It seems to sense your approach and lunges at you without hesitation…]
[Before its figure even draws near, Flanda points forward. The Ascended falls to the ground as if it hit an iron wall, dying quietly without even convulsing.]
[Your allied Oath character Flanda has defeated the Extreme Evil Wanderer!]
[Flanda looks back at you, her gaze heavy with gravity. She sighs softly. It seems that most of the outer layer of Sacred Nest has already undergone the baptism of the White-Fleece Snow Season.]
[These Ascended, whether willingly or forcibly, have all become food for a power called malice…]
Since the White-Fleece Snow Season had already spread to Sacred Nest, it meant the moment when the Wet Nurse gave birth to the new offspring was not far off.
The Wet Nurse should have calculated the timing. When everyone in Sacred Nest fell into extreme evil, that would be the time of Its birth.
At that time, once the Wet Nurse took control of the newborn offspring’s Shell, She could seize all the power of extreme evil for Her own use.
If Lin Xun wanted to defeat the Wet Nurse, he had to get there before It did.
[Flanda also understands the key point and leads you to speed up…]
There were many Extreme Evil Wanderers in the sewers. These monsters that had already fallen into extreme evil did not belong to normal Ascended. On the web of consciousness, they belonged to the shadow portion that was rapidly expanding.
Even the Wet Nurse could not observe these extreme evil monsters through the web of consciousness.
The three pushed through all the way and quickly left the sewers, arriving at the outside ground…
[…]
[You lift open the metal floodgate above your head. A biting cold wind mixed with goose-feather snow blows into the passageway, and a dazzling gray-bright light pours in.]
[You flip through the floodgate and arrive on the outside ground…]
[Before your eyes is a world of white. Snowflakes drift down in thick swarms. With every breath, icy air goes straight through your mouth and nose into your lungs, bringing bone-piercing cold.]
[Countless tall, spired buildings are covered by vast white snow. The firmament is far from the ground. Several enormous shadows circle above the zenith, scattering snowflakes that carry extreme evil factors.]
[The grandeur and size of Sacred Nest far exceed your expectations. You raise a hand to look into the distance. Your vision passes through the dense snow curtain, and you cannot see where the boundary outer wall of Sacred Nest is at all. You can only see one extreme evil monster after another wandering in the snow.]
[Flanda comes to your side and looks up at the circling monsters, saying that these Pilgrimage Angels are extremely far from the ground, at the boundary region near the second layer of Sacred Nest. As long as you and it do not proactively attack the Pilgrimage Angels, they cannot notice you.]
“So the sky above is the boundary region between the outer layer of Sacred Nest and the second layer?”
Lin Xun twitched the corner of his mouth, feeling like he could not imagine it at all.
Perhaps only a chief god like Firefly had such mighty power, creating a grand structure like something from myth and legend.
[The Belatu’s Sleeping Rebirth Palace you learned is not in the outer layer of Sacred Nest, but very close to the central region of Sacred Nest. It is extremely far from here.]
[You ask Flanda how to approach Sacred Nest Center. Only by approaching Sacred Nest Center can you go to your destination.]
[Flanda tells you that the giant egg-shaped Sacred Nest has nine layers in total. You and her are currently on the outermost layer of the giant egg. To move from the outer layer toward the center, you must fly over.]
[Flying is not difficult. You and her can both fly, and bringing along one Kim is effortless.]
[The difficult part is that you must avoid the Pilgrimage Angels’ line of sight. If discovered by the Pilgrimage Angels, it is equivalent to being watched by the Wet Nurse.]
[After thinking for a moment, Flanda continues. There is a type of creature in Sacred Nest called Giant Vein Dragonfly. It is a means of transportation creature like the Courier Mole Cricket. If you ride inside the Giant Vein Dragonfly’s abdominal cavity, perhaps you can avoid the Pilgrimage Angels’ sight and fly to the next layer of Sacred Nest.]
Lin Xun immediately decided to go find transportation.
Fortunately, Flanda used to be the Wet Nurse’s offspring, and now as a Firefly believer, it had a general understanding of Sacred Nest’s structure.
The group carefully avoided extreme evil monsters, doing their best not to engage in combat right under the Pilgrimage Angels’ eyes. When they truly could not avoid it, Flanda would act, silently and soundlessly eliminating the enemy.
Soon, the three arrived at a place called the Dragonfly Station.
However, the situation they saw was both expected and unexpected.
[…]
[From far away, a towering metal fence encloses a large patch of snow. In the snowfield, more than ten Ascended creatures shaped like gigantic dragonflies are parked.]
[Their bodies are even larger than a Courier Mole Cricket. Their tubular abdominal cavities can hold dozens of people.]
[But large black mottled patterns spread across the surface of these giant dragonflies. Malice traces like tree branches and leaves cover their entire bodies.]
[You have discovered the Extreme Evil Giant Vein Dragonfly!]
[Kim shakes his head at the sight, saying that these transportation creatures have all been corroded by foreign factors. Their eyes are different, unlike the Courier Mole Cricket which is full of clear stupidity. It is obvious they cannot be ridden anymore.]
[Flanda presses her lips together and thinks carefully, yet cannot find a better method…]
[After thinking for a long time, she finally says unwillingly that there are now only two choices. Either she disregards everything and kills all the Pilgrimage Angels, or you can only go to the upper layer alone.]
[Do not worry. The Purgatory Angel’s container is an angel warrior, also an Ascended like the Pilgrimage Angels. Even if discovered, it will not be treated as a demonic heretic, thus alarming the Wet Nurse…]
[How will you choose?]
Lin Xun felt a pain in the balls. Bringing Flanda, this max-level big shot, as a team to clear the instance would undoubtedly make things very relaxed.
Now that they had finally reached the enemy’s lair, this hellish game was tripping him again, not letting him comfortably lie down and win.
“Hellish game, you think this can stop me?”
He still had a flying mount that was also an Ascended, the Ascended Divine Kingdom Flying Dragon.
Using this flying mount, maybe he could break the deadlock!