novelraw Chapter 362-1: Angel Mother Nest, Conditions for Obtaining an SSS Rating (1)
Chapter 362-1: Angel Mother Nest, Conditions for Obtaining an SSS Rating (1)
[…]
[After traveling forward for a long time, you arrive at your destination.]
[Here, the forest of spire-like buildings has vanished. A vast open space is carpeted with deep purple fungal carpet, and at its center stands a gigantic spherical structure.]
[The surface of the spherical structure is covered with deep holes of various sizes. From a distance, it looks like a lump of flesh hollowed out by maggots, which makes you feel somewhat uncomfortable.]
[Flanda bends down and touches the fungal carpet underfoot, receiving a soft feedback similar to human skin. Her face lights up with joy as she tells you that the cultivation fungal carpet still possesses strong activity, which shows that the Angel Mother Nest still has plenty of feed, enough for her and Kim to recover their injuries…]
Along the way, Lin Xun had not encountered a single enemy.
It was as if there was not a single living creature on the entire seventh layer of the Sacred Nest besides the clone Belatu.
“Could all the monsters be gathered inside the Angel Mother Nest?”
[Thanks to your earlier healing, Flanda has recovered a small portion of her injuries. She walks at the front and is the first to pass through a hole and enter the Angel Mother Nest.]
[You follow closely behind Flanda and enter as well. Kim also tries to squeeze through the hole, but because its body is too large, it has to wriggle for quite a while before barely managing to force its way inside.][The interior of the spherical structure is hollow. Thick pipes hang down from the ceiling, suspending densely packed sac-like tissues.]
[These sacs vary in size. The flesh membranes on their surfaces have all been torn open; the creatures that were being nurtured inside are nowhere to be seen. Only the foul, viscous cultivation fluid inside the sacs has not yet fully drained and is still dripping down drop by drop.]
[The cultivation fluid falls to the ground and is absorbed by the fungal carpet underfoot, being recycled and reused in another form.]
[Other than you, there are no angel warriors inside the enormous Angel Mother Nest…]
[Flanda looks at the sacs from which cultivation fluid is still dripping and says thoughtfully that this batch of angel warriors has already fully hatched and left the Mother Nest, while the next batch of angel warriors has not yet begun incubation.]
[Where did those angel warriors who left go?]
[She raises her head to look at the Mother Nest’s dome. Her gaze seems to pierce through the structure and the sky outside, reaching all the way to the center of the Sacred Nest…]
[Seeing that there are no enemies, Kim raises its scorpion pincers, clips off a thick pipe, pulls it to its mouth, and fiddles with it for a long time, yet no so-called feed flows out.]
[Flanda quietly sighs and walks over to a bony control console at the side to press a button…]
[Kim is currently holding the pipe up to its eyes, staring into it with wide eyes. Suddenly, a gush of white slurry sprays all over its face.]
[It hurriedly opens its mouth, clamps down on the pipe, and begins sucking hard…]
[As a large amount of feed is injected and absorbed, the horrific wounds covering its body heal and fade at a speed visible to the naked eye.]
[Very soon, the massive penetrating wound on Kim’s chest also begins to repair…]
[…]
[Kim cannot help letting out a roar. With its injuries healed, it feels this container is stronger than ever before!]
[Flanda waits until Kim has fully recovered before pressing the console button again, then she leaps up and jumps into a small sac.]
[The sac’s flesh membrane rapidly seals, and cultivation fluid fills it once more. The girl hugs her knees and closes her eyes as if dozing, and the injuries on her body gradually begin to heal…]
Lin Xun walked over to the console and tried to use the Hatchery Lord Shell to control it.
According to previous information, apart from the Pilgrimage Angel and Purgatory Angel, there were also powerful individuals such as Plague Angel, Bloody Angel and Cruel Angel among the angel warriors.
“If I could incubate angel warriors, I could take advantage of Flanda and Kim being here to seize a lot of powerful Shells.”
[…]
[You do not have the relevant authority and are unable to operate the console to actively incubate angels!]
The hellish game indicated that he did not have the relevant authority and could only perform the most basic operations such as injecting feed and cleaning sacs.
Unwilling to give up, Lin Xun switched to the Purgatory Angel Shell to continue trying.
The result was still the same.
“This hellish game is really stingy. Not giving me a demi-god Shell is one thing, but it will not even hand out a few extra angel Shells.”
Cursing under his breath, he abandoned the attempt.
[At the side, Kim suddenly points toward a corner with a puzzled expression and says, Why is there a door here?]
[Following the direction indicated by the giant scorpion pincer, you indeed see an extremely out-of-place small door in the corner of the Mother Nest.]
[The material of the door is not the bone-like flesh tissue of the building’s inner walls, but a very ordinary wooden door that would only allow two people to pass through side by side.]
[You must know that the entire Angel Mother Nest is a spherical structure with a hollow interior that can be seen at a glance. There should not be any extra space to carve out a secret room.]
[Do you want to go forward and open the wooden door?]
“Hm? A trap?”
Lin Xun’s first reaction was that the hellish game was about to pull some sneaky trap again.
But on second thought, he still had two top demi-god bigshots beside him. Even if it was a trap, it should not be able to kill demi-gods, right?
To be safe, he did not immediately click ‘Yes,’ but chose to wait for Flanda to finish healing her injuries.
[…]
[The girl opens her eyes, chops the sac open with a wave of her hand, and jumps lightly to the ground. At this moment, there is no wound visible anywhere on her body, and even the white gauze dress that had been tattered and stained with blood is now pristine once more.]
[Seeing you pacing back and forth in front of the wooden door, the fully healed Flanda is briefly stunned when she notices it, then closes her eyes to quietly sense.]
[After a long time, she frowns and tells you that, in her senses, what lies beyond the wooden door is simply the space outside the Mother Nest, with nothing unusual at all.]
[Yet that is precisely what is most strange. When she came into the Mother Nest with you earlier, she did not see any entrance or exit besides the holes.]
[There is no wooden door on the outer wall, yet there is a wooden door on the inner wall. This really cannot be explained by common sense.]
[Even if the door were a passage for the Mother Nest’s lord to enter and exit, it would not be such an out-of-place wooden door. As a factory for incubating angels, it should use bone-like flesh material to open a passage…]
[Do you want to go forward and open the wooden door?]
Lin Xun hesitated.
This was basically the game holding up a bright red danger sign in front of him and asking whether he dared to open the door.
Given the hellish game’s usual style, danger often came hand in hand with rewards. Even if it was a trap, once he got through it safely there would be rewards corresponding to the level of danger.
“Do it! I have two top demi-god bigshots guarding me. How could I be afraid of a little trap like you?”
Lin Xun talked big with his mouth, but his body was still very honest.
He summoned the shikigami Snow Woman and had her go ahead to test the way.
[Under your command, Snow Woman strides forward and opens the wooden door…]
[Orange-yellow lamplight spills out. What appears before your eyes is row upon row of neatly arranged bookshelves, and a thick scent of ink-printed pages spills through the doorway, surging into your nose.]
[You faintly hear an old voice quietly reciting. The voice is very familiar. It is the Librarian.]
“…”
The corner of Lin Xun’s mouth twitched, his face full of dark lines. The feeling was like being fully armed to disarm a bomb, only to discover that it was just the neighborhood kid’s firework stuck in the ground.
[Flanda, seeing this unusual scene, immediately tenses up all over and holds you back from going forward.]
[She places herself in front of you and steps into the archive room first. She explains to you that this space appeared suddenly, manifesting out of thin air at the very instant the wooden door opened.]
[Anyone who can wield power like this is absolutely not an ordinary being. Even demi-gods like her and Kim cannot do such a thing…]
[You tell Flanda that there is no danger in the archive room and that, on the contrary, there is opportunity here.]
[You and Flanda step into the archive room. Kim, however, cannot enter at all because its body is too large. Since it has heard that there is no danger, it quietly stays outside the door to wait for you.]