novelraw Chapter 370-1: Game of Rules, Desire Wet Nurse’s Flesh-and-Blood Temple (1)
Chapter 370-1: Game of Rules, Desire Wet Nurse’s Flesh-and-Blood Temple (1)
[When Flanda sees the monstrous face formed from the aura of malice subconscious, it slips out of the dark space and grins at you eerily.]
[It knows you cannot resist the erosion of the malice subconscious. Even with the top transcendent strength that it and Kim possess, it is still very difficult to withstand this kind of mental corrosion.]
[Flanda immediately strides to your side and is just about to grab you and flee when it sees you take out a pitch-black fruit…]
[The fruit is so dark that it seems countless strands of malice flow within it. Its form is full and robust, a fruit that has already fully ripened.]
[Instantly, the grinning monstrous face disintegrates and shatters. The malice subconscious, along with all the surging malice in the surroundings, merges completely into the fruit in your hand.]
[The pitch-black fruit was already in a fully ripened state, and now, after fusing the subconscious and a vast amount of malice, it grows once again…]
[The fruit enlarges in size, its color becoming even darker. The entire fruit seems to faintly break through some kind of boundary and undergoes a tremendous change during its renewed development!]
[The plump fruit rapidly withers and shrivels. The peel and flesh lose their ‘moisture’ at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if someone had fast-forwarded the clock of time and accelerated its weathering and desiccation. It turns into a large amount of foul-smelling powder that slips through your fingers and drifts away into nothingness.]
[When the peel and flesh have completely vanished, only a single seed remains in your hand. Calling it a core might be more accurate.]
[The gem-like core of the seed shines with a black luster. When you focus your gaze on it, you can see the infinite aura of malice circulating within, at times forming a vortex, at times turning into a grinning monstrous face…][You have obtained Core of Extreme Evil (Special Item)!]
[Core of Extreme Evil (Special Item): The Fruit of Evil contains a vast amount of malice aura directly belonging to the Extreme Delusion Fruit. For a newborn malice consciousness, this is a dangerous and deadly attraction. The fruit has ultimately fulfilled its mission, and the core hidden deep within has grown into a seed-core that contains infinite possibilities.]
[The effect of this item is unknown. Please use it with caution!]
“Effect unknown?”
This was Lin Xun’s first time seeing an item with an unknown effect.
Although there was no explicit written guidance, it was not hard to infer its real effect from the name of the item and the text description.
What is the use of a plant’s fruit? Nothing more than the role it plays in spreading and reproducing.
Animals eat the fruit and digest the flesh while expelling the indigestible seeds, thus spreading and reproducing the plant’s offspring.
Under natural conditions, some fruits can form without pollination and fertilization. These fruits either have no seeds or their seeds are infertile, so they cannot play a reproductive role.
If one likens Lin Xun to an animal that digests the fruit flesh and spreads the fruit far away, then the malice subconscious just now would be the pollen that fertilizes the fruit.
It has turned this fruit, which originally had no seeds or infertile seeds, into a true fruit with reproductive function.
Malice can spread through consciousness and spirit, and this world is already overrun with malice. Most living beings have fallen into extreme evil. Without interference, the malice subconscious would ultimately grow into a main god.
Using the fruit’s seed to reproduce offspring seems like a redundant move.
Lin Xun knew that as the Extreme Delusion Fruit that could erode two main gods, it would never produce a meaningless fruit. In other words, it would not create such a meaningless reproductive mechanism.
Thus, there was only one reasonable deduction…
If having its offspring invade and occupy other worlds is a kind of colonial act, then such colonization is not of much use to the Extreme Delusion Fruit.
Because the offspring would ultimately grow into main gods, and those new worlds would belong to the offspring, not to the Extreme Delusion Fruit.
So why did the Extreme Delusion Fruit not go and claim the distant new lands for itself?
Was it because it did not like them, or was it restricted by something? Things like distance, dimensions, or perhaps the boundaries the Cursed game set between chapter and chapter, world and world.
Lin Xun felt it was very likely the latter. Only this could explain why the Cursed game was unable to describe the function of the item.
Because the Extreme Delusion Fruit was attempting to break through the constraints of rules.
This fruit was the anchor point the Extreme Delusion Fruit used to locate this world, or perhaps it was simply the true incarnation of the Extreme Delusion Fruit.
He suddenly realized that he could come here, absorb the malice subconscious, and obtain the Core of Extreme Evil all because of the Librarian’s guidance…
Was it that the administrator wanted the Extreme Delusion Fruit to break through the boundaries of the rules, descend here, and destroy this world?
Lin Xun’s scalp tingled, cold sweat soaking his back, and his four limbs felt weak and powerless.
A sense of absolute despair spread and grew from deep within his heart.
“I thought the administrator’s true body had come to help me save the world, but that idea was completely wrong.”
“The administrator has always disguised itself as the face of a guardian of rules, but in truth it is a thorough rule-breaker. It also wants to break through the boundaries and wrestle against the rules of the game.”
“This is essentially a game of rules between the game itself and the rule-breaker.”
“And I am their chess piece…”
Lin Xun stared expressionlessly at the Core of Extreme Evil in his Inventory.
If the game’s administrator wanted to challenge the rules of the game, did he still have any chance of winning?
Should he continue to uphold the rules, save the world, and oppose the administrator?
Or should he unite with the administrator, break the constraints of rules, and destroy this world?
Lin Xun thought for a long time but still could not reach a conclusion.
As a player Apostle, what he had to consider first was his own gains.
If he could collude with the GM, it would undoubtedly be equivalent to obtaining an incredibly powerful cheat.
Although the final evaluation after destroying the world again would definitely not be SSS, he would surely be able to get many precious Bookmarks in the trial instances to come and might even receive some privileges in the Library.
But what if he chose to save the world?
To be honest, Lin Xun felt that this chapter instance was the world in which he had the best chance so far of obtaining an SSS evaluation.
An SSS evaluation on Hell Difficulty.
Obtaining an SS in a Hell-difficulty chapter was equivalent to an SSS on Nightmare Difficulty. The rewards would all be the highest-level Sources of the Apocalypse and Ultimate Relics.
If he could obtain an SSS evaluation in Hell Difficulty, what would he gain?
Lin Xun vaguely felt that he was only one step away from learning the true nature and truth of the game, and that one step was achieving the highest-level evaluation once.
[…]
[Kim’s loud voice suddenly rings in your ear. Oath bearer, it says it knows you are amazing and that you could subdue that monstrous face just now so obediently.]
[Even though he really does not want to admit it, it can only say that you are far stronger than him, Kim.]
[So could you stop staring blankly at that core? The Despicable One, the Wet Nurse is still waiting for you to deal with her, and it is still waiting for you to continue leading it to save the world…]
[When Flanda sees you spacing out at the core in your hand, it worriedly reaches out and waves its palm before your eyes…]
Lin Xun came back to his senses.
Before him was one of the most difficult choices in history, and he had no idea what to do.
On one side was maintaining the rules to obtain the highest evaluation, on the other was breaking the rules to gain the administrator’s favor.
Yet the two story characters made him realize he could not betray their expectations.
“Damn it! Only children make either-or choices. I want it all!”
“I will both break the rules and save the world to obtain the highest evaluation!”