novelraw Chapter 396 - 390: Horror Doll House 38
Chapter 396 - 390: Horror Doll House 38
To prevent the dolls destined for the tower from escaping and to clear space inside the tower, they would burn these dolls, reducing everything to ash under the fierce flames.
Space was thus freed up.
The Tower Guard would then periodically clean the dust at the bottom of the tower, allowing the tower to be continuously recycled...
The dolls displayed on the second floor were not really exhibits but prisoners who attempted to escape the tower and were punished by the monsters on the sixth and seventh floors.
After failing to escape, their soul power was drained, and they were turned into puppet dolls, displayed on the second floor.
As soon as someone ascended from the first floor to the second, the puppet dolls would seize the opportunity to absorb the soul power of the new dolls and drag them onto the platform, so they could take their place.
This gave them a chance to leave and ascend to the third floor.
From the third floor, a hunger buff would begin to take effect, and if these baby spirits ate the food on the shelves, they would be assimilated by it, becoming food for the monsters on the third floor.
Although this could not completely kill all the dolls, it was enough to weaken their strength.
By the time they reached the fourth floor, they were merely struggling to survive, awaiting a chance to reach the fifth floor and undergo further experiments.
Those who drank the potion but did not survive the experiment would have their bodies affected, mutated, growing numerous eyes, limbs, organs, and internal parts. If they failed the experiment repeatedly, they would be treated as discarded items, made into food, and sent to be sold on the third floor.
Only the successful ones could reach the sixth floor.
Yet, even upon reaching the sixth floor, four so-called gods awaited them to drain their soul power.
The so-called hope of exiting the tower was merely a gradual weakening of the baby spirits’ strength in disguise.
By the time they reached the top floor, their strength was no longer sufficient to support their rebellion, so they could only be "purified" by these gods.
These so-called gods absorbed the baby spirits’ power to maintain the operation of the array but were also assimilated by this malevolence.
The baby spirits were transformed into males, becoming deformed, and the hope of reincarnation was out of reach.
Josh drew out the longsword from yesterday, smearing her own blood on it.
What purification? She stood with integrity, what needed purifying?
Yuze exchanged a glance with her.
The two of them charged forward.
Jiang Can cast a shield on both of them.
Rob spread his wings and flew into the sky, Yushi closely following.
A fierce battle was on the verge of breaking out.
The gods seemed surprised by their resistance: "You?"
"You painstakingly shed the original sin of being female, successfully transforming into men, and yet you still wish to rebel against us? Don’t you want the chance to leave the tower?!"
Without a word, Josh charged forward, swinging her sword with the momentum of a thousand troops and overwhelming waves, forcing the gods to retreat continuously from the sword’s onslaught, yet they were still pushed further back.
Yuze seized the opportunity to follow up, his blade striking directly at the opponent’s vital point.
Rob and Yushi on either side distracted the other gods’ attention.
The four gods were forced into a continuous retreat.
"How is this possible?"
"What is going on? Why do they seem to know so much about our powers?"
"The situation has changed, retreat for now!"
"Alright!"
Josh let out a cold laugh: "Did I say you could retreat?"
She leaped up, climbing to the highest point with spider silk, and with a strong tug of her left hand, the web she had long set up rapidly tightened.
The four shadowy gods were instantly ensnared by the contracting web.
The shadows struggled: "What is this thing?"
"You wretched ants! Even if you turn into men, you cannot wash away the original sin ingrained in your bones!"
"You will lose your qualification to leave the tower! Forever sealed within the tower, enduring cycles of exploitation and reincarnation!"
"Your suffering will never cease!"
"Tsk..." Josh coldly eyed one of the gods, pulling sharply on the four threads with her left hand, hurling her longsword with force from her right.
The longsword pierced swiftly into the forehead of one of the shadowy figures with lightning speed.
A sizzling sound echoed, like raw meat placed over fire, sizzling.
The shadow let out a wretched cry as the wound on its forehead rapidly corroded, spreading over its entire body.
Within mere breaths, the shadow had been completely corroded away, dissolving into a pool of blood and vanishing on the spot.
The remaining three monsters, witnessing this, grew restless, their struggle intensifying.
The power surging forth from their survival instinct was several times stronger.
Josh’s stance was destabilized, swaying from being pulled.
Those three monsters, seeing this, attempted to drag her down.
Yushi lashed a whip around Josh’s waist, pulling her back.
Yuze seized the moment, charging forward, slicing one shadow into two halves with his blade.
Rob drew his bow and fired at the other two shadows.
The shadows agilely dodged, kicking the incoming arrows off course, directing them towards Yuze.
Without hesitation, he turned and leapt away, creating distance.
The arrows exploded where he had just stood.
Josh reinforced the spider silk, tightening it with strength.
The silk instantly became exceptionally sharp, with tiny barbs growing out.
The more they struggled, the deeper the barbs pierced, making the silk even more secure.
Yuze did not hesitate, picking up the longsword beside Josh and swinging it, directly slaying the remaining two shadows.
This battle was much easier than the previous ones.
With Jiang Can’s shield, none of them were injured.
With Rob and Yushi providing interference and support, Yuze and Josh effortlessly eliminated these four monsters.
They proceeded directly to the seventh floor.
The seventh floor resembled a grand temple, with transparent ice sculptures adorning the four walls and ceiling, allowing sunlight to illuminate the entire area without hindrance.
"You’re here..."
At the center of the temple stood a white statue, exuding majesty, roughly five meters tall, surrounded by eight crystals embedded in the floor, with golden patterns linking the crystals that converged beneath the statue.
Josh saw these crystals and swallowed hard.
They seemed to be some kind of gemstone original stones.
They came in different colors.
She had rarely seen gemstones of such high purity and size, even larger than the ones Yuze had acquired for her at the auction before!
They were bigger than any gemstones she had seen in other scenarios!
And there were eight of them!
Instantly, Josh’s gaze on the statue softened, her expression growing kinder, with the hostility in her eyes dissipating somewhat.
Josh looked at the statue, seemingly agreeable: "If you give us these gemstones on the ground, we won’t kill you."
Yuze twitched at the corner of his eye, tugging the hood on her clothes over her head, pulling it tightly to wrap her entire head.
He couldn’t bear his teammate being so embarrassing, a little money-grubber.
Rob cleared his throat, nudging Josh: "We’ve seen all sorts of big scenes, how can we be swayed by these few worthless stones?"
Josh pulled off the hood from her head with a sour expression, glaring at Yuze with her fluffy hair: "What do you mean by swayed? Removing the stones will render this tower’s array defenseless."
Feigning the appearance of breaking the array, she paused before adding: "But those stones shouldn’t go to waste, if you don’t want them, give them to me."