Translator: La0o9 Editor: La0o9

  “What’s the situation?” the one who asked this question was Grosk’s last remaining personal guard, the one he paired up with was a Knight of Divine Grace. The guard was displaying a particularly heavy expression on his face, obviously he had already found out about the other two’s deaths.

  “I’ve used [Respiratory Art] to stabilize his rhythm, his life isn’t in any danger anymore, but he requires immediate medical attention. Otherwise, he won’t wake up again for the rest of his life” Chris stood up.

  Rivers’ body was currently being sat up against one of the abandoned buildings, both eyes closed tightly as he fell unconscious. The Right of Sacrifice took so much out of him that if Chris hadn’t arrived in time to use [Respiratory Art] and help him ease the side effects, he would most likely be a corpse right now.

  On the other side, the Knight of Divine Grace already had his sword drawn, currently keeping watch over the captured Crowmen. They intended to interrogate him for information, since every other Crowmen they had met were fanatics ready to throw their lives away for Negary, but this one was just sitting there obediently. When he noticed Chris looking at him, he even smiled brightly at him in return.

  “Can you let me go? I’ll tell you everything you want to know. If you let me go, I swear I’ll leave Reya immediately and never show myself in front of you ever again” the Crowmen’s body bowed incredibly low to show how pitiable he was and asked them with a humble tone.

  “Aren’t all of Negary’s Crowmen supposed to be fierce and unafraid of death?” Chris asked curtly.

  “Lord Negary chose the Crowmen to complement himself, because of that, as long as one has a desirable characteristic, anyone can be chosen” the Crowmen spoke with pride: “My fighting strength is comparatively lacking to the others, but my will to live is the strongest among everyone”


  “Complement himself?” Chris scowled: “Tell me in detail everything you know about Negary, as well as everything about the other Crowmen”


  “I’ll talk, I’ll tell you right now” the Crowmen smiled amiably, he seems to have a sort of charm that made everyone who saw him slowly let go of their hostility, perhaps because his every movement was aimed to please you in a way that made you subconsciously want to forgive him.

  “I don’t know that much about Lord Negary either. It was pure coincidence that I was selected as a Crowmen, in fact, I haven’t met Lord Negary directly too many times either” the Crowmen carefully explained: “At the time, Lord Negary wasn’t quite as…… eerie as he currently is”


  “The feeling he gave off at the time was a sense of regality, like the bearing of a ruler that made one couldn’t help but follow him. But as each enemy fell in his hands, as each Crowmen offered themselves to him, he gradually became more powerful, and gradually more inhuman”


  “In truth, unlike the others who wish for nothing but to throw themselves towards him, I want to get as far away from him as possible. Because whenever I stand near him, I always feel an immense impulse to dedicate my life to him”


  “Because of that, I sincerely and honestly suggest that you leave right now, truly!” the Crowmen looked at the three people with extremely sincere eyes, fearfully sincere: “Lord Negary, he— no— ‘he’ has already surpassed the lifeforms known as humans!”


  “Everyone I meet him, ‘he’ would guide and lead me to commit suicide and dedicate my will to live for him. At the same time, every time I manage to break out of his charm, I can feel the pure joy in his gaze, the gaze similar to that of a farmer who saw that his crops were growing healthily”


  “Even now, a voice is constantly whispering in my head, telling to me kill myself and offer my everything to Lord Negary, only then will I no longer have any troubles or feel fear”


  “Do you understand it?” the Crowmen opened his eyes wide, showing a look of madness. His boneless body started to coil around itself and sprang forward like a serpent going for its prey. The Crowmen headed straight for the Knight of Divine Grace as two jet black bone javelins appeared out of nowhere from the holes inside his palm.

  “For Lord Negary!” the Crowmen roared in his frenzy. When he recounted what he knew about Negary, he couldn’t help but recall his figure and the scene in which Negary offered him his hand, and this time, he couldn’t endure the impulse.

  Since the Knight of Divine Grace already had his sword drawn to look out for any tricks this Crowmen might pull, when the Crowmen suddenly lunged at him, he instinctively slashed downward at him.

  Without bones to protect the inside of his body, the Crowmen’s body was easily cut in half. The intense pain made him regain his senses as his tears, snot and blood were mixed together. He desperately used what remained of his strength to crawl towards the direction of the forbidden zone’s great tree.

  “Lord Negary, I don’t want to die yet, I still have room to grow further, save me, Lord Negary!!

  〖 No, you are already ripe! 〗a voice suddenly resounded in the Crowmen’s head: 〖 As you are right now, your will to live has become the strongest it will ever be! 〗


  “Lord Negary!” the Crowmen was still begging for his life up until the very last moment, but he couldn’t escape death and his life simply ended. The pitch-like [Black Crow] germs slowly dripped down from his palm, seeped into the ground and flowed towards Negary.

  “This is……” the three people there saw everything that took place in fright. A man who wished for nothing but to live, just by recalling Negary, had decided to make a suicidal attack right in front of their eyes. The shadow of the entity called Negary inside their hearts subconsciously grew bigger.

  “Let me take this knight back to be tended to” the personal guard lowered his head and said with a trembling voice, feeling extreme shame. He was truly frightful, at this point, he could already faintly feel the ominous air all over this operation. Volunteering to take Rivers back to be healed was nothing but a different kind of fleeing.

  “You don’t have to feel ashamed, everyone else would feel the same” Chris smiled bitterly. After adventuring for so long, he had already seen all kinds of people, and after witnessing Negary’s eerie terror with their own eyes, anyone would’ve made the same decision. To ask others to throw away their lives for the sake of their perceived justice isn’t actually justice, that is only taking their morals hostage.

  Looking on as the guard carried Rivers away, Chris sighed, at this point, they only had 10 people left. Since they had eliminated two Crowmen, not counting the Bizarre Scales that were running free, from the line up they showed earlier today, the other side still had at least 4 Crowmen and 3 Bizarre Scales.

  I wonder how the battle of the others and the people from Royas went.

  “Let’s go, we need to help the others as well. We can’t afford to lose anyone else, and we’re only a bit away from reaching Negary” Chris told the Knight of Divine Grace. The two of them quickly moved through the darkness and headed for the other groups……

  Sitting on top of his throne of bones, Negary currently had his chin resting on top of his hand and a joyful smile on his face. This smile was similar to those of farmers whose crops had grown big and strong just in time for their harvest.

  Suddenly, Negary lifted his head and looked forward, someone was quickly moving forward on the path paved with bones.

  〖 So you’re finally here. Come, show me just how good you really are, hak hak hak! 〗


  Volume 6 49: Countdown to the end of lying dead

  Yun Yi was surprised…


  Not too many of Noah’s experimental subjects manage to survive, after all, the term ‘experiment’ naturally carried the meaning of uncertainty and instability.

  Po Nan had let Noah implant a mutated branch of the World Tree inside his body, and since Noah inherited Negary’s personality, he would definitely not grant others any safe powers that could be used right now.

  He only grants items or knowledge that required adaptation and modification by the individual to be used, or the power had flaws that put the user into a dangerous situation; only by surpassing one’s limit would they be able to truly obtain that power.

  Additionally, since the Celestials already had a natural path of growth, choosing to ask Noah for power was actually a shortcut, so the limit they had to surpass was greater than normal.

  Observing the bloody mist in the sky, Yun Yi quickly stopped worrying about Po Nan. This was because they were all walking the path of eternal peace, and the most basic quality of any traveler on this path was the willingness to pay for their own choices.

  Po Nan understood the consequences of his action but he still fearlessly decided to make that decision, this meant that Po Nan had the courage to shoulder the consequences, and the only thing Yun Yi could do for him was to respect it.

  His duty right now was to search for the serpent and settle their debt.

  Regarding the serpent’s background, Yun Yi and the Celestials had done plenty of research and arrived at the conclusion that no matter the scenario, it was definitely related to Meng Luo the individual.

  Even in the final moments, a confrontation was inevitable.

  Badum!

  Badum!

  Badum!

  As this rhythmic beating reverberated, Yun Yi also saw his target: a crescent-shaped blob of flesh. The blob of flesh had numerous eyes all over it that contained thick black venom, which looked almost like a beating heart.

  And Po Nan also appeared in front of this blob of flesh, as he clenched his fist, the air around him almost seemed to shatter. The shattered air created friction that caused an arc of lightning to move around Po Nan’s deity statue.

  “YARH!” following Po Nan’s swung fist, all the supernatural phenomena vanished, the entire force had been concentrated into his fist and transferred into the blob of flesh.

  The part of the blob that was struck simply sunk inside, showing that this thing wasn’t nearly as fragile as the snakes from before. At the same time, the blob of flesh also retaliated as an immense force shot back from where it was struck, causing the deity statue’s fist to shatter, spreading the impact up its entire body.

  At this very moment, Po Nan looked like a cracked porcelain doll as he was sent flying backwards. Yun Yi shot out a machine that gently attached itself to Po Nan’s back and produced thrust to push him away.

  The part of the blob that was sunken in did not recover, and the frequency of the rhythmic beating became more rapid, accompanied by numerous voices from inside.

  「 IT HURTS! 」


  「 IT HURTS!! 」


  「 IT HURTS!!!!! 」


  It was as if millions of people were shouting directly into his ears, although the shouting weren’t very loud, although it wasn’t in unison, and although it was a very weak shout, each of them made him feel both their helplessness and suffering.

  Their voices had already gotten so weak that they didn’t even have the strength to shout anymore.

  But when numerous voices reverberated this way in one’s ear, one would only feel that internal horror and even personally feel that soul-aching pain.

  This sense of pain was growing increasingly greater. While Yun Yi had originally been able to endure it, the suffering instantly shot up so much that he almost wanted to scream as well.

  Every last bit of his body felt like it was being permeated by the pain, and the same was happening to his mind as well; every single unspeakable act that had ever occurred in the past appeared in his mind at the same time, directly striking his very core, stimulating old wounds of both kinds, causing him even more pain.

  The blob of flesh’s beating grew increasingly greater, the sound it gave off also became increasingly rapid until it turned into static noise similar to old TVs, which was simply unbearable.

  Yun Yi uttered a curt groan and clutched his forehead, countless wounds appeared all over his body, blood was flowing from his eyes, mouth, and nose.

  At this level, pain wasn’t just a sensation anymore, as it had affected his body in return.

  The beating blob of flesh began to distort and shapeshift, eventually becoming a formless mass of broken pieces that somehow still remained attached to one another.

  「 Join us, feel the pain, get accustomed to the pain, enjoy the pain… and finally, become pain! 」the mass of broken pieces uttered in a heavy mix of many voices, the clearest of which belonged to Meng Luo.

  Barely enduring the pain to stand back up, Yun Yi looked at the figure of broken pieces. He seemed to be able to see Meng Luo’s form in there, of course, together with many other Desolates as well.

  Perhaps, this thing could be called the Desolate Corpse, as it was more or less something created from the pain and suffering of all the Desolates as they died.

  「 You are also a Desolate, you should also become a part of us. Not only that, not just the Desolates, I want to pull even more beings into this pain as well 」Meng Luo seemed to be trying to persuade Yun Yi.

  At least, that was what Yun Yi had heard from his sense of hearing that was nearly collapsing from the pain; it could, of course, just be his own hallucination under the extreme pain.

  “I can feel it… I feel your heart filled with fear, as it had never felt at peace!”


  Regardless of whether or not it was a hallucination, Yun Yi pushed a button on his equipment to take out an injection pen and injected himself with some fluid. This alleviated Yun Yi’s pain somewhat and made it possible for him to make that statement.

  Meng Luo was born and raised as an inferior Desolate, which left him with an immense feeling of inferiority, especially after coming into contact with the beast tooth.

  The feeling of carrying an important treasure had only made his sense of inferiority grow even stronger. Everything he had ever done up to this point was for the sake of feeling safe and at peace.

  Meng Luo originally had an opportunity to walk the path of eternal peace, but he gave up on it, so his path of pursuing inner peace became warped.

  Power and authority can give him a sense of safety, but it’s only a means to an end, and he was unable to look into himself and achieve that end. Entrusting his entire feeling of safety in power and authority could only be described as mixing up the mean and the end. While this might seem like the pursuit of peace, the further one proceeded down this path, the less peaceful they’d feel.

  In the serpent’s weakest state, its everything seemed to have opened up for all to see, and since Meng Luo was originally the center of the serpent, his everything went on full display for Yun Yi to see.

  「 Become one with pain! 」


  The broken Desolate Corpse gradually approached him. If Meng Luo was in a normal state, he might have reacted to Yun Yi’s words with anger or insanity, but he was now connected to the souls of too many Desolates.

  If it wasn’t for the beast tooth, he wouldn’t have been able to maintain even this little bit of consciousness left. His individuality had faded to a terrible degree, his mind filled with fear and unease, thus having no room to think about Yun Yi’s words.

  “Then let’s die together!”


  Yun Yi had implanted a countermeasure in his body that would activate as soon as his consciousness fades over a certain degree.

  God’s Guidance - Modified Edition. Yun Yi had included his own understanding into Lan Shan’s product, making his own creation which he put into his body.

  As the Desolate Corpse embraced and pulled him into the mass of pain, his consciousness quickly became overwhelmed by pain and suffering. He could feel the countermeasure device activating, but he discovered that he wasn’t feeling fearful at all.

  His consciousness surpassed what remained of the Desolates’, progressing one step further due to surpassing his limit. This consciousness phenomenon sparkled around his body briefly before the corresponding factors poured towards the cycle of reincarnation within the Ancestral Wild.

  The glorious golden mass of light twitched briefly as if a universal Cord of Truth had just been stimulated.

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