It was as if the entire world had changed after midnight.
Laughter disappeared without a trace and was replaced by endless despair and suffering. Even breathing was filled with pain, regret, and self-blame. Countless unsightly past events surfaced in one's mind and became nightmares that lingered in one's mind in the middle of the night, haunting one's heart.
It was as if one had accidentally remembered the mistakes they had made before falling asleep.
Then, one had to be prepared to bid farewell to sleep.
In the midst of self-blame and regret, one would constantly struggle with the mistakes one had made due to stupidity. In the end, one would be exhausted, close one's eyes in tears, and regret and apologize endlessly in the silence.
I'm sorry for being born as a human.
But in truth, Huai Shi was feeling great.
He would never apologize. Not only did he not want to apologize, he even felt a little shameful sense of accomplishment.
Even if his mood was unavoidably terrible, he could feel power gushing out from his limbs and bones. The negative energy engine had been strengthened like never before.
Even the excitement of the soul had led to the eruption of divinity, causing the Ultimate's digestion of the Eternal Beast's flesh to temporarily increase by six percent!
Helios was really a good place!
Good mountains, good water, even the air was nourishing …
For a moment, he even wanted to set up a tent here and not leave. But that could not offset the sense of danger that kept rising in his mind, and everything that Supreme could sense.
It was like the echo of bats.
He could sense the movements from all directions from the countless tiny vibrations on the floor.
Thousands of distorted footsteps crawled in the darkness. When he closed his eyes, he could sense countless strange tremors from the faint echo of the Hate Water.
An invisible behemoth was moving in the darkness.
When Huai Shi took a risk and took off a glove, his five fingers could sense the strange torrent that was silently surging in the darkness from the echo of the wind.
It was sticky, wriggling, and restless …
Everywhere.
It was just a passive perception, but it was as if he could feel the discomfort of his body sinking into the mud bit by bit.
The gift of the Dark Windbreaker brought the best protection.
Even without divinity, the Great Si Ming was still the Great Si Ming. It perfectly protected his existence in the darkness. After retracting all of his presence, he almost disappeared into nothingness.
It blended into the darkness like an inconspicuous piece of iron and stone. It did not attract the attention of that damned thing.
However, someone had made the worst choice.
— Light the lamp.
In the distance, on the spacesuit, the originally turned off headlights were turned on by the panicked explorer.
Then, it lit up the countless colors floating in the air.
It was like ink swimming in water, inextricably linked and everywhere. The moment the light appeared, it seemed to have sensed something and instantly shrunk towards the place where the light was.
As a result, the invisible space seemed to have substance as well. Thousands of strands of darkness entangled the terrified explorer like a frenzied palm, shrinking inch by inch and "clenching"!
Only the sound of cracking could be heard.
The defensive border relic was instantly shattered.
A painful shriek rang out, piercing everyone's eardrums.
"Go away! Go away! "
Alchemist roared hoarsely and waved his hands. Ignoring the spacesuit on his body, he forcibly activated the arcanum engraved on his arms and body, burning the cumbersome spacesuit.
Immediately, a large amount of grease-like flames emerged from his burnt body, spreading wildly in all directions.
However, the flames that could instantly incinerate steel could not disperse the darkness.
Instead, it mixed with the dancing viscous substance, plating it with an eerie color. Just like that, it shrunk instantly, and only a final cracking sound could be heard.
The grease-like flames leaked out of the chewing darkness, spreading and illuminating the dull silhouettes that were immersed in sorrow nearby.
Exposed —
Crack!!!
In that instant, the dancing darkness seemed to come alive, twitching spasmodically and hissing as if steel was rubbing against each other. Thousands of scarlet eyes appeared within, opening and looking at all directions.
Like a rag that rose into the air, it shrouded over their heads and slowly shrunk, squeezing out a rainstorm of blood that converged and formed a river on the ground.
The river of blood surged and followed a preset sequence, devouring all the corpses on the ground, melting everything unrelated and turning them into a viscous paste that raged and surged.
Even the relics of the border were dissolved in it.
Now, both darkness and blood were converging towards a predetermined mark — on the ground, in the corpse of the last survivor, it drilled into the mouth and nose, occupying all space, causing the heart that had lost its vitality to beat again, growing abnormally.
It caused the face that was distorted in fear to come alive again.
In that instant, he, no, 'it' opened its eyes.
As tears of blood flowed, the corners of its mouth slowly curled into a smile that was full of happiness.
The last step of the alchemy secret ritual had begun!
"This is impossible …"
The alchemist beside him fell into a daze, unable to accept the bizarre change.
Or rather, he finally understood what was going on.
Those who ran here, those alchemists who hid near the kingdom's gate, were not 'survivors' or 'fish that escaped the net' at all. They were 'guards' who were deliberately thrown here!
Like vicious dogs that were chained in front of the door, they unwittingly became puppets of the mastermind behind the scenes.
It was a trap …
From the beginning, those people could not escape the control of the nightmare.
The so-called lingering at death's door was nothing more than a part of a cruel plan.
Someone let them live here on purpose, suffering torment, lingering at death's door amidst hallucinations and pain, falling into this living hell day after day.
Like seeds planted in fertile soil, they took root and sprouted, bearing ugly fruits.
They were turned into alchemy subjects.
Through the environment after Helios went out of control, the survivors were tormented, like force-feeding them with pain, joy, despair, and happiness.
In the end, this hellish space was turned into a 'furnace', igniting an invisible flame and intensifying the source substances that had split along with the spirit, creating seeds of disaster from the souls of the people.
Even the relics of the border here were turned into supplies for the seeds.
In the instant that a sea of miracles turned into disaster, the soul of the last person would be destroyed, and a brand-new monster would break out of its shell!
It was a large group of man-made hell, a freak that was comparable to the 'wearers' even though there was only one person!
It was a famous forbidden ritual in alchemy.
[Spirit of Aberration Rebirth!]
"This is … troublesome."
Izzy put out her cigar and sighed in amazement.
Only the 'novice' alchemist Huai Shi was puzzled. He didn't understand what was going on at all. He only knew that the scene suddenly cut to the boss' appearance animation, and he was dumbfounded.
He just wanted to run away.
"The spirit of aberration rebirth is born by relying on the curse of the dead, and its nature is ever-changing. It can be said that there are absolutely no similarities, and unless it's completely destroyed, it can't be killed …"
Izzy lowered her voice and explained, "But what's more troublesome is that this should be a technique unique to the great master, Pubrus!"
This was what all the alchemists couldn't accept.
Because Publius had died long before they had left the moon!
And before he died, he was imprisoned by the president of the Astronomy Association for seventy years …
So, what was it that appeared here at this moment?
"Run, Huai Shi."
Izzy took a step back. "It'll be troublesome if you get entangled by that thing."
Screams followed.
It was Rachel …
Accompanied by the sound of a corpse bursting, the spirit of aberration broke out of its shell, and the indefinite viscous darkness covered that thing like flesh and blood, constantly dripping.
Like a centipede that had expanded thousands of times, it stretched out dozens of incomparably slender limbs and quickly crawled out, rushing straight towards … Rajer!
"Give it back … to me!!!"
A human face seemed to emerge from the squirming darkness, and its scarlet eyes stared at Rachel, not letting go. Rachel ran wildly in panic, taking out some unknown potion from his pocket and injecting it into his body at an incredible speed.
Then, he clenched his teeth and took out something like a dagger from his backpack.
"— Praise the name of Asclepius!"
Although it hurt, he couldn't care less.
He chanted the activation spell and threw the dagger without looking back. The dagger, carved with two snakes, flew in the air and stabbed straight at the spirit of aberration behind him.
Like a red-hot iron nail, it quickly stretched and pierced into its waist, nailing it to the ground. The curse from the Greek God of Medicine caused the huge monster to become stiff, and a gray stone color appeared on its body.
It couldn't kill it, but it made it more violent.
It struggled with all its might, causing cracks to appear on its petrified body …
Before Rachel could breathe a sigh of relief, he saw its mouth open, and a waterfall of viscous mud gushed out, swallowing him. It surged and pulled, not allowing him to escape.
"Help! Help! "
In the mud, he struggled wildly, calling for help, but no one paid him any attention.
Including the alchemists of the Stonecauldron Society, they all retreated.
Such indifference made him collapse, and he screamed, "You can't do this, the great grandmaster still needs me … I won't tell anyone … You can't do this! You're ungrateful!!! "
But the five alchemists of the Stonecauldron Society were still unmoved. They only protected the most important 'jet' and quickly retreated.
"Rachel, the great grandmaster's contract with you has been completed," the leader told him. "You brought about your own death because of your own greed. He doesn't owe you anything."
Rachel's expression suddenly changed, and he roared with resentment, "You want to silence me! You're delusional! I have a backup of those things, I have … "
But no matter how he roared, the alchemists had already indifferently disappeared into the darkness.
In despair, he could only look at Huai Shi with pleading eyes.
Huai Shi could only shrug helplessly.
He held the boundary marker in his hand.
Brother, I've already made a hearthstone here.
You're on your own …
As soon as he realized that something was wrong, Huai Shi immediately hid in a corner and prepared to return to the city. His movements were fast, and his reaction was fast.
Now, with the flickering of the boundary marker, a light had already risen and covered him.
The next second, he appeared on the bridge of the Leviathan's Son …
It should have been like this, but if all the changes in the world were as expected, there would be no 'accidents' to speak of.
The moment the light dissipated, Huai Shi only heard a crisp sound from his hand.
He wasn't teleported away with a 'biu' sound.
He was still in the same place!
Huai Shi lowered his head in shock, and his eyes widened.
His boundary marker had actually shattered?
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