Chapter 306: 6000°C and the Sound of a Heartbeat (Thanks to the Silver League)

Chapter 306 6000°C and the Sound of a Heartbeat (Thanks to Silver Alliance)

Alive.

After realizing that what Alice stepped on wasn’t any sludge at all, but some kind of living biological tissue, most of the people at the scene instantly developed a creepy feeling.

Duncan, on the other hand, found the substances writhing on the floor rather …… disgusting.

And immediately afterward, he heard Nina’s voice from not far away, “There’s one here too!”

“And over here!” Shirley also followed with an exclamation of surprise, “A large area here, and it’s still moving!”

In this mysterious and empty space, there was that kind of black, as if silt, but could slowly wriggle strange “matter” everywhere.

“There are …… everywhere here,” Vanna had silently taken the huge sword behind her back into her hand, and while looking around this extremely open “cabin” with a slight frown on her brow, she said in a particularly serious tone. Said, “Goddess Blessing …… What in the world is this thing?”

Morris forcibly endured the discomfort in his heart, came to a piece of slightly wriggling “mud” and squatted down next to it, and used the folding knife that he carried with him to turn over the edges of the sticky “mud”, and his brows were tightly wrinkled.

“I’ve never seen anything like this before, nor have I ever seen anything like this written in any book,” said the learned old scholar, his tone full of confusion and anxiety, “This thing looks like a living creature, but its texture is no different from mud, and… . it doesn’t seem to have any traces of spirituality.”

“Rather close to what Tirion described as being in one of the ‘three divers’.” Duncan said casually, while raising his head and looking deeper into this open cabin.

Nina, on the other hand, came to the edge of the group, and stood beside the depression in the floor where an unusually ‘vibrant’ looking mass of mud was slowly undulating in the glow of the fire emanating from Aye, bending down to look curiously at the disgusting substance.

She was a little nervous, but more curious than nervous.

And in the very next second, there was a sudden movement in the sludge!

As if it was a response to Nina’s gaze, and as if it was some kind of blindly moving creature finally being disturbed by this large group of uninvited guests in the cabin, the mud’s surging speed was suddenly accelerated, and right after that, a large amount of gas gushed out from inside, and foam rolled over on the surface of the mud – Nina was startled, and before she reacted, the mud suddenly stood up! The mud actually violently …… stood up!
Just like a lowly soft-bodied creature suddenly having bones, the dark, sticky substance stood upright from the pit, its surface rapidly hardened, condensed and changed color, in just the blink of an eye, it took on an almost human silhouette, and in the next instant, the top of it differentiated as if it were a head-like thing, and even surfaced a human face.

It was a face that was half a dozen times closer to Nina’s!
“Waaaah!” Nina instantly let out a loud scream in shock – even if she was not small in guts, even if she was cheerful and strong, she herself was actually only a teenage girl, and of course she was so frightened in front of such a horrifying and bizarre scene that her head went blank on the spot, and without even thinking about it, she instinctively lifted her hand and swung it in an attempt to push that horrible thing away from the eyes of that horrible thing.

It was a big bibi pocket with a temperature of 6,000°C.

The closest one was Shirley, who only heard Nina’s cry of alarm, followed by a deafening roar, and a blinding flash of heat filled her and Dog’s entire field of vision – accompanied by a shockwave of heat that was as if they were standing in the crater of a volcano in the midst of an eruption.

Nina had actually only slapped her, very briefly.

Yet the fireball from that slap almost melted and vaporized the entire spherical space in front of her with a radius of twelve meters.

Duncan turned his head just in time to see the blazing ball of fire rapidly dissipating in mid-air in front of Nina, while the bright molten slurry that had flowed down after the metal had melted was spread out in front of her, and the girl still seemed to be in a daze, standing frozen and motionless at this point in front of the horribly molten crater.

“What happened?” Duncan immediately came to Nina’s side and pressed one hand on the other’s shoulder while the remnants of the heat rose and drummed around him.

“Just …… now that lump of mud suddenly stood up and turned into me, I …… I was startled …… “Nina came back to her senses at this time, she shrunk her neck, her face was shocked, pointing at the direction where the weird thing was just now, “and then I hit it ……”

“And then?”

“And then it was gone,” Nina cried, still seeming a little scared, “I didn’t put any energy into it and this whole place turned to iron juice.”

Duncan looked blankly at the molten crater on the floor and the molten metal slurry running down the wall next to it, and then at the still tense Shard of the Sun.

No matter what that thing that just appeared and scared Nina, it was undoubtedly the one that was hurt the most – a 6000°C slap, even the evil gods of subspace would have to leave a psychological shadow that they would remember for the rest of their lives. ……

But he still pressed Nina’s hair, comforting this girl who had suffered a huge shock: “Don’t be afraid, it’s fine, that thing has been knocked out by you ……”

While saying this he turned back and glanced at the others who were in shock.

Shirley was shaking into a ball holding Dog, Maurice was pounding his chest silently, Alice had just picked up her head, and only Vanna was the most composed – she looked at Duncan and shrugged. “I will never speak to Nina out of the blue behind her in the future.” The Inquisitor, who had killed through an entire city-state, said with a solemn look on his face.

“It’s just a little accident,” Duncan rubbed Nina’s hair helplessly, and then his gaze fell back to the nearby mud that hadn’t been affected by Nina’s “Sun Fist”, and the next second, his expression changed slightly, “Wait, these seem to be the ones that are not affected by Nina’s “Sun Fist”. “Wait, these things don’t seem right.”

With Duncan’s reminder, the others also finally noticed the change in the “mud” spread throughout the entire cabin – all the mud stopped writhing.

All the mud stopped writhing.

These things, which had been wriggling and contorting like soft-bodied creatures not long ago, had somehow come to a standstill, as if the mud had dehydrated and turned into dry lumps, and the edges of all the lumps had extended into tiny, branch-like bumps, as if something had attempted to escape from the mud, and in the process of escaping, had left a trail indicating the direction in which it had fled.

Vanna’s eyes darted across the surrounding area, and in just a few seconds, she realized that all the traces extending from the edge of the mud seemed to be pointing in the same direction.

In the deepest part of the dark, vast “cabin”.

“There’s something in that direction.” Vanna said immediately, while gripping the huge sword in her hand.

At the same time, Duncan also turned his gaze to the deepest part of the darkness.

A thin green line of fire quietly extended under his feet, and when it touched the dry and solidified “mud” on the floor, it instantly burned brightly, turning into piles of “bonfires”, which rapidly spread throughout the cabin, turning many of the originally darkened areas into “bonfires”. Such bonfires spread rapidly throughout the cabin, instantly lighting up many originally dark areas!
Duncan looked at the scene of the “bonfire” spreading, and in his heart, he confirmed his initial guess – these mud-like things are the cohesion of transcendental power.

In the gradually spreading spiritual flames, the cabin, which was too wide to be illuminated by Ai’s firelight, finally revealed more secrets to everyone’s eyes.

They saw the horrible pitted bulkheads in the distance, as if they had been eaten by some kind of acid or erosive creatures; they saw the ropes, pipes, and suspicious bundles of dark-red fibers falling down from the overhead; they saw a greater number of “mud clusters” that had already lost their vitality; and they also saw the deepest part of the cabin! —

There, in the deepest part of the cabin, a huge, vaguely outlined mass was perched in a disconcerting position, the edges of which seemed to be slowly writhing.

After a moment’s pause, Duncan stepped toward the huge, grotesque “pile”.

He didn’t let his psychic flames consume and burn the pile – even though he knew it was supposed to be burnable “transcendental firewood” – but he wasn’t going to destroy any clues until he knew what it was.

The others were visibly hesitant, but seeing that Duncan was already striding forward, they quickly followed.

“Pfft-“

Just as Duncan was halfway there, a sudden sound made everyone subconsciously stop in their tracks.

Maurice looked up in the direction from which the sound came and realized that the plopping sound that seemed like a heartbeat was the very same movement that came from the depths of the dark pile that was several meters high.

Duncan stopped as well, gazing intently at the eerie pile, sensing the aura floating around the object.

It did not bring any sense of danger to himself.

So he took a few more steps forward.

“Pfft …… pfft ……”

A heartbeat pulsing more distinctly and more forcefully than a moment ago came from deep within the pile, which seemed to be writhing around the edges more distinctly than it had a moment ago, to the point where even the entire surface began to slowly undulate.

Duncan frowned, and just then he heard Shirley’s voice suddenly ring out behind him:
“Dog, Dog what’s wrong with you?!”

(Thanks to Charlie’s non-vegetarian silver moe, I finally held this chapter in~)

(End of this chapter)