173. Chapter 173: Cearna.

Chapter 173 – Kearna

“It’s Sabelia.”

Heine murmured.

It would make sense if Quirkus had gotten his inspiration from Sabelia.

Sabelia disappeared over eight hundred years ago, when Quirkus had just invaded here with an alien species.

–For such a long-lived creature, plus or minus a few decades could be called “just”.

Eight hundred years have passed since then, and the civilized world has even changed its calendar.

Then, a few decades ago, the Law Lords built a communication station here.

After it was built, Quilcus quickly failed.

Then it remembered Sabelia’s research back then.

The School of Metamorphosis.

That’s why Sabelia was oblivious to it all.

He was still battling Eli on the Eagle’s Nest at that point.

Quirkus separated his consciousness and soul mass.

It wasn’t really the soul that was separated by Caeana, Mantis, and Wochi and the rest of them, but the soul mass.

That’s why they strengthened into bosses in one leap .
So the souls that returned to the center ground after their deaths were what they each looked like, not Quirkus’s soul.

Its consciousness was still hidden inside some protective shell that couldn’t be attracted by the Underworld and Shadow Realm together.

Regardless, this protective shell is a dead soul that has had its consciousness erased and only its soul mass remains.

“…… So, in order to open the door to the center, the complete soul mass of Quirkus is needed.”

Heine said to herself.

That was how it opened in the game.

He looked over at Cayenne, who was also looking at him.

“I heard everything you said to the pointy-eared one, so are you trying to save it?”

“Save it? You mean Quirkus?”

“Yes. It said that if someone could communicate with us like it did, that person would definitely be able to save it-if he wasn’t eaten by us. You were able to send a distress signal to us, and you weren’t eaten, so that would be you, right?”

It’s really a simple and rough precondition ……

Heine was speechless for a while as he asked again, “You can understand what I just said, right, saving it means I’m going to kill you, aren’t you afraid? You can still resist now.”

“Does resisting work?” Kaena cocked her head, “I said, I like you ah, just like those little ones like you.”

Heine got goosebumps again.

He knew it was meta-spiritual affinity at work.

Cayenne: “And don’t losers just get eaten? That’s our law of survival, nothing to complain about. It’s only you two-legged guys who resent when you’re weak, but don’t allow other weaklings to complain, and will even prey on your own kind so you can survive.”

Heine opened her mouth, so reasonable ……

I can’t believe I’m being educated by a bug.

Strong, resentful wild undead must be human.

No beast that has ever died by the law of the jungle has ever been a naturally resentful spirit.

Even Eli, who had been enslaved and imprisoned by Sabellia for so many years, had not mutated.

Surely people are still too complicated?

“Quirkus must have been good to you all?” He asked.

“Yeah, it’s a good tree.”

Sadness showed in Kaena’s eyes, “Otherwise our ancestors wouldn’t have left the swamp with it and come here.

“But it lived a painful life during that time, and it said it didn’t want to die either, but it was afraid something worse would happen …… So you want to do it now?”

Heine nodded.

“Sorry.”

“There’s nothing to apologize for.”

Cayenne beckoned, and a swarm of flying insects buzzed out of a nearby passageway, creating a bridge of insects between her and the high platform.

The height was nothing to the swarm.

So the crowd went up somewhat oppressively.

…

Mr. Summer: “Wow, how does this go down?”

Catch the Goat: “Indeed, if I had known I would have taught in Granite Town, what the hell is the point of getting together.”

Mr. Sa: “Say, will my big brother not be able to get off his ass and then have his brothers do it for him?”

Catch the Goat: “Shut the fuck up!”

…

And so, Heine handed the withered dagger to Mr. Xia.

“You do it.”

…

Mr. Xia: “Huh?”

Weidian Iris couldn’t help but be happy, “Mr. Sa, you’re really bad luck!”

That’s when the savior appeared. Gray Moon reached out and said, “It’s better to let me do it, I’m a cold-blooded person who shares no hatred with her.”

“Just as well.”

Heine nodded.

The dagger went to Graymoon’s hand.

Several people withdrew to the high platform at the speed of light, looking over the side warily.

Ashitsuki looked back breathlessly, then rejoined Cayenne’s eyes.

She couldn’t see an ounce of hatred; those eyes were uncomfortably clean.

A muffled grunt followed as the tip of the dagger stabbed through the bug mother’s heart.

Cayenne’s body quickly dried up, as if her essence had been sucked out by the dagger.

But in Heine’s field of vision, an illusory silver figure flew out of that bloated body.

Like a dragonfly, it flew in a circle around the treehouse, and after a brief pause on his shoulder it flew out of the house.

Heine chased after it, and several people followed in a hurry.

Outside, the entire mist of the Blighted Trace turned into wind and swept towards the central area.

Gray Moon stood on a tree, looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar land under the fog that had seen the light of day again, and had mixed feelings in her heart.

“Maybe he really can fix the blight ……”

She couldn’t help but look towards Heine’s back while gripping the dagger in her hand.

The “heartbeat” on it grew stronger.

…

“This copy entrance looks much more energizing than the one in the game.”

Standing in front of the solidified mist barrier, General Sa commented sharply:

“Maybe the strength of the monsters in here is also several levels stronger than in the game?”

Mr. Xia: “Shut up you crow’s mouth!”

While a few people were chatting, Heine was pretending to check.

The fog had shrunk inward by at least two thousand meters.

But even so, it hadn’t reached the center of the Blight Trail.

There was still no sign of Quirkus’ “shadow”.

“What should we do next? Should we go back and think about it?” Ashitsuki asked.

Heine: “There’s no need.”

Shake what people ah, here is already the entrance to the copy, directly mang is.

The world’s strongest strategy group is right behind him, so what else is there to be afraid of?
Heine greeted the crowd and took a big step forward.

As the fog successively engulfed everyone, the four skeletons suddenly stood in place, motionless.

Noticing that the connection had been severed, Heine stood fiercely still.

“No way???”

Yet the fog had engulfed everything.

There were no more skeletons in his field of vision.

The gray moon was gone as well.

Under the pupils of the dead, the wandering silver shattered light was like stars in the sky, darting back and forth.

But looking up at the sky, it was a thick leaden black color.

He understood what this fog was almost instantly ……

A small amount of Yuan material, a huge amount of spirit embers.

Putting the latter aside, the current fog environment was infinitely close to a fish pond.

As the skeleton stepped into the fish pond, they all fell asleep ……

It was too late for him to retreat even if he wanted to.

This fog clearly had oddities, not just as simple as blocking the field of vision, but also isolating perception.

He could no longer tell the direction.

Forget it, just go anywhere.

“Sa always so bad luck.”

Heine sighed, then picked a random direction.

He always had the pupils of the dead open.

Although the blackness above his head was overwhelming, it was obviously better to see something that moved than a static fog in this environment.

However, without taking two steps, he suddenly heard someone calling out to him, and the voice was getting closer and closer.

He stood still and looked around suspiciously.

It wasn’t long before a dragonfly-like silver flying insect approached and flew around him several times.

Heine held out his hand and let it rest on it.

“Heine?”

Heine was startled, “…… Cayenne???”

(End of chapter)