Chapter 1557
Chapter 1557: Crunch… Crunch… Crunch…
The slash integrated with the light and shadow of the Formless Hero, along with Eve’s attack from directly above using the Eternal Cutter, caused Xienzuo to hesitate for a fraction of a second.
It could feel that both of these attacks would cause it immense damage.
But as the saying goes, hesitation is defeat.
In that moment of hesitation, on the dial behind Lisette, who was still standing at the edge of the throne, the hour hand spun. The attacks, which should have given Xienzuo a moment to think about which one to block with all its might, arrived simultaneously at this very instant.
The Eternal Cutter slashed down in a spiral, actually severing one of the spider legs of the True God-level entity.
“What kind of weapon is this?!”
Xienzuo had clearly used its defense. In its eyes, even if this extremely fast robot could hurt it, it shouldn’t be able to directly sever its limb.
It was an existence comparable to a True God.
Aside from not possessing The End, and its power being bestowed by the Broodmother, how could its limbs be severed by such an attack?
It was that weapon.
That weapon flowing with a silvery-white astral stream!
[Void]
That endless slashing was the real reason its limb was severed!
But this was not over yet.
Because Ye Qiyan’s attack landed at the exact same time.
The slash of the Formless Hero, in the hands of Ye Qiyan who hadn’t triggered his Limit and whose Mental Power and Stamina Limits were only 2,500 points, still made Xienzuo bleed when paired with the Sword of Engraved Tears.
Insect blood.
Disgusting, viscous, and with a pungent odor.
“Ah!”
Humus Nestweaver, Gemurate Xienzuo.
Its true form was a spider.
A large hole had been blasted through its spider abdomen, and one of its limbs was cleanly severed.
Was this right?
This was highly unreasonable!
It was a True God-level entity!
These two attacks should have only been able to hurt it; even if it got injured, it shouldn’t have resulted in this!
“Human! Die!”
It roared, but failed to notice.
This anger, resentment, and roaring were filled with malice.
And this malice would be absorbed by the Wandering Hell, feeding back into its master, Ye Qiyan.
“I am Gemurate Xienzuo! I am a legion commander who can rival a True God!”
“Deputy.”
Ye Qiyan reminded it with a smile, continuing to grate on Xienzuo’s nerves.
[Bewitchment] × [Rebellion] × [Greed]
Xienzuo’s own malice was being absorbed by the Wandering Hell.
And Ye Qiyan was instilling new malice into it.
[“Come on, keep fighting. Don’t you want to become the Broodmother? You’re so close. Defeat me, and you will be the Broodmother~”]
There was no logic, no causal relationship.
Yet Xienzuo believed it anyway.
Because this was what Ye Qiyan had instilled in it…
[Infinity]
[Demon Card: Infinity – Starting Point]
“Ah!”
Without it noticing, its Mental Power was rapidly plummeting, pushing it closer to a state of complete madness with every passing second.
Ye Qiyan coordinated with his companions. Acting as the main attacker, he continued to influence Xienzuo with his Devil Cards while constantly switching the light and shadow integrated into the Sword of Engraved Tears.
Eve, holding the Eternal Cutter, looked for opportunities to slice off its limbs.
Spiders have eight legs, and Xienzuo also had eight, except there were eight more behind its half-human body.
Xienzuo did not fail to resist; its spider silk carried an extremely potent toxin. If exposed without protection, whether they were mechanical parts or demons, they would suffer immense damage or even drop dead on the spot.
But unfortunately for it~
The Villain’s Divine Core shield, by unleashing the Divine Core, could temporarily block the toxin’s intrusion for Ye Qiyan and the others.
And he had dozens of such shields.
In fact, they weren’t even consumables.
Shields whose Divine Cores were unleashed were cast to the rear of the battlefield.
They would automatically repair themselves after a while.
Xienzuo’s counterattack naturally didn’t stop there.
Carrying an extremely vast number of Machine-Soul Metal Spider-Insect eggs, it consumed its own Stamina to hatch them, reaching a count of millions in the blink of an eye.
But it was overestimating itself.
Why had Ye Qiyan refrained from using his ability to control mechanical parts to dismantle those spider-insects earlier?
Because this was the exact moment he had been waiting for.
[Supreme Lofty: Ring of Domination]
[Control of mechanical parts]
On the millions of spider-insects, those mechanized parts were forcefully twisted, altered, and separated!
[Mental Power: 2500 → 15 (Witness of Truth) (Shadow of Finality)]
“What did you do?!”
Xienzuo looked at this scene in disbelief.
“You… can control mechanical parts?!”
“Is that so strange?”
Ye Qiyan pulled out a fantasy white apple and took a bite. The Demon Maiden of Red Tears once again grasped the Sword of Engraved Tears, switching places with him so he could focus on dealing with these insects.
At the same time, Liangyue also brandished Moonveil and went to support Red Tears.
Xienzuo’s face was still that of a human, and a flush appeared on its face.
It wasn’t some maidenly blush, nor was it extreme shame.
Rather…
It was turning red.
Like a crab steamed red.
Its entire body was turning red.
“You could control the mechanical spider-insects all along?! But you never used it outside! You were setting me up!”
It rushed toward Ye Qiyan, but its massive body was entangled by soft slime mucus.
“Get off!”
It immediately broke free from Gluttony’s restraint, only to be pressed down by a descending Hurricane of Calamity.
One emerald-green plant after another erupted from the ground, wrapping around it frantically. Meanwhile, the mechanical spider-insects influenced by its will were disassembled and recombined by Ye Qiyan.
Then,
they were bestowed with a faint but rebellious intelligence.
[Calamity Card – Mechanical Crisis]
They reversed their direction of attack and lunged at Xienzuo.
Furious, Xienzuo continuously unleashed webs and poison.
Pillars of poison erupted from its body, but the spider-insects it had hatched now became its cage.
“Sigh.”
Ye Qiyan sighed softly, continuously using the powers of calamity and devils to inflict double blows on Xienzuo, both physically and mentally.
“Too weak.”
He thus complained about his own weakness.
“Without using Supreme and Unsurpassed to empower myself, without activating Transcendent, without triggering Limit, without using the Blasphemy Card… Alright, have I set too many restrictions on myself?
Or rather, have I looked down on this guy a bit too much?
It seems things have been going too smoothly for me lately, making me more and more arrogant.”
Xienzuo continued to spit silk, trying to use its webs to forcefully break free from the emerald surge of the [Viridescent World].
Its combat instincts were still there, even though its mental state was already one of madness and collapse.
Moreover, after seeing its own insects rebel against it, it actually calmed down all of a sudden due to an nameless fear.
[“Has my mind been affected?”]
Finally, it realized this.
But…
“Why resist so fiercely? Go have a beautiful dream, insect.”
[Calamity Card – Utopia]
Xienzuo fought with all its might to stay awake, but under Ye Qiyan’s devastation, its will was already in tatters, and its mental sea was riddled with holes.
malice lurked within, turning into a path that guided the power of [Utopia] into its mind.
In just an instant,
Xienzuo felt “happiness.”
[“Your Great Majesty, Broodmother Xienzuo! Under your leadership, the insect race is about to occupy the wilderness and prey on all the bloodlines within! The insect race is truly perfect!”]
Ah…
How happy…
[Reality]
Xienzuo stared with open eyes, its face filled with that smile of “happiness.”
Ye Qiyan came to its side and reached out to touch it.
[Humus Nestweaver, Gemurate Xienzuo]
[Status: happiness/Fear/Sadness/Joy…]
[Mental Power: 1 (Collapse) (Critical Value)]
[Stamina: 108,401]
“Gluttony, time to eat.”
[Demon Card – Gluttony]
[Life Conversion]
[True God: Mouth of Predation]
The slime mucus transformed into a mouth and bit down on Xienzuo.
With one bite, an arm was eaten; with two bites, a pair of compound eyes was devoured…
It was still alive.
And precisely because it was alive, it was the most delicious delicacy for Gluttony~
“Slowly drown in your happiness, trash insect. Aside from having a bit of strength, you aren’t even as troublesome as a False God.”
Crunch… Crunch… Crunch…
