57: Chapter 60 008 The Mediating Angel, 009 The Nightmare of the Spirit Mushroom! [Bonus Chapter for Donations]

High in the air, the illusory spirit body gradually solidified.

Burning flames slowly unfolded behind him, transforming into wing-like entities.

"Mm…"

However, just as Su Xiu nodded in satisfaction,

the expanding wings suddenly stalled.

Flames!

did not distribute evenly to both sides to split into six wings as Su Xiu had planned.

Instead, they converged on a single side.

Furthermore, they expanded and extended, turning into wings taller than a person.

"A single-sided angel?"

Su Xiu's gaze froze slightly, and he furrowed his brows.

Regarding this sequence, he had actually intended to forge it into a Seraph.

Six wings and two heads!

Reborn in the flames.

With a holy soul able to ascend to heaven, it was an emissary of God and a god-like creation.

It was very difficult to forge a second divinity with the existing resources.

However, he could try something close to divinity.

And tracing back from the Seraph as a base point, it might even pull in some omniscient and omnipotent Supreme Being!

This would make future writing and modeling easier.

However~

The idea was wonderful, but reality was harsh.

From the appearance of this sequence, one could roughly tell that Su Xiu's plan had likely failed.

Among orthodox angels, none had a single-sided wing, and only one at that!

Even in medieval mythology, the most bizarre-looking angels were quite dense in terms of wings.

Streamers of light flashed.

Lines of text alternately formed on the white paper,

Confirming Su Xiu's guess.

[008 Mediator Angel]

[Rank: Unknown]

[Ability: Mediation]

[When a battle breaks out, it will actively step forward to stop the combat. It possesses the ability to burn its soul in exchange for higher power. The tougher the will, the more terrifying the climbing power, and there is no end to it.]

[When it can no longer bear the climbing power, the entity will shatter in the firelight, but it will not perish. After a certain period of time, as long as the flames of war still exist in the world, it will be reborn in the firelight.]

[Power stems from war, but its birth is not for war, but solely for peace!]

[Flaw: None]

[Project Rating: Unknown]

[Current Status: Available for Deployment]

[...]

"Mediator Angel?"

Su Xiu smacked his lips. What could he say?

Should he say that Alan's will was too strong?

Using this as the core carrier,

it directly influenced the effect orientation of the sequence.

Although it was unexpected, it was also within reason.

Actually, compared to this accidental, sporadic harvest,

another item—materials harvested from the demon dragon—

was what Su Xiu had always been thinking about.

[Nightmare Essence - Fear]

[Supernatural Material]

[The essence extracted by the demon dragon harvesting thousands of lifeforms and their fear within nightmares. Within the pure ultimate nightmare power, accompanied by the wailing of thousands of dead souls, it possesses a peculiar evolutionary power, but it always develops in a non-human direction.]

[...]

The one hundred thousand lifeforms in the star-ascending ship, coupled with sporadically occurring Nightmare Entities everywhere, and the large-scale outbreak of disasters in Xijing,

forged together the crystal of fear.

This was originally a special material for the demon dragon to absorb so that it could turn from virtual to real and descend from the shadows into the current world. However, Paper Kite intervened horizontally, trapping it in a bubble of seven-layer dreams, not to mention

hollowing out its entire foundation and turning it into a material carrier in Su Xiu's hands.

Of course!

Taking advantage of the demon dragon's slumber to fleece some conceptual materials from it was also indispensable.

Things like "Demon Dragon's Blood", "Demon Dragon Scales", "Demon Dragon's Claws"… Needless to say about the messy stuff, all the substances materialized from the shadows after the demon dragon absorbed fear were harvested by Paper Kite.

They turned into materials in Su Xiu's hands.

Then!

Under his operation, they turned into a freshly baked sequence anomaly.

[009 Nightmare Ganoderma]

[Rank: Unknown]

[Ability: Alienation]

[A quasi-life aggregate that can survive in almost any environment. After being consumed by a lifeform, it will produce alienation phenomena, continuously alienating from the body to the essence until death. This process carries extreme risks, and the alienation is irreversible.]

[Note: Will the dawn descending in desperation truly be salvation?]

[Flaw: Unable to live independently]

[Project Rating: Unknown]

[Current Status: Available for Deployment]

[...]

"Hmm?"

"Did it fail?"

Su Xiu couldn't help but furrow his brows.

The Mediator Angel was barely satisfactory, possessing decent strength. Coupled with the characteristic of immortal resurrection, it was barely worth messing with, and perhaps had a promising future.

But the Nightmare Ganoderma?

It could basically be vetoed with a big cross.

He had actually written this sequence as a heavenly treasure.

The purpose was to fertilize the leek garden.

The emotions produced by ordinary people were simply too weak, and nationwide evolution was imminent. Only by letting the leeks grow robustly would harvesting them be easier and smoother.

However, this plan seemed to have flipped over a bit too severely.

Enhancement!

Alienation!

The direction was barely on track.

But the side effects were simply too huge.

Not to mention the extremely high mortality rate, just the ceaseless alienation was already overwhelming.

Once activated, one could say they had embarked on the path to death.

It was barely okay for individual strengthening, but if used collectively, ninety-nine percent of the leeks would die out completely, which did not conform to the scientific outlook on development. He wasn't foolish enough to drain the pond to catch fish.

The effect of 009 obviously failed to meet expectations.

Just as Su Xiu intended to shatter it and rewrite it,

out of the corner of his eye,

he saw 001, which was monitoring the movements of the entire network through Gear, and his gaze paused on a certain piece of news above.

The sealing power flowing from his fingertips also stopped accordingly.

Flipping his right hand, he changed his original mind.

[009 Nightmare Ganoderma]

[Deploying]

——

What is despair…

Everyone has different insights.

They can even talk endlessly after gulping down half a cup of baijiu.

But for Chen Rao,

or rather, for him lying in a pool of blood,

that was marriage.

A ridiculous… marriage…

High betrothal gifts, an aggressive mother-in-law, and a wife who was already married.

Paying half a lifetime's savings as betrothal gifts,

only to find out after half a year of getting along that this was a bubble.

Everything had to start from him coming home half an hour early. The cake he carried in his hand was a surprise for the other party, but he didn't expect that the other party would turn around and give him a surprise—a colossal surprise!

Looking at the man crawling up from his wife, Chen Rao's lips trembled with anger.

Upon hearing his wife's address to him,

and knowing their identities, Chen Rao's hands and feet grew even colder.

"Husband?"

"Wife?"

What ridiculous addresses.

Before he could react, the woman threw a divorce agreement from the bedside table.

Amid a series of catastrophic blows,

he finally knew the truth: he was a ridiculous third party, and the two men and women on the bed had not only slept together but were also married… The absurd reality made it impossible for him to accept.

What happened afterward, Chen Rao could no longer remember clearly.

He only knew that he walked stumbling along the road.

Missing his footing, he fell head over heels, bleeding, and collapsed in a pool of blood without being able to muster even a shred of strength.

Heh…

I really am a coward.

Chen Rao inwardly spat at himself. If he had non-human power, he would definitely make these people die without a burial site.

Unfortunately, he did not.

He could no longer even muster any strength.

As blood loss increased, his consciousness gradually blurred, and his cowardly life seemed about to end in such a cowardly manner.

Just as his last wisps of consciousness sank into stupor,

Chen Rao, lying in the pool of blood and gazing up at the stars in the night sky, suddenly saw wisps of intertwined black smoke.

It was… the color of dreams… also the color of darkness…

Mycelium-like secretions

entwined and eroded along his body.

His cowardly body quickly turned into a hotbed for the mycelium, and an illusory, now-you-see-it-now-you-don't Nightmare Ganoderma hovered above him, emitting black Qi.

A black Qi that made people… palpitate with fear…