Chapter 1846: Chapter 1843: King of the Shoggoths
Han Dong wrapped in a furry polar bear coat, walked at the front of the team.
Truth Magic Sword, full name “Trandis’s Lost Demon Sword, Eraser of Truth”
Hovering beside him, occasionally changing position automatically,
The sword’s body would also tilt to various degrees, as if nodding, like adjusting its posture.
No matter how the cold wind howled, no matter how low the temperature, the Truth Magic Sword was entirely unaffected by any freezing.
Moreover, as Han Dong used it over time, the fluid on the sword’s surface manifested a turbulent state, while also enveloped by an aura symbolizing eternal death.
Pope suddenly asked:
“Nicholas, the opponent is unaffected by the domain and immune to magic… can your mental attack really be effective?”
“I wasn’t sure if it would work at the time.
My [Mad Laugh] just had a breakthrough recently, and I was planning to find a target to test its effect. Such a Dead Spirit that emerged between shattered dimensions was an ideal experimental target.
So I made a hypothesis, if it doesn’t work, crush the target along with its skull.
If it does work, keep the skull for my use.
… Unexpectedly, it actually worked.”
“How is the skull currently?”
“Still eroding, progressing slower than expected. I’ll extract the information once it’s fully eroded… judging from the current situation, the other team should be advancing from the opposite side of the [Frozen Land] like us.
If they are strong enough, we might meet in the center of this frozen land.
Furthermore, since these Dead Spirits are absolutely hostile towards us, let’s just kill our way through, don’t leave any bunker along the way untouched.
This can weaken their power and collect some intelligence.
If they send reinforcements, we’ll consider changing the route, though with you here Pope, that’s not a concern.”
Pope nodded in affirmation of Han Dong’s deduction, “Hmm…”
Having had first contact, and with Han Dong able to execute in one move, everyone felt relatively reassured.
Heading to the next bunker, Eugenes, wrapped in a black flesh coat, proactively stepped forward.
The breath expelled from his mouth alone could add a unique scent to this frozen land.
“Let me try this time… just as the number of Dead Spirits isn’t many, it’s a good time to get familiar with them.”
“Okay.”
Han Dong moved aside, letting Eugenes step into the [Square Fort] first.
He also wanted to see Eugenes’s development during this time period,
After all, Eugenes also benefited from the last incident, obtaining M.O.’s arm and reaching a deeper understanding of the Demon Book.
By birth,
Eugenes was hailed as ‘the Elder Race’s top biological masterpiece’, ‘the most perfect different demon species’. He is the most elite and unique existence among the Shoggoths… In simple terms, he could even be called the Shoggoth clan’s prince.
He was the only one in his youth to pass through the deep of Meat Mountain, achieving perfect Elder Race qualification.
He gained another top masterpiece left behind by the Elder Race – [Colorful Evil Eye], which perfectly fused on a genetic level to become his main eyeball.
In terms of talent,
Eugenes managed to rank fifth among the strongest batch in nearly a century or even a millennium “Ten Elements”, without any support behind him. (Eugenes originally had the chance to fight for fourth, but unfortunately encountered Aslan in the finals, regrettably defeated)
Nowadays, Eugenes won the London game and obtained the Demon Book as a reward.
He indeed has the qualification to chase or even someday confront Green head-on.
…
Though the Square Fort had different appearances, its internal structure was almost identical.
Gradually approaching the center along the passage.
This time there was no Skull Head actively greeting them as they approached the bunker’s activity room…
Crack crack~ Crispy scratching sounds entered everyone’s ears, seemingly carving something, perhaps scraping bones.
Eugenes, walking first, had no intention of stopping.
Just then, Han Dong, who was behind him, gently reminded:
“There is no proper level assessment standard for Dead Spirits here.
One-on-one, King-Level can comprehensively restrain Dead Spirits using ‘King Domain’, then use relatively special methods to erase them.
Since we haven’t become kings yet, mythical fields are ineffective against these guys. Plus, they have magic immunity characteristics, so we can only kill them through close-range means… The risks are greatly increased.
Eugenes, try to use your trump card, and kill quickly.
The longer the fight drags, the more disadvantageous it gets.”
Eugenes, indifferent to Han Dong’s goodwill reminder, simply ignored him.
When reaching the activity room in the bunker center, there was remarkably a nameplate set here, labeled [Bone Engraver- Bard Guhan]
Similarly, only one Dead Spirit remained here,
Wrapped in a brown cloth robe, the hunched figure was sitting at a stone table.
The exposed ice crystal hand appeared somewhat dry, suggesting that he was an elder when alive,
Holding a delicate bone carving knife, carving some ice ball in front of the stone table… sculpting it into an intricate skull shape.
Various bone-form ice sculptures scattered within the room, indicating an intense obsession with ‘bones.’
At the moment Eugenes crossed the door,
A ‘cold connection’ formed at that same instant between him and the dead elderly,
Eugenes’s eye also spotted ice-blue threads all over the room, connecting to all parts of his body.
“Killed [Cold Breath] that woman so quickly… Seems I need to seriously deal with you youngsters. How rare, a mythic body reaching such a level.”
Speaking.
The bone engraver with the bone carving knife scraped in empty air.
Crack crack.
The clear sound of bone scraping spread.
Thud!
Eugenes suddenly dropped to one knee.
Watching from outside, Han Dong frowned,
because he detected that the recent bone-scraping action directly led to Eugenes’s lower leg bone being scraped away,
Leaving ice crystal bone spurs between muscles, rendering this leg completely useless.
Another round of bone-scraping sound followed.
Eugenes’s other leg was also ruined, kneeling on both knees.
“Alright, next up are the arms.”
Bard continued extending the knife, scraping like before… Then something unusual happened~ Crack!
A stuck-like sound was heard, as if the bone was too hard to scrape,
or more like the knife was bitten down by a mouth.
With green hair draping down and covering much of his face, Eugenes spoke in a dismissive and hoarse voice:
“Dead Spirits… only have this level? The king’s arm can’t be scraped.”
Said.
Eugenes’s right arm inflated and warped suddenly.
Layers of rotten flesh and rubber stacked together, growing as if cancerously at rapid speed.
In the seams of flesh, an extremely horrifying corpse-eating mouth formed, continuously gnawing at the surrounding space,
The surface of the whole arm was also drawn with lines of [Cannibalism Doctrine] from the original Demon Book, demonstrating a sense of unity.
Slap!
He grasped the elder sitting at the center.
This scene made Han Dong and Pope widen their eyes.
The well-read Pope also perceived the issue within this situation, even feeling a crisis of possibly being surpassed by Eugenes.
“This should be the high-level secret skill recorded in the Scripture of the Corpse Eating Cult – ‘Live Food Processing’.
Unexpectedly, Eugenes has already learned such an art… Through live consumption of M.O.’s arm, perfect absorption, reconstruction, and doctrinal processing within the church of cannibalism.
Preserving the arm’s original traits while receiving a more perfect and better suited personal arm.”
Caught hold of, Bard couldn’t manage to scrape bones or take any escape action.
The Ghoul King’s hand had already begun physical squeezing, mouths embedded in the palm synchronizing in devouring.
When his grip completely tightened, the Bone Engraver was also entirely consumed.
Burp!
Eugenes burped out a foul and chilling full belch,
Reached into his throat to extract a skull covered in yellow stomach acid, handing it to Han Dong.
“I didn’t perform consciousness devour, it should be still usable.”