After sending the message, Yi Fengchu stood up and once again pinched that curled, peculiar tentacle between his fingers, muttering softly, “So the fish I ate in my dreams before was actually a long dead corpse?”
This was precisely why he had been confident in instructing Luo Shengle to summon him within the Holy Son of the Sea Tide’s dream, evidence suggested that the Holy Son truly feared him and had been utterly reduced to prey in their confrontation.
After all, even its tentacles had been treated as stored rations, eaten and taken away in one neat package…
Since the phone was blocked by a similar unknown force and could not channel more power into the instance, he had no way to resolve the Holy Son of the Sea Tide in reality. Then he would simply continue the previous “hunt” within the dream.
“I’m really curious what state I’m in while dreaming. How am I this ferocious, casually gnawing on a true god’s offspring?”
Even Yi Fengchu himself found this strange. But ever since the phone came into his possession, the abnormalities manifested on him were already numerous enough that this one more hardly stood out. He merely remarked on it casually, without obsessively digging for the truth.
Joke aside, if he had to investigate every anomaly and understand them all immediately, he would have aged ten years by now.
Yi Fengchu firmly believed that when fate reached the right moment, he would naturally come to understand everything he ought to know. Thus, he never forced the issue.
Setting the matter aside, Yi Fengchu instead recalled the unusually rich, fragrant taste from his dream and couldn’t help swallowing a mouthful of saliva.
Hunger surged like a furnace freshly stoked with firewood, blazing fiercely in his abdomen and scorching his nerves.
Closing his eyes, Yi Fengchu finally overcame the psychological barrier and took a decisive bite of the tentacle…
To his surprise, there was none of the briny fishy taste he had imagined. Instead, it was smooth and gently sweet, like finely mashed red bean paste.
As for the eyeball like structures inside the suction cups, they tasted like bursting caramel pearls, rich, sugary sweetness sliding down his throat, silently soothing the hunger that burned like open flames.
Yi Fengchu’s eyes lit up at once and he couldn’t help taking a second bite.
【How does it taste?】 the phone asked.
While his cheeks worked nonstop as he chewed, Yi Fengchu found the time to reply, “You know… this thing actually tastes really good. Kind of like sesame seaweed flavor…”
Truly, one couldn’t judge a god by appearances. It looked so shabby yet it was unexpectedly delicious.
Chewing absentmindedly, Yi Fengchu finished the entire tentacle without realizing it. He stared at his now empty palm and let out a slow sigh.
He would miss it, sesame seaweed, no, the Holy Son of the Sea Tide.
Just as Yi Fengchu was still savoring the lingering taste, the phone suddenly spoke again:
【If I were to say that you entering the instance and deploying high level power might cause some unnecessary trouble… would you still want to save her?】
“Not her” Yi Fengchu replied as he leaned back onto the sofa in a relaxed posture. “I’m saving ‘them.’ I don’t have a fetish for watching corpses remain trapped in instances forever, endlessly nourishing fish.”
“If I keep standing by time and time again without making any change, then what’s the difference between me and those lofty, aloof gods I despise?”
After a brief thought, Yi Fengchu smiled. “The trouble you’re referring to, are they the enemies you’ve been avoiding in the Gods’ Amusement Park?”
The phone fell silent for a moment.
【…You guessed already?】
“Isn’t it obvious?” Yi Fengchu sounded genuinely surprised. “You wouldn’t seriously assume that just because I don’t spell everything out, I’m some thoughtless idiot, would you?”
“By using the phone to contact player after player, you’re clearly searching for something across different instances.”
“But you’re unable to infiltrate too much power directly and can only influence instances through indirect means. That can only mean there’s a hostile force within the Gods’ Amusement Park that you’re wary of… Am I wrong?”
【You’re not wrong.】
The phone asked again,
【So even knowing the risks, you still insist on resolving this instance?】
【Why? Because of pitiful human notions of justice and compassion?】
Yi Fengchu interlaced his fingers and rested them behind his head, answering casually, “If I have to give a reason, you can think of it this way…”
“I feel like changing my palate with some Holy Son of the Sea Tide.”
As he spoke, he smiled faintly. Behind the upturned corners of his lips, a pair of sharp canine teeth were revealed. At a glance, they resembled venom filled fangs of a serpent, silently crying out with appetite.
That night, Yi Fengchu fell asleep early.
Just like the previous night, in the hazy boundary between waking and dreaming, he felt a light, drifting sensation, as though shedding his skin and breaking free from the heavy shell of his everyday body.
His soul rose like mist or like a small boat freed from its moorings, weightless as it wandered toward the distance.
He passed through cities, wilderness, deserts;
Strolled beneath profound starry skies, between worlds of countless hues…
Until finally, he arrived above a boundless ocean.
Just as Yi Fengchu was about to plunge headfirst into the deep sea, an ethereal song rose from the ocean’s surface, distant and haunting like the chant of a siren. The winding melody rolled up vast sea fog, forming a hazy veil that disrupted Yi Fengchu’s perception.
The song swelled, like waves being pushed higher and higher, until its pitch reached a peak. In that instant, fierce winds and torrential rain descended together.
White violet lightning tore through the night, weaving an enormous net across the chaotic heavens, draping it over the sea. The blinding electric light illuminated the dark ocean below, attempting to bar the approach of a powerful enemy.
To make ships lose their way at sea, trapping them within layers of fog, was the trick most favored by the children of the ocean.
Under such conditions, even Yi Fengchu found it difficult to discern direction. The anchor point tied to his connection also became blurred, causing his movements to stall slightly.
His thoughts muddled, he shook his head amid the rising tide and caught sight of his current form,
The first thing that came into view were two massive “discs” blazing like burning suns yet gleaming with an inorganic chill.
Yi Fengchu froze for a moment before realizing that these were his eyes, brilliant as molten, flowing gold, vast as twin suns rising from the sea.
These molten gold serpent pupils were set within the body of a colossal snow silver serpent. Countless scales opened and closed in subtle rhythms, like gently pulsing gills. Beneath those scales, either identical golden eyes opened or slender silver serpents extended outward.
The silver snakes intertwined and coiled around one another, prostrating themselves beneath the giant serpent. From afar, they resembled an immense serpent nest, slithering as they supported that boundless body, as though escorting Him through the deep night.
“King of the Serpent Host”
The honorific Luo Shengle had given him in a flash of inspiration was, unexpectedly, astonishingly accurate.
Ah, right. Luo Shengle?
He seemed to have come here to find this human, didn’t he?
Yi Fengchu suddenly recalled this. His serpent pupils contracted, fixing an unfriendly gaze upon the waves and fog obstructing his path.
Perhaps sensing the threat, the siren like singing dispersed in the air trembled, shrinking briefly in volume, as though gripped by fear.
Hiss… hiss hiss….
The singing faded away, replaced by low, hoarse hissing sounds, accompanied by the cold rasp of scales grinding against one another, echoing slowly across the surging sea.
Even the fog seemed stricken with panic. As the host of serpents advanced, it retreated bit by bit.
At the same time, Luo Shengle had already entered the Holy Son of the Sea Tide’s dream.
Unlike her first visit, filled with confusion and terror, this time she went straight to the point, attempting to summon Mr. Narrator.
Since ancient times, any language that established a connection with the divine could be heard but to summon a god to personally descend, even the most audacious heretic would never dare act casually or disrespectfully.
Although Mr. Narrator seemed unconcerned with ritual formalities, Luo Shengle could not possibly treat it lightly.
Moreover, if a ritual could strengthen the mystical connection and aid His descent, it would benefit her without harm.
“No matter what, it can’t be worse than becoming a god descendant’s sacrificial outlet for anger, trapped in this instance forever…”
She gave a self mocking laugh and began preparing to welcome the Narrator’s arrival.
Condensing wind into a thin, razor sharp blade, Luo Shengle aimed beneath her eye socket. Her wrist trembled slightly, then she plunged it in without hesitation!
The scent of blood awakened the small golden eyed snake coiled deep within her eyes. Scales brushed against her brow bone and the skin around her eyes yet strangely brought no pain at all. The snow white scales remained unstained by even a trace of blood.
The small white serpent emerged through the wound, crawling along Luo Shengle’s arm before reaching the ground.
At the same time, the aquarium slumbering in darkness seemed to sense danger. The ground began to quake violently.
Bang! bang! bang!
Aquarium tanks shattered violently. One pale corpse after another crawled out, shrieking as they wriggled toward Luo Shengle, dragging sticky trails of water behind them.
“Heretic… despicable heretic!” The drowned corpses extended colorless tongues, curses spilling indistinctly from their rotted throats.
They obeyed the will of the being that had granted them evolution, the Holy Son of the Sea Tide and swore to stop the descent of that terrifying existence at all costs. Their most urgent task was to destroy the ritual Luo Shengle was conducting.
Blood dripped steadily, staining Luo Shengle’s eyes red. Her vision began to blur, leaving her no strength to pay attention to the monsters attacking her. She focused solely on what lay before her.
The dreamscape offered limited materials but the blood of an ability user was itself a ritual medium of profound mystical significance.
Dipping her finger in blood, Luo Shengle carefully wrote the Narrator’s honorific before the small serpent, stroke by stroke. Then, under its calm gaze, she knelt deeply, praying with solemn reverence:
“Great Mr. Narrator, molten gold eyes that behold the future, King of the Silver Serpent Host, may blood pave the road of Your advance and may my body guide the direction of Your return…. ”
At that moment, the pale, bloated hands of the drowned corpses were nearly brushing her clothes and hair. Claws reached for her from all sides yet she ignored them completely, never even turning her head.
Blood poured from the wounds at her eye sockets, tracing lines down her devout, focused face and dripping onto the ground.
And falling together with the crimson drops was her grave invocation,
“Your humble believer stands here, welcoming Your descent!”
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Nycreth
[Translator]
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ChaptersChapter 1 · Mysterious letterChapter 2 · Divine MessagesChapter 3 · Gamer ForumChapter 4 · Invitation from GodChapter 5 · JudgeChapter 6 · TerminalChapter 7 · Destruction of recordsChapter 8 · Whale Bone Aquarium (1)Chapter 9 · Whale Bone Aquarium (2)Chapter 10 · Whale Bone Aquarium (3)Chapter 11 · Whale Bone Aquarium (4)Chapter 12 · Whale Bone Aquarium (5)Chapter 13 · Whale Bone Aquarium (6)Chapter 14 · Whale Bone Aquarium (7)Chapter 15 · Whale Bone Aquarium (8)Chapter 16 · Whale Bone Aquarium (9)Chapter 17 · Whale Bone Aquarium (10)Chapter 18 · Whale Bone Aquarium (11)Chapter 19 Part 1 · Whale Bone Aquarium (12)Chapter 19 Part 2 · Whale Bone Aquarium (12)Chapter 20 · Interlude: His ApostlesChapter 21 · Echoes in the pupa (1)Chapter 22 · Echoes in the pupa (2)Chapter 23 · Echoes in the Pupa (3)Chapter 24 · Echoes in the Pupa (4)Chapter 25 · Echoes in the Pupa (5)Chapter 26 · Echoes in the Pupa (6)Chapter 27 · Echoes in the Pupa (7)Chapter 28 · Echoes in the Pupa (8)Chapter 29 · Echoes in the Pupa (9)Chapter 30 · Echoes in the Pupa (10)Chapter 31 · Echoes in the Pupa (11)Chapter 32 · Echoes in the Pupa (12)Chapter 33 · Echoes in the Pupa (13)Chapter 34 · Interlude: Investigation by the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs (1)Chapter 35 · Interlude: Investigation by the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs (2)Chapter 36 · Interlude: Investigation by the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs (3)Chapter 37 · Small World: God’s Chessboard (1)Chapter 38 · Small World: God’s Chessboard (2)Chapter 39 · Small World: God’s Chessboard (3)Chapter 40 · Small World: God’s Chessboard (4)Chapter 41 · Advertisement Coming Soon (1)Chapter 42 · Advertisement Coming Soon (2)Chapter 43 · Advertisement Coming Soon (3)Chapter 44 · Advertisement Coming Soon (4)Chapter 45 · Advertisement Coming Soon (5)Chapter 46 · Advertisement Coming Soon (6)Chapter 47 · Advertisement Coming Soon (7)Chapter 48 · Advertisement Coming Soon (8)Chapter 49 · Advertisement Coming Soon (9)Chapter 50 · Advertisement Coming Soon (10)Chapter 51 · Advertisement Coming Soon (11)Chapter 52 · Advertisement Coming Soon (12)Chapter 53 · Advertisement Coming Soon to EndChapter 54 · Interlude – Tonight No One Sleeps (1)Chapter 55 · Interlude – Tonight No One Sleeps (2)Chapter 56 · Interlude – Tonight No One Sleeps (3)Chapter 57 · Interlude – Tonight No One Sleeps (4)Chapter 58 · Childhood Ghost Stories (1)Chapter 59 · Childhood Ghost Stories (2)Chapter 60 · Childhood Ghost Stories (3)Chapter 61 · Childhood Ghost Stories (4)Chapter 62 · Childhood Ghost Stories (5)Chapter 63 · Childhood Ghost Stories (6)Chapter 64 · Childhood Ghost Stories (7)Chapter 65 · Childhood Ghost Stories (8)Chapter 66 · Childhood Ghost Stories (9)Chapter 67 · Childhood Ghost Stories (10)Chapter 68 · Childhood Ghost Stories (11)Chapter 69 · Childhood Ghost Stories (12)Chapter 70 · Childhood Ghost Stories (13)Chapter 71 · Childhood Ghost Stories (14)Chapter 72 · Childhood Ghost Stories (15)Chapter 73 · Childhood Ghost Stories (16)Chapter 74 · Childhood Ghost Stories (17)Chapter 75 · Childhood Ghost Stories (18)Chapter 76 · Childhood Ghost Stories (19)Chapter 77 · Childhood Ghost Stories (20)Chapter 78 · Childhood Ghost Stories (Complete)Chapter 79 · Interlude: His Kingdom (1)Chapter 80 · Interlude: His Kingdom (2)Chapter 81 · Interlude: An Epic of Faith (1)Chapter 82 · Interlude: An Epic of Faith (2)Chapter 83 · Interlude: An Epic of Faith (3)Chapter 84 · Interlude: An Epic of Faith (4)Chapter 85 · Interlude: An Epic of Faith (5)Chapter 86 · Interlude: An Epic of Faith (Complete)Chapter 87 · Fate casually rolls the dice (1)Chapter 88 · Fate Casually rolls the dice (2)Chapter 89 · Fate Casually rolls the dice (3)Chapter 90 · Fate Casually rolls the dice (4)Chapter 91 · Fate casually tosses the dice (5)Chapter 92 · Fate casually tosses the dice (6)Chapter 93 · Fate casually tosses the dice (7)Chapter 94 · Fate casually tosses the dice (8)Chapter 95 · Fate casually tosses the dice (9)Chapter 96 · Fate casually tosses the dice (10)Chapter 97 · Fate Casually tosses the dice (11)Chapter 98 · Fate casually tosses the dice (12)Chapter 99 · Fate casually tosses the dice (13)Chapter 100 · Fate casually tosses the dice (14)Chapter 101 · Fate casually tosses the dice (15)Chapter 102 · Fate casually tosses the dice (16)Chapter 103 · Fate casually tosses the dice (17)Chapter 104 · Fate casually tosses the dice (18)Chapter 105 · Fate casually tosses the dice (19)Chapter 106 · Fate casually tosses the dice (20)Chapter 107 · Fate casually tosses the dice (21)Chapter 108 · Fate casually tosses the dice (The End)Chapter 109 · Interlude