Bizarre Realm-Chapter 415 - 41: Evil Object - Pillar of Flesh and Blood
On this day, thirty-two people were executed.
However, slaughter alone cannot completely solve the problem. Shawn must quickly assemble an administrative setup. The Half-Plane cannot accommodate such a large population; their living needs are an issue. Some must be quickly sent back to the Realm of Reality.
Valonir Great Rift.
This is one of the battlefields of the Dark Era, where a Great Rift extends for thousands of kilometers, running north to south. Deep within the rift is a passage directly leading to the Underworld, where some of the powerful Evil Objects have built nests. Surrounding this area are three habitats of the Ancient Race: the Brain Splitters, Body Stealer Demons, and Shadow Crawlers. The life forms of the Ancient Race are often affected by the indescribable influence of the ancients, regardless of your original Race, becoming slowly assimilated by them, sometimes resulting in Death and giving rise to new life forms in the old bodies.
This is also one of the regions where the Pillar of Flesh and Blood is active.
The Extraordinary Relics circulating in Abyss City’s market are mostly collected from monster hunts outside. Shawn can’t afford to buy so many relics for advancement, so he has to devise a plan near the monster nests.
"Pah!"
Mordain the Heartbreaker swung his Warhammer, smashing apart a segment of dark red Touch of Flesh and Blood emerging from the depths, spitting out the blood in his mouth, and said: "This damn thing is disgusting."
"It’s impossible to kill them all."
The Touch of Flesh and Blood can transfer damage, moving the harm it receives to its vast underground body. To hunt them, you must uproot them completely. But the Touch of Flesh and Blood is a branch of the vast underground Pillar of Flesh and Blood, much like capillaries spread across the Earth. Killing too many will attract the colossal creature from deep below.
Boom!
Yvonne Tanner held her Purgatory Roar Hand Cannon, directly shooting and blasting the roots of the Touch of Flesh and Blood. She shrugged and said, "Stop complaining."
"The big ones are about to emerge."
On the battlefield, over twenty Reconnaissance Demon Eyes hovered in the air. The Terra priests from Abyss City operated in dispersed five-member teams, supported anytime by the airborne Demon Mages. The Divine Terra Church, developed to a scale of nearly ten thousand people, estimates that two to three hundred have the ability to eliminate Evil Objects, most being around Extraordinary Level ten. This strength is considered mid-tier in Abyss City, with the number of High Tier Transcendents being somewhat limited. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞
"Is there really a conduit of the Pillar of Flesh and Blood below?" asked a big-bearded Barbarian.
The nearby grey Dwarf swung a War Axe down, adding to the carnage-littered battlefield with more scattered flesh. He said in a deep tone, "You’ll find out soon enough."
Rumble!
The ground started to tremble, with sections of soil rising, as if some giant creatures were about to burst forth.
"Prepare to retreat!"
"The Pillar of Flesh and Blood is about to emerge."
A female psychic communication directly sounded in their minds, ordering: "Vanguard Warband, contain the monsters on the right side."
"Warlock group, get ready for a fire bombardment."
"Martyr Warband, cover the rear."
A shining Crystal Armor hovered above the entire battlefield. The five-member teams communicated directly, while other teams spread across the battlefield relied on a Crystal Wondrous Object to connect to the Mind Network, maintaining contact with other warbands.
Over two hundred people on the battlefield began an orderly retreat. With the assistance of the Mind Network, the communication capabilities of the entire warband approached modern standards. Besides the Frenzied Barbarians going berserk, most could follow commands succinctly.
"Get the Barbarians and Berserkers out! Damn it! These guys are going insane again!"
A female voice sounded angrily. Succubus - Veronica’s figure swept across the sky, casting a Frenzied Charm that dominated the Flesh Mutants on the battlefield, buying time for the Barbarians to retreat.
Not far away, Shawn watched all this expressionlessly, quietly recording in the Magic Notebook: "Barbarian Path cannot be mixed into other warbands."
"Once they go berserk, it becomes very difficult for them to follow orders."
The whole battle resulted in nearly no severe casualties because Shawn personally supervised it, aiming to give these followers a chance to practice, attempting small-scale legion warfare. Since Touches of Flesh and Blood emerge suddenly from underground, wildly whipping and entwining nearby creatures, the warband must act dispersively, just right for testing the stability of his Mind Network.
"As long as the Spiritual Power is not higher than mine, it’s generally impossible to interfere with the Mind Communication Network I activated."
"The wartime command system is relatively stable."
Just as Shawn thought of this, a sudden screech echoed in his Mind Network. Many held their heads, screaming in anguish, as that was the Mind Whisper of an Evil Object, directly invading the Mind Network and synchronously transmitting to everyone’s brains.
Damn it.
The enemy can’t disrupt the Mind Network’s stability, but they can forcibly interrupt communication with a widespread Mind Screech. Shawn’s Mind Network still existed, but the screech was so piercing that other voices couldn’t be heard clearly.
—Mind Fortress!
Shawn instantly raised his hand to cast, creating a Mind Fortress to isolate the Mind Whisper. Then his figure flickered out, and upon touching the ground, the Law Power of the ’Lord of the Underworld’ began to condense.
Rumble!
In the front of the rift, a region dozens of meters long suddenly surged into a high slope. The next second, a massive maw filled with sharp teeth emerged, a colossal creature with a diameter of around five meters burst out from the ground, with tentacles writhing on the sides of its dark red skin, like a centipede of the death worm.
