Divine Beast Creator-Chapter 1877 - 1878: Rescue

"It looks so ugly without disguise."

Feng Yuan said with a disgusted look as he stared at the massive rock shell. Perhaps due to Feng Yuan’s words, Chaos Ethics suddenly launched a fierce attack at everyone, with sharp stone spikes shooting relentlessly into the room. However, given the strength of Feng Yuan and the others, the attack had little effect on them.

"Wait a minute, is this Chaos Ethics supposed to be that Mother Earth from the second season’s theatrical version ’Mother Earth’s Revenge’?"

That’s when Veronia seemed to realize something and said, surprised. Feng Yuan paused for a moment and looked at Veronia, asking:

"Is this one of the monsters from the original ’Tashimar Fantasy Circus’?"

"It should be. If it’s Mother Earth, there should be a hidden Energy Core. You guys wait here for me."

Veronia glanced at Feng Yuan before rushing into Chaos Ethics once more. At this moment, the Starry Sky had completely faded, transforming into a gray-black clay-like substance wrapped around the rock, which filled the gap between the rock and the door frame, constantly changing shape.

Watching Veronia rush in like that, Najia commented worriedly:

"Will she be okay?"

"She should be fine. Although that thing looks quite fierce, the limits of Abnormal Space are here, it would be quite difficult to severely injure Veronia, plus, it’s not like we can’t do anything."

Speaking casually, Feng Yuan controlled the shadow of a black cloak to continuously attack the rock shell of Chaos Ethics. Just then, Veronia suddenly launched the Crystal Burst ultimate move, causing the entire space to shake incessantly, and a blood-red gemstone abruptly appeared within the chaotic, twisted space.

"Is that... the core?"

Feng Yuan muttered in surprise as he kept his eyes on Veronia’s actions. He truly hadn’t expected Veronia to find the weak spot so quickly. As Veronia forcefully shattered the core, the rock space began to collapse. Veronia, who had dashed back to everyone’s side, turned back to glance at the crumbling rock space and said:

"It really is Mother Earth."

"So, this thing actually belongs to the original work? Then this Mad Doctor’s Research Institute..."

Seeing Chaos Ethics basically destroyed, Feng Yuan couldn’t help but curiously look at Veronia and ask. He couldn’t help it; the ’Tashimar Fantasy Circus’ is a vast series, and he wasn’t very interested in it, so he didn’t know the connection between this thing and the original work.

"This should be Data Domain-generated and not part of the original. Mother Earth in the original work didn’t transform into Starry Sky. Although it was mentioned in the setting compilation, it never appeared in the theatrical version."

Veronia shook her head and said that this place isn’t entirely faithful to the original, or rather, some of it is entirely created by the behind-the-scenes schemers themselves. However, Mother Earth’s transformation didn’t completely diverge from the original setting.

"Forget it, let’s put aside these research and creation setting matters. After dealing with this thing, it shouldn’t come out again, right?"

Scratching his head, Feng Yuan said cheerfully. Veronia glanced at the specimen jar on the ground. With Mother Earth’s core shattered, the organs inside the specimen jar began quickly losing vitality. Before long, all that remained in the specimen jar was a pile of ashes.

Following Veronia’s gaze towards the specimen jar, Feng Yuan understood her meaning and chuckled:

"Alright, since this thing has been dealt with, as long as we reverse the metallic transformation, it should be all done~"

"Probably."

Veronia said uncertainly. After all, changes are abundant in this place. Observing Feng Yuan preparing to organize potions ahead, Veronia pondered aloud:

"Speaking of which, where is that Mad Doctor?"

"Perhaps the metallic person we met in the passage at the beginning was him?"

Najia, sitting on Yang Hongzhi’s shoulder, thought for a moment and said. The entire research institute had just two corridors, and on their way, they didn’t encounter any particular entity. Maybe, only the metal person they met in the strange passage counted as a suspicious character.

"Maybe, as long as we’re not tasked to rescue him. This rundown place isn’t scary at all."

Veronia waved her hand in disinterest and said. Najia smiled but didn’t pursue the topic further.

Soon, Feng Yuan found the potion and used the formula to create more healing potions. When everyone arrived at the prison with the potions in hand, they unexpectedly discovered that the originally aggressive metallic creatures had all lost their vitality and collapsed on the ground.

"Hmm, there’s even such a change. If we were a bit late, they’d probably all be gone."

Splitting the potion in hand, Feng Yuan said as he started administering the potion to the metalized creatures. As the potion took effect, the metal gradually receded, revealing their original human form. However, before anyone could do anything, the restored humans turned into light and vanished.

"This... does this count as healed or not?"

Feng Yuan asked in a confused manner, scratching his head. Looking at the situation, were those people actually healed or did they simply vanish?

"Is it probably okay now?"

Veronia spoke uncertainly, also a bit puzzled about the situation. However, since the potion was confirmed to be okay, she seemed to consider it as a normal phenomenon.

"Tsk, it always feels a bit creepy."

Shaking his head, Feng Yuan said with a look of helplessness as he re-administered the potion to the metalized person. As the last person was "healed," Feng Yuan stretched lazily and said

"Hmm~ done, next should be taking the key fragments, right?"

"It’s strange, after completing the treatment there should be a prompt to clear, right? It can’t be that the door just opens?"

Yang Hongzhi said with some confusion, but didn’t pay too much attention to it. After all, this place was already bizarre, a small thing like this seemed not to be a big issue.

"So there’s another boss battle?"

Looking at the open door on the wall behind the service desk, Feng Yuan scratched his head and said, puzzled. If even Chaos wasn’t the final boss here, he really didn’t know what could be the final boss.

It can’t be an infinite loop, can it? That would be too much, having an even bigger mastermind behind the boss?

"Maybe, but it could also be something else. Don’t forget, there’s still an important person missing from this place that we haven’t seen."

Thinking for a moment, Veronia said, as Yang Hongzhi frowned and said

"You mean the Mad Doctor is here?"

"Perhaps, at least of all the characters supposed to appear in the Mad Doctor’s Research Institute, everyone except him has shown up. If it’s not the Mad Doctor, then we can expect many strange characters to appear next."

Veronia spread her hands and said. She wasn’t sure if it was the Mad Doctor behind it, but if not, it might mean that the levels in the Mad Doctor’s Research Institute can still increase. If that’s the case, she wouldn’t know how many more traps are waiting for them.

"It should be the Mad Doctor... Tsk."

Picking up a piece of paper from behind the door, Feng Yuan muttered, handed the paper to Veronia, and looked towards the dark passage saying

"This should be the last one. Good thing we watched the potion dosage earlier, otherwise we’d have a headache now."

"Really..."

Handing the paper to Yang Hongzhi, Veronia shook her head helplessly. Taking a look at the paper, Yang Hongzhi sighed and said

"To avoid harming the world, he chose self-seclusion?"

"The power of Mother Earth indeed increases with the strength of one’s will, this fits the setting of the original text, but... must heroes always be sad?"

Following Feng Yuan towards that door, Veronia muttered softly, as Feng Yuan, walking in the front, smiled and said

"Perhaps. Isn’t there a saying that tragedies leave a deep impression?"

"But, I really don’t like tragedies."

Watching Feng Yuan’s back, Veronia muttered, reaching out to pat Xiao Ji’s head, Feng Yuan said softly

"I really don’t care for those deep impressions..."

The dark passage wasn’t long, and soon they saw the metal beast trapped in a device. The device designed by the Mad Doctor didn’t just restrict movement of the metallic creatures but also extracted power from them to supply energy to the entire Mad Doctor’s Research Institute. Feng Yuan stepped forward to turn off the device.

Watching the metal beast fall to the ground, Feng Yuan poured the potion into it, and with the closing of the device, the lights throughout the Mad Doctor’s Research Institute began to dim gradually.

Even before Feng Yuan and the others could use their illumination skills, the surroundings gradually brightened. Looking at the glowing figures, Feng Yuan scratched his head. If he guessed correctly, they should be the humans they just rescued from the prison, right?

As the metal beast gradually reverted to human form, those figures slowly stepped forward. Seeing them extend their hands, Feng Yuan seemed to understand something, stepped aside to watch them take away the Mad Doctor, and sighed saying

"This place, it really isn’t a haunted house..." 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

"It would be nice if it were a haunted house, at least it wouldn’t be so... annoying."

Turning her head, Veronia said, but still couldn’t help but glance towards that group with the corner of her eye. They seemed to be hugging the Mad Doctor in gratitude. As they took the Mad Doctor away, the surroundings gradually returned to darkness, but the key with the Mad Doctor’s Research Institute’s emblem shimmered slightly, floating in place.