Overlord Tamer: All My Pet Monsters Have God Potential-Chapter 87: Strange Encounter

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John and Merc landed on the spongy cotton-like mushroom caps grown by spores that Ophis dropped.

Both of them fell at relatively slower speeds thanks to the constant in and out of Monster Paradise with Merc trying to reduce the falling speed as much as possible.

It was utterly dark everywhere except for the glow from Merc’s lightning fur and mechanical physical features that gleamed with neon light, but it couldn’t illuminate the area enough.

’Let’s go back a bit.’

John went back to Monster Paradise with Merc and returned with a Silver-rank Monster called Lumen Crystalon.

This monster was a four-pointed crystal floating with a single eye in the middle and four smaller crystals acting as its extensions, mainly to use skills.

It was of the Crystal and Fire attributes, so John used its attributes to create crystals with flame wisps inside, making glowing crystal bulbs to illuminate the area.

There was one on the three sides, but when he turned his head to the fourth side, the east side, he almost gasped in utter terror, but stopped his breath.

Sweat beads began forming all over his body, and his heart began to race wildly. If emotions could take shape, John would appear enveloped in a storm of fear and despair.

He formed a single thought and vanished, returning to Monster Paradise.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck..." John could feel his mind ringing with his raging heartbeats.

He literally thought he was facing death and that he could die at any moment he saw that thing.

"What happened, John?" Alfred asked seeing John’s rattled state.

"Boss, you look like your soul’s about to leave your body."

"You guys don’t understand," John said as he calmed himself.

Waving his hand, he consumed some Molding Essence to create an exact replica of what he saw.

It was an arm. Demonic, black, with strange red translucent patterns.

In the middle of the palm was a vertical eye, open and utterly devilish, with strange bright yellow patterns in the black pupils.

"This arm is quite creepy, but not as creepy as Ophis," Sony said.

"I will drown you in your worst nightmares when you sleep next time, Sony."

"See, I told ya."

"Shut up. John was scared like that, so this arm must be bad news," Alfred said as he growled at John in worry. "And it’s unavoidable if we go out right?"

"Yeah," John nodded, his face somber, as if he fucked himself royally, which he did. "One of you three must go out and risk dying."

"Me, me!" Rexion immediately said as he jumped, looking excited. "I want to see this arm!"

"Alright, go."

"John, let’s see what he sees," Alfred said.

"Yep."

After sending Rexion outside, John created a screen using molding essence, sharing the sound and visual senses of Rexion through it.

Immediately, everyone saw the arm. It was nailed on a wooden board roughly fifty meters away, and there was also a pathway there leading to some subterranean cave, maybe a whole complex of them deep under this ground.

John could see all of that now that he didn’t feel that strange oppressiveness anymore.

"I don’t feel the same when watching it through the screen," John said. "When I saw it with my own eyes, I could feel something oppressing me after getting inside, and that entirely infused me with utter fear of death and despair."

"Is that why Rexion isn’t moving, and that just froze?" Cheron blinked and said.

Sony chuckled. "He could be heading for the scared-to-death scenario."

Suddenly, everyone heard a voice from the arm, deep yet jarring and slightly cracking.

"Oi, it’s one surprise after another. How did you come here?"

"Where did that boy go suddenly? Strange, how strange. It looks like the threads of destiny have woven anew for me...Oi, if you are there, come out. I won’t eat you, boy."

John felt strange. "What the fuck is going on?"

"Nobody who falls this far down survives. You’re the first one in a long while, you know?" the arm spoke again.

"First one in a long while," Alfred said as he looked at John. "So that means there were indeed some survivors before us."

"It looks like we should talk."

"Not you," Alfred immediately said, his eyes fierce. "I will go out. You can do this Molding Essence magic and try to talk through me."

"That’s indeed better," Ophis said with a nod before looking at the screen. "Master John’s safety is important for everyone’s survival. But would it be possible to speak with whatever that arm does to those who see it?"

"Yeah. Rexion is completely frozen," Pymon said with a nod. "Must be very scary to see out there, eh?"

"You want to go out, Pymon?" John asked with a smile.

Pymon became hesitant for a second before making a decision and nodding fiercely. "I will go out if you say so!"

"Well, let me try to see if I can speak through Rexion first."

’Can make it so that I can speak through Rexian with that arm outside?’

[ It will cost 1490 Molding Essence-]

"Cheap."

[-per second.]

"Ok, never mind." John weakly smiled. "Rune, give me a solution if you have one."

[ The cost is high because Rexion’s current state is influenced by that arm, and to mold him and add this voice connection requires more work. Send Alfred out. If he can remain in a better state, the cost would be low.]

"I see..."

John waved his hand, calling back Rexion, who went into a deep slumber as he was entirely exhausted, both mentally and physically.

This time, Alfred went out.

John and others saw the screen shaking at first, unlike in the case of Rexion, when it just froze entirely.

Alfred was growling and trembling as he was subjected to the experience of utter despair and fear.

But Alfred was trying to resist while looking at the arm.

"Oi, oi, now I am sure this is the doing of you, boy. You suddenly disappeared, and then you are sending your Pet Monsters out to test things."

"Come out, already. But you gotta be able to survive in this presence."

"Eh? This puppy is quite tough mentally."

Alfred suddenly howled while blood oozed out of his eyes, ears, and nose. It was because his instincts and every fiber of his being wanted to get away and was scared to death, but Alfred’s will was as tough as John’s!

Alfred walked a few steps forward, standing still and looking at the arm with eyes full of defiance.

John felt everything through Alfred and smiled.

"Rune, do it."

[ 142 Molding Essence per second. ]

Outside, John’s voice suddenly rang out from Alfred’s mouth.

"This is me, the boy. My name is John Wicked."

The eye in the palm of the eye blinked before its demonic voice rang out a chuckle. freёwebnoѵel.com

"Nice to meet you, John Wicked. You see, I am kind of sealed here, and anyone who comes here dies. If you are resisting the Despair Frame’s effect like this puppy here, you can survive to complete the next step."

"Next step?" John asked.

"Yes, the next step is touching me and entering a realm where you will have to survive and reach the nexus of this seal. So far, all those who tried in the past have not succeeded, but you are a strange person with some strange powers. Maybe, you are meant to unseal me."

John rolled his eyes.

"Well, let’s say I managed to unseal you. What happens after that?"