Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 632 - 319: War Incubation Field = Monster Spawning Sacred Ground?_1
[You expend 10,000 points of spiritual power and feed them to the ’Courier Mole’. It swallows the spiritual power in one gulp, chirps cheerfully, and opens the fleshy membrane in its abdominal cavity...]
[Please select your destination.]
[1. Audience Valley]
[2. War Incubation Field]
[3. Downy Feather Altar]
Lin Xun selects the second option.
[You climb into the abdominal cavity of the ’Courier Mole’ and sit on the metal seat.]
[It chirps again, the two fleshy membranes on its sides covering back over you.]
[Amid constant vibrations and the loud noise of the creature’s limbs digging into the ground, the entire abdominal cavity sinks into darkness...]
[Heading towards the ’War Incubation Field’...]
[...]
The journey this time is relatively short, only taking a few minutes to reach the destination.
According to what ’Missionary Jinmu’ said, the key exploration points are still within the town’s vicinity, they are merely hidden underground.
Judging by the travel time on the vehicle, that seems to be the case.
[...]
[The vibrations subside, the fleshy membranes on both sides of the cavity begin to open...]
[Familiar grey lights fall around you, and you find yourself in yet another underground space, with the ever-constant stone ceiling above and a completely different sight before you.]
[A semi-spherical arched building occupies the entire underground space, devoid of any human presence. You know that this building is the so-called ’War Incubation Field’.]
[You exit the abdominal cavity, stepping closer to the ’War Incubation Field’...]
[A chirp resonates behind you, and the ’Courier Mole’ once again digs into the ground and disappears.]
[You notice that the ground pits at the creature’s entry and exit points are slowly shifting and merging.]
[In a short while, under the influence of the potent ’life energy’, the ground pits and the tunnels beneath will be restored to their original state.]
[You arrive at the massive arched building, slowly pushing the entrance door open...]
[Greeting your vision is a scene of lifeless grey. The hallway on both sides houses giant vessels filled with liquid, inside of which sleep pale figures.]
[These vessels are not inanimate, but are made of an unknown flesh-and-blood tissue.]
[You observe details of the figures through the transparent membrane - they resemble the ’Feathered Town Guards’ you’ve seen before, except these are all naked, and seem a bit smaller in size.]
[No mask conceals them, their compound eyes and mouthparts are clearly displayed before you.]
[You proceed along the hallway, on both sides are ’guards’ deep in slumber...]
[Suddenly, you notice a figure in one of the vessels that’s different from the rest. It’s not a half man, half insect creature like the guards but a regular human devoid of any insectoid organs.]
[Do you want to break the vessel and rescue the human inside?] 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶
Lin Xun decisively selects ’no’.
As a seasoned Apostle, he can immediately identify that this is a trap set by the underworld game.
[You continue to move down the hallway and soon enter a spacious hall.]
[In the center of the hall, hanging from the dome, is a bloated broodmother resembling a queen ant. Its bulging abdomen is laying eggs into a pool beneath itself...]
[You have found the ’Feathered Initial War Broodmother’!]
[The plump queen ant seems to have noticed your presence, its pair of large compound eyes take you in, and it emits an inaudible roar...]
[From another hallway in the hall, the sound of rapid footsteps begins to close in...]
[Do you want to attack or escape immediately?]
Lin Xun frowns slightly, immediately making a decision.
[You possess the body of the ’Fire Worshiping Ninja Master’!]
[You slowly turn around, open a pair of obscure eyes, and your figure disappears within the hall...]
[Numerous guards emerge from the other end of the hall, surrounding an exceptionally tall figure in a grey robe.]
[You have found the ’Feathered Hatching Ground Lord’!]
[The lord briefly communicates with the queen ant, coldly declaring, a maggot man? Must be some commoner that escaped from the hatching sac.]
[Maggot men aren’t worthy of living in the ’Wet Nurse’s’ kingdom, find that damned maggot man and exile it to the commoner’s land outside the kingdom’s borders!]
[If that commoner dares resist, execute him on the spot!]
[With a wave of its limbs, the numerous guards disbursed into various hallways to search...]
[However, the lord leaves by himself.]
[Do you want to follow stealthily?]
[You step lightly, following at a distance behind the Lord...]
[On your path, you pass several incubation halls, and witness so-called ’War Broodmothers’, or queen ants, laying their eggs into the hatching ponds below them.]
[The ponds are connected to nearby container-like ’Hatching Sacs’ via pipes, and every guard is born from them...]
[Eventually, you follow the ’Lord’ to the edge of the incubation field, trailing him into a separate room.]
[The room seems to be where the ’Lord’ resides, equipped with simple fixtures such as a table and a bed.]
[The ’Lord’ lies on the table, picking up a feather pen and scribbling on some documents. The paper used for the documents looks familiar, it’s the same grayish-white skin moult you had seen before...]
[Do you want to ambush the ’Feathered Hatching Ground Lord’?]
The lord before him could either be an elite monster or a minor boss. From an assessment of the strength of the guards, this lord wouldn’t be too strong even if it was stronger.
Lin Xun holds his opponents in disdain at a strategic level, but when it comes to implementing tactics, he is always careful.
[Maintaining your stealth state, you open a pair of pale eyes...]
[The special skill ’Insight into Weakness’ is activated!]
[You successfully discern the enemy’s weakness. The next attack has a high probability of hitting the target’s weak point!]
