Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 639 - 322: Return to the Nest and Molting, Firefly Gem_1
"You’re now inhabiting the shell of the ’Feathered Scythe Wielder’!"
"The inherited memories within the shell gradually awaken..."
"..."
"Once upon a time, children lived a life of peace and abundance under the care of the Wet Nurse."
"They built grand cities, dancing on prosperous streets, sleeping in luxurious residences, praising within grand cathedrals..."
"Everyone enjoyed the deep affection bestowed upon them by the Wet Nurse, their faces brimming with satisfied smiles."
"Every child believed unshakeably that such wonderful times would exist forever."
"Until one day, the previously peaceful Divine Kingdom was attacked by an unidentified meteor..."
"The root of all sins, the ancestor of all demons, ’Initial Firefly’, was born."
"The evil deity led the demon legions it had created, setting the beautiful lands once known ablaze."
"An unprecedented war turned the prosperous land into scorched earth, the once dazzling cities into ruins, eventually submerged in the endless flames of war..."
"How were innocent children to fight the evil, monstrous demons with their frail human bodies?"
"In the retreating war, the once happy and content smiles gradually disappeared, many families were broken apart, demons rampaged the world, and the underworld filled up with innocent children..."
"The heartless war destroyed the land where the children relied on for survival, the land of Divine Kingdom was overflowing with demonic air, no longer suitable for living."
"Even if reluctant, the children had no choice but to give up their native soil to the greedy demons and search for a new home."
"The Wet Nurse led the children to construct a new Divine Kingdom under the dark and oppressive underground."
"They thought if they surrendered the surface land and lived in the sunless underground, the war would stop... Yet how could the naive children understand, this was a ruthless war of extermination!"
"The demons will not let go of any living child!"
"The demons came to the underground, and war followed..."
"After long enduring, the Wet Nurse finally could not suppress her anger, no longer bearing to see the slaughter of the children, she abandoned her formerly steadfast benevolence..." 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎
"The Wet Nurse exhausted all her divine power, split the authority of the demon god, and bestowed upon the children the ability to transform into angels."
"When frail mortal bodies gained the ability to transform, the call to retaliation finally sounded!"
"You are one of the children given the transformation ability by the Wet Nurse."
"Can you still endure the massacre that annihilates humanity? Can you still endure the cruel reality that even clinging to life underground, the demons are unwilling to let you go?"
"If you can’t bear it, then use the transformation ability that the Wet Nurse has given you, and rush to the front line of the battlefield."
"You fight for yourself, you fight for every inch of the Divine Kingdom’s territory, you fight for the great Wet Nurse who exhausted her divine power just so you could have the ability to fight back!"
"Kill all the demons you see, even if it means draining your last drop of blood!"
"Even an honorable death in battle is better than continuing to barely survive."
"Your body will turn into nourishment enriching the soil of the Divine Kingdom, your soul will return to the Wet Nurse’s embrace, your meritorious deeds will be remembered by future generations, engraved on immortal stele."
"Death does not mean the end, you will be reborn under the Wet Nurse’s nurturing, kicking off the next cycle of life....until all demons are destroyed, you leave the dark, oppressive underground andlive under the bright sunshine again!"
"..."
"The scattered memories end here!"
A large section of memory described the background of this world.
Having read this far, Lin Xun finally understood why there were only half-human and half-insect monsters in this Chapter.
"So it’s a ’if you can’t beat them, join them’ situation?"
He opened up the shell panel to check what secrets the ’Maggot Man’ shell held.
"Shell — ’Feathered Scythe Wielder’
"True Name: Broken Bone"
"Compatibility: 86% (+55%)"
"Shell Quality: Excellent Level"
"Shell Level: 66 (+36↑)"
"Shell Equipment: None"
"Shell Skill: Scythe Blade Strike (Excellent Level Skill):..."
"Shell Skill: Homecoming (Special Skill): As a product of mutation, you’re a special Maggot Man closest to the primitive state. Having the original form, you will receive some sort of grace."
"With this skill, you will be guided in the darkness to a particular hidden underground location to accept the grace left by the ’Desire Wet Nurse’."
"Shell Skill: Molting (Special Skill): As a mutant product, you can’t truly gain the transformation power. Even if you succeed in transforming, it’s deception, for you will always be but a Maggot Man."
"Using this skill, you can shed the current ’Scythe Wielder’ shell and return to the Maggot Man state."
Lin Xun frowned at the description of the shell skills.
"Positives from negatives, indeed. You wouldn’t call this an unprecedented successful mutation, would you?"
Feeling helpless, he ignored the barely-there combat abilities of the shell. From the two mutant skills received, one was astonishingly a ’weakening’ skill.
As for the special skill called ’Homecoming’, he had already discovered the specific location of the ’Abandoned Ancient Nest’ hidden underground, making that skill somewhat redundant.
"Wait!"
Lin Xun carefully looked at the skill description: "You will be guided in the darkness.... to accept the grace left by the ’Desire Wet Nurse’."
Could it be that one must use this shell to receive the ’grace’ left by the ’Wet Nurse’?
The more he thought about it, the more it made sense: "No wonder that Maggot Man so willingly gave me the location previously without fear of me stealing its grace. It had false confidence."
