Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 664 - 332 Crawler Empress_1

Lin Xun decisively chose the third option to attack the maze wall and create a new passageway.

[You mobilize your True Element throughout your body, and the ’Rotating Stars Immortal Sword’ in your hand quickly transforms from a three-foot-long green blade into a giant sword!]

[The fierce sword energy fills the cave tunnel, the blade of the sword pointing directly upwards, carrying an enormous amount of True Element with an unparalleled force, bombarding the rock wall above...]

[A deafening explosion occurs!]

[It seems as if the entire cave is trembling, with debris spraying and dust filling the air...]

[The rock wall above has been punctured by the giant sword, leaving a pitch-black large hole. You look towards the center of the pit, and see that within the irregular fragmented rock wall, there are faint signs of flesh and tissue wriggling.]

[Blood constantly drips down the rock wall, pooling at your feet into a bloody swamp...]

[You take a deep breath and rally your True Element once again. The seven stars etched on the body of the giant sword begin to light up.]

[It appears as if brilliant starlight is penetrating through the rock wall, gathering on the ’Rotating Stars Immortal Sword’.]

[The sword body begins to rotate rapidly, the giant sword resembling a large spinning top, with the tip serving as a sharp drill and the starlight gathered along the body of the sword becoming increasingly dazzling...]

[You form a sword seal with your fingers and direct it heavenwards!]

[Bright, blinding starlight erupts, and the giant sword suddenly shoots upwards, the rock wall powerless to resist the penetration of the starlight.]

[Accompanied by a gush of blood, the giant sword breaks through the rock wall and reaches the deeper layers of flesh and tissue.]

[The starlight doesn’t stop, it continues to surge forwards with the force capable of destroying heaven and earth, each rotation grinding the obstructing flesh and tissue into slurry, each inch forward makes the entire cave shake and tremble.]

[Suddenly, you hear a piercing, deafening roar, the sound seeming both close to your ear and distant in the clouds.]

[Your True Element drains along with the eruption of starlight until there’s none left within your body.]

[Your True Element is completely depleted, the effect of ’Zifu Qingwei Submersible Star Heart Technique’ triggers!]

[A surge of True Element continuously flows out from your body at the Zifu area, rejuvenating all your True Element in an instant, and your fatigue completely disappears.]

[Starlight from above is still breaking through incessantly, penetrating into the flesh and tissue whose depth is unknown.]

[You notice, at the entrance of the passageway you just carved with the giant sword, the flesh and tissue are constantly wriggling, showing signs of healing.]

[You ride the wind, and your body transforms into a streak of light. While the passage is not yet closed due to healing, you slip into it and fly straight upward...]

[The mighty roar continues, and the entire maze shakes violently.]

[Finally, the Immortal Sword above no longer encounters resistance, starlight pierces through the entire maze and the sword transforms once again back into a three-foot-long green blade and returns to your hand.]

[You concentrate your True Element to fly at high speed. In the blink of an eye, you leave the flesh tunnel and reach the outside world!]

[You find yourself in an incredibly vast underground space, where oppressive darkness reigns without a hint of bioluminescent fungi in sight.]

[The huge roar comes from underneath you...]

[A gigantic creature’s head alone occupies your entire field of vision!]

[Its head is covered in a shell as solid and thick as a rock wall, it has a pair of compound eyes so huge there’s no comparison. Its mouthparts are thick and sharp.]

[Looking at its gigantic head, you can’t help but think of a ’Crawler’ from the tribe that’s been magnified millions of times.]

[You look at the flesh tunnel you just crawled out from, the entrance of the tunnel leads to the prodigious creature’s body that’s buried deep underground. That complex maze is nothing but its wriggling intestine.]

[Apart from its head and some part of its upper body exposed above the ground, the major part of this huge creature’s shell is buried underground.]

[In the vast darkness of the underground space, the only source of light is the Immortal Sword in your hand that is radiating starlight.]

[The enormous creature is staring straight at you. Its massive compound eyes are filled with hexagonal facets and each one of them is reflecting your figure.]

[You have encountered the ’Feathered Crawler Empress’!]

Lin Xun senses trouble.

Just because a monster is small doesn’t mean it’s weak, but when a monster’s size reaches a certain extent, it can’t possibly be an underling that yields experience points.

The so-called ’Feathered Crawler Empress’ in front of him might be a super BOSS!

[The ’Crawler Empress’ is continuously roaring and growling. It appears that your just-now piercing through its body caused it great pain.]

[It keeps wriggling and struggling. But its body, buried deep in the earth, can’t move at all, only the thick tendrils on top of its head can wave about wildly.]

[To you, these tendrils seem like towering pillars crashing down with earth-shattering force!]

[The gust of wind they create makes your airborne figure wobble. Knowing you are unable to resist, you immediately ride your sword to fly away, hoping to dodge this deadly strike.]

[But before you can get far, you’re hit by the thick tendril!]

[You only feel an irresistible tremendous force attacking you, and in an instant, you’re smashed to the ground by the tendril.]

[Your vision goes black, you can’t help but spit out a mouthful of blood, and every part of your body is in pain.]

[You’ve suffered a nearly fatal injury!]

[With great difficulty, you struggle to get up, but the creature’s thick tendril has completely entwined you, leaving you without the slightest bit of strength to resist.]

[The tendril wraps around you and lifts you to the face of the ’Crawler Empress’ with its hideous mouthparts...]

[Its mouth gradually opens, a disgusting smell pervades the air, but in contrast, a mature feminine voice resounds throughout the underground space...]

[Lost child, why did you hurt me?]

[It must be that you haven’t embraced the wet nurse yet, you have not yet affirmed the correct faith, that’s why you can’t distinguish between friend and foe.]

[I can forgive your unintentional error, as long as you make an oath and submit to the wet nurse’s embrace...]

[Loyal apostle, are you going to violate the ’Initial Firefly’ oath and instead swear the ’Desire Wet Nurse’ oath?]

[Attention! You have already made the ’Initial Firefly’ oath. If you violate this oath, you will be unable to rejoin this oath and will be permanently despised by this camp!]

Lin Xun grits his teeth.

"Damn, Jinmu didn’t lie, The Crawler Tribe is indeed a highly dangerous map."

At first, he thought that the complexity of the maze would be the danger to explorers. Before entering the maze, he had no idea that the maze itself would turn out to be a giant BOSS.

In fact, from the fearful response of the ’Delivery Mole Cricket’, it’s clear that the ’Crawler Tribe’ contains an irrefutable danger.

The BOSS’s power was absurdly potent, with a single strike sending Star Lord Canis into a near-death state, clearly out of line with the difficulty level of the initial map.

"Could it not be the BOSS?"

The Firefly faction has a strong narrative character like ’Flandre the Oathbreaker,’ so the Wet Nurse faction should have something similar.

While he guessed the creature before him might not match Flandre’s power, he estimated it was a hidden narrative character from the Wet Nurse faction.

[Your hesitation causes the tentacles wrapped around you to tighten further, your bones creaking under the strain.]

[With a gust of foul wind hitting your nostrils, a mature woman’s voice echoes in the underground space once more...]

[Stubborn child, what are you still hesitating for?]

[Aren’t the great Wet Nurse’s achievements enough to firm your belief and choose the correct path?]

[The tentacles wrapped around you tighten even more, making it hard for you to breathe, and you know that if you don’t make a decision soon, their enormous power will crush you into pulp!]

"Damn, this is coercion, forcing people into prostitution!"

Lin Xun clenches his fist.

If the ’Desire Wet Nurse’ hadn’t mooched a Shell off him, he might have been able to join the Oath Faction.

But with the Main God far off plotting against his Shell and the narrative characters threatening his life nearby.

He realizes there isn’t much good in the Wet Nurse’s faction.

No wonder Flandre would rather break her oath than stick with the Wet Nurse’s Oath Faction.

Faced with the situation, even if it means dying once, Lin Xun has no intention of compromising.

He decisively presses ’no.’

[You’ve possessed the ’Fallen Earth Giant’s’ Shell!]

[Your normal-sized Shell instantly grows into a towering giant, but the tentacles encasing you are still thicker than your giant-sized Shell. Even though you are deep underground with an influx of earth power, you can’t break free.]

[The ’Crawler Empress’ speaks again, sighing while a foul blast of wind makes it almost impossible to keep your eyes open...]

[Since you refuse to understand, you can die!]

[The thick tentacles flinging you into a terrifyingly large jaw...]

[Everything goes dark...]

[...]

[You died!]

[...]

[The powerful Wandering Soul is reborn in a sac full of sticky fluid...]

[You are now in the second layer of the ancient nest...]

Lin Xun squints, reviewing the previous game text.

’Crawler Empress’ should be the narrative character for the opposing faction. From the viewpoint of the Firefly camp, the Empress is like a super BOSS.

To join the covenant through the ’Crawler Empress,’ the Apostle himself needs to have certain power, at least enough to break through the maze...

"Ah, break through the maze..."

A sudden idea strikes Lin Xun, he thinks of a method to kill the ’Crawler Empress.’

The most secure fortress is often broken from within. If he can’t beat the BOSS from the outside, could the BOSS still be this strong within its belly?

If he doesn’t leave the labyrinth, can’t he do whatever he pleases, attacking the BOSS at will?

Lin Xun recalls the storyline of Sun Wukong and Iron Fan Princess—"Open your mouth, Sis, I’m getting out!"

"That’s what I’ll do. Since they dare to threaten me, they’ll pay the price!"

He decisively leaves the respawn point, rides the ’Rhinoceros Beetle Express,’ and heads straight back to the ’Crawlers Tribe.’!

[...]

[’Rhinoceros Beetle Express’ brings you to your destination, emits a panic-stricken chirp, and vanishes into the ground instantly.]

[The narrow underground space now only consists of a pitch-black cavern nearby.]

[Do you want to enter the ’Crawlers Tribe?’]

[You step into the cavern...]

[...]

Lin Xun follows the path into the ’Crawler Empress’s’ stomach. After choosing several left and right options, he verifies that he has reached the deepest part of the BOSS’s body.

"Now, it’s showtime!"

[You’ve possessed the ’Fallen Earth Giant’s’ Shell!]

[Your body suddenly expands, transforming into a massive giant. Growth stops only once your head hits the top of the tunnel and your feet touch the ground.]

[Holding the ’Ancient Dragon Tooth Mace’ in one hand and the ’Tachi: Evil Welcome Eight Scenes’ in the other, you launch a frenzied attack against the stone wall in front of you!]

[Being deep underground, you are inundated with an endless supply of earth power, filling your body, making you feel stronger than ever!]

[Under your onslaught, the stone wall quickly crumbles, revealing the soft flesh and tissues within...]

[You thrust your mace, and dig in your sword into the tender flesh...]

[You once again hear a deafening scream. The sound seems near yet also far away.]

[You know, it’s the ’Crawler Empress’s’ scream of pain!]

[Hearing the screams, you get even more excited, your blood-red eyes filled with madness, as you hack and slash with your mace and sword!]

[...]