Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 672 - 337 Pilgrimage Angel_1
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[You return to ’Zhongsi City’ onboard the ’Coach Roach Parade’...]
[As the corporeal shell’s belly opens, an icy wind brings with it a flurry of snowflakes.]
[You leap out of the belly and onto the thick snow, which reaches your shins. Each footfall is soundless, without the sensation of solid ground beneath. Only the icy cold pervades.]
[You reach out to scoop up a handful of snow. It’s icy to the touch, light as a feather, and lacks the weight of ordinary snow.]
[Your gaze sweeps over the distant city ruins again. Stark white snow blankets the entire underground space.]
[Pieces of brick and rubble sporadically poke through the covering of snow in the ruins, adding patches of desolation to the snow-white world.]
[You remember the imposing shadow you saw the last time you escaped from ’Zhongsi City’...]
[Looking up at the dome of the sky that encapsulates the vast underground space, the snowstorm blocks most of your view, obscuring your vision of the city’s rock wall above.]
[Where the massive shadow once loomed, now there is nothing.]
[Will you advance towards the centre of ’Zhongsi City’ and head to ’Emerald Sacrificial Grounds’?]
The current shell used by Lin Xun is still the ’Feathered Brutal Warden’.
Not to court death, but merely an experiment.
He hasn’t been in the blizzard for long when he gets a cue from the underworld game.
[Thanks to the baptism of ’Pilgrimage Angel’, the success of your next feathered ascension slightly increases!]
Lin Xun’s eyebrows crease.
"Pilgrimage Angel?"
Something about the term seems familiar and he promptly begins cross-checking previous text.
’Nightmare Yuri’ mentioned in his speech that the rebels were punished in the blizzard baptism and when the angel finishes his pilgrimage, the blizzard would subside. The remaining feathered ones could then return to the ruins of the city to rebuild...
The ’angel’ mentioned in his speech must be the ’Pilgrimage Angel’.
"By that logic, the ’White Fleece Snow Season’ was caused by the baptism of ’Pilgrimage Angel’."
"The Wet Nurse’s genetic weapon originates from ’Pilgrimage Angel’!"
[Thanks to the baptism of ’Pilgrimage Angel’, the success of your next feathered ascension slightly increases!]
[Take note, your baptism is at a critical point, continue receiving baptism will lead to madness...]
To verify his hypothesis, Lin Xun instantly shifts his shell.
[You’re now possessing the shell of ’Star Lord Canis of Depravity’!]
He stands in the snowstorm for a while and does not receive any prompt from the underworld game.
As he anticipated, the ’White Fleece Snow Season’ specifically targets the mutated.
Though the feathered can benefit from baptism, if the dosage is too high, even powerful feathered like the ’Warden’ could not withstand it.
The shell of Star Lord Canis does not belong to this world and does not have associated life genes to create a target, hence, ’White Fleece Snow Season’ is ineffective against the Star Lord shell.
Suddenly, he is taken aback.
Lin Xun once offered a shell prefixed with ’Fire Worshiping’ to the Wet Nurse.
If ’White Fleece Snow Season’ is a targeted genetic weapon, would the Wet Nurse who obtained the Fire Worshiping life gene add anything to the snowflakes?
[You’re now possessing the shell of ’Fire Worshiping Ninja Master’!]
[You stand quietly in the middle of the blizzard, feeling the bone-chilling cold...]
Waiting for a considerable while and seeing no anomalies, Lin Xun breathes a sigh of relief.
"Why am I scaring myself for nothing?"
Whether the Wet Nurse isn’t targeting him intentionally or hasn’t had time to crack the Fire Worshiping life genes, either way, ’White Fleece Snow Season’ has no adverse effects on the Fire Worshiping prefixed shell.
He returns to the Star Lord shell and resumes his exploration.
[You trudge through the snow, gradually getting nearer to the city ruins...]
[As you move forward, you notice numerous footprints frenziedly etched in the snow. After aimless meandering, these footprints surprisingly align uniformly, all pointing in the same direction.]
[The footprints carry on towards the city centre, reaching as far as the eye can see.]
[Based on the footprints, you imagine the scene that took place...]
[A horde of mad feathered ones ambles aimlessly here, oblivious to the whirlwind snowstorm.]
[Suddenly, they seem to sense something, stopping their tracks and all look toward the city centre, they then tread forward, drawn by the allure at the city centre.]
[Will you continue towards the centre of ’Zhongsi City’, make your way to ’Emerald Sacrificial Grounds’?]
Lin Xun squints, an uneasy predilection creeping in.
Retrieving the ’Sacrificial Emblem’ may not be as easy as he imagined.
[You continue onwards in the blizzard, drawing closer to the city centre...]
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[After a considerable journey, finally, in the distance, you spot the only intact structure amidst the ruins - the ’Emerald Sacrificial Grounds’.]
[The cathedral-like sacrificial ground is surrounded by countless mad feathered ones aimlessly wandering about, yet they don’t venture in.]
[The ground is littered with shriveled feathered corpses, like mummified remains of the past, devoid of blood and flesh.]
[But what catches your eye isn’t the multitude of mad feathered ones, but the enormous shadow sprawled atop the sacrificial grounds...]
[The terrifying creature’s pair of scaled wings blots out the sky, completely shrouding the sacrificial grounds under its shadow.]
[With each flap of its wings, it creates a chilling gust of wind. Each wingbeat causes countless ’snowflakes’ to flake off its wings and scatter, forming the snowstorm.]
[You finally realize, the ’snowflakes’ during the ’White Fleece Snow Season’ aren’t actually snowflakes, but the fluffy scales of this terrifying creature!]
