Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 717 - 354 The High Priest and the Prayer Book_2

Chapter 717: Chapter 354 The High Priest and the Prayer Book_2

"[Your special attribute ’Hive Mind+7’ has increased, the current state is ’Hive Mind+8’]"

"[Your special attribute ’Karma Fire of the Fallen’ has increased, you have contracted the twenty-first layer of ’Karma Fire of the Fallen’!]"

A thrill of joy surged within him.

The fact that Purgatory Angel could slaughter minor monsters and instantly kill bosses was within his expectations.

What was unexpected was that killing the boss not only increased his ’Hive Mind’, but also upgraded his ’Fallen’ attribute.

After taking down the ’General of Extreme Evil’, his ’Karma Fire of the Fallen’ swiftly escalated to the twentieth layer.

Now, by defeating the boss of Extreme Evil, his Fallen attribute has been upgraded again. Despite the fact that it only increased by one level, it demonstrates a possibility.

"[You glare at the horribly mutilated corpse sprawled out in front of you...]

[Shell of the Great High Priest of the ’Extremely Evil Bombardment’: The high priest who once guarded the temple was the highest leader in the Temple of Beetle City, with the mission of spreading the Divine Decrees of the Wet Nurse. However, due to the excessive foreign genes stored in its body, it fell into extreme evil, becoming a mad monster. Compatibility: 72% (+55%)]"

Just a moment ago, while slaughtering monsters outside, Lin Xun attempted to parasite on shells with changed prefixes.

Take Feathered ones who still retain human forms for instance. Although heavily corroded by Malice, except for an eerie smile, malicious eyes, and black patterns on their bodies, nothing much has changed.

He can still complete parasitism on this type of Feathered ones, regardless of whether their prefixes had changed to neither ’Mutated’ nor ’Feathered’.

Nevertheless, when he attempted the ’Perfect Parasite’ on Feathered ones that has completely lost their original forms, i.e., those that have transformed into Malice plants, the underworld game prompted that parasitism couldn’t be performed.

The original text was "[This container doesn’t belong to insectoid shells, you cannot perform parasitism!]"

"It must be due to the overwhelming Malice genes inside the monster, exceeding its own limit, that it mutated into a Malice plant..."

Just like the former tiny emperor of Sakura fall, who was so filled with Malice by the general that he fell into extreme evil and lost his humanoid form.

However, shells and characters in the Chapter of the Evil God can perfectly integrate with extreme evil genes. Cases like the tiny emperor are quite rare.

Lin Xun felt that something was amiss as this thought occurred to him.

It seemed that he had missed some crucial information, but he couldn’t recall what exactly it was for a moment.

Despite pondering for quite a while without any idea, he shook his head and set aside his doubts, deciding to parasite on the boss’s shell.

"[...]"

"[Successful parasitism, you have perfectly taken control of this container!]"

"[Your shell ’Feathered Fully Adaptive Parasite’ is temporarily replaced by ’Feathered Great Bombardment Priest!]"

He opened the shell panel to check its attributes.

"[Shell - ’Feathered Great Bombardment Priest’]"

"[Real Name: Aspid]"

"[Compatibility: 137% (17%)]"

"[Shell Quality: Legendary Grade]"

"[Shell Level: 80 (+5↑)]"

"[Shell Equipment: None]"

"[Shell Skill: Feathered Mimicry (Epic+ skill): Use this skill to imitate the surrounding environment, making it impossible for enemies to detect your presence. The mimicry effect will be canceled after fast mobility or an attack.]"

"[Shell Skill: Confusing Tentacles (Epic+ skill): This skill will automatically activate when attacking, causing a temporary ’lag’ effect on the enemy, leading to greatly reduced dodge speed and movement speed.]"

"[Shell Skill: Cannon Heat Flow (Legendary Grade skill): Use this skill, trigger the gland in the squirming belly, and spray enemies with extremely hot flow venom, inflicting huge burn damage. This skill, after a direct hit, has a high probability of causing enemies to fall into the ’burn’ state, thus inflicting substantial continuous damage.]"

"A stealth artillery platform... This shell isn’t bad."

The three skills of the high priest complement each other. It can use mimicry to become a stealth artillery platform, and when launching hot flow venom, it can also reduce the enemy’s chances of evasion.

Even if he has obtained the shell of the Purgatory Angel, this shell can still be quite useful in specific situations.

"[...]"

"[The statue of ’Desire Wet Nurse’ stands silently in the deepest part of the temple.]"

"[You try to search the temple, you only find a few books of poetry, nothing else is found.]"

Lin Xun examined the newly received reward.

The most valuable item exploded by the minor monsters was the ’Zealot’s Heat Poison Gland’.

With not a small attack power, this epic-grade disposable attack item, having exploded two at once, would definitely fetch a good amount of money if sold.

In addition to dropping a piece of equipment, the BOSS also dropped a data item and a map item, which should contain important intelligence and clues.

He clicked to view the data item.

[’High Priest’s Prayer Book’ (Data)]

[...]

[Merciful and generous ██, great deities who cherish children, we praise your holy name, we thank and praise you, you deserve all the supreme worship and praise!]

[██, I praise you, for how you love and favor me. I bless ██, for you are the strength and faith of children, you are our refuge, our harbor in the storm...]

[...]

[The whole book of prayers is full of praises to the Wet Nurse, which is not unusual. But what makes your hair stand on end is that all words like "Wet Nurse" and "Mother" are blotted out with black ink.]

[The book only leaves behind sincere praise in the prayers, as if they are now praising, not the Wet Nurse whom children once revered.]

[You quickly browse through, flipping to the end of the book, and find a note written on a piece of paper tucked inside the book...]

[A prophecy has come from the heart of the Holy Nest. The Wet Nurse has bestowed grace and is about to grant the ’White Fleece Snow Season’ bounty.]

[The Wet Nurse not only withdraws most of the front-line soldiers back to the Divine Kingdom but also wants all children to bathe in divine favor, to look up to the holy form of the angels in the snow and praise the holy name of the Wet Nurse.]

[It hasn’t been long since the last ’White Fleece Snow Season’, and many of our people have just feathered and been promoted once. It shouldn’t have been so frequent.]

[It seems that the message from the Temple of the Holy Nest is that the Wet Nurse wants to let her people ascend collectively, and then gather forces to launch a total attack on the demons.]

[This is truly exciting news!]

[I should not question the great Wet Nurse. As the high priest, I only need to follow the will of the Wet Nurse, deliver and spread the prophecy, and let the people bathe in divine favor once again...]

[...]

Lin Xun shook his head, the consequence of following the prophecy of the Wet Nurse was to fall into Extreme Evil, becoming a source of power.

These people could never understand just how unscrupulous the Wet Nurse could be.

What he was focusing on was not the latter half of the data item, but the content of the prayers in the first half.

The prayers originally praising the Wet Nurse had the holy name obliterated, giving him a bad feeling.

These monsters that have fallen into Extreme Evil evidently no longer believed in the Wet Nurse.

Clone Flandre, no, the Wet Nurse once told him that ’evil’ was a cradle for the birth of deities.

If this is true, does that mean the belief of the masses could create a deity out of thin air?

The Extreme Evil monsters no longer believed in the Wet Nurse. If he and the Wet Nurse did not seize power in time, would this world give birth to an ’Extreme Delusional Evil Fruit’?

Lin Xun was skeptical of what the Wet Nurse had said, as conclusions drawn from false information were mostly wrong.

But judging just by the content of the prayer book, he felt that what the Wet Nurse said wasn’t likely to be false.

After thinking for a long time without any clue, he turned to look at the next item.

The map item after the data item, records a location.

[You unfold the ’Map of the Flying Dragon Incubation Pool’, scrutinize the map carefully, and find out the location of a new place.]

[You have learned the exact location of the ’Flying Dragon Incubation Pool’!]

"Flying Dragon Incubation Pool?"

Previously when he killed the Dragon Knight and the giant dragon at the border of the Divine Kingdom, he knew about the existence of a kind of arms factory called ’Giant Dragon Hatching Pond’.

In the construction list of Zhongsi City, there was also a building called ’Griffin Hatching Pond’.

However, since he changed the course of the story, leading to the entire population of Zhongsi City falling into Extreme Evil, it was clearly unrealistic to expect the Extreme Evil monsters to build an armory factory for him.

Now seeing a new arms factory, Lin Xun immediately became interested.

"If my guess is correct, this new location is a place to acquire mounts!"

Confirming that there is nothing else worth exploring in the temple, he leaves directly.

The surface area of Beetle City is approximately large, and it took him half a day to roam around the entire city, killing many Extreme Evil monsters.

Sadly, other than the ’Feathered Temple’, there are no other special buildings in the city.

This shows that in the territory of Beetle City, similar important places to the ’Flying Dragon Incubation Pool’ are hidden underground.

He summoned the courier mole cricket and headed straight for the ’Flying Dragon Incubation Pool’.