Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 761 - 370: Guiding Bookmark, Assad’s Hidden Location_2
[There were several unexpected incidents during the test, but the final result was still satisfactory...]
[The ’Librarian’ waves goodbye to you, then recites a spell and gradually fades away.]
[With his departure, the many layers of bookshelves and books in the library disappear, leaving only the three of you in the room.]
[Only the old voice echoing.....Apostle, may your journey to save the world go smoothly.]
[Though ’Flandre’ cannot see the Librarian, it can see the disappearance of the bookshelves.]
[It asks, Vowkeeper, has the deity you believe in left?]
[You nod, telling ’Flandre’ that the deity has revealed to you the location of ’Assad’s sleeping palace’, which is not on the sixth floor of the Holy Nest, but rather where you currently are, on the seventh floor.]
[Jinmu, who has been stuck at the library door, is overjoyed. He quickly says, then what are we waiting for, let’s set out immediately. He doesn’t want to break his vow to ’Firefly’.]
[You and ’Flandre’ leave the library, and as you do, the library and the wooden door behind you disappear.]
[Only the flesh wall of the ’Angelic Nest’ can be seen where the original door frame was, with no trace of the library left...]
[...]
The three of them leave the ’Angelic Nest’, and Lin Xun, following the hints from the game, heads towards the location of ’Assad’s sleeping palace’.
The seventh floor of the Holy Nest is much smaller than the outermost one, but it still has the scale of a large city. They traveled for a long time before reaching their destination.
[...]
[The building in front of them stands tall like the tower-like residences around it. It’s the most common architectural style in the seventh layer of the Holy Nest, showing no sign of anomalies.]
[But you perceive that ’Assad’s sleeping palace’ is within this tower...]
[Despite Jinmu’s puzzled expression, you step forward and slowly push open the tower gate...]
[The tower, which appears to be at least five or sixstories high from the outside, has no floors inside and you can see all the way up to the high dome.]
[Although the tower’s interior isn’t large, it feels extremely spacious. Aside from the walls and columns, there is nothing else inside.]
[’Flandre’ realizes something’s off, it positions itself to protect you, it goes around the room looking for anything abnormal but finds nothing.]
[’Jinmu’, having been trying to squeeze in for some time, is about to widen the door with its pincers when it sees ’Flandre’ has found nothing. It gives up on its demolition effort and says to you...]
[It’s clearly empty here. Are you sure you’ve got the location right? Why don’t you think it over?]
[You ignore ’Jinmu’s’ jesting and head straight to the back of the room...]
[When you reach the deepest part of the room, there is nothing but a solid wall in front of you.]
[You take a deep breath and swing your claw at the wall!]
[Your claw sinks into the wall without any resistance. As it pierces through, the wall in front of you disappears like a burst bubble...]
[At that moment, a bit of malicious intent sprouts from the depths of your heart, but the amount of malice is not enough to cause any substantial influence on you.]
[A vast expanse of oppressive darkness appears before your eyes.]
[Not far away, the once grand and luxurious sleeping palace is entwined in black mist, like a beast trapped in a cage, struggling on the brink of death.]
[The place where the dark space contacts the tower’s floor is a clear boundary between black and white, as two different colored blocks put together.]
[Before entering the tower, you took note of the terrain. The space inside the tower is obviously too small to fit the offspring’s sleeping palace, and the tower is not connected to any other buildings, let alone hide such a huge building.]
[Logically, this space and the sleeping palace couldn’t possibly exist here...]
[’Flandre’, suppressing its surprise at the drifting black mist, indicates that the sleeping palace must contain great danger. It offers to go ahead and check.]
[Saying this, it’s about to step into the dark space...]
[Wait a minute!]
[’Jinmu’ gives a loud shout, immediately wields its pincers to violently widen the narrow door and pushes its way in.]
[It strides over to ’Flandre’ and says to you, Vowkeeper, in case there’s unknown danger hidden in the sleeping palace, it will go in with ’Flandre’ first. You wait here and don’t move.]
[After saying this, it steps in shoulder to shoulder with ’Flandre’...]
Lin Xun suspects that Jinmu is trying to take advantage of him, but he has no proof.
[As soon as the two of them stepped on the edge of the dark space, their faces changed in unison, and they swiftly retreated.]
[You could clearly see the fear etched onto Jinmu’s face.]
[Jinmu wanted to explain, but found himself at a loss for words. He could only keep repeating, "Don’t go, don’t go..."]
[With one swift movement, Flandre pulled you away from the dark space, a lingering fear in its voice, "We can’t go in there. The moment I touched the edge of the space, I felt an endless stream of negative thoughts overwhelming my mind.] 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦
[That negative consciousness was filthy, no, it should be called pure, a purity that was evil to the extreme.]
[Had they not retreated in time, they would have been completely swallowed by the unending malice.]
Lin Xun began to realize what he was facing.
From previous text information, it could be concluded that a massive amount of maliciousness gave birth to a subconscious entity. In order to hide its presence in its weaker stages, it completely erased Assad’s existence.
However, why did the malicious subconscious wipe out only Assad’s existence and not the malicious plants?
Lin Xun was struck by a terrifying thought.
Perhaps a weak malicious subconscious still needed a physical body to manifest, to survive, or to grow.
No matter the reason, the malicious subconscious required Assad’s body.
The growing malicious subconscious was likely a parasite in Assad’s body.
"We must enter the sleeping chamber!"
Just because Flandre and Jinmu couldn’t enter didn’t mean he couldn’t investigate the contents of the chamber.
Having experienced the Chapter of the Evil God, he knew the measures to avoid the influence of malice!
[You take out the Refined Copper Sand Hammer and gently shake it...]
[Responding to your call, the Combat Angel–Valkyrie materializes from the void.]
[You instruct the Valkyrie to step into the dark space pervaded with thick malice.]
[Seeing the Valkyrie, Flandre and Jinmu recognize your combat servant. They start to urge you to be careful but see the Valkyrie flaps her wings of refined copper and shoots into the dark space...]
[Visible dark energy twines around the Valkyrie’s body, but it can’t affect her at all.]
[The Valkyrie stands in the dark space, batting her huge dark golden eyes at you, waiting for your next command.]
[Jinmu opens his mouth wide, an incredulous look upon his face as he asks you, "Oathmaker, is this a human or a ghost? How is it able to ignore that kind of malicious consciousness?"]
The Valkyrie is a creation of refined copper, strictly speaking a robot, not a creature, so of course, she can disregard the taint of malice.
He had used similar techniques many times in the Evil God Chapter, and they were already familiar to him.
"Huh, never seen a Mek-girl before?"
Lin Xun attempted to step into the malicious space himself, but he naturally failed. If he didn’t let the Valkyrie pull out the Little Evil Spirit Bell for him to vent his malice, he may have been sent back to the city for free.
Moreover, another method to evade malice has also become ineffective. The Mature Evil Fruit was now in a full state, unable to absorb more malice, so it couldn’t be used as a shield as before.
He had no choice but to send the Valkyrie to explore the sleeping chamber.
[At your command, the Valkyrie flaps her wings of refined copper and quickly flies in front of the sleeping chamber.]
[She pushes the door open, and suddenly, a surge of malice like the eruption of magma spews out from the door.]
[An abundant amount of black energy couldn’t affect the Valkyrie. She quietly stood at the entrance of the sleeping chamber, waiting for the malice to stop surging...]
[...]
[Finally, the surge of malice began to weaken, and you were able to see a glimpse of the inside of the sleeping chamber from a distance.]
[A bizarre organism, similar to a black fungus, has rooted itself deep in the chamber. Endless malice spews and erupts from its body...]
[The creature seems to sense the arrival of others. Its leaves rustle and it extends a head with a strange, sinister smile.]
[That gaze full of malice pierces through the sleeping chamber door, and stares straight at you from far away.]
[You have found the extremely evil Assad!]
