Chapter 625: Chapter 316: The Mutated Prefix, Dragon Knight at the Border of the Divine Kingdom_1

Lin Xun’s Shell slots were twelve in number. Besides the eight main Shells, the rest could be discarded and replaced. There were basically enough vacant slots for now.

He decided to discard the dead scapegoat Shell and exchange it with the initial IC’s ’Monk’ Shell, plunging into the ’Sea of Corruption’ to experiment once more.

Based on the information divulged by the Dean previously, people who fail feathering would be turned into demons and chased into the ’Sea of Corruption’.

Maybe using a feathering-failed Monk to enter the sea would bring about different events.

[...]

[You fly over the sea on your sword, looking down at the ocean below...]

[However, apart from the endless amber-colored seawater, you can’t see anything else.]

[Would you try to dive into the ’Sea of Corruption’?]

[You possess the body of the ’Feathered Monastery Monk’!]

[Without the flying sword under your foot, you drop into the vast sea...]

[The amber-colored seawater engulfs you, and extreme pain shoots through every part of your skin.]

[The intense pain penetrates deep into your skin, as if countless ants are gnawing on your body...]

Lin Xun frowned, initially thinking that using a feathering-failed Monk would result in a different event, only to find it was the same text.

Taking advantage of the ’Monk’ not yet defeated, he planned to switch to the Little Dragon’s Shell and try again.

If the seawater was filled with deadly poison, perhaps the Little Dragon could last a little longer and see clearly what the huge shadow under the sea was.

[The agonizing pain enough to drive you crazy quickly fades, the pain of thousands of ants gnawing at your body recedes like a tide...]

[You, submerged in seawater, inexplicably feel a wonderful warmth and comfort.]

[The surrounding seawater felt funnily like it was filled with poison one second, and the next it felt like the amniotic fluid nurturing you inside the womb.]

[Not only does the seawater make you feel comfortable and peaceful, but it also fills your dying body with vitality!]

[An unknown force is invading you. You are being mutated...]

[...]

[You have successfully completed the first stage of mutation!]

[Your body has transfigured from being skinny to being fat and bulky, growing a huge amount of fatty muscle.]

[Unlike the ’Feathered Dean’, your flesh is not gray but rather a terrifyingly black!]

[The Shell ’Feathered Monastery Monk’ has transformed into ’Mutated Monastery Monk’!]

[You are being watched by an unknown entity!]

[You are being watched by an unknown entity!]

[In the darkness, a command resounds, a divine mission bestowed to you by the formidable entity-- enter the land of the villains, and obliterate all heretics!]

Lin Xun’s eyes widened.

Before he could react, the game text continued to display.

[An enormous shadow silently appeared behind you out of nowhere. It was a gigantic arthropod creature prowling in the Deep Sea!]

[The creature silently appeared behind you, extremely close to you, so close that you can’t see its entire body at a glance.]

[Its two eyes, as big as houses, stared at you, its chewing mouth constantly moving, each of the food debris falling from it was larger than your Shell.]

[The creature was pitch black all over, covered with layers of heavy shell, looking like a mighty mountain-like scorpion, the pincers growing on its head could tear a bottomless trench in the Deep Sea.]

[You have discovered the ’Mutated Ancient Giant Horseshoe Crab’!]

[You are feeling an immense pressure!]

[The enormous creature surged forward, swallowed you in one bite!]

[Everything before you turns black, you lose all perception...]

[...]

Lin Xun was dumbfounded.

From the transition of the Monk’s Shell from Feathered to Mutated, being observed by an unknown deity and given a mission, to being swallowed by the creature, a series of special events happened repeatedly, giving him absolutely no time to react.

"An ambush, huh?"

"Wait till I resurrect, switch back to the Star Lord, and fight you to the death!"

The instance ’you feel immense pressure’ showed up in the game text was when he was possessing the weak Monk’s Shell. He might not receive such a text if he were to fight with the Star Lord.

Whether or not he could defeat the creature, he still had to try! 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

"Huh, why hasn’t the death text appeared?"

Lin Xun waited for a long while, but he didn’t see the red character signifying ’death’ appear.

Having played the game for a long while, he knew that there would not be any bug in this nether game. All events that seem unreasonable actually abide by the game rules.

That meant he wasn’t dead yet and was still alive!

Lin Xun tried to switch Shells, but there was no response even after pressing the option button.

The game text still stayed at "everything before you turns black".

With no room to operate at present, he could only look back at the previous text, and reflect carefully on the sequence of events.

After considering for quite a while, he deduced that the Dean and others, driving people who had failed the feathering into the ’Sea of Corruption’, was likely a form of judgment and punishment rendered on the heretics.

Making the indignant heretics suffer severe anguish, die in pain, and finally sink to the bottom of the sea.

However, the monk, either by luck or due to a gifted talent, manages to endure the pain and transform the ’Feathered’ prefix to a ’Mutated’ prefix.

After ’Mutating’, he immediately drew the attention of an unknown deity.

The deity assigned a mission— ’Enter the land of the villain, and obliterate all heretics!’.

The phrase ’land of the villain’ in the first half likely refers to the Desire Wet Nurse’s ’Divine Kingdom’, while the second half is the mission assigned by the unknown deity.

The ’Mutated’ prefix probably belongs to the faction of the unknown deity, which is opposite to the ’Feathered’ faction of the ’Desire Wet Nurse’.