Chapter 1018
Chapter 1018 - 104
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The deck was in chaos, with screams and gunshots everywhere.
In a pool of blood, a golden figure laughed cheerfully.
Discarding the broken bodies at will, she glanced at the crowd that had distanced themselves out of fear but inexplicably felt somewhat bored.
Back? Are they all back?
"....Really, is this what it feels like to be alive?"
The lake-colored pupils turned completely golden, and the soul, which had never been stable, became restless again.
The blood on the ground began to flow backward, bit by bit, into the girl’s shadow.
A large amount of "Life" was not accepted by her, but rather, at the moment of contact, it solidified directly and turned into golden "Crystals."
Large-sized crystals were embedded into the ship’s deck, each crystal clear and transparent, yet there were faint invisible ripples echoing within them.
Kerdalais hadn’t lied, but she also hadn’t told the whole truth.
In order to maintain the strength and potential of the "Newborn," upon obtaining the possibilities of otherworldly Kerdalais, she did not make them into "clones."
"Just Kerdalais alone, meaningless...."
Greedy, she worried that her otherworldly counterpart had too many "repeats."
Thus, during their creation, she added extra possibilities, on the physical level, on the genetic level....
With her craving for bloodshed satisfied, the girl regained her composure, and in those lake-colored eyes of hers, she looked around indifferently, devoid of much humanity when regarding her prey.
Under her will, the golden crystals gradually started to float, hovering in the air...
When they landed again, the crystals cracked open, and from within emerged knights made of yellow crystal.
There were ordinary Soldiers, towering Tower guards, and Bishops and attendants dressed in lavish clothes... those clearly Western-chess inspired "puppets" now possessed the aura of life.
The Arona Crystal Beast, a magical creature born with quasi-rule talent, so powerful that an adult individual represents an ethnic group and is even considered a part of natural disasters.
Its genes had been incorporated into "Eve," and under the patronage of "Warrior’s possibility," achieved perfect Fusion.
".....Tired, get lost."
Originally, Eve intended to follow her instincts, letting her minions begin their Massacre to replenish her new "guard."
But she inexplicably remembered the plain smile of a man, and felt it all so meaningless.
If she really did that... would he still smile at her?
Thinking of this, the girl, who was irritably bored, became even more disinterested.
Observing the common people fleeing for their lives around her, she turned directly and walked toward the edge of the deck.... below, there was a ship waiting for her.
She had originally come up to look around and casually kill a few, to give the contestants a little "surprise"—that was all her plan entailed.
It’s just that in the past few days, she felt something was strange about her, very strange...
"....Why am I so calm, why do I not feel like hunting at all."
"Kerdalais" each one had different powerful demonic genes placed within them by Kerdalais, bestowing them terrifying talents and potential for growth.
"Innate Fate possibility" plus "Kerdalais’s talent" plus "powerful demon genes," jointly created an individual destined to become a Strongman.
And with different Fates and different genes, their abilities varied, which would add "diversity" to the final Mother Goddess.
Each Kerdalais is different; they could be considered completely separate entities. Kerdalais’s original plan was tremendously successful... if one had to find a commonality, it would be their generally strong "beastly nature," or rather, non-humanity.
As she walked, Eve Kerdalais felt inexplicably confused, reluctant, uneasy... and it was this hesitation, this patronage not meant for her, that made her quicken her pace, decisively intent on leaving.
"....I, I am becoming unlike myself."
Eve Kerdalais couldn’t understand why she was so calm when she was by his side.....
"...why don’t I want to kill him? Since I’m interested in him, why don’t I want to turn him directly into a new toy...."
One by one, the crystal puppets, chess pieces, and toys stood up, following their master’s footsteps, joining the parade.
The unlucky ones still struggling on the ground, at the moment she passed by, also completed their "evolution."
A crystal humanoid stood up, trying to join this ever-growing procession....
It, however, was directly kicked to pieces by its new master.
The reason? The face on that humanoid was too familiar....
"...what’s the matter with that male...."
Constructing "crystal toys" was her instinct, and yet this smiling male face indicated he had penetrated her subconscious.
Having left Lu Ping’an, "reason" returned to Eve’s brain, the "little girl" recalled these past days’ bizarrely peaceful life, and felt an inexplicable fear and unease.
She couldn’t understand, had she been cursed, how she could truly abandon the "plan" and immerse herself completely in "entertainment."
By his side, she was incredibly relaxed, as if back to the earliest days, to that happy and beautiful career, back to when she still had a home and family....
"...Lu Ping’an...."
Thinking, recalling, a few more "chess pieces" stood up, their familiar smiles causing an inexplicable panic in Eve.
Taking a deep breath, without distraction, Eve tried to use past "knowledge" to find an answer.
No matter what spell she was under, there had to be a way to dispel it, a more rational Eve thought about the courses taught by that bastard before....
"...uh, I am not entering the ’mating season,’ am I?"
Her biological knowledge and her not-so-reliable "biology teacher" gave her the most likely answer.
"Indeed, indeed, quite likely. I feel calm by his side, even though we’ve only just met, he gave me a high sense of kinship and good impression, and when I’m with him, I can even play those naive games with the little girl and enjoy it, isn’t it said that love makes one stupid...."
The more she thought, the more this possibility seemed like the truth.
At that thought, she oddly felt that these strangely faced humanoids were perhaps not so unacceptable after all.
Accompanied by the crystal stairs, under the watchful eyes of many fearful onlookers, the girl happily bounded off the ship.
And the moment she boarded her ship, with that look back, her golden eyes were already full of "desire" and "will."
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"A massacre occurred in Area E3 of the deck, with at least fifty people dead."
"The perpetrator is a young woman with golden hair and blue eyes..."
"At least seven professionals died, which is not unusual, but there were also two rich people and their bodyguard teams. Yet, not a drop of blood was found on the scene."
"It seems she heard some offensive language, someone asking for a price or something...."
Even without being at the scene, just by listening to bits and pieces of information and scattered reports, Lu Ping’an could roughly figure out what happened.
"...killed them all, huh?"
It was unexpected but not illogical.
As an educator, Chris was undoubtedly unqualified, and Eve was naturally not any kind of warrior... Life forms with "Balancing Disaster Beast" as a base that underwent re-education and personality shaping from the "Disaster Beast", if too honest and conventional, would be the truly bizarre ones.
𝓯𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶
"Perhaps the ’her’ in front of me is the most abnormal ’her’...."
Lu Ping’an sighed, and while he was relieved to hear that Eve had left, he also felt an inexplicable regret.
— End of Chapter 1018 —