Chapter 832
Chapter 832 - 818 Balance
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The knights of the Abyss rode through Purgatory.
The towering Abyss Knight was shrouded in dark foggy gas, with only his pupils shining bright with a red-gold flame.
He moved on, his excessively large framework stepping out like a mortal soldier’s pace, those seemingly slow yet fast steps in relentless pursuit...
Chasing after the aggregates of the Abyss, sending them back to dust.
𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖
Chasing Magical Beasts, turning them into blood mud.
Chasing Abyss dwellers, bestowing upon them an honorable Death or humiliating submission.
"...Is this, the Abyss?"
As life forms of the Abyss fell, their power, which seemed to return to the dust, mostly flowed into the body of the one who did the killing.
The blood of the Magical Beasts did not flow downwards, and everything below the Black Knight’s knees remained blood red; too much "Life" had turned into flowing blood-pools, with his "feeding" unable to keep pace with the slaughter.
The inhabitants of the Abyss were fervent yet humble, rational yet blindly obedient; they harbored no fear of dying in battle and saw it as an honor and a duty, but they also felt no shame in submitting to stronger Abyss residents, considering being chosen as a servant or even a slave an honor and a destiny.
"Massacre, Death, evolution, blending all life together, is the monster that eventually emerges the Abyss?"
The real Lu Ping’an hugged his knees, eyes closed, like a helpless child.
But his "shell," its "Tentacles," her "spirituality," had all turned into demons of the Abyss.
The massive Knight grew larger and stronger, slaying, evolving, slaying, evolving... She devoured everything in sight, trying to fill her own emptiness.
An empty soul, a borrowed Soul, a man-made Body, became more adapted to this so-called "Flesh Grinder" of the Abyss.
The body was filled to the brim with a large amount of flesh and spirit body essence... Something had subtly begun to transform.
She could feel it, the greasy sensation on her hands after the killing.
She could taste it, the sweet meat, the sweetness of Life, how luscious...
The calm voice, as always, transmitted from within.
"...I know."
The name called out made the frenzied soul solidify for a moment, and the very next, it was extracted.
The floating spirit body escaped the confines of the physical body for that moment, then instinctively tried to return.
She floated around her own killing body, observing everything from the perspective of a Spectator—massacre, Devour, evolution.
Ugly? Beautiful? Delicious? Unpalatable?
The spirit body returned to the frame, and this time, she hovered over the boy who sat with knees hugged.
He was as calm as always, as if all that transpired had nothing to do with him, as if everyone else was merely puppets on a stage.
Perhaps even if he really became contaminated, he would just calmly look forward to the next one...
But the next moment, he looked up at himself.
"...I kind of want some pizza."
"I’ll make it for you in a bit!"
In an instant, the spirit body returned to the physical body, and the slaughtering Black Knight regained its sanity.
The flame in her eyes regained clarity, and she continued her ride... The trinity existance maintained a delicate balance as the "Knight."
And balance and stability are what every professional yearns for when facing endless Contamination... Their greatest fear is not Death in battle, but turning into something unrecognizable to themselves and then returning to their own families and homes.
In this moment, even the seemingly indifferent Lu Ping’an was silently taking on the characteristics of a hub, bearing the weight of adjusting all this evolution and Erosion.
"So, this is the Abyss..."
Before, the understanding of the Abyss and the current situation required a complete revision after truly encountering the Abyssal frenzy.
What campaigns on the front lines, what plotting by Abyss Big Bosses, what probing by dispatching Special Task Teams, what mutual schemes by players on both sides...
"...In the Abyss, there is only killing and being killed, eating and being eaten, conquering and being conquered..."
Each path, each profession, is not merely a display of brute strength. The Earth Gods constrain each other fairly well, and the pure primitive forces brim with their unique rules and power.
Being driven and assimilated by "Professions" is only common in the Exotic Realm, and Lu Ping’an felt through the Abyss Force nothing but the most basic desires of creatures.
They are merely a group of beasts, a group of strong yet utterly unplanned beasts.
The so-called Abyssal Will is nothing more than a group of lunatics constantly screaming in your mind, "Kill it," "Eat it."
Lu Ping’an felt that the more the "Abyss Knight" approached the Abyss, the more it strayed from being a normal intelligent creature.
Expecting these things to strategize or scheme? Ugh, better to just go all-out attack.
".....Strange, if that’s the case, what do they want hostages for? To gather intelligence? Hardly necessary."
As he pondered, "Lu Ping’an’s" hands and feet did not stop.
He arrived in the midst of mountains... The sudden ringing of the communication device in his arms was undoubtedly good news.
Small signal towers can still be built in the outer layers of the Abyss, but in the deeper layers, the geographical environment combined with local special conditions only allow for one-to-one walkie-talkies and signaling equipment.
The good news was that Lu Ping’an had found one of his targets.
The bad news was that the big thing that also considered the "target" as its target had found it too.
A giant monster leaped in front of Lu Ping’an. It was enormous, with giant curved horns and a long tail, muscles so developed they were nauseating, and a face so grotesque with bones showing it resembled a skinless version of a super muscular baboon.
The monster held a towering pillar of Flame in its hands, but its four eyes were fixed on the right hand of Lu Ping’an... where the Abyss Beheading Sword was!
"...Weaklings do not deserve the Divine Artifact!"
While it was a strange and unheard of language, Lu Ping’an understood it instantly, and in the next moment, the muscled beast with curved horns charged at him without declaration of war.
In that instant, Lu Ping’an reluctantly retreated.
The reason? It wasn’t that he lacked strength, but that on the tail of the monster, there was a golden cage tied.
And in the cage, there were several humans... or things that used to be human.
"What’s this?" There’s so much chaos in the Abyss, but this thing still has somewhat a standard form, there should be some data on it.
"Chain Prison Demon, be careful, its chains can attack the spirit body."
In that moment, Lu Ping’an noticed the fine white chains wrapped around the body of the muscled monster... Ugh, that’s even more disgusting.
"This thing has evolved, the original Imprisoned Demon would use chains to smash people, but now there’s no need, it can directly shrink them to use as..."
The clash of the sword blade and the chains, the sudden shift to automatically attacking chains, still surprised Lu Ping’an.
"...To be used as hidden weapons for sneak attacks. Forget it, just fight however you want... uh, Fang Wen said she needs these chains, they are good materials, do not break them all."
At this moment, Lu Ping’an was a bit dazed.
Having hostages on its tail was one thing, but now he couldn’t even destroy his opponent’s weapon.
Maybe I should just drop my weapon and wrestle with this muscle freak.
"...Don’t break the chains, I want to eat them."
At this moment, Zhi Xi also made her request, making Lu Ping’an’s scalp tingle even more.
He simply dropped the Beheading Sword, swung his fist at the opponent, and flipped a middle finger... a civilized gesture effective for communication in most worlds.
Lu Ping’an didn’t know this strange language of the Abyss, but repeating the word from the opponent was enough.
"Weakling."
And this elementary provocation had an immediate effect.
The muscle-bound creature actually dropped its club and came forward for a brawl.
— End of Chapter 832 —