Chapter 861
Chapter 861 - 847: Bestow
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"Close the door, release the dogs."
After Lu Ping’an proficiently activated the legion mode, the battlefield naturally entered the familiar rhythm of "the righteous ganging up."
This time, the ones Lu Ping’an deployed onto the battlefield were not the fragile fodder from before, but fully deep-demonized Optimized Wolf Knights and Wolf Kings.
The War Beasts, with an average combat power starting from at least two tiers, entered the battlefield together, their might extremely astonishing.
But the moment they entered, they appeared somewhat listless, even vaguely retreating.
This was not due to the constraints of the Abyss battlefield; these Magic Pets’ levels were already not low. The problem lay with the monster opposite them....
"Awoo....."
The proud Wolf King, with its tail between its legs, felt an unavoidable pressure from the monster made up of countless coiled snakes despite its young age.
The Wolf King felt fear and shrank back, and the wolf pack naturally retreated... but in fact, even before the Wolf King fell back, the Wolf Knights had nearly suffered a collapse in morale.
Compared to Didirona, these wolf pups, which were considered excellent, were truly only a lower species.
Their overly sensitive spirituality made them even more keenly aware of the horror of the monster opposite them at this time, causing them to retreat even more fiercely.
"....This is one of the most fundamental differences between Beast Tamers and Gardeners; Magic Pets have morale...."
But all of this was already within Lu Ping’an’s expectations.
Crackling sounds rang out as needle injections were completed one after another on the necks of the beastly wolves.
The next moment, the previously retreating wolves had changed.
Their muscles swiftly bulged, their qi Boiling throughout their bodies, and their eyes filled with Blood-silk.
Lu Ping’an was not a Beastmaster, and he did not possess the Beast Taming series’ necessary skill "Frenzy," but he had financial power. As long as the resources were sufficient, Magic Potions could be concocted.
With the help of the drugs, the Demon Wolves had lost their fear of superiors.
They swarmed in, and while attacking, they were still able to logically use their "Abnormal Ability" and "Occupational Traits."
For a while, the battlefield was in chaos; the self-evolving diversity of the Demon species was a nightmare for most opponents... An assault by a group of Beasts and a group of low-level professionals was not pressure of the same level at all.
"...Squeak!"
But suddenly, a sharp sound erupted around the battlefield.
One after another, the Beasts collapsed, Bleeding profusely. Facing higher-tier opponents, they could not resist.
The sonic attack was imbued with profane power, devastating one Wolf Beast after another.
Didirona’s eerie face squeezed out a smile, and behind her head, two cyan human faces with wide-open mouths seemed to be singing, yet as a Human, Lu Ping’an heard nothing.
"What is this ability?"
".....Seems to be the Song of Life, ugh, that’s not important, you wouldn’t understand anyway...."
Such doubts actually did not need an answer, Didirona’s "accumulation" was simply too vast; it might still have many such "treasures."
It might have revealed a smile simply because it had rediscovered an ability it could use.
Lots of wolf beasts collapsed right there and then, either bleeding from all orifices or with their heads exploding outright, but still, there were some special breeds that successfully drew close to the monster.
There is a reason why expensive War Beasts are such; to become a "professional" means that they too have infinite possibilities, it’s just that the ones thrown out in the first wave were clearly not the most valuable in their grouping.
They had time only to launch one round of attacks before they were Devoured by snakes that filled the wilderness.
Time had not only allowed Lu Ping’an to setup but also Didirona... At this moment, it was no longer that tiny "human" form.
That entire wilderness of snakes was its limbs. It, having initially completed its Fusion, transformed into a Giant Body once more.
The snake heads, once the size of fingertips, now turned into several meters long pythons; thus, it, accumulating more body mass, swelled once again.
After initially adapting to the new Body, it began in its own way to complete another round of "body construction"... And this would give it a higher power output limit.
"Musician."
"Immortal."
And Chris was providing Lu Ping’an with intelligence Support, using her own insights to analyze for Lu Ping’an what "rules" Didirona might still possess... Each one could be a fatal blow to Lu Ping’an.
Therefore, a certain "sacrifice" must be made to probe and expend resources.
But Lu Ping’an had given up so much, and, of course, it wasn’t just for this....
"Black Holy Grail. Corpse Sacrifice Explosion."
After a snap of the fingers, flames burst forth.
The corpses on the ground, the flesh swallowed by the snake swarm, were all detonated in that moment!
The "malicious" Black Knight’s display went beyond simply unleashing a beast swarm.
"Pain....."
In that moment, many snake heads let out their own "screams".
The explosion of Life Essence normally transcended tiers, and the internal explosion at that moment even caused the formidable Didirona much suffering.
No matter what tier a being was, most life forms’ insides are fragile... Their evolutionary process had no reason or need to truly evolve iron stomachs and steel intestines.
Lu Ping’an squinted his eyes, sensing the negative Life Force circulating and settling inside the body of the Snake King.
The evil beasts intertwined and tore at each other... She again showed signs of becoming Out of Control; the "life colonies" evolved from her originally chaotic limbs were merely being suppressed with difficulty.
While directional Snake Transformation was something Lu Ping’an had hoped for, he indeed had no means to directly eradicate it now.
"Indeed, it’s still meaningless, isn’t it."
A wound that would be fatal to a normal life form was rapidly closing at that moment.
The regenerating snake heads healed swiftly, while the "snake heads" that had died completely were devoured by other snakes, leaving the monster still possessing an overabundance of Life Force.
"It’s like a deep-sea treasury, and right now its body is merely a water faucet emerging from the water; killing some of its exterior has little significance, not enough to harm its underwater origin."
Lu Ping’an swung the Abyss Beheading Sword as well, slicing off some of the snake heads.
Those heads and Tentacles had just fallen when they rapidly disintegrated into ash... Lu Ping’an indeed killed a part of it, but it was still insignificant to its vast main body.
Unless Lu Ping’an truly transformed into a super-sized Abyss Lord, wielding the true Abyss Blade to behead the true body of the Snake King, such child’s play with a large sword would be like using a soup spoon to scoop the sea... You could fill the spoon but can you scoop the sea clean with it?
"...All conventional methods ineffective?"
Although he phrased it as a question, Lu Ping’an already knew the answer.
Even though Didirona had descended along the way, actually falling below Rule-level, it remained an "existence" that was too vast. Under normal circumstances, Lu Ping’an, who was just at Decree-level, lacked the means to kill her completely.
At this moment, Lu Ping’an was like someone trying to kill a Giant with a fine needle; theoretically it might be possible, but practically it’s almost unrealistic.
"Holy Fire? Not in a sufficient quantity."
"Magic Plants? Uh, that would just provide it with organic matter."
"Internal explosion? The maximum effect was just as we saw, and it also wasted my accumulation in the Black Holy Grail."
Lu Ping’an was somewhat helpless. He indeed still had two cards up his sleeve, but given the current state of the Snake King, it wasn’t certain that pre-maturely playing them would be effective.
"At least, I need to restrict its movement..."
And at this crucial moment, luck seemed to finally smile on the underdog; the thing Lu Ping’an had been waiting for arrived ahead of time.
"Life Illustration, it’s starting to evolve?!"
His book’s pages began to heat up, mysterious Runes and power emerged on them, rapidly completing their transformation.
In that flash, Lu Ping’an smiled.
In fact, this was also what he had been anticipating... he was the unfortunate soul trying to fulfill a destiny’s decree, but he had no plans to complete the task in the expected manner.
"...To destroy the Snake King... to stop an existence from evolving..."
In reality, from the moment the Snake King turned into this mess, Lu Ping’an had completed his assignment.
It was no longer her.
It was already doomed not to become the former Lord of the Abyss, and wasn’t even a normal Abyss life form anymore, so naturally, it could no longer obstruct the "evolution" of this section of the Abyss.
However, merely this was still not enough... It could still evolve again, climb the Throne once more.
"If this section of the Abyss truly has ’consciousness,’ then it knows that under the current circumstances, I am the only one who can completely end it. So, grant me a favorable wind of destiny..."
Seemingly, the "Life Illustration" book that completed its evolution in that instant was the answer the Abyss bestowed.
Lu Ping’an was seeking Favor of destiny and luck in his own way.
In this moment, Lu Ping’an was no longer fighting alone, so he had the confidence to use those cards that could only be played once.
— End of Chapter 861 —