From the end of the world

Chapter 119 VS Monster Maker 6
There is certainly no way the monster maker would follow my advice.

As soon as I finished speaking, he started moving again. He flapped his wings and retreated rapidly, waving his arms at the same time, and a dozen "possible clones" appeared in all directions again. So far, he has never made a meaningless struggle, maybe this time he has some kind of back-up plan.

But I didn't give him another chance to struggle. Instead, I set his body on fire with my eyes, and then used the flames to teleport to his front. I stretched out my right hand and pressed down the silver mask on his face. The flames on his body, in turn, formed a chain-like structure, just like he had bound me with black chains before. This time, I also used flames to bind his entire body tightly, making him unable to move.

I have come to my senses now. I am afraid that his soul attack was not unsuccessful, nor was it not as powerful as he boasted. The fact is that my soul's defense is probably much stronger than I thought. As for the specific principle, whether my soul itself is very strong, or my flame as a container of the soul can actually provide extraordinary soul defense, or both, I don't know.

However, considering the current situation, maybe I have experienced soul attacks before, but I just didn't feel it. After all, if even the "soul attack that even demon hunters beyond demon hunters can't resist" can only cause me to feel a tingling sensation, then if a normal level of soul attack hits me, I may not even feel it.

I'm not quite sure how big the gap is between the "monster hunter who surpasses the monster hunter" and the "Great Impermanence" described by Zhu Shi, but if the Great Impermanence really appeared in front of him, the monster maker would not think that he could control the monster that could destroy a country single-handedly.

In addition, although he treated me as a so-called "super demon hunter", it was based on the premise that I had no soul defense. This shows that if the soul attack just now was really used against a serious "super demon hunter", it should not have directly killed the demon hunter.

Even so, I was able to survive the attack unscathed, which obviously shocked the monster maker greatly. His retreat just now was clearly in a state of panic.

The decision to retreat was correct, but he was not strong enough. The moment my palm touched his, the battle was over.

I closed my eyes.

With the help of previous explorations and the clear information provided by Zhu Shi, my spiritual perception finally broke through the last veil and contacted his consciousness network.

It was like seeing a black mist that was thicker than the darkness itself in the darkness after closing your eyes. This black mist condensed into threads one after another, forming a network that extended in all directions in the darkness.

Each node on the network seemed to correspond to a "possible clone", and this was true for the dozen or so "possible clones" that appeared around him, as well as the weirdo maker in front of him. The latter, as a node, was different from the other clones in that he seemed to be a knot of multiple nodes entangled together, like a tumor on the network. This might be because he had previously merged with many other clones.

The network seems to have many extra lines, connecting to more distant nodes, and there are quite a few of them. Apparently he has "possible clones" active in other places. It is difficult for me to judge where those extra nodes correspond to in reality through the metaphysical node distribution. It may still be within the scope of Xianshui City, or it may be in other provinces and cities.

Originally, I should have been able to capture this consciousness network quickly, but unlike the time when I perceived the cause and effect of the shadow-changing monster, this time the perception process was more difficult and strenuous than I expected. It seemed that my mind was hindered to a certain extent, perhaps related to the property of this black mist that blocks superpowers. However, in the end, it just took me a little longer.

His real body should be on this network. I can't tell which node it is, anyway, just follow what Zhu Shi said, and destroy the consciousness network itself. As for whether doing so will burn the monster maker itself, making it impossible for us to recover the "trophies" - there is indeed such a risk, but I decided to ignore it for the time being.

The reason is simple. The power he showed now is too strong. Even though I can easily deal with him, it will be just as easy for him to deal with Ma Zao and Zhu Shi as it was for me. So I won't think "it's okay to let him run away for now" like I did with the Shadow Changer in the past. If I want to kill him, I'll do it now.

Even if he is gone, it does not mean that the clues related to the doomsday are cut off. We can still track down the Humanitarian Department later, and as long as we have Ma Zao's jinx physique, we don't have to worry about not finding clues to the Humanitarian Department.

Under the gaze of my "eyes", the entire consciousness network suddenly burned with "flames".

Flame is also a substance, a physical existence. The flame that appears on the metaphysical level is actually somewhat unclear. In short, the consciousness network was ignited by me, and it burned quite vigorously. It was like throwing a torch into gasoline. For a moment, I could hardly feel the other party's consciousness network itself, and could only see the blazing flame.

The crackling and burning consciousness network seemed to let out a miserable howl, and almost at the same time, like a calf jumping up after being hit on the knee, a large number of gray things that I was extremely familiar with emerged from the consciousness network -

It’s the “gray mist” of the foggy dream!
The gray mist instantly blocked my "sight", and for a moment my metaphysical vision became gray and I could no longer throw flames into the other party's consciousness network. Not only that, my perception of the flames themselves also became rapidly blurred.

However, on the other side of the gray fog, I could still hear the uncontrollable painful howling of the consciousness network and the sound of the network's total collapse. It just blocked my pursuit, but the damage I caused at the beginning was not invalidated. More importantly, I injected the will of destruction into the flames.

In the moment before my perception of fire was completely blocked, I clearly felt that my consciousness network had been burned to ashes.

At the same time, I felt that the gray mist was like the rising tide, pushing me away from this metaphysical perception. I couldn't continue to watch the subsequent changes.

The problem still lies in this gray mist.

The Monster Maker is indeed related to the Misty Dream, or to the fragments of the God Seal. I don't think he is any of the characters that have appeared in the Misty Dream, so if nothing unexpected happens, he is likely to have other fragments of the God Seal, or at least something related to the God Seal.

However, once the divine seal is involved, many seemingly certain judgments are no longer reliable.

I opened my eyes again, and the monster maker in front of me, as well as the dozen or so "possible clones" around me, were all in irreversible decline. They all seemed to have become seriously ill patients, and the vitality was gone from their eyes and skin. It seemed that the destruction on the metaphysical level had affected them in the real world.

The Monster Maker raised his arm towards me, but slowly lowered it, seemingly at the end of his rope.

I wondered if I had a chance to recover his whole body, but unfortunately the situation did not end there. He had implanted a self-destruction program in the heart seeds of those weirdos to prevent information leakage, and he seemed to have done the same for himself. He and the "possible clones" around him were emitting extremely dangerous white light, as if they were about to explode.

Zhu Shi and Ma were no longer around, so I couldn't stop him from self-destructing.

Just when I was about to throw him down, the space around me twisted and a familiar figure appeared.

It’s early!
As soon as she appeared, she pointed at the monster maker who was about to self-destruct.

"Return!" she chanted.

As the words fell, the self-destructing white light on the monster maker's body suddenly retracted, and even he, who seemed to have run out of luck, had a moment of life and uttered a surprised sound: "Huh?"

However, the possible clones around could not enjoy this treatment, as they all exploded at the same time.

Ma Zao couldn't fly. After she appeared, her body fell straight down and landed steadily on the ground. I extinguished the sea of ​​fire on the street in the distance, grabbed the monster maker and fell back to the ground. Strictly speaking, this is not the ground, but the rooftop of a low building.

The Monster Maker lost his balance for a moment and sat down on the ground in embarrassment.

His last moments seemed to be only temporary. I could feel his body temperature dropping rapidly, his heartbeat becoming weaker, and everything that could be considered a "sign of life" was rapidly weakening. Ma Zao pointed at him again and used the power of blessing on him, but it was like adding water to a bucket with a big hole in it. Not only did it not go into the bucket, but it also showed signs of exhaustion. "Did you cut off my connection with the consciousness network..." The monster maker first muttered to himself in a trance, and then spoke to me, "Did you kill the original body?"

“I don’t know if you’re talking about an individual on the consciousness network or the consciousness network itself... That’s right, I killed them all.” As I spoke, I exited the fire element form and took out the black rope heart-locking ring.

I put the ring on my left hand, then stabbed it into his chest and grabbed his heart, which was beating increasingly weakly.

Now he has to answer my questions and cannot remain silent.

"Don't you share consciousness with your original body?" I asked this question first.

"Before, I was. Now I am offline. In a sense, I am now truly born as an individual."

He seemed unmoved by the fact that he was being interrogated. He simply raised his hand and took off the silver mask, revealing his true face.

He seemed to be a little emotional and said, "This is Lu Chan's black rope lock heart ring. What do you want to know?"

"Is your original body really dead?" I wanted to figure this out as quickly as possible.

"You have destroyed the consciousness network, so of course you are dead," he said.

"So, do you know anything about 'Doomsday' and 'Divine Seal Fragments'?" I asked.

Ma didn't interrupt rashly, and entrusted all the power of interrogation to me. When I asked this question, she showed a look of great importance.

"I don't know so many things offline." The Monster Maker's voice became weaker and weaker. "Also, if you want to ask where the secret bases of the Humanitarian Department are, I can't answer all of them. Don't waste your energy."

It doesn't matter if I can't tell you the location of the Humanitarian Department's secret base. Ma Zao can track down those clues later by investigating his body. Now I have to ask about other more important things.

He said he "didn't know that much" about the end of the world and the fragments of the divine seal, but he didn't say he didn't know anything at all. The Black Rope Locking Heart Ring can certainly make the subject unable to remain silent and only tell the truth, but it may not be impossible to only tell part of the truth. I want to continue asking.

"You really have no impression of 'Doomsday' and 'Divine Seal Fragment'?" I asked, "I saw gray fog when I destroyed your consciousness network. That should be the power related to the Divine Seal Fragment."

"All I know about the end of the world is the prophecy circulating in Luoshan, and I only heard about the fragments of the divine seal from hearsay. As for the gray fog you mentioned..." He paused for a moment, as if he had a lot of thoughts in the process, and then said, "I see, you think that my original self has obtained the fragments of the divine seal... But unfortunately, I don't have any more information. My original self definitely knows more, but he's already dead, so there's no point in talking about that."

"What about Lu Youxun?" I asked, "Did he have an affair with you?"

"No." He said, "Lu Chan and I, as well as the Humanitarian Department...are absolutely irreconcilable. At least in terms of fighting with us, he is more stubborn than any of you. It would be better to kill him than to ask him to cooperate with me."

The Black Rope Heart Locking Ring was still functioning normally, and he seemed to really mean it.

"I'm dying, you can ask one last question," he said.

Now he was no longer a clone, but more like an independent individual. Even he said that he was just born. But he was about to die.

Seeing this man who was so arrogant when he first appeared, now showing such a carefree attitude of not caring about life and death, and even having no complaints or resentment about having to be interrogated after his miserable defeat, I was originally thinking about what other important information I had not asked, but at this moment I changed my mind, pulled my hand away, and asked: "Do you have any last words?"

"Last words?" He seemed to think very seriously, looked at me deeply, nodded, and said, "I lost, I am convinced."

After saying this, he tilted his head and died.

And white light emerged from his body again, trying to break the corpse into pieces.

“Stop——” Ma Zao pointed at the corpse again and used his blessing power.

But this time, it seemed to have touched the trauma in her soul, her face turned pale and her body shook.

Even so, she still managed to activate the power of blessing. A wave of distorted space enveloped the whole body of the monster maker, especially the head.

Immediately, there was a flash of white light, but there was no big explosion. Only the torso and limbs of the Monster Maker were torn into pieces, while the head was intact and rolled to the ground.

I quickly supported Ma Zao who was about to fall.

At this moment, a figure landed on the rooftop. It was Zhu Shi.

"I checked the surrounding area, and no new monster makers or black mist appeared." She said as she walked towards us, "How is the situation here? Did the head stay? I just observed from a distance that Zhuang Cheng's fire seemed to have gone to a level that does not belong to the material world. It should have destroyed the consciousness network of the monster maker, right?"

As she spoke, she looked at the head that had fallen to the ground, then nodded and said, "It looks like a success..."

Before she could finish her words, she froze in place, staring in disbelief at the real face of the head without the mask.

"--dad?"

She pronounced this word.

(End of this chapter)