The Heartthrob Guide: Dodder of S-Class Sentinels

Chapter 267 Divinity

They're all good kids.

The voice came again, gentle enough to melt away all violence, carrying undisguised admiration, and softly echoed in every corner of the green landscape.

"Ouch——"

"呲呲-"

The wild beasts couldn't help but let out puppy-like whimpers, their voices filled with long-suppressed grievances and a sense of dependence that came from letting down their guard, completely devoid of their previous ferocity.

However, this tenderness only lasted for a few minutes. Suddenly, a black energy shot out from the hellish scene and pierced straight towards the alien group. The monsters, which had become docile, suddenly stiffened, their barbs stood up again, and they became aggressive.

Monsters and humans are tearing each other apart once again.

Sister, are you sure you want to be our enemy?

Unbeknownst to them, the pure white, double-S-shaped, anisotropys blue-faced dragonfly had gotten incredibly close to the White Tower. It stood in the air, relying on the wind, and spoke to the people inside the tower.

Even if you become an S-rank now, you still won't be a match for me. My range of influence is still greater than yours.

Don't be as stubborn as these foolish humans; alien species are the ultimate evolutionary direction for life on Earth.

We possess limitless life and energy; humanity will ultimately be unable to defeat us.

The little alien's voice, like the faintest sound wave, pierced through layers of obstruction and reached Lin Nan's ears.

It is a higher species that evolved from other species, possessing extremely high learning ability. Its intelligent brain makes up for the lack of autonomous consciousness.

This is the coping ability that alien species develop when facing human oppression, and it is also the instinct of life to survive in desperate situations.

Nature never favors any species. When a life form finds its own way of survival, it means that it has passed nature's test and gained the right to continue to exist on this land.

In contrast, what about humans...?

It's cruel, but it's also very realistic.

Lin Nan looked at the scene before her, feeling desolate.

She used the vines to lift her up, so that she stood at the same height as the little alien.

In the biting, bloody wind, she fully revealed her inner world.

Sister, have you thought it through?

The little alien species urged her on again, its concentration of mental pollution reaching its peak, but it still failed to affect Lin Nan in the slightest.

You are very strong and very capable.

After a long silence, Lin Nan finally spoke.

[I can't believe you've evolved to this level in just a few months. That's truly amazing.]

She recalled the first time she saw it in Sector Five. At that time, it was powerless to protect itself, only managing to survive by connecting with Lin Nan through its faint consciousness. The world of the alien species was an extremely cruel and indifferent one, devoid of compassion and protection, filled only with endless slaughter and plunder. To survive in such a world, she could imagine the hardships it had endured.

What you say may be true; the future of Earth may indeed be controlled by more advanced life forms. However—whether humanity can continue to survive on this world is not for you to presume to define!

As Lin Nan finished speaking, the light from the tree behind him shone even brighter, and a vine emerged from the tree roots, precisely wrapping around Arachne's body.

The man seemed to have expected this, for his face showed no sign of panic, but rather extreme excitement and morbid fanaticism.

He reveled in the suffocating feeling of being entangled by vines, his chest slightly caved in by the constriction, a near-intoxicated smile on his face. He completely opened up his body, his human lower body transformed into a spider's abdomen, his clothes torn to shreds, and the alluring insect patterns slowly grew and floated due to the release of power, making him look eerily beautiful.

“It’s finally here, finally… I’m going to be… eaten by my master…” Arachne murmured, chuckling, as if all the effort he had put into his life had been for this moment.

Spiders are strange creatures. After mating, male spiders will often let their mates eat them to obtain enough nutrition so that the females can reproduce better.

Arachne, being human, and despite some unique changes in the Zerg lineage, still inherited the spiders' spirit of selfless dedication.

"Eat me... absorb all my power, and make me a part of you..."

Arachne knelt on the ground, gazing at the figure in the sky with a sickly and obsessive expression. He even opened his hidden passage, letting the vines enter him.

The forceful intrusion caused his whole body to convulse. Arachne bit his lower lip hard to barely prevent himself from letting out a wretched groan from the backlash of pain.

He curled up, carefully protecting his slightly protruding belly, guiding Lin Nan's vines toward the most delicious direction.

The suction ports on the vine suddenly opened the moment they touched the man's skin, and rings of fine barbs popped out from the edges of the ports, like the suckers of a deep-sea creature, firmly adhering to the man's most private and sensitive soft flesh.

Lin Nan's eyes narrowed slightly. He flicked his finger, and the vine began to absorb the power from Arachne. The purplish-black spiritual energy slowly seeped out from the inlet, as viscous as melted asphalt, and slowly climbed upwards along the veins of the vine.

"Ahhh—" The man let out a shrill scream, and with each spit, his body trembled a little more. His mouth was wide open, and tears and saliva flowed freely.

As the insect patterns covering his skin deepened in color, his purple eyes gradually faded, and the man shattered like a candle in the wind, collapsing helplessly to the ground.

"I like... Master..." he murmured hesitantly, blood seeping from his entire body as his power was forcibly drained, and his mental landscape was engulfed in an unprecedented storm.

As the Zerg's spiritual energy was continuously absorbed by the tree, Lin Nan felt an even stronger sense of abundance. After absorbing Su Ping's spiritual energy, her spiritual energy level was just one step away from S-level. Now, with Arachne's replenishment, she officially broke through the barrier and entered the threshold of S-level.

The giant tree standing atop the white tower now resembles an ancient deity awakening, its branches radiating divine light that pierces through the clouds, dyeing the entire sky a soft green-gold.

A continuous stream of energy flowed through the tree and into Lin Nan's body. The light around her instantly surged, and the scene that originally only covered half of the battlefield now resembled a wasteland nourished by a great river, expanding outwards at a visible speed.

The hellish landscape filled with black and red mist of the small alien species was forced to halt its expansion.

Upon seeing this, the little mutant showed no panic. Instead, it tilted its head and let out a sharp, mocking laugh, its voice full of triumphant provocation:

Sister, look, you're actually a lot like us; you also need to absorb the power of others to expand yourself.

It took a step forward, and although the black and red mist around it was still receding, a cunning light surged in its eyes:

Admit it, compared to us, you are more like what humans call—an anomaly…

(End of this chapter)