Infinite Gods Reign Supreme

Chapter 144 - But the background music grew increasingly intense.

—What happened?

—What happened there?
Before such a thought even crossed his mind, his body had already taken action. A quaint, old-fashioned revolver suddenly appeared in the hunter's hand, while the half-human, half-insect polluted female issued genetic-level commands to operate it.

"Go to hell." — That was an order.

'Bang—'—That's gunfire.

The alien insect that made a human-like sound immediately pierced its own brain and chest with its bladed legs. At that moment, a seemingly ordinary revolver bullet also hit its mark.

The effect is remarkable.

The seemingly ordinary bombardment directly disintegrated the entire Zerg into destroyed dust. However, the sense of impending doom still permeated their senses!
It's not over yet!

That woman's life was not successfully erased at all.

The woman who controlled the power of pollution suddenly opened her eyes wide. Her fully activated senses allowed her to perceive the error that was not far away.

“That fungal carpet!” She pointed her finger at the fungal carpet where the disintegrating worm was located. “I’ve lost control of that fungal carpet!”

A large number of consumables were thrown over.

As renowned titled powerhouses, even though hunters and guardians don't rely on ranged area-of-effect skills as their core abilities, it doesn't prevent them from compensating for this obvious weakness in a suitable way. This might involve explosives based on scientific principles or magical curses based on enchantment technology, and some of these even directly utilize the Nightmare Space to provide a forced destructive effect over a wide area.

The fungal carpet was instantly engulfed by the raging fire and bursts of light.

However, amidst that series of destructions, the woman who had just been killed by them in a previous moment still calmly emerged from the flames!

Her body was constantly being destroyed and then constantly healing. And a beautiful yet chilling smile always lingered on her lips!
"Stop her!"

Even so.

The three had absolutely no idea how to stop her, or what they should stop—they couldn't understand why this unnamed woman, whose HP was clearly at zero, was rapidly recovering in their eyes. It was as if her true form was some kind of colossal creature lurking in the shadows, and the slender girl's figure that appeared to the outside world was merely a humanoid tentacle, like an interactive interface!
Fire.

They dared not approach rashly, but instead poured all their firepower into the girl. Lasers, bullets, alien bone spikes, and acid poison did indeed inflict significant, even horrific, damage on her. However, these injuries lasted less than half a second before being completely healed by her illogical and terrifying self-regenerating power.

The firelight was dim.

The woman still stood amidst the ruins and wasteland.

She was still wearing that radiant and gorgeous dress, her posture still elegant and composed. Her slender and delicate hands, damaged and yet healing themselves amidst the hail of bullets, slowly rose until her long, slender fingers grasped her swan-like, fair and clean neck.

Then——

'Gala—'

The three, bound by the agreement, were taken aback and ceased fire.

They watched helplessly as the immortal girl snapped her own neck and tore off her own head. Yet her slender fingers continued forward, until they penetrated deep into the horrific gash in her neck.

coming soon.

Something terrible is about to happen.

The digitized legs trembled involuntarily, and the alien insects, designed without the capacity for fear, fled outwards without warning. The powerful contractors exchanged glances, their pupils dilating and contracting, cold sweat pouring down their foreheads.

What should we do? What else can we do?
The courage to fight vanished from them without warning. Their experience, their intuition, their reason, and their subconscious all told them that the only thing to do now was to run away.

But where can we escape to? Which way can we go?

The last bit of time is wasted on this meaningless contemplation.

Subsequently.

'Tear—' is like tearing a piece of cloth.

From his neck to his abdomen, tender new flesh was torn open. This injury was no more severe than the one he had sustained in the previous battle with the three contracted individuals. However, this action possessed a certain ritualistic effect.

It refers to an operation.

It means 'the lockdown has been lifted'.

A dark and chilling entity extended and squeezed outwards from the seal of flesh and blood. It was clearly just the body of an ordinary young girl. Yet, emerging from it was a colossal entity, as large as a tower.

No, that's not right. It wasn't a tower; it was just a pointed corner, a decorative structure. Beyond that, more and more, more and more chilling black iron was squeezing and writhing out of the flesh, filling the three's vision in an instant.

That's a tower.

That was a mountain.

It was a pitch-black island.

It was a cold, terrifying, and almost living steel continent.

A horrifying sound escaped her throat. Reason crumbled like a receding tide. The colossal celestial structure known as the Horizon Ripper struggled to emerge from the girl's body. And each dark window resembled a malevolent, steely eye.

"Run, run away!"

The swarm had been wiped out silently. The familiar fungal carpet that should have brought a sense of security had somehow transformed into viscous, yet still alive, putrid flesh. The Blacklight, which excelled in the field of contamination, was swallowed up and assimilated without even a struggle, while the thousands upon thousands of Zerg insects that had tried to escape but suddenly froze were now trembling violently in unison.

'Boom—' The alien insect's flesh and blood exploded from the inside.

From that breach, countless festering blisters and oozing flesh sprouted—like plastic bags filled with water, they burst open everywhere. The splattered, viscous, putrid fluid flowed rapidly back along the decaying fungal carpet towards the dark, colossal structure.

The wind picked up.

It wasn't scorching, but it was burning hot. And from that remarkable heat, one could clearly sense life pulsating within it.

"This world...it...it's alive?" "It...it's breathing...it's eating!?"

The sound was forced out of its throat with difficulty. The half-human, half-insect corrupted creature then realized that although it had urged its companions to escape, neither it nor its companions had remained motionless. Their digitized bodies were supposed to shield them from many negative effects. Yet now, they could only stand there, futilely experiencing the terror that was rapidly amplifying in their minds.

—We do not have a real physical body.

—Without a real physical body, we are forced to come into direct contact with it through our souls.

"Hah!!" the golden giant roared, forcefully breaking free from the nameless fear with his own will. He grabbed two of his companions and tried to throw them away from the wrath.

however……

One step too late—or many steps too late.

The viscous flesh beneath their feet suddenly leaped up, like an outstretched hand, capturing all three contractors. And the next moment—

Everything was rushing back towards that dark, massive steel structure in the hot wind.

Waking up, opening eyes, and then eating.

This was all the action taken by the 'Tear Horizon' after its arrival. The three captured contractors struggled and resisted, using all sorts of trump cards and powers. But in the end, they were completely swallowed up by this dark, steel behemoth.

The sound of metal rubbing and twisting rang out, like chewing or tearing. After a long while, in the command hall at the deepest part of the megastructure, Yu Zhiwei's new body was recreated, writhing from the blood and filth.

She stretched and opened her eyes. Silence reigned all around her; all other living things had vanished before she even awoke.

"Transformation complete... Alright, so next..."

"Huh? It's already over?"

Yu Zhiwei tilted her head. Inside the control room, several newly created screens drooped down. Some massive memories from before her awakening were displayed before her eyes in video format. The content of the videos made her turn her head away with some disdain.

It's too violent, too cruel. It's almost unbearable to watch. It seems that unlocking the third-stage gene lock still doesn't allow for effective control of his second-stage transformation. Although he can now quickly regain his sanity after activating the second-stage transformation, the period of regaining his previous rationality... is indeed quite long.

—I can't tell friend from foe...I guess I still need to practice more in my personal space.

—Luckily, all the locals here are dead. Otherwise, if I had gotten involved and accidentally hurt a few of them, wouldn't I have felt a little guilty?

Yu Zhiwei thought for a moment, then reached out and pulled out a piece of her conscience from her chest to examine it—good, it was still lively and energetic. And so—

"Well?"

Slender legs, stepping forward.

From the main control room to a closed space within the megastructure, only one step is needed.

Many traces of struggle, pulling, and even biting remained on the ground and walls. Her eyes still held many scattered, disintegrated fragments of the program. Yet, amidst these fragments, one data cluster still maintained a relatively intact structure.

That thing was nowhere in the real world, and even the autonomous monitoring of the giant structure could not capture it.

But it was clearly visible to her—the Liberator, battered and bruised, roared as it emerged from the void, its HP at zero, ready to fight again. It resolutely stretched out its hand of vengeance towards Yu Zhiwei's head.

"Kill you!"

The sound is very loud.

Yu Zhiwei wasn't really bothered by him squashing her head—her conscience was still in the control room, and it wouldn't take her more than a few seconds to grow a new body. However…

'Ring ring ring—' The bell rang.

The guardian's outstretched hand froze in mid-air.

He was just centimeters away from touching Yu Zhiwei, just a hair's breadth away from crushing her head. Yet, at that moment, his body involuntarily moved towards the direction of the ringing bell.

I need to answer that call, right now! Everything else can wait, but I have to answer that call first!

He stamped his foot, then moved on. But just then...

'Ring ring ring—' Another bell rang, this time from another part of the hall. It was on the left and the other on the right, one of them on the left and the other on the right.

Go and answer it, that's just as important! But, but how do I reach out to two phones at the same time?

The answer is simple: the left hand reaches to the left, and the right hand reaches to the right. The left and right feet move to the sides respectively, and the flesh in the middle makes a tearing sound.

That's the downside of metallized flesh: it's strong, but lacks elasticity.

The downside of the rule-based damage reflection and transfer is that once the source of the damage is one's own physical body, this privilege becomes completely useless.

So what if we get a few more calls?

The bell rang, then more bells rang. Yu Zhiwei, devoid of conscience, sized up the man who had almost killed her, watching his resolute face gradually turn to panic and fear. That indestructible Titanium Extreme Body, which even the Tear of the Horizon itself couldn't completely destroy, was twisting and deforming under the user's own will. Pieces of flesh screamed and writhed, rushing off in different directions.

"No, no... Ah... Ahhhhhhh!!!"

Screams rang out.

It lasted for five or six seconds, until the torn flesh shattered into dust before Yu Zhiwei's eyes. Although the guardian ultimately failed to protect anyone, at least it protected its own pain.

"Their resistance to mental pollution is lower than expected... I hope others can also discover their weaknesses." The carefree girl rested her chin on her hand and nodded seriously.

My assigned tasks have been temporarily completed.

So, next——

She raised her head, her gaze passing through the massive outer shell of the structure, looking towards the untouchable, distant sky.

(End of this chapter)