Chapter 214: Where Did This Frankenstein Come From?

Accompanied by the return of Hun Tian Di to cleanse the impure outer gods, Kleine felt an unprecedented sense of security.

Fallen Mother Goddess, high-dimensional overseers—countdown begins!

"Where were we? Oh, right." Kleine's lips curled into the same smile as Amon's, saying, "I'll share half my ice cream with you."

Before he finished speaking, Su Lin's true body teleported beside him and said, "I fooled those idiots—they actually believed it!"

Su Lin wiped sweat secretly, the Tianhe battle robe reappearing the giant sword summoned earlier through the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow trial card, along with a faint echo of its former aura.

Finally, he broadcast the same line via a "full-channel megaphone," and surprisingly, these bastards actually believed it.

Indeed, the principle that "once bitten by a snake, one fears ropes for ten years" applies to all intelligent beings except fools.

"Idiots"

"Fooling idiots"

Hearing this, Kleine's smile remained unchanged, though slightly stiff; his eyes lost their luster as he looked at Amon and said, "By the way, we were talking about the Source Fortress."

"Stop acting so tragic, both of you!" Su Lin slapped him on the head, interrupting, "Go get me some Source Matter—if you can't cut off the Source Fortress, give me the Gray Mist!"

Kleine did not ask why Su Lin needed Source Matter from the Source Fortress—he chose to believe unconditionally.

As Kleine's puppet's eyes lost their luster, Su Lin glanced at Amon, still wearing his cheerful smile; Amon showed no annoyance at the interruption, instead observing curiously from the sidelines.

Then Su Lin looked toward "Zhongli," where the profoundly dark silhouette emitted a dazzling, mesmerizing light from the "Taibai Jinxing" marking its head position.

Zhongli's true spirit-light slept deep within, but most of his soul-body and flesh had already been transformed by Source Matter and the Original Will—this could no longer be described as merely "corrupted."

Now Zhongli had become the vessel—the source of corruption itself.

Although he recently achieved the feat of killing all outer gods within three minutes, it was precisely due to his indirect actions that this chain of events unfolded.

The high-level beings of this world are not only hard to kill but also adept at exploiting every opening, turning their adversity into usable conditions.

Truly, through a series of accidental mishaps, they had arrived at this situation.

"Tsk."

Su Lin grimaced, annoyed—Zhongli, Kleine, these bastards were all displaying human brilliance; even Lu Mingfei was still fighting desperately, making his already bad mood even worse.

If either of you two actually paid the price, then I, Su Lin, the system-stream protagonist, would have been a complete fraud.

Thinking of this, Su Lin's face darkened, losing the casualness he'd shown mocking the outer gods.

Su Lin didn't know whether the "completion" effect of the so-called "Fusion Evolution Device" would work—he pondered for a long time and realized this item might become the key to breaking the deadlock, if everything went smoothly.

In truth, he had no confidence, but he still had to try—if all else failed, he'd throw in his entire fortune of millions.

Su Lin was no hero; he hadn't yet enjoyed enough of the world's pleasures, unlike you two who'd sacrifice your futures or lives for friends—but for friends, he was willing to go all-in.

Though he usually liked to "save," his so-called "saving" was meant to increase resilience against "risk."

Birth, aging, sickness, death, natural disasters, human calamities.

No one can determine what tomorrow will bring, and while "money" isn't omnipotent, it solves many problems.

Like now.

"We really can't underestimate the old monsters of all realms—after returning, I need to talk more with Liu Li Ge, learn how to avoid hidden traps." Su Lin recalled—the root of everything likely began when he went on a rampage on Rosser's secret island.

Because he had triggered a corruption rule while farming monsters, the Fallen Mother Goddess became aware of his existence and the divine core within him—since that moment, the Fallen Mother Goddess had targeted him.

Among countless worlds as numerous as grains of sand, the Fallen Mother Goddess and these outer gods are certainly not the only strategists.

"Never slack off under any circumstances."

Su Lin shook his head; several golden giant swords hovering beside him whistled toward "Zhongli," but as they reached within dozens of meters of Him, they were bound by black, tree-root-like organisms that erupted from all directions of space—plant-like yet saturated with extreme chaos.

"Zhongli" now resembled a massive gravitational star, attempting to resonate with the self within the souls of all present beings.

The Original Will still sought to coalesce—it was merely an instinct to gather; all its words and actions served only to remove obstacles and awaken the "Original."

If you say it has reason, it knows Su Lin's achievements and isn't afraid—but if you say it lacks reason, it acts based on memories it has read from Zhongli.

Now that the High-Dimensional Overseer is absent and its created plane has yet to reach reality, Adam can divert more energy to resist the Original's pull.

Adam cannot awaken Zhongli—his authority is an imagined construct; he is neither a true Ancient nor that "God."

"If you have no other plan, seize this chance to destroy Him," Adam said, his eyes clear as the Chaos Sea receded, revealing blue irises, "They'll realize the situation soon."

Out of caution, the outer gods will temporarily withdraw or even enter a strange neither-alive-nor-dead state to avoid pursuit, yet they can still receive external information.

The High-Dimensional Overseer won't take long to notice the current state, as the plane He left is close to reality—only the information arrives slightly delayed.

Adam retrieved the "First Blasphemous Tablet" from the Chaos Sea and displayed it before Su Lin: "When the outer gods return, Amon and I will depart, and we'll use this Blasphemous Tablet to seal the Land of the Abandoned."

"At least it can delay the coming of the apocalypse."

Lu Mingfei retracted his wings, reverted to human form, and refused without hesitation: "Then you'd better leave quickly—don't stay here."

Adam had no deep friendship with these people; in his view, if Su Lin and the other outsiders couldn't generate more variables, the rational choice was to secure victory with minimal sacrifice.

Of course, he deliberately did not mention forcing Kleine to transfer the Source Fortress to Amon.

Considering Su Lin had helped him somewhat in blending "humanity" and "divinity," and considering the negative returns of internal conflict, he had no intention of forcibly killing the outsider who had become the vessel of the Original's first will and instinct.

Using the Chaos Sea and the First Blasphemous Tablet to completely sever the Land of the Abandoned from the outside world was already his greatest concession.

Su Lin did not immediately answer Adam—he first sensed the gray mist descending from immeasurable heights through the divine core within the Light God's avatar, then noticed the crimson within the core beginning to subtly probe again.

Logically, they'd have a strong ally in two days once Lu Mingfei's cooldown ended—but how long could Zhongli hold out? No one could say for sure…

The surrounding space began to tremble; the plane slowly, excruciatingly, advanced toward reality.

"Could you give me some seawater from the Chaos Sea?" Su Lin asked Adam.

Adam summoned a stream; Su Lin drew some—it was viscous and dreamlike, seeming to contain every color in the world.

Su Lin brought the seawater to the Light God's avatar, which dissolved and returned to history, revealing the divine core within, glowing with an eerie crimson, and the gray mist coiling around it.

The Fallen Mother Goddess's influence was not strong—it merely assisted the High-Dimensional Overseer in meeting conditions, reducing the discrepancy between reality and the dimension He created.

Seeing the terrifying giant faces gradually retreat beyond the barrier, Su Lin gave a middle finger upward.

He turned to Adam and said, "Comrade, hold on a little longer."

Without waiting for Adam's reply, Su Lin tossed a six-pointed star insignia the size of a fingernail, then vanished from his spot—where he had stood, space twisted and swelled into a curved, spherical bulge.

"Fascinating." Amon lifted his single eyeglass, carved from crystal, and smiled. "His fate has vanished."

"I've changed my mind."

"I will hold off for you until the final moment—but if he cannot change the current situation, hand me the Source Fortress, how about that?"

Miss Kelaien, while manipulating the Source Fortress to resist the aggregation tendency, replied through his marionette: "Then I'm afraid you'll be disappointed."

Miss Kelaien did not directly agree to Amon's conditions, fearing that Amon would tamper with his words and find a loophole.

"Disappointed?" Amon opened endless doors one after another, diverting the Chaos Sea into the nearby space. "My intuition tells me that staying will let me see something interesting."

With Amon's full participation, Adam no longer needed to devote most of his attention to blocking the other planes. He gripped the silver cross on his chest, closed his eyes, and his expression grew solemn.

Behind him, five shadows coiled around his body—those were the humanity-side selves originating from the True Creator.

As Adam slowly opened his eyes, those clear, childlike irises were tinged with a layer of grayish gloom.

He gazed at the unfathomable distorted space and said: "Judging by the kind of power he has demonstrated before, one can look forward to it a little."

The weariness vanished, but Adam seemed to be a different person, his arms spreading open to an exaggeratedly wide extent.

He declared in a resonant voice: "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters!"

In the clear radiance, Adam once again swelled into a towering illusory figure, supported by the Chaos Sea, upholding the reality of the world.

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Tap-tap-tap-tap.

With every step Su Lin took, crystalline splashes of water would leap up.

The surroundings were an endless environment of light pollution, and beneath his feet lay a shallow mirror-like water surface.

A somewhat tech-styled, roughly five-meter-tall rectangular steel chamber stood at the center. Su Lin had always wanted to experience this classic "Inner World" / "Mirror of the Sky" aesthetic at least once.

"The chosen child—how come it's an adult?"

In the blank white space, a cold mechanical voice sounded.

Su Lin looked at the elevator-like rectangular steel chamber door ahead, slightly surprised—the voice just now had come from there.

"Who are you?" Su Lin asked aloud.

"Manufactured by the great scientist Mr. Selolius, one-time guidance service-type intelligence unit number 217." Unit 217's voice sounded from above the steel chamber.

"Current user permission level confirmed as highest."

"Pleased to serve you, chosen corporate slave."

"Although I don't know where you obtained the highest permission, I am more than happy to be at your service."

Su Lin's mouth twitched. It was his first time seeing a drawn item come with an artificial intelligence. He asked, somewhat puzzled: "Is there a difference between a child and an adult?"

Unit 217 answered.

"This product was born from Mr. Selolius's thousandth viewing of the anime Digimon. To compensate for his own childhood, Mr. Selolius spent fifteen years manufacturing this product and gifted it to the Eternal God Race's Bear Flower."

"For your privacy, please be sure not to fuse with strangers."

"You may preset automatic release. The specific usage method of this product is as follows."

"Disclaimer as follows: the optimal experience duration is 1 hour; fusion experience time is not recommended to exceed 24 hours. Exceeding 1 hour but less than 24 hours will cause mild effects, such as memory confusion and unclear self-identity."

"After exceeding 24 hours, the ultimate evolution will be released, but the permanent fusion trait of the service target does not support release—all resulting apocalypses and universal collapses, Mr. Selolius bears no responsibility."

"Random medal quiz in progress, randomization complete: Honesty."

"You must obtain the Honesty Medal before using this product. Please listen to the question."

Su Lin was directly silenced by this whole disclaimer, and on top of that, why does he have to answer questions to use an item drawn from the system?

"What are the cause and effect behind your use of this product?" Unit 217 asked.

"Love and peace."

"Answer incorrect. Since you hold the highest permission, I have no right to refuse your use. You may continue answering."

Su Lin covered his mouth. Outside, people are fighting for their lives, and here you are playing Truth or Dare with me.

Su Lin took a deep breath, thought it over in his mind, and said.

"In the process of pursuing fun, I accidentally triggered a chain of reactions, causing my friends to face a crisis. I need power to resolve the crisis and rescue them from danger."

"The answer is true but not complete." Unit 217's voice made the veins on Su Lin's forehead bulge.

"I need power to crush those outer gods who want to turn me into a joke into dust."

"Answer valid."

A low rumbling sounded, accompanied by white mist, as the steel chamber door slowly opened.

Su Lin removed the Heavenly River Battle Garments, and the Merit Light Wheel manifested behind him. He took out twenty-one Transcendent Trait Cards excluding the Assassin Sequence and tossed them with both hands; these cards circled around him.

Immediately after, he also took out the Light Godhood, the Gray Mist, and the Chaos Sea seawater, and walked step by step into the 【One-Time Fusion Evolution Device】.

The chamber door closed, leaving only Unit 217's cold mechanical voice echoing within this pure-white distorted space.

"Detecting user traits."

"Immortal Dao Golden Core cultivation, Chaos Law, Buddhist Dao system, Dimensional Magic, Order Godhood."

"Evaluation: Where did this chimera come from?"

"Supplementation beginning, current progress 1%, 2%, 3%."

"Selecting matching Ultimate Form from database."

"Atum, Brahma, Yahweh, Pangu."

"Insufficient energy, negated. Searching for optimal solution."

"Beginning temporary completion of traits."

Home now, will code and make up for the updates tomorrow ry

(End of this chapter)

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