Chapter 164: Seal Objects

Without a doubt, those moving were all players; for the sake of catching a glimpse of the plot, it seemed death was nothing to fear.

At most, it would just mean a night of poor sleep.

However, there were only a few people who could actually watch this kind of cutscene.

Besides, when the official CG came out, it would be viewed from one's own perspective.

So everyone wanted to go over and join in the excitement.

If not for the strict orders forbidding it, many players would likely have already rushed up there.

Hearing Liande's angry voice, Zhuguli finally calmed down; only then did he feel that he had been too impulsive just now.

He considered himself a calm person, never expecting he would have such a disgraceful moment.

"That woman... killed Xinjian," Zhuguli said, looking back. "He was my good brother!"

Although Zhuguli had never caught a Petrified Frog together with Xinjian, that did not change the fact that they were good brothers who had communicated on the forums.

At the very least, all players were like brothers at this moment; in any case, they had all hacked at monsters in the same game, which could count as having gone through fire and water together.

"I understand you; we have all had friends who sacrificed themselves, but that is not a reason for us to sacrifice ourselves recklessly." Holding that Seal Object, Liande walked in front of the players. "However, this kind of thing should be handled by someone with experience."

He glanced at Fang 11, who was dragging the extra eyes. "Your courage is worth praising."

Could it be that he was valued by a big shot?

Fang 11 took a deep breath; perhaps he could soon become an Awakened too?

"This filthy witch actually defiled a place of our War Church." After saying this, Liande's body seemed to be wrapped in silver armor, and his entire person turned the color of pure silver.

Seeming to sense a threat, the parts on Laina's body finally began to piece themselves back together, though they were somewhat incongruous.

She successfully gained four legs, three arms...

Her movements were very uncoordinated, but she had already started to run.

It was just that her running posture was no different from crawling.

"You, don't even think about catching me." Only this thought remained in Laina's mind; she felt her thoughts becoming increasingly sluggish.

There was no way they wouldn't be sluggish, because her thoughts were slowly being accessed by Chen Zhi; in order to read these thoughts, Chen Zhi was slowly controlling that body.

Although he did not know why, Chen Zhi finally learned some things he had never understood before.

The reason the player Xinjian mutated was because Laina triggered the Curse upon it, specifically the Curse regarding death.

No wonder Laina could have connections with the Believers of the God of Death; it turned out she was a Gannaer.

As a qualified Gannaer, she should have originally worshipped the God of Death.

But her family no longer had the inheritance of the God of Death, and for many years, no children who naturally Awakened had appeared.

Because they could not afford to raise Laina, she was sold to a passing circus.

Laina in the circus was no different from a wild beast; she was treated as a savage's child, wearing furs, pretending to be a monkey... doing things to please others, until a witch came to the circus...

"Poor little girl, you can seek the protection of the Goddess."

"This is not your fault; those people should pay the price."

"Yes, let them sacrifice; it can allow me to become a Container for the Goddess's descent, so that the Goddess's radiance can shine upon all children like you."

This kind of brainwashing made Laina believe it deeply, and coupled with the fact that the other party did indeed save Laina, at least after she was thirteen, she could finally be no different from other people.

So she also became a witch.

And she made letting the Goddess descend her ultimate goal.

Chen Zhi had absorbed the energy from those Seal Objects, but there was still a lot of resentment inside that had not dissipated.

This resentment turned these Seal Objects into cursed items, which was why they could allow Laina to re-ignite the power of the Curse.

It was just a pity that this kind of power was useless to Chen Zhi; after all, Chen Zhi was the God of Calamity, and with his status, it was impossible for him to be cursed by such energy-less things.

But players and ordinary people were different; especially the players who had not Awakened, they had no resistance to this kind of cursed item.

Although they were molded from Chen Zhi's own flesh and blood, they were still just ordinary people, at most possessing a bit more spirituality.

When this spirituality combined with the cursed items, it was hard not to produce a mutation.

It was just unexpected that such a mutation would occur.

Originally, this kind of Curse required human souls to produce feelings of pain.

But players would not be affected by such things; let alone that Xinjian was not online to begin with, even if he were online, it could not erode a player's soul.

Because their souls were originally in their own bodies, and what was here with Chen Zhi was only their Wisdom.

Even if it were eroded, it would not sense the soul within the shell.

As a result, the Curse only caused the mutation of the player's own body.

If the other party had not used the Rune methods he had learned to break the defensive Formation, perhaps they could have escaped unscathed.

Chen Zhi began to look through some of the information in the witch's memory; he felt he had to look through it quickly, otherwise, if that captain of the War Church directly performed a physical Purification on this witch, it was possible nothing would be left.

What he needed most was knowledge regarding Mysticism; how could he miss such a good opportunity?

Runes and Charms—Laina certainly knew quite a lot about these.

As for those evil Rituals, there were even more in Laina's mind.

It seemed there was not a single thing in this witch's mind that a normal person should have; almost all the Rituals involved sacrificing lives, and there were even ones involving the torture and killing of infants.

Chen Zhi also searched for these Rituals in the mind of the Lord of Calamity; it could be seen that, as expected of an Evil God, there were even many more sinful methods.

For example, using the same Spiritual Poison in a place with millions of people, making everyone perform the same Ritual to become a hotbed for the birth of an Evil God.

Or, for another example, deliberately creating war to slaughter at least ten cities.

These were all called Rituals.

It seemed Rituals had a very important function, used to allow Evil Gods to descend into this world again.

The Lord of Calamity, however, seemed somewhat strange; He was born on this land and had never attempted to descend.

Rather, He seemed to have existed in this world naturally.

Perhaps it was because Chen Zhi lacked the corresponding memories; in any case, he flipped through those memory fragments that were like garbled code once more, and what he found in the Lord of Calamity's brain was still just mush.

Just as he was examining Laina's memories, Laina was also relying on instinct to escape.

Her reaction speed had slowed down, and she always felt as if she were constantly recalling the past.

Painful, sad, and all the knowledge she had learned—it was as if someone were occupying her soul.

She let out a painful roar, only then realizing that she had become much larger and could no longer squeeze out through the window.

Even more terrifying was that her current appearance could no longer be called human.

Two of her legs had fallen off, yet two were still "stuck" to her body; she could not move her body, but the flesh on her body could squeeze out of the window.

"Hahaha, so that's how it is," Laina laughed brilliantly. "Why didn't I think of it? This is already a corpse; it has no soul."

Her voice seemed to have regained much vitality. "But so what? Now I have become a part of the corpse."

"It seems you still have some sanity; that is truly rare." Liande continued forward, and with one swing of his sword, he chopped off one of Laina's arms.

However, he still needed to dodge the Seal Object held in Laina's other arm.

That thing was poisonous; he had to be careful.

And the chunks of flesh on Laina's body were also constantly devouring everything around them.

Anything with flesh and blood would be affected by the current Laina.

Liande was also inevitably contaminated; horns began to grow on top of his head, though he was much better off than those players.

The players who had not undergone Secondary Awakened had even begun to grow a third hand, and granulation tissue was constantly emerging from their bodies.

They didn't want this either, but there was no way around it; those who had not awakened could not resist this kind of power.

And it wasn't just them; as Laina's body grew larger, her physical strength also increased, and the entire room seemed unable to contain her anymore; even if her limbs were constantly severed, new ones would still emerge.

As for her head, Laina already had four or five heads; even if one or two were chopped off, new ones would still grow out.

She had become a monster.

A monster that could not be compared to a human.

Liande instantly chopped off the head Laina was speaking with, but unfortunately, this head was not Laina's weakness either.

All the wounds on her body could recover; she had almost no weaknesses.

She could not be killed no matter what.

As Laina's flesh squeezed out of the window, the people outside would also be affected.

"Everyone outside, move aside, stay further away!" Liande frowned. How did this guy feel like she was getting stronger and stronger?

This shouldn't be; even if the opponent was a witch who had already undergone Secondary Awakened, she shouldn't have such powerful strength.

It was as if there was the aura of a deity on her.

Red Moon...

"Hahahaha, hahahaha." Laina waved her arms like a madwoman. "Why didn't I think of it? I shouldn't have thought about repairing my own body from the beginning, but should have let the Goddess descend."

"But I didn't have such a physical body before, and had no way to become a Container. But now it's different; the Goddess's divine power is great, and she will surely be able to repair this body."

There were more dark clouds in the sky, and outside the War Church, people from other churches had already gathered.

Harriet Badley, the Bishop of the Wisdom Church, tightened his frown and took out a Mirror from his hand.

This was a Mirror sealed by the Wisdom Church; hidden inside was a rebellious witch who had become a sharp weapon for killing witches because she was murdered by a companion who was also a witch.

Ever since witches began appearing frequently in Tana City, Harriet had applied for this Seal Object from the Royal Capital.

The troublesome part was that it had to be a man using this Seal Object, and a single person could not carry it for more than half an hour.

This was also something his subordinate had just handed to him.

If it exceeded half an hour, every half hour or so, he would take a step closer to becoming a woman.

Until finally, he would become a woman.

Behind him stood Aikemengde Alahan, the Bishop of the Sun Church, who also took out a Seal Object, but he knew that this Seal Object was useless against the monsters inside the camp.

However, the Seal Object of the Sun Church was naturally capable of causing a certain degree of influence on witches and vampires, so Aikemengde still brought this Seal Object over.

It was a Cloak that possessed the aura of the sun; it was said to be something a certain Pope had gifted to the Sun God.

The exterior of this Cloak had scorch marks and was filled with the aura of sunlight.

As long as this item was covered over an object producing evil, it could effectively perform Purification on the item.

As for the thing before him, Aikemengde felt a layer of goosebumps, or rather granulation tissue, rise on his own body.

These things were constantly rolling inside his body, making him feel somewhat panicked.

It really was something close to a deity. He was the first to throw the Cloak out, attempting to cover it over Laina's body.

"Hahaha, you fool, you think something like this can affect me?" Laina devoured the Cloak almost instantly, and she wailed in pain. "Sure enough, it really is something from the Sun God Cult, but what use is this? I am not an evil object; you are! Only I am human; you are just a bunch of beasts."

"Shut up, you monster!" This time, Liande found Laina's weakness; she was too confident, actually thinking she could really devour a Seal Object just like that.

"I really should listen to the sound of you dogs barking." Laina closed her eyes. "Let you see my power too."

As she spoke, her body began to split apart.

It seemed she had been waiting for this moment for a long time.

A player watched as they also began to split, and ran backward.

As for Fang 11, who was close by, he was even more miserable; his own arms and legs seemed to want to run away from home and began to detach from his body.

Fortunately, he had more than one leg now... even if two were detached, it didn't matter.

Laina quickly split into five forms; although each one could still not be called human, she had indeed split apart.

"This is the power the Goddess gave me; what about you? Just relying on a few Seal Objects?" Laina said confidently. "You really thought you could control me?"

The five split forms each possessed combat capabilities.

Liande was somewhat exhausted from dealing with them, even with the Blood-colored Holy Sword in his hand; he still could not master this Seal Object.

Because this Seal Object had a mind of its own.

It even thought that Laina seemed to be its true master, occasionally acting against Laiende.

For example, by finding ways to deviate from its trajectory.

After all, it preferred to be held by the strong, rather than a guy like Laiende who had just undergone a Secondary Awakened.

The room collapsed instantly, and Fang 11 was buried inside the house, but his extra eyes could still continue to watch the latest CG.

He did not expect that old Bishop of the Wisdom Church could run so fast; just as the house collapsed, the Mirror in his hand was aimed at one of Laina's bodies.

"Damn traitor!" Laina let out a dry howl, and that body was swallowed inside.

(End of this chapter)