Chapter 3018: Autistic +1

In the thick fog, Su Xiao pressed forward with one hand, and a door made of mist appeared. This was the Dream Gate.

The Dream Gate opened, and Su Xiao walked into it. Baha on his shoulder flew up. Baha couldn't leave the dream world yet; the subsequent things would all be done by it.

Entering the Dream Gate, everything around became ethereal. When the mist dissipated, Su Xiao had returned to Madam Snake's wooden house. It was warm and dry here, making one feel very comfortable.

Su Xiao sat on a chair. After taking off his upper clothing, large areas of burns appeared. Just now, when he was in the space penetration state, a burst of solar flames suddenly burned through space, scorching most of his upper body.

This injury was not an accident. Su Xiao had always wanted to test once whether he could withstand the explosion range of Apollo by penetrating space multiple times. The result obtained now was that it was simply impossible.

Su Xiao didn't choose to drink 【Vitality Stock Solution】; it was too wasteful. He took out a box of ointment and began to apply it to the burns on his body.

A moment later, Su Xiao threw the ointment to Yueling, signaling the other party to apply the ointment to the burns on his back.

Yueling took the ointment, dug out some with her index finger, and put her index finger into her mouth. Her expression was very happy. It was delicious! It had the taste of mint, and her throat was blowing cool wind~

"..."

Su Xiao looked at Yueling. Yueling shrank her head and began to help Su Xiao apply the ointment.

In Yueling's cognition, every inch of the burn had to be applied with ointment. After her index finger was stained with ointment, she used that slender index finger to pierce into the cracked wounds on Su Xiao's back, striving to apply the ointment to every inch inside the cracks.

A moment later, Yueling, with a big bump on her forehead, was standing in the corner facing the wall for punishment, while Madam Snake was behind Su Xiao, applying the ointment with gentle movements.

Su Xiao took out a projection device and projected the image onto the wall. This was the real-time image fed back by Baha.

The projected image was a high-altitude perspective. One could see a circular flame area located below. The solar flames had extinguished, and the ground was full of magma and sparks.

After throwing the first Apollo, he had to let the Great Sage and those beast tribes relax. It was estimated that the Devourer would be deployed in 20 minutes.

"Where is this? It looks familiar."

Madam Snake looked at the projection on the wall. Soon, she recognized where this was. Wasn't this the dream world!

"You... are really ruthless."

The waves in Madam Snake's heart were not small. She was inclined toward the orderly faction. More importantly, she recognized quite a few of the beast tribes in the dream world, and what made her empathize even more was that she was actually a member of the 'beasts.'

After waiting for about twenty minutes, Su Xiao took out the communicator. A rustling sound came from inside; the signal wasn't too good.

"Deploy the Devourer."

"Understood."

The perspective fed back by Baha swooped down rapidly.

Inside the dream world, on the second floor of a pointed-roof building, a beast tribe member was sitting in a corner. This was the Great Sage's order, letting all beast tribes disperse, so as not to let the enemy drop another 'sun' and cause heavy casualties.

This beast tribe member, named Shuowu, had already sobered up a bit. It hated and feared the Great Sage. The other party's previous sentence, 'Do you want to obtain eternal life?', successfully attracted Shuowu, but after arriving in the dream world, it found that the price of eternal life was very high.

Just as Shuowu was fantasizing about how to replace the Great Sage, become the King of Dreams, and do wonderful things with female members of the same tribe, a black-green semi-fluid spread near it, silently touching its clothing. Characteristic 1 of the Devourer: before entering the growth period, it had concealment.

Beast tribe member Shuowu tapped its head with its fingers. When bored, one had to find something to do, so as not to 'deep dive' into the dream. That was a world of spirit/soul, dark, cold, cramped, and one would encounter dream monsters. Those were immortal monsters that could be resurrected endlessly, eventually swallowing the consciousness that entered there.

Beast tribe member Shuowu tapped its head again with its hand. It found that its fingertips and head actually appeared to be pulling threads. It looked at its fingers; a section of its finger was gone.

"Eh? Did I deep dive?"

Beast tribe member Shuowu looked around. It held its breath. After a while, a slight sense of suffocation appeared. This meant it hadn't 'deep dived.'

Confirming this point, beast tribe member Shuowu stood up. It wasn't a 'deep dive,' so it was an enemy attack.

"Ene..."

Before Shuowu could shout a word, black tentacles surged into its mouth, wrapping its entire skull inside, not revealing a bit of hair or skin.

Shuowu began to struggle painfully. It tore the black tentacles from its head, wanting to continue shouting, but couldn't make a sound. 10 seconds later, it fell down with a thud, and the surging black tentacles wrapped its entire body.

After a few minutes, the black tentacles on Shuowu's body all faded. It stood up from the ground in a very strange posture. Its waist was bent, and its face was almost touching the ground, sniffing something.

As if it had found its target, Shuowu—no, the Devourer—came to the window, planted itself head down, and fell. Landing in mid-air, its head split, turning into legs, and its legs closed, turning into a head.

The Devourer had no fixed form. It could almost turn into any creature it devoured, but there was one point: its aura wouldn't change.

The Devourer moved forward. Its body swayed significantly left and right. That pace looked like it was asking for a beating.

"Lord Sage has an order, no walking around."

Several beast tribe members walked out from the building ahead. The Devourer smiled, its mouth corners splitting to its neck.

"Enemy."

The beast tribe member who spoke disappeared in place, appeared in front of the Devourer, and swung a punch sideways, smashing the Devourer to pieces.

1 minute later, the Devourer squatted on the ground. Those few beast tribe members had already disappeared, not even leaving a drop of blood.

5 minutes later, the Devourer stood on the neck of a building, its black tentacles hanging down.

12 minutes later, the Devourer hid in the darkness, its black tentacles detaching and entering the ground. These tentacles went to find prey.

Pairs of beast tribe members with dull expressions walked from the surroundings. Their pace was eerie, their eyes pitch black, and the center of their pupils presented a dark green color.

These beast tribe members came near the Devourer, their bodies turning into black semi-fluid, entering the Devourer's body. The Devourer relied on this newly obtained vitality to manufacture more black tentacles, replacing it to hunt.

The Devourer's hunting wasn't actually too secretive, but before this, the Great Sage had issued an order, letting the beast tribes in the dream world disperse, so as not to be blown up by Apollo again.

This facilitated the Devourer's hunting. Its characteristic was: killing it initially was fine, but if it couldn't be killed, then it was trouble.

After the Devourer hunted to a certain amount of vitality, black tentacles would split from its main body. Each black tentacle was a hunting tool that could shield perception. As long as the enemy touched this black tentacle, there was a high probability of being assimilated and becoming a sub-body of the Devourer.

The sub-body would return to the vicinity of the main body at the first opportunity and be absorbed by the Devourer's main body. With vitality, the main body could split more black tentacles to carry out a wider range of hunting, rolling like a snowball.

Time passed second by second. Half an hour later, beast tribe members walked on the street with eerie paces, walking toward the direction of the Devourer. All the beast tribe members who discovered these sub-bodies hadn't even had time to shout before black tentacles swarmed from near them, wrapping, assimilating, and joining the large force.

First use Apollo to blow the enemy apart, giving the Devourer a chance to grow, then release the Devourer. Once the Devourer took shape and turned into a giant creature, it would wreak havoc. The enemy could only surround and attack. If the number was small, it was equivalent to letting the Devourer continue to grow.

Once a large number of enemies surrounded the Devourer, there was a surprise, which was throwing Hades to burn.

Although the power of the Flame of the Underworld was not as strong as Apollo, once it spread, the area was much larger than Apollo. With the Devourer covering, it was almost impossible to extinguish the initial state of Hades.

Compared to researching Apollo, Su Xiao invested much less in Hades, but his current alchemy level was no longer comparable to before.

Apollo + Devourer + Hades, this was a wipe-out set meal.

More and more Devourer sub-bodies on the street were finally discovered by the beast tribes, who let out a desperate roar.

"Enemy attack!"

A loud roar broke the silence of the dream world, and it was precisely this loud roar that made the Devourer show its ferocious side.

Black semi-fluid gathered toward the Devourer. It turned into a monster that was pitch black all over, over 30 meters tall, overall somewhat similar to the beast tribes.

"Roar!!"

The Devourer roared, layers of sound waves spreading, shattering the buildings within half a kilometer around. Eyes appeared all over its upper body, and black lasers continued to spray from these eyes.

Zzzzz!

The beast tribe members rushing from the surroundings hadn't figured out what was going on before they were hit by the black lasers. Parts of their bodies dissolved into black semi-fluid, surging toward the Devourer.

The Devourer leaped up. It pierced one giant claw into the Central Clock Tower, swung on it, and flew toward the direction of the Cathedral.

The Great Sage, who had just received the bad news, was still located in front of the Cathedral door. He looked at the giant fireball in the distance. The hand holding the wooden staff was trembling slightly. This was anger. The beast tribes he had accumulated in the dream world had died nearly half for no reason.

"Lord Sage, please give the order."

Four beast tribe members with different postures knelt on one knee in front of the Great Sage. These four beast tribe members were not ordinary; they were capable subordinates selected by the Great Sage.

The Great Sage looked at the rapidly approaching Devourer and finally gave the order, letting the beast tribes divide into multiple groups to carry out continuous siege, not allowing them to swarm up, so as not to be blown up by the sun.

After this order was conveyed, the Great Sage 'surprisedly' found that this siege of the Devourer had no effect, but instead let the enemy devour many beast tribes, and the enemy became stronger.

The Great Sage had a headache. Attacking in batches didn't work, and surrounding didn't work. Letting the four capable subordinates go up together couldn't stop the black mud monster either, unless he took action himself.

The Great Sage pondered for a long time and decided not to take action. That ability of his had been accumulated for 319 years. This was prepared for the Ancient God. After one strike, all previous accumulations would be exhausted. This was the Great Sage: either survive until the end of time, or one strike would shatter the heavens and earth.

Unfortunately, the Devourer was too ferocious. In desperation, the Great Sage let all the beast tribe members who had stayed in the dream world for over a hundred years go to surround and attack the Devourer.

In the battle group.

Boom!

The Devourer's giant claws slapped on the ground, and black ground spikes appeared in the surroundings, piercing many beast tribe members. They wailed endlessly. This wasn't all; the Devourer's huge body exploded, and black semi-fluid splattered everywhere.

"Ah!"

A beast tribe member scratched its whole body. A few seconds later, it collapsed to the ground, its body rapidly turning into semi-fluid.

The Devourer that had just exploded gathered together again. It was a circle larger in size, roaring to the sky. It now had only one mental fluctuation: endless hunger.

Compared to the beast tribe members attacking from the surroundings, the Devourer had stronger hostility toward Baha in the sky. After all, Baha had stuffed the Devourer into a centrifuge and spun it for a long time.

The siege below lasted for nearly two hours, still showing no signs of subsiding. Because no sun fell from the sky again, the siege of the beast tribe members began to become bold, barely suppressing the Devourer.

Only the Great Sage knew how many casualties there were. From before until now, roughly estimated, the beast tribes had died a total of 32,600. One could only say that the Great Sage was truly stable, and truly able to endure.

"Almost there, Little Black is about to reach its limit."

Baha looked down from above. It decided not to provoke the next Devourer; this thing was very vengeful.

A glass column as thick as an arm was thrown down by Baha. The Devourer below leaped high and swallowed the glass column in one bite. The surface of this thing was coated with a high-concentration life-characteristic solution, which had a strong attraction to the Devourer.

The Devourer landed, and its body began to expand. There was a reason why the Devourer was so strong: the relatively harsh growth conditions, plus it didn't distinguish between friend and foe, and the maximum existence time of 3 hours. These sacrifices were exchanged for the Devourer's strength.

The Devourer's size surged. In the distance, after the Great Sage saw this scene, there was a sense of foreboding in his heart.

Bang!

The Devourer exploded, and the dark green Underworld flames splattered. With the Devourer's help in burning, 【Flame of the Underworld · Hades】 actually began to explode and burn.

The Underworld flames spread at a terrifying speed. Buildings, soil, flesh and blood, and even steel were all fuel.

Burning, endless burning. A few minutes later, most of the dream world was burning with Underworld flames.

In the wooden house in the outside world, Madam Snake looked at the projection on the wall. The sound of burning and wailing entered her ears. Even though she wasn't in the dream world, she seemed to be able to smell the burnt stench.

Madam Snake shifted her gaze, looking at Su Xiao's back sitting on the wooden chair. At this moment, she felt that Su Xiao was more terrifying than the Ancient God.

The burning in the dream world lasted for a long time before it subsided. Su Xiao picked up the communicator.

"Baha, throw another Apollo."

"Boss, it seems like it's not needed."

The image fed back by Baha began to shift. I don't know when, but the Great Sage in front of the Cathedral door had disappeared, and the remaining area was also quiet.

Seeing this scene, Su Xiao was somewhat surprised. The dream world was very important to the Great Sage. Most of the beast tribes in it couldn't leave. This was the prison where the Great Sage trapped the beast tribes. The other party surviving here was clearly accumulating something, or waiting for something.

The world acceleration after the beast tribes returned to the outside world was not as simple as aging 20 years after staying inside for 20 years. The 20 years of time passing would appear in an instant, which would bring many malignant results.

In Su Xiao's estimation, the Great Sage was very likely to fight to the death with him in this place.

The situation he envisioned didn't appear. The Great Sage was beaten away, even abandoning his lair. Following the Kodo School, the Great Sage was also beaten by Su Xiao until he was somewhat autistic.

PS: (Updated late. This chapter is a 4000-word big chapter. Don't laugh, I'm a hand-crippled party. 4000 words is really a big chapter.) ===== CHAPTER 3019 =====