The feeling of seeing their loved ones turning into zombies… Those who didn’t experience it couldn’t understand.
Thus, in this situation, even if they knew that Marvin was from the surface, they still chose to join hands with him.
Besides Freyr, the others also defected!
…
More and more Frost Spiders came to surround the copper gate.
Marvin could faintly see a blue radiance coming from the group of spiders.
It was very light, only flickering faintly, but it was still enough for him to notice.
His suddenly realized something and blurted out, “She is still Cocooning!”
“No wonder the Final Ghost Mother wanted to ally with the Queen of Spiders!”
These words drew some blank expressions in the Legends’ faces, while Caroline’s expression turned unsightly.
She didn’t know how Marvin knew about that cocoon matter.
After all, they had been careful to make sure that very little information about the Final Ghost Mother, Morella, leaked out.
Even the Underdark United Council barely knew anything about the situation.
She only learnt some secrets about the Final Ghost Mother after being informed by the Queen of Spiders at the conclusion of the negotiations.
Final Ghost Mother Morella was a being of consciousness.
She didn’t have a stable body of her own. Like the Dark Specters, she was also possessing another powerful lifeform’s body.
Marvin knew that when she reached Feinan, she had invaded a strange lifeform from ancient times.
It was a silkworm.
Marvin wasn’t too sure about what it was called.
He only knew that this kind of creature would have several transformations. After going through a total of three forms, it would break out of its cocoon as a very formidable creature.
And the process of each transformation was called Cocooning.
In the game, the instance only opened after the third transformation, when Final Ghost Mother Morella was at her strongest.
But it was different now!
The seal over the Eternal Frozen Spring had broken earlier than before, and the timeline had shifted. This had been bad news for Marvin.
But it was also good news.
The current Final Ghost Mother shouldn’t be as powerful as she was in his past life!
She was most likely in the middle of her 2nd Cocooning!
And during the process, she was at her most vulnerable!
Marvin’s eyes shone and he suddenly asked the Fiendish Swordsman, “Can you hold them back?”
Surprise appeared on the Fiendish Swordsman’s face, but he quickly nodded without a word.
Marvin’s silhouette then disappeared, only leaving one line behind: “I’ll kill her.”
The others had yet to react when the bundle on the Fiendish Swordsman fully unravelled!
What he had been carrying on his back were some small, oddly shaped swords.
These small swords were different from typical one-handed swords or two-handed greatswords. Each of these small swords had a shape similar to a bowknot 1 .
The swords flapped their wings and took off, surprising everyone. It was as if they were alive, as if they were creatures with minds of their own!
The swords of different colors formed a formation of multicolored light!
‘Sword Spirits?’ Jessica looked a bit distracted.
Fate Sorceresses tended to have very wide pools of knowledge. These swords were clearly not ordinary weapons.
Every single one of these swords was a rarely seen Sword Spirit.
The most frightening part was that the Fiendish Swordsman had actually been able to form a contract with an entire Sword Spirit tribe.
No wonder he was so powerful!
“We shall hold them off,” the Fiendish Swordsman’s deep voice echoed.
Then, the countless Sword Spirits pounced, storming down at the Frost Spiders.
A bloody swathe was immediately carved through the swarm of spiders.
And Caroline was blocked by Jessica when she tried to chase after Marvin.
She knew that Marvin had to be sure of himself for him to rush to attack the Final Ghost Mother on his own.
All they needed to do was to stop these enemies right here!
As they had been convinced by Kui and the Fiendish Swordsman, the rest of the group also advanced and kept Caroline, Freyr, and the Frost Spiders from pursuing Marvin!
The curtains slowly raised on a tough fight.
…
Behind the copper gate.
Marvin used Endless Path to hurtle ahead on his own, rushing past the countless Frost Spiders and charging for the depths of the Eternal Frozen Spring!
As he headed deeper, the temperature was dropping precipitously.
Even a Legend’s resistance wouldn’t be able to keep enduring it.
Marvin knew that this was because he was reaching the core of the Eternal Frozen Spring!
He was tearing through at full speed because he knew that he couldn’t afford to be delayed by the Frost Spiders.
These creatures were very vicious and could restrain their targets effectively. Even a Legend Powerhouse might be bound by them.
After all, the blood of the Queen of Spiders flowed in their bodies!
It was easy for Marvin to find the direction of his target.
The Final Ghost Mother was sealed inside the Eternal Frozen Spring.
The Eternal Frozen Spring was a huge chunk of moving ice!
There was an intermittent noise within. As soon as Marvin entered the copper gate, he caught that sound!
He followed the sound through the Eternal Frozen Spring to find the place where the Final Ghost Mother was!
There was a huge, bright chrysalis!
Under a layer of ice, the bright chrysalis was continuously moving, sometimes shrinking, sometimes expanding, showing that there was life being created inside.
From time to time, a blue gleam would escape from the ice. Marvin noticed that it would appear whenever the bright chrysalis squirmed and touched the core of the Eternal Frozen Spring!
‘So that’s the core…’
Marvin looked more closely at the blue cube under the chrysalis.
With that blue cube at the center, countless runes seemed to be engraved in the ice.
But despite the ice flowing continuously, these runes all stayed in place.
‘The seal has completely lost its effectiveness.’
Marvin frowned.
It could be seen from the color of these runes that Final Ghost Mother Morella had completely escaped the suppression of the Night Monarch.
‘Serve me…’
‘Human.’
‘I’ll give you eternal life.’
A compassionate voice echoed in Marvin’s mind.
Suddenly, countless scenes appeared before his eyes!
Chapter 650: Splitting
Chapter 650: Splitting
Translator: Shiraishi Editor: TheAlliance
Marvin’s vision and his mind were overwhelmed by these scenes!
Fortunately, he had grown used to processing the data from the Essence Absorption System, so his mind already had a certain amount of resistance toward this sort of flow of information. Otherwise, under the impact of that frightening surge of information, his brain might have been damaged!
He did feel a bit of weakness as his limbs lost their strength.
He saw countless Dark Specters flying out of the huge cocoon and diving at him.
Marvin clenched his teeth and drew on the remainder of his strength to tear the Ghost Barrier Scrolls one after the other!
The precious scrolls left behind by the Snake Witch were coming in handy now.
…
Marvin’s surroundings began to change.
The layers of illusions felt like a three-dimensional maze surrounding him, completely trapping him inside.
The illus
ions felt so real. Streets from his previous life, his thrilling adventures in Feinan.
Despite Marvin knowing that all of this was fake, the feeling of the lifelike scenes flooded his five sense and his mind.
If he couldn’t resist it with his exceptionally firm will, he might lose himself in this three-dimensional maze.
He had some understanding of the Final Ghost Mother, Morella. He knew that her strength lay in her ability to manipulate the mind.
She could invade and control the minds of countless lifeforms at once, so it was quite normal for that monster to be able to create illusions.
But these illusions were still caused by an external source.
As long as someone that was dragged into an illusion could remain calm and keep firm control of their mind, they wouldn’t have too much trouble.
It was the same type of power as that of the Dream God. The only difference was that it was easier for the Dream God to have people fall in, particularly if the target was already sleeping. And as long as a Legend had enough willpower, they would be able to put up some sort of resistance.
Since Marvin had planned it out, he shouldn’t have any issues dealing with the illusion.
He had a lot of confidence in his own willpower.
Even after he used the Magic Addict Shape to survive, his willpower still exceeded that of most Gods. Since the Night Monarch’s group could resist the illusion of the Final Ghost Mother and seal her, he should also be able to.
But he had to admit that he had somewhat underestimated the Final Ghost Mother.
She didn’t throw Marvin into just one illusion, or even a few of them, but actually established a three-dimensional maze of them.
Whenever Marvin made his way out of an illusion, there would be another one waiting for him.
On a few occasions, even the surroundings of the Eternal Frozen Spring appeared as an illusion. It almost tricked Marvin the first time, making him think that he’d finally struggled his way out of the illusions, but after he realized what it was, he only saw the scene of himself kneeling down in front of the Final Ghost Mother, serving her.
At that moment, even his eyes blurred.
It was also at that time that the Wisdom Chapter in his mind burst out once again with a flood of powerful force.
A lot of the willpower that Marvin was so confident in originated from the Wisdom Chapter.
After all, that thing was a treasure from the Dragon Library. It was said to be an Artifact that had been left behind by the Ancient Wisdom God that was even able to suppress a frightening Artifact like the Book of Nalu. Although Marvin had yet to discover a specific way of activating the Wisdom Chapter and he also still didn’t know the meaning of the strange runes, as long as he had it, it would be the most powerful defensive charm!
The Wisdom Chapter’s runes were roused, and Marvin noticed with surprise that the Ancient Runes were actually floating out on their own.
The group of silvery white runes gathered together and ultimately formed something like a magic carpet, wrapping around Marvin’s body.
The illusion surrounding him became blurry.
That originally indifferent voice now sounded alarmed. “What’s this?”
“Why haven’t you lost yourself?”
Morella’s voice was frightened, even a bit distorted.
Marvin wasn’t sure exactly what had happened either.
He only stared blankly at the silvery white runes as they forcibly tore apart the Final Ghost Mother’s maze of illusions.
At that time, a voice that he had heard before echoed once again:
“There are outsiders.”
Marvin was startled. This was his second time hearing the Will of Feinan Plane speak to him!
The previous time was after he absorbed Fate Power, startling the Plane Will. Could this time be because of the Child of the Plane aura? Or did those floating runes attract the Plane Will’s attention?
“Invaders.”
The Plane Will once again conveyed another word to Marvin with a dull and imposing voice.
The next second, all the illusions collapsed!
As Morella let out a sharp shriek, Marvin opened his eyes and saw that those scrolls were still bursting with a deep blue radiance.
The Ghost Barriers were still in effect. Countless Dark Specters were trying to attack, but they melted like snow in front of his protection.
And not far behind them, Morella, who had suffered from the spirit attack, ended up in a withered state!
The huge, bright chrysalis seemed to have deflated, and more than half of it had collapsed.
Marvin was surprised. He had thought that he would go through a lot more trouble when fighting Morella.
‘Could it be that the Plane Will intervened directly? Or was it the Wisdom Chapter’s runes?’
As he had those thoughts, he took note that the runes became a lot dimmer.
After the Plane Will collapsed the maze of illusions, the voice didn’t speak again.
Marvin had a lot of doubts about the situation, but he knew that now was the best time to finish off Morella!
From its appearance, the monster’s Cocooning seem to have failed!
[Endless Path]!
Marvin disregarded the stamina consumption and directly went below the ice!
Fate Power burst all around, and at the same time, he took out the Demon Subduing Sword!
The huge chrysalis kept squirming, wanting to get away from Marvin’s incoming slash. But at this time, nothing could stop Marvin from killing the Final Ghost Mother!
It looked like a simple downward slash from the Demon Subduing Sword, but that squirming chrysalis was easily cut in half.
“Aaaaaahhhh!”
At this moment, countless howls echoed beside Marvin’s ears!
They came from the souls that had been swallowed by these Dark Specters over several thousand years, all finally being released.
If not for those dimmed runes still protecting Marvin, he might have suffered some injuries from the cries of all the souls pouring out.
He might even have gone deaf!
The bright chrysalis crumbled into fragments after being split in two and began floating upward.
While Marvin’s watched, the fragments gathered together into a blinding light and soared straight up, splitting through the Underdark’s ceiling and flying into some distant part of the starry sky!
Chapter 651: Agate
Chapter 651: Agate
Translator: Shiraishi Editor: TheAlliance
Everything ended so quickly that Marvin even felt like it was all a dream.
Was the enemy too weak, or did he somehow become too strong?
He looked at the Demon Subduing Sword in his hands and shook his head.
Final Ghost Mother Morella was definitely dead.
But the problem of the Dark Specters wasn’t over yet.
When the Final Ghost Mother died, all the wandering Ghost Mothers and Dark Specters in the Underdark died too.
This was a characteristic of the Dark Specter Clan.
But the invasion of the Dark Specters against Feinan wasn’t over.
Marvin glanced at the radiance shooting through the sky.
At the moment of her death, the Final Ghost Mother shared Feinan’s coordinates with her peers.
This signal let her companions know that she had failed to conquer this plane.
The Dark Specters would once again descend upon this world. They might even come with more than three Ghost Mothers at that time!
Feinan would face an even grimmer ordeal.
But this wasn’t something Marvin needed to worry about at this moment.
After killing Morella, he had taken care of the immediate problem.
He suddenly noticed that there was some sort of change happening in the Eternal Frozen Spring. Thus, he started going deeper into the ice, heading for the core.
…
In a hidden ravine.
The Hermit who
was serenely drinking tea suddenly stopped moving, stiffening on the spot.
His eyes were looking into the distance. The death of the Final Ghost Mother appeared before his eyes.
Without him noticing, a tear escaped from his eyes.
The big frog on the side blurted in shock, “That kid truly did it?”
The Hermit nodded, muttering with some disbelief, “How could there be someone that could escape from Morella’s maze of illusions?”
“The last time had been resolved successfully due to the God of Wisdom intervening. The Wisdom God has already long left this world… but he did leave behind two Artifacts that might be able to suppress Morella’s spirit attack.”
“Did that kid manage to find that kind of treasure?”
The big frog couldn’t help but ask, “What treasure?”
The Hermit let his tears flow down, but there seemed to be no emotion on his face.
He took another sip of tea and slowly said, “A treasure that can destroy this world.”
“The other one is… A treasure that can save this world.”
…
At the core of the Eternal Frozen Spring.
All the moisture in the air had already condensed long ago.
Marvin was shivering all over as he followed a small crack in the layer of ice.
The strange part was that the core was in a room of ice that was still wide open.
It might have been opened by Morella before. Whatever the case, Marvin easily walked over.
When he entered the room, his body started freezing!
His outstanding cold resistance seemed to have lost its effect.
Marvin was startled, preparing to withdraw, when suddenly, a warm feeling burst out from the advanced False Divine Vessel and drove the extreme chill out of his body.
This was the power of the Laws!
Marvin now was completely unaffected by the cold.
The advanced False Divine Vessel was a treasure that was comparable to a genuine Divine Vessel, and it had many uses.
Marvin walked on.
The floating object should be the ancient treasure in the Eternal Frozen Spring, the Frost Heart.
The Frost Heart was said to have originated from the Elemental Plane of Water and had been borrowed by the Night Monarch to suppress Morella.
They took advantage of the fact that mind-based lifeforms would become slow and sluggish in the cold, even a monster like Morella. Extremely low temperatures could force it to sink into a deep slumber.
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