Chapter 1210
The Spiritual Legion's Elegant Seats 1
Chapter 1210 Spiritual Legion's Elegant Seat +1
Faced with Xia Xiu's dog-walking-like behavior, the invincible Nikel stared at him with his inhuman eyes.
He showed little emotion on the surface, but the necromantic aura around him, which should have been as stable as still water, still fluctuated very slightly.
This subtle change is enough to explain a lot, because for a ruler of Nikel's caliber, an imbalance in aura itself means an imbalance in mental state.
He stood still, staring at Xia Xiu, having already made a judgment in his mind in a very short time.
I can't beat the other person!
The blond youth who suddenly appeared on the pale peak did not show off his abilities, and did not even deliberately release any real pressure.
But it was precisely this kind of person who, the moment he made his move, whipped himself and [Leishefu] like spinning tops. Even a fool could tell how terrifying this person was.
So, Nikel made her decision almost without much hesitation—to leave first!
He has never been the kind of person who would put himself on a pedestal just to save face.
He is a ruler, not a fool.
Mortalius would charge up the mountain with a scythe even when he knew the odds were slim, because the boy had an almost self-destructive stubbornness in his bones, something the boy didn't possess.
As long as the green hills remain, there will always be firewood to burn!
Therefore, since he had determined that Xia Xiu's strength was clearly superior to his own, he decided to escape first and then make further plans.
As soon as the thought crossed his mind, Nikel immediately ordered [Reshef] to retract its domain.
The [Burning Lungs Hundred Gates Plague Mist Underworld Capital] that had been spreading endlessly across the mountaintop suddenly reversed course. Large swaths of highly concentrated poisonous fog, divine miasma, and pathogenic incantations ceased their outward expansion and were forcibly forced back into the airspace surrounding and in front of Nikel.
The next instant, Nikel raised his hand.
The strongest form of the domain is directly unleashed. This is a domain liberation unique to necromancy, a further liberation based on the original domain.
[Burning Lungs, Hundred Gates, Plague Fog, Underworld: Liberation—]
[Domain Liberation: Hundred Arrows of Plague City—!!!]
Suddenly, the compressed layer of poisonous fog rose up in front of him, layer upon layer, ring upon ring, forming a semi-transparent miasma city in the blink of an eye.
The city was not real, yet it was incredibly heavy. The city walls, towers, crenellations, and arrow slits were all made of high-density miasma, putrid heat, and necromantic spells. What was most terrifying was that every wisp of air, every strand of mist, and every crevice in the city would condense into an arrow in a very short time.
Hundreds and thousands of arrows of the crown of plague began to converge.
In an instant, the entire city of miasma lit up, as if countless unseen archers were raising their hands and nocking their bows at the same time. Then, a barrage of calamity arrows burst forth from the city, their light a mix of red and green, carrying with them fever, poison, and a dry, high wind, covering the entire space in front of the peak.
Xia Xiu, who had originally planned to defeat Nikel instantly, couldn't help but become serious.
It wasn't that Nicol's new gadgets threatened him, but rather that he became interested in Nicol's application of his domain.
“A new genealogy system…” He looked at the toys that Nikel had made as if he had discovered a new continent.
Instead of expanding his own crown domain to directly cover Nikel's Hundred Arrows Domain, he released multiple [Möbius Rings] to protect himself and Mortalius.
He wanted to see just how much more work Nickell could pull off.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh—!!
Countless plague arrows shot towards Xia Xiu's location, but they were all redirected by the [Möbius strip], which was blessed by great spirituality.
After activating [Hundred Arrows Miasma City], Nikel realized that she was indeed no match for Xia Xiu, so she decided to reveal her true trump card.
This trump card was one of the reasons why Mortarius ultimately broke with him completely.
Standing in the center of the poisonous fog at the summit, Nikel whispered the trivial, strange, and instinctively unsettling incantation.
“Umsal, the bell in the split womb, the pulse in the black water, the common rhythm of those yet to be born.”
"Let my heart follow you, let my blood follow you, let my dreams return to you."
"Let your heart return to slowness, your bones to softness, and your body to curl up."
"The light is outside, the nest is inside."
"Umsal—please retract your failed birth."
As the incantation was recited, the entire pale peak seemed to be touched by some deeper rhythm.
Boom!
Boom! !
Boom! ! ! !
The next moment, from the densest poisonous fog and darkness behind the summit, a colossal creature began to slowly emerge.
That is—Um-Sar.
The entire Pale Peak began to tremble, and then a huge, abominable thing began to emerge from Nikel's palace.
It was an extremely large mass of flesh and blood, resembling a dark red sphere of internal organs suspended in mid-air. However, upon closer inspection, it became clear that the thing was not a "sphere" at all.
It is a kind of whole forcibly formed by countless layers of different organs, membranes, sacs, tendons and unfinished flesh and blood structures intertwining, stacking and squeezing each other.
Its surface is covered with tens of thousands of eyeballs.
Most of those eyelids haven't really opened yet; they're just translucent bulges under the fleshy membrane, rising and falling slightly with each pulsation, as if they might open all at any moment.
Between the eyelids and fleshy folds are a large number of underdeveloped mouthparts. These mouthparts have no complete teeth or stable lips and tongue; they are just rings of soft flesh that open and close constantly, exhaling thick, dark red mist.
【Umsar】suspended in the plague-stricken area, any slight movement of his body would cause the poisonous fog on the entire mountaintop to contract or expand accordingly.
This rhythm alone is enough to make people feel nauseous, have palpitations, and feel chest tightness.
Even more bizarrely, above its enormous body hangs a crown-like ring made of flesh and blood.
Layers of rotating fleshy rings, the surface of which is covered with blood vessels, veins, eyelids and tiny unborn organs, with mucus and translucent fetal membranes constantly drooping from the edges.
What's most unsettling is not just its original shape.
Because of Nikel's years of modifications, this thing is no longer a simple embryo of a ruler.
Inside Umsal's massive body, a set of mechanical-flesh composite structures that are still in operation can be clearly seen today, which is the [Crown Engine Interaction Pump] that was forcibly embedded in it.
That thing was embedded deep inside its internal organs, like an engine heart stuffed into the womb, with thick tubes extending along the flesh and blood vessels, stuffing mechanical extraction, ether exchange and authority into this flesh that should not have matured.
Thus, Umsar's appearance was no longer just a "floating lump of flesh," but began to reveal a ferocious dragon-like outline.
Its front end extends into a huge, fleshy neck resembling a dragon's head, while thick, fleshy wings bulge on both sides. The wing membranes are covered with closed eyeballs and pulsating veins, making it truly resemble a special fleshy dragon cast from flesh and blood when unfolded.
Now, Nikel has brought it out.
The fleshy dragon, which had been transformed by the Crown Engine and the Fetal Palace Curse, slowly turned its ferocious but incomplete head high in the sky, turning its thousands of closed eyeballs toward Xia Xiu.
Xia Xiu looked at [Umsar], his gaze sweeping back and forth over the pulsating crimson flesh, the unopened eyelids, the half-formed mouthparts, and the fleshy crown. He quickly sensed the familiar yet clearly failed aura of a perfect embryo within the creature.
And because of this, he became even more certain of one thing: creations involving flesh and blood were indeed mostly ugly.
This one in front of us can now be officially classified as "Ugly Number Two".
Moreover, judging from the current situation, there will likely be even more ugly No. 3, No. 4, and even more things that make people feel that their aesthetic sense is polluted at first glance, all lined up to jump out.
Thinking about this, Xia Xiu even began to silently mourn for his future eyesight and mood.
As he was examining [Umsar], the monster, cobbled together from flesh, womb, and mechanical engine, opened its enormous mouth—composed of ring-shaped jaws and underdeveloped mandibles—directly at him.
The next moment, a dragon's breath mixed with poisonous miasma, corrosive liquid, high-temperature pathogenic gas, and viscous filth sprayed straight at Xia Xiu.
The dragon's breath was indeed terrifying, its color a dark reddish-black, with trailing dark green poisonous smoke at the edges. Wherever it passed, even the air seemed to be dissolved, and the rock layers on the mountaintop sizzled as they burned.
If someone like Mr. Night, a [Dominator], were to be hit head-on by this thing, his bones and soul would probably rot away.
At the same time, as Ugly Number Two was "spitting," the crown on its back began to rotate, signifying that it was about to expand its territory.
Faced with such a terrifying attack, Xia Xiu didn't rush to move at all.
He didn't even completely take his gaze off Umssar's body. Instead, as the dragon's breath pressed down on it, he used his great spirituality to scan its interior again. This time, he could see it even more clearly.
The [Crown Engine Interaction Pump], which was deep inside the other party's body and pulsating rapidly along with the large mass of flesh and blood, indeed still had more obvious flange traces in its underlying circuits and genealogical logic.
This is interesting.
Xia Xiu's interest did not diminish; on the contrary, it intensified.
The military dragoon technology of the Fran lineage, the crown-level aerospace dragon body structure, the crown engine interactive pump, and this failed embryo that was modified into a fleshy dragon—Nikel has really hidden a lot of good stuff.
Now, his interest in this Pale King was truly growing stronger.
Just then, the terrifying dragon breath approached Xia Xiu.
At this moment, he finally raised his right hand, the movement so light it was almost as if he were just flicking it.
Snapped.
A snap of fingers rang out.
【Crown Unfolds - World Modulation Mode——】
An invisible yet absolutely powerful layer of rules spread outwards from Xia Xiu at his center.
And then, that was the end of it.
Nikel's domain, the domain that [Umsar] had not yet had a chance to truly unfold, along with all the attacks and erosion logics around that were trying to get closer to Xia Xiu, were all covered up at this moment.
[Burning Lungs, Hundred Gates, Plague Mist, Underworld Capital] The high-concentration poisonous fog structure that originally filled the entire peak was directly ripped off from its underlying authority, and the pathogenic incantations, divine poisonous miasma, and high-temperature wind pressure that were originally functioning began to lose their restraint.
Meanwhile, Umsar's flesh and blood domain, which had just begun to emerge and hadn't yet truly spread, was completely covered by Xia Xiu's domain as if it had only just begun to appear.
Everything that came near Xia Xiu was as if it had been thrown into an air purifier. The dragon breath that was so fierce just a moment ago was purified layer by layer in front of him, and in the end, there was really only a wind that was not threatening.
The scene immediately became quite comical.
That ugly second-in-command that Nikel had brought out as his trump card, who looked like he was going to "kill you" one second, the dragon breath he spewed out in front of Xia Xiu was no different from blowing a gentle breath on someone.
Your breath smells a bit bad.
Xia Xiu pinched his nose in disgust. Although [World Modulation] purified everything into pure air, looking at the ugly No. 2, he still subconsciously felt that the other party's breath was very smelly.
However, he didn't kill Ugly Number Two as easily as he did Ugly Number One.
Because it has a [Crown Engine Interaction Pump] inside its body, it has a very good foundation and is suitable to be taken in as a dog.
Perfect timing, since his Solomon Legion wasn't fully replenished yet, this Crowned Sky Dragon Rider was just the right fit.
Although his appearance is a bit abstract, it doesn't matter. He is the fifth saint of lust, and can remodel the ugly second one.
As Xia Xiu pondered this, he directly invoked the energy of the domain itself, dragging the proportions of flesh and blood, engine rhythm, fetal incantation, and organ arrangement within the other party's body into his own rule framework in one go, and began to modify it on the spot.
Moreover, it wasn't just about domain coverage; he also casually applied his flesh-and-blood manipulation skills, starting to remodel the ugly No. 2 on the spot.
The next moment, Umsar's massive, normally pulsating body suddenly felt as if it had been violently squeezed by an unseen hand, causing its entire form to become disordered, its membranes to shift, and its veins to reverse direction.
The previously normal flesh and blood layers surrounding the [Crown Engine Interaction Pump] inside Ugly Number Two's body were forcibly stretched, twisted, and folded, and even the dragon head began to look quite presentable.
But the most bizarre part of this entire modification process has only just begun.
The shadow beneath Xia Xiu's feet suddenly twitched.
The dark shadows that had been quietly spread across the rocky peak now resembled a black swamp that had suddenly come to life, churning, expanding, and lifting its edges before rapidly spreading forward.
Nickell was taken aback for a moment, then his expression completely changed.
Meanwhile, Mortalius, who had just been pulled back from the brink of death, finally showed obvious surprise upon seeing this scene.
Because they all saw it—that writhing shadow was climbing upwards along the mountaintop, through rock fissures and the edge of the poisonous fog, until finally, like a living black maw, it swallowed the ugly, grotesque Number Two that was being drastically altered high in the sky.
Ugly Number Two tried to struggle, but unfortunately, it was all in vain.
It could not resist Xia Xiu's drastic modifications, nor could it resist the army's devouring by [Vasak].
The darkness beneath Xia Xiu's feet was like an endless stomach, or a shadowy lair specifically designed to hunt giants. Every time Ugly Number Two struggled, it was entangled by more and more shadowy structures.
Thus, an extremely absurd scene unfolded atop the mountain.
One moment it was a ferocious, enormous monster with a crown hanging in the air, like a fleshy monster that could swallow the entire mountain, and the next moment it was as if it was being bitten by an unseen abyss, sinking down little by little.
At this moment, in the eyes of Nikel and Mortalius, Laoxia was more like an indescribable horror.
After a moment, the summit fell silent again.
After swallowing Ugly Number Two, the writhing black shadow undulated slightly as if it had eaten its fill, then slowly contracted and retreated back to Xia Xiu's feet.
From this point on, the spiritual legion status of [Vassak] within Xia Xiu's body increased by 1.
As for the modeling of the newly added legion seats, Lao Xia was a little dissatisfied. He was still manually creating the model, trying to make the ugly No. 2 look better and more imposing.
He was so enamored with the new toys that he almost forgot he was supposed to keep spinning Nickel's "invincible" top.