Chapter 39 I am the cancer of all things, the embodiment of life
It was as if the wriggling darkness, the tentacles that emitted a strange rancid smell poured all over the warrior's body.
Staring at this scene, Joshua, who was bound by hundreds of green life energy radiations, did not change his face, and he let the other party engulf himself in the package, and then swallowed it back into Herras's belly.
Long after the cult high priest released the restraints of his body and returned to the true form of the chaos beast, a premonition flashed in the warrior's heart, and the truth was exactly what he thought, Hellas really used his huge body to try to swallow himself into his belly.
In this case, Joshua is just going to do it. He and Herras were evenly matched in several head-on confrontations before, and even fell into a slight disadvantage, but now taking advantage of the opponent's unpreparedness to make an internal breakthrough, the odds of winning may be a few points higher, so after using the energy around him to protect the whole body, the warrior did not resist much, and was swallowed by the other party in this way.
The black strange substance kept rubbing against the life energy shield on the surface of Joshua's body, and under the erosion and rejection of each other, there were violent explosions again and again, but the violent shock wave did not break through this layer of seemingly fragile strange flesh and blood, but only held it up for a moment, bulging a big bubble, and then rebounded back into place.
"This kind of corrosive force, it will take at least dozens of hours to break through my life energy shield."
Although Joshua believes that relying solely on the skills and power systems created by others will constrain the progress and development of his own powers, this does not mean that he will abandon them entirely, in fact, warriors will often take the essence of these skills and fight in their own way.
For example, the life energy blaster that he used to bombard with Herras before combined at least thirty core skills of the Concentrated Energy Burst system, and the life energy shield he is using now to protect his body is also a complex of more than a dozen powerful defensive skills such as [Yang Flame Protection], [Tidal Surge] and [Steel Energy Shield], which can effectively isolate all non-life energy, shield and purify most of the curses and weakens, and can also provide attribute protection similar to the power of God.
Even in the void outside the world, the stomach pouch of the legendary behemoth, and all the most dangerous Jedi, Joshua thought he could hold on for a long time, and although Herrath was terrifying, it was not to that point.
But for some reason, seconds passed, but the intense squeeze and life-energy erosion that the warriors had waited for did not come, and on the contrary, Herras even stopped all action.
"Wait, something is wrong!"
While he was thinking suspiciously, Joshua suddenly felt a strange fluctuation around him, an inexplicable sense of danger coming from him, which suddenly made the alarm sound in his heart.
It's a wave of space-time teleportation!
The warrior's judgment was indeed correct, the emanation from the infinite black flesh and blood around him was indeed a violent space-time fluctuation, and before Joshua could burst out with all his strength and break free from the shackles of space-time, Herras, who had been prepared for a long time, urged the energy with all his strength and directly forcibly teleported the warrior and the flesh and blood within a diameter of five meters around him.
At the same time, the dark giant beast that was originally entrenched on the banks of the Mega Frozen River, rapidly devouring and assimilating the surrounding sand, gravel and mud, also stopped all actions and froze in place, and the dark green giant eyes on its body also merged one by one, absorbing the free energy around it into its body.
Herras stopped all outside action, completely reclaimed all his strength, and focused his attention on himself.
Or maybe it's another world.
And another small world.
Time and space distorted, fluctuations spread, and a pitch-black gap unfolded, and Joshua had been teleported here.
- Mistaken!
The warrior originally thought that Helas swallowed himself into his belly because he wanted to use his more vigorous life force to forcibly assimilate or erode him, or use various terrifying and powerful plague magic to attack and disintegrate him, after all, Helas was a cult high priest, and his use of the plague evil method must be a master in Joshua's opinion, but before that, he had been using the warrior's method to fight with him, which was very abnormal.
But he never imagined that the belly of the chaos giant beast transformed into Herras was not actually a digestive organ that dissolved all things, but a passage to subspace!
In the multiverse, there are countless worlds, and the outer layer of each world hangs many small subsidiary worlds and space-time narrow passages, which are the so-called half-planes and secret realms, the most famous of which is the boundless heavenly realm where the gods live, the goblin township of the goblins, and the next level is various subspaces.
The gap between the subspace and the half-plane is not large, it is a small world created by a powerful being in the void imitating the half-plane, and there are often powerful spellcasters on the Microf continent who open up subspace in order to place the mage tower. Although the initial space of the subspace is not large, it can even be said that it is small, and it may not be comparable to a space equipment, but the subspace will continue to grow as the power of the holder grows, until finally, there may be the possibility of turning into a real half-plane.
The subspace created by Herras was naturally not small, and Joshua discovered this when he was completely teleported here, thinking of this, the warrior snorted coldly, and he swung out a punch, which teleported at the same time, and the black flesh wrapped around him exploded into fragments.
What unfolded before his eyes was a strange world.
It's a colorful world, with towering weird fungal umbrellas covering the sky, patches of heterochromatic spore mist pouring out of it to fill the sky, and above the ground, countless black, gray, cockroach-like ants are digging through all kinds of mold moss, using their bodily fluids and fungi to build one giant triangular hive after another.
Majestic energy surged in this small world, and the shocking surging vitality flowed in every insect, every fungal moss, and when it looked up, it was almost endless, and the frenzy of life force that Choshua also suffocated turned into a pale star ring in the sky, surrounding everything, providing an endless source of power for everything.
"......" exhaled, Joshua's eyes narrowed, he looked around at everything around him, the rays of life like the sun's rays swept towards his surroundings with his eyes as the source, probing everything around him.
But originally in the Mycrof Continent, it was easy to penetrate the snow-capped mountains and the earth, and directly probe the life radiation of the golden demonic beast at a depth of 1,500 meters underground, and in this small world of Herras, it could only be less than fifty meters away from the body, in this artificial alien world created by others, the free energy in the air was completely out of Joshua's control, and he felt that his body was suffering from the obstacles, rejection and corrosion of this space all the time, and the warrior just stood on this land, he needed to mobilize all his strength, let alone probe intelligence.
But even so, he sensed an important piece of information.
"These things?!"
Shocked to himself, Joshua frowned, looking at the fungal spores that were floating in the air, he reached out and took a purple mist, and the warrior let go of the life shield on his right hand, allowing it to touch his skin.
And in the next moment, an obvious tingling sensation came from his hand, Joshua stared at his right hand, the iron fist that was originally stronger than steel, which can be described as indestructible, has been corroded by this strange spores into dense pits, in this large area of pits that can make the secret fear patient instantly unconscious, countless tiny fungi grow at a breathing speed, they devour Joshua's flesh and blood, using his life force as fertilizer, and quickly reach the maturity stage.
And just as the patches of fungus were about to open the umbrella cover and spread the spores again, the fighting spirit flashed, and the fungus on the warrior's right fist was immediately swept away, and Joshua's right hand also returned to its original state, without the slightest scar. He looked up again at the spore mist in mid-air, covering most of the small world, and suddenly his heart was even more vigilant than before.
"Not only fungi, but all the creatures here are the embodiment of some kind of plague!"
Through the analysis of the powerful vitality radiation, Joshua has seen through the essence of most of the life here.
The spore mist scattered in the sky is dozens of terrifying plague vectors, including fungi that can grow rapidly with flesh and blood as fertilizer, and there are also plagues that can manipulate the human brain and turn intelligent creatures into zombies, and the many molds and mosses on the ground are also terrible fungus protogens that can erode steel and rocks and turn cities into ruins.
The warrior's familiar black blood is also among them, the carrier of this terrifying germ is an insect that flies in the air, feeds on the fungus spores, it has a steel-like carapace and a tail needle about 20 centimeters long, and the whole looks like a gray-black giant wasp, emitting an annoying buzz in the air.
This is not an empty place created by ordinary powerhouses, but in this small world contains a mature and complete ecosystem, where producers and consumers at all levels have established a closed and circular food chain, but all participants in it are a deadly plague
But at this time, it is not the time to care about this.
Slowly looking up, Joshua looked into the air.
Countless insects fluttered, spore mist scattered, and a human figure appeared in front of the warrior with the help of the life energy in the surrounding air.
Malice, murderous intent, the desire to survive - the terrifying willpower that seems to be about to materialize spreads in all directions, and countless insects in this world are paused because of this will, the giant flies flying in the air are no longer flapping their wings, the ants that are pushing the slime mold are also letting their food roll into the mold, and even the giant fungi that are so high that they are about to touch the zenith of this small world have also stopped the process of spreading spores, and 'respectfully' meet this figure.
The High Priestess of the Plague Cult, Herras the Blighter, reappeared before Joshua.
"Enter my world, you are the first."
Compared to the body in the Microf Continent, the cult high priest who appeared in this small world looked younger, and his face seemed to be less than twenty years old, and his tone finally had mood fluctuations, and his deep voice seemed to have a hint of curiosity and emotion: "Joshua, worthy of you, if you are an ordinary person, you will be devoured by my child the moment you enter this world." ”
As Herras spoke, the world seemed to echo his voice, and countless insects and fungi buzzed in praise of his harmony, and at this time, in this plague world, he as the creator was the unquestionable embodiment of the will of the world.
And Joshua also understood why Herras had been rampaging through the western mountains for decades, killing and exterminating countless life groups, destroying and destroying countless cities and villages, and the accumulated vitality was only several times more than his in just two years, looking at this world, he knew that the high priest of this cult had put most of the life force he absorbed into it, and with the supreme magic of the plague cult, he turned it into a complete evil and poisonous ecosystem!
His wisdom and energy are completely invested in this plague world, so in the outside world, he is as rigid and indifferent as a machine, and he doesn't care about anything, because he doesn't have the energy to go to the accident world, and walking on the Microf continent is just a shell with huge power.
Only here can you see what Herras really is.
"Life is the most fragile and the most tenacious."
Condescendingly, looking down at the warriors who were waiting for battle, the young cult high priest raised his hand, he looked at the palm prints on his palm, and said in a thin voice: "I have understood this since my parents died because of my ability, and I have become stronger. ”
He shifted his gaze and looked at Joshua, and the invisible momentum surged, sweeping away all the spores and insects in between, and little by little, the warrior's body swelled with black-red life flames, and circles of dim black mist began to appear around Herras.
"Do you know the nature of the plague?"
But before the battle, he suddenly asked, in a sincere tone, as if he were just a curious child.
But before Joshua could answer, Herras asked himself again: "That's a selfish life." ”
His eyes shone like a new star, and the light was so pure that the warrior even understood what he was about to say.
Life is about plundering each other, killing each other, and it means surviving as much as possible, reproducing as much as possible, expanding as much as possible, and so is everything – and you and I are no exception.
At this moment, Joshua finally understood the essence of the human form in front of him. It is not a void that overwhelms everything, but it is selfish to the extreme, devouring all life for the sake of its own survival.
And the Plague Demon, the Evil God Agent, Hellas the Blighter, stood in mid-air, he looked down at the warrior and chuckled.
"I am life, Heras."
"The cancer of all things, the enemy of all things."
"The greatest plague in the world."
"I am the embodiment of life!"