Free Web NovelChapter 558: Chapter 175: Me and My Encounter
The Barren Wasteland seemed like an ancient battlefield.
Walking here, Bai Wu felt as if the scent of blood from countless years ago lingered in the air.
As he crossed the ravine, his mind began pondering many things.
This world had native Evil Fallen as well as those who were transformed into Evil Fallen after death and transferred to this world.
The native Evil Fallen were of two types: one completely corresponding to human form, and the other, seemingly more ancient than even Omega.
For instance, the Skeletal Tyrant he was currently seeking.
The more Bai Wu thought about it, the more curious he became about what kind of person this tyrant might be.
The entire Barren Wasteland was strewn with huge rocks like fangs, and occasionally, one could see white bones of the Evil Fallen or humans from the Well World around the rocks.
When he arrived in a certain area, Bai Wu suddenly became alert.
An intense killing intent so thick that it seemed to have weight came upon him.
"Warning! Enlarge the text, bold it, and use a 60-point Microsoft YaHei font with double line spacing! In short, you’d better hurry... ah, I spoke too late, and also... off the mark."
The moment the remark from Prayle’s Eye popped up, Bai Wu hadn’t even seen the Skeletal Tyrant yet, but he instinctively took a defensive stance—leaping into the air.
What happened next took Bai Wu completely by surprise...
Jing Liu, in his shadow form, was stunned. Having been in an intangible state by Bai Wu’s side for so long, Jing Liu never expected someone to be able to see him.
In that instant—the ground cracked open, and huge skeletal spikes erupted from the earth!
Bai Wu dodged the bone spikes that burst from the ground, but he hadn’t anticipated... the other party would also attack Jing Liu.
And...
Hit the supposedly intangible Jing Liu.
Though Jing Liu looked more normal in his shadow state, not as transparent as his real body, he had lost the powerful defense characteristic of Well Level.
The attack from the bone spike pierced right through Jing Liu’s abdomen.
Jing Liu, like a soul in his shadow form, was suddenly skewered on the tremendous bone spike.
"Blood! Flesh!"
The ancient voice bit out these two words with a heavy force, and suddenly, a massive figure appeared in the sky.
This figure was all too familiar to Bai Wu.
Only stark white bones remained, with lines resembling the character "一" etched all over them.
These were not scars but many eyes that had shut due to starvation.
Simultaneously, the invincible Xie Mo Corner appeared considerably dimmer.
When the tattered bone wings spread, the figure looked fierce yet feeble.
But the methods it used were anything but weak!
A legendary figure from the third level of the Well World, once a beast who fought against the heads of the Seven Consortiums, the leaders of the Seven Sins by himself—the Evil Fallen Tyrant made his entrance.
A valiant man in the twilight of his years, only the brutality within kept a semblance of his former majesty.
But whether it was strength, speed, regenerative abilities, defenses, or various powerful combat skills, all had hit rock bottom.
The sovereign in the sky shielded with a bone wing, weaponized his bones, and dove at Bai Wu.
It was like a white thunderbolt meant to obliterate the entire battlefield!
This was decidedly not a friendly spar, Bai Wu realized from this posture that the other party intended to kill him!
He used the Envy Greatsword as a shield and the Pride Longsword as a spear, attacking from below to meet the challenge!
It was as if two knights had charged upon the sounding of the horn!
The bone spear crashed into Envy, Pride collided with the bone wing!
Even though Envy was not genuine, it had been forged by Alpha. Pride and Envy both exhibited the characteristics of the Seven Sins weapons!
When fighting alone without teammates, Bai Wu’s strength was augmented by Pride!
This orphan sword... actually managed to crack the Skeletal Tyrant’s bone wings!
And the bone spike that struck the Envy Greatsword... was no longer straight.
On the other hand, the Envy Greatsword, used as a shield, bore not a single mark.
One was a tyrant, weakened to the extreme by countless years of hunger, while the other was an outsider who had harnessed the Power of Twist to break the limits of humanity and received a boost from his weaponry—
The collision of the two figures twisted the air itself.
The storm raged, stirring up countless dust particles on the barren battlefield, revealing more parts of the white bones that only showed slight traces.
After a moment, the violent energy fluctuations slowly subsided into silence.
Clang!
The sound of a sword smashing into the ground echoed.
Bai Wu stood on the ground, looking up at the tyrant flapping its wings in the sky.
"It seems that if I die, you won’t die? You really struck with lethal force," Bai Wu said.
Pride pierced the bone wings, but the wounds vanished in an instant.
Bai Wu didn’t have it easy either; the previous counter-attack was a fifty-fifty split.
His own hand was numb, and if his weapon hadn’t been one of the Seven Sins, he likely would have been at a disadvantage.
The eyes of the Skeletal Tyrant in the sky were crimson—a sign of hunger.
Bai Wu suddenly had a very strange feeling.
In the eyes of the Omega, or in the eyes of everyone in this world, this tyrant was indeed worthy of its name.
Ferocious, fierce, bloodthirsty, torturing...
It seemed that his own experience also proved this point. He attacked without a word and aimed to kill.
But Bai Wu still felt... that something was not quite right.
"Blood... blood... torment!"
The words spat out by the Skeletal Tyrant were incoherent, as if filled with anger, yet also as if suppressing that anger.
The figure in the sky seemed to want to dive down for another attack, but the red light in its eyes slowly receded.
Very slowly, but indeed it was fading.
The anger and restlessness brought on by hunger caused it to lose its nature, but with the forceful collision just now, this monster’s scarce rationality was... slowly... suppressing the volatile desires inside.
It was as if it were gathering strength for a powerful strike, but at the same time constantly stopping itself.
So much so that Bai Wu and Jing Liu finally had a chance to catch their breath.
Jing Liu finally freed herself from the bondage of the bone spikes and gasped:
"Bai Wu... why can his attacks... hit me?"
"This may be one of his abilities. For example, everything in his line of sight can be attacked... or he can attack entities in a specter form, quite a remarkable ability," Bai Wu commented.
Of course, Bai Wu wouldn’t comfort Jing Liu, nor would he feel pity for Sister Six. He even found it a bit amusing.
Jing Liu didn’t mind, as the grudge between her and Bai Wu was quite complicated, and their current relationship was also complex:
"He and you, do you have the same kind of eyes?"
"I don’t think so."
Bai Wu’s eyes, in fact, had already popped up a long list of notes.
Bai Wu had somewhat understood the tyrant before him.
"Ah, let the historian in me think about where to start introducing this ancient relic before you.
An ancient being, the Well absorbed a vast amount of humanity’s negative emotions. The worlds created by these emotions were mostly twisted and strange. Despite this, those worlds also had their own—will.
This guy is one of the products of that will, the oldest existence in this world. Do you remember what you heard on the second layer of the Well World?
Initially, order and the Power of Twist were evenly matched, but later—one side became the Rebel Army, and the other took absolute control.
The reason behind this is scalding to the third degree: when you influence the world, the world also influences you.
You twist reality in the Well World, and someone can also twist the Well World through reality. You’ve guessed who that someone is, haven’t you?
That’s right, it’s the Alpha you speak of. In the Well World, you can change the parameters of the real world, but in the real world, Alpha can also change many aspects of the Well World.
The Seven Sins of yesterday are not the same as today’s Seventh Consortiums tycoons; they’re just another will on the third layer.
Combined, the seven of them still couldn’t match the tyrant before you, but they could at least survive.
Until one day... Alpha made a brief appearance here. The balance of this world was utterly disrupted.
In the end, to balance things out, the Well World also created some fellows, which comes as a little surprise. You have common enemies and—common friends."]
It was a passage rich in information.
In the sky, Bai Wu’s Evil Fallen Body was still struggling against the murderous desires within.
Meanwhile, Bai Wu pondered many things.
This lengthy note clarified some thoughts for Bai Wu.
The Well World had its own Will, and his own Evil Fallen body was very ancient, one of the products of that Will.
And the Seven Sins, the masters of the Seventh Consortiums, were also products of the Will.
These two Wills might represent the two extremes of human emotions in the real world.
These two Wills were generally in balance.
However, with the continuous influence of Alpha, the remnant of the previous civilization, on the real world, there had been changes within the Well’s structure.
Firstly, in the third layer, the Seven Sins might have used some method to bring Alpha to the third layer of the Well World.
Using Alpha’s power, they defeated the Skeletal Tyrant in front of them.
The imbalance of power in the third layer also led to many changes in the second layer.
In the Well City of the second layer, one side completely eliminated the other, and the Seventh Consortiums almost took over the entire Well City.
Seven hundred years ago, after humanity moved into the High Tower, the status of the Seventh Consortiums in the Well City was finally secured.
The constant expansion and distortion of the Seventh Consortiums and Alpha in both the Well World and the real world caused the Will of the Well to become extremely unbalanced.
Therefore, only by going to the even more deeply affected fourth layer might it be possible to repair this imbalance.
Bai Wu hadn’t forgotten the purpose of his trip, and the last part of the note made him speculate that the Skeletal Tyrant might be somewhat connected to Crimson.
This gave Bai Wu an odd feeling in his heart.
"I know my entry into your domain displeases you, but I can see that you probably want to talk to me,"
he said, looking up slowly.
The Skeletal Tyrant in the sky struggled to squeeze out a few words:
"Why... have you come?"
"We need your help, we need you to go up against the Seventh Consortiums and take down a camp."
"Scram!" the Evil Fallen body replied with a single elegant word.
As expected, utterly unreasonable.
Bai Wu wasn’t surprised; he had seen through some truths:
"If you want to kill me, why such restraint?"
"Although you are very weak, I can see that you are suppressing yourself."
"From this, I can roughly guess...if you don’t help us this time, a few of the top leaders of the Seventh Consortiums might completely wipe out Bai Xiaoyu’s Evil Fallen forces, right?"
Bai Wu believed that the power the Tyrant displayed was probably less than one-seventh of his peak.
In light of this, the masters of the Seventh Consortiums, the Seven Sins, were likely stronger than his current self.
Omega didn’t dare to provoke even a weak Tyrant; facing the Seventh Consortiums, he could probably only barely protect himself.
After making a simple comparison of their fighting power, Bai Wu understood.
The current Omega Legion was no match for the Consortiums.
But even if he joined forces with the Evil Fallen body... they still wouldn’t stand a chance.
Unless this skeletal being could return to his peak condition.
But all of that was easier said than done.
If Crimson didn’t save them, the captain might live forever as an Evil Fallen.
Liu Mu, Nie Chongshan, Gu Hailin, these strong members of the Investigation Corps had all become Evil Fallen for the greater good. Perhaps Gu Qingyu would end up the same.
But Bai Wu didn’t want the captain to end that way.
He was going to do everything in his power to prevent it.
Bai Wu said:
"Crimson has been captured. I don’t know your names, but that’s what most people call him."
"His human form... is very important to me. I think you know who I am. I need to save my friend, so I ask you to please help me."
The red in the eyes of the Tyrant in the sky suddenly dimmed.
Upon hearing the name Crimson, the king, who was extremely hungry and filled with wrath, unexpectedly regained some sanity in his eyes.
He suddenly crashed to the ground, letting out a wrathful roar!
Perhaps there was indeed a twist of fate at work.
In the human world, the oddity Bai Wu encountered Gu Qingyu at the beginning of his adventure, who could be entrusted with his back.
In the third layer of the Well World, this tyrant among the Evil Fallen had only one friend, and that was Crimson.
Omega had lived for a very long time, a full seven hundred years.
But to the Evil Fallen Body of Bai Wu, seven hundred years were but a brief moment.
In the endless years, his hunger made him increasingly irritable.
Seven hundred years ago, just before and after humans entered the High Tower, the third layer of the Well World underwent a transformation.
All of humanity’s Evil Fallen Bodies appeared in this world.
The once barren world suddenly had many resource points, and it became bustling in a way it had never been before.
The war between the Seventh Consortiums and the Skeletal Tyrant also became complex and diverse.
But whether it was the Evil Fallen or the Seventh Consortiums, whether they were the dead or the native Evil Fallen, none wished to engage with that tyrant.
He watched over this world alone for countless years, and during these years, his only friend was Crimson.
Seeing the Skeletal Tyrant seemingly touched, Bai Wu was certain of one thing.
History is so remarkably similar. freēwēbηovel.c૦m
The captain’s Evil Fallen Body... may also be an ancient being. Like himself, the captain’s Evil Fallen Body made an active choice to choose the captain.
For his own Evil Fallen Body, Crimson was perhaps just like The First Generation to Jing Si.
Bai Wu could imagine that the brutality of the Skeleton might have deeply wounded Crimson.
But just as The First Generation repeatedly forgave and accepted Jing Si despite being hurt by him over and over, so did Crimson repeatedly accept and forgive the Skeletal Tyrant.
Intuition told Bai Wu that this rescue mission would be very difficult, and even if he brought his own Evil Fallen Body along, it would be hard to succeed, and without it, failure was certain.
In the twisted apocalypse, it was very difficult to protect someone.
But he had already gone to great lengths to change the cause and effect for one person, and naturally, he did not wish to give up halfway.
Bai Wu saw the true nature of the Skeletal Evil Fallen and said loudly:
"You’re afraid, aren’t you? Everyone thinks you’re a tyrant, indeed, you become uncontrollable due to extreme hunger. So you fear that when you gather with others, you won’t be able to resist eating them."
"So for so long, you simply played the role of an absolutely brutal monster, making anyone who provoked you pay a painful price."
The Evil Fallen Body seemed to be struck by his words as a look of surprise appeared in its crimson eyes.
"But that trench, that warning line, convinces me that you’re not really like that inside."
"Evil people committing evil deeds wouldn’t constrain themselves with a line."
A roaring sound, like the cry of a dragon, filled the air, and the ground trembled. Jing Liu instinctively covered her ears but could still feel the endless rage in the roar of this skeletal monster.
Bai Wu was not afraid; instead, he stepped forward and said loudly:
"My name is Bai Wu, I am your human form, I do not know how much you understand about me, and I do not quite understand you either, but I know, if you chose me to be your human form, there must be a reason for it. For the sake of our mutual friend, I implore you, help me out!"
Jing Liu had also roughly calculated the difficulty of this battle.
She was somewhat puzzled; theoretically, Gu Qingyu becoming an Evil Fallen was not necessarily a bad thing.
With the Twisted Master of the real world already free, is there even a tomorrow for humanity?
Becoming Evil Fallen... maybe it was just a matter of time. In some ways, Evil Fallen Transformation could even increase the strength of the human faction.
But the determination in Bai Wu’s eyes confused her. This man was a madman but definitely not a fool.
She didn’t have time to ponder Bai Wu’s underlying intentions before she heard another set of irrational words:
"The current me... is no match for the seven wills of sins. They captured that boy, and it’s not just about targeting you... do you understand what this rescue means? This may well be the biggest turmoil this world has seen in thousands of years, and you will be facing an unbeatable enemy, the Seven Sins themselves!"
Finally suppressing the desire for brutality within, the Skeletal Tyrant looked at Bai Wu and continued to ask:
"You are very likely to die in this world, even so, do you still want to save him?"
Bai Wu’s eyes were resolute:
"Must save!"
"Good, you’ve got guts! I promise you!"
The crimson in the eyes of the Skeletal Tyrant flared again, yet it was completely different from before.
Perhaps it had become desperate at the desolation of the world, perhaps it had lost the joy of living in the endless solitude and hunger.
If the end of one’s life could witness a vigorous and profound battle, perhaps it would even be the perfect curtain call.
(Huge update tomorrow, will try to break through, to see if we can reach the highest word count in a single Chapter. But the update will definitely be late.)
