Chapter 154 You Are the Sun

Cinderella's final blow completely shattered the meta-quantum space, and the spiritual space fragmented like broken glass, dissolving piece by piece into the bottomless darkness.

After a sudden tremor, Adonsa's consciousness finally returned to reality.

At this moment, a grey shadow flashed, following the transition from the spiritual space back to the reality. Adonsa sucked in fiercely with one of its tentacles, but failed to stop it. The grey shadow burrowed directly into the gradually greying and whitening celestial sphere of souls, wrapping around the last strange bit of soul sediment.

This aberration, mutated from the very material of the celestial sphere of souls, was extremely bizarre. It could ignore most physical barriers, and sometimes even psychic power failed to detect it directly. However, this was still inside Adonsa's body after all, so the aberration was extremely clever and chose to escape into the strange material of the celestial sphere of souls.

Seeming to be influenced by Adonsa, the aberration learned some of its abilities and formed a strange fleshy cocoon.

Upon its birth, it seemed to have absorbed many strange messages, which might have come from the interior of the celestial sphere of souls, from the Prophet of Quinlin, or perhaps from some even deeper and more persistent obsession...

Adonsa's gaze penetrated the thin fleshy membrane, seeing a fetus-like entity inside, along with a lingering, weeping ghost.

"Interesting..."

Instead of wanting to disturb this peculiar metamorphosis, Adonsa protected it and quietly waited for the life to finally break out of the cocoon.

Outside, the tentacles that had been locked in a stalemate with Lanc Hans suddenly dropped one by one, shrinking back into the colossal mountain of flesh.

Rather than calling it a mountain of flesh, it was more like some kind of parasite. In the eyes of Lanc Hans, this thing bore a strong resemblance to a certain parasitic fiend from before the apocalypse, but absolutely no parasitic fiend could ever grow to such a degree as to shake the earth.

Huge fleshy conduits drilled deep into the ground and kept pulsing, as if they were sucking the blood of the entire planet.

Adonsa's sudden halt made Lanc Hans hesitate for a moment. He sensed that Adonsa's aura swelled in an instant, only to vanish just as quickly, and then reappear, fluctuating several times within just a few short seconds.

In his eyes, while the celestial sphere of souls was indestructible, he dared not underestimate Adonsa's destructive power either.

Nor dared he use overly powerful magic, which would destroy the surface of the entire continent, leaving him with nothing but a dead and silent world.

Although most of the doomsday recycling system had now been destroyed, there was still some hope left, wasn't there? Breaking the pot just because it was cracked was not the only option.

Lanc Hans gripped his bone staff tightly, slowly descending back to the ground, his deformed, giant-like body hunched over as he walked toward the suddenly calm mountain of flesh.

In the long passage of time, he too had been tormented beyond recognition by the radiation of magic-energy crystals, but this was the crime he had committed; he neither would nor dared to make any complaints.

Yet, Adonsa's current state was very peculiar. It felt as though it were looking at a wall inlaid with countless display screens, with countless phantoms flickering and shuttling before it.

At one moment it was a carpenter, shaving wood and scraping away shavings; at another it was a beggar, fighting with wild dogs for food; at another it was a prostitute, weeping under the whip of a client...

It could also be a king, walking dizzily through the garden day after day, flirting with ignorant noblewomen.

And it could be a mage, intoxicated by boundless knowledge, looking sorrowfully at himself growing old day by day.

It could even be Lanc Hans, crying bitterly in the observatory, devoting his heart and soul to every endless night for the sake of the apocalypse.

Everything ended with the gods abandoning this world, and everything began anew with the self-redemption of the surviving people.

These weeping and indignant emotions buzzed around Adonsa's thoughts like annoying mosquitoes.

Adonsa knew what these were. Such illusions had appeared when it devoured the Son of Gaia. It was an extremely perilous experience, and one could easily get lost in the vortex of memories and emotions at any moment.

Last time, Adonsa had forcibly churned and crushed all the backlash, but this time, the two backlashes seemed to overlap, pouring like boiling oil onto Adonsa's brain.

Of course, the solution was also extremely simple. The Prophet of Quinlin had already demonstrated the method to Adonsa, though unfortunately, she had become one of Adonsa's specimens before she could finish.

A human face, equally enormous and supported by a serpentine neck, protruded from the massive mountain of flesh, extending two front limbs while a mane cascaded down.

Lanc Hans muttered, "Adonsa..."

With an immense sense of oppression, Adonsa arrived before Lanc Hans. Its shadow stopped a mere inch away from him, as if taking one step closer would plunge him into a bottomless abyss.

Adonsa did not open its mouth, but its voice still clearly reached Lanc Hans's ears. It chose this posture simply because calculations showed it was the most oppressive yet most likely to command recognition.

"Lanc Hans, is your wish to save this world selfish?"

"What..." Such a question left Lanc Hans speechless for a moment, as if he had never considered the issue from this perspective.

Could the wish to save the world be considered selfish?

Can wanting to save something be considered selfish?

If this is considered selfish, then what is selflessness?

I don't even care about this monstrous, inhuman appearance of mine, and yet you still ask me about selfishness?

Lanc Hans took a deep breath, and with a trace of indignation replied, "No. My actions and my heart are as clear as a mirror. I must save this world, my race, and restore the glory of Skalana."

Adonsa said, "Very well, I have changed my mind. I will help you save this world."

Lanc Hans's pupils constricted in extreme shock, but he asked no redundant questions, merely saying, "What must be done?"

Adonsa said, "Bid farewell to your foolish spellcasting array. This world will once again be filled with life, bustling and vibrant, and everyone will find their place in the new world, including you."

"Me?" Lanc Hans asked. "What is my task?"

Adonsa raised its head to look at the sky. "You shall become the sun, illuminating this newborn world."

Lanc Hans took a step forward, as if wanting to directly touch Adonsa's giant face. "Prove your method to me."

Adonsa curved its mouth into a smile and quietly retreated back into the mountain of flesh.

Following that, the continent began to sink. Adonsa's body plunged dozens of meters straight down, propelled by countless rockets trailing long fiery tails lifting off from its body.

The exhaust flames served merely for steering; in reality, Adonsa was providing propulsion via an electromagnetic rail. The powerful electromagnetic acceleration instantly boosted the initial velocity of the rockets to Mach ten.

The launch of countless supersonic artillery shells made the air shriek like a helpless young widow.

Lanc Hans watched this scene intently, tightening his grip slightly on the bone staff.

However, Adonsa's volley this time was not a mere display of military might, but rather intended to blanket the entire world.

Countless artillery shells, having reached above the clouds, extended directional flaps and vector nozzles, scattering completely like fireworks. Under supersonic dispersal, they covered almost every single region of the entire planet, with the dark side of the globe being no exception.

Then, they blossomed.

Their detonation was as shocking as their lightning-fast speed, the immensely powerful impulse scattering white powder evenly across every inch of land and air.

These were Adonsa's spores, and also Adonsa itself. Through this highly efficient method, Adonsa rapidly integrated itself with the entire world.

The unprecedented grand devouring had begun.

Yet this time, what it brought was rebirth through destruction.