Chapter 259

Chapter 259: The More You Struggle, The Faster You Die!

"The Holy Tree had this capability?"

Sylvia, who had retreated to the island, looked up.

Her gaze turned vacant as she stared at the spectacle overhead.

The towering, elegant giant tree—bringing light to Themis’s ocean and supplying "Divine Fibers" to human shipyards—had suddenly stirred to life!

The Outer Gods from the Void, so arrogant moments earlier, now writhed like mice in a trap, crushed wholesale by snapping leaves!

"Wait…"

"Were these leaves here before?"

"Or are they newly grown…?"

Sylvia berated herself for her oversight.

"These strange ‘killing leaves’ were newly produced. The Giant God must have intervened somehow…"

Sulya said lightly.

Yet her faintly trembling tone betrayed how terrified the number one living saint had been.

"When the Outer Gods from the Void first invaded, I noticed peculiar changes in certain leaves of the ‘Holy Tree’—they grew more savage, more vicious."

"I realized this could only be the Giant God’s will."

"He wielded His supreme power to orchestrate events from the shadows."

"My faith in His wisdom is why I allowed the battle to unfold this way."

"Yes, I gambled!"

"But I won!"

"The Giant God has never failed us!"

Sylvia, the other living saints, and every Chosen Warrior within the "Soul Network" marveled at the Giant God’s cunning.

"Great is the Giant God!"

They proclaimed as one.

But one question remained:

How would the Giant God use the "Holy Tree" to destroy the Outer Gods from the Void?

For now, they seemed merely imprisoned—

Until—

"Gah—!"

"Aaargh—!"

The "Heavenly Legion King," trapped within the Holy Tree’s grasp, shrieked in agony!

—-

"What… what’s happening!?"

"It’s just a Reversal Fantasy Tree!"

The Heavenly Legion King was panicking.

It had encountered the Fantasy Tree of Subspace before, even dealt with it many times.

In its view, the so-called "Fantasy Tree of Subspace" formed the foundation of chaos deities and served as their lifeline, yet possessed no active attack capability!

According to intelligence from chaos deities, the "Reversal Fantasy Tree" standing in the Bubble World Themis shared the same origin as the Fantasy Tree of Subspace, merely transformed in nature by the Giant God’s manipulation.

How could this suddenly absent structure appear?

"Damn!"

"That dog Agareth!"

"He actually deceived us!"

"Bang—!"

"Thud—!"

It thrashed violently, hammering against the terrible "clamp" trapping it.

But nothing worked.

Instead…

"Ssss—!"

As if triggered by something, the Holy Tree’s bizarre leaves constricted tighter!

Immense pressure crushed inward from above and below, paralyzing its movements!

"Huff… huff…"

"I’m furious!"

"Once I escape this place, I’ll…"

"Eh?"

Before the Heavenly Legion King could plan its revenge, it sensed greater danger.

Its power was dissipating!

And along with its power, its Divine Body crumbled!

"Trickle… splash…"

A faint liquid flow enveloped the Heavenly Legion King’s Divine Body, bringing agonizing pain as its form slowly dissolved!

"No—!"

"What… what is this?"

"Etheric liquid?"

"Impossible! Etheric liquid couldn’t possess such potent decomposing power, nor penetrate a deity’s skin…"

"Urgh… Aaaaaaargh!"

Terror-stricken, the Heavenly Legion King writhed with wild desperation.

A motionless "Fantasy Tree" was actually trying to kill him!

This bizarre thing, which he knew nothing about, shattered his common sense and terrified him.

The deep fear wiped out his rationality.

"No—!"

"Quick! Let me out!"

"Roar, roar, roar!"

He roared in fury, twisting and shaking his body, trying every way to escape.

Unfortunately…

"Zzzz…"

The more he twisted, the more it seemed to trigger a "switch"; the Holy Tree’s "predatory leaves" gripped tighter, and the awful liquid oozed out more fiercely!

"Ugh…"

"Ha… hiss…"

The Heavenly Legion King and his avatars stopped struggling.

A lot of "digestive liquid" had already eaten away their heads, destroying their Souls completely!

Although erosion and digestion were very long processes, the "Holy Tree" seemed to revel in it.

It had not yet turned into an ordinary leaf of the "predatory leaf," shaking hard as if cheering for this sudden feast!

—-

Just as the "Heavenly Legion King" was about to fall, the ground battle was almost over!

"Splash!"

With a loud bang, huge splashes shot up from Lake Themis!

Angna fell into the seawater, holding her struggling subordinate official, who was wildly waving his tail!

"You want to fight me underwater!?"

"Foolish!"

"Ridiculous!"

The subordinate official sneered, "This Divine Body was specially made to fight in etheric liquid!"

"Looking to die!"

"Splash!"

He swayed his tail, easily breaking free from Angna’s "wrestling hold," circled around, and lunged at Angna!

—-

"Hmm… this battle was a bit interesting."

Digging tunnels was a very boring and dull task.

Repetitive work required minimal brain activity; all he needed to do was check periodically to ensure the tunnel wasn’t dug crookedly.

When doing repetitive tasks, Trilobite usually liked to wear headphones and listen to music.

Now, as an air sac crocodile, he couldn’t wear headphones, but Trilobite had a System!

"Well, it seems that the lakes where I had eaten could provide real-time broadcasts, and it was basically ‘follow filming’—with no blind spots."

"Unfortunately…"

Unfortunately, the resolution of this "live broadcast" seemed to be linked to the resolution of Trilobite’s eyes.

"But it didn’t matter."

"Although the resolution was low, at least it was pixelated images."

"It felt like watching a cartoon."

"Anime style, nice, nice."

At that moment, the real-time images came back!

In the "lake," the "Cliff Lizard" and the "Spiny Shark" were teaming up to battle another strange creature with odd bumps and protrusions all over its body.

Although the Cliff Lizard, a giant lizard, had adapted quite well to an aquatic environment, and the Spiny Shark was a good swimmer, they still found themselves at a disadvantage.

"Oh?"

"What kind of animal was so strong?"

"Uh…"

Trilobite observed for a moment, staring at the creature’s big head for a second and contemplating for three seconds before quickly identifying the species.

"Ah…"

"It should be… a Mist Dragon…"

Actually, this creature’s scientific name was ‘Uranocentrodon,’ which still didn’t have a Chinese name.

As for why Trilobite called it Mist Dragon… it was because this guy had appeared on television—BBC’s Walking with Monsters.

This creature appeared in the episode about the Permian period’s Lystrasaurus, where it was struggling to survive in a small water pond in the desert, desperately trying to attack a Lystrasaurus.

In the end, due to the pond drying up, it was pitifully dug out of its hiding cave and eaten by the Lystrasaurus.

In the dubbed version, this creature was translated as ‘Mist Dragon.’

However, the Mist Dragon in the documentary was over three meters long, not much smaller than the Lystrasaurus, almost the size of a Zecrocodile; while the creature battling in the lake with the young lady Cliff Lizard and the young lady Spiny Fish was only about 1.5 meters long, even smaller than a Yangtze crocodile.

It was unclear if the BBC had exaggerated it, or if the "Mist Dragon" Trilobite encountered was a smaller subspecies.

"Well…"

"Indeed, this creature, which had lived its entire life in water, was better adapted to the aquatic environment than the half-baked Cliff Lizard."

"And it physically crushed the Spiny Shark."

"That’s why it had maintained the upper hand."

"So…"

[Beep—!]

Trilobite summoned the System again.

"I’ll lend the young ladies a helping hand!"

"Anyway, I had plenty of Chaos Energy."

"I’ll buy this… and this too!"