Chapter 218
by fanqienovelChapter 218: First Time Hearing About Consultation Services Where You End Up Paying Instead
“Giant God.”
“Gimmerly.”
“Xidi.”
“What connects you three?”
“Esteemed Twelfth Seat, what ties do you have with the enemies of chaos?”
“As for Blais, what was your final resentment?”
“How thought-provoking.”
A lazy, feminine voice echoed through the Fantasy Tree of Subspace.
Yet this voice’s owner possessed emerald-green feathers gleaming like jewels and a swan-like grace—but her eyes burned with draconic ferocity!
Those savage eyes now fixed on Gimmerly, who lay sprawled across a branch, cornered by the ambush.
Barbatos watched this demon god’s impending demise with pleasure.
“Xidi, if your sister perished here, how would you react?”
“At least I, Barbatos, would rejoice.”
The cold observer was another core councilor of the Chaos Council: the Eighth Seat, “Void Dancer” Barbatos.
He’d long detected Xidi’s suspicious activities and launched a covert investigation.
His purpose here was to collect evidence against Xidi, weaken her influence, seize leverage over the Twelfth Seat, and compel her support in critical matters.
Thus, he resolved to cripple Xidi’s faction here and now.
Starting with eliminating Gimmerly!
His gaze tracked the trajectory of Blais’s fleeing Divine Core.
“Blais.”
“You seek vengeance, yes?”
“Then I’ll grant you this opportunity.”
“Forbidden spell!”
“False Body Construction—Outer Gods from the Void Type!”
“Manifest!”
“Buzz—!”
Viridian magic erupted from Barbatos’s Divine Body, ensnaring Blais’s Divine Core.
“Boom—!”
A colossal Divine Body materialized in the aftermath—woven purely from magic, anchored by Blais’s residual Divine Core. Though it sprouted membranous wings and a divine form, its intellect remained stunted, utterly devoid of magical prowess.
This creature’s mind held but one desire: revenge.
“Xi—di—!”
“Giant—God—!”
“Die—!”
The huge, dragonfly-shaped “False Body,” made from forbidden spells, gave up fleeing and charged at the shaky Gimmerly.
This showed the strength of forbidden spells; they could make a temporary False Body for anyone needing it.
Trapped by the sky, trees, and sea, Gimmerly had no way to survive.
“Buzz—!”
Seeing the magic-made “False Body” rush toward her, and thinking she would soon end up like Blais, Gimmerly couldn’t hold back any longer.
“Good!”
“I accept!”
“I’ll do it!”
“Just let me live!”
“Blood sacrifice for the Giant God! Offerings to the divine throne!”
In that desperate moment, Gimmerly was forced to pray like a “believer” to her own enemy, her sister’s lifelong foe!
Her prayer got a quick answer.
“Roar—oh—cough—cough—!”
“Moan—howl—screech—spit—!”
The drawn-out single-syllable words held huge amounts of information, bursting inside Gimmerly’s Soul!
What scared Gimmerly happened next—she felt her body being checked by a massive being, laying bare every detail to it!
“Don’t!”
“Giant God, no!”
Gimmerly cried out.
But it was too late!
The contract was already signed!
—-
“Hmm… interesting.”
“That’s something.”
“Like checking out popular paleo creatures?”
“No, more like weird paleo creatures grumbling their evolution didn’t work out.”
“Coming to me to whine, asking me to fix errors.”
“The first guest…”
“Seems upset about flying troubles.”
Trilobite finally picked up the “radio advice line.”
Soon, an enthusiastic audience member called in.
The first guest was "Sharovisaurus," that fellow obsessed with duck-wing aerodynamic layouts.
This creature was probably the first vertebrate to grasp that flight required sacrificing a pair of limbs; trouble was, it sacrificed its hind legs…
Trilobite reckoned its flying efficiency might be worse than a scaled dragon’s rib-extended wing membranes.
Now, the creature’s general outline gradually formed in Trilobite’s mind; he could even anatomically pinpoint its flight flaws.
"Hmm…"
"Judging by the overall skeletal framework, it’s definitely a true dragon."
"A group very closely related to bird-neck true dragons…"
"No, it might even classify as a bird-neck true dragon!"
"Solid foundation."
Though Sharovisaurus looked bizarre and its classification remained debatable, mainstream views still considered it a pterosaur relative sharing a common ancestor.
Thus, Sharovisaurus likely sported feathers too.
The ancestral skill of bird-neck true dragons—the air sac breathing system—probably existed within Sharovisaurus as well.
Yet somehow, this creature sacrificed its hind legs for flight.
It held all the right cards but played them foolishly, turning into an evolutionary laughingstock.
"Well then…"
"Let me see!"
"The body structure’s all wrong!"
Trilobite’s drastic "reforms" began.
He gestured over Sharovisaurus’s form like correcting exam errors.
"Air sacs and feathers are mostly ready-made; no major adjustments needed."
"Ah, they extend deep into the vertebrae?"
"Bird-neck true dragons truly are remarkable."
"Mainly its aerodynamic shape is ridiculous."
"Why such long legs? Shorten them!"
"Why such short arms? Lengthen them!"
"Right—pterosaur wing membranes are supported by three extended limb segments."
"Upper arm, forearm, and fourth finger?"
"Got it—let’s proceed!"
…
Trilobite wildly modified Sharovisaurus, swiftly reshaping this odd creature beyond recognition with practiced skill.
Admittedly, it now looked far more natural.
The forelimbs grew extremely long from extended upper arms, forearms, and fourth fingers; together with the hind limbs, they supported the wing membranes.
Though the hind limbs visibly shortened, their muscle power remained undiminished.
During takeoff, this creature could even catapult itself using hind limbs without a running start—ideal for quick launches from branches or cliffs.
Its head changed little since early pterosaurs were insectivores.
The long tail stayed, functioning as an aerial rudder!
"Perfect!"
Trilobite admired his masterpiece.
One classic pterosaur form—the Beak Dragons—materialized fully in his mind.
"Ah, but it still falls short of a true Beak Dragon."
"It should be…"
"The earliest pterosaur, Eudimorphodon!"
[Ding—!]
[Consultation completed. Deducting 3000 magic materialization points.]
"What!?"
Trilobite stared in disbelief.
He’d never heard of paying for consultation services!
Yet his fury quickly faded.
[Counterparty will remit 30,000 Chaos Energy as trial compensation.]