Chapter 237

by fanqienovel

Chapter 237: Welcome to the Cruel Jungle

"Barbatos?"

"Are you okay?"

Lady Xidi squinted her beautiful eyes, surprised as she stared at Barbatos, watching his strange performance.

He jumped and fell, sometimes pounding his head against the ground, and other times, he tilted his head back and howled.

Finally, Barbatos collapsed on the ground, his tongue out, rolling his eyes, saliva pooling everywhere…

His legs kicked back and forth, making a huge mess in the Subspace.

Luckily, Lady Xidi had only used a weak projection that couldn’t be physically affected by his Divine Body; otherwise, she might have gotten caught up and faced a lot of trouble.

"Well…"

"I just remembered that Barbatos came to expose my evidence of wrongdoing, hoping to use it to blackmail me, right?"

"How… interesting."

A smile spread across her beautiful, pure face, her lovely eyes curving into two crescent moons.

If a swaying fox tail followed her, it might fit her current look even better.

"Then… let me check this out…"

"Even if it uses up this projection."

"But it didn’t matter; after all, a magic projection only uses Magic Power."

Thinking this, Lady Xidi reached out her jade hand and gently placed it on the huge, twitching Divine Body of Barbatos.

Then…

"Uh…"

Her fine projection started to tremble and shake, and finally, it couldn’t hold on any longer, kneeling down with a thud.

Lady Xidi could feel a strong, familiar will battling Barbatos.

It not only pushed him down but even broke the mental attack Barbatos had sent out. Just a bit of its leaked will…

"Hiss…"

"Oh dear, this is really bad."

"I was too careless this time."

Lady Xidi’s lovely magical projection slowly fell apart, turning into golden bits that vanished into thin air.

The work she’d put into making the "skin" with some Magic Power was wasted just like that.

But Lady Xidi didn’t feel upset about it.

"Using a Magic Power projection to get a peek at an old rival’s state."

"It wasn’t a loss at all."

"You had become much stronger, Giant God."

"And also…"

Before vanishing completely, Lady Xidi looked at Barbatos, who was still making a fool of himself.

"Interesting."

"If you, Giant God, were wise, you could have handed over my evidence of wrongdoing to Barbatos while you had the upper hand."

"Even if you didn’t have it, with your ability, you could have easily made something up, right?"

"That way, not only could you have made me look bad in the Chaos Council, but I might have faced punishment."

"I wouldn’t have taken that lightly and would have fought back."

"Maybe, a civil war in chaos would have started, making your attack with the Star-Eater Plutonium Dragons much easier."

"But you didn’t do that."

"Why?"

…

At that moment, Lady Xidi’s magical projection had already half-disappeared; her lower body was completely gone, but it didn’t stop her from resting her hand on her chin, thinking hard.

Then, she smiled.

"You wouldn’t have fallen for me, would you?"

"What an interesting guy."

Her fingers moved gently from her chin, touched her red lips, then were softly pressed together.

This was a beautiful sight, but it was also the last image of Lady Xidi’s projection.

"How about I use my resources to return your feelings?"

"Hehe…"

"Hiss…"

As she spoke, her whole body turned into golden particles, scattering into the air.

Only one sentence stayed behind.

"By the way, I’ll leave Gimmerly to you, and look forward to seeing you next time."

—-

"Splash—!"

After dealing with the harassing phone call, Trilobite trudged slowly through the deep "swamp."

Or rather, he walked at the bottom of the water.

Though he was an air sac crocodile with saber teeth and gill filaments, his underwater walking looked like a hippo’s.

Quite clumsy.

But Trilobite himself wasn’t happy with his walk.

"How annoying."

"Roots and branches everywhere."

"These vascular bundle plants are out of control—growing wild even here, reaching into the water."

Normally, water everywhere would be good, but this wasn’t a "lake."

It was more like land flooded by seawater during Marine Invasion.

The fertility was pitifully low. Underwater, besides the indestructible roots of vascular bundle plants, only "mud," "fallen leaves," and "dry branches" remained.

"Ah, seems fungi haven’t fully evolved yet, and plant-specialized insects—the ones that chew wood—aren’t around either."

"Uh… not entirely true."

Trilobite watched the golden slime molds wriggling at the water’s bottom, slowly gnawing on "dry branches" and "fallen leaves," and nodded.

"Yep, fungi exist."

"But decay is still too slow."

"Decomposition can’t keep up with nutrient consumption."

"The carbon cycle isn’t flowing smoothly."

"This’ll only improve when wood-degrading insects appear…"

"Hmm, if they don’t show up, I’ll just make some myself."

"But that can wait."

"Hup—!"

Trilobite shoved aside slender vascular bundle plants blocking his path with his stubby limbs.

By now, the surrounding "mist" had thickened.

"Ah, this sight always cheers me up."

"Ring-shaped fog that barely disperses—what a rare spectacle!"

"Never saw this in my original world."

"Of course, the real prize is…"

"Whoosh!"

The mist parted, unveiling a brand-new world before Trilobite.

"Wow!"

His eyes lit up.

This place was nothing like Valaharl’s desolation or Zizi’s semi-barren world.

Now, it was a breathtaking "green wilderness"!

"Er… actually, it’s just moss everywhere."

Trilobite slowly crawled from the water, eyeing the curly moss beneath him.

His lousy calcite compound eyes had awful resolution, hiding the "tiny" lives under the moss.

But it didn’t matter.

Sure, his system vision showed swarms of "red," "blue," and "green" microbes—but none concerned him.

After all, a four-meter-long air sac crocodile couldn’t feast on creatures under one centimeter.

Even for filter feeding, who needs to see them clearly? Just gulp everything down.

What could a blue whale’s tiny eyes even spot…

"Still, moss feels nice."

"Wanna just…"

"Blub-blub—!"

He rolled his massive body across the "moss."

"Roll it out!"

But mid-roll…

【Yo! Summoned one from the second dimension!】

【Welcome to this perilous, savage jungle!】

【Prove you’re truly destiny’s chosen!】

"Huh?"

"This…"

"Cringy chuunibyou lines?"