Chapter 335

Chapter 335: Everything is Born to Nourish…

"Whoosh—!"

Trilobite watched as two hundred thousand units of Chaos Energy evaporated like flowing water from his hands and felt a pang in his heart.

"Wow, it was my first time seeing a component for fungi cost so much."

"But it should be worth it."

"After all, my fungal spawn, whether it’s the large mushroom like Prototaxites or the one like shaggy mane, mainly relies on ‘terrestrial decomposition’; it might have the capability to degrade lignin, but it’s probably quite poor."

"Yet even so, it has given me the most Chaos Energy."

"If I boost it, imagine what could happen!?"

"However…"

Trilobite looked at the mysterious evolution project, furrowing his nonexistent brows.

"The more puzzling something is, the pricier it gets?"

This time, he bought two evolution components for his "fungal spawn"—【Extracellular Lignin Peroxidase System (a mixed enzyme that can decompose lignin)】 and 【Cloudy Polypore Enzyme (which can decompose lignin)】.

Honestly, this buy was a bit over his head.

He had studied paleontology, but he really didn’t get chemistry.

Still, since he often ate mushrooms, he had picked up some knowledge about edible fungi and other types.

He remembered vaguely seeing in a documentary that fungi mainly use "extracellular lignin peroxidase" to break down and rot wood; it’s one of the better "lignin-decomposing enzymes."

Plus, the System said it "can decompose lignin," so he went for it.

It cost him one hundred thousand units of Chaos Energy.

As for the "Cloudy Polypore Enzyme," that was a fungus Trilobite often spotted during his field trips, usually growing on wood.

So Trilobite figured this might also work well for degrading "lignin."

He spent another one hundred thousand units of Chaos Energy.

"Now, this is perfect."

“Don’t think I’m wrecking the forest just for myself…"

"Ah, no, wait, I am wrecking the forest; so what!?"

"And I’m not wrecking enough!"

Trilobite thought this magical world was like the rainforest age of the Carboniferous period.

Back then, plants, especially vascular bundle plants, locked up lots of carbon in their woody parts. But with no decomposers for lignin, when trees died, the carbon couldn’t go back to nature, messing up the carbon cycle.

Isn’t this…

"Nature gives all to nourish trees, yet trees give nothing back to the heavens!"

Wasn’t that how the Carboniferous rainforest collapse went?

Masses of plants dragged the whole biosphere down with them.

So…

"Tree Bandit, we had to eradicate you all the time!"

"Just think about it, I was with the paper young lady, enjoying hot pot and singing, when suddenly the rainforest collapsed!"

"I needed to do something more…"

"Hmm!?"

At that moment, Trilobite suddenly noticed a large number of application boxes popping up again.

However, these were all requests to borrow probiotics, and he only needed to mindlessly click "yes."

The real "main event" still came from old customers’ applications.

—-

"It seemed… the demon god had been completely wiped out…"

"And this Bubble World was also protected by the Ether Dragon."

Morax lay on the ground, his body continuing to tremble and shiver as he sensed the changes in his Divine Body.

The scene he had just experienced echoed endlessly in his Soul.

He felt that the power he gained from devouring the Chaos Demon God and demons had been completely extracted; a long stream of strange language made up of monosyllabic characters constantly crashed into his Soul.

An overwhelming amount of information surged in, overwhelming the demon god’s Soul, leaving it in disarray and filled with pain.

Morax even thought that this terrifying language would talk him to death.

But that was only part of the suffering.

A pair of invisible hands made of Magic Power slowly reconstructed his body.

He felt his legs degenerating in length while evolving in thickness, with webbing growing between his toes; his abdomen and back continually narrowed and elongated, stretching his entire body.

The internal "Divine Organs" naturally received corresponding modifications, constantly adapting to this new body.

His once relatively slender tail also became wider and flatter, even growing numerous spine-like structures.

Countless bony plates gathered around his skin, dressing Morax in a layer of armor.

His skull was also reshaped and elongated by powerful Magic Power, sharp teeth emerged; the position of his Double Eyes shifted forward and upward, now sitting atop his head.

"Uh…"

The process was painful.

Just thinking about the sensation of being constantly kneaded and shaped by magical hands sent a shiver down Morax’s spine.

Of course, the end result was…

"Was this the new Divine Body granted to me by the Giant God!?"

"Why…"

"It seemed not as good as before…"

Morax closed his eyes and scanned his current form with magic.

Flat and low, plus not-so-long short legs.

Although his Mobility on dry land wasn’t terrible, he could still walk upright like before, running swiftly now and then; however, moving around flexibly as he used to or even steadily climbing the Fantasy Tree of Subspace seemed impossible now.

"Hmm…"

"It seemed like there were some losses."

"The only benefit was the mark…"

Morax’s complaints stopped when he reached the edge of the Sea of Ether.

"Woosh…"

As he stepped into the Ether Sea, the rippling waves struck his toes.

An unprecedented feeling spread within Morax’s Soul.

He felt…

As if this Sea of Ether was his home, his sanctuary.

The entire Sea of Ether surged with excitement; it seemed they were welcoming Morax’s arrival.

"This was…"

Morax trembled.

He accepted the invitation from the Ether Sea and slowly stepped further in.

"Whoosh… Hiss…"

The pleasure of the etheric liquid caressing his Divine Body made him take a deep breath.

"Woosh—!"

His tail swayed as he swam freely in the Ether Sea.

He felt that the once rebellious etheric liquid had transformed into his friends and family, willing to do anything for him.

And the feeling he had longed for finally found him!

"This was…

The feeling of Powers!

Great is the Giant God!"

At that moment…

"Yay—!"

"Whoosh—whoosh—whoosh—!"

Gimmerly flapped her sky-covering wings, swirling above Morax.

"Morax."

"It seems your journey was very successful, and you gathered what you desired."

"Then, it’s time to fulfill our promise."