Chapter 357
by fanqienovelChapter 357: Can You Eat Sick Pork?
“Laughing to death.”
“I had no idea what you were roaring about.”
“Had I pressed too hard? Compressed your chest?”
“Were your breaths so strange because of those weird gasps?”
Had Samikina known her threats and earnest pleas hadn’t reached Trilobite—that he hadn’t even recognized them as language—she might have died from sheer fury.
Still, her shouting proved somewhat useful.
At least it distracted Trilobite momentarily.
While his baffling mind analyzed the source of those strange “gasping sounds,” Amon’s movements also entered Trilobite’s peripheral vision.
“Huh?”
“What was wrong with this fast crocodile?”
Through Trilobite’s Calcite Eyes, the “fast crocodile” limped toward the small sapling.
It repeatedly pressed its snout against the sapling, then withdrew.
Several times, it even tucked the sapling into its mouth briefly before releasing it.
This alone might have been dismissed—Trilobite could’ve rationalized it as “maybe the sapling has honey.” But stranger behavior followed…
After each interaction with the sapling, the fast crocodile whipped its head around, glaring viciously at Trilobite.
“Roar—Aaah—!”
It unleashed a bewildering roar.
…
“What kind of confusing act was this?”
“Ancient creatures are truly mysterious…”
Finally, Trilobite blamed his own limited knowledge.
“Ah, now wasn’t the time for paleo-behavior studies.”
“Though I held absolute advantage, I couldn’t relax until this guy became my meal!”
In the wild, countless hunters died from carelessness.
Hunting demanded total focus!
But just then, something even more bewildering occurred.
“Wow!?”
The injured fast crocodile suddenly clamped onto a branch of the sapling and gave it a fierce pull!
“Hiss—!”
It tore a branch clean off the sapling.
"Ahh…"
With one gulp, it swallowed that branch whole!
"The fast crocodile ate grass!?"
"Wait, no—it gnawed on a branch?"
"That’s unusual."
Predators eating grass wasn’t unheard of.
Many felines ate plants like wheat seedlings to help cough up swallowed fur.
"But you’re a fast crocodile."
"What fur balls could you possibly vomit?"
"And then…"
The branch-swallowing fast crocodile suddenly did something even crazier.
—-
Amon seethed with rage.
"I’m being ignored!?"
No matter how he threatened Saraph or menaced the Tree of Reversal, the Giant God remained utterly indifferent.
Those gem-inlaid eyes only watched Samikina.
As if convinced that "Amon," the "core councilor," the "seventh seat"—all were just a shiny facade.
Beneath the surface…
Lay nothing but a puppet counterfeit.
Fakes deserved no attention!
"No!"
"Why do you think like them too!?"
"Barbatos sees me this way!"
"Samikina sees me this way!"
"Every demon god sees me this way!"
"Even you…"
Though mighty in power, Amon grew fragile when his inner demons surfaced.
He might even do the unthinkable.
Saraph knew this well.
She was wicked.
She loved pouring oil on the fire.
"Amon."
“The wisdom of the Giant God was beyond your understanding.”
“He could see through a deity’s desires at a glance and help them achieve the future they wanted.”
“That terrifying insight…”
“Even Lady Xidi and Barbatos couldn’t compare.”
Amon couldn’t refute this.
Lady Xidi and Barbatos, the “chess players” in the Chaos Council, had repeatedly fallen victim to the Giant God’s schemes—an undeniable fact.
Without insight, how could anyone compete with Barbatos and Lady Xidi?
“So he’d already seen through you!”
“You’re just a dog chained by meaningless obsessions.”
“Even I can feel your fear.”
“Let alone the Giant God.”
“The Giant God cares about worthy opponents, not foolish wastes.”
“Especially a waste with a chain around his neck.”
“Pathetic.”
…
The relentless taunts shattered Amon’s reason.
“Shut up!”
“Shut up!”
“I fear neither the Giant God!”
“Nor you!”
“You’ll pay for your insults!”
“Ahh——!”
Amon ripped off a branch segment and swallowed it whole.
“Buzz——!”
“Ugh…”
The moment the branch entered him, it released energy he loathed—even feared—gnawing at his insides.
Yet Amon roared through the spreading agony:
“Look at me!”
“Giant God!”
“See this!”
“Underestimate me again and I’ll—”
But the Giant God kept pressing Samikina down, wholly focused on ending her.
The hollow eyes seemed to mock him—"Hehe, counterfeit, you wouldn’t dare act against the genuine article, would you?"
"Roar, roar, roar——!"
Amon had completely lost his rationality.
He bit down on the "Tree of Reversal" and swallowed it whole.
"Haha…"
"Whether it’s the Tree of Reversal or Saraph, I’ve swallowed them both!"
"You…"
…
Before he could bask in triumph…
"Buzz——!"
A golden torrent erupted from the swallowed "Tree of Reversal," violently surging into the magic circuits and striking Amon’s Soul!
"Haha!"
"Fool!"
"Didn’t expect this? I, Saraph, have returned under the protection of the power of the Giant God!"
"This is my power!"
"Give it back to me!"
—-
"Wait, why’s it convulsing again?"
The massive fast crocodile crashed to the ground.
His eyes rolled back, limbs twitching as if seized by epilepsy.
"Did the sapling I planted have poison?"
"Couldn’t rule that out…"
Trilobite pondered the fast crocodile’s strange behavior while relentlessly pressing down harder.
Unnoticed…
"Buzz…"
A faint, muffled tear sounded.
Hot blood sprayed as saber teeth pierced flesh.
Only then did Trilobite realize his saber teeth had brutally impaled Samikina’s throat.
Blood already flowed freely.
In the Theriodont’s eyes, pain now mingled with despair and fear.
"Sigh…"
"This ends your suffering."
Then, he suddenly erupted again and pressed down fiercely!
“Pshhh——!”
—-
Samikina’s pupils froze.
The core councilor of chaos, the seventh seat of the Chaos Council, was pierced through the throat by the "Giant God."
Even in death, she didn’t understand how things turned out this way.
"Two against one…"
"We should’ve struck first!"
"We clearly had leverage over you!"
"We had backup coming!"
"Why could you easily handle our reinforcements?"
"Why didn’t you care about our leverage?"
"Why were the promised allies so late?!"
"Why…"
In her final moments, Samikina burned with confusion and resentment.
Her head lolled weakly to the side.
Her fading pupils reflected Amon; after frantically swallowing the "sapling," he collapsed, convulsing violently.
He looked utterly disgraceful.
This sight sparked sudden clarity in the demon god’s unfocusing eyes.
"I get it now…"
"So this is how it is…"
"You planned and set everything up from the start, didn’t you?"
"We danced to your tune while thinking we outsmarted you…"
"Heh…"
"We lost. I accept this completely."
As a veteran demon god, Samikina knew the rules—defeat meant death!
Finally, the light faded from her eyes.
“Roar——!”
Her Soul’s core shrieked sharply as it shot upward into the void.
“Boom——!”
It burst into countless golden shards, showering down like golden rain.
The last wisp of lingering soul raced toward the Chaos Council’s core, carrying its final message.
The core councilor of the Chaos Council, the powerful Fourth Seat Samikina, had fallen!
"Mm…"
"Done!"
Trilobite was very pleased with the hunt.
"While not having an advantage in hardware, he continuously attacked!"
"He forced the opponent to struggle, and finally delivered the finishing blow!"
"This was a valuable experience to summarize."
"Now…"
Although Trilobite was very hungry, he did not rush to eat.
There was another piece of meat waiting for him.
"This… things like epilepsy shouldn’t be contagious, right?"
"It shouldn’t spread through the meaty flesh, right?"
Trilobite cautiously approached the "fast crocodile."
"Wait a minute."
"What if it’s not epilepsy, but a prion disease?"
"Prion diseases also seem to have similar neurological symptoms…"
"But I only ate a tree!"
"It shouldn’t be a prion disease."
"Or could it be that the sap from this tree is similar to a blood-clotting toxin?"
"That’s quite possible. It seems I upgraded this thing on the tree for Themis, and it kept the toxicity after being grafted."
"However, a sap with blood-clotting toxins shouldn’t result in convulsions…"
…
Just as he was troubled by what was wrong with this "fast crocodile" and whether it was related to him or if it would be contagious.
"Mm?"
"Something’s off!"
"Is there a problem with the System?!"
Trilobite discovered that in the system vision, the "fast crocodile" that was twitching, rolling on the ground, with its double eyes turned white and frothing at the mouth, was surprisingly not red.
"It wasn’t blue or green either…"
"This…"
He saw the color of the "fast crocodile" in the system vision changing from deep red to green…
The change happened so quickly that both colors mixed together, forming a strange and unstable yellow.
Sometimes lemon yellow, sometimes orange-yellow, sometimes brownish yellow…
Occasionally, it would momentarily change back to red or green.
"Yellow…"
"Isn’t that inedible…"
"But…"
Though Trilobite was hungry, he simply couldn’t bring himself to eat food that looked like it had suffered nuclear radiation.
"Then I guess I’ll just observe the changes."
"Unfortunately, I can’t enjoy my meal in peace!"
He hurried back to the side of the "Theriodont" corpse.
"Bang!"
The massive claws landed on the Theriodont.
"Uuuhhh…"
The postosuchus let out a deep roar, declaring ownership over the corpse and warning the newly arrived predator.
Sure enough…
"Thud… thud… thud…"
Heavy footsteps echoed!
Another group of big fellows had arrived!