Chapter 784: Faceless Appearance
It's a very dangerous fight, and in a sense it's almost completely unequal.
It's as if two warriors are fighting with each other, and when they are not much different in terms of attribute skills, one of them has an additional 'Thorn Aura' skill, so that the injuries and gaps between the two sides will naturally and gradually widen.
And whether it is Naiako or the Night Demon, they are the kind of beings with their own polluted aura, the former is an extraterrestrial life form that is very similar to the Cthulhu race and has the same characteristics, but the latter is simply a mythical creature in the Cruthus system.
Both sides have their own state of chaotic infection, whether they attack or are attacked, they can pollute the opponent's vitality, energy and even mental reason, and even these two guys can pollute a large area into barren land just by existing, and the consequences are thousands of times more serious than the consequences caused by nuclear leakage or something.
The most important thing is that Naiako's attack can erode the night demon, and the night demon's polluted aura can gradually assimilate Naiako, but tracing the initial starting point of the cause of the existence of the two 'people' will find that this is a form of power and existence with the same root and origin, but it has been separated from the original origin continuously, and it has long been far apart.
Just as time can be divided into 'stillness' and 'flow', and 'time' and 'space' can be traced back to 'nothingness'.
The current fight is to reintegrate and return to the roots.
It's just that the night demon didn't have any scruples at all, just desperately used all kinds of means to attack, a wave of hot and scorching air rolled and rose in all directions, this bat-like, fiery red one-eyed swollen monster split into three petals, emitted a strange and evil violent smell, just smelling it will make people faint.
Just like the legendary fire demon, whose whole body was covered with sulfur and flames, and everywhere it walked became a sea of hot and crimson purgatory, it also had almost the same characteristics, except that the sulfur and flames were absent, and instead there was some terrible strong acid, extremely corrosive.
Yu Yan, Huang Quan and the others wanted to help, but unfortunately, just 'looking' at that thing, they were almost driven to the edge of madness by fear. However, if they did not 'see' with the help of this new visual form, they would have no other way of perceiving in this absolutely lightless dark realm......
And it is precisely because of their existence that Naiako's behavior is restricted - after all, if she doesn't restrain herself, it is estimated that only the humanoid silhouette will be fine among the people present, and everyone else will be directly impacted by the chaos and completely destroy their minds.
That kind of fate is undoubtedly extremely tragic, and many people just know that if they look directly at the old rulers or even the outer gods, they may be directly and completely destroyed their minds, because they are inherently taboo and abominable, and almost no normal people will actively touch it. This is the consequence of the power of mythology: anything close to the Cthulhu Mythos corrupts the spirit and destroys normal life.
This is a characteristic of mythology, which is not negotiable.
But they don't know what terrible results can be achieved when the mind is destroyed......
Madness, hysteria, emotional outbursts, intense phobias, aphasia, forgetfulness, amnesia, ...... Roughly speaking, most people know such descriptive adjectives, but the specific performance is nothing more than fainting or screaming, and it may be fixed on the spot and unable to move, in a trance or something.
However, that is only the most obvious manifestation, because in the experience that is truly enough to shatter the soul, the horror of being tortured is very indescribable, and it can be said that after the mind was destroyed, it is not surprising that the original man would do anything-
Perhaps it is the strange appetite for dirt, clay, human flesh, etc.;
Perhaps uncontrollably twitching, shaking, and no longer able to converse normally through any language or writing;
Maybe it's a strange sexual orientation or obsessive-compulsive disorder......
Anyway, all the 'abnormal' manifestations, if they arise when the mind is completely destroyed, are normal.
And even the existence of the Night Demon himself has already caused an almost irreversible impact on the minds of other people. It can be said that even if they can successfully survive this time, everyone will need to permanently lose at least about thirty to fifty attribute values, and they will be directly deducted from the two attributes of spirit or intelligence.
If Nayako also used her own characteristics caused by the forbidden and abominable nature, as well as the BUG abilities like the pollution aura and fear aura brought by it, and the superposition of the night demon realm in pairs, the effect caused would definitely not be as simple as one plus one equaling two. So in order not to let her comrades-in-arms die inexplicably because of herself, the silver-haired girl could only grit her teeth and fall into a disadvantage.
She had thought about asking her teacher for help, even if she couldn't get him to deal with the incarnation of Nyaratotip named Night Hunter in front of her, but it would always be okay for him to protect the people next to her...... But she no longer has any free time to be distracted, the other party is much more dangerous than her, and a little distraction may be the end of being unilaterally beaten to death.
Nayako was so hated that her teeth almost crushed, and she was forced to fight without tears—a battle that she was forced to start without any preparation. And it's like the feeling of parents watching when a child is doing homework, and the sight from behind makes the silver-haired girl feel uncomfortable.
But this also has an advantage, that is, she did not feel the real danger at all, although the enemy on the other side was very threatening, but she did not perceive any sense of despair at all, which is not to say that Naiako can easily deal with it, but to show that although her teacher did not know the meaning of this, it is absolutely impossible to let her be in real danger.
So slowly, the battle entered the white-hot stage.
In the horizon that ordinary people can't detect, in the dark fog of faceless appearance, a hideous and terrifying image is looming-
After many trials and strengthenings, Naiazi's life form has long been out of the scope of the original Nayarathotep, and even the spiritual structure has begun to move closer to Nayarathotep, at least in someone's vision, her form of existence is actually a primitive dark cloud, which is constantly evolving in the space where it exists.
- And upon observation, this primordial dark cloud collapses, taking on multiple strange forms.
For example, an ugly giant with huge tentacles on his face; a faceless, winged human-faced sphinx; The slender figure of a girl hiding her face with a fan...... But without exception, these horrific and hideous images are very vague, to the extent that only a general outline can be recognized, as if it were an amorphous mimetic cloud.
“……”
The silhouette of the human figure quietly watched this unique battle, obviously it was the kind of monster that should be able to be evaluated to the six-star level, but there was no leakage of strength and breath at all, and even the battlefield was simply confined to this church, and it did not expand to the outside-
Under normal circumstances, as long as a monster like them makes a move, then this Rhode Island capital and the whole of Providence will be blown up into the sky.
It can only be said that there are other deeper effects or rules in this absolutely lightless dark realm, which restricts all the actions of the creatures in it. What's more, the battle between the two is not a mere battle of strength, but a battle of forbidden and abominable nature, power, bursts, speed, skill, etc., etc., unless you can kill the enemy with an overwhelming blow, otherwise there is no point in such a battle.
The mind of the humanoid silhouette moved slightly, and his vision seemed to be stretched out, and he was held up by the power of time to rise infinitely, until he jumped out of the entire timeline, overlooking the entire universe from an infinitely high perspective. Under the consciousness of such a supreme deity, it can be found that the world is composed of finite matter in infinite time, and that the present world exists in the past and will be the same in the future.
It is precisely because He sees this world as a circular structure that he observes that all things are the same, transcending time and space without end.
Naiako's future looms at the end of the timeline, with countless tributaries flowing into a space-time that runs through countless possibilities, symbolizing future branches that lead to different outcomes, endless and endless. But slowly, the worlds of future possibilities are like dream bubbles, all of them disappear, and in the end only one route is left-
At the end of the River of Time, there was the figure of an evil god with a nameless dark mist circulating around him, and the nineteen avatars evolved into hideous and terrifying images, constantly tumbling and changing in the chaotic mist. Everything around them dissolves into an unfathomable dark abyss in which countless deeper black worlds and the sun swirl.
"It's still not going fast enough, and we need to push her."
He spoke softly to himself, but no one heard him.
Indeed, this progress is still not fast enough, at least nineteen incarnations need to be fused, and Naiazi can silently replace Naiarathotep in this universe under his operation, but this is at most worthy of entering the forbidden realm, and there is still a distance of 108,000 miles from the true myth of the eight-star level.
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"Damn! …… Not...... Ah......hh Huh? Huh? ——”
I can't tell when it all ended, and the gunman, who is still struggling with his inner fear and neurotic anxiety, already feels that his nerves are on the verge of the limit, and his mind is about to collapse.
At this time, he suddenly felt a sense of relief, and the darkness around him and the indescribable panic suddenly disappeared completely in an instant, like a tidal wave, as if everything that had happened before was his hallucination. He subconsciously looked up, but just in time to see his sister cast a confused gaze at the same time.
"Hoo-ha-hu-"
Nayako bent over without an image, gasping constantly, the crowbar in her hand was still stained with mottled blood, but the creature that fought her had completely disappeared without a trace. A few seconds or more just a few seconds ago, everyone seemed to be able to feel the thing spread its huge wings, almost piercing the entire church.
"Very good, the first avatar has been recycled, this is the most difficult level, and the rest of the things are much easier......"
The Eternal Guardian of the Silver Key Gate whispered, then gently raised his awkward shadow-like palm, and after a few random strokes in the air, he projected the image of the next target, which was an ugly giant that kept roaring, "Ngay Forest in the northern United States, the most well-known Night Growler or God of Bloody Tongues...... Well, this time you can really try what it's like to roar in the dark. ”
His voice was very flat, as if the tone of 'steamed buns and steamed buns are on it, Lao Tzu has money', but almost at the moment when this sentence fell, everyone's faces changed. Among them, Isayama Huangquan and Asagami Fujino raised their eyebrows slightly, and then took a deep look at the silhouette of this figure, and a suspicious look flashed in the depths of their eyes, so they turned their heads again.
Their current mental state is very poor, and they have inexplicably and permanently reduced some of their mental and intellectual attributes, and even now in the face of this incarnation of the most gentle and benevolent outer gods, they still feel that their minds are further shaken and their souls are shattered. It's as if we have seen things that we can't imagine, so we have to think in a way that doesn't belong to this world.
This feeling completely distorts the psyche of the perceiver, and it must be psychologically harmful, because what he has always believed to be right is becoming illusory, and another, greater, more terrible reality is engulfing his soul like a consuming fire......
"Wait, wait, why is it such an inexplicable thing! I'm not going to do it! ”
Naiako, who was still gasping for breath, jumped up all of a sudden, shouting loudly in protest: "And even this incident that happened before, aren't you going to explain it?" ”
"Explain what?"
"Putting one's own student in danger, of course, or even pushing her out into the clutches of the enemy...... As a teacher, don't you think it's too disqualified? Naiako seemed to be distressed, hoping to use such words to warn the teacher of this pit student.
"Yes, Naiako, you have to believe it, I'm doing this for your good......" The humanoid silhouette didn't seem to repent at all, but understated the big killer weapon for parents to deal with their children - I'm all for your good.
"Is that what you mean? But I don't feel it at all!! ”
"Naiko is really willful as always......" The humanoid silhouette said slowly, in a heart-pounding tone, perhaps frowning tightly now.
"It's clear that Mr. Yog, you are as unreasonable as ever! Really, why did I feel like Mr. Yogg was specifically targeting me from the beginning of my admission! Naiako raised her small fist and said with great annoyance, as her emotions became excited, a chaotic mist surged around her, and then a vague hideous and terrifying image flowed, suddenly becoming clear and clear.
Huge wings stretched out like night, bat-like swollen monsters reappeared, fiery red eyes split into three petals, and let out a silent roar, ready to break free from the horrific image that swirled in the nameless fog and become the embodiment of a real being.
"Huh?!" The silver-haired evil god girl's eyes widened suddenly, and she couldn't help but let out a sound mixed with consternation, and even her expression became dull.
Several other people turned their backs for the first time, and their bodies couldn't help trembling. This is no longer a question of courage or not, but the impact and erosion of unchangeable and uncompromising mythological traits on their souls. Until they possess the same taboo-level traits that are sufficient to combat this taboo, it is better to avoid this kind of thing a little.
"What's going on?!"
For questions that I don't understand, my teacher is on the side, and Nayako chooses to ask directly.
The so-called godless god has no fixed form, is amorphous, uncertain, and indescribable. At any time, you can change into the form you want according to your own ideas, and you can also recreate a new form. - But this is Nayaratotep, and Naiako has never mastered the ability to separate incarnations.
She just turned into a certain form when necessary, and she didn't have the ability to go out.
Therefore, the current situation is abnormal, and it belongs to the strangeness of her own body.
"This is your first incarnation, and you need the power of a total of nineteen incarnations to be able to become the Nayaratotip of this universe...... In other words, you'll need to defeat the other eighteen incarnations of Nyaratotip. The doorkeeper whispered, not answering her question directly, but the meaning was self-evident.
"Actually, this night demon is the most difficult, because the other incarnations of Nyaratotip will not be strengthened for no reason, the strength and characteristics are constant, but you can deprive them of their power and symbolism by constantly challenging them and turning them into your own things, so the more you fight, the stronger you are, it can be said that the more you do it later, the smoother it will be, and it is not as troublesome as you think."
"Becoming...... Nyaratotip in this universe? ”
A handful of hair near the top of the silver-haired girl's head suddenly stood vertically, like silver hair of the highest silk thread, almost as if it had its own consciousness, and it was very mentally upside down, as if it was defying gravity.
"Why?"
The time seemed to be imperceptibly the next morning, and the morning sun shone through the strange and almost blackened small pieces of glass on the semicircular windows around it, casting a dull and terrifying light that shone into the dimly lit interior of the church. Because Naiako had already retracted the tumbling and rising chaotic mist, and the night demon and other vague and terrifying images had finally disappeared into the air, Yu Yan and the others had come back to their senses.
However, looking at their vigilant appearance, it seems that they will immediately make the choice to look away as soon as there is a change.
The silhouette of the humanoid fluctuated slightly, as if a delicate hologram had been disturbed. He waved his hand slightly, and then in the next instant, the surrounding scene completely changed, not some projection or illusion, but the real process of changing time and space.
Everyone felt a flower in front of them, and then they found themselves in the infinite darkness of space.
It's just that this kind of thing has to be experienced once every time it returns to the infinite space, so everyone is used to it, and there is no change.
Countless magical worlds appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and many pictures whizzed through time and space, as if the universe or years had fallen past them.
Although it is impossible for their eyes to fully understand those 'things', they can still see one or two of them clearly. Some of them are strange planets with huge stone towers, some are planets with towering mountains and no signs of life, terrifying spires rising from unknown waves, and terrifying cities hidden beneath the abyss...... As if to expose the dark secrets left behind in the years when time was still young and the gods were not yet born.
And then—
Suddenly, there was a feeling of distantness and confusion in the surroundings, and then everyone felt like they were floating into an unfathomable abyss.
The shimmering veil of the humanoid silhouette was gone, but a vague shadow equal to the previous one, in its extension beyond all dimensions, sat atop the pitch-black throne in the center of chaos. A group of Ancients swayed strangely around His presence, unaware of who they were, where they came from, who they had served, and what they had paid for their service.
But it is true that even the human form that sits in the center of chaos and is born from free will and consciousness as if the laws of the root of the world are not human. It is an indescribable thing that gives them a port of communication through such an image, but the 'reality' behind it is beyond all understanding......
It is a thing of infinite existence and self, in which everything exists, and it exists in all of it—that is not just something that exists in a space-time continuum, but unites with the ultimate source that gives life to infinite existence—and in the end, it is an absolute immensity that has no limits, transcends both whimsy and mathematical logic.
It is a kind of power, or a kind of consciousness, that is both in front of everyone and at the same time around everyone, permeating everyone's vicinity. And in addition to its presence here, even the people seem to be a part of it, coexisting with all time and connected to all space.
- And with that there was a rhythm that was otherworldly, as if a voice that was not real was sounding all around, as if a language that did not seem to be clear was speaking to them.