The Record of Unusual Creatures

Chapter 1408: The Body of Divinity

Hao Ren acted quickly and decisively. After the explosion and gunfire, the entire stone platform and golden coffin were completely covered in dust and blue crystal dust. Truthfully, Hao Ren wanted to throw the bomb outside the coffin, but he was afraid that the place would collapse…

After the explosion, Hessiana did not immediately react. She stared at the coffin for a long time before she asked, “Why did you just blow it up?”

Hao Ren blew away the smoke from his gun and answered, “What else should I have done? Wait for it to come back to life? It’s been lying in the coffin for hundreds of thousands of years, waiting for others to dig its grave so that it can rise up in anger. Surely it’s not a good guy… Uh, Vivian, I’m not talking about you…”

“…I know. I just want to let you know—it doesn’t seem dead,” Vivian said.

Hao Ren’s expression froze for a moment, looking at the smoky stone platform (now, less than a third of the stone platform was left, and the upper half had been completely vaporized). Amid the smoke and dust above the stone platform, a little wisp of black and red slowly condensed. The temperature in the whole hall dropped rapidly.

It was not dead!!!

It did not die under the direct fire of the psionic gun!!

For a moment, Hao Ren felt like his heart had stopped beating, as that was absolutely something that had never happened before. Not that he had never met an enemy whom the psionic gun could not kill, but those enemies were basically big guys like the Firstborn and Lockmarton. Due to their huge body, the psionic gun’s limited range of damage could not cause enough harm to them. However, after eliminating the size difference, his gun should theoretically have killing power over all targets!

The thing, which was coming out of the coffin, did not look like it was beyond the psionic gun’s range of damage in any way, because even the coffin had been destroyed by the psionic ray.

How did it avoid being bombarded by the psionic rays in advance? Or was it really a super life form that could fight off psionic energy?

Hao Ren did not have much time to think carefully because the dust on the stone platform had gradually cleared away by then, while the ent.i.ty condensed from the black and red fog was about to become a solid figure. This time, instead of hurling a bunch of explosives at it, he stood guard with a gun in one hand and a lance in the other as he made everyone else position themselves to face the enemy.

He intended to see what it was, but he did not plan on putting anyone in danger. As he prepared to face the enemy, he silently recited a prayer of higher-order divinity in his heart. A milky light radiated from him and coalesced in front of everybody to form a looming barrier. Lines of text moved across the surface of the barrier, instantly refres.h.i.+ng. The words described Raven 12345 as a wise and sacred G.o.ddess. They also said that she was imbued with divinity and was a true G.o.d. In addition, there were swear words, which required mosaics.

The swear words were facing outwards, indicating that the enchantment was both offensive and defensive.

Y’lisabet stretched her voice as she watched the s.h.i.+eld rise before her eyes. “Ooooh…”

As the barrier took shape, the black and red smoke on the stone platform finally coalesced into a solid figure.

It was a woman, enveloped in a frenzy of black and red mist. Her body seemed to be constantly s.h.i.+fting between the virtual and the real. Her long, blood-red hair floated behind her, its ends falling like black ash. On the woman’s face, a hazy mist blocked her features. Hao Ren could only see a pair of blood-red lights s.h.i.+ning in her eyes. The flames in her eyes were so fierce it could burn the whole world.

“My… Malevolence?” Vivian gasped.

“So it’s your Malevolence?”Hao Ren asked without looking back. “Well, it looks like you… but this Malevolence has no face.”

“No face?” Vivian froze. “I can see it clearly. Its face is just like mine.”

Hao Ren was on guard, but when he heard Vivian’s words, he was shocked. “Wait, you can see her face? Isn’t there a layer of mist on her face?” he asked.

“No. We’re seeing different things again?”

It was not only Hao Ren. The others also cast a skeptical eye in Vivian’s direction. Obviously, in their eyes, the Malevolence was also a shadowy figure without a face. Only Vivian saw its true face!

However, the situation did not allow them to start a discussion on the issue. The Malevolence on the stone platform had completely coalesced. Like every crazy Vivian, her soul was filled with nothing but a pure desire to destroy.

She raised her head and shrieked. All the stone walls burst into debris. Then, she raised her hand and pointed. A scarlet shockwave appeared out of nowhere and slammed into the protective wall!

The negative energy collided violently with the divine barrier. Hao Ren felt his spiritual world shake. But after the shock, the barrier remained firmly in front of them. However, the ground in front of it had turned into a black marsh as a result of the shock. Disgusting bubbles of poisonous gas popped up continuously from the surface of the black marsh.

The Malevolence did not think too much. Even though her attack had been blocked, she did not feel discouraged. Once again, another shockwave came to the divine barrier.

At the same time, Hao Ren also ordered the MDT, “Detect its form of attack!”

“Boom!”

The two forces collided violently again. This time, the shockwaves even shook the entire pyramid. “It’s the Power of Chaos with first-cla.s.s divinity! I repeat, first-cla.s.s divinity!” The MDT’s voice was shrill and high-pitched amid the vibration.

Hao Ren’s expression did not change. He fired twice in the Malevolence’s direction and shouted, “Those who can do long-range attacks, strike now!”

Y’zaks and Y’lisabet instantly threw huge Demonic Flares, and Lorrisa’s Sacred Flame shot through the air. Their attack coincided with the Malevolence’s third blast wave. The joined forces of the three were then devoured by the blast wave, and the big explosion directly shattered the huge stone pillar in the hall!

The great pyramid shook again, and this time, it was more intense than ever before. However, Hao Ren was quite calm in the thick of the swirling shaking. He had realized why the psionic gun, which killed everything, could not kill the Malevolence.

It was due to the Malevolence’s divinity. This Malevolence was different from any rival in the past. She had a divinity that was far beyond that of Lockmarton’s, which meant that hers came directly from the true G.o.d, and could even be regarded as an extension of G.o.d!

Psionic power was the energy of the G.o.ds. Its ability to kill mundane things came from the suppression of rank. In other words, information priority. With a higher authority, psionic power could unconditionally annihilate any target, even a demiG.o.d with some divine power. But if the enemy had equal information priority, then the psionic power was no different from any ordinary power.

Based on the theological knowledge Hao Ren had, he knew that the so-called divinity was actually a numerical value used to describe the degree of information priority and interference. It regarded the universe as a self-sustaining data system. The true G.o.ds and their derivatives were the set of instructions in the system with different levels of authority. So the Malevolence in front of him now… was of high authority.

Not good. It possessed too much data.

The fighting in the hall got extremely heated the moment it broke out. The bombardment of various energies destroyed the surrounding stone walls over and over again. The situation would have started to deteriorate had it not been for Hao Ren’s divine barrier and everyone else’ protective s.h.i.+elds. And even with a series of prepared defenses, the battlefield was unlikely to survive such an onslaught.

“Uncle Ren! This place is collapsing!” cried little Y’lisabet, turning her head to Hao Ren as she threw a huge Demonic Flare.

The negative energy released by the Malevolence had corrupted the hall, turning it into a swamp. The forces that spread made the structure of the great pyramid extremely fragile. The heavy ancient building was teetering under the strain. If you looked at it from the outside, you would clearly see that its center was collapsing downward.

The people inside the pyramid could feel the eventual collapse of the building accelerating.

“Then let it fall down quickly!” Hao Ren looked around and realized that being trapped in such a negative environment would only make the situation worse, so he decided. “Listen, when the pyramid collapses, Vivian and Lily will stay with me to fight this monster. Y’zaks and Lorrisa, you two cover everybody and retreat to the edge of the temple but stay away from the statues. They may still be waiting outside. All right?”