AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 779 - 358: Wolfing Down

Chapter 779: Chapter 358: Wolfing Down

"When did I say we were done for?" Old Mo retorted, "I merely said that the supernatural power extracted from the bodies of the Nocturnal species is too disordered. Rashly absorbing it would only deepen the Contamination, causing you to falter."

"Isn’t that the same thing?"

"Right..." Old Mo answered noncommittally, "That’s why I didn’t let you absorb it, but instead had you eat something..."

"Supernatural power is like blue bars, but my state is ’dead,’ while yours is ’alive.’ So once I leave the Cafeteria area, my blue bars start to drain in an irreversible way, but you can recover on your own. Eating is just to speed up your recovery."

"Your recovery speed has been growing... I’ve actually been absorbing your supernatural power all along, you just haven’t noticed."

Lin Yi was taken aback, then said in surprise: "I always thought it was the influence of the Grey Mist!"

"That’s only part of it. Another reason is because of me, so you can consider the rate at which your supernatural power is consumed to be twice the normal amount..."

"No... Old Mo, you can’t mean that until now, you haven’t used up even a bit of your own ’blue,’ have you?!" Lin Yi’s voice rose sharply, his mind racing with the thought that no wonder he felt as if his own energy was drained, dare say you, old man, used my body for your nightly excursions?!

Old Mo coughed dryly: "That’s not entirely true... I did use a bit of my own, after all, starting a car still requires its own battery to ignite before burning fuel."

This analogy twisted Lin Yi’s face into a grimace, as he thought of Old Mo using "Layer Transition," using his own supernatural power as a primer, then nearly draining him dry...

So all this way, it was almost always like this?!

"Damn..."

Old Mo’s face turned serious, and with an intimidating expression he said, "I thought after absorbing the supernatural power from the Matrix, I would have enough to support the use of ’Layer Transition,’ but unexpectedly, your contact with the Scale caused an interaction with the ’Shadow of Origin,’ and so that one slash... used up all the supernatural power I pulled from the Matrix."

Hearing this, Lin Yi felt a chill in his heart.

He had been puzzled, wondering why all along the way, he had not seen Old Mo use those moves that almost tore through the Layers again.

That one slash, killing gods as if they were nothing, left an unforgettable impact on him.

He thought that the slash drained a lot of energy, but seeing Old Mo as composed as he was, he almost believed Old Mo’s basic attacks were matchless until now; only now did he understand that the foundation of that slash was built upon the energy consumption of the Matrix.

Half the power of the Matrix was used to unleash that ultimate technique.

It’s no wonder then...

Old Mo said, "Don’t be too proud, I just mentioned, haven’t you yet to realize? Did you think that was your normal state? Do you understand what this implies?"

Lin Yi shook his head.

Old Mo explained, "It’s as if you’ve been weighed down this whole way, and the weight you carry has been increasing too, yet you’ve ’adapted’ along the way. This means, once you leave me and return to the campus area... your use of supernatural power will be several levels higher."

"A person who can eat, drink, and live normally under a burden of 100KG – once that burden is lifted, won’t they be as light as iron legs floating on water? In the future, it won’t be so easy for ordinary Angel Sculptures to kill you, right?"

"Moreover, the area around Art Building is rich with drifting supernatural power, you’ll recover faster here than anywhere else."

Upon hearing this, Lin Yi felt a sense of achievement as if he’d been flattered, and couldn’t help but be pleased with himself: "What you said seems to make a lot of sense."

"So you just endure it a bit."

"Huh? What do I need to endure... Ah—"

Old Mo’s grey eyes turned to a cold, radiant gold in an instant, his Domain slowly enveloping Lin Yi, and a terrifying force of suction burst forth, nearly extracting his soul.

In just a few breaths, Lin Yi felt as if he was drained dry, the sensation was like being split open and having everything inside dug out, a power so domineering yet leaving him the slimmest chance to gasp for air.

"Do not fear, kid," Old Mo’s voice sounded at his ear, "your recovery power has never reached its limit. Seize this opportunity well; even Boss couldn’t achieve such precise control over you, keeping you on ’the last drop of blood without dying.’"

An overwhelming hunger and fatigue spread over Lin Yi, who then began to frantically absorb the surrounding supernatural power, and without any regard for image, grabbed the food at hand. However, as he brought the food to his mouth, he realized that his Faceless self had no mouth.

He paused for a moment, then, driven by instinct, reached a hand to the corner of his mouth...

It was like unzipping a zipper; he made a huge cut along the curve of his mouth, from the root of his left ear to the root of his right, like one of those terrifyingly split-mouth fabric dolls.

The scene left Old Mo, who had been about to help him create a mouth, utterly dumbfounded, but Lin Yi was completely unaware of anything amiss and continued to devour all the food within reach.

The bundle folded from bed sheets, which he carried on his back, had lost a lot during encounters with the Nocturnal species, but there was still a considerable amount left, and it now became the focus of his care.

And the relatively ’normal’ part of the supernatural power in the air was now being devoured madly by Lin Yi. Gradually, whether it was part that floated in the air, or the part extracted from the Nocturnal species, all of it was indiscriminately consumed into his body.