I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 415 - 415 Mud_1

Chapter 415: Mud_1 Chapter 415: Mud_1 Shia hurriedly chased after it.

At the same time, she spread open her palm and conjured a spell.

Whoosh—

An invisible, shapeless orb of air headed towards the colorful black sludge, moving slowly yet containing immense power.

Mistral’s Void Burst Spell!

Bang—

As soon as the air orb touched the doorframe, the entire area exploded, blasting a large hole through the wall. Chunks of rubble flew, some embedding themselves in the opposite wall.

A part of the air orb made contact with the end of the sludge, instantly turning that portion into fragments scattering across the sky.

But most of the sludge had already escaped from Cui Siter’s Detective Office.

Shia raised her hand to cast again, but the sludge flowed into the floor and quickly disappeared without a trace.

The residual colorful black mucus also came to an abrupt halt, as if its owner had suddenly vanished from the world.

Shia remained on guard and used a Detection Spell.

“Gone?”

She confirmed over and over until she was finally certain that Stone and the monster made of sludge had disappeared.

“Lucky I took precautions in advance, or I might have been in trouble too.”

Shia mumbled to herself as she came up from downstairs.

She touched her chest, her internal organs had sustained some damage, possibly torn, but fortunately, her robust constitution was enough to withstand such trauma.

“Damn, that’s my home!”

Cui Siter had crawled up from the hole in the floor, and when he saw Shia, he couldn’t help but curse.

“Good that you’re not hurt.”

Shia glanced at Lu Ban and briefly explained what had just happened.

He had a few leaves on him, seemingly in the process of healing as well.

“That’s odd, Old Cui, why didn’t you tell me the culprit wasn’t human, but a dog?”

Lu Ban complained.

“How the fuck would I know I’m a dog, uh, I mean, that the owner of the dream was a dog!”

Cui Siter argued.

“No, it shouldn’t be just a simple dog.”

Lu Ban paused, then said.

“I recognize that thing.”

“You’ve seen it before?”

Cui Siter looked at Lu Ban.

“Yes, in my world, in a hospital, there once were people who tried to cultivate such things. This kind of sludge could merge with buildings, creating bizarre spaces and devouring others’ souls. It possessed the ability to give life to corpses and extend humans’ lifespans, an evil creature from the Foreign Domain.”

Upon hearing Shia describe how the monster could vanish into the ground, Lu Ban immediately thought of the sludge.

A monster summoned from the Foreign Domain through a mysterious ritual had now appeared in the Abandoned Capital.

He remembered the head of Nanhua Private Renji Hospital who had started the ritual to summon the Evil Gods was beguiled by a dark-skinned man.

Could it be that there were similar figures stirring trouble in the Abandoned Capital?

“Just now, Stone called the monster Liz, but according to official records, Liz is already dead, so did Liz turn into that sludge monster?”

Shia felt puzzled and confused.

“No, after the monster devours someone, it can mimic their appearance to a certain extent, and it can also imprison their soul; simply put, the monster devoured a girl named Liz, and her will remains inside the monster, achieving eternal life.”

Lu Ban explained.

To this extent, the knowledge appeared to be harmless to Shia and Cui Siter, causing no Pollution.

“So, there might still be secrets regarding the case at Happy Home Apartments?”

Shia pondered for a moment and found something didn’t quite add up.

If Liz died from the gang fire, she obviously didn’t have the time to be devoured by the monster.

And the fact that the monster was so obedient to Stone was also puzzling.

“The birth of this thing requires a long process, and the biggest question now is who created it.”

Lu Ban felt his body had almost fully recovered, and he stood up.

“This might be the biggest mystery of this mission.”

Looking at it now, the killer of Doctor Howes was definitely the sludge monster, but who “he” was remained unknown, and without the knowledge of the opposite side’s name and identity, the mission could not be accomplished.

“Have you seen this monster, and how was it summoned?”

Shia asked.

“At that time, it was a pregnant woman who underwent a lengthy ritual and took medicine…”

An inspiration surged within Lu Ban; he thought of Doctor Howes.

“Old Cui, you mentioned before, in the basement of Doctor Howes, you felt something watching you, felt threatened?”

“Yes.”

Cui Siter nodded.

“The site of the ritual must be Doctor Howes’ clinic; the medicine he gave to Liz wasn’t for treating diseases but for mutating people into that sludge monster!”

Inspirations sparked one after another in Lu Ban’s mind, like stars twinkling, bursting forth in the dark night sky.

“That secret room might have been prepared for this very ritual.”

“However, wait, the sludge monster shouldn’t originally have the ability to cause human bodies to bloom; is it because it grew and matured?”

Lu Ban remembered how at Nanhua Private Renji Hospital, he was nearly overwhelmed by the mud, but it didn’t make him bloom. At that time, the mud was always kept in a culture vessel, and it was maintained in a just-born state. Perhaps, once these monsters matured, they would gain a similar power.

“So now, we can sort out some logic; for the purpose of summoning monsters from the Foreign Domain, Doctor Howes sold medicine to Liz and frequently had her come to the secret room in the basement for ‘treatment.’ Afterward, this person became a monster, he devoured Liz, and later found Stone, and they plotted these murder cases together?”

Cui Siter found his pipe in the mess of the living room, lit the tobacco, and took a deep draw.

“This doesn’t explain why he would protect Stone so much; and, according to what we deduced last night, the godfather of the Catania Family should know about Stone and the monster…”

With that said, he took another puff from his pipe, allowing the smoke to flow through his lungs, the stimulus of tar and nicotine making his mind somewhat dizzy. In this dizziness, numerous clues tangled messily in his brain.

The expansion of the Catania Family.

The monster like sludge.

The impoverished young girl Liz.

Stone’s ambition.

Doctor Howes, who created the monster.

The unceasing noise of factory operations.

The poor workers, the spreading disease.

“Godfather” Corleone Cattaneo.

The Glass Flower.

Hum——

Cui Siter felt his brain tremble, all the clues entwined, converged, and flowed into his hands.

He raised his finger, mimicking the shape of a pistol.

Bang——

Making the shape with his mouth, Cui Siter launched those clues out.

In midair, the torrent of information formed dazzling fireworks, blooming and bearing fruit.

He reached out towards the exploding fireworks, then retracted his hand.

Opening his palm, Cui Siter saw a wooden flower ornament quietly lying in the center of his hand.