Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 399: The Game Within the Spiritual World

Chapter 399: Chapter 399: The Game Within the Spiritual World

"Materialized Library, your Spiritual World is quite impressive," Madame Butterfly casually surveyed the stacked floors and bookshelves. Turning to speak with Xu Huo, she found that where his voice had come from just a moment ago was now empty, a door on a nearby floor had just closed.

She didn’t pay much attention to the person who had disappeared in an instant. Instead, she reached out her hand in the air, and a giant zipper appeared out of nowhere. She walked through it and arrived at the adjacent floor, opening the nearest door with ease.

Xu Huo’s Spiritual World was a cylindrical tower-like library, with a count of floors that was difficult to determine. Each floor was filled with bookshelves, forming a giant ring. Every so often, a space equal to the width of a door was left empty, but what lay behind these doors could not be seen from the outside.

Of course, Madame Butterfly thought there might be nothing behind these doors because the interior of the Spiritual World had materialized into a large library. It was already more complex than most she had seen. Normally, without sufficient evolution, it would be difficult to sustain a brain’s secondary evolution, especially in terms of spiritual power.

But Xu Huo was just a Level D Player with a not-so-high rate of evolution, unless he was extraordinarily talented...

As soon as she opened the door, she realized her assumption was wrong. Indeed, someone could achieve evolution in spiritual power even with a lower level of overall evolution.

Spiritual power evolution would gradually improve with a person’s evolution. That is to say, even if a "Super Evolution" occurred in terms of spiritual power, the initial stages were definitely incomplete and biased. However, the library within Xu Huo seemed very complete to her. She watched the shelves that were gradually opening before her—unexpectedly, the structure behind the door was also circular, with rooms layered upon each other as if endless.

She continued to walk through several rooms in succession, but upon entering each new room, the bookshelf wall directly opposite would automatically slide open, revealing another new room surrounded by bookshelves.

The bookshelves behind her closed again, and Madame Butterfly felt the room rotating left and right. If she were to turn back now, she would definitely not be able to return to where she was before. If Xu Huo’s Spiritual World was a bit more complex, she might have had trouble returning to the main tower.

After pondering for a moment, she swiped in the air, and a silver zipper appeared. She stepped through it.

Having walked through the Spiritual World portal she had opened, she found herself standing on a spiral staircase once more, hearing a door close not far away.

"Trying to lure me in?" Madame Butterfly smiled secretly to herself and didn’t attempt to enter the room this time. Instead, she continued to walk down the spiral staircase.

After the silver zipper appeared several times, she finally saw the room at the bottom of the staircase.

The first things she saw piled on the table were various items: books, daggers, playing cards, and a black sheet that seemed to be flowing.

Madame Butterfly did not rashly approach the round table but walked around it, observing.

The materialized spiritual objects didn’t move, and after a long while, she finally approached and reached out to grab the book on top. However, before she could touch anything, countless daggers from all directions pierced her body.

A Madame Butterfly died in front of the round table, her body rupturing along the blades like soft fabric torn to shreds, disappearing as it hit the ground.

A second Madame Butterfly walked down from the white spiral staircase. This time, she pulled a silver zipper in front of the round table and reached her hand through it.

The zipper seemed to be a thin barrier, but her hand extended through it at an eerie angle, as if disconnected from her body.

This would be absolutely impossible in the real world, but in the Spiritual World, it wasn’t strange at all.

As she reached for the book a second time, playing cards materialized out of nowhere and flew towards the back of that hand. Because there was a distance between the hand and her body, the playing cards only whiffed through the air from where Madame Butterfly stood. However, to her surprise, some of the cards turned a corner in front of the zipper and came flying at her!

The second Madame Butterfly, along with her arm sectioned by a zipper, was torn to shreds.

A third Madame Butterfly descended the stairs.

This time, she didn’t reach for the items on the table. Raising her hands, a huge golden zipper appeared right above the round table, slowly opening and swallowing downwards.

Just as the zipper was about to enclose the table, the white floor began to flow, quickly pushing the round table out of reach.

But Madame Butterfly seemed to have anticipated this move. With a flick of her finger, a similar golden zipper blocked the table’s path, mouth open, waiting for it.

The round table stopped in front of the golden metallic teeth and then melted into a lotion-like substance that engulfed all four items on the table before sinking rapidly into the ground.

"Let’s see where you can run," Madame Butterfly’s high heels scraped the floor, and zipper teeth emerged within the white floor, prepared to swallow the ground and the spiral staircase together.

"Clap!" The sound of hands clapping echoed within the round building, starting from the floor, black covered the existing white, and rapidly spread towards the spiral staircase and surrounding library towers.

"Thinking of trapping me in the deepest part of the Spiritual World?" laughed Madame Butterfly. "Aren’t you afraid I’ll tear this place apart and turn you into an idiot?"

No sooner had she finished speaking than her smile vanished, and dense zippers radiated out from her, suddenly appearing in the hundreds, if not thousands. As the biting zipper teeth parted, they looked like hundreds of mouths opening simultaneously.

Xu Huo felt the strain and quickly retracted the black, restoring the library towers to their original state, appearing before the white round table.

Madame Butterfly lifted the corners of her lips into a smile and snapped her fingers. All the portals that had appeared in his Spiritual World vanished.

"Your Spiritual World is highly complete," she said, sitting down at the table, pointing at the objects pressed under the book. "But there are only three Materialized items here, is your personality incomplete?"

"No," Xu Huo sat down as well, "I just don’t want it to Materialize for the time being."

He was referring to the black sliver that represented his childhood personality.

Madame Butterfly didn’t care whether he was telling the truth or lying, and continued, "While your Spiritual World is complete and complex, it’s dangerous to expose it so openly. If someone can descend here, they can find a way to destroy your Materializations."

"In the Spiritual World, Materialized items are a symbol of the spirit. If they’re destroyed, the person themselves will be impacted, you need to hide them."

"Why hide them?" Xu Huo retorted, "I don’t intend to open my Spiritual World to others."

Madame Butterfly stared at him for two seconds before bursting out in laughter, "You’ve just undergone Super Evolution and don’t yet know how to use this power. Once you learn how, you will inevitably open the door to others."

"I call bringing others into one’s own Spiritual World ’opening the door,’ but you can choose another name for it if you like, ’opening a window’ works too."

"’Opening the door’ is good," Xu Huo’s gaze lingered on the woman’s face, "You know how to use it, but you don’t plan on teaching me."