Mystery Paradise: Wishing Power Demon
Chapter 362 - 361: Light Reemerges

Chapter 362: Chapter 361: Light Reemerges

However, in the end, Engfelt made no unusual movements. He sighed and shook his head, "Indeed, you’re different from the divinities I’ve encountered before. I won’t ask how you came to be aware of this, but please remember that an Evil God is an extremely terrible will. In the face of such overwhelming will, all our powers and beliefs that we rely on become utterly ineffective—we either perish or can only act according to the other’s will... So, you must never approach them lightly."

"He doesn’t know shit," Shi Yin sharply critiqued.

"You said before that you understand the creatures of the Mist?" Chaoyang brought the conversation back to important matters.

"I have been to the New Continent and participated in the exploration activities of the Misty Zone, fighting there for nearly fifty years," Engfelt said. "I’ve encountered creatures such as the Mist White Spider, Earthworm, One-eyed Giant Deer, and Two-headed Lion Dragon. Some live in solitude; some form groups, which depends on the creature’s appetite and territory size. Perhaps my research is not as close as that of scholars, but I have the advantage of longevity. What would you like to know?"

It seems he’s a man of practice.

"Have you ever captured these creatures alive?"

Kokomoqi twitched her mouth, "You sure have some unusual interests..."

"Yes. At the time, there were great scholars in the expedition group. They wanted to study the reproductive patterns of Mist creatures to curb the emergence of these creatures from the source. But later, they discovered that Mist creatures barely have the ability to reproduce. As long as they have enough food, they will split on their own, from one to two, from two to four, making it almost impossible to exterminate them."

Multicellular organisms that can reproduce via division? Isn’t that too outrageous?

Chaoyang stroked his chin, wondering if he should share this information with the air defense center, they would surely be incredibly interested. But...

"Did you bring the creatures out of the Misty Zone?"

"Naturally, but these abnormal species can’t withstand light. Once they leave the Misty Zone, they quickly die, looking as if they have been dried up."

As expected!

Suddenly, Chaoyang felt more assured. Back at Magnificent Castle, he had always wondered why there were no zoos themed around Mist creatures, given humanity’s penchant for showing off. Unless these creatures simply could not survive outside the Misty Zone, becoming part of the Mist’s ecological chain, and even, one might say, nurtured by the Mist God.

If that were the case, cleaning up the City of Defense would be a lot easier.

All he had to do was disperse all the Mist, and these creatures would perish automatically, producing a permanent solution.

...

Half an hour later, two trains disconnected and separated. The rear locomotive, pulling three carriages, headed back along the original route, leaving the Misty Zone, while Chaoyang and his companions continued to move forward.

The closer they got to the City of Defense, the thicker the mist in the forest became. By four in the afternoon, the pervasive white mist had reduced visibility to within a meter, and the forest by the railway tracks was lost from sight. The only source of light was the giant Moonstone searchlight on the front locomotive. Its blue light flickered feebly like a firefly’s glow, inspiring hope yet sparking fear that it might suddenly go out.

To be on the safe side, Chaoyang and Leisk went up to the observation deck on top of the locomotive so they would be the first to observe any changes ahead.

However, Leisk’s Fog Horn did not turn for a second time.

"Slow down... no, stop the train!" Chaoyang suddenly ordered loudly.

The driver hastily pulled down the brake lever to bring the train to a full stop.

"What’s wrong?" Kokomoqi asked from below.

"There’s an obstacle on the tracks," he said with a focused voice, staring at the dark shadow ahead.

Three hundred meters away, a huge shadow lay across the middle of the railway. It was unclear whether it was due to the lighting or interference from the mist, but he couldn’t make out what the object was... However, from its outline, it looked very much like a boulder.

"Stand by right here."

After issuing instructions to the players, Chaoyang jumped down from the train and walked toward the tracks ahead. Ailuodi followed, though she flew in mid-air, keeping a distance of about five hundred meters from Chaoyang. Additionally, Kokomoqi and Engfelt were approaching cautiously, staying roughly ten lengths behind Chaoyang.

As they closed in, they finally saw the true form of the shadow.

That was actually a head in a semi-decomposed state!

What kind of animal could have a head like this? Chaoyang murmured in his heart, even the head of a land-dominating dinosaur would be tiny compared to this. It was almost three meters high, five to six meters long, about the size of an eight-wheeled truck; the sockets where the eyes should be were left with two bloody holes large enough for a person to walk through, with numerous maggots wriggling happily inside.

What was perplexing was that such a highly decayed head did not emit much of a foul odor.

"Do you feel the breath of the Evil God?" he specifically asked Shi Yin.

"No, the air here is very fresh," the latter clamored.

"That’s why Yu hates bugs." Kokomoqi turned away in disgust after just one glance.

"It seems like a jungle giant elephant..." Engfelt observed for a while and said, "But I’ve never seen an elephant swollen to this size before."

"If it’s just an obstacle, then just move it. Kokomoqi?"

"Yu’s magic isn’t suitable for this scenario; it might damage the railway along with it. Let Engfelt handle it," the girl said without turning back.

"Please step back, folks; there may be some residue." Engfelt waved his right hand, and a huge two-handed sword appeared in the palm of his hand out of thin air.

But before he could make a move, Chaoyang suddenly saw the head shift a bit!

The hairs on his back stood on end!

The head... was alive!

Before he could shout out this discovery, the rotten "giant elephant" head suddenly rose from the ground and shot up into the sky. What was connected to the head below was a thick stalk adorned with blood vessels!

"Evil creature, die!" Rather than retreating, Engfelt stepped on the bulging ground and slashed at the head. The sword wind quickly coalesced into a white light visible to the naked eye and cleanly split the decayed skull in two! A massive amount of black blood and maggots rained down like droplets, while Chaoyang, without any hesitation, propped up Shi Yin and blocked these disgusting things above his head.

Afterward, everyone heard a piercing roar.

The next second, the bulging ground spread all the way to the train’s position! As the ground underwent violent deformation, the rails were burst apart section by section, and the locomotive emitted a mournful squeal of twisting steel!

"Damn it..."

Chaoyang couldn’t help but curse as he was jolted upwards. At the same time, he saw a dark crack split open beneath his feet. The edges of this fissure were serrated, emitting a nauseating stench of decay so overpowering it nearly fainted him!

So the head was just a lure exposed on the surface, and the monster itself was hidden underground, even larger than a train?

Could this even be considered a "creature"?

There was no better option.

Chaoyang immediately infused a large amount of wishing power into Shi Yin—

"Come on, let the mist disappear!"

Although they were still some distance away from the City of Defense, he could not allow the train and all his companions to be swallowed by this "abyssal maw"! The red light emitted by Shi Yin was an evenly spreading circle, and releasing it in the center of the City of Defense was certainly the most ideal choice. However, the current situation obviously no longer allowed him to hold back.

Shi Yin, as always, responded to his call.

In an instant, thousands of red serpent heads surged out like a tide, instantly covering the ground beneath their feet. The mist quickly dissipated in the face of the Divine Power of the Order of Causality, just as in the spectacle that had appeared over the Huiqiu Mine!

It even spread through the sky faster than it crawled on the ground.

The fog overhead was visibly fleeing in all directions, and in less than thirty seconds, the forest, shrouded in mist for over a decade, was pierced by a long-lost ray of the setting sun’s afterglow!