Golden sunlight shone on the young girl and boy. The boy lovingly stroked the long hair of the girl in his arms, who was currently pouting. Although her small face was puffed up with anger, the excited look in her eyes was unconcealed. Behind them, their shadows intertwined as if merging into one.
This scene, no matter how you looked at it, was a heartwarming and memorable one, provided you ignored the constantly writhing dark red flesh-like ground beneath the boy and girl's feet, and the countless gluttonous monsters around them.
"Master."
At this moment, the flesh-like ground beside Lu Minghao constantly wriggled, and figures that were either beautiful, indifferent, or hideously terrifying appeared. Each of them exuded an aura of fear. Tangible magic essence coiled around their bodies. These were Lu Minghao's eight Great Demon Lord-level subordinates, excluding Sally and Luo Yina, who was staying with Rimuru.
Among them, a figure engulfed in black flames, with a pair of dark feathered wings and snow-white skin, silently watched Lu Minghao. It was Nina, who had previously received Lu Minghao's power and completed her evolution into a Demon Lord.
"Master, are we going to destroy the Western Nations next?"
At this time, Edras walked up to Lu Minghao with a cold expression and asked. In his cold pupils, there seemed to be countless wails of living beings. It was as if his ordinary-sized body contained countless existences.
"No, the Western Nations have already been completely destroyed."
Lu Minghao looked at Edras in front of him, a cold smile on his lips. If Edras could see Lu Minghao's talent panel at this moment, he would discover that the [Gluttony Sin] passive skill had been fully unlocked by Lu Minghao. The indescribable power that Lu Minghao had once suppressed had completely enveloped the entire Western Nations.
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Time rewinds to a few minutes ago, to the main battlefield between the Gluttony Kingdom and the Western Nations, when the hero's team's last hope, Shinboku, also fell.
Thanks to Fortress Commander Dilok's plan, countless gluttonous monsters died by their own attacks. The situation on the entire battlefield was instantly reversed. The gluttonous monsters, which originally outnumbered the Western Nations by more than ten times, were reduced to less than a quarter of their original number.
Moreover, the strongest batch of gluttonous monsters on the battlefield had also turned to ashes in the previous attacks.
At this time, the Western Nations' army, which far surpassed the gluttonous monster army in both numbers and strength, was annihilating the remaining gluttonous monsters like a hot knife through butter under Dilok's leadership, even with their top-tier immortality and fearless, frenzied attacks.
Still, a large number of gluttonous monsters were methodically surrounded and killed by numerous soldiers under Dilok's command.
"Lord Dilok, this time it's finally coming to an end."
On the battlefield covered with corpses, the high-ranking demon sitting atop a monster looked at the soldiers who were dividing and encircling the remaining gluttonous monsters. The high-ranking demon looked up, its eyes filled with unconcealable adoration and respect as it looked at Dilok.
Originally, this high-ranking demon became Dilok's mount only because Dilok was the top military talent of the entire fortress. In its opinion, it became Dilok's mount only to protect the weak Dilok, who only had the strength of a mid-ranking demon.
However, in battle after battle, this high-ranking demon was gradually conquered by Dilok's powerful military talent and personal charm. Until now, it witnessed Dex using his wisdom to rely on the gluttonous monsters' own power to eliminate most of them, directly rewriting the wisdom of the entire battlefield.
This high-ranking demon was now completely subjugated to Dilok. Even after the war ended, it would not leave and would guard Dilok's side.
"Litt, the real battle hasn't ended yet. Compared to these mindless monsters, the real battlefield is over there."
Dilok lowered his head and looked at his partner who had been guarding him since the beginning of the battle, gently shook his head, and looked in the direction of the Edras Kingdom. As the commander of the fortress, he clearly knew that the battlefield here was just trivial.
What could truly determine everything was the hero and the others. As long as the hero and the others could eliminate the monsters' lair and the few Great Demon Lord-level monsters, then everything would truly be over. Otherwise...
"Alright, Litt, let some of the soldiers send the wounded back to the fortress. The remaining soldiers and adventurers who still have combat power, all follow me to attack the Edras Kingdom to support the hero and the others!"
In the next second, Dilok looked at the gluttonous monsters on the battlefield that had been almost completely cleared, and directly ordered Litt to use [Thought Connection] to rule everyone. Now the battle here was over, and they had to go to the final battlefield and truly end everything.
"Yes, Lord Dilok......."
Litt looked at the iron-blooded body above his head and subconsciously began to prepare to execute the order, but in that second, a murmuring sound suddenly rang in his mind. In his vision, a figure with an ice-crystal-colored body, exuding twisted and chaotic power, appeared.
At the moment this figure appeared, Litt's eyes changed. He seemed to see the truth of the world, the essence of 'Original Sin', and saw.......
"Litt, what's wrong with you?"
Above his head, Dilok also noticed something was wrong. He saw countless fleshy buds growing on the dark red scales on Litt's body, and even some scales seemed to come alive and possess self-awareness, directly detaching from Litt's body.
The flesh and blood under the scales were also wriggling irregularly, and tentacles grew out from every part of the body, covered with densely packed pupils and big mouths, all looking at Dilok.
"How is that possible! When did Litt become infected and eroded by the power of those monsters?"
Looking at the constantly mutating Litt in front of him, Dilok's eyes were filled with disbelief. You must know that before the hero Trina left, he and Litt would receive Trina's power to evolve after each battle. Even for today's battle, Trina gave him and Litt blessings before leaving this morning.
"What exactly happened!"
At this time, countless roars came from all directions. When Dilok looked up, he realized that on the entire battlefield, the soldiers who were still annihilating the monsters with high morale were now all making beast-like roars.
Everyone's body was undergoing crazy distortion. The armor on their bodies began to animate and merge into their bodies. Various terrifying and indescribable limbs grew on their bodies, and the whole person was transforming into an indescribable form.
Some of the soldiers with the strongest will were desperately covering their heads with their hands, lying on the ground and constantly wailing, and their bodies were also undergoing distortion.
"Could it be that the hero and the others have failed?"
Looking at everything in front of him, Dilok murmured to himself in disbelief. Although he was unwilling to believe this idea in his heart, after all, that was the hero, the invincible hero who had once saved several kingdoms.
But everything before his eyes seemed to tell him that the thing he didn't want to believe was the truth.
Boom!
Just then, a huge explosion came from behind Dilok. When he turned his head, he only saw that the originally solid fortress had now turned into a huge monster. The dark city walls had become the monster's limbs, and the countless houses inside the fortress had formed the monster's body.
In the center of the body formed by countless houses, a hideous giant mouth, comparable in size to a mountain and nearly two thousand meters wide, was emitting a silent roar. Dimly visible at the edge of the giant mouth were several figures dancing and constantly launching various attacks, resisting the dense tentacles stretching out from inside the giant mouth.
"The fortress has fallen..."
Dilok stood blankly on top of the now-mutated monster, Litt, his eyes filled with despair as he looked at the behemoth standing up from the earth. The sheer size of its body filled Dilok with endless despair and fear.
What kind of monster were they fighting?
At this moment, besides the main battlefield between the Western nations and the Gluttony Kingdom, the originally peaceful cities behind the Western nations were also beginning to become chaotic.
On the grayish-white streets, many civilians were dragging their tired bodies and continuing their work for the day. Vendors on both sides of the street were hawking their goods, as if everything that happened on the battlefield, except for the price increases of various items, had nothing to do with them.
Even many merchants and large chambers of commerce were hoping that the battle would last as long as possible. After all, war represented opportunity. Whether it was a large number of weapons or resources, they would bring them a lot of wealth. Moreover, they had already stockpiled a large number of materials before the war even started after receiving early news.
At this time, the price of food that could have been bought with a little money had already increased several times. In just a few months, many chambers of commerce had already gained wealth that they could not have obtained in several years. One by one, the big merchants, their mouths full of oil, were still looking forward to a more tragic war.
As for the price they paid for their mouths being full of oil, countless civilians had sold their only valuable property in order to obtain food to survive in just a few months, and some had even reached the point of selling their own children to slave traders.
In addition to these merchants, those nobles who did not dare to go to the battlefield and stayed in the rear were also ruthlessly exploiting the value of the civilians, letting them fight and kill monsters. They were indeed not capable of that.
But when it came to exploiting civilians, they were professionals.
It can be said that since the war began, countless civilians in the rear of the Western nations had lost everything, but the originally extravagant and decadent lives of the nobles and big merchants had become even more perverted. At this time, the so-called heaven and hell in the rear of the entire Western nations were just a wall apart.
The food that countless civilians gave everything to obtain was casually discarded and rotted by those nobles. Even so, they would not give these foods to those lowly civilians. In their opinion, doing so would only tarnish their nobility as nobles.
But today, everything began to change. In the rear of the entire Western nations, the originally high and mighty nobles and wealthy tycoons showed strange expressions at the same time. Twisted and chaotic murmurs rang in their minds. The news they had received from the front line battlefield was now constantly emitting unspeakable power, eroding and distorting their bodies and souls.
Countless slaves and maids in the nobles' homes watched in horror as their masters began to make strange murmurs, and their bodies began to mutate. The former nobles and wealthy tycoons turned into unspeakable monsters, roaring and pouncing on everything alive around them.
On the contrary, those civilians who knew nothing about this only discovered that the atmosphere of the entire city began to become uneasy today. The wealthy area, which even approaching would result in arbitrary insults or even death by soldiers, was now constantly transmitting the roars of monsters from inside. A large number of soldiers rushed in aggressively but never came out again.
"So... hungry..."
"Want... to eat..."
Just then, while all the civilians were curious about the movements in the wealthy area, a sudden, indescribable murmur rang in their minds. Endless hunger instantly devoured their reason, and one by one, they began to frantically gnaw on everything they could see before them.
But in addition to the vast majority of beings who had lost their reason, there were still a few beings who suppressed the madness in their hearts with their strong will, but the distortion of their bodies could not be changed, at most it only suppressed the speed of distortion.
When the small number of people was magnified to all the kingdoms in the entire Western nations, the number of people was expanded by an unknown amount. One by one, people or monsters who suppressed the constant murmurs from their hearts, with half-distorted bodies, possessed brand new powers.
Even in an inconspicuous city in the rear of the Western nations, in a corner filled with garbage and exuding a stench, a figure, completely naked, covered in various scars, with a lower body exuding a stench and already beginning to rot, was lying there weakly.
Inside the rotting wounds on her body, milky white maggots were constantly wriggling, and a large number of flies surrounded her body. But for the girl lying in the garbage heap, who was almost dead, all of this did not attract her slightest attention, only a pair of large aquamarine eyes stared blankly at the blue sky above her head.
The empty eyes contained endless despair and hatred, but in the deepest part, there was still a trace of relief.
"Osphia..."
Suddenly, a gentle voice rang in the girl's mind, a gentle face looked at her with a doting smile, and then this doting smile turned into despair, naked, leaving only half of her body lying weakly on the ground, and several men in gorgeous clothes looked at her and laughed.
At this moment, those faces suddenly turned into an unspeakable monster. That was the news she accidentally heard about the battles on the front lines, and at this time, that unspeakable monster was gradually turning into an ice-blue slime.
"Ple... Please... Please... I'll do anything..."
In the rotten garbage heap, the girl made a weak plea, and the hatred and endless despair in her heart were integrated into a twisted and chaotic force. The girl's rotting body began to recover, and the body, whose bones were all broken, stood up like a marionette and walked in a certain direction.
And similar situations also occurred in various parts of the Western nations. At the same time, the original ordinary land was gradually being animated, and a powerless force enveloped the entire Western nations... or rather, the Gluttony Kingdom.
