On the desolate wasteland, a giant meatball monster with a diameter of nearly thirty meters was constantly chewing on something. Behind it, a long cross seemed to grow from inside its body. As the meatball monster continued to chew, its body began to mutate again.
A layer of light blue carapace began to grow on the exposed flesh, and silver-white longswords emerged from the carapace. The sharp blades shimmered with dazzling light in the sunlight.
A few minutes later, a monster with a light blue body covered with silver-white blades appeared in its place. It looked a bit like a sea urchin, but upon closer inspection, one would find that there were still thumb-thick, mucus-covered fleshy buds wriggling on the surface of the carapace.
"This guy's got a pretty unique look."
Lu Minghao walked up to the mutated monster of Demiurge, reached out and patted its extremely hard shell. Honestly, he had seen countless mutated beings after being eroded by his own Original Sin, but this was the first one with such a cute appearance.
That's right, compared to other mutated beings eroded by Original Sin, it was not an exaggeration to describe Demiurge's mutated form with the word 'cute'.
"Pooh pooh!"
On the opposite side, the irrational mutated being had no idea what Lu Minghao was saying. It instinctively rubbed Lu Minghao's palm gently like a puppy. A chrysanthemum-shaped mouth grew all over its huge body, making a series of unintelligible noises. It felt like a domesticated puppy seeing its owner and barking happily.
"However, speaking of which, can Demiurge, who has become like this, still be resurrected?"
The next second, Lu Minghao reached into the inside of the mutated being. Relying on the power of 【Lust】, he could clearly sense that Demiurge's soul was indeed inside this body, but the original demon soul had been completely mutated under the erosion of the two major Original Sins, 【Gluttony】 and 【Lust】.
In this situation, saying that Demiurge was dead, but his soul and body were still alive and well. Saying that he was not dead, but at this moment Demiurge's body and soul had already completely turned into a mutated being.
"What a profound question, but fortunately I don't have to care at all."
After thinking for a few seconds, Lu Minghao, who couldn't figure it out at all, threw this profound philosophical question aside. Anyway, it wasn't him who had a headache over Demiurge's resurrection, and Lu Minghao was too lazy to dwell on this kind of question for so long.
However, according to the situation in the original work where Shalltear was controlled by Brain Unglaus, Demiurge at this time should also be similar to Shalltear's situation. In addition, in the original work, Shalltear was resurrected with 500 million gold coins plus various precious materials. During the resurrection process, these materials dissolved and constructed Shalltear's body.
In Lu Minghao's opinion, this kind of resurrection should be a bit similar to resurrection from the information level, imbuing the reorganized body with Shalltear's past data information to achieve the effect of resurrection.
Of course, the above are all Lu Minghao's guesses based on the resurrection scene of Shalltear in the original work. The specific situation is still unknown.
"However, this is only temporary."
Saying that, Lu Minghao looked at the monster in front of him. At this time, Ainz Ooal Gown should have already noticed the state of Demiurge and Cocytus. Next, he will definitely go to check it out. Only after Ainz Ooal Gown chooses to eliminate Demiurge's mutated form will he resurrect him.
Then, if the resurrected Demiurge is really resurrected as Lu Minghao guessed, then Lu Minghao's erosion of him will definitely disappear. After all, in the original work, Shalltear lost the memory of being controlled after being resurrected.
In this way, even if Lu Minghao's Original Sin has reached the level of a meme and can complete the erosion at the information level, if the resurrected Demiurge loses this memory, then the conditions for erosion cannot be achieved.
But, if it is resurrected based on the current soul, then it will be fun.
"Huh? The reaction is really fast!"
The next second, Lu Minghao raised his head and subconsciously looked upwards. There, he felt a faint sense of peeping coming from there. It hadn't been a few minutes since Demiurge's mutated form devoured Cocytus, and Ainz Ooal Gown, far away in the Great Tomb of Nazarick, had already noticed it and started using tools to check the situation here.
Then, before the sense of peeping was about to arrive, the shadows under Lu Minghao's feet began to twist, and Lu Minghao's body gradually sank into it and disappeared in place.
"This is Demiurge?"
On the other side, Albedo in the Great Tomb of Nazarick looked at the monster in the picture in front of her with disbelief. Just a few minutes ago, her system page suddenly showed that Cocytus had died and Demiurge had betrayed.
At that time, Albedo's first reaction was that there was something wrong with the system. She simply didn't believe that Cocytus had died and Demiurge had betrayed.
However, after Albedo seemed to confirm it several times, she had to believe it, because not only her administrator page, but also Ainz-sama's was the same.
At that time, Ainz Ooal Gown and Albedo confirmed that something must have happened to Demiurge and Cocytus. For this reason, Ainz Ooal Gown summoned all the remaining Guardians who had gone to other kingdoms to destroy humans back at the first time.
And he started using top-level props to locate Demiurge's location. As for Cocytus, who had already died, Ainz Ooal Gown was not too worried. After all, for them, death was just a state. It would be good to resurrect Cocytus later.
It's just that they didn't expect to see such a scene after tracking down Demiurge.
"This is?"
On the side, Ainz Ooal Gown looked solemnly at the light blue monster that looked like a sea urchin in the picture. He was absolutely sure that the monster in the picture was Demiurge, but to be able to kill Cocytus, who was carrying the World-Class Item Arbalest, and turn Demiurge into this, the only thing Ainz Ooal Gown could think of was a player who came to this world like him, and who had top-level, even twenty World-Class Items in his hands.
But the problem is that the current Ainz Ooal Gown cannot determine which World-Class Item turned Demiurge into this, and he cannot determine whether the other party turned Demiurge into this without killing him, or whether it was a deliberately left trap.
"Ainz-sama, what should we do now?"
At this time, Albedo raised her head and looked at Ainz Ooal Gown and asked. Facing Demiurge turning into this appearance at this time, Albedo didn't know what to do for a while.
"We can't determine the specific situation of Demiurge now. It seems that we need to investigate it up close."
Ainz Ooal Gown touched his chin and said slowly. No matter what World-Class Item the other party used to turn Demiurge into this appearance, or if this was a trap against them, Ainz Ooal Gown planned to personally investigate it up close.
After all, compared to passively defending, he would rather take the initiative to attack in a safe situation. First, he can determine the state of Demiurge, and second, if it is a trap, then the enemy will definitely choose to attack him at this time.
At that time, Ainz Ooal Gown could confirm the other party's identity, and once the identity was confirmed, the enemy would move from the shadows into the light, and the situation would become favorable to them.
“Ainz-sama, I disagree with doing this. It's too dangerous. I suggest immediately forming a subjugation team, with me as the commander, and Shalltear and Pandora's Actor as vice commanders, to directly eliminate Demiurge who has already rebelled.”
Upon hearing that Ainz Ooal Gown wanted to investigate Demiurge's condition up close, Albedo, who prioritizes Ainz Ooal Gown's safety above all else, directly refused and wanted to form a subjugation team to eliminate Demiurge immediately.
“No, let's investigate clearly first, after all…”
Speaking of which, Ainz Ooal Gown looked at the other Floor Guardians beside him. If they could figure out what methods the enemy used to turn Demiurge into this, then the next time if other Guardians encountered this kind of situation, and he didn't have any countermeasures, then the Great Tomb of Nazarick would be destroyed by the enemy.
This was something Ainz Ooal Gown absolutely could not allow. The Great Tomb of Nazarick was a memory of him and his former comrades, and he absolutely would not allow anything to threaten his most precious things!
“Shalltear, you and I will go to investigate. Everyone else will stay in the Great Tomb of Nazarick, and from now on, the Great Tomb of Nazarick will enter a state of maximum alert.”
“Yes! Ainz-sama.”
Although unwilling to let Ainz-sama take risks, Albedo still chose to obey Ainz Ooal Gown's orders. Then, Albedo opened her own dimensional pocket and took out all her equipment and tools.
Since Ainz-sama planned to go to investigate in person, she must protect Ainz-sama's safety.
A few minutes later, the prepared Ainz Ooal Gown and Albedo opened a teleportation gate to Demiurge's location, and walked in amidst the worried gazes of the other Guardians.
The next second, above the endless wilderness, a dim teleportation gate opened, and the fully armed Albedo walked out first, vigilantly looking around. After confirming that there were no problems, she stepped aside to let Ainz Ooal Gown walk out of the teleportation gate.
“Demiurge?”
Ainz Ooal Gown raised his head and looked at the spherical monster in the distance that was frantically devouring the earth. On it, Ainz Ooal Gown simultaneously sensed the auras of both Demiurge and Cocytus.
“Ptooey?!”
Across from them, the spherical monster, which was originally devouring the ground with its chrysanthemum-like mouth, had a tentacle covered in eyeballs emerge upon hearing Ainz Ooal Gown's voice, scrutinizing Ainz Ooal Gown and Albedo in the distance.
“Demiurge, are you not going to explain your act of rebellion?”
Facing the tentacle covered in eyeballs, Albedo clearly felt that the other party was observing them. Then, Albedo stepped forward and loudly questioned the monster in front of her.
“Ptooey!!”
But in the next second, the tentacle covered in eyeballs let out a strange roar. At the same time, the tip of the tentacle split open, and a giant mouth full of fangs bit towards Albedo. Simultaneously, the monster's body, which was originally devouring the earth, began to squirm, and a pair of black demon wings appeared.
As the wings flapped, the monster, which had grown to nearly fifty meters in diameter, suddenly flew into the sky. Countless tentacles rained down on Albedo and Ainz Ooal Gown like a storm. At the same time, a face extremely similar to Demiurge's floated on the monster's surface, its eyes filled with endless hunger and madness as it stared at the two below.
“Ainz-sama, Demiurge's act of rebellion has been confirmed. Request permission to eliminate the other party on the spot!”
Facing Demiurge's sudden attack, Albedo raised her battle axe and easily cut off all the incoming tentacles. Then, she turned her head to look at Ainz Ooal Gown and said.
“Mm.”
Looking at Albedo, whose eyes were full of killing intent, and the monster above with Demiurge's face, Ainz Ooal Gown was silent for a second before nodding. In fact, he had just secretly tried to use tenth-tier magic to break Demiurge's control, but it was completely useless.
Now, the only way to break Demiurge's control was to kill him and then revive him in the Great Tomb of Nazarick.
“Yes!”
After receiving Ainz Ooal Gown's answer, Albedo rushed out without hesitation and began to fight the distorted Demiurge.
At the same time, Ainz Ooal Gown took advantage of Albedo's distraction of Demiurge, and a huge, light blue magic circle rose from under his feet. Super-Tier Magic - Fallen Down was being prepared, waiting to deliver a fatal blow to Demiurge.
“As expected of the Bone Daddy who fights wits and courage with air, he's still so cautious at this time.”
On the other side, Lu Minghao, who was spying through Demiurge's perspective in the Imperial Capital, said speechlessly. Having read the original work, how could he not understand that Ainz Ooal Gown, who was standing there concentrating on using Super-Tier Magic and looking defenseless, could actually cast it instantly with cash shop items.
But he was deliberately putting on this appearance in order to lure out the enemy hidden in the dark. But the problem was that Lu Minghao really didn't plan to kill Ainz Ooal Gown right now, after all, his plan still needed him.
“Forget it, you have fun.”
Saying that, Lu Minghao shifted his gaze away from Demiurge. The reason he created this scene this time was to add fuel to the fire for Ainz Ooal Gown and the Platinum Dragon Lord, and to find out the resurrection mechanism of the Great Tomb of Nazarick. As for the others, Lu Minghao was just watching the fun.
Now, he had more important things to do than watching the fun.
Thinking of this, Lu Minghao raised his head and looked at the flesh wall in front of him. On the constantly wriggling fleshy wall, the Death-Dealing Twins, with most of their bodies wrapped inside the wall, and only their heads exposed, were staring at him expressionlessly.
“Do you want to become my possession?”
The next second, Lu Minghao walked up to the Death-Dealing Twins, extended his hand and placed it in front of them, looking at them with a gentle smile and directly asking, without any intention of hiding his thoughts.
“Become your possession?”
“Mm.”
Just as Lu Minghao's words fell, the Death-Dealing Twins, who had been expressionless, were stunned. Their pupils shrank to the extreme as they looked at Lu Minghao in front of them. Lu Minghao, who had seemed ordinary to them a second ago, now had endless magic power erupting from his body like a tsunami. Viscous, substantial 'evil' was entrenched at his feet.
At this moment, in the eyes of the Death-Dealing Twins, the whole world had turned black, and Lu Minghao in front of them was like an abyss that could never be filled, licking the world and planning to swallow it in one bite.
“Do you want to become my possession? You will experience a brand new world and have a different life!”
With a smile on his lips, Lu Minghao placed his hand in front of the Death-Dealing Twins again, extending his invitation... or rather, his command.
