Chapter 376 Calamity Within MusclePotato404

He seemed to have already turned into a monster, but even monsters possessed instincts. As their levels increased, their defenses should only grow stronger, not weaker.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, this situation should not have occurred.

Only those who were on the verge of death would have Fates that allowed others to visit freely without being able to resist. Even a baby would instinctively resist an intrusion by someone else.

Joo Joowon's consciousness stood before a three dimensional 'spiderweb'. Some of the threads had already grown dim, some were faint and unstable, while others were sturdy or thick. This was the web of Fate formed by all the living beings he had come into contact with from birth until now.

For an ordinary person, finding the specific thread they needed among these 'threads', which had no discernible pattern and were tangled together into a complete mess, would be extremely difficult.

For Joo Joowon, however, this was hardly a difficult task.

He focused his mind, calmed his thoughts, and stirred his Fate Star. Then, he saw a Fate line drift toward him as if blown by an invisible breeze.

Joo Joowon reached out and 'grasped' it. Closing his eyes, he followed the line's path all the way back to its source.

If he merely wanted to use someone as a stepping stone, there was actually no need to locate that person in the first place. However, Joo Joowon was now more interested in finding out what had happened to MusclePotato404.

His vision began to capture the other party's fluctuating Fate in a mysterious way. Joo Joowon was not yet capable of investigating the other party's past or future, but he could use Fate to briefly locate everything the other party was experiencing at that moment. It was essentially like looking at reality through the other party's eyes.

The constantly shifting images resembled the flickering screen of an old fashioned television, making it difficult to see what was actually happening in them.

However, Joo Joowon was very patient. He did not impatiently try to make out the images. Gradually, the shifting scenes finally began to solidify, and the flickering became less intense.

Then, everything came to a complete stop, and he managed to capture a single image.

It was a dark and oppressive scene.

Countless deformed monsters surrounded an egg? An embryo? Or perhaps a pregnant belly? It was something whose original shape could no longer be recognized.

Joo Joowon found it difficult to determine what it actually was. However, somewhere deep within him, Fate told him that this thing was MusclePotato404.

The monsters surrounding it kept throwing food? Sacrifices? Themselves? ... Everything was being stuffed into MusclePotato404's body, allowing him to exist in this world in a state that looked as though he were about to burst from being overfilled.

Fleshy buds occasionally emerged from the swollen, spherical mass, while filthy fluids trickled from his body onto the ground. They might have been blood, stomach acid, or perhaps something else entirely.

Long, slender tendrils resembling plant roots clung tightly to the ground, pinning MusclePotato404 in place like blood vessels.

Everything was so gloomy and horrifying.

Joo Joowon's instincts told him that MusclePotato404 seemed to have become a breeding ground for something.

Rather than saying that his level had increased because he had grown stronger himself, it would be more accurate to say that he was accumulating nutrients for whatever was growing inside him.

The moment that thing emerged into the world would be the day MusclePotato404 died.

Joo Joowon furrowed his brows slightly.

He could sense that whatever was gestating inside MusclePotato404 was definitely not something good. It was powerful, and judging by the attitude of the surrounding monsters, perhaps its birth would turn it into the 'king' of all mutated creatures.

He unconsciously licked his upper lip, which seemed to have grown a little dry.

Reason told Joo Joowon that he could simply ignore the matter. MusclePotato404 was located far from Sabi City, separated from it by a considerable distance from north to south. Therefore, even if the monster emerged, it would not affect him for another year or two.

However, for the people living in that area, this would undoubtedly be a tremendous disaster.

Many Transcendent creatures were born with initial levels of ten, twenty, or even thirty. They could easily trample Transcendents who had spent a long time cultivating beneath their feet.

Obviously, any being that required a Transcendent to serve as its 'womb' and countless monsters to search for 'food' to nourish it would inevitably emerge into the world with an invincible and overwhelming presence, one that nothing could possibly stand against.

After hesitating for a moment, Joo Joowon still chose to directly detonate the Fate line connecting him to MusclePotato404, allowing the calamity and misfortune brewing within the other party to erupt ahead of time.

Joo Joowon did not believe in the saying that there would always be someone taller to hold up the sky when it fell. After all, if the sky kept collapsing lower and lower without stopping, then one day, even he would become that tallest person.

Therefore, he had to become strong enough himself to withstand the dangers that might come in the future.

However, it was important to understand that some dangers could not be faced simply because someone wanted to stand up against them. Without sufficient strength, even the strongest determination would not be enough to make a difference.

People with the Harbinger of Endless Misfortune had the sharpest senses when it came to disasters. Therefore, Joo Joowon could vaguely feel that once the monster gestating inside MusclePotato404 was born, the area affected would certainly not be limited to one or two people. It would encompass one or two entire cities, or perhaps even an entire province.

Strictly speaking, this actually had little to do with Joo Joowon, because the influence of his Fate on MusclePotato404 had not even begun yet.

The other party's current condition seemed more like a case of suffering the consequences of being unable to withstand his own power, ultimately bringing about his own destruction.