Chapter 1157: 144. Pollution Trigger

“Clang.”

The rust-covered longsword fell to the ground. Alan staggered back several steps, the expression beneath his visor filled with horror.

“How... how can this be?”

He looked at himself in disbelief, looked at his own skin cracking apart, as blazing light surged out from those fissures.

Here, at the bottom of the valley where the Goddess of Night had once existed, the place was shrouded in mist all year round. Even during that brief Daylight Period, no light could be seen.

He had always been here, enduring for several hundred years through this long night, yet he had never imagined that inside his own body... there was actually so much light.

“Heh heh... is it strange?”

On the ground, the flesh and blood that had already been nearly chopped into minced meat by Alan began to squirm again. Flesh connected, skin reshaped, and very quickly, it recovered once more into Grandma Meg’s appearance. She watched Alan with a smile that was not quite a smile, as though admiring a beloved toy.

“Do not forget, you believed in the Goddess of Light for several hundred years. Seeing how sincere you were, how could the great Goddess possibly not grant you a little grace?”

“Grace...?”

Alan carefully sensed the light surging out from his flesh and blood. It was called light, yet it did not make him feel the slightest trace of warmth. On the contrary, a chill that sank deep into his bones once again enveloped his body.

He began to feel that his flesh and blood were no longer obeying him. Amid the stabbing pain, some change he could not imagine was occurring in the invisible depths.

This sensation was very familiar to him, because he had already experienced it once.

This was...

“Pollution.”

On the other side, Muen saw through the essence of that light at a glance. “Another kind of Pollution!”

Light illuminated the darkness, but beneath that light, beneath that shattered skin, something else strange and eerie was gradually emerging.

Something so horrifying naturally could not be anything good.

“Hiss...”

Muen sucked in a cold breath.

Damn it.

Now things were troublesome.

Although he had already made some guesses just now, this sudden turn of events still somewhat exceeded his imagination.

The gift this old thing Grandma Meg had brought him was a little too large.

The original Pollution.

His Pollution.

And now... the Pollution of the Goddess of Light.

In other words... at this moment, within Alan’s body, there were already at least three full kinds of Pollution?

What the fuck was this, raising poisonous insects? Gathering every kind of Pollution together and finally producing a King of Pollution?

And most importantly... the one currently polluted by the Goddess of Light was not only Alan.

Muen looked to the side. No such change had appeared on the unconscious Marcie. She did not believe in the Goddess of Light.

But Landa, on the other side, had not been spared. Cracks appeared across her skin, and light emerged from the depths of her flesh and blood. This was clearly not something Pollution from a short period of time could accomplish. Instead, long ago, it had hidden deep within their flesh and blood along with the faith in the Goddess of Light!

Muen hurriedly closed his eyes. His consciousness swept rapidly across all of Annabawei along with the night—and sure enough, within Annabawei’s originally tranquil night, large swaths of light began to emerge!

Those lights gradually connected, growing brighter and brighter. The faith in the Goddess of Light seemed to be a medium, spreading this Pollution throughout the entire Annabawei over these four hundred years!

“Not good. This is very bad. Really very bad.”

Cold sweat began to seep from Muen’s forehead.

He began to realize that this matter was not only difficult to handle, but had also created an extremely bad current situation.

The third kind... no, for the majority of Annabawei’s people who had not yet accepted his Pollution, the eruption of the second kind of Pollution had already completely broken the long-standing stability and dead silence within their bodies.

It had been mentioned before that, for the sake of convenient spreading, unless they were the kind of evil believers who directly offered sacrifices, most Evil Gods would set their Pollution into a concealed state.

Meaning that normally, there would be no external manifestation. Only when the polluted person recognized the existence of the Pollution themselves, or when the Evil God actively triggered it, would the Pollution erupt.

But just like the situation before, when Muen injected his own Pollution into Marcie’s body and directly triggered another kind of Pollution, this eruption of “light” would inevitably trigger the riot of the original Pollution as well!

...

...

“Hahaha! Look, this is the grace of the great Goddess of Light!”

Blazing light enveloped her. That existence which had once been incomparably scarce was now bursting out freely from every part of her body. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

This wonderful sensation made the woman incomparably delighted. She felt the Goddess of Light’s pity and love. She even heard the whispers of that holy existence pouring out to her.

Ah, Goddess, great Goddess of Light. She actually cared about a tiny ordinary person like her, personally granting light to her. What pity this was. What mercy this was...

“You... all of you should feel it too... This is the true divine one... So selfless, so merciful. That so-called Black Sun actually wants us to pray, wants us to offer sacrifices... Isn’t that a method only Evil Gods would use?”

The woman, tears streaming down her face, proclaimed the greatness of the light to the people around her. She saw one familiar person after another also surging with the same light as hers, and this made her even more delighted.

The Goddess was selfless. She would never demand anything like that so-called Black Sun. Then she herself must also be selfless, selflessly sharing the Goddess’s love!

“Everyone, what are you still waiting for?”

She opened her three arms, welcoming those pitiful people who had not yet been shrouded by the light.

But...

As the woman charged over, the crowd scattered with a crash. Those who had received the blessing of light remained in place, still mad with joy, but those who had not yet been polluted by the light began to run away in terror.

Huh?

This somewhat comical scene made her tilt her head in confusion. Several of her eyes blinked and blinked.

Strange.

Why did all these people look at her with faces full of terror?

Could they not see the pure light on her body?

Had they not discovered how happy she was?

Had they still not felt the mercy and selflessness of the Goddess of Light?

“Do not be afraid, everyone. The Goddess of Light is truly kind!” she shouted again, wanting to call back the fleeing people. Perhaps feeling that the voice produced by one mouth was not enough, she spoke with four mouths at once!

...

...

“Now this is trouble.”

Retracting his consciousness, Muen’s mood grew even heavier.

Terrifying mutations were rapidly occurring all across Annabawei. Before he had teleported the Pioneers away earlier, he had instructed them that it would be best not to let ordinary people become aware of the existence of Pollution. That had been precisely to prevent the Pollution that was originally in a dormant state from erupting early.

But now, the Pollution applied by that so-called “Goddess of Light” had been detonated by Grandma Meg, and like a fuse, it had also detonated the original Pollution within everyone’s bodies!

Double Pollution. Double detonation. Now those fellows carrying light had completely turned into Pollution bombs. Fortunately, this was not the outside world. Otherwise, just any one of them could turn an entire city into an Evil God’s dinner plate! And it would even be the kind where the dishes had already been prepared, ready to be devoured straight away!

Fuck, even the Evil God world had its own pre-made meals! If They knew They were this blessed, They would definitely cry with joy!

“This is what you call salvation?”

Muen took a deep breath, suppressing the anger in his heart. In his eyes, this kind of behavior did not follow martial virtue at all. It was purely bullying him because he did not have Flash... no, bullying him because he had arrived too late.

Everything had already happened, and everything could no longer be stopped. His time reversal could not possibly let him return to eight hundred years ago, four hundred years ago, return to the moment before the Pollution had spread.

“Grandma Meg, this so-called salvation of yours is turning all the people of Annabawei into these deformed monsters?”

“Of course not.”

Grandma Meg also sensed the eruption of one Pollution after another. She was intoxicated. “This is only the first step on the road to salvation.”

“The first step?”

“Power! Do you still not understand? The great Goddess of Light is granting them power! Only power can allow the entire Annabawei to obtain true salvation!”

“What bullshit power? Don’t tell me... you intend to make them challenge Miss Dragon.” Muen smiled without warmth.

“That is exactly it.”

“Hm?” Her sudden admission stunned Muen.

“That is exactly it...” Grandma Meg looked at Muen with a strange expression. “You should know this better than anyone, should you not? There is only one thing obstructing the salvation of the entire Annabawei, is there not? Then naturally, our method can only be that one.”

“You’re serious?”

“Of course I am serious.”

“You are indulging in fantasy!”

“Even if it sounds like fantasy, everything must take its first step, must it not?”

Grandma Meg reached out, as though announcing to the entire world:

“Come! Everyone of Annabawei... bathe together in the grace of the Goddess of Light, and launch your challenge against this evil dragon! As long as you defeat her, you will welcome true salvation!”

In the night, the light grew more and more restless.

“Fuck.”

Madman!

Yet another fucking madman, just as expected!

Muen gritted his teeth, almost directly cursing out loud.

What this guy was thinking at this moment was even more ridiculous than what he had been thinking just now.

Challenge Miss Dragon? Even defeat Miss Dragon?

Are you people worthy?

That was the strongest calamity! A calamity that had destroyed many nations and many city-states, bringing destruction to countless people!

When he had courted death just now, he had only been acting on the idea that he might make Miss Dragon acknowledge him a little. He had never once thought he could defeat this one.

Could this guy’s brain really be...

No.

Very wrong.

Muen shivered again.

Calm down. Analyze carefully.

That was right. Analyze carefully...

Judging from the current intelligence, that “Goddess of Light” was undoubtedly another Evil God.

Moreover, unlike the source of the initial Pollution existing in the people of Annabawei, this was an active Evil God.

Although he temporarily did not know which one it was, based on Muen’s long-standing experience, those fellows who could become believers of active Evil Gods and help Evil Gods cause trouble...

You could say they were sick. You could say they were lunatics. But you absolutely could not say... their brains were stupid.

On the contrary, those kinds of people who could be controlled by Evil Gods, then cause something big... were basically the kind of people whose brains were too smart. So smart that they liked to drill into some dead end, allowing the Evil God to find an opening.

If someone spent every day stupidly eating, sleeping, sleeping, and eating, and the thing they thought about most every day was what tomorrow’s meal would be and how the young lady in the photo album just now had such long, white legs... only an Evil God with too much free time would specially come to bewitch you.

Once a two-dimensional fat otaku lost his keyboard, he was probably the species with the lowest combat strength in this world. Running two steps would make him pant to death.

So...

Grandma Meg was absolutely not doing something stupid.

That “Goddess of Light”’s objective was absolutely not to save Annabawei.

Nor was it truly to rely on the power of Pollution to defeat Miss Dragon.

Instead, through this process, She intended to achieve some other purpose!

“Ten Thousand Absolutes Seal!”

Just as Muen was thinking rapidly, a cold and clear voice rang through all directions.

A radiance rose into the sky, then rapidly spread. In the blink of an eye, it constructed an enormous and precise magical formation.

It covered the sky above the entire Annabawei.

“Seal?”

Muen lifted his head and looked at that enormous formation, visible and hidden by turns. He immediately realized that the entire Annabawei had already been completely sealed inside!

Wait, this was...

“In the end, I still have to act personally.”

Upon the false divine throne, the fiery-red figure slowly rose.

“Priscilla, I accept your provocation.”

“...”

No way, again?

Feeling that sharp killing intent, Muen was stunned on the spot.

...The situation he had barely maintained after taking a brutal beating earlier was once again on the verge of collapse after the huge mess Grandma Meg had suddenly come charging in to create!