chsdbacks Chapter 519: [Crimson Inheritance] (38) - farming farming farming
Chapter 519: [Crimson Inheritance] (38) - farming farming farming
At that moment, Jax’s pupils suddenly began to roll and twitch.Nick instinctively took a step back.
Finally, Jax’s irises settled into place, staring directly at Nick. Then, without warning, his lips curled upward, stretching into a grin that reached all the way to his ears.
As though it were a signal, Jax’s stomach suddenly split open.
Black mucus mixed with fresh blood poured out, followed by a hand that looked like a child’s—chubby and segmented with folds of flesh—pushing its way through the opening.
Nick seemed to hear a faint voice echoing through the air.
"Little piggy~ little piggy~ so delicious~"
The next moment, a pig’s head emerged into view.
The creature finally revealed itself completely.
It was still opening and closing its mouth, continuously making that strange chant.
It had the head of a pig—obviously—and the body of a piglet as well, but its four limbs were human arms.
For a moment, they crawled out one after another, crowding together.
There were three of them in total.
As for Jax, he continued staring at Nick with his eyes wide open, wearing an expression that was at once withered and strangely excited.
Click!
By now, Nick had already retreated to the door.
Unlike Neo, however, these creatures clearly had no intention of letting him escape.
He had personally locked the door earlier, yet now he couldn’t open it no matter how hard he tried.
Gritting his teeth, Nick threw his body against the door instead.
Bang! Bang!
The door rattled violently.
Yet the cracks left by the previous creature had already disappeared. No matter how much force Nick used, the door stood firm like a massive boulder. Even the sound it made no longer resembled that of a wooden door.
It seemed he had run out of ways to escape...
At the same time, one of the piglets charged toward him.
It opened its mouth wide.
In an instant, its jaws stretched all the way to its ears, large enough to swallow two of Nick’s heads at the same time. Compared to the size of its body, the sight was utterly absurd.
Lining its mouth all the way down its throat were rows upon rows of neatly arranged shark-like teeth.
Nick didn’t need to imagine what would happen if that thing bit him.
He would be crushed to pieces.
He sprinted toward the tea table nearby and quickly grabbed a chair.
At the same moment, the first piglet had already reached him.
Bang!
Nick slammed the chair down with all his strength.
The chair became lodged in the piglet’s gaping mouth.
Nick’s eyes widened, a glimmer of hope flashing across them.
But before he could celebrate, the piglet’s teeth suddenly began spinning like the blades of a grinder. In the blink of an eye, the once-intact chair was reduced to splinters and sawdust. The remaining section of the backrest that had been hanging in the air dropped to the floor a moment later.
Nick barely had time to react.
He let out a yelp and immediately turned to run again.
But it was too late.
The piglet leaped into the air, its elongated snout snapping straight toward Nick. From that angle, it would undoubtedly bite him clean in half at the waist!
Yet at that very moment, Nick suddenly stumbled.
Looking back on it later, he could never figure out why he had tripped on perfectly level ground in such a bizarre manner.
But that fall truly saved his life.
The piglet’s bite only managed to catch the back of his pants, tearing the fabric apart. The comic book tucked into his waistband was also knocked free and fell to the side, opening to the exact page Nick had read earlier.
Bang!
Nick hit the floor hard.
Even though he knew the situation was completely inappropriate, he still couldn’t help instinctively covering his crotch with both hands.
[I know this isn’t the time for jokes, but is there really something a VIP viewer like me isn’t allowed to see?!]
[Give me a break. I’m a VVVIP viewer!]
[Well, he’s about to become a corpse anyway, hahaha.]
[That chase scene was pretty entertaining. Consider it your final contribution before dying.]
[For a newbie to survive this long against a bunch of bosses is already impressive. F.]
[This dungeon is seriously unfair!]
[Where’s Silvanus?!]
As if responding to his viewers, Nick squeezed his eyes shut and shouted frantically,
"Silvanus, it looks like I’ll be leaving before you! I’m sorry I can’t keep going with you anymore! I’ll miss you!"
Yet the death he expected never arrived.
Just as the piglet was descending from above—
Just as its enormous mouth was about to swallow Nick whole—
A blazing golden ring of light suddenly appeared, encircling him.
From within it, surging darkness erupted outward, transforming into a powerful shield that slammed into the piglet and sent it flying back!
The piglet slammed heavily into the ground, and the room itself was thrown into disarray by the powerful surge of energy.
Nick stared with wide eyes, completely stunned.
The livestream audience was no less shocked.
[That’s so powerful!!!]
[So this is Erebus’s blessing?!]
[Why didn’t this thing show up sooner? My boy cried so hard his nose was running!]
If Silvanus could see those comments, he would probably do nothing more than curl his lips into a profound smile to conceal his guilty conscience.
Who would have guessed that Erebus’s blessing was actually the fall that tore Nick’s pants earlier?
Although, in a sense, it had indeed saved Nick, it certainly couldn’t produce a cool and overwhelming effect like the one happening now.
What Silvanus had just done was simply strike while the iron was hot. He took advantage of the sudden influx of faith points he had received after disappearing from the livestream and used them to protect Nick once, creating the illusion that this was Erebus’s blessing.
At the moment, Nick’s livestream was the only one still active, which naturally meant it had the largest audience.
Besides Nick’s original viewers, there were also countless spectators who had migrated from the livestreams of those who had already died.
As a result, Silvanus’s gamble had been entirely correct.
The instant the energy was unleashed, another powerful stream of faith points flowed toward him, transforming into divine power that nourished him. It was proof that Erebus’s reputation had expanded once again.
Thank you, Nick. In any case, I won’t let you die.
At the same time, the comic book that had fallen onto the floor began to change, transforming into an entirely different story.
Silvanus gently patted Matt on the head.
"I have to go again, Matt. Wait for me to come back."
Matt, who had been excitedly watching Nick get chased around moments ago, immediately became dejected.
He pushed Silvanus’s hand away and then landed directly on the surface of the mirror, his beak furiously pecking at Nick’s reflection.