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Chapter 83 - 81: The End?

Chapter 83: Chapter 81: The End?

"How can this be..." Sheraya’s brow furrowed tightly.

Rule Eleven, a vote death and being killed by wolves both count as forced deaths. Indeed, a vote death is a forced death, but being killed by a wolf is not! I didn’t expect that part of this rule was false!

Upon further thought, it makes sense. Forced deaths are all caused by that light particle gel, whereas wolf killings require one to do it themselves; indeed, that wouldn’t be considered a forced death.

Seeing that he had the absolute advantage, Dick, with an air of ease and superiority, shouted again:

"I sacrifice 10 million lives of the Lighthouse Country! The Lighthouse Country has several hundred million people! You are far from my match, I advise you to just give up and die!"

The moment Dick’s voice fell, clouds of flesh surged again, and an even greater despair and madness descended!

"...!" Sheraya felt helpless; since there was nothing he could do about Dick, he had to choose to first stabilize the situation before figuring out a strategy.

If Dick wanted to throw them off the mountain, then he would first expand the range of the mountain!

With a thought from Sheraya, the solid earth beneath their feet suddenly surged like water!

The land spread like waves in all directions, assimilating with the surrounding mountain ranges, and in the blink of an eye, the ground beneath their feet had become a plain that stretched far into the distance.

"Wow, that’s a really good idea," Dick also couldn’t help but admire when he saw this, "Expanding Rule Eight’s determination range to the entire map? But the expansion of an instance map is limited, wouldn’t I just throw you off the map and be done with it, do you think this is useful?"

"..." Sheraya knew he was just stalling for time. The key thing was, after buying time, how would he break the deadlock?

Sheraya felt it was a difficult problem and couldn’t help but break out in a cold sweat.

"What’s wrong?" Xiao Yi asked, seeing Sheraya like this.

"The situation isn’t very good," Sheraya explained: "My Talent is limited by the expansion of the instance map; this instance only provides mountains for my use, while Dick has the lives of several hundred million people at his disposal! Continuing this consumption will only lead to our defeat!"

Just as Sheraya was greatly troubled, Xiao Yi suddenly said to him, "If that’s the case, leave it to me."

"... Really? That’s great!" Sheraya knew Xiao Yi must have some extraordinary power, and now he was finally going to witness it. He immediately asked, "How do I need to assist you?"

"There’s no need for any assistance," Xiao Yi said as he took something out, "I myself don’t have any special power, but with this, I can defeat any Superpower User."

What Xiao Yi took out was the Origin, which had not been utilized before and thus had a very low presence.

[Returning Original Device—Origin]

[The congealed essence of primal knowledge, capable of reverting all mystical constraints brought by rules back to their original state in the real world.]

[Weapon Effect: Once the power of the Origin is released, the mysterious whispers will permeate the target’s neural network, influencing the transmission of information between neurons in an ineffable way, twisting and disrupting the source of their abilities, thus imprisoning the wielders of Superpowers and their previously unbridled abilities.]

In layman’s terms, the Origin can lock down all abilities acquired from the Analog Horror system.

For instance, the immortality of the instant body that Xiao Yi encountered in the previous instance was essentially a power that constantly rewound the body’s time.

When attacked with the Origin, its immortality would be blocked, and the individual would have to adhere to the iron rule that a person would die if killed. Damage inflicted by the Origin could also pose a real threat to their life.

However, what the Origin does is imprison, not eliminate, so if someone had previously enhanced themselves with an ability, they would still be formidable even if they could no longer use that ability.

Regarding the description of the Origin’s abilities, Xiao Yi was initially quite puzzled, so he went to ask Xu Yingguang.

Xu Yingguang told him that the Origin can lock down others’ superpowers, turning them into ordinary people.

Moreover, Xu quietly told Xiao Yi that the Origin seemed to have an unfailing effect; as long as one’s thought of hitting the enemy was strong enough, it would surely hit.

Although it sounded rather mystical, Xiao Yi believed it. He thought that the upper echelons of the Dragon Country were indeed developing such high-tech superpowers, only that they were good at keeping secrets and no one had discovered them and turned it into a movie.

Of course, the unfailing effect was made up by Xu. Xu had done so because he had noticed Xiao Yi’s Talent and wanted to test it.

If the test was successful, Xu did not plan to tell anyone about Xiao Yi’s Talent. It was better the fewer people knew such important information. Even if people from other countries noticed it, they could attribute it to the Origin’s power to disrupt their judgment.

Moreover, the Origin perfectly made up for a flaw in Xiao Yi’s Talent.

If Xiao Yi felt that the enemy was too strong to defeat, that Talent would instead become his constraint.

And there were only two standards for Xiao Yi’s judgment: one was the apparent strength or weakness, and the other was whether he believed the abilities the other person spoke of were real.

Someone like Dick, who looked to be very visually impactful and also had the identity of a Professor, making it reasonable for him to have transformed himself with superpowers, perfectly countered Xiao Yi.

But since the Origin itself had the effect of locking abilities, coupled with Xiao Yi’s belief that being harmed by the Origin would turn one into an ordinary person, this flaw of his Talent was overcome!

"Then let’s begin," Xiao Yi held the Origin in his hand, and it actually transformed into a long spear!

This was an inherent effect of the Origin; Xiao Yi felt that with a spear, it would be easier to hit Dick.

"Are you going to throw a spear?" Sheraya asked: "But we still don’t know where Dick is, and right now, he’s hundreds of meters above in the sky."

"No problem, the Origin definitely has a guaranteed effect."

Xiao Yi believed this, and then he threw the Origin with all his strength!

The moment the Origin left his hand, it erupted with a power surge far exceeding Xiao Yi’s own strength! It suddenly changed direction in mid-air and thrust straight towards Dick, who was hiding in the flesh cloud!

"...!" Dick instinctively felt the danger and hurriedly summoned countless chunks of flesh to transform into a solid shield in an attempt to block it!

But just then, for some reason, a powerful cyclone exploded around the Origin! The blade-like fierce wind shredded the chunks of flesh to pieces, paving a path for the Origin!

There was absolutely no escape! Dick was impaled by the Origin!

"Guah! Damn it! You’ve really pissed me off!" Dick roared, "I’ll sacrifice ten million lives from Lighthouse Country! Go to hell!"

However, nothing happened, and Dick was stunned.

"How can this be? Why is my Talent not working? Impossible! Die! Die, you damn useless people!"

Blood kept dripping from the Origin, and Dick once again felt that powerless, desperate fear of death.

No matter how much he screamed and yelled, his death was inevitable.

"Xiao Yi, I won’t let you bear the sin of killing alone."

Sheraya took a deep breath, having resolved himself to kill, and prayed to the God in his heart.

Then, several stone blades flew out from the ground, stabbing towards Dick.

Seeing death for certain approaching, Dick also let out his final roar,

"Sheraya Caligula! Xiao Yi!!!"

Immediately after, Dick’s roar came to an abrupt end, and the world suddenly fell silent, as if everything was over.

A wolf can kill in the daylight, and Dick died by the hidden rule he had discovered.

"...Finally, it’s over," Sheraya sighed deeply, "It’s just the two of us now; the Feast has concluded."

"Concluded?" But after retrieving the automatically returning Origin, Xiao Yi frowned, "We haven’t found the true culprit; how can it be considered over?"

"Xiao Yi, we’ve met the conditions for clearing the instance; we can leave any moment now."

However, just after Sheraya finished explaining, he sensed something was off.

"...Eh? It’s not over?"

Ordinarily, once the conditions for clearing were met, the Chosen One would immediately leave the instance and proceed with settlement.

But they were still very much in this world right now.

"What on earth... is happening?"

Sheraya immediately took out the rule document and looked at the conditions for clearing.

"After the Feast ends, the wolf survives. There’s no problem there, so what exactly is going on... the wolf survives?"

Then, Sheraya noticed something odd.

"Why does it say survives? Shouldn’t only one side survive after the Feast ends, and there be no more danger? Why does it need to state survives? Could it be... after the Feast ends, something may still threaten our lives?!"

Sheraya didn’t understand; he reread the eleven rules one more time.

He had already glimpsed beyond the surface of the rules, but still, he didn’t grasp what the deeper meaning of the rules could be?

Suddenly, Sheraya remembered something that Xiao Yi had said before.

When you can’t draw a conclusion, don’t get too caught up; return to the beginning.

Back to the beginning? Was this telling him to read the rule document from the start again?

Sheraya tried reading the rule document from the start once more, and then, he was stunned because he saw the truth that was obvious all along yet he had continuously failed to notice!

"When the Fake God is contemplated, the Feast approaches... Fake God? Not the Wolf God?!"

Sheraya felt like he was hit on the head with a cudgel, his ability to think paused momentarily... the real culprit of the entire Feast had been hinted at right from the start!

"Why... why have I failed to notice it all along?"

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