Chapter 104: Chapter 98: The Glutton
Chapter 104: Chapter 98: The Glutton
Suddenly, such an incident involving Zhu Xiong startled the team members, causing them to fumble momentarily.
However, as Su Han took action, they quickly adjusted and attacked the sporadically approaching monsters with increased vigor, preventing any from getting close to the vine cage.
In the vine cage, when the red light emerged and hovered over the corpse of the Angel Envoy, the entire atmosphere suddenly changed.
The Angel Envoy, wielding a hammer axe, heavily chopped down on the Meat Mountain Demon's knee. A crack sounded, the bone broke instantly, and the obese body no longer had a strong support point, collapsing in an instant.
The Angel Envoy threw away the hammer axe and leapt ferociously onto the body of the Meat Mountain Demon. With a burst of skill-powered strength, he began to frenziedly rip and devour.
The red light gradually enveloped the Meat Mountain Demon, connecting with the red light on the Angel Envoy's body, emanating a sinister feel.
The Meat Mountain Demon wanted to resist, but being severely wounded, it had no room to fight back and could only watch as the Angel Envoy slowly devoured its flesh, organs, and bones.
A surge of madness entered Zhu Xiong's consciousness, and in a daze, he found himself standing in a crimson space facing a crazed Meat Mountain Demon.
This was the will of the Meat Mountain Demon and part of the Divine Initiation Ritual, a process necessary for fusing with a monster.
His eyes suddenly became sharp, and he collided with the Meat Mountain Demon in this consciousness, battling and slashing, being knocked down repeatedly, yet standing up time and again.
As long as his will was firm, he would not easily fall in the face of the Meat Mountain Demon's wild mental assault.
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In reality, the red light became more dazzling, completely enveloping the remnants of the Meat Mountain Demon and the Angel Envoy.
Through this eerie yet sacred red light, one could faintly see the Angel Envoy continuously devouring the Meat Mountain Demon.
Gradually, the red light grew more brilliant, and the figures of the two monsters completely merged within the red light into a mass of flesh, continuously squirming and shifting, with the light itself flickering between brightness and dimness.
Outside the vine cage, the battle had already ended, and the Scorpion Spider Demon, with its enormous body, stood by the cage next to Su Han, protecting Zhu Xiong and his envoy.
Not just Su Han, but the other team members also instinctively protected the cage, intently watching the entire process.
This was the camp's first person, other than the monstrous Su Han, to undergo the Divine Initiation Ritual.
They all understood the importance of the ritual's success, which signified not only an enhancement to the camp's overall strength but also a pioneer of advancement through fusion.
"Roar."
A dull roar emanated from the tumor-like red flesh mass, and the entire flesh began to move rapidly, the skin membrane being stretched taut from the inside out.
Rip.
It sounded like a tear, and the skin membrane suddenly burst open, revealing a tall figure that stood up, covered in sanguine mucus, with a skin texture gray and tough like armor.
This monster was four meters tall, robust in build, with muscles as firm as marble. It had a particularly ferocious head, with interlocking sharp fangs resembling nails, appearing beast-like atop its burly body, which had two extremely thick arms. One of the arms extended past the knees, with elbow bone spurs sharp as knives and claws as sharp as blades.
The other arm could no longer be called an arm; it hung down to the ground, boneless and looking like a large gray python, with the transformed arm ending not in a hand but a fierce mouth with three to four rows of terror-inducing teeth inside and out.
"The Devourer."
After the conclusion of the Divine Initiation Ritual and the disappearance of the red light, Zhu Xiong broke free from the wild will of the Meat Mountain Demon. The Book of Blood Spirit continually fed power back to him, enhancing his physique. Without noticing, his slightly protruding beer belly had also slimmed down somewhat.
He mumbled to himself, yet his eyes lit up, for he had seen the strength of his current envoy, a Second Order Low Grade Devourer.
Su Han, seeing that Zhu Xiong was dealing with the situation, controlled the Ancient Worm Tree to unlock the vine-formed cage, releasing him and the Devourer.
"How's everything?"
His inquiry clearly mattered to everyone, as they all set their eyes on Zhu Xiong, unable to hide their envious expressions.
They were aware of the Divine Initiation Ritual's advancement matters, as Su Han hadn't deliberately concealed this information in the camp.
Even if Su Han didn't mention it, reaching the current strength limit of the envoy species or breaking through to Second Order Low Grade would also allow one to receive the Divine Initiation and understand these situations.
However, to initiate the Divine Initiation Ritual like Zhu Xiong, one would need to be at least at the limit of First Order Upper Grade.
Yet, the enhancement of the envoy's strength is closely related to the contractor's talent, the species of the envoy, and their actions. Moreover, the resources used on the envoy are also crucial.
At present, among the regular people in the Shanhu Villa Camp, the contractors with the best talent were actually Yan Meiyu, Zhu Xiong, and Bai Qilan, whose envoys were clearly the fastest progressing among everyone.
Certainly, setting aside the fusion abilities, the rate of Su Han's envoy's enhancement was actually similar to that of Yan Meiyu and the others.
The talent was good; even if the species was only a corpse, Zhu Xiong managed because he almost daily led teams to scavenge for supplies, engaged frequently in battles, and due to merits, had access to better injections.
It was indeed due to many overlapping factors that Zhu Xiong managed to reach the limit at this time, even ahead of Yan Meiyu and Bai Qilan.
Envy aside, since talent couldn't be changed, one might as well earn more merits to exchange for injections, right?
Unknowingly, after witnessing the Divine Initiation Ritual, the members' gazes grew fervently determined, for everyone likes to become stronger.
Zhu Xiong heard Su Han's question, grinned, and said, "Second Order Low Grade now, strength has increased a lot, and most importantly, its Devourer's strength has increased a lot too, with an additional skill."
He stopped there and didn't continue, which made everyone show a look of regret.
"Teams of three, advance slowly and clear all the creatures in the hospital."
Zhu Xiong, facing his team, showed a smile, looking rather 'naive', as if saying he wouldn't tell you more.
"Understood."
The team members really wanted to punch the sturdy fat man, but considering Zhu Xiong's size and his Devourer, they quietly made a vow for three years in their hearts.
The group collected their spirits, grabbed hand-held crossbows, and began cautiously heading inside the hospital.
Although most of the creatures had been killed, this didn't mean that the hospital was safe.
"The giant mouth on the right arm gained a new skill: Hardening, which can significantly enhance the strength of skin, bones, and teeth, usable in biting or hammering when the jaws clench together."
As soon as people walked away, Zhu Xiong told Su Han about the skill information, lowering his voice and saying, "Actually, the strongest part of the Devourer is the right arm, it's the hardest and can extend. This guy's regenerative power is much stronger than that of a flesh corpse."
A look of surprise flashed in Su Han's eyes, "Your Devourer has two skills now, right? Not bad, let's try it out later."
Zhu Xiong laughed and said, "That's exactly what I was thinking."
After saying this, Zhu Xiong quickly caught up with his own team, none of whom were First Order Upper Grade, just in case something happened, that would definitely spell trouble.
Zhu Xiong strode ahead while Su Han looked at the monster corpses scattered around, with about three to four hundred bodies, among which flesh corpses only made up one-third, the rest were Meat Crawlers and other transformed flesh corpses.
"Should I fuse flesh corpse flesh or try Meat Crawler flesh?"
Su Han appeared thoughtful; originally, when he first gained the Fusion Ability using flesh corpse flesh, he hadn't thought it through completely, otherwise, he would have fused the entire flesh corpse.
Thinking this, he concentrated on the Meat Crawler corpse entangled by vines, silently chanting 'flesh' when suddenly the prompt sound changed.
[Crawler flesh detected as fusible material, start Fusion?]
Just like with the flesh corpse earlier, where his spirit focused more, it would prioritize that part as the primary material for fusion.
While Su Han was contemplating, the prompt unexpectedly changed again.
[Existing similar flesh material detected, merging materials: Essence of Flesh, initiate Fusion?]
The sudden change was unexpected for Su Han, but without hesitation, he mentally commanded, "Fusion."
As the command was given, the Meat Crawler's flesh began to fuse rapidly, not only the Meat Crawler's but also the flesh of nearby flesh corpses and Giant Macrophage Dogs was enveloped by fine filaments from the spreading vines, quickly integrating into the body of the Ancient Worm Tree.
He summoned his attribute panel and saw there was a new change.
Angel Envoy: Ancient Worm Tree
Level: Second-order Superior
Skills: [Fast-growing Vines][Metallic Quality][Radiance of the Lamp Tree][Anthropomorphic State][Lv2 Man-eating Vine][Self-healing·Primary][Tree-born Worm]
Fusion: LV1 Common Metal, LV1 Lamp Tree Crystals, LV1 Essence of Flesh, Tentacle-faced Monster, Clawed Giant
Fusing: LV1 Essence of Flesh 2%
Ever since the last great battle at the research center, the Ancient Worm Tree had fused various flesh and Rift Mother creatures, and its strength had already been elevated to Second-order Superior.
What was different from the last panel was that the LV2 flesh corpse flesh was gone, replaced with LV1 Essence of Flesh.
The skills hadn't changed, but it seemed like the fusion materials had been upgraded.
'Did the material upgrade or did the process that previously converted them into flesh corpse flesh now turn all flesh into Essence of Flesh?'
Su Han merely pondered this thought and didn't delve deeper into the differences; instead, his gaze landed on the Scorpion Spider Demon, figuring if the Ancient Worm Tree could do it, there was no reason the Scorpion Spider Demon couldn't.
Thus, controlling the Scorpion Spider Demon, he picked up the nearby monster corpse, and sure enough, as his spirit concentrated, the same prompt appeared.
Following the same procedure, he directly initiated the fusion, turning the LV2 flesh corpse flesh into LV1 Essence of Flesh and continuously integrating the surrounding monster corpses.
"Boss, there's a situation."
While the two Angel Envoys were fusing, sudden hasty footsteps came, unmistakably from Zhao Yimin in the team.
He came before Su Han and quickly said, "Survivors found, they're all in the cafeteria building, Brother Zhu is currently clearing the creatures, it will be done soon."
"Let's go, let's go and see."