ATPnovel Chapter 38 A public display of divine power, it hurts so much!
Chapter 38 A public display of divine power, it hurts so much!
A student opened the door, breaking the noise of the camp.
In the very center of the camp, the heavy blast-proof iron door leading to the underground command post was slowly pushed open from the inside.
The noise stopped abruptly.
Whether it was the indigenous laborers who were slumped on the ground or the players who were jumping up and down cursing the forced plot kill, they all shut their mouths at this moment, and their eyes converged on the same direction.
Lynn, wearing a black trench coat, emerged calmly from the shadows.
He didn't offer any words of comfort or ask what had happened. The feeling of having everything under control was like a stabilizing force, firmly suppressing the situation that was about to spiral out of control.
The little snail and the agent exchanged a glance and swallowed simultaneously.
"Holy crap, I have to say, the GM's cutscenes are pretty cool, they're really high-class."
Ignoring the players' grumbling, Lynn strode to the edge of the boiling reservoir and looked down at the mutated mother bacterium at the bottom of the water, which was frantically spewing out blackish-green venom.
He knew that smell all too well.
Back at the southern outpost of Rainbow Village, he had once absorbed that deadly green toxic fog with his bare hands under extremely dangerous circumstances.
However, at that time, he had just transmigrated and his stats were too weak. He almost died on the spot after absorbing only a little bit.
Now, with the arrival of players from the first test and the expansion of his faction, his level and physical resistance are no longer what they used to be.
Faced with this mutated mother fungus core, Lynn's intuition told him that his body was perfectly capable of devouring it.
But seeing the green poison churning like boiling water, Lynn's eye twitched involuntarily.
The painful memories of Rainbow Village are still fresh in my mind. If this were to happen directly, it would definitely hurt like hell!
But the arrow was already on the bowstring, and it had to be released.
Hundreds of eyes were fixed on him. As the absolute leader of the new forces in Pearl Harbor, now was the perfect opportunity to establish his dominance.
Even if it hurts to death today, I'm going to keep up this jerk's act to the very end!
Amidst a collective gasp, Lynn didn't utter a single word.
He slowly rolled up his right sleeve and plunged his entire hand directly into the green mass.
"My lord! No!" Old John cried out in despair.
However, the next second, everyone's voices were stuck in their throats.
The mutated mother bacterium core seemed to sense an extreme threat, or perhaps it had spotted an even more delicious treat; it frantically climbed up Lynn's arm. The viscous, dark green toxin, like a living thing, instantly pierced his skin and surged violently upwards along his veins.
It hurts so much!
It felt like a bomb had exploded in Lynn's mind.
The moment the toxin enters the body, it feels as if the internal organs have been thrown into a high-speed meat grinder, or as if countless red-hot knives are frantically scraping inside the blood vessels.
Holy crap! This mutated thing is incredibly strong! Even more so than that time in Rainbow Village! It hurts like hell!!
Lynn cursed inwardly, his back teeth clenched so hard they felt like they were about to break.
But his face remained stubbornly expressionless and indifferent.
He forcefully controlled every muscle in his face, preventing his brow from furrowing or his mouth from twitching even slightly.
In everyone's eyes, he was like a god who felt no pain at all, remaining unmoved and unaffected by the poison of the abyss!
With his immense endurance, Lynn forcibly circulated the power within his body, gradually crushing and devouring the green mutated energy.
My intuition was right; I was indeed able to swallow this lump of stuff.
A faint, crisp sound came from the bottom of the water.
The mutated core, about the size of a walnut, exhausted its last bit of energy and turned into a crystal that did not react at all.
The once boiling and murky pool of water, as if time had reversed, instantly lost all its nauseating green color, and the water became crystal clear again.
Lynn slowly pulled his right hand out of the water.
The lingering pain caused his fingertips to tremble slightly uncontrollably.
To avoid ruining his composure, he immediately and naturally lowered his hand, carefully slipping his still-unwiped right hand into his coat pocket, perfectly concealing this last flaw.
Old John, who was watching from the side, suddenly knelt down and kowtowed heavily to the ground, drawing blood from his forehead. He trembled all over and was so excited that he was incoherent.
To swallow mutated, highly toxic substances with bare hands without suffering any harm is completely beyond the realm of humanity. In this cannibalistic world, only a god capable of devouring deadly poison can grant them true protection.
Not only him, but all the indigenous laborers around him now looked at Lynn with a completely different expression of awe and blind obedience.
"Don't kneel, get up."
Lynn raised his left index finger, as if to say something, but the intense pain had completely clouded his judgment.
After a few seconds of thought, he lowered his hand and walked back to the underground command post.
The laborers who were kneeling on the ground got up one by one, but they all remained silent.
After a brief silence, the players immediately erupted in excitement.
"Holy crap!! The GM is amazing!!"
"Awesome! That damn awesome! That poker face, those nonchalant movements—that's the kind of swagger a faction leader should have!"
"Boss! Do you take on apprentices?! How do I raise my favorability with him to learn this Star Absorbing Technique?!"
Meanwhile, outside the camp.
In the thick acid fog, the night owl, which had already turned around and was preparing to disappear into the night, abruptly stopped in its tracks.
The sudden silence that erupted in the camp, followed by frenzied cheers, made him glance back a second before disappearing into the darkness.
With just one glance, he was struck dumb, frozen in place.
As an assassin who lives on the edge of a knife, Night Owl's eyesight is incredibly sharp.
He could clearly see that Lynn had neither crushed any antidote scrolls nor triggered any alchemical shields.
That was pure power, a brutal and savage consumption of flesh!
Night Owl's breathing became completely disordered. In his memory, these outsiders did things in a completely chaotic way, but he never expected that their leader would be so powerful.
He absorbed the toxins from the mother bacteria with his bare hands and didn't even flinch?
What kind of terrifying monster did that idiot Bolton mess with?!
The extreme psychological shock caused the master of stealth to experience a momentary and violent fluctuation in his emotions, revealing an extremely slight flaw in his previously flawless concealment.
At the very moment that flaw was exposed.
George, who was lying on the edge of the reservoir, suddenly turned his ear back.
As a hunting dog with a sense of smell and perception far exceeding that of humans, it keenly detected a strange, dangerous scent in the wind that did not belong to the camp.
George abruptly stood up, lowered his front end, and let out a hostile warning and growl towards the area of abandoned shipping containers on the outskirts of the camp.
"Woof...Woof!"
The agent, who was yelling and screaming along with the other players, suddenly stopped.
In real life, he's a person who's very detail-oriented. Seeing George's unusual reaction, the agent immediately dropped his expression of admiration.
He drew the dusty iron dagger from his waist, his eyes fixed on the abandoned shipping container in the distance like a hawk's, vaguely catching a glimpse of an unnatural silhouette in the shadows.
"George, shh..."
The agent lowered his voice, gripped the dagger tightly in his hand, and his muscles tensed instantly.
"There's someone over there, I'll go check it out..."