Chapter 1209
Teacher, reborn me once
When the Amber Egg was fully activated, Eivass could barely look at it directly. Just by looking at it, countless fragmented illusions would involuntarily appear in Eivass’s mind. Laughter, tears, singing… It was just like dreaming—after an incredibly real moment, they would be completely forgotten. Eivass couldn’t even be sure if this was his own hallucination. Was this the whisper of the Void? Or residual memories from past lives? Or perhaps… the past that the Amber had “frozen” and “engraved”?
And as Eivass was stunned by the chaotic thoughts in his mind, Adler had already stuffed the wriggling Amber Egg into his empty chest cavity.
—Thump-thump!
The moment it was stuffed into his chest cavity, everyone heard an alien, rapid heartbeat simultaneously. It was a huge heartbeat mixed with the sound of metal friction and a wet, sticky sloshing. It didn’t sound human… it sounded more like a colossal monster about to awaken.
“This monster is even having premature beats,” Eivass subconsciously quipped. Before he could finish speaking, the Amber Heart suddenly thrust out countless golden threads, like parasitic worms, instantly piercing through Adler’s entire body. After leaving his body, these golden threads immediately turned back and tightly wrapped around Adler… like extremely fine chains. It was as if it were desperately restraining something, sealing something—
Then, Adler suddenly let out a painful roar: “Ughhhhhhh—” He suddenly knelt on the ground, clutching his chest tightly with both hands. Adler had appeared nonchalant even with his heart pierced, but at this moment, countless wriggling veins bulged on his forehead. No… those weren’t veins, they were indeed worms crawling under his skin! His muscles began to mutate, and his entire body visibly grew larger and more ferocious. Two meters, two point five meters… in the blink of an eye, his body had swollen to over three meters before slowing down slightly. His skin turned from white to a distinctly alien deep blue, and his originally transparent saliva, along with his bright red blood, both turned deep purple. His muscles bulged, becoming a transparent, bubble-like texture, with worms rotating and swimming like fish inside.
But at this moment, countless low whispers rustled in the void—”Adler is the Savior.” “Adler is the Savior.” “Adler is the Savior…” There were voices of men, women, old, and young; it was at least hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of echoes! — This was the holy word that Adler had repeatedly asked people to recite. He did this to maintain his humanity at this moment, to counteract the negative effects of the Void Power on his personality! Under the intensification of these voices, Adler’s mutation was immediately brought under control. Adler, who had almost turned into a deep blue mass of flesh, had his swollen, transparent muscles instantly shrivel up. His entire body rapidly transformed from its monstrous form back to a human appearance—even the color of his skin changed from bluish-purple to a deathly pallor, making him look like a white giant.
Adler stood up and slowly looked up at the sky. The depths of his pupils were grayish-white, growing paler towards the center, while his pupils were a dim yellow, like solidified egg yolks. The middle of his forehead suddenly cracked open, revealing a hole that resembled an eye, a bottomless abyss. In the next moment, a dim yellow radiance suddenly shot out from Adler’s “third eye”!
Only a faint, distant “ding~” was heard. The dim yellow light, which seemed to freeze everything, suddenly spread, dyeing everything around it the color of an old photograph. The fireball in the sky abruptly froze in mid-air, trailing a long tail, and the fleeing people were also paused. Eivass could even clearly see the contorted expressions of fear on their faces. The entire world instantly became incredibly silent. Even Adler, who had unleashed this ability, was frozen by the power!
In the time-stopped world, the only one able to move freely was Eivass himself! It was at this moment… that the sealed memories were finally unsealed. Eivass finally remembered that he hadn’t never seen this move before, nor had he never been here. In the previous Ascension Ritual, he had witnessed this dim yellow light that froze everything in the world during the King of the Wild Hunt transformation ritual… At that time, he had witnessed everything, staying in that frozen space for a long time… until his mood became incredibly calm and undisturbed. And if he remembered correctly… Eivass looked up at the flame vortex, which had also been frozen in time and turned dim yellow. The flame was frozen in the air like a vibrant sculpture. And behind that flame vortex was the sun in the morning. Instantly, the flame vortex was inexplicably torn apart and disintegrated. Then came the other fireballs, the protective barrier above the city, the flames already ignited in the streets… and the giant tentacle monster behind Adler. It wasn’t due to some great force… it was more like it had instantly traversed countless time, arriving at its ‘death’ at the end, thus perishing of old age. As it dissipated, Eivass finally saw something… The original sun had completely changed its form within this frozen time. It was a giant eye, like a golden turntable. It looked like an eye, and also like a door, like an egg… or some kind of jewel. This was the Pillar God, Amber. Looking at it, Eivass felt a surge of emotion again. He opened his mouth, wanting to call out the other’s name. But he couldn’t remember what her name was. —He couldn’t remember anything. He couldn’t remember her voice, her appearance, her name… all memories were erased cleanly, as if this person had never existed in this world. Or rather, she had never existed in this world. Because at this moment, she was still an egg that had been polluted before hatching. Undoubtedly, the characteristics that seemed related to the ocean had nothing to do with Amber, who was a Winged One with the earth element. Instead, they had some inexplicable connection with the Abyss Heavenly Envoy. The Amber Egg shouldn’t have looked like a mass of tentacles—Adler’s mutation seemed to prove that those “tentacles” were seemingly the larvae of some kind of worm. And Eivass had seen similar transparent tentacles before… which were the power Adler had obtained when he sacrificed to the Abyss Heavenly Envoy using a spell. —This might be why seawater could calm it. The reason the Amber Egg hadn’t hatched was because its power was constantly being devoured by some kind of seabed worms related to the Abyss Heavenly Envoy. If seawater provided them with power, they would consume the Amber Egg’s life; once the seawater supply was cut off and the worms died, the Amber Egg’s life force would immediately swell.
“Teacher…” a young, sleepy voice whispered. This was the first time Eivass had heard Amber’s voice. He had indeed never heard a similar voice. It wasn’t even speaking, but more like a song. It sounded quite pleasant, with a lazy, slightly hoarse, breathy tone… like a child who was very sleepy or had just woken up.
In the next moment, the “Eye of Amber” in the sky suddenly cracked open a sliver. It was then that Eivass realized… that the “Eye of Amber” was not open, but had always been closed! Behind that golden turntable was the real Eye of Amber! The moment the crescent-like slit slightly opened, the entire world began to shake violently—Amber’s power continued to increase, and Adler’s body, like the disappearing flames before, couldn’t withstand this power and suddenly shattered and dissipated. It didn’t turn into a corpse, nor did it scatter into pieces of flesh—the power overflowing from the “third eye” directly shattered his body, and the transparent worms hidden under his skin also fell to the ground with a squish and were then crushed. Only a pure, flawless white orb of light remained, suspended in the air, having shed its impure outer shell. It looked smaller than a ping-pong ball, emitting a gentle, dandelion-like glow. That was the true form of the Amber Egg! It circled Eivass once, then instantly shot into Eivass’s right eye! A line of code suddenly appeared before Eivass’s eyes: 【Mother of Amber (Gold): Amber hatched from her egg, born by breaking through her abdomen.】 Immediately after, a large amount of garbled text began to appear, breaking and reorganizing. In the sky, Amber half-opened her eyes… clearly about to wake up. Just like when one is about to wake up and can faintly hear outside sounds and have simple conversations with others. Amber used a slightly clearer voice to “say” more coherent words: “Teacher… please reborn ‘me’ once more.”
I’ll update one chapter first, meow… I accidentally fell asleep at seven o’clock, and my mother woke me up at nine. I struggled until half-past nine before I could start typing. I dare not write anymore; my biological clock has finally returned to normal, so I’m going to sleep quickly… I slept for seven hours yesterday, which was the longest day in the past two weeks! I finally feel like I’m starting to come back to life…
