316: Chapter 298: The Fate of the Star Seeker (5/4, 15k update, the ruins are essentially over) 316: Chapter 298: The Fate of the Star Seeker (5/4, 15k update, the ruins are essentially over) Although he claid to be different from the Nest Will’s intentions, Ian had indeed been significantly eroded by the other’s Spirit Energy.
The only thing that took the Nest by surprise was one detail—it had rged the mories of The Great Elder and all those it had devoured in the past, and together they didn’t go mad like Ian did on his own.
The monster held a sword and appeared rational, objective, and calmly detached, yet it felt a sense of dread towards Ian.
Because Ian’s madness was near to achieving sothing ‘impossible’.
Through the recent psychic contact, it understood that Ian hadn’t lied and also grasped Ian’s speculations about the Star Prison Tianyu…
to the point of feeling despair.
But Ian had already erged from despair, still firmly clinging to his dream.
It wasn’t that Ian couldn’t resonate with the Nest Will due to being different; it was that the Nest Will found it couldn’t keep up with Ian and thus couldn’t resonate with him.
At this mont, all the mist, bioluminescence, Spirit Energy, and guards that had been lingering in front of the white tendril-encased cocoon were dispelled, and the physical manifestation of the Nest Will finally appeared before the young man in its entirety.
It was a huge cocoon, over five ters tall, with a surface covered in a layer of wet, greasy mucus.
Inside, it was filled with a thick slurry, within which a brain-shaped shadow floated.
This shadow was constantly releasing Spirit Energy Fluctuations, attempting to reconnect with Ian’s thoughts and spirit once again.
But just as the body’s immune system produces antibodies against foreign viruses, the mind grows desensitized to alien ntal presences.
Much like how jokes beco less funny the more you hear them, or how an excess of pleasure on the body in a short period can lead to pain, the current Spirit Energy of the Nest Will could not affect Ian much.
The Nest Will had not fully materialized; it was currently just a collective will residing within the Spirit Energy Network of the Brain-Eating Parasite.
Its physical manifestation in the material world was the brain within the cocoon before him, which might seem like it had created its own vulnerability, but that was not the case.
In Terra World, Spirit Energy can’t exist independently of a body; supernatural powers need a dium to materialize in the physical world.
Just like Fae, pure Spirit Energy beings, need a core to carry their power, the Nest Will was no exception.
The brain afforded it the confidence to wield powerful Spirit Energy, but that alone was not enough.
It wanted to create a sufficiently powerful Body for itself.
At first, it was the Aether Crystal Dragon, and now it was Ian; that’s why it stole Crystal Dragon Eggs and intended to assimilate Ian.
Of course, it might also be assimilated by Ian, allowing Ian to beco the Nest Will.
No, it would surely be assimilated by Ian—the Nest believed its obsession was far less crazy and demon-possessed than Ian’s and naturally could not outmatch this young man in a battle of wills.
Perhaps it was Ian who was truly destined to be the master of the Swarm’s fate.
They didn’t care; the Swarm just wanted to see the stars.
They didn’t care who the master was; as long as soone could see them, that was enough.
It’s just that this world no longer had many stars left.
Ian took a step forward, feeling a sense of familiarity.
The mindset of the Nest Will reminded him of Yisen Gard and the almost imperceptible presence of Protector Axel behind him…
Did His Majesty the Emperor truly intend to use his own grandson as a vessel for his will, just like the Nest Will seeking a new Body?
Could it really be that simple, that despicable?
Perhaps—perhaps the royal family was truly devoid of kinship…
But could he really underestimate the opponent he was destined to confront in the future—that Monarch ruling over this land?
As he moved closer, seeing more clearly, the young man saw that behind the white cocoon was in fact an Armor Suit…
one that had been severely damaged, a Pre-Era Armor.
The cockpit of the Armor had been destroyed, and inside were the remains of a shattered skeleton, around which the tendrils of the white cocoon entwined; from which it developed, grew and eventually morphed into its current form.
The Crystal Clusters and the tal matrices had also all derived from this Armor— they were all offshoots from the Ether Furnace Core within its engine!
The bioluminescent crystals spreading all around the Worm Nest were ‘Elental Derivatives’, produced from the malfunctioning Aether Armant, a kind of Elental Crystal with low purity, mixed with plenty of dust and calcareous matter!
And the tal layers were even easier to understand…
they were all creations born from the core material of the Aether Armant’s Furnace Core, the ‘Active tal Morien Steel’!
It was precisely this self-repairing Active tal that, guided by the Spirit Energy will of the Nest, kept growing and spreading; allowing it to draw tal from the ruins of the nearby water purification plants, blending with the local rock formations and crystals, and shaping into the current Worm Nest!
Of course, it was also possible that the Redwood Base System perford a self-diagnostic, detected damage to the local cooling ducts and thus activated the self-repair tal, which is ‘Morien Steel’, for automatic repairs, only to be hijacked by the Swarm.
Ian seed to see an epic battle: when The Great Elder faced the entire Redwood Base as an enemy, soone stood up and engaged him in a duel with the Armor Suit.
They fought, striking at each other with no pity for their own lives, even seeming eager to cast them aside.
And in the end, The Great Elder lost.
Their bodies were destroyed together, and The Great Elder, devoid of a Body, could only resort to residing within the Spirit Energy Network of the Brain-Eating Parasite, continuing to antagonize the base.
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