The Adventures of Hulim Chapter 270: The Final Memory Node (Part 3)

On the icefield, feeling the resistance below, Terra slightly increased the strength in her right hand.

Boom!

In an instant, the entire northernmost region was rocked by a violent earthquake. The rock layers deep underground began to tremble violently.

In one particular area, the rocks surged upward toward the surface under so kind of force.

Encased within these rocks was a black shadow. Despite its desperate attempts to escape, the surrounding rocks had compressed into a cage, trapping it completely.

Deprived of any chance to flee, it was lifted continuously toward the surface......

......

At the World Tree,

within the Sacrificial ritual circle.

rkphis put the crystal ball away again.

"You can forget about Lady Terra coming to save you. Right now, she’s in the northernmost region, dealing with another ‘culprit’~!"

"rkphis," Avery spoke up, "why go to such lengths? Is eternal life really that tempting? In my earliest mories, you were extrely upright—soone who could never do sothing like this for re desire. What, exactly, changed you?"

Upon hearing this, rkphis’s smile faded.

He stared blankly at Avery.

"Changed......?"

"What do you know about ?"

"What do any of you know about !!?"

"You born divine beings will never understand! My pain——!"

"......"

"Very well...... Since you’re all going to die anyway, I’ll tell you the truth in your final monts."

rkphis looked up and began to speak slowly:

"It was thousands of years ago......"

"When I was young, I t Lady Terra for the first ti."

"I was deeply captivated by that adult’s radiance."

rkphis, gazing up at the sky, wore an expression of imnse happiness.

"At that mont, I swore to follow that adult forever! And then——"

"I worked hard. I trained day and night."

"Finally, I beca outstanding. I gained enough strength to stand by that adult’s side!!!"

"But......"

The joy on rkphis’s face faded, replaced by unbearable pain.

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"I’m just an elf!!! Even if I obtained power comparable to any of you, there’s one thing I could never change—my lifespan——"

"It’s limited......"

The expression on rkphis’s face gradually shifted from pain to despair.

"At that ti, it spoke to ......"

Gurgle~!

rkphis raised his right hand. A black, vein-like tentacle erged from beneath his skin.

"That’s——?!!"

The Seven Sages stared at the thing in his hand in horror.

"It’s impossible! This thing was sealed in Mirnabius! Why is it on you!? "

"Nothing is impossible."

rkphis said coldly.

Gurgle, gurgle......

Countless pitch-black tentacles stretched out from his body. His original elven form twisted into sothing terrifying.

"At that ti, it told that cruel truth."

"One day, I would exhaust my lifespan and leave that adult."

"Sothing like...... sothing like this!"

As if suppressing sothing to the limit, rkphis roared:

"I will never accept this——!!!"

"My wish, rkphis’s wish, is to stay by that adult’s side forever! Forever!!!"

"So, at that ti, it made a proposal. There’s only one way to fulfill that wish......"

rkphis’s expression grew increasingly maniacal.

"And that is! To beco a being like Lady Terra—to beco a god!"

"What......?"

"Beco a god?"

"That’s impossible......"

Everyone looked at rkphis as if he were insane.

No...... more precisely, rkphis had long been insane in his heart.

"Hehe...... That proposal spread like madness in my mind. Of course, I initially refused to cooperate with it. I wanted to achieve that goal with my own strength."

"I spent a lot of ti researching, investigating, and even accidentally obtained so information from Lady Terra. Finally, I found a way to beco a god!"

"That is——to seize the power of another god-level being in this world! With that power, I can beco a god!"

"Another god-level being...... I’m sure you know what it is~."

"That’s right——"

rkphis spread his hands.

"It’s the World Tree behind !"

"To be honest, when I learned this thod, I thought even the heavens were helping . Because this thod only works on an immature World Tree. If I had been born tens of thousands of years later, I’m afraid I would have been powerless~."

"But now——!"

"As long as I seize its power, I can beco a god and stay by that adult’s side forever~!"

"However......"

The maniacal look faded temporarily as rkphis continued:

"Fulfilling this wish cos with many difficulties."

"The biggest problem is the thod of seizure."

"I spent countless long days and nights researching and experinting."

"Finally——"

"I found the way."

"It’s the sacrificial ritual circle beneath my feet."

rkphis glanced at the ground, then at the Seven Sages. He smiled as if introducing his proudest achievent:

"It truly is a masterpiece of my efforts. Even long after developing it, I’m still amazed by its effects."

"Specifically,"

"as long as I find a Sixth-Rank lifeform highly compatible with the World Tree’s power, and use that life as the core of the circle, I can draw out all the World Tree’s power. In the end, that power will flow into , and I will beco a god!"

"Coincidentally," rkphis wore a sowhat twisted smile, "there happens to be the perfect candidate right beside !"

"Fairy Queen Semiris Pan Genin, the first fairy in the world. She was born beneath the World Tree itself. No one in this world has a closer connection to the World Tree than her~!"

"You bastard...... So that’s why you lured us away and found an excuse to leave Semiris behind!"

"Exactly~! After all, to achieve that goal, you Seven Sages are the greatest obstacles. And although I hate to admit it, Lady Terra would probably stop too......"

"So——"

"I accepted its proposal to cooperate."

"I’ve been by Lady Terra’s side for a long ti and know many things about her. I managed to retrieve one of its seeds from the seal and implanted it in my heart, thus evading all detection."

"As for the one left in the seal—it’s just a decoy to fool everyone."

"You...... You’ve been plotting this since that ti! Could it be that you created the Calamity Beasts from the very beginning?! "

"As you said, Sylph~!"

The black tentacles on rkphis’s body wriggled, and his form twisted further—no longer recognizable.

"After rging with it as partners, I began researching ways to improve it~!"

"Oh my, that was such a troubleso and tiring ti. But it was also quite interesting. The direction of mutation for each experintal subject was unpredictable, leading to many bizarre creations!"

"But my hard work finally paid off!"

"I finally developed a more efficient thod. Lifeforms corrupted by it would beco far more powerful."

"However, at first, it was difficult to control. I had no choice but to let them run amok. And that’s the origin of the Calamity Beasts."