Lord Era: I, The Strongest Lord Of The Abyss!

#225 - Chapter 225: Praying for Help

"Who are you..."

"Child of God?"

When the necromancer Druid saw the monster before him, twisted by Chaos, successfully devour a soul with its 'flesh' and grow stronger by devouring souls, he blurted out.

However, the Chaos monster, upon hearing Druid's words, showed no intention of responding.

It merely turned its twisted, filthy face slowly, offering a horrifying smile to Druid at its feet.

Druid's exclamation of 'Child of God' stemmed from the demonstrated ability to devour souls, and the manner of its use, being identical to that of a being known as the [Child of God].

In the necromancer Druid's understanding, many entities in the Age of Lords could devour souls.

Many creatures, technologies, magics, and constructs could consume souls.

However, like this Chaos monster, capable of directly anchoring souls, which should be in a state of nothingness, into the real world, and growing by physically devouring them, were exceedingly rare.

To be precise, only deities and [Children of God], as incarnations of deities, could achieve this.

Druid did not yet understand why deities could do this.

But as an aged undead, he knew why Children of God could devour souls and grow.

As the dedicated 'incarnations' of various deities, Children of God could devour souls because the depths of their sea of consciousness were in a state of 'openness'.

In this state, Children of God could directly devour weaker souls and use them as nourishment for their growth.

Moreover, souls were not the only things Children of God could devour.

Faith and certain special substances were also objects they could consume.

"No, no, no, impossible."

After blurting out 'Child of God,' the necromancer Druid immediately contradicted himself.

"You can't be a Child of God."

"Because there's no aura of faith on you."

"And I can't sense a clear sea of consciousness on you either."

"You..."

"What kind of monster are you?"

Although Druid asked the question, the Chaos monster's response was not what he expected.

Thump!

With a punch from the Chaos monster, the head of Druid's current body was directly shattered.

Even the giant demon's skull, as sturdy as it was, could not withstand the blow.

Seeing this, Druid made a decisive judgment.

The next moment, Druid directly severed his soul link with the body, returning his soul to his lich phylactery.

Druid feared that if he fought the creature for too long, his soul would be devoured like those of the undead knights.

And his choice was correct.

Because the Chaos monster did indeed want to devour his soul.

Do not forget, it was created by the sole mainframe of the Flesh Harvester civilization, the Chaos mainframe named Decaying Life.

The order given to it by this surviving mainframe was to harvest flesh and devour souls...

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After discovering that the necromancer Druid's soul had escaped, the Chaos monster couldn't help but roar in anger.

However, after roaring, the Chaos monster immediately changed its target.

And its target was the group of demon slaves digging the tunnel, and some of the demons still watching from nearby!

"Crack... crack... crack..."

When it saw so many 'prey' that fit its goals, a gray aura, like dark clouds, rapidly expanded in the Chaos monster's eyes....

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Several tens of minutes later, the Decaying Life mainframe, about to run out of energy, finally welcomed the return of the Chaos monster.

And this time, its harvest satisfied it.

"Oh, by the blessings of Chaos."

"It has been so long since I smelled such fresh flesh and souls!"

Through its eyes, a mixture of flesh and machinery, Decaying Life successfully saw the results of this harvest.

It saw the massive amount of flesh it had harvested, and the wailing souls.

It must be said that although Decaying Life and its original civilization had slumbered for tens of thousands of years, when it awoke, it and its creation still possessed powerful dominion.

In just under several tens of minutes, the demon slaves that Wu Wei had left outside the tunnel, as well as all the demon overseers and demon warriors, had been swept away by this Chaos monster.

Even the strongest existence in this area, the necromancer Druid, was defeated by this Chaos monster, and fled back to the abyss in a sorry state, empowered by the aura of Chaos.

All of this demonstrated the past power of the Harvester civilization.

"Alright, now that I have harvested so many souls and flesh, I can begin my revival!"

Decaying Life said excitedly.

Due to excessive excitement, its machine body was even trembling.

After a little 'processing,' more than seventy percent of the flesh was directly sent by the Decaying Life mainframe into the newly built 'Chaos Forging Furnace.'

This flesh, along with all the nearby metal scraps, would jointly form a new 'Chaos monster.'

The remaining thirty percent of the flesh was used by Decaying Life as 'building materials' to build and update the current war fortress.

As for those imprisoned souls, their fate was the most miserable.

Because they were directly thrown into the Chaos energy storage device by the Decaying Life mainframe.

This container, like a glass jar, was filled with impure Chaos energy.

When these souls came into contact with this Chaos energy.

Pain, indescribable, pain that could not be described by any words, appeared in the perceptions of these souls.

All the souls that came into contact with this Chaos energy were gradually transformed into something called [Soul Batteries] by the Chaos energy in this extreme pain.

This Soul Battery used pain as a seasoning and souls as a foundation to provide Decaying Life with a steady stream of energy.

Watching one energy battery after another being filled, the Decaying Life mainframe felt genuine excitement.

Because it could already foresee that soon, it would be able to use the blessing of Chaos to spread the power of the Chaos will to various worlds.

At that time, countless worlds would fall.

And all the living beings in these worlds would feel unparalleled and immense pain.

Thinking of this, the Decaying Life mainframe couldn't help but overclock its chips, allowing it to complete its plan faster.

However, too excited, it did not notice a small detail.

That was, among the souls brought back by the Chaos monster, some special souls, while suffering such pain, were intentionally or unintentionally begging for help from a will far greater than Chaos.

Because they were children of the abyss.

And their souls were the private property of the endless abyss!

"!!!"