bioinnovel Chapter 7 Dream? Let me have one more bite!
Chapter 7 Dream? Let me have one more bite!
Chapter 7 Dream? Let me have one more bite!
Charles felt as if he were in a dream, an incredibly real dream.
He dreamt of the deep, dark seabed beneath which lay a dry, foul-smelling seabed stretching for thousands of miles, dotted with countless strangely shaped rocks.
He dreamt that at the end of the seabed, a huge, ancient city was sleeping.
The ancient temple is located in the center of the city, and grand, fanatical, and absurd murmurs emanate from its tightly closed doors.
In those babblings, he confirmed that he had heard a familiar word.
"R'lyeh..."
Before taking the sublimation potion, Dark told the Shire that he could find the relics of the ancients in R'lyeh, which could be used to prepare the sublimation potion.
In this dream, the word reappeared in those delirious ramblings.
Standing in this unfamiliar world, Charles felt his mood sinking little by little.
Was the frantic shout from Dark that I heard before I lost consciousness real?
Was the sublimation agent successfully applied?
Even if successful, the power of the Eternal Sun should have obliterated Dark's remains.
As this thought arose, Charles saw a grotesque mass of flesh writhing on the seabed in his dream.
In just a moment, Dark, clad in a black robe, grew out of that mass of flesh.
But unlike before, many tiny tentacles have now extended from Dark's body, and green slime drips from him from time to time.
Charles's pupils contracted sharply.
"Dark, you're not dead?"
"Did you do this?"
Dak also seemed very confused.
"Ciel, my friend, what's with that expression?"
"You clearly pointed out the path to transcendence for me. Look, I now possess an unprecedented beauty. Why do I feel that you are so resistant to me?"
The next moment, Darke seemed to realize something.
"Ah, yes, of course, because you haven't transcended yet, so you're still clinging to human prejudices."
"How tragic it is, my friend, that such a brilliant mind is trapped in a human body, but thankfully I will soon free you."
"Dak said very excitedly."
"The ancient beings who once ruled this world, their time is about to return."
"I have established a connection with you in the presence of the ancients, my friend, and the true me will descend into this world through you."
"Then the ancients will return one by one, and you will become the gateway to this great era."
When he got excited, Dark's tentacles started waving around like octopus tentacles.
Some of them had even been swung right in front of Charles.
As Charles listened to Dark's excited and unrestrained narration, his body began to tremble slightly.
Dark sighed, with an obvious sense of superiority.
"Do not try to resist, do not try to escape, the connection under their witness cannot be severed even though I have ascended."
"Sharl, whether you like it or not, embrace me, embrace the Great Old Ones, this is your only choice..."
At the same time, as Charles looked at the tentacles waving in front of him, an idea inevitably surfaced in his mind.
"The main ingredient of the sublimation potion is that disgusting green slime, which, according to Dak, is a relic left behind by the ancients."
"Judging from Dak's current situation, this thing shouldn't be rare for the Ancients, which means that the deduction points they can convert aren't very high for the Ancients."
"What if I eat a tentacle?"
"The deduction points obtained should be much higher than those from the sublimation potion, right?"
After this thought crossed his mind, Ciel no longer felt disgusted by the tentacles waving in front of him.
He felt as if a huge amount of deduction points were dangling in front of him.
His consciousness called out in his mind.
"Deep Blue".
The mechanical notification that followed put Charles completely at ease.
He didn't know what method Dark had used to make him have such a realistic dream, and even appear in his own dream to play tricks.
But since the Deep Blue system is still responding, Xia Er can eat without worry.
At this moment, Charles raised his head and could no longer bear the sight of the tentacles before him.
He licked his lips and grinned a blazing smile.
"Embrace?"
"No, no, no, Dak, I'm so happy, a hug isn't enough to express my joy."
"I'm going to celebrate in my own way!"
The next moment, Ciel reached out and grabbed a tentacle that was dangling in front of him.
"With something so tempting, why are you still wandering around here? It's decided, you'll be the first victim!"
In an instant, Charles opened his mouth and took a bite.
After taking that bite, Dak, who had been eloquently recounting the glory of the ancients, suddenly paused.
Countless tentacles began to writhe in panic.
"Wait, Ciel, Ciel, what are you doing?!"
"What did you do?!"
Charles hugged the tentacle and buried his head in it, gnawing on it.
With each bite of the tentacle, a continuous stream of notifications from Deep Blue echoed in his mind.
"Deduction points +200..."
"Deduction points +200..."
After taking only a few bites, Xia Er's deduction points, which had been almost depleted by deducing the Eternal Blazing Sun Curse, surged by more than 30,000 points.
Charles's eyes were practically green with envy, filled with longing.
If it's like this after just a few bites, what if it ate an entire tentacle?
What if you eat all of Dark's tentacles?
That would require hundreds of thousands or even millions of deduction points, right?
What if he also ate the Ancient Ones and Great Old Ones that Dark mentioned would descend into this world one after another?
Wouldn't that result in an off-the-charts number of deduction points?!
Charles raised his arms.
"Dark, my good friend, you're such a good friend, you didn't forget me even after you became successful."
"Having a friend like you is truly a blessing for me, Charles."
"Quick, my friend, let me eat a few more bites, I'm really starving!"
At this moment, after Sharl bit off a piece of his tentacle, Dark was gripped by unprecedented panic.
"My physical form... has vanished?"
"What exactly are you?!"
Just as Charles opened his mouth wide, about to bite off another piece of the tentacle, the tentacles on Dark's body quickly contracted.
He disappeared at an extremely fast speed.
Charles looked around, his eyes first showing confusion, then hatred.
"Dark?"
"My friend, where are you!"
Why did you leave?
"Didn't you want me to hug you and congratulate you? My welcoming ceremony isn't over yet, why are you leaving?"
"You wouldn't even let me finish a single tentacle! You lied to me! You never considered me a friend!"
"Dark, don't go! Let me have a bite, just one more bite!"
Then, Charles said quietly.
"But don't forget, as you said, we have already formed a connection under the watchful eyes of the ancients, a connection that even you cannot sever."
"We'll meet here again, Dark. You can't hide from me forever."
"No matter where you are, I will find you."
(End of this chapter)