“Good heavens, the fighting is really lively.”
Above the sea, Lu Minghao stuffed the last piece of Seven-Colored Dragon King meat into his mouth, watching the battle between the two sides with relish. In less than half a day since the start of the war, at least millions of soldiers had already died.
The verdant grassland was already piled high with endless corpses, and scarlet blood had permeated the earth. If someone were to dig downwards in the battlefield at this moment, the soil they dug up would be blood-red.
“However, I didn’t expect the Platinum Dragon Lord to have so many World-Class Items in his possession. I’m afraid that all the World-Class Items left behind after the deaths of those players who descended before have been turned into his own collection.”
As he spoke, Lu Minghao raised his head and, across an unknown distance, looked at the Platinum Dragon Lord, who was single-handedly facing the combined assault of Albedo and Ainz Ooal Gown. The battle between the two sides was a constant back-and-forth, due to the Platinum Dragon Lord’s feat of instantly killing Shalltear at the start of the battle.
This led to Albedo subconsciously shielding Ainz Ooal Gown in the current battle, guarding against the Platinum Dragon Lord suddenly attacking and killing Ainz Ooal Gown. Ainz Ooal Gown, as a Magic Caster, was also wary of the Platinum Dragon Lord’s attacks.
As a result, the Platinum Dragon Lord alone was holding off Ainz Ooal Gown and Albedo. As for the remaining Guardians, they were being held back by the other Dragon Lords of the Council State, relying on the World-Class Items given to them by the Platinum Dragon Lord, causing the two sides to fall into a stalemate for the time being.
At this time, Shalltear, as the strongest Guardian of the Great Tomb of Nazarick in terms of overall strength, was wielding her Spuit Lance and slaughtering magical beasts and demihuman soldiers below, using their life force to restore her own injuries.
It could be said that if the Platinum Dragon Lord hadn't decisively used his strongest Origin Magic at the start, severely injuring Shalltear to the point of near death, then the battlefield at this moment would not have been a stalemate with Shalltear's addition.
The Council State would have been slaughtered by the members of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, just like those human royal palaces.
“Not bad, it seems I don’t need the things I prepared.”
After confirming that the Platinum Dragon Lord and Ainz Ooal Gown were temporarily held back by the battlefield, Lu Minghao stood up and flew towards the position of the sun in the sky. In fact, from the beginning, when provoking the war between the Platinum Dragon Lord and Ainz Ooal Gown.
Lu Minghao had secretly arranged for several Abberations, whose strength was already sufficient to temporarily hold back the Guardians, to guard the edge of the battlefield, in order to prevent the Platinum Dragon Lord's side from being crushed by Ainz Ooal Gown and others after the war began.
However, now it seems that the backup I prepared is completely unnecessary... Sure enough, I still can't underestimate these powerhouses standing at the pinnacle of the world.
“Master.”
When Lu Minghao had already flown out of the atmosphere, standing at the highest point of the world, with a burning fireball above his head—although this thing is generally called the sun—and the entire world under Lu Minghao's feet was already within his sight.
Just as Lu Minghao was appreciating this world that was about to become his own shape, Princess Renner, leading her little dog Clementine, appeared beside him, her beautiful face looking at Lu Minghao with a fanatical expression.
The plan they had worked so hard for had finally reached the last step, and the whole world was about to become the master's possession.
“Are you ready? Also, where are Yuri and Yusha?”
Lu Minghao turned his head slightly and asked Princess Renner beside him in a soft voice. Three days ago, when Lu Minghao began to hunt down the Five Dragon Lords, he gave the three major clans different tasks. At this moment, the tasks had been completed. After all, in Lu Minghao's perception, the entire world, whether soil, air, or anything else, had already been stained with the power of Original Sin.
Next, as long as Lu Minghao activates the clones scattered throughout the world, the entire world will be completely eroded and polluted by Lu Minghao in a short time. By then, the feast that I have been looking forward to since coming to this world will be considered complete.
It's just that, at this time, the Yusha sisters, who were originally scheduled to gather here after completing the things I told them to do, did not appear.
“Master, there was a slight error in the plan. The Yusha sisters went to resolve it and couldn’t make it here in time.”
Just a few hours ago, Qia Leinenna Berun, who had been arranged by Lu Minghao a long time ago and infiltrated the Great Tomb of Nazarick through Sebas, secretly took out Lu Minghao's clone, which she had been carrying in her body, after receiving the order from Yusha.
However, just as she wanted to integrate this clone into the Great Tomb of Nazarick, she was caught on the spot by Entoma Vasilissa Zetta, one of the Pleiades, due to an accident.
Although Entoma Vasilissa Zetta didn't know what Qia Leinenna Berun wanted to do at the time, when she saw the fist-sized slime in her hand, the insect's instinct made her clearly aware of the power contained in it.
In addition, the Great Tomb of Nazarick was in a state of maximum alert, and Ainz Ooal Gown, the master of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, and the Guardians of each floor were fighting outside. The Great Tomb of Nazarick can be said to be unprecedentedly weak.
Almost instantly, Entoma Vasilissa Zetta controlled Qia Leinenna Berun and snatched the Lu Minghao clone from her hand, sealing it with a top-level item, and imprisoning Qia Leinenna Berun in the room, waiting for Ainz Ooal Gown and others to return after the war to judge her.
After realizing that there was a mistake in the plan, the Yusha sisters, who had already completed what Lu Minghao had told them to do, did not hesitate to choose to go to the Great Tomb of Nazarick. They absolutely would not allow the master's plan to go wrong at the last moment.
Even if this little mistake has almost no impact on the plan itself.
“In other words, the Yusha sisters are now inside the Great Tomb of Nazarick?”
“Yes, Master.”
“Alright.”
After receiving Renner's reply, Lu Minghao sensed the situation of the Yusha sisters through the clan connection. Indeed, at this moment, the auras of the two were located in the location of the Great Tomb of Nazarick on the battlefield, and the auras of the two were also very normal.
It shows that the Yusha sisters have successfully infiltrated the Great Tomb of Nazarick and left Lu Minghao's clone behind.
“Then, let’s begin!”
In the next second, the surface of Lu Minghao's body began to melt, and his fair skin gradually turned into an ice-blue jelly-like liquid, and it continued to expand. A few seconds later, a giant slime with a diameter of hundreds of meters appeared in place.
“From this moment on, I will become light and transform into the sun!”
As soon as the voice fell, Lu Minghao released the Original Sin power that had been suppressed by him all the time. In an instant, with Lu Minghao's body as the main body and the clones spread all over the world as the base point, an Original Sin network covering the entire world appeared.
In an instant, an indescribable, incomprehensible force, but full of chaos and distortion, appeared in the entire world.
Under this force, the sky began to turn blood red, and a large amount of flesh began to grow on the clouds that were originally simply composed of water and dust. Unspeakable tentacles grew out, and giant mouths full of fangs began to devour everything that could be touched.
On the ground, all living beings began to hear bursts of whispers in their hearts, and the tissues of their bodies began to mutate in a disorderly manner. Dark red flesh grew on the black earth, and the mountains turned into constantly beating and twisting sarcomas.
In the ocean, countless tentacles tens of thousands of meters high emerged from the water, their dozens of meters wide mouths filled with fangs emitting hungry roars.
Even in the air, the very gas was imbued with self-awareness. Countless animals and magical creatures flying in the sky suddenly emitted shrill cries of despair and plummeted, their bodies completely disappearing before they even hit the ground, as if devoured by something.
.......
Meanwhile, within the human kingdoms, in the place where Lu Minghao's power was at its most concentrated, humans who had been cowering in their homes in fear ever since the multi-nation alliance army was slaughtered by the Great Tomb of Nazarick, now emerged from their rooms, their faces filled with despair as they looked up at the sky.
In the crimson sky, the once pristine white clouds had transformed into grotesquely twisted monsters covered in tentacles, drifting through the air, their enormous bodies obscuring the sun and casting hideous, terrifying shadows upon the land.
Further away, the black earth was gradually being replaced by crimson, as colossal tentacles burst forth from the depths of the earth, reaching towards the sky. Compared to them, humans were as insignificant as ants.
"Gods, is this your punishment?"
Before one of the Six Great Gods' temples, an aged priest prostrated himself on the ground, tears streaming down his face, his eyes filled with utter despair as he gazed upon the hellish scene before him. Not far from him, the knight who had once guarded the temple had now become one with his armor, transforming into a monster nearly five meters tall.
In front of the temple, the statues of the Six Great Gods, once worshiped daily by the city's residents, had come to life. However, instead of protecting their believers, they opened their massive hands and stuffed the mutating commoners closest to them into their gaping maws.
"Who can come and save... save this world of despair... Great Gods!"
Witnessing all of this, the old priest, who had dedicated his entire life to his faith, let out a mournful plea, yearning for the Six Great Gods to descend once more and save the world, just as they had five hundred years ago when humanity was on the brink of extinction under the oppression of monsters and demi-humans.
However, the next second, the old priest, who had just been praying for the gods to save the world, suddenly stood up, a bizarre smile spreading across his aged face. Combined with his tear-streaked, half-crying, half-laughing expression, it created an inexplicable sense of horror.
"The world is calling to me! I shall save everyone!"
In his crazed pronouncements, the old priest suddenly opened his arms as if embracing something. Dense, tiny growths sprouted on his twisted face, and his body began to rapidly mutate, countless tentacles shooting out like venomous snakes, dragging everything around him back to be incorporated into his body.
Half an hour later, the entire city had completely vanished, leaving behind only a completely deformed, colossal monster.
"The world awaits my salvation."
On the face composed of countless heads, the corners of its mouth slightly parted, emitting an almost insane murmur. The monster, built around the old priest, took heavy steps towards the next city, its back covered in tentacles that seized any living creature in its path, making them a part of itself.
And such scenes were unfolding all over the world, with countless lives being completely mutated into monsters under the erosion of the power of Original Sin every minute and every second.
At the same time, within the Great Tomb of Nazarick, the split bodies that Yusha and her sister had already merged with were wantonly radiating the power of Original Sin. At first, those remaining in the Great Tomb of Nazarick only vaguely heard a strange muttering.
Following that, clumps of flesh began to grow on the walls, and countless descendants of the Cockroach of the Unpleasant Valley began to descend into frenzy.
Later, the people remaining in the Great Tomb of Nazarick were horrified to discover that the once inanimate floors, walls, weapons, and various objects had actually gained self-awareness, with large amounts of flesh growing on their surfaces that was sickening to even look at, wriggling constantly on the ground like worms.
Before the people remaining in the Great Tomb of Nazarick could react to the sudden changes, the weakest ordinary maids began to mutate, and then it gradually spread to others.
Until finally, when Yusha and her sister emerged from their hiding place, the entire Great Tomb of Nazarick had been completely transformed into an indescribable monster corrupted by Original Sin, with a large number of mutated beings wandering inside the Great Tomb of Nazarick.
"Finally, we can move freely. But this kind of world is really great!"
Yuri put her hands behind her head, watching the mutated creatures walking past her, smelling the Original Sin power permeating the air. She felt her whole body begin to tingle with excitement. In this environment, as a member of Lu Minghao's retinue, her strength was greatly enhanced.
And most importantly, this world, which seemed terrifying to the extreme to others, was filled with goodwill towards her. As long as she wished, she could completely control everything around her.
"Alright, stop playing around. It's time to go to Master's place."
Beside her, Yusha looked helplessly at Yuri, who was stomping on a bloated, mutated monster wearing a maid's uniform. If she remembered correctly, this monster should be the fusion of all the maids in the Great Tomb of Nazarick after their mutation.
"Understood, Sister."
With that, Yuri waved her hand to let the monster under her feet leave, and then followed Yusha out of the Great Tomb of Nazarick. A giant tentacle that had been waiting here for a long time gently lifted Yusha and her sister up, and then stretched out its body and shot straight into the high sky.
........
At the same time, Albedo, who was originally fighting the Platinum Dragon Lord, suddenly retreated. The Platinum Dragon Lord opposite her did not stop her, but looked up at the sky with a solemn expression, and then looked down at the distance. His golden dragon eyes were filled with unease and anger.
"Lord Ainz, something is wrong."
As soon as she retreated to Ainz Ooal Gown's side, Albedo hurriedly looked at Ainz Ooal Gown and said, her face hidden inside her helmet was filled with deep anxiety. Just now, she suddenly felt as if she had lost something very important.
"I already know. Retreat first, Albedo. Something happened to the Great Tomb of Nazarick!"
On the side, Ainz Ooal Gown's face was extremely ugly at the moment. Just now, he suddenly lost his connection to the Great Tomb of Nazarick. Even if he contacted the members left in the Great Tomb of Nazarick, there was no response.
Everything pointed to one thing: something had happened to the Great Tomb of Nazarick.
In addition...
Ainz Ooal Gown looked at the mutating land in the distance and the undead soldiers and demi-human soldiers mutating below. He had seen this kind of monster once before, it was Demiurge, whom he had personally killed not long ago.
"It seems we've all been played."
At this time, the Platinum Dragon Lord above flapped his dragon wings and flew to Ainz Ooal Gown, saying with anger and killing intent in his voice. Now, the Platinum Dragon Lord understood that whether it was him or Ainz Ooal Gown in front of him, they had been played by the guy hidden behind the scenes.
That guy deliberately provoked all the events between them, so that he and Ainz Ooal Gown fought each other, and then took this opportunity to turn the whole world into what it is now.
