booktalesy Chapter 207 Fusion
Chapter 207 Fusion
As soon as a group of people ran out of the church, the ground beneath their feet suddenly began to shake.
First, there was a slight shaking.
Then it became increasingly intense.
The crowd was still somewhat confused.
Only Domingo knew that disaster was about to strike.
As if confirming his thoughts, cracks appeared in the ground as the ground trembled violently.
Starting directly beneath the church ruins, the cracks spread outwards at a visible speed.
Meanwhile, the Vatican City complex, which had already been largely destroyed by the skeleton army, collapsed further in the earthquake.
The paving stones of St. Peter's Square looked as if something had lifted them up from below, causing large chunks to crack.
Several remaining columns collapsed with a roar during the tremors, raising clouds of dust.
Domingo led the group as they desperately ran out, but the ground behind them kept cracking.
"Quick! Run to an open area!"
As soon as they rushed out of the edge of the square, the entire central area behind them collapsed.
The massive sinkhole created a pit nearly 100 meters in diameter, with dust and gravel rising like a mushroom cloud.
Domingo glanced back at the bottomless pit, his legs went weak, and he almost knelt on the ground.
Meanwhile, inside the violently shaking basement...
boom.
Lin Fan exploded again.
The newly formed physical body shattered again under the influence of the two rampaging energies.
Then it coalesces again.
then……
boom.
Another explosion.
To coalesce, to crumble.
It goes on and on, over and over again.
It's like entering an infinite nesting doll mode.
And with each of his explosions, the Calamity Body releases a wave of energy.
Fortunately, his consciousness was currently studying that mysterious space.
The disaster caused by each wave of energy is merely an earthquake.
Even so, the ground centered on the entire cathedral continued to sink deeper and widen, and the cracks were also extending, causing the entire Vatican to tremble under the influence of this mysterious force.
The crystal that was stuck tightly to Lin Fan's palm had now dimmed by nearly two-thirds of its golden light.
It was absorbed by Lin Fan.
To be precise, it was drained away by his life force.
In the instant before each sudden death, a portion of the primal energy that surged into the body would be torn apart by the power of calamity.
During the reorganization process, the torn fragments of energy will be gradually digested by his body.
This is an extremely violent, extremely inefficient, and reckless method of fusion.
It's fortunate that it was him; if it were anyone else, they would probably be long gone by now.
Others who integrate the power of origin rely on talent, guidance, and years of cultivation.
But Lin Fan used his life!
……
on the ground.
Domingo and a group of Vatican members have run out of the epicenter.
Everyone stared in horror at the ruins before them, their faces pale.
The earthquake lasted for nearly ten minutes before gradually subsiding.
But everyone knew that the commotion inside the pit hadn't completely stopped.
Every now and then, a muffled sound would come from the bottom of the pit, accompanied by a slight aftershock.
"Lord Domingo, I, our church..."
Several clergy members stared in astonishment at the area that had been completely reduced to ruins...
Although their beliefs have changed, this is still their home, and their whole life is here.
It's heartbreaking to watch our homes be destroyed.
"What is that???"
However, before Domingo could say anything, a clergyman pointed in horror to the deep crater at the epicenter.
Everyone looked closely toward the epicenter and saw a strange creature appear in the collapsed crater.
It was a creature that resembled a lizard, but was several times larger.
However, the lizard did not come towards them. Instead, it crawled out of the crack and then retreated back inside.
……
Lin Fan had lost count of how many times he had blown up.
But his body told him that this time, things seemed a little different.
The infinite reorganization process begins, and the shattered physical body is reassembled.
Although the pain was still at its peak, the reconstruction process was significantly faster this time.
What would normally take almost a minute to complete took less than thirty seconds this time.
More importantly—
There was no more energy surging within the body.
The remaining primordial energy seemed to have quieted down.
It doesn't disappear, but rather settles.
The golden energy fragments were evenly distributed throughout his meridians and bones, as if a delicate balance had been achieved between them and the power of calamity.
It's like two wild beasts have fought enough, each marking out their territory and refusing to invade each other's.
Lin Fan lay naked in the pile of rubble, the ground covered with bloodstains left from his sudden death.
He gasped for breath, each breath straining his newly grown muscles and bones.
"Huff... huff..."
pain.
There wasn't a single part of my body that didn't hurt.
But he survived.
And this time, they really managed to stabilize the situation.
Furthermore, he discovered that the giant crow in his spiritual sea had expanded again, with dark golden patterns covering almost 70% of the surface of its tentacles.
This thing actually took advantage of the intervals between his repeated sudden deaths to eat up all the energy residue that overflowed each time.
"Damn it... So all that life-and-death struggle of mine just ended up benefiting you!" Lin Fan cursed inwardly.
Da Wu could only express his guilt in response to his complaints within his spiritual sea of consciousness.
Of course, this foodie also didn't forget to express that he still wanted more.
"Get out of here!"
Lin Fan rolled his eyes, too lazy to pay attention to this glutton.
He slowly propped himself up and looked down at his hands.
The veins on the arm are clearly visible, but upon closer inspection...
Between the blood vessels, extremely fine golden threads could be faintly seen, spreading along the meridians throughout the body.
Is this the primordial power after fusion?
But this...
Isn't that a bit too little?
You risked your life for this little bit of result?
However, he soon felt that his physical condition had undergone a qualitative change.
Moreover, this change is not achieved through the help of black scales, but is a genuine change in one's own physical body.
Whether it's strength, speed, or perception, everything has improved significantly.
He cannot yet quantify the exact extent of the improvement.
But at least... he felt that if he threw a punch now, he could probably turn those Templar Knights into photographs.
"but……"
Lin Fan looked up at the sky.
What was once a perfectly intact basement is now riddled with holes.
The sky was directly overhead, and dust and gravel were still falling down.
The earthquake triggered by his sudden death completely uprooted the structure of the buildings above.
Oh, right, crystals...
As if remembering something, Lin Fan quickly and subconsciously looked around.
Soon, he saw the crystal.
However, compared to before, it has become much dimmer.
Furthermore, numerous tiny cracks appeared on the surface.
"Can I still inhale this stuff?"
Lin Fan walked over and hesitated for a moment.
He paid a heavy price for the recent fusion.
He doesn't even know what's going on outside.
Although he was not afraid of death—
Okay, he's afraid of death, but even more afraid of pain.
However, judging from the current situation, this brute-force fusion method, although simple and crude, is pitifully inefficient.
To die more than ten times in exchange for such a tiny bit of primordial power, the cost-effectiveness is just too bad.
But he knew he had no better choice.
Just as he was contemplating whether to continue courting death, a very faint fluctuation suddenly came from the depths of his mind.
It's not a big crow.
It is not a resonance of the Calamity Body.
Rather, it comes from a deeper place.
It comes from... that dark space.
At the same time, a very faint dark gold symbol appeared on the back of his right hand without warning.
The outline of that symbol, and the inscription on the cracking tombstone he saw in the dark space…
The same.