Whispering Poems

Chapter 4035 The Beast of Calamity, the Serpent of Possibility

Chapter 4035 The Beast of Calamity, the Serpent of Possibility

Half the square was submerged by a sea of ​​sand, and the square fountain where the girl held up the water bottle stood crookedly in the sand. In the distance were the remaining buildings of "Doomsday City Tobesk". When Shad first came here, he saw several figures wearing cloaks, but he still couldn't be sure what those figures were.

Adele stopped in front of the building, leaving Shad to brave the sandstorm and enter the plaza alone. As he walked forward, Shad clearly saw a figure approaching from the distance on the other side of the sand dune.

It was a man, and he didn't appear to have any mutations whatsoever. However, in Xia De's observation, his figure didn't walk continuously towards the square; instead, it flickered constantly, getting closer to the square with each flicker.

Once the other person entered the Saint-Delan Square area, Shad could see clearly that the person was Professor Reinhardt, Claire's father, except that he wasn't wearing his glasses.

Each time a calamity beast appeared, it was someone Shad knew in the real world, so Shad wasn't surprised by the identity of this enemy.

He simply remembered that when he and Adele went to the apocalyptic town of Kyle-Todd last time, the letter left by the elder in Claire's mother's hand, which they found in the Snow Mountain Hall, mentioned that Professor Reinhardt had disappeared long ago as some kind of terrifying evil (Chapter 3748).

"Claire died before the end of the world, Mrs. Reinhardt died in the entrance hall of the Snow Mountain Hall, and Elder Harald fought to the last in the sacred land of the ancestors, becoming the last Fatu. Now, Professor Reinhardt has also arrived."

At this moment, in Shad's observation, the professor was truly just an ordinary person. He continued to approach Shad by teleporting, and Shad then cleaved through the sandstorm with a dazzling silver moonlight.

The moonlight passed through Professor Reinhardt's body, splitting it in two. The body then fell into the sand, quickly covered by a layer of fine sand. A few seconds later, the body turned to ashes in the yellow sand, but the Calamity Card did not appear.

"Ok?"

She then reminded him:

Look ahead.

Shade looked up and saw another figure approaching in the same way from the direction where Professor Reinhardt had appeared. Upon closer inspection, it was clearly another Professor Reinhardt.

Shad was confused, but Adele, who remained by the plaza wall, understood. She hadn't originally intended to give Shad hints, wanting him to truly hone his skills through these battles, but this time she spoke up first:

"Shad, this is a calamity of fate, a being even more bizarre than the Infinite Serpent—the Serpent of Possibility. This thing draws upon all the possibilities it possesses but has not yet realized; it is itself an aggregate of countless possibilities."

Kill one of them, and it will reappear in a different form, possessing all the combat experience it gained. Theoretically, it is both the weakest and the strongest.

"Is its quantity infinite?"

"Yes, fate completely collapses in this evil entity; it is itself a manifestation of a corrupted destiny. Such evil entities are extremely rare; even I have only heard of them."

Generally speaking, the best course of action when encountering something like this is to turn and run. Once you get caught up in an entanglement with infinite possibilities, the one who ultimately fails is the normal person who only has one possible outcome.

Adele watched Shad's retreating figure with concern. Shad was currently facing a formidable opponent and certainly couldn't just turn around and leave.

Shad himself understood this principle. He summoned the Staff of Yggdrasil. The black staff gently tapped the ground and then transformed into a lightning spear that shot forward.

The second professor was clearly different from the first one. He raised his hands high, and his flesh and blood transformed into a giant shield. With a clang, the flesh and blood shield collided with the lightning spear, which then pierced through the shield and the second professor.

Shad waved his hand, sending the staff flying back. The second corpse also vanished, but still didn't transform into a card. Meanwhile, the figure of the third professor appeared in the distance. Clearly, forcibly killing one possibility with the World Tree Staff didn't count as defeating this formidable enemy.

The third Professor Reinhardt was not human, but appeared in the form of a snake-man.

It was more powerful than the previous two, dodging Shad's Moonlight Slash and rapidly approaching Shad by moving through the sandstorm. Even after being hit by the "Imprisonment Aura," it still retained its ability to move. Although it was eventually decapitated by the Moonlight Greatsword in close combat, it also tore Shad's clothes.

The fourth Professor Reinhardt was actually a dragonborn, and the fifth was even more outrageous—a human 12th-circle sorcerer.

Shad could handle these battles; the small vials of fragrance he carried ensured he could continue fighting. But if he simply eliminated each possibility one by one, Shad would eventually run out of energy, and he had to find a way to fight against "infinite fate."

Adele then discovered that after the appearance of the fifth Professor Reinhardt, Shad sought to engage in close combat with each subsequent professor, and to kill them in the least costly way after close contact.

The existence of the hill ghouls, demon-possessed demons, life aberrations, vengeful spirits, and vampires, including Professor Reinhardt, has become increasingly bizarre, and their power has grown ever stronger.

The professor, who could have been killed by Shad in two or three moves, was soon able to fight on equal terms with Shad. After the twelfth professor appeared in the form of the "Fallen Star Beast", his power was completely equivalent to that of every powerful enemy that had appeared in this square in the past.

"I can't understand what kind of possibility could lead Professor Reinhardt to become a Fallen Star Beast. Fallen Star Beasts are clearly formed from fallen stars in the form of destiny. Is the professor a star?"

Greatly puzzled, Shad charged toward the black, armored monster that was taller than the surrounding buildings. The collision between the giant Shad and the Fallen Star Beast made the earth tremble.

Its size was similar to that of an adult dragon, and its appearance resembled a one-horned rhinoceros, with a hook at the tip of its tail. Its body was covered in a deep blue, glassy carapace, and its head was that of Professor Reinhardt. This thing was far more terrifying and bizarre than the one Shad had seen in Falling Star Bay.

Due to the immense force of the collision, countless cracks appeared on the surface of the plaza tiles beneath the yellow sand. In the first round of the clash between the filthy starlight and the moonlight, neither gained the upper hand.

With a flap of its transparent wings, the dragon-sized monster soared into the sky. Then, a slanted black rift appeared in the dim yellow sky, slowly widening up and down in the air, its edges swirling with a viscous, blood-like black mist.

Then, stars appeared in the black mist, but not the dazzling starry sky of the outsider's memory, but a strange sea of ​​stars cast by death.

Not a single ray of light was warm; all the stars appeared ashen, a deep blue and dark purple, like a film forming on a rotting eyeball. The stars were not suspended in the void, but rather adrift in a viscous, dark medium, like congealed corpse fluid.

The outline of the starry sea is distorted, and the arrangement of all the stars exudes an indescribable eeriness, like a crumpled skeleton or a curse drawn in blood on a black cloth. The depths of the starry sea are even more terrifying, where the darkness is extreme, and even the ashen starlight cannot illuminate it; only huge and blurry outlines can be seen slowly writhing.

"Is this the starry sky of the apocalyptic era?"

At this moment, numerous dying stars, summoned by the power of the Falling Star Beast, plummeted from that eerie sea of ​​death stars, carrying an aura of decay and decay, towards Saint-Delan Square below. Adele could no longer simply watch.

She leaped into the air, casting a spell to stop the star fragments being dragged down from the destroyed starry sky by the monsters:

"Go deal with it and eliminate this possibility as soon as possible; its power is too great!"

Adele spoke to Shad, her hand conjuring a vortex of chaotic light that instantly covered half the sky. The first batch of falling black star fragments, upon contact with the vortex, immediately returned along their original trajectories, colliding with subsequent star fragments and triggering a series of explosions within the opening rift in the starry sea.

This is precisely Adele's most prized strength: the "principle of regression."

At this moment, Shad once again used "Moonlight Slash" to transform into moonlight and rush towards the falling star beast. Adele was busy intercepting these dying stars and did not have time to look back, but she clearly heard the sound of flesh being torn apart behind her.

Despite her worries, she slowly closed the rift connecting the deadly starry sky. When she turned around again, Shad and the fallen star beast had already landed back on the ground.

Shad returned to normal human size, his right arm a bloody mess as if it had been gnawed on. The Fallen Star Beast was still large, but its height had shrunk to two meters; it was still eerie but not as terrifying as before.

The two stared at each other. Only after Adele landed next to Shad did she notice that, in addition to the dim starlight, the body of the fallen star beast with a human head now had a faint layer of blood mist.

"Thumbology·Vampire Parasitism."

Blood-red pustules burst open on the Star Beast's body, and then more and more disgusting, blood-red pustules sprouted from its surface. The "Fallen Star Beast" was actually a star, not flesh and blood, but Shad's "Blood Seed Parasitism" still worked on it.

Adele watched with concern, ready to provide support at any moment.

However, the Fallen Star Beast did not attack despite being corroded. As the crimson color on its body intensified, its body began to curl unnaturally. Its limbs came into contact with each other and stuck together, resulting in a horrifying deformation. Finally, it transformed into a writhing, blackish-red, indescribable, slime-like creature.

"It looks like it's a success. In my opinion, the only way to defeat infinite possibilities is to make infinity collapse back into 1."

Shad finally spoke, his face unusually pale, as if he had lost too much blood. Adele could clearly sense that his life force was extremely weak at this moment.