Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 489 The Destroyer

Daisy in the abyss...

Um--

"It's fortunate that this place is the abyss."

Milo could see Daisy's wrinkled, tree-bark-like face from a distance.

And standing behind her was a figure much taller than her, but whose skin also resembled that of a dried corpse.

The figure was much more robust than Milo remembered, wearing the robes of a church deacon and a hood that covered half of his face.

He is the servant of God, Dirac.

However, he no longer seems to be the servant of the Golden Law, because on the skin of his forearm exposed under the tattered sleeves of his robe, the totem of the golden tree can be seen to have been erased, leaving only rough scars from burns.

...

Milo never understood the workings of the chaos in the abyss, but he believed that aside from those things that were purely reconstructed from his memories and imagined, the rest had a certain metaphorical function.

The church before us no longer possesses the sacred glory of a state religion; the sanctuary is dilapidated, the believers are decadent, and even the leaders have abandoned their service to the Golden Rule.

……

An arthropod worm grew out of the eye socket.

Does this mean there's something wrong with the Eye of Thinking?

Milo stood at the edge of the altar and muttered to himself.

He recalled the Temple Knights projected from the dream realm not long ago. The woman known as the Blade had uttered some obscure words before her death, saying that the Eye of Thinking should not remain in the waking world, as that would lead to terrible consequences.

Milo's previous understanding of this statement was based on ideas that Daisy had provided earlier.

Because the Monsis school coveted three things from the Church—the Son of Death, Mego, the Eye of Thinking, and the more obscure and difficult-to-understand "Enlightenment of the Moon."

Milo believes that the reason the Knights in the Dreamland want to reclaim the Eye of Thinking is to prevent the Monsis School from seizing it.

But the scene before him now made him uncontrollably think about another possibility—the golden tree in the real world is no more, and without the shade of the golden tree, is there a possibility that the Eye of Thinking may also be corrupted by this world?
However, there is currently no one who can discuss these topics with Milo.

Now, he only has a fluffy ball of fur by his side that wants to take a bite out of everything it sees.

In his daze, Milo noticed that the believers around him, who had been heading towards the worship pit in a daze, had stopped and were all focusing their attention on Milo and Wendigo.

Immediately afterwards, a creature that looked like a worm but whose body was covered with countless human limb structures crawled out of the huge underground pit where the golden tree once lived.

That was also one of Milo's "acquaintances." It was a superior independent race that had lived in the worship pit for countless years, consuming all the remaining roots of the Golden Tree after it was burned, and eventually being purified into a special life form of another level.

However, Milo had only ever seen the other party in its normal "insect" form, unlike its current appearance...

This worm is enormous.

The width of the torso almost occupies half the size of the bottomless worship pit opening, so in comparison, the human limbs "attached" to its surface, such as arms or legs, appear very slender. When they are densely packed together, they look from a distance like floating downy hair growing on its surface...

In the real world, it has been thoroughly defeated by Milo and doesn't even dare to show its face.

But everything in the abyss seemed to be filled with an excessive amount of malice that had nowhere to be vented. At this moment, all the creatures in the unseen land were looking at Milo with such distorted eyes.

...

"They didn't offer me any advice on what to do next."

Milo noticed the movements of the creature in the worship pit from a great distance.

However, the moment he casually mentioned it, Wendigo immediately began frantically digging at the dust on the ground with its two front paws. After quickly clearing away the accumulated dust around Milo's feet, several scarlet claw marks and the advice they contained were revealed—

"The next massacre will be very useful."

...

"Does this mean the task of destroying the world has been transferred to me?"

Milo was somewhat surprised.

He didn't know who left this advice, but until he encountered this particular piece, he believed the author was offering well-intentioned guidance. However, with the line "The upcoming massacre will be very useful," Milo began to doubt the advice's true purpose. "Isn't massacre and world-destroying an act of madness committed only by those corrupted by the abyss? Does he want to turn me into what I was before the Wendigo?"

Milo looked at Wendigo with a puzzled expression.

The latter blinked his huge, purplish-red eyes, looking completely bewildered, clearly not understanding what Milo was saying.

"Sigh, I should have let that initial humanity stay in your mother's belly a little longer. It seems that premature birth has a serious impact on your IQ."

Milo sighed.

He then drew the hunter's scythe with a chipped blade from behind him.

Because the current situation seems to have left him with no choice, these creatures in the Unseen Land, including Daisy the Eye of Thinking and Dirac, the servant of the gods, have no intention of talking to Milo. They may have even lost their ability to communicate normally. At this moment, their bodies are controlled by the arthropods in their eye sockets that tremble with tentacles.

...

When all the worshippers who were slowly advancing in the long queue turned around and focused their gaze on Milo, Milo saw many familiar faces among the countless faces that were even paler and more haggard than those of the worshippers of Iqm.

Including everyone at the law enforcement office—Rebecca, Enid, Johnny, Mr. Covington from the cafeteria, and so on…

They all had blank expressions, their clothes were tattered, and their skin was covered with wriggling insect eggs. Through the translucent shells of the eggs, one could vaguely see an arthropod wriggling inside…

Further ahead, Milo saw Finn, Kang, and Emma in the same state.

Their clothing and attire were things that Milo remembered from his past, but now they looked as if they had been ravaged by the passage of time.

Unlike the Emma Enid whose personality had drastically changed when she was last seen after entering the abyss.

In this abyss world, Milo has clearly lost them, lost everyone.

……

"Click..."

The long handle of the scythe in Milo's hand extended.

The intense heat emanating from the cracks in his arm flowed down the handle to the blade, completely igniting the entire sickle.

...

For some reason, Wendigo, which had been carrying out the killing mission, now showed a cowardly and fearful expression. It curled up its body, rolled far behind Milo, and found a dark corner to hide in.

In the horrifyingly terrible scene before it, what terrified it was not the arthropods wriggling in their eye sockets, nor the superior race with half their bodies protruding from the worship pit, but Milo's back.

……

At this moment, no one knows what changes have occurred in Milo's inner world.

But in some corner of the deepest abyss.

A ragged, broken soul was squatting on the ground, scratching the ground with its slender fingers, producing a sharp, piercing screeching sound and a dark green glow. With each scratch, several smaller fingers would bloom from its fingertips like flowers, and then even more slender fingers would bloom from these smaller fingers...

It seemed to have suffered some kind of double torment of mental and physical terror, its face completely disfigured, its eyes filled with endless madness, and it repeatedly muttered some obscure words:

"Ah...ha!...This is unavoidable..."

"Having chosen to retain humanity... one cannot escape the corrosive influence of the abyss..."

"Is that right?...Aha..."

"You banished me to the abyss... why have you fallen into the same abyss yourself now?..."

"Aha..."

"Aha..."

"It hurts so much...my soul..."

"...It really hurts..."

(End of this chapter)