They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 240 Spider Rain

It has become restless, and the eyeballs on its tentacles suddenly swell and contract, like bubbles changing shape.

As the shadow of the sun above expands, these tentacles slowly graze towards the ground, gradually twisting into a completely new shape never seen before.

Before they could even take shape, Ria saw them trembling as they struggled to gather together, making cries like those of infants on the ground.

Little Swarth was resisting such influence. Although its birth was somewhat related to the Crimson Moon, it did not want the Crimson Mother to affect it. Just the thought of being affected by life other than Ria filled it with immense sorrow.

"Woo——"

The mythical creature, in a form resembling asphalt, was asking Ria for help on the ground. Ria bent down almost without thinking, picked it up, and held it in her arms.

"Relax, relax, nothing will happen."

"You should be worried about yourself."

Ivand looked at Ria: "It shares a body with you, in mythical creatures—"

“Swal,” Ria reminded him.

"...When Schwarz undergoes a complete transformation, your fate won't be much better."

“I know that.”

Ria could now clearly hear someone calling his name, a voice that was androgynous, like the heavy panting of some huge animal, or like the sound of an alarm bell ringing in the sea when disaster strikes.

“Ria Kercha… Kercha… Ria…”

The voice kept repeating its call, even after Ria put on red earplugs to block out the noise pollution.

This likely indicates that the sound originated not from the outside, but from a closer location.

"Let's put those aside for now. The most important thing right now is to find Bucklove."

Ria bit his tongue hard, and immediately felt a bit more awake. Some tentacles crawled out of his mouth, and his body gradually turned crimson, looking like real blood from a distance.

"We don't need to look for him, he's already come out on his own."

As Ivand spoke, he looked at the head on the ground that had been blown apart by bullets; the upper and lower jaws of that head could still open and close.

"Praise be to Faceless, for finding the Red Moon's node so quickly; you truly live up to your wisdom."

"You told us before that as long as we find the Red Moon node, we will win."

"What do you mean you won? My request was to find and destroy the nodes. Did you destroy them?"

Barclay's head rolled to Ria's feet, facing him: "You are the Red Moon Node, pathetic disorderer, great faceless and trade master. Now you have found what you wanted, all that's left is destruction."

"Anyway, self-destruction isn't a big deal for those suffering from contamination. Hurry up, kill yourself now, and this Red Moon descent will immediately stop. Otherwise, those who see the crimson appearance will be in big trouble!"

Ria's gaze was indifferent, unmoved by the provocation of the head below: "That is indeed a problem, but what makes you think I would sacrifice myself for others? What do their lives have to do with me?"

"Of course it doesn't matter, but your micro-expressions betray you. If you don't care, why are your pupils trembling?"

"I'm just feeling a little unwell." Ria covered his face, and suddenly a few spiders crawled out from between his fingers and fell to the ground. When he saw the spiders, he was a little surprised that they had crawled out.

If there were a mirror in front of her right now, Ria could see that spiders had crawled all over her body, leaving holes of all sizes.

As he continued to watch the spider, Ivand fired a shot that pierced the spider's body on the ground, and then fired a few more shots at Bucklove.

"It hurts so much! Hahahaha, you can't kill me. Using Faceless as the node for the Red Moon's descent was definitely the best choice the original body ever made."

"What did you say?"

“Oh, you may have many questions… but I know you come from the Gekkoso Mountains, and no life is more suited to be the node for the arrival of a great being.”

That place itself contains a huge polluted mineral vein. If the Earth's crust is one, then the mountains formed by the compression of tectonic plates are definitely one plus one greater than two, or even infinitely close to positive infinity.

It's also known as the forbidden zone where one is most likely to see "gods" with the naked eye; if our ceremony had taken place there instead of here, the red moon would have already fully descended.

Blood tears streamed down Bucklove's face. In the sky, the shadows on the edge of the sun were becoming increasingly prominent, and Bucklove himself curled his lips into a smile after glancing at Ivand.

He seems to have come up with some new bad idea.

Ria cautiously moved away from him, and at that moment, both he and Ivand saw Bucklow suddenly open his eyes, his eyeballs bulging outwards, bloodshot veins covering the entire white of his eyes.

Suddenly, a new arthropod head emerged from the back of his head. This head had the compound eyes unique to spiders, was scarlet in color, and had two pairs of sharp and huge teeth.

After it appears, eight thin but strong long legs emerge from the mouth of the human head and land on the ground, thus forming a complete human-headed spider.

"This guy has entrusted his head to the Red Moon's corruption—wake up!"

Ivand stared at the spider-headed figure on the ground for a moment, then suddenly grabbed Ria's clothes. Ria looked at him strangely: "I'm perfectly sober, what's wrong?"

"If you're really sober, don't put the spider that crawled out back into your mouth."

“If I don’t do this, the spiders will start spinning webs, and I don’t want to be cocooned by them.”

Ria crushed the spider in her hand. These things were disgusting, with backs completely shaped like human faces. Each one was a different size, the largest being as big as half a fist, and the smallest only as long as a fingernail.

"Clap."

Something cold landed on the ground.

It's raining?
Ria reached out and touched her forehead, but only felt a red human-faced spider. The creature's tail was still covered with blood-red threads that swayed in the wind.

Its appearance was like a beginning; soon, more and more spiders fell from the sky, like a light drizzle of blood.

The spiders even made a gurgling sound as they fell. Ivand frowned and froze time in this area, but the corruption of the red moon had only just begun.

More and more tentacles were seeping out of Ria's body. Ria tried to cover them up but failed. Her arms were now stuffed with a bunch of tentacles that kept crawling to the side.

When these tentacles saw the spiders, they chased after them with the same excitement as snakes seeing mice, devouring them one by one, while Ria was somewhat helpless.

He looked up and suddenly mustered all his strength to forcefully pull the circus roof back to its original position before the pollution worsened. With the eclipse temporarily out of sight, the area would suffer less pollution damage.

(End of this chapter)