They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 242 Don't Stop Mother
Ivand appeared very tall when he stood up.

He had broad shoulders, long legs, deep-set features, and a handsome face. Although he looked to be only around thirty years old, his eyes already revealed a weariness and vicissitudes of life that came from seeing through everything in the world.

If he weren't disabled, such a person would likely have many admirers, but he seems unwilling to mention anything about his legs to outsiders.

“I’m standing up because there are some things I can no longer sit and wait for, you know, Ria. Someone once cursed me to lose the ability to walk forever, but now I’m standing here.”

From the moment I stood up, that curse became utter nonsense. Perhaps you shouldn't be involved with the Red Moon yet, but that's alright... Let this old man help you resolve all of this.

The meme "[Guardian]" encompasses more than just protecting others.

As he spoke, Ivand reached out and grasped his pipe. After taking the last puff, he crushed the pipe, which he was reluctant to part with, with a "crack." At that moment, Ria noticed that all the tentacles on her body had fallen off naturally.

They emitted a scarlet glow on the ground, coalescing into the pattern of a strange creature with two pairs of enormous wings, a ferocious face, sharp teeth, and forepaws embracing an eye-like object.

The object resembled both an eye and the moon, and Ivand's gaze shifted downwards, fixing on the round object: "Since you've decided to break with Crimson, let me see your resolve and prove your loyalty to your host."

"Ugh——"

Like an ancient lament, the pattern suddenly burst forth with intense red light, which engulfed everything. From it emerged numerous black tentacles that coalesced together, and feather-like scales gradually sprouted from their surfaces, enveloping Ria like a giant claw.

The remaining tentacles pierced through the top of the tent, pulling and extending upwards. Once they reached a certain height, even more tentacles began to spread out from the very top.

They multiply like the branches and leaves of a giant tree. In order to protect humanity and resist the eclipse's contamination of Enderus, it chooses to be an enemy of the Creator, using all its strength to block the crimson vision and accepting all the pollution of the extraordinary on its own.

The golden eyes that were originally on the tentacles turned crimson, and countless spiders climbed on the tentacles and were then swallowed by them.

But the spiders didn't seem satisfied. They spit out blood-red silk threads to wrap around the "giant tree," making it look from a distance as if the black tree, covered with eyeballs and hard scales, was shedding tears of blood.

At this moment, Ria is under the protection of the mythical creature and can no longer be seen as human. He has become part of the giant tree and dares not slack off in fighting against the Crimson Descent together with it.

Countless voices seemed to appear around him, all kinds of voices that were hard to distinguish, all calling his name and urging him to give up resistance.

"You must be exhausted right now. You've already suffered enough. Why do you still care about other people's lives?"

“The prophecies in Revelation clearly state that everyone will die, and saving them now will not help.”

"Don't stop the moon, don't stop the mother."

"Do you know what you're doing?"

"Li Ya, don't you recognize me? Don't you recognize the mother who gave birth to you and raised you?!"

The last sentence made Ria tremble all over. He knew that the sentence was in Chinese, and the tone and attitude were indeed those of his mother, whom he missed the most.

Seemingly sensing his emotional distress, a hand touched his forehead in a daze, then withdrew and draped a coat over Lia.

The clothes are warm, as if someone deliberately put them in the sun to dry, and they still have the special smell of fabric that has been exposed to the sun.

"How have you been lately?"

"..."

"Don't rush to answer. Do you think I don't know you? You always only report good news and never bad news. Look at your child, once you grow up, you don't rely on your parents anymore and you have to shoulder everything yourself."

"But child, there's no need for that, really no need. You can rely on us a little more like you did when you were little. You used to say that you felt your parents were all-powerful superheroes who could do anything and get everything done quickly."

It's the same now. Rely on us more. Tell us what's wrong—tell us, child.

"Just say it."

"I……"

Ria felt a sense of despair, and when he opened his mouth, he realized that his voice sounded so unfamiliar.

Upon arriving in this world, his body and environment were unfamiliar. Every moment, he had to guard against the erosion from the extraordinary, the threat of death, the torment of excruciating pain, and the deception of dreams.

He desperately wanted to ask for a way out.

It seems that some kind of pollution is constantly amplifying his negative emotions, causing him to give up everything and completely surrender everything to the extraordinary.

"No... I must fulfill my duty as a guard."

"If you go to protect others, who will protect you?"

Countless hands reached out towards Ria, seemingly trying to drag him into the abyss of despair.

They covered Ria's eyes, gathered his head, and wrapped around his shoulders.

"Gulu——"

The eye on the back of the youth's neck turned and saw a human face with eight eyes that was very close to him, and those hands were clearly its limbs.

At that moment, the human face split open its mouth, revealing its blood-red fangs and laughing wildly. It opened its mouth to its maximum, with its upper and lower jaws connected only by a thin layer of skin on the back of its head, and countless red arthropods crawled out of its throat.

"My child, no one cares about you. Do I need to teach you what you should do?"

The red spiders spit out red silk threads, trying to wrap everything they can see, but Ria remains motionless, her body slowly dissolving into a mass of wriggling tentacles.

It was obvious that the person named Ria was still Swarth in disguise.

Its acidic fluid corroded the blood-red threads, which clustered around the tentacles and swallowed the crimson phantom. But soon, the tentacles were shattered by the phantom.

It turned its head dramatically: "It's you...where did you hide that person?"

"You dare to oppose the Creator? Are you tired of living?"

"Gulu..."

The dark tentacles reformed and, without a word, launched a new attack on the illusory phantom. All of this took place inside the tree trunk formed by the tentacles.

Outside, the dark tree trunks had blocked out the sun, and the shadow of the red moon had rapidly swallowed the sun, turning the entire sky a dark red color.

"Ga! Ga! Ga!"

Flocks of crows circled in the sky, foreshadowing impending disaster, but the giant tree stubbornly tried to withstand the crimson on its own.

It cannot succeed; even with its current astonishing size, it cannot possibly block out the entire sky.

(End of this chapter)