Chaos Heavenly Emperor Art

"Commander Ryan!"

Freya turned to look at the commander of the Dragon Abyss Relay Station who had lost an arm, and said in a deep voice, "Please retrieve all the information about the Holy Flame Adventurer Group."

"Of course!"

Ryan nodded, and after gesturing with his hand on the central control screen, information about all members of the Holy Flame Adventure Team and their mission details were displayed on the main screen in no time.

Freya looked at these messages, her beautiful eyes sparkling with excitement.

"Go! Invite all the members of the 'Holy Flame' Adventurer Group over here!"

Finally, Freya spoke again, her voice like ice, cold and clear, piercing through the oppressive air, "Remember, everyone!"

"Yes, Lady Freya!"

Commander Ryan nodded repeatedly and then quickly left.

Michael slammed his fist on the table impatiently: "Damn it, if it turns out that those idiots in the adventurer group caused this beast tide, I'll blow their heads off!"

Freya glanced at him and said calmly, "The trouble this adventure team has gotten into, which has provoked the mutated Annihilation Beast of the Tyrant species to take action, is probably not so simple."

Sariel nodded slightly. "The Tyrant race possesses intelligence no less than that of humans. A thousand years ago, to ensure the establishment of the Dragon Abyss Relay Station, Lord Wuzhao personally took action and killed more than ten mutated annihilation beasts of the Tyrant race. Since then, no Tyrant race has dared to attack the Dragon Abyss Relay Station."

She paused for a moment before continuing, "This time, those three tyrants actually dared to launch such a massive beast tide to attack the Dragon Abyss Relay Station. You can imagine how big a mess that adventurer group made!"

"Not only that."

Freya's eyes flashed with a sharp light as she added, "Lord Siyou asked us to investigate whether this beast tide is related to the Zerg. It seems that this claim is not unfounded. If the Zerg have already taken control of the three tyrants, things are probably more troublesome than we imagined."

Ling Feng stood beside Michael, outwardly calm, but inwardly his heart was in turmoil.

Could the person manipulating everything behind the scenes be the Night Mother?
……

Shortly after, the heavy alloy door of the conference room slid open silently, and a dozen adventurers, led by Scott, were escorted in by armed guards.

Scott looked like a weathered middle-aged man with a fresh scar running diagonally across his left cheek, which was now taut. His eyes were evasive, and he dared not look directly at the gods sitting at the head of the table.

"Commander Scott?"

Freya stood up and fixed her gaze on the middle-aged man.

"Yes... I'm Scott!"

Scott swallowed hard, his voice trembling slightly.

Although he was also the leader of an S-class adventure team, he had seen some of the world.

But there were four powerful, high-ranking gods standing before them!
Each one of them was like a god to them.

Freya slowly walked up to Scott, the aura of the goddess of wisdom enveloping him like an invisible pressure: "I would like to ask you, Commander, to explain what you did at Ruins S-97 ten days before the beast tide broke out? Why were you tracked by a special Shadowclaw Beast?"

Scott shuddered, cold sweat beading on his forehead. He collapsed to his knees with a thud. "Your... Your Highness Freya... We... We were just conducting a routine exploration outside the ruins, but we were unlucky enough to be attacked by a pack of beasts, so... so we had to escape..."

"lie!"

Freya's voice suddenly rose in pitch, carrying a captivating and penetrating power that struck straight to the heart!
Her eyes seemed to see right through people as she coldly glared at Scott. "Look me in the eye! Tell the truth! Otherwise, you should know the consequences of triggering this beast tide and causing the deaths of countless defenders and adventurers!"

An invisible pressure pressed down like a mountain!

Scott and his teammates behind him were trembling, and some even collapsed to the ground.

Scott's face instantly turned deathly pale, large beads of sweat rolled down his cheeks, his Adam's apple bobbed, and he forced a dry laugh: "M-Sir, you're joking. We really just picked up some scrap metal on the outskirts of the ruins to exchange for some supplies..."

"lie!"

Freya suddenly shouted and played the surveillance footage she had retrieved earlier. Pointing at the Shadowclaw Beast's eyeball, she said coldly, "It is clearly being controlled by the Tyrant species right now. Scott, are you going to lie again?"

Michael leaned against the wall with his arms crossed, scoffing, "I bet he won't learn his lesson until he's faced with a death sentence! Freya, why waste words on this scum? Just do a soul search! I want to see how much shit is hidden in his brain!"

Dangerous golden lightning crackled at his fingertips.

"No! No! Lady Freya, spare me!"

Scott fell to his knees with a thud, kowtowing repeatedly and begging for mercy, tears streaming down his face, saying, "I'll talk! I'll talk!"

"Ten days ago, we accepted a mission to explore the S-97 ruins. However, we never expected that we would discover a huge underground cave entrance deep inside the ruins!"

"The entrance was half-hidden by collapsed boulders. The energy detector showed an unusually strong life force and unknown energy inside. We thought it might be an undiscovered high-level annihilation beast's lair or an ancient ruin, so we dug open the entrance and went in."

His voice trembled, filled with deep fear and regret: "That cavern was bottomless! Countless mutated annihilation beasts slept inside! We were terrified and wanted to retreat immediately, but the annihilation beasts seemed to be sleeping soundly, and the light shining from the depths of the cavern aroused our curiosity!"

Scott took a deep breath and gritted his teeth, saying, "So, as if guided by some strange force, we kept going deeper and deeper. Finally, at the bottom of the hollow, we saw a very strange fleshy cocoon..."

"A fleshy cocoon?" Freya frowned slightly.

“Yes.” Scott nodded repeatedly. “I can’t quite put my finger on what it was, but it felt like something alive, like some kind of dormant embryo. I could even hear a sound similar to a heartbeat.”

"However, the cocoon was too big for us to bring back. So, I picked off the scale that was covered with a dazzling light."

"and then?"

Michael blurted out the question.

"Then, the entire underground cavern began to shake violently, and the dormant mutated annihilation beasts began to awaken one after another!"

Scott's face was filled with terror. "Countless eyes lit up in the darkness, then let out a deafening roar! We...we ran for our lives, and in the end, several of our brothers died before we barely managed to escape!"

He suddenly raised his head, tears streaming down his face: "Lady Freya! But I really didn't know that there were mutated Annihilation Beasts following us, and I didn't know that it would trigger a beast tide riot!!"

He kept kowtowing and wailing, "Lady Freya, we really didn't mean to trigger the beast tide, please spare our lives."

"Spare me, Lady Freya!"

The other members of the Holy Flame Adventurer Group also knelt down and begged Freya for forgiveness.

After all, if the entire responsibility for triggering the beast tide were placed on them, these unfortunate souls wouldn't be able to atone even with ten lives.

Freya remained silent for a moment, her gaze sharp as a knife, before finally continuing, "Where is that scale?"

"Yes, it's still with me!"

With trembling hands, Scott pulled a metal box carefully wrapped in multiple layers of energy-insulating material from his pocket.

He opened the box with trembling hands, and a strange scale, about the size of a palm, irregularly shaped, covered with dense dark purple scales, and with sharp, knife-like edges, was presented to everyone!
The surface of the scales is covered with countless tiny, slowly undulating scales, like living creatures, beneath which a dark purple light flows eerily, as if sealing a writhing abyss.

Just looking at it sent a nauseating feeling through the depths of one's soul, as if something foreign had invaded it. Buzz—!
The moment that scale was exposed to the air, an indescribable, ancient, cold, and aggressive aura instantly spread out!
In the command center, all the instrument screens were flashing garbled text and the lights were flickering on and off.

Freya, Sariel, and Ryuzawa Riyue's expressions changed slightly at the same time, and Michael even stood up abruptly with a serious look in his eyes.

The group looked at each other, clearly having never seen such a strange object before.

Scott lifted the box, his voice trembling, "This...this is it!"

A hint of curiosity flashed in Freya's eyes. She reached out, her slender fingers about to touch the scale that exuded an ominous aura.

"and many more!"

Just then, Ling Feng's voice boomed like thunder, startling Freya.

The outstretched hand also stopped abruptly.

"how?"

Freya turned to look at Ling Feng, only to see him appear beside Scott in a flash.

Just as Freya's fingers were about to touch the scales, she grabbed Scott's shoulder!

His movements were lightning fast. With a slight exertion of force, Scott winced in pain, and the wooden box he was holding crashed to the ground with a loud bang.

"what are you doing?!"

Freya was startled by Ling Feng's actions, her eyebrows furrowed, and her voice carried a hint of anger.

Michael frowned, looking puzzled, and asked, "Brother Long Fei? What does this mean?"

Ling Feng ignored them and suddenly ripped Scott's right sleeve open with a "ripping" sound!

"what!"

Scott let out a scream.

Then, the command room fell into dead silence!
Everyone stared wide-eyed at Scott's arm, their faces filled with shock.

Scott's bare right arm, from wrist to elbow, was covered with a layer of dark purple scales that were almost identical in color and texture to the scale itself!
At the junction of the scales and the skin, there were countless bizarre, bloody eyeballs!

Between his eyeballs, it seemed as if countless tiny buds were wriggling, forcibly fusing the scales, eyeballs, and his flesh together.

This strange change has been spreading from the forearm to half of the chest.

A dense array of eyeballs and scales, shimmering with an eerie purple light.

Strangely, despite the extent to which Scott's body had mutated, it did not affect his aura.

If Ling Feng hadn't discovered it in time, probably no one would have noticed anything amiss.

"My God! What... what is this?!"

Freya gasped, a wave of fear washing over her as a chill ran from her feet to the top of her head.

If she had touched that scale just now, would she have suffered the same disgusting mutation as Scott?
Women undoubtedly love beauty.

If I were to become that kind of grotesque creature, I'm afraid I'd rather be dead than alive.

"What the hell is that thing?!"

Michael flew into a rage, stepped forward, grabbed Scott by the collar, and lifted him up: "You bastard! You want to kill us?! You knew all along that you were infected by this monstrous thing?!"

Although Freya often made sarcastic remarks about Michael, they were, after all, powerful figures from the same faction of Raziel, the God of Fate.

Scott's face was ashen as he stared at the hideous scales on his arm, his eyes filled with despair and fear.

He burst into laughter, as if he were going to collapse. "How the hell was I supposed to know what this thing was? You wanted it? Fine, I'll give it to you! Hahaha, I'll give it to you! Take it, take it!"

At this moment, his mind was already somewhat twisted.

The reason I didn't warn Freya was that if Freya were also infected by those scales and became like me, she would definitely try to find a way to cure this mutation.

Perhaps by taking a chance on myself, I can be saved.

Unfortunately, he ultimately couldn't escape Ling Feng's keen insight.

Ling Feng had noticed something strange about this guy a long time ago!

Michael was startled and quickly threw Scott away.

"Damn it, I'll kill you!"

The next moment, a flash of fire appeared in Michael's hand, and he directly summoned the War God Sword.

"stop!"

At the critical moment, Freya called out to Michael.

"Freya, I'm doing this to avenge you!"

Michael turned to look at Freya, a hint of confusion flashing in his eyes.

What is this woman trying to do?
Michael walked slowly toward Scott and said calmly, "Captain Scott, I understand your pain right now. No one wants to become a monster! However, the one who tied the knot must untie it. If you want to undo this mutation, I think you can find the answer in that underground cavern you mentioned."

Scott, as if grasping at a straw, stared intently at Freya, "Lady Freya, are you telling the truth?"

"Do I need to lie to you?"

Freya scoffed, "If I wanted you dead, Michael's sword strike just now would have chopped off your head."

Freya took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "Commander Scott, I need you to lead us into that underground cavern and find the flesh cocoon you mentioned! I think all the answers lie in that flesh cocoon."

Scott clenched his fists, clearly somewhat frightened.

After all, that hollow space was filled with mutated annihilation beasts.

But after weighing the options carefully, he nodded in agreement, "Alright, as long as this damn mutation can be reversed, I'm willing to lead the way!"

"very good!"

Freya glanced at the purple scale on the ground with lingering fear, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Commander Scott, you can keep that scale for now." (End of Chapter)