Forbidden Nightmare

Chapter 137 Multiple choice question? No, I want them all!
Romeo watched as Pinocchio lost his power heart and continued to roar wildly.

If it could stand up, it swore that it would kill Li Nanke at all costs, but now its power heart was injured and its whole body could not move. It could only lie down helplessly and furiously.

Romeo didn't understand why Li Nanke raised the knife against his companions.

The enemy who was asking for the power heart was no longer able to resist, and one more blow would completely kill him. Since the enemy did not pose any threat, it really couldn't understand why Li Nanke did this.

Could it be... that this man had the same goal as Simon from the very beginning and also coveted the only power heart in the world?

It was not only Romeo who couldn't believe it. Sophia, who was controlling her own butterfly, was also shocked by the scene before her.

She watched Li Nanke pick up the 'Thunder Judgment Sword', holding the vigorously beating power heart, and slowly walked to Simon.

Sophia suddenly realized something and screamed in panic.

"Black Rabbit, what are you going to do?!"

"Haven't you always wanted to be the master of Puppet P? Stop right now and I'll tell you how to become his master."

"Simon only needs this power heart to proceed to the final step of the godhood ritual... Are you going to help Simon and become the enemy's lackey?!"

"You are releasing a demon with your own hands, a most terrible demon!"

Li Nanke ignored the two men and kicked Simon over, making the twisted and strange huge body face him.

He swung his sword, and blue blood splattered as Simon's chest was cut open by the sword.

Li Nanke held the power heart and stuffed it into Simon's chest...

Romeo lay on the ground, trying to tilt his head and open his eyes wide, but he couldn't see what Li Nanke was doing. He could only see his back half-squatting in front of Simon.

Although it couldn't see clearly what Li Nanke was doing, after hearing Sophia's terrified scream, it understood that Li Nanke wanted to use the power heart to help Simon complete the final step of the deification ceremony.

"stop!"

"Damn it, stop it!"

Romeo looked extremely ferocious, and roared loudly and heart-wrenchingly.

The moving heart is to the robot puppet what the engine of a car is to the human soul.

Removing the power heart from a puppet does not mean death. As long as the power heart is intact, it can be resurrected by putting it back into the puppet's body.

But if the power heart is severely damaged or completely broken, it will mean the death of the mechanical puppet.

As the power heart merged into Simon's chest, brilliant self-light emerged, and the extinguished blue flame began to reignite.

An endless supply of vitality was injected into Simon's body from the power heart. Simon suddenly opened his eyes and raised his head.

He felt the new heart beating violently in his chest and looked at the man in front of him with some suspicion.

Li Nanke said nothing but had a gentle smile on his face.

Simon quickly understood the situation. He looked down at his body with missing limbs and smiled. However, there was a hint of madness and bloodthirstiness in that smile.

"Kurou, I always knew you were a smart person."

“Although you chose the wrong path at the beginning, it was wise to come to your senses at the last moment and make the right decision.”

Simon didn't know why Li Nanke suddenly turned against his companions when victory was already certain, contributed the heart of the puppet P, and stood on his side.

Even if Li Nanke finally changes his mind and hopes that he can show mercy and let go of the previous hatred, he will still kill the other party!
This was not only because his limbs were cut off by Li Nanke, but also because of Laxia's death!

However, none of this matters anymore.

The important thing is that he has obtained the most crucial power heart and can proceed to the final step of the deification ceremony!

Simon laughed out loud, and his crazy laughter echoed in everyone's ears.

"I will abandon this weak body and truly master divine power!"

"This is... evolution!"

As soon as the words were spoken, a synchronous prompt tone sounded.

[Nightmare, you have completed the hidden node (optional branch): Go to the Alchemy Island and dedicate the power heart of the puppet P to Simon, the leader of the Alchemist Group! ]

[Hidden node rewards: main substance 'alchemy' (to be claimed), unlock some special exchange permissions, and improve dream settlement score! ]

Suddenly, Simon's flesh and blood shrivelled up, just like the bodies of the alchemists in the monastery, like a dried corpse that had been dried out for a long time.

All the self-element, all the vitality, and all the essence in his body were injected into the divine body in an instant!
The bud behind Simon suddenly blossomed.

The embryonic divine body seemed to come alive. He stretched out his cracked azure body and extended his solid left arm toward the sky.

In an instant, the world fell into endless darkness, and the deep darkness like eternal night enveloped the entire round tower.

Only the divine body was emitting azure light, becoming the focus of all attention.

He extends His 'Arms of God' to the deepest darkness in the center of the night.

The people present looked up at the eternal night, and a shuddering feeling of terror spread from the depths of their souls.

It's like throwing a person into the cold, silent and boundless empty universe. All the stars and any light move away from him. The darkness remains unchanged forever until the end of time and the extinction of the void.

Standing alone in the void, there seems to be a huge monster that has existed since time immemorial in the endless darkness.

You can't make out its twisted outline, it's bigger, older, and more terrible than anything else!
It is not far from you, no…He is very close!

A bright light flickered, and countless huge pale human hands descended from the center of the night sky. Their palms kept stretching and clenching, and their roots were connected to each other like flower stamens, gathering in a way that humans could not understand.

An exceptionally large azure arm stretched out from the center of the gathering.

That arm was like the hand of a giant, or even the hand of a god, shining with azure light all over. It grew out from the deepest part of the night and descended to the mortal world.

The divine body on the ground stretched out its arms as far as it could, opened its palms, and pointed its index finger toward the night sky, toward the giant hand that descended in the eternal night.

The giant hand also descended in the same posture. Both of them have the same origin, one is lost in the mortal world, covered by dust, and the other is supreme, holy and flawless.

A huge hand and a tiny human hand are getting closer and closer, and the tips of their index fingers are about to touch.

When the fingertips of the two touch, the deification ceremony will be completed and a new god will be born!
At this time, Li Nanke was trembling all over, clenching his teeth, cold beads of sweat oozing out of his forehead and sliding down, and the clothes on his back were soaked with cold sweat.

The danger sense in his heart warned him: 'Don't look up, don't look up, don't look up!'

Otherwise, once he looked up and looked directly at the giant hand, he would completely fall and lose himself completely, and could only watch the deification ceremony being completed.

That giant hand is an existence that cannot be understood by humans. It is a terrifying existence that can affect the soul and will of any living creature.

Can't look directly! Can't observe! Can't speak!
Even if he blocked his perception and did not actively observe the terrifying existence that was slowly approaching.

But the primitive instinct of living things can clearly feel the supreme pressure, just like a weak child shivering in front of a towering snow-capped mountain.

No! It was like a low-dimensional creature accidentally glimpsed the projection of a high-dimensional creature. Just the projection of a scale or claw overturned all the cognition of the low-level creature and made it fall into endless madness.

Li Nanke used all his strength to tightly grasp the 'Thunder Judgment Sword'.

He stared at the divine figure in front of him with his arms raised high, his eyes focused on the cracks on the other's crystal body.

His exhausted mental strength was not enough to support him to use "Fanasia" again, but his will was so focused that he abandoned all other perceptions.

In his eyes and in his heart, there was only the blue arm pointing to the sky.

At this moment, the god is about to be born, and it is also the moment when the god's body is at its most vulnerable!

He defeated Simon before the deification ceremony, which greatly affected the divine body connected to Simon.

If Simon is not defeated, the divine body must be too powerful to be broken.

But now, Li Nanke could clearly feel that the powerful force came from the terrifying existence above the night sky, not the divine body in front of him.

Only when the two touch each other and complete the enlightenment to create the eternal god, the divine body in front of it will be promoted to an existence that cannot be understood by humans, just like the giant hand.

Just as the descending giant hand was about to touch the 'Arm of God', Li Nanke poured all his will into the giant sword in his hand and slashed forward with the sword!
The brilliant sword light burst out, and the sharp cold light flashed!
The world fell into absolute silence.

The blue arm suddenly stiffened and stopped, and the index finger that kept stretching out seemed to have been frozen in an instant.

A deep sword mark appeared on the shoulder of the divine body, and a crackling sound was heard.

The cracks on the surface of the divine body became deeper, and the deep spider-web-like cracks continued to spread until they spread throughout the entire body of the divine body.

"collapse!"

The embryonic form of the god's body was shattered into pieces, and countless crystal-like fragments burst forth.

A blue arm fell to the ground.

In an instant, the deep darkness receded like a tide, and the gloom of the eternal night disappeared completely.

The whistling sound of the wind was heard above the towering round tower, the chirping of insects echoed in the forest, and the sound of the tide of the waves hitting the shore returned in the distance.

All sounds and lights returned to this world as the apotheosis ritual was interrupted.

It seemed as if the darkness that had just swept across the world and the giant hand that fell from the sky were all just illusions of the people present.

Li Nanke gasped heavily, leaned on the giant sword, and picked up the "Arm of God" that had fallen to the ground.

He looked tired, but his eyes were filled with anticipation.

Sure enough, after picking up the 'Arm of God', the synchronized prompt sound rang again.

[Nightmare, you have completed the hidden node (optional branch): Go to the Alchemy Island and seize the divine arm of Simon, the leader of the Alchemist Group! ]

[Hidden node rewards: main quality 'Angel' (to be claimed), unlock some special exchange permissions, improve dream settlement score! ]

The two optional branches of The Other Side are two completely opposite routes. It seems that only one of them can be chosen to complete, but Li Nanke actually pocketed all the rewards of both routes in this way.

This is not a single-choice question, but a multiple-choice question that you can answer all of them!

The 'God's Arm' in his hand was as hard as crystal, with a turquoise blue color all over, yet emitting a layer of bright white light.

The essence called "Angel" is contained in this arm.

Li Nanke's face suddenly changed, and he threw down the "Arm of God" as if it was a hot potato.

"Fuck! Why is it the beast nature again, and it's a more powerful beast nature!"

After absorbing the main essence and characteristics of animality many times, he can roughly judge whether the ability is subordinate to animality before absorbing these extraordinary powers.

The main substance called 'Angel' is undoubtedly a subordinate of the animal nature, and is more powerful than 'Pain'.

After he upgraded his "Pain" to the maximum level, even though he already had several full-level human traits as a balance, he still couldn't suppress his extremely strong animal nature.

Compared with the main quality, the strength of the characteristics is much weaker than the main quality, whether it brings a sense of balance or imbalance.

If he absorbed the main substance of 'Angel' at this time, he would probably go crazy immediately.

Li Nanke looked towards Simon. A white light was emanating from Simon's pocket. The main reward called "Alchemy" should be hidden there.

He came to Simon with a huge sword, dissected the enemy's chest again with one sword, and pulled out a power heart from it.

Compared to before, the beating heart that originally shone with metallic luster now looked rusty and had completely stopped beating.

This is a heart that is completely dead.

Simon had also died long ago, and he had obtained a nearly eternal strange essence from the power heart.

Simon blended the essence in the power heart with his own essence and injected it all into the divine body. He would wait for the deification ceremony to be over and then be promoted to a new god.

But he never expected that Li Nanke would jump back and forth as if he had no position of his own at all.

One moment he is his sworn enemy, beating him up together with Pinocchio and Romeo, and the next moment he turns against him and offers Pinocchio's power heart to help him perform the deification ceremony.

Finally, when the deification ceremony was about to be completed, he was sent to heaven with another sword and the arm of God was snatched away.

Not only Simon, but even Sophia and Romeo couldn't understand Li Nanke's operations at all.

I just wonder if this man is crazy.

Sophia was better off. No matter what the process was, Li Nanke finally completed the commission and fulfilled his promise, helping her achieve revenge.

It was indeed a pity that the doll P died, but she only felt a little bit sorry and had no other emotions.

But Romeo was going crazy. If Li Nanke's goal was to seize the Arm of God, he could have easily achieved it by defeating Simon just now.

Why would he go to such lengths to sacrifice Carlo and deliver the power heart after the enemy had lost the power to resist?

If he wanted to help the enemy, why did he take away the God's Arm in the end?
Now the power heart has completely lost its activity. Even if the heart is put back into Carlo's body, Carlo will not be able to come back to life.

Carlo is dead! Carlo's sacrifice was completely in vain!

Romeo was almost overwhelmed by endless anger, but he could do nothing but be furious. He couldn't even stand up to avenge Carlo.

Li Nanke took out a palm-sized notebook from Simon's pocket. The cover of the notebook was printed with the logo of the "Holy Ouroboros", and the whole notebook emitted a bright white light.

The essence called "alchemy" is contained in the alchemy notebook.

"This seems to be human nature, but also seems to be spirituality..."

Li Nanke was somewhat uncertain about the affiliation of the main substance of 'alchemy', but he could feel that this extraordinary power was far less powerful than the main substance of 'angel'.

He put away the alchemy notes and did not absorb the "alchemy" immediately.

Li Nanke came to the puppet boy, holding the inactive power heart.

He stared at Pinocchio's expression. On the young face of the puppet boy, there was no hatred and anger before death, only confusion.

Pinocchio naively believed in the boss, but was betrayed by Li Nanke.

He sighed silently, put the power heart back into Pinocchio's chest, and connected it to several metal blood vessels in his body.

The rusty heart was very fragile and pieces of rust fell off when it was connected to the metal blood vessels.

After the installation was completed, the heart stopped beating and Pinocchio fell into eternal sleep.

"Black Rabbit! I swear, I will use your life to commemorate Carlo's death!"

Li Nanke took a quick glance and saw the puppet king Romeo lying face down on the ground, unable to move or get up, looking extremely miserable.

"Who told you Pinocchio was dead?"

Romeo was stunned, then became furious: "I am not as simple as Carlo, don't try to deceive me with sweet words! No matter what you say, I will take revenge on you at all costs!"

Li Nanke shook his head, too lazy to pay attention to Romeo.

He was about to make a move, but suddenly stopped, moved his ears, and looked towards the entrance of the round tower.

I saw a middle-aged man wearing a black coat, a top hat and a monocle on his right eye slowly walking into the round tower.

On his left hand, he wore a glove made of woven metal threads. The tips of his five fingers were inlaid with self-crystals, and the hazy blue threads were rippled and stretched tightly between his fingers.

A blue thread connected the strange puppet that followed closely behind him.

The middle-aged man's face was very familiar. Li Nanke had seen his statue at the City Hall Expo.

This person is the genius alchemist known as the 'Father of Dolls' - Geppetto!

"I feel that Carlo's heart has died..."

Geppetto walked slowly towards them, leading the strange puppet with a blue silk string. He glanced at Pinocchio, and the rusted heart exposed in his chest was particularly eye-catching.

The middle-aged man's eyes were extremely sad. He turned to look at Li Nanke and asked in a cold tone: "As the instigator of all this, are you ready to pay the price with your life?"

(End of this chapter)