Forbidden Nightmare

Chapter 22: The Deep Sea and Reignition
【Special Exchange List】

[Quality: Unclean]

[Trait: Tentacles]

[Accessory: Bloody Rose Badge]

[Main material: Deep Sea (can be exchanged unconditionally, does not occupy the exchange quota)]

Only four items in the special list can be exchanged. Others such as "Steam Airship", "Advanced Sea Dependent", and "Trait Blood Rage" cannot be exchanged without meeting certain specific conditions.

Moreover, Li Nanke noticed that when the dream was settled before, it showed [You have unlocked some special exchange options! ]

This means that there are more hidden options that have not been unlocked and are not displayed in the special redemption list at all.

He first redeemed his node reward, the main substance 'Deep Sea', for free.

Suddenly, a mysterious symbol with a deep luster appeared in front of him. The symbol looked very familiar. It was the 'Septent' symbol that was scattered throughout the town of Abbes.

Li Nanke took a deep breath and reached out to touch the 'deep sea'.

In a trance, he seemed to be back on the desolate beach that had been bombed by countless bombs, and he saw again the deformed giant made of countless scales, flesh, blood, and tentacles...

【Main substance: deep sea】

[Subordinate: Animality]

[Rank: 0th rank]

[Level: 0/10]

[Details: This main quality can slightly enhance your physical strength, agility, and nerve reflex speed, especially the strength of the internal organs of the body, and allow you to gradually master the ability to fight in deep water. When you have the characteristics of this main quality branch, while upgrading the level of this main quality, the characteristics of the branch will also be strengthened to a certain extent. ]

[As the level of this essence increases, your abilities will continue to increase, and you may even gain the blessing of the power of the ocean's favor.]

[Note: I thought I had swam into my brother’s fish pond, but I didn’t expect my brother to be a sea king. ]

Li Nanke suddenly woke up, breathing heavily.

The mental erosion brought about by absorbing the main essence and characteristics is a destruction of will and reason every time. If one cannot resist this erosion, he will probably be deformed into a monster like those "sea followers" in Abbes Town.

After calming down, he carefully browsed the detailed information of "Deep Sea".

Compared to traits, the enhancement of the main quality 'Deep Sea' is more comprehensive, and after possessing this main quality, it can also provide additional enhancement for its related traits. It is indeed like the 'profession' and 'school' mentioned by the Great Other Shore.

He put his mind into the spiritual world, and saw the main substance 'Deep Sea' squeezed in between 'Beastiality', 'Breath of the Lake' and 'Scales of the Sea'.

Looking at the various intertwined marks in the spiritual world, the essential 'self' is like a fertile soil, from which grow four matrix trees named animality, humanity, spirituality, and divinity. The main substance 'deep sea' is the branch of the animality tree, which produces two thriving fruits, 'Breath of the Lake' and 'Scales of the Sea'.

For some reason, Li Nanke had the illusion that he was looking at a 'skill tree'.

There is not even a drop of source energy left in the current essential 'self'. When encountering the newly acquired main substance, it can only stare blankly but cannot upgrade.

He did not gain source energy from the death of 'Orphanas', probably because the destruction of the offspring of the evil god was accomplished by a steam cannon airship, and he did not participate in the battle and therefore could not gain a large amount of source energy.

There are two animal traits in the special exchange list, namely uncleanness and tentacles.

The former can grow sharp, poisonous nails, and when inflicting damage to the enemy in close combat, there is a certain chance that the enemy will be poisoned. The latter grows two tentacles from the left and right shoulder blades...

Li Nanke felt somewhat resistant to these inhuman changes in his body.

After absorbing the main qualities several times, he had some vague understanding that the reason he could resist that kind of spiritual erosion was mainly because he always maintained his rationality and will as a human being.

If too many inhuman traits were added to the body, even the human form would not be able to be maintained. Given the current strength of my mental will, I'm afraid I would be not far from the so-called lost and distorted state.

In the dream world, he had no choice but to increase his strength in order to complete each node, but now that he had the initiative to choose, he wanted to avoid these inhuman traits as much as possible.

Look at the last accessory - the bloody rose badge.

[Bloody Rose Chest Badge] [Type: Accessory/Chest]

【Quality: Excellent】

[Rating: 81/100]

[Details: A chest ornament with unique energy. It is a metal badge engraved with a bright red rose. Wearing it on the left chest (near the heart) can unleash the unique ability of the ornament - Reignite.]

[Rekindle: When your heart suffers a fatal blow, it can repair the fatal injury to the heart, but the ornament will be damaged. ]

[Note: The rose withered under the blazing flames, and it never waited for its lover to appear. The silently weeping rose wished the flames could be reignited...]

Excellent is a quality higher than ordinary and inferior. When you see that this chest badge has a score as high as 81, it means that the effect of the jewelry must be unique.

Under certain conditions, Reignite can almost be considered an extra life, which is why it has such a high equipment score.

Without much hesitation, Li Nanke chose to exchange the chest badge ornament.

After the exchange was completed, the mechanical sound of the Great Other Shore sounded again...

[Newly promoted Nightmare, as you become stronger through forbidden dreams, your authority will be upgraded accordingly. You will then be able to understand more truths and secrets, and the Great Other Shore will also open up more functions to you, and even more reincarnations...]

[Please remember, your goal is always to strive to survive and become stronger...]

The rolling darkness came, roaring and whistling, engulfing everything...

……

City of Redemption, Crisis Control Bureau.

Director Anderson stood on the top of a skyscraper.

The emergency meeting has ended. As for the containment of the escaped from the Great Beyond, the bigwigs are taking a wait-and-see attitude, because the containment location of the forbidden object 'The Great Beyond' is 4,000 kilometers away and it is highly unlikely to affect the City of Redemption.

He looked down at the prosperous yet dirty city below him. It was a rare cloudy and sunny day for the City of Redemption.

The early morning sun penetrated the thick clouds, casting a pale golden light.

Occasionally, the wind blows away the clouds to allow the sunlight to find a gap, and the light will gradually become brighter. Deadly beams of light will pour down and scorch the earth, evaporating the little life that was already left in the wilderness outside the city.

Half of the city is filled with heavy traffic, towering steel buildings, and hovercrafts shuttling back and forth; the other half is oppressive, cramped, low-rise and dirty slums, where people have numb expressions and walk hurriedly.

The sun shines on the streets of the slums. Occasionally, a person with a frightened look on his face would subconsciously avoid it, and then become angry or ashamed when others mocked him and called him "untouchable".

The person who sneers walks carefree in the sun, even though he was a wilderness pariah who was not granted the right to live in the slums not long ago.

Because the invisible plasma shield above the head covers the entire city, blocking all deadly light and radiation.

Director Anderson raised his head, squinted his eyes, and looked at the smaller, dazzling sun in the sky: "Forbidden Item 0-003, codenamed 'Eternal Sun Disc', danger level... world-destroying level."

After a long time, the communicator on the desk rang.

"Director, we have preliminarily found the source of the forbidden disaster in the A91 safety zone..."

"According to the Intelligence Monitoring Department, the target taboo object is suspected to be an unidentified artificial satellite, which suddenly appeared in low-Earth orbit at about 17:9 p.m. on the 10th and began to fall."

"This forbidden object has extremely strong electromagnetic interference. Neither ground-based radar nor high-altitude satellites can detect its existence. After falling to an altitude of 130 kilometers, the forbidden object suddenly dropped in altitude due to increased air resistance and began to spontaneously combust."

"The forbidden object eventually fell to the coast of the A91 safety zone and exploded, triggering a tsunami..."

"According to the Mobile Task Force, they have successfully salvaged part of the forbidden object and found a large amount of pheromones left, but there are still at least tens of thousands of small fragments that have not been salvaged yet..."

"Containers and researchers at all levels have also arrived at the scene. After preliminary research and judgment, it is currently found that this taboo object has extremely strong electrical interference characteristics and irregular electromagnetic pulse characteristics. As for whether it has other characteristics and side effects, further research and observation are needed..."

After listening to the report, Director Anderson hung up the communicator, his brows slightly relaxed: "Electromagnetic interference, electromagnetic pulse... This pheromone is extremely valuable."

(End of this chapter)