Question, Understand, Become a Holy Lord

The Bloated Woman, one of Nyarlathotep's incarnations, is hiding in a dark corner at this moment, shouting at the top of her lungs, hoping to attract the attention of Yog-Sothoth, who must be watching these incarnations that were independent of Nyarlathotep.

However, the Swelling Girl also knew that her struggle was in vain. Since Yog-Sothoth had confined her to this world for some reason, it would definitely not let her leave until its goal was achieved.

And after He completes His plan, it is hard to say whether He will still exist. Anyway, the Swelling Girl estimates that there is a 99% chance that He has no future, and this world will be its last.

“Howler in the Dark, Black Pharaoh, The Haunter of the Dark, The Crawling Mist… weren’t they all wiped out in one fell swoop?” The Swollen Girl sensed the familiar faces in this world, and the bloated face behind the disguise collapsed instantly. The situation was so desperate that it didn’t know where to find a chance to survive.

"It's all Nyarlathotep's fault [Outer God swear word, not shown]. He knew that Yog-Sothoth's behavior was abnormal from any angle, but he didn't find a place to hide, but had to confront Him head-on. As a result, he is hiding now, and we, the incarnations who have finally gained freedom, have become abandoned pawns, bah!" The swollen girl was full of resentment towards Nyarlathotep's real body, who was hiding in some corner. Her resentment was far greater than that of Yog-Sothoth, who directly caused it to fall into its current situation.

Although the Swelling Daughter knew that even if she replaced the actual body with hers, it would most likely fall into the same trap as Nyarlathotep because of its similar thinking and personality to Nyarlathotep, this did not stop her from making contemptuous mockery of Nyarlathotep who fell into the trap easily at the end of her life.

"Could it be that Yog-Sothoth wants to use us as bait to lure out that guy Nyarlathotep? Neither of them would be so stupid, right?" Since the reality cannot be changed, the Swollen Girl can only think about why Yog-Sothoth would specifically leave behind these incarnations that cannot stir up any waves and bind them in this world.

It can’t be that it’s meant to be saved for the New Year, right?

"The power is limited and unable to escape." The swollen girl tried to activate the cross-border ability of this group of beings, but it was obviously unusable. However, its other powers can basically still function normally, as if there are no restrictions.

Since she couldn't see anything abnormal on her own body, the swollen girl naturally turned her attention to other incarnations in this world, and found that everyone's ideas were surprisingly consistent, and they all wanted to find some useful clues from other guys.

"Tsk, they usually pretend to be brainless, but now they don't even want to pretend." The Swollen Girl pouted with dissatisfaction. She noticed that incarnations like Black Wind and Crawling Mist, which used to tend to manifest as phenomena, now revealed their own wills, and she said so unhappily.

The entire One Piece world fell into an eerie calm. All the incarnations of Nyarlathotep who had awakened and regained their self-awareness were looking at each other while secretly observing the world.

None of them proposed cooperation here. As incarnations of Nyarlathotep, they also knew that apart from hostility, the only possible relationship between themselves and other incarnations was mutual exploitation.

All the incarnations want to escape from this world by stepping on the corpses of other incarnations, to escape permanently from the war between Yog-Sothoth and Nyarlathotep, and then wash away the mark on themselves over the long years, to completely become independent from the Cthulhu mythology system, and to become a new and complete individual.

In their eyes, there is no such thing as allies in this world. There are only enemies that can be used and enemies that cannot be used temporarily. The condition for their victory is to find the only possible way out surrounded by enemies and escape from the clutches of Yog-Sothoth.

"Wait, the Queen in Red's condition seems a little strange..." The Swollen Girl quickly noticed something unusual and realized that Nyako might be the breaking point.

Since the Swelling Girl has discovered the abnormality of the Red Queen, the other incarnations naturally noticed Nyako's situation one after another.

But as the saying goes, if everyone has it then no one has it, and if everyone has discovered it then no one has discovered it. When all the incarnations noticed that the Red Queen was abnormal, no incarnation dared to act rashly and become the target of public criticism.

The option of sneaking away does not exist. Although everyone is at different distances from Nyaruko, the closest one can bump into her by just turning over, and the farthest one is directly thrown to the other side of the universe, but the distance in the physical sense has never been an obstacle for them.

Even if Yog-Sothoth specifically restricted their ability to control space, it was only to prevent them from escaping from this world. Even if they could not open a portal in the material plane, they could still teleport by diving into deeper planes.

Apart from being unable to escape from this world, their many methods are actually not subject to any constraints. In addition, everyone used to be colleagues, and even if they are independent now, they still know each other well. In this situation, there is no soil for schemes to survive.

As for why Nyako couldn't do it, it was purely because she was inexperienced. She had not yet adapted to her new identity and knew nothing about those skills that were theoretically basic operations. She was still subconsciously exercising her power based on her past experience.

When the incarnations of Nyarlathotep were in a brief stalemate with each other, Nyarrato's Aho Radar finally detected a hint of abnormal atmosphere and began to frantically warn Nyarrato.

"Nayako, what's wrong with your hair?" "Sea King" Shirahoshi asked curiously as he looked at the crazy hair on Nayako's head.

The place where Nayako is now is no longer the first shelter, but an underwater cave shelter built specifically for the fishmen. Most of it is in the sea. It is also the last shelter that Nayako has visited.

As one of the three "ancient weapons", "Sea King" and "Poseidon", Shirahoshi has the ability to communicate with and control sea kings. Although her ability is now mature and can be controlled freely, due to the floating fear of the "God of Disaster", there are not many sea kings in the ocean that can be driven by her. It can be said that she is already in name only.

"This is because the Aho Radar has detected a huge danger and is warning me!" Nayako immediately became alert and looked around uneasily.

"Nami, just throw me somewhere outside, quickly!" Nyako naturally didn't notice anything wrong, but because of this, Nyako realized that things were really serious now.

In this world, who else could be the enemy that could make her feel a sense of crisis and yet hide from her, except for those beings called "disaster gods" by the natives of the One Piece world, who are actually the incarnations of Nyarlathotep?

"What happened?" Nami asked hurriedly when she saw Nayako's panic-stricken look.

"It's too late to explain. Anyway, I'm leaving first. I hope we can meet again next time." The ahoge on Nyako's head has been growing more and more intense, and it's almost like it will grow out of Nyako's head and set up its own business.

Nyako didn't bother to say more and used her not-yet-mastered ability to break through the space. The ahoge on her head directly pulled Nyako into the space channel and disappeared in the shelter before Nami, Robin and others could react to what was happening.

"Go back and find Vitelleo and ask her to find Nyako's location!" Robin said anxiously to Nami.

Although no one knows why Nyako fled the shelter in such a panic, the only sources of danger in this world have been that group of "Disaster Gods" since the "Disaster God" appeared. No matter what the reason is, it is definitely related to that group of "Disaster Gods".

There is no time to think about why Nyako from another world is suddenly related to the "God of Disaster" in this world. Robin's intuition tells her that the secret of Nyako will become a breakthrough for them to further understand the "God of Disaster" and even defeat them. Therefore, she must not sit idly by and watch Nyako fall into unknown danger!

"I understand!" Nami also knew the seriousness of the matter. She quickly opened the door to Vitelleo's side, said goodbye to Shirahoshi and others in a hurry, and returned to the original shelter with Robin.

While Robin, Nami and the others took action, Nyako also came to a snowy area through her own random portal.

Nyako did not observe the surrounding environment and the movements of the enemy, but directly pushed the most basic transparency ability of the Transparent Fruit to the extreme, trying her best to make her body shape, breath and even presence "transparent" in order to avoid being caught so quickly.

"What bad luck, I just randomly appeared in a snowy area." Nayako groaned inwardly as she looked at the snow all over the ground, and had to float up carefully, planning to move away from this place.

However, before Nayako could escape from here, a series of figures appeared on the snowy field across space and surrounded Nayako tightly in the center.

"Haha..." Nayako knew it was too late to run away, so she gave up struggling. After removing the "transparency" that was like stealing a bell to cover up one's ears, she stood obediently in the middle of the giant and greeted them quietly: "Hello, have you eaten?"

None of the incarnations responded to Nyako's greeting. In fact, their own internal affairs had not yet been resolved, and they should not have appeared in front of Nyako like this.

However, even though they are all incarnations of Nyarlathotep, there are subtle differences between them. The Beast, an incarnation known for being powerful, brutal and almost mindless, has the same level of intelligence and ability as the other incarnations even now after becoming independent.

However, the nature of the beast's incarnation still slightly affected its character, causing it to react subconsciously to Nyako's actions.

When the beast took the lead, the other incarnations had to follow the beast's actions, no matter what they were thinking at the moment, to prevent the beast from taking advantage of this opportunity to take Nyako away and gain the upper hand.

As a result, under the chain reaction caused by the beast's subconscious actions, all the incarnations of Nyarlathotep, including the Red Queen represented by Nyarrako, were crowded in this white snowfield, making this originally spacious snowfield extremely crowded.

Fortunately, Nyarlathotep has always liked to "come from the people and go to the people", and is keen on deceiving and tempting humans. His greatest joy is to make them fall into terror and despair and eventually become insane. Therefore, although there are many incarnations of Nyarlathotep that are too large for humans, if you compare them with other Outer Gods and Old Gods, you will find that the overall size of Nyarlathotep's incarnations tends to be pocket-sized and mini.

This is how the spectacular scene of all the incarnations of Nyarlathotep gathered together on a snowy field on a certain continent in the world of One Piece appeared.

Of course, anyone who knows something about Nyarlathotep or the Outer Gods would definitely not want to see such a grand scene of divine punishment in their limited life. If they really encounter it, even the three points accumulated for hundreds of lifetimes will not be enough for this one!

After her friendly greeting was ignored by Hualili, Nayako didn't dare to act rashly. As she said before, there were differences between the incarnations. She was a newbie who had just eaten the Red Queen not long ago. Even if she had replaced the Red Queen to some extent, her strength and experience were far different from those of other incarnations.

As a fish on the chopping board, all she could do now was to reduce her presence as much as possible, while praying madly to Yog-Sothoth in her heart, hoping that this ancestor who had inexplicably chosen her would be able to help her again.

Chapter 308: Fresh Evil God Materials on Sale

"It's finally reopened. I wonder how the Samsara Plaza will be upgraded this time." Aizen Sosuke pushed his reflective flat glasses and said with some anticipation.

The Samsara Square is a mixed bag, and the worlds they live in are even more diverse, with strange connections between them. His identity and true character have long been exposed, but Aizen, who has changed his mentality and has become accustomed to this dress, still wears his traditional skin and has no intention of changing it.

Aizen stretched out his fingers, and some tiny points of light floated out from his body, gathering in front of him to form another figure of Aizen.

"Then I'll leave it to you." Aizen said to the new Aizen in front of him with a gentle smile on his face.

"You are still so good at pretending. You are so hypocritical even though there is no outsider around." The newly appeared Aizen No. 2 said to Aizen without giving him any face.

"Life always needs some sense of ritual, otherwise wouldn't it be too boring?" Aizen didn't care about the ridicule of his other self, "Besides, who can be sure that no one is watching me at this moment?"

"If there really is someone staring at you now, then wouldn't these words have already exposed your bad nature, and your performance just now would have been wasted." Aizen No. 2 opened the portal to the Samsara Square, and before leaving he was still mocking Aizen himself.

Aizen's expression didn't change at all, he still smiled and said, "Who knows?"

Aizen No. 2 did not continue to argue with Aizen. After the portal was fully opened, he walked in without looking back, leaving only his back to Aizen.

The moment Aizen No. 2 stepped into the Samsara Square, the square was already crowded with many Samsaras gathered, and more Samsaras came to the Square one after another, eager to know what changes the maintenance and update of the Samsara Square had brought.

The changes in the Samsara Square were so eye-catching that Aizen could notice at a glance that the stone tablet of rules that originally stood in the center of the Samsara Square was now piercing through the sky and the earth. Layers of light and shadows flowed on the stone tablet, and dense and complex symbols appeared on the tablet, like words and rules.

Apart from that... apart from that, there seems to be no other changes. The layout of the Reincarnation Square was the same as it was when these Reincarnationists evacuated before, and it is the same as it is now, without any increase or decrease.

"Brother Aizen, you came at the right time. You have a good brain. Come and study what has been updated in the Samsara Square?" The sharp-eyed Zhang Jie noticed Aizen who had just arrived and greeted him quickly.

Beside Zhang Jie, those familiar faces—Saitama, Han Li, Aqua and others—were all gone. Given their personalities, they probably wouldn’t arrive at the opening time of the Samsara Square. Instead, there was a mechanical cyborg who looked quite tough.

"Good afternoon, Dr. Aizen." The budget warrior Genos trotted to Aizen and greeted him respectfully.

"Genos-kun, good afternoon." Aizen responded to Genos's greeting with a smile, even though it was not noon in the world where his real body was now. "Saitama-kun is busy playing games at home again. Do you want to go explore the way first?"

"Master Saitama has important things to do, so as his disciple, it is natural for me to help him solve his problems." Genos said seriously.

"Is the new equipment I designed for you useful when facing monsters?" Aizen asked softly, while quietly retrieving the information recorded in the recording device installed on Genos.

"Thank you again, Dr. Aizen. The equipment you designed for me is really useful. When facing ordinary Dragon-level monsters, I can easily crush them. This not only makes my ranking in the Hero Association rise rapidly, but also brings me one step closer to my goal of finding and eliminating my enemies personally. Your help means a lot to me, thank you very much." Genos said as he bowed deeply to Aizen.

"Genos, you really don't have to be so polite. The essence of scientific research is exploration and experimentation. You can recover from it, and I can get valuable experimental data from you. This is really a mutually beneficial relationship." Aizen helped Genos up and shook his head.

"No! This is really a great favor that I cannot repay!" Genos insisted stubbornly.

"Brother Aizen's technological level is certainly beyond doubt! Xiaojie, you can also help brother Aizen to find and fill in the gaps. Later, I will invite everyone to dinner and we can have a good chat about this matter." Seeing that the two were about to start the perpetual motion machine mode, Zhang Jie quickly interrupted them.

"Let's focus on the Samsara Square for now. Brother Aizen, what do you think?" Zhang Jie has been helping Saitama take care of Genos for some time. He knows that this kid is good in everything but has many advantages, but his personality is too stubborn. Once he is determined to do something, even Saitama will find it difficult to pull him back.

Fortunately, Aizen is very good at dealing with people like Genos, and his technology has obviously improved Genos, so when Aizen is around, Zhang Jie and Saitama simply entrust Genos to Aizen.

Under Aizen's guidance, Genos not only received powerful equipment support, but more importantly, he learned how to maximize the power of these equipment and how to flexibly use the power of technology in battle. Although Genos still calls him Dr. Aizen, he has already become another master of Genos.

"Zhang Jie is right. Let's focus on the changes in the Samsara Square first." Aizen nodded.

"Yes!" Genos responded respectfully, then stopped talking and stood quietly aside.

"You got here before me. Have you found anything?" Aizen asked Zhang Jie while looking at the rule stele in front of him which had changed drastically.

"In fact, the two of us just arrived one step earlier than the Aizen brothers, and we haven't had the chance to take a closer look." Zhang Jie scratched his head and said embarrassedly.

"Is that so? Then let's take a look together." Aizen was not surprised at all to get such an answer from Zhang Jie. After all, even if he did not go here as soon as the Samsara Square reopened, he was definitely in the first echelon.

Even if Zhang Jie and Genos returned to the Samsara Square the moment it was unsealed, with their abilities, they would most likely not be able to find anything valuable.

Although it sounds like Aizen is looking down on the abilities of Zhang Jie and Genos, it is indeed the fact. Although the two of them have grown a lot in the Samsara Square, their strength is also rising steadily.

However, in Aizen's view, their strength, or that of the vast majority of the Samsaras in the Samsara Square, is still in the stage of quantitative change. Even with various abilities and props, these Samsaras in the stage of quantitative change can still play an outstanding role in the task of hunting down the evil god.

But most of them can only achieve victory in specific situations and when facing specific types of evil gods. Once the conditions on the battlefield change slightly, they will be ruthlessly crushed by the evil gods.

And those evil gods who were regarded as prey, or the group of top-level reincarnations, had undoubtedly reached the stage of qualitative change in Aizen's view.

The powerful beings who have reached the stage of qualitative change do not necessarily perform better in combat than some beings who are still in the stage of quantitative change. The strength of the beings cannot be judged by such superficial things as how big a hole can be created by a full-strength attack. Otherwise, there would not have been so many reincarnations on the Reincarnation Square in the first place.

In Aizen's eyes, beings in the stage of qualitative change showed a remarkable characteristic - they were both stable and comprehensive. No matter what kind of environment they were in or which world they were in, they could always exert all their abilities stably.

The rules of the world will not cause them any trouble. Even in some special worlds, restricted by certain special rules, they are no longer like those strong people who are still in the stage of quantitative change and can only passively adapt to the rules.

They can already actively stick to the rules and make use of them. Even under the same restrictions, they can transform their environment into their home ground to the greatest extent possible. In a sense, they are completely invincible.

Just like the former Ghoul King Mordiggian, he directly turned that part of the Marvel Universe into his own home court - although he was easily conquered by Yog-Sothoth in the end.

After the stage of qualitative change, Aizen didn't know how to make further distinctions. No matter how careful and detailed his evaluation was, it could hardly be called truly objective and accurate for things he had not witnessed with his own eyes.

However, for those strong people who have surpassed the qualitative change stage that he knows, Aizen still has a certain understanding of their basic abilities, which is to ignore the rules, become the rules, change the rules, transcend the rules, and create rules.

Like the rule stele in front of us, we can get a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg of the ability of the master of the Reincarnation Square.

"Exchange list - Heart of the Night Demon, Fang of the Ghoul, Touch of Azhora Tower, Sleep of Ghroth, Whisper from the Darkness of the Stars..." Aizen silently recited the most conspicuous exchange list on the rule stele.

As for the names on the list, because Zhang Jie, Nag and Yebu were pretty good friends, and because he was pretty good friends with Zhang Jie, Aizen had heard of most of them. He knew very well that these names were the evil gods being hunted by the big guys behind the Samsara Square.

However, there are only these rows of names on the exchange list. Apart from that, there is no information such as introduction, summary, appearance or even exchange conditions. The simple exchange panel makes it hard not to suspect that the update and maintenance project of the Reincarnation Plaza was outsourced by the big boss behind the scenes, and the construction team took kickbacks.

"Brother Aizen, the main god's light ball in the team space is gone. It has all turned into projections of stone tablets. It seems that the main god's space is completely destroyed now." Following Aizen's advice, Zhang Jie returned to the reincarnation team space to explore, poking his head out of the portal and said.

"Oh, no, it can no longer be called a team space. The former reincarnation teams have been automatically disbanded. Now it should be renamed as personal space." Zhang Jie said in a complicated tone.

"That's right, Mr. Saitama and I's rooms have been separated, and now we have to live independently." Genos said with some disappointment.

"Also, the obsessive videos that were playing in a loop on the four walls of my personal space are finally gone. This wasn't easy. I can finally have some peace and quiet from now on." Zhang Jie said with a beaming smile, and he was obviously very satisfied with the changes in his personal space.

"That's good news." Aizen nodded in agreement, rarely agreeing with Zhang Jie's opinion.

In the original team space, and now in the personal space, those magical videos that are played in a loop cannot be blocked simply by covering your eyes and plugging your ears. Their appearance in the team space in the form of videos is really just a form. In fact, they are directly engraved into the DNA and even deep in the soul.

As long as the reincarnationist is in the team space, those videos will keep echoing in his ears. It would be fine to just ignore them, but if he wants to avoid being harassed by them by cutting off his five senses, then congratulations, this clever reincarnationist will feel what real torture is.

Unfortunately, Aizen is one of the unlucky ones.

"And I've asked, and those buildings built by the reincarnationists themselves in the Reincarnation Square have not been affected. At present, it seems that only the rule stele has changed in the Reincarnation Square." Zhang Jie, who has a wide network of contacts, is very efficient and quickly got the information from other reincarnationists.

"And these exchange items...if my information is correct, they are all fresh." Zhang Jie looked around and made sure that no one was paying attention to this side, then whispered to Aizen.

Aizen couldn't help but adjust his glasses. It was not difficult to understand what Zhang Jie meant by "fresh". He was saying that these exchange items were authentically stripped from the evil god and contained the source of the evil god's power. Otherwise, there would be no need for Zhang Jie to deliberately act like this in front of him.

Aizen once again felt that having a good relationship with Zhang Jie was a good move. Otherwise, information like this, even if the result was similar to his guess, but without actual proof, no matter how reasonable the guess was, it would just be empty talk.

Zhang Jie can help Aizen turn these speculations into valuable intelligence, and then work with him to gain more benefits through the information gap to achieve a win-win outcome.

Chapter 309 Recruitment Mission: Shadow of Chaos

"I don't know about that." Zhang Jie said that the connections behind him were not omnipotent. He had already shamelessly obtained this little information. If he wanted more information, Zhang Jie suspected that his favorability with the two brothers Nag and Yebu would drop. Zhang Jie seriously suspected that the two brothers actually didn't know, but they couldn't save face and say that they didn't know. If he continued to ask, he would be slapped in the face.

"Oh, thank you for your hard work." Aizen nodded thoughtfully, and then thanked Zhang Jie.

"It seems that the changes in the Reincarnation Square are not yet completely completed. Let's go to other places to take a look." Zhang Jie glanced at the inscription that used to be a carrier for recording rules, but now inexplicably had some incomplete new functions.

Although now, because of the mysterious symbols and the emerging light and shadows, they cannot know whether the original strange rules are still recorded on the inscription, nor can they judge whether the constraints of those rules are still effective in this updated and iterated Reincarnation Square.

However, any reincarnationists who stay in the Reincarnation Square for a little longer and have awe for this place will not take the chance of trying to cross the red line. But if there are those who are bold and fearless and want to break the authority, most of the reincarnationists will not stop them, but will be happy to see it happen.

Aizen did not object to Zhang Jie's proposal. There were currently no useful clues on the new stone tablet, but to say that the Samsara Square specifically expelled all the Samsaras just to update this stone tablet, Aizen felt that the momentum was too huge. Perhaps some details could give them a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg of the update of the Samsara Square.