Chapter 799: Unattended Kaijin will cause problems
[Core of Pious Indignation] been condensed, please use at your earliest convenience.
[Core of Ambition] has been condensed, please- ERROR! ERROR!
Unexpected factor has been included into desire core condensation process, please bring defective core to the [Library of Nowhere] for immediate analysis and revision.
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=Is that it? How is a core dedicated to religion and a defective core of ambition supposed to help us?=
=What are you…oh….now I see it.=
=There’s a way to fix our lord and he’s probably gonna be pissed at us.=
=True…=
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‘Well…this is decidedly annoying as hell,’ Zhen Liu griped while in a state of mind he thought was impossible.
[Kill, kill, kill!]
‘Yes, yes. I heard you the first dozen times,’ Zhen Liu complained. ‘Seriously though, how the fuck am I supposed to regain control over all of this?!’
After Zhen Liu had “swallowed” the [Violet Berserker Spring Flame] something… unexpected happened.
When the energies of the [Violet Berserker Spring Flame] first entered his formula, Zhen Liu could feel it attempt to influence his mannerisms and usual thought patterns. Namely, swap out his usually paranoid personality with one geared more towards anger and violence.
However, before this could happen, the [Ghost Flame] that was already inside of Zhen Liu’s formula began to react with the [Violet Berserker Spring Flame] in an energetic manner that threatened to scorch his soul into ash. Luckily for him, the energetic reaction caused the [Chaos] that composed his formula to intervene.
The next thing Zhen Liu knew though, he could feel his soul being knocked into the back of his mind while his body was being hijacked by some weird hybrid pseudo-soul flame that was composed of the worst qualities of the [Ghost Flame] and the [Violet Berserker Spring Flame], and could only say the word “kill” for some fucking reason.
On the plus(?) side, Zhen Liu’s mind had contextualized this moment as him being forced to sit in a simple blue room with nothing but a lamp, a comfy chair and a giant computer showing him everything through the eyes of his own body.
If Zhen Liu had to compare what was going on with anything he was familiar with, it was like watching the live feed of a drone.
He knew it was happening in real time, but there was not much he could do about it.
Well…not yet anyways.
The aforementioned “computer” had a full-on keyboard and mouse that suggested to Zhen Liu that if he could just interact with them, he’d be able to regain control of his body. The only problem was that the keyboard and mouse were blazing hot, to the point that Zhen Liu could instinctually recognize that if he tried to interact with either of these items, there was a very real possibility of his existence being burned to ashes…or at the very least, his soul would end up becoming viciously wounded. It was one or the other, really.
As such, Zhen Liu could only sit and wait until something that could upend the situation occurred. Granted, he had no idea what that something could even be.
Zhen Liu had wanted that “something” to be in the form of his kaijin showing up, kicking Olstenna’s ass while dragging his own ass back to the library so he could get fixed up. Unfortunately, he hadn’t seen carved facet or chitinous plating of any of his kaijin…yet. He couldn’t even contact any of them because most of his other connections were being muted so that the one to Frosttusk could be empowered for the sole purpose of heat mitigation. Hell, he couldn’t even talk to Frosttusk because of all the heat being funneled.
Evidently, Zhen Liu never realized how lonely it was to be the sole voice in one’s head until after everyone else got muted.
‘I don’t know how long I’ve been sitting here in my head doing nothing at this point, but this blow mammoth chunks…speaking of mammoth, I wonder if Frosttusk managed to link up with the other kaijin…’
Thankfully for him, this wasn’t going to be an issue for much longer.
‘Seriously though, what’s going on with them?’
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*Bing-Bong*
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Wait, what the fuck? Why is there a pause here?
|Read the script.|
Read the…really? We needed one of these, now?
|There’s been a weird uptick in people complaining about violent media influencing children again, despite the age ratings being slapped on there. I’d rather not take chances and deal with a horde of angry parents that are so self-absorbed that they forgot how to be parents.|
Fair enough…*ahem*.
We interrupt this chapter to remind the readers to never attempt to make your own versions of the stunts in the following two scenes. Doing so will be harmful to your health and there’s not enough ice cream in the world to make this kind of pain go away.
Thank you, we now return to your regularly scheduled chapter.
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Is anybody going to get that reference?
|H0t Fu// is a classic and I will not accept any slander to that film’s good name.|
Still censoring titles?
|I don’t got the money for copyright bullshit.|
Right.
*Bing-Bong*
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[So…this is what you did in order to break into that Zhen Clan prison?]
[Yeah, more or less.]
[And this didn’t end badly…how?]
[I don’t know, it just worked.]
[Huh…]
In an abandoned city street some dozen or so meters away from the Stone Claw City Arena, Frosttusk, Nepherage, Spring Brawler and Razorstella were preparing to do something incredibly stupid.
That incredibly stupid thing being, they were going to try and catapult Frosttusk into the arena.
As such, Frosttusk was standing in the middle of this empty street like a fuzzy statue, while Spring Brawler grabbed the nearest buildings and proceeded to hop backwards until he reached his absolute stretch limit.
They had initially planned to have Frosttusk stand on Spring Brawler like how Razorstella did in Willow Scale, but they threw that idea out the window once Spring Brawler did some quick mental math and compared Frosttusk’s weight to Razorstella’s. Needless to say, it was a massive health hazard.
[Razorstella.]
[Yes, Nepherage?]
[Remind me again…why are we doing this?]
[Something about us not being able to cut through the crowd of people like tall grass or getting shot down like birds in flight if we didn’t fly in fast enough. So we’re using Spring Brawler as a means to get Frosttusk in there quickly.]
[Alright…are we sure Spring Brawler can do it?]
[We won’t know until we try.]
[Hmmm. Fair enough.]
[Alright!,] Spring Brawler called out while stretched out to his absolute limit. [You guys ready to see a mammoth fly?]
Nepherage and Razorstella simply replied by giving the proto-kaijin a thumbs up, while Frosttusk was still trying to figure out a way to make it so that this would actually work.
However, Frosttusk had made the cardinal sin of agreeing while not paying attention.
[Yeah, yeah, I just need to-]
[Fucking baller, let’s go!]
[Oh shit!]
Thankfully for his fat and fluffy ass, his brain and powers were fast enough to figure out what to do literally five seconds before impact.
In the literal blink of an eye, an ice path that ended in a large ramp manifested in front of Frosttusk.
‘Alright, now I just need to-‘
[INCOMING!]
*BAM!*
[WHOA!]
Unfortunately, he was too slow to get into the proper position.
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[How long have we been standing and pacing here like idiots?,] Hurricroak asked Screamira.
[Five minutes.]
[And when should we have come up with something by now?]
[Five minutes ago.]
[GAH!,] Hurricroak cried out while pacing back and forth.
Hurricroak and Screamira were still hiding in the eaves of the arena’s seats, trying their damnedest to figure out what to do with their current capabilities.
Unfortunately, they couldn’t really think of much.
Neither of them had any innate abilities that were good at cooling Zhen Liu down, since Hurricroak was essentially an organic thundercloud while Screamira was predominantly bones, and as much as they both wanted to go down there and fight alongside him, there was a very high possibility that Zhen Liu was so hopped up on aether fueled rage that he would lash out against them in the process.
The only thing these two could do, realistically was cause a whole lot of noise and-
[WAIT! THAT’S IT!,] Hurricroak suddenly said while abruptly stopping her pacing with her hands splayed out.
[Huh? What is it? What’d you figure out?]
{Do you remember a while back when we did that Sci-Fi Movie night thing with Logos and Pathos at the Library? Do you remember that film where those bank robbers used that weird gun thingy to stun everyone?]
[Yeah…? It made this super loud high pitch noise that-oh I see what you want to do.]
[Exactly, so warm up them singing bones, my scarlet soprano! We got some high notes to hit!]
