Chapter 614 - 356: Achieved Godhood Just Like That?

The parasitic water sphere Su Ze created burrowed into the Pope’s body.

However, parasitizing a legendary-grade powerhouse was difficult. Parasitizing one whose Spiritual Power and physical body had both reached the god-level was even more so.

Even though the Pope was in poor condition, the process couldn’t be completed easily. It required Su Ze’s assistance.

Su Ze’s method of assistance was simple: continuously apply control effects to prevent the Pope from mounting any resistance.

He fired one "Needle Strike" after another, becoming a veritable pile driver as he frantically injected Sleep Poison, forcing the Pope to fall asleep again and again.

Every so often, he would throw in a "Rhino Charge" or "Furious Waves" to follow up with a Dizziness effect.

After burrowing into the Pope’s body, the parasitic water sphere began a frenzied conquest, seizing control of his physical form.

Soon, through his connection to the parasitic water sphere, Su Ze learned of the process’s progress.

On the surface, the Pope had merged his two bodies into one, but they hadn’t truly fused. It was like oil and water mixed in a bottle—they were together, but they hadn’t blended.

The "Blood and Flesh Parasite" skill could only affect one individual at a time.

Su Ze’s parasitic water sphere had locked onto the Meat Mountain Pope. This was a good thing. Generally, skills like this had a harder time parasitizing individuals with powerful Spiritual Power. If the target had been the Frankenstein’s Monster, whose spirit was at the god-level, the chance of failure would have been much higher.

However, from within the shared body, the Sewn Monster Pope continuously obstructed and interfered with Su Ze’s parasitism.

Su Ze’s Perception Tentacles drilled directly into the Pope’s body. He unfurled his "Gravity Domain," forcefully tearing apart the Pope’s cloud-like blubber. Using gravity, he meticulously peeled the Sewn Monster Pope away from the Meat Mountain Pope’s body, as if unraveling a cocoon.

Just like that, the Pope was once again split in two.

Su Ze used "Land Lock" to trap the Sewn Monster Pope again, then focused his efforts on the Meat Mountain Pope.

In the distance, the faces of the Nian Race experts paled. They could all see the Pope was in a dire situation.

Su Ze was like a chef with a butcher’s knife, and the Pope was the slab of meat on the cutting board, being carved up at will.

Under Su Ze’s relentless control, the Meat Mountain Pope was completely unable to mount any effective resistance.

The Nian Race experts exchanged glances, thoughts of retreat already forming in their minds.

Once Su Ze finished with the Pope and turned his attention to them, their escape would be impossible.

After one of them took the lead and fled, the other, still-hesitant Nian Race experts finally made up their minds and also turned to run.

Su Ze remained outwardly calm, as if he had no attention to spare. Inwardly, however, he had already sent a voice transmission to Mr. Ya in the Magic Cube, telling him to follow the members of the Nian Race.

’I went to so much trouble to lure them all out. I can’t let them get away!’

「Over ten minutes later...」

After repeated torment and abuse, the Meat Mountain Pope was finally, successfully parasitized by Su Ze!

Having successfully taken control of the Meat Mountain Pope, Su Ze naturally had to consider how to deal with the Sewn Monster Pope.

Although he had parasitized the Meat Mountain Pope, Su Ze could not exert any influence over the Sewn Monster Pope.

By communicating with the Meat Mountain Pope, Su Ze learned of the Sewn Monster Pope’s origin.

It turned out that, for hundreds of years, the Pope had been siphoning off parts of his soul and infusing them into the statues of the God of Evolution in Temples of Evolution across the land. He did this to steal the power of faith and strengthen his own soul.

Later, he reclaimed all the soul fragments from the various Temples of Evolution and fused them into a single entity. Then, modeled after the ultimate form of the Cosmic Dominator Race, the "Witch Race," he forged a body made of pure spirit.

However, this step proved extremely difficult. He was only able to integrate a portion of external energy, creating a semi-corporeal, semi-ethereal energy body for the Sewn Monster Pope, which he then molded into the likeness of the God of Evolution.

From then on, the Sewn Monster Pope no longer needed to rely on the statues in the Temples of Evolution. It could directly receive the worship of all believers on Blue Star, and its Spiritual Power grew steadily until it finally reached the god-level.

Before this, the Sewn Monster Pope had always existed as an avatar of the Pope, which he could absorb into his body at will.

Unexpectedly, however, when the Sewn Monster Pope’s spirit achieved godhood, it seemed to develop a sliver of its own consciousness and began to slip from the Pope’s control.

This made the normally simple process of merging the two bodies extremely difficult.

To control this avatar, the Pope had no choice but to obliterate the sliver of consciousness that had formed within it and inject his own in its place.

But this was akin to forcibly possessing another person’s body, which made a smooth fusion extremely difficult. Otherwise, the Pope wouldn’t have delayed the process for so long.

’In other words, even if I kill this Frankenstein’s Monster, it won’t affect the Meat Mountain Pope too much?’

’The Frankenstein’s Monster has become its own separate entity, while the Meat Mountain Pope is the Pope’s true main body.’

Su Ze pondered this, his gaze shifting to the Frankenstein’s Monster nearby. In his mind, he had already sentenced it to death.

’An uncontrollable, bizarre, and dangerous entity like this is better off destroyed.’

Su Ze went in for the kill. The Frankenstein’s Monster had a powerful spirit but a weak body. He summoned a storm that tore its physical form to shreds, then used a "Needle Strike" to obliterate its remaining spiritual essence...

With little effort, Su Ze successfully killed it.

It was far easier to kill than the Meat Mountain Pope.

Before killing the Frankenstein’s Monster, Su Ze didn’t forget to activate his "Bloodthirsty" skill to extract a wave of energy from it upon its death.

Perhaps because the Frankenstein’s Monster was not a normal creature of flesh and blood, but a semi-corporeal, semi-ethereal energy body, the amount of ’flesh and blood’ extracted was very limited—not even enough to replenish the energy Su Ze had expended in the fight.

But he did extract a vast amount of white energy!

This white energy was precisely the high-grade energy used to enhance one’s Spiritual Power.