Chapter 472: The Unborn Saint II

[Emergency Quest Generated.]

[Kill the Unborn Saint before full growth.]

[Time Remaining: 59:59]

[Failure Consequence: Birth of a New Calamity that can wander in your world.]

[Do you accept the Quest?]

Lian looked at the notification, it was exactly like the Quest he had received when he faced the Ant Queen in the Special Area.

But there was one difference here, the creature was not after his body, it was after something inside his body and whatever the Ruined Heart was, the Saint could sense it.

And that was strange, during his battle with the Ant Queen, that thing had not sensed the Ruined Heart, of course, maybe it had sensed it and because he himself did not know that something like this was hidden inside him at that time, he had not noticed it.

Because he remembered that the Calamity Seed also wanted to take over his body, so maybe it had noticed the heart.

But one question came up, why could the Seeds notice the existence of the Ruined Heart, but true Calamities like the Black Silence could not identify the Ruined Heart?

Could this be the will of the Ruined Heart itself?

In any case, this was not the time to think about it, Lian first accepted the Quest and then lowered his palm.

[Frost Dominion]

Crack!

Ice rose from the ground and caught the Saint’s legs, it went up to his knees and then to his waist, and in less than two seconds, half of his body was trapped inside the ice.

He did not give it a chance to react and mana gathered in his palm, forming a palm about eight meters wide in front of him.

[Suppressing Palm]

He pushed it forward.

Boom!

The attack hit the Seed directly in the chest and the ice around its body exploded, the creature was dragged several meters across the ground and then hit the dead living wall like a piece of white flesh.

Kaboom!

Its chest sank in and its right arm broke at an unnatural angle, deep cracks appeared on its white skin.

For a moment Ezrak held his breath, maybe it was still incomplete and maybe it could still be stopped.

Then ....crack.

The broken bone moved, but it did not simply return to its place, its structure changed, the chest opened and bones grew from inside.

One.

Two.

Five.

In a few seconds, the structure of its chest turned into several connected rings and each layer could send the pressure to the next layer.

Like dense bone springs.

Notifications appeared.

[Biological threat recorded: Extreme cold.]

[Growth path changing.]

[Threat recorded: Compressed pressure.]

[Growth response forming.]

[Heat circulation structure modified.]

[Impact distribution structure created.]

[Growth: 68% → 68.6%.]

[Growth: 68.6% → 69.3%.]

Lian narrowed his eyes slightly, the remaining cold on the creature’s body started to melt and the black blood under its skin changed color.

Silver lines appeared inside it.

"No... it’s learning from you." Ezrak took a step back and ran his fingers through his messy hair.

This creature was becoming stronger by getting hurt, it was learning and adapting.

This was exactly the same feature he had put into his masterpiece in the border city, and at that time it had also caused Lian a headache.

His eyes returned to the Saint and the creature slowly stood up.

There was no anger or pain on it, it was like a transcendent creature that could not be affected by any event of mortals.

"It wasn’t supposed to grow like this. I was supposed to decide its path, member by member, tissue by tissue, change by change!" Ezrak continued in fear and pointed at the creature.

"But now it’s deciding by itself what it needs, the more you fight it, the more you complete it!"

The young Vorhelm looked at the creature for a few seconds, at the new chest and the blood that was now more resistant to the ice.

"So what’s your suggestion? Should I stand here and let it eat me? If I don’t do anything, it will eat you too, idiot." Then he asked very calmly.

"No!"

"Then be quiet."

"You really—" The white-eyed man opened his mouth but could not find any words for a few seconds.

The Unborn Saint moved again and the second branch of its halo bent toward the wall, sinking into a mass of dead tissue.

Pach!

Black and golden veins entered the remains from the bones of the halo.

The tissue around it started to dry and its materials were pulled toward the Saint’s body.

"No, it’s consuming them too." Ezrak opened his eyes wider.

Lian moved before he could finish his sentence.

[Thunder Step]

Boom!

This time the pressure from the weight was lower, he entered from the right side and lightning gathered around his right fist.

[Thunder Calamity]

At the same time, a huge icy claw also formed around the same hand.

[Glacial Reaper Claw]

His fist hit the Saint’s neck directly.

Kaaaboom!

Lightning covered its entire body and the white skin burned in several places, its muscles shook and the claw managed to enter slightly into the monster’s body.

The golden veins went dark for a moment and the creature’s head turned almost ninety degrees.

But it did not fall and the third branch of its halo went into the ground behind it.

Lian jumped back and heard the sound of bones growing.

Crack... crack...

Thin bone plates came out along the Saint’s spine.

They continued down to the ground, like bars for transferring force and the creature returned its head to its normal position.

He gathered Thunder Calamity on his palm again together with the icy claw and attacked without giving that thing a chance.

Lightning entered the Saint’s body.

But this time a large part of the current passed through the bone plates and entered the ground.

Krrrrr!

The floor of the cave exploded and the Saint only took one step back, then the fingers of its left hand lit up and black-golden arcs appeared between its fingers.

The young Vorhelm raised an eyebrow, had this thing copied his skill ...? But after watching it, he realized that no.

It had not copied his skill, it did not even have the structure of Thunder Calamity, it had only stored the remaining energy inside a new organ.

And now it released it.

Boom!

A black-golden arc came out of its hand. Lian stepped onto an ice platform and threw himself upward.

The lightning passed under his feet, destroyed several side chambers and he turned in the air.

When facing such a complex creature, the best thing to do was understand how its structure worked.

[True Sequence]

The creature’s structure opened in his mind but the information did not stay the same.

[Structure is not stable.]

[Previous analysis is becoming invalid.]

[New paths are forming.]

He landed on the second platform and while the Saint looked at him, he understood the problem.

True Sequence was perfect for reading a structure but this thing did not have a stable structure.

Every attack it received made it rewrite a part of itself.

Lian was reading a book while the writer was tearing out its pages and writing them again at the same time.

"Annoying." He said under his breath and looked at Ezrak, once again he really wanted to punch that bastard in the face.

This Calamity Seed had just been born, it was Level 40 and like a baby, it knew nothing about the world around it and was slowly learning with every passing second.

But that was exactly the problem, what would it become when it was complete?

The Saint suddenly stopped and the young Vorhelm also stopped moving.

The creature stood in the center of the area, its head slightly tilted to one side, the five complete branches of its halo slowly opened behind it.

The remaining lights in the cave went out.

One.

Then another.

Until the area became almost completely dark and only the golden and black veins on the Saint’s body were glowing.

Then all the dead veins of the womb moved again, but not by their own power, something was pulling them by force.

Black-golden blood came out of the walls, stored liquids rose from the ground and dead tissues started to melt.

Everything moved toward the five branches of the halo.

"Stop it from feeding! It wants to complete its growth!" Ezrak said in fear.

Mana exploded in Lian’s legs.

[Thunder Step]

He went directly toward the Saint but the five branches of the halo immediately cast shadows on the ground.

He had only covered half the distance when the shadows gained flesh and the five black lines on the ground turned into real veins.

A thin bone pillar came out from the end of each one.

Five pillars and each one was at a different point of the area, the veins connected them and in a few seconds, a living circuit was formed.

The young Vorhelm changed his path and cut one of the lines with the edge of ice.

Pach!

But instead of stopping, two smaller veins grew from the cut.

He frowned and the ground started to pull itself together, really pulling itself together and the dead walls of the womb were being dragged toward the center.

The space of the area became smaller and the bone pillars moved.

The farther he moved back, the less safe space remained and three bone pillars attacked him from the left.

Lian created an ice platform under his feet, went upward and at the same moment another vein grew in the air in front of him.

[Ash Step]

His body disappeared and a moment later he appeared on the second platform, the Saint only looked at him from below.

And the young Vorhelm activated Thunder Step in the air, his body moved like a horizontal bolt of lightning between two pillars.

He appeared behind the Calamity Seed, his fist was covered with lightning but just before the attack, True Sequence showed him something.

Five branches and five connections, each connected to a different part of the womb and each responsible for a different type of adaptation.

One was pressure, one was heat, one was energy control, one was feeding and one was regeneration, but the sixth branch was connected to nothing.

During all this time, it had only pointed in one direction.

Lian.

More exactly, toward his chest.

At that moment the Ruined Heart beat again.

Thump!

The incomplete branch also shook and grew two centimeters!

The young Vorhelm froze in the air for a fraction of a second and a notification appeared.

[Anomaly detected.]

[The Calamity Seed is trying to complete the sixth structure.]

[Target source: Unknown.]

Lian’s eyes narrowed, so the matter was not only about eating him, this creature’s body thought that something inside him was the missing part of its growth.

Unfortunately, the System notifications did not give a more complete explanation about what exactly this sixth structure was and what it was supposed to do.

But whatever it was, because it needed something like the Ruined Heart to complete itself, he could not allow it to become complete.

At the same time, the Saint moved and this time its attack pattern had completely changed.

Its hand was no longer going toward Lian’s head or stomach, all its movements were aimed at the center of his chest.

It took one step and the pressure of its weight fell on Lian again but this time he was ready.

[Ash Step]

White fingers passed through his gray body and he appeared three meters to the left.

[Thunder Step]

Boom!

He entered from the side and his fist was covered with Thunder Calamity and a huge icy claw, the Saint did not even turn its head toward him and the young Vorhelm slammed his fist directly into its mouthless face.

Kaboom!

The Saint’s head violently turned to one side, part of its face cracked.

But it had not defended itself, it had intentionally taken the attack and at that moment the Predator’s Instincts screamed and Lian lowered his eyes.

Too late!

One of the white strands behind the Saint had come directly toward his chest like a spear ....