Chapter 897: What Makes You Think I'll Fail?!

Decisive's palm slowly rose.

The woman holding the scythe, only that scythe still retained any semblance of its original shape.

【Number 195 · Courage Reaper】

【Can only be used by: non-humans / those not affiliated with humans / those not bound to humans】

【Possesses a 150% super-effective strike against humans, and inflicts a 1000% armor-break effect on [Human] [Defense]-type abilities】

So, that thing wasn't human after all.

Ye Qiyan's gaze swept over the "traces" being washed away by the Red Rain.

Human-shaped, yet not human.

In an instant, he thought of those agonized figures in the Pit of Lamentation.

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Then, what about him?

His sharp gaze aimed straight at Heinz.

"This isn't your true body. Your true body is in that pit-world, isn't it?"

"...As expected of Mr. Altos. Confirming it with just a single train system appraisal. You're right, so even if you defeat the current me, it's impossible for you to save that Mr. Fan Huo."

"He's also in that pit-world?"

"Hahahaha! I don't know, because that was something the real me did. Mr. Altos, the very meaning of my manufactured existence is to probe your strength!

For that purpose... I, and all of us!

Have prepared!"

Heinz's voice instantly receded into the distance, and the boys and girls beside him all rose to their feet.

The scythe before Ye Qiyan actually rotted and dissolved in an instant.

An identical scythe appeared in the hands of every single one of those "people."

"Children, for our happy future, your sacrifice is most valuable!"

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"For happiness..."

"Happiness..."

"We are the founders of Utopia... We are the foundation that bears everything..."

The boys' and girls' eyes gradually cleared, and on their faces surfaced happy smiles exactly like those of the city's residents.

Joyfully, they charged at Ye Qiyan.

The Decisive mech-soldier fired a punch.

Blasting the boy at the very front into a spray of blood mist.

But the girl behind him, drenched head to toe in crimson, could still speak to Ye Qiyan in a voice of happiness:

"Mr. Altos! You must be happy!"

The Devil Raven trampled her down, and the boy behind immediately raised his scythe, laughing as he said:

"Come with us to the eternal Utopia!"

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"Mr. Altos..."

"Please..."

"Come with us..."

"To the eternal..."

"Utopia!"

So noisy...

Ye Qiyan had never thought a battle could be this noisy.

Gluttony, the Raven Duo, Decisive, all had manifested.

Yet those boys and girls seemed endless, impossible to kill.

Their numbers grew ever greater.

But it was meaningless.

As Gluttony's Life Conversion accumulated more and more.

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Starting from the iconic Steam King, then to the Goblin Champion King and the Headless Apostle, the Hellhound, and the most powerful Evil Seed devoured in that Lunar Heart Arena to date, Mogruth, all appeared one after another.

Those boys and girls simply couldn't get near him.

Was this all Heinz had prepared?

Using the deaths of a group of seemingly kind and beautiful boys and girls to make his heart ache?

Such a low and despicable method, not befitting the work of an ancient Homeward-bound Soul.

Unless...

Ye Qiyan opened his personal interface.

【Invalid Status: Happiness Blessing ×371】

This number was continuously rising.

Every death of a boy or girl added one to this number.

Happiness Blessing? With such a positive-sounding name, and yet it was marked Invalid.

In other words...

【"A mental-type negative effect? So that's it. This is his preparation?"】

Ye Qiyan felt a little like laughing.

What Heinz's intelligence profiler had designed for Ye Qiyan was actually the use of this kind of layer-upon-layer stacking mental negative effect to influence him.

Though it was still unclear what this so-called [Happiness Blessing] actually did, if it had been anyone else unknowingly afflicted by several hundred layers of stacked negative effects, they would surely suffer no small injury.

But he wouldn't.

Though he didn't know why.

From the very first day he set foot in the Wasteland.

His Spirit had never once been damaged by any negative effect, and it had also never once dropped to zero.

Ye Qiyan's gaze shifted upward, moving from his status bar to his Spirit value.

【Spirit: 349 (Shadow of the End) (Witness Truth and Falsehood)】

Among Spirit's two perpetual special effects, the Shadow of the End had unknowingly surpassed Witness Truth and Falsehood to take the lead.

And when this situation occurred, it always pointed to one thing.

"You, want to reach the pinnacle of the Wasteland."

Not a question, but an affirmation.

Heinz, standing behind, wore a smile, and within those smiling eyes dwelled an emotion of admiration.

"You continue to amaze me, Mr. Altos. It seems you understand Wasteland Species very well. But there is one point you got wrong."

"Oh? What's wrong?"

Heinz's smile grew even more radiant.

"That name should not be called a so-called pinnacle~ but rather, a true god! A True God named [Happiness]!"

So that was it.

Ye Qiyan completely understood what Heinz wanted to do.

To become a True God, to tread upon the pinnacle he envisioned.

This bastard's ambition really was extraordinary.

Ye Qiyan laughed too. His laughter pierced through the curtain of rain, and within that voice was a hint of mockery.

"You won't succeed."

His tone was so certain, so certain that it stirred a trace of frenzy within Heinz's heart.

"Mr. Altos, I know I cannot lie in your presence, but I have prepared for many years. This execution of Mr. Fan Huo is the final doorway.

No one can stop me.

I shall inevitably ascend to the position of True God!

I shall surely make this place an eternal Utopia!"

"Therefore, you won't succeed."

Ye Qiyan walked forward.

His demons crushed those "boys and girls" to pieces, forging a straight path paved with blood, utterly free of obstruction.

Red Tears happily followed at his side, and the curtain of rain belonging to her washed the filth from the ground.

The "boys" and "girls" continued repeating their happy blessings, but from beginning to end, they had never influenced Ye Qiyan in the slightest, not even a fraction.

"Why?"

The anxiety in Heinz's heart intensified further. He sensed that "Altos" was denying his path.

"The path I walk is a road to the pinnacle! As long as I succeed, I can achieve the position of True God! Reach the pinnacle of the world!

I will end everything! Put an end to all misfortune!

Everyone will be happy! All humans will no longer be threatened by the End!

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Because we will possess an End belonging to humans! A True God belonging to humans!

All can receive my protection, all will receive the blessing of happiness.

Altos!

Why do you deny me?!

Tell me! What makes you think I'll fail?!"