Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“Meaningless?”
Meng Chao endured the excruciating pain and laughed wantonly. “We pushed you into a corner, and you had no choice but to reveal your true colors, yet you still say that all of this is meaningless? Even if there’s only a one in a billion chance, we’ll still turn into two poisonous thorns deep in your subconscious and destroy you in the end!”
“No, you’ve misunderstood.”
The skeleton giant calmly said, “I’m not saying that you don’t even have a one in a billion chance of destroying me. I’m saying that even if you destroy me, it will be meaningless.
“Meng Chao, it’s good that you were able to think that there’s possibly a second micro brain deep in the mother’s body.
“But why didn’t you think of the possibility that there’s a third, fourth, fifth… and a hundredth micro brain since there is a second micro brain?
“Alright, even if most of the brains were destroyed by the Ancients’ space-based orbital weapons, it is possible to preserve some brain cells and revive them after hundreds of millions of years of hibernation.
“Now, the question is, do you think that Lu Siya is the only human being that I’ve chosen to ‘fuse’ with?”
“What?”
Meng Chao and Lu Siya were both stunned.
A moment later, cold sweat dripped down their foreheads and spines as their thoughts raced.
“This is impossible…”
Meng Chao mumbled, “You’ve also chosen someone else? Another parasite?
“Everyone. I’ve chosen everyone.”
“Don’t you understand? There have been many times when I’ve almost thrown the answer in your faces, but why have you turned a blind eye to it?” the skeleton giant said unhurriedly.
“The so-called Monster War doesn’t exist at all, or rather, it’s not a real war at all. It was just a trial. It’s an indispensable part of breeding a ‘perfect monster.'”
“A perfect monster?”
Meng Chao’s pupils suddenly constricted. “Are they the ultimate Apocalyptic Beasts that you created in the depths of the monster lair?”
“Of course not. How can the beasts that have brute force, that submit to the most basic appetites and animal desires, and only know how to destroy at the lowest level, be qualified to be called perfect monsters?”
The skeleton giant laughed in a deep voice. The red light that resembled a searchlight darted back and forth on Meng Chao and Lu Siya’s bodies as if it was going to illuminate their bones, internal organs, nerves, and even their souls.
“The one and only, irreplaceable perfect monster in my heart is none other than you, human beings!”
Its voice was as loud as a bell when it revealed the answer to the riddle.
“What?!”
Meng Chao and Lu Siya widened their eyes.
“There is no other monster more perfect than human beings. No, compared with human beings, these animals have no ambition and no desire to conquer. As long as they satisfy their appetites, they will ask for nothing else. They are no different from domestic animals. What right do they have to be called monsters?”
The skeleton giant extended its arm that was more than a hundred meters long and pointed at Meng Chao with a finger that was thicker than Meng Chao’s entire body. “Only you humans feel hungry no matter how much food you eat. No matter how much money you have, you still feel poor. Even if you don’t want to reproduce, you want to control all the members of the opposite sex. Even if you occupy the most fertile land, you still feel cramped. Even if you’ve achieved great achievements that have never been done before, you still can’t obtain eternal peace and happiness. Instead, you remain depressed, sighing, and even crying out loud because there is nothing else that you can conquer.
“You are born to be bloodthirsty. You will do whatever it takes, regardless of the consequences. You want to conquer everything that is out of your sight. You claim to be the spirit of all living things, yet you will never allow any carbon-based creatures to climb on top of you, not even your own kind.
“In order to fight for this illusory throne, you even engaged in a thermonuclear war and destroyed your mother planet!
“If you are not the perfect monsters, who else would be more qualified to be named as such?”
Meng Chao was speechless.
“During the ancient war billions of years ago, I already tried commanding those so-called monsters that were just a sham. Well, you know the results.”
The skeleton giant continued, “Whether it was the enormous ancient behemoths that were hundreds of kilometers long from start to end, or the heaven connecting tower that was formed from billions of monsters, none of them were able to completely break through the Ancients’ defenses and charge into the vast sea of stars.
“So what if the current me is able to devour the ancient behemoths from Mother 2 to Mother 99 and restore them to their peak form during the ancient war and create identical ancient behemoths?
“I will still suffer a crushing defeat like I did billions of years ago and be sealed on this d*mn planet forever!
“Therefore, this time, I’ve changed my strategy. In order to declare war on the universe again, I’ve chosen a new main force, which is you humans, the perfect monsters!
“When I first came into contact with you, I was both surprised and delighted to find that there were two forces in your bodies at the same time—the Ancients’ power and the mother’s power.
“I don’t know where you came from.
“I’m just a small fragment that was split from the almost-annihilated remains of the mother during the ancient war when it was bombarded by the space-based orbital weapons.
“I’ve lost a lot of memories about the mother. I don’t know why it or the Ancients created you.
“However, I realized that seemingly indestructible fortresses can often be destroyed and fallen from the inside. Since you have such a strange power in your bodies, perhaps you can help me.
“That’s why I awakened and created a large number of monsters. Those low-level soldiers, which should have been eliminated long ago, formed an overwhelming beast horde and launched a Monster War.
“The purpose of launching the Monster War was not to defeat or even destroy Dragon City.
“From the first second of the war, I already knew better than you that these monsters that were strong on the outside but weak on the inside would never win the Monster War and destroy your civilization.
“I didn’t want to destroy your civilization at all. On the contrary, I wanted to build your civilization, help you level up, and accelerate your civilization along the path that I had lain out.
“I wanted to help you adapt to the cruel environment of the Other World as soon as possible. I wanted to use the monsters as whetstones to sharpen you into a Dragon City civilization that’s completely different from that of the Earth era. It was supposed to be an invincible saber that could tear apart the seal that enveloped the planet and allow us to charge into the sea of stars together.
“At the same time, I could slowly observe and select the strongest among you through the Monster War.
“The strong would prey on the weak, and the winner would be king. The crueler the war, the easier it would be for experts like you and Lu Siya to stand out.
“As long as I chose the experts that I like, I would naturally have all kinds of methods to infiltrate their brains with my own strength and will.
“No, no, no. The ‘leakage of ancient bacteria and the pollution of mysterious power’ that occurred in the ancient ruins was just the simplest and most brutal method to distract you and make you think that the ancient power could only be presented in such a ridiculous way. For instance, turning human beings into big black insects.
“No, those guys who have gone berserk and turned into bugs are not my chosen ones.
“The real chosen ones are those who once fought bloody battles amid the overwhelming beast horde, cultivated in the desolate wilderness, and gazed at the abyss for a long time in the depths of the ancient ruins.
“Through the tusks and claws of the monsters, the spores drifting in the deep wilderness, and the ancient ruins’ summon that only some can hear in the underground abyss, I have carefully selected quite a few chosen ones.
“This work has been going on for decades.
“Many chosen ones have become war heroes because of their outstanding performance in the Monster War. They have enjoyed a large amount of war dividends and become instructors, gold-medal instructors, corporate executives, and even family leaders.
“Even they themselves may not realize that the power and will that originated from the ancient era have long taken root and sprouted in the pit of their brains. They have constantly stimulated their ambitions and desires, and they have grown crazily like weeds and vines in the rainy season.
“Now, they are all gathered together, singing and drinking heartily, celebrating their victory in the Monster War.
“They are also racking their brains to figure out how to divide up the monster civilization’s legacy and how to make use of the resources and prestige that they accumulated during the war. They are constantly expanding, monopolizing, and becoming stronger.
“Little do they know that this is not only your victory, but also my victory.
“It was us who joined hands to destroy the old, stupid first-generation monsters. They were no longer suited to the development of the times and the needs of future wars. Instead, we created stronger, more agile, and more ferocious second-generation monsters.
“This is called ‘win-win,’ right?
“So, even if you are willing to die, even if you never surrender, even if you miraculously think of a way to destroy me, what is the point of dying together with me?
“Your courage will become your epitaph, but the other chosen ones will still continue the journey that I have planned out and march forward with great strides. They will upgrade Dragon City’s civilization to monster civilization 2.0. Finally, you will fulfill your long-cherished wish from billions of years ago, conquer the Other World, and charge into the starry sky!”
The skeleton giant let out a world-shaking roar.
Dark phosphorescence spurted out from the crisscrossing crevices and dark eye sockets of every broken monster skeleton around its body.
Immeasurable phosphorescence gathered around the skeleton as if it was being draped with an indestructible armor. That gave it an added godly and demonic presence.
Under its phosphorescence armor, billions of monster corpses began to squirm, split, and reassemble crazily.. In a short while, amidst the hair-raising sounds of bones cracking and rubbing, they all changed their forms and became human skeletons!