A Degenerate Finding Joy in the Dark / The Spooky Tea Party

ps2: Thank you to the reader @chenchen for the 10 blades and 1000 reward, thank you boss.

However, I'd like to ask, is anyone following any of the recent Cthulhu storylines?

The arrival of the gods should initially reveal some information about the Ultimate Fear. If you have any good ideas or suggestions, please feel free to share them in the comments.

Also, there was a power outage tonight, so the update was delayed. Please forgive the inconvenience. Tomorrow's update will still be from 6 PM to 8 PM.

Chapter 979, Section 1023: The Pleasure of the Dark

At midnight, Kevin, holding a branch, stirred the campfire. In the firelight, Hela's face, with her eyes gently closed, flickered in and out of the light.

Meanwhile, Hexi on the other side still tried desperately to establish contact with the Angel Legion, but naturally, it all came to nothing.

As the aroma of toasted bread and smoked meat filled her nostrils, Hela slightly opened her eyes, her expression cool and indifferent as she looked at Kevin.

"The smoked meat with bread tastes good, I'll give it a try."

The man placed the branch in Hela's hand, glancing at the Goddess of Death who hesitated for a moment before finally deciding to try. He sighed softly.

"I'm very sorry about what happened before..."

Kevin added a few more pieces of firewood to the fire, his voice low.

Are you pitying me?

Hela casually added the bacon to the golden, crispy bread slices, and as she turned her head and parted her lips, a bright smile appeared on her face.

"The warriors of Asgard have never needed pity..."

"Especially you, Your Her Majesty the Queen, I have no right to comfort a Grim Reaper whose will is harder than steel, and you never need to, right?"

Kevin shrugged and chuckled, his tone casual and teasing.

"If you answer yes, I'll personally twist your head off..."

Hela's smile faded, and she gave a slight, cold snort; this was her true emotional state.

Women are such hypocritical creatures; the brighter their smile, the more dangerous they are.

In particular, this is a mixture of a variety of unpleasant personality traits, including paranoia, arrogance, and conceit.

Even though Odin's death was a huge blow to Hela, this strong Queen- like figure would never allow anyone to see her weakness, much less allow her to be pitied.

Fortunately, while I'm not good at romantic relationships, I'm a pro at guessing what others are thinking.

Breaking someone's neck might just be a joke, but once this is settled, parting ways will likely be unavoidable.

Sigh, Odin and his family are all troublemakers.

Kevin muttered to himself, his tone somewhat serious at the same time.

"Actually, what I wanted to say was that we clearly had great chemistry, but at the last moment we couldn't fight side by side, which is quite a pity..."

Even if your consciousness cannot be awakened, I hope I can be there to personally send you on your way. May my dearest friend return to Valhalla in glory...

Hela looked out at the Howling Abyss beyond the city walls, her lips slightly pursed, and a long-lost sense of joy appeared on her face, which had been sullen the whole way.

Clearly, Kevin's current way of talking suits her taste.

"Now that you've solved the Howling Abyss problem, what are your plans for the future?"

Seeing that the night raid had occurred as expected and there had been no movement for a long time, the man brushed aside the ashes on top of the campfire and casually asked a question.

"I haven't decided yet..."

Hela flicked her nails, then frowned slightly.

"I just received a mission from the Merlot Heavenly Court, and I need compatible team members. I'd like to invite some old friends to join us and make up for what I missed. What do you think?"

Kevin chuckled and extended his hand, inviting Hela to join him.

"Alright, consider it a little entertainment to pass the time..."

Hela casually extended her right hand, and she and Kevin reached a preliminary agreement.

However, once the contract was finalized, Hela showed no sign of letting go. She pressed her cheek close to Kevin's, scrutinizing him intently, her narrow, almond-shaped eyes sparkling with interest.

"But I'm helping you, it has nothing to do with that woman on the other side..."

"Therefore, my compensation should also be paid by you..."

"When Odin summoned me, he promised me the throne. And you, man?"

How am I supposed to know what you want when you're just a whim-driven pleasure-seeker?

Kevin was somewhat amused and exasperated. He was about to speak when the rustling sound of climbing carried by the strong wind made the two of them instinctively narrow their eyes and silently let go of each other's hands to get up.

"Ah!"

"What is that?!"

At the same time, as the two guards patrolling near the Howling Abyss turned around, a gust of evil wind swept over them, and a long, thin, dark shadow darted across the city wall and pounced on them.

Before it even reached their bodies, the eerie chill almost froze their blood, making their teeth chatter.

"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!"

At the critical moment, a silver sword light swept across, severing dozens of vine-like siphons that fell onto the city wall, continuing to twitch like snakes.

Even more bizarrely, as the opening and closing of the mouth revealed rows of tiny, sharp teeth, sending chills down the spines of the guards who, by the light of the torch, could finally see the true nature of these limbs.

"Be careful, they're coming up!"

Kevin pulled out the silver-white greatsword stuck in the wall and cleanly and efficiently lifted two things that looked extremely similar to plants and had a symmetrical five-pointed star structure from the outside of the city wall.

Then, the sword fell, and the monster was cleaved in two.

In the flickering firelight, this creature, with five eyes, five siphons, and a set of cilia to sense the outside world in the dark, and five-pointed appendages resembling the axe feet of a mollusk at the bottom, still showed tenacious vitality even after being split in two, each twisting and climbing in all directions.

"Puff!"

With the sound of the water bag bursting, Hela stomped down, and the left half of the monster's remains emitted a nauseating scream. Its tentacle-like arms thrashed a few times before collapsing, and the body quickly withered and decomposed until it turned into a puddle of mud.

"Boom!"

At the same time, Hexi, who followed closely behind, unleashed a beam of white light, disintegrating the remaining, still writhing section of the corpse.

"Dead?"

Kevin, with a serious expression, leaned close to the two men and asked in a low voice.

"It's hard to say. They retain the dual characteristics of plants and animals. My Authority over Death doesn't really apply to these things, and besides, Odin downgraded it..."

Hela frowned, disgustedly pulling her foot out of the mud, her voice low and somber.

"Similarly, the program for breaking down Super Gene is difficult to match with any known species in the universe!"

"There's no harmony whatsoever, it defies all biological logic, like a haphazardly pieced-together monster of unknown origin, cobbled together from pieces of a corpse..."

"Their existence is a blasphemy against life!"

Hexi's expression was gloomy. As an angel, a beautiful creature that values order and purity, she felt an overwhelming sense of aversion to these things.

If most life in the Known Universe is synonymous with rules and order, then the creature before us is more like a genetically decomposed mass of flesh, having overturned the laws governing the continuation of life.

"Old Ones!"

An answer popped into Kevin's mind, and he frowned in thought.

Just as the three of them had cleared out a wave of tentacle monsters and thrown out torches to illuminate the soldiers below the cliff, they were horrified when they saw the long, thin shadows that resembled seaweed.

That's a lot!

Fortunately, before the soldiers could lose their composure and flee towards the square, Sejuani, dressed in military uniform, led a large group of people up the city wall.

Judging from her clothing and reaction speed, although this woman chose to stay overnight in the Frostguard City, she did not remove her armor at night, nor did she fall into a deep sleep.

Regardless of whether there has been a rift between the two sides, it is always better to remain vigilant than to lose one's life in a muddle.

The man breathed a sigh of relief, and was just about to signal the main force to shoot the climbing monsters back into the abyss when a deafening explosion erupted in the plaza.

From the deep cave entrance, a chrysanthemum-shaped mouth with rows of sharp teeth emerged like a snake, snapping shut and causing large chunks of frozen rock inside to crumble apart!

Surprisingly, there's more than one!

Everyone looked grave and horrified.

Chapter 980, Section 1024: The Terrifying Tea Party

"Ah! Help me... help..."

Amidst piercing screams, a guard in the square, drenched in an unknown liquid, melted away like a snowman in the sunlight.

Under such intense corrosiveness, even the armor he was wearing could not escape its effects.

Then, the hundreds-of-foots-long monster extended its pale, viscous tip and sprayed foul-smelling saliva at another guard holding a torch.

"Get out of the way!"

In a moment of desperation, Sejuani on the city wall snatched a spear from a guard beside her and hurled it through the air.

Amidst the piercing sound of something tearing through the air, the soldier, his shoulder blade pierced, was dragged seven or eight meters, avoiding the monster's digestive saliva.

Everyone gasped as they stared at the exposed, stark white bone fragments on the soldier's left hand and the sizzling, sinking rocks in front of him.

Although without timely treatment, this unfortunate man's arm might have been ruined, it's better to survive than for it to be corroded into a puddle of pus.

Giant Devouring Worm!

Based on his memory, Kevin immediately identified the approximate type of the thing.

The Old Ones Giant Devouring Worm are two superior, independent races!

Damn! Why are these Cthulhu monsters appearing more and more frequently?!

Just as the man was racking his brains, dozens of shadowy figures leaped onto the city wall with incredible agility.

Under the flickering torchlight, that thing looked somewhat different from the Old Ones of the past.

A nightmarish, black, gleaming form, its amorphous body emitting a foul stench, writhed and flowed forward...

A shapeless protoplasmic vesicle, shimmering with a faint glow, with tens of thousands of green, pus-like eyes constantly forming and disintegrating on its surface.

Led by Sejuani, a group of knights wielding melee weapons attacked the newly appeared enemy with a frenzied hacking and slashing.

But this thing has an incredible flexibility like putty, and a healing speed similar to that of a planarian.

The well-trained Frostclaw Knight launched three rounds of alternating attacks, leaving the monsters that jumped up from the northern section of the city wall almost unharmed.

Once these things had settled, their lashing tentacles, sharp as swords, instantly pierced through the body of a plate-armored knight.

Amidst chilling screams, the hoisted corpse resembled a deformed dough.

His limbs and bones were strangely reshaped, his head was rotated 180 degrees, and his eyes, covered by a layer of white cocoon membranes, stared intently at his former comrade-in-arms.

Damn it! What the hell!

This bizarre and illogical turn of events sent chills down the spines of the soldiers, causing even the most elite troops, who wouldn't flinch even if their insides were churning, to retreat in terror.

Kevin swung his sword, and the burst of energy tore apart the trembling corpse in front of him, which was still attached to the Shoggoth tentacles.

Within the still-trembling body parts, inhuman bones and muscles, like intertwined tree roots and asphalt, grew haphazardly, layer upon layer.

This reminded Kevin of a movie called "The Thing," in which the characters died in an accident in Antarctica, and their condition seemed similar to that of this corpse.

The Shoggoth, the servant race of the Old Ones!

Those mixed-type plants and animals knew we were not to be trifled with, so they brought up their elite attached troops!

At this moment, more than a dozen tentacles appeared and spread to all sides of the city wall. The soldiers who instinctively retreated soon had almost nowhere to put their feet.

"Give me some time, I might have a way to deal with them!"

Hexi's loud shout in his ear made Kevin choose to believe her without hesitation.

"Hela, don't hesitate to use your Authority over Death to suppress the regeneration and infection of these Shoggoth!"

"I'll go take care of those Giant Devouring Worm down there!"

The man leaped from the city wall, which was dozens of meters high, and before he fell, he earnestly reminded the eccentric Goddess of Death.