Like a Nightmare
What kind of terrifying experience is it to watch your body gradually mutated?
--Fireworks of Romance made me feel as if I were in the deepest nightmare.
With the rampage of those thousands of tentacles, there was no safe place left in the entire castle. In fact, in terms of individual strength, a single tentacle was not very strong; according to Fireworks of Romance's estimate, its Strength attribute was at most around ten points.
Let alone Player with Strength attribute exceeding 20 like her, even a healthy common could cut off the tentacles with a knife... But quantitative change leads to qualitative change.
The number of these blood-red tentacles is far more than ten or even hundreds.
Just looking at the crimson mass writhing outside the castle, it's hard to describe how many thousands there are, and like the mutated Maid or guards, these tentacles possess incredible regenerative abilities.
You cut off a tentacle one second, and the next second it regenerates on the same spot, endlessly and without end.
However, this is not the most terrifying thing. In fact, if it were only these things, the two of them, relying on their abilities in the Between Heaven and Earth’s Mountains and Seas of Fireworks of Romance and the mountains and seas, could still protect themselves for the time being.
Their biggest problem is the decrease in Sanity Value caused by those tentacles and the mutated of their bodies; either of these is fatal.
Accompanied by a sharp pain from the back of my hand, a blood-red tentacle about the thickness of a finger grew out from the back of my hand and rapidly multiplied and lengthened.
But in the next second, a sharp Small Knife Precision sliced through the tentacle's growth point. A sharp pain, as if a finger had been severed, came through, and the tentacle that had just grown from the back of the hand fell to the ground, twisted into a ball, and was then crushed into pieces by a foot.
--This was a truly Nightmare scene.
The unfolded scroll formed a curtain that blocked the invasion of the tentacles, but it could not stop its own mutated. Once the tentacles that grew on its body reached a certain size, they would attack itself spontaneously, wrapping around its neck or hands and rendering it unable to move.
The Unique way to save oneself is to cut off the tentacles completely with Small Knife as soon as they break through the body.
"I can't take it anymore, just kill me..."
His body trembled painfully from the intense pain, and the Small Knife in his hand slipped limply to the ground. He spoke weakly, as if talking about the Between Heaven and Earth’s Mountains and Seas.
She had already suffered internal organ injuries, and now she had to endure pain that felt like her body was being cut apart. It seemed that she had reached her limit.
As she gave up, a tentacle grew from her face and then spontaneously wrapped around her neck... Fireworks of Romance directly sliced it off with a knife, then kicked the tentacle that had fallen to the ground far away.
"Don't you know what it means to persevere and achieve victory?!"
Biting her lip hard until it bled, while helping Between Heaven and Earth’s Mountains and Seas to remove the tentacles growing from her body, Fireworks of Romance endured the intense pain emanating from all parts of her body and spoke in a harsh voice.
"I have two very reliable Teammate who will be here soon, and then we'll be saved, understand!?"
"Go away, don't worry about me, I know you have a way..."
The pain was so intense that he could barely move. As he watched the Fireworks of Romance, seas, Between Heaven and Earth’s Mountains and Seas became extremely faint.
At that moment, the scroll-like barrier surrounding them, used to defend against the tentacles, began to faintly emit the sound of the paper being torn.
"Are you kidding me? I don't want to become the person I used to hate the most!!"
With one hand, he forcefully grabbed a tentacle that was about to wrap around his neck, Fireworks of Romance with Small Knife, he ruthlessly cut it off.
"But if they don't come soon, I'm really going to..."
"No way, I was only gone for a short time, and you've already fallen on such a bad note?"
Before she could finish her vicious sentence, a voice rang out beside her.
When she looked up, she saw Bai Zhi had appeared in front of her at some point, and was now looking at them with a sigh.
However, unlike before, the other party was now wearing a white Magicians Formalwear.
"Alright, stop looking at me. This isn't a safe place to stay. Let me take you to a safe place first... Luckily, I can use my Failed Writer to change probabilities, otherwise I might not be able to come back."
He bent down and reached out to grab the hands of the two people in front of him. In the instant the surrounding scroll-like barrier shattered, Bai Zhi's figure, along with the Fireworks of Romance, and the Between Heaven and Earth’s Mountains and Seas, disappeared without a trace.
[Magicians Formalwear] is an item produced after [Amusement Park ▪ Eternal Night City] is fully Walkthrough. Although it can only be used for five minutes per hour, its Special Effect is unexpectedly powerful.
After donning this [Magicians Formalwear], aside from the Magic Mask, a crucial survival Skill when necessary, Player can randomly acquire Skill: [X -X-Ray Vision], [Psychokinesis], or [Teleportation].
Normally, the Skill you acquire are random, but if you add the storyline created by the [Failed Writer] Skill, then you can 100% choose the appropriate Skill according to your own wishes.
It was precisely because of this that, after discovering the anomaly at the castle, Bai Zhi used his [Failed Writer] Skill to temporarily write a plot, then changed into his [Magicians Formalwear] and successfully obtained the [Teleportation] Skill.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have had enough confidence to enter the castle.
"Where am I... Ouch, be gentle, I'm in so much pain right now! Can't you be a little gentler? Do you have to be so rough?!"
Fireworks of Romance, who had been thrown to the ground, glared at the guy in front of her with considerable annoyance.
"This is underground outside the castle, the temporary shelter that the Investigator who came in earlier dug... I'll tell you about these things later. First, you should clean those tentacles off yourselves."
Bai Zhi glanced at the two people in front of him and tossed one of them Small Knife.
Although the terrifying mutations on their bodies stopped occurring and the tentacles ceased to grow after they were removed, there were still quite a few tentacles left, giving them a strangely eerie and grotesque appearance.
"Wait, where is this...? You've been outside the castle the whole time?"
Picking up the Small Knife, Fireworks of Romance paused for a moment.
"Where did you get so much Sanity Value from? Logically, your situation should be more serious than ours, so how come..."
"I told you, I'm a little more Sanity than you... I still need to pick up Dead Zero, you guys hurry up."
With a wave of his hand, Bai Zhi's figure vanished instantly.