Taking Away and Escape / Leaving and Everyone's Reactions

Of course, the Deep Sea Church is currently in a period of expansion, and they will not refuse anyone who wants to participate in worship, because they have ample "food" to meet their needs.

That is why, even though Mobius's attire and demeanor were completely out of place in this city, he entered the dilapidated church without any trouble.

Inside the church, the devotees, who worship the Mother Goddess, warmly serve everyone who enters the hall to listen to their speeches. Of course, if you refuse them, they will not force you to listen to them.

Here, everything is "voluntary".

After scaring away anyone who wanted to disturb him with his eyes, Mobius sat silently by the side door, observing everything in the church, as quiet as a scholar who had come out of curiosity.

In reality, however, the Mobius was simply waiting for an opportunity to enter the backyard and reach the tomb entrance.

As time passed, more and more people entered the church... At the same time, she noticed the detail that someone was always holding the door handle on the side door.

"..."

Mobius gazed at the veiled cultists there, his serpentine eyes narrowing slightly.

It seems that Bishop Quintus's understanding of the human body is rather poor. Those standing motionless believers appear to be merely faithfully carrying out an instruction under the influence of the Seaborn cells.

Although meticulous and seemingly very serious, he still lost some of the wisdom that a person should have.

Once she understood the situation of those believers, Mobius lost interest and looked away. After all, no one would be so bored as to stare at a stone statue indefinitely, and she certainly didn't think she should waste her time on it.

Not long after Mobius withdrew his gaze, Quintus, the masked leader of the Deep Sea Church, made a dazzling entrance amidst the attention of the crowd.

He appeared to be considerably taller than average, standing approximately 1.95 meters tall, with his lower body completely concealed by a bluish-brown church robe. Furthermore, his movements were remarkably slow; to the Mobius, it appeared more like wriggling than walking.

Yes... a slow, creeping movement.

Both the information from Pardofelis and the plot he knew well told Mobius about the current state of the bishop before him.

Quintus was already a non-human being, but precisely because of this, the Mobius looked down on him even more, seeing him as nothing more than a failed creation unable to maintain a human form.

How can something that can't even maintain its original form be considered a successful "evolution"?

As a scholar who pursued competition, Mobius expressed disdain for the "evolution" exhibited by Quintus.

Rather than calling it evolution, she sees it as regression—willingly assimilating into other species, which she considers utterly foolish.

If we're talking about Mobius, only those Abyssal Hunters can be considered to be related to evolution, maintaining their fundamental human nature while wielding immense power. Conceptually, they're not much different from Fusion Warrior, except for the different things they fuse with.

Of course, it is precisely because of this that when she sees people who voluntarily accept assimilation, she can't help but feel a sense of absurdity, as if Fusion Warrior are willingly assimilated by Honkai Beast factors.

Mobius crossed his arms, stopping his thoughts, and bluntly labeled Quintus as brainless and a waste of experimental materials.

There's not much to say about the former—the one who can willingly transform himself into something neither human nor ghost.

As for the latter, looking at the believers standing like stone pillars in the church, Mobius didn't think these guys would make good use of good experimental materials. At best, it would just be some brute-force attempts, as for sophisticated reverse engineering... ha.

Just as Mobius was defining Quintus in his mind, he took out his lecture notes and began to recount the teachings of the Deep Sea Church to the people who came.

Everyone closed their eyes in respect as the bishop led the prayer. Even the townspeople who were participating for the first time followed suit, closing their eyes in prayer to give thanks for the blessings of the Mother Goddess.

In those few short seconds, Mobius stopped sitting and acting as a scholar, bursting forth with his fastest speed and silently slipping out of the hall through the side door.

After all, although it's called a side door, there isn't actually a door there; otherwise, there wouldn't have been any need for the believers to guard it in the first place.

Therefore, the Mobius entered the church without any fuss and headed straight for the tomb.

When she arrived at the backyard, the empty and quiet environment was exactly as she had expected.

This is also one of the reasons why Mobius chose this time to come to the Deep Sea Church. At this time, those annoying believers are all gathered in the church hall, and no one is wandering around and hindering her plans.

Of course, she didn't care too much, after all, she came here to violently invade.

Without hesitation, Mobius calmly walked into the entrance to the church crypt.

Meanwhile, Quintus, who was still reading his lecture in the hall, couldn't help but pause slightly, and then his eyes narrowed.

He noticed that the strikingly beautiful woman who had just vanished from the hall was now heading straight into the tomb entrance.

A question mark involuntarily popped into Quintus's head. How could someone find the entrance to the experimental field? And head straight for it... Wait, in an instant, he couldn't help but think of the feeling of being watched last night. Damn it!

"Boom boom--"

Before Quintus could react, a loud crash suddenly came from behind the church. The entrance to the tomb, hidden within, was blasted apart by a huge, dark green monster.

It collapsed... it collapsed?

Seeing this sudden turn of events, Quintus dared not delay any longer. He decisively abandoned his reading of the sermon and left behind those who were listening to the gospel, rushing to the backyard.

He doesn't have time to worry about that now; he needs to stop it immediately, otherwise everything he's painstakingly built will probably be torn down.

However, it was too late; the enormous, snake-like creature had already burrowed into Quintus's experimental field.

"..."

Quintus stared at the collapsed entrance with a grim expression, a surge of anger rising within him.

He then joined the Swarm, summoned his comrades to the cave, and instructed the remaining comrades already at the experimental site to do their utmost to halt the monster's advance.

Quintus wasn't sure if the messenger in the experimental field could stop that thing, but if he acted together with the messenger, who knew... they might win.

So now he needs to hurry down there.

It must be said that Quintus has made ample arrangements under the existing conditions.

But all of this was far too weak for Mobius had entered a state of Artificial Honkai Eruption.

Monsters like crawlers, piercers, and runners were reduced to mincemeat with a single sweep of her scepter. Under the terrifying force of her blows, they were nothing more than carbon-based creatures that looked slightly more frightening.

Monsters would occasionally rush towards her from somewhere in the cave, only to be reduced to minced meat under her scepter.

The crawler flung out its venomous stinger, which struck Mobius 'Artificial Honkai Eruption body like a sewing needle, only to bounce back.

A sprinting creature, roughly the height of a person, charged toward the head of the body, its fangs-filled mouth ready to tear at her neck, but was caught by a giant claw emerging from the eerie green-glowing Black Mud on the ground, crushing it into a pulp.

Then, maintaining the Artificial Honkai Eruption, Mobius rushed towards the inner storage room. As a scientist, and with her current higher vantage point, she quickly grasped the layout of this secret laboratory after just a quick glance.

Ultimately, it turned out she hadn't gone to the wrong place and quickly arrived at the area where Quintus Laboratory stored experimental subjects.

However, upon Mobius's arrival, he discovered that an uninvited "guest" was waiting for him.

P. S.: This post got longer and longer, and it went straight to 5000 words. I originally wanted to finish editing it all before posting it, but it's already 3:30, and I really can't finish editing it. So I'll post 3000 words for now. Goodnight everyone. By the way, I wish you all good luck with your gacha pulls tomorrow (? o? o?).

Chapter 5 Taking Away and Escaping

"You... are acting very strangely."

At the entrance to the area, the towering Seaborn looked warily at the enormous Mobius before him and spoke in human language.

Although it spoke only a few words and not very fluently, the language that came out of its mouth was indeed human language.

If the Iberia judge were standing here at this moment, he would surely be astonished by this scene. It shows that Seaborn has begun to slowly understand humanity, and even learn everything about humanity.

However, Mobius had no other thoughts; she simply found the guy in front of her too much of an eyesore. After all, time was of the essence, and she knew without a doubt that a large number of Seaborn were rushing towards them.

While it's not life-threatening, it's always better to avoid these kinds of troublesome situations.

"Heh~ Your unusual behavior isn't small either~"

"If it weren't for the time crunch, you might already be lying on my operating table. It's such a pity. Otherwise, the first Seaborn could speak human language would have easily produced a top-tier biology paper!"

As she spoke, Mobius did not stop. She manipulated the Artificial Honkai Eruption, enormous body, and with a nimble lash of her tail, she struck the First Speaker.

Then a tremendous force was transmitted, instantly sending it flying backward like a kite with a broken string, crashing through several stone walls before finally coming to a stop.

Of course, before flying away, the First Speaker did try to resist, spraying a string of highly corrosive bubbles at Mobius using the two sacs on its arms.

Besides being highly corrosive, these vesicles also contain extremely dangerous toxins. Furthermore, because the First Speaker was relatively large, the amount of toxin injected was also considerable. For an ordinary person, contact with such a vesicle would be fatal.

But it was unlucky to encounter Mobius, especially since Mobius's Artificial Honkai Eruption was orchestrated.

These bubbles were easily blocked by Mobius manipulating the Black Mud on the ground.

Strictly speaking, these things wouldn't cause much of a problem if they got on her Artificial Honkai Eruption body, but no one likes to be covered in dirt if they can avoid it.

Therefore, under such overwhelming power, even if the First Speaker resisted, he was still quickly sent flying and then entered a state of infantile "sleep".

The Mobius glanced at the nearly dying First Speaker embedded in the distant wall, and after confirming that it was temporarily unable to stop it, it withdrew its gaze. Instead, it manipulated its massive body to dive into the storage area, searching for its target.

Upon entering the storage area, the first thing Mobius saw was a large number of severed limbs, internal organs, and other remains used for experiments.

These body tissues soaking in the jars were unusual; they were covered with Seaborn's cells to varying degrees, making them look bizarre and terrifying.

After exploring a little deeper, Mobius saw three huge glass culture tanks embedded in the wall, and one of them contained her target, an Abyssal Hunters Laurentina was in a coma.

She didn't even need to open the jar to check; she could guess that the girl inside must have suffered a lot of inhuman torture.

Thinking of this, Mobius couldn't help but sneer inwardly.

With such excellent experimental material, Quintus could have used more sophisticated methods for targeted research, but instead he insisted on using extremely violent methods for crude experiments... Not only wasting such valuable material, it was utterly useless.

Mobius, whose gaze had turned cold at some point, wasted no more time and directly used a claw to dismantle the culture tank made of special glass that was trapping Laurentina.

As the culture vessel was destroyed, Laurentina was soaking inside, was also thrown out along with the liquid inside.

As the "culprit" that caused this scene, the Mobius couldn't bear to let such a good experimental subject fall, so it caught the person with its free giant claw.

After doing all that, Mobius didn't forget to swing her scepter and destroy the remaining two jars beside her. She had just observed that the remaining two jars did not contain any living creatures, but rather corpses.

Since that's the case, there's no need to leave them behind, lest Quintus continue his experiments and produce something terrible.

After doing all this, the Mobius didn't plan to linger any longer. It carefully cradled Laurentina in its paws and prepared to leave quickly.

In her perception, a large number of Seaborn had already gathered outside the underwater cave. Since she had already obtained her target, she naturally did not intend to waste any more time here.

However, before Mobius could leave his laboratory in the cave, he encountered Quintus had rushed down from the cave, at the connecting point.

"Oh dear, isn't this Bishop Quintus? He's so slow!"

"You...you actually dared to kill the messenger! You monster..." Quintus said through gritted teeth, his face contorted with rage as he saw Mobius and the messy laboratory behind him.

However, Mobius wasn't too keen on Quintus's nonsense and slammed his scepter down, physically interrupting him.

What a joke! She's not stupid. What good would it do her to keep wasting time here? Doesn't she know that villains die from talking too much? If she waits any longer, the Seaborn outside will flood into the cave, and there will be another tug-of-war.

However, the feel of the impact quickly alerted Mobius to something was wrong...

"Your bones are pretty tough, huh? I wonder if you could survive if I completely crushed you into mincemeat and turned you into dust?"

Retracting his scepter, Mobius looked at Quintus, whose body was beginning to twist and deform on the ground, and a look of disgust flashed in his eyes.

"You... you deserve to die."

With the final roar subsiding, Quintus's body twisted completely, stretching out wildly, and the cave walls collapsed and crumbled under the waving of its outstretched tentacles.

Its head was squeezed out of its eyes, its eyelids detached from its huge eyeballs, and countless tentacles bloomed from its body. If its shape were to be described, Quintus at this moment would look like a blooming sea anemone.

Instantly, a putrid, foul stench assaulted Mobius's brain, intensifying the look of disgust on her face.

She gazed at the crumbling rock face, shattered by Quintus's writhing and thrashing, and decided she no longer wished to entangle with him. With a thought, the Black Mud covering the ground beneath her feet instantly stirred, transforming into countless spears that pierced towards the enemy.

Almost instantly, Quintus's twisted body was pierced and pinned to the spot by dozens of Black Mud spears, his entire body... no, his entire Seaborn was riddled with holes like a sieve.

Seeing that the surrounding rock walls were still collapsing, after doing all that, Mobius stopped and carefully carried Laurentina in his paws, using the path cleared by a bishop as he came down, and rushed up to the land.

Chapter 6 Departure and Reactions from All Parties

When Mobius returned to shore via the path opened by Quintus, the sun was already high in the sky, its intense rays shining on the massive, Artificial Honkai Eruption body, giving it an eerie, holy glow.

The underground exit behind her began to crack and collapse inch by inch because of her violent actions.

Those inside the church who witnessed the Artificial Honkai Eruption of Mobius's massive body were simultaneously gripped by panic and fear.

Both townspeople and believers screamed and fled out of the church.

Seeing this scene, Mobius felt no particular emotion. Instead, he avoided the crowd and carried Laurentina away from the church grounds.

This place, and even Saltwind City, might not be a place she could stay for long anymore. Because she had taken advantage of her high vantage point to see the changes that had taken place on the coastline.

The once grayish-yellow sand beach has now completely changed its appearance.

The waves no longer lapped gently against the beach as before, but seemed to be pulled by an inexplicable force, violently crashing against the shore time and time again.

With each receding wave, what remains is no longer the usual seashells and seaweed, but a horrifying scene. Schools of Horrorfish have somehow covered the beach, their bodies reflecting a dull gray-black hue in the sunlight; clearly, their lives have come to an end.

Their bodies piled up and intertwined on the beach, forming shocking lines of life. At this moment, an unbearable stench filled the air, a deathly stench that neither the sea nor the sea breeze could wash away, a mixture of putrefaction and salt, irritating the noses and hearts of every creature touched by the sea breeze.

Mobius knew all too well what the changes on the beach meant. The swarm of white mice in the sea was coming for her.

Although she wasn't worried about her own safety and was quite interested in the phenomenon, she glanced at the small Mobius lying in her hand and didn't stop her actions of Artificial Honkai Eruption her body.

Mobius wasn't going to waste any more time here; soon the news of the "giant serpentine monster" would probably spread throughout Iberia.