The Glass Crown That Ruled the Mysterious Source (Five Thousand Words)

"That's quite a fitting answer for you..."

Faced with questions from the leaders of the Dante Organization and the Hell Organization, Xiao Xiao gave a seemingly outrageous answer.

This also caused the two presidents to feel a deep sense of exhaustion. They had no choice but to come; they couldn't just stand by and watch the world be overwhelmed by that kind of crazy spiritual power. Their question to Xiao Xiao was sincere, but his answer was "I like it."

This kind of answer is practically mocking the opponent; no one would be satisfied with such a response.

But ironically, the person who answered with those two words was the president of the Black Gate City Outsider Association, the craziest guy in the entire Strangers world.

So... is that reasonable?

If someone were to destroy the world or even themselves, they would always need a reason. Before destroying the world or committing suicide, they would always need to make a declaration to the world, so that people would understand why they are doing this.

But he's probably the only one who actually did it, without needing any reason...

The two leaders of the Hell Organization and the Dante Organization, who had initially approached the questioning, discussion, and even compromise, fell silent upon hearing this answer. In their silence, from the unfathomable Mist Sea all around, strange and powerful spiritual creatures swiftly emerged. While the Mysterious Source dared not approach from the directions of their respective factions, these creatures, driven by instinct, charged madly and ferociously towards Black Gate City from the other two directions, completely unaffected...

If Black Gate City is likened to a giant cake, then these monsters are like mad and greedy predators.

They emerged from the Mist Sea, some high, some low, carrying an overwhelming sense of oppression. They opened their mouths wide and charged towards Black Gate City, biting down.

At this moment, Xiao Xiao, who stood atop Black Gate City, was like a grain of rice compared to a whale in terms of size.

But as this enormous and distorted thing approached Black Gate City, carrying a turbulent flow of compressed consciousness, Xiao Xiao didn't even blink. He merely let out a barely perceptible breath, and the next moment, he slowly raised his palm.

Splash...

Beneath his feet, the silent and massive Black Gate City seemed to come alive in an instant.

This was no longer a city, but rather a huge and terrifying flesh and blood monster, which Xiao Xiao was allowed to stand on.

As Xiao Xiao moved, his body suddenly tore apart, and countless thick and twisted fleshy tentacles emerged, extending into the sky and wrapping around the necks of the approaching mysterious creatures.

"Laugh..."

Those enormous, but clearly incompletely conscious, and driven only by instinct, mysterious creatures were also visibly startled. Some tried to tear at the thick tentacles, while others instinctively retreated. In the struggle, the huge tentacles were stretched taut for a moment, but the next instant, Black Gate City suddenly contracted wildly. The immense power was transmitted through the tentacles to these mysterious creatures, violently pulling them into Black Gate City. Countless pieces of flesh tore open, transforming into huge mouths that greedily tore at and chewed their bodies.

"Those, those are the most ferocious and Mysterious Source in the Mist Sea ..."

Seeing this twisted and bizarre scene, many people within both Dante's and Hell's organizations had their expressions suddenly change:

"They were almost qualified to parasitize an entire city; these creatures were worthy of being worshipped and made gods, and yet..."

"Eaten?"

"..."

"He has already reached the Dominator level!"

The old man from the Dante Organization, dressed in a platinum robe, with a somber expression, replied in a low voice, "He is the most powerful person born in this mysterious world after the emergence of the mental resonance phenomenon."

"In a way, you could even say that he is almost without rivals in this world."

"Because at this level, he is the master of the spiritual realm. No one is confident of killing him easily, and those who are qualified to fight him to the death wouldn't be foolish enough to risk their lives for him. If there's anything, we can just discuss it together..."

"But what can I do? He's a complete madman."

"..."

You could hear the deep helplessness in their words.

Once someone reaches the level of dominance, there are very few people or things that can threaten them; they can basically be said to have said goodbye to danger.

Unless, of course, he deliberately brought disaster upon himself, a disaster powerful enough to destroy him.

For example, you might offend some of the most powerful organizations in the world and give them a reason to kill you without even considering negotiation.

What can you do with someone like that?

"Then what do we do?"

On the Hell Organization's side, the seventh captain, White Devil, had been punished and lost his own ship, so he squeezed onto the chairman's ship. Upon hearing this, he couldn't help but ask worriedly, "Are we really going to attack him?"

"President, you understand me. Although he and I are friends, we keep business separate from personal matters and don't mix them up."

"Just give me the order, and I'll go chop him up and come back to report."

"But don't forget, our Hell Organization once designated Black Gate City as a forbidden zone of Hell. This means that members of our Hell Organization are not allowed to enter Black Gate City, nor can they be enemies of Black Gate City..."

"If you really give this order, don't you have any shame?"

"..."

"..."

On Dante Organization's side, Lin Bo followed behind his mentor, approached the guild leader, and boldly raised his hand. "I know Black Gate City very well, extremely well."

"I know the prices of the red-light district and the boxed meals in Black Gate City very well. I can lead the way."

"But I have a question, Chairman: our Dante Organization has always been a research organization, not an assassin organization..."

"Do we really need to directly intervene in these kinds of violent incidents?"

"How about we investigate why that madman did this first, and try to negotiate with him? You have so much influence, why don't we let the other organizations disperse first?"

"..."

"..."

Faced with the incessant chatter of his subordinates, both Dante and the leaders of the two major organizations, Hell, were experiencing splitting headaches and waves of frustration.

Attack Black Gate City?

Do you think we want to do this? This is not part of our plan at all. We have a lot of things to do. Who would have the time to come and fight Black Gate City?

But that guy has dragged the whole world into a nightmare, what are we going to do?

He Mingming already so powerful that he has the right to negotiate with anyone, and we will most likely agree to most of his demands.

But he didn't!

He was simply going his own way, as if he was deliberately forcing us to kill him...

You're chattering away asking these questions, but can't you be a little more considerate of the leaders? Think about what you would do if you were in our positions.

All the chaotic thoughts converged on one question.

What is he after?

Perhaps if we could understand this problem, then the people of Dante Organization and Hell Organization wouldn't have to suffer so much.

Unfortunately, despite the large number of people Black Gate City has attracted, not a single one can guess what Xiao Xiao is really after...

"Subject Zero can be declared completely out of control!"

While the Hell Organization and Dante Organization were feeling overwhelmed and confused, behind the layers of the Mist Sea, another group of people were coldly and angrily watching the direction of Black Gate City. The executors sent by Lost Island were watching as the Mysterious Source that rushed to the front were swallowed up by Black Gate City, while reporting in a deep voice, "It can be confirmed that Experiment Zero has entered the Dominator level, and the second mental resonance he triggered has been intensifying wildly. The entire world is falling into a deep and distorted mental ocean."

"We have reason to believe that with this intensification of the spiritual resonance, the gates of hell may be reopened."

"The woman who sealed herself in hell may also be awakened by him."

"..."

That concludes the report. Those who listened to it understand the importance of this news.

The location of the Lost Island has been exposed. If the woman from hell really returns to reality, then the people of the Lost Island will have no protection whatsoever.

"Is killing him the only option?"

Some people's voices were trembling, it was hard to tell whether it was from heartache or helplessness.

The people of Lost Island least want Xiao Xiao to die, after all, he is the only one who could possibly help Lost Island close the singularity and truly realize the World Upgrade Project.

Therefore, recycling it is the best method.

However, the previous attempt to recover him had failed. Before they could even come up with another way to recover him, he had already triggered a second mental resonance, pushing the situation to an endless deterioration.

What can we do then?

We need to truly eliminate him, and then figure out what to do next.

"He's courting death."

On the other end of the communication, someone sighed softly and said, "This is not a curse, but a fact."

"Regardless of what this Subject Zero is thinking, everything he does is deliberately forcing us and the entire world to kill him."

"Indeed, killing him would be a huge loss for us."

"However, we dare not gamble on the outcome of this spiritual resonance, so we can only do as he wishes."

"..."

Faced with this voice, everyone else who was qualified to speak on this channel remained silent, which meant that a consensus had been reached.

"Therefore, the request to clean up Subject Zero is approved."

"Approval granted to the execution team to activate the use of the Level 0 special item [Glass Crown]!"

"..."

"..."

As a suffocating decision was made on Lost Island, in the deep and unfathomable Mist Sea, the Lost Island's executors opened a sophisticated box and took out an item from inside.

It was a glass crown, shimmering with dreamlike colors.

The group exchanged glances. Among the executors, one stood up, silently accepted the crystal crown, and then slowly placed it on his head.

The next moment, he was suddenly enveloped by a massive, bizarre mental turbulence. For a moment, his mental tendrils spread wildly outwards, seemingly extending directly to every corner of the mental world and the mental ocean. Then, gritting his teeth and enduring the pain and pressure of his almost completely shattered brain, he slowly pointed towards the direction of Black Gate City, as if issuing an irresistible, bizarre command to the entire world.

Rumble...

The next moment, within the vast and boundless ocean of consciousness, countless dark red shadows surged and rushed madly toward Black Gate City.

Those were countless mysterious creatures, many of which had already parasitized a certain city, greedily devouring some Pain Substance.

But now, with the command issued by that Glass Crown, they suddenly seemed to have received orders, abandoning their most greedy cities and rushing madly towards Black Gate City.

Darkness descended, demons danced wildly, and immense spiritual power reverberated throughout the world.

"Here we go?"

Sensing the surging power, even the Hell Organization and the Dante Organization changed their expressions drastically and quickly ordered to temporarily increase the distance between themselves and Black Gate City.

Lost Island has made its move.

Moreover, it is clear that Lost Island has made up its mind this time, and its move is so frantic that it has attracted probably more than two-thirds of the Mysterious Source in the world to besiege Black Gate City.

Such a mad power is something that neither the Hell Organization nor the Dante Organization dares to get involved with.

What is that?

As countless Mysterious Source surged toward Black Gate City, Ruan Ruan, Red Eyes Ling Ping, who were busy building the large ship, were suddenly awakened. They looked up and could not see what the outside of the city looked like, but they could feel the shock of the entire city, as if thousands of troops were pounding the ground. The hairs on their skin stood on end, and deep in their spiritual perception, endless bizarre hallucinations seemed to appear, making them almost unable to stand and wanting to kneel on the ground.

Everyone stopped moving, looking at each other in bewilderment, their faces displaying only one emotion:

Fear.

"Let's continue doing what we're supposed to do."

At the same moment, Mister Ye's electronic voice seemed somewhat heavy as he slowly said, "No matter what happens outside, we need to carry out the chairman's orders."

Red Eyes Ling Ping, said worriedly, "But..."

"No buts."

Mister Ye said calmly, "Our former chairman did not have complete confidence or fully agree with the Noah Project, but he still achieved unimaginable results time and time again."

"But this time, I could feel his inner determination."

"Now that he's made preparations, what else can we do besides not mess things up?"

"Continue building Noah!"

"..."

"..."

"Are they getting serious?"

Meanwhile, atop Black Gate City, Xiao Xiao looked up at the swirling Mist Sea mist, watching countless strange creatures surge towards him.

He let out a low breath, feeling as if he had returned to the nightmare of those four years, feeling powerless to control his own destiny.

Is this the power of the Mysterious Guidepost?

Directly and forcibly driving most of the world's Mysterious Source to attack Black Gate City?

Thinking this, he suddenly turned around and saw a white shadow floating faintly above the Black Gate City, which had become a huge flesh and blood monster. It was Lady Fate, and she seemed to be ready.

The only hope is that she didn't drink too much.

"Then let's just get started..."

Taking a deep breath, as the Mysterious Source, surging like a tidal wave towards Black Gate City, opened its twisted and grotesque mouth, Xiao Xiao suddenly strode forward. At the same time, the massive flesh behind him began to rapidly intertwine and recombine, and a three-headed, hellfire-like ferocious dog quickly appeared behind him. The moment it appeared, its body suddenly grew larger, and it opened its ferocious maw, hissing and biting at the Mysterious Source.

Cerberus!

Moreover, it was Cerberus, whose maximum spiritual power had been infused into it by Xiao Xiao using his Dominator-level abilities.

At this point, it was no longer Black Gate City that helped them become stronger or measured their levels; it was Xiao Xiao himself who determined it.

In other words, they can no longer be evaluated using the normal S or Class A.

If we absolutely had to make a horizontal comparison, it would probably be...

... Double S-class?

... Every head is a double S-class.

... Except for the one on the far left, it always felt a bit out of place.

"Roar..."

Cerberus took the lead, colliding with the wandering Mysterious Source, followed by the sounds of countless pieces of flesh being torn apart and burned by flames.

Cerberus's performance was surprisingly good, but Xiao Xiao was still surrounded by countless Mysterious Source in the next moment. The huge flesh and blood that Black Gate City had transformed into was also being bitten by countless Mysterious Source at this moment.

Within the distorted and frenzied mental currents, Xiao Xiao could even vaguely sense the powerful entity that controlled these Mysterious Source:

[Sequence 4 of the Twelve Mystic Paths: The Glass Crown]

[Level: None]

[Points redemption: None]

[Note: Everyone once had a bright future. At her birthday party, the moment she put on this Glass Crown, she also realized her earliest dream: to become a little princess.]

[Ability: Forcibly distorts the will of mental beings whose frequencies are similar to one's own, driving them to attack a chosen target.]

[The cost: The user will forever lose their hope for the future, just like her.]

[...]

"Patient Zero once dreamed of becoming a little princess..."

As Xiao Xiao sensed the spiritual power reverberating among those countless Mysterious Source, he sighed softly, a bitter smile seemingly appearing on his lips, "So naive..."

As he smiled bitterly, a terrifying chainsaw suddenly appeared beside him, swiftly slicing through the flesh and blood around him. Countless beings that approached Xiao Xiao's Mysterious Source at that moment were cut into pieces by the huge, twisted chainsaw.

The Butcher seemed to sense something and actually took action.