S-Class Talent: Shared Divine Grace

To be honest, any normal person would freeze for three seconds upon hearing Cheng Shi say that.

A male human claiming he wants to give a group of genderless Dread Demons a child—no matter where you put that statement, it's absolutely earth-shattering.

Dread Demons don't reproduce sexually; they are born from the Fear Mother Tree in the underground world.

The Fear Mother Tree absorbs fear from all planes, then grows new branches. After a while, the branches fall off and become new Dread Demon individuals.

Amid everyone's shock, Cao Sansui was the first to snap out of it, asking hesitantly:

"You're planning... to heal the Dread Demons?"

Cheng Shi snapped his fingers:

"Bingo. I'm going to release a Healing Art that covers the entire ruin. Every Dread Demon will receive my Lord's gaze and embrace reproduction."

"Impossible... no priest's healing range could ever be that big..."

Nangong said, her face ashen. She began to believe that under the immense survival pressure, Cheng Shi had gone mad.

Pity—this young man had a good heart and was handsome, but he'd lost his mind too fast.

Cheng Shi didn't explain much, just smiled:

"Nothing is impossible.

When you think something's impossible, it's because your milk output isn't enough yet."

Seeing Cheng Shi's playful gaze flicker over her small mounds, tightly bound by her chest wrap, Nangong's pale face flushed red instantly.

"You...!!!"

Cheng Shi ignored her, instead extending his right hand into a simple, unadorned starting gesture for a Healing Art.

"How much longer on the Holy Light Great Wall?"

Chen Chong's face darkened—finally this guy remembered the shield's duration was running out. He didn't know whether to trust Cheng Shi, but seeing how confident he sounded, he resignedly replied:

"Long enough for you to act cool for another 10 seconds!"

"9 seconds..."

"8!"

"..."

"3!"

"2!"

"Right now!"

Cheng Shi shouted, and the Ray of Healing in his hand began to surge.

At the same time, Xia Wan unhesitatingly swallowed a handful of Genesis Grass Seeds, plucked six spore arrows from thin air with her right hand, drew her bow, and aimed overhead.

With a "whoosh," the six arrows exploded above everyone's heads, carrying dense reproductive energy.

"1!"

The Holy Light Great Wall shattered like a mirror, its light vanishing instantly. The Dread Demons piled outside the barrier suddenly lost their support and began tumbling down.

The outer Dread Demons, seeing the shield broken, roared and charged in.

Spore filaments grew wildly in the confined space. The Dread Demons pressed against each other, leaving almost no gaps, so a single filament could link countless Dread Demon bodies.

Whether it was the Dread Demons' frantic attacks colliding with each other or the extra spore arrow doing its work, the enemies' time to reach them was far longer than one second.

Just as everyone's faces twisted in terror, ready to counterattack and break out, Cheng Shi's ultimate move finally finished charging.

"Let me show you what real milk output looks like!

All corners of the world...

Shared Divine Grace!"

As the last word left his mouth, a massive beam of holy light struck the nearest Dread Demon in front of Cheng Shi. Then, the light passed through it and refracted at lightning speed toward its kin in all directions.

This wasn't like a simple Healing Art; it was more like a Healing Chain that could cure multiple targets.

But the problem was, Healing Chain had diminishing returns—the more targets, the faster the decay.

Against an enemy horde of this magnitude, such healing would probably only be enough to restore a single hair.

In past trials, some had tried healing enemies. The Faith Game might be a game, but it was more like another reality.

There was no "friendly fire immunity" or "healing enemies is ineffective" mechanic here. If you healed an enemy, they really would recover, then beat you down even harder.

So when Cao Sansui saw Cheng Shi only unleash a Healing Chain, his fear shot through the roof.

What good could this do?

But even if he didn't believe him, it was too late now. With a fight-to-the-death resolve, he still followed the plan—the moment Cheng Shi acted, he released an "overload"-level Area Acceleration over the entire ruin except for their immediate vicinity.

"Area... Acceleration!!!"

Time outside hit fast-forward; the Dread Demons suddenly sped up.

Time around them froze; everyone instantly stopped.

In their limited awareness, everyone saw only that the Healing Chain was transmitting faster and faster, splitting into more and more strands. In the blink of an eye, it transformed into countless torrents of holy light, rampaging wildly across the entire ruin!

Healing surged like a giant wave, devouring everything!

Everyone was stunned.

Cao Sansui watched the Dread Demons around him drawing closer, then falling into the Time Freeze Zone, forming a wall of flesh on the perimeter that "protected" them inside. He couldn't help but wonder—was this also part of the plan?

He gradually lost sight of the outside world. In his last glimpse, he was still shocked by why Cheng Shi's Healing Chain wasn't diminishing, but increasing!

The chain healed harder and harder, and in the end, it even directly enveloped the entire ruin!

How was this possible?

Nothing is impossible.

When Cheng Shi's nearly frozen mind saw the surrounding Dread Demons trapped in the Time Freeze Zone, building a new "Great Wall," he knew his plan had succeeded.

The reason he could spread the Healing Chain across the entire ruin was his unique S-rank Professional Talent: Shared Divine Grace!

This talent allowed him to produce a transmission effect when healing similar lifeforms. For each additional similar lifeform, the healing effect and range expanded by a fraction.

Normally, with a team of at most six people, this effect was just icing on the cake.

But now, if all the Dread Demons were counted as targets, even if a true god descended, they couldn't count how many there were.

Even if each individual added only a 1% boost, calculating it a thousand times would multiply it manyfold.

And there were far more than a thousand Dread Demons here!

Today, right here, all the Dread Demons were bathed in Cheng Shi's Healing Chain!

And all in an instant!

Healing enemies was usually inadvisable, but circumstances mattered.

For example, healing carrying the divine power of [Birth] was not something just anyone could enjoy.

The moment the terrifying healing light slammed into them, aided by the Area Acceleration of time, countless Dread Demons, before they could even react, found their bellies swelling exponentially.

[Birth], at this moment, gazed upon them.

Madness ensued immediately.

Dread Demons were originally sexless demons. As new life suddenly began gestating in various parts of their bodies, even they—creatures without fear—started to feel terror.

They extended their claws to cut off the bulges, tore at their own flesh to kill the newborns.

But the powerful healing light instantly closed their wounds.

A deep sense of helplessness rose in their hearts.

They saw their own future: each one would become a "mother" raising children.

Some would have more than one.

Not only that, the will of [Birth] began spreading wildly, causing the Dread Demons, whose rational thresholds were already low, to gradually fall and become freaks obsessed with reproduction.

All of this happened in an instant—no, the scene was even faster!

Under the influence of Area Acceleration, in just over ten seconds, the situation spiraled completely out of control.

All the Dread Demons became slaves to reproduction. Even without gender, they mechanically and unconsciously mimicked the most primitive acts of nature.

Mating.

Reproduction.

An entire right flank of the Bone Legion, on a ruin devoid of human figures, completely let themselves go...

The scene spiraled out of control, indescribable in words.

Time kept accelerating, and the indescribable became even more indescribable.

Countless Dread Demons wallowed in the violence of reproduction, unable to extricate themselves, while the "children" in their bellies grew larger and larger.

By the time the Healing Chain finally reached the last Dread Demon, completing its mission of healing the multitude, the scene had already become a paradise of [Birth].

The bellies of the Dread Demons affected earliest began to burst. "Newborns," unable to wait, were born prematurely, throwing themselves into the embrace of [Birth], then began gnawing on the flesh of their "mothers," striving to grow into new "mothers" themselves.

And these Newborns all shared the same face, which was...

A pair of big, adorable eyes, and a single tentacle as their main body.

Cheng Shi didn't want this, but his divine power of [Birth] came from the pregnant woman in yesterday's Food Dungeon, and he couldn't control it.

This was why he needed the [Death] assassin to prepare Death Funeral.

When Area Acceleration ended and the tentacle Newborns had devoured all the Dread Demons, they would become another army—perhaps far more terrifying than the Dread Demon army.

But the ruin, having just had so many Dread Demons die here, was the best possible Death Domain.

Song Yawen's final strike would completely annihilate these freaks and save the six of them.

That was Cheng Shi's entire plan.

Only, the other teammates trapped inside the Dread Demon wall probably wouldn't get to enjoy such a magnificent spectacle.