Cross-dimensional breeding?
Lord Ivan really was quite accomplished. It seemed he was using the concept of reproduction to pierce the barrier between worlds. I wondered how he'd come by that inspiration.
Quickly piecing together one possibility, Fu Qian couldn't help admiring the imagined shape of the "upside-down tree."
So what was in the boy's head really a "pine cone"?
And the seeds extracted from inside it were the ultimate purpose of all this?
As a handpicked talent, Ivan had indeed elevated artistic creation to a higher level.
And now, it seemed Fu Qian's job was to confirm whether that elevation had worked.
Then he could confirm what had really happened to the two missing people in this creative vision.
With the picture already clear in his mind, there was no need to draw it by hand. Fu Qian didn't put pen to paper. Instead, he tried to find a light source and went back into the passage.
As expected, his ammunition hadn't been replenished either.
The passage was a little old, but clearly easier to walk through than the Inner World.
That left Fu Qian free to check his weapon as he hurried along.
As with the coin, the three bullets he'd used were truly gone.
He searched himself, too, but found nothing to replenish them with.
Still, there was always a bright side. If he waited a little longer, his fingers might become supernatural weapons in their own right.
He wasn't asking to destroy the world. He just wanted others to feel the pain he was in right now.
That's right, the pain was getting worse, and the blue-green color was spreading.
It wasn't stopping him from pulling the trigger yet, but an ordinary person would probably already be struggling to resist the urge to cut off the