The Advent of the Slice of Life

BOOM!

The long spear left his hand, leaving no flight path.

The instant it left his grasp, it had already appeared inside the Devourer's body.

It had crossed space directly.

SPLURT!

The long spear pierced straight through the center of the Devourer's colossal body, erupting with crimson karmic light.

"AAARGH!!!"

The Devourer let out a shrill, agonized scream.

Its body, made up of countless gaping mouths, began to swell violently, as though a star had been stuffed inside it.

Countless cracks spread across its body, and purple garbled code sprayed out like blood.

Its enormous body toppled backward, smashing apart vast stretches of white void.

Lin Mu slowly lowered his hand.

Was it over?

No.

The Devourer lying on the ground had not dissipated.

Its shattered body writhed violently, while the garbled code at its wounds rapidly reassembled.

A piercing laugh laced with mockery came from its largest mouth.

"Ha... hahahaha..."

"Foolish..."

"You think... you can kill me?"

The Devourer rose to its feet again.

The gaping hole in its chest where the spear had pierced it was now completely healed.

Its body had even grown larger than before.

"I am... the Recycle Bin..."

"I am... this dimensional layer's... garbage-processing terminal..."

"As long as this story continues... as long as data continues to be generated..."

"I will... restart infinitely."

The Devourer spread its arms, and countless tentacles blotted out the sky.

"You cannot kill... a... system program."

Lin Mu watched the Devourer before him rapidly recover, its aura even stronger than before.

His brow furrowed slightly.

Physical attacks were ineffective.

Karmic attacks could only inflict temporary damage as well.

It was like deleting a file from a computer, only for it to end up in the Recycle Bin.

Even the Recycle Bin itself was part of the operating system.

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