Arknights, but Raising Terra Chapter 17

Now they don't even need to find excuses anymore.

What? You say Amiya looks like just a 16 or 17-year-old girl, even a little rabbit?

What does that matter?

If she wears the black crown, she's Sarkaz.

As long as they're Sarkaz, they'll be killed regardless of gender, age, or status.

Amiya felt sadness.

Amiya felt that individual kindness was useless.

Amiya felt Terra was beyond saving.

Amiya raised her hand, activating her two abilities for the first time.

A gentle light covered the land, the void above the sky began to solidify, thoughts stagnated, time stood still, and everything on the planet froze at this moment.

Terra, annihilated.

Amiya abandoned her kindness and transformed into the Demon King Rabbit, yet she was unwilling.

She continuously explored other worldlines, searching for answers, for a so-called 'good ending'.

But there wasn't a single one.

Worldline after worldline perished in her hands, turning into nothingness. This made her even sadder, numb, and she mechanically flipped through worldlines with inevitably tragic endings.

However, as Amiya reviewed more and more worldlines, she gradually realized something—

She... seemed to have been created, like a character in a picture book.

A god was writing her story, advancing the plot.

And every time Amiya entered a new worldline, a team led by Wishdale, Clear Shining, and Barren Laphland would attack her.

If they couldn't defeat her, that worldline would abruptly end.

"...Am I some kind of final boss in a game?"

Amiya couldn't help but ask this question.

But if that were the case...

Who created her? And who was writing her story now?

And this inevitably tragic plot development... was it also the other party's perverse sense of humor?

So Amiya looked up at the starry sky.

As if in response to her wish, a colossal figure spanning the entire galaxy appeared in her eyes.

"It's you..."

Amiya wasn't angry; she just wanted to find an answer.

Were all the tragedies she had experienced caused by Him for His amusement?

So Amiya struck without hesitation.

An Originium spike, like a ship, tore through the air, creating a sonic boom, and hurtled towards the colossal figure in the starry sky with absolute speed and power.

"What the heck is wriggling over there?"

Chen Ran looked confusedly at a... well... cat hair? that emerged from within the planet model.

Calling it cat hair was even an exaggeration, as cat hair wasn't this short.

And at that macro scale, the thing emerging from the planet model crawled at a snail's pace in Chen Ran's eyes.

So Chen Ran glanced at the text displayed on the semi-transparent pop-up window: "Amiya has launched an attack on you."

Then he looked at the thing that had been wriggling for ages and had barely moved...

"So... do I need to dodge?"

Chen Ran had a feeling that even if he just sat there for a few hours, it was uncertain whether this thing would reach him.

It was like a snail was being hunted by the entire world.

However, while Chen Ran found it amusing, the usually well-behaved Heart of the Corrupted Skadi was not having it.

Upon seeing the Demon King Rabbit attack Chen Ran from within the planet model, Heart of the Corrupted Skadi directly floated up and swooped towards the planet model.

Not only that, even the Sea Creatures, who had been frantically feasting on the gourmet planet, all looked up at the starry sky at this moment.

Then, one by one, they ascended, forming a vast, dark... no, a vast, white cloud.

Together with Heart of the Corrupted Skadi, they swept towards the planet model where the Demon King Rabbit was located.

Chen Ran stared, stunned, as he had completely underestimated Heart of the Corrupted Skadi's reaction.

He subconsciously reached out to Heart of the Corrupted Skadi, wanting to pull her back.

But between Heart of the Corrupted Skadi and Chen Ran, the divine being's priority was clearly higher.

The semi-transparent pop-up box was naturally meant to serve Chen Ran primarily.

As a result, just like when playing claw machines before, as Chen Ran's palm reached in, the planet model before his eyes began to zoom in and out.

It kept zooming in until Chen Ran could finally see what that cat hair was—

A large swarm of Sea Creatures with small flowers on their heads and red eyes, like a plague of locusts, surrounded the Originium cone the size of a spaceship and devoured it completely.

"You Sea Creatures shouldn't eat everything!"

Chen Ran wanted to say that, but Heart of the Corrupted Skadi had already logged into the planet model.

And without any hesitation, Upon seeing the Demon King Rabbit with a black crown on its head and a veil on its face, Heart of the Corrupted Skadi immediately unleashed—

"Great Silence."

026. Chen Ran Mediates (Physically)

The sound disappeared.

Amiya attempted to attack, but it only drew the overwhelming swarm of insects.

Although the swarm was actually made up of beautiful girls with white hair and red eyes... it was quite chilling that they all looked the same.

However, before Amiya could think further, Heart of the Corrupted Skadi, like a queen of the swarm, descended from the sky.

This forced Amiya to shift her attention to Heart of the Corrupted Skadi, wanting to ask who she was and what kind of being that majestic figure in the sky was.

Whether it was her creator, whether it was the source of her tragedy.

She wanted to ask, but as Amiya opened her mouth, she found that her voice had disappeared.

From the chirping of insects and birds to her own breathing and heartbeat, everything had turned into dead silence at that moment.

In this timeline of the Demon King Rabbit, because the Sargol people were crushed before they could cause trouble, the Sea Creatures in this world line were insignificant.

As a result, Amiya was momentarily unsure what this so-called "Great Silence" was.

But through the black crown on its head, Amiya instantly understood the principle behind the Great Silence.

Either it was some kind of high-frequency sound, imperceptible to human ears, that covered everything, creating the illusion that "sound disappeared."

Or... the sound was being interfered with.

All sounds are composed of a certain spectrum, and by finding the exact opposite phase, the sound can be completely canceled out—

In simple terms, the air was filled with Sea Creature microorganisms, constantly resonating in reverse to the surrounding sounds, canceling out all sound.

But if that were the case, it would mean that the entire world had been completely polluted the moment the Great Silence was activated.

Thinking of this, Amiya still had no intention of making a move first.

She simply saw that she couldn't speak or make a sound, so she reached out and gestured, wanting to ask.

But the buzzing forced Amiya to cover her head.

Amiya felt as if her mental consciousness was being corroded. This kind of sanity attack made Amiya feel offended.

So Amiya abruptly waved her hand, and the Originium cone the size of a spaceship appeared behind her, shooting towards Heart of the Corrupted Skadi.

But before it could reach Heart of the Corrupted Skadi, the Originium cone was devoured.

So Amiya waved her hand again, this time with tens, hundreds of Originium cones.

Amiya opened her mouth again, wanting to chant, but found she couldn't make a sound. She could only clasp her hands together.

Then, a flash of light appeared. All the Sea Creatures that were illuminated were enveloped and covered by black Originium, and hundreds and thousands of small stones fell from the sky like a stone rain.

One of Originium's abilities was...

But one of the Sea Creatures' abilities was assimilation.

As a result, before the small stones even hit the ground, they were being gnawed, twisted, and clawed at, with small Sea Creatures emerging from within.

Seeing this, Amiya frowned and reached back.

She grabbed a giant Originium sword capable of sweeping a hundred-meter radius into her hand.

She wanted to swing it, but found the ground shaking and the sky covered by dark clouds, but the shadow was wrong.

So she subconsciously turned her head and saw a massive wave hundreds of miles wide that had already swept over her.

It was a monstrous tidal wave like a doomsday flood, and once it crashed down, the earth itself would be torn apart.

Seeing this, Amiya dropped the giant sword in her hand, raised her hands, and light that covered the entire planet was cast down. Everything visible was completely covered by black Originium.

... ... ...

... ...

"Your Sea Creatures are feasting."

"I suggest you keep your Sea Creatures in check, lest they get an upset stomach."

"After all, if they eat something they shouldn't, you, as their keeper, will suffer greatly."

"You have acquired a new ability:"

"Eat Originium Raw"

Chen Ran: "..."

Chen Ran suddenly felt that this semi-transparent pop-up box made a lot of sense.

By gnawing on Originium raw, Chen Ran had gained the ability to Eat Originium Raw.

If the Sea Creatures ate a person, would he then gain the ability "Diary of a Madman"?

If the Sea Creatures ate shit...

Never mind.

"But your new ability is quite fitting, isn't it?"

"Afraid I'd die, so you directly gave me immunity to Originium?"

He felt like it was similar to those system reward novels he'd read before.

A new item or ability was given in one chapter, and it would definitely be used in the next.

But he had to admit, it did come at a rather opportune moment.

Because Chen Ran was watching the scale of the battle between Heart of the Corrupted Skadi and the Demon King Rabbit escalate from a simple exchange of blows, to "I'll cleave a mountain with my sword" and "I'll split the earth with my blade," and then to "You unleash an apocalyptic flood, and I'll unleash a world-ending AOE."

This planet has truly suffered because of you two.