Stray - Chapter 254

    New God

    No one spoke for a while, and the cold wind was filled with the smell of blood and sand.

    Jessie wrapped her cape tightly and remained silent. Without the cover of blood stains, he didn’t know what expression on his face at the moment, but it must not be a smile.

    Jesse was a little unaccustomed to not acting in a human state for a few days. Feeling Adrian’s gaze, he turned his face and looked in the direction of no one.

    Two steps away from him, Oliver Ramon was still lying quietly on the ground.

    Although that was the result of their mutual agreement. Jesse still doesn’t like the scene very much. He had clearly experienced the demise of several teams, so he should have gotten used to it.

    No, maybe earlier, he should have gotten used to it.

     Gaining power beyond oneself comes at a price.

    When the strength reaches a certain level, it is very simple to transform a creature. But if you want to continue to acquire hundreds of millions of family members, the magic circuit is very necessary.

    It is like a unique signature integrated into the kin. Once the construction is successful and the brand is branded into the family, it will naturally increase with the family’s reproduction, and finally achieve a stable supply of abilities. Just like the many roots of desert plants that absorb water, they keep growing and extending.

    In order to build a relatively stable magic circuit, strength, wisdom, and instinct are indispensable.

    Born to be extremely powerful, the Pillars of the World can easily build magic circuits and create new families at will. Even if there are no relatives to absorb energy, as long as they spread out their bodies and bask in the sun, the pillars of the world can survive for a long time.

    Unlike the inherently strong pillar of the world, as a member of the floating cocoon, I have never been considered strong.

    Insufficient strength can only be supplemented by strong instinct.

    Jesse considers herself a little less fortunate than Oliver Ramon.

    If Ramon gives up obediently, at least he can continue to live as a top human being – he can live and die normally like a human being. Transforming a small number of creatures one by one, as a “defective god”, there is no problem in dominating the surface.

    The human being has no idea how lucky he is, Jesse thought.

    Ramon clearly has a way back.

    As a floating cocoon, she is more like the seed of a plant. If you haven’t been able to build your own circuit, it’s like a seed that loses its chance to germinate, and the only thing waiting ahead is the end of consumption to death.

     Cruel and effective elimination.

    Countless floating cocoons are born in the void, sifted by starvation and death. A very small number of them use their burst of survival instinct to successfully construct a magical circuit for feeding before starving to death. The rest will gradually die, dissipate, and become prey for other creatures.

    Even if the circuit is constructed, these surviving planktonic cocoon larvae still need to struggle with hunger and wander in the dark void before finding a world where they can feed.

    As one of the survivors, Jesse disliked the process very much.

    Unmerciful struggle, looking for a chance at the border of death. Squeeze all the possibilities out of you, desperately looking for the elusive miracle. The memory was terrible.

    It’s not that Jesse didn’t try to dissuade Oliver Ramon, he warned Ramon countless times.

    He can’t be sure whether his next blow will “absolutely” kill Ramon, and doing his best is the only option – if the other party notices that he keeps his hand, his survival instinct will suddenly decrease, all efforts Fall short.

    Unfortunately, he couldn’t build his own magic circuit, Oliver Ramon was not qualified to fight against the Pillars of the World.

    Their leader resolutely chose to fight for his life.

    Now…

    Adrian Cross was using a cleansing spell to remove the blood stains from Oliver’s body, repairing the armor that had long been out of shape, and then the body. The people on the ground lay quietly in the sand, their heartbeat and breathing showed no signs of recovery.

    “I don’t think his circuit is complete, I don’t feel any change.” Jesse said slowly, looking at the back of Adrian’s head. “Although my power is still draining very slowly, I tend to think…that’s the residual effect of the circle.”

    Adrian didn’t look up and didn’t answer.

    “You said you heard the call, maybe.”

    Jessie took a half step back.

    “He was able to grab a little power from me and Wright because he was your true compatriot – you are more easily influenced by Ramon than us, that may be his circuit spell delusions.”

    Adrian remained silent, sitting beside Oliver.

    “Don’t you understand, Adrian Cross, I killed him!”

    Jesse couldn’t help raising her voice: “Maybe I have done a few so-called miracles for you, but this time is different, no one can save him.”

    Inexplicable frustration pushed his anxiety to the limit, Jesse lowered his hands and took a rare deep breath.

    Oliver Ramon is dead, and there will be no more crisis on the surface, at least in the near future. As long as you adjust and guide yourself in time, even if the Pillar of the World really decides to cause disaster, it will not completely destroy the world.

    Then time will continue until everything is smoothed out.

    Jesse decided that no matter what the outcome, he could just quit and calmly return to being a bystander.

     Ramon foresaw this, didn’t he? It’s a fight to the death with dignity and hope, a complete deal, isn’t it?

    Why can Ramon accept it so calmly? Why is Adrian Close still there?

    The cold reality is right in front of you, why are you obsessed?

    …Why are you so depressed at the moment?

    Adrian Cross finally stood up. Jessie narrowed her eyes and looked at the other side striding towards her, expressionless. His star finally woke up, Jesse thought calmly.

     Embarrassed and weak, with hands stained with the blood of his comrades, Jesse Dillon is helpless in the current situation. Just one of the ordinary lives in the endless void.

    He who can’t even control his own emotions is not the **** he expected at all.

    What will he do next, sigh for Ramon, his only student? Or just walk away?

    Jessie stood quietly.

    Enough, the tired “God” thought and closed his eyes. This farce, he has been involved too deeply. Not to mention Adrian Cross, even Oliver Ramon can cause his own mood swings, which is not good. He must soon…

    But what he waited for next was a hug.

    What made him even more annoyed was that the hug was even a little soothing. How dare Adrian Close—

    “You look sad,” said the human.

    “You have no idea what I ‘look’ like.” Jesse’s voice was cold.

    “Do you mean the life that covers the sky and keeps twisting and floating?”

    The voice of the former Judge Knight Commander was unusually calm.

    “Maybe you were too weak just now, I saw it. You were supplementing your strength with those thin limbs.”

    “…”

    It can’t be, Jesse thought a little blankly.

    He can’t calculate, can’t understand.

    No collapse, no fear, not even a trace of panic, this is not the human being that I am familiar with. The whole world seemed to go crazy, his position was reversed, and he became the more helpless one.

    “Perhaps you’ve been getting one thing wrong, Jessie.”

    Adrian’s voice was **** smooth, his embrace was raw and restrained, but there was no doubt that it was warm.

    “I never expected you to look like a human being or to save Oliver Ramon now. Just like now, I never expected you to be omniscient and understand me right away what was said.”

    I don’t know if it’s a habit, the daring human even patted him on the back.

    “Mr. Ramon is still alive. This is not my imagination… If you want to see it now, you should be able to see it.”

    “I don’t see anything.”

    “Maybe you’re looking in the wrong direction.”

    Nothing wrong, Jesse frowned. There are not a few of his family members – Ramon built his own circuit with the power he had temporarily absorbed, and undoubtedly failed extremely thoroughly, and even a single family failed to grab it.

    A very dim light flickered from the corner of his eye. Jesse almost subconsciously thought it was a shimmering strand of hair, but something wasn’t right.

    Next came another faint light, like a cobweb shimmering in the sun.

    The residual sense of absorption in my body stopped, and the silk threads condensed by the gray fog around me lit up one by one, more and more. They shone extremely faintly in the vast world, and they looked extremely fragile at first glance.

    Innumerable…like the stars.

    “If I’m not mistaken, you and the Pillars of the World will be careful to guard Mr. Ramon, precisely because he is more likely to exert influence on us… the world, and destroy the magical circuit you left behind, Replace it with your own.”

    “…The truth of the origin of magic is so cruel, he was trying to do it just now. It’s a pity that his net was too big to take it back.”

    Adrian laughed softly.

    “No,” he said softly, “remember? We were attacked by manticore wolves while you were following us unilaterally. People who spent time and effort drawing the magic circle of ‘Forest Song’, and who are unwilling to go to war rashly.”

    Wait, Jesse froze suddenly.

     “As far as I can tell, although the power of the two was used to build the circuit circle, Mr. Ramon’s circuit was not created for snatch.”

    Yes. Whether it is himself as a predator, or the pillar of the world at the top of the creature, perhaps he has not considered a possibility…

    The shimmering filaments of gray mist began to slowly disappear, and they returned to the same path and retracted into Oliver Ramon’s body.

    The unnerving calm.

    Jessie sucked in a breath of cold air, subconsciously called out the body directly, and used her momentum to suppress the entire desert.

    At present, it seems that unless you foresee it in advance and observe it specially, the circuit created by Ramon is extremely difficult to detect – no matter what Oliver Ramon does, he and the family of the Pillars of the World have nothing to do with it. Quantitative losses.

    Without Adrian’s hint, even myself who was so close could not find it. If the underground is not “Nimo” who loves Ramon, the pillar of the world should be able to hide it. But in case Ramon caused too much energy fluctuation and was discovered by the pillar of the world, all this really became a joke.

    The next second, the whole world lost its color in an instant.

    Different from what he imagined, there is no intimidating momentum, no chilling sense of oppression. Except the whole world faded, time seemed to stand still for a few seconds, and nothing seemed to change.

    The extremely weak heartbeat sounded again, from Oliver Ramon’s side.

    “I didn’t answer his call, because I only needed my own god.” Adrian Cross finally let go of the hug, put his hands on Jesse’s shoulders, and brushed the gold A little dust on long hair. “But I can show you that, Jesse.”

    Although there was speculation, Jesse did not refuse the other side’s forehead.

    A little memory passed with the temperature.

    There is indeed a call, and Oliver Ramon is indeed crazier than he imagined.

    【I did not take more, nor did I **** it roughly. 】 Ramon is serious.

    It is a circle that is very similar to the emotional forest ballad, but more powerful. That is more of a sincere request than a bottom-up call. Most beings may not understand the meaning, but as long as they respond to this subtle and vague emotion…

    [I need help, and I will help you accordingly. 】

    The warm and gentle emotions swept through my heart, like a warm autumn wind.

    [The magic has been given, I will give you something else. Don’t worry, it won’t affect your magical talents. 】

    The emotion is more like a gentle and polite stranger smiling than the command from the superior.

    [No qualifications, no talents are required. As long as you are willing to keep breathing, willing to try to get a little bit stronger. 】

    “Summon” even with a little embarrassment-

    [The efficiency may not be too high. But I promise, as long as you don’t abandon me, I won’t abandon anyone either. 】

    Different from “gods” that can be explicitly resolved. In the eyes of most beings, this call may be just a subtle palpitation in the afternoon, a fleeting vague intuition. But again, it’s too soft…

    There won’t be too many denials of life.

    “…that’s cunning.” Jesse murmured.

    The crazy guy abandoned the magic position that he and Nemo had already occupied, bypassed the magic circuit that already existed, and directly added his own—

    A set of inefficient, overly modest, and even “shabby” circuits.

    As if ignoring the already paved mountain road, choose to climb up from the cliff. The power it brings can’t even be called magic, and Jesse doesn’t know how to name it.

    Simple, weak but effective. As long as the summoned is willing to spend time and accumulate for a long time – it can indeed make their vitality become strong, and their bodies are very strong.

    This is indeed a choice that can only be made by Oliver Ramon, who is a true fellow of all things and has the utilization of terror.

    “Ramon can no longer change his circuit.” Jesse sighed slightly, “If I did, I would definitely starve to death. He really gave up…”

    Not true. If Oliver’s gray fog silk thread really shrouded the abyss and the surface at the same time in the death battle just now, then his source of power would be the entire world—

    “But he’s qualified to be your enemy, isn’t he? I think Mr. Ramon is waking up – the burst of momentum just now must have been suppressed by himself. Jesse, I miss you You can take back the main body here, and you don’t need to help him draw the attention of the pillar of the world.”

    Adrian retracted his hands and smiled again.

    Under the dark and twisted giant creature, the faint smile was disturbing.

    “Yeah,” Jesse said.

    The distorted body of the **** disappeared, and the sun shone on the desert. The slightly fake frivolous smile returned to that beautiful face.

    “So you can shut up, Ed.” The blond young man said, grabbing the collar of the person in front of him, and biting his lip roughly.

    Adrian didn’t back away, didn’t resist, didn’t even frown.

    “…”

    But their only audience was noticeably unhappy. Oliver Ramon sat up, poked a few mouthfuls of sand, and his voice was still a little hoarse.

    “…that’s a bit too much.”

    The author has something to say:

    Oli: I won’t rob your cakes, you can also dip the buns in sugar, I’m easily full.

    Nemo: This friend really has no dreams.

    Jessie: This friend really has no dreams.

    Knight Commander: …is Mr. Ramon I know.

    ——

    Oli: Ah, walking from the brink of death, I feel a little sorry for Jesse and Ed, will they be sad?

    Oli: (opens his eyes to see two passionate kisses)

    Oli: .