Chapter 73: Sea Of Monstrosities
The distance of fifty meters felt as long as half a century.
When Xilutiya stepped into another Colored Bubble again, it was like a fish returning to the pond, able to breathe once more.
She came to the center of this colored clearing, rested against a tree, lay on the ground gazing up at the low, heavy clouds overhead.
This sense of oppression was truly uncomfortable, as if the sky was collapsing.
After lying down for a short while, Xilutiya stood up again. She searched the surroundings and found mushrooms with Nature power under some trees.
Although she did not recognize the origins of these mushrooms, she still prepared to collect them. At least these things were rare and carried Nature power, which might come in handy later. Since these mushrooms mostly grew in rings, Xilutiya named them Colored Mushrooms.
【Colored Mushroom】: Mushrooms with various colors and different Nature powers, growing in the colored domains of the Gray White World.
【Colored Mushroom（Red Umbrella）】（First Order·Blood Law）, 【Colored Mushroom（Wrinkled Blue）】（First Order·Snail Fish）, 【Colored Mushroom（Black Pleat）】（First Order·Death Ash）
For now, she had gathered three mushrooms with complete Natures, carefully placing them into the pocket of her Cloak.
After resting well, she set off again. This time, the chosen direction was farther away, another Colored Bubble leading to the top of the Mountain Slope.
After stepping into the Gray White World, she once again felt as if she were at the dark bottom of water, everything falling silent, only able to see her own body moving without any sound.
This time she walked farther, crossing about 160 meters of interval before arriving at this Colored Bubble to rest.
Her stamina was not greatly depleted, but the consumption of Emerald Honey made her feel somewhat tired.
If using 100% battery as a metaphor, the previous crossing had consumed about 4% battery, with 95% remaining now.
It was still relatively abundant, but she had to consider the extreme situation of running out and being unable to leave here.
Just as Xilutiya leaned against the tree, thinking and calculating how to conserve her stamina and consumption while trying to find a way out, above this small Forest, a special Fallen Leaf slowly drifted down.
The brownish leaf was similar to the surrounding Leaves, but with more complex textures, even somewhat eerie. When it landed on the Grassland behind Xilutiya, it suddenly twisted. This leaf propped up like a living creature, jumped onto the tree trunk, and lunged at the Maiden’s unguarded nape from the side rear.
Smack—
Even without seeing it, Xilutiya’s post-Advancement innate 【Natural Perception Lv.2】 still allowed her to react. Under the acceleration of the Breathing Technique, her body leaped forward rapidly, using the back of her hand to swat away this eerie Monster.
The violent force sent this Fallen Leaf flying onto the tree trunk, then sliding down. At this moment, the Maiden endured the disgusting sensation from touching it with her hand back, focusing her attention to observe the opponent.
【Fallen Leaf Monster】（Nature: Twisted）: Eerie unnatural life, with two black eyeballs underneath the leaf blade, and sawtooth-like tiny tentacles along the leaf edges.
【Twisted】 Nature!
Xilutiya’s eyes slightly widened. This was the first time she had seen this kind of Nature.
Nature 【Twisted】: Polluted Instinct and uncontrolled Melody.
Almost entirely negative, uncontrollable, polluting the Nature of the World. And according to records, the entire Seventh Epoch was fighting against the power of this Nature.
Why did the human ancestors’ King of the Savage Ancients Mureto lead the pioneers through the Vast Star Wilderness, trekking for nearly twelve years? It was because their former habitat had been eroded and corrupted by the power of this Nature, making survival impossible.
As for the origin of this Nature, secret histories record that it was due to the third Alien Star descent. Stars from another world tore through the Sky, descending upon this World. Their formlessly spreading power caused the World to twist and mutate, giving birth to the 【Twisted】 Nature.
Compared to the first granting Life to the World and the second granting Light, the third Alien Star descent brought chaos and destruction. The Sky fell, countless dragon descendants and Fairies died. To resist the Alien Star’s tearing impact and the gaze of great external beings, Dragons and Fairies rarely joined forces, resolving past conflicts to confront this calamity together.
The Seventh Epoch was destined to be an Epoch filled with chaos and decline. Many existences from the ancient era perished, the Earth was pierced, the World’s shell shattered, and even the always optimistic Fairies fell into Despair in that age.
The recollection of knowledge in her mind ended, and Xilutiya faced the Monster before her again. Though it did not look large, she did not dare to be careless.
Drawing the Short Sword from her waist, Xilutiya adjusted her breathing. After observing Xilutiya for a while, the Fallen Leaf Monster launched another attack. It first Ran around Xilutiya, attempting to strike the Maiden from behind again.
However, once this sneak attack was discovered, the process became somewhat comical, because the opponent had no legs and could only move with tiny tentacles or bounce by folding the Leaf. These two Methods of movement were easily read by the Maiden for Rhythm and Pattern, allowing her to dodge effortlessly.
Seeing that circling behind had failed, this small Monster seemed very annoyed, shaking its surrounding tiny tentacles and emitting strange hissing sounds, then attempting to circle behind again.
Of course, it failed again this time. Xilutiya, now familiar with its behavioral Method, slightly shifted her steps to create distance and render the opponent’s circling ineffective.
Then, it tried to circle behind again.
At this point, Xilutiya began to understand that the opponent’s intelligence was quite limited, or rather incapable of complex thinking, only endlessly repeating some process.
This was getting a bit boring, the Maiden thought, but she still carefully observed for a while before truly making her move.
The Short Sword precisely stabbed the Fallen Leaf Monster in mid-air, lifting it up and nailing it to the tree trunk.
Black blood overflowed from the Wound in the Fallen Leaf, and where it flowed over the bark, wisps of green smoke rose, causing the Tree to undergo some degree of Twisted deformation.
Now Xilutiya understood why the Trees here all had strange, abnormal shapes.
It seemed the 【Twisted】 Nature had infiltrated everywhere, including these Trees, differing only in severity.
The only thing that puzzled Xilutiya was how those mushrooms grew. Could it be that the ancient Nature of Mycelium truly had resistance to Twisted corrosion?
The blood was not blood, but some kind of liquid and black mist. After the Fallen Leaf Monster’s blood flowed down, it initially spread along the bark, but soon evaporated into the air, permeating the surrounding things.
Finally, Xilutiya drew her Sword Blade and found that even the crafted Sword Blade had undergone some Twisted deformation, with the front section becoming bent and warped.
This corrosion was too eerie and powerful; no wonder the Fairies of that time were helpless against 【Twisted】.
As for how the races of that time defeated 【Twisted】, that great war actually had no victory. The Twilight Sea beneath the Seven Continents was a graveyard piled with countless Twisted Monsters.
The Primordial Sea has been polluted, the source of all Life Pulse Rhythms 【Blood Law】 now connected to 【Twisted】, birthing in the Depths of the Twilight Sea Twisted abominations that will destroy the World.
