The Creators: From Night City

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"Krag, one of the women of Chaos?" Kaccrus, a swamp sorcerer, clearly knew something and exclaimed in surprise.

"This is actually her corpse. That makes sense. As the daughter of Chaos, the Chaos Flames naturally cannot harm her."

"I'm not so sure," Hawkwood continued, habitually pouring cold water on the idea.

One was a disheartened and argumentative man, and the other was a rare chatterbox among the immortals. They immediately started arguing about it.

The two argued back and forth, neither able to convince the other, so they had to seek Jiang Bing's judgment. Turning around, they found that Jiang Bing had already walked to an open space in the distance, holding a ring that had been opened and a lock of white hair in his hand.

"Mr. Sabur, do you think these remains are those of Krag?" the two asked.

Jiang Bing, who was busy with something, didn't even turn his head. "Simple. If you want the truth, just see it with your own eyes."

"See it with your own eyes?" Both of them were puzzled by Jiang Bing's question.

"I want to go back to the distant past, back to the era when the first flame still burned brightly." Under the bewildered gazes of the two, a small portion of a lock of white hair was raised high by Jiang Bing, and in the next moment, it was entangled by a strand of roots that pierced through space.

The great being who upheld the plane—Heiml—unleashed His full power for the first time.

As a great being who can exist in the void beyond the plane of existence with a 'physical body', Heimul is still in its 'infancy', but its essence is still that of a being that transcends time and space.

Chapter 548 The Egg Carrier

Only such an existence can serve as a 'Noah's Ark' for traversing time and space, and can peel away the traces of time that are highly toxic to most things.

The white hair vanished rapidly as Heiml dismantled its roots, which could take hold and draw nourishment from the void. The spatiotemporal information contained within was captured and compiled by Heiml, becoming a complete spatiotemporal coordinate.

"What are your thoughts, you two?"

Jiang Bing summoned the dazzling [key], and before opening the door, he turned to his two 'companions' and asked for their thoughts.

Hawkwood naturally had to follow suit, since his retirement plan was still in Jiang Bing's hands.

Kakarlos, on the other hand, showed a more proactive attitude.

"The era when the First Flame was at its peak, the era when the daughters of Chaos still lived?" Kakarus looked at him with a "don't lie to me" expression, the corpses behind him no longer appealing, and he looked up at Jiang Bing with a face full of fanaticism.

It was at this moment that Jiang Bingci noticed that the skin hidden under the stained hood and mask of the other party had begun to show slight signs of drying, a sign that the undead were gradually turning into zombies.

The degree of necrosis in the Kakaruos is still very weak, but it is clearly different from the plump and elastic skin of a normal person.

She's probably died several times already.

This situation exists in almost every immortal person, to varying degrees.

This is also the main reason why the protective gear in this world is either a full-coverage helmet, or has a faceplate, or is equipped with various types of scarves, masks, and hoods.

This is all to cover up their own ugly state, to prevent the world from seeing their zombie-like mentality at play.

The two were skeptical of Jiang Bing's words, but fortunately, the immortals were least afraid of death. Faced with the light screen opened by the [key], the two followers did not hesitate much and followed Jiang Bing into it.

………………

Everything in the sick village looked filthy.

The withered branches grew wildly, and the mud was full of disease and stench. Flaming mosquitoes the size of human heads hovered above the mud pile, searching for blood and food.

The walls are covered with deformed spiders whose tail sacs are filled with magma. The undead zombies, ravaged by various diseases and unable to die, have long lost their minds and can only violently attack any enemy in the world.

Large amounts of viscous venom pooled at the bottom of the valley, forming a deadly, poisonous swamp. However, this swamp was also inhabited by towering alien giants and a few scattered demons that had fled from the ruins of Izaris.

In the era when the initial fire was still blazing, all living things in this world seemed wild and full of bizarre vitality. At the very least, Jiang Bing and his two companions were constantly studying a few maggots as thick as their calves.

“Disgusting. These worms remind me of the undead graveyards without gravekeepers, and the pus of man.” Hawkwood grimaced, gently poking the greasy worm corpses and the fleshy egg skin where they had first nested with the end of his sword scabbard.

“I sensed a trace of chaotic flames within it,” Kakarus said, using his usual opening line.

Hawkwood used the scabbard's end to flip an insect onto its back, staring at its menacing mandibles that resembled blooming chrysanthemums, his brow furrowed in worry. "What on earth is this thing?"

"disease"

Jiang Bing turned around, his eyes, emitting a pale yellow light, looking into the distance at the interior of a building filled with spider silk. Countless fleshy eggs were entangled in the spider silk on the building's walls, ceiling, pillars, and even a large bell, densely packed and seemingly endless, resembling a 'spider cave'.

"What kind of creature owns this place?" Hawkwood looked at the scene before him, then turned to look at the boundless lava lake outside the pavilion, which resembled a vast ocean, and asked this profound question.

"We'll find out soon enough." Jiang Bing stroked the ring on his hand, took the lead, and led the two into the 'Spider Cave'.

"Could this be Izalith?" Looking at the ancient buildings around him and the enormous, deformed demons roaming the vast lava lake, Cherxus couldn't help but exclaim.

The three followed the path, past fleshy eggs entangled in spider silk, and down a circular elevator into a deeper cave.

Here, the surrounding environment completely resembled the lair of some kind of monster, with white spider silk covering every corner.

Many intersections have been completely sealed off by spider silk.

"Someone's there." In this environment, Hawkwood instinctively drew his longsword, wary of any potential dangers around him.

In fact, even without him saying it, Jiang Bing and Kakarus had already noticed something amiss.

On a platform, dozens of wriggling piles of fleshy eggs were gathered. Every now and then, huge maggots would emerge from these eggs with their slender bodies, swaying in the air like the tongues of some deformed creature, which was very bizarre and disgusting.

What's even more disturbing is that these clumps of flesh are completely attached to the human body.

Like the shell of a hermit crab, these fleshy eggs parasitize the backs of living humans. The huge, heavy eggs completely envelop the upper body of the humans, who serve as their breeding ground, and press them to the ground, forcing them to crawl slowly on the ground like turtles.

The appearance of these humans, who served as breeding grounds for disease, was already unrecognizable. Their exposed limbs and heads were pitted and scarred by disease, and their bodies were covered with leucorrhea spots and dried mucus.

However, what is unusual is that these parasitized humans appear unusually calm in the face of such a scene that would make people feel uncomfortable just by looking at it. Although the torment of the disease has made their facial expressions very distorted, they do not cry out or struggle. They simply put their hands together, face a certain direction, and pray quietly.

The scene was even more chilling, as if these people were not only physically parasitized, but their minds were also being controlled by these maggots.

To be honest, Hawkwood had no desire to get close to these deformed egg-carrying men, but they were blocking the only way, and there were so many of them that the three of them had no choice but to pass through them.

Surprisingly, even Kakarus drew his colorful whip as a precaution, but the egg carriers showed no reaction to the arrival of the three, as if the pain had completely destroyed their senses and taken over their minds.

Hawkwood instinctively raised his shield, scrutinizing the surrounding corners where monsters might be hiding. After all, being corrupted by the 'Abyss' was far more tragic than this.

However, as the three of them walked into the 'Spider Cave' building, they did not encounter any monster attacks. Instead, the number of fleshy eggs around them increased, completely covering the stone walls.

The atmosphere grew increasingly tense.

Just as Hawkwood and Cacharus cautiously turned a corner with Jiang Bing, they finally saw the mastermind behind everything.

It was a giant spider.

Chapter 549 White Spider

The menacing white limbs stretched out to both sides for more than ten meters, and a large amount of white hair grew from the ugly fleshy folds of the spider's body, while densely packed fleshy eggs were piled up under the fat spider's body, like a small mountain.

But what surprised the three even more was that the head of this deformed and ugly spider body was not the head of a ferocious insect, but rather the head of a half-naked, almost transparent, beautiful, and somewhat holy girl with snow-white skin.

Divided by the waist, the upper part is human and the lower part is a deformed monster. This girl, a combination of angel and devil, is a size larger than others. At this moment, just like those egg carriers, she is praying silently with her hands clasped together and her head bowed. Her white hair is like a waterfall, falling from her shoulders, but it cannot completely cover her tender breasts.

The spider beneath the other was also too weak to stand, its grotesque limbs drooping limply on the ground, looking utterly exhausted.

Who are you? How did you get in here?!

Beside the spider girl, a man carrying an egg was also crawling. He struggled to sit up, raised his head, and looked at the three uninvited guests with a wary expression.

Jiang Bing did not answer his question, but instead held up the remaining white hair in his hand and compared it with the spider girl's full head of white hair.

The result was obvious; even Kacherus realized that the white hair came from the other party.

"She is that witch!" Kacherus exclaimed in astonishment, revealing the truth.

"Who are you? Why are you holding Miss's hair?" The egg carrier was equally agitated.

Jiang Bing ignored the two of them and slowly walked up to the spider girl. Amid the egg-carrying man's continued laborious questioning, he carefully observed her.

The closer you get, the more you can feel her weakness. The girl's eyes are tightly closed, as if she has gone blind, and her delicate face is pale and painful.

The spider girl sensed someone's arrival and suddenly stopped praying.

She closed her eyes tightly, but turned her face precisely in the direction of Jiang Bing.

To be precise, it was the direction of the ring in Jiang Bing's hand. Clearly, in addition to his vision, the other party also possessed some kind of soul perception ability.

Jiang Bing heard a weak, soft voice with the distinctive sweetness of a young girl. The owner of the voice was clearly extremely weak, and even speaking was very difficult for her.

"Sister, you've finally found the ring Mother gave you..." Clearly, she mistook Jiang Bing, who was holding the ring, for Krag.

"Sister, my balls hurt so much, I'm afraid I really can't go on this time."

Listening to the other party's terrible remarks, Jiang Bing couldn't help but feel a little bit of pain in his testicles.

But before he could even reach out to shift gears, a series of heavy footsteps came from the steps on one side.

Red Spider, the real older sister of White Spider, strode in with an air of utter indifference.

Like the White Spider, she was mutated by the rampaging Chaos Fire, becoming a deformed monster with the upper body of a human and the lower body of a spider.

However, compared to her frail sister, she was utterly ruthless.

The red spider's deformed body is covered with eyes of varying sizes, and a hideous maw sits at the head of the spider's body, constantly opening and closing, spewing out a series of sticky lava.

In her hand she held a deformed longsword burning with raging chaotic flames, and the long, red spider-like hairs on her back were also burning with intense flames, making the entire cave feel oppressively hot.

The Chaos Witch - Kragg.

"What are you going to do to her!" Compared to Clara the White Spider, who willingly swallowed the 'pus of disease' for the residents of the Sick Village and endured the pain of near death, Kragg was in his prime. He was not blind or deaf, and his deformed spider body added to his ability to fight in close combat.

"Sister?!" Clara, who was standing next to Jiang Bing, suddenly heard her sister's voice from afar and looked up in surprise, turning her face toward Jiang Bing with a puzzled expression.

"If you're not my sister, then who are you?"

“A traveler.” Jiang Bing shrugged, casually placing the old witch’s ring back into the white spider’s hand after a long period of time. He then walked fearlessly to the red spider, Kragg, looked up at him, and began to fight.

The sight of the naked girl's upper body and her unusually large chest almost made him lose his composure on the spot.

The other person clearly noticed Jiang Bing's gaze, and subtly fiddled with her long red hair, covering her breasts.

Since her body began to mutate, she has been unable to wear normal clothes. The raging chaotic flames burn everything that comes near her to ashes.

"Undead, where did you get that ring?" Kragg raised his deformed longsword, which was burning with raging flames, and pointed it at Jiang Bing. The flames created heat waves that distorted the air.

“Witch of Izalith, daughter of Chaos, I want to make a deal with you.” Jiang Bing looked at the other party’s sword-wielding hand with great interest.

The hand was extremely delicate and slender, with long, sharp nails that looked like those of a demon. Yet, it held the deformed longsword, which was almost forged from chaotic flames, without showing any signs of being burned, demonstrating the other party's powerful control over flames.

“You are not qualified to negotiate with me, you dwarf of unknown origin. Answer my questions now, and I will let you go as long as you haven’t done anything offensive.” Kragg’s appearance was strikingly similar to her sister’s, and she was exceptionally beautiful. However, compared to the White Spider’s gentle and holy demeanor, her face was full of indifference.

The deformed, flaming longsword was held in front of Jiang Bing's nose, its threatening intent quite obvious.

"You locals, why are you all so impolite?" Jiang Bing sighed helplessly. Under the other party's solemn expression, waves of black, red, and blue energy surged around him as he rapidly began to put on his armor.

The flaming longsword slashed towards Jiang Bing in the next moment, but Jiang Bing struck first, kicking the giant spider's mouth beneath him. As a splash of viscous lava erupted, Kragg was sent flying out of the not-so-spacious cave.

Jiang Bing followed closely behind.

The passage through which Krag came was a spiral staircase. Her massive body was forced to retreat repeatedly under the immense force exerted by Jiang Bing. By the time she managed to maintain her balance with her numerous deformed spider legs, Jiang Bing had already reached her.

Once Jiang Bing is in working mode, he doesn't hold back when it comes to hitting women. Despite the corrosive effects of the chaotic flames, Jiang Bing punches the arm that his opponent is using to block, causing Kragg's upper body to involuntarily lean backward. At the same time, he delivers a groin kick to the opponent's lower body, sending him flying.

Chapter 550 Chaotic Flame Storm

Amidst the simultaneous piercing cries of the spider's massive maw and the humanoid cherry-like mouth, Kragg acted just like a spider, using the force of his backward flight to stand upside down on the cave ceiling covered in spider silk, and frantically crawled backward, trying to distance himself from Jiang Bing.

Jiang Bing, meanwhile, was staring at the few traces of chaotic flames clinging to the leg armor of the [Power - Taotie].

The scorching fluid flames were frantically eroding and corroding the leg armor of the [Power-Taotie], easily corroding a small hole in the armor that could withstand the bombardment of a main battle tank.

However, as the azure energy surged through the energy circulation channels throughout his body, the Nergigante's super-high regenerative ability, with a sufficient energy supply, rapidly repaired the corroded and damaged parts.

One destroyed, the other repaired; the two fought each other for several seconds. In the end, the chaotic flames, which were like rootless duckweed, were defeated. Their power was exhausted by the super-fast regeneration of the surface armor, and they were extinguished and solidified.

However, this is enough to demonstrate the terrifying destructive power of the chaotic flames.

At the bottom of Sicks Village, outside Kragg's 'Spider Cave', one of the daughters of Chaos, Klara, leaned against a rock, gazing at the cave not far away.

Before the Chaos Flames went out of control, she abandoned everything in the ruins of Izaris and fled to a distant land to avoid disaster. A thousand years have passed since then. Although her body and mind have not been twisted by the Chaos Flames, guilt and longing have entangled her like the deepest abyss.

She had been gazing at the spiderweb-covered cave entrance for a long time, but still lacked the courage to meet her sisters.

Only when a crimson heat wave erupted from the cave, staining the entire bottom of the sick village red, did she hurriedly stand up, looking into the cave with concern on her face. Finally, she gritted her teeth and rushed into the 'Spider Cave'.

Inside the spacious cave, the Red Spider Kragg had unleashed its full power, with massive amounts of chaotic flames igniting from its body and large swathes of magma continuously spewing from its mouth, scorching everything in their path.

Compared to close combat, manipulating flames is her specialty. Jiang Bing only took two breaths to land in one spot before she threw a huge, scorching fireball at him. Although it didn't hit Jiang Bing, it turned the ground beneath him into a pool of boiling lava.

And this lava has spread throughout the spacious cave.

A sudden gust of wind arose, and [Powerful Taotie] had already rushed in front of the opponent. Before Jiang Bing could launch an attack, his entire body was already being burned by the intense flames burning on the opponent's body, making a crackling sound.