Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 992 - 461: The Filth Beneath the Observatory, The Eternity Rank of Ancient Dragon
[The observation tower, the only entrance into the heart of the mountain, stood with its gate wide open, unguarded, prompting your curiosity...]
[Rona led you into the observation tower, her expression complex, she sighed softly and said...]
[There are guards at the observation tower, and the Abyss of Despair, this prison, also has its sole manager, ’Ancestor of the Law’. It was he who enslaved the Dragon Clan and imprisoned the Dragon Clan Ancestor.]
[Ironic, isn’t it? He was once loyal to the Almighty True Knowledge, a Lawbringer Ancestor who fought alongside other Ancestors on the battlefield of the gods, felling countless enemies.]
[The kinship among the Dragon Clan Ancestors was so strong that they could completely entrust their backs to each other on the battlefield, to the extent of entrusting their lives to one another.]
[Yet it was this Lawbringer Ancestor who betrayed his own kind and defected to the Stars, then became the harshest enslaver of his own clan, and even the one who personally imprisoned and cruelly tortured his former comrades.]
[At this moment, the Lawbringer Ancestor was not commanding the enslavement actions of the Star Spirits from the observation tower; he must be at the bottom layer of the mountain’s interior, tormenting those Dragon Clan Ancestors...]
[You took the ascending and descending star platform to the mountain’s belly, heading straight down to the bottom level where the four great Dragon Clan Ancestors were imprisoned...]
[As the altitude decreased, the nauseating smell of rotting flesh became increasingly intense...]
[Rona’s voice was low as she continued telling you...]
[The four imprisoned Dragon Ancestors endure day and night torture, having their bloodlines drawn countless times, yet they still maintain their original beliefs and refuse to submit.]
[Because of this, without exception, all of them have been eroded by Chaos, having long ago fallen into misshapen, twisted monsters...]
[You have seen the Hermit Ancestor corrupted by Chaos and should understand what kind of miserable state this is.]
[The Lawbringer Ancestor defected to the embrace of the Stars to avoid Chaos... Admittedly, his betrayal indeed temporarily resisted the erosion of Chaos, but that was only temporary.]
[The terror of Chaos far exceeds anyone’s imagination...]
[As you descended to the bottom of the mountain’s belly, the stench of decay and foul odors so intense and overpowering that they filled your nostrils and made you feel nauseated, almost irresistibly so.]
[This place was a man-made tunnel carved into the mountain, the narrow and cramped tunnel floor covered in a layer of black-purple liquid.]
[Deep enough to submerge your ankles and overflow past your calves, the liquid was exceptionally viscous, with a persistent rotten stench.]
[The most oppressive thing wasn’t the tunnel’s constricted space, nor the filthy and sticky dragon blood on the floor, but the sounds echoing from deep within the corridor.]
[That was the frequent collision of flesh against flesh, accompanied by the painful and hoarse moans of a woman, and the heavy breathing of a man.]
[Hearing these noises, you already had an inkling of what was happening at the end of the tunnel...]
[As the frequency of impact steadily increased, the man’s frenzied roars, nearly bestial in their unintelligent howling, echoed through the entire corridor...]
[...]
[You think you are the most devout, the most loyal?]
[No! You are the most foolish!]
[Look at yourself now, repulsive to behold—ha-ha, what Green Saint? Just a whore to be toyed with!]
[Open your eyes and take a good look!]
[Those lumps of twisted, disgusting flesh were once the Ancient Dragons, once your companions, they are the pathetic outcome of your foolish loyalty!]
[Only he, only the ’Golden Lawbringer’ made the right choice!]
[The man’s crazed bellowing, together with the climaxing frequency of collisions, suddenly ceased.]
[You and ’Rona’ felt a heavy weight in your hearts as you hastened towards the end of the corridor...]
[The man’s deranged laughter echoed once again, why don’t you look? Why not use those green and beautiful eyes to carefully observe and analyze? That is the blessing given by the Evil God of Omniscience to his followers...]
[Oh, my apologies, he accidentally forgot: you can’t see, for the great Green Saint has turned blind!]
[How did you become blind, let him think...]
[Ah, that’s right! He remembered! Your eyes were gouged out by his own hands... hee-hee, ha-ha]
[...]
[At the end of the corridor, the space suddenly opened up. It was a hollowed-out cavern, so vast it seemed to encompass the entirety of the hollowed-out mountain.]
[At the deepest part of the cavern rose three towering, twisted shadows that could be called misshapen ’Meat Mountains’. Their bodies, covered in tumors and adorned with irregular, grinning maws...]
[They struggled with those misshapen mouths to suck the filthy blood beneath their feet, only to constantly vomit out even dirtier and murkier dragon blood.]
[They were oblivious to everything happening in the cavern, mechanically repeating their ’purification’ of bloodlines in an attempt to rid themselves of the futility of Chaos.]
[In the corner of the cave lay an imposing bed.]
[The base of the bed soaked in filthy dragon blood, the originally white velvet now smeared with filth and a nauseating black-yellow shade, the soft, dimly-lit canopy and curtains already crawling with wriggling maggots.]
[Fixed to the floor, the chains and shackles extending from the filthy dragon blood connected to the woman on the bed...]
[Her green hair drenched in tainted blood and fetid body fluids, her face covered with large sores of rot and pus, and where her eyes should have been was left only two horrifying cavities. Through the gaps in the swollen sores, one could vaguely sense the sanctity and beauty this face once held.]
