Chapter 60 Embrace Madness (First Order)

The deepest part of the sewer.

In this dark corner full of filth, layer upon layer of spider webs had been formed without knowing when. Rats were crawling through the dirty mud. Pairs of cold pupils flashed in the shadows. With a squeak and a bite, a fist-sized spider captured its prey and quickly disappeared into the deepest part of the cave.

"President..."

A faint murmur echoed in the cave.

A large number of strange spiders have built their nests here, and the ground is crawling with fist-sized black spiders. They were originally just ordinary animals, but now they have all been deformed, with two pairs of compound eyes growing on their heads and poison sacs in their sharp mouthparts. In just a week or two, they have grown to the size of a fist, and some have even grown to a size close to that of an adult.

The mistress's figure was hanging upside down in the middle of the huge spider web. In the dim light, her figure was stretched out, and the twisted shadow seemed to sway with the light and whisper.

"The president has given up on you."

"You have turned into a horrible monster. You have failed..." The shadow seemed to come alive. It leaned close to the mistress' ear and whispered in a low voice.

The extraordinary can digest monster relics, and monster relics can also digest the extraordinary.

This is a process of ebb and flow.

If the relics left by the strange creature completely digest the extraordinary person, the extraordinary person's body will undergo terrible deformation.

Do not!
In the darkness, a pair of strange, cold blood-red pupils emerged. The mistress opened her eyes instantly, and a faint purple light changed in her pupils. She could see everything clearly in the darkness, and naturally she could also see her own shadow that was ready to move.

The shadow is completely alive!

The extraordinary relic in the Matriarch's body has digested nearly half of her body and is still constantly eroding her flesh and blood.

Because this comes from an ancient and indescribable power.

"The president didn't give up on me, it's just that I disappointed him..." The mistress's voice gradually faded.

At this time, the mistress's appearance had changed drastically. Her originally silver-white long hair had turned into a mottled grayish-white color, and her skin, as dark as jade, revealed a hint of sickly paleness. Although her appearance was still enchanting and beautiful, a new pair of turbid dark yellow eyes appeared in the cracked skin on her forehead, as if some monster was trying to break out of her body.

In the lower half of the Madam's body, all human features below the waist have completely disappeared.

A huge, deformed black spider replaced her legs, and its six pairs of compound eyes emitted a strange glow in the darkness. It seemed to have its own ideas and did not always obey the mistress's orders.

With a slight noise.

The mistress's huge and fat lower body fell to the ground, and the strange black spider spit out spider silk. After her body approached the ground, the distorted reflection also overlapped with her body, and a monster was ready to move in the shadows.

"disappointment?"

"No, you are just a tool used by him." The animated shadow leaned close to the mistress's ear and whispered, "From the very beginning..."

To shut up!

The mistress let out a shriek and tried to grab Shadow's throat, but her hands passed through the shadow and only the shadow's unbridled laughter could be heard in the darkness.

"I'm just your shadow, what do you want to do?"

"How pitiful. You failed to overcome human nature, and you lost the qualification to be promoted to the Destiny."

"You've been abandoned."

The shadow's voice was like the devil's whisper, constantly tormenting the mistress's mind and bringing her closer to the brink of completely losing control.

Do not!
I was not abandoned.

The mistress's expression seemed to be a little exhausted, she strangled her throat with both hands, and in the dim light, the shadow's throat was also strangled, it could no longer whisper, it was strangled by the mistress!
But the mistress's breathing became more difficult. She pinched her neck, causing veins on her face to bulge and her entire face to become distorted and dark blue.

I don’t know how long it took.

The mistress climbed up panting heavily. She seemed to have regained some consciousness and whispered, "I still have a chance."

"As long as I can complete the promotion ceremony here."

"The final hunt is complete!"

"I still have a chance to recover. Even if I can't be promoted to the Fate of Heaven, I can still become a Familiar."

"You'll never replace me!"

"You are just my shadow."

A strange chuckle sounded, and Shadow also climbed up. She taunted: "Haha? Opportunity? You have been forced by those night watchmen to hide in the sewers and eat rats."

"Where do you stand a chance?"

"Your only chance is to flee Dorne if the Heart Eater fails. Flee far away, flee back to Dagon."

"There, with your power, you can get everything you want."

"But you didn't leave. Why?"

"Loyalty?"

"It's ridiculous."

The shadow leaned close to the mistress's ear again and whispered, "Since you have chosen to embrace the darkness, why do you want to come back?"

"Have you forgotten the president's teachings?"

"Courage breeds recklessness and tyranny, shadows breed cunning and betrayal, and knowledge gives birth to vanity and madness..."

"You are not a night watchman."

"We are taking a completely opposite path from them. We follow the laws of the world and embrace the dark side of the world. They restrain themselves, but we indulge ourselves. Only in this way can we have the opportunity to embark on the path of destiny."

"But what did you do?"

"You chose loyalty and continued a mission that had no chance of success."

The mistress let out a piercing scream.

"Shut up!!!"

She brandished the snake-shaped dagger that was shining with cold light and stabbed at the twisting and wriggling shadow. Ding, the dagger was completely embedded in the wall, but the shadow was unharmed and even let out a mocking chuckle.

Shadow was right.

They are taking a completely opposite path from the Night's Watch. The Night's Watch fights against the twisted laws of the world, restrains the tyranny in their hearts, and suppresses the madness of knowledge.

They adapt to everything in the weird country, follow the laws of the world, embrace the real darkness, and use any means to desire wealth, indulge in lust for pleasure, and kill wantonly when they are thirsty for blood. They fill all their inner desires and actively cater to the dark laws of the weird country.

They integrate the dark side of the weird kingdom into themselves and achieve the 'real' extraordinary path!

The end of this road is to become an evil god.

But even an evil god is better than the crazy world ruled by the Old Ones.

In their view, all dark desires born from power are correct, real, and in line with the crazy nature of the world.

They are the right way!

They are the extraordinary ones who truly conform to the origin laws of the weird kingdom.

"We are right."

"Because we digest the extraordinary relics faster, our chances of promotion are greater!"

"We are the extraordinary people who are most adapted to this crazy world."

Natural selection, survival of the fittest!
We are the extraordinary ones who are marching towards the black sun of the weird country, while those hypocritical night watchmen are walking against the light.

They are fighting against the laws of the world, while trying to gain the power of the laws.

They are the evil ones!

“But you still failed.”

"You chose loyalty when you should have betrayed me. You embraced the dark side of the world, but you were unwilling to give up your own humanity." "So I came back to life, to replace you!"

Shadow was laughing wildly. She looked at the mistress in front of her with a trace of pity in her eyes. She murmured, "Why? Is it because he gave you hope to live when you were most desperate?"

"you forgot."

"We are extraordinary beings who embrace the true dark side of the world!..."

"If you show weakness, you will surely die!..."

The whispers of shadows echoed in the darkness.

Heavy echoes.

"You have probably forgotten what he said... I still remember..."

"We are the extraordinary beings born to replace the old ones! ... We can sacrifice everything for this! ..."

Replace the old with the evil god.

They are people who embrace the dark nature of the world, they are the true devils who do not tolerate the slightest bit of weakness.

The essence of shadow is extreme selfishness, cunning and betrayal are just manifestations, its essence is a path to godhood that allows one to abandon everything else for oneself, and only in this way will there be a chance to replace the old.

Using extreme selfishness to fight against loss of control, as the anchor of the self, the shining of all virtues is a negative state, which will only make them one step closer to losing control.

Only the Night Watchmen need the light of humanity to illuminate the darkness and fight against the madness of the grotesque country.

The Night Watchmen are practicing the path to transcendence in reverse, while they are practicing the path to transcendence in the right way.

Because her actions were in line with the laws of the world, the mistress digested her extraordinary essence and advanced very quickly.

But if she takes a wrong step and fails to continue to conform to the twisted and crazy nature of the world, the extraordinary relic will in turn digest her.

This is a completely dark and extraordinary road!

Not only does it have the opportunity to be promoted to the Legend of Destiny on the Path of the Evil God, but it can also be promoted to the 'Old Ones' as an alternative to save itself at the most critical moment.

With this special way of promotion, the positive emotions of human nature will become one's own inner demons.

The mistress was silent for a long time.

In the end, she failed to completely abandon her humanity, which instead became one of the causes of her loss of control.

The night watchman lost control because of negative emotions, while she lost control because of positive emotions.

How ridiculous!
Some people seek light in darkness, while others seek darkness in light.

The shadow was ready to move. It moved closer and closer to the mistress, as if it wanted to enter her body and completely replace the will, mind and soul of this body.

But suddenly!
The mistress stretched out her hand like lightning and grabbed Shadow's throat. This time she didn't grab her own throat, but really grabbed Shadow. Under Shadow's unbelievable and shocked gaze, the mistress's eyes turned blood red. She grabbed her own shadow and pulled it out of her body little by little.

She had no shadow.

The shadow was held in the mistress's hand, like a twisted monster of struggling mud, an unknown substance from the shadow plane.

"You're weird, aren't you?"

The mistress's expression gradually calmed down, but her blood-red eyes were pregnant with endless madness. She looked at the twisted shadow in her hand with mockery and whispered, "You probably can't imagine why I was able to catch you, right?"

The shadow was squirming, and it turned into a weird six-eyed spider. It screamed, "This is impossible... I am your shadow... How can you catch your own shadow..."

"You haven't fully mastered the laws of shadows yet!"

The mistress smiled.

She remembered the night full of blood and fire, which was her most painful and happiest day. She embraced death and also embraced rebirth.

It was also because of everything that happened that day that she was ultimately unable to integrate into the darkness. She failed.

She couldn't betray the president, even if the price was madness and death.

Perhaps there was still a shining light of humanity in the deepest part of her soul, but it turned into a deadly poison that killed her.

"Because I'm crazy."

The mistress's expression was very calm. She pinched the shadow in front of her and said softly, "It is impossible for a normal person to catch his own shadow."

"But crazy people can!"

The shadow began to struggle violently. It wanted to escape because it was terrified.

The mistress is crazy.

But it's not the kind of madness it wants.

"Isn't this what you want?"

"Since you were born in the shadow plane, you have wanted me to go completely crazy, lose control, and then be replaced by you!" A mocking smile appeared on the mistress's charming face. She slowly said: "Now I am really crazy! Why are you afraid?"

When she touched the essence of shadow, her spirit also formed a reflection in the shadow plane, which was a second self.

On the dark and extraordinary road, the remaining humanity will form twisted inner demons and split personality.

That's the price of embracing madness.

"You're right. I did fail."

The matron's voice turned into a whisper and murmured, "I didn't expect the Night's Watch to protect Dorne so well. This is a place that shouldn't really exist."

"Like the president said, no matter how beautiful the dream is, you have to wake up one day."

"Whatever the cost."

"I will complete all the tasks assigned to me by the president!..."

The mistress opened her blood-red eyes, stretched out her hand and crushed her own shadow. The shadow turned into black mud and flowed into her body. She turned into a monster without a shadow, or rather, she was her own shadow.

A shadow has no shadow.

"Go."

"children."

"Go tell people the truth! ..."

A cruel and bloodthirsty smile appeared on the corner of the mistress's mouth. She gently raised her hand, and a dense group of spiders poured into the sewer from all directions. She listened attentively and murmured, "They are all here..."

Embrace the madness.

The mistress used the last level of monsters to complete her own shadow law. She is now considered a half-legendary Old One, but the price she paid was complete loss of control.

At this moment, she chose to let the extraordinary essence digest herself, so as to gain power close to that of a legend and complete the task assigned to her by the president.

The shadows are creeping.

The Madam's silhouette seemed to assimilate with the shadows around her. For a moment, her flesh and blood completely melted away like an illusion, and then reshaped itself in the shadows.

Her form underwent a very special distortion.

The last second, the mistress was still a half-human, half-spider monster without a shadow. The black cuticle spread along the lower body of the spider, covering her skin bit by bit, sharp bone spurs grew on her elbows, and hideous insect armor appeared on her jaw.

The next second, the mistress's body began to vanish, her flesh and blood completely melted away, as if she did not exist in the real space, and directly turned into a distorted spider-shaped reflection on the wall.

She turned into a squirming shadow.

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(End of this chapter)