Chapter 686: An Unexpected Defeat

And now, he finally understood what Lynn intended to do.

She violently swept Lynn up, filled with hatred, preparing to fling him far beyond the bounds of her Tree Realm. She understood that only by preventing him from touching her body could she stop him from weakening the curse upon her.

But wasn't that exactly what he wanted?

Wasn't that his real scheme all along?

Forcing her to take the initiative to send him away, never revealing his true intentions until the very last moment!

She had already seen the mocking smile spreading across Lynn's face—that eerie grin of someone who had everything under control. He had truly played the game of strategy and calculation to an inhuman degree, as if every move she made had been anticipated and accounted for.

"Desire Mother Tree, you've made the right decision."

Lynn offered no resistance, simply maintaining his Curse Release ability as her branches wrapped around and bound his body.

Suppressing the malice and madness surging in his eyes, he licked the corner of his mouth and said:

"And this is the answer you wanted. I can weaken and remove the curses afflicting you fallen ones. That's why I have so many family and friends. But now, you have to let me go. You are already an incarnation of flesh and blood. You can no longer command nature like you once did. If I keep weakening your curse, you will truly transform into a giant tree, only to be crushed by this darkness."

"You should understand this logic. I am merely a key."

"Even without me, you still have a chance to find the Colossus's Brain. But if you exhaust your strength here, even if you do find it, how could you possibly compete with the other Roots?"

Desire Mother Tree stared at him with searing, crazed eyes.

She said nothing more.

Her massive trunk coiled around him violently, just as Lynn had predicted—she would hurl him far beyond the borders of this projection.

And once he left, it would mean his scheme had achieved total victory!

But just as everything was about to be settled...

Suddenly.

*Boom—!*

An indescribable, vast fluctuation swept violently across their domain from the distant sky, and a blood-red pillar of light shot straight up into the heavens from the void far away.

Lynn and Desire Mother Tree's bodies jolted instantly.

And within Lynn's consciousness, a Hyper-Dimensional Perception surged forth—just like when the Colossus's Heart had been activated within him. Once again, he clearly sensed, across the vast distances in every direction, the location of every Colossus consciousness.

But this time, it wasn't triggered by his heart.

It came from...

The summoning of the Colossus's Brain!

His vision instantly clouded with mist, and then a colossal image exploded into his mind.

It was a towering gate that reached into the clouds. Before that gate, a mechanical dragon of unimaginable size, driving countless Colossus consciousnesses before it, descended coldly and indifferently before the entrance.

"God of... All Machines!"

Lynn murmured, his head snapping up as he stared in the direction of that Hyper-Dimensional Perception.

This was a rescue signal from the Colossus's Brain!

Which meant...

The God of All Machines had already broken through the limits of the Fear Projection and was the first to find the region where the Colossus's Brain consciousness was hiding?!

Yes!

Of course!

Why wouldn't it be possible?

After he and Zuo Zuo had separated, the weight of the Colossus's Heart had been split in two. At this moment, the God of All Machines, driving hundreds of Colossus consciousnesses, had become the side with the greatest weight!

In that instant, Lynn burst into loud laughter.

Schemes! Schemes! What a beautiful scheme!

While the fisherman profits from the snipe and clam struggle, while you're all here fighting for power, you never realized someone else had already taken the lead!

He turned his head, smiling faintly at the Desire Mother Tree across from him, and said fiercely:

"What can I say, Desire Mother Tree? You made us waste too much time here. We both missed the chance to find the Colossus's Brain first. Now that the God of All Machines has already found the hiding place of the Colossus's Brain consciousness, even if you rush over now, it should be too late, shouldn't it?"

*Boom—*

A bone-chilling murderous intent instantly enveloped Lynn's entire body, causing the entire projection space to tremble.

Desire Mother Tree said nothing. Her eyes were bloodshot. All reason had abandoned her. With no more reservations left, she violently yanked Lynn's massive head before her, countless branches lashing out at him in a frenzied assault.

At this moment.

It was as if all hope had been shattered.

And the one responsible for it all was the human standing before her.

Since hope was already dead, what was there left to fear?

In that instant, her eyes reddened, and she made no sound. She no longer cared about the darkness pressing down from above. Her only thought now was to kill the human before her—to tear him into pieces, to annihilate him!

Under the torrent of attacks, Lynn still laughed loudly, his laughter growing more and more unrestrained.

"Indeed, at this point, there's no need to fear the curse being weakened anymore. Whether you let me go or not, you won't get the Colossus's Brain. So you're just going to vent all your anger and frustration on me? Mother Tree, you really are just like a little girl, aren't you?"

"But damn, this really pisses me off!"

"Because if it weren't for your interference, with the high weight of the Colossus's Heart, I would have been the first to find the Colossus's Brain. But now, I've handed it to someone else on a silver platter."

Lynn smiled, but the madness from the curse in his massive eyes was steadily eroding what little clarity remained.

And the seal restraining the Clown's curse was cracking, fissures spreading across its surface.

"You..."

A trace of distortion and abnormality gradually crawled across his smiling face.

"Crazy old hag!"

In that instant, the madness brought on by the Titan Curse completely devoured the last shred of clarity in his eyes. The endless rage and chaos from his Big Brother Titan's curse flooded his entire consciousness in an instant.

Earlier, he had been trying to escape, so he had struggled to suppress the interference of that madness.

But now.

There was no need for that anymore.

Since it all ended in death, let him embrace madness and walk into his own annihilation!

*Rip—*

Completely consumed by the curse, with only a few minutes of the undead curse left to sustain him, Lynn tore wildly at her branches—weakened as they were by his Curse Purge ability.

He pushed his attacks to their absolute limit, unleashing every possible means to strike at the consciousness of that colossal tree of flesh and blood.

Even if it was just a sliver of damage!

He would fight to the bitter end! Let this be his final carnival!