Chapter 721: The Flesh and Blood Dominator’s Purpose

The ground began to rumble and writhe.

With those twisted, crisscrossing vines, the vast root system of the enormous Flesh and Blood Colossal Tree spread across the surface of the earth.

She remained unaffected; evidently, the Flesh and Blood Dominator had deliberately excluded her.

Her gaze was fixed on the snarling, manic Lynn, then on the silver-haired Girl bound by chains to the ground and sinking into endless agony. The massive roots rustled and slithered toward them.

Step by step they drew closer.

Lynn struggled to resist the fluctuations the Clown’s curse sent at his Will, his face contorted as he gripped the wrist that tore at his cheek and croaked:

“He’s... using you!”

“Even if you... devour Colossus’s Brain...”

“You still... can’t leave this hell... The Colossus already... failed once... do you really want to...”

“repeat that same mistake...”

He had already exhausted all uses of Curse Purge, and even if he hadn’t, in this situation it would have been nearly useless.

The Desire Mother Tree said nothing, her gaze still locked on that silver-haired Girl.

The surging vines drew even nearer.

The Flesh and Blood Dominator rasped, “No need to overthink it, Mother Tree. Now is your time to feast. I will still keep to our pact. Colossus’s Brain belongs to you, because in this hell only you can swallow other Roots, correct?”

“As for this noisy fellow...”

Hum—

In an instant,

a blood-red tentacle shot toward Lynn, appearing before him in the blink of an eye.

But Lynn still clawed at his wrist with a vicious grip, refusing to retreat.

His eyes burned with determined madness.

Just as the tentacle was about to pierce his skull, vines erupted from the ground in an instant and severed the rushing tentacle right then and there.

Hum—

Cold halos flared from the Flesh and Blood Dominator’s massive eye.

“Oh? You seem... unwilling?”

The Desire Mother Tree stared intently at that silver-haired Daughter, and finally spoke in a suppressed voice.

“I just want to know, why are you so insistent that I swallow Colossus’s Brain? What would that gain you?”

A deathly stillness spread recklessly around them.

She slowly turned her immense trunk, her blood-red eyes falling on the Flesh and Blood Dominator’s enormous eyeball in the distance.

“You should understand, shouldn’t you? If I truly devour It completely, I would rise above you.”

This was the question she had never been able to puzzle out.

As a Root of the Chaos Domain,

she would never believe in ridiculous notions like honor or pacts.

If the promises he made before they had found Colossus’s Brain were just words, he could have ripped them up at any time. She had long prepared for him to interfere at a crucial moment—after all, isn’t that how chaotic beings like them often operate?

That was what she had thought.

So when she entered the Colossus’s Mental Space, she guarded not only against the God of All Machines but also against the Flesh and Blood Dominator.

Because he was likely to stab her in the back.

But now, with Colossus’s Brain already under his Authority, why would he give up this hand’s-reach opportunity and hand it to her?

Only because she alone could swallow a cursed Root?

No.

There is nothing in this world that pays its own cost purely to benefit someone else.

Even if such acts existed, they would never come from a chaotic Root.

“What is your true aim, then?”

She narrowed her eyes.

The Flesh and Blood Dominator’s enormous eyeball turned with a rumble, finally locking onto the Desire Mother Tree.

“What do you think, my Mother Tree?”

The Desire Mother Tree’s eyes flickered, but a creeping dread gradually swept through her.

A fallen one, again and again.

And this already demonstrated that It was fundamentally different from them.

Silence spread.

A hint of mockery slowly surfaced in the Flesh and Blood Dominator’s eyeball.

“Do you really want to know?”

The Desire Mother Tree answered coldly, “Because I do not believe you would speak of honor.”

The Flesh and Blood Dominator’s eyeball watched her without any ripple; the strange, chaotic whispers around them grew louder and more discordant.

Then in the next moment,

the Desire Mother Tree’s murderous intent surged. Countless blood-and-flesh vines hidden under the ground launched a lightning-fast assassination strike at the Flesh and Blood Dominator.

But just as those vines neared the huge eyeball,

gurgle—

a wash of grayish-white fluctuations radiated outward from that eyeball.

The Desire Mother Tree emitted a sharp, piercing howl. Flesh spread uncontrollably across her body, and the curse inside her began to writhe and riot at the same time.

It effortlessly eliminated the vines the Desire Mother Tree had sent.

The enormous eyeball turned with a rumble and said:

“Mother Tree, you should be my ally. After all, you are the flesh-and-blood Root in this hell second only to me. If I ate you now, it would be a tremendous loss for me. Do you understand? I want you to be delicious. If you had swallowed Colossus’s Brain back when It was still sealed, you would have been my perfect companion!”

“But it’s not too late.”

His tentacles crawled little by little toward the Desire Mother Tree’s root system and toward the silver-haired Girl wracked by the curse in the distance.

“I will let you devour Colossus’s Brain. You will have endless time to digest Its curse and power, and I am in no hurry.”

“Do you know what I want?”

“Yes, I suppose you have guessed. Isn’t it intriguing that you, the goddess of desire, have never indulged with any creature? You command desire yet keep yourself pure—are you truly able to withstand desire’s torment, or can’t you?”

His gaze mocked the Desire Mother Tree as she struggled and howled.

“Only after I used the Authority I exchanged for did I learn all about your curse. So you are, in fact, food waiting to be harvested. Whoever completes the first union with you can continuously pull power from within you. Am I right? Heh heh heh. Desire’s torment on one side, thirst for power on the other—this curse is ironic, isn’t it?”

Lynn trembled violently,

shaking so hard he nearly dispelled the curse.

The Flesh and Blood Dominator sneered and writhed closer, saying, “Now you understand why I’ve acted this way. I won’t harm you. While you take the long time to digest Colossus’s Brain, I will continuously give you pleasure. That way you solve your lack of power and ease your desire’s torment. Don’t you think that would be a fine destiny for you?”