Chapter 219: Escape, Obliteration?

Chapter 219: Chapter 219: Escape, Obliteration?

Nelly Nash realized something was wrong.

Countless Slimes swarmed her, like water droplets falling into a pot of boiling oil.

The moment the faint Power of Purification from Nelly Nash’s Purification Set came into contact with the Slimes, it was completely overwhelmed and disintegrated by a much stronger power of corrosion and pollution!

"SQUELCH—!"

The next second, Nelly Nash’s entire body,

along with her beloved guitar,

and the Purification Set she had just obtained, the one in which she had placed so much hope,

were instantly covered and engulfed by several enormous, writhing Slimes!

Nelly Nash didn’t even have time to let out a scream.

Seraphina Sullivan could only watch as Nelly Nash’s figure rapidly twisted and dissolved within the murky yellow ooze.

She vanished in the blink of an eye.

As if she had never existed.

Only a few scraps of metal parts and tattered cloth, not yet fully corroded, proved that she had been standing there just moments before.

The powerful Nelly Nash, the one with the rare Sound Wave Skill.

The one who had dispatched the Junk Monsters in minutes during the previous battle.

Nelly Nash, who had been so full of hope for the future.

Before the Corrosive Slime King, she was as fragile as a soap bubble in the sunlight, not even lasting a single second!

And that much-lauded [Purification Set], when faced with a monster imbued with the power of a Divine Favored, was more useless than a fart!

At that moment, Seraphina Sullivan was truly overcome by terror.

It wasn’t just her. For everyone who witnessed Nelly Nash melt in an instant, who saw the Space Transmission Ring and Purification Set destroyed as if they were made of paper, the last vestiges of hope and their will to resist were utterly shattered.

"Run—!!!"

It’s unknown who let out the first hysterical shriek.

It was like lighting a fuse.

The survivors completely broke down.

Like headless chickens, they fled for their lives in the opposite direction of the King of Slimes!

But in the collapsing instance world, countless cracks had appeared in the sky.

Slimes were falling like rain.

Nowhere was safe.

Seraphina Sullivan hesitated no longer, pushing her [Bounce] Skill to its absolute limit.

Her figure shot off like an arrow from a bow, frantically leaping and fleeing across the violently shaking, constantly corroding ground!

’I have to survive. No matter what, I have to last these three hours!’

Because of the system’s warning, Seraphina Sullivan didn’t dare use the [Scavenger’s Farm].

Not only could she not enter it to hide, but she didn’t even dare summon Moe and Chubbs to help her fight.

She couldn’t bear the thought of any of her companions being abandoned by the system for using the Scavenger’s Farm.

Now, she could only rely on herself.

She kept her eyes glued to the writhing, flowing, murky yellow figures in her surroundings.

Whether it was a massive split-off body or a splatter of mucus, Seraphina Sullivan avoided it like the plague.

The horrific sight of Nelly Nash melting before her eyes had been etched into her mind as the ultimate warning.

Touching these Slimes meant death!

Any physical contact was suicide!

"Damn it! Is that Level 5 Player, Yana Yates, behind all this?!"

In a brief moment while fleeing for her life, the overwhelming fear and anger made Seraphina Sullivan scream out loud.

’How I wish my voice could become the system’s judgment.’

’After all, I’ve already called out his name.’

’According to the rules, the system should just execute him on the spot.’

...

And in fact, things were just as Seraphina Sullivan had thought.

Her shout, filled with both anger and the other player’s true information,

had indeed triggered a rule of the Doomsday Game system!

The moment she shouted the name "Yana Yates"

and implied his identity as a "Level 5 Player,"

Yana Yates, far away in another distorted space, heard the system’s death sentence explode in his mind:

[Warning! Player ’Yana Yates’ (Level 5) identity information has been identified and exposed by another Player within the Level 1 instance ’Junkheap Ruins’! For violating the cross-level entry restriction rule! Execution program initiating—!]

"What?!"

Yana Yates’s expression changed drastically.

He was currently concentrating on casting his [Puppetry Technique] and couldn’t move; any movement would mean all his previous efforts would be for naught.

Countless invisible psychic threads had almost completely wrapped around the amorphous "Pollution God’s Favored" before him, which emanated a terrifying aura of corruption.

However, this Divine Favored was not the King of Slimes from the outside world, but another Beloved in the form of a black element.

The aura it gave off was even more terrifying than that of the Corrosive Slime King.

He was just one step away from converting it into his most powerful puppet and prying out the secrets to advancing to Level 6!

In this critical moment, he had no time to think about who had discovered him.

The system’s execution came too quickly.

His survival instinct made him choose instantly.

He used his life-saving item, the [Punishment Removal Card], without hesitation!

[Punishment Removal Card Effect activated! Execution program forcibly terminated!]

The system’s execution power receded like a tide, but what was interrupted along with it was his nearly complete [Puppetry Technique]!

The psychic threads snapped, and he suffered a severe backlash.

Yana Yates grunted, a trickle of blood seeping from the corner of his mouth.

And the Pollution God’s Favored that was about to be controlled also broke free from its Binding.

It let out a deafening roar, filled with a desecrated fury.

A terrifying wave of corrupting Energy surged toward him like a tsunami!

A total failure at the last moment!

He had not only lost a powerful puppet with limitless potential.

He had also ruined the only opportunity he had painstakingly orchestrated to touch the threshold of Level 6!

"Who was it?! WHO WAS IT!!!!!!"

A monstrous fury and hatred erupted in Yana Yates’s heart. His handsome, delicate features twisted with extreme rage, making him look exceptionally savage.

For this one chance, he had spent countless efforts and rare items,

just to lure this weakened Beloved into this restricted Dimensional Space that he had traded countless items for... and now it had all turned to dust.

He didn’t even have time to think. Facing the frenzied attack from the Beloved, a sharp glint flashed in his eyes, and his Talent, [Space Exchange], activated instantly!

SWISH!

In an instant, his figure swapped places with his puppet, Evan!

"ROAR!!"

Evan’s body, enhanced by his Berserker class, took the Beloved’s furious, terrifying blow head-on for Yana Yates. He was sent flying like a broken sack, his body instantly covered in a layer of constantly corroding, murky yellow energy.

But he remained expressionless, struggling to get back on his feet to fulfill his duty as a guardian.

Using this precious moment of respite, Yana Yates rapidly retreated while his mind raced, analyzing the situation:

’My True Level has been exposed! For someone to call out my name and Level so precisely... there’s only one explanation. There’s a Player in this instance with an Advanced Identification Ability! But I clearly checked that group of newbies. None of them had such a rare Ability...’

A cold light shot from his eyes as he reached a conclusion that surprised even himself:

’Then there’s only one possibility left. Someone else, like me, has entered this instance from a higher level! It was that unknown interloper!’

An intense killing intent boiled within him.

He swore he would find the person who ruined his plans, flay them, and turn them into his most tormented puppet!

However, the present danger didn’t allow him to enact his revenge immediately.

The full collapse of the instance had begun to encroach upon this subspace, and unstable ripples appeared on the spatial barriers around them.

The aura of the all-corroding Slime split-bodies from the outside world was also starting to seep in.

He had to find a way to escape immediately, or else even he could be trapped forever in this world that was hurtling toward destruction.