Chapter 2039 Reeves <TOC> Chapter 2041 Message of Death
Translator: SumTLMan
“How can you know it won’t be successful if you don’t try?”
“No need to try.” As Reeves said this, his gaze turned behind Angel——a dazzling orange-red lava lake.
However, what Reeves was really paying attention to was not the lava lake, but the strange patterns continuously leaping out of it.
Reeves’ eyes carried deep sorrow: “Even if they could really be brought back, it would be of little significance now. Besides, most of my body has already fused with the parasite, and this fusion, like the Goddess of Spring Demeter, is irreversible.”
In the Wizarding World, half-tree nymphs have a specific title: “Goddess of Spring” Demeter.
By using Demeter as an example, Reeves was actually saying that he had become “half-mushroomized” and beyond any chance of salvation.
Perhaps because the topic of salvation was brought up, Reeves temporarily put aside the matter of the ruins he was going to talk about and started describing his current situation.
After listening to Reeves’ summary of his own condition, Angel was utterly astonished.
This story was somewhat unbelievable for Angel. Putting aside what Reeves experienced in the ruins, the changes that occurred after being possessed by Mystlight were beyond Angel’s imagination.
Reeves had inhaled the greenish luminescent mist and was controlled by Mystlight. The initial manifestation was madness, loss of reason, and a surge of aggressive desires towards everything around him.
During that period of madness, Reeves destroyed many mushrooms, and Bee Blair trapped him in a solitary ridge.
And where they were standing now was precisely that barren ridge.
Initially, this place was not a lava lake, but a parched land. After being trapped here, Reeves, unable to control himself due to his madness, started incessantly using fire magic on his surroundings.
He is a wizard of the elemental fire school, leaning towards the lava branch, whose ferocious strikes against the earth ultimately turned a highland above the ground into a sunken magma lake beneath the surface.
About ten days after being possessed by Mystlight, Reeves’s skin began to sprout an abundance of mushrooms. As time slowly passed, his body became completely covered in mushrooms, rendering him immobile, with his only ability being to crazily release fire powers under the control of Mystlight.
With the nourishment of pure fire elemental energy, a solitary island of fire elemental minerals formed beneath his feet.
Eventually, Reeves was fully enveloped by the mushrooms, gradually transforming into a mushroom. His human body was hidden inside the mushroom.
After several months, Reeves’s limbs were assimilated, becoming part of the mushroom. As his body assimilated, his original fire abilities began to be suppressed, eventually escaping from his deeply scarred mental space, forming various fire patterns in the magma lake.
As for how these fire patterns became elemental creatures, Reeves didn’t know, but he was certain it was due to some special ability of the mushrooms within him, combined with his own fire, creating numerous fire element creatures.
His internal fire power continued to weaken incessantly.
“The power of the mushrooms is strange, even affecting the mental space. My magic source vortex is already in tatters, destined to collapse. It’s only the power of the mushrooms that’s keeping it from falling apart. However, I can feel that it won’t last long, at most ten days to half a month. Once my magic source vortex is completely drained, I will die, and my soul will also be exhausted…”
It can be said that this high-temperature flame region was entirely created by Reeves himself!
From this, one can see just how terrifying Mystlight is. It not only assimilates you but also completely controls, exploits, and consumes all your remaining value, killing you only in the end.
Angel had previously speculated that the effects of Mystlight definitely surpass those of the live wire infection, especially since Bee Blair mentioned that Mystlight could counter formal wizards. But now that he truly understands it, Angel is still shocked.
The so-called countering of formal wizards isn’t about killing you, but rather a slow, torturous process, even more horrifying to comprehend.
Certainly, from the perspective of the controlled, Mystlight can be called the most terrifying parasite Angel has ever seen. It not only torments you, but also slowly devours you.
But if viewed from the surrounding fire elemental mushrooms, this is absolutely a blessing. The rich fire elemental energy, the large number of fire elemental creatures created, and various fire elemental ores… Not only the mushrooms in the mushroom forest, but even fire elemental apprentices and fire elemental wizards would find this place a holy land for cultivation.
This method of efficiently squeezing, purifying, amplifying, and spreading the full capabilities of a formal wizard, without wasting a bit of energy entering a new cycle, can be called the perfect masterpiece!
If it could be controlled by human wizards, it would be a gift from the heavens! Not only can it kill enemies, but also enrich oneself! Is there anything more beautiful in the world?
But the more this is the case, the more cautious Angel becomes in his heart.
Because if Mystlight really spreads, it is estimated that soon someone will discover these secrets. Of course, even if they do, they won’t benefit, because there will be a lot of green luminescent mist near Mystlight. Even if they know they can cultivate through it, they can’t control it and will become new controlled beings.
But if Angel deciphers the green luminescent mist through the Mystlight button, then things might go out of control.
Angel does not hesitate to assume the worst in humanity, knowing that once they understand they can create such cultivation holy lands in large quantities, the consequences are not just a threat to Angel’s safety. Perhaps many innocent wizards will be implicated, becoming human sacrifices to Mystlight.
It is for this reason that alarm bells are ringing in Angel’s mind. This matter should be controlled in terms of its spread, or even better, not spread at all, otherwise there will be endless trouble.
“What are you thinking about?” Reeves, seeing Angel’s eyes a bit vacant, asked.
Angel came back to his senses and shook his head: “Nothing.”
Angel thought about it; considering these now is actually still too far away, after all, Mystlight has not leaked yet. Moreover, the most important thing now is to get more information from Reeves, not to fall into a thinking trap.
Angel: “Is there any way to help you re-stabilize the mental space?”
Reeves shook his head: “I don’t know, but it’s not necessary. Even if my mental space eventually stabilizes, I’ll still die, as my body has completely assimilated.”
Reeves’s body no longer contained any human organs, only fungal filaments. Moreover, these filaments were continuously producing a bright green mist.
“The parasites… the bright green mist you mentioned, as long as they occupy my brain, I will lose control. Losing control to the end, I will still die.”
Angel pointed to the three button Mystlights on Reeves’s neck, which were actively absorbing: “I can let them continue to absorb, to keep you lucid.”
“These three mushrooms look a bit like… never mind, I don’t want to ask anymore.” Reeves paused: “Even if they absorb, it’s useless because the bright green mist produced by these mushrooms consumes my energy. They can keep absorbing the mist, but I am also constantly losing energy, and in the end, I’ll still die due to energy depletion… Moreover, my magic source vortex can’t replenish energy anymore, so this is already a deadlock.”
“I am destined to die.”
When Reeves said this, it reminded Angel of a message he had received on the Mushroom Forum before.
——That dirty guy has already reached the terminal stage.
When Mystlight combines with a human, and it reaches the final terminal stage, death is inevitable.
At this point, no matter which direction one goes, there is no way out.
Either go insane and wait for death in ten days or half a month; or stay lucid, only to die from energy exhaustion in a few hours.
No one can change Reeves’s Fate of Death.