This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous-Chapter 1001 - 469: Courting Death_2

"Boss, the Evolution Light seems to have failed!"

"I know..."

At this moment, Mu You had already witnessed the entire process of the Scorplion going berserk and was moving closer toward it.

"It’s burning its own life! It looks like some kind of secret technique with significant side effects," said the Bard.

Mu You nodded, as through the perspective of the Omniscient Crystal, he could clearly see the Titan’s life rapidly declining with each shrieking roar.

He had also noticed that, after going mad, the Scorplion did not attack the green-algae-headed Titan nearby.

According to the intelligence gathered from the communication device, this Titan’s ability caused animals that plunged into a frenzy to indiscriminately attack all nearby creatures that still retained their sanity, including the Titans themselves.

But at this moment, the Titan seemed to be exempt from the rampaging beast’s attack, and given the Titan’s current state, it was clear that it had ’berserked’ itself too, becoming one of them and naturally not a target for attacks.

Right then, Mu You suddenly heard a tumultuous noise coming from the distant sea.

At the same time, a chorus of exclamations erupted from the communication device.

"Ghost Captain, be cautious, a large swarm of aquatic beasts is detected approaching from the outskirts in your direction!" someone shouted through the device.

"Hmm?"

Mu You turned to look back.

Indeed, at that moment, a massive group of dark, flying creatures was rapidly nearing from where the sea and sky met.

Following that, the sea beneath him suddenly became tumultuously wavy as one aquatic beast after another surged towards him from the seafloor in all directions.

All these were aquatic beasts that had not been eliminated before, at least a thousand in total, attracted by the green-algae-headed Titan’s scream, all falling into frenzy and racing toward the battlefield.

On the other side, the moment the giant beasts went berserk, the Teleport Titan promptly took the female Titan with him, teleporting to a much farther place, completely away from the battlefield.

"These guys, realizing they can’t win head-on, have they decided to use animals as a means to let others do the killing for them?" the Bard cursed under his breath.

With the other two Titans having fled, there were now only Mu You, the Bone Dragon, and Little Ya left on the battlefield, the only ones who still retained their sanity. It was obvious who the aquatic beasts would attack once they got close.

"Little Ya, you and the Bone Dragon should leave the battlefield first; don’t come near here after that," Mu You hurriedly said to Little Ya, then took out the Pen of Order.

"Do you want to save the Scorplion first?" asked the Bard anxiously. The ability of the Pen of Order was to rectify chaos by restoring order, which could indeed bring the Scorplion back to its senses.

But to expect a single pen to bring all the aquatic beasts back to normal was impossible, not for lack of ability but because there simply wasn’t enough time.

"No, I have a more direct method in mind!"

Mu You raised the Pen of Order, pointing it toward the direction of the green-algae-headed Titan.

The green-algae-headed Titan had now completely fallen into berserk madness, in a state devoid of reason, and had no intention of dodging. Instead, it charged straight at Mu You.

The Bard was stunned for a moment but quickly realized what Mu You was planning to do: He intended to directly modify the attributes of the green-algae-headed Titan, making it a target for the aquatic beasts as well!

"You’re mad, what if the modification exceeds the Deviation Value limit?" exclaimed the Bard in shock.

Changing the attributes of a Titan was different from helping the Scorplion regain its sanity; the latter was a process of restoring order, which would only reduce the Deviation Value and was not dangerous.

However, the former was an explicit alteration of Order, and Deviation Value was bound to rise sharply.

With no precedence to judge from, it was impossible to predict by how much the Deviation Value would increase with this modification, especially since Mu You had already modified it once before (sealing Lin Xue’s Secret Art Crystal), which had already raised the Deviation Value to some extent. If this time the modification caused the Deviation Value to breach the upper limit, it would spell disaster!

"That’s why I need your help," Mu You said as he flashed the Pocket Watch he was holding toward the Lamp God: "Right after I finish casting a spell, if I don’t move, immediately help me press down on the Pocket Watch!"

Unfortunately, Vivian is not around, otherwise it wouldn’t be so troublesome; just let her help with the monitoring.

"Like this... Okay then," the Bard said, looking at the Pocket Watch. He quickly understood Mu You’s intention. He was aware of the time-reversing function of the Pocket Watch, but he couldn’t be immune to time reversal like Vivian.

Now, Mu You seemed to be planning to use the fault tolerance provided by time reversal to determine whether the Deviation Value would break the limit after this modification. If it did break the limit, it was not too late to abandon the plan.

The Bard nodded and, seeing that Mu You had already started waving the Pen of Order, immediately prepared to help him control the Pocket Watch.

"Wait, it’s no longer necessary..." Mu You suddenly spoke up.

"What?"

The Bard was taken aback, but quickly came to his senses, "Has it been reversed already? Are you sure there’s no issue?"

"Yes."

Mu You nodded, his hand wielding the Pen of Order never stopped.

In his view, the Titan had become an entity composed entirely of Order Runes.

Mu You, like an engineer fine-tuning a sophisticated machine, made meticulous modifications to some of the Runes.

Seconds later, the repair was completed, Mu You took a long breath of relief, and put down the Pen of Order.

At this moment, from the perspective of Order, the Runes all over his body had turned completely red, except for the center of his heart, where the last patch of vaguely white Runes remained.

"This... that’s cutting it too close!" the Bard beside him felt the exceedingly high Deviation Value inside Mu You, and couldn’t help but be terrified.

Hanging on to the last white Rune meant that the Deviation Value had reached an absolute limit. Even if the Pen of Order had quivered slightly more than intended just now, it would have been a catastrophe beyond redemption. This was more than risky, it was akin to dancing on the edge of a knife!

"It was a bit dangerous, but the payoff is huge."

Mu You smiled, put away the Pen of Order, and decisively abandoned the green-haired Titan, moving to chase after the female Titan. The giant’s antics ended up backfiring, saving Mu You a great deal of time.

Meanwhile, right there, the Scorplion that had also been pursuing Mu You suddenly changed its direction and launched an attack on the green-haired Titan, which, in its Berserk state, retaliated immediately. The two gigantic creatures were instantly entwined in a fierce battle.

"This giant is done for..."

The Bard watched from a distance as a large swarm of Aquatic Beasts rapidly approached, then glanced back at the Titan, now in a state of Berserk, oblivious to the impending danger, and couldn’t help but smirk.

The giant’s strategy wasn’t flawed in itself. After activating its ability, even though it would lose its mind, it would become invincible among the beast swarm. This way, even if it couldn’t use the summoned swarm to hurt the enemy, at least it could force the enemy to retreat, thus ensuring its own survival.

But it all went wrong when it didn’t anticipate the enemy’s bug-like ability to modify the rules.

Mu You hadn’t just corrected the green-haired Titan to a rational state; he merely changed its outward characteristics, making it ’appear’ to be a rational being.

In such a state, the creatures that would follow would attack the Titan as crazily as the current Scorplions, because it was now the only ’attackable’ target on the scene.

And since the Titan had lost its mind, it was fundamentally unable to assess the situation and would instinctively continue to use its ability, attracting more Aquatic Beasts, creating a vicious cycle until it was devoured by them.

It all went just as Lamp God had predicted.

Minutes later, as a large number of Aquatic Beasts charged from the distance, Mu You and the Bone Dragon had already escaped. Only the Scorplion and the Titan were left at the scene.

And so, all the beasts, enraged, rushed like moths to a flame towards the very culprit that had triggered their fury.

The green-haired Titan was quickly overwhelmed by the teeming swarm of Aquatic Beasts.

On the periphery, the onlookers only heard a continuous uproar of growls and roars, accompanied by the flow of blood on the sea’s surface, which lasted for more than ten minutes. Only then did the beasts begin to calm down gradually, their eyes regaining clarity one by one, threatening each other with low growls before quickly dispersing and fleeing the ’crime scene’ in all directions.

After the beasts scattered, the players on the outskirts waited a moment to ensure there was no danger before carefully arranging for a team to check the scene.

By then, at the original location, there was no longer any sign of the Titan. Only a humanoid skeleton, gnawed to the point of no flesh remaining, was left floating in a pool of blood...