yasinovel Chapter 4221 The Growth of Gray Porcelain
Chapter 4221 The Growth of Gray Porcelain
Chapter 4221 The Growth of Gray Porcelain
Gabriel: I've dealt with the book demon on my side!
Gabriel: Huh? Am I faster than the commander?
"Rabbit Hole Grand Commander: The second wave of book demons coming to my side is twice as many as the first wave."
"Rabbit Hole Chieftain: But I've already taken care of everything."
Gabriel: ...The commander is still the best.
"Rabbit Hole Chieftain: Hmph."
"Rabbit Hole Commander: Gray Porcelain, how's the situation on your side? Any changes on the third level?"
The team chat was silent for a moment, and no one responded.
Gabriel was expecting Gray Porcelain to complain about the situation on the third floor, and Rabbit Girl also thought she would receive a barrage of messages from "Internet addict" Gray Porcelain, but the team chat channel seemed to be frozen.
—Empty, cold, and desolate.
A full half minute passed before a new message popped up in the team chat.
"Angol: Sorry, I was focused on the hidden space and didn't notice the team chat channel."
"Rabbit Hole Chief: Hidden space? You've conquered another book demon?"
"Angol: The Book Demon is still being conquered. I'm just waiting in the hidden space... Hmm, it should be over soon."
The team chat channel was frozen again after this message was sent.
Although the bunny girl and Gabriel were on different floors, their reactions to the message were exactly the same.
At the same time, one froze, wiping its eyes, while the other's telson swayed, as if wiping away the message left by Angel.
"Could this mean..."
Perhaps guessing what the rabbit girl and Gabriel were thinking, Angor casually sent out another new message:
"Angol: Gray Porcelain didn't receive your message because it just entered the Book Demon's duel space."
This news completely confirmed their suspicions.
The rabbit girl was surprised and delighted: "You convinced it?"
Gabriel sighed in silence, "Mr. Angell is indeed more capable than us... He can even persuade Gray Porcelain."
Angell raised an eyebrow as he looked at the two consecutive messages: "It wasn't me who convinced it; it decided to challenge the Book Demon on its own. And Gabriel, don't underestimate Gray Porcelain; it's much braver than you think."
Angel didn't hide anything and gave a general account of what had just happened.
After hearing Angel's story, the rabbit girl asked in the team chat, "Why is that? How did it suddenly understand?"
Angell: "Actually, I think it's not that it has figured things out, but rather that its sense of responsibility is no weaker than any of ours."
A sense of responsibility compels it to confront the Book Demon.
Even though it was still afraid, it steeled its heart and proceeded with the gray porcelain.
Although Gray Porcelain also indicated that it would only appear once, whether in normal mode or perfect completion mode.
But it is not important.
Hiding in one's shell is driven by instinct; but to possess both a shell and the ability to display one's claws is already progress.
Gabriel: "Gray Porcelain has grown up too... Luckily, I changed its name before, otherwise it would probably be jumping up and down mocking me again when it came out."
Angell: "You've grown up too, daring to secretly target the guild leader now."
Gabriel: "???"
Rabbit Girl: "What do you mean by 'Gray Porcelain' has 'grown up'? Is it implying that I'm going to the Golden Land alone, which is too willful?"
Gabriel wailed, "No! There really isn't!"
Angel silently closed the team chat. He had to admit, the team chat module was quite interesting. The rabbit girl usually wouldn't care about such trivial matters. —Although ultimately he was deliberately stirring things up, that didn't matter.
The bunny girl is more lively than usual in the team chat, which is a good thing.
As messages of pleas for mercy filled the team chat, Gray Porcelain's team finally ended their battle.
The pure white space is shattered, and gray porcelain appears hazily on the second floor of the birdcage building.
Then, the pitch-black ball carrying the cracks wobbled through the grid and arrived at the first floor.
The birthplace of the Book Demon, also known as the hidden space, is located in an oil painting on the first floor of the Birdcage building.
This painting is titled "The Origin of Civilization".
The painter depicted a primitive man eating raw meat and drinking blood, witnessing the fire caused by a lightning strike, staring blankly at the dying embers in the thunderstorm, as if he had thought of something.
Looking at this painting alone, no one would think it's a puzzle, because there's no clue to it at all.
If Ingres hadn't confirmed, through his God-like perspective, that there was a hidden space behind the painting, he wouldn't have paid any attention to it at all.
Even knowing there was something fishy about the painting, it took Ingres and Grey Porcelain a long time to solve the mystery.
The riddle is actually not difficult; it lies in the painting's title: "The Origin of Civilization," which undoubtedly refers to the first flame.
But there is no fire in the painting.
Only the ashes of the remaining trees, extinguished by the thunderstorm.
Without fire, what is the origin of civilization? Therefore, the mystery of this painting is about lighting a fire.
Fortunately, there was an oil lamp in the birdcage building. By lighting it, the flames were ignited on the ashes of the broken tree, reigniting the fire in the painting, and that solved the mystery.
Strangely enough, the flames gathered only on the ashes of the broken tree and did not burn other places, as if they were truly the flames of civilization, illuminating the future for the primitive people in the painting.
At the same time, a door opened next to the painting, leading to a hidden space.
There is a small, graceful tree in this space.
The book demon drifted into the space, transforming its body into ink, leaving its final words of wisdom on the tree trunk:
"I anchored the sickle in order to imitate His penetrating legacy."
A very strange proverb.
After glancing at it, Angel casually sent it to the team chat and then walked away.
Gray Porcelain was still in a daze, seemingly not yet recovered from the aftermath of the battle. It only snapped back to its senses when Angell approached.
Angel patted Gray Porcelain on the shoulder and pointed to the hidden space: "The battle is over. You can go in and take a look at the Proverbs. This is the empire you conquered."
Gray Porcelain was still in a daze after regaining its senses. It did whatever Angell said and walked into the hidden space.
Angel did not go in with it, but waited outside.
He didn't ask about the details of the battle with the gray porcelain, mainly because... he already knew even without asking.
The moment the challenge space disappeared, the Nightmare Power attached to Gray Porcelain revealed the entire process of Gray Porcelain's challenge.
This time, the book demon seems to have sensed Gray Porcelain's fear of battle. Through the book "Shadow of Fear," it summons the shadow of a Truga man with a tall teacup-shaped head.
Gray Porcelain trembled upon seeing the stemmed teacup.
He was filled with fear and dread, mixed with a mixture of shock, anger, and hatred.
Clearly, Gray Porcelain recognized Cuphead and might even have had some connection with it in the past. The Book Demon, through the "Shadow of Fear," pierced through Gray Porcelain's heart, creating this adversary who resembled a demon within himself.
Seeing this start, Angor once thought that Gray Porcelain might fail in this battle, and that he would most likely win by relying on the power of Nightmare Illusion.
But the result was different from what Angell had guessed.
The inner demon of the teacup head seemed to be suppressing the gray porcelain, as if the battle was a sure thing.
At first, the Teacuphead Demon did indeed restrain Gray Porcelain, but some of the Demon's suppressive actions seemed to have stirred up Gray Porcelain's past memories. Its eyes grew increasingly red, and it entered a state similar to "liberation."
However, the term "unrestricted" only applies to others, but for Huici, it means entering the "sea of the subconscious" and turning bodily movements into "instinct".
Instinctively fighting against Cuphead's inner demons.
Under this "instinct," the actions of the Teacuphead Demon could no longer harm the Gray Porcelain.
Gray Porcelain can use incredibly precise footwork to dodge all of the opponent's attacks; it can even launch counterattacks with just a small step.
Gray Porcelain, using only his bare hands and relying on instinct, kept striking the porcelain head of the Teacup Head Demon.
until……
The porcelain shattered.
The pure white space dissipated.
Grey porcelain has returned victorious.
However, because Gray Porcelain is still in a state of residual "instinct," she is in a daze and has not yet emerged from the shadow of the battle...
However, after reviewing the entire battle against Gray Porcelain, Angel was still deeply moved.
It did not use the power of Nightmare Illusion, nor even the illusion nodes that Angor gave it—used to create weapons—were used.
He smashed the porcelain head of the inner demon with his bare hands.
From a combat strategy perspective, this was actually a bit unwise, but Angel could sense that every time Gray Porcelain instinctively struck the opponent's porcelain head, it was with excitement.
So we can see from this that it is capable of manufacturing weapons to fight, but it doesn't. It prefers to fight in this primitive way.
"I wonder what the connection is between Gray Porcelain and this Teacuphead Demon..." Angel muttered to himself. Could it be its enemy?
He wondered whether he should ask about it after the gray porcelain came out.
But I also felt that it wasn't a good idea to ask directly about this, since it might involve the "scars" that Gray Porcelain had in the past, and it's not right to reopen old wounds.
Just as Angell hesitated, he suddenly saw the team chat channel being flooded with messages again.
Angell hesitated for a moment, then clicked to take a look.
"Gray Porcelain: That book demon actually summoned the guy who bullied me when I was a kid! How dare it! Does it really think I'm afraid of it?"
"Gray Porcelain: I've killed it once, and I can kill it a second time!"
Gabriel: ...You killed it?
"Gray Porcelain: Of course! I defeated it when I was very young! But back then..."
Angor was still hesitating about whether to ask, but Gray Porcelain himself recounted the entire battle in the team chat.
Including his own rival.
Angel flipped through the team chat and got a general understanding of Gray Porcelain's past.
When it was very young, the teacup head bullied it. It didn't go into details about how it bullied it, but only said that it had been bullied for a whole year.
Later, Gray Porcelain met a wine glass head, who was the child of a high-ranking member of the Dandelion Society, a powerful organization in the city of Tluga.
When the teacup-headed bully Gray Porcelain once again, it was unaware of the wine-glass-headed bully's identity and beat it up as well.
After that.
The parents of the wine glass-headed man were shocked and furious, and the teacup-headed man was taken away.
When the gray porcelain saw the teacup again, it had already turned into a pile of broken porcelain.
Gray Porcelain got its revenge. Although it didn't kill the person with its own hands, it was Gray Porcelain who designed the route that led it to the head of the wine glass and the route that led it to the head of the teacup.
So, in a sense, it was the grey porcelain that killed the teacup head.
After Teacuphead died, Gray Porcelain also distanced itself from Wine Glasshead, because its parents weren't stupid; they knew Gray Porcelain was the real culprit.
After that, Gray Porcelain was always wandering.
Until they arrived at the Crystal Castle and came into contact with the Dream Mirror.
"Gray Porcelain: My biggest regret in life is that I didn't smash the porcelain surface of the teacup head with my own hands back then. I never thought the opportunity would come this time..."
Upon seeing Gray Porcelain's comment, Angel understood why Gray Porcelain didn't use magical weapons in combat but insisted on fighting hand-to-hand.
It carries resentment and indignation.
Only by punching him repeatedly can he shatter the regrets he once felt.
Gabriel: So, you've resolved your inner conflict? How about we leave the Book Demon battle to you in Perfect Completion Mode?
"Gray Porcelain: Mr. Angell wants to see me. We'll talk later."
Gabriel: ??
When Gray Porcelain emerged from the hidden space, her overall demeanor was much better than before.
Angel looked at Gray Porcelain with a deep gaze: "Tell me, what do you want from me?"
Gray Porcelain paused, her eyes darting around: "I, I was just saying it casually."
Angel didn't speak, but just stared at the gray porcelain.
Gray Porcelain felt immense pressure, constantly pondering how to make amends.
Just then, Angel suddenly turned around and said, "I was just asking casually. We should go now. Let's continue forward. You can lead the way."
Gray Porcelain: "..."
Despite having a lot to complain about, Gray Porcelain obediently walked ahead and led the way.
They had already planned the route beforehand.
Although the route was planned by Gray Porcelain, Angell guided it from behind the scenes, and the route chosen in the end was exactly the optimal one: it would allow them to encounter both book spirits and book demons with different records in the hidden space.
It's worth mentioning that the records in the hidden space on the third floor are all trees.
There are three types of trees: small trees, lush large trees, and dead trees.
They had already encountered the small tree; now they only need to encounter the book demons who have the remaining two types of trees.
……
One very good thing about the third level is that it allows you to fly through the void.
By flying through the void, Angell and Gray Porcelain hardly had to worry about getting lost.
Just fly straight in one direction.
If the "rift" weren't mobile, Angor wouldn't even bother looking for the book spirit; he would have simply flown to the border region to catch the rift...
After flying for about five minutes, they passed through what were probably dozens of crisscrossing corridors.
We arrived at a large loop road made up of flying books.
From a distance, it looks like a Ferris wheel.
At the center of this "Ferris wheel" is a faintly glowing white ball, which is the Book Fairy.
"Wait for me here, I'm going to pass the test of this book spirit."
After Angell finished speaking, he left the gray porcelain on the Flying Book Path and flew alone toward the Ferris wheel.