Chapter 19

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Eternal ocean water rolled about in the city. It was swirling around the giant stone pillars above the City of R’lyeh, occasionally making strange vibration noises.

The marine creatures that had fallen into madness were still fighting everywhere in the City of R’lyeh. They were fighting day and night.

Ke Meng had seen this countless times. Just like before, he had to watch that for a couple of hours this time.

If this happened to regular people, they might have gone insane from the boredom.

However, Boss Ke had yet to reach the brink of going mad. He watched those insane marine creatures with His massive eyes.

Those marine creatures had a very slow reaction to the outside world because their brains had gone into madness while they had lost their sanity and suffered from mental disorder.

However, Ke Meng could kill them if He wanted to. Although Boss Ke had no way of moving His tentacles to do physical harm, He had many psychic skills.

“Fear Control!”

As soon as the skill was activated, the insane marine creatures that had been living in fear stopped moving all of a sudden. Their brains were controlled by an extremely terrifying being. They were no longer in command of their own bodies. Instead, it was a god whose face was unclear that was controlling them.

Ke Meng’s eyes flashed. He controlled a water scorpion to release its skill. Two red rays shot out and hit an insane blue seahorse with purple skin instantly.

The seahorse immediately melted into a bunch of unknown purple substance.

Ke Meng tested a couple of skills consecutively. Each hit was a sure kill.

‘This little guy’s skill damage is so powerful! Isn’t everyone on level 999? How come they’ve been killed by a creature of the same level?’

Ke Meng stared at the water scorpion with a purple crystal appearance that he was controlling. ‘Level 999’ hovered above its head.

‘Level 999 should be the highest level,’ He guessed.

Ke Meng had no level stats on Him. He had no idea why He did not have that. Perhaps, the ultimate boss did not require the so-called level limitation.

To avoid killing all the marine creatures, He stopped attacking after testing it ten times.

The City of R’lyeh would be too simple and boring without the marine creatures. Although Boss Ke was not afraid of falling into madness, boredom was His biggest enemy.

‘Let’s see how far I can make it go,’ Boss Ke thought.

Ke Meng thought to Himself and controlled the Crystal Scorpion’s fear. He ordered it to move forward. It was a must, or it would have to kill itself to be forgiven.

The Crystal Scorpion was extremely terrified. It was already insane whereby its fear of the outside world had dropped to freezing point. Never had it thought that terror would overcome it again while its madness had suppressed to freezing point. Now, all its body was left with was fear.

The Crystal Scorpion ran forward manically. Its speed was even faster than when it had fallen into madness, hence it ran out of the massive City of R’lyeh within a minute.

Meanwhile, Ke Meng’s control of the Crystal Scorpion had decreased. There seemed to be a layer of massive barrier seal at the border of the City of R’lyeh that weakened His power.

A while later, the control was as faint as a thread. It would break anytime now.

Nevertheless, Boss Ke did not believe that. He controlled another maniacal marine creature to rush outside.

Whoosh!

Boss Ke lost control of the red lobster as soon as it left the city. Nobody knew where it went, but no matter what, it was impossible that it would return to be tortured again.

Boss Ke moved His eyes to control another marine creature to exit the city. The result was the same whereby He would lose control of them not long after they left the city.

‘That’s dumb. I lose control of the creature as soon as they leave the city.’ Ke Meng secretly sighed. In this monotonous City of R’lyeh, a boss’s life was just too boring.

At that very moment, the black ghost in a cloak swam from outside the City of R’lyeh. It held its head down humbly, reporting the result of the recent mission to Ke Meng softly.

It had preached to eight new small mountain villages. At the moment, there were 16 places with fanatics.

The Dog-headed People Mountain Village was currently the only village that had some spacetime rock powder in store. However, it was insufficient to hold another sacrificial ceremony.

The other mountain villagers were rather poor, and they were still gathering the spacetime rock powder.

There was good news as the Grave Ghost Village would soon gather the spacetime rock powder for their first sacrificial ceremony.

Subsequently, the humble ghost apostle reported that they had found a large city with humans living in it.

There were many intelligent humans in there whose standard of intelligence was much higher than that of the small mountain villagers. Those people with high intelligence usually had precious things in store that might be helpful to Boss Ke.

At that moment, the ghost apostles were planning to infiltrate the city full of adventurers. However, all of the human adventurers had disappeared half a day ago. Nobody knew where they had gone to.

The ghost apostles were confused as they had no idea what happened. Some of them thought that all of the adventurers in the city had been sacrificed to a god. Therefore, their representative came here to report immediately.

Offering sacrifices to Cthulhu and offering to other gods required a completely different ceremony. The place would have a strong sense of ritual left behind. However, they did not feel that sense of ritual. It was a new kind of sacrificial ceremony. They must report that to their almighty God, letting Him know everything.

After the ghost apostle was done with the report, it did not get any responses from Boss Ke as usual.

It waited where it was, enjoying the staring that tortured its soul. It felt satisfied by the torment.

Over ten minutes later, the dim and rotten aura on it thickened. It then bowed and retreated slowly, proceeding to investigate the cause of the disappearance of all the adventurers in the city.

Boss Ke watched the ghost apostle left. There were no changes in His facial muscles, but He was not as calm inside as He had been before.

‘All players have disappeared? Maybe the game is under maintenance. How come I didn’t receive any notifications about the game going into maintenance? Did I happen to miss the system notification since I’m in deep sleep?’

As Boss Ke was thinking nonsense to Himself, a blurry summoning voice came to His ears.

It was a new sacrificer!

Based on what the ghost apostle said, the Grave Ghost Village was going to hold a sacrificial ceremony soon.

What would they send this time?

The name of their village did not sound like it was formed of neutral non-player character little monsters. It might be an evil non-player character’s village.

Ke Meng listened to the mumbling in his ears carefully. While the voice was coming closer, the image was also becoming clearer.

Boss Ke’s thoughts were in a daze, His consciousness crossed the limit of time and space. He soon saw a creepy cave very far away. There were people in black robes with their bodies sunk in wet soil. Their hands were lifted high while they worshipped His godly name.

“Oh, the almighty Cthulhu…The Sleeper of R’lyeh…The Great Old One!”