Chapter 127: Mother Earth

Ray looked at the splattered remains of the creature in front of him with a deep disappointment on his face.

"What a weakling," he uttered with an amused expression.

He hadn't even used his full strength yet, but the level three undead was already dead.

"Hey, was this the mere Level Three Undead that you were so scared of?" Ray turned towards Elsha and chuckled.

"How?"

Sibley didn't reply, her gaze still on the splattered remains of the undead Level Three Undead with disbelief written clearly in her eyes.

"Did the seer really lie to me?" The cold hue brushed past her face as she slowly closed her eyes to analyse the things in her mind with a calm mind.

"No, she didn't lie to me because she didn't have to lie to me for no reason, it's just that..."

Her eyes turned towards Ray and froze in place.

"What?" Ray asked with a smile on her face.

Sibley immediately bowed to the ground in a Japanese seiza style, her body trembling as she uttered,

"I am willing to accept any punishment, but please spare my life..."

Ray squinted his eyes. All he could see in her trembling bowing body was despair—despair deeply ingrained to the bone.

"I can spare your life, but you'll have to become a breeding mother for life, essentially my slave," he spoke casually, as if he had not decided her fate for her entire life.

"Yes."

Sibley's eyes lit up as she bowed her head repeatedly.

Ray paid her little attention and instead looked around with a confused expression.

In his black pupils, all that reflected were the hues of the snow and nothing more.

But Ray had an instinctive feeling that something had been watching them at the last moment, as he pummelling and destroyed the Level Three Undead Bee.

"Was that my imagination?"

The thought crossed his mind, but he quickly shook his head. There was no way he was imagining it.

His sharp senses, honed after reaching the celestial level, wouldn't lie to him. Besides, it felt far too distinct to be a figment of his imagination.

Ray looked ahead, his eyes narrowed in contemplation.

"Umm, can you please fly me out of this place? Once my invisibility runs out, I'll freeze to death."

...

Deep within the core of the Earth, far beyond the molten layers of iron and nickel, there existed an anomaly—a hidden chamber untouched by time.

This chamber, nestled in the heart of the planet where no life should have thrived, its walls forged from glistening iron and shimmering nickel, reflecting the molten glow of the magma surrounding it. It resembled a cave, though far too perfect,

At the centre of the chamber lay a wooden bed, stark and out of place against the metallic surroundings, and upon it, a woman rested.

Her figure was draped in soft green cloth, delicate and flowing as though she had been asleep for centuries. Her body lay motionless, frozen in a state between life and death, her skin cold as ice and unnaturally pale, with numerous cracks emitting an aura of desolation and decay.

A delicate feather materialised above her, spinning softly as it descended, carried by an invisible breeze. The feather was the colour of red and blue slowly touching her nose.

Although it seemed that nothing had visibly changed, Ray could definitely feel it—the mutation energy in the air had become denser.

When Ray looked down at the ground, he saw creatures rapidly mutating and becoming undead in great numbers right before his eyes. Humans were turning into undead at a higher rate, while animals were fewer in number, with most of them dying.

"What... what just happened, Ray?" Sibley's expression shifted to confusion.

"You felt that too?" Ray looked at Sibley with curiosity.

"Yeah."

Sibley replied honestly, having gradually become more open with Ray.

"I don't know, but it seems like the whole world has changed again. Didn't your seer mention anything about this?"

"No, she didn't. From the future, she said this didn't happen at all!" Sibley shook her head firmly.

"Oh, it didn't happen?" Ray raised his eyebrows.

"What about me? Did I do exactly as the seer said?"

"No, she didn't mention you at all from the future," Sibley groaned.

"I guess she's not incompetent after all," Ray muttered, looking at Sibley. "And this 'seer' isn't so omniscient after all."

He sneered, thinking that if she were truly omniscient, she would never have meddled with him. This realisation relieved him of some worries he had about potentially slaughter them all down to the last bit.

If this Seer was truly omniscient then, Ray might not exist until now.

As Ray pondered, his hand tightened around Sibley's arm.

"Show me the way."

"Alright, alright!" Sibley screamed in pain and hurriedly pointed in the direction, which was overseas.

Ray shot into the air, his speed comparable to a Thrust SSC, reaching Mach 1 as he flew rapidly, his figure blurring.

Sibley felt dizzy and nauseous almost immediately and could only helplessly become invisible, or her body might really burst from the sheer speed of Ray.

He soon arrived on another continent, and Sibley dutifully guided him to the location while recalling it carefully.

"By the way, how did you even get there in the first place, given that you're such a weakling?" Ray couldn't help but ask curiously.

"There's something called jet planes that can be used," Sibley thought to herself, rolling her eyes internally but not daring to voice this out loud.

"I came in a jet plane."

"Oh, have you controlled the entire government?" Ray raised his eyebrows.

"Not just the government. We control the entire continent, although we don't protect it. The entire military is under our control, in fact, not just on this continent but almost across all six continents except Africa."

"Why is that?" Ray tilted his head.

"There are terrifying undead creatures... and the terrain is..."

"Forget it."

Soon, Sibley led Ray to the "base," but all Ray saw was an empty, scorched land.

"Where is it?"

"I swear, it was here," Sibley said hurriedly, her voice tinged with despair.