Edited by Jules
When he received Luo’s message, Xiao Lan’s lips couldn’t help curving up, his eyes bright.
A part of his heart instantly relaxed and became excited.
He immediately replied to his boyfriend, 【Where are you?】
“Sir, I missed you.” Suddenly, there was a deep voice behind him.
There had been no footsteps at all, and the voice appeared abruptly, like a ghost.
Xiao Lan’s reaction, nevertheless, was pretty good. His boyfriend was much more powerful than a ghost; he should just get used to it.
He turned his head. Luo was standing right behind him and smiling at him.
Seeing Xiao Lan turn around, Luo reached out to gently brush a hand over the wound on Xiao Lan’s neck so that it felt soft and warm. “How did you end up like this after a short time apart?”
Thanks to Luo’s power, the wound on Xiao Lan’s neck from his fight with Zhu Zhiyi quickly healed.
Xiao Lan’s neck felt a little ticklish, but he didn’t struggle. “Don’t worry, they’re all superficial wounds.”
“Mn.” Luo hummed vaguely; who knew whether he accepted Xiao Lan’s explanation or was already used to how sloppy Xiao Lan was in treating his own wounds.
Luo lowered his gaze to attentively study Xiao Lan’s wounds, his slender fingers lightly brushing over Xiao Lan’s wounds. His touch was extremely gentle, as if cherishing some sort of treasure.
Although, this particular treasure… Not only was he extremely strong, he could also strike down several dozen robust men with a swing of his staff.
At that moment, Luo’s expression was serene and focused, his eyelashes, like the feathers of a raven, lowered and concealing the radiance in his eyes.
From Xiao Lan’s viewpoint, it was an extremely beautiful sight.
“What is sir thinking of while looking at me?” Luo softly asked.
Only then did Xiao Lan realise that he had been staring at Luo and had practically forgotten about their surroundings.
Xiao Lan said, “I was just… taking a look…”
As he spoke, he casually touched Luo’s face. “Who asked my boyfriend to be so handsome?”
Hearing this, Luo lifted his head and drew closer to Xiao Lan so that his lips were close to his ear. “Sir can always look, wherever you want.”
He even emphasised the last few words with an elegant tone.
As if insinuating something.
Xiao Lan: “…”
He felt that this guy was an experienced driver, and he also had evidence.
Faced with Luo’s teasing expression, Xiao Lan was extremely suspicious. If he asked this question out loud, would he be given a speedrun of the course?.
Given Luo’s hobby, Xiao Lan wondered if he had been spending this period of time reading books from human society that couldn’t be described.
He truly was a well-read non-human – can’t be teased, can’t be teased.
Not long after.
Luo drew back his hand; the wounds which Xiao Lan had obtained from the previous battle were perfectly healed.
Xiao Lan hurriedly seized the opportunity to pull the conversation back on track. “Um… Did you find your fragments?”
Luo shot Xiao Lan a look with a smile and didn’t continue teasing his boyfriend. He pointed in one direction. “It’s over there; it feels like they’ve gathered together.”
Xiao Lan said, “We should go as soon as possible.”
Luo nodded. “Alright.”
The fragments had to be retrieved now.
As for doing the deed… When couldn’t they do it?
The future was long.
With Luo leading the way, the two went in a specific direction through the maze-like Wall of Sacrifice.
They walked further and further in, until they were far inside a place that had never been reached before.
The further in they walked, the more similar their surroundings looked to the mural Xiao Lan had seen at the altar.
More and more human bodies appeared on the Wall of Sacrifice. All of them looked like they were struggling, while their expressions were just as fanatical as the ones in the mural.
It looked like they had been assimilated into the wall, like pre-carved sculptures.
Only at a closer look would a person realise that these in truth weren’t actual corpses, but bodies formed by the blood-coloured vines on the wall.
Who knew why these stolons would take human form after consuming humans.
Walking further along the Wall of Sacrifice, Luo and Xiao Lan reached the end of the vines.
It turned out that the vines were growing from large, black branches.
The branches looked withered, but dripped black fluid non-stop from above. The black fluid pooled on the ground to create a sizeable black pond.
There were no ripples on the black pond, which looked like it had collected all the dense dead auras from those who had died on the wall. It was indescribably eerie.
There were no other paths here, like this was the end of everything.
Xiao Lan looked at the black pond, which looked like it had been chemically contaminated. “Is this where the Wall of Sacrifice ends?”
He looked around, but didn’t find anything that looked like a boss.
Where was Sara? Could Sara actually be this black pond?
Luo’s gaze fell to the pond. “Sara should be in there. Be careful.”
As if responding to its name, the pool suddenly rippled.
The ripples swiftly grew; something was about to emerge.
With a splash, a huge, black thing rose from the pond like a small mountain.
It looked to be a mass of tree roots, and had a human-like form.
But the shape was extremely irregular. A structure of four limbs and a head could just barely be made out, but there were no details.
Several long, black roots stretched out from the part that seemed to be the head. The roots swayed in the air, like snakes on Medusa’s head.
Only half of its body had come out of the pool, while the lower half seemed to be part of the pond and was unable to separate from it.
It was like a defective product that wanted to imitate a human but failed.
According to horror logic, this sort of uncanny valley was conversely even more terrifying.
The black monster’s head cracked open a slit, and a voice emerged. “Sara…”
Xiao Lan asked, “Are you Sara?”
The black monster said, “They say… I am Sara… and want… to worship me…
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“Worship me… Being one with me… is a joy…”
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Xiao Lan’s doubts grew and he changed his words. “Nice to meet you.”
Vjgj: “Rjl… ret… ab…”
Xiao Lan quietly said to Luo, “…This Sara isn’t an idiot, right?”
It seemed to have poor verbal skills; it could only repeat what it heard, and couldn’t even fully remember the words.
Luo stared at Sara’s movements. “There’s a high chance.”
Sara heard its name again. “Sara… Id…iot…”
Xiao Lan: “…”
Luo: “…”
Dumbass, you’re repeating that too?!
No need to question it anymore, this guy was genuinely dumb.
Xiao Lan was a little dumbfounded. How could something with this sort of intelligence become a demonic god? Was the current threshold for feudal superstitions so low?!
Suddenly, Sara’s head tilted in Xiao Lan’s direction. “You… Tasty…”
It then turned to Luo. “You… No flavour… Not tasty…”
Xiao Lan instantly understood the so-called standards for selecting offerings.
The ones Sara deemed tasty were ‘suitable offerings’, while those that it didn’t like were ‘unsuitable offerings’.
Those it liked were left in cocoons to be slowly eaten, while those that weren’t were discarded to fend for themselves. Many animals had such instincts.
What worship and protection, what screening of offerings, what glory that devotees would obtain?
All of that were just things the town residents made up on their own, or perhaps, they treated what they heard in their hallucinations as real.
In reality, the god in their hearts didn’t even have fully formed thoughts.
It was so ironic.
Sara just used its ability to entice those that could hear its voice and give them an intense desire to get closer. Then, it picked out its preferred food from the crowd that delivered itself to its door.
It honestly was just using its ability to hunt, and was even picky about its food.
Perhaps it just so happened that there was a priest in the first batch influenced by Sara. Under his guidance, Sara’s singing became guidance from God.
Even if they later realised that Sara wasn’t God, it would still be categorised as a deity.
Later, the people who were affected experienced auditory or visual hallucinations, and took them to be Sara speaking to them —-
But who could ever have guessed that Sara in truth was a mentally disabled thing that couldn’t even speak smoothly?
Nevertheless, even if Sara was a dunce, its innate ability was still hard to handle.
On top of that, there was a high chance the power of Sara’s Song had been boosted by the Master feeding Luo’s fragments to it.
Xiao Lan asked Luo, “Where are your fragments? It didn’t eat them, did it?”
Luo said: “We’ll know once we test it.”
Luo stretched out his hand and revealed his aura momentarily. However, to avoid being detected by the Master, it was only for a very brief instant, before he hid it again.
Although it was just an instant, Sara still turned its head sharply towards him.
If it had eyes, it would probably be filled with greed.
Sara locked onto Luo’s direction. “You… Ate you…”
Luo smiled. “Looks like they truly are in you.”
A warped hand made from black stolons shot towards Luo.
Luo swiftly disappeared, and the attack failed, slamming into the ground and causing the entire area to shake.
The red vines on the Wall of Sacrifice seemed frightened, and began squirming uneasily.
Sara lifted its hand, leaving behind a humongous handprint in the ground.
But that wasn’t just it. There were traces of black mist on the handprint which corroded the ground like acid, making it sizzle.
It was a fierce attack – the results would be even fiercer if it hit a person.
Instantly turning from a regular 3D person into a 2D paper person would no longer be a futile dream.
The fight had already begun; Xiao Lan and Luo attacked Sara.
After being together for so long, they had formed a tacit understanding when fighting.
The two figures constantly darted amongst Sara’s attacks, countering every single time there was a gap.
Sara missed several attacks in a row.
Not only that, these two also kept cutting off the vines that made up its body.
Not-too-bright, it felt frustrated and angry, and its attacks grew even more frantic
In all honesty, there was no need for fancy martial arts when facing off against something as simple-minded as Sara. They just had to keep hitting it.
Even if it was very strong and fast, its weakness was that it had no strategy.
However, Xiao Lan realised that the parts of Sara that were chopped off would swiftly be filled again with nearby stolons. While it wasn’t a full recovery, it still rendered their attacks somewhat ineffective.
The two sides went back and forth for a while.
As if feeling impatient when the two were not taken down even after a long time, Sara opened its black mouth, and Sara’s Song rang out once more.
Hearing Sara’s Song at such close range, Xiao Lan, who was caught off guard, took the brunt of its effects.
The world before him instantly changed.
Xiao Lan found himself standing in a clean corridor.
Students in uniforms were coming and going; their faces were familiar, but Xiao Lan couldn’t recall their names.
Xiao Lan walked down the corridor with them.
He didn’t quite understand why he had to walk. He looked at the school uniform he was wearing, which was identical to what was on the other students. Perhaps the school had an event?
The people around him were laughing and talking. It looked very relaxing.
Only Xiao Lan alone walked forward silently, at odds with the cheerful air around him.
Where were they going?
Suddenly, everything fell silent.
As if some invisible hand had pressed the pause button, the students stopped moving for a moment. Shirts and hair ends that were lifted up didn’t fall either; the entire scene froze.
Xiao Lan was confused for a moment as he looked around.
What was this?
“Ghk… guh…”
The long-haired schoolgirl in front of him suddenly made a strange sound, like she was being choked.
After that, the schoolgirl turned her head bit by bit, her body still facing forward.
Just as it was about to reach human limits, her head abruptly turned even quicker up to 180 degrees.
Only then could Xiao Lan see her face. It was small and her features were exquisite, but in place of eyes, there were plant rhizomes. It looked grotesque and peculiar.
The girl’s mouth parted in a bizarre smile, and she opened her mouth wide at Xiao Lan. Countless black stolons shot out towards Xiao Lan.
Xiao Lan’s heart leapt and he took a step back, just barely avoiding the attack.
He looked around, trying to find something to defend himself with.
Xiao Lan had just raised his hand, when he realised in astonishment that he was holding a long, black blade.
The texture of the blade was odd, but it seemed extremely sharp. It should be extremely easy to use in his current predicament.
The attacking vines were right in front of his eyes. Xiao Lan tightened his grip on this blade that had just appeared, and was about to take a swing.
“Sir!”
The girl was still smiling sinisterly, but what came out was a deep and beautiful male voice.
Xiao Lan felt that this voice was a bit familiar, like something he was always hearing.
But something seemed weird.
That voice should be gentle and measured, not like this, somewhat discomforted and anxious.
He couldn’t help but slow down.
Xiao Lan glanced at his surroundings.
At some point, the students around him had turned their heads several degrees beyond the limits of the human body.
At that moment, they were all facing Xiao Lan.
Those faces which felt somewhat familiar to Xiao Lan were still the same.
However, their eye sockets were full of rhizomes, like the long-haired girl. As they looked at Xiao Lan, the corners of their lips ticked upward, as if yanked on with a string, giving all of them identical smiles.
Xiao Lan looked back at the blade in his hands.
This blade had suddenly appeared in his hand, but it felt extremely natural to wield it, as if he had used this blade countless times in battle.
This blade… what was it called…?
It seemed extremely important…
Someone… had given something to him…
“I offer the bone of my bones to you. Will you accept it?”
A sentence echoed in his mind.
Although the voice was gentle, it felt like a clap of thunder, instantly clearing Xiao Lan’s somewhat chaotic mind.
“Xiao Lan!” The schoolgirl before him called out to him again.
The schoolgirl’s face was still just as malevolent, and the stolons in her mouth attacked Xiao Lan once more, as if aiming to strangle him.
But the voice was identical to the one in Xiao Lan’s mind.
The smiles on the students around him grew bigger and bigger, containing malice and indescribable anticipation.
Xiao Lan suddenly whirled out at —
His surroundings.
The pitch black blade swept out and sliced the somewhat familiar students in two.
The students, who were still smiling, turned into black mist one by one and dissipated.
Xiao Lan snapped back to his senses, and clearly saw everything in front of him.
The school corridor had disappeared and turned into the end of the Wall of Sacrifice, which was covered in vines.
Red walls, black pond water.
In front of him was Luo.
At some point, several mutated monsters had surrounded them. Luo was defending against Xiao Lan’s attacks while constantly clearing out the monsters. Xiao Lan’s last slash had also taken down many of them.
Luo had been keeping a close eye on Xiao Lan, and only relaxed after seeing the change in his eyes.
Xiao Lan looked at Sara nearby.
A thought flashed through his mind —
Jesus, what an amazing idiot.
If Xiao Lan had swung at the long-haired girl in his hallucination, he would have been attacking Luo in reality.
He finally understood why so many people died through mutual slaughter.
That was because in their eyes, they weren’t going up against their own people, but attacking monsters.
No wonder so many players were cut down in Sara’s Song.
Even if Sara itself was a pile of slosh, with an ability like Sara’s Song, it could definitely be considered a formidable opponent, and even more so given how powerful its battle prowess was.
Whether it was attack power, speed or recovery speed, it topped the ranks in all these aspects. It could even call on subordinates and create fake hallucinations which were hard to discern from reality.
If it wasn’t for Sara’s lack of intelligence that was its weakness, players might not even be able to escape the game.
At the same time, because of its lack of intelligence, there was no chance of a battle of wits, and the option was to face it head-on.
In the end, because it had no intelligence, even the most ingenious plans lost their advantage.
Nearly causing him to stab his own boyfriend, how could Xiao Lan not retaliate?
He gripped 【Insurgent’s Bone】 tight, shifted his feet, then sprinted toward Sara like a bullet.
Ability activated:
【Name: Poverty is unable to restrict my imagination】
【Ability: Attack power amplification (lv.5, 500%)】
At the same time, Xiao Lan increased the consumption rate of his poverty value.
Consuming poverty value four-fold increased the effect of his ability to 2000%. That was to say —
20 times the attack power.
Since they were fighting fire with fire, then they would see who burned hotter.
Real men were just that hot.
In the first place, Xiao Lan was a real man who forcefully created miracles.
Thanks to his amplified ability, one swing of his blade brutally severed one of Sara’s arms.
Luo’s attention was also no longer split as he didn’t have to worry for Xiao Lan anymore, and he began fighting all out; black shadows wrapped fiercely around Sara’s other arm.
The black shadow contained his power to devour things, and it swallowed up a large portion of Sara’s arm in an instant.
Sara let out an ear-piercing shriek.
Xiao Lan’s vision blurred for an instant, but this time, he forced himself to snap out of it very quickly, and didn’t fall into another realistic hallucination.
Having lost its arms, Sara grew furious.
It thoroughly abandoned its human-like form and returned to stolons, which filled the pond.
This form felt more comfortable for it. Denser and faster attacks came from all sides. The attacks were disorganised, but the number and force made them extremely hard to handle.
It was hard for Xiao Lan and Luo to close the distance for a while.
They had no choice but to rapidly dodge the attacks from the vines.
Sara attacked not only Xiao Lan and Luo, but also brutally smashed the Wall of Sacrifice. Blood-red rhizomes dropped off in fragments from the repeated attacks.
The mutated monsters also weren’t in any better condition. They were helpless to defend against Sara’s attacks, and were felled one by one.
Seeing, this, Xiao Lan sighed with emotion —
Truly an idiot.
Sara simply didn’t distinguish between allies or enemies. The number of monsters it cleared out in this wave was far more than Xiao Lan and Luo’s count combined; it was practically clearing the field.
Sara, who had lost its human form, let loose in its attacks, not even caring when its own brethren were lost.
Perhaps it didn’t even conceive of this with its empty brain.
The world was only separated between tasty, edible, and inedible.
The mutated monsters were nothing more than food that had gone bad.
Suddenly, Xiao Lan saw a gleaming object amidst the stolons that were squirming all over the place.
That thing seemed very deeply hidden inside Sara, and would only occasionally be exposed for a brief instance when Sara attacked.
As Xiao Lan dodged, he said, “Luo, can you see what that is?”
Luo said, “A core, but an unfinished one. It seems he wants to… cultivate a substitute that has no thoughts? How truly like him.”
This seemed very much in line with the Master’s style.
Since his comrade was disobedient, then he would strip him of his power and recultivate an obedient one.
This brotherhood was simply at the height of plasticity.
Xiao Lan looked at the rhizomes covering the sky. “Want to get it?”
Luo said, “Of course. I’ll have to trouble sir to follow me and open up a path.”
Xiao Lan twirled his blade. “Go.”
The two charged at Sara once more.
This time, the blade and black shadow intertwined, getting rid of all obstacles before them.
They were like two parallel blades, advancing like a hot knife through butter, aiming at Sara’s core.
Although it was dumb, Sara could still instinctively sense the danger.
It tried to withdraw the frantically attacking stolons, turning back to protect its core.
But it was too late.
Luo’s figure had turned into a shadow the moment he was close to the core.
A shadow darker than night instantly enveloped Sara’s core, manically devouring the energy that belonged to it in the first place.
This incomplete core was created with Luo’s energy in the first place; sensing a power that came from its origin, it also instinctively wished to be devoured by Luo.
Sara released Sara’s Song once more.
Who knew where the song came from, since it didn’t have a mouth.
This time, Xiao Lan was prepared, and had already covered his ears as he swiftly distanced himself from Luo and Sara’s fight to devour each other. He also temporarily deactivated his ability to conserve poverty value.
The black shadow and black vines battled in the dark, murky pond.
Blackness formed a mound, making it hard to distinguish who was who.
Xiao Lan could only stay onshore, lest he accidentally stabbed his boyfriend.
The black shadow kept gobbling up Sara’s power. Even something as dumb as Sara could sense that something was wrong.
Sara’s voice stuttered: “I am… Sara… You… all must… worship me…”
But this time, it wasn’t facing some bewitched believer, but a hunter who thought of it as prey.
Sara’s voice grew weaker:
“Worship me…
“Eat…
“Id…iot…
“Damned gays…”
Xiao Lan: “…”
Where the hell did you learn that last saying?!!!
But given the current situation, the saying was inexplicably used pretty accurately…
Baobao Notes
Sara was described as mentally handicapped, but that was just a mouthful.
I got into reading Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint and it changed my life. I highly recommend it. It’s not BL, but the main character(who’s an extremely unreliable narrator) and secondary main have vibes like ‘In history they remained unwedded and were roommates for their entire lives’, so it could be implied BL if you want to view it that way.
Strange, I never had the dream to be smashed into a 2D paper person xDDD
Nice last words Sara lolol
And I can’t believe it that we’re nearing the end already.
Thx for the ch ٩( >ヮ<)۶
You’re right! Damned Gays!
Yess!! ORV is a really good novel.
Those last words lol. Sara: smarts +10
Thank you for the chapter
There’s also a manhwa that’s currently ongoing for ORV. It updates once a week
ORV can also falled into the last description of Sara. lmao
Thank you so much for the chapter update ❤
THANK YOU!
ORV!!! My fav not a BL but soo can be story. I adore it alot. It and Trash of count family and S-Class I raised all have that.. not a BL but it could be feeling…an all have manwhas offically English translated. <3
Gay people are ruining our nice dystopian society~ lololololol
LOL the ending! I wasnt expecting Sara to be a replacemnt for Luo at all 😱
Yess another ORV reader!! It’s amazing, and the manhwa is beautiful ❤️
ORV is such a good story, I rate 6/5 if that exists. prepare your heart for a healthy trip for a better experience. ive read it so many times and it never gets old, too bad its finished…
lol “Damned gays”-Sara+others, probably.
Fr. ORV is so good 😩
“Damned gays” lol Sara really had to say it even if it’s gonna die
You also read ORV
I’m a big fan of that novel, truly their companionship is gayer than true gays 👀
Sara nailed it .. 🤣
To me, ORV is more like camaraderie than BL.. Though sometimes it gives off some bromance like vibe.. Anyway it’s a damn good novel.. 😁
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