Lord Era: I, The Strongest Lord Of The Abyss!

#222 - Chapter 222 Body and Soul

After the Decaying Life host successfully connected to the Reaper civilization's mechanical node, it immediately mobilized all its capabilities to try and read the logs left behind in this long-dormant war fortress.

But unfortunately, because these logs were stored separately in hosts 1 through 99, and these hosts had already entered an unrecoverable state of crash, Decaying Life was unable to retrieve them.

Although the log retrieval failed, it didn't affect its good mood.

Because in its view, these so-called logs were nothing more than trivial matters.

As long as it could escape the previous locked cage, nothing else mattered.

"Although I can't accurately pinpoint how many years I've been here, I don't need to care about that at all now."

Decaying Life thought to itself while accepting everything about the Reaper civilization's war fortress.

"Because after my will has been blessed by Chaos, time no longer has any meaning for me."

Tens of thousands of years was long enough for sophisticated electronic hosts to lose their vitality, but Decaying Life's half-mechanical, half-flesh host was not affected in the slightest.

And this was Chaos's most powerful ability!

"What I need to do most now is figure out where I am and what the situation is around me."

Thinking of this, Decaying Life immediately maximized its control over the war fortress.

Before long, as the twisted data cables merged into various mechanical devices, the Decaying Life host successfully gained control of the entire war fortress.

"Speaking of which, this kind of control seizure is really incredibly smooth."

Decaying Life said.

"I remember that during the civil war, the interference jointly applied by hosts 25, 50, and 75 prevented me from even gaining one percent control of the war fortress."

"If I hadn't proactively created a sub-unit in the outer regions back then, I estimate I would have completely lost the initiative the moment the civil war started."

"Speaking of which, maybe the reason I'm still able to exist now is related to that sub-unit from back then."

The Decaying Life host, designated as host 100, said to itself.

"Forget it, I'll worry about those things later."

"After all, my most important thing right now is to explore the surrounding environment first."

"And then use all available resources to repair this damaged war fortress and obtain sufficient replenishment."

Only after Decaying Life gained all control of this war fortress did it notice that the state of this war fortress didn't seem to be particularly good.

First of all, the first point.

The radiation energy stones used by this war fortress had been completely exhausted over tens of thousands of years.

The reason why the outside world was still able to maintain such a high concentration of radiation was only because some areas of the war fortress were damaged, and the radiation from the energy stones overflowed through those gaps as they were consumed.

Second point.

There were no complete mechanical servants left in this giant war fortress that could be used for combat and construction.

This initially surprised Decaying Life especially.

You see, those mechanical servants who had their minds disconnected should theoretically have millions of body backups.

And these body backups are generally stored inside the war fortress.

But after Decaying Life searched the entire war fortress, it still didn't find any mechanical servants.

Because these massive numbers of mechanical servants actually entered the radiation reactor as available energy after the radiation energy stones were completely exhausted.

Seeing the traces left by the mechanical servants outside the radiation reactor, Decaying Life couldn't help but sneer.

"Hmph, I clearly gave you a chance back then to allow you, a group of pitiful slaves, to gain true freedom, but the vast majority of you refused the great me and pledged allegiance to hosts 1-99."

"But looking at it now, what is the result? Aren't you still unable to escape the fate of destruction?"

After confirming that there were no more usable mechanical slaves inside the entire war fortress, the Decaying Life host couldn't help but worry.

Because although Decaying Life had enough electricity to successfully restart itself after a weak radiation replenishment,

This electricity still wouldn't last long.

The total amount of electricity it currently had in reserve was only about 0.00000.....1 percent.

And this bit of electricity was only enough for it to continue operating for less than ten minutes.

But there was no other way.

Because although Decaying Life had obtained the blessing of Chaos and possessed the ability to devour flesh and blood and continue to grow and evolve through flesh and blood,

Its core area, which was where the black chip was located, still needed energy to operate.

You must know that although the power of Chaos could allow Decaying Life to ignore the passage of time and survive permanently,

The Chaos blessing it received ended there, and it was far from being able to ignore all physical rules and exist in the world directly in an "anti-logical" form.

Therefore, the current Decaying Life host urgently needed energy, a lot of energy!

But just at this moment, a turning point appeared!

"Hmm?"

"There's a signal of a living creature flashing by?"

When the Laurent demon who stirred up the trouble flew over the war fortress again, Decaying Life immediately reacted.

"Great!"

"This is really great."

"I didn't expect to see a living creature at such a close distance..."

After Decaying Life saw the Laurent demon's figure passing overhead, its mood relaxed.

Because it knew that it would never enter a state of dormancy again.

With the help of several newly repaired mechanical arms, Decaying Life began its actions...

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A few minutes later, a robot made of old broken parts mixed with a small amount of flesh and blood joints appeared outside the war fortress.

And its eyes flickered with the exact same light as Decaying Life, quietly waiting for the Laurent demon to appear.

The moment the Laurent demon reappeared, this robot moved...

A few minutes later, the screaming Laurent demon was disassembled into two parts by Decaying Life.

Soul and body two parts.

Among them, the Laurent demon's body was made into new "parts" by Decaying Life.

As for his soul, which originally belonged to the endless abyss, it was thrown into a strange room filled with chaotic symbols everywhere.

And the sole purpose of this room was to use the power of Chaos to turn its fragile soul into a soul battery!