Chapter 11 Heretic! Prepare to Face the Power of God! The Messenger of the Goddess Has Arrived!

The cult leader waved the long staff in his hand, his face twisted and fanatical, seemingly enduring great pain, yet also immersed in extreme ecstasy. Hao Ren only felt a chilling aura coming from behind him. He couldn't help but turn his head to look, and saw that above the strange altar, black and red mists were forming a huge vortex. This vortex rapidly solidified and changed, transforming from a phantom of mist into something substantial in just a few seconds. At the same time, a sharp howl that seemed to pierce the soul echoed throughout the stone hall, nearly causing even extraordinary people like Hao Ren and Nangong Wuyue to faint!

Those cultists who had been fighting with Hao Ren were even more ecstatic at this scene. They began to mutilate their own bodies frantically, turning their blood into mist, seemingly resonating with the blood mist monster above the altar. The cultists who had been seriously injured and not yet died miraculously recovered completely at this moment!

The data terminal let out a shriek: "Interrupt it!"

Without thinking, Hao Ren took out the powerful sidearm from his personal space and fired a shot at the altar.

However, the amorphous mass of black and red in mid-air quickly dodged before he could fire, and in the end, only the altar was turned into scattered crystal shards in a burst of light. The blood mist quickly rushed into the air and completed the final step of condensation: a black vertical slit like an eye opened in its center, and several pairs of limbs that looked like tentacles but had sharp ends grew around the mist. The final form of this thing looked like a giant brain floating in the air, a terrifying sight.

The cult leader saw that the altar had been destroyed and shouted angrily, "Heretic! You will pay the price!"

Hao Ren glanced at the giant brain in mid-air: "Your goddess doesn't have very good taste, does she? Is this what her messenger looks like?"

The giant brain seemed to be angered by Hao Ren's offensive actions. The black vertical slit at its front stared fixedly at Hao Ren, and it suddenly rushed up, waving its tentacles.

Hao Ren subconsciously raised the sidearm in his hand. He felt unprecedented pressure from the strange summoned creature and dared not hold back at all. However, just as he was about to pull the trigger, a strong dizziness suddenly struck, almost causing him to lose his grip on the weapon.

He felt the scenery around him shaking violently, as if he were watching the world through a curtain of water, making him dizzy. In this shaking, he only saw a tentacle with a sharp end stabbing towards him, and he could only do his best to dodge to the side at the last moment.

The sharp end of the tentacle, like a blade, silently cut through the air. Hao Ren saw out of the corner of his eye that the space around the tentacle was constantly cracking with some black fine lines. Where it passed, the space cracked inch by inch and could not be calmed for a long time.

"What the hell..." Hao Ren broke out in a cold sweat. This was the first time he had seen a monster whose ordinary attacks had a space-cutting effect. This thing's level instantly surpassed those clumsy stone giants and trash-like heretics by many levels!

It's just that the appearance of that giant brain still didn't dare to be complimented...

At this time, Hao Ren had recovered from the strange dizziness just now, adjusted his posture, and prepared to attack again, but the "giant brain" was not in a hurry to pursue its prey. It just made a strange gurgling sound and floated in the air, quietly overlooking Hao Ren.

A strange shriek came from inside the "giant brain." Hao Ren once again felt the dizziness that seemed to surge from the depths of his soul seize his mind. He had already speculated that this brain might have some kind of mental attack power, but even with full preparation, he could not escape the opponent's mental impact. He could only barely raise one hand, taking a gamble to see if his rigid shield had the ability to resist space cutting.

A huge impact came from his arm. The "giant brain's" tentacle seemed to only lightly brush against Hao Ren, but it carried a force that completely violated the laws of physics. Hao Ren flew out horizontally and crashed into the wall at the end of the stone hall, feeling dizzy and his blood surging.

Hao Ren gritted his teeth and stood up, thinking with a wry smile: It seems that the rigid shield can withstand the spatial impact—too bad it can't offset the kinetic energy.

On the other side, those heretics, after discovering that Hao Ren, their powerful enemy, was being beaten down by the "messenger" sent by their goddess, immediately shifted their attention. They set their sights on the snake demon protecting the children in the corner of the hall—not a single heretic could be let go. These were all sacrifices that could be offered to the goddess.

Nangong Wuyue had originally been preparing to go up and help Hao Ren when she saw that his situation was not good, but she soon found that she had also drawn aggro. A group of cultists wielding various weapons was gathering towards her, with the cult leader holding the long staff walking in front.

Her expression changed, and she subconsciously opened her mouth and let out a sharp scream, trying to repel these enemies with a sonic attack—this was one of her few combat methods. However, this attack was completely ineffective: the bodies of those cultists had obviously undergone a transformation in the evil ritual. Even if the ultrasound could shake the insides of these people into a ball of cotton wool, it would not affect their actions!

Nangong Wuyue nervously coiled her tail, this time restraining the impulse to turn herself into a giant snake: "Don't come over! Don't make me do it! Seriously, don't make me do it! You'll regret it..."

"Purify this heretic!" The cult leader waved the long staff and threw out a ball of black and red light. "Offer the heretic's flesh and blood to the goddess!"

Nangong Wuyue gritted her teeth and rushed up, flicking her tail.

On the other side, Hao Ren was still struggling with the strange "giant brain" and had calmed down from his initial panic.

This giant brain did indeed have many terrifying powers, such as the ubiquitous and irresistible mental impact, the ability to cut space, agility and speed that completely violated physical common sense, and after several encounters, Hao Ren had also vaguely sensed that this monster had the power to manipulate gravity and kinetic energy—it could make him fly out more than ten meters with a simple touch, which was completely abnormal.

But even if it was so terrifying, it still didn't seem to be enough to kill a freakish warrior like Hao Ren who possessed an energy shield, and it seemed to be quite afraid of the sidearm in the latter's hand. Every time Hao Ren tried to shoot at it, he would be subjected to a stronger mental impact, which showed that the giant brain had considerable intelligence and knew that the gun was a deadly threat: it didn't even want to be touched by that thing.

"There's no way to block this thing's mental impact?" Hao Ren was dizzy from the "giant brain's" repeated attacks. He had originally thought that as long as he avoided the "eye" at the front of the brain, he could avoid the mental attack, but the fact proved that this was a bit of wishful thinking. The latter's mental power was untraceable. It seemed that as long as it locked onto the target, no matter how the target resisted or dodged, they couldn't escape it. "Terminal, do you know what species this is?"

"Never seen it before, analyzing now, but its physiological structure is a mess. According to normal biological analysis, this thing shouldn't be able to survive," the data terminal dodged alongside Hao Ren. "This terminal suspects that what's here isn't the main body of this creature, but a replica created through a religious ritual. Perhaps it will naturally disintegrate soon."

"I don't intend to wait for it to disintegrate on its own. Who knows how long that will take..." Hao Ren muttered in a low voice, straightened his body again in the waves of dizziness that were attacking him, his shield capacity was already low to a rather dangerous point, and the impact that the shield failed to dissipate seemed to have damaged his internal organs as well. He didn't dare to fight the giant brain head-on now and could only try to dodge as much as possible.

The giant brain extended its long tentacles again. Hao Ren hurriedly dodged, but this time, he subconsciously touched one of the tentacles with his hand.

In that instant, something abruptly appeared in his mind.

Hao Ren felt as if he had fallen into a brief trance. The data terminal's shout woke him up from the trance: "Quickly, it stopped... what are you doing?"

Hao Ren woke up suddenly, looking incredulously at the giant brain that had distanced itself from him at some point: "You said it stopped just now?"

The data terminal gave an affirmative answer.

He recalled the strange experience of just now and suddenly realized how to deal with this strange monster.

"Cooperate with me in a while," Hao Ren communicated with the data terminal in his mind. "As long as it stops, you have to 'wake' me up no matter what, and then I'll give it a shot. It's that simple."

The data terminal was surprised: "It's that simple? Why are you so confident?"

"I have no confidence, but this is the only way," Hao Ren looked at the shield capacity in the lower left corner of his vision, which was about to run out. "Anyway, if we really can't beat it, you force a disconnection between me and Nangong Wuyue's dream plane connection."

He and the data terminal discussed it properly, and at this time, the giant brain seemed to have recovered from some kind of stunned state. It once again let out an angry shriek and rushed forward, waving its tentacles.

Now!

Hao Ren was quick-witted and found the tentacle he had touched before. With a reckless and fierce posture, he pounced on it. That tentacle was very easy to identify, because it was the only one among all the tentacles that did not produce a spatial rift. Obviously, this organ was not used for attack.

In order to verify one of his guesses, Hao Ren even temporarily deactivated the shield on his hand to ensure the "connection" effect.

In the next instant, scenes of illusions appeared in his mind.