Chapter 859 — The Narrator Project
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At first, there was only the endless wind sweeping across the empty fields.
But soon, Yuri sensed a strange presence gathering rapidly—formless and intangible, yet so powerfully present that it drew everyone's attention. It felt as though some colossal being, invisible to the naked eye, had slowly stepped before them all, its body concealed, yet a low, rhythmic breathing and an instinctive sense of oppression radiating from every direction.
Everyone's eyes widened in tension and confusion. Semle reflexively summoned his combat staff; Wendy's brows knitted at once; and Magnum's figure abruptly materialized out of the air. He had not even had the chance to greet Yuri and the others in his booming voice before his eyes went wide toward Gaosong—
A translucent, faint outline had already appeared before Gaoyang, and in the next second it rapidly coalesced into solid form.
It was a gigantic white spider.
She lay quietly upon the flat grassland, a nearly transparent white cocoon of light enveloping her. Grass blades stirred by the wind swayed at the cocoon's edge, surging as if licking at it. And the instant the white spider appeared, Magnum's cry rang out: "By all my ancestors! Mind Storm—"
Gaolan pointed a hand toward Magnum. "Shut up."
A vast surge of mental turbulence slammed instantly into the layers of Magnum's mind. Before he could finish the words "Mind Storm," he exploded on the spot in a burst of brilliant fireworks—of course, two seconds later he was restored and reappeared, immediately clamping his mouth shut and standing obediently in place. It seemed he would not be attempting any Mind Storms for some time.
Gaoyang, having at least shared some battles alongside Magnum, was already prepared.
This sudden little episode jolted the people present back to their senses. After a brief moment of alarm and fluster, Yuri was the first to regain his composure. He watched the spider within the cocoon of light with a face full of wariness. Though he had already half-guessed that this "god" must currently be in a controlled state, he still swallowed instinctively. "Your Majesty, this is...?"
"An Upper Narrator—the preserved portion," Gaolan said, glancing at the Sleepers, who stood as though facing a great enemy. "Relax. He is harmless. Even looking directly at him will not cause contamination—divinity and humanity have both been stripped away and purified. Only a pure mind and 'personality' remain. In essence, he is much like Magnum or Selena."
As he spoke, the transparent cocoon enclosing the entire white spider began to tremble gently. Then, as though gradually waking from a long slumber, the colossal white spider suddenly stirred—and the entire cocoon shattered soundlessly and dissolved in an instant.
The "Upper Narrator" had awakened. Its astonishing limbs scraped aimlessly at the ground twice before it gradually found its balance. It—she—propped up her body, her eyeless head turning through this unfamiliar world. Though she had no eyes, light flowed across the surface of her head, and a feeling of confusion and bewilderment seemed to transmit through that light into everyone's minds.
Almost simultaneously with the white spider's awakening, a black silhouette materialized out of thin air as well—Duvalt, the black-robed old man clutching a battered lantern, appeared at the white spider's feet. He too looked about in bewilderment, and quickly noticed Gaoyang and the others standing nearby.
"Welcome back to the waking world," Gaoyi said with a smile and a nod to them. "I hope this 'slumber' has not caused you too much harm."
"We..." Duvalt finally spoke, hesitantly. He sensed the charged atmosphere around them, yet seemed to pay it little mind; he only murmured in confusion as the battered lantern in his hand flickered bright and dim. "We should have fallen into eternal darkness..."