Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?-Chapter 507 - 348: Unknown Being Beyond the Heavens

"The meteor shower... It’s been a long time since I’ve seen one..."

The Royal Palace was still shrouded in darkness today, there was no need for lights because the only person living there didn’t need them.

The current King Ainz III stood by the window, gazing at the gradually setting sun. Once the sun set, night would fall, and the curtain of night would bring the meteors.

And the meteors would bring voices from beyond.

He touched the rough hair covering his hand. Just a touch would cause large patches of hair to fall out, but that wasn’t a good thing because after his next frenzy, the hair would grow back.

At this moment, Ainz III’s face was full of weariness, clearly middle-aged yet appearing as old as someone in their sixties or seventies.

Regret suddenly appeared in his eyes as he clutched his head tightly, sobbing intermittently, "What have I done these days... My country, my people..."

Recently, Ainz III felt that he had more moments of clarity than before, but this only made him more pained because it allowed him to see what outrageous things he had done.

That day, he heard voices from beyond. He couldn’t understand the gibberish, but his mind became clear.

At first, he thought it was God helping him, but he quickly realized he was wrong.

Because he discovered that his blood... or rather, something in his blood related to beastification...

Had become infectious.

When he saw a little mouse that bit his ankle and drank his blood become a crazed demon mouse and run away, Ainz III became terrified.

But afterward, the voice from beyond appeared again. He instantly lost consciousness, and when he woke up again, what filled his mind was the memory that drove him even more to despair.

Controlled by an unknown entity, he had spread his blood to those attendants.

Those tainted with his blood would become infectious, and these new sources of contagion would create new sources once they interacted with the outside world.

Up to now, how many infected were there in the Royal City? They have not yet shown symptoms, but once they do, what kind of hell would unfold?

Ainz III was devastated as if the unknown entity intentionally tormented him by transmitting information out of thin air into his mind—that was the entire cause.

It turned out the unknown entity had long been eyeing him and his country but hadn’t thought of the best way to reprocess everything.

Eliphas, however, brought an opportunity.

"Eliphas..."

This terrifying man with the ability to manipulate minds brought something from the Demon Clan, intending to use the Fallen Demon Egg to control Ainz III.

The unknown entity, upon discovering Eliphas’s plot, came up with a good idea.

It interfered with the operation of the Fallen Demon Egg, leaving Ainz III in a repeated state of beastification. It did this to make him an excellent source of contagion, and now the transformation was complete.

It named it "Beastification Symptom."

Due to Beastification Symptoms originating from the Fallen Demon Egg, and at the will of the unknown entity, triggering Beastification Symptoms was simple, requiring only extreme negative emotions.

Eradicating Beastification Symptoms was also simple; it required eliminating negative emotions, but even gods have negative emotions—how could a human’s negative emotions be completely eradicated? This, in Ainz III’s view, was a deeply despairing situation.

And as the second person cut by the unknown entity’s attention, Eliphas, with his mind-controlling ability, would be the perfect detonator.

The unknown entity had waited a long time to prepare and was no longer willing to wait.

This meteor shower not seen for a hundred years would enhance its connection to the present world. When the last day of the meteor shower arrived,

it would use Eliphas to explode the Royal City.

Why was it doing this? What was the benefit for it?

But how could people fathom the will of a "god"? As the only person in the world who knew this horrifying truth, Ainz III just wanted to end it all through suicide.

The unknown entity granted him this brief clarity to torture him; once he wanted to commit suicide, he would lose his sanity again. Though fully conscious, he couldn’t seek help from others or convey information to the outside world.

He could only watch helplessly as the country he loved the most was destroyed.

"Eliphas! It’s all you, if not for you!"

Ainz III frantically smashed the things around him, but after breaking a few items, he collapsed helplessly to the ground.

Blaming Eliphas was useless; it was him who had let the wolf into the house by bringing him close. Even without Eliphas, the unknown entity would have caused trouble sooner or later.

So there was only one choice left.

"Please, someone... kill me quickly..."

"Save my country, my people..."

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Meanwhile, Fingerley was still observing.

He watched the Fallen Star Bull drag Eliphas, who hung limply like a puppet with no response, charging mightily through the streets. He then watched as the various captains of the Light Eagle Group played the bullfighter, taking turns jumping onto the back of the Fallen Star Beast to save their captain. In a blink of an eye, Captain Gus vanished into the crowd, presumably to catch the Little Meteor.

How should he put it? From his perspective, the scene exuded a joyful atmosphere.

If it weren’t for the fact that the group fighting the Fallen Star Beast was the Light Eagle Group, Fingerley might have laughed heartily, stirring up the atmosphere for some added excitement.

But as fate would have it, he encountered the Light Eagle Group...

Upon seeing Eliphas’s face, he couldn’t help but recall the scene of his hometown being massacred.

Saying he felt nothing in his heart about it was impossible because, during Hell’s March, the shadow of every villager would be summoned before him. Those shadows could still plunge Fingerley’s mood into hell.

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