Nexus Awakened (An Isekai LitRPG Gender Bender Story)-Chapter 964. Unite Us, Everlasting

The resulting Corruption brought forth an existence that would require a squadron of highly skilled Moons to take down.

The HP of Eternal Night Corrupted rarely went over 200,000. The highest ever recorded by a Moon belonged to the Re-Entry Cube which sat just shy of an estimated 600,000 HP. Once it reached the millions, it would take days to a week of constant combat.

Such was the nightmarish existence of Frost’s version of the Corruption: Ego Corruption.

Of course, it was doable. The modern Moons of the Nexus were well equipped with Corrupted Personas and Quality IX Cloth.

Furthermore, this variant of Ego Corruption contained an aspect of evil that was not found on the Red Baron when he transformed into ‘Worthy’.

“Qliphoth!” Frost exclaimed, shooing herself forward as she tackled the entity headfirst. “DOES THAT MEAN THEY’VE GOT A QLIPHOTH FIELD AS WELL!?”

< Only one way to find out! >

Frost, in her overwhelming might, used a normal [Punch] to blow the Corrupted backwards into the grand hall. It flew twenty meters through the air before skidding along. The swarm of machines behind it were scattered aside like bowling pins.

Unite Us, Everlasting | HP: 3,470,000

“30,000 damage flat. It doesn’t have a Qliphoth Field.” Frost uttered to herself before giving Jury a knowing nod. “I’m going ahead! Keep them safe! I’ll leave the False Diamond here!

“Got it! Does it do anything right now!?”

“Not until I manifest Civilization!”

Frost impaled the black steel with her one hundred ethereal arms. They spread across the corridor, creating a web of light. Once taut, she launched herself forward, using the arms as additional leverage to soar straight for the Corrupted.

“IF ANYONE IN THE NEXUS WANTS THIS DAMNED THIS ALIVE, THEN NOW IS THE TIME TO TELL ME!” Her roar cut through the storm of mechanical clanking ahead.

The moment the ball of limbs could gain its bearings; Frost was already primed with a follow-up strike. Her rage was overwhelming.

Her source of hatred came from the attempt to kidnap Icara, as well as the imminent threat they posed to Joy.

“I thought the only thing your kind wanted was a Soul! But now think it’s a waste!?” Frost plunged her arm into the mass of limbs. Feet and hands attempted to latch onto her, only for the flesh to melt from their bones as explosions erupted within the beast.

She shoved it forward by another hefty fifty meters, ploughing through the onslaught of machines as though they did not exist.

“Amalgam. That is you, is it not? To ask such questions in the face of one who has achieved a lifelong answer should be a given with your fabricated origin.”

It spoke with the choir of a thousand souls, half mechanical and the other biological. Women, men, children, voices that did not belong to either groups: it was a combination of all possible tones, pitches and inflections.

“This shit with the prophecy again!?”

“Prophecy? You speak in riddles, False Progeny. Just as that voice that spoke into my mind.”

Some spoke faster. Others spoke slower.

“THAT WAS ME!”

It dug its limbs into the ground in response to the explosions, flames and dumping of [Liquid Fire] that sloshed within its body.

Its limbs cracked what should have been indestructible steel like a sledgehammer to a kitchen tile. With it now firmly in place, its body began to vibrate before it suddenly lifted its body into the air by a meter, then, it slammed itself down with an incredible force.

Frost was taken for a ride. As powerful as she was, her weight remained the same. However, she had also purposefully allowed herself to be lifted and slammed down for one purpose.

[Analyze Skill].

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Unite Us, Everlasting

< Basic Observation >

< Unknown. Encountering this specific entity and phenomenon for the first time >

< Neither the Eternal Library nor the Collection contains information on it. But that is to be expected >

< What we find will further add to the archives of the Eternal Library >

< [Collective Impact] >

< Off from those legs that hold you >

< EFFECT: All targets with less than 3,000 DEF (total) within a 50-meter radius are instantly staggered. If the target fulfils all four criteria of: Bipedal; Humanoid; Organic; Lower than 100 RESIST: Sever all limbs >

ATT : 1,200 MAG ATT : 1,200

It was a Skill designed to debilitate. [Analyze Skill] revealed the amount of damage a Corrupted Skill could inflict, as well as flavor text.

“MALGAM!?”

“Remain by my side child!” Morgause commanded, barely dragging Joy away from the very edge of the attack.

The floor sank by a full meter in the fifty-meter radius of its attack, creating a small divot.

“Keeping too close to the front puts the lot of us at risk.” Horus groaned. “One Eternal Night Corrupted is enough to bring a Site down to its knees. But it’s still fucking surprising to see it warp the entire floor.”

“There are humans behind you, False One. Your lack of perfection shall not inhibit me from attaining mine.” It spoke, undeterred by Frost’s immovable presence.

“Your Ego has crystallized, and you still want more!?”

“Was I ever finished? Move aside. You are neither steel nor human. An outlier of life must not interfere with ours!”

< [Collective Impact] >

It tried to leap again. But this time, Frost contracted her muscles and shoved herself downwards.

Suddenly, the weightless Frost weighed far more than the Corrupted could begin to imagine.

“Weight…?”

A sanguine aura enveloped Frost. The red haze seeped into existence.

It did not come from a cut or an orifice.

“Such bright red blood…!”

It came from the pores of her body, replacing what should have been sweat. The heat of her body literally boiled her blood, transforming it into a fine red mist. This mist to an onlooker was no different from the manifestation of an aura of bloodlust.

“I interfered with your life? No…”

Blood: whether it came from the Corrupted or the Wholeness Reborn: was sucked into a violent maelstrom beneath Frost. Droplets of rain fell upwards to join the red mist. She retracted her lodged arm and clasped onto something solid within the mist.

“You interfered with mine first!”

A scarlet blade comprised of millions of crystalized blood shards propagated forward. It branched off like flashes of lightning, churning through swaths of machines. It did not kill them immediately.

Their HP was far too high. Furthermore, this Art was not meant to be used on armored opponents such as machines.

This Skill was [Progenitor Art: Lament: Throne of the Anguished]. The second effect specifically, which repurposed what was supposed to be a stasis-inducing Art to an offensive one. It did not use Frost’s HP and instead used the HP of her opponents.

The cost was 120,000 HP, meaning every one Wholeness Reborn was enough to fund two attacks. Slashes assailed the world before Frost. Each severely mangled the machines as she pushed the Corrupted back, all the while hacking away at its limbs.

Surprisingly, this resulted in its MP (Mortal Protuberance) to decrease from 10,000.

It seemed to decrease at a one-to-one ratio with the number of limbs she severed.

“You don’t have an ounce of value! Turning you into coins won’t return a single cent! No matter how many bodies you assimilate, it will never change!”

“You humor me, Amalgam. The term ‘cent’ is lost on me. I was born eight hundred and ninety seconds ago from Mother. I’ve yet to understand how coins are connected to what I am.”

It was missing knowledge that Frost had believed all Impuritas to at least understand. But it felt like she was talking to a machine that barely had the wisdom of a child. All it knew was its wants and purpose for being born.

“Does that obsession ever end!?”

“Contrary, it is only beginning.”

< [Co-Dependent Bonds] >

< Replace covalency and ionic connections with an unbreakable unification >

< EFFECT: Begin syphoning surrounding organic and inorganic material. Replenish HP. Replenish MP if limbs are absorbed. 30-meter radius >

ATT : 3,200 MAG ATT : 2,900

Material, whether from the wave of machines, the dark panels of the Sixth Level, or Frost’s own clothes were subjected to an immense pulling force. The LED screen within the center of its being flashed a multitude of colors. Thousands of hands reached towards countless bits of steel, grabbing them like protruding hooks and bringing them deeper into their body.

Meters of steel, and even bright-orange blobs of molten slag gravitated towards it. The world around them steadily peeled apart. It happened so quickly that they would sink into the bowls of the Site if Frost did not constantly drag it forward.

“You’ve become conscious! Able to determine what humanity is and what it isn’t by your own terms! No one can quantify how human they are with limbs alone!”

“Does my form not remind you the very basis of humanity? Ah. No. It would seem that it has not occurred to you yet. I understand why.”

< [The Great Race] >

< Conglomeration of all for the one perfect species. Cast the weakness of the old away >

< EFFECT: Dash in a chosen direction >

< COST: 2,000 MP >

ATT : 5,200 MAG ATT : 4,100