Chapter 221

Boom!!

Just as the spear of longinus was about to pierce Xue Ning, Giant Spirit Hera reached out and blocked the spearhead with all her might!

The holy relic of the Christ lineage restrained the Giant Spirit; in an instant, the sound of the collision rang out like metal striking metal, divine power erupted, and the ground cracked even further!

Qi Xing could not help but frown and take a half-step back, while the massive form of Giant Spirit Hera climbed out with a boom, reaching out to protect Xue Ning and pulling her into a half-embrace.

It did not speak. Giant Spirit does not talk.

But that primitive, wild, and almost violent posture of protecting its young—left everyone on the battlefield stunned.

Even Sasa had never expected such a turn of events!

She was still dazed, and before Sasa could react—Giant Spirit Hera had already unfurled wings like a peacock, swallowing the entire sky with its plumage. And the countless eyes covering its body, along with those on its peacock tail that were constantly opening and closing, all snapped open in that instant.

Without any warning, the countless eyes simultaneously fired fierce moonbeams; each ray carried violent fury, indiscriminately venting in all directions!

Boom!!

Wherever the beams passed, the glass curtain walls of the buildings exploded instantly, with hundreds and thousands of fragments flying through the air, scattering like a rain of ice.

Outside the buildings, the surrounding trees, sculptures, and lampposts—the moment they were swept by the beams, they were instantly vaporized and shattered, leaving not even a scrap behind!

The entire island was within the Giant Spirit's range of attack! The islanders panicked, and screams erupted everywhere! The security team standing behind Xue Ning lacked cover and were the first to be swallowed by the beams!

Even the dissenters who had already retreated into the administrative building, even if not directly struck by the beams, were many of them sent flying, crashing into walls, or falling due to the resulting explosions!

Sasa, floating in the air, was not spared either. In fact, several beams were clearly aimed specifically at her!

"Ah?! Why?!"

Sasa screamed as she was hit by the beams, her clothes and hair exploding outward!

"What the hell did you do now?!"

Qi Xing hurried to reach out and snatch Sasa from mid-air, retreating at lightning speed to put some distance between them.

But the scene before them had already spiraled out of control.

Hera—the Giant Spirit that was originally just a "tool" Xue Ning had captured to control—was now acting like a real "mother," protecting her in its embrace and unleashing destruction in a violent rage!

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How could this happen?

Was it because it had been illegally controlled by humans for too long, causing a system bug?

Or was it because someone had added an extra divine persona mask, causing its judgment logic to become chaotic?

Sasa had never imagined such a thing could happen. Giant Spirit is just a pseudo-god AI that plays the role of a powerful deity; it has no emotions, no self-will, and is essentially nothing more than a non-material machine. It was even less likely, like in those cliché stories, for an AI to awaken self-awareness.

For example, just like a chat program like GPT, no matter how fluent its answers were or how well it pretended to understand human hearts, it was essentially just a simulated role-playing response. It only executes tasks, only saying what it "should say" and doing what it "should do".

For most Giant Spirits, Sasa had not even implemented a chat function; after all, it was not needed.

They are not human, and they will certainly never become human.

Machines themselves have no purpose; only the users set the purpose.

So this scene before them: Hera breaking free from Xue Ning's summoning on its own, tearing off the umbilical cord, forcibly descending, and running wild—all of this was completely outside of Xue Ning's plan.

Was it because the instructions the machine received were garbled? Was it because it had fused with too many divine personas, causing the roles to get confused?

Regardless, it should only have been playing its own role.

But—even so,

Sasa looked at her Giant Spirit that had slipped out of control, roaring and howling, but in her heart, it was not just astonishment.

Bombardment, a hundred eyes wide with rage, moonbeams pouring down like a flood, a scene of total destruction and indiscriminate attacks—it could be said that in anyone's eyes, the terrifying sight of Giant Spirit Hera going mad and destroying the city was no different from a monster.

However, for some reason, this sight stirred ripples of unease in the hearts of Sasa and the other witnesses.

That was not an emotion that could be explained by reason; it was an irrational thought—yet, someone might actually feel that this chaotic and resolute posture of destruction was perhaps also a way of expressing maternal love.

This was irrational.

Giant Spirit has no emotions; it is just a tool that is "playing" a pre-determined role.

…But precisely because of that, perhaps it was because the AI was more rational than anyone else that, when it considered how to play the role, it concluded that the role of "mother" had such requirements.

Like Kali, the violent Earth Mother Goddess.

But let's not discuss philosophy or sentimentality for now.

The iron mask restraints created by the Peacock Disciples could no longer bind the true form of the Giant Spirit. Opening its helmet, it revealed a mouth full of terrifying teeth and let out a roar like a demon god.

Its peacock wings spread high, countless eyeballs frantically rolling, each one firing moonbeams like a death sentence descending from the heavens, pouring down onto the earth. If this continued, the entire [Labyrinth Island] would be destroyed in her rage.

At the critical moment, while Qi Xing was busy complaining about Sasa, his movements were lightning fast; he raised his hand and switched to the Silver Coin of [Illusion].

In an instant, the world changed drastically.

Behind Qi Xing, the space seemed to shatter like flowers in a mirror or the moon in water, vibrating once.

Immediately, from the sky, the ground, and the cracks in the void in all directions, the ocean erupted with a roar.

It was not just a wave, not just a wall of water—it was hundreds of billions of tons of surging ocean, pouring out from an inconceivable place, overturning the universe, instantly wrapping the entire island in a deep blue curtain of water!

The moonbeams and the ocean tide collided and exploded in the air, like thunder-fire crashing into a pot of oil, sparking countless searing white flames.

Water and fire struck each other, moonlight tore through giant waves, seawater swallowed the light of the sky, turning into a torrential downpour and boiling mist; the entire island shook incessantly, as if the heavens were about to collapse!

However, the people on the island were basically safe and sound.

The ocean shrouded and protected them, and even though the frantic moonlight poured down like a deluge, it never managed to penetrate the sea of transformation that surged from behind Qi Xing.

He stood between the waves like a god, his face stern as iron.

"What are you doing?!"

Sasa was dumbfounded for a moment,

"Why waste the output of the silver coin to protect these islanders?!"

"That's the question I should be asking you!"

Qi Xing was beyond furious!

"How did this Giant Spirit suddenly go berserk like Unit-01?! Don't tell me this is a coincidence!"

Uh,

Sasa really did not think it was her fault! She had indeed provoked Xue Ning, but who could say that if she had not, the Giant Spirit would not have automatically gone berserk?

But the terrible scene before her made her obediently shut her mouth.

While using the sky-filling ocean to block the countless moonbeams, Qi Xing held the spear of longinus, his form cutting through the sky like lightning, charging straight at Giant Spirit Hera.

The long spear slashed in fury; Qi Xing used the spear to execute a sword technique, the Thunder-Fire Sword splitting the air as it struck directly at the Giant Spirit's heart!

—Woooooooohhhhhhhh!

The Giant Spirit did not retreat, only letting out a silent roar in the invisible void, raising its left arm to block Qi Xing's spearhead. The white arm collided with the blade of the holy spear, sparking a piercing roar.

Clang!!!

The next second, Qi Xing's true energy erupted suddenly. Giant Spirit Hera's white left hand, covered in moonlight, was actually severed at the wrist by his holy spear!

The severed hand, larger than an entire large truck, crashed down with lingering divine power, smashing half a street.

But the Giant Spirit did not wail because of this.

On the contrary, its severed wrist suddenly gushed with a strange orange-red color, looking both like blood and like a more pure, glowing energy, akin to divine power.

That mass of scorching energy churned like fire, and in an instant, it reshaped a translucent left hand of light in the air.

—Woooooooohhhhhhhh!

Aiming at Qi Xing flying in mid-air, the hand of light swung out like a meteor; with a slap that carried the divine power of the moon's gravitational oscillation, it slapped Qi Xing, along with his spear, flying away violently!

Qi Xing used the momentum to dissipate the force in the air, spinning and flying hundreds of meters horizontally, breaking through several illusionary water waves in the air, and only managed to stabilize himself with the help of the ocean waves.

The Giant Spirit's form remained motionless, but the nine carved eyes on its iron mask lit up all at once, like nine full moons opening in the night, all aimed at Qi Xing.

Not letting him catch his breath or recover for even a moment!

Sensing danger with his spiritual sense, Qi Xing immediately waved his hand, summoning another massive wave to blot out the sky.

But this time, the moonlight was no longer a chaotic bombardment, but nine massive beams, each condensing all its divine power, fired simultaneously!

Water and light collided once again.

However, this time, the power of both sides was no longer balanced.

The nine moonbeams converged and intertwined in the air, piercing through the giant waves and forcibly parting the ocean!

The illusionary sea was blasted into a huge void in an instant. The seawater that had once blocked the light of destruction was now completely split apart!

The water curtain flew like a torn curtain, opening but not closing. The waves were vaporized by the scorching light beams into white mist that soared into the sky, exploding in the air.

Even Qi Xing himself was struck by the nine-in-one divine power beam cannon, instantly knocked down from mid-air and smashed heavily into the ground!

The hundreds of billions of tons of protective ocean, along with his Thunder-Fire Heavenly Garment true energy defense, were blown to pieces, and Qi Xing's entire upper body was scorched black and charred!

It hurts like hell!

"Hiss—… Ha—…"

Breathing and exhaling, letting his blood and energy surge through his body, Qi Xing forced himself to turn over, stumbling up from the scorched earth, doing his best to recover, and forcing back the aftermath of the burning.

Looking at Giant Spirit Hera again, it still stood in place, its right hand still protecting Xue Ning, holding her against its chest—but this was not entirely a good thing for Xue Ning.

Because, at this moment, perhaps it was the silver coin that had finally completely sensed the complex desire deep within Xue Ning's heart to "yearn for a mother" and to "yearn to become a mother,"

—the silver coin finally began to respond to her.

The silver coin embedded in Giant Spirit Hera's chest now began to suck Xue Ning's entire body toward its location.

Her body was actually being merged and absorbed into the Giant Spirit's chest cavity by the silver coin, bit by bit.

The Giant Spirit, the silver coin, and the Silver Coin Messenger connected to the silver coin—the boundaries between these three began to blur, and they were actually about to gradually merge together.

"Xue Ning! Calm down! Keep your mind steady! Otherwise, your desires will be further stimulated by the silver coin!"

Although Qi Xing shouted at her, Xue Ning's consciousness was clearly unable to focus.

Whether she had already been affected by the power of the silver coin and was therefore hysterical, or whether her will had collapsed, she was clearly not listening now.

"Why? Why can't I become a mother?! I have been failing all this time! I can't do anything! Only my age is increasing in vain!"

Her body gradually sank into the Giant Spirit, but she was still crying out, sharp and broken,

"Who can teach me how to become a mother?!"

The islanders of Labyrinth were fleeing in panic from all directions, their faces covered in dust and charred smoke marks. Some fell to the ground, some helped up those who had fallen, and some hid in panic behind building debris, not daring to make a sound. The air was filled with the salty smell of evaporating seawater and the pungent odor of melting metal.

However, in the chaotic gaps of their frantic escape—many people still looked back.

Seeing the out-of-control state of their Island Master, the [Count], in front of the chest of the huge, god-like Giant Spirit Hera.

Her hair was disheveled, her armor was broken, and there was no dignity on her face, only struggle and whimpering. Her expression was no longer like a mother, leader, or Island Master to everyone, but more like a painful, speechless patient, being swallowed by a stronger force in despair.

She was crying, struggling, yet had nowhere to escape, and could only be pulled step by step into the vessel of the god she had personally created.

The islanders who witnessed this scene, whether they were originally against her or supported her, felt complex emotions that were momentarily beyond words.

Qi Xing had once heard a joke that said the biggest problem with becoming a parent is that you don't need a license.

Looking at Xue Ning like this now, he could not laugh.

"Sasa, you messed this up; hurry up and come up with a solution."

"How is it that I messed it up?!"

Although she said that, Sasa also knew it was not the time for bickering; she had already been racking her brain for a solution… but no matter how she thought about it, there seemed to be only one way.

The trinity fusion of the Giant Spirit, the silver coin, and the Silver Coin Messenger had an output far beyond Qi Xing's, about 6.66 times the energy output of an ordinary Silver Coin Messenger.

Qi Xing's current actions were like a kindergarten child fighting Tyson; that he had not been killed yet and could still protect the vast majority of the islanders was already a miracle of life!

But the miracle of life could only bring the luck of survival, not victory!

So after much thought, Sasa could only think of one way:

"[silver coin]! Kid, give me a [silver coin]!"

"Don't even think about it! How could I let a good-for-nothing evil god like you take the [silver coin]!"