Chapter 237: Weekly Mission: Valley of Devouring Viridescent


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    Aleron opened the chest, and it spewed out a single small glowing orb containing a strange painting inside.


    He touched as the orb vanished, and the painting emerged, its size being a meter long and half a meter wide.


    It was a painting of a big eye with a vertical pupil, extending tentacles from its sides. It looked lifelike as the eye blinked, pulsed with a red glow, and its tentacles also constantly wiggled.


    [Painting of Soulen Crux]


    -Type: Artifact.


    -Grade: Unbound-rank


    -Effect: Infuse chakra energy in the painting and face it against the target to curse their soul with [Rotten Apparition].


    -> Rotten Apparition: the cursed target will see their loved ones and close people conjuring, attacking their soul and mind with negativity.


    "This is not bad," Shelby raised her eyebrows. "Using it on a Paragon-rank will result in swift defeat, and it would greatly harm Unbound-rank ones as well if we use it duringbat."


    "Yeah, I guess it was worth it exploring this," Aleron smiled. "We got a ton of pure Soul essence, which will make everyone powerful, and this artifact."


    ...


    Aleron, Luna, Kira, and Shelby once again rode on the Starforged Dreambloom Stag as they continued their journey and only stopped after they left the Malevolent Cloud Sea area.


    Aleron contacted Midworld and talked with the girls as he asked them who wasing first before finding it was Mei.


    He told her to arrive at his Hell and gave her the pure Soul essence refined from those two chaotic ghosts.


    After she absorbed it, Mei entered through the portal and arrived on the Dreambloom Stage''s back.


    "Mei, absorb the soul essence and power up first," Aleron said with a smile as he created a proper andfortable mattress for her to meditate on the back.


    "Mhmm, thank you, Master," Mei said with a nod, her white cheeks bearing a shade of pink. She had removed her mask and was no longer wearing it these days.


    "So she is one of your wives, eh?" Luna elbowed Aleron from the side as she looked at Mei while smiling. "She is a cutie."


    "That she is, haha."


    --


    The group continued moving towards their destination.


    It took an hour for Mei to finish absorbing the pure soul essence and properly powering up, reaching 1000 foundational points in her Soul path, bing the peak of Paragon-rank in at least her Soul Path.


    They sped up a bit after that and finally arrived at a misty valley between two huge mountains after four hours of traveling.


    During the travel, Aleron focused on carving a path in Body Path, figuring out how to evolve Bloodlines into Genome Trees.


    He didn''tpletely figure it out, but he was making progress.


    As they arrived at the site, Aleorn saw two people sitting on a cloud above the valley, ying some kind of board game akin to chess, but both sides had 100 pieces, and the board was big.


    Powerhouses at this stage would find chess boring because, with their mental prowess, they could easily figure out all possibilities within seconds. As such, the board game being yed here was way moreplex, with more rules to make it tough and interesting.


    Upon sensing the aura, the two Unbound-rank powerhouses stood up and looked at the iing monster.


    "Did he have an Unbound-rank chaotic beast mount?"


    "Who knows? He just joined in the recent batch and killed the previous S-rank holder. ording to the details we got, the other two Paragon-ranks with him are also members of Special Paragon ss but live with him."


    "All of them are women except for him, heh. I guess we know what''s his deal."


    Aleron, Luna, and Kira flew toward them while Shelby and Mei stayed on the Dreambloom Stag.


    "This task is only for you, so the other two can''t enter," one of the men with a tiger head and body with ck and yellow stripes said to Aleron as he crossed his arms.


    The demonic man with blue horns beside him wryly smiled and quickly said, "That''s wrong, Daji. I got notified that the other two of the Special Paragon ss can enter with him."


    "The fuck? Say it earlier, Roke."


    "I just got notified an hour ago, and our game was going intense, so it left my mind," Roke said before he nced at the chaotic beast and then at the trio before him, "Alright, you can


    go now."n/?/vel/b//in dot c//om


    The task was to explore this chaotic phenomenon with a chaos power of 9.8.


    Aleron, Luna, and Kira entered through the mist and found themselves in a colorful world of nature and danger.


    Just like when they entered that ghastly ship and got its name automatically from Chaosverse''s intent, they also got this chaotic phenomenon''s name.


    Valley of Devouring Viridescent.


    The Valley of Devouring Viridescent stretched out before Aleron, Luna, and Kira in a surreal, twistedndscape. A shimmering mist of green and gold hung heavy in the air, with enormous, jagged flora growing from every direction. Thick vines draped from towering trees, writhing like snakes, while vibrant, glowing spores floated gently, only to burst with toxic gas upon touch.


    Immediately, their senses heightened. The air was thick with chaotic energy, making every step into the valley feel like wading through unseen forces.


    Aleron''s fingers twitched, ready to use his Mystic Skills and Magic Prints as required.


    He had already cleared a stronger chaotic phenomenon, so this wouldn''t be hard, but carelessness could


    to


    Just as they entered a bit deeper into the valley, Chaotic nt-Based Monsters were quick to appear, rising from the ground like phantoms.


    A twisted amalgamation of nt and monster, their bodies resembled gargantuan pitcher nts with razor-toothed maws, vine tendrils covered in sharp thorns, and pulsating bioluminescent orbs embedded within their bodies, which were the first ones to shoot out as they exploded, covering everything in a sparkling mist, blinding their visions.


    One of the monstrous nts lunged at them, its massive maw snapping open to swallow Aleron whole. He acted swiftly, raising his hand to summon a barrier ofpressed space, freezing the beast mid-motion. The maw was stuck, vibrating with strain.


    Without hesitation, Kira leaped into action. Her Symbios Gear-Deadlock X-mark shifted into its second form, her sleek sniper rifle materializing in her arms. In a split second, she aimed at the bioluminescent orb on the nt''s chest, the soft glow reflecting in her eyes.


    *Bang!*


    A single shot rang out, and the nt exploded in a cascade of green ooze, causing the creature to writhe in agony before crumbling to dust.


    Luna, not far behind, already had her sights on the next threat. Two more nt monsters surged toward her, but she remained calm. Her Symbios Gear-ckfrost Luna glowed with


    an ethereal, frosty light.


    With a sh of movement, her gauntlet-d fist crashed into the earth, summoning a wave of ice spikes that erupted from the ground, freezing the creatures in ce.


    "Now burn," Luna muttered, snapping her fingers.


    The frozen nts werebusted, engulfed by brilliant blue mes that danced across their forms, reducing them to ash. Her mastery of me and ice was precise and deadly, and the


    enemies stood no chance.


    "More iing!" Kira yelled as more of the writhing nts emerged from the earth, moving faster and with more ferocity.


    Aleron took charge again, channeling both time and space as he executed the Mystic Skill:


    Dragon Vortex.


    With a sweeping motion of his hand, the vortex formed in front of the oing nt monsters, freezing them in time for a brief moment before a spatial rift formed in the shape of a dragon, warping the creatures into the air and scattering them across the area.


    In the next moment, draconic lightning arced from his fingertips, crackling through the air and electrocuting the suspended monsters in mid-air as rumbling crackles echoed. Luna and Kira moved with perfect synchronicity, using the chaos to their advantage. Kira''s Symbios Gear shifted again to its ster form, firing concentrated energy sts at the more resilient enemies, while Luna charged ahead, her gauntlets mming into any that got too close, using her star-infused punches to obliterate them.


    This valley wasn''t too big, and the monsters were unending as they kepting every minute while they moved deeper into the valley towards its end.


    "Recover your energies while I hold them off!" Aleron said after ten minutes of relentless


    combat.


    After half an hour, they arrived at the heart of the valley-an enormous tree-like monster, its twisted form towering above them. This was no ordinary nt-based monster. Its bark was made of swirling chaotic energy, and its canopy was filled with eyes-pulsing, red, vertical


    pupils.


    "This thing is the boss," Aleron said, narrowing his eyes. "Let''s destroy it."


    The final battle began.


    The Tree of Devouring Viridescent let out a deafening roar, its vine-like branches shooting


    toward them with explosive speed. Aleron moved quickly, warping space to redirect the iing attacks while summoning elemental storms of fire and ice using Mystic Skills.


    He had no limit on creating Mystic Skills and all the counters of powers as his mystic path described him aptly-The King of Over-Epassing!


    Kira darted around, using her sniper and ster forms in rapid session to target the


    numerous eyes on the tree''s canopy, each one exploding into showers of purple and crimson me sparks when struck. But the tree retaliated viciously, summoning a storm of spores that filled the air with poisonous gas.


    Luna, her Symbios Gear glowing, leaped into the fray, her gauntlets morphing to enhance her physical abilities. She shattered the iing vines with powerful strikes before summoning


    a barrage of ice shards and Starfire, striking the tree''s vulnerable spots.


    "We need to hit its core!" Aleron ryed as he dodged another attack. Luna nodded, gathering her energy as she charged forward. With a powerful leap, she punched directly into the tree''s trunk, Starfire erupting from her fist as she made contact. The force sent shockwaves through the ground.


    Meanwhile, Aleron summoned his most powerful Mystic Skill-Absolute Stasis, manipting time and space itself around the tree andpletely stopping it. Afterward, he raised his hand and executed another Mystic Skill: Chaotic Shower!


    A massive meteor of condensed elemental powerbining fire, lightning, and space energy formed before elerating like a shooting star right on the monster!


    "Luna, now!"


    Luna jumped back just as Aleron''s meteor crashed into the tree''s core, detonating with a


    brilliant explosion. The tree let out one final, anguished roar before copsing, its chaotic


    energy dispersing into the valley.


    [Congrattions for sessfully exploring andpleting the Valley of Devouring Viridescent''s challenge.]


    "Good job, girls," Aleron grinned.


    He didn''t do all the work this time as he also wanted to see Luna and Kira''s prowess,


    especially with the additional arsenal power that he gave them-the Symbios Gears. Seeing the treasure chest manifesting, Aleron said, "Kira, you want to open it? "Yes!" Kira excitedly moved towards the treasure chest. It was her first time entering a chaotic phenomenon and clearing it, so she was excited.