Soul of Negary
chapter-158

Negary knew about Chen Di Xi's fight, even the fact that he entered the symbiotic form with his Biomass Gear was part of Negary's plans.

Among the infected, Chen Di Xi's constitution was especially suitable with the [Spiritual Inception] germs and had the potential to become a powerhouse. However, due to his life in modern society, a lot of his edge had already been shaved away by reality, causing his personality to deviate towards being gentle.

Fusing with the viral consciousness of his Biomass Gear would help Chen Di Xi become more competitive.

However, after this battle began, Negary immediately realized that something was wrong.

Although he planned for Chen Di Xi to enter a symbiotic relationship with a viral consciousness, he didn't purposely plan for him to lose his Disasforce weapon and became unable to advance. In fact, Negary favored Chen Di Xi enough to give him the location of a Disasforce weapon that was especially well-hidden, enough that it normally wouldn't be found.

And yet, such a well-hidden Disasforce weapon was 'accidentally' found by a middle-aged man, who managed to connect with it and release his [Origin] at a strangely rapid pace.

〖 All coincidences are inevitable〗

All of Negary's actions in this world had been under the assumption of that statement being fact.

Negary didn't know much about this middle-aged man.

Although he was the first person to achieve the first stage of release, it was actually more accurate to say that he was the first person to find a Disasforce weapon.

In order to create an artificial level of difficulty for these people, all Disasforce weapons were either hidden away, or placed in treacherous spots, which meant that both time and abilities were necessary for anyone to obtain any of them.

There were quite a few people whose progress with Spiritual Inception was considerably faster than this middle-aged man.

Including the 3 domains that Negary personally spread the [Spiritual Inception] germs as well as the other domains spread by his secret subordinates, the total number of people affected by the [Spiritual Inception] germs had surpassed 100 million. At this point, there should be around 30 million infected with around 3 million of them who managed to adapt and became Spiritual Inception practitioners.

With so many people, there was no way for Negary to personally observe each and every one, so he only chose to pay attention to a few with particular potential and had made considerable progress.

The middle-aged man's progress was only middle-upper level, together with his age that had basically settled the potential of his soul, Negary didn't pay much attention to him in the beginning.

If the middle-aged man had coincidentally obtained any other Disasforce weapons, Negary wouldn't have taken any notice, but the exact one that he came across was the one that Negary selected for Chen Di Xi.

〖 So something is trying to use this middle-aged man to contaminate a piece that I picked out? 〗Negary scowled and sensed Chen Di Xi's current movements.

Chen Di Xi's eyes had gotten bloodshot, the hunger transmitting from his Biomass Gear had gotten so bad that his consciousness completely lapsed. The armor around his body started to become animated, what was originally a bodysuit started to morph and change like a living slimy creature, even extending feelers and tentacles towards where the unconscious man had collapsed in order to grab him.

〖 However, what use is that? 〗Negary started thinking: 〖 The most intense emotion of that middle-aged man was his will to protect his family. If Chen Di Xi allows his Biomass Gear to consume the middle-aged man, it's very likely that he's going to be contaminated with this emotion 〗

〖 This should be meaningless, since Chen Di Xi doesn't have any family members to protect, these emotions would simply fade away after a short time 〗Negary analyzed the situation: 〖 Which means, the most likely scenario is that he starts to direct these contaminated emotions towards the little girl 〗

〖 With the sense of guilt from devouring her father and the contaminated emotions, Chen Di Xi would definitely regard this little girl called Lan Shan to be an extremely important person to himself 〗Negary's eyes flickered and interfered.

Chen Di Xi abruptly collapsed on one knee while clutching his heart. It felt as if someone had just put a finger in and stirred his heart up, causing him to tremble in cold sweat. His mind started to regain its natural clarity; his armor had also gotten unprecedentedly docile.

Realizing what he was about to do, Chen Di Xi hurriedly picked up the Disasforce weapon that had returned to normal. From the drained soul power he sensed within the sword, it shouldn't take a lot of time for him to completely cut off this weapon's connection with the middle-aged man.

Having obtained his Disasforce weapon, Chen Di Xi swiftly left the area without minding the survival of any other people.

Perhaps due to the battle just now, or perhaps due to other reasons, the supermarket suddenly collapsed, causing the rubble to completely bury the barely-alive middle-aged man.

Standing afar, the little girl watched as her father was buried with tears streaming down her face, as she quickly ran in front of the collapsed structure, she appeared incredibly powerless.

An enormous amount of Disasforce began to manifest out of nowhere, filling the gigantic infected zone.

Negary's gaze flickered. Having created the infected zone, Negary was constantly accumulating more Disasforce without stopping, but just earlier, the flow of Disasforce was abruptly split and delegated to another person.

〖 So that's what it was. That little girl is the holder of [Super Plague], isn't she? 〗Negary was walking towards a certain emergency shelter when he felt the signs of a new Disaster King being born and turned towards that direction.

〖 If I did not interfere just now, Chen Di Xi would've turned into the protector of the new Disaster King 〗Negary turned away and continued up the stairs with a pondering expression on his face: 〖 However, why was the chosen Disaster King a little girl with a severe psychological issue? 〗

〖 There should be countless people with much greater potential, and yet such a little girl was chosen instead. Is there something I don't know about the selection process of Authority Holders? 〗

Negary had such a thought. It could clearly be seen just how much the other party counteracted his abilities by the fact that over half of the Disasforce that was supposed to go to him was taken by her Authority right after she had just appeared.

If a more fitting host had been chosen, Negary would have found it considerably harder to deal with them, but when the host was just an immature girl with personal trauma, it was almost as if Negary was handed an opportunity.

Negary flung open the gates of the emergency shelter with his bare hands. Over 100 million people had been affected by the [Spiritual Inception] plague, but the number of people that actually got infected was only 30% of that. The main contribution to this was this world's well-established shelter bunkers that allowed the majority of civilians to quickly get to safety. Even if some people had germs lingering on their hands or feet, as long as they hadn't been infected, the disinfection procedure that everyone had to go through successfully killed off those germs.

And so, for the past few days, other than observing the progress of Spiritual Inception, Negary had been travelling from shelter to shelter and breaking them open to increase the number of infected people a huge batch at a time.

〖 Should I send someone to kill her while she still hasn't fully grasped how to use Disasforce? 〗

After pondering this seemingly sensible solution, Negary shook his head. If he actually did such a thing, the results would be inevitably predictable.

The D.E.R division, the government, and perhaps, even the entity behind this world's 'destiny' didn't wish for the newly born [Super Plague] Authority Holder to die. When he purposely tried to track Fang Ze's location, although he couldn't get a hold of their exact position, he still managed to discover Fang Ze's group to be quite near [Super Plague] through the eyes of the infected.

〖 Some stalling will be necessary. I will have to send a few people to halt their progress and buy myself some more time 〗

Negary's body started to morph and turned into a large 3-winged dragon, then swiftly took off.