Chapter 1337 - 1083: What’s Wrong with Me?

"It’s not that I underestimate you, but I am merely explaining my point of view," Long Yi said. "At first, I just wanted to use you to become the leader of the Pirate Group in this Plane, so that I could easily seek your help in the future. But now that my archenemy has joined in, things have become dangerous and death could come at any moment, so it’s not too late for you all to quit."

Mahal was very surprised by Long Yi’s frankness. In fact, Mahal had thought about why Long Yi wanted to help him unify all the pirates of the Plane, and ultimately, it must be for this reason, but now it was coming from Long Yi himself.

"Sir, I think you underestimate us brothers," Mahal said with a smile, and the surrounding pirates laughed as well.

"Although we are pirates, unambitious and not very powerful, we haven’t been cowardly enough to let others trample over us at will. So if you have a way to make us stronger, please entrust it to us. Don’t worry about whether you are using us or not, for if a person even loses the value of being used, wouldn’t that be even more pitiful?" Mahal said.

Mahal’s words were indeed heartfelt; being under Yahola, they could say they had always been used by Yahola. Not only did they not gain any advantage, but they also had to endure Yahola’s fickle nature, more importantly, they were always the ones to charge forward in each operation. Now, Long Yi had given them a choice.

To fight for others in hopelessness, living mediocre lives, or to fight for themselves, even at the cost of dying on the battlefield?

Mahal and his brothers chose the latter.

"There is a way," Long Yi said. "But the method to become stronger might be very painful."

Mahal laughed and said, "Lord Long Yi, if you think that we pirates are afraid of pain, then you are indeed underestimating us."

However, Long Yi shook his head, "No, what I mean is, if you accept my enhancement program, you might no longer be called humans."

Mahal, puzzled, asked, "Sir, what do you mean by that?"

"To defeat a monster, the simplest way is to turn oneself into a monster," Long Yi said. "Yahola has his method of turning his men into those monsters, and I have it too. Moreover, I can turn you into even more terrifying monsters. However, this transformation is irreversible."

Upon saying this, Long Yi looked at Mahal and asked seriously, "Even so, do you agree to enhance yourself?"

Mahal lowered his head, silent for a moment, then looked back at his brothers before saying, "Can it really make us stronger than those monsters?"

"Much stronger," Long Yi said.

"If that’s the case, then let’s start right now," Mahal said.

Long Yi could see the firm determination in Mahal’s heart, which was quite unexpected. If it were an ordinary person, there would certainly be some hesitation, but Mahal reached a realization almost immediately. Evidently, if they hadn’t been severely bullied regularly, then the psychological trauma left by those monsters must have been substantial.

The characteristic of the Leviathan Worm is that it can disintegrate its body into extremely small entities. Yahola’s men became stronger by utilizing this characteristic. However, due to the Leviathan Worms’ instinctual lack of cooperation, those pirates strengthened became extremely grotesque and distorted in appearance. Although much more powerful, their appearance was greatly marred, while Long Yi was different.

These Leviathan Worms instinctively obeyed Long Yi’s commands, so when these tiny worms were disintegrated and then injected into Mahal and his brothers, there was no occurrence of rejections. In fact, Leviathan Worms can adjust themselves to any environment, absolutely not causing any rejection symptoms.

Inside the temporary warehouse of the pirate spaceship, thirty men were lying apart. In the air, the Leviathan Worm colony continuously disintegrated, then entered each of these thirty men.

Honestly, while saying it was one thing, actually having these worms enter their bodies was another. Even though each individual felt no pain, just seeing the massive Leviathan Worms suspended there was enough to make one’s skin crawl.

Injection of the Leviathan Worms for the first three hours caused no reaction because during approximately these three hours, the Leviathan Worms were continuously integrating themselves into the organism, combining with the body. Only when fully integrated would the future proliferation not become uncontrolled.

Three hours later, Long Yi sensed through magic that the Leviathan Worms had completely settled down, so he withdrew the worm colony. He took out thirty fist-sized black Cosmic Stones and placed them on the chest of each of the thirty men.

"It’s still not too late to regret this, but once it starts, stopping it will be impossible," Long Yi said.

"Let’s start!" Mahal exclaimed with wide eyes.

Although he did not know what those creatures burrowing into his body were, and he didn’t know what the black stones on his chest were either, he knew he wanted to become stronger! He wanted to defeat Yahola with his own hands!

Snap!

Long Yi snapped his fingers, and immediately, all the Leviathan Worms dormant in these men’s bodies sprang into action, crazily drawing energy from the black Cosmic Stones on their chests, and began their self-replication. Leviathan Worms have two distinct modes of replication: one is the increase of neuronal numbers to enhance intelligence; the other is to increase individual volume to enhance strength, and now, these Leviathan Worms chose the latter!

Although these black Cosmic Stones were small, they were compressed from ordinary Transparent Cosmic Stones. The Cosmic Stone itself is a high-energy material. The Leviathan Worms drawing energy from the Cosmic Stone to replicate is arguably the simplest and most effective method.

However, as hosts, the pirates felt a completely different sensation.

At first, they only felt their bodies heating up and their muscles uncontrollably trembling. But soon, intense pain began to set in, a pain so severe they couldn’t even scream. By then, the Leviathan worms had completely occupied every cell in their bodies and started to proliferate massively using their cells as templates. Their bones, muscles, nerves, teeth, nails—every part of their bodies was proliferating.

But, there was no skin.

Because that was unnecessary.

For most organisms, skin serves a single purpose: to protect the internals of the body, shield against external contaminants, block radiation, and regulate temperature. Once enhanced by the Leviathan worms, these functions became unnecessary, and it was a wasteful loss to use a massive amount of Leviathan worms to enhance the skin. If the intention was to create monsters, then their appearances needed to be utterly horrific!

Freed from the confines of skin, their sizes began to increase continuously, and although the severe pain never ceased, because their bodies were totally out of control, they couldn’t even cry out in pain. However, the constantly expanding energy inside them was a constant reminder that they were becoming powerful!

Although they still retained human shapes, their sizes continued to grow, and their once red muscles had completely turned into the metallic black typical of Leviathan worms. Energy shuttled between their muscles, and some even let out involuntary roars.

Long Yi watched his masterpiece with satisfaction, his heart brimming with joy...

Joy?

Joy??

Why was he filled with joy? Why did creating these monsters make him feel joy?

Long Yi looked at the humanoid monsters in front of him, their terrifying lives exposed without skin, black muscles exposed, and he felt sweat emerging on his back. He realized that his consciousness seemed somewhat out of control.

If it had been before, he would have found a way to enhance these people, but he definitely would not have used such a simple and brutal method. Especially their utterly aesthetic forms—what was going on?

Once, the Divine Envoy had told Long Yi that upon becoming a god, it was easy to develop a natural disregard for life, and at first, Long Yi didn’t take it to heart. But now, he discovered that it indeed had an effect on him!

In front of him, the transformations of those giant monsters were gradually coming to an end, a change that could no longer be reversed unless he replicated a whole set of bodies to restore them, which they obviously wouldn’t accept. Besides, they had agreed to this themselves, their inner desire to become stronger making them indifferent to becoming monsters.

Alas—.

Long Yi quietly sighed to himself, it seemed he really needed to take some time to carefully study what exactly his Trinity true god status meant.

The thirty black monsters had now completed their transformations. Those lying on the ground gradually regained control of their bodies, struggling to rise from the ground, examining their hands, feeling the changes in the strength within their bodies. Yet, no one seemed too uncomfortable.

In fact, although they had not seen their current appearances, the transformations of the people around them had already caught their eyes. Without skin, they naturally had no eyelids, so they constantly stared at each detail of everyone else’s transformation—there would be no difference with themselves.

"This is your new appearance," Long Yi said.

The crowd looked at Long Yi at the same time.

"I, feel the power..." Mahal spoke up, telling the truth, Long Yi could hardly recognize Mahal, he could only guess it was him based on Mahal’s original position.

"Any discomfort?" Long Yi asked.

"Speaking is a bit difficult," Mahal said.

Indeed, Mahal now only had two rows of sharp teeth exposed, and without skin, his speech was somewhat muffled.

"For communication among yourselves, you can use a special mental resonance method. As for talking to others, I think you will need to get accustomed to it," Long Yi said.

"At least, compared to Yahola’s rag-tag monsters, we are much more ferocious!" Mahal laughed.

"Actually, I wasn’t planning to let you go into battle just with your bare bodies," Long Yi said as he threw out many pieces of metallic armor from his private space. Long Yi activated the magic Array on the armor plates, and the pieces automatically flew towards each monster, forming a sturdy external armor, even including the head, making them look like a group of iron men.

"This armor is made from the materials of those dragon-shaped Giant Monsters I modified earlier; the defense should be decent," Long Yi said.

"Well, I think now we need a battle to test our newly born strength," Mahal said. (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, welcome to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations, monthly tickets; your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to continue reading.)