The night was dark, covering everything in blackness.
Bai Yi brought the slime monster he had captured to a temporary shelter and immediately began his research.
If one only looked at the initial narrative when entering the nightmare instance, the slime monster would seem like a “monster lurking in the darkness, always ready to hunt anyone exposed before them.” However, the reality was quite different.
“It doesn’t possess any characteristics of a living organism, more like a moving, distorted corpse. It could remain completely motionless in one spot for hours. Even if someone passed by, it would not actively attack. No, to be precise, it wouldn’t even counterattack if actively attacked. It’s simply like a soft stone…”
—If this was the case, then how could one explain the experience of this body? How could one explain those monsters that madly pounced on the mother and daughter in the darkness?
“The only difference is… golden flower?”
“…Or rather, light?”
“…Would these monsters become aggressive when seeing light? Would carrying a luminous object trigger their attack?”
Was this the origin of the narrative line “light represents death”?
Not possessing the memories of this body, Bai Yi could only speculate about what happened based on the narrative description. He felt he was still overlooking something.…What was he missing?
Unfortunately, he currently had no light-emitting objects, so he could only continue researching the behavior and body structure of the slime monster under lightless conditions.
Because his visual function was stripped away, and this dark world resembled a post-world war wasteland or a primitive savage wilderness lacking technological civilization equipment, Bai Yi could only use collected metal minerals and stone tools he had polished, along with his own hands, to conduct research on the slime monster in a manner that could be described as primitively bloody and maddening.
His movements were crisp and decisive, without hesitation, more deft than gutting a fish, though his expression was far less pleasant than when gutting fish.
The deeper he researched, the more impatient his expression became, and his mood steadily declined.
—This wasn’t due to emotions of sympathy or reluctance; in fact, he didn’t have such emotions at all.
Bai Yi had long since discovered that the slime monster he captured didn’t possess the emotions of a living being. It wouldn’t experience pain from his research, being even more monotonous than a paramecium. Researching the slime monster required less psychological barrier than researching a zombie, which at least retained a human form.
The reason Bai Yi couldn’t maintain a pleasant mood was purely because of the noise constantly ringing in his ears.
—Even after dissecting the slime monster inside and out, even after cutting it into multiple pieces, this sticky monster would neither feel pain from being attacked nor make any counterattack. It would just remain spread out on the ground in its cut-open state, continuously emitting a muddy noise pollution.
—Like an indestructible sound system.
And such slime monsters were not singular. Countless slime monsters were hidden in this darkness. As long as he continued to explore this world, he could encounter more slime monsters at any moment, potentially getting submerged in a world of black mud.
The slime monster beside him continued to emit noise.
The chaotic sounds were like ants crawling beneath his skull, tormenting his nerves.
Bai Yi was completely overwhelmed.
…What kind of hellish place was this!
He felt the nightmare fragment instance was torturing him for the first time.
“Ah…”
After thoroughly dismembering the slime monster into countless pieces of mush, Bai Yi casually tossed it aside and dramatically spread himself out on the ground in a star shape, declaring a temporary work stoppage.
But the moment he sprawled down, he suddenly realized the true nature of the soft ground beneath him, and Bai Yi went: “!!!”
He jolted up instantly, like someone with severe germophobia suddenly thrown into a bacteria-infested alternate world, beginning to doubt his entire existence.
In the darkness, only the system panel continued to glow.
[Mission: Sun! Sun! Sun!]
[—Let the eternal sun descend upon the world and burn away all filth!]
Bai Yi stared at the main mission panel for a long time, then couldn’t help but slowly raise the corners of his mouth. “Oh my oh my.”
His smile was almost completely blackened.
“This is the first time I’ve felt such empathy with a game character.”
A powerful, twisted spiritual storm began to rage around him, with his elevated spirituality burning to its extreme.
The learning achievements from his previous research of the dark sacred text “Sabbath” were now ruthlessly put into practice.
In this moment, Bai Yi was burning and melting. He seemed to have touched the most extreme, obsessive emotions at the core of this body’s soul, released simultaneously with his own will.
In the eternal night, it was as if a burning black sun rose, releasing an incredibly twisted and massive emotion that clawed out in all directions, instantly dissolving the boundless darkness.
“Really can’t help it…”
The young girl’s tender, soft voice carried a hint of helplessness.
…I didn’t intentionally not want to clear the level.
…I’ll just reload another cycle. So for now, venting my emotions is more important.
The twisted black sun exploded like a firework.
“Be destroyed, this world! Be destroyed, slime monsters!”
At dawn, soft sunlight filtered through the second-floor apartment window, falling on the sleeping youth’s face.
Bai Yi opened his eyes in a daze, and the first thing that caught his vision was the distorted text floating in mid-air.
[Achievement System Refreshed.]
[You’ve achieved the achievement [Burning Black Sun that Destroys All].]
[Note: Discovering the entire nightmare fragment instance was just a massive garbage dump, and one that was a thousand times more putrid than the real world, forcibly dumping garbage pollution into your brain. Finally unable to endure it, you decided to overturn the garbage heap, physically destroying all garbage that dared to pollute you. You sacrificed everything, drawing a phantom black sun with blood and soul, burning your spirituality, fighting poison with poison, and using an even more crazy and twisted spiritual will to distort the pollution spreading through the nightmare.]
[All twisted monsters were destroyed by an even greater distorting force, and all living people had their souls destroyed by an even greater distorting force, falling into eternal slumber along with the entire world.]
[You created a new legend—]
[When the black sun descends, the world will be burned away.]
[You’ve achieved the achievement [World-Destroying Savior].]
[You’ve achieved the achievement [Return to the Void Intercepted].]
[Note: As long as you destroy the world with your own methods before the world completely returns to the void, isn’t that also stopping the world’s return to the void? Congratulations on successfully intercepting the “return to the void” and stealing the first strike of world destruction.]
[You successfully replaced the Return to the Void, becoming the new terror of the eternal night world, eliminating the last survivors of the world.]
[—You have become the synonym of destruction.]
“Ah… did I accidentally go too far?”
Bai Yi blinked, his expression innocent.
As for being the synonym of destruction and such, he pretended not to see it. After all, he had perfectly completed the main mission’s requirement of “letting the eternal sun descend upon the world and burn away all filth”! Whether human or monster, nothing remained—wasn’t that thorough enough?
Shifting the blame to the game’s protagonist, Bai Yi’s tiny bit of guilt quickly disappeared, and he became righteous again.
“But this time, I did get to practice an idea I couldn’t implement in reality.”
—Using a wife’s blood, a daughter’s flesh, the souls of the dead, and twisted love could create “Sabbath”. But what if everything was replaced by the artist themselves?
—An artwork created by sacrificing the artist’s blood, flesh, soul, and everything would certainly be far more terrifying than “Sabbath”.
Although always curious about this answer, implementing it would obviously require sacrificing everything. While Joey, who was extremely passionate about art, wouldn’t mind sacrificing himself to explore a higher realm of art, Bai Yi was not Joey.
So he would only experiment in a nightmare instance.
Unexpectedly, he actually did it this time.
Evidence proved that “Purgatory Art” through self-sacrifice was indeed quite terrifying—in the short seconds after waking, Bai Yi had already named this new skill he had practiced.
That black sun, created by burning his entire self out of thin air, directly accelerated the world’s destruction.
However, using this skill in the real world would probably not be as devastating.
The outcome of the nightmare fragment instance was determined by two aspects. On one hand, the nightmare fragment instance was just a remnant of a phantom world, several levels lower than the real world. On the other hand, Bai Yi possessed non-human qualities and the power of infinite world origins, one level higher than the real world. His self-sacrifice in the nightmare fragment instance was like a three-dimensional soul self-destructing in a two-dimensional paper world—high-dimensional energy delivering a crushing blow to a low-dimensional world.
If it weren’t just the soul projection entering the nightmare fragment instance, merely burning part of his own spirit, the result would have been even more outrageous.
At that moment, the text in midair began to change rapidly. A line indicating mission completion had just appeared, then was instantly erased by an invisible force and replaced with a new line, which scattered the next second and turned back to the original completion text, repeating continuously.
[Main Mission Completed…]
[Main Mission Incomplete…]
[Main Mission Completed…]
Bai Yi: “???”
“Hey, hey, hey, are you okay, system?” He could no longer resist sitting up and reaching out from the blanket to poke the constantly changing text in midair, “Are you malfunctioning? You’re not a real intelligent machine. Weren’t you supposed to be the supreme Principle of All Things?”
The youth curled his lips, his tone full of disdain that wasn’t worried at all, but instead carried a blatant mockery.
“…Hahaha, you’re too weak!”
Whether due to Bai Yi’s excessive mockery or the system itself not having major issues, the moment his words fell, the constantly changing text finally stabilized.
[Main Mission 1/2 Completed.]
[Although your actions do not align with the character “Day’s” original heart, they meet the mission’s completion requirements. You have demonstrated a brand new possibility for the character “Day”.]
[Please follow her heart and achieve another possibility.]
[Beyond destruction, is there still hope for redemption?]
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