freenovelworld #197 - Chapter 197 Biological Civilization
#197 - Chapter 197 Biological Civilization
“Your Majesty, the envoy of the Gods has truly arrived.”
Within the royal palace of the Hilin Kingdom, the Hilin King's prime minister spoke towards the throne.
The moment he said this, countless guards immediately aimed the blades that had grown from their arms at the prime minister.
“Insolent!” “What a depraved remark! You are a fallen one!”
The reason these guards spoke like this was because the phrase "envoy of the Gods" from the prime minister's mouth had already revealed his position.
He was a "fallen one” who had betrayed his own king and the Hilin Empire!
However, unlike those enraged guards, the Hilin King, sitting on the throne, did not seem so angry.
On the contrary, with a normal expression, he simply sighed softly.
Then, he spoke to those furious guards.
“Put away your weapons.”
“He won't harm me; if he wanted to, he would have done so long ago.”
“....”
Upon hearing the king's order, the guards present sheathed their blades.
However, loyal as they were, they still stared unblinkingly at the prime minister before them, wishing they could kill him right there.
Even so, the prime minister remained calm, as composed as the king he served.
“Arnold...”
From the throne, the king's voice sounded somewhat sorrowful.
“How long have you been my prime minister?”
“Your Majesty, it has been two hundred and seventy-two years.”
The prime minister replied.
“Two hundred and seventy-two years, is it? That's quite a long time indeed. As a non-royal Hilin, you can be considered long-lived... Arnold, I want to ask you a question.”
“In these two hundred and seventy-two years, have you always been loyal to me?”
“Your Majesty, from beginning to end, I have been loyal to you!”
“Even now, with the kingdom collapsing, I still maintain my loyalty to you.”
“Is that so? I see.” The king smiled and continued to ask.
“Thank you for your loyalty, Arnold.”
“Then I want to ask you a question.”
“How many members of my great Hilin Empire's royal family, like you, have become fallen ones of the so-called Abyss Cult?”
“Your Majesty, apart from you, the Queen, and your eldest son, all the others...”
The prime minister paused, but continued to speak.
“Have become fallen ones who believe in the Abyss, just like me.”
“Including my little grandson, the future crown prince? Has he also become a fallen one?”
The king's voice choked with emotion.
“The little prince himself has also fallen, but he is somewhat different from us.”
“He has received more favor from the Abyss's will; after the arrival of the Abyss's envoy, he has transformed into an existence known as the 【Chosen of the Fallen God】.”
“Oh, that sounds not bad.”
The king, who had been choking with emotion, became happy upon hearing what the prime minister said.
Just like countless elders with feelings, he cared more about the achievements of his descendants than his own.
“By the way, Arnold.”
“After you became a fallen one, how has your gene control ability become? How much has it increased?”
The Hilin people are a special existence.
They, and the empire they built, are a civilization that relies on "biotechnology" to improve.
However, unlike those powerful biological civilizations that can easily destroy the world, the Hilin Empire and the Hilin people have only just taken the first step in biotechnology, which is to be able to cut and tailor gene segments.
It can be said that the Hilin people have taken the first step in biological civilization.
But it also stopped there.
However, this is not only because the empire encountered the double doomsday crisis of the undead and the abyss.
The real reason is that the bodies of the Hilin people simply cannot fully control their own genes.
Most Hilin people can only cut out the "bad genes" in their bodies and enhance the strengthening effects of some genes.
Excellent Hilin people can rarely absorb one or two foreign genes and have additional abilities.
Those royal guards who can grow blades on their arms are representatives of this.
As for the strongest Hilin royal family, they can only absorb less than five foreign gene fragments.
When Hilin people cut too many of their own genes, they will enter a state of gene decay.
This state of gene decay, when manifested, is like a collection of thousands of different cancers.
The pain it brings can cause any Hilin person to collapse and die!
And there is no cure.
Although countless scholars and scientists within the entire Hilin Kingdom are trying to solve this problem, their progress is very slow due to technological and cognitive limitations.
This has led to the fact that although the Hilin people are all strong and agile, their individual upper limit has not changed in hundreds of years.
This situation continued until the undead monarch Dru invaded.
Under the crisis of national extinction, many Hilin people were forced to drastically cut the gene fragments in their bodies on the battlefield.
Although most Hilin people died quickly after doing so, the lucky ones who survived benefited from misfortune and gained stronger abilities and upper limits.
Although the war has been losing all the time, under the pressure of the war, if the Hilin people can persevere, they may be able to evolve to the next stage.
But all of this was destroyed.
Because the Abyss Cultists sent by the fallen angels arrived!
These strange beings called fallen ones, starting from the border of the Hilin Empire, kept using some kind of depraved and terrible ritual to constantly lure one Hilin person after another to become their companions and become fallen ones like them.
At first, this kind of lure did not have much effect.
The situation changed until those Hilin people who became fallen ones were pleasantly surprised to find that their gene editing ability had increased several times.
Because all the Hilin people who were accepted by the will of the abyss and officially became "fallen ones" gained stronger gene control than the royal family under the remote guidance of the 【God's Envoy】!
But no matter what, this is genuine power.
And power is extremely tempting.
Under the lure of depravity, more and more Hilin people became fallen ones, even the royal family was no exception...
Facing the king's question, Prime Minister Arnold did not answer the other party in words, but took off his clothes to tell the Hilin king the answer with practical actions.
And when Prime Minister Arnold took off his clothes, all the guards, including the Hilin King, were silent.
Because the body displayed in front of them had been favored by the abyss too deeply!
No, it was too deeply fallen.
A body from the abyss was nakedly displayed in front of them...