Endless Journey: Infinite Realms Chapter 739 Pleasure and Pain always come together

Chapter 739 Pleasure and Pain always come together

"Designated Target: The crown, which is possibly a possession of the Space-Time True God Korno."
With a voice similar to a well-oiled machine, the determined Queen Mother chanted these words as her body got closer and closer to the crown.
"Level of Danger: Unknown, although previous effects show that the crown is a powerful sealing artifact."
This voice of hers was unlike what she sounded earlier, which was full of indecision and tenison.
"Method of Dealing with the Target: Barrage it with attacks."
This change on her voice was subtly jarring, but it was not the only change that occurred during this time.
Even Queen Mother's demeanor and movements had changed too, and they became more and more pronounced as she got nearer to her target.
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Queen Mother's current face wore a determined look instead of a worried one, which indicated that she had already gotten over her anxiety.
Her skin, which was covered with her sweat earlier, also showed a change, as it released a greenish aura that permeated her surroundings.
"Huom…"
This aura did not have any effects on the objects that it touched, but it visibly improved the power emanated by Queen Mother.
In fact, this aura had massively upgraded Queen Mother's inherent strength, which happened through the sudden contraction of all the 'muscles' in her body.
"Creak…" Each muscle present in Queen Mother all shrank under the influence of her aura, with each muscle strand taking and storing in as much power as they possibly could. This allowed Queen Mother to store more power while increasing her density, factors that exponentially raised her strength.
"Creak…" The immense contractive force accompanying this change made her squint her eyes in pain, but she did not let out a grunt even when she continued shrinking her muscles.
She just gritted her teeth as her body visibly deflated too, with her skin also shrinking to accommodate the sudden lack of her volume.
"Creak…" 3 more intense contractions passed by before Queen Mother's aura stopped its 'improvement', and she could not help but sigh while looking at the new changes that decorated her.
Now, Queen Mother looked more like a muscle-bound monster rather than a graceful tree woman, whose beautiful face could not offset the frightening bulges created by her over-cramped muscles.
Her thighs looked more like bamboo and her limbs became monstrosities, while her torso appeared to be similar to a shrunken piece of meat jerky….
Queen Mother was noticeably distressed with this change of appearance, but she did not have any heart to complain about this, as she had already achieved what she was aiming for.
"…"
As of this point, each strand of Queen Mother's contracted muscles contains enough strength to level a city, and it could even go higher because of the effects of her life force.
Combine all of these strands together, and the power that they could display was something that nobody can easily imagine.
In fact, even Queen Mother was not sure on how strong her muscles are as of now…
All that she could do was to clumsily contain all of the power in her muscles, which in her opinion, can now give her the strength to demolish countless planets!
"Hmph, with this new body cultivation method that I used, I am sure that my physical power was already beyond any normal Sixth Stage Beings. In fact, I can say that my current form can hurt even those at the Half-Step Transcendent Stage…"
"Of course that last point was just a hypothesis, but I really am confident about my strength."
"Because of that, I am sure that once I attack this crown, something will happen to it."
"I just hope that it will be enough to let me free…"
The boost on her power had visibly encouraged Queen Mother to continue her plan, which she emulated by cocking her arm back as far as she possibly could.
"Creak…" This wind-up action showed that Queen Mother had no more qualms on waiting, and that she's already prepared to unleash an attack towards the crown.
More specifically, Queen Mother was prepared to punch the crown, and she seemed interested on unleashing her planet-destroying level of strength with this attack….
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With this kind of power waiting to be unleashed any moment now, Queen Mother was visibly giddy, as she could hardly wait to see what happens once she starts her move.
After all, this is the first time that Queen Mother will attempt using more than 100% of her strength!
Will the crown shatter under her blow, or will it be her who gets injured because of the backlash?
Whatever happens next is up for Queen Mother to know, and she's not that cowardly to stop herself from attacking.
"Hmph, I am saving this punch for Alex's face, as that smug mofo needs to be disfigured due to his deeds. But because of this s***y crown, I guess my physical prowess had to make its debut here…""
With the distance between Queen Mother and the crown barely a meter, she only needed to let her punch fly in order to achieve her goal.
She just has to punch any moment now, and all of her efforts might come into fruition.
"…."
But before she could punch, Queen Mother hesitated for a second, as she recalled some of her doubts about the crown.
"I know for a fact that this crown was owned by Korno and that he used it as his weapon before. But this fact does not explain why this crown will suddenly be in this place…."
"Shouldn't this crown be located on a place other than this weird area? Oh, and because Korno is technically dead, this crown should have been beside him."
"But instead of having it near Korno, this crown is actually here, worn by a giant who's still 'sleeping' at this point."
"No matter which way you look at it, this is problematic and suspicious."
"Who the hell is this giant and why is he wearing the crown? Is this giant Korno himself? Or is this someone who managed to wear the crown before and he just died while wearing it?"
These doubts were not the kinds that made her worried, but it was still enough to make her ponder about them.
Emphasis on ponder, as Queen Mother quickly shook these doubts away.
"Ah whatever. Thinking about these right now won't help me at all."
"So who cares who got this crown and why it is here?"
"I have no interest for that, as I should be interested on escaping first!"
"So Queen Mother, stop having these errant thoughts! Just punch the crown, and think of your doubts later!"
"Just punch the crown, and then worry about the other stuff after that!"
Since she had already prepared her body for attacking, and since she had no more leeway to relax, Queen Mother has no more time to entertain her mundane thoughts.
Just like what she thought earlier, Queen Mother just have to punch, and she will just worry about other problems later.
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Because her mind was clear of any worries, and because her body was prepared for her action, Queen Mother was 100% sure that her punch won't be meeting any interruptions anymore.
So she focused all of her entirety on unleashing her punch, which felt smooth considering all her stress in creating it.
"Boom!"
Due to her mind achieving a peak state of focus, Queen Mother's punch seemed to move in slow-motion in reference to her observation.
What should have been an instant for Queen Mother became a few 'seconds' of time, which she did not waste as she focused all of her attention on her unleashed punch.
"Boom boom boom!"
In Queen Mother's eyes, her punch was still sailing through the space at this point, and yet it already created countless tears in space that were as large as mountains.
These tears in space were of course quickly treated by the crown, but seeing them were enough to make Queen Mother smile.
"Hoho, so my punch was this powerful already? Hehehe, I wonder what would happen once it reaches that crown…"
As her mind was still on its peak state, Queen Mother still had to wait for a few more 'seconds' before her punch could actually reach the crown.
That time was of course not wasted by Queen Mother, as she adjusted her body in order to increase the output power of her punch.
"Boom boom boom!"
"Yes.. yes… that's it! Just make more tears in space like this! This just shows that my punch is powerful!"
It was a good thing that Queen Mother did her adjustments in a hurried manner, as before she could know it, the distance between her fist and the crown was already a few millimeters.
This is virtually nothingness, which made Queen Mother sure of one thing: After she blinks at this point, her punch would have made contact with her target already.
"Boom boom boom!"
So Queen Mother blinked, with her heart hoping that once she opens her eyes, she would see the destroyed remnants of the hateful crown.
"This is it… Now I will see wat happens to my plan."
"Tsk, I hope this succeeds. Because if it doesn't, then I am screwed here."
"But why should I be worried? Knowing about my power, I will sur-f**k, someone's attacking me from behind!"
But before this could happen, Queen Mother's senses suddenly tingled, warning her of danger coming from behind.
This danger made Queen Mother turn around and stop her punch, but it was already too late.
"Slash!"
Queen Mother felt a severe and debilitating series of pain on her back, one which was potent enough to make her scream in agony.
"Argh!" She felt being elbowed, kicked, slapped, punctured, punched, and smashed on her back all at the same time, with these sensations being magnified as time passed by.
"Argh!" This extreme pain made Queen Mother scream like a person who was tortured for years, as that was how painful the attack felt for her.
"Argh"!" There was no pain in this world that was comparable to this sensation, and all of these pain was too much even for someone like her.
"Argh!" She could not wait to have this pain end already, which unfortunately did not happen, as more attacks were unleashed by her attacker.
"Argh! Argh! Argh!"
The attacks this time were targeted towards her legs, and Queen Mother could barely stop herself from crying, as the pain that she got was even worse here.
She felt like her legs were being boiled, roasted, frozen, sawed, crushed and minced at the same time, and that was just the initial pain that she felt.
They also magnified as time passed by, and by the moment that she felt that her back was like a molten magma, her legs started to feel like they were filled with fire ants.
This amount of pain was too much for Queen Mother already, but to her horror, it even got worse!
"Argh!!!" All the pain present on her legs actually combined with the pain on her back, creating a cacophony of torturous sensations that assaulted all of Queen Mother's sensitive nerves.
"Gruh gruh gruh…" The confident Queen Mother was already gone at this point, as the pain had made her convulse like a worm sprinkled with salt.
Her arms and limbs were barely twitching in response to her new sensations, while her mind became blank, as if the pain broke her capacity to think.