All Chapters of THE ART OF Desire: Chapter 81
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SERIES 9: THE FLESH ZIGGURAT Chapter 81: The Artery Highway
SERIES 9: THE FLESH ZIGGURATChapter 81: The Artery Highway"Damn... the ground is soggy. But it didn't rain,"Guntur dragged his limping leg, the tips of his boots sinking a few centimeters into the soft asphalt. Every step made a squish... squish... sound, like walking on a vast pair of wet lungs."Don't look down," Je ordered, walking in front as the vanguard, "Focus on the Temple. Ignore the details!""Hard not to look, Boss," Guntur grimaced, holding the pain in his right arm bandaged with dirty rags, "The asphalt is pulsating. I feel like a louse walking on giant skin!"They were traversing Jalan Pemuda, the main protocol road of Magelang leading straight to Borobudur. However, the road was no longer black asphalt.The road had turned into the Artery Highway.Its surface was dark red muscle tissue stretching for kilometers. On the left and right sides of the road, city gutters now flowed with clear plasma fluid smelling sickeningly sweet."Je," Sinta whispered, supporting Bagus
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Chapter 82: Cry from the White River
"WAAAH... WAAAH... IT HURTS... MAMA..."*The giant baby's cry wasn't just sound; it was a sonic weapon. The sound waves churned the white fluid of the Elo River violently, creating two-meter-high waves that battered the Bridge of Humans."Guntur! Run!" Je yelled, jumping onto the back of a man who formed part of the bridge floor.The man moaned in pleasure as Je's boots stepped on his spine, "Step on me... again... Master...""Sick," Je cursed. He had no time for morality. He ran, carrying Bagus on his left shoulder and supporting Sinta on his right.Behind them, the giant fetus monster—*The Aborted Gatekeeper—whipped its umbilical cord, which was as thick as a coconut tree trunk. The cord lashed through the air, its spiked tip smashing into the bridge.SPLAT!Five people forming the bridge railing were pulverized into meat paste. Their red blood mixed with the river's white fluid, creating a horrifying marbling pattern."He's destroying the bridge!" yelled Guntur, who was limping beh
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Chapter 83: The Bureaucracy of Bones
"AAAARGHH! PROCEDURE! THIS VIOLATES PROCEDURE!"Pak Budi—or the Foreman of the Death Gate—screamed hysterically. Not from physical pain, but from existential agony. The Golden Yoni Je pressed against his golden skeletal forehead radiated an authority far higher than that of a district head or a foreman.It was the authority of a Queen. The authority of Mother Earth.The pink light from the Yoni burned the bureaucratic symbols carved into Pak Budi's forehead bone."You can't fire me!" Pak Budi roared. His body, clad in the civil servant uniform, exploded. The khaki fabric tore apart, and from within, thousands of sheets of worn-out forms flew out like a snowstorm.The papers were razor-sharp.SLASH! SLASH!Je's cheek was cut. The papers swirled into a tornado, trying to protect their master."Je! Watch out!" yelled Guntur, who was still wrestling with the skeletal hands gripping his legs. The bony hands weren't just holding him; they started crawling up to Guntur's crotch, squeezing st
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Chapter 84: The Stairs of Atonement
Pasar Bubrah was not a place for bargaining. It was a place for surrendering.Je led his small group cutting through the dense crowd that smelled of sweat, incense, and drying bodily fluids. To their left and right, stalls made of ribs and human skin displayed wares that made stomachs churn.There were jars filled with eyeballs that still moved, glancing at customers. There was intestine satay grilled over blue fire. And in the dark corners, mutant creatures—pig-headed humans, women with tentacles in their crotches, men with inverted skin—were engaging in savage and shameless sexual acts in the open."Young... fresh..."A merchant woman with a long neck like a snake tried to touch Bagus's cheek with a forked tongue.SLASH!Je didn't stop walking. He simply flicked his Karambit to the side. The snake woman's tongue was severed, falling flopping onto the muddy ground."Don't touch my luggage," Je hissed coldly.The woman screamed, but her cry was soon swallowed by the din of the market.
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Chapter 85: The Corridor of Stone Nymphs
"Don't touch the walls. Don't look at their eyes. Don't listen to their whispers."Je chanted the rules like an exorcism mantra as they climbed the final steps to the Rupadhatu level—the Realm of Form.However, ignoring the environment here was impossible.If the base level (Kamadhatu) was about raw lust and gluttony, the Rupadhatu level was about subtle temptation. Lethal aesthetics.The narrow corridors of Borobudur's second level no longer smelled of rotting blood. The air here was fragrant. The scent of tuberose was so thick it felt sticky in the lungs.The corridor walls were filled with reliefs of nymphs (Apsara) carved with perfect detail. But under the Red Moonlight, the andesite stone had the texture of human skin. The pores breathed. The chests of the stone nymphs rose and fell slowly."Crazy..." Guntur muttered, his eyes glued to a relief of a woman bathing. "Look, Je. Her nipples... they harden when the wind blows.""Close your eyes, Guntur!" Sinta snapped, pulling the mec
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Chapter 86: The Bloody Lullaby
Lir ilir... Lir ilir... The crops are growing...The Javanese song was soft, but to Je's ears, it sounded like a rusty knife scratching against glass.They had climbed the final steps to the third level. However, Je's foot didn't land on the andesite stone of Borobudur Temple.CREAK.His foot landed on old, dusty teak floorboards."This..." Guntur spun around, his eyes bulging in confusion. "This isn't a temple, Je. This is... a living room?"It was true. The environment around them had changed completely. The red sky of Borobudur was gone, replaced by a low bamboo woven ceiling full of spiderwebs. The walls were made of termite-eaten wood, decorated with black and white photos whose faces were scribbled over with red marker."Illusion," Je hissed, gripping his Karambit tightly. "Don't trust your eyes. This is the Memory Zone. The spores here read our deepest memories and project them.""The smell..." Rara sniffed, her half-destroyed face looking sad. "Smells like telon oil (baby oil)
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Chapter 87: The Cracked Mirror of Logic
"Guntur! Shoot at the ceiling! Not at her!"Je's order sounded absurd. Amidst the rain of spore needles fired by the headless Buddha statues, Je was asking Guntur to waste their only explosive ammunition into empty air."The ceiling?! Are you crazy?!""DO IT!"Guntur didn't question again. He aimed the flare gun upwards, at the weave of flesh and stone covering the corridor.BANG!A red fireball shot up, smashing into the spore nest hanging like a giant chandelier.BOOM!The explosion didn't hurt Fake Sinta or her guardian statues. But it created smoke and shadows. The wildly flickering red light of the flare made the shadows of the stupas elongate and shorten randomly on the floor and walls.Fake Sinta—the Pure Logic—froze.Her eyes, which were advanced sensors, moved frantically, trying to track targets. But the flickering shadows confused her motion sensors."Error... Visual Distortion... Recalculating...""Now!" Je jumped out of hiding.He didn't run straight. He ran in a messy zi
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Chapter 88: Inside the Belly of Time
"GRAAAAAAAGH!"Kala The Devourer opened its jaws. A giant forked tongue—like a monitor lizard's—shot out, splitting the vacuum air of the Arupadhatu dimension. The tip of the tongue was sticky, covered in taste buds shaped like small, writhing fingers.Je jumped to the side. His body floated lightly due to the low gravity. He landed on the side of a tilted stupa."Slow!" Je taunted.However, the tongue didn't retract. It curved in the air, chasing Je like a guided missile.SPLAT!The tongue slammed into the stupa where Je stood. The andesite stone hissed, then melted into gray sludge."Corrosive acid?" Je jumped again to another higher stupa. "No. That's time digestion enzyme. Anything it touches instantly ages and crumbles to dust."Across the arena, Rara was pulling her bio-webbing cable, creating a makeshift bridge for Sinta and Guntur to jump closer to the Giant Egg in the center."Don't look down!" Rara yelled at Guntur, who was trembling as he jumped over the bottomless void."I
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Chapter 89: The Dance of Gravity and Flesh
"You are so rough, Je. Throwing my pet's internal organs at its master's feet?"Professor Surya floated down a meter. His naked, perfect feet landed on the puddle of golden slime vomited by Kala. He wasn't disgusted. The slime seeped into the skin of his feet, reabsorbed as energy."In my new world, there is no waste. Everything is a cycle. Eating, being eaten, absorbed, reborn.""Save the Sunday sermon, Prof," Je stood tall, though his knees trembled holding gravity equivalent to carrying five sacks of rice. "You want to dance? Let's go. I've already played the music."Je pointed to the smoking carcass of Kala in the distance.Surya smiled. The smile was too wide, revealing purple gums."Your music is off-key. Let me teach you harmony."Surya raised his right hand slowly, like an orchestra conductor.HUUUUUUMMMM...The air around Je solidified. Gravity was no longer just downward pressure. Gravity became invisible hands groping Je's entire body.Je felt strong squeezes on his neck, c
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Chapter 90: The Bloody Divorce
"Entertain me," Surya commanded, snapping his fingers.The gravitational pressure pinning Je to the floor suddenly vanished. Je gasped, his lungs greedily sucking in the vacuum air. However, he had no time to be grateful.WHOOSH!A black bone sword slashed at his neck.Je ducked in a split second. The wind from the slash sheared off a few strands of his hair. Rara—in her new Black Queen form—stood there, her eyes glowing purple, her face flat and emotionless."Rara, snap out of it!" Je yelled, jumping back."She can't hear you," Rara's voice came out, but it had Surya's intonation. "She is sleeping in the back room of her mind. I am driving now."Rara lunged. Her speed was triple what it was before. She was no longer a clumsy zombie. She was a killing machine powered by divine spores.CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!Je parried the bone sword attacks with his small Karambit. Sparks flew. Every impact sent vibrations that crushed the bones in Je's arms."You are slow, Husband," Rara taunted. She p
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