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"Good question." The voice of the goddess Lia echoed in his mind, quickly coalescing into a resounding sentence:
"—Do nothing!"
"Huh?" Kalia was stunned, as if she hadn't heard clearly.
So "rabbit ears" repeated it again:
"Do nothing—this is the safest way for you and me to be, as doing nothing will keep our strength under wraps."
"Until then, you only need to be careful of one thing."
"What is it?" Kalia's heart leaped, and she felt a strange sense of tension.
In his mind, the goddess's voice, filled with both disgust and apprehension, gave the answer:
"abyss……"
Chapter 364 The Origin of the Abyss, The Secrets of the World
The sacred Minoan border.
In a somewhat desolate jungle.
The black robes wrapped around his body, which was stiff as a corpse.
The old man, hanging on the top of a withered, dark tree, was surrounded by countless crows, which covered the withered tree like leaves, swaying gently in the air currents blowing from the demonic realm, as if attracting something.
Soon, the soil around the dead tree began to loosen and tremble...
One by one, demons emerged from the night, gathering towards this deserted forest. The only trace of flesh and blood on the treetops was as alluring as a warm candle flame.
The sound of drooling dripped to the ground as countless predators rubbed their hands together, growling as they fought over ownership of the prey. In the end, they decided to use the most primitive method: whoever got the part belonged to it!
The monsters in the shadows all pounced on the "corpse" on the treetop, trying to grab the most muscular limb.
A violent gust of wind immediately surged up, roaring and piercing!
The next moment.
Countless leaves on the treetops shook off and fell, transforming into a flock of scarlet crows that retaliated against the monsters in their terrified gazes!
The eerie shadows lingered for a full half hour under the moonlight.
A strong, pungent smell of blood gathered towards the center of the treetop, like a tempting, bright red fruit forming, or like intermittent nourishment to this tree that should have been dead.
Between the branches, the withered "corpse" gradually began to tremble.
The invisible demonic energy gathers and then vanishes, transforming into an even more filthy and pure power, like dirty blood flowing quietly within the body.
On the treetop, the old man's eyelids slowly opened.
"I...am not dead?"
Tearing at his tattered robes, a sharp pain churning within him, Lak clutched his head, as if he had been struck hard with a hammer.
An unpleasant voice echoed within his body.
"Hmph, death? The day you were chosen by the great will of the abyss, you were already beyond the concept of death."
"The defeat of the Abyss Demons causes the Abyss Power around you to temporarily go out of control."
But don't forget, you are protected by the purest abyssal power within you. How could that chaotic blade energy, which can only leave wounds, possibly kill you...?
"However, I did misjudge him somewhat... That Lightborn's physique was a bit strange, like a Darkborn, or something else entirely... Ah, none of that matters! What matters is that! The scum who crushed the Abyss Demon!!!"
As the body slowly recovered, the "darkness" began to stir again, roaring angrily:
"Don't let me find that guy, or I'll tear him to pieces!"
"Stop spouting useless threats."
Holding his head, Lark felt the pain all over his body and subconsciously cursed inwardly:
"If you blocked that blade of energy so easily, then what's with this pain that's even more severe than the injury you suffered during the previous blessing ceremony?"
"Oh, that?" the Abyss Will said casually.
"Don't misunderstand, that's just a side effect of you controlling my power. I'll be fine after a few months of rest."
Several months...
Lak's forehead veins bulged, and for the first time he regretted agreeing to this guy's bullshit plan to "bring the abyss into the world."
Otherwise, by simply using its aura as a cover, even relying solely on one's own strength, it would be enough to easily kill Shana on that demonic land!
"Wait, Shana isn't dead... but what about Mino?"
Soon, Lak remembered something.
He quickly activated a communication spell and shouted into the other end, "Dark Mage Squad 2.0, answer me! Dark Mage Squad 2.0!!!"
Answer me—!!!
Lak's eyes widened, his face contorted with rage as the intense pain caused him to shatter the magic spell.
There's no mistake... This feeling of losing both the wife and the army... That scourge, he's still alive!!!
why?
What went wrong with his flawless plan?
Why are minnows so resilient?!
Lak wanted to roar to the sky, but the intense pain inside his body, like torture, forced him to shrink back and grit his teeth to hold on.
"Don't be upset." At this moment, "Darkness" surprisingly felt more at ease and advised him in his mind:
"Even if we take a step back, we're just going back to square one."
"After this failure, you should have understood by now: to complete our great plan, those so-called heroes are completely unimportant. The most important thing is... to find my lost or shattered essence from ten years ago!"
"As long as I recover a few of the original essences, with my power, no one in this world will be able to defeat you or me!"
Enough to bring indelible calamity to the entire world! To plunge the entire world into darkness and depravity!!!
Evil laughter echoed in the sea, carrying a confident air of declaring the end of the world, reverberating deep within the soul.
Within Lak, the cold dark magic power began to recover, and his emotions gradually calmed down. This time, he did not refute the claim of "darkness":
"In that case, let's give it a try... to find the origin of the abyss."
Lak's eyes became incredibly indifferent, yet they held a certain world-destroying determination!
Since he couldn't kill the rapidly growing Mino... he was left with only one other option: to slightly hasten the end of the world.
—As long as the end of the world comes before the minus, then nothing else matters.
"but."
He lowered his head and stared into the "darkness" within his body.
While finding the source of the abyss, which had remained elusive for a full decade, was one problem, Lak now faced another:
"Aren't you afraid? Before that, who discovered your existence, or even eliminated you?"
"Without me, you would just be a will with little power, wouldn't you?"
"wipe out--?"
Inside his body, "Abyss" suddenly burst into maniacal laughter.
It was like hearing the biggest joke of the century.
A laugh filled with destruction and evil reverberated deep within the soul, bringing with it an incessant chill:
"Eliminate? You mean someone can truly eliminate the Abyss, even the smallest bit of it?! Hahahaha, what a naive idea, what a foolish view!"
"Even that abyssal demon was only severely injured and shattered this time, returning to the underground."
"And you, do you believe that the power of the abyss... truly has a natural enemy?"
Within his body, the will of the abyss laughed as if tears were about to fall, yet his tone carried a chilling depth greater than ever before:
"Old friend, don't you understand—what exactly is the 'Abyss'?"
As the words fell, endless black energy surged from within.
A pure, lightless black mist enveloped the entire wasteland, and the already withered trees and weeds rapidly shrank at this moment.
The withered trees turned into charred impurities and merged into the soil, while the layers of minerals in the soil were also completely devoured, turning into the palest and most hollow fine sand, leaving no trace of life in the soil!
The air grew stale, the earth became deathly still, and in a fleeting instant, the corpses of the surrounding demons, along with their remaining soul power, were annihilated into nothingness!
Dark, maniacal laughter echoed endlessly in my mind:
"Let the blood dry up! Let the machinery rot! Let the earth become barren! Let the mind go mad! Let the heavens and the earth collapse!"
We are the abyss! Something that you humans spend your entire lives fighting against, yet have no chance of resisting, something that can never be eradicated, never be dissolved, and is destined to vanish into nothingness...
Within the realm where all life had been extinguished, the sound stirred up the most chilling and unforgettable chill:
"The abyss is the 'aging' of the entire world—"
Chapter 365 The Origin of the Light and Dark Ones, The Power of the Stars
"The world has been aging ever since it was born."
In the early stages, this "aging" only appeared in the form of natural disasters.
As time goes by, aging and decay lie buried deep within the world, giving rise to a desire to erode and wither it away…
"Just as humanity is powerless to fight against death, the aging of the world is unstoppable and uncontrollable. Even if you briefly overcome it, as the end of the world approaches, aging will return with even more terrifying power and faster speed!"
Faced with the erosion of the world by aging, all living beings in the world have only one path: destruction.
"This is the abyss—"
Within his body, the will of the abyss whispered like a demon. His body stiffened slightly, and in that instant, Lak seemed to see a rolling, endless dark tide, the despair and lamentations of countless creatures struggling in the abyss!
Infinite, endless.
"However, I must admit," at this moment, "Darkness" sneered:
"Among these creatures that are barely surviving in this world, there are still those who refuse to give in and dare to face the abyss. Although they are all doing useless work, their courage is still commendable."