Tome of Blood

Chapter 673-20- The End of the War
The Kingdom of Falling Stars, Falling Star City.

The sky is shattered.

No, it was not the collapse of the sky, but something more terrifying and essential that covered and replaced the sky as people knew it.

An eye so enormous it defies description slowly coalesced from nothingness, filling the entire sky.

Its outline is not flesh and blood, but is drawn by countless flowing and intertwined pale light streams, with an extreme, scorching gold at its center, like a cold sun, indifferently looking down at the dying world below.

That was the primordial eye, the manifestation of the will of the primordial god.

Golden divine light burst forth from his pupils, not the warm sunlight, but a deathly stillness that stripped away everything.

The light shone down, dyeing the clouds an ominous golden-red, and when this radiance touched the earth, it spread out in circles of pale white halos.

Wherever the halo reached, life seemed to be instantly extinguished as if by an invisible hand.

The towering ancient trees lost moisture at a visible rate, their green leaves withered, curled, and turned to dust;

The rushing river dried up completely in a matter of moments, revealing its cracked riverbed;
Fertile fields turned into scorched earth, and birds and beasts didn't even have time to cry out before their flesh and blood dissolved, leaving only withered bones, which eventually weathered into dust.

The entire world is being forcibly stripped of all concepts of "life," returning to the most primitive and desolate state of "nothingness"!
"Eternal Night, you have failed."

A cold voice came from high above, devoid of any emotion, as if merely stating a given fact.

This sound did not travel through the air, but resonated directly within the depths of every conscious soul, carrying an undeniable power of law.

On the scorched and shattered earth, on a small hill made up of corpses, a blonde girl with red eyes stood stubbornly.

That was Charlotte from the past.

Her divine dress was torn and stained with dark red and gold bloodstains. Her eyes, which were once as bright as stars, now burned with an indomitable rage as she looked up at the giant eye that had replaced the sky.

She tried to mobilize the remaining divine power within her body, the power belonging to the Blood Ancestor.

However, the pale mist swirling around her, writhing like a living creature, grew increasingly dense, like countless chains binding her divine body and soul, constantly eroding and suppressing them.

Charlotte, now transformed into the Blood Codex, calmly watched all of this.

Her gaze pierced through appearances, revealing Artemis, hidden in the heart of the moon dream, once again finding an opportunity to manifest.

She saw Artemis unite with the Guardian Staff, channeling power into her younger, struggling self from the past.

Stimulated and protected by this external force, the Blood Scripture that shared the same origin as her began to rise wildly, breaking through a certain limit and touching the supreme status of creation.

Charlotte did not stop her.

Instead of stopping her, she went with the flow, quietly relinquishing her absolute control over the origin of the sacred text and silently transferring a portion of her core authority to her past, naive yet resilient self.

She acts like a patient director, ensuring that the drama of "history" unfolds along its predetermined path.

Following the ripples of time created by the collision of the forces of creation, she used power far exceeding her previous strength to forcefully carve out a relatively stable path to the river of time amidst the chaotic temporal currents!
This was an inevitable part of history, so... this pioneering effort was a success.

However, this also means that this is a passage that only Charlotte from the "past" can successfully traverse.

This time, Charlotte was not just borrowing it, but giving it completely and without reservation to her past self—the Blood Codex that had accompanied her through countless years and carried all her principles and laws.

Just as the Holy Scripture completed its transfer and bound itself to Charlotte's soul from the past, Charlotte's timeless will stirred slightly.

laugh--!
The "treasury fragments" that she had already collected, which were forged from various materials, were all set on fire at this moment.

In an instant, Artemis seemed to sense something and looked over sharply.

His gaze pierced through the barrier between reality and illusion, through the fog of time, and finally... met the eyes of the consciousness that had always been hidden behind the sacred texts, silently watching and guiding everything.

Charlotte smiled slightly, while Artemis' eyes widened, her silver pupils glistening with excitement.

The two looked into each other's eyes, and though they did not speak, Artemis seemed to have suddenly understood a great deal.

She smiled slightly, then suddenly opened her arms, her gaze piercing through the void:
"Teacher...are you ready?"

However, the inside of this "Lilith" body is hollow.

It is not a void in a physical sense, but a conceptual reservation.

A perfectly fitting and completely unguarded vessel, a "divine seat" deliberately left empty to welcome the arrival of a supreme being!
The time has come!

Charlotte no longer hesitated.

Her most essential "self," which embodies all power, all divinity, all memories, and all will, soared into the sky from the Blood Codex—a crimson light of utmost purity and brilliance!

This light encapsulates everything about her.

Her perfect divine status as a creator, the immortal divine fire that has burned for countless years, her understanding and authority over all laws—all are contained within it!

call out--!
The crimson light, like fledglings returning to their nests, accurately entered the gap in the chest of the "Lilith" container.

The light blends in perfectly.

Lilith's previously somewhat empty eyes were instantly illuminated, filled with liveliness, wisdom, and that unique Charlotte-like, weathered yet still resilient spirit.

At this moment, she is both Lilith and Charlotte!
Then, this newly formed entity, now one with the other, took a step forward, opened its arms, and embraced tightly with the blonde girl on the ground, who was momentarily dazed by the changes in the holy scripture and the impact on her soul.

boom! ! !
An indescribable resonance erupted between the two.

The crimson divine light spread out like an explosion, completely enveloping the girl.

The mature soul of Charlotte from the future, carrying the complete power of creation, returned forcefully, like a master returning to a long-lost home, and began to take full control of this body that had long been riddled with holes by primordial pollution!

Meanwhile, the time river passage that Charlotte had forcibly opened and stabilized began to exert a tremendous suction force.

Charlotte's still-immature soul, originally belonging to this point in time, was gently and firmly guided out, transforming into a stream of light that entered the passage and traveled upstream along the trajectory of time, to the ancient era that had already been arranged for her.

Thus, cause and effect are cyclical, and spacetime is closed!

Charlotte has now finally regained complete control of the body that belonged to the Blood Ancestor, but which was being relentlessly targeted by the Primal One!
"It's you! It's you again!"

"Who are you? Why are you interfering in my world?!"

The original angry voice suddenly rang out.

His gaze fell upon the girl, or more accurately, upon Charlotte who had entered the girl's body.

Charlotte slowly raised her head.

The naivety and confusion of a young girl had faded from her face, replaced by a composure that had weathered countless trials, and a hint of subtle, yet undeniably confident, defiance.

She tilted her head slightly, her crimson-gold pupils gleaming with a cold yet dazzling light, and a clear smile curved her lips, making her look somewhat adorable at that moment.

"The beginning".

"Didn't you already know who I am?"

The primordial puppet's gaze grew increasingly gloomy, and the anger in its voice almost reached its limit.

A furious roar, seemingly transcending time and space, echoed continuously across the continent of Miria:

"Charlotte Castells—!"

Boom! ! !

Above the sky, the enormous primordial eye suddenly contracted, then erupted with a pale white divine power surge powerful enough to engulf the entire world!
This divine power was no longer merely about stripping away life, but rather carried the purest meaning of nothingness and end, like a destructive tide sweeping towards Charlotte, aiming to completely erase her and this land from the concept of existence!

Faced with an attack powerful enough to bring down any true god, Charlotte simply smiled coldly.

She didn't even make a big movement; she simply raised her right hand slightly.

The next moment, a vast and profound crimson divine power, as deep as the beginning of the universe, erupted from her body!

This divine power, warm and fiery, carrying boundless might, collided violently with the pale and cold nothingness!
Boom-! ! !
An indescribable roar.

That cannot be described by simple sounds, but rather by a clash of rules, a confrontation between two completely opposite, creation-level concepts!

At this moment, the entire continent of Miria was shaken to its core in an unprecedented way!
The continental plates groaned and shifted, the oceans surrounding the continent surged wildly, creating towering waves tens of thousands of meters high that engulfed the coast and invaded the inland; countless towering mountain ranges collapsed in the tremors, turning into flat land; the earth cracked open into bottomless ravines, from which molten lava gushed forth...

Just one blow!
The entire world of Miria, like a fragile toy, was subjected to a true, apocalyptic destruction!
The stars dimmed, the laws collapsed, and all things withered!

However, at the center of this devastating collision, the two primordial forces were strangely locked in a stalemate, neither able to completely overpower the other, resulting in a draw!
"You want to take away the vessel I painstakingly created? You overestimate yourself!"

The primordial god uttered a rebuke filled with shock and anger.

He angrily sensed that the crimson divine power within the girl's body was beginning to purify and expel the primordial pollution He had painstakingly created, vying for ultimate control of the body in a strange way.

The next moment, something even more terrifying happened.

Om-!
An invisible suction force, encompassing the entire world of Miria, erupted from the Eye of the Primal.

The extraordinary power that permeates the world and has been accumulated over countless eras—elemental magic, the power of faith, the power of bloodline, and even the divine power and divinity of those weak gods who are barely clinging to life...

As if encountering a black hole, they were forcibly stripped and extracted, transforming into colorful yet deathly torrents of energy that surged madly toward Charlotte's location!

No, more accurately, it surged toward the "container" body that Charlotte was currently occupying!
The primordial god intended to forcibly inject all the remaining extraordinary power of the entire world of Miria into Charlotte's body as fuel and weapons, using absolute power to burst her from the inside, or rather, to forcibly seize control!
As the extraordinary power was withdrawn, boundless death energy spread rapidly throughout the world of Miria.

Those remaining gods who hid in the fragments of the divine kingdom and the corners of the secret realm did not even have time to scream before their divine status shattered, their divine fire extinguished, and they turned into pure energy streams that were devoured by the primordial.

The entire world is rapidly heading towards utter silence and nothingness.

On the dark and boundless sky, only the primordial eye, which had absorbed all the extraordinary power of the entire world, became more dazzling and radiant than ever before, as if it had become the only source of light in the chaotic void, radiating a despair-inducing pressure.

Immediately afterwards, the primordial light that had gathered the last power of the entire world fell like a sword of divine punishment, ignoring the distance in space and directly rushing into Charlotte's body!
……

The crimson spiritual world is the embodiment of Charlotte's divinity and will.

The once calm and vast sea of ​​consciousness was now violently torn apart by a pale light that had barged in!

The light, carrying the primordial will and the immense, extraordinary power belonging to the entire world of Miria, compressed to its extreme, crashed into the sea of ​​consciousness like a destructive star!

boom--!
The pale light spread and eroded rapidly like a virus, causing the crimson to fade and the mental barriers to groan under the unbearable burden.

In an instant, nearly half of Charlotte's sea of ​​consciousness was forcibly seized and occupied by this pale white power, and half of her control over her body also fell into the hands of the primordial will!
The situation has taken a turn for the worse!

However, at this seemingly precarious moment, Charlotte, who had been passively defending and retreating step by step, suddenly... smiled.

She did not, as originally expected, mobilize all her divine power for a desperate counterattack to reclaim the lost territory.

Quite the opposite.

She relinquished some control over the remaining part of her consciousness, allowing the primordial power to further penetrate and deepen.

At the same time, the blood divine power she had previously released was no longer used for fighting, but began to operate in a mysterious trajectory, completely sealing off the boundaries of the entire sea of ​​consciousness, and wrapping the girl's entire body from the inside out into an airtight...cocoon!

A perfect... cage woven with the power of the creator god!
Charlotte's condensed spiritual body stood in the center of her sea of ​​consciousness. In her crimson-gold pupils, all the previous caution and probing had vanished, replaced by an indifference that had been frozen for eternity, and a trace of madness that had been hidden deep within and was finally being released.

She raised her eyes, gazing at the pale radiance that was raging and expanding in the other half of her consciousness, believing itself to be in complete control. A soft chuckle escaped her lips, her voice echoing clearly in this spiritual world:

"Original Beginning, you... have finally come in completely!"

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