Mystery: She came from the Chaos Sea

Chapter 154: Beginning and Ending

Earth.

Inside the initial barrier.

A dazzling light burst forth, like the breaking dawn, instantly illuminating the entire world. This light, carrying immense power, crushed the strange crimson that permeated the landscape with overwhelming force.

In the light, a stone slab exuding an ancient atmosphere quietly blocked the creepy door of rotten flesh and blood.

On the stone slab, the power of the original barrier continuously condensed, like a surging tide, tightly blocking the small cracks that the outer gods tried to "drill" out of.

Hermione's gaze fell on the gradually collapsing gate of rotten flesh and blood.

Through the peeling flesh, she saw the howling soul of the giant's eldest son, and she saw the corruption of the Outer Gods that seeped into Badhair like maggots in his bones.

"The Mother Tree of Desire", "The King of Decline", "The Uncertain Mist", "The Goddess of Fate", and the great mother, the only pillar outside the barrier, "The Fallen Mother Goddess".

It’s not that the other Outer Gods are unwilling to participate, they just don’t have the conditions to participate this time.

"It's quite lively." Hermione chuckled.

The information she gained from this trip was more than she had expected, but it also showed that the hidden dangers on Earth at this moment were more than she had expected.

Even with the protection of the original barrier, there are so many Outer Gods who use various symbolic connections and plans to infiltrate their power into the earth.

The three Outer Gods, "Fallen Mother Goddess", "Mother Tree of Desire" and "Uncertain Mist", are respectively related to the "Mother Nest", "Shadow World" and "Kingdom of Disorder" on Earth.

Their infiltration was within Hermione's expectations.

Hermione had anticipated the attention of the "Decadent King" when she deliberately spared Badhair's life.

She deliberately used Badheir as bait to lure out the Outer Gods' arrangements, thereby wasting their attention and time.

As for whether this action was cruel to Badhair, it was completely beyond Hermione's consideration.

However, there was no corresponding information about this "Goddess of Fate", Hermione.

Initially, the barrier is both protective and restrictive.

It temporarily protected the Earth from the invasion of the Outer Gods, but it also prevented Hermione from truly gaining insight into the intelligence belonging to the Outer Gods.

At this moment, through this door of corrupted flesh and blood, Hermione clearly saw the undisguised desires of the Outer Gods participating in this operation.

What the "Mother Tree of Desire" wants is the source substance "Shadow World" and the corresponding uniqueness and sequence-one extraordinary characteristics.

The target of "The King of Decay" is one of "City of Disaster" and "River of Everlasting Darkness".

The essence that the "God of Destiny" desires is the "Key of Light", but he also has a desire to devour uniqueness such as the White Tower, Visionaries, Fools, and Errors.

The "Uncertain Mist" is determined to take back the "Land of Disorder" and the sealed object "Wishing Lamp" that were torn from him.

The "Fallen Mother Goddess" wants to accommodate the uniqueness and sequence-one characteristics of the source material "mother" and the corresponding path.

Among the ten Outer Gods, the "Fallen Mother Goddess", "Uncertain Mist" and "Mother Tree of Desire" are relatively special. They want to take back the part that was split from them and make themselves whole again.

The other seven Outer Gods wanted to take advantage of the situation and snatch the source essence and uniqueness that they had longed for.

Although they may not be able to easily absorb and contain some of the essences, they can still rely on their respective authority to possess these essences and uniqueness, thereby enriching the types of their own abilities and expanding their influence in the universe.

Moreover, through these Outer Gods, Hermione also saw cosmic civilizations with very different styles.

Among them, some are purely extraordinary worlds, where some species control mysterious powers and live in a fantasy environment; but more are highly developed interstellar civilizations.

These civilizations fight and collide with each other in the vast universe.

While they are expanding the boundaries of this infinite universe and trying to explore more unknown areas, they are also competing with each other for living space, fighting fiercely for resources, territory, desires, and even to please the outer gods behind them.

Hermione sensed something fishy going on—

Although the interstellar forces protected or kept in captivity by these Outer Gods are in endless fighting, these Outer Gods can coexist peacefully with each other, quietly waiting for the day when the initial barrier disappears.

There was certainly the attraction of the tempting prey of "Earth", but Hermione sensed that there was a force integrating these Outer Gods, who had conflicts and even overlapping goals, into a loose alliance.

Hermione's gaze first fell on the most powerful "Fallen Mother Goddess", but then, during the rapid deduction of the "Sea of Chaos", her gaze moved to the "Uncertain Mist".

In the power that infiltrated the Old Ones, she felt the authority of "communication", which was the key to maintaining this alliance of Outer Gods.

The door of corrupt flesh and blood completely collapsed.

After dispelling the scarlet's influence on the earth, the towering light and shadow leaned over and grasped the collapsed, twisted humanoid monster in its palm.

Hermione did not look at the hidden space that only she could vaguely see through. Then, with the authority of the "Ruler of the Star Realm", she temporarily banned all beings on Earth from entering the star realm in an instant.

This move was like pulling up an invisible barrier on Earth, temporarily isolating the astral realm from the Earth.

Then, the majestic light and shadow gradually became blurred and slowly disappeared from the sight of the world.

In a secret space.

The "Hidden Sage" had just been promoted to a true god and was still immersed in the indescribable joy. Before he could recover, he suddenly felt his spirituality rapidly declining like a flood.

He turned back in horror, only to discover that a black sickle, emanating an aura of silence, had pierced his body. The silent power emanating from the black sickle continuously eroded and weakened his spirit.

This spiritual decay from the core authority of the True God, although not fatal to the "Hidden Sage" composed of a vast amount of complex information, made Him feel fear and discomfort. Even for Him, it was difficult to recover the damaged spirituality at present.

The Hidden Sage looked up and saw the enemy who attacked him—Amanesis holding an orange-red greatsword.

"You are... the 'Lord of Dusk'?!"

The "Hidden Sage", who was accustomed to escaping, instinctively wanted to escape from this secret space, but he suddenly found that he could not escape into the astral realm at this time. Not only that, his spirit, which was in a state of decline, also found it difficult to communicate effectively with the spiritual world.

These two ways of escape that allowed Him to come and go freely in the past were now both ineffective.

He tried to give numbers the power of "nothingness", thereby causing this secret space to collapse.

However, He soon discovered that because this secret space was closely related to His ascension to true God, it was inextricably linked to His own authority to "hide."

If He insists on collapsing this secret space, it means that He will give up His own authority to "hide."

Although this abandonment was only temporary, He, who possessed partial authority over the secret space, had just witnessed the majestic light and shadow that had annihilated and wiped out His Mother's power...

The "Sole Master" who was imprisoned by Grisha's creation can actually move freely?!

This fact, which contradicted his understanding, shocked and terrified the Hidden Sage. He could not imagine how he would escape the pursuit of the One Lord if he lost the power to hide.

He does have the life-saving ability of "information backup". Before this, he had carefully kept his "backup" in some hidden places.

When he is killed, he can choose to activate one of the "backups" on his own and will not be tracked, and will enter a hidden state again.

But the problem now is that the "backups" he left behind were all information in the state of the Angel King, and they are simply unable to withstand the enormous power and more complex form of his current true God.

If he were killed at this moment, not only would he be unable to be resurrected as a true god, but according to the rules of the true god's fall, he would also have to leave behind his uniqueness and sequence one characteristics, and could only be resurrected from the "backup" in the state of sequence two.

In this brief moment, the "Hidden Sage" thought about all his escape routes, but he could only face the reality that all his escape routes were now cut off.

The "Hidden Sage" simply lacks humanity, but he is not stupid. He knows very well that this desperate situation must be the result of someone's careful planning.

That being deliberately cut off all his escape routes and forced him into this secret space, wanting to have a fair fight to the death with him.

fair?

The Hidden Sage once again looked at Amanesis, who was holding the orange-red greatsword, and an emotion called despair spread in his heart.

He, who had allied himself with the "Corrupted Giants," was of course aware of the "Twilight" Path, also known as the "Giant" Path, also known as—

Warrior Path.

Facing the "Hidden Sage", the true god who is the embodiment of mysterious knowledge, in the posture of a "warrior", Amaniss had no intention of relying on anyone's power, including Hermione's power, from the very beginning in this hunt.

Because Amanesis knew that it would be difficult for the "true God" to keep up with Hermione's pace, so He wanted to consolidate the status of the true God to the greatest extent possible, so as to have more space to plan for greater power and status.

The ascension ceremony of the "Dark" true god: planning a secret event of the birth or fall of a true god.

The "Hidden Sage" was born in this secret space and will also perish in this secret space.

……

When the unknown secret space disappeared and the unknown war of gods came to an end, in the real world, those wizards who had lost their memories and knowledge recalled the various secret witchcrafts they once mastered.

This short-term memory loss made them think that there was something wrong with their condition.

Later, they found that the official organizations and the Moss Ascetic Order, which had brought them together through various means, had changed their previous absolutely indifferent attitude and expressed an attitude of acceptance and goodwill towards them.

They can also choose to live legally in human society as free persons after registering and being brought under unified management.

They had no way of knowing about the change in official attitude.

No one knew that the "Hidden Sage" once became a god and then fell.

But after experiencing various miracles, all human beings clearly realized one thing.

That is the "Lord of Dusk", the only one of the two gods of mankind who is called a "goddess", who has awakened from a long slumber.

Moreover, He became even more powerful after awakening, and was given a new honorific name—

"Goddess of the Night".

……

Dream space.

Hermione stood on the Sun Pillar, looking at Amanesis on the Star Pillar. The other party's conceptual posture changed into a deep figure like the night, dotted with stars, scarlet moons and red clouds.

After becoming the true god of the "Dark" path, Amanesis possessed the uniqueness of "Dusk" and "Moon".

The uniqueness of "Twilight" is Amanesis' adjacent path. The perfect conclusion of the deification ceremony, the stability of the human church, and his status as an ancient god as the "Lord of Twilight" all allow him to be in a stable enough state to use the power of this "Twilight" path.

As for Amanesis, the uniqueness of the "Moon" is not so much about holding it as it is about using its own good condition and powerful status to seal it.

He took the initiative to shoulder the heavy responsibility of fighting against this "nail" left on the earth by the "Fallen Mother Goddess". In Amanesis's view, he was a more suitable candidate to fight than Hermione and Lilith.

On the overlapping Moon Pillar and Nest Pillar stood the "Blood Angel" Lilith and the "Mother Nest" agent, Luo.

Lilith is already the King of Angels, one step away from becoming a true God, and during this period of time, Luo has also been promoted to the second-level "Duke of the Blood Clan".

On the overlapping Pillars of Wisdom and Pillars of Teacher stand Grisha, the "Angel of Enlightenment", and the Heavenly Master, the agent of the "Wildness of Knowledge", respectively.

Grisha still maintained his status as the King of Angels, but he was almost a match for the gods. Even with his intelligent brain, he had initially achieved what Hermione had believed could only be realized after the birth of the "Demon of Knowledge"—

It allows ordinary people to have abilities similar to those of a "generalist". Although there is a certain gap between them and real "generalists", ordinary people can acquire, store and apply knowledge more efficiently with the help of the connection of intelligent brain.

Moreover, the existence of intelligent brains is influencing the transformation of human social systems.

The various autonomous city-states and city-state alliances that once had the Human Church as their bottom line are now under the integration of the intelligent brain. Although the secular world has not yet been completely unified, more management rights have been added with the supervision of the intelligent brain.

Power, the beast that can promote human progress, has truly been put in a cage.

The classes in current secular society have not yet been completely replaced by new social relations, but fairness and justice can be implemented under the dual influence of gods and intelligent brains.

The simple value of hard work paying off is a basic rule in the current human secular world.

Classes have not been completely eliminated because current human beings have not yet found a new driving force.

In Hermione's vision, when the vast majority of human beings can find a way to practice without confusion, that will be the time to truly eliminate class drive.

Otherwise, the equal society brought about by divine power and technology will instead lead to the current collective addiction of human beings to pleasure and nothingness.

However, this kind of enjoyment and emptiness will in turn pollute the state of Hermione, who is bound to the human collective.

Once Hermione falls into depravity, even if Grisha and all the others can perish together with Hermione, the civilization of Earth will definitely regress to the Dark Ages, or even be worse.

Of course, an ideal society in which all human beings find ways to practice it is difficult to achieve, and can even be called a fantasy.

Material wealth and technological advancement cannot truly promote the advancement of the human spirit.

But in Hermione's vision, this is a destination that she and the human race will inevitably reach, and that destination is not far away, nor is it the end.

The "Angel of Spirits" Tolzna also appeared here. He stood on the Pillar of Binding, his thin figure shrouded in a restrained gray robe. His confrontation with the "Mother Tree of Desire" had not yet ended, but he was no longer as isolated and helpless as in the original time and space.

Finally, Hermione's gaze fell on Amon of the Pillar of Error.

Unlike the others who remained silent, Amon praised loudly and lightly, "Great 'Sun God', can you let me see the uniqueness of that 'Gate' path?"

(End of this chapter)