Deep Sea Hunter, but Deep Sea Titan

No one dislikes celebrations, even if the content of the celebration is a distant and vague illusion for the Letanians.

Even the most pedantic Lycans couldn't listen to the entire performance of the Golden Melody in one mind. The performance, which lasted for several hours, was actually a sophisticated Originium Arts spell designed to open the gate to the Wasteland. Apart from the Twin Queens, almost no one in Lycans could play the Golden Melody to this extent.

At this point, Lotin had switched his skin to [Light Knight], a skin that relies on cognitive enhancement to effectively combat the cognitive pollution of evil spirits.

Reality is shattering before Loting's eyes; disorder and chaos are eroding the laws of the real world, the very path leading to the wasteland.

On the other side of the passage, the Witch King was holding his palace. More magical towers collapsed under the onslaught, becoming a breeding ground for chaos and disorder. The severe erosion even affected the fortress itself and the Witch King's echo. He could only barely maintain the harmony and stability of the music with all his might, but every note was rebelling against him, as if breaking free from the shackles of music theory and becoming pure, meaningless noise.

It was as if the Witch King was still the same tyrant in this other-dimensional palace, oppressing rhythm and notes to resist the incomprehensible chaos. And now, the notes and rhythm were rebelling against him, just as the Lytanians had rebelled against his tyranny.

"Hold on a little longer, just a little longer. If these chaotic monsters cross my palace and reach reality, then Letania will be swallowed by annihilation."

The witch king felt that since he had been overthrown and judged as a tyrant, he should at least make it meaningful and at least keep the surging evil forces away from his homeland.

"This note..."

"This melody..."

The Witch King's thoughts gradually became incoherent and unclear. The musical score began to appear disjointed and incomplete in his eyes, and even the sound of the collapsing spell tower was more regular than the spells he was playing.

"Chaos Demons, retreat at once!"

Just then, a dazzling beam of light suddenly brought the Witch King back to his senses. The towering silver golem and the holy and majestic metal sentinels—he remembered what these were. He had seen records of this giant in his long and obsessive research.

"The lost guardian of Kazimierz, the giant knight Nautilus..."

"Could it be that the Twin Queens have already conquered Kazimierz?"

In the Witch King's view, the palaces were a collection of the concepts of Letania. When Syracuse became independent, this part of the concept was no longer complete, and the appearance of new concepts in the collection of palaces could only mean that Letania had conquered new lands.

"It is neither a loss nor a conquest."

“I have returned to Qazimir, so it is impossible for your successors to conquer Qazimir.”

Lotin didn't think that Kazimir was so weak that he could easily conquer a country like Letania, which was embroiled in internal strife, but he was still somewhat speechless at the fact that this most controversial king of Letania was so powerful.

A blinding golden light burst forth from the hammer and axe, instantly dispelling the indescribable darkness. Nautilus, the Knight of Light, represents the cold "fairness" and "order," the nemesis of the chaotic and disorderly demons.

His student Margaret would show mercy to the weak, but he wouldn't; he would only burn his enemies with the deadliest death ray.

“I am here to help you and ensure that your palace does not fall into a den of demons. I have no intention of judging or judging your merits and demerits on behalf of your people, but in any case, the Terran civilization needs the power of you, the great king.”

Loting stated his purpose in a relatively polite tone. Of course, he was prepared to make some threats, but judging from the Witch King's nodding attitude, it seemed that this was not necessary.

"It's truly a fortunate thing to have received help from the legendary Giant Knight. In any case, thank you for your help, Giant Knight."

Just when the Witch King thought things were about to improve, an even louder noise pierced his eardrums, causing his ears to bleed in pain. He realized that a more powerful disorder and chaos was approaching his palace.

"Could it be the fourth higher-dimensional ruler?"

Chapter 284: The Higher Dimensional Ruler

Far beyond the Eternal Palace, almost at the edge of sight, an even more terrifying chaotic entity was becoming something that Lothing and the Witch King could recognize. When this other-dimensional demon was observed by the inhabitants of Terra, it would reveal some horrifying qualities.

"Damn it, not three, but four?"

Although Lotin expressed his surprise, he was not so panicked as to be at a loss for what to do, but he did feel a long-lost sense of unease. The Kazimierz people were awestruck by the existence of the [Light Knight Nautilus], just as the concept of Letania had erected this eternal palace in the spell array. At the same time, the magic resistance equipment enhanced his will, which allowed Lotin to maintain his self-control under the influence of this high-dimensional ruler.

"Another higher-dimensional ruler I've never heard of before..."

This terrifying, indescribable creature is a purely malevolent amorphous aggregate. Black hole-like eye-shaped outlines are generated and decomposed erratically on its body. Its presence causes musical notes to retreat and light to distort. A chaotic and intertwined energy field protects this dreadful monster from the repulsive force of the Eternal Palace.

The magical towers in front of it all collapsed, as if all hope had been destroyed by its existence.

Lotin unleashed a beam of death light with all his might. He decisively used his ultimate skill, and with the boost of extremely high spell power, this beam of death light almost had the power to burn down a mobile town in one strike.

But this is not the real world. This is a desolate region where order gives way to chaos and disorder, the home of these wicked and evil spirits. It is far from the real world and even further from Kazimierz. The Knights of Light would not be able to exert their full power outside the Kingdom of Knights. Even so, this amorphous abomination was not unharmed.

It was utterly suppressed and repelled. No one in Terra had ever been able to suppress a high-dimensional ruler like Lotin in the demons' home turf, in the desolate wilderness.

Even the Calendar King and Nightmare Khan of yesteryear only banished that higher-dimensional ruler from the real world through annihilation in the material world.

The damage Loting inflicted on the demons in the wasteland was a permanent erasure. He could sense that the demons purified by the death ray had completely disappeared, rather than fleeing or being banished.

During this lull, the Witch King recovered from the chaos and tried his best to regain control of the music. The harmonies began to converge again, and the demons surging toward the tower were quelled by an army of notes and rhythms.

"Giant Knight, this monster is not as fragile as we thought!"

Seeing that Lotin had maintained such a powerful energy output for a long time, the Witch King, based on his common sense, believed that Lotin would exhaust its power before this powerful monster, which he called the "high-dimensional ruler," could.

“My energy is not as weak as you think, Witch King.”

The effect of the ultimate skill that could lock the head had ended, but Lotin could still choose to unleash the purest destructive energy under this skin. Lotin could clearly feel a long-lost pressure. This high-dimensional ruler, especially the high-dimensional ruler in the wasteland, was a completely different level from those weak Terrans.

"I'll have to be a little more serious now."

The four tax-generating regions, transformed by the Imperial Order, provided Lotin with a surge of mana. He channeled destructive energy around his hammer and axe, which spilled over his body, before charging heavily toward the abominable, shapeless mass.

The [Light Knight] skin, which draws its power from the Kazimierz people's understanding, allows Lotin to completely slay demons in the wasteland, and the high equipment bonuses from talents and equipment make up for the inherent numerical deficiencies of the [Light Knight] skin.

The high-dimensional ruler left ominous black burn marks on Lotin's body, but the next second, these marks were restored to their original state in an instant, and the hammer and axe with the W skill and Nashor's Tooth also gradually shrank the size of the opponent.

Suddenly, the monster vanished from Loting's sight without warning, only to reappear abruptly behind him.

"Non-linear movement, huh? Then you have to attack me, right?"

Luo Ting recalled the period when he first came ashore, when his combat awareness and reaction speed were severely lacking. Back then, he simply and crudely used being hit to find his enemy and create opportunities to attack. Now, in this situation, he could completely use this technique that he hadn't used in a long time.

After all, no matter how sharp his combat awareness and reaction speed are now, he can't keep up with non-linear movement, which is a true instantaneous movement.

"caught you!"

While the High Dimensional Dominator was giving Lottin a scathing treatment, it was also being burned by [Endless Hatred] and [Sunfire Aegis]. Therefore, Lottin quickly seized the opportunity, and the three 360-degree ring-shaped death rays released by his E skill prevented the High Dimensional Dominator from making non-linear movements.

Immediately afterwards, with the release of the W skill again, a hammer strike that was forcibly refreshed fell instantly at an extremely incongruous speed, injecting order into the chaotic disorder. Nautilus' passive skill fixed this amorphous and disordered thing in place.

It launched an unprecedented and fierce counterattack. Dark, ominous energy, carrying a silver nebula, crashed against Loting's outer shell. Loting endured the mental discomfort, which felt like the headache he had in his university days before his transmigration, but that was all.

"Lord Gonggong, you actually ventured into such a dangerous and ominous place alone!"

Perhaps sensing the chaotic evil energy seeping into the inner world of the desolate land through the Mountain and Sea Scroll, the long-unseen Shu took the initiative to appear before Luo Ting. During this time, she had been busy voluntarily helping the Iberians restore food production, and had won the reputation of the goddess of harvest in the Iberians.

"You look much better, Miss Shu."

During the brief interval between the passive skill's control effects ending, Lotin threw out his hammer and axe, using his Q skill [Clear the Channel] to once again immobilize the raging, struggling High Dimensional Dominator, whose size was rapidly shrinking further.

"They claim to be helping the Iberians, who have suffered from marine disasters, to cleanse the land, but in reality they are just wandering around aimlessly."

Shu's explanation was clearly an understatement, but the pressure she faced was indeed much less than it had been in Great Wilderness City.

"The evil energy here is so strong. Even the most evil energy in the Great Wilderness City couldn't compare to this place. Lord Gonggong, I'm here to help you purify the evil magic."

The millet spread its arms, and an unprecedented gentle drizzle fell upon the desolate land. The demons touched by the raindrops instantly turned into a cloud of black smoke and vanished.

"I wasn't planning on troubling you right now."

Luo Ting's original intention was to have the Sui sisters focus on purifying the evil spirits' pollution of the real world. He could completely solve the current situation, but since Shu offered to help this time, he naturally had no reason to refuse.

"This time, I am not simply paying the price for recuperating in the Scroll of Mountains and Seas. Your Excellency Gonggong, I have personally witnessed your tireless efforts for the sake of all living beings. I am here out of a sense of responsibility and respect to lend you a helping hand."

From Shu's perspective, Lotin is essentially Terra's fire brigade, constantly shuttling between the most terrifying "fire scenes" in the Terra world.

"Really? That's how you see me?"

Lotin doesn't mind being seen that way, because it helps him expand his tax base. In his heart, he's not rushing between these world-ending crises out of some so-called, imposed, or unfounded moral responsibility, but out of his personal will and commitment to the taxpayers.

"Ha, the giant beasts and giant knights from the East are helping me fight off the evil spirits. I can hardly tell if this is a dream or reality."

The Witch King couldn't imagine what he would be like facing this high-dimensional ruler. His palace could probably only hold out for a few minutes against this chaotic and malicious force, but the giant knight suppressed it throughout, and even "exiled" it along with the fragment of the Eastern behemoth.

The Witch King remembered that the Calendar King and the Nightmare Khan had sacrificed themselves and their armies to leave the land of burning winds south of Sargon in order to banish a high-dimensional ruler among the demons.

However, he probably didn't know that the demons killed by [Light Knight Nautilus] in the wasteland would disappear permanently.

"However, there are many suspicious points about this unusual riot by the demons, and the cause still needs further research."

As the terrifying, chaotic thing dissipated in the raindrops, the Witch King's tense nerves finally relaxed temporarily. The appearance of the ancient beast fragments and giant knights from the East was just as baffling as the riot of demons.

"Could it be a man-made disaster...?"

The Witch King pondered, carefully recalling some details obscured by the fierce battle. In his view, the whole incident was filled with an extreme sense of deliberateness and incongruity, as if someone had deliberately revealed their coordinates to the demons, specifically to lure them to attack his palace.

Chapter 285: Theresis Emerges

The Witch King's keen intuition had brought him close to the truth. Having spent a long time fighting demons in the wasteland, he had a similar macro-level understanding of demons as Lotin, but he undoubtedly had more experience in the details of understanding the patterns of demon activity—this outbreak of demons must have been influenced by human intervention.

At this moment, in the research room of the last pardoner, Quesasina, in Kazdel, the Doctor and Amiya came to visit this loyal subject of the contemporary Demon Lord, Nautilus, the Conqueror.

"Long time no see, Shining. I didn't expect you to get the clue first."

The Doctor is here because she received an invitation from The Shining, the last Exonerator who claims to have made crucial progress in her search for Theresis.

"Your efforts have helped me overcome many difficulties. Ah, how should I address you now? Princess? Madam?"

When Quessina was working as an operator on Rhodes Island, it was a relatively pleasant time for her. Now, they are working together again because of another person, but their identities have changed.

"Just call me Doctor as before. Of course, if you insist on using those two titles, that's fine too."

Although she appeared indifferent on the surface, the Doctor was actually quite pleased with herself, though she vaguely felt that a sad, thick barrier had already formed between her and Quessina.

"Ahem, alright then, Doctor, I'll get straight to the point."

Quessina cleared her throat, awkwardly steer the conversation back to the main topic.

"Among the modern Sarkaz, only this brother and sister have glimpsed unimaginable secrets from the Creator. Combined with Hadley's long-term interrogation of the Regent's remnants, it can be basically confirmed that Theresis is still trying to use Originium to cause some kind of consequence. At least we are on the right track."

"Hedley's pursuit and interrogation of the remnants of the Regent's faction at least gave us information that could be corroborated: the guidance device on the Shard was transported from the airship to the ground effect vehicle beforehand, and Theresis may still be using it for some kind of activity."

In his research on resurrecting Theresa, the White Horned Demon King Quesatushta had secretly encoded the characteristics of the siblings' consciousness within the Originium's internal space.

Under these circumstances, Quessina has been trying to find the possible consciousness code of Theresis within the Originium's internal space.

The reason why "Knocker" Quesatushta is called the Knocker is because he wanted to knock on the door connecting the inner space of Originium through his own methods. Therefore, the Sarkaz sorcery he left behind was enough to allow Quesatushta to observe in the shallow stream of consciousness of the inner space of Originium in a form similar to "skipping stones" without using the Black Crown or Anana.

"In the end, we found a clue through the code I shared with you before."

“We have always suspected that Theresis used the internal turbulence of the Originium’s internal space to hide the traces of his use of Originium’s authority, but we have never been able to access the disordered turbulence of the Originium’s internal space, which neither Theresis nor I could access.”

The Doctor also conducted a long search on Rhodes Island through Anana, but still found nothing. Outside the Originium's internal space that she and Precys could control, there was a turbulent area filled with redundant information that neither she nor Quessina could reach.

"It was in this turbulent current that I discovered traces of Theresis's consciousness encoding. I observed the deeper layers of the turbulence from the shallow layers. This is the result of my further exploration of the Knocker's own research findings."

"It appears that Theresis stole a tiny portion of the access to the Originium's internal space."

Upon hearing the words "privilege theft," the Doctor became alert and checked her own permissions, finding nothing unusual. However, she couldn't figure out how Priscilla's permissions had been stolen.

"Precys didn't mention to me or Nautilus that Theresis had stolen her privileges, did he?"

While Precys did have a personal entanglement with Lotin, it's unlikely that he would deliberately conceal the fact that a Sarkaz person stole Originium access.

"Have you seen the priestess recently?"

“I spoke with her at Agor’s archives.”

"The portion of the Originium she controlled was invaded by demons, but she quickly drove them out and sealed off the Originium's internal space."

"Could it be that this madman used demons to deal with Prissis, just like the Yan Kingdom used fragments of demons to deal with the behemoth 'Sui'?"

The fragments of information were woven into a complete chain of events in the doctor's mind. Although it was currently just a speculation based on existing information, the possibility could not be ignored.

"But what exactly can he do with such a tiny bit of authority?"

Logically, if Theresis used this authority, he would emerge from the turbulence and be discovered by Priscilla. However, Priscilla has now sealed off the internal space of his Originium, which means that Theresis can now truly begin to utilize the sliver of authority he stole.

"Quisassina, can you pinpoint Therese's location?"

"It's difficult for me to pinpoint Theresis's exact location based solely on my observations, but your intelligence has given me an idea."

“As you said, the priestess has sealed off the internal space of the Originium she controls, which may allow Theresis to act more boldly. At this time, you and Amiya should also be able to capture his consciousness code. Using the methods of Anana, the Black Crown, and Quesatushta, you can locate Theresis’s position by establishing a three-point location.”

Quessina rummaged through the thick data records, preparing to cast the next Absolutioner spell. At the same time, the Doctor informed Lottin of this information through the system chat interface. Lottin then signaled the Doctor and Quessina to continue the search according to their plan.

“I roughly know who caused this unusual activity of the demons, but I still need to verify and confirm it further. However, that guy Theresis really knows how to find loopholes like this.”

Although Theresis did steal some Originium access through certain means in the original storyline that Lotin was unaware of, there was no plot in the story that Theresis successfully stole Originium access before Lotin transmigrated. After transmigrating, he thought that Precys would not give Theresis a chance under normal circumstances.

Fortunately, Lotin had anticipated this situation and had taken control of the Black Crown and Anana in advance, greatly reducing Theresis's room for maneuver. This meant that Theresis could not keep Anana as she did in the original story.

Therefore, Lotin judged that Theresis's choice to lure the demons into an invasion was a desperate and risky one. This madman never considered the long-term consequences of his actions and would drag the Sarkaz and Terra into a massacre at the drop of a hat.

"Is the Sarkaz now under his control?"

"I knew that man would do something crazy and reckless!"