Chapter 407: Vol5 Ch77: Layers of scheming

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Boundless light and heat radiated from the golden eye, causing everything to rapidly melt and burn to ash.

The total energy within the surrounding s.p.a.ce-Time reached a certain peak, even Negary felt like time itself was flowing faster. If someone accidentally entered this place and didnt get killed by the clas.h.i.+ng radiation of Pathways, they would find that only a few weeks or even a few days had pa.s.sed outside despite them staying here for over a dozen years.

After this battle, even if Eternal Heat no longer radiated his heat and energy, his Pathway would still have permanently altered this place. At this moment, the pa.s.sage of time at this location had surpa.s.sed other locations by several hundred times, and as Eternal Heat continued to release his power, this difference continued to increase.

The power of Impurity within my surroundings is increasingly growing, and the structure of s.p.a.ce-Time is also collapsing as time speeds up more and more

As Negary flapped his dragon wings, countless golden beads s.h.i.+fted around his body. The beads that had been spread all around the world were now gathered around him, observing the changes in his surroundings, through which he recorded data on the Righteous G.o.ds in order to a.n.a.lyze their Pathways.

Life Bearer was the main force in resisting Eternal Heats attack, the lifeforms that she created were quickly absorbing the surrounding heat as resources in order to rapidly grow.

With the interception of numerous Pathways, almost every ent.i.ty here was attacking Eternal Heat. The Unreachable Gates aid was limited, so even when Eternal Heat continuously radiated a large amount of power, he still found it difficult to fight against many. The light gradually receded, which looked like if this continued, Eternal Heat would be defeated by their joined effort.

Is it really that simple?

A large number of patterns abruptly appeared on Negarys body, which formed a layer of protection against all poison right as a cloud smog shot towards him from the swirling darkness.

Concealed Demise! Negary immediately turned towards that direction.

The poison gas attack just now came from Concealed Demise, if Negary hadnt recognized the changes in s.p.a.ce-Time matter around him seconds before the smog arrived and noticed that the smog completely counteracted his existence, if he hadnt been able to complete an air-tight defense in that instant, over half of his body would have died, which would then spread to the virus in other locations in no time at all.

Essentially, if he hadnt prepared for it, that would have been a fatal attack.

Was it an instinctive attack?

Negary soon discovered that Concealed Demise didnt care about this attack at all and continued to focus on Eternal Heat. As far as he understood, Concealed Demises body was this ma.s.s of boundless darkness, which had fully encompa.s.sed his Pathway. Whenever there was a living being within it, his body would prepare a fatal surprise attack corresponding to that lifeform.

Even if the target was a gigantic lifeform like a planet, Concealed Demise would continuously acc.u.mulate enough power to eventually destroy it. It was said that he was chased out of his original world for this very reason.

Something isnt right

As someone who never holds grudges, Negary silently took note of Concealed Demises characteristics, then made considerations for a series of experiments to test this exact situation later on, and finally focused on the battle again.

While Mequiks calculations were correct, and his betrayal had indeed s.h.i.+fted the power scales of the two sides, everything was proceeding too smoothly. Eternal Heat shouldnt be that weak.

Right as Negary was wondering what preparations Eternal Heat might have, Negary suddenly felt his body stiffening as if something had restrained his movements.

Restraints usually originate from 2 sources, either from the environment or from within my own body

Negarys perception rapidly spread into his body and discovered the issue.

Evidently, the other Righteous G.o.ds had already noticed this issue before he did. Negary still hasnt fully manifested his Pathway, his Pathway hadnt fully encompa.s.sed his existence, so his perception of his own existence was a bit lacking compared to true Pathway Ent.i.ties.

Barren Shadow, I knew there was a problem with you Mequiks body s.h.i.+fted, her grey tentacles swung by themselves and swiftly yanked a series of jet-black curves from a different aspect of reality, those curves had entered Mequiks body to disturb her existence.

Thanks to Mequiks actions, Negary also discovered the black curves inside his body, which had reached inside through another aspect of reality. At first glance, it seemed to be an aspect related to darkness, and one wouldnt be able to detect these curves at all if they didnt observe through this aspect.

Right as Negary prepared to remove these black curves, he found himself losing the capability of observing that aspect. The Unreachable Gate had acted right at this moment, the countermeasures Negary put up previously had failed, so Negary needed a short amount of time to prepare the next series of countermeasures, but due to the black curves from Barren Shadow, it was difficult for him to do so.

Having been surrounded this entire time, Eternal Heat abruptly released a large amount of light and heat once again, his golden eyes opened one by one, causing the collapse of the surrounding s.p.a.ce-Times matter, speeding up the flow of time to its very limit.

Life Bearer turned to face Eternal Heats attack, almost as if to buy time for the others.

Negary raised an eyebrow. A large number of golden beads arrived through s.p.a.ce right at this time, this was the part of his body that he had left in the SCR world, which left the SCR world with a small number of golden beads just enough to ensure smooth operation of the parallel worlds.

The large number of reinforcing golden beads strengthened Negarys soul as well as his calculating abilities, sensitivity, and logic capacity. Several new countermeasures were immediately erected against The Unreachable Gate, removing his disturbance.

The golden beads around his body once again collected information from Barren Shadow and researched the method of observing that aspect of darkness, a ma.s.sive amount of data was rapidly being calculated by the golden beads.

A piece of information flashed through Negarys mind.

During the battle up until now, after the will of the Moon Tree escaped from his seal, the thing being pinned on the tree was completely ignored. Some of the fluctuations of their battle had caused the withered Moon Tree to collapse, allowing Negary to observe the information within and discovered that a portion of Barren Shadows black curves had entered the curse seals.

Was his goal the will of the Moon Tree?

No, that is nothing but an empty sh.e.l.l now, his true goal is the curses themselves. While anyone could study the seven curse seals to understand the Pathways of the Seven G.o.ds, this level of understanding should be insignificant at this point in time

The only pivotal thing at that place at this point in time would be The Unreachable Gates curse spear

The Seven G.o.ds had once jointly formed a covenant to not observe any information on the spears, as well as prevent any living being from observing them. The loophole created earlier was only related to the will of the Moon Tree and how the Seven G.o.ds distributed their Authority, completely unrelated to the observation of the curse spears

The only one capable of changing that would be the will of the Moon Tree who had been in close contact with the curse spears for a thousand years

No wonder Eternal Heat gave the will of the Moon Tree so much leeway. Even if it was for the sake of breaking the status quo, he had still given the will of the Moon Tree too much benefit

Quite evidently, the complete agreement between the will of the Moon Tree and Eternal Heat was for Eternal Heat to help the will of the Moon Tree escape, while the will of the Moon Tree secretly broke the part of the covenant related to The Unreachable Gate

Eternal Heat wants to act against The Unreachable Gate, even if it meant using up the preparations he had there. But killing The Unreachable Gate wouldnt change his current difficult circ.u.mstances, so Eternal Heat still has other plans

The even bigger issue is how he had ensured that the current circ.u.mstances would come to be, which should involve an even more complicated plan with even more variables. While being surrounded by so many enemies, as long as anyone realized his measures, his plan would fail, costing him both the fis.h.i.+ng rod and the bait!

There must be something aiding his plans, ensuring the chances of success would be controlled to a reasonable degree for him to make this gamble!

Within the network of Negarys countless golden beads, a vast amount of data was flowing through, a.n.a.lyzing the reason for Eternal Heats actions.

In a ma.s.sive sea, a completely altered lifeform abruptly opened its eyes.