Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Inside Rode’s Bitwall, several portals opened, revealing the silhouettes of powerful figures. The Level Four professionals arrived in groups. There were frequent arrivals of Level Five professionals, too. Even the old men who had been born at the beginning of the San calendar began to enter the Half Bitwall.
The Astral World’s creatures, which were making a mess on the floating islands, were cleaned up. The Elemental Body was projected into the world where Masters built a Master Tower there, senior alchemy warlocks set up research institutes, and some special Ghost Masters and demon warlocks could even directly abandon their bodies and enter the Half Bitwall to stay there frequently.
The size of that Half Bitwall was finally explored. Rode’s Bitwall was even larger than the entirety of the Alen Continent. If the true size of the bitwall was added into the calculation, the scope and destructive power of that Half Bitwall were beyond their imagination.
The members of Rode’s Master Tower set up six small portals and tried various methods to change the fate of Rode’s Bitwall’s collision with Maria’s World.
“Change the track of Rode’s Bitwall and makes it deviate from its track!”
“No, Maria’s World constantly attracts Rode’s Bitwall to move forward, just like a magnet. No matter how we affect the deviation of the Rode’s Bitwall from its trajectory, it’ll continue to amend its deviation, and eventually, it’ll still hit Maria’s World.”
“Maybe we can conceal the traction of Maria’s World working on Rode’s Bitwall so that the speed of Rode’s Bitwall will slow down, and eventually we can find a way to stop it!”
“That’s impossible, we can’t achieve that!”
It took Rode more than 20 years to become a Level Five Magic Crystal Warlock, but he couldn’t change anything. No one could change the arrival of the so-called Judgment Day. The disaster of that doomsday was approaching with a countdown.
The major churches had been getting ready for the imminent Judgment Day, so much that when the prevailing cults, the spreading of the dead spirits, and the plots of demon warlocks on some continents were on the rise, they had no intention of fully suppressing them. Various groups with names like the Church of Truth, the Salvation Society, and the Paradise of God, which were apparently evil organizations, had emerged continuously.
In the past few decades, Alice had absorbed the leftover power of the Master of the Night through the use of his divine personality and the legacy left by Adenos. She had advanced from Level Three to Level Four. With the strength of the Bank of Monar and the Red Moon Business Group, she had subdued the remaining power of the Church of the Dark Night bit by bit. She relied on the foundation of the Church of the Dark Night and had regained her influence over the Kingdom of Hollyma and other Exotic Kingdoms.
The original Church of the Dark Night rose to power and fame again. The Church of the Dark Night, which had once fallen, had finally found their True God again. Although that True God had changed from the so-called Master of the Night to the Goddess of the Night, as long as someone could redeem their sin and help them escape Judgement Day, that person would be their master. It didn’t hurt that Alice had once been the High Priest of the Church of the Dark Night.
Alice once again became the controller of the Church of the Dark Night. And this time, she had really gained everything that the Church of the Dark Night had accumulated in the Exotic Kingdom over hundreds of years and all that the Master of the Night, Louis Biketo, had ever possessed.
Alice hastily kindled the divine fire. Under the great faith of the whole Kingdom of Hollyma, she inherited the priesthood of the Master of the Night and merged with the Divine Personality of the Dark Night. With the cheers of countless people, the temple of the Church of the Dark Night was rebuilt again and order in the Exotic Kingdom was restored.
She ascended the throne of God in the last ten years by making use of the belief of tens of millions of people in the Exotic Kingdom and the foundation of the Church of the Dark Night.
The whole world had sunk into a dark and depressive atmosphere, and all forces were preparing for their final struggle.
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The design of Rode’s Master Tower was in the style of the ancient golden imperial court. On each floor, there would be several huge windows and arches which opened to the outside. Various distinctive doors formed his Master Tower. The witchcraft boundary emitted pale white radiance which enveloped a large portion of the research facilities and the buildings around it.
Rode sat on the table. The meeting was over and he was the only one sitting there. Even now, he had no intention of giving up.
“Thud!”
Rode back leaned on the chair. He was slightly exhausted and he closed his tired eyes, then felt a ring on his thumb suddenly being removed. The ring was silvery white, carved with mysterious patterns, and through a small pinhole opening, one could see the internal workings of dense and complex alchemy parts. Each complex part, akin to an organ, was rotating.
Just then, a strange hand grabbed onto the ring, not letting it fall back into Rode’s hands.
Rode immediately opened his eyes and saw an unfamiliar man with black-haired and dark eyes sitting across the table. “Who are you?”
Almost two hundred years had passed, and even Rode had gradually forgotten about the man he once had a glimpsed when he was in his youth.
Lu Zhiyu plucked the ring in his hand and looked at Rode through the ring. “It seems like you’ve done thorough research on my ring. The theories of space magic and space transfer have basically all been discovered through my ring.”
Rode stood up abruptly and looked at Lu Zhiyu with astonishment. “It’s you! Anthony, the Great and Wise, from the legendary Wizard Tower!”
In the early days when he received Anthony’s Ring, that mysterious ring seemed to point to the world’s fundamental truths. It had made Rode crazy about it. Through the description of Jack Black, his wind raven, he searched high and low for other descriptions of Anthony, the Great and Wise, of the legendary Wizard Tower.
The Wizard Tower had long disappeared from the world, but legends about it were widely spread in churches and kingdoms, and Anthony, the Great and Wise, was the one who had built the Wizard Tower in the legend.
But there were no records or books about the origin of Anthony, the Great and Wise. No one knew how powerful he was. No one knew his identity, race, past, or fate.
Only in the notes of the early wizards was it recorded that he didn’t belong to the world, but came from the Astral World. He seldom appeared in front of people. But in the first year of the San calendar, with the emergence of supernatural power, he seemed to have been standing behind the world, and he was absolutely a being that shouldn’t be ignored.
Rode looked at Lu Zhiyu and said, “Something must have happened for you to come here all of a sudden.” Then a hopeful and mysterious smile appeared on his face. “You want to tell me how to solve the problem of Rode’s Bitwall’s collision with Maria’s World!”
Lu Zhiyu waved his hand and a drawing with mysterious patterns of round wheels on it appeared on the table. There were seventeen cards on it. At the moment, fourteen cards had been overturned, and the remaining three were still covered.
“Choose one? Go with your intuition!” Instead of answering Rode’s question, Lu Zhiyu asked him to choose one of the three remaining cards.
Theories and records of becoming Gods had all been erased from historical records. Even though Rode vaguely knew about some of the legends, he had never really seen them. Only the oldest group of beings might have scattered knowledge of the records.
Rode didn’t know what Lu Zhiyu was doing. He carefully observed the seventeen cards. On the back of the cards were chaotic whirlpools that were stirring, while on the front of the cards there were pictures of brilliance, the sun, the sickle of Death God, the storm…
When Rode finished looking at them, he looked up at Lu Zhiyu in horror. “Is this God? Each card represents a god!”
“The fourteen cards represent the fourteen True Gods!”
Rode looked at the remaining three cards again and suddenly remembered the records he had read on an ancient scroll. The creator had left seventeen thrones for the gods. However, the bizarre records and legends, if they were really studied in detail, revealed that different versions were available at different times. However, what was presented to Rode at the moment made him felt a little different.
“All of this is true!”
Rode seemed to be attracted by some force and he inexplicably reached out and grabbed one of the remaining three cards. As soon as his finger touched the card, even before he revealed the front of the card, he saw a dazzling brilliance radiating from the thin card.
When the card was lifted up, beams of light shot out from the Master Tower, shocking people all over Rode Island. They looked up at Rode’s Master Tower at a loss for words. They didn’t know what had happened.
Rode’s eyes were attracted to the card at the moment and he allowed the brilliant rays of divine power to flow continuously in the Master Tower. It had transformed the Master Tower into a dazzling white shrine.
On the front of the card were tiny bubbles and a diamond crystal constructed by folds. Rode knew what it was at a glance, it was the bitwall and space. From the card, a transparent crystal that reminded him of space slowly emerged and fell into Rode’s hands.
“The fifteenth True God – The God of Space and Exploration! It’s foretelling the future of Maria’s World, the exploration of the outside world, and the first step for your world to advance further!”
“The unique power of the priesthood and the divine personality of the God of Space and Exploration can control and create a small stable space. The True God can even create some small Half Bitwalls. Hence, using the power of the God of Space and Exploration, you can control and create a Half Bitwall, as long as you’ve enough great divine power and enough material energy from the outside world.”
Rode became excited at once. “If that’s the case, we can use its power to solve the crisis caused by Rode’s Bitwall! Yes, yes! This must be it, other gods may not be able to do it but the God of Space and Exploration can. He was born to be the controller and master of space. There will be no problem in controlling and influencing Rode’s Bitwall!”
Lu Zhiyu shook his head and said, “If it’s in this world, of course, it’s possible, but now it’s outside this world. In an area that doesn’t belong to the bitwall of Maria’s World, you don’t have the permission to do anything!”
Lu Zhiyu looked at Rode. “Therefore, even with the identity of a demigod, when this person enters Rode’s Bitwall with the priesthood of the God of Space and Exploration, with his mythical body and strength, he will have to offer sacrifice to the bitwall before he can control the Half Bitwall. Only then can he have the power and authority to control the Rode’s Bitwall!”
Rode then uttered the second half of what Lu Zhiyu had never said, “Then, by offering sacrifice to the bitwall, the mythical body, which is a replacement for the Power of Rules, will perish!”
But Lu Zhiyu said, “No, as long as you integrate the entire Half Bitwall into Maria’s World before the mythical body perishes, you’ll gain the strength of the whole world. You’ll reborn as a True God!”
Rode stared at Lu Zhiyu blankly and asked, “Who are you?”
