Chapter 240 - 195 : The Catastrophe (1/2)

'The Catastrophe?'

Arthur didn't expect to hear about it so soon. He read and heard about it on Astria, the four Divine Beasts which attacked the small world and caused a lot of destruction but not enough to push all the races into extinction.

Zodiak mentioned that every world was attacked, but the power of the four Divine Beasts in every Realm varied. It depends on who's residing in that world, it's like an automatically prepared system that fixes the power of the invaders to match the overall power of the world.

For example, the Underworld, which could barely be considered a Medium-Realm is called a High-Realm because the behemoth is living there, and its strength is enough to raise the rank of the Realm. Moreover, when the catastrophe fell upon it, the strength of the Divine Beasts was unimaginable, far stronger than what attacked normal Medium-Realms.

It isn't a confirmed speculation, but Zodiak guessed that the existence of one strong being in a small world could potentially raise the power of the beasts.

So, for example, if a Sovereign is residing on Astria when it occurs, the power of the Divine Beasts that attack it will be drastically increased to match the Sovereign, if not stronger.

When he thought of this, Arthur started worrying. Astria has no strong individuals, however, it has something unique, something that could cause its destruction.

It was none other than the young World Tree that Zodiak hid there. He doesn't know how powerful it is, but the Divine Beasts will surely not be easy to deal with, which made him feel a sense of urgency and uneasiness.

”When will it happen?”

”Many confirmed that'll happen in three months but… a man is sure that in two months, those beasts will start their invasion.”

Arthur frowned and questioned again

”Two months? Why are you so sure?”

”A man can see the shadow of Death cloaking this land. It is even possible that this time will be different and the defending party will be the one losing.”

The origin of the Divine Beasts has always been a mystery, they just arrived from nowhere and started destroying and killing everybody, the weak were not spared and strong who tried resisting ended up perishing in the end too.

There are many strong planets and Realms which were unscathed by this attack, however, that's only thanks to the union of the strong factions and the ancient and powerful individuals that participated in that fight.

The Divine Planet is a good example, the biggest planet in the Cloud Sea Universe and the most powerful in terms of factions. It remained undamaged by the attack, which only lasted a few hours before the Divine Beasts were either pushed off or killed.

Astria, on the other side, wasn't so lucky. One of the reasons the Forgotten continent wasn't remembered anymore is because of that event, the beasts focused on that continent specifically, it was even forcefully pushed away from the rest, rendering it absent from the history books of Astria and long forgotten by its inhabitants as only a few old beings have knowledge of it.

”Master, the strings of fate have changed, we must improvise.”

Swain knew how his master thought, Astria is Lucy's original home and his too. Despite the fact that she had a tragic childhood there, she still held affection toward it as it's a place where she met Arthur.

He was also wasn't willing to let the Divine Beasts rampage there, his sect and friends were there.

The problem was, he doesn't know if they'll attack the four big lands or the forgotten continent, it'll be better if they focused on the latter, but that's just wishful thinking from his part.

”What are our chances against them?”

Arthur asked Swain, who seemed to be knowledgeable about these Divine Beasts.

”Hard to tell… a man reckons that we're, by far, weaker than them. It wouldn't even be a fight since they'll be really strong due to… you know what.”

'World Tree *sigh*'

”I can ask some of the elders of my sect to help you.”

Jian Si, who stopped inspecting Makaze and focused on their conversation, spoke after hearing that. In response, Arthur shook his head and retorted

”No need, having strangers come to my home is more dangerous.”

Surprisingly, Swain didn't agree with Arthur this time.