Chapter 1332 - How the Earlier Plan Worked (2/2)

It was a tar baby for the mortals and even demigods in the Planes of Dreams. But Hao Ren found a loophole. He tricked Lockmarton into another universe and killed him with the power of another god.

So from the beginning, Hao Ren had set a series of traps for Lockmarton.

The Battle of Spiral Hill was the first trap, which was also the most difficult one. Hao Ren had to use the limited strengths of the Sanctum Expeditionary Force, and his men let Lockmarton produce a sense of crisis. While the damage of a conventional attack was limited, the only thing that could frighten Lockmarton and induce him to flee was the goddess of creation.

Lockmarton had betrayed the goddess and was very likely the one that caused the death of the goddess. But Hao Ren was sure that as soon as the power of the goddess appeared, Lockmarton would panic because this fear was in his bones.

So Hao Ren handed over Raven 12345’s divine items to the 10 wardens. The wardens activated the holy objects with the power of the goddess of creation in him to create the illusion that the goddess of creation was waking up.

It transpired that the plan was a success. Lockmarton was forced to flee into the outer universe, where the second trap was.

As early as the Sanctum Expeditionary Force departed from Fidelinopolis, Hao Ren had sent the MDT to set up this trap. He authorized the MDT to access his Dimensional Pocket just to let it take the “crystal key.” The MDT took the key, returned to the outer universe, and opened the Gate of the Universe, which connected the Plane of Dreams and the Surface World. Before that, they had partially cracked the divine barrier enveloping Collow. So it was a piece of cake for a thing as tiny as the MDT to traverse between both universes, even if it was the nightmare world.

Hao Ren was confident that Lockmarton would flee to the Gate of the Universe instead of deep space of the Plane of Dreams when being fired at in space.

It was because the remnant of the goddess of creation’s words had filled the Plane of Dreams.

Even if a true god were dead, the influence of his words and deeds would not quickly go away. The same was true of the goddess of creation. The remnants of her divine power in the Plane of Dreams were little, but they existed. The fact that the priests in Holletta could continue to perform various divine spells through prayer was a good testament. In a universe full of the goddess’ power, the sudden appearance of a door without any signs of the divine power made it obvious where Lockmarton would run to. As the Gate of the Universe was a passage crossing the Wall of Reality, Raven 12345 had set it up in a way that the gate would not carry any divine energy.

Another arrangement that Hao Ren had sent the MDT to carry out while he was on the city wall was to write a message in the inspector’s forum.

“Hao Ren, the Bomb Maniac, is going to blow up the demigod from the other world! Live telecast in the Scarred Nebula!”

As soon as the message was posted, all demigods in the universe had arrived. Even Raven 12345 replied to the thread with a “666”.

Then, Lockmarton was beaten black and blue by dozens of demigods amid the laughter. GG!

The most challenging part of this plan was the first step, and the riskiest was the last step. Hao Ren had to finish Lockmarton off in the Scarred Nebula and never let him get away from the gravity field of the Gate of the Universe.

Since Lockmarton was a demigod from the Plane of Dreams, he possessed a horrible amount of information. If such a massive body of data went through the Wall of Reality, it would likely cause the wall to collapse, which was not something that could be easily forgiven.

The Gate of the Universe was similar to the space crack Hao Ren had found in Siberia. The Gate of the Universe was an enlarged and artificially-controlled version of the space crack in Siberia. Matters from the Plane of Dreams must not cross into the surface world and vice versa. But using these space cracks would be able to minimize the impact on the Wall of Reality, In the vicinity of this type of cracks, space and time could accommodate the information of both universes at the same time. Raven 12345 called this phenomenon Superposition State. Given the size of the Gate of the Universe, the gravity field was far stronger than that of the spatial rift in Siberia. Under its influence, the entire Scarred Nebula was in a state of superposition, which Hao Ren had learned from the goddess a long time ago.

When this happened, being in the Scarred Nebula meant one was in the Plane of Dreams and the surface world at the same time.

So, it was safe to let Lockmarton pass through the Gate of the Universe and stay in the Scarred Nebula, but not outside of and away from it. As the volume of information Lockmarton contained was too massive, even if there was the ‘safety gate’ as a buffer zone, Lockmarton must not be allowed to enter the surface world.

There were risks, but Hao Ren was not worried. If all the demigods in the surface world could not capture Lockmarton, then Hao Ren and all his other colleagues would deserve whatever punishments that Raven 12345 would lash out on them.