Chapter 1386 - The Mysterious Player (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The secrets regarding the demon hunters or Ancients, those super-humans created by the mage emperors of Holletta were not what Hao Ren had expected. He initially thought that these super life forms were just experimental beings who stole the authority of the goddess at best. Whoever they were, it would not go beyond the planetary system of Holletta. The truth that these demon hunters were involved directly in the deicidal war was shocking. Even though they knew nothing about the war, their souls, flesh, and existence were inextricably linked to it. They were implanted in the communication network of the goddess of creation as a Trojan virus without them realizing. Through the divine signature code that the demon hunters carried, the “virus” successfully deceived the recognition mechanism of the network and secretly replaced all the ascending nodes. When the deicidal war broke out, on the eve of the goddess’ death, the connection between the Star of Creation and the mortal world was wholly cut off. No one ever thought that the root cause of the network failure came from a barbaric planet in the remote region of the universe.

“The mastermind seems to know the goddess of creation well—incredibly well.” A chill ran up Hao Ren’s spine. The guy who could plot against a true god was a considerable threat. This “third force” was more dangerous than all the opponents he had seen before. The god killers were mighty and ambitious, but they were mere tools to be discarded once the job was done. Lockmarton was powerful and strange, but he was just a mad demigod. Even the Mad Lord, the powerful primordial creature, was just an irrational phenomenon. Those without a thinking mind could not have conspired. It was not difficult to deal with an opponent that did not know how to plot. But this mysterious mastermind almost had everything under its control. It could even manipulate the true God, understand the goddess of creation well, and carry out various sabotage plans before the goddess could even react. The fact that this mysterious enemy still remained in the dark was disturbing.

Raven 12345 slowly nodded. “That guy knew the goddess of creation well. Let us summarize what we have known so far. First of all, it knew all the details of the deicidal war, and maybe, was one of the conspirators. So it could carry out the plans flawlessly, especially it had obtained the runic skills of the deicide. Secondly, the mastermind was not a member of the deicide because its actions had exceeded what the deicide could do in terms of intelligence gathering. At least it could obtain the divine power sample of the goddess of creation, which the killer could not. Thirdly, the mastermind knew the goddess of creation extremely well, even more than the guardians could. It knew in advance that the goddess of creation would contact her people in the universe, so it had the demon hunters blocking the communication network. From this, we know that this mastermind also knew well about the network—the architecture and how it worked—so that it could replace the critical nodes of the network. Finally, the mastermind had never revealed itself during the deicidal war. At least you would not find its activity in the records of the war survivors. There are only two explanations to this: it either hide so well that no one was aware of the existence of a behind-the-scenes ‘player,’ or it had been standing in front of everyone from the beginning. The guardians and the goddess of creation knew the existence of it, but no one knew its true colors and suspected it.”

Hao Ren frowned when Raven 12345 mentioned the last point. “You mean…”

“I guess this ‘third force’ was someone close to the goddess of creation. It had been on the Star of Creation all the while.”

While speaking, Raven 12345 wrote words and drew lines in the air. She listed all the clues and categorized them into a well-organized grid. All the lines pointed to her conclusion.

Below the conclusion, she drew a few more lines for more notes:

“The First Born was the signal relay station for the communication between the goddess of creation and her people. Every planet with a god-made ecosphere had at least one First Born. This First Born was the communication antenna, and also the physical node of the communication network.”

“The replacement of the network node with the Trojan virus essentially overrode the rights of transmission and reception of the signal of the First Born. The primordial demon hunters were implanted into the information network like a virus. This implantation required higher access permission.”

“The pollution happened in the mental network between the First Borns. The mental network between the First Borns and the communication network used by the goddess to contact the lower nodes were physically the same.”

“After the end of the deicidal war, all First Borns showed a tendency of insanity, which was also a kind of pollution.”

“The mastermind was quite familiar with the mental network of the First Borns. It might even have a very high degree of authority in the network—enough to allow the fake nodes formed by the primordial demon hunters to be imported into the normal communication sequence.”

“The modifications made to the network by the mastermind had evaded the eyes of the goddess of creation, and even the detection of the guardians and the First Borns who were the network nodes. This is the most difficult part to explain.”

Raven 12345 listed all the conclusions, conjectures, preconditions, and contradictions. She then stopped and turned her head around slightly. “Hao Ren, look. The mastermind has done many things, most of which could only be completed on the Star of Creation. Besides, it also needed to be in constant contact with the guardians and the goddess to do so. So we can conclude that—”

“That guy is hiding in plain sight.” After reading the analysis, Hao Ren already had his own conclusion.