Chapter 1499 - Long Time No See (2/2)

The birds in the sky lost their bearings too and tried to escape the epicenter as fast as they could. However, the rift had already expanded to a few hundred kilometers wide and was still expanding rapidly. No matter how fast they flapped their wings, the birds simply could not match the rate of the rift’s growth. Soon, many fell like rain as their brains were fried by the radiation. Their carcasses were blackened like charcoal.

Hao Ren looked up and saw the universe beyond Yggdrasil’s tendrils and the nine great realms. Catastrophe was raging in the universe beyond, and at that very moment, the apocalypse brought by fall of the goddess had ravaged the entire Plane of Dreams.

Yet, her divine doppelganger had already crossed the wall of reality 48 hours ago, and her first stop was Purgatory. She split for the first time there. But Purgatory was not within the sandbox system’s records, and what happened in those 48 hours could not be projected.

Hao Ren could only look up and wait for the other part of the split, Vivian Ancestor, to arrive on Earth.

He did not know the exact time, but his instincts were tingling, and he knew that he would be sure when the time came…

The rift slowly stabilized and the material transference portal opened. Part of Yggdrasil’s tendrils had come through the rift as it writhed about. Shortly after, more and more tendrils made contact with the mountains, as though unconsciously connecting the forest to the clouds. She had determined that this was a place suitable for the survivors in the ark, or at least a good number of them. As such, she started to disgorge her cargo.

A golden vessel was shot out from the World Tree, and it struggled to maintain flight on the foreign planet. Its trajectory was perilous, and it skidded across the skyline, flying in Egypt’s direction.

A series of mountains shot out of the void between Vanaheim and Jotunheim. They were covered in a massive forcefield as they flew across the sky. The cloaking effect caused a dimensional distortion that slowly made them transparent before they disappeared totally from sight.

A disc-shaped ship was the third thing to be spat out, and Hao Ren recognized it. It looked like a stack of clams with an azure dome, and beneath the dome was clean seawater—the seawater of Io.

Nasaton flew towards the Pacific in a parabolic curve in the sky.

Following pre-programmed orders, many “escape vessels” began to appear around Yggdrasil’s tendrils, and these shattered world fragments that were kept by Yggdrasil shot out from the mothership. They blasted across the sky in a predetermined arc into the distance, and Hao Ren could recognize some of them from his previous journeys back in time. But many more were not recognizable.

The discharged “escape vessels” came in many sizes; some were mountains within a dimensional fragment, some were derelict spaceships, some were the odd fortress, while others were living beings in dimensional bubble pockets. The goddess of creation did not have time to plan things out, and she collected what she could in a hurry. Additionally, only a few of these “seeds” would go on to survive on this foreign planet.

The “gods” had descended upon Earth… as refugees.

Hao Ren had lost interest in what was going on in the sky, and he turned around as his instincts dictated. Somewhere amongst the massive frame of Yggdrasil, he saw another distortion. It was a different distortion, which one could not easily view directly.

There was a unique ripple amid the massive sea of noise, and under normal circumstances, that would have been impossible. But Hao Ren’s instincts guided him and allowed him to notice that angle.

He saw a new hole appear in the sky, and the scene of the Otherworld flashed by before a red comet flew out and headed straight to the ground.

She fell a few hundred meters away from Hao Ren. If he had not noticed the unique trajectory, he would have thought that she had entered this universe with Yggdrasil.

Hao Ren traveled towards the landing point and saw a steaming crater with crimson mist all over it. At the bottom of the crater, a long-haired woman was clumsily trying to get up.

Her eyes met with Hao Ren’s, and a flicker of curiosity appeared.

Hao Ren simply smiled. “Long time no see.”