Chapter 1518 - The Battle That Never Ends (1/2)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
It was a long, long time ago.
When the Goddess of Creation first set out to explore the Plane of Dreams, she knew nothing about the dark horror in the depth of the universe. Although she was born strong, she was still young and tender due to her lack of knowledge and experience. She traveled the whole world with the demigod creature she created, Lockmarton, and visited strange planets and spaces. The journey needed no further elaboration. Everyone knew what happened to her in the end ——
The Mad Lord.
No rational individual could coexist with the Mad Lord. In fact, the Mad Lord could not coexist peacefully with any existence other than himself. The battle between the Goddess of Creation and this violent creature was inevitable. From the day they appeared in the same universe, the battle had already begun and was not destined to end soon.
In that battle, the Goddess of Creation swung herself into the realm of the Mad Lord. She destroyed most of the physical structure of the Mad Lord and destroyed its core. Eventually, with a powerful seal and prison system, she suppressed the terrible enemy permanently in the depths of the universe. She seemed to have won, but in fact, she only gained the upper hand temporarily, and the battle turned around. In the second stage, the battle continued in the new battlefield, that was, inside the Goddess of Creation herself.
The existence of the Mad Lord made it impossible for this terrible primitive creature to be completely destroyed, and it would not be limited to one form of existence. In the battle, part of its power had actually escaped and attached to the Goddess of Creation and her two swords. However, the Goddess of Creation was not aware of all this. She did not feel any contradiction from her short-term emotional changes, because the battle exhausted her, and she just wanted to return to the Star of Creation, which made her miss the best chance to completely eliminate the infection of the Mad Lord.
In fact, she was not careless. Her intuition told her to doubt about the seal of the Mad Lord. She wondered if she really sealed the monster completely. So she cut out her memory on the Star of Creation and made herself part of the seal. All kinds of signs showed that her decision to ‘cut out the memory’ actually meant that she realized the problem. The activities of the Mad Lord were still going on. Unfortunately, cutting out her memory did not free her from the fact that she had been eroded.
In the long years that followed, the Goddess of Creation, who restored her original memory, resumed her activities. She created life, visited the planets, explored the universe, and by launching the Seeds of Origin into planets, she built a huge system of life, nurtured vigorous life on countless planets, and the Firstborns on these planets became beacons and eyes in the universe. They used the spiritual network to send back all kinds of interesting things happening in the universe to the Star of Creation – but the power of the Mad Lord lurked in the depths of every creation of the Goddess and continued to spread with the expansion of this life network.
But the most deadly erosion was on the Goddess of Creation.
Initially, the erosion was very slight. The power of the Goddess of Creation naturally suppressed the power of the Mad Lord. In this invisible war, the Mad Lord was defeated countless times. But with the multiplication of life in the universe and the growth of the spiritual network of the Firstborns, the power of the Mad Lord was strengthened little by little. It could be defeated countless times, but it only needed one victory to turn things around.
This balance was broken before the godslaying war.
The Goddess of Creation began to behave strangely, carried out some inexplicable research projects or disappeared from the eyes of her guardians from time to time. At first, she did not realize her anomalies, because many things happened after her subconscious was affected, but the situation finally deteriorated to the point where she could not hide it. She found that she had lost a lot of memories, sometimes even a few days of blank memory. After each trance, she always found that she had done lots of inexplicable things. Guardian giants often come to confirm things she never told them and those loyal giants insisted that they had received orders from her.
The Goddess of Creation finally realized that a ‘shadow’ had appeared in her temple.
“The memory inherited from the Goddess’s blood is not complete. Sometimes it’s just some messy fragments. I’m like watching another person’s life fragments and guessing the truth from those pictures,” Vivian said slowly, leaning on her bed. “The Goddess of Creation found her own anomalies and remembered a little about the Mad Lord. This is a sign of loosening of the seal. The loosening of the seal resulted in the leakage of the power of the Mad Lord, but in turn, it made the Goddess of Creation aware of the truth. On the day when she was fully convinced of her soul’s abnormality, ‘reality’ was distorted and she herself split into two.