Chapter 1661 - The Goddess of Creation (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Standing upon the broken ruins of the Star of Creation, everything they saw was the true face of the Umbral Realm.

It was a universe engulfed by chaos and darkness. Of course, most universes were dark, but here, darkness was not a state, but a perceptible, perceivable substance.

The remnants after the rupture of the Star of Creation floated in the center of the dimension. The powerful energies that remained in the area for 10,000 years still kept the debris together. And that prevented the shattered continents from drifting away into the void. Yet, the polluted atmosphere seemed to be maintained by some sort of energy field around the debris. It cast a misty pall upon the already desolate land, like a shroud over a corpse.

However, these were not the only objects within the Umbral Realm.

After looking at the broken planet in the distance, Hao Ren started to scan the entire skyline as he tried to look for more debris and ruins. He then caught on to the ethereal shadows within the dark chaos. The shadows were covered by a clearly unnatural black mist, and that made discerning the distance difficult. Some of them were in the form of a torn star, while some were massive temple complexes or battleships. Hao Ren noticed that all of them had a physical presence: some of the shadows were clear semi-transparent trails, and the unusual phenomenon showed that most of the objects dragged into the Umbral Realm alongside the Star of Creation had probably met a very terrifying fate.

He then recalled the Gate of Solenne, which was once dragged into the Umbral Realm, but miraculously returned into the material universe. Hao Ren gave his thoughts on the matter, “This dimension is probably wider than we thought, but the area that we can detect is very limited. Many things are being covered by that black mist, and it seems like maintaining a physical shape is not an easy thing in the Umbral Realm.”

“But there are lucky ones that could return to the main material universe and reconstruct itself.” Vivian looked at the sky as she said, “Like the Gate of Solenne right?”

“Seems like the crimson moon you summoned on L’Haronne cannot shine up this place.” Hao Ren looked at Vivian, no wonder Nolan’s signal transmission had failed… The crossing between two worlds is difficult enough, especially if it is between reality and dream, and if the dream is created by a god, it is even harder.”

At that same moment, Nolan gave Hao Ren the report that he was waiting for. “Boss, I have detected a stable divinity release point. It’s close to your location.”

“Seems like we’ve found our sleeping goddess.” Hao Ren smiled as he looked at his friends. “Hope she doesn’t have a grouchy mood. We had after all just forcefully kicked her out of the dream.”

“The ones that woke her up were you two! I have nothing to do with that!” Lily hissed at Hao Ren.

As expected, after “entering” and “exiting” the dream, the team’s “landing point” was near the place where the goddess of creation was slumbering. The distance was so close, and the goddess’ position was on a floating continent right underneath them.

With Nolan’s guidance, Hao Ren and the team went past a series of small hills before ascending a charred mountain peak. Finally, they arrived at a place that was jarringly different from its surroundings.

A circular rock formation enveloped a piece of flatland, and in the middle of the flatland were a patch of green. It was a few meters wide grassland. To think that there were vestiges of life in this already dead planet, that left Hao Ren dumbfounded.

In the middle of the grassland stood a rock about half of a human’s height, and a girl in a white dress was lying on the rock and slept soundly in this posture.

The girl in the white dress looked similar to Rheia, even her height was almost similar. The difference was, she had a long silver hair that reached the grass, and even in her slumber, her expression bore a hard-to-describe sense of divinity.

Of course, that was pointless for Hao Ren. Since he found out that Raven 12345 would slap on a regal and divine emoji pack just to pass her superior’s inspection, no supernatural expressions would faze him anymore…

A several-meters-wide grassland, a cold hard rock, a torn-apart planet, and endless darkness… This was the final resting place of she who had once sealed the Mad Lord, created the garden that was the Plane of Dreams, nurtured it to life and greatness⁠—the goddess of creation.

Hao Ren had wondered many times on how he would be meeting this goddess, and now he realized that his concerns from before were all meaningless.

Vivian gently bumped his shoulder as she pointed upwards, “Is that… the temple complex you say in the illusion?”

Hao Ren followed the direction where Vivian was pointing and looked up, and saw the tattered ruins of a building was floating above. The ruin’s past glorious, majestic facade was still visible, and between the pillars and the embossing, Hao Ren recognized some of the lines.