Chapter 1770 - Facing the Madness (1/2)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
As all of the illusions disappeared, Hao Ren looked at the engine room that had returned to normal. Rheia and Vivian once again appeared beside him. The two of them seemed normal, and it looked like he was the only one who had been affected by the hallucination…
Or rather, the goddess of annihilation… the Mad Lord had purposely looked for him to blabber nonsense.
He shook his head and murmured, “A whole load of hogwash.”
“She knows we are here.” Rheia’s expression was a sea of calm, and she looked in a particular direction. There was only an argent wall there, but her vision had pierced through the cabin, and into the vast space in the distance. “Everyone get ready…”
Just as Rheia’s words left her mouth, a sudden surge of pressure welled up in both Hao Ren and Vivian.
It was a feeling as if they were facing a beast capable of consuming all life, and their powers were meaningless before it, and even the strongest of the strong would simply be fodder for this monster, torn apart without any means of retaliating.
Rheia did not hesitate as she deployed her divine powers, and pulled out that holy notebook, and as the book opened up, divine words containing thousands of law and order appeared in the air and covered the ship within it.
The temporary mental attack was stopped by Rheia, and Hao Ren immediately pulled out the two blades from his Dimensional Pocket and turned to Vivian. “You just need to focus later, you don’t have to worry about us!”
A teleportation beam then swept past the three, and the next second they were on the Petrachelys’ upper deck, the vast and chaotic dark universe rushed towards them.
As the chaotic dimensional unraveled, the deepest part of the Dark Abyss and its constituent parts had reformed into a continuous structure, and the massive chaotic structures in the background that looked like floating mountains came into Hao Ren’s vision, and at the heart of all of the chaotic structures was a vast area, and there floated many ancient ruins and wreckage, the prison facilities that had been destroyed so long ago.
At the center of the ruins, a dark celestial body floated silently.
It was enveloped by a thick fog, and its surface was uneven, as all sorts of vortex and faces appeared on it. Dark red lightning and light roamed within the fog, just like flowing blood from an open wound, and between that dark star, and the Petrachelys, a pale figure stood silently in space.
The figure looked at the uninvited guests and smiled menacingly. “Welcome to the end of the universe. You are the first batch of guests here, and very soon, the last.”
Voice could never be transmitted in a vacuum, but for the people standing here, they do not need to speak to communicate, and the voices simply just rang in their minds.
The moment he saw the pale figure, Hao Ren knew that the latter’s assimilation had been completed.
She was still in that form when they first saw her in the Umbral Realm, but the same body now houses a completely different thing. If the goddess of annihilation had a tad bit of rationality and sensibility left in her before, now that shell was nothing but madness and the desire to destroy. Even when she smiled, even when she spoke, every ‘normal’ action she took gave Hao Ren a massive sense of dissonance.
It was a being that was not to be named… wearing human skin. The body that he could see was just a “model” that she had presented in this real space. Her actual form was actually hidden within the endless darkness in space. The blob was a revolting, squirming thing. Hao Ren’s special vision allowed him to clearly see it, and it filled the entire dimension. It had extended out from the body of the goddess of annihilation and linking to the dark star behind her, and then outwards to the vast space.
“Ever since you merged with that ultimate lunatic, you sure have become much more poetic.” Facing her evil half, Rheia had no anger, no fear, and had nothing but contempt. “So how is it? Feeling better now that you’re a monster?”
Looking at her other half ridiculing her, the goddess of annihilation lifted her finger without any expression and pointed at the direction of the Petrachelys.
The moment she moved, Nolan reacted, and the remaining thrusters were floored to the highest possible output. The ship then disappeared from its original location while Hao Ren and the rest teleported away.
A pale white orb appeared silently at where they originally stood, and as the orb faded away, there was nothing but a massive black hole, and the light around that hole was severely distorted, and was collapsing into the heart of the black hole.
Even as it faded away, Hao Ren realized what had just happened. A part of the Plane of Dreams had just been permanently erased.