Chapter 1032 War and Ideals Part One (1/2)

Boundless light reached towards the infinite distance like mercury, carrying a presence so thick that it did not disperse to the Void beyond the world. Any being simply needed to look up to see that sudden burst of fiery light that pierced the stars.

It passed by the Abyss in a split second, the deathly Abyss illuminating like daytime. For a brief moment, an explosion of energy stronger than the Great Mana Tide shot upwards, spraying towards the normal galaxy and covering all the dead worlds.

Meanwhile, every champion who was aware that Joshua had stepped out and turned towards his direction saw the silver luster, with the massive silver world dragging a long belt of radiance and leaving the Vortex of Creation. He was heading beyond the Lost Galaxy, darting towards the Silent Void!

Joshua was already a Demi Saint!

Knowing the outcome with a single glance, they were not at all surprised—Joshua had almost reached that threshold even before entering seclusion in the Vortex of Creation, and after a dozen years, which was not a long time for most beings, that man had made another breakthrough, becoming the most powerful champion just a step away from Wise Ones.

”But…I simply can't tell which path he has chosen.”

Looking up at the silver light which shot through the dark Void as if a silver scar was drawn over a black curtain, Nostradamus, who remained in Mycroft, turned his head and focused his eyes on Joshua and muttered, ”It is not a supermassive singular realm. It is not on par with the Evil God of Death though it is huge, but it still borrows inspiration from it—I can glimpse complex mysteries and intricacies from the structure of the world.”

”I can see that it is not divine power, but it does not fully renounce it.”

Hovering, Zero Three flapped her wings and grimaced, her gaze solemn while divine patterns of the God of the Skies spread between her brows. ”It isn't Emotion Power either, just as he did not cut off that path.”

”He hasn't picked his final path!”

In the Multiverse Sacrificial Grounds, the face on the Legendary champion Yana Milo changed even as she was speaking to the Commanding Will, prepared to teleport to the frontlines in the Piroth Galaxy. The Glorious Era champion seemed to feel the familiar presence of the Sage in that split second, but she soon realized that Joshua and the Sage were different—even complete opposites. He was exuding an oppressive sensation, with his great pervading might so clear to the point that it was suffocating.

Even so, Yana Milo was unaffected. Being a Legend who had personally encountered the Sage when he was a Demi Saint as well, she revealed her own observation.

”Unlike the Sage, his presence is still changing and uncertain, the long path yet to be ascertained… even so, he has already become a Demi Saint?!”

Every champion watching Joshua came to the same shocking conclusion unanimously. They had expected that a champion on the limits of Legend would have to pick a path to become the Wise One, and could only become a Demi Saint after stepping upon it!

The so-called Demi Saint would be the initial state of the Wise Ones, all of them theoretically holding the potential to become a Wise One!

But how did Joshua become a Demi Saint without making a choic?

It was no longer conjecture—there is no doubt that the God of Steel assuredly had the depth to become a Wise One!

”However, that path…”

The silver radiance had already vanished from the Silent Void and completely left the Lost Galaxy, only leaving a luminous trail. At the same time, the Nature Magister lowered her head without keeping up with the light, only whispering in doubt, ”What actually is that path?”

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Joshua had already left, but the light he left was still spreading in the Lost Galaxy. As silver tides swept through and bathed innumerable worlds, they were reinvigorated with another light—the stars flashed, unsettled and seemingly restless.

In the Void, a World Will leapt out from its own world.

It was the Steel Python of Karlis, coiling itself in the Void—even if it could not keep up with Joshua either, it could still sense the warrior as a fellow world. Karlis stared at the eye-catching radiant scar in the Void, accepting the light he was spreading and could not help but shudder in delight. With that, the Steel Python could feel that its Steel Cycle, which barely hardened and escaped shattering, had now been augmented as if a boulder.

Because it had bathed in the light, it had completely been freed from the bygone barrenness, completely recovering from the misery of civilization's fall to become well and powerful World Will.

Still, the Steel Python's heart was not in a complete state of delight for some reason. It was perhaps out of instinct or some lurking fear, but there was a vague discomfort in its mind, with Karlis contracting its own scales and pupils.

”This feeling…is just like the King of Searing Souls reviving worlds…”

It muttered with substantial doubt, looking around itself at the countless worlds around itself that were dead, dormant, and awaiting restoration or revival. It could see thousands of worlds born anew and regaining life because they bathed in his light—and this should have been exhilarating, but there was still a vague terror in Karlis's heart.

”But… even the King of Searing Souls has to burn souls and Chaos to heal worlds!”

Even if it could no longer see Joshua, Karlis did not turn its eyes away, focusing at the direction where the left and unable to help raising its voice as if it were roaring, ”Then what is he actually burning?!”

None could answer that question because nobody knew anything—Joshua had been ever generous and had never withheld any information he had, which was why no one would especially take notice of his actions.

After all, he would tell the others, would he not? Nobody worried over Joshua because he was so powerful and had helped so many others out of dire straits… if there had been any trouble or difficult choices to make, he would have certainly told them.

Therefore, it was in the warrior's rare silent moments that most would realize with a start: they actually knew nothing about the path that the man would choose.

Meanwhile, the silver radiance finally covered all of the galaxy.

The Lost Galaxy was reviving.

It was a galaxy which was once destroyed. Countless civilizations had been decimated and endless worlds left in pieces from that calamity, the invasion of the Demi Saint leaving worlds trembling and an almost empty galaxy even dozens of thousands of years later. Even after another Demi Saint and eventual Wise One had dispelled all the darkness, the perished civilizations and the broken worlds were not coming back.

But now, those countless worlds were revived because of another Demi Saint.

In the Silent Void and beyond anyone's perception, the dazzling silver radiance over the great silver world was splitting. Apart from its previous hue, scarlet and pitch-blackness were glimmering within the world, occupying a good portion of the domain.

Silver Steel Strength. Scarlet divinity.

And the black power of Chaos.