376 The Abyss of Freedom? (1/2)
”Boom!”
Giant arms extended from the palace with painful, desperate, and bewildered howling.
”What's going on? What on earth has happened?” asked Louis.
The Master of the Night, Louis, crawled out from the palace where he had been deep in sleep and saw his divine kingdom crumbling and falling apart. Evil shadows of the abyss were searching for the origin and rushing toward him to erode his body. Louis' body was slowly being devoured by the power of the abyss.
”No! No! What is this? Abyss? How could my believers become creatures of the abyss?” screamed Louis.
Evil shadows of the abyss merged together like a river and poured into Louis' body. The entire divine kingdom collapsed and fragmented. The sleeping and praying believers fell and vanished together with the kingdom.
”Impossible! Who? Who on earth?” Louis roared.
The enormous divine body of the Master of the Night struggled out of the Star Kingdom. From the ground, one could see that a divine shadow thousands of miles long had escaped from the star and was looking down to the earth.
Louis immediately saw the giant entrance to the abyss on the ground, the Hollyma Kingdom haunted by darkness, and Adonis, who had become a part of the entrance to the abyss, staring at Louis with eyes full of greed.
”You! Who are you? Do you know what you are doing? Are you challenging a true god?” Louis demanded.
Louis realized he was being completely assimilated into the abyss. The power of abyss has reached his core, and his divine personality, divine duty, and divine power, which were all part of his core, were rejecting him and slowly breaking away from his divine body.
”My divine personality? My divine power? By the name of a true god, activate the world rules! By the name of the master of the night, summon…” roared Louis.
He realized that his howling could not activate any of the world rules. It seemed he had been transformed into a creature of the abyss and was being rejected by the world.
What was more terrible was that the entrance to the abyss below was sending out a strong eroding power towards him. At the same time, Louis' body felt attracted to it, as if he yearned to entre the abyss and become a part of it.
”No, no! What have you done? What have you done? You filthy, puny insect!” Louis shouted.
Adonis raised his head and looked at the shadow of the true god with disgust, as if the divine noble being was insignificant in his presence. The true god was struggling with fear, rage and panic, almost like a clown to Adonis.
Adonis said, ”Puny? Who are you to say such a thing? Who are you? Someone who could only rise when wizards were declining. With no perseverance in the pursuit of truth, no courage to challenge the world, and no extraordinary intelligence, how dare you call yourself a wizard? How sad. After the first- and second-generation wizards all died, the world turned out to be such a tedious place. How could a cowardly, scheming rat become a god? When the wizard system of the undead was created by me?”
”When I rule the kingdom of the dead, the world shall quiver beneath my feet. Then, you will only look at my name with reverence, and tremble and scream at my power.”
Louis stared at Adonis in shock. Louis recalled Adonis' name from the old legends and writings.
”Adonis? Adonis? You? How did you escape? How could you escape from hell? Weren't you trapped at the bottom of hell?” Louis asked.
Louis struggled to escape from the attraction of the abyss. He was still slowly dragged out of the Star Kingdom until he fell through the entrance to the abyss. Louis screamed with fear and tried to activate the power of a true god, but he sensed that his connection to the world had weakened.
Devilish flames roared across Adonis' body. He laughed loudly and said, ”I did not escape from hell. The Adonis trapped in hell has died, and the Adonis in the mortal world has been resurrected!”
Adonis looked up at the Master of the Night and said, ”So, bad day for you. I, Adonis, present a sacrifice to the consciousness of abyss, the true god Louis Biketo, Master of the Night!”
The sound of Adonis' laughter echoed in the sky of Biketo city. As Adonis said these words, dark shadowy tentacles reached out of the entrance of the abyss and grabbed Louis Biketo.
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In the meantime, stars glimmered in the sky. Ten Star Kingdoms moved closer to the sky over the Hollyma Kingdom from the bitwall.
The other gods seemed to see what had happened. Every god except for the goddesses of Light, Sun, and Death were present, an assembled meeting of gods in the sky above Hollyma. They looked down at the Master of the Night, who was being dragged into the abyss, and Adonis, whose body had half become one with the entrance of abyss and could enter the abyss at any time.
”There is no hope for the Master of the Night! He has been taken by the abyss. Even the world has rejected and given up on him!” said the Goddess of Steam and Machinery, with the tone of sadness.
It chilled all the true gods that a fellow true god had fallen. Even the gods could die. If that was true, then, in this world, what was eternity?
”Blasphemers shall not be forgiven!” The Ruler of Storms was furious. However, he was still constrained by the world rules because he had broken the Agreement of the Gods.