Chapter 1005: Distance (1/2)

These past few years, he had left the Fringe and Pandemonium to the rest in the house to manage. As for more pressing matters, he dealt with it using his avatars, leaving his main body inside the mystical yin energy-filled room, slowly using it to reforge his body.

His consciousness had been entirely focused on processing the insights of the Diablo Realm as well as some knowledge from the Cauldron of Myriad Demons. The mystical yin energy gathered by the harvester formation was indeed dense as the formation could draw from all the mystical yin energy from the whole of Elysium. They came in a huge nonstop torrent into the room at the center of the formation to fuel Han Shuo's bodily transformation.

Suddenly, his consciousness trembled slightly as a bizarre and obscured energy wave moved past him. His body that had been in a hibernative state for years suddenly opened its eyes as if it was staring across space itself at the Dominion of Destiny. Han Shou had felt a weak energy wave from there just a while ago and it seemed to have something to do with him. His consciousness felt like it was being spied on.

His eyes glowed with an eerie chill as he gathered the mystical yin energy in the room together. All of a sudden, his eyes closed suddenly and cut off the glow entirely. His consciousness began to furiously spread throughout the entire area from the room and it rapidly spanned mountains, lakes, forests, cities, and the lifeforms that inhibited them. Han Shuo continued the outward expansion until he reached the entirety of the Fringe. Now, he was truly an omniscient god within the Fringe.

Within a few short seconds, he had taken the whole of the Fringe into his consciousness, but the expansion continued on towards the Dominions of Space and Destiny. Even more sights entered his mind; he felt a mystical comfort at having everything under his control.

All of a sudden, his consciousness's expansion stopped. He sensed that he was at the border of the Dominion of Destiny. One more step and he would reach inside. Instead, he chose to sense the waves that were being radiated from the Dominion of Destiny and eventually noticed one that avoided the Fringe as it spread towards the Dominions of Death and Destruction. He immediately retracted his consciousness, taking only a few short seconds to do so.

Shaking her head, she looked towards the Fringe again, seemingly staring past the space between them and muttered, ”Andrina's still there. I hope she's doing well...”

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Within the Shrine of Darkness, Han Shuo's avatar's expression suddenly changed and he halted his speech. Nestor and the rest were rather surprised. He had been speaking just fine, so what made him shut up all of a sudden? Was there something that displeased him? Nestor asked, ”Is there a problem?”

Without answering, Han Shuo suddenly stood up and looked outside to the starry sky. Taking a deep breath, he said with his back facing them, ”The Goddess of Destiny might have learned about our plans.”

His words caused the three's expressions to shift as well.

”What do you mean?” Amon said as he slowly approached him. As he spoke, a black-crystal-like Quintessence emerged from the back of his head and entered the sea of faith before it rapidly began absorbing faith, depleting the sea at a visible rate.

”You should be aware that this body isn't my main one. I'm actually within a secret room in the Fringe now. As we were speaking, my main body felt an odd wave being emanated from the Dominion of Destiny. Though they were weak, they must've come from the Shrine of Destiny!” When he turned back and saw that they were paying attention, he emphasized, ”And the wave was being transmitted in our direction!”

Nestor and Cratos immediately turned to look at the black Quintessence in the sea of faith at the same time. Amon also glared at his black Quintessence and nodded. ”I felt it as well. It was faint, but it was definitely her!”

Though Han Shuo didn't know what method Amon used to detect it, it matched his own observations of the situation.

”That sly vixen!” Cratos exclaimed, ”Did she really think she could control everything? So what if she knows? We can just ignore her!”

Han Shuo gave Cratos an odd look, not understanding where that animus came from; it seemed that he had some personal misgivings against the goddess.

Cratos didn't explain it, however. After a cold humph, he said, ”Let us continue! She doesn't matter!”