Chapter 1142 - Marybelle’s Decision (1/2)

Everything was relative.

Rhode swore that he had never imagined the Door of Akasha to be related to Chaos. But come to think of it, it did make sense. The Door of Akasha wasn’t a product of Order to begin with. Back then, the five Creator Dragons stole it from the core of Chaos in order to start a new world, so it was impossible to treat it as an ally who swore allegiance to Order. It was merely a tool, just like antivirus software. Its job was to remove viruses and it didn’t need to care if it would accidentally wipe out one’s important documents, causing one to wipe off tears while reformatting the computer. This just wasn’t in its range of work, after all.

In fact, this was indeed an oversight by the Creator Dragons, including the Void Dragon. Back then, they sealed their powers in the Door of Akasha and only valued how they should operate it, ignoring its essence. It was neither an ally nor enemy of Order and Chaos. Just like as the younger sister mentioned, Order and Chaos on Earth wasn’t as clear cut as they were on the Dragon Soul Continent. They were less active and be it Order or Chaos, they had no way of bringing about self-will.

Judging from this aspect, the ‘civilization’ of the Dragon Soul Continent was more advanced than Earth. In this case, after the Dragon Soul Continent arrived in this world, it would have been effortless for them to grasp the place. It was like well-trained soldiers with heavy firearms occupying the territory of a group of club-wielding and unevolved monkeys who had just learned to use tools.

However, everything was relative.

Martians had technologies that were a dozen times more advanced than Earth. They were invincible on Earth, but fell apart to a little cold. The British brought rabbits to Australia. In the end, the rabbits who had lost their natural predator became Australia’s largest ecological disaster after they reproduced massively. This proved that the relationship between foreign species and natives might likely cause disasters. Rhode remembered playing a sci-fi game. The story narrated how humans boarded spaceships and headed to Mars. Back then, Mars had a verdant, exuberant, and uniquely beautiful ecosphere. Humans were fascinated by it. They resided in Mars and began building their second haven. But shortly after, disaster struck. Humans brought harmless bacteria that didn’t exist on Mars. The bacteria quickly spread on Mars and broke the balance of the ecosphere. Lush forest withered. Green plains all over the surface dried up. Animals died after losing their source of food. The land fissured. After the ecosphere lost its balance, Mars’s atmosphere became thin and fragile. Eventually after several years, the ebullient planet turned into a lifeless one.

Of course, Rhode was certain that the five Creators didn’t play this game or watch similar movies. But even if they did, it wouldn’t matter too much. After all, every invasion of alien species was followed by the process of human colonization. And now, the five Creator Dragons tried all ways to escape from the infiltration of Chaos. As for what ecological hazard foreign species had on the natives… they would be dead if they didn’t escape. Who would still be in the mood to care about that?!

But now, it seemed like they had no choice but to care about it.

Rhode began to treat the issue seriously. In fact, he wasn’t sure if what his younger sister said was correct. Of course, he had to admit that there was this possibility because Chaos in the Dragon Soul Continent had self-awareness. The activation of the channel would first pass through the Chaos barrier surrounding the Dragon Soul Continent before opening up to teleportation channels connecting to other worlds. And now, in order to use the Door of Akasha to open up a channel connected to the Dragon Soul Continent, it would also need to pass through the dense Chaos barrier. In this situation, it wouldn’t be surprising if Chaos seized the opportunity and invaded.

This could also explain why no one was able to get the point. They didn’t expect themselves to come to a new world but still have to deal with their ‘old friend’.

Fortunately, this battle could be considered to have uncovered the enemy’s true identity, which assured Rhode to a certain extent. That was how battles were. One wasn’t afraid of how powerful the other party was. One was only terrified of not knowing who the other party was. Rhode reached perfection with this method of his. In the Dragon Soul Continent when he dealt with enemies in the early stages, he tried to conceal himself as much as possible, not allowing the enemies to know his moves. Then, he would attack at the crucial moment and eliminate them completely. Due to this reason, Rhode was most concerned about not grasping information about the enemies. And now, no matter how powerful the enemies were, he felt assured after learning their true identity and origin—at least they weren’t new foreign species and didn’t come from some underground civilization.

What Rhode wished to see the most was how Marybelle resolved this tough challenge.

The cheap tricks of Chaos here weren’t too different from their tricks in the Dragon Soul Continent. Chaos contaminated other creatures, turning them into their lackeys. But this time, only a small part of them were contaminated and they weren’t able to shake off the chaotic way of thinking of Chaos. If not, they wouldn’t have attacked and stirred trouble after gaining just some powers. Such a chaotic way of thinking really suited Chaos Beings.

But there was still a difference. Rhode discovered that the creation of Chaos seemed to become more intelligent, just like the black snake. If it were just an ordinary Chaos Being, it would basically be a fired arrow that couldn’t be recovered. Similar to devils, they charged ahead at the start of the battle and didn’t turn back after hitting the wall. They continued to crash the wall until either they were dead or the wall collapsed. As for ‘battle strategies’ like a strategic roundabout or dodging of attacks, it was totally meaningless to them.

But this time, they actually learned to escape during their fight against Marybelle?

Not only that, but Rhode also realized that this time only a small portion of Chaos clashed against Marybelle. This meant that there were still more of them to come.

So what would become of Chaos? Rhode didn’t know. But he vaguely detected the evolution of Chaos. That’s right, just like bacteria or how most foreign species died from not acclimatizing to a new world. However, perhaps a small portion of them might survive, continue to evolve, and adapt to the new environment. That was why Rhode felt somewhat anxious despite this not being something he was experiencing right now, but was the past instead. All he could do now was to watch on helplessly.

Another question was why the undead creatures annihilated so quickly. That didn’t make sense at all. Even in the face of the insane attacks from the Chaos Beings, Marybelle and the battle angel manage to resist them and the latter merely broke an arm. On the other hand, the undead creatures were completely annihilated. That was an absolutely strange incident.

But shortly after, Rhode got his answer.

Three days after Chaos Beings attacked the sacred palace, the Dark Dragon’s representative led his remaining defeated troops and finally reunited with the major forces. That’s right, the remaining defeated troops. When they reached the sacred palace, only a number of them from hundreds of elite undead creatures were left! Besides, this group with less than 10 undead creatures was the most elite force this time. But even so, judging from their miserable and powerless look, it was obvious that they had a rough time.

As for the other undead creatures? A complete wipeout!

This news stunned Marybelle and the other three representatives. Fortunately, they finally knew how the undead creatures went missing. In fact, the process wasn’t all that complicated. It happened during a rainy night. The death knight who decided to go on a patrol with his elite troops was suddenly surrounded and attacked by the undead creatures in their camp. The ambush bewildered them. Even though the death knight was powerful as the representative of the Dark Dragon, its troops were all elites, after all. It was impossible for the death knight to take on a group of them like Marybelle. However, the death knight and its trusted aides relied on their strength, barely broke through the encirclement, and made it out alive. Thereafter, for safety, they didn’t contact Marybelle immediately as they were afraid that the other areas also went into rebellion. That was why they waited for a few days and after ensuring that nothing went wrong inside the palace, they hurried over.

Marybelle and Rhode felt almost delusional to hear what the undead creatures had done. Undead Creatures betraying their own people? Oh, Lord. They were almost similar to robots, so how in the world would they do that? But shortly after, Marybelle and Rhode learned from the death knight what happened. The death knight had also conducted an investigation later on and discovered a problem.

The undead creatures that rebelled didn’t have the thoughts of rebelling at all. On the contrary, there was a mysterious energy that entered from the outside, took control over their bodies, and infiltrated their souls. In this case, the restrained undead creatures were like robots attacked and controlled by viruses. This was the biggest difference between undead creatures and living creatures. The soul and flesh of undead creatures could be separated completely. They could rely on the power of death spells to remain in the dead body. On the other hand, the soul and flesh of living creatures were combined.

Not only that, but Marybelle also sharply detected a problem. It was raining heavily when the undead creatures attacked.

Previously, it was also pouring when the guards defending the Door of Akasha lost contact.

Then, rain also came lashing down when the Chaos Beings attacked the palace.

According to the death knight, they were also experiencing a rainstorm during the ambush.

Moreover, the black snake escaped to the clouds after being ambushed… Marybelle seemed to come to an understanding of something.

What she needed to do now was to make a decision.

“We know what Chaos is trying to do now.”

Marybelle stood by the table, gazing sternly at the people around her who showed complicated emotions on their faces. Even though it was great news that they learned the enemies’ identities, it was equally a challenging test for them because they knew what Chaos was trying to do.

Although the Chaos that was seeping out of the Door of Akasha was affecting and attempting to merge with the Chaos that existed on Earth, due to the seal of the five Creator Dragons, only a small portion of Chaos managed to be leaked. There was also not much to choose from between both sides because Marybelle was one of the representatives of the Order rules and had merged with the Order on Earth. In this case, it was temporarily a draw between the fight of Chaos and Order.

Both sides needed reinforcements.

But from where?

The answer was clear cut. The Door of Akasha.