# Chapter 10: Ancient
‘Virus Command: Overload High Heat.’
‘Virus Command: Suicide.’
‘Virus Command: Suicide!’
‘Virus Command: Suicide!’
‘Virus Command: Dance.’
‘Virus Command: Dance and Suicide.’
Under Bubu Wang’s barrage of dozens of virus commands per second, the Red-Eyed Archbishop and the White-Robed Archbishop turned and fled. One used high-temperature melting to create a teleportation portal to escape, while the other transformed into a swarm of mechanical insects scattering in all directions.
Archbishop Kayo also wanted to retreat, but unfortunately, Bubu Wang had him locked down. The moment he showed any sign of fleeing, powerful command interference would strike.
Bang!
While running at ultra-high speed, half of Archbishop Kayo’s head exploded, sparks flying everywhere. The Lord’s Train behind him was closing in fast. Even for someone with a powerful physique like Su Xiao, long-distance running speed was far inferior to the Lord’s Train, let alone a flesh-and-blood technology side like Archbishop Kayo.
This chase continued for several minutes. With a bang, Archbishop Kayo’s legs exploded, followed by half his torso.
“Wait, let’s talk.”
Archbishop Kayo raised his hand, trying to stop the approaching Lord’s Train. The train did stop, but Bubu Wang’s virus commands never paused for even a second. In Bubu Wang’s detection, Archbishop Kayo’s health was continuously dropping, now below 3.5%. After several more lethal commands, Archbishop Kayo’s health was suddenly emptied.
On the wasteland before the train, due to Archbishop Kayo’s bio-energy going berserk, the surrounding area was scorched black. As his health hit zero, his pupils suddenly contracted to the extreme, and he fell dead.
Inside the train, Su Xiao and Bubu Wang watched the projection ahead, waiting. After more than ten seconds passed without a kill notification appearing, they exchanged glances, and Bubu Wang continued outputting commands.
‘Virus Command: Intense Incineration.’
Boom! Archbishop Kayo turned into a human flamethrower, flames shooting from every orifice. His zeroed health recovered by a large margin, but he had indeed died just moments ago.
After another barrage of virus commands, Archbishop Kayo, a powerhouse of the Mechanical God Cult whose status was second only to the Pope, was finally killed by Bubu Wang.
[You have killed Mechanical God Cult Archbishop Kayo.]
[You have obtained 10.15% World Source.]
[You have obtained Eternal Rank Chest: Flesh Divine Power.]
Archbishop Kayo’s core ability was called “Flesh Divine Art.” Controlling mechanical creatures was only part of this ability. But in this battle, he never had the chance to use any of these abilities. From start to finish, his enemy was a heavily armored, incredibly fast train.
This meant that the combination of the Lord’s Train and Bubu Wang was the ultimate nemesis of the Mechanical God Cult. Even when facing the Gods, Bubu Wang would be a powerful damage dealer and controller. Whether they could defeat the strongest tier of Gods in this world depended on Su Xiao and Bubu Wang’s combined performance.
Of course, against the Soul Bell Tower and the Rune Family, Bubu Wang could only provide pure support.
“Can you track?”
“Woof!”
Bubu Wang had gained confidence from this battle, meaning, absolutely.
Two hours later, over 300 kilometers west of No. 5 Abyss Expansion Zone, the Red-Eyed Archbishop stood on ground that had been burned red-hot and was beginning to vitrify.
With only half his head remaining, he gasped heavily. His energy core had already exploded, forcing him to use the most basic, innate biological method to supply energy to his massive body, preventing it from collapsing.
Crack, crack!
The Red-Eyed Archbishop’s mechanical right arm moved on its own, seemingly about to grab his own neck. This meant that this arm, made of living metal and divine flesh, had been completely invaded and controlled.
The Red-Eyed Archbishop smashed his left fist into the emergency release mechanism at his shoulder. The right arm flew off and exploded not far away, staggering him.
“Who is it?! Show yourself!!”
The Red-Eyed Archbishop roared, leaving layers of sound waves in the air. He was too frustrated. Being chased until now, his enemy was just a train, and he had no idea who was behind it.
He didn’t believe that Law Destroyer had such a high-tier technological ability. This was clearly an invasion-system technology side approaching its peak, capable of even invading the “Individual Consciousness Cluster” of the flesh-and-blood technology side.
His answer came in the form of various “Virus Commands.” Ten minutes later, this Archbishop fell, unable to stand up again after death.
Through Bubu Wang’s pursuit of these three Archbishops, Su Xiao discovered a powerful ability of the Gods system: they could revive once by unknown means after complete death. This was different from the Abyss Descendants, who were immortal and indestructible rather than resurrected from death.
The Gods system could indeed resurrect from death, which worried Su Xiao. Although the Blade Demon Spirit’s kill would certainly take effect, the Gods system seemed to have two lives. The “Causal Kill” would work correctly, but no one could be sure whether the two lives of the Gods system each had their own Star Realm causality.
As a powerful system that rivaled the Sun and Ancient Dragons in the First Era, the Gods system having such capabilities was not surprising. The Demon Blade ability was powerful, but not absolutely invincible. Ultimately, combat was a game of various factors.
Although only one chest dropped from this battle, a total of 31.65% World Source was obtained, making the goal of reaching 350% World Source in this world seem less distant.
On the train, Su Xiao’s right hand was covered in a crystal layer. He looked at the semi-transparent flesh between his fingers that pulsed like a heartbeat. This was “Divine Flesh,” the foundation of the Gods system.
When the train stopped at the entrance of No. 5 Abyss Expansion Zone, it was already midnight. There was no fortress stationed here, yet the Abyssal creatures inside never left this expansion zone, as if some treaty had been reached.
However, today, an Abyssal creature broke this treaty, trying to rush outside No. 5 Abyss Expansion Zone. But it only succeeded halfway, or rather, escaped halfway. The missing half of its body seemed to have been bitten off in one gulp, with broken fur and flesh hanging down like tassels.
As soon as Su Xiao stepped into the darkness of the entrance, he saw the Abyss Princess peeking inside. Behind her hid a little boy and a Jellyfish Girl.
“Sister, you’re scared!”
Seeing her sister, the now lively Delona put her hands on her hips, which frightened the Abyss Princess greatly.
“Shh~! It’s nearby.”
“...”
Su Xiao walked into the darkness, with Delona and Ayesha following behind. Seeing this, the Abyss Princess gritted her teeth and followed, unable to leave her two younger sisters alone. This made the Abyss Son Ekim and the Jellyfish Girl follow as well, because staying here alone scared them both.
As Su Xiao went deeper into No. 5 Abyss Expansion Zone, he saw piles of bones along the way. These bones varied in size. Some highly human-like Abyssal creatures had been killed but not eaten, while the beast-type Abyssal creatures had been cleaned out thoroughly, with large bite marks on some bones.
Ahead stood a Minotaur over fifteen meters tall, its entire body emitting black smoke. It had its back to Su Xiao, like a Black Smoke Bull Demon.
Sensing a living being approaching, the Black Smoke Bull Demon turned to look. Its completely blood-red eyes showed initial confusion. As Su Xiao advanced within a hundred meters, its expression became even more puzzled.
Su Xiao walked forward step by step. Seeing this, the Abyss Princess behind him warned:
“Law Destroyer, you’d better be careful. Your follower’s state is wrong now. It seems...”
Before the Abyss Princess could finish, Su Xiao had already entered within 30 meters of Amu. Amu’s blood-red eyes gradually dimmed. The black smoke on his body erupted violently, and his overgrown body began to shrink, eventually reaching about 3.5 meters, slightly taller than before.
Amu no longer showed the intense malice of “Gluttony Original Sin” or the brutality that wanted to devour everything. He scratched his head in confusion and said the only four words he knew:
“Amu, hungry.”
“There will be food when we get back.”
“Amu.”
Amu trotted behind Su Xiao, following with a simple, harmless demeanor. Of course, Amu was only like this when following Su Xiao. If Su Xiao wanted him to chop off someone’s head, Amu would immediately manifest his Dark War Axe, press the target down, and swing. Hesitating for 0.1 seconds would mean Amu was not in good condition.
Because Amu was sometimes too direct, Su Xiao had specifically instructed him: “Chop off” meant to chop slowly with a threatening implication, probably not actually chopping. “Cut off” meant immediately and truly chopping the guy in front of them.
Watching Amu follow Su Xiao with a simple expression, the Abyss Princess blinked. She wondered if the Black Smoke Bull Demon from before was some other Abyssal existence rather than this simple Minotaur.
Half an hour later, the No. 5 Abyss Passage was closed, and the Black Stone barrier here shattered.
Su Xiao watched the Black Stone scatter and gradually dissolve into the air. He felt that this thing might not be, as previously thought, a method used by major forces in this world to seal the Abyss. Instead, it might be the World Consciousness’s instinctive repair measure after Abyssal invasion.
This was like a wound scabbing over after injury. Was this Black Stone Sky Wall a kind of “scab” formed by the world after being invaded by the Abyss?
All knowledge gradually accumulated. After Su Xiao successfully closed this Abyss Passage, the massive Black Stone area shattered. Was this also like a scab falling off after a wound healed?
According to the current progress, there were still 23 Abyss Passages to close, not counting the No. 0 Abyss Passage. The No. 0 Abyss Passage was located on the “Northern Continent,” a continent shrouded in darkness, with the central area being the No. 0 Abyss Passage.
Based on Su Xiao’s experience, he estimated that was the Rune Family’s “Abyss Proximity Zone,” also their family’s sacred ground.
The red-haired man he met at the banquet earlier was most likely a member of the Rune Family. But from his attitude, Su Xiao didn’t feel strong hostility, only a desire to fight, a battle unrelated to anything else.
The space here had stabilized, so there was no need to take the Lord’s Train back. Just as Su Xiao was about to form a Law-Destroying Teleportation Array beneath his feet, he sensed an aura approaching from afar.
Boom!
Mud splattered as a figure descended from the sky, with wild red lion-like hair flying and beast-like feet landing. The newcomer was over five meters tall, half-human, half-beast. Surprisingly, this person’s form was very coordinated, without any sense of chimerism, and the streamlined body had a sense of power and beauty.
This was the red-haired man from the banquet. His current form was his true appearance.
“Fighting you, I’d have a 90% chance of dying. But I still really want to fight you.”
The red-haired man, Sif of the Rune Family’s Ten New Stars, touched his chin with a large hand tipped with sharp claws.
“But the Great Elder’s orders are more important. Otherwise, I’d lose my spot in next month’s arena.”
Sif took out a pitch-black crystal card from his chest and tossed it over.
Crack, crack, crack~
A crystal layer spread over Su Xiao’s hand as he caught the black card. The card felt heavy, as if made of some semi-transparent metal.
“This is an invitation to our family territory. With this, you can safely cross the Dark Sea near our family territory. It’s also a lowest-rank arena identity. Before you set foot on the family territory, our Rune Family can use any means to deal with you, the Law Destroyer—surrounding attacks, ambushes, assassinations, etc., etc. But once you land on the island, you become an arena fighter. Anyone who wants to kill you must do so one-on-one. If you’re strong enough, you only need four matches.
First match: defeat an ordinary clan member to gain qualification.
Second match: defeat one of the New Stars.
Third match: defeat one of the three Elders.
Fourth match: defeat the Great Elder.
Win these four matches, and you can personally stand before our ‘Origin Clan Emblem.’ Whether you want to possess it or destroy it is up to you. I’ve delivered the message. How you choose is your own business. See you around, Law Destroyer.”
With that, Sif turned and walked away, waving his hand back at Su Xiao.
“...”
Looking at the black card in his hand, Su Xiao sealed it and stored it in the team storage space.
He crouched down, placed one hand on the ground, and a large teleportation array formed beneath his feet. Since the headquarters was quite far, this specification of teleportation array was more reliable.
“Big Brother, I want to come too.”
Delona ran onto the teleportation array, grinning with her neat white teeth. Ayesha walked onto the array gracefully.
“You two!”
The Abyss Princess was a bit annoyed, but she really couldn’t leave her two younger sisters alone, so she also stepped onto the array. The Abyss Son Ekim and the Jellyfish Girl exchanged glances and reluctantly stepped onto the array as well.
“...”
Su Xiao looked at Reshma. Reshma smiled and slowly shook her head:
“Sir, I can return within four hours.”
“...”
Su Xiao didn’t speak, just looked at Reshma. Eventually, Reshma relented, but her step onto the teleportation array paused briefly.
Su Xiao activated the teleportation array. The next second, Delona, the Abyss Princess, and the Abyss Son Ekim all had their hair stand on end.
Thump!
With a loud noise, everyone disappeared from the spot.
In the backyard of the “Empire Special Affairs Department” headquarters, the stone pavement suddenly dented into the shape of a Law-Destroying Teleportation Array, as if a giant hammer had struck the ground, causing ripples in the surrounding space.
On the teleportation array, Su Xiao, Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha looked normal. Reshma was holding onto a lamppost. Ayesha sat on the ground, the white threads in her pitch-black eyes spinning in circles. The Abyss Princess, Delona, Ekim, and the Jellyfish Girl were bent over in a row.
“Blergh! ×4”
A neat symphony of dragon roars began. Seeing this, Baha shook his head and muttered: “And you call yourselves Abyss Descendants? With this constitution? You need more exercise. And your four dragon roars are way too synchronized. No wonder you’re all descendants of the same father.”
Baha flew to the top of a fountain statue nearby. He had received a task: his boss wanted him to train these four little ones when free. As for Ayesha, no joke, he wouldn’t dare train her. He didn’t want to die.
As for why Su Xiao wanted Baha to train the Abyss Princess and the other three, one reason was that he wanted to understand in more detail how the Abyss system grew stronger—whether it relied more on innate power plus natural growth, or if sufficient training was needed to better control this innate power.
When Su Xiao walked into the office, he saw Kaiser studying the black wood desk. From the look in his eyes, this item had already entered Kaiser’s list of things to take before leaving this world.
Seeing Su Xiao return, Vice Minister Tor Enta breathed a sigh of relief. He had been ordered to entertain this distinguished guest, but this guest had eaten fifteen portions of steak, seven portions of stir-fried vegetables, twelve portions of mushroom soup, three White Claw Crabs (each the size of a king crab), one Skedia Lobster (a rare three-pound specimen), and six portions of dessert and fruit.
Furthermore, under the pretext of visiting the kitchen, he had taken half a rack of ribs, 1.5 bags of onions, half a bundle of fern mustard, and finally half a bag of whole wheat flour.
Vice Minister Tor Enta was sweating profusely. He suddenly realized why the Minister had asked him to entertain this old friend: if no one was there to supervise, the office might become a bare concrete room when the Minister returned. This gentleman was the kind of person who would take half a bundle of fern mustard. The office’s rare ornaments and expensive decoration materials would be even more tempting.
Su Xiao looked around the office and, finding everything intact, nodded at Tor Enta in recognition of his competence.
“My dear friend, burp~, the food in your department is really good.”
Kaiser took a sip of tea and poured the tea leaves from the bottom of the cup into his mouth to chew.
“...”
Su Xiao asked Tor Enta to leave first, then pointed at Reshma.
“Make her into a World Daughter. I can handle the Fate Blood, but I don’t have a reliable fusion method for now.”
Hearing this, Kaiser stopped chewing the tea leaves. He looked at Reshma and clicked his tongue:
“Not easy, not easy. This matter is difficult.”
“At most 300 ounces.”
“What?”
Kaiser’s eyes widened. He spoke urgently, as if his tail had been stepped on: “My dear friend, how can you let Kaiser do a losing business? Kaiser is such a pure, kind, and honest person. This matter requires at least... 350 ounces of Space-Time Power.”
“Deal.”
Su Xiao finalized the deal. He knew that sometimes when Kaiser said something was difficult, it wasn’t necessarily true. Kaiser was like this: when cooperating on important matters, he wouldn’t be greedy. For example, last time, he unhesitatingly lent Su Xiao 85,000 ounces of Space-Time Power.
In contrast, when facing small matters, Kaiser was that stingy, greedy, and cunning fraudster.
After finalizing the deal, Su Xiao began drawing a summoning array on the floor with ritual materials. With Amu assisting, the summoning array was quickly completed. He took out a pendant, placed it at the center of the summoning formula, and activated the summoning.
Golden-red light bloomed, and the aura of a deity descended. Milky white long hair cascaded down, with pale golden patterns on the back of fair hands. Her golden-red pupils seemed capable of seeing through everyone’s fate.
The Goddess of Fortune, who once cared greatly about her appearance, was now somewhat disheveled. Milky white hair was stained with some blood mist, and her arms and abdomen were wrapped in bandages.
The Goddess of Fortune had been fighting evil gods again and had won. She was attending a small town’s hospitality—not lavish, but all the stored food was offered.
“White Night, what is it?”
The Goddess of Fortune no longer had the lazy sensuality of before. Her golden-red eyes instead had a Valkyrie-like beauty.
“Divine Fate Blood.”
“I haven’t saved much Evil God Source Blood. I was planning to accumulate 50 ounces and then trade with you again...”
“We can do it now.”
“Alright.”
The Goddess of Fortune reached into space. Layers of golden links appeared with cipher-pattern-like combinations as she took out a sealed container, opened it, and poured the Evil God Source Blood into a crystal container. After measuring, there was a total of 38 ounces of “Impure Evil God Source Blood.”
Su Xiao formed a temporary Devouring Core, absorbing all the divine blood into it. After repeated filtering, purification, and refinement, the “Impure Evil God Source Blood” transformed into pure pale gold. Just looking at it was comforting—this was 20.62 ounces of “Pure Divine Blood.”
The Goddess of Fortune floated up, and all the “Pure Divine Blood” drifted toward her. Her eyes brightened as she began to transform this divine blood. With previous experience transforming over 10 ounces of “Pure Divine Blood,” her conversion rate had improved to about 25%.
An hour and a half later, the Goddess of Fortune descended from her floating state, showing some fatigue. But her eyes were bright. The joy of accumulated harvest made her feel good, as did saving the beings ruled by evil gods, giving her a new sense of purpose as a deity.
After transformation, 20.62 ounces of “Pure Divine Blood” yielded 5.1 ounces of “Divine Fate Blood.” According to the 50-50 split, the Goddess of Fortune ultimately received 2.55 ounces of “Divine Fate Blood.”
“People are still waiting for me. I’ll go back now. Next time I accumulate 50 ounces of Evil God Blood, we’ll continue.”
“Alright.”
Receiving Su Xiao’s reply, the Goddess of Fortune gradually faded away, actively ending this summoning.
Su Xiao put the 2.55 ounces of “Divine Fate Blood” he received into a transparent container. Then his right hand formed a claw, with crystal layer spreading, making his right hand truly a crystal claw.
‘Bladeless: World.’
Crack!
Su Xiao’s claw pierced into the world beside him. Spirit Shadow Threads extended out, entering the world’s wound here. Under the effect of the Devouring Core, a large amount of World Force was plundered by him.
Normally, this would immediately incur the world’s backlash. The problem was that Su Xiao had previously closed over 20 Abyss Passages, which made this world’s World Consciousness very tolerant of him. Not just this amount of World Force, even if it were ten times more, it wouldn’t incur backlash.
Next came the realm of Alchemy. Ultimately, the Fate Blood that World Consciousness bestows upon “World Children/World Daughters” was Fate Power + World Energy, serving as a fate mark for subsequent favor.
Understanding this, it was simply a combination of Fate Power and World Energy. The fate characteristics within “Divine Fate Blood” were sufficient for the Fate Power part. As for harmonization and fusion, a Lv.99 Alchemy Master could handle it.
In just over an hour, a test tube of golden-red Fate Blood was prepared by Su Xiao.
For comparison, a normal “World Child/World Daughter” might not have this much Fate Blood. Of course, someone like the Nameless Captain, whose entire blood was Fate Blood, was an extreme exception, and he was worthy of it.
Sealing the test tube, Su Xiao tossed it to Kaiser. Kaiser grinned wickedly, put the Abyssal Jar over his head, and jumped onto the strange ritual array that had been set up earlier. The fish bones and crushed cans on the array could be tolerated, but there was actually a pot of snake soup on it.
It looked like Kaiser was planning to have a midnight snack and had brought the food up, temporarily using it as array nodes. This was very Kaiser.
Don’t think Kaiser did this without reason. He pulled out the cracked [Ouroboros Stone Tablet]. Unfortunately, the [Ouroboros Stone Tablet] showed no reaction. It seemed that today, no matter what, it wouldn’t submit to Kaiser.
“Her~ ptooey!”
Kaiser spat a thick glob of phlegm onto the [Ouroboros Stone Tablet]. Su Xiao, Bubu Wang, and Baha clearly saw the [Ouroboros Stone Tablet] tremble violently a few times. After enduring for a while, seeing Kaiser about to take off his shoe, it chose to submit.
Su Xiao, Bubu Wang, and Baha quietly moved to the door. Amu was ready to open the door at any moment.
With the [Ouroboros Stone Tablet]’s submission, the snake soup in the clay pot actually reassembled itself, swimming into an ouroboros shape, becoming the core node of the array.
“Baladala donggua xigua, nanbian zhongle pian da digua.”
Kaiser chanted the ritual incantation. Even Reshma, who was no longer suppressing herself, was somewhat stunned.
After Kaiser’s fussing, sweating profusely, he tossed the test tube back to Su Xiao.
“It’s done, my dear friend. If there’s nothing else, Kaiser will take his leave. I have urgent business.”
Kaiser picked up the clay pot. His so-called urgent business was naturally enjoying this pot of snake soup. In an instant, Kaiser disappeared.
Su Xiao was long accustomed to this. He observed the “Fate Blood” in his hand. What had Kaiser done? The answer was: he had deceived this “Fate Blood,” making it be deceived as “Reshma’s Fate Blood.”
The next step was simple: just implant it. Hearing this process, Reshma smiled and said, “I have a friend who is a physician.”
“No need. I can help you.”
“Oh~? Sir, you know how to do this too? Then I’ll trouble you.”
Hearing Reshma’s words, Amu said nothing, just ate faster.
At 5 AM, on the third underground floor of the headquarters, Reshma sat up from the metal surgery bed. Her expression was normal, but upon closer observation, her pupils were dimmer, and her gaze had a unfocused quality.
This “Fate Blood” implantation was quite tortuous. Because the process wasn’t pleasant, Reshma, under intense pain, temporarily suppressed her true self and reverted to her cold, aloof mature-woman personality.
The problem was that the implantation was only one-third complete at that point. Amid Reshma’s cries, the “Fate Blood” implantation continued. When it reached two-thirds completion, Reshma’s “pretend” cold, aloof personality suddenly couldn’t bear it and collapsed, resulting in the personality’s death. Without any suppression, the real Reshma woke up.
For the subsequent implantation, Reshma became lazy and calm. Su Xiao had no comment. He had known from the beginning that the cold, aloof personality was the work of a mental system Supreme Strong, completely false. Reshma had never had a split personality; that mental system had been suppressing the real Reshma all along.
After the implantation was complete, Reshma stretched like she had just woken up. Her pupils were dim, but she smiled and said, “The feeling of truly waking up is wonderful.”
“...”
“If there’s nothing else, I’ll go back? I miss those ‘lovely’ subordinates.”
“Go ahead.”
Su Xiao got up and walked toward the elevator. He needed to go to the second-floor meeting room. The Soul Mentors of the Soul Bell Tower had completed the setup of the corresponding formula for “Soul Ultimate Sublimation.” It was time to proceed with the upgrade of the Soul Strength attribute.
...
Royal City, West District, Soul Bell Tower Headquarters.
Main Tower, Floor 999. This was the floor belonging to the successive Tower Masters.
In the luxurious but aged bedroom, the Soul Master suddenly sat up. He instinctively touched his hair. The hair on top of his head was still there, which relieved him. Had everything been a dream?
This thought lasted only 0.01 seconds. His hairstyle was back, but the problem was, he felt holes in his head among his hair. These holes were about finger-thick. His mouth twitching wildly, he inserted his index finger into one. It felt like... picking his ear or nose, as if this brain hole wasn’t acquired but innate.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5... 6?!
The Soul Master almost cracked again. It was supposed to be five holes, but six had been opened at once.
The bedroom door opened. In a loose gold-black robe, looking like a small old man with a big head and thin body, Tower Master Xilgof walked in with his hands behind his back, smiling broadly.
“My beloved disciple, you’re awake.”
Tower Master Xilgof jumped onto a wooden stool by the bed, stood on it, and put his hands behind his back.
If the Soul Master weren’t completely weak right now, he would immediately release his soul power and blast this little old man into a cloud of blood mist. Of course, the reality was that he couldn’t beat this little old man.
“My beloved disciple, you can’t even imagine your own potential. Since you’ve rested well, let’s prepare to open the seventh and eighth ‘Soul Holes.’ Don’t worry, before opening the twelfth ‘Soul Hole,’ your master has plenty of experience.”
After speaking, Tower Master Xilgof tapped his bald head, which had eleven “Soul Holes,” with his index finger.
...
Endless Sea, unexplored continent to the north.
This was a continent occupied by Divine Flesh, Living Metal, and the like. At this moment, a giant structure hundreds of thousands of meters tall trembled slightly. Large amounts of aged active metal began to peel from its upper part. As the active metal fell, the shape of a face gradually emerged.
The skin of this giant face trembled. Among the dozen or so eyes on the upper part of the face, one slowly opened a slit.
“He has come (Gods’ Language).”
From the flesh at the giant being’s shoulder came this magnificent sound, inaudible to ordinary beings.
At this moment, at the Soul Bell Tower Headquarters, Main Tower, Floor 999, in the bedroom.
Tower Master Xilgof paused, then said, “Mm, he has come. But I’ve discovered something more interesting. I won’t clash with him for now.”
Far away in the Southern Continent, at the deepest part of the No. 0 Abyss Expansion Zone, within the innermost area of the Rune Family’s “Abyss Proximity Zone,” behind the “Origin Clan Emblem,” an eye with a dark golden vertical pupil opened in the darkness.