[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-divine-path-system":3,"chapter-divine-path-system-divine-path-system-chapter-1758":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Divine Path System",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1564930,2028,"Chapter 1756: Destruction of Cosmos","divine-path-system-chapter-1758",1758,"\u003Cp>'Pain.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pain was the only sensation he could feel. His body seemed to be screaming, as every functioning nerve end was transmitting prickly, scorching pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The physical pain might've been bearable if there was no pain from within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His soul was ripped in the middle, like someone punched a hole through it. It was barely holding together, trembling every moment of its existence as it tried to not shatter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each part of the soul was acutely aware of the gaping hole. And since soul was naturally sensitive compared to the body, he felt that hollow pain to its deepest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even this, Varian might've tried to endure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But there's something else. A pain that came from not inside or outside, but from his very being.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My origin!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Varian regained a sliver of consciousness, checking the origin in hurry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half-shattered. Cracked in the intact part. And falling apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His divine paths at the peak of rank 2 were declining as a result. He had already fell from peak rank 2 to high rank 2. And it wasn't stopping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Varian growled as he pulled himself up through sheer will. He tried to use the divine paths and stop the fall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was able to barely use the power before his physical and spiritual injuries worsened, forcing him to abandon the attempt midway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While he didn't go all the way, there was a despairing certainty in the back of his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I wasn't able to affect the fall.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this was so, the divine paths would continue falling. All the way until he reached an unawakened state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would he even have any lifespan left? No, no, he wouldn't even survive until then. It's a miracle he's still alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I have to do something.' Varian forced his powers to repair himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Samsara, hurr—'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then it hit him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wave of emotions that weren't felt since he was unconscious after the battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn't one more battle. These weren't some more injuries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lost. He totally, utterly and decisively lost. He lost the battle. He lost the slivers. He lost his own powers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Varian opened his mouth, but no word came out. His mind had no thoughts and his heart was unsure what to even feel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was rage for losing, deep sadness for Samsara and Logos and a sense of despair for having failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I cannot give up, I have to fight, I have to—ugh!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His powers began to fall from high rank 2 to mid rank 2.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Varian's eyes were bloodshot and ignoring his injuries, he pushed his paths to the fullest in a desperate attempt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He vaguely felt earlier that any attempts were useless. Yet, he couldn't help but try.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Arghhhh!\" Varian screamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The injuries worsened. With them, the pain. Body curling, soul shattering pain. But the pain could wait until he fixed his origin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Origin showed no improvement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Why is it like this?' Varian fell into thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long long ago, he tried to search for Logos within him. She wasn't in his body or even his soul. She was with his origin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It should've been obvious. He had multiple paths since his origin was kept in three simultaneous avenues by Logos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where else could the slivers be?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When God Emperor ripped them from him, it directly affected his origin. Even if he did not intend this, this was inevitable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder he asked Varian if he was willing to give up the slivers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I shouldn't despair…I shouldn't despair….I shouldn't…\" Varian closed his eyes, trying to heal the relapsed injuries as he muttered weakly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something wasn't working. It's not his broken body nor his nearly crippled soul or even the half-shattered origin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was hope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had been injured and was on the verge of death many times before. But he always had hope. Now, that hope was dying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unwilling to let it go, Varian expanded his closed perception to sense God Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'If God Emperor's plan failed, maybe he could snatch the slivers back and—'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shouldn't have done that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sensed two powerful auras clashing far, far away. Yet the sheer intensity was enough for him to feel pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even peak rank 2s would fall apart from the aftermath of these strikes. These strikes carried an unfamiliar as well as a familiar one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'God Emperor….reached rank 3.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Varian's eyes went blank and the last spark of hope died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His perception could sense what's happening now. The cosmos was being destroyed. Not as an attack from an individual or just living dying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its very foundations were unravelling. The highest laws that worked together were breaking apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Space was unravelling—unpredictable space cracks were appearing all over the universe, swallowing things and destroying them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time was growing erratic—temporal storms were destroying entire star systems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Order and Chaos started to wreck everything. Perfectly normal materials suddenly exploded. Stable cities were hit with improbable disasters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Life went off the rails. The unlucky creatures mutated into monsters as their bodies grew without control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Death was reckless. Perfectly fine people died without warning. And even among the lucky to have survived, their organs died forever, not responding to any treatment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The very concepts that made universe possible were failing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was indeed the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I can't change anything now…' Varian was consumed by despair. And in that despair, he tried to see the next step. 'Since we'll all die soon, I want to at least…'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sudden attack emerged without warning, nearly catching Varian off guard. He hastily put up defenses, but he was half a step late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His injuries completely collapsed and he was once more pushed to the brink of fainting. His ability to defend himself almost completely vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dozen more attacks followed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Varian didn't try to defend. He couldn't. He opened a space-time crack and threw himself in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the attacks shook the stable space channel midway and destroyed it, throwing him into the chaotic space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He drifted in that space, half-awake, half-dreaming as he tried to guide himself out of it to a safer location.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He found a place with relatively weak auras. But suddenly, a powerful celestial aura appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Varian wanted to drive himself way but he couldn't take it any longer and fainted once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The darkness receded after a long time and he jolted awake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I never thought you'd fall into my hands.\" An ash-skinned woman was standing at the door, polishing her sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Varian's mind was confused for a moment before he recognized her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cyris, the last living abyssal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…So this is how I go, huh?\" Varian realized his injuries were too severe to even fight a celestial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was funny, a peak rank 2 just a few minutes ago and now he couldn't even fight a celestial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Varian laughed at himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More terrifying than this was a small part of him didn't want to fight back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Am I so consumed by despair that I was welcoming death?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tried to tell himself that it's not it. She wouldn't spare him anyway. Why not accept death since he couldn't fight back?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shaking his head, he laughed and looked into her eyes. \"I ended your race. Come, end me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cyris swung her sword and Varian welcomed his death.\u003C\u002Fp>",1202,"2026-06-06T07:59:03.669Z",1,"novelbin.me","b19d736c90d382cc328c8280d6c85db9fbff16de71c8c28ce1bd5aba4f5d3ebd","divine-path-system-chapter-1759","divine-path-system-chapter-1757",1773,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fdivine-path-system-cover.jpg"]