Chapter 536: Churning Darkness! Black Flame!

More than an hour later, Angest reappeared above the fissure.

From within the fissure, dark energy surged forth like a geyser, continuously pouring out.

Angest sat there, enduring the onslaught of dark energy gushing from the fissure.

This left her entire body saturated with thick, unyielding darkness.

As if she were a true Great Demon Lord.

From time to time, the sound of bowstrings snapping through the air and arrows slicing through space echoed from the fissure.

These were the fallen elves attacking the dark creatures attempting to climb up.

In fact, too many dark creatures had climbed up, and their numbers were too few to kill them all, so they targeted only the larger ones.

The so-called larger ones were those above Sixth Rank.

When these larger ones first emerged, weakened by suppression, they could kill Eighth Rank dark creatures.

They could even suppress Ninth Rank legendary dark creatures!

This alone demonstrated their immense strength.

"The Queen is again meditating on the Dark Rule."

Some fallen elves, seeing Angest above the fissure, murmured.

"Yes, the Queen said that if one's heart leans toward light, even in darkness one can find light; meditating on darkness is to better resist it. Only when we truly understand this can we attempt to touch the Dark Rule."

Another powerful fallen elf said.

"Indeed, holding onto the light within prevents us from falling utterly into darkness and becoming Dark Elves. The Queen is the most formidable elf I've ever seen—if I had reached her current realm, I'd have long lost my true heart and fallen completely into darkness."

Another fallen elf said.

Clearly, Angest was the object of all fallen elves' worship and admiration.

Fallen elves were all elves who could not resist temptation, falling into darkness and rapidly gaining power.

Just like Lomina twenty years ago.

Thus every fallen elf was extremely powerful.

Yet fallen elves' power attributes were mostly corrupted.

Within fallen elves' hearts, some trace of light still remained; as their strength grew, this light diminished until it vanished forever.

Once the light vanished forever, they would become true Dark Elves—pure dark beings, profoundly evil.

Yet after becoming a Saint Realm, Angest held fast to her true heart and, through her formidable personal charisma, led countless fallen elves to learn how to resist darkness.

Angest was undoubtedly the most unique fallen elf!

Across the entire Continent of Gods, fallen elves like her were exceedingly rare.

Angest remained above the fissure for many days.

At this moment, her ears twitched slightly.

Because she faintly heard a voice.

But this voice did not travel through sound—it was more like it reached her mind through some special means.

"Angest, Angest…"

A familiar yet alien voice called to her.

Angest's expression did not change, yet she made no other movement—this showed she was indeed listening to the voice.

"Angest, I am Olivia. I've searched for you for half a month and still haven't found you. I know you're in the western Dark Forest—Lomina once saw you. Angest, for a thousand years, I've never stopped blaming myself for not trusting you more back then. I know you don't wish to see me, but I only want to tell you: I've found a way that might return you to the light. If you're willing to try, pray to the Lord of Flame—he is a powerful deity…"

Upon hearing this, Angest turned her face back.

The voice vanished.

"Lord of Flame…"

Angest whispered.

In her mind surfaced the holy light that had filled the Dark Forest months ago.

With holy light as her tool, she had reclaimed an area more than twice the size of Loki Forest in just a few months—an unprecedented speed.

As a powerful Saint Realm elf, Angest had no trouble guessing just how immense the Lord of Flame's power must be, the source of that endless holy flame.

"She still didn't respond to me."

In the City of Holy Light, Olivia sighed.

"I was born alongside her from the World Tree—we share a special bond that allows us to communicate across any distance, provided both sides consent. For a thousand years, I've contacted her countless times, but she has never answered."

Olivia added.

Over the past two weeks, accompanied by Lomina, she had searched the western Dark Forest for a full half-month.

With the speed of their flying vessel, the area they covered was astonishing.

They had seen the dark energy surging skyward above the fissures; after Lomina used holy flame to disperse the dark matter, they had also seen the fissures—like gaping wounds upon the earth!

Yet they still hadn't found Angest.

The Dark Forest was too vast.

The farther west, the larger it became.

Moreover, the Dark Forest formed its own self-contained system—outside it, one could hardly sense conditions within on a large scale!

In short, unless Angest revealed herself, they could never find her.

Entering the Dark Forest to search was even less practical—it would be slower and far more dangerous.

Lomina looked at Olivia, her mind brimming with curiosity.

A thousand years ago, something must have happened between Olivia and Angest to cause these twin-like sisters to remain separated for a full millennium.

Yet it was understandable—light and darkness were eternally opposed. Olivia was a devotee of the Goddess of Light, the Light Queen of the Loki Elf Empire, embodying ultimate light.

Yet her sister Angest had fallen into darkness and become a fallen elf.

Under these circumstances, even if Angest was Olivia's sister, their relationship could no longer be like it once was.

There must have been many stories between them back then.

But Olivia did not speak up, and Luomina did not ask.

Luomina said: "Princess Chenxi has prayed to my god, informing my god of Angest's condition. If Angest is willing to seek help from my god, my god will extend a hand."

Olivia showed a look of gratitude: "Thank you, Luomina, and please thank Princess Chenxi on my behalf."

Olivia did not give up; she still rode her flying ship, continuing to search for Angest above the Western Dark Forest.

Above that vast crack, Angest remained, comprehending the Dark Dao.

After entering the Sacred Realm, comprehending the Dao consumes vast amounts of time.

After falling into darkness, there are many shortcuts one can take—shortcuts that grant a fallen Sacred Realm an unprecedented cultivation speed.

But the degree to which that Sacred Realm sinks into darkness will continually deepen, until they can no longer extricate themselves.

Angest did not choose such a path.

As time passed, Angest continued to plummet deeper into the crack.

The deeper she went, the clearer the Dark Dao became.

The Dark Dao is not a single rule, but a collection of related rules—Olivia's guess was correct: Angest had already mastered one Dark Dao, and now she was attempting to master a second Dark Dao…

Soon, she descended to the abyssal depths of the crack.

There, endless dark energy surged forth, as if below lay another world.

Angest halted at the threshold, continuing to comprehend the Dark Dao.

Danger was quietly drawing near.

"Swoosh!"

A lizard-like dark creature burst forth, launching an attack upon Angest.

Angest's hand suddenly materialized a pitch-black blade, slicing the lizard-like dark creature cleanly in two.

"Hehe, you've already mastered over thirty percent of your second Dark Dao. When the darkness surges through you, you're more like a dark creature than we are—why force yourself to suffer? If you remain forever lost in darkness, we will worship you as a god and serve you eternally."

The voice of the unseen dark elf sounded again.