Chapter 82: See you tonight

It's regrettable that the Academy hasn't recently shown the situation you mentioned.

So that possibility you just mentioned doesn't hold.

After checking around, she found that the Academy didn't have the situation Luo De described, where many people deliberately didn't wear the Void. Nadixa, who already didn't believe the Academy would do something so heinous, immediately rebutted Luo De with confidence.

That just means it hasn't started yet.

Luo De was equally confident; a baseless big hat directly smashed onto the heads of the Great Sage and many sages.

Of course.

This hat isn't baseless; it will really happen.

It's just that it hasn't officially started yet.

Luo De himself estimated that at least another two or three years were needed; once the Doctor brings the Electro Archon's Gnosis, the Academy will officially launch the god‑creation plan.

However, the fact that his earlier statement was refuted doesn't mean Luo De has nothing left to say.

"Nadixa, the Little Auspicious Grass King of Sumeru."

"You should know why the Academy is desperately trying to weaken your influence, right?"

Luo De smiled at Nadixa and continued: "Don't they know that the seven worldly archons need to fulfill their divine duties to accumulate divine power, and only then can they grow quickly? By locking you up like this, you have no chance whatsoever of catching up to the Great Merciful Tree King, who has already fulfilled his divine duties for thousands of years."

These words left Nadixa completely silent.

Yeah.

Why?

As the God of Wisdom, Nadixa, you really don't know?

No.

She knows very well.

Since the Great Sage found her five hundred years ago, the Academy has never treated her as a deity.

Even her Gnosis, as the symbol of her status as one of the seven worldly archons, was taken by them to maintain the Void's operation.

Put it nicely.

This is to protect the newly born, weak Dendro Archon from disaster.

Put it bluntly.

They are trying to completely seize Nadixa's divine power for themselves, so they keep weakening the faith in the name 'Little Auspicious Grass King' in Sumeru, aiming to prevent Nadixa from gaining the power to break free from control.

"Sigh——"

Nadixa sighed again and then said,

"I once used the Void to experience all human joys and sorrows."

"Of course I also know their worship of the Great Merciful Tree King and their disappointment in the Little Auspicious Grass King."

"They also say that the God of Wisdom no longer exists."

"I will go save the World Tree, I will go eliminate the disaster brought by forbidden knowledge."

"But the timing is still not right."

"I, I am still not qualified."

Nadixa's voice grew ever lower, and her head drooped deeply.

"Hmph——"

"How would you know if you don't try?"

"Didn't I tell you that?"

"Only practice yields true knowledge!"

"You don't even have the courage to try, so how can you know you can't?"

Luo De also had nothing good to say this time; for this deity who had been manipulated to the point of some mental confusion, he finally used just one sentence to advise: "Excessive self‑deprecation will only harm yourself."

After saying that, he proceeded to do the thing he had wanted to do when he came in last time but hadn't had the chance to.

"Smack——"

Luo De snapped his fingers, and a Holy Skeleton Fang Beast forged from frozen ice leapt out of thin air; the beasts that had been strolling in Nadixa's dream were instantly frightened by the huge Holy Skeleton Beast and scattered like birds and beasts.

"Huh?"

Nadixa, who had still been lost in sorrow, now showed a hint of doubt on her face: "Elemental energy?"

"Huh, any problem?"

Luo De waved his hand, and the Holy Skeleton Fang Beast instantly dissipated; then he snapped his fingers again and condensed a Holy Skeleton Crimson Hawk.

Nadixa stared blankly as he there used elemental energy to condense an elemental construct, then destroyed it, then created and destroyed it again.

"In my dream world"

"You shouldn't be able to use elemental energy, right?"

Before Nadixa could finish speaking, she saw Luo De summon once more a Holy Skeleton Flying Snake forged from fire elemental energy.

Moreover, this Holy Skeleton Flying Snake's size was far greater than the several ice‑elemental Holy Skeleton Beasts before it; the scorching heat it emitted scorched the surrounding plants to yellow and wither.

"."

Nadixa was already too exhausted to complain.

Luo De being able to barge into her dream at will was already enough.

Moreover, he could play with fire in her dream and even burn trees.

Unfathomable.

No matter what reason Nadixa gives, this cannot be explained.

By comparison.

For Luo De, having two Visions was nothing remarkable.

But now is not the time to be shocked.

Luo De's fire is burning a bit fiercely; if left unchecked, the small forest I planted tree by tree will be completely burned away.

Nadixa's eyes suddenly flashed with green light as she came to her senses, and the green leaf beside her ear began to shimmer along its veins; in an instant, the burned grass and trees regenerated, and the Holy Bone Flying Snake that Luo De was testing the power of dissipated under the suppression of Grass Elemental Power, turning into a tiny flame that could no longer burn.

"Hey, what are you doing? I haven't finished testing yet."

Luo De immediately shouted in dissatisfaction.

"Are you being too free?"

Even though Nadixa is good-tempered, she inevitably started to get a little angry.

"Huh?"

"Is this anger?"

"Hey."

Luo De paid no attention to Nadixa's angry face, and went on mocking her: "The Academy imprisoned you for five hundred years, tormented Sumeru for five hundred years, and you didn't get angry, but then I burn a few of your trees and you get angry? Tsk tsk."

Those words instantly deflated the anger Nadixa had just raised.

No way to refute.

Really, there's no way to refute.

All Nadixa could do now was to strengthen the dream world so it wouldn't be easily destroyed by Luo De, and at the same time quickly send the fragile living beings she had created to a safe place to avoid undeserved disaster.

When Luo De, this uninvited guest, is absent.

These little beings are her only playmates in her solitary imprisonment, and we must not let Luo De harm them.

Thus Luo De began to test and research his elemental energy usage skills more recklessly.

He no longer limited himself to improving his Ice Elemental Power proficiency, but also began to focus on coordinating the use of Ice Elemental Power and Fire Elemental Power together.

In this dream world.

No outsiders will come to disturb me.

Nadixa would never go to the Great Sage to betray herself.

For Luo De, who never dares to reveal his two Visions in the outside world, this is practically a paradise of an experimental site.

Amidst the continuous Boom— sounds, Nadixa's dream world suffered the most tragic night since its birth.

Until dawn.

The dream world began to turn illusory and void.

Feeling the repelling force of the dream world about to dissipate, Luo De withdrew the flames and ice in his hands, grinning as he waved at Nadixa and said, "Little Auspicious Grass King, Your Excellency, see you again tonight, eh."

Just one sentence.

Nadixa was frightened, and a sudden urge to destroy the dream world welled up in her.

(End of chapter)