Chapter 412: Darkness Descends

The black vortex stared at the cavern like the Eye of Creation, and beneath the Black-robed Person's flowing robe dripped viscous Star Sand; each step etched living text from the Shadow Demon Codex onto the crystallizing ground. As he raised his hand, two black rays tore the void, and where they passed spacetime folded and peeled away like fragile parchment, revealing the grim endings of three hundred Parallel Worlds—each world's Ao Li kneeling to nurture a new god.

"Careful! It's a cognitive collapse!" Zixiao Immortal tapped the ground with his sword tip, and the shield woven from Taiyi Pure Light mutated into nurturing tendrils the moment it touched the black rays. Xuanyuan Hao grabbed two Lingxiao Pavilion disciples and pulled them back; the spot where they had stood had collapsed into a Micro Black Hole, Greedily sucking in the surrounding light.

####【Gui Xu Manifestation】

The Black-robed Person's hood was lifted a corner by the energy afterglow, and the Azure-scaled God-slaying Crossbow captured the horrific scene—under the hood were countless overlapping infant faces, silver‑haired and black‑haired babies laughing in unison with three hundred vocal tones. Gongxu Yue's mechanical arm suddenly grew backward, stabbing his own temple and pulling out a memory chip: "He is synchronizing our fear!"

Lín Jìn thrust his Star‑sand‑laden right hand into the rock wall, and Nirvana Fire surged along the earth veins toward the vortex core. Within the flames the current state of Polaris Tower appeared: the Celestial Globe's gears were forging the Brain Fluid of the nursery's infants into a new scale. The Black-robed Person flicked a finger, a strand of Star Sand pierced the fire curtain, planting the phantom of a silver‑haired infant in Lín Jìn's pupils: "Brother's flesh and blood are the most delicious~"

####【Flame Burning City】

Ao Li's Inverse Scales exploded one by one, and Golden Blood painted a Dragon Clan annihilation array in the air. When the Array Pattern touched the Black-robed Person, his robe suddenly swelled, sprouting billions of crystallized umbilical cords that linked to the old wounds on everyone's bodies. "Cognitive synchronization rate 97%…" Gongxu Yue's mechanical eye oozed black mechanical fluid, "He is turning us into a Living Array Eye!"

The Mo School Mechanical Beast "Po Jun" suddenly self‑detonated, hurling three thousand spiked gears wrapped around Chrono Whale Brain Fluid toward the Black-robed Person. The gears quantum‑recombined the instant they met the black rays, assembling into a Micro Abyss Return Ruler that pierced the annihilation array—at the Array Eye Ao Li suddenly saw three hundred versions of herself giving birth in a jade basin, each infant's cry carving a new nurturing contract into her spiritual platform.

####【God-slaying Blade】

Zixiao Immortal burned his primordial spirit into a Taiyi Sword Soul, but the sword light bent midway, shattering the eastern rock wall of the cavern. After the crystallized layer collapsed, a horrifying truth emerged: the entire desert underground was a cognitive network stitched together from the remnants of Allied Forces soldiers, each node pulsing with the compound eye pupils of the nursery's infants.

"Now!" Lín Jìn's Star‑sand‑right hand suddenly pierced his own chest, ripping out a burning chaotic core and hurling it at the Black-robed Person. Nirvana Fire met the Star‑sand robe in an instant, and a scream from a silver‑haired infant echoed from beneath the robe. Ao Li's World‑Cutting Blade seized the chance, stabbing into the source of the scream; the blade's edge conveyed a womb‑like contracting sensation—inside the Black-robed Person was not a human body at all, but three hundred throbbing chaotic embryos!

####【End Times Cry】

When the last strand of black ray faded, fragments of the Black robe drifted down like dead leaves. Each fragment reflected the new changes of Polaris Tower: the Celestial Globe's scale froze at 99.99%, the nursery walls were crawling with nurturing patterns, and three hundred infants were hoisting themselves to the dome with umbilical cords. Their foreheads' compound eyes exuded Star Sand, forming in the air the lip shape of a black‑haired infant: "Cognition…delicious......"

Ao Li staggered to her knees, discovering the World‑Cutting Blade's edge crawling with newly formed Inverse Scales. Between the scale gaps, the phantom of a silver‑haired infant was sucking her spiritual marrow. On the distant horizon, a second bronze sun pierced the clouds, and its light revealed a colossal god‑form assembled from crystallized warriors—its left eye glittered with silver light, the right eye was black as a abyss, and its palm grasped a shrunken Abyss Return Ruler, its shaft engraved with the names of Allied Forces soldiers.