Chapter 390

The Jewel Old Man's sense of crisis was justified.

Whether it was the phenomenon of filtering Foreign History.

Or the apocalyptic catastrophe of Human Incineration.

The Earth's endings in these World Lines, some had yet to Arrive, some were limited to a single corner.

They were just like localized lesions, Insignificant.

After all, Compared To this great tree of time, and its Unlimited branching growth trend, it really was Trivial, appearing so Tiny, calling it a grain in the vast sea would not be an exaggeration.

Imagine, there was such a lush towering tree, the Thick Trunk upright, Towering into Clouds, spreading like a canopy. And on this great tree, occasionally a few leaves would turn Yellow, wither, fall...

Right, this was nothing more than the most ordinary thing.

For the whole tree, these fallen leaves were completely within the acceptable range, hard to stop and also no need to stop.

But now, the Alien Spider has fully Awakened, beginning to hunt the Second Magic User across World Lines, this was truly fatal.

Because this meant, as long as it was a Parallel World where ORT existed, it would all Enter an active state.

This was an unprecedented crisis, crossing the boundaries of Parallel Spacetime.

If for Earth and Humanity, the previous example was merely withered leaves on a towering tree, not worth mentioning at all.

Then the current Great Calamity was enough to trigger a Storm.

One can only say, the Second Magic's Prestige is truly high, the effect also too heaven-defying, the enhancement buff given to the User is naturally also very unreasonable.

Even a nameless martial artist who doesn't understand Magecraft, cultivating a Secret Sword reaching the Realm of Magic, could be praised as challenging Asura gods and Buddhas with a human body...

From this point alone one can see, even if only developing a limited part of the Magic Function, it is enough to make one Fear/Chill with heart palpitations.

And since it is an enhancement buff...

Then, naturally one must also consider the true strength of the subject itself that receives the blessing and is enhanced.

Just like the relationship between base stats and magnification coefficient, this is a key element that absolutely cannot be Ignored.

Therefore, even if it is just the most basic stat enhancement, with the same magnification coefficient, the final enhancement effect will also differ vastly due to the difference in the subject's base stats.

Such as ORT that kind of stat explosion, a super-standard Monster that fundamentally Should Not appear on Earth, to what terrifying extent it would be enhanced...

Can also only barely be guessed.

Just like the Server's current Level Cap only open to level sixty, the Majority still only able to bitterly Farm goblins in the Forest of Gran version...

Then, Suddenly a super world boss of several thousand levels or even nearly ten thousand levels pops out, the ordinary adventuring daily life suddenly completely overturned.

This is already very despairing, fundamentally no way to fight.

Result still having to tell players, this monster also obtained an unprecedented powerful enhancement buff, letting its strength get an unexpectedly astonishing improvement...

【27】 Is this afraid it can't beat the Whole Server into thoroughly deleting accounts?

Is it afraid it won't have the Method to make the Whole Server delete their accounts thoroughly?

Moreover, the current buff is not merely just simple stat enhancement, but brings a certain brand new terrifying Mechanism.

Involving a Mechanism for Interference with Parallel Spacetime...

Truthfully speaking—

Just hearing the keywords, one should know how awful this situation is.

Originally already a super trash monster...

Now even more like a tiger with wings added, becoming an untouchable taboo Existence...

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The other side—

The Jewel Old Man moved to yet another Parallel World—

At this time point, the Solar System's third Planet Earth, was already a nearly lifeless iron-gray desert Star.

The Continent was a piece of desolation, mostly cracked Wasteland.

The Sky was covered by gray and turbid clouds, heavy smog obscured, even Sunlight could not penetrate this dull gray curtain.

Perhaps, it could be called "Steel Land".

The Jewel Old Man gazed at this desolate scene, heart involuntarily surging a deep dread.

He deeply knew, this was a Bad End ending that must be extremely Avoided whether for Humanity or the Star's future.

Because Humanity's endless consumption and extraction of Resources, causing Earth to lose vitality, step into death, this was not only natural ecology's collapse, more the Star Consciousness's extinction, an irreversible sorrow.

True Ether sufficient to poison any Old Era Creature, Mian Man on the Star that lost Planetary Function.

And the Star's own death, also announced along with the Lifeforms dwelling on it, together Walking toward the fate of extinction.

However—

If things were this simple, it also wouldn't be this Complex.

Although Humanity brought destruction on themselves, after exhausting the whole Star's Resources, failed to escape gravity's shackles, failed to step into the Interstellar Era's new epoch.

But they were in another Direction's Application field, for Life's own Survival continuation, developed extremely terrifying and taboo Technology.

The so-called "Arihyaku-shu" —

Species modeled on the various biological species that once existed on the past Star —

In order to survive on the Abandoned Star, their ecology underwent massive modification and Reinforcement —

Exhausting Planetary Resources, the Next Generation Primates created by Humanity, thus stepped onto the Stage of history.

Most of them are various Life Species fused and evolved with Old Era Primates species.

Can be said to be born from Humanity yet far surpassing Humanity, to the extent that even the True Ether Mian Man Hell Wasteland can be easily adapted to, powerful Creatures...

Such Existence, undoubtedly makes one feel fear.

But even more astonishing is, even the planetary doomsday imagined by past people, can no longer make the Human species go extinct.

However, obviously, Earth itself holds a completely different view on this.

The dying star, Gaia on the verge of death, held no resentment toward its own demise.

But it could not accept the fact that, even after its death, the human species would still survive tenaciously, even planning to continue propagating on its broken corpse.

Thus, in the very last moment before its end, Gaia sent a final signal to the entire Solar System—

Exterminate all primates that still survive on my corpse after I die.

Upon receiving the signal, the other eight major planets of the Solar System each dispatched their own UOs to eliminate the humans who ought to have died.

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This is the despairing conclusion of this cruel World Line.

The Ultimate Ones from the other planets of the Solar System, each capable of single-handedly driving all living species on this existing world to extinction…

There are actually eight whole such terrifying existences!

How the hell is this supposed to be fought?

In such desperate circumstances, what is even more heartbreaking is that the new life on Earth is still infighting, not of one mind at all.

This is undoubtedly adding insult to injury, making things even more despairing.

In short, upon perceiving the conclusion of this World Line, even the Jewel Master believed there was little hope, and could only strive to avoid other "ifs" converging toward such a World Line.

However, in the current situation, he instead deliberately moved into this world.

A gray, dead silent planet; everything is irretrievable.

Since it is already this ruined anyway, the distance to completely annihilating the already dead planet is merely a single step away.

If a battle is inevitable regardless, it is naturally best to fight it here…

The Jewel Master perceived that no matter which parallel world he moved to, he would only provoke the corresponding World Line's ORT into a violent reaction. Therefore, he could only choose this already destroyed world as the battlefield for confrontation.

There is nothing more suitable as a battlefield than here.

Moreover—

The other planetary UOs have also gathered on Earth. Although this is a desperate situation, it can equally be utilized.

Because there is no sense of comradeship among UOs; under normal circumstances, not directly colliding is already the limit. Once they fight, they won't care about that much…

And ORT is even more unscrupulous.

For a very long time, this monster was believed to be an existence that preyed on Mercury's UO and came to Earth in its stead…

Despite the lack of conclusive evidence and sufficient clues indicating this to be the case, the Jewel Master had to consider this possibility.

From this, one can also faintly glimpse ORT's terror.

So then…

Once this monster goes completely berserk, the other Celestial Body UOs will likewise be threatened.

In this way, in a certain sense, they are instead bound to the Jewel Master's chariot, becoming his comrades in arms against that thing.

Despair and hope intertwine; the situation is extremely difficult.

The Mage must utilize every resource at hand, including those seemingly uncontrollable enemies, to contend with the unsurpassable great terror, seeking an opportunity.

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The gray cloud sea, like a heavy carpet, layers upon layers, obscures the firmament.

This is not merely a single cloud layer's coverage, but the accumulation of dozens of heavy layers; they cling tightly together, sealing light and hope firmly above.

Since the great war ended, the sky has forever lost its azure and clarity.

Nothing can be seen.

—Bang!

The man pulled the trigger, firm and resolute.

As the gunfire rang out, a female body with bird wings growing from her back, shaped into a humanoid form, fell downward.

Her forehead was pierced, leaving a shocking wound, as she plummeted to the ground.

And on the ground lay countless corpses identical to this female body, piled layer upon layer like thick fallen leaves.

And at the very moment she fell.

The man had already lowered his gun, not even looking at the result, turning and walking away.

Work is like this; once proficient it becomes tedious. He no longer knows how many of these things he has shot, and naturally has no interest in confirming the situation one by one.

Trekking through the suburban forest, walking through the harsh road conditions with some difficulty.

After walking out of the forest, the city ahead came into view; the city walls surrounding the city stretched continuously, and within the city two great trees still grew, covering the sky above the city, reaching up to the cloud sea.

Looking from afar, there was a hazy feeling.

The man planted his feet, glanced briefly, then for some reason seemed to let out a long, stifled sigh.

He was just shaking his head, continuing to lift his leg to stride forward.

Right at this moment—

Light!

A ray of dazzling light suddenly poured down, sweeping away the surrounding gloom.

The man involuntarily tilted his head back, his gaze passing through the gray cloud sea, all the way to that distant horizon's end.

That expanse was so dazzling; in this silent world, it was like a vast, boundless ocean of light, as if to magnificently submerge everything.

He saw it.

In the high altitude, a blazing sun was burning fiercely, pouring down endless radiance and heat, like—

"The Sun."

This vocabulary surfaced in his mind; consciousness, language, self seemed to all lose their function in this instant, only instinct driving him to make a judgment.

The surge of memory made him recall the Old World's various knowledge, those stories about light and darkness, hope and despair.

Simultaneously, in the instant thought turned blank, an instinctive, startled thought emerged—

The gray cloud sea is the protective membrane wrapping the sky……

The outer layer is not the blue sky, but a blood-colored sky……

That Aristoteles — Type Pluto — when he first arrived on Earth, was intercepted in the atmosphere by the Six Sisters, neither side gaining the upper hand.

And after Type Pluto was wounded, the blood flowing from his body also wrapped the entire Earth.

Then……

What thing is it now, that not only pierced through the defense wall the Witches meticulously constructed, but even tore apart this crimson sky forged from Type Pluto's blood……

As well?!

(Chapter End)