Chapter 173: Influence of the Outer Gods

Within the Grey Fog, there is no concept of years; Chumen and Bethel did not know exactly how many years it took to reinforce the Grey Fog to a normal state.

The Grey Fog in this state is roughly equivalent in strength to the Second and Third Epochs, capable of effectively blocking the invasion of those Source Qualities that have not yet left coordinates.

It can be considered as patching the hole dug by the "Mysteries" at the end of the Third Epoch.

In this way, at the very least, Chumen does not need to worry about being besieged by five or six Source Qualities.

"Finally out." That streak of Grey Fog spanning the void, dividing the world, surged; a gate of starlight was outlined upon the Grey Fog, and Chumen and Bethel walked out from it, seeing the intense sunlight.

"The Trensost Empire must have been established for several hundred years by now." Chumen reached out to grasp a wisp of sunlight, deciphering much information from it.

With three great empires standing side by side and four Emperors confronting one another, the time of peace over these few hundred years has not even reached half; small conflicts frequently erupt between the three great empires.

Of course, all three sides have maintained restraint, and no large-scale wars at the level of Angels or True Gods have occurred.

With the Trensost Empire and the Balam Empire in an alliance, the Solomon Empire, despite having two Emperors, remains at a disadvantage and has lost quite a bit of territory in small-scale wars.

"War of the Four Emperors?" Chumen laughed dumbly, a familiar feeling welling up in his heart; this is history that has lasted for hundreds of years.

"Let's go, back to the empire side first." Chumen and Bethel roamed back to the Solomon Empire; several hundred years have passed, and the imperial capital has changed its appearance, but what remains unchanged is that asymmetrical style.

"Teacher, I will head back to the family side first." Bethel returned to the Abraham Family.

Chumen took a look around the imperial capital without alarming anyone and returned to his own Duke castle.

Hum!

Chumen had only just laid down when he received a meeting notification transmitted from the Dream Book.

"I really am a workaholic, aren't I..." Chumen could not help but complain.

He sank his consciousness into the Dream Book and arrived at the Dream Kingdom.

"Trensost and Salinger are not quite normal." As soon as Chumen took his seat, he heard the soft and tranquil voice of Amanises.

"Huh?" Chumen blinked; in order to settle the Grey Fog as quickly as possible, he had relaxed his control over information from the outside world.

"The Emperors of the two great empires..." Chumen frowned slightly, "Are they trying to start a war again?"

"That is something you will need to investigate." Amanises looked at Chumen with a hint of a smile.

"..." Chumen was speechless, then said, "How did you know I came out?"

Amanises only nodded slightly and did not answer.

"The Seal reinforcement is complete?" Sasriel and Lilith also looked at Chumen in surprise.

"Yes," Chumen nodded gently, "Just finished, I have already returned to the Solomon Empire."

"Then you go and figure out what Salinger and the others are doing." Lilith and Sasriel both nodded; the majority outweighed the minority.

"... Alright." Chumen agreed.

"Besides that, there is one more very important matter."

Lilith looked at all the attendees and stated a piece of news in a heavy tone.

"The one on the Moon is attempting to secretly influence me."

A single sentence caused the expressions of everyone present to change slightly.

"There is even another 'Mother Tree of Desire'; they are both attempting to erode the 'Moon' Authority."

"Aornia may have already developed certain problems."

Aornia, the Blood Moon Queen, is the current Queen of the Trensost Empire and the Sequence 1 "Beauty Goddess" of the "Moon" Pathway.

At present, the "Moon" Pathway has no True God; the Unique is controlled by the Evernight Goddess, while the remaining three Sequence 1s—one is with Aornia, and two are with Lilith.

In fact, Lilith has almost occupied two pathways, but under such circumstances, she will also bear the full pressure of the "Fallen Mother Goddess".

Even the "Mother Tree of Desire" has set its sights on her.

"The 'Red Moon' Unique is in my God's Kingdom and has not been affected." Amanises added.

But this has no reference value; the Dark Kingdom is the place where the "Hidden" Authority is strongest, and no deity can peer into it; the "Fallen Mother Goddess," separated by the Original Barrier, certainly cannot do it either.

"Why so sudden?" Chumen had just resolved the threat from the Source Quality side, and now he has to face Outer Gods?

Of course, all of this has traces to follow; hundreds of years are enough for many things to breed and grow in the darkness.

After the Creator died and the Authority of the Lord of the Astral World fell into other hands, the influence of Outer Gods on the Real World had already been deepening.

But at the beginning, it was negligible, only able to influence certain ordinary people who liked to analyze the Starry Sky.

Gradually, the scope of the Outer Gods' influence began to expand, and by now, it has begun to affect the maneuvering between Sequence 1s and even True Gods.

"In essence, this may be the same matter." Sasriel suddenly spoke, stating his judgment.

"The same matter..." Chumen and the others were all lost in thought.

"Then I really cannot get any rest." Chumen clicked his tongue; the situation is a bit serious and requires him to handle it personally.

"If there is anything else, say it all at once." Chumen looked at the other three.

"There is also..." Sasriel looked at Chumen.

"You really do have more!" Chumen glared, "Did you all just pile up the affairs of hundreds of years and leave them for me to do?"

"What were the two avatars I molded for you for?"

Lilith and Amanises kept their expressions as usual, without the slightest change, as if they had not heard.

"Hmm..." Sasriel was silent for two seconds, "You really did not mold an avatar for me; the two Angels of King under my command, Ouroboros is not very smart, and Medici is currently only Sequence 2."

"..." Chumen was speechless.

Fine, the most critical reason is actually that while Angels have a certain resistance to the corruption of Source Qualities and Outer Gods, it is still too dangerous.

Only Chumen possesses the trait of ignoring all corruption.

This is just like Mr. "Fool" in the original trajectory; possessing "Sefirah Castle," he does not fear many difficult corruptions, so the gods would all push him to accomplish certain things.

"What I actually wanted to say is that Adam is likely also in the game." Seeing this, Sasriel assumed Chumen had agreed.

"... Fine!" Chumen could only accept it; the minority obeying the majority was the rule he had set initially.

"However, it has been a long time since I have run around between all parties like this."

In his memories, it was only during the Second Epoch that Chumen needed to go Roaming everywhere; back then, the Ancient Gods were powerful and needed to be divided.

But the situation is different now.

Chumen agreed, and this meeting came to an end; the other three would wait quietly for Chumen to provide the result.

"Let me see, hmm..."

His gaze took in the situation of half the world through the radiance of the Sun.

"For the same matter, then let us start with the Trensost Empire."

Chumen held the Dream Book in his hand and went Roaming toward his destination.