Chapter 502: Mending the Sky

The "God of Phantom Dreams" is an experiment of Chumen; creating a Unique was a skill Chumen had already mastered after truly realizing what so-called "Pillars" and "Symbols" were at the end of the Fourth Epoch.

It was just that for many years afterward, this skill had no use.

Until the appearance of Roselle, until the founding of the Phantom Realm.

The Phantom Realm itself was Chumen's ritual to fuse the "Illusion Dream" Unique.

Now that the fusion was successful, Chumen had once again achieved perfect control over the "Dream Book".

Among the four great Uniques, "Myriad Phenomena" and "Illusion Dream" were already perfectly controlled, and "Reality" and "Causality" did not seem far off either.

And the appearance of the "God of Phantom Dreams" was, in essence, a transfer of risk...

Chumen would not lose control, nor would he go mad due to the Law of Beyonder Characteristic Convergence, but in this universe, he could not escape the influence of the "Original Creator".

Dream symbolizes the "Initial Dream", the "Initial unfulfilled desire".

Just as the "End" symbol must appear when the universe is destroyed and returns to the beginning, the symbol of the "Initial Dream" must naturally be sought from the "Original Creator".

That is the root of everything.

No madness, no indifference, no convergence, and no separation; there is not even a need to worry about someone waking up from within oneself.

This is the "Initial Dream".

The "Initial Dream" could almost solve all the problems of that "Original Creator" who created the universe!

It is just that Chumen had never attained the stability and purity that the "Original Creator" did not truly possess either.

Because the "Initial Dream" did not possess consciousness when it was first born.

It was closer to a phantom, a dream truly yearned for by all Oldest Ones.

And at this moment, Chumen arrived; it was no longer possible to trace whether Chumen and the "Dream Book" had fused, or if the "Dream Book" had gestated his consciousness.

In any case, the consciousness named Chumen originally did not exist; the erasure of consciousness, or being swallowed and digested by the personality of an "Original Creator" or even the entity itself, was the original fate of the dream.

And the attempt of the "God of Phantom Dreams" was actually a "risk transfer" for the erasure of consciousness; after Roselle became the "God of Phantom Dreams", he would inevitably bear this silent assimilation.

To a certain extent, this could be considered as lightening Chumen's burden.

Using a tug-of-war as a metaphor, it was as if Chumen had created a burly man for his own side...

"So that's how it is." Sasriel saw all this information disturbance on Chumen and understood Chumen's current state.

"Roselle also knew of this consequence, but becoming a god seemed to have become his obsession; he had to try it no matter what, and then we hit it off!"

Chumen reached out and took the "Illusion Dream" Unique into his hand, letting it slowly approach the "Dream Book".

During this process, Chumen was also closely monitoring his own state, finally turning the "Illusion Dream" Unique into a page, letting it completely return to the "Dream Book".

"Done, another one succeeded." Because of the completion of the "Illusion Dream" ritual, plus gaining Roselle as this "burly man", Chumen only felt that his current state was better than ever before!

Hmm, Sasriel nodded with a smile, then turned his attention back to the transformation of the Astral World.

The "God of Phantom Dreams" Roselle had completely finished his transformation in status.

"As expected..." That mass of phantom dream body gradually collapsed, forming a humanoid figure composed of Dream Cloud.

"Is this the consciousness erosion from the dream?" Roselle only felt that he was connected to the "Dream Book" through the "Illusion Dream" Unique, which was difficult to distinguish between true and false.

A kind of unconscious, meaningless, complete nihilism was eroding his humanity and divinity; everything about him seemed to be worn away. Perhaps in a few years, or a hundred years, he would have all his passion, all his consciousness, and all his memories worn away, turning into nothingness and merging into the "Dream Book".

"Tough to handle..." Roselle's thoughts stirred, and the Fairyland and dreamscapes in the Phantom Realm all turned into his anchors, anchoring his humanity.

"It really is an endless tug-of-war!" Absurd thoughts of suicide or giving up suddenly appeared in Roselle's mind.

It was just that having fused with the "Illusion Dream" Unique, he no longer had a way back.

He raised his head to look at the weak point on the Barrier, where streaks of visible Outer God corruption were already seeping in.

In the sky of the Real World, brilliant, endless auroras were already flickering.

This was the "sky collapsing" that Chumen had mentioned at the beginning.

After the "War God Divine Kingdom" collapsed, the sky of the Real World seemed to have a large hole broken in it, and countless auroras spread from this center to the entire world.

"Let me... mend the sky!" Roselle reached out and grabbed at the Phantom Realm, extracting a large amount of Fairyland from it and molding it into his own God's Kingdom.

The "Dream Sea" appeared in the Astral World, and its endless seawater poured into the "Illusory Dream God Kingdom".

Perhaps out of Roselle's eccentric taste, this God's Kingdom was seven-colored, and its shape was also an irregular giant stone.

The Phantom Giant that Roselle had transformed into held up the God's Kingdom, walking step by step toward the weak point of the Barrier.

Hum!

At this moment, the power of the Outer Gods from outside the Barrier became even more terrifying, and the trembling of the Barrier became even more violent.

Of course, at this time, the other True Gods were also doing their utmost to block the spread of that corruption; while stabilizing the Barrier, they also added the power of their own Authority to that "Mending Stone".

—Anyway, all the True Gods' Authorities had "backups" in the hands of Dream, so there was no point in hiding them...

"Stop!" Chumen, in the God's Kingdom of the "True Creator", also timely plated a layer of Dream Phosphor onto the Original Barrier.

"Merge!" In this instant, the scene of "mending the sky" appeared in the minds of countless people.

—That "seven-colored giant stone" finally plugged the hole, obliterating all the auroras.

Then, this scene in everyone's mind became reality.

Countless ordinary people knelt on the ground, praying to the True Gods they believed in, thanking the True Gods for their salvation.

Roselle turned his head to nod slightly at the True Gods who had helped him, and directly submerged into the "Illusory Dream God Kingdom".

A single God's Kingdom alone could not block the erosion of those Outer Gods; he needed to constantly draw in the power of the "Dream Book" to stabilize this weak point.

Following the Phantom Realm he had guarded for hundreds of years, he would once again turn into a "Mending Stone" until the Original Barrier completely shattered.

All the True Gods in the Astral World watched silently as Roselle walked into the "Illusory Dream God Kingdom", wanting to stop him, yet not daring to do so.

They glanced at the two Goddesses in the "Dark Kingdom" once more, then retreated back to their own God's Kingdoms in fear.

The Original Barrier gradually stabilized, and the attacks of those Outer Gods stopped strangely.

One reason might be that they knew the Barrier could not truly be broken; as for the other reason, of course, it was that they had already achieved their goal.

(End of chapter)