Chapter 75: Spiritual Ascension

The Sotos castle was very restless tonight.

Aaron sat in the study, and after waiting for a moment, he heard a knock at the door.

"Come in!"

The door creaked open, a hem of a skirt flashed, and Jinni walked in: "Brother Aaron... I..."

"I said very early on that I have no great interest in power, and later I became even more determined to pursue the Mysterious..."

Aaron said with a sigh.

Jinni nodded.

She understood this brother of hers best, and she knew even better that his talent for Occultism was simply terrifying.

In fact, ever since six years ago, the faith in the Ancestor in the Green Forest had become more than ten times as fanatical, and many lords were even secretly attempting blood sacrifices and the like in private, which even included some foreigners.

But not one of them could obtain even a tiny bit of Mysterious power!

It was as if the Ancestor had given all her favor to Aaron alone.

"Raising offspring will only distract me, so I have chosen you as my successor..."

Aaron stood up and patted Jinni's head: "Work hard, of course... if you fail, it doesn't matter; this is just an irresponsible brother dumping a heavy burden onto you..."

He displayed the Green Forest Power Ring on his hand: "Go down and prepare. At the fastest in a few days, at the latest in a month, I will pass the ring representing the Green Forest Earl to you and truly abdicate."

Jinni was stunned.

Being named the successor had already shocked her heart.

But to be about to take charge of the vast Green Forest and the North, she was a bit flustered...

"Is it that Father's death hit you too hard?"

Jinni suspected that Aaron had already lost his mind a little.

"No, I am very clear-headed, clearer than ever before! Now... you should go out."

Aaron waved his hand, shooed Jinni away, and went to sleep directly in the study.

Dream world.

Diate.

Redemption Light Cult headquarters.

All the believers were praying before the Altar, as if they regarded this place as the final Shelter.

Ever since a terrifying tremor emanated from the Secret Source a few days ago, the entire world had fallen into darkness!

Endless darkness shrouded the earth; one had to stay in a place with Light, and going outside to be enveloped by the darkness meant death!

That boundless darkness was like an ocean, within which there seemed to be indescribable, incomparable behemoths swimming, chasing, and slaughtering...

The occasional splash from a collision could potentially wipe out a survivor's stronghold.

Lin, Olivia, Yimir, and Abner gathered together, praying incessantly before the Altar.

Finally... their prayers received a response.

"My Lord... ever since that day, the world has fallen into darkness..."

"Although we have concentrated our food, water sources are scarce, and we can only hold out for seven days at most..."

Lin and Olivia hurriedly prayed, reporting the situation to the Spirit of Falsehood.

'Better than I imagined; I was already mentally prepared for the world to be destroyed after I logged on... Darkness? It seems those terrifying existences who obtained the revelations of Fate and Instinct have finally made their move, huh?'

Aaron did not respond, but simply bestowed Mysterious energy, continuously amplifying the senses of these four believers.

"Woo..."

Lin gritted her teeth, her Spirituality leaping rapidly, her thoughts constantly diffusing and ascending...

Finally, she seemed to break through a patch of darkness and arrived in the starry sky.

Within the boundless and pitch-black universe, a crack suddenly opened, within which there seemed to be countless mottled and magnificent colors, like a huge world.

No!

That was not a world, but a vertical pupil!

That crack was one eye of this incomparably huge existence before her!

Lin felt her pathetic sanity being squeezed by some kind of madness, about to vanish without a trace in an instant.

But at the most critical thread, there was always a force maintaining her clarity.

Roar!

Immediately after, she saw a crimson flame, like a solar storm, igniting this universe of stars!

Countless female wails reached Lin's ears.

She seemed to see that Mother Tree of flesh and blood again, only at this time the branches of the Mother Tree were covered in charred black, with a huge gap split from the middle, as if it had been cleaved in two by something!

And from that wound, the eggs of some terrifying existence were being gestated...

Olivia's Spirit Body seemed to ascend to Heaven.

But at this time, Heaven was half crimson and half pitch-black.

Countless flames were entangled, and a large amount of roaring came from within.

And within those flames, she saw a huge Cocoon again.

It was velvet, it was life, it was the symbol of change and the unchanging—!

The huge Cocoon crashed into the Scarlet flames, and some kind of roar seemed to come from within it.

It was a sound wave sufficient to grind Olivia's Spirit Body into powder!

Olivia screamed, but she did not die.

At the final moment, she saw a pitch-black gash cut open upon the giant cocoon amidst the flames.

A pair of indescribable, impossible-to-depict giant wings kept expanding outward from the cocoon's opening...

Yimir and Abner were likewise plunged into Chaos.

Under the protection of the Spirit of Falsehood, they seemed to have arrived directly at the end of the Mysterious, seeing those great existences one by one.

They were at war!

"Wake up!"

Then, all four people heard the voice of the Spirit of Falsehood.

"Thank you, my Lord, for allowing me to see the ultimate of the Mysterious..."

Yimir prostrated himself almost completely: "Regarding the path ahead, I no longer have any confusion..."

Along with him were Abner, Lin, and Olivia.

"Now, it is time to collect the price."

Aaron said in a calm tone: "Your Spirituality previously leaped, and you have already come into contact with the Scarlet Sun. Now... set up the Ritual, and offer a Prayer to Him!"

"My Lord, we will not abandon our faith, and furthermore... even if we pray, there is no record of the Scarlet Sun ever responding. There wasn't before, and now, while He is under siege by many Siming Gods, it is even less likely..."

"If He does not respond, you shall keep praying!" Aaron said calmly: "Before, you should have already sensed His correct honorific name!"

"We obey your will!"

Lin gritted her teeth and agreed, then proceeded to set up the Ritual.

The four Extraordinarys joined forces, and with the help of a large number of believers, the Ritual was constructed quickly.

On the ground was a giant Sun Orbit, with the gaps filled with fresh blood, and gold as the marker at the center.

"Great Scarlet Sun!"

"You are the source of the Mysterious, the Creator of all things, the symbol of the Extraordinary!"

"We offer our Prayer to You, begging You to descend Your radiance!"

The four Extraordinarys vibrated their Spirituality, chanting the true name of the Scarlet Sun.

However, nothing happened.

The Scarlet Sun would never respond to believers to begin with, let alone now.

"Continue!"

Olivia gritted her teeth and continued the Prayer.

Aaron stood to the side, silently observing.