Chapter 840: Ongoing

Theron chuckled. “I’m not interested.”

Ameridia was startled. She didn’t really expect this answer. Daisy, however, seemed to pounce on it.

“I knew he was lying. There’s no way his age is that young. The youngest King in the last 25 generations, ever since the Resistance Army started tracking it, was 77 years old. And it was the Supreme Commander himself. You expect me to believe this bastard made it to King at 17?! No, he’s not a King, he’s a Middle King, it’s asinine!”

Despite Daisy’s continuous outbursts, Ameridia didn’t reprimand her. It was because it was truly too difficult to accept.

The gap was too large, too all-consuming.

Theron’s talents completely broke their scales to the point the scales themselves seemed utterly meaningless.

“I’m not interested exactly because of that. General Ameridia knows that I came here for the sake of wiping out the Demon Corps until there’s not a single soul left. I meant every word of that.

“How exactly is playing with children going to help me do that? What do you want me to do? Go and play around with a few Cloud Realm so-called geniuses? What do I get out of that?”

Theron didn’t bother to refute Daisy directly, he just made his feelings on the matter known.

He was also on a time crunch. He couldn’t afford to waste time on things that wouldn’t greatly accelerate his strength.

If the age limit was 500 years, he might consider going.

25 years old, though?

If what Ameridia was saying was true, it was worse than a waste of time for him. The strongest that entered would probably be at the Dome of Heaven Realm at best.

Theron could already destroy such “geniuses” at the Gold Realm. What did he gain out of this?

Daisy was speechless when she heard this. She didn’t know whether to say Theron was too shameless or not. Lying straight to their faces and yet still being so bold about it.

“Is that truly the only reason?” Ameridia said slowly. It was as though she was giving Theron one more chance to back out.

“It’s one of them.”

Daisy’s eyes nearly rolled out of her sockets. What was this hedging?

“Is that so? What are the others?”

“It has to be worth my time and it has to take less than six months.”

“Why don’t you just admit you’re lying?” Daisy said coldly.

Theron directly ignored her.

“Well, the gate itself isn’t what you think it is. And even if it was, the rewards for entering are unlike anything you can imagine. It is something that sets your path of cultivation on a trajectory you cannot fathom.

“The trouble is that the Human Race hasn’t managed to have anyone exit after entering since the Supreme Commander.”

Theron frowned. “You mean to say the rewards would still be useful to me today?”

“Yes. They are rewards that fundamentally alter how powerful you can be at Transcendent, Saint, and even King. As for the time it would take, it entirely depends on you. The stronger you are, the faster you can be.”

“How long did it take your Supreme Commander?” Theron asked.

“He entered when he was 25 years of age, citing that he felt he was slowing. He was at the Peak of the Dome of Heaven Realm at the time. When he exited almost 50 years later, he broke through to the King Realm in a single go. His Tribulation took over 4 years to complete.”

Theron raised an eyebrow. Someone could spend that long at the Quasi King bottleneck?

Well, he had met his fair share of old Quasi Kings in his day, including a certain old woman of Ameridia’s Clan. So he could see how that would be something that could happen.

“It sounds to me like 40 years is already pretty good.” Theron chuckled. He could see it on Ameridia’s face; she definitely thought that leaving in six months was impossible.

“Explain it to me,” Theron finally spoke again after a while. “What treasure makes it all so worth it?”

Honestly, Theron felt like in ten years at most he’d reach Transcendent. He could feel his cultivation slowing, but not by a substantial enough degree for it to take much longer than that. Even if he was distracted, a decade and a half was enough for certain.

If there was a chance he would miss Goddess Sacharro’s deadline, it wasn’t worth it. Especially since he had another 8 years to enter if he felt like it.

The gate wasn’t going anywhere. So why care?

“The chance to become a True Voidwrought.”

Theron raised an eyebrow. “I can’t lie, I don’t care too much about that.”

As far as Theron was concerned, if he upgraded his bloodline enough, he would reach that point eventually anyway. So why bother with all of this?

Ameridia’s pupils constricted into pinholes. She could tell that Theron wasn’t lying. He really didn’t care.

Why? Why wouldn’t he care about something like that?

“I’m tired of this guy, General. He just doesn’t want to admit his true age. I don’t think we should waste any more time or resources—”

General Ameridia lifted up a hand.

“If you aren’t interested in becoming a Voidwrought, does the end of the universe pique your interest?”

Theron frowned. “What do you mean by that?”

“It’s said that the Nameless Gate exists as a glue that holds together the shattered remnants of Existence. It is the location where the two strongest existences across all of time and space fought… the Nameless Immortal God and the Ancestor of the Tatsuya Clan.”

Theron’s frown deepened, a deep discomfort within him shifting.

“If it’s where they fought, why is the name not decided upon yet?”

“… What do you mean?” Ameridia asked. It was as though she knew exactly what Theron meant but wanted him to say it first.

“If it is the location they fought, why does the gate not bear the name of the winner?”

Ameridia stared at Theron for a long while before her cherry lips parted.

“Because the battle is still ongoing.”