Chapter 1080: Audience, Audience, Audience, Audience

Audience, audience, audience, audience......

The void, an unknown space.

Just as Fang Yuan was still sighing that his path to godhood had indeed been docked points, his consciousness was pulled into an endless darkness.

Soon, the darkness gradually dispersed, and light reignited within his field of vision.

The blinding brightness left him dazed for a moment; only after looking around did he realize he seemed to have arrived at......

The Court of Katorn!?

Isn't this the highest tribunal located in the Court of Katorn!

Since he had appeared here, there was no need to guess who had pulled him in.

【Order】!

My lord!

Audience!

Fang Yuan was overwhelmed by the unexpected favor.

To be honest, it wasn't that he had never had an audience with a deity, only that he had never had one with his own lord.

He wasn't sure if it was because he had exploited too many loopholes, but 【Order】 had never summoned him. Yet upon inquiring, he discovered that his lord also seemed never to have summoned anyone else, so he leaned more toward a saying circulated among 【Order】's players:

An individual's audience would affect the fairness of the entire faith faction, so 【Order】 never summoned believers.

Then what was this summoning for — a judgment on his loophole-exploiting, or special regard for breaking the collective fairness!?

Fang Yuan was very uneasy; he didn't know how to face this absolutely "impartial" lord.

But he still understood the necessary praise and greetings, so he immediately bowed his head, devout to the extreme, and said:

"Praise be to the great......"

However, before he could finish, the codex placed high in the highest tribunal flipped a page and said:

"What is 【Order】?"

"?"

Fang Yuan was dumbfounded. He shuddered all over, looked up at the codex, and thought: could this be some kind of test?

But the question was, why did his lord's tone sound so bewildered.

Could it really be, just as Mo Li had said, that 【Order】 had lost His order!?

The void, an unknown space.

When Chen Yi felt himself being pulled into the void, he was undoubtedly panicked.

Because his ladder of audience had been docked points — this was the first time he had been docked points since the descent of the 【Faith Game】, which meant he had forgotten an important memory from the previous trial.

Impossible!

He had clearly recorded everything, so why was there still forgetting!

Where did the forgetting begin!?

The Time Battlefield!?

Indeed, the Time Battlefield did affect one's memory, but as long as one remembered the memory overwritten by the last Time Battlefield, there should be no problem. In the past, every game with a Time Walker had gone this way — why was it only this time that points were docked?

Chen Yi racked his brains without finding an answer, so he channeled all his grievance and fury onto 【Truth】.

It's all 【Truth】's fault!

If not for His trial targeting this relationship so specifically, how could his lord have docked his points!

Does He no longer like him?

No, He likes him, He must like him — otherwise He wouldn't have pulled him into the void.

How could a deity summon a mortal He didn't like!?

Amid this tangle of unease, longing, and tension, Chen Yi saw those eyes.

This was his first audience — no, a date with his beloved.

In the empty void, they would bare their hearts to each other.

So the moment those divine eyes, heavy with the vicissitudes of history, opened above his head, he couldn't help himself:

"I do!!!"

"......"

Silence was the audience of the moment.

Those eyes lingered for a long while before looking at His believer without joy or sorrow and saying:

"Speak not rashly."

"!!!"

Chen Yi also came back to his senses. His face changed, and he dropped to his knees with a thud, his body trembling ceaselessly — whether from the lingering thrill or the dread of what he'd done, he couldn't tell. He crawled forward two steps on his knees, wanting to get closer to his lord to prove his love was pure, but those eyes were far away in the heavens above; the distance on the ground was nowhere near enough to let him approach.

"My lord, I...... I......" Chen Yi went mad. He felt that the normally glib version of himself had vanished — the self who so vigorously preached god-mortal love before other players could not, at this moment, squeeze out a single word through his excitement.

Fortunately, the awkwardness did not last long. Those eyes glanced at him, and in a deep voice said:

"Your memory has been annihilated."

"!!??"

Annihilated?

By whom?

【Annihilation】!?

Was it because of Him that I was docked points on my ladder of audience!?

But why would He do this, and what memory of mine did He annihilate!?

Chen Yi went mad. At this moment, his hatred shifted directly from 【Truth】 to 【Annihilation】. He wanted to ask his lord why 【Annihilation】 had done this, but also feared wasting this precious time. So, torn between the two, he watched helplessly as those eyes vanished from the void.

The moment he returned to the rest area, Chen Yi, his face dark, drew a dagger and carved the two characters 【Annihilation】 deeply into the floor.

"Damn it, 【Annihilation】 is truly damnable!"

Reality, a certain villa in an unknown province and city.

Meng Youfang looked at himself in the mirror.

The void, an unknown space.

A cold voice echoed through the void, stirring up gusts of biting wind, yet the summoned person felt not the slightest chill.

She smiled, gazing into those starry eyes, watching the star points within them connect and intersect, spiraling and twisting in reverse, marveling at the wonder of 【Void】.

"You have been entangled with 【Fate】 for a long time.

The believers of 【Fate】 once rewrote your destiny, and now, you have helped the wrong path return to what was set.

Matters of the universe, every sip and every peck, are all 【Fate】.

Therefore, Hu Xuan, are you willing to step onto the path of 【Fate】 and become one protected by 【Fate】?"

"......"

Perhaps having expected this "invitation," Hu Xuan smiled brilliantly, but immediately she shook her head firmly and said:

"Praise 【Void】, praise 【Fate】.

A humble person receiving the pity of 【Fate】 is overwhelmed with gratitude.

But I have already pledged myself to 【Birth】, and have no heart for other paths; 【Fate】 may be good for me, but it is not the path I must walk.

To receive the favor of a Fate-Weaver is already the greatest fortune of my life; to further covet the gaze of 【Fate】 would be for Hu Xuan to overstep.

I have resolved to always remain by my Lord's side; at this moment, I can only let such fortune slip through my fingers.

However, since it is rare to be summoned by you, Hu Xuan still has a small request."

The moment these words were spoken, the Void froze over.

Now, the summoned person finally felt the biting cold of the Void; a layer of fine frost formed on her eyebrows, eyes, and skin.

Yet Hu Xuan remained neither humble nor arrogant, for at this very moment, she no longer represented herself, but rather...... 【Birth】.

The Eternal Day has been acknowledged; if the gods wish to erase her, it means declaring war on 【Birth】.

But 【Fate】 clearly did not care about these things; He looked at Hu Xuan with cold eyes and said extremely indifferently:

"Those who refuse to enter 【Void】 still dare to speak of gifts?

Do you know what you are doing?

Mortal, even if you truly become His child, in this void, 【Birth】 cannot protect you!"

To say she was not afraid would be a lie, but Hu Xuan steadied herself; she forced out a kind smile with difficulty, did not respond to 【Fate】's doubt, but gritted her teeth and trembled as she said:

"Great 【Fate】, I beg you to transfer this good fortune to your believer, the Fate-Weaver Cheng Shi.

I wish to beg a second gaze from you for him.

May his path ahead be without worry, and may all things be fortunate for him."

The moment the words fell, the biting wind vanished.

The entire void fell silent, leaving only a complex glance from 【Fate】.

"I feel your devotion, but I must remind you that without the favor of Fate, your path will not be easy."

Hu Xuan smiled charmingly: "Then will his path be easy?"

【Fate】 was silent and departed on his own.

The void fell into silence once more.