Solanky waved his hand, and the pattern beneath the chief vanished.
The chief looked at him and asked where the Velvet Cloud of Contamination was. Solanky replied, "Don't worry. I have stored it in a separate dimension unparalleled to this one, so it won't cause any harm to the villagers."
The chief was stunned. Such dimensions existed within a person's body, and storing a poison of that magnitude inside one was extremely dangerous. A single mistake could allow the contamination to spread and infect its owner.
Filled with curiosity, the chief asked whether it posed any danger to Solanky.
Elisa smiled and answered, "Don't worry about him. Worry about the beings he'll use it against the moment they become hostile toward him."
The chief's eyes widened in disbelief. Solanky had not only sealed away such a terrifying poison without suffering any consequences, but he had also found a way to weaponize it against his enemies. That realization sent a chill through him.
He also recalled the report the youths had given him after delivering the grass. According to them, Solanky had single-handedly prevented more than ten mid-stage Entity-Level monsters from self-destructing.
Elisa then said, "Now that you're completely healed, can you tell us more about the Royal Forsaken?"
The chief smiled.
"Very well."
Solanky and Elisa immediately fell silent and listened attentively.
After observing the two for a moment, the chief said, "Judging by your appearances, the two of you must belong to the lineage of the Forsaken God's army."
Solanky frowned.
"What does that mean?"
The chief smiled and waved his hand. A massive crystal ball materialized before them.
"This was left behind by one of the Forsaken God's followers about ten trillion samsaras ago. It contains records documenting the mysteries surrounding the disappearance of the Forsaken God and his army. Send a sliver of your consciousness into it with me."
Without hesitation, Solanky, Elisa, and the chief each separated a tiny portion of their consciousness and sent it into the crystal ball.
The moment they entered, their consciousnesses appeared inside a vast empty space.
Seconds later, the endless emptiness transformed as countless worlds, stars, and unfamiliar landscapes rapidly formed around them.
The chief explained, "This is a Blank Memory World. It recreates past events exactly as they occurred through the perspectives of those who witnessed them."
Elisa blinked.
"Oh... so it's like a movie?"
The chief looked puzzled before smiling.
"What is a movie?"
Solanky and Elisa exchanged surprised glances. Neither had expected the chief to be unfamiliar with such a concept.
Rather than explaining, they shifted their attention elsewhere.
In the distance, two unimaginably powerful beings were engaged in battle.
Every collision between them caused the entire Memory World to tremble violently.
The trio immediately realized they were witnessing a battle between existences far beyond ordinary comprehension. Although the conflict had occurred countless ages ago, the residual force preserved within the memory was still powerful enough to shake them.
At that moment, Solanky finally understood why his Supremo body had warned him to stay away from Transcendent Entities.
A mere remnant of one of their ancient battles, preserved inside a memory fragment, was enough to shake his very existence.
He couldn't help but imagine what would happen if a true Transcendent Entity were standing before him.
There would be no struggle.
Only complete annihilation.
As they continued watching, they saw a Royal Forsaken whose appearance closely resembled their own.
Its opponent was a pitch-black being with two enormous horns protruding from its back and a long tail ending in a razor-sharp blade.
The instant the chief saw the creature, his expression changed dramatically.
He recognized it immediately.
Before Solanky could ask, the chief blurted out,
"Impossible... How did a Levian enter this realm while the Forsaken God was still here? They would never dare... unless..."
His pupils contracted.
"...it was an invasion."
Solanky and Elisa looked at each other in confusion.
Their attention quickly returned to the battlefield.
Another Levian was approaching at an astonishing speed, and its aura was no weaker than that of the first.
Suddenly, a majestic voice echoed throughout space.
"How dare you trespass into my realm!"
The next instant, a velvet-colored beam of light shot across space with unimaginable speed.
It struck the approaching Transcendent Levian directly.
Without even the slightest resistance, the creature was instantly reduced to powder before scattering into nothingness.
The chief watched with reverence and excitement.
"The Forsaken God has taken action."
Solanky and Elisa were utterly shocked.
What kind of existence could erase a Transcendent Entity so effortlessly without even appearing in person?
Their minds instinctively began trying to estimate the Forsaken God's cultivation level.
The chief immediately interrupted their thoughts.
"Don't even try. Even Transcendent Entities do not dare comprehend that level of power. No one truly knows what realm the Forsaken God reached. Throughout all existence, only a handful of beings were his equals."
The scene shifted once more.
They found themselves within an enormous realm that belonged to the Forsaken God.
Spread throughout the endless expanse were billions of enormous oval-shaped structures identical to Forsaken Horde Nests.
Inside them rested countless Royal Forsaken, Monster Hybrid Forsaken, and numerous other beings from the Forsaken Realm.
Each possessed the power of Peak-Stage Entities.
Among the countless nests, a hundred of them housed the elite Royal Forsaken Army.
Standing before all of them was a crystal man radiating an incomparably calm yet overwhelming aura.
His mere presence caused every being present to tremble instinctively.
Then the figure slowly turned.
He looked directly toward the trio.
He nodded.
Then he smiled.
The moment their eyes met his, Solanky, Elisa, and the chief felt both their hearts and consciousnesses tremble violently.
None of them had expected the Forsaken God to notice them despite this being nothing more than a preserved memory.
It proved beyond doubt that the Forsaken God could perceive their consciousness across time itself, sensing both their presence and even the intentions behind their actions long before they were carried out.
Only then did they truly understand just how unfathomable he was.
The Forsaken God slowly looked away.
His gaze lifted toward the endless nothingness above, as though patiently awaiting the arrival of another existence equal to himself.
This entire event unfolded within the Beyond Realm, a place where concepts such as time barely existed and could be rewritten, altered, or erased at will by beings like the Forsaken God.
After a long silence, sinister laughter echoed across the endless space.
The moment the sound reached the Forsaken warrior battling the Levian soldier, his body exploded into crystal-like stardust.
The owner of the sinister laughter spoke.
"I suppose we're even now. Since you killed one of my soldiers, it's only fair that I killed one of yours."
The Forsaken God's expression darkened.
"Levian... what do you seek in my realm?"
A pitch-black, scale-covered figure emerged from the endless void.
Behind him stood trillions of warriors, with even the weakest among them possessing the strength of a Mid-Stage Entity.
Levian smiled coldly.
"What do you think I'm doing here, Forsaken?"
"Since you refused to share the secret behind your realm's uniqueness, I have no choice but to uncover it myself."
"And the only method I know..."
"...is war."
"...a true invasion."
He slowly raised his hand.
"Attack!"
"Fight to your hearts' and spirits' content, my children!"
The moment the order was given, the trillions of warriors behind Levian charged toward the Forsaken Realm.
At the same instant, every Forsaken Horde Nest burst open.
Trillions of warriors from the Forsaken God's side soared into the sky and met the invaders head-on.
As the battle erupted, one of the Forsaken Horde Nests suddenly flew toward Solanky, Elisa, and the chief.
It enveloped their consciousnesses within itself, concealing them from Levian's perception.
At that exact moment, the Forsaken God disappeared.
An instant later, he appeared directly before Levian and threw a single punch.
The force of the blow launched Levian out of the Forsaken Realm and into the Beyond Realm.
With both supreme beings gone, the war below intensified beyond imagination.
Peak-Stage and Late-Stage Entities from both armies fell in droves as though they were ordinary mortals.
Compared to the carnage unfolding across the battlefield, Mid-Stage Entities were hardly worth mentioning.
The war raged continuously for one hundred million years without pause.
Day and night became meaningless as both armies fought relentlessly until nearly eighty percent of the warriors on both sides had been annihilated.
Although the armies eventually ceased fighting after those hundred million years, the battle between the Forsaken God and Levian continued unabated.
Their duel lasted for another three billion years after both sides realized that neither of them could gain the upper hand.