Outside the world of False History, Buserite.
In Buserite at night, under the dark and gloomy night sky, a large-scale and extremely fierce battle was still ongoing, and it was constantly escalating.
Four undead pharaohs from ancient times, after regaining their physical corpses and receiving the bonus from the Seytut Tomb, saw a great leap in their strength, which changed the situation on the battlefield, and the advantage gradually shifted from Unina to the side of the undead pharaohs.
Unina relied on the unparalleled powerful vitality contained within the flesh and blood earth, creating countless wolf monsters, flying insects, and plagues, continuously attacking the pharaohs.
"Stagnation…"
In a whisper, Seytut activated his ability, causing the surrounding temperature to suddenly plummet. After breaking the freezing point, it continued to plummet without hesitation. With the significant drop in temperature, the activity of the entire flesh and blood earth was affected as the viscous membrane on it instantly froze. The vast flesh and blood ground was covered with a thick layer of frost, and the original breathing-like undulations were instantly suppressed.
This was not over yet. After regaining control of the sky, Seytut condensed heavy dark clouds and summoned dense ice rain from them. These myriad fine ice rains all had sharp conical shapes and were extremely solid.
As they fell from the high altitude, the incredibly solid ice cone rain pierced through the solidified membrane layer and penetrated into the interior of the flesh and blood earth. For a time, even more biting cold suddenly erupted from within the flesh and blood earth, muscles were frozen stiff, and blood vessels were coagulating in large areas.
Under the blow of the ice cone rain and extreme temperature drop, the vitality of Unina's flesh and blood earth significantly decreased for a time. Both the speed of producing bio-weapons and the speed of self-defense decreased significantly. The originally bright red flesh and blood earth quickly turned white under the influence of low temperature and ice rain, seemingly about to form a snowfield very soon.
"Withering…"
On the other side, Hafdal continuously waved his withered arms, cursing and killing the wolf monsters that were pushing forward against the ice and snow with their super strong physical fitness, one by one. At the same time, he was constantly expanding his domain, executing large numbers of wolf monsters while completely withering the flesh and blood earth, whose vitality had greatly decreased due to freezing, into dead matter, completely rotting it into flying ash.
When the flesh of these lives rotted into ash, streams of black aura emerged from within, transforming into twisted and screaming wraith-like shadows, surging towards Unina in the distance in large numbers. On the flesh and blood earth around Unina that still maintained relative vitality due to Unina's influence, long tentacle whips constantly grew out to scatter the incoming shadows, and these long whips, after scattering only a few shadows, would themselves be eroded and become withered and thin, eventually falling softly to the ground as if they had stumbled, gradually decaying.
Meanwhile, Tahaka, on the other side, was both having the Dark Name Aidandevin, whom he had previously created and summoned, control the storm to dispel the plague and flying insects, and also taking out another scroll and unfolding it. After taking out a ball of soul fire, he murmured like a declaration.
"Excavation Chisel… Assault Hammer… Vanguard of the Mountain Furnace Kingdom… Batuus, cross time and reappear here with my power…"
Following Tahaka's declaration, the newly taken out ball of soul fire was suddenly enveloped in a dark red light. After the light dispersed, a figure appeared there.
That was a short male dwarf. He was barely one meter thirty or forty centimeters tall, broad-shouldered and round-waisted, wearing a helmet, with a full beard, and equipped with extremely shiny and exquisite heavy armor all over his body. Although small overall, he looked very majestic.
"Follow our covenant…"
"Breakthrough."
Tahaka pointed towards Unina in the distance and ordered the dwarf he called Batuus. Upon hearing Tahaka's command, Batuus blew on his beard, then clenched his fist and slammed it onto the ground.
With Batuus's slam, the ground beneath his feet cracked into pieces in large areas. The earth cracked open with wide fissures, and the interior of the fissures seemed to have been heated, becoming intensely hot and glowing red.
Then, Batuus raised the hand that had just slammed the ground high. Instantly, countless glowing red fragments and shining lava surged out from the glowing fissures, gathered in Batuus's hand, and continuously compressed, fused, and deformed at high speed.
Under Batuus's punch just now, countless precious minerals underground were found and refined, then spewed out in large quantities, automatically gathering in Batuus's hand for high-speed fusion and forging. Dozens or hundreds of tons of material were continuously compressed and shaped in Batuus's hand under high temperature. After a while, a normal-sized, simple and unadorned one-handed warhammer was formed, covered with countless glowing high-temperature cracks.
Gripping the newly forged warhammer, Batuus let out a loud roar, then leaped into the air and fiercely slammed down with the hammer.
"Boom!!!"
When Batuus's warhammer hit the ground, the earth erupted in violent tremors with a roaring sound, and then a large fissure appeared, rapidly cracking towards Unina in the distance. In the cracked fissure, massive amounts of high-temperature lava continuously erupted like a fountain.
Batuus's tearing of the earth tore apart the ice-cold and decaying withered flesh and blood, tearing apart the tentacle barrier that was struggling between death and extreme cold. The lava fountain erupting from underground directly swallowed Unina's crimson body in one go. But something was constantly expanding within the lava fountain, seemingly about to burst out at any moment.
Seeing this situation, Seytut pointed his withered hand forward, and then a bone-white freezing beam shot forward, hitting the continuously erupting lava fountain directly, instantly cooling the spectacular lava fountain into a huge stone mountain. Unina's body was encased within it, and Seytut's beam also formed a thick layer of solid ice around the stone mountain.
"Soul Freeze…" Seytut murmured. With that single strike, he had completely frozen Unina's soul, causing her to completely lose her ability to perceive and control.
Seeing Unina restrained, Hafdal waved a hand, sending all his shadows surging towards the huge ice-rock seal sphere, continuously passing through the ice layers, rock layers, and flames, allowing the withering aura they carried to continuously attach to Unina at the very center of the giant sphere, bringing her the taste of death.
This was not all. Hafdal waved both hands again, and suddenly four seven or eight-meter-long, semi-illusory, withered and thin, black withered arms covered with curses drilled out of the ground around the sealed sphere.
These four giant cursed hands all extended out at once, passing through the sealed sphere, and all at once grabbed the existence at the core, peeling off a part of the irresistible soul and flesh, combining them to complete a super medium, completing the first step of a powerful curse.
"Death!!"
Roaring, Hafdal clenched his fists, crushing the small ball of medium constructed from a mixture of Unina's soul and flesh in his hands, and at the same time causing the cursed hands in the distance to also clench, completely cursing and killing the target within with the most powerful curse, and simultaneously obliterating its soul and body.
Meanwhile, Batuus on the other side also threw his warhammer, letting it slam fiercely onto the sealed sphere. Countless cracks instantly appeared on the sealed sphere from the point of impact, and scorching high temperature surged out from these cracks.
"Boom boom!!!"
In another huge explosion, the sealed sphere burst and collapsed in the sky-high burning firelight. The intense explosion created a large pit and also revealed a small mushroom cloud.
Soul Freeze, Lava Blast, Soul-Flesh Curse… Seytut, Tahaka, and Hafdal simultaneously unleashed their powerful killing moves on Unina, causing devastating effects.
The four pharaohs looked at the mushroom cloud rising in the distance, watching the once vibrant flesh and blood earth become completely silent and desolate. None of them spoke immediately, they were all silent for a moment, until Hafdal couldn't help but ask.
"Shepsuna! Is that guy dead?!"
Listening to Hafdal's words, Shepsuna paused slightly, then spoke in a deep voice.
"Now, I cannot sense her existence, neither physically nor spiritually…"
"Is that so… then we have successfully… turned her to ashes?" At this moment, Seytut continued, and upon hearing Seytut's words, Shepsuna shook her head.
"No… Although she is no longer here, she has not disappeared, and… she is about to return."
"What? Not disappeared yet?!"
"That's right, the dependents favored by the 'Lord of the Cup' are indestructible existences. Even if she is completely annihilated, she can be re-conceived…"
As Shepsuna's words fell, there was another anomaly on the scene. In the space in the distance before the rising mushroom cloud, the space itself suddenly grew blood vessels automatically, spreading outwards in a planar manner.
Then the space with blood vessels inexplicably bulged forward, splitting open a fissure in the middle. Beyond that fissure was a dim flesh and blood space.
From that flesh and blood space, large streams of blood surged out, and a large ball of flesh was squeezed out with this blood, falling onto the ground.
Then, this ball of flesh expanded. It was clearly a large infant, completely red, about half the size of an adult, with an ugly and distorted face. An umbilical cord was still attached to its abdomen, connecting it to the flesh and blood space inside the spatial fissure behind it.
"The endless continuation and conception, reproduction and change of the concept of life, this is also one of the divine aspects of the 'Lord of the Cup'. For the 'Lord of the Cup', any death and destruction means the next new birth…"
Looking at the giant infant, looking at Unina who was re-conceived and reborn, Shepsuna murmured. She understood that the other party had already recovered most of her divinity, and now it was almost impossible for them to eliminate Unina.
Not only that, under the blessing of divinity, how long they could last was a question!
The reborn Unina raised her infant-like wrinkled and ugly face, looked at the heavy black clouds covering the sky, looked at the falling ice and snow, and couldn't help but open her mouth, letting out a strange cry.
"————"
The sharp cry instantly echoed throughout the desert of Buserite. Seytut, who was gathering celestial phenomena and preparing for the next round of attacks, suddenly found that he had actually lost control of the sky! The authority to control celestial phenomena was leaving him at this moment.
In that sharp cry, the snowflakes falling from the sky gradually turned into raindrops, but unlike the normal rain before, what fell from the sky this time was not ordinary rainwater, but turbid, foul-smelling blood!
Blood rain! Dense blood rain was falling from the sky at this moment, showering and covering the ice and snow, the withered and decayed flesh and blood earth. The entire world was terrifying, miserable, bizarre, and fallen.
...
In Buserite within the world of False History, in that vast ancient and illusory city, within the magnificent and huge illusory Golden Pyramid, Dorothy stood on the ancient altar, facing the ancient person from seven thousand years ago, listening to the secret buried in the dust of history.
"You mean… in order to personally tell me the promotion information of the Path of Pure Reason, and in order to entrust the divinity left by the Judge of Heaven, you have existed in this state of neither life nor death until now…" After listening to the words of the Heavenly Decree Saint before her, Dorothy couldn't help but say with emotion, and the ethereal female voice responded.
"Yes… This is the only way to preserve the last inheritance of the Divine Master. The disaster caused by the fall of the Divine Master affected those in higher positions within the 'enlightenment' system more severely.
"For someone like me who was most closely connected to the Divine Master, it was the most difficult to escape the pollution generated at the time of the Divine Master's fall. My only method was to use my own life as a price, borrow the Divine Master's divinity, rely on the entire Holy Domain to perform a ritual, cut the history of the Holy Domain and guide it outside the torrent of real history. Although this could avoid pollution, it also sealed my fate…"
The Heavenly Decree Saint's words, carrying a hint of a sigh, echoed in the space, and Dorothy, after hearing her words, said solemnly.
"To sacrifice to this extent, is this your will?"
"Of course… To be able to preserve the Divine Master's inheritance, I have achieved my greatest value. After all, the Holy Dynasty, from the Divine Master downwards, has always constructed the kingdom and civilization with the teacher-student relationship as a bond, inheriting knowledge and power. The exploration and inheritance of knowledge and wisdom is the most important tradition for us followers of 'enlightenment'…" The Heavenly Decree Saint said this, and after hearing her words, a peculiar feeling arose in Dorothy's heart.
'Exploration and inheritance are important traditions of the followers of 'enlightenment', but in the real world, 'enlightenment' has been almost completely extinct for thousands of years…'
Dorothy thought this in her heart, and then her expression became more serious as she asked the ancient person before her.
"In the current real world, 'enlightenment' has long been extinct."
"I naturally know this, but in a sense, it is this 'extinction' that ensured that 'enlightenment', without the Divine Master, would not be tainted and corrupted by other powers… Because as long as I am still here, and the path of 'enlightenment' still has the Heavenly Decree Saint who inherited from the Divine Master, then 'enlightenment' will not remain 'vacant' forever. Otherwise, other gods should have already taken the seat above now…" The Heavenly Decree Saint continued to explain to Dorothy, and upon hearing her words, she was stunned for a moment, then continued.
"You mean, if you didn't exist, the Judge of Heaven would have been replaced by other 'enlightenment' gods?"
"That's right… The position of a main god who constructs a system usually doesn't have a vacant period that is too long. Divine existences with similar divine attributes will, through various adventures and certain opportunities, usurp the vacant position and become new deities. Even if no one usurps, there is a probability that a new god will be born directly on the vacant divine position.
"The 'enlightenment' divine position is still vacant now. One reason is that I have retained a part of the Divine Master's divinity here. This divinity is indirectly affecting the divine position. The second reason... is because of the characteristics of 'enlightenment' itself. 'enlightenment' is a power closely related to history, law, and inheritance. The original orthodox history... the orthodox inheritance... if it is not completely destroyed, then a new 'enlightenment' god will be difficult to be born."
"Now that I am here, I am the Divine Master, the greatest historical legacy left by the Holy Dynasty, the greatest law. As long as I exist as the Heavenly Edict Saint, the inheritance of the Divine Master has not been completely interrupted."
The voice of the Heavenly Edict Saint continued to echo leisurely in the space, speaking to Dorothy, and Dorothy paused slightly before continuing to speak.
"So, you want me to inherit the divinity of the Judge of Heaven and also inherit the lineage of the Judge of Heaven? Can I suspect that my inheritance in this way is part of the Judge of Heaven's resurrection plan in some sense? For example, the will of the Judge of Heaven exists in this divinity, in this lineage. If I completely inherit it, the Judge of Heaven will be reborn through me, and I will eventually be replaced..."
Dorothy said seriously to the remains in front of her. The Heavenly Edict Saint spared no effort to preserve the lineage of the Judge of Heaven, not wanting other "enlightenment" gods outside the lineage of the Heavenly Judge to be born. This action made her feel a trace of suspicion, making her question the nature of this seemingly generous gift.
"Haha... If the Divine Master could really be resurrected through your body, that would be great... I also hope things can be like this..." Listening to Dorothy's questioning, the Heavenly Edict Saint showed no sign of displeasure at all. After a light laugh, she replied in a calm tone.
"But... unfortunately, inheritance is not occupation, nor is it seizure... The fall of the Divine Master is irreversible. What is gone is gone. If I really hoped the Divine Master could be resurrected in you, I wouldn't have taken the initiative to tell you the information about the vacant position directly. I would have better words and methods to make you agree to inherit without you even noticing."
"The reason I am unwilling to let an 'enlightenment' god outside the Divine Master's inheritance be born is also something I learned from the Divine Master's revelation. According to the revelation, doing so can minimize the complete 'fall' of the entire 'enlightenment' system."
"Fall? What does that mean?" Dorothy heard the Heavenly Edict Saint mention new terms and concepts. She couldn't help but frown slightly and ask, and the other party replied as leisurely as ever.
"As for what 'fall' specifically is... I am not very clear either, only having some sporadic guesses, but they are only limited to guesses. The only thing that can be confirmed is that this seems to be an invisible influence targeting all gods. This influence is called 'fall' by the Divine Master."
"What exactly is 'fall'? This is a secret among the gods, not something I can pry into. However, based on my observations, it seems that all gods resist 'fall'. 'Fall' is something the gods fear. Perhaps the fall of the Divine Master also has some connection to it."
"I cannot determine what kind of relationship exists between 'fall' and the gods, but it is certain that in order to avoid 'fall', the Divine Master has been preventing the automatic birth of new gods in the 'enlightenment' divine position, as well as the adventurous usurpation of the divine position by similar divinities in other domains."
The Heavenly Edict Saint continued to explain patiently to Dorothy. Listening to her words, Dorothy seemed to have remembered something and nodded thoughtfully.
"Boom..."
Just as Dorothy was about to ask something else, the altar beneath her suddenly began to tremble slightly. A faint rumbling sound echoed throughout the entire space, and an invisible wave of Spirituality slowly resonated within the vast pyramid.
"What's happening?"
Feeling this scene, Dorothy looked around and said seriously, while the Heavenly Edict Saint continued to reply leisurely without haste.
"When you brought the history of the Holy Domain closer to the history of the present world, they had already begun to slowly overlap on their own. Now they have overlapped almost completely, and the Holy Domain has reached the normal time of the present world's history."
"Now, I am feeling that in the present world, there are powerful and conflicting forces disturbing the Holy Domain. The situation just now was caused by this disturbance."
"I can feel that Shepsuna, Seytut, and the others are currently defending against enemies in the present world, and their opponents possess incomparable power... That is the divinity of other gods..." While sensing the outside world, the Heavenly Edict Saint said this, and then she seemed to focus her attention back on Dorothy and spoke calmly again.
"Predictor, it seems we don't have much time left. Make your choice quickly. Do you believe me and inherit the Divine Master's divinity and lineage? If you are willing, I will also impart to you the knowledge of advancement that you want to know... If you are not willing, I will use my last strength to send you out of the Holy Domain and hide the Holy Domain back into the depths of history, trying my best to prevent the Divine Master's legacy and the Holy Domain from being contaminated by that power, but I estimate it will be difficult to do..."
The Heavenly Edict Saint continued speaking, her tone still calm, as if she didn't care too much about how Dorothy would choose. After hearing her words, Dorothy fell silent for a moment. After a brief contemplation, she spoke with a determined look in her eyes.
"I choose to inherit. I think this is my only chance to reach the Golden and even higher levels. I won't give up easily."
Dorothy said with a serious and solemn expression. After hearing Dorothy's words, the Heavenly Edict Saint responded with a calm tone mixed with a hint of relief.
"I am very happy that you can get rid of those meaningless suspicions and make the right choice. There are many smart people in this world, and at the same time, there are many people who are misled by their own cleverness, who are calculating and lose their perspective and foresight."
"People often measure gods by their own standards, and speculate about the power, state of mind, and goals of gods with their own thinking... Some people always think that gods are just another kind of mortal with infinite power, and that the difference between gods and humans is simply a difference in power. They often apply their own vulgar ideas to the considerations of gods, which is extremely ignorant."
"The vision of gods is far beyond what mortals can achieve. The difference in vision makes the thoughts and virtues of gods far from what ordinary mortals can imagine. This is especially true for the Divine Master... Some other gods, perhaps due to various reasons, have more or less a vulgar side, but this situation is absolutely impossible for the Divine Master. He is the most farsighted god among the gods, the god who can best understand fate."
"If the Divine Master wanted to frame you with a conspiracy, there are countless ways to make you fall into a trap unknowingly, proudly, and complacently. Instead of giving you the opportunity to question and choose here, you, a foreigner from outside this world..."
The Heavenly Edict Saint continued to speak calmly. Listening to the last part of his words, Dorothy's eyes widened, and she was stunned for two seconds before speaking softly.
"I don't belong to this world... Did the Judge of Heaven even foresee this?"
"Naturally." The Heavenly Edict Saint responded briefly and calmly to Dorothy, and Dorothy immediately spoke again.
"So, was my transmigration caused by the Judge of Heaven? Was I pulled into this world by Him?!" Dorothy continued to say urgently. This was the first time she felt her biggest secret was being seen through. At this moment, her heart was unprecedentedly agitated. Facing Dorothy's words, the Heavenly Edict Saint continued to respond silently.
"That... I don't know. In the revelation given by the Divine Master, He foresaw the arrival of someone from outside this world, but He did not explain what the power that caused the person from outside to descend was. Perhaps it was the Divine Master's divinity remaining somewhere else? Or perhaps it was the work of other gods? Or some other reason? These are all unknown to me."
"..."
Listening to the remains' answer, Dorothy didn't know how to continue speaking for a moment and slowly fell silent. With a very complex expression, she didn't know what she was thinking about.
"Phew... Forget it, let's start the so-called inheritance now..."
After a long sigh, Dorothy, who couldn't think of any answer for a while, couldn't help but shake her head slightly and say. Soon, the voice of the Heavenly Edict Saint sounded again.
"Very well, then next I will first inform you of the ritual for advancing to the Prototype Realm, but before that, I have a request."
"What request?" Facing the words of the remains in front of her, Dorothy asked curiously, and the other party's subsequent answer was a bit beyond Dorothy's expectation.
"I hope you can call me teacher before I teach you."
The remains, which had decayed for seven thousand years, spoke to Dorothy with a Vicissitudes and long-lasting voice. Hearing the other party's words, Dorothy was startled at first, and then after realizing the tradition of the First Dynasty, she took a deep breath, placed one hand on her chest, and bowed to the remains on the seat in front of her.
"Teacher..."
"Very good..."
Listening to Dorothy's words, the Heavenly Edict Saint continued with a very relaxed and comforting tone, mixed with a hint of nostalgia for the past.
"I, the last Heavenly Edict Saint of the Initial Holy Dynasty, the last Divine Revelator of the Divine Master, Viageta, now fulfill my final duty of imparting the Way, and will teach you the mystery of the Prototype Realm of Pure Reason..."
Next, the teacher from seven thousand years ago, who called herself Viageta, gave Dorothy her last short lesson. After she had taught Dorothy all the key mysteries of the Golden stage of the Path of Pure Reason, there was another disturbance in the surrounding space.
"It seems... the battle outside is getting more and more intense, and... Shepsuna and their situation seems to be slowly becoming difficult..."
After the very short lesson ended, Viageta sensed the information from the outside world and muttered, and at this time Dorothy spoke again.
"Teacher, is there anything I can do to help them?"
"Of course there is... and this is what you need to do next." Viageta answered directly, and Dorothy asked curiously again.
"Me?"
"That's right. The Holy Domain must be defended. Since you have accepted the inheritance, we can use more proactive means to defend it."
"Next, I will give you the Divine Master's divinity. You will use this divine power to support Shepsuna and the others and help them repel the enemy together." Viageta continued to say to Dorothy, her voice seemingly a little lower than before.
"Divinity... Can I use the Judge of Heaven's divinity?" Facing Viageta's suggestion, Dorothy frowned slightly and said, and Viageta immediately responded.
"Under normal circumstances, only Extraordinary of the Prototype Realm can accommodate or use non-continuous blessing type divinity. You are currently not in the Prototype Realm, but only in the Creation Realm, so logically you cannot accommodate the Divine Master's divinity."
"However, since you have proven that you were foreseen here, you naturally have your own unique aspects. During the contact of the lesson just now, I examined your body and found that you actually already have another type of divinity within you. I think you were born with this physique that can accommodate Spirituality." She said this to Dorothy, and after listening to her words, Dorothy was startled again.
'The divinity already in my body... Is she talking about the system? Is this system confirmed to be a type of divinity?' This thought appeared in Dorothy's mind. Then, in order to further clarify the situation regarding the mysterious system within her, she continued to ask.
"You just said... I already have some kind of divinity in my body?"
"That's right, and it's a divinity that is very close to the Divine Master's divinity. Perhaps because of its existence, your body has become different. In short, although you are not an Extraordinary of the Prototype Realm, you can still accommodate divinity..."
Viageta continued to speak slowly to Dorothy. After listening to her words, Dorothy spoke again in disbelief.
"Wait, you mean the divinity I originally had in my body was not from the Judge of Heaven?"
"That's right... The divinity that exists in your body, although it is very close to the 'enlightenment' divinity, is very different in some details."
"I don't have the ability to analyze divinity in detail, I can only roughly sense it. What I can feel is that the divinity currently in your body, although very close to 'enlightenment', is not completely the same. This divinity on you... may come from another 'enlightenment' god other than the Divine Master, but in my knowledge, I don't know which other 'enlightenment' gods have existed besides the Divine Master? In all the records I know, the Divine Master is currently the only 'enlightenment' god."
Viageta continued to speak slowly to Dorothy. After listening to the other party's words, Dorothy couldn't help but stand rooted to the spot, motionless, not knowing what she was thinking about.
"The divinity that originally existed in my body... was not from the Judge of Heaven?" Looking at her outstretched hand, Dorothy muttered with obvious disbelief in her words. At this moment, Viageta spoke again.
"Okay, time is running out now, let's officially begin the inheritance. I will now give you the Divine Master's divinity. Although your body should be able to accommodate it, you may not be able to control it well. I will use my last strength to assist you, just this once, in controlling the Divine Master's divinity. This can at least help the Holy Domain overcome the current crisis..."
Viageta said this to Dorothy, and Dorothy, after roughly coming back to her senses, looked at Viageta's remains in front of her again. After nodding, she spoke solemnly.
"Okay, then let's begin now."
After Dorothy finished speaking, Viageta's skeletal body began to emit a faint purple light.