hotmtlnovel Chapter 3734 Doomsday (The End)
Chapter 3734 Doomsday (The End)
Chapter 3734 Doomsday (The End)
Loki's plan was progressing smoothly. Storm, the mutant guard there, deliberately created an opening, letting a small squad of dark elves pass through. The strongest cursed warrior among the dark elves was immune to magic, and Loki feigned weakness, successfully capturing him.
Unfortunately, things didn't go smoothly. No sooner had Loki been captured than Thor appeared out of nowhere, slaughtering almost every dark elf in sight with ease, and declaring them traitors to the Nine Kingdoms.
Thor's appearance finally put the commanders of the three great empires at ease. After all, they had heard of this warrior before, and his continued absence was always a potential threat. Now that he had finally appeared, regardless of his strength, at least they could find a way to deal with him.
After Loki was captured, he was naturally interrogated. However, since the Skrull Empire was not carbon-based lifeforms and not skilled in torture, they could only use a brainwave testing device to read his superficial thoughts. Loki cooperated by giving them the whereabouts of the Worldwolf, the World Serpent, and the Dark Dragon.
The world-destroying giant wolf resides beneath Hela's palace in the Underworld, bound by a special chain that can only be broken using magic possessed by the goddess Frigga. To release Fenrir, one must first go to Frigga's chambers in Vanaheim, and then sneak into the Underworld while Hela is not looking.
The World Serpent resides on Earth, but not within the magical defense network; it exists outside. Legend says the serpent coils around the Earth and requires special magic to awaken and bring it to life. This magic resides in the realm of the fire giants.
The Dark Dragon was located at the center of the World Tree. It descended from the World Tree Spring, and along the way, it had to avoid the raven that served as Odin's eye and delve deep into the World Tree in order to infuse it with power and make it bite off the roots of the World Tree.
Simply put, it's like a three-pronged adventure quest that must be completed almost simultaneously to achieve the best results.
Exactly three lines, exactly three empires, each responsible for one line. The Shi'ar Empire releases Fenrir, the Kree Empire awakens Jormungandr, and the Skrull Empire aids the Dark Dragon.
Led by the local dark elves, they quickly found their target. Just as Fenrir's chains were broken, a rooster's crow echoed throughout Asgard. The clouds dispersed, the light faded, and the dusky sky revealed its true form. A profound sorrow suddenly welled up in the hearts of every god—it was the World Tree's lament.
"Woo——"
A giant wolf leaped down from the clouds, its golden eyes radiating endless coldness and cruelty. But to everyone's surprise, it ignored Odin, who stood in the center of the battlefield, and pounced on Thor instead.
“Wait a minute,” Lilandra suddenly said, “Fenrir wants to defeat the God-King. The current God-King is Thor, not Odin!”
"Who will Jormungandr fight?" Emperor Skrull had barely finished speaking when a figure appeared in the center of the battlefield.
"I'm here!" Helen appeared, but she did not offer up the true form of Doomsday. Instead, she used her divine power like an ordinary Aesir god.
The Earth Serpent also appeared from around the Earth, and the moment it saw Helen, it bit her.
"That girl is Thor's daughter?" Emperor Skrull narrowed his eyes, clearly puzzled. But he couldn't doubt it, because Helen did indeed possess divine power and was likely a descendant of the Aesir.
Immediately afterwards, they felt an immense power gradually spreading throughout the dimension. The structure of the dimension began to disintegrate, and its very existence was gradually disappearing. Amidst this fluctuation of power, they vaguely saw a pillar, like a great tree, slowly collapsing.
It was once lush and vibrant, beautiful and full of life. The lives it nurtured lived happily in various countries, pure, beautiful and powerful.
But this consumed too many of the universe's resources, leading to chaos and destruction, and pushing the magnificent World Tree to the brink of extinction. He needed to reclaim the power he had bestowed upon these beings to allow himself to be reborn.
One branch after another withered, one leaf after another fell, until the dark creature gnawed through the last sturdy root. The great tree collapsed with a crash, and the nine kingdoms entered the countdown to their demise.
"A perfect opportunity!" Emperor Skrull exclaimed, slapping the armrest. "The rules should be thrown into disarray the moment the Nine Realms are destroyed. We can use that time to teleport out—all units, prepare!"
The three great empires immediately began to contract their defenses, preparing for a leapfrog retreat. The Supreme Intelligence, however, deployed some monitoring devices, saying, "How can we not witness the infamous Ragnarok?"
"The entire dimension is collapsing, and you still have the mind to watch?!"
"How can we say we've won if we don't capture the moment the gods are destroyed?" The Supreme Wisdom's tone was lighthearted. "From now on, there will be no more of these annoying gods."
As the dimensional structure continued to collapse, the Asgardian skyline began to flicker with alternating red and blue light. The light gradually faded, like the transition from dusk to night.
"Now!" Lilandra shouted. "All personnel, prepare for the jump!"
Just as the warp drive was charging, an unexpected turn of events occurred.
Helen, who was previously battling the World Serpent, suddenly revealed her true form—not a smaller version, but the real Doomsday, capable of swallowing the sun whole.
After countless evolutions, Doomsday has long since shed its ferocious monstrous image, transforming into an indescribable entity. Her body is like crystal, her eyes brighter than stars, and the spikes on her body seem to contain endless cosmos. Even the demons composed of cosmic rules are awestruck by her immense size and mystery. No single being in the universe can glimpse even a fraction of her.
They heard her say: "The universe is born and dies, all things have an end. I arise from destruction, and I will bring new life to all that is destined to be destroyed. I destroy all that is destined to be destroyed, and then I will also—destroy destiny!"
The infinitely vast Doomsday opened its mouth, and all life in Asgard and all the nine realms seemed to instantly turn into tiny specks of dust, which it swallowed whole. Within its belly, it seemed, lay an endless universe.
Then, her figure slowly disappeared into the end of the universe.
The World Tree collapsed, and the nine kingdoms were destroyed.
The World Tree is the embodiment of the universe's rules. It has no intelligence and cannot think; it is a rigid program that operates according to rules. The sequence of this program is as follows: several great monsters kill the gods, causing the World Tree to collapse and be destroyed; the World Tree absorbs the power left behind by the dead gods and is reborn; the World Tree rebuilds the nine kingdoms.
Because Doomsday took the gods away first, the system detected their absence and began to destroy and reclaim power for rebirth. In other words, Doomsday's act of taking the gods away accelerated the destruction of the Nine Realms.
The leap engines of the three great empires were still warming up when the nine great realms collapsed with a "crack." The dimensional structure was completely destroyed, and the rules of space and time were completely disrupted. Under such circumstances, it was impossible for anyone to escape.
Even more terrifying is that the nine kingdoms are now destroyed. And the gods? They've fled. And the power? It hasn't been recovered.
The World Tree needs the power of the gods to be reborn, but after its destruction, the gods' power could not be retrieved, so it cannot be reborn. What can be done then?
The World Tree's retrieval of the gods' power wasn't a targeted attack. More accurately, it was retrieval of all power within the nine realms. Therefore, the three great empires stranded here due to the premature destruction of the nine realms were doomed. They became the World Tree's blood banks.
The gods fled, but they didn't. The World Tree doesn't distinguish between people. Anyway, you were there when the Nine Realms died, and you just happened to have power. So what difference does it make whose power you consume?
Thus, the three great empires, who were still stubbornly resisting the disintegration of dimensions, suddenly discovered that all their energy had been drained.
Initially, it involved the energy of millions of warships. While the number might seem small, the three great empires possessed advanced technology and unlimited energy resources, resulting in extremely high energy levels for their warships. Their capital ships were typically equipped with planet-destroying weapons, which required considerable output, naturally increasing the total energy level of the power supply. With millions of warships combined, the energy required was substantial.
Following closely were various large-scale energy centers and equipment. The three empires were fully prepared this time; to prevent energy problems or equipment shortages, they brought backups for virtually every type of equipment. Technologies that seem incredibly advanced to humans, such as thermonuclear fusion, were considered basic by them. They brought hundreds of thousands of large thermonuclear reactors just to replenish the energy of individual soldiers' equipment, along with countless other supporting facilities.
Once all the equipment's energy was drained, they began draining the individual soldier's energy. First, it was the individual soldier's equipment, then the individual's energy. The soldiers of the Skrull Empire and the Kree Empire were highly mechanized; without mechanical energy, they simply couldn't function.
On the Shi'ar side, they first extracted the divine power of the two gods, and then extracted the energy inherent in carbon-based life forms, which is equivalent to removing all the heat from a person's body.
Once all available energy has been extracted, the decomposition of matter begins. This is because matter can also be converted into energy. Large equipment is decomposed first, followed by various ships, and finally individual soldiers.
It's important to understand that this all-out offensive brought not only a fleet of millions but also hundreds of billions of soldiers. Although they were all mass-produced, creating so many soldiers would have required hollowing out at least hundreds of thousands of star systems. It's as if the World Tree consumed all the nutrients from those hundreds of thousands of star systems.
Now the World Tree is finally well-fed.
Before the World Tree could restart creating the gods and the other beings of the nine kingdoms, Helen rushed back and vomited out all the gods, the inhabitants of the other nations, and the Earth itself.
The World Tree sensed the existence of life and concluded that the reboot was complete. However, the problem was that it had consumed a lot of energy but created very little. So what to do with the remaining energy?
The World Tree has always been in a state of energy deficit. It doesn't have the function of storing energy. Having completed all the necessary constructions, it simply dissipated any remaining energy. More precisely, it used this energy to raise the energy level of the universe.
What is the concept of cosmic energy level? Simply put, the higher the cosmic energy level, the greater the probability of a powerful race like the gods appearing; the lower the energy level, the greater the probability of a weak race like humans appearing.
The energy levels of the nine kingdoms have now reached their peak. This means that the probability of these kingdoms producing energy beings, or powerful divine beings like the gods, has increased in the future.
Another significant benefit is that it will raise the average energy level of all life forms in the universe. For example, the energy level of a race like humans, whose energy level is far below average, will rise considerably. This will manifest in several ways: greatly enhanced physical fitness, significantly increased lifespan, doubled energy circulation speed, and a significant increase in the number of people experiencing energy-type mutations.
In other words, the era of superhuman abilities per capita has arrived.
Two universes, different routes, haha
(End of this chapter)