Glorious God Throne

Chapter 173

[Successfully cleared the Nightmare Fragment [Immortal Soul]]

[Instance Level

[Completion Rating: S]

[Points Earned: 1000]

[Achievement Unlocked: [Immortal Soul]]

[Note: You possess a terrifying will to survive, rejection of death, and desire for life. Through countless restarts, your soul has been forged to the extreme.]

[Sole Survivor]

[Note: You are the only survivor beneath the Return to the Void.]

[Incarnation of Calamity] [Source of World Destruction]

[Note: Your actions brought disaster and destruction to countless lives. Your terrifying legend remained unforgettable in people’s hearts until the very end. In many people’s minds, you were the source of world destruction, the incarnation of calamity itself.]

[Bearing the World’s Hatred, Carrying the Final Hope]

[Note: You were the most evil wizard in history, surviving at the cost of destroying the world and countless lives. You were hated, despised, and cursed by countless people, bearing the hatred of the entire world.]

[Yet you were also this world’s only survivor, symbolizing its last hope, carrying the blessings of three Truth Great Wizards. You were their only choice to resist the fate of the End and break through the Return to the Void.]

In the familiar completion screen, besides the normal completion rating and continuously updating achievement section, the most striking was the 1000 game points – a number so high it might make one suspect the nightmare game system had a bug.

But Bai Yi, who already understood the nature of game points, knew this was because he had stripped all the root power from that world at once. And “game points,” or rather hope fragments, undoubtedly came from the world’s root. Having stripped all the root power from the world, getting 1000 points wasn’t surprising.

In fact, this number was less than Bai Yi had expected.

If it had been a real existing world in its prime, the root power of an entire world would probably have many more zeros after it, right?

Unfortunately, the world remnants that had fallen into the depths of nightmares were merely corpses after the destruction of the real world. The root power within them was comparable to the last bits of life energy that could be captured from a human body right after death as it gradually cooled – utterly different from its prime state.

But even so, compared to his gains from clearing previous nightmare instances, this was already a great harvest.

In mid-air, the system’s completion settlement continued. As Bai Yi expected, nightmare crystals were also a great harvest, and even the rarest Fragment of the Principle of All Things dropped one piece-

[Beginning special reward draw.]

[You obtained special drops: Nightmare Crystal (Purple) ×1000, Fragment of the Principle of All Things ×1.]

[You obtained special character card [Calamity Truth

The radiance of the Fragment of the Principle of All Things was like countless transparent light rays penetrating all rules of this world. Within it seemed to be countless magical formulas flowing, and each formula was composed of even more basic runes – this was yet another entirely new path.

...Well well, after the paths for athletes, martial artists, liberal arts students, and art students, was this a path specifically for science students?

“No, this is a path specifically for academic geniuses,” Bai Yi couldn’t help but joke after experiencing the difficulty of learning magic in the wizard world during the instance. “Poor students would mostly fail to learn it, fail completely~”

“Meow~!”

Bai Xiaoxi suddenly appeared from somewhere and chimed in, jumping onto Bai Yi’s shoulder in a few bounds and tilting its head to look at him.

Bai Yi’s train of thought was immediately interrupted.

Gurgle~

Bai Yi stroked its gurgling belly. “Hungry? You seem to get hungry quite quickly nowadays...” He dragged out his words thoughtfully, then grabbed Bai Xiaoxi as it tried to escape, pinching here and there before clapping his hands and concluding, “Looks like this is heading toward evolution!”

With such unintentional results, these two personas – one with many widespread believers, one with few but elite believers – roughly speaking, hadn’t they conquered the world’s upper, middle and lower levels?

In the past, believers and such were irrelevant to Bai Yi, as he himself wasn’t walking the path of faith-based ascension to godhood.

But now that he had mastered the Principle of All Things that could forge falsehood into truth, then every bit of legend degree provided by each person believing in him as a deity was, for Bai Yi, energy that could forge falsehood into truth. Accumulated bit by bit, it was not only quite considerable but also endless, counting as “side income” beyond root power.

This gave him one more reason to save the world.

The more people who survived, the more legend degree they could provide him. If everyone died, what legend degree could there be?

“...By the way, Bai Yi, did you see today’s news? Our Yuanyang City completed another shelter. Has it been a month from construction until now? That speed is really amazing.”

Xia Jiajia’s words brought Bai Yi back to his senses.

He collected himself and heard Xia Jiajia complain. “Now shelters and air raid shelters are being built everywhere at home and abroad, underground ones, ones on plateaus, I heard some countries’ nobles are secretly building spaceships. You can tell they’ve considered everything from earthquakes to floods to tsunamis, obviously something big is coming. The internet isn’t even really controlled and lets everyone guess freely. Things are so obvious, why won’t any country just officially announce it? Making us all anxious, might as well just say it outright – if it’s doomsday then it’s doomsday, we’ll face it together!”

“Soon, soon.” Bai Yi, who understood the movements of various countries’ high levels better than anyone, said, “I think it’s about time.”

...Hmm, even if those people were still hesitating and couldn’t reach consensus, he would give them a push from behind

He gazed at the distant sky, points of illusory light gathering at his fingertips, transforming into two overlapping cards.

The state machinery that had begun urgently operating without showing it, doomsday rumors spreading worldwide, social order that could collapse at any time yet was desperately maintaining itself, people’s hearts troubled, restlessness, anxiety, worry, tension with nowhere to vent... the masses extremely eager for truth amid all kinds of rumors...

Everything had fermented to the extreme, the stage was set.

Just waiting for him to appear at the right moment, to dispel all doubts, all anxieties, all speculations, all hesitations with one strike, to lay out their clear and unambiguous fate before them.

Let this world, let everyone, walk toward the direction he had predetermined.

–It was time!

In the depths of the youth’s smiling gaze were reflected the slowly dissipating radiance in mid-air, and two cards floating within the radiance.

On the first card, a black-robed wizard held a staff, with death and disaster following him like shadows. Countless lost souls wove together to form his pitch-black robe, his snake-like twisted black hair flowing out from the wizard robe, his lips carrying an unfathomable smile, his purple-gray eyes like nebular vortexes gazing over.

Behind the card were neat rows of text–

[Calamity Truth]

[Incarnation of Calamity, One Who Takes Truth as Name]

[Source of Destruction That Bestows Despair Upon All Living Things]

[Obtaining New Life Amid the Withering of All Things]

His finger flipped, revealing the other card.

On the front of the card, there seemed to be two figures standing back to back.

The figure facing the youth wore snow-white robes and a snow-white mask, with warm holy light radiating from her whole body; behind Her was an existence like a twisted shadow. Ominous corruption spread on Her indistinguishably black robe, terrifying black energy streams dispersed outward with Her as the center, like a black sun that could explode at any time.

On the back of the card were similarly neat rows of text–

[Child of the Sun · Black Day]

[World Destroyer Who Extinguishes Hope’s Last Light]

[Savior Who Transforms Fantasy Into Reality]

[Idealist on the Path of “Chasing the Sun”]