Arad's unruly savior

Chapter 3852 No More Children

Ye Lin gradually came to a chilling guess: this vast and endless black nebula in front of him may have once been a great galaxy, where the blazing light of stars illuminated all things, and life-bearing planets flourished and thrived endlessly.

Now, it has been broken down by a sacred and unfathomable power into the black nebula before our eyes. The starry sky is filled with a large amount of thin gas and endless dust, which may slowly condense into new celestial bodies and become galaxies in some future years.

One of the primordial deities, "Darkness," probably slumbers here.

“Shumas Nunn, the location of the great darkness, the source of the collapse of the universe…” Shub Nicholas whispered respectfully, a gesture that further confirmed Night Forest’s suspicions.

Shub Nicholas actually possesses the means and ability to directly reach the Deep Space Court, where the Blind and Demented reside. The reason she doesn't go there to repair herself is because she is not yet in a near-death state.

Ye Lin remained silent as he watched Shub Nicholas, now imbued with the power of decay, calmly walk into the depths of the Black Nebula. She maintained her human female form, and with each step she took deeper, an extremely thin, pure black, lightless thread wrapped around her arms, waist, and legs, as if it had already pierced into her flesh.

For most deities, their physical appearance is actually irrelevant; physical structure can no longer bind them, and they can change their form at will.

However, the outer universe is quite special. Every god is close to blind folly, so most gods have a natural appearance that is rather mentally impaired, distorted, bizarre, and indescribable.

Ye Lin saw that Shub Nicholas was tightly bound by nearly a million lightless black threads, and her snow-white and plump body had turned into a black cocoon. He immediately tried to find the source of the black threads, which might come from the "darkness" itself.

However, without using his full strength, he could see very little. The black threads seemed to have appeared out of thin air, and their origin was completely untraceable.

“Great Dark One…” Shub Nicholas murmured another name for “Darkness” almost as if it were a whisper. Then the threads suddenly pulled in all directions, and her body disappeared from the spot. The threads receded one by one, leaving the place empty. It was as if she had been decomposed, digested and absorbed.

During this process, Ye Lin quickly captured traces and sought out the laws. He did not intend to try to break through immediately, but instead tried to absorb knowledge that was useful to him in order to prepare for the Nameless Mist.

In particular, since Shub Nicholas has already been "swallowed" by the mysterious darkness, his rash attempt without any markings is likely to result in an accident, alarming the darkness and blind folly.

In the end, Ye Lin noted down the coordinates of this starry sky as a last resort before leaving the place far behind.

"Fortunately, there was some gain." Ye Lin muttered to himself.

He now knows the location of the "Darkness" and is also trying to slowly make contact with the divine realm of the outer universe.

Ye Lin suppressed all the Primordial and End God Realm Laws imprinted in his body with Chaos Power, leaving a "brand new" divine body and soul. He then successfully touched the threshold of the God Realm, but has not yet formally attempted to reach it. Currently, he has achieved the level of a demigod.

Going a step further, we would probably have to confront the Creator Being directly.

Shortly after Ye Lin left, some fluorescent lights flickered deep within the Black Star Cloud, opening their eyes and forming new shapes.

“Who has been watching this place from afar? Is it someone coveting the power of decay? How audacious!” Shub Nicholas whispered, and in the darkness, she discovered a trace of oblivion.

"Once I recover, and the Red Abyss and Decay are perfectly connected, I will open the door to the Origin Universe. At that time, I will have Ye Lin give birth to my children, giving birth to his powers and origins one by one."

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Ye Lin continued to follow Bubble's instructions, not actively seeking out the Nameless Mist, but going wherever the wind took him, taking things as they came.

Another unfortunate reason is that Bubble himself hasn't gone to look for the Nameless Mist for a long time and doesn't know where it is.

Both Bubble and Nayali have said that this is definitely not a job that can be rushed. It requires absolute patience. It could take ten days or half a month if it's fast, a month or two if it's slow, or even a year or two, or even a hundred or eighty years.

Later, on a habitable planet, Ye Lin encountered an accident and almost exposed himself; his identity was "recognized".

He encountered a group of fervent worshippers of Bubble, a powerful and intelligent insectoid race known as "Shagai".

The adult members of the Xiagai insectoid race are about the size of a pigeon and have a physical form, but they can enter a virtual state at any time. They can ignore the flesh and blood defenses of most living beings and directly enter the depths of the brain to manipulate them mentally.

The Xiagai insectoids possess a pair of eyeballs without eyelids, which are predominantly green, resembling the eyes of giant flies. Their bodies are pale and bloodless, with a pair of wings covered in triangular scales on their backs and ten legs growing from their abdomens. Each leg has numerous tiny tentacles that writhe irregularly on its surface. Their overall appearance is like a demon from hell, which is quite terrifying.

However, despite their ugly appearance, the Zerg possess extraordinary intelligence. The Xiagai Zerg not only have remarkable achievements in witchcraft, but also in science and art.

Legend has it that the best among them secretly led the rise of several civilizations.

However, this insectoid race also has an extremely cruel side. They have long parasitized the human brain, deeply embedded in the body, and controlled humans to perform various tyrannical acts. Historical records show that the shadow of the Xiagai insectoid race was behind some bloody wars, and the Xiagai insectoid race was also manipulating some national-level destructions.

When Ye Lin accidentally came into contact with the Xia Gai insectoids, this highly intelligent race seemed to mistake him for an incarnation of Bubble and immediately offered him a sacrifice... a brain oozing pus and blood, and then made its humble plea.

To restore their homeland, the planet Shagai, destroyed by the terrible "Judgment Star" Gherros, and the green twin suns.

They shouted Bubble's real name, and their fanatical worship made Ye Lin have no doubt that if he gave a suicide order, this group of insectoids would commit suicide without hesitation using witchcraft.

In the end, Ye Lin adopted an unfathomable demeanor and made an empty promise in a language they couldn't understand... What Bubble does when it returns is Bubble's problem.

"We've already passed the twentieth inhabited planet." Ye Lin, still disguised as an ordinary mortal, descended upon the civilization on Earth, his mood no longer as relaxed and patient as it had been at the beginning.

He had recently made contact with the primordial universe through a special method and learned of the next move of the Great Will Caloso, the will of the first Creator to descend.

Celia decided to intervene, but as for the more distant future, no one could see clearly.

Although Ye Lin kept reminding himself not to be impatient, and that patience is a noble virtue, Carlos's sudden acceleration still made him a little impatient. He often touched his brow with his fingers to touch the bubble mark.

"I don't have time to search for a hundred years. I have at most six months before I have to try." Ye Lin walked heavily, quickly thinking of a solution, his desire to advance to the Creator rank growing even stronger.

This is a civilized world where "primitive magic" exists. The magic system is quite ancient. Here, magicians can fly on broomsticks and use magic to move objects with their minds, curse others, transform, or even take lives directly.

He also had rudimentary applications of elements, capable of summoning wind, fire, earthquakes, and vines, among other things. Ye Lin stopped and looked at a wanted poster on the bulletin board. The person on the poster was dressed in a magician's uniform, wearing a black top hat, slender, with cold eyes and no beard—the kind of person who seemed unapproachable at first glance.

Although the text below does not belong to any civilization that Ye Lin is currently aware of, it is not difficult for Ye Lin to understand its meaning.

“Giri Maen… a cruel executioner with blood on his hands, a former professor at the Imperial Magic Academy, who has killed at least 120 humans and gouged out their hearts and eyes, including nine children… suspected of plotting an evil sacrificial ritual, wanted throughout the entire empire…”

"Whoever kills Gilly Marne will not only be granted a title... but will also be able to make a request to the king."

Ye Lin was slightly taken aback. He looked up at the towering buildings around him and the dazzling light of the magic lamps, and then realized that he had arrived in the most magnificent and prosperous capital of the empire, where a million people lived.

"This is not normal. Why am I in a state of distraction and dazedness?" Ye Lin quickly pressed his brow. The mark left by the bubble seemed to be burning hot, something that had never happened before.

"Could it be that the Nameless Mist is here?" Ye Lin's eyes lit up.

The form of a god can be as vast and magnificent as a galaxy, reaching into the Milky Way, or it can become as small as a normal human being.

“Bubble didn’t lie to me.” Ye Lin breathed a sigh of relief and settled down in the capital. The properties of gold made it valuable in most civilizations, so Ye Lin didn’t have a local currency and wasn’t short of money.

Ye Lin, who was staying at the inn, opened a corner of the curtain and saw that court magicians in uniform often patrolled the sky above the capital, riding brooms or using some kind of flying magic or props, in order to find wanted criminals.

There were also some magicians from other places who exuded a powerful aura.

"As of now, there is a piece of information that has been deliberately kept from the public: the wanted criminal should still be in the capital and has not left yet."

Nothing happened overnight, and the same thing happened the next day; the magicians' patrol yielded no results.

On the third night, Ye Lin, who was lying alone in bed and unable to sleep, suddenly frowned, looked in a certain direction from the capital, and then disappeared silently from the room.

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In a rather luxurious mansion, the lights were bright and clear, as if it were daytime. In the hall, a thin man with gray hair and eyes as cold and sinister as a viper looked at the family who were bound by magic and nodded with satisfaction.

Then, he pulled out a beautifully patterned dagger from his wide sleeve and said in a hoarse voice, "More than a hundred hearts, more than two hundred eyes, plus your royal family's magical bloodline, the ritual I requested has a very high probability of succeeding."

"Those fools flying around in the sky have no idea that I am hidden beneath the earth, and that the power of magic is not limited to the sky."

With that, Gilly Maen smiled and took out a magical artifact from his pocket. It was a transparent glass bottle with a tightly sealed cap. Inside, it was filled with eyes of various colors, all soaked in dark red blood. They were all about the same size, as if they had just been dug out of a human body.

Two young children, a boy and a girl, around ten years old, screamed and fainted after seeing this scene. The adults were also trembling and shaking.

Then, Gilly Marne took out the seemingly living hearts, clenched them in his hands, squeezed out the still warm blood from the hearts, and inscribed a mysterious magic circle in the bright hall.

When the last heart was drained of its blood, the magic circle was almost complete, with only a few simple lines remaining. The eyes were placed in the center of the magic circle as a sacrifice.

“I need to borrow your last drop of blood.” Gilly Marne walked coldly toward the owner of the mansion.

At this moment, even adults with some magical abilities were completely terrified. The usually well-mannered male homeowner was shouting for help, trembling all over, pale-faced, while the luxuriously dressed, plump, and somewhat attractive female homeowner was begging for mercy with heart-wrenching screams, completely devoid of the noble and elegant demeanor she usually displayed in high society.

The person in front of me is a madman, a demon. When he defected from the Imperial Magic School, he killed a powerful figure who was almost at the legendary level. Although it was speculated that it might have been a sneak attack, he did kill him.

Gilly Marne leaned down, the strong scent of perfume making his nostrils itch slightly. The sharp tip of the dagger pointed at the mistress's luxurious clothes, unbuttoned a button to reveal a small patch of snow-white skin, and then slowly stabbed it towards her heart.

Visible blood gushed out immediately...

A very sudden sound, like heavenly music to the man and woman, representing hope, rang out:

"Where did you get this summoning magic? Show it to me."

Ye Lin scanned the withered heart and eyeballs on the ground, his brow slightly burning, thus confirming that this was the magic circle for summoning the nameless mist. Of course, whether the summoning would be successful was another matter.

Although the Nameless Mist and Darkness are unknown to the Great Old Ones, their power occasionally leaks out, forming their avatars.

Thus, they are worshipped by life forms, gain knowledge, and become tools for forming related connections.

Gilly Marne's eyes turned cold, and he turned around expressionlessly. The dagger with its exquisite patterns shone even brighter. It had only pierced half an inch into the flesh and had not yet taken the life of its mistress.

"That ignorant fool dares to try and stop me. Looks like another sacrifice is needed." A black staff fell from Gilly Marne's sleeve, and he used a death-instant magic, forbidden by the Empire, on Night Forest in an instant, spell-free manner.

"Boom!"

Gilly Marne's neck suddenly twisted 360 degrees, then he spat out blood and foam, and his chest exploded with a clear hole from front to back.

Ye Lin didn't make a move at all; he just stood there. The other party foolishly tried to offend a god, and the Death Perception Curse backfired, killing him instantly.

With a flick of his finger, Ye Lin manipulated Gilly Maen's corpse and sealed his shattered soul. He nodded to the mansion's master and said:

"Put things away, don't scare the child."

Ye Lin left with the corpse, obtained the corresponding magic circle from the other's soul, and then threw the corpse at the palace gate without asking for the reward promised by the king.

He didn't need any offerings; he simply replicated the magic circle and summoned the nameless mist.

(End of this chapter)