Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 1395 Dual-Source Material Past?
Under the influence of the powerful spiritual control of the "Lord of Mysteries" and the isolation of the astral plane by "God", even the "Fallen Mother Goddess", who is the pillar and the ruler of reality, could not perceive the situation on the other battlefield, even though both were within the original solar system, which is a very short distance in astronomical units.

Unless He personally leaves the "Goddess of Fate" and descends to the "Ring of Destiny" and other ancient battlefields against Earth, He can clearly understand that the battlefield situation after the fall of the "Mother Tree of Desire" and the injury and escape of the "High Dimensional Overlord" is extremely unfavorable to Him.

However, this would mean that His eldest daughter would have to face the attacks of the two pillars alone. Even if He could be resurrected from the river of fate and become almost immortal, He would still be unable to protect himself in this disadvantageous situation. He would either end up like the "Child of Chaos" or be replaced by the "Key of Light," who also possesses the symbol of fate.

Therefore, while all the ancient beings on Earth could exchange information and discuss tactics in the depths of their consciousness through Angel's "connection," the Outer Gods, whose battlefields were divided, could only fight their own battles, putting them at a great strategic disadvantage.

This is why Klein focused the team's target on "Super Star Overlord" instead of actually using the "Key of Light" to bury the fate of "Goddess of Destiny".

He had long noticed that another battlefield had reached a stalemate. Although Earth held a slight advantage, the balance of power had shifted again as "Shadow of Order" Rosell actively lured "The Decaying King" into the fray. Moreover, the three components of the "Fourth Pillar" were all on the same battlefield. This certainly made the "Ring of Destiny" increasingly worried, ready to restart time at any moment, but it also hampered Earth's actions.

Now that they have a significant advantage, they are less willing to use methods like "self-destruction" to threaten the Outer Gods.

Aside from the true alliance of "Cataclysmic Destruction" and "Eternal Darkness," which combine to form a dangerous symbol of the end, that battlefield lacks the ability to deliver a decisive blow, severely injure, or even kill an Outer God. The "Mystic Weakening" effect that "Unquenchable Whispers" has set for itself is gradually fading, and it begins to hide deep within the hearts of several ancient beings on its side, waiting for an opportunity to detonate the spirit of the original creator within the enemy. As long as one carefully avoids Angel, "Ring of Destiny" will not stop it.

Conversely, if Amanisis, the "Eternal Darkness," attempts to put an Outer God into a slumber so that Angel can then reap the rewards, the Great Old One, who controls the past, present, and future, will intervene, making this slumber a thing of the past, waking the being from the attack.

The other Great Old Ones, such as the Shadow World, the Key of Light, and the Shadow of Order, lack powerful offensive means. They can influence the course of the battle to tilt towards Earth, but they cannot quickly expand their gains or severely damage the most powerful beings in the universe, such as the Decaying King or the Primal Hunger. Instead, they are affected by the symbol of "the end of time and the decay of all things." Several times, they are caught up by the chaotic vortexes that are so hungry that they no longer care about what they will eat, and they are almost devoured by important symbols.

In this chaotic battle where everyone was chasing each other and no one could gain the upper hand, Klein's plan took shape.

Compared to the four Outer Gods, whose abilities each have their own focus and are difficult to break through, Klein's "Goddess of Fate" and "Super Star Overlord," while powerful, both have fatal weaknesses. The former's powerful attacks targeting fate are suppressed by the "Beacon of Fate," while the latter focuses on reality. While its own offensive capabilities are extremely powerful, it is also vulnerable to attacks from reality based on symbols of destruction and end.

However, compared to the eldest daughter, who is more important to the "Fallen Mother Goddess," the "Super Star Overlord" is undoubtedly the best target.

Under the hidden authority of "Eternal Darkness," Angel borrowed the symbols of "Eternal Silence," "Death," and "Twilight," which could only be used temporarily. He then swiftly traversed the astral plane created by "God" Grisha and silently descended upon another battlefield, arriving before the "Superstar Overlord," who had been immobilized and enraged by Klein.

Even though "Primal Hunger" activated its powerful aggregation ability at the same time, attempting to pull Angel's original body back, it was blocked by Grisha, who conjured up a virtual image in time. Meanwhile, the other Outer Gods were also entangled by the "Knowledge Demon" and "Shadow of Order," who were prepared in advance, and were unable to provide support for the time being.

The only thing that can change the situation by rewinding time, the "Ring of Fate," discovered that if Angel, who has already gathered two-thirds of the power that makes up the fourth pillar, is brought back to its side, there is a high probability that she will come into contact with the "Decaying King," causing the problem that He has always wanted to avoid. Therefore, it hesitated to take action.

Therefore, there was no longer any obstruction between Angel and the brilliant sphere of light composed of countless fusion star clusters of the "Superstar Overlord".

She was shrouded in a "fog of war" that blocked her perception and other powers. She raised a grotesque weapon that was neither sword nor scythe due to the combination of various powers and symbols, and slashed at a star that was many times larger than herself.

The slashing motion is merely a symbol of attack; the true killing move is the chaotic, destructive, eternal silence, twilight, and death power emanating from her body and transmitted through the weapon.

These forces partially repelled each other, while others coalesced and collapsed into deep, terrifying black dots, tearing through space and igniting pitch-black flames that rapidly eroded the body of the "Super Star Overlord," erupting within it.

This immediately alerted Him, who was trying to break through the layers of star gates to escape the seal of the "Lord of Mysteries," making Him realize that He had become the prey.

Moreover, this is not an attack that a single enemy could launch. Rather, it is the power that the "Ring of Destiny" once tried to save, almost bringing the "Decaying King" and the entire universe to an end. It is a symbol of the unification of space and time and the end of destruction.

He immediately caused the stars that made up his body to burst into brilliant light, generating enough energy to severely damage some of the old days, creating the fundamental particles that surrounded him, and using the symbol of the "master of fundamental forces," he combined them with strong interaction to form a solid matter, and actively sent it to the origin that had no size and seemed to have only one dimension but was constantly absorbing the things around it, letting it devour him.

Of course, this could not stop the spread of the "Root of Calamity" and the "Singularity of All Things," but this confrontation, in which one side devours the other, essentially turned His fate of ending and destruction into a contest and competition of energy and matter between the two. In this respect, the "Superstar Ruler," which can continuously obtain mass and energy from the boundless starry sky, believed that he would not lose to any of the Old Ones below the pillars.

Angel, who was constantly driving the black origin point in front of Him, was also slightly surprised. His previously invincible, pieced-together fourth pillar power was resisted for the first time.

As expected of the most powerful Great Old One who focuses on "reality," it's no wonder that the "Mother Tree of Desire," lacking complete source matter, died at His hands... Unfortunately, the most powerful symbol of the "Fourth Pillar" is not material or reality, but the conceptual end... A thought flashed through Angel's mind. Instead of continuing to exert force on the black origin and engaging in a tug-of-war with the "Super Star Overlord," he allowed a certain important symbol within him, which had been separated into the powers of "chaos," "death," and "eternal silence," to gradually coalesce and form a complete power.

That is the symbol of "the end," which is opposed to the symbol of the original creator's "creation" and leads the entire universe to its annihilation.

Angel knew that only when his authority and that of Amanisis were combined, along with the authority of the "Decaying King" who possessed the powers of "weakness" and "destruction," could the symbol truly become complete. But even a partial "end" could be used to its fullest extent by accommodating the body of the "Creator in the Mirror."

Such attacks, based on position and at the conceptual level, are not something that the "Super Star Overlord" can withstand with his authority alone.

In an instant, the star clusters within his body flickered and erupted, continuously emitting violent energy. The "Super Star Overlord," which was trying to pull Angel into a familiar territory for a contest, discovered that the countless stars that made up his body, as well as the celestial bodies in the universe that were closely connected to him and providing him with energy, were all sliding toward inevitable decay.

In an instant, they skipped the explosive phase and became dense dwarf stars that no longer emitted light and heat.

This caused the "Super Star Overlord," which was originally struggling to maintain its state and avoid being attracted or harmed by the black origin, to immediately lose its balance. The outer side of the luminous star cluster exploded with brilliant starlight, illuminating the entire star field, while the inner side was squeezed together by the enormous gravity and lost its light.

He had a sliver of hope to evade the attack and escape this place with all his might, but foolishly tried to block the blade of "Destruction," and ultimately fell to the symbol of "End."

This is also a kind of cruel joke of fate.

With a desperate cry similar to the roar of the "Mother Tree of Desire" when it was severed by condensed light, the star cluster attracted by the immense gravity finally could not maintain its shape and collapsed inward, being sucked into the black origin. The bright accretion disk flashed by, and under Angel's alien scythe, the huge body of the "Super Star Overlord" was no more.

"The ruler of the stars, the symbol of heaviness and density, the controller of the fundamental forces, the law of the boundless starry sky" has fallen.

What remained in place was a luminous body whose interior seemed to shimmer with countless galaxies of different shapes, and the glittering starlight being scattered in all directions, most of which were rotating regularly around a dense sphere.

That is the source substance, uniqueness, and corresponding extraordinary characteristics left behind by the "Superstar Overlord." As an ancient entity that leans towards reality, it has only one path.

Meanwhile, countless supernovae in the universe, which repeatedly exploded and merged in violation of the laws of physics, went out. Some galaxies collided in ways that defied common sense, or split apart and deviated from their trajectories.

Countless advanced civilizations have encountered problems in their observations of the universe; errors in the fundamental laws have left them bewildered and even on the verge of collapse.

The laws of the stars, which they once regarded as ironclad rules, have actually changed.

Of course, all of this has long-term implications and is unrelated to the current apocalyptic battlefield. The moment the "Superstar Overlord" fell, releasing its source matter and extraordinary characteristics, Angel gathered it all together and stuffed it into her mirror world to prevent it from being taken away by other Ancients, or to quickly revive the original Ancient consciousness under the influence of "rebirth." While her mirror world cannot preserve source matter for long and can only serve as a temporary isolation, it is more than sufficient to handle this battle. Afterwards, she will attempt to contain this source matter, becoming a dual-source Ancient second only to the three pillars, thus achieving the "Superstar Overlord's" purpose of coming to Earth in another form.

Then, her figure disappeared as if dragged away, returning to another battlefield in accordance with the convergence of "primal hunger".

She is no longer needed here.

Only then did the "fog of war" slowly dissipate. Under her mother's protection, the "Goddess of Fate," who was wary of the arrival of the "Key of Light," was surprised to find that in just a few seconds, another of her side's ancient rulers had died hastily under the attack of the "Cataclysm of Destruction."

It was as if a long river of fate had been cut in half by a falling meteorite, the illusory river waters scattering and flowing in all directions, yet unable to cross the riverbank of "death" even a step.

Now, she and her mother, the "Fallen Mother Goddess," must confront two complete pillar-level Old Ones, the "Lord of Mysteries" and "God."

She noticed that the lower reaches of her own river of fate had become dim, and even her mother's fate had come to a certain end. Although it had not been truly cut off, the future seemed bleak.

This time, I might really die...

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Upon returning to the battlefield of the "Ring of Fate" and the "Decadent King," Angel immediately reclaimed the authority and symbols that originally belonged to Amanisis, the "Eternal Darkness," so that he would no longer possess the qualities that attracted the old one who symbolized "weakness" and "destruction."

As she had thought, the "Synthetic Pillar" was no longer Earth's trump card or killer move. After killing two Outer Gods in succession and preserving the "Mother Nest," in Klein's words, Earth's Old Ones had put on shoes and become respectable, while the Outer Gods, who were showing increasing weakness, had become barefoot rogues. If they were to be pushed further, they might just overturn the table.

But what does this have to do with shoes...? The question popped into her mind, but she could only quickly suppress her thoughts.

Because of the "primal hunger," it came back after smelling the aroma.

He swallowed the countless complex knowledge transmitted remotely by the "Knowledge Demon," letting it slide across the smooth surface of his brain. The vortex that formed his body grew larger and larger, with the ferocious giant teeth and chaotic liquid inside constantly rotating, as if he wanted to swallow the "Destruction Catastrophe" directly and merge it with the source substance that he had long coveted.

But apart from Him, this great being with little thought, the thoughts of the other Outer Gods who fought alongside Him underwent a slight change.

"Unquenchable Whispers" had somehow awoke from the desire to unite that had been ignited by "Shadow World." It continued to leap into the depths of the minds of its teammates, no longer blindly pursuing "knowledge," as if assessing the situation. "Decaying King" still exuded a terrifying aura that enveloped the entire star field, slowing everything down. All the ancients felt the signs of aging, but it did not launch an active attack. Instead, it tightened the golden armor plates on its body. "Ring of Destiny" kept a close eye on "Key of Light" while probing the situation on another battlefield.

Suddenly, Stiano, the "Knowledge Demon" who had been tracking the location of the "Unending Whispers," found an opportunity to unleash an ocean of knowledge in this space, engulfing all the past.

This was an indiscriminate attack, powerful and disorderly. However, the few ancient beings on Earth were lucky enough to be at the low point of this invisible surge, while the few Outer Gods, especially the "decaying monarch" who harbored the "undying murmur," were at the center of this information flow. Their already aging and sluggish brains were instantly filled with all sorts of information that they could not use, and their already pitiful knowledge betrayed them.

The invisible figure deep within His heart let out a wail, just as He had always wanted to devour the "wilderness of knowledge." The latter also had the same thirst for Him, who existed only in the form of information and concepts and had no physical form, and there was mutual restraint between them.

Distracted by the thoughts of explosion, "Unending Whispers" abandoned all restraints and let out a terrifying roar that affected all teammates and enemies around it.

Just like the "Demon of Knowledge," He attacked all the Old Ones indiscriminately. This time, the "Key of Light's" good fortune did not help much, because the "Ring of Destiny" interfered with His River of Fate.

This time, the "angel of salvation" did not stop the transmission of the delirium; instead, she facilitated the process!

Angel, Amanisis, Steiano, and Rosell were immediately struck by the mental ripples from the original creator, plunging them into a brief period of confusion. However, the "Key of Light" and the "Shadow World" were more severely affected than the complete Old Ones.

Twisted figures emerged from the golden giant Buddha. These were Arhats, Buddhas, Vidyarajas, and Bodhisattvas, the remnants of the original Dao-mergers. They were all awakened by the "unceasing murmurs" and began to vie for dominance over the origin essence.

The "Shadow World" is slightly better off, thanks to the fall of the "Mother Tree of Desire," but the "Decaying King" is also focusing on this source and the internal Fabti and "Master of the Dark Lodge," whose destined decline is a symbol of decay, bringing the half-Old One, which is also composed of multiple spirits, to the brink of losing control.

They were to work together to cause problems with the "Key of Light" and the "Shadow World," which were not complete Old Ones, forcing them to withdraw from the battlefield, thereby reducing the number of Old Ones on Earth to the greatest extent possible and restoring balance to the war between the two sides... Angel immediately realized the Outer Gods' purpose and marveled at the tacit cooperation of these enemies who were not truly allied but acting on instinct.

She was about to repeat her old trick, transferring all the negative effects from her teammates to herself, forcing the "Ring of Destiny" to restart and making the "Unending Whispers" a waste of time. But just as the frantic whispers in her heart were growing stronger and the "Creator in the Mirror" was getting restless, Angel was surprised to find that the "Ring of Destiny" had no intention of "helping" her.

Was He bluffing, betting that I wouldn't dare to truly unleash the Creator from the mirror? Angel hesitated for a moment.

She wasn't without other options, such as combining Amanisis's authority to directly strike at the "declining king." Even if the "Ring of Fate" remained unmoved, the "undying murmur" attached to that old man would inevitably perish during the formation of the fourth pillar.

But what will happen next is anyone's guess...

At that moment, Angel suddenly stopped absorbing any more murmurs, and instead of borrowing authority and symbols from the "Eternal Darkness," he turned to look in a certain direction in the distant starry sky.

That is the center of the solar system, the original location of Earth, and the battlefield of the three pillars and the "Goddess of Fate".

The same action was taken by "Ring of Destiny," who had been calmly observing the battlefield but no longer taking action. Compared to this star field, the sense of crisis coming from another battlefield made this Outer God even more terrified.

At the same time, an elegant and melodious voice arose in the minds of all the old ones, a declaration from the "Fallen Mother Goddess" that brought "new life" out of nothing.

“I am prepared to bring the ‘Primordial Chaos’ into the world.”

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As if confirming this declaration, a weak yet strangely resonant heartbeat echoed throughout the entire galaxy.

Although it was not as powerful as the heartbeat that directly destroyed the Creator's barrier, it struck the heart of every ancient being, causing them to stop all their actions.

The "Fallen Mother Goddess" has actually started using her unique characteristics as a threat, just like the ancient times on Earth!

(End of this chapter)