Mystery: When the Lost Homelanders Meet the Lost Homeland Call

Chapter 72 The Doomsday War (First Update of 2k)

(This chapter contains some original text from Part 2. The author released it first and then revised the word count so that readers only need to pay for 1,000 words.)

For readers who haven't read the second book, here's a brief overview: The War of the End Times picks up after the first book, when Klein becomes a mysterious being, and the Earth's gods become both Old Ones and Half-Old Ones, leading to a war against the Outer Gods.

Because Lynn's story spans multiple universes and timelines, you can skip directly to Chapter 79, "You Are a Better Me," which offers a recap of the plot from the Lord of Mysteries' perspective without significantly impacting your reading experience.

"Where is this place?"

Lynn Aberrant opened his eyes and saw that all around him were ruins. Terrifying pollution and the influence of birth symbols ravaged the entire continent, while the power of dreams, miracles, and shadows permeated the land, protecting the existence of humanity.

Above the western horizon, beyond the thick gray fog, lay a gigantic blood moon.

At this moment, his memory was still stuck on the previous second when Duncan warned him to be careful of an existence with so much information that simply stating its name could cause the passage to collapse, and the next second he appeared on the ruins.

"Is this scene from the end of the second part, when the Fallen Mother Goddess breaks through the barrier, attempting to forcibly contain the Mother Nest, and is then led by the Fool Klein into the Celestial Venerable's gray mist seal?"

Lynn immediately realized that he was out of sync with the timeline!

The universe, in ancient times, refers to space and time, and many modern works also regard the universe as space and time.

A small number of works will also take into account matter and energy in space and time.

However, in reality, the strict concept of the universe includes all space and time and their connotations, including all forms of energy, as well as the physical laws that affect matter and energy, such as conservation laws, classical mechanics, and relativity.

This complete and accurate concept of the universe is actually closer to the "world" in literature.

Therefore, the process of traversing the universe naturally transcends time.

As for parallel universes that share a precise and common timeline, from a physicist's perspective, even if there are infinitely many, they are just universes with a larger scope of space and internal mass-energy.

Looking at his surroundings, Lynn realized that he lacked accurate positioning during his journey across the universe.

The journey from the mysterious world to the boundless sea is anchored. No matter where he first obtains the "contact," he will inevitably reach the Leviathan Queen node and the time node when Captain Duncan completes his world pilgrimage.

This is because he appeared in front of Duncan at that time, and Duncan anchored the cause and effect.

However, there was no "witness" to the return journey, so Lynn Aberrant was unable to accurately return to the time he left.

"Has such a large distance been created just from one departure?"

Lynn looked at the precarious barrier in the sky, and at the eight Outer Gods spying on Earth from behind it, and revealed a strange expression that was half crying and half laughing.

He was a homeless man.

He left his hometown by accident and came to the boundless sea.

When he became a qualified crew member on the Lost Home, the ship headed to the edge of the world, and he was thrown out.

Just as he had established his power in Tingen and gained companions, he unexpectedly found himself in the future.

When Lynn found Duncan, he thought everything was resolved, but Duncan told him that there was yet another entity they needed to be wary of.

Now Lynn is separated from the era she has just become familiar with by a vast torrent of time.

"This is really bad luck," Lynn said, pulling two black threads from his pocket and putting them on his head to suppress his negative emotions.

The black lines melted away on Lynn's face, and a profound silence overshadowed his dejected mood.

Speechless is at least a somewhat positive emotion!

Just as Lynn figured it out, a noticeable bulge suddenly shot up rapidly from the surface of the enormous, blood-red full moon that was slowly rising through the gray fog on the horizon, as if the moon's crust was violently moving, instantly creating a mountain thousands or tens of thousands of meters high, resembling a bird's nest or a womb.

Lynn immediately realized that this was the moment when Lumian, the protagonist of the second part, would kill the Earth Mother Lilith by disguising herself as the Fallen Mother Goddess, and with the help of the Fool, stimulate the "Mother Nest" to fight back against the real Fallen Mother Goddess.

Outside the astral barrier, which had lost the support of the "Earth Mother Goddess," eight stars of different colors, including red and gold, suddenly burst forth with extremely bright light.

They rapidly grew to enormous size, pressing down on the invisible barrier, causing deep cracks to appear in it. It could only hold on for a few more seconds at most.

At that time, the Outer Gods will tear the entire planet apart.

Just then, the Fool appeared at the Astral Barrier.

The body wearing a black trench coat suddenly collapsed inward, and a door of light, tinged with a bluish-black hue, was faintly visible deep within the coat.

The cane inlaid with stardust and the black gloves collapsed in, forming a huge vortex inside the black trench coat—a terrifying vortex.

Every gust of wind, every drop of water, and every ray of light in that vortex was composed of twisted worms, segmented worms, and tiny insects shimmering with starlight.

In just a second or two, the vortex was swallowed up, and inside the black trench coat, there was only deep darkness, without end, as if it contained a universe, a complete spirit world connected to every planet.

Along with this change, a gray-white mist rapidly spread within the ruins, enveloping the entire planet and all living things.

Outside the barrier, in the boundless universe, a thin layer of gray mist began to permeate the air.

The creatures within the gray fog either become foolish, cunning, or are transported from their original locations to another place they know best.

Many rules have been flawed, and many symbols have been misused.

The oppression of those external gods was thus momentarily halted for a few seconds.

Time stopped.

At the astral barrier, in the darkness within the black trench coat, slippery tentacles with mysterious patterns suddenly emerged, donning black gloves on their sleeves and raising a cane inlaid with stardust in front of them.

Immediately afterwards, a face emerged with difficulty from the shadows beneath the half-high silk hat, with black hair and brown eyes.

This is Klein Moretti's face.

The Lord of Mysteries has been born.

The ruler of the spirit world has returned.

The complete Lord of Mystery used the symbol of "the true can become false" to seal the gaps in the barrier, and the symbol of "King of Time and Space" to halt the outer gods' attack on the barrier. Then, he used "mysterious puppets" and "parasites" to interfere with the fallen Mother Goddess.

Billions upon billions of Kleins, Moretti, surged towards that sun from the air, from the earth, from the sea, from all directions.

A blood-red, perfectly round, enormous moon.

They either wither away quickly or their bellies swell up, their flesh and blood concentrating in the past, giving birth to offspring that are not puppets, or directly acquiring new life and consciousness, no longer puppets, and beginning to rebel against the "Puppet Master" who manipulates them.

Klein Moretti and his ilk began to make internal deals, which sparked fierce battles. But whether they were the offspring of the puppets or those who were reborn, they soon became toys in the hands of the "Puppet Masters" and entered a new cycle.

"To witness such a battle of the strongest, even death would be worth the price of admission."

Lynn, who had already been suppressed, watched this war, which was too much for ordinary people to bear, from mid-air and couldn't help but applaud.

You witnessed the battle between the protagonist and the villain, which filled you with determination.

Lynn nodded, now filled with determination: "It's just another time travel, do you think I'm afraid of you?"

"If you can get here, you'll definitely find a way back."

"Outer gods, you just wait. When I go back to the past, I promise you won't get any good juice!"