I, the final BOSS of the beta test server!

Then, there was no hindrance at all.

The thousands of branches and vines penetrated Cecil's old body, which was as fragile as paper, and pierced, cut, and locked all his joints and muscles.

After doing all this, Noah stopped.

The meteor sword that had inexplicably descended from the abyss and destroyed his incarnation of abundance, as well as Cecil's supernova explosion just now, had made him feel a bit afraid of ropes after being bitten by a snake, and he suffered from PTSD.

Noah was really worried that even in his current exhausted state, Cecil might still cause some trouble.

Only by completely cutting off the opponent's ability to move, as he did now, could he feel truly at ease.

However, looking at Noah who had literally come back from the dead, Cecil, whose already aging body had suffered another severe blow, suddenly smiled weakly.

Even the gesture of "smiling" seemed quite forced for Cecil's frail body, but the smile in his words did not reveal the slightest falsehood:

"It seems... I've really been underestimated."

"Every gravekeeper who has engraved the mark of his soul on the Eternal Night Stele can, with the help of the tombstone's power, return from the distant river of history."

"This is a secret that was discovered several epochs ago when the original fire thief betrayed the gravekeepers."

"Although the first generation of the Guardian was long ago buried in the War of the Fire Stealer... the secrets he uncovered, the information about the Gravekeepers he acquired at the cost of his own life, were all recorded in the Fool's Library and have been passed down to this day."

Cecil's wrinkled and furrowed face now wore a smile, wanton and arrogant: "As long as the mark engraved on the tombstone is indelible, then even after death, I can return from history..."

"This is truly a very tricky ability, almost unsolvable... We shore guards only have one life. If we fail once, we'll be doomed. But you can fail countless times and start over again."

"If the war between the Shore Keepers and the Gravekeepers is a man-made game, then the designers of this game must be crazy. There's absolutely no balance between the two sides."

"only--"

"No matter how unruly the rules were, or how unsolvable the deadlock was... after I had spent my entire life repeatedly studying and pondering it, spending sleepless nights trying to figure out how to break this deadlock."

"After nearly a thousand years, how could I possibly... remain stagnant like a scum like you?"

Although his body was no different from the dry bones in the grave, Cecil's eyes were still as calm as water, and beneath the water was hidden the mighty wind and thunder.

"So, the high and mighty gravekeeper."

"And what on earth is the reason that makes you have this illusion——"

"The supernova explosion just now is the end of everything?"

Listening to Cecil's words, Noah looked around again.

But, on the entire dark sea.

Apart from the Milky Way, which was formed by the fragments of countless star cores and was slowly rippling and converging, there was no other movement at all.

In Noah's legendary mind, Cecil, whose body was clearly at the end of its strength, spoke words that could only be described as deliberately mystifying...

The Legendary rank has an insurmountable upper limit... and the scorching supernova explosion just now was enough to drain all the power of a Legendary.

Cecil was already in a state of exhaustion at this moment, and even moving his body was quite difficult. He had a complete grasp of the overall situation and would never give the other party a chance to prepare the supernova explosion like just now.

However, Noah looked around vigilantly but found nothing. He was in a daze and had no idea what was about to happen.

The sneer on Cecil's old face became more obvious.

"To be honest, in my long life, I have sometimes felt shaken and confused."

"I doubt whether the shore guards' moth-to-flame-like persistence is meaningful. I also ask myself... whether everything we do is brave or simply reckless."

"I've also considered that perhaps the most appropriate option would be to avoid the onslaught like you gravekeepers, slowly forbearing and accumulating strength, and then launching a joint attack when the time is right..."

"As for the civilizations and humanity that perished during this period of forbearance, those epochs were merely necessary sacrifices for the greater good."

"But now, I no longer have such distracting thoughts."

He looked down at Noah, who was flowing on the edge of the Milky Way. There was a sneer in his eyes, but also a deeper pity beneath the sneer.

“When one stays in a high place for a long time, it is easy to lose one’s original heart…and when a pair of eyes are accustomed to darkness, they can no longer tolerate light.”

"You call yourselves the guardians of human civilization, but in reality, today's gravekeepers are no different from prisoners. They are accustomed to forbearance and compromise, and they regard this compromise as an insurmountable rule... They even resort to any means to suppress and eliminate those of their kind who refuse to be imprisoned."

"So, you possess such a precious treasure as the 'Eternal Night Tablet,' possessing powerful mental power, i.e., computing power, as well as nearly infinite time and lifespan, and the treasure known as 'knowledge' left behind by countless lost civilizations... These are conditions that countless scholars and scientists of the past have only dreamed of."

"Yet, for six full epochs since the Age of Gods, you have enjoyed favorable conditions and countless treasures, but have squandered them all."

"Tens of thousands of years are enough for humanity to transform from cave-dwelling apes, consuming only raw meat and drinking only blood, into the sentient rulers of the earth we know today... but you, alone, have remained stagnant throughout these tens of thousands of years."

Cecil paused for a moment, and the mockery on his lips became more intense.

"So in the future, even a student who has dabbled in this field should know what's coming after the supernova explosion."

"And you've lived for tens of thousands of years in vain, yet you're completely bewildered and clueless about this."

"Because you've long been accustomed to life in a cage, what you're desperately pursuing isn't 'freedom,' but rather a move from a 'small cage' to a 'big cage.'"

"As the future of humanity—"

"You guys are unqualified."

The broken words echoed in the lightless sea and the long silver-blue river.

It seemed like he was talking to himself, but it also seemed like he was judging Noah's fate.

The next moment, the slowly flowing Milky Way suddenly accelerated.

Thousands of stellar core fragments with residual radiation heat flickered in the Milky Way, and huge silver waves rolled.

Tens of millions of tons of sea water were slowly rotating, swirling towards the remains of the star core that had released all of its energy and was slowly cooling down in the deep ocean.

When the most brilliant performance in a star's life comes to an end, the light and heat of the "supernova explosion" will cool down in the deep space of the universe.

In the remains of the star core that has returned to its cold and dead state—

What is brewing.

Naturally, there is only the deepest "black hole".

Chapter 171: Have I fulfilled the original promise? (Two in one)

It is no longer the brilliant sun that spreads endless light and heat to the world around it.

But it was a black sun.

Hanging alone in the deepest part of the silver-blue sea, both tens of millions of tons of sea water and thousands of silver-blue metal fragments slowly flowed towards the center of the black sun and then fell.

The Milky Way hangs upside down, swirling and flowing, converging into a magnificent vortex, just like a real galaxy in the deep space of the universe.

And at the center of the Milky Way is a void of nothingness.

It swallowed up matter and also swallowed up light, leaving only the darkest darkness.

"That little guy, you should be looking at this place now, right?"

"Even if you can't hear the sound, you should be able to recognize the content through the lip movements."

At the end of the galaxy, Cecil spoke softly.

"Remember, if you encounter these core members of the Gravekeepers who left their mark on the Eternal Night Stele in the future, simply killing their bodies will not be enough."

"Killing their physical bodies will only weaken them, but they can still rely on the marks on their tombstones to return from the long river of history..."

"To completely kill them, you must obliterate everything that remains of them in this world. Not just their bodies and souls, but all their 'information'."

"Erase all their 'information' and 'data' from this world."

"In this case... even the Eternal Night Stele cannot capture their information and knowledge from the long river of history, and naturally there is no way to return."

He paused for a moment, "Of course, erasing all information about a legend is far more difficult than killing his body and soul."

"After a supernova explosion, the remaining core of a star collapses into a black hole... This is the solution I've finally found after a lifetime of searching for a way out. A method that erases not only body and soul, but all information and data about a legend."

"Whether it was a supernova explosion or a black hole, I was able to successfully simulate it only with the help of my own 'Sun' sequence."

"The Sun sequence is unique and extremely dependent on mastering the Sun sequence abilities. It took me hundreds of years to gradually master it."

"Even if I left behind a legacy of knowledge, it would be quite difficult to replicate it directly using the 'Library of Fools'. It's not a universal method... Moreover, the price of activating this skill is to burn myself to death first, a move that will destroy both myself and the enemy."

"If you ever encounter a true Gravekeeper legend in the future, and you don't want to end up in the afterlife with him, then it's best not to revisit this idea lightly."

As he spoke, Cecil couldn't help but smile: "But, if it were you..."

"I believe that even if you don't choose to reproduce the 'black hole', you will definitely find another way out and completely bury those high-ranking gravekeepers."

boom--

The emerald green light crushed over, completely piercing through Cecil's already exhausted body, and then completely tearing the flesh and blood, leaving only a huge hole.

Through the hole in the body, you can see the slowly rotating brilliant Milky Way.

The moment the black hole appeared, Noah exploded.

Looking at the empty void, a huge warning arose in his heart, a warning far stronger than any before.

Simply killing, even if Noah's body was killed and his soul was destroyed with mental power, would not be scary.

Anyway, no matter how many times he dies in battle, Noah can come back again with the help of the power of the tombstone.

As for the sleep and recuperation that must be experienced after returning using the tombstone to make up for the damage to the body and soul and restore the heyday, although it takes a bit longer...

But the grave keepers originally hid behind the curtain of history and only interfered with the world in very rare cases. To them, sleeping or not did not make much difference, and it was not an unacceptable price to pay.

As a gravekeeper, Noah's life is truly "eternal and immortal". Although he is a human being, his existence is longer than that of the ancient gods.

But, at this moment.

Noah, however, truly sensed a sense of dead silence.

I will die, and I will be gone completely.

It is not the kind of alternation where one can return immediately after destruction.

But from this moment on until the end of time, the being called Noah will no longer exist.

Just like the writing on the blackboard being wiped away by the eraser, all the information that constitutes the individual "Noah" will be completely erased from the long river of time and the entire cognition of countless creatures, leaving no trace in the world.

In this way, no matter how powerful the Eternal Night Stele is, even if it travels through the entire history, it cannot find a single piece of information, so how can it be resurrected?

At this moment, Noah truly heard the bell of death ringing in his ears.

He wasn't the so-called ancient god who only bore the title of "Death God," but whose carefully planned revival was interrupted by a mere mortal.

It was as if there really was a supreme being who wove destiny in the dark, and was passing down the judgment of fate to him in his ears.

boom--

Abundant power surged, penetrating to the end of the brilliant galaxy, completely erasing every inch of Cecil's flesh and blood.

As long as Cecil, the culprit, was killed, the dark void would naturally stop. This was Noah's first thought.

On the other hand, Noah himself burst out at all costs to escape from the depths of the vortex of the Milky Way, the void that swallowed up the light and was filled with incomparable deathly silence.

however.

"How ugly! Such a hideous posture—"

There was clearly a huge hole pierced through his body, and the vitality of his flesh had been completely extinguished. Now only the last wisp of spirit and soul remained on this corpse.

But Cecil's expression never changed.

He looked at Noah in the distance, who had a ferocious face and was trying to move outside the Milky Way by any means necessary to escape from the black sun, and sighed softly.

"Once within the confines of a black hole, not even light can escape."

"What's more, it's you."

His words were soft, yet they seemed to be a notice of something that was about to happen.

In the lightless sea, all matter was swept up by the vortex transformed from the Milky Way, and then fell towards the center of the Milky Way.

The falling speed was very slow, and the flow of time was distorted beside the boundary of the void, as if someone pressed the slow-motion button on a movie reel.

But no matter how slow it is played, the rotating reel can only play forward.

And Noah is one of the matter captured by the black hole boundary.

The great power of abundance surged in the sea, stirring up a mountain-like tide.

One after another, life-saving items and holy relics from the Age of Gods materialized in Noah's hands, and he threw them out without hesitation.

Countless brilliant lights exploded within the Milky Way, and silver-blue waves rolled over, transforming into a torrential rain that poured down onto the ocean, splashing countless points of light as it fell...

These were all the accumulations of the grave keepers, from the Age of Gods to the present day… enough to be described as terrifying. Among them were even many holy relics that were enough to save Noah’s life even if he faced a true god in his prime.