Outside the ancient castle,
Tens, then hundreds of kilometers away, elite squads were traversing mountains and ridges.
There were teams from surrounding countries, from cross-European conglomerates, and agents of the White Eagle Federation stationed in Europe.
They were mostly awakened individuals.
Non-awakened agents had already fainted under the great terror that had descended earlier.
Those remaining were the elites among the awakened. They moved step by step, their pace not fast, almost slow.
They dared not be fast!
The heart-wrenching, heart-clutching great terror had subsided, but who knew if other dangers remained? Likely, they did.
In the eyes of the agents from various countries, the darkness in the distance was a devil's den, a place of certain death.
If not for the dire orders from above to investigate, they would not have gone. Even so, the agents did not hurry.
Their hearts still held deep fear.
Physically, they were still trembling and shaking, how could they move quickly?
What's more, the path was fraught with uncanny evils.
It was a miracle they weren't completely paralyzed!
The awakened team from the clock country, which had been moving the fastest and was now closest, had just managed to kill a large uncanny evil, panting heavily.
"I think we'll be killed by the uncanny evils before we even reach our destination."
"They expect us to uncover the secret with no support whatsoever. It's bullshit!"
"This isn't us slacking off, it's just that this journey is too dangerous."
"Yeah, I feel like there are more and more uncanny evils, surging from ahead."
The small town in the distance was plunged into utter darkness, like a man-eating maw, waiting for them, the prey, to walk right in.
After a brief rest, the awakened team from the clock country, after much hesitation, cautiously resumed their journey.
The uncanny evils they encountered along the way gradually decreased.
They breathed a sigh of relief, quickened their pace slightly, when suddenly, a wave of great terror surged from the distance, as if gods and demons were awakening, an invisible pressure rolling in like a hurricane.
In an instant, the awakened from the clock country gasped, their pupils dilated.
After less than two seconds, their knees buckled, and they collapsed to the ground.
Their consciousness began to blur.
Only one thought remained:
Damn it! They should never have ventured into this devil's den!
...
"Leader! We have a new situation!"
Alarms blared in Area 51.
They had been using reconnaissance satellites for precise observation, but it was night, and there were no light sources in the vicinity. Moreover, the interference from strong magnetic energy flows made the satellite imagery unclear.
They waited, for the turbulent energy to subside.
All eyes were fixed on the screens, when suddenly the situation changed again. The satellite images showed roaring air currents forming a colossal white vortex.
An energy cloud mass covering more than half of Europe! Da Feng Novel Network
A faint dark red light flickered at the center of the vortex.
Xing Jinglei and the others, standing beneath the cloud mass, saw it more clearly. The entire sky was covered by dark clouds stretching to the horizon. The center of the massive vortex seemed to be a black hole leading to another world, with streaks of dark red lightning flashing within, filled with terrifying destructive energy.
Occasionally, a sliver of dark red lightning struck the ground, annihilating large surrounding areas, reducing them to the purest, smallest particles.
Xing Jinglei's eyelids twitched again.
He looked at the statue, several meters high, in the distance. A strong intuition warned him to stay away! Stay away! Hurry and leave!
Brother Hei Dao rushed forward, unleashing a forty-meter-long blade energy and slashing it fiercely at the statue.
Boom—
The heavens and earth buzzed, the ground cracked and split open, forming a fissure tens of meters long.
Flying debris shattered in mid-air.
A violent energy storm erupted outwards.
However, Xing Jinglei saw the forty-meter-long crimson blade energy shatter, countless fragments vanishing into thin air. The blood-red statue at the center of the slash...
Did not even budge.
Xing Jinglei gritted his teeth, "Go to hell!"
He gathered all his strength, flew to the front of the statue, and unleashed a cannon fist, his 'Exploding Awakening' ability extending from the cannon fist and erupting from the statue.
Another burst!
Another storm rolled out!
However, it still couldn't even scratch the blood-red statue. All they saw was the energy flow surrounding the statue growing denser, its aura becoming more terrifying.
And it began to lift off the ground, rising higher and higher.
Yiluo Xi stomped her foot!
How could she be left behind!
"Let me try!"
"I'll do it."
An Jianyou raised her hand to shield her eyes from the oncoming wind and walked forward. She looked at the blood-red statue with fear in her eyes, but no hesitation.
Just as she was about to summon her uncanny evil pet, a 'ding-dong' mission prompt sounded in her mind.
Xing Jinglei, Yiluo Xi, and the others received it too.
"Evacuate!"
This was their urgent mission: to immediately withdraw from the dangerous area and take with them their comrades who could not quickly evacuate.
Yiluo Xi hesitated for a moment.
Brother Hei Dao spoke, "Let's go!"
An Jianyou looked up, gazing at the dark red lightning that occasionally struck down, and said, "It's too dangerous here, let's take the others away first."
Xing Jinglei had been waiting for these words.
He sprinted out several hundred meters, but looking at his comrades lying unconscious or kneeling on the ground, he was troubled.
He only had two hands, and could carry at most one person on each side. He couldn't carry so many!
Here, only the four of them could move freely.
Damn it!
"I have a way."
Darkness spread from beneath An Jianyou's feet, and a crawling, three-star uncanny evil emerged from her Netherworld domain, its fierce and massive form appearing before Xing Jinglei and the others.
There was no mental assault.
An Jianyou said, "Let's move everyone onto Big Black Six's back. Although direct contact will have some effect, but..."
At the critical moment of life and death, they couldn't afford to be too picky.
Some people were placed on the back of the three-star uncanny evil, while others were picked up and carried by Xing Jinglei, Hei Dao, An Jianyou, and the others.
Everyone retreated rapidly.
The resurgent aura behind them grew more terrifying, the invisible pressure intensifying, making it difficult to breathe.
Xing Jinglei and Yiluo Xi were already being affected, their bodies trembling, and their movements were not as smooth as usual.
They ran.
They kept looking back. The statue, wreathed in dark red light, was rising higher and higher, and the dark red lightning flashing around the void in the sky was becoming more and more fearsome.
More and more dark red lightning descended.
Yiluo Xi saw a bolt strike the area they had been searching earlier. There was no explosion, but the ground shattered inch by inch, turning into dust far smaller than sand, dissipating in the wind.
This was too terrifying!
And these seemed to be just the prelude to the resurrection of the blood-red statue!
She felt fear.
And anger at herself for being afraid.
Once fear was born in the heart, it grew like a sprouted seedling, becoming more luxuriant and intense.
It lingered, refusing to leave.
Even though she had witnessed the power of her mentor before, the gap was too vast!
So vast it brought despair!
Xing Jinglei felt a sense of despair. He kept running, but even after a considerable distance, the sense of crisis looming overhead did not diminish in the slightest.
Or rather, it was intensifying.
As that existence, possibly a god or demon, awakened, the crisis grew!
His intuition told him that once such an entity descended, even the vastness of Blue Star would be... nowhere to escape!
He was terrified and lost.
An Jianyou was fearful yet resolute.
She gazed at the distant void, clasping her hands together, "Mentor, there must be a way!"
She believed.
...
"Mythical descent!"
In the country of Donghuang, the morning light was faint.
Here, the anomaly in distant Europe could not be seen, and the scene was still peaceful.
But even without looking at the game's prompt, Fang You could sense that a terrifying entity was descending from the distant region.
Breaking through the world's barriers, descending onto Blue Star.
Using a certain item or person as a catalyst.
This was the unique ability of a mythical existence – avatar descent!
"According to Yi Yueluxi, beings above the mythical level, due to their excessively high status, find it difficult to personally appear in ordinary worlds. They would descend in the form of avatars."
"On the other hand, the statue is also an extension of those beings' power. As long as the divine statue exists, even across countless spatial distances, mythical beings can cast their gaze and descend as avatars!"
Although not yet an eternal deity, not those evil gods who had devoured countless worlds, these methods were almost indistinguishable from those of deities.
Hence, they were called mythical!
Carrying the word 'god'!
"I have encountered the descent of mythical beings before, but at that time, in the dungeon space, it was merely a wisp of divine thought descending, an extension of power, only able to unleash power around world rifts. It wasn't a true descent."
"But this time, based on the uncanny object statue, it is a true descent! His avatar will be a myth walking the human world!"
"The gap between this and the Throne level is too great, it's like the difference between heaven and earth!"
Even though an avatar descent should be far inferior to a true mythical being, Fang You's sense of alarm escalated to the extreme.
Mythical beings are invincible!
Perhaps an ordinary world like Blue Star, in their eyes, was merely a matter of whether it was worth their effort.
Once they acted, the heavens and earth would be overturned!
Fang You's expression was solemn as he took out a golden card.
"Character Descent Card · Wang Hei · Ultimate Sublimation (Gold)"
"Ding!"
"Prompt: This legendary item can transcend time and space, awaken the Pioneer of the Sacred Fire · Ember of the Torch · Guide of the Lamp · Wang Hei, and descend into the present world to battle! The descended character is a solidified form of Wang Hei at his peak moment (Half-step Mythical), possessing the character's perfect combat experience and battle instincts."
"Prompt: This legendary item also has a second usage method – Possession Battle. Under this usage method, the user will inherit all the dimensions, skills, abilities, talents, and combat experience of Wang Hei in his Ultimate Sublimation state, while also utilizing their own mastered skills, abilities, and talents."
"The usage time of the character card is a maximum of one hour."
"Prompt: Select Mode One or Mode Two?"
...
Above the Blue Star, clouds gathered.
Terrifying energy surged like waves, invisible power spreading outwards.
Tens of kilometers, hundreds of kilometers, thousands of kilometers.
The satellite imagery turned to white noise. Astronauts in the space station widened their eyes. They saw that the white vortex had already covered nearly half of Blue Star, and dark red cracks appeared at the center of the vortex.
It was as if the entire Blue Star had split open.
The awakened individuals below the void, at the descent location, felt it more keenly. The blood-red statue, which had ascended to the center of the void, began to radiate divine light.
The face of the statue underwent a subtle change.
A trace of divinity crossed a thousand layers of space and descended into the statue.
The final condition was met!
The Blood-red Emperor · Divine Avatar Descended! He opened his eyes, and his vast divine sense swept out. In a short time, his divine sense would be able to scan the entire Blue Star thoroughly.
All secrets would be revealed.
This was the power of a divine avatar, its strength inexhaustible, almost equivalent to a smaller version of the main body.
He detected several fleeing humans.
He cast his gaze upon them.
His gaze turned into tangible killing intent, as if freezing space, and the world within its reach turned blood-red.
An Jianyou's consciousness almost froze.
She turned her head back with great difficulty.
A golden figure suddenly appeared, standing on the ground, supporting the sky.
He seemed to be the center of the world!
Instantly,
The space-freezing gaze shattered, and the raging wind that enveloped the heavens and earth dissipated.
Thunder dragons flashed, and golden light surged into the sky.
The figures of gold and red collided, like comets striking Earth. Layers of cloud waves rippled above the clouds, and dazzling golden light erupted from the center of the white vortex, shooting into space, gradually dissipating after a long while.
An Jianyou's eyes widened.
The space above the clouds was covered in cracks like a spiderweb. Within the central space, residual red and golden radiance remained.
Intertwined.
On the other side, deep beneath reality, a massive explosion occurred.
Under An Jianyou's gaze, the gray-white buildings shattered like bubbles. Above the huge craters and smoke clouds, resembling those after a nuclear explosion, two figures rose.
They were a devil and a god.