Chapter 381 The Mysterious Empress


    ??In the abyss core, protected by various abyssal arrays.


    "Fortunately, I studied a little of the abyssal arrays..." Maximus muttered, seeing such aplicated array structure.


    Knowing yourself and the enemy is essential to winning every fight.


    In a few days, he used all the system points he received to study everything he could find about the abyss.


    Abyssal arrays were one of them.


    Using system points, he went from a novice to a Tier 9 abyssal array master in a matter of hours.


    If not for theck of time and information, he might have even be a Tier 10 abyssal array master.


    With ess to the Nexus Virtual Gateway, the knowledge he could freely ess and buy reached Tier 10.


    Except for some secret Tier 10 skills, he could buy everything with money.


    As for Tier 11 knowledge, it''s not something money alone can buy.


    One needed to join a top organization or family to have ess to this peak knowledge.


    For example, in the Mercenary Alliance, once one reached the rank of S Squad, they would be eligible to exchange contribution points for Tier 11 knowledge.


    This was the most easiest way Maximus found to ess Tier 11 knowledge.


    The Mercenary Alliance didn''t have strict binding rules.


    One just needed toplete missions and rank up.


    Sighing at such a strict information monopoly, Maximus quickly analyzed the abyssal array barrier before him.


    "Peak Tier 9 abyssal array? Not bad," Maximus nodded with a sigh of relief.


    He thought it would be a Tier 10 abyssal array, fortunately, it was only Tier 9.


    It seemed that the Abyss Monarchs didn''t have enough skill or time to set up a higher-ranked array.


    Instead of destroying the array, Maximus smoothly manipted it, modifying it to his advantage.


    After modification, it could not only contain the abyss monstersing out but also hide everything that would happen inside.


    After entering, the endless Tier 9 abyss monstersing out of the portal looked at him.


    "A human powerhouse!"


    "It''s the human who blocked us!"


    "Human, die!"


    "Die? Me? You wish..." Spreading his domain, he suppressed all the abyss monstersing out of the portal.


    "It''s you who will die!"


    Urging his domain, the pressure increased multiple fold, crushing the abyss monsters around.


    "No Abyss Monarch?" Maximus muttered in puzzlement, seeing no resistance.


    For him, killing a Tier 9 abyss monster could be done with just the pressure of his domain.


    Containing the power of his origin, his domain was equivalent to a conceptual killer that nothing could survive.


    Resurrection, skills, techniques, domain—none of it would function under his origin domain.


    His domain essentially stopped the origin of everything within it.


    While disappointed at such an easy fight, he felt a murderous gazeing from the portal.


    "An Abyss God?" Maximus muttered in shock.


    He thought the abyss portal energy was only enough for a single Abyss God toe through.


    He didn''t expect another one would appear.


    "However, it''s no use...." Maximus thought, looking at the Abyss God with interest.


    "The human Her Majesty, the Empress, wanted..."


    "I didn''t expect you woulde directly to our door..." the Abyss God said coldly.


    "The Empress? A Tier 11 abyss creature?" Maximus thought with a frown.


    It seemed the appearance of the Abyss God was not a coincidence.


    It was most likelying for him or Malgron.


    Did the previous abyss monarch report them to the abyss?


    "Well, since you are here, don''te back," the Abyss God said, stretching a phantom hand to grab him.


    "Just this?" Maximus muttered, also stretching his hand to parry.


    As two huge hands made of energy collided, the abyss began to vibrate, as the abyssal array barrier started to crack.


    "You''re pretty strong!" the Abyss God said in shock, seeing Maximus parry his attack.


    "You too," Maximus praised, hurriedly repairing the abyssal array barrier.


    He didn''t want the fight to spread anywhere else.


    "Thanks, but it''s time for you to die." Finishing his piece, the Abyss God started to attack.


    Transforming into its true form, the Abyss God lunged toward Maximus.


    "Not so fast!" Maximus said with a smile.


    With the essence ofw wrapping his body, he fought the Abyss God head-on.


    Boom!


    Boom!


    Boom!


    sh after sh, Maximus and the Abyss God fought without stopping.


    Employing various abyssal attacks, Maximus just smiled and conjured attacks of his own.


    Studying for billions of epochs each day, his arsenal of skills was uncountable.


    While each attack of the Abyss God was like a rain of basic attacks, his was ever-changing, like a myriad of skills.


    "Training your skills on me?" the Abyss God frowned.


    As an Abyss God, an invincible abyss monster in its tier, it also had pride.


    Seeing Maximus seemed to be toying with it, he began to rage and attack Maximus with full force.


    Initially, he wanted to keep Maximus alive to present him to the Scarlet Moon Empress.


    However, with anger, he already lost his reason.


    Out of his mind, the Abyss God attacked at a stronger and faster pace.


    "That''s more like it!" Maximus smiled, enjoying the fight.


    While maintaining the abyssal array barrier, he continued to toy with the Abyss God, polishing his skills.


    It''s not every day that he could find an opponent that was almost his match.


    Fighting with all his might, Maximus didn''t notice a gaze quietly creeping up within the portal.


    The portal changed from a bundle of energy to a bundle of eyes.


    Hidden in Maximus senses, floating eyes begin toe out of the portal watching and analyzing his every move.


    "What an interesting human..." A voice behind the portal muttered.


    Finally waking up from a dream-like state, he noticed that as he was fighting, he was already surrounded by eyes all around.


    "Not good," Knowing that an enemy beyond his capability wasing, Maximus became alert.


    Done ying with the Abyss God, he condensed 1118 essences ofw into one and attacked the Abyss God.


    "Die!"


    As the attack took all his power into one hit, the Abyss God didn''t have time to react as he got sted by the attack.


    Huff!


    Huff!


    Huff!


    Maximus breathed heavily as he stabilized his energy.


    His attack was not just a simplebination of essences ofw.


    Maximus took all of its change, reaction, and frequency into consideration, perfectlybining it into one.


    This was only possible by using his independent consciousness to calcte all the possibilities.


    During the attack, millions of epochs of information needed to be processed just for the attack to sessfully form.


    Furthermore, to ensure that the attack wouldn''t go to waste and hit the enemy, he also needed to calcte the state of the enemy.


    Overall, in just a few milliseconds, tens of millions of epochs worth of information needed to be processed in his consciousness.


    Although he was already capable ofprehending a trillion epochs worth of information, that was spread throughout the day.


    Every second, he could onlyprehend a few million epochs of information at most.


    Much less in a few milliseconds, where he could only process tens of thousands of epochs worth of information.


    To condense a tens of millions of  epochs worth of information into milliseconds caused huge damage to his consciousness.


    Fortunately, the crystallized will protected his ''origin'' like an iron wall.


    Besides some sluggishness, and chaotic energy, everything was fine.


    He just needed some time, and he eoulde back to his full condition.


    "It''s not destroyed?" Suddenly, Maximus noticed that the portal made of eyes was undamaged.


    His attack earlier, besides being directed at the abyss god, its main target was this weird portal.


    Seeing the abyss god disintegrate to nothingness while this portal came out intact made him even more worried.


    "What is this?" As he muttered, he suddenly heard augh that made his mind numb with pain.


    Although indistinguishable to his ears, his consciousness processes it asughter.


    "Dangerous..."


    Using hisst strength and will, he conjured another attack, merging various Tier 10 treasures with the attack.


    This few addition also burdened his mind with billions of epoch worth of information in just a few millisecond.


    Boom!


    An explosion a million times the magnitude of the earlier attack appeared.


    This attack not only consumed his umtion of Tier 10 treasures, but it also damaged his consciousness to a high degree, barely allowing him to think clearly.


    As the smoke subsided, he looked at the portal to see the effect of his attack.


    "This-"


    Seeing his attack didn''tpletely destroy the weird portal, Maximus despaired.


    If the crazy being behind the portal emerged, the Etherium Realm, his family, friends, his whole foundation would be gone.


    "I-it''s finished- NO!" Maximus, eyes widened erasing his despairing thought.


    His thinking capability seemed to be impaired, as he was not someone to fall into despair easily.


    "It''s not finished yet!"


    Not wanting to give up everything, Maximus began to burn his ''Origin.''


    This gave his copsing consciousness a new lease of life, providing fuel for another attack.


    Forming hisst-ditch attack, Maximus looked at the weird portal  with determination.


    "Kill...."


    Along with hisst attack, Maximus began to lose consciousness.


    In his falling, he vaguely heard a few words of praise, as if saying, ''See you again, my beloved darling.''


    "What the-"


    With a fall, Maximus''s consciousness went dark.