<h4>Chapter 1355: The Second Scene</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>Henyee Trantions <strong>Editor: </strong>Henyee Trantions


    The flow of time was restored the moment the light solidified.


    Under the gushing sunlight, the Oracle’s formless hand was no longer invulnerable and instead, appeared like distorted, soft bubbles. As the dazzling blue sky descended, it reced the weak and faint silver light that the youngdy used to protect herself. Having lost the interference of the Deities, it no longer stood the chance to win easily even if Zero was just a newly Awakened.


    Meanwhile, two new figures rushed into the sealed domain.


    It did not find Epsilon, but found another target that had to be killed.


    He was the main Creator of the world, Rnd.


    Delta raised its other hand and smashed it down ferociously at Rnd.


    But not a speck of dust was raised.


    Its powerpletely disappeared even before reaching Rnd, as though it was nonexistent to begin with.


    Hundreds of meters distance could be traversed by a Martial Artist in a split second. Before Delta could even react, its mask was torn apart by Rnd and had its star ring grabbed.


    Regardless of how much it struggled, it was unable to break away from the other party’s hands. Being in the presence of Zero only substantially weakened it, but in front of Rnd, it was almostpletely useless.


    “This isn’t fair—!”


    Its consciousness began to dissipate as its astrbe got stripped off.


    Rnd remained unmoved, he was fully aware that regardless of it being pure magical creatures or enemies from Erosion, their weaknesses were located in the astrbe that revolved inside their bodies. As long as one yanked out the astrbes from them, they would simply melt like ice under a scorching sun.


    The power within his body surged in joy, as though it was weing that moment.


    Throughout the entire sequence of events, Rnd was still unaware of the full situation.


    Less than a minute after separating from Valkries, Rnd received an iing call from Fei Yuhan. No words came through and he only heard static and friction. When the phone got cut off abruptly, he saw the abnormal changes urring at the suburbs from the tourist elevator.


    A strange translucent barrier enveloped the expressway connecting the city to the outside, and obviously it was not something technological advancements could achieve. Additionally, an event that could force a celebrity Martial Artist to be unable to exin her situation was definitely no trivial matter.


    When he drove out of the basement garage, he encountered Valkries who was sprinting in the same direction, and as a result took her along with him.


    But he never expected to find Zero inside after breaking the “Barrier.”


    And as for the strange man with the mask and robes, Rnd immediately knew that it was one of the Oracles.


    As a result, Rnd chose to kill the Oracle first without considering the consequences—the Association never had any solid leads regarding the invading enemies. Rnd naturally did not let go of the opportunity presented, thanks to their appearance and futile attempt to kill Zero.


    The instant the astrbe waspletely stripped off, a bright beam of light soared into the sky, enveloping him within!


    Sure enough, it was a seemingly familiar situation.


    “Uncle Rnd!”


    From the corners of his eyes, he saw Zero’s tear-stained face.


    He gestured her to rx as the brilliance devoured everything.


    Compared to the previous time when he was caught off guard, Rnd was more prepared for this. He did not resist against the consciousness that rushed into him, but rxed his mind and took them in, to feel them—


    After all, it was useless no matter how hard he tried to resist them.


    Why not rx and focus my attention on these surging consciousnesses.


    <i>“Ssssii... Ssssii...”</i>


    His vision quickly blurred. Countless snowkes floated down and formed a monochromatic scene.


    Along with the snowkes were Lan’s whispering words.


    <i>“The truth is always what you understand.”</i>


    ...


    After an unknown period of time, he finally got a clear vision of the scene before him as the light dimmed.


    <i>This is...</i>


    Rnd could not resist swallowing his saliva. The scene before him was an endless void, with arge red cavity suspended in the ck void—it had no depth and was extremely wide. From his position, the cavity’s measurements could only be measured with astronomical units.


    Further in the distance were countless twinkling specks of light that mixed with the snowkes. Rnd was unable to discern if they were real or a blurred scene caused from an illusion.


    In Rnd’s memories, there was only one thing that could fit with the scene before him.


    —The void did not represent ack of light, or that there was nothing. It was just that it was too massive.


    The flickering specks of light were things that ordinary people would spend their entire lives counting, yet they were just insignificant things to the entire picture.


    The universe.


    <i>The span of this... is truly inconceivable.</i>


    Rnd could not help butmpoon.


    He initially thought that seeing the legendary Bottomless Land for the first time was shocking enough. Who would have thought that this new perspective had not only failed to reduce the number of questions about it, but also pushed it to a new level of profoundness.


    A problem arose. If he were assuming that what he was currently looking at was the known universe, what was the connection between the first and second scenes? Could it be that taking the ‘trip’ up the Bottomless Land’s pir of light led to the Sky Lord’s civilization was in fact sending the rider to space? If that was the case, the term ‘upgrade’—or ‘elevation’—was rather suitable. But regardless of it being the Radiation People and Match Men, they were not existences that could survive in apletely different environment.


    Since mes and sharp objects did harm them, it meant that they were only that much strongerpared to humans in terms of withstanding temperature and pressure. But when the ‘upgrade’ happened, all of the Radiation Men that stepped in the beam of light were never prepared for it.


    <i>No... that’s not right. </i>Rnd quickly rejected this conjecture, purely forcing a link between the two scenes was too far-fetched. Ignoring all other variables, it was already extremely difficult to exin the reason why the deities would do this. Regardless of the endless Battle of Divine Will or the Legacy Shards that brought about evolution, it was not as if they had prepared for this scene.


    There had to be a deeper meaning behind this.


    Rnd suddenly noticed something wriggling under the red cavity.


    Seemingly influenced by a thought, his vision started to move—he then noticed that there were many scattered meteorites floating under the cavity that resembled fragments of a scattered or as if they should have been there in the first ce. They also looked like pieces of an abandoned ruin at a nce. With his limited knowledge, he had difficulty determining the origins of these things.


    These fragments appeared to be pulled by a force, gradually drawing close to a unique stone in the center. Every followingyer of rocks was richer in volume, and every new piece added in induced an intense change to the surfaceyer. Rnd suddenly realized that even though all the floating rocks appeared as scattered fragments, their individual volumes were not to be trivialized. That was how their formation was being shockingly held.


    At the same time, without a reference object, the entire process looked to be moving at a very fast rate. Perhaps, the real amount of time passed was far more shocking than he imagined.


    As if corroborating with his notion, the snowkes started converging.


    The scene seemed to be entering its coda.


    In his field of vision, the rocks gradually formed an irregr spheroid, and an inconceivable scene urred before him—the patterned lines that formed the rhombuses appeared suddenly and proliferated along the surface and darkness, as though it was swallowing the spheroid. If not for the faint reflection of light, Rnd would have believed that the rocks had disappeared before his eyes.


    When it waspletely enveloped, the spheroid plunged into therge and red cavity.


    The snowkes covered his entire field of vision immediately after.


    When everything came to an end, a sentence written in unknown characters flowed into Rnd’s brain.


    Despite having never encountered them before, he was able to understand its meaning.


    Or rather, they were not words but a thought that directly reflected in his mind.


    <i>“This is the price.”</i>


    <i>“From this moment forth, gravity will no longer be the force which is most deserving of reverence in this world’.”</i>