I Was The Hero, But I Woke Up as a Phoenix Princess! – Chapter 901

“This world, Ig, you talked about…”
Verafia’s lips moved, producing a faint sound.
Shattered continents floated in the air, turbid air currents slowly pouring in along the cracks, leaving the scene in ruins, a spectacle of destruction.
The entire world was shrouded in darkness, utterly decayed in eternal night, like a captured fragment of time and space, where the sky and the earth were frozen and stagnant in an unchanging, cold darkness.
But this was not complete stagnation and freezing. In the air, a dark, cold wind, as cold as the entire world, blew, stirring Verafia’s silken evening gown.
A chill infiltrated her bones, lingering with silence and darkness, causing her delicate body to tremble involuntarily. Her golden eyes subconsciously looked towards Ig, who was supporting her slender waist.
The black-haired young man’s expression also appeared solemn as he gazed at the shattered dome.
“Yes, just as the Young Lady said. This scene is the world where, at that time, you touched the mental fragments of the Demonic Dragon Midirna with the spiritual medicine you bestowed upon me.”
Midirna, in the legends of the Elves, was the Dragon that fought alongside the Elf Hero against the serpent that gnawed at the roots of the World Tree. After being corrupted by the Abyss, it was trapped in stagnant time and space, continuously devouring infinite darkness.
Ig could confirm that what he was seeing was the world he had experienced in the mental fragments of the dark dragon when he was promoted to Gold.
However, it had withered for an unknown period. It was not just the frozen darkness and eternal night. Once, this world genuinely had earth and mountains; it was still a plane composed of matter. However, the World Tree at this moment…
Ig extended his hand to touch it. What appeared to be solid rock instantly dispersed upon contact with his fingers. The fluctuations of the Abyss simultaneously surged, colliding with the holy sword’s radiance that appeared in Ig’s palm.
“And there are differences. The Abyss’s corruption has already assimilated this world. Matter has dissolved into traces of the Abyss, and even concepts and laws have rotted as a result.”
Ig said to the girl. The foundation of the world originated from the differentiation of matter. However, the Abyss’s corruption had re-assimilated them. All traces were like a sea of gloom. Not just simple matter, but even the concepts of time and distance were in utter chaos.
Even at a distance of an arm’s length, Ig could clearly feel the difference in the flow of time, and the seemingly unreachable edges of the world might be just a step away.
The collision of the concepts of time and space in chaos further tore apart the shattered world… This should have been utterly destroyed and collapsed back into chaos.
“Hmm, however, even though the rules of this world are indeed chaotic, it still maintains its existence.”
Verafia could feel the tearing of the world’s rules. Her golden eyes moved slightly, and she murmured, “Is this because that tree is still maintaining the stability of this world?”
She looked towards the immortal tree in the distance. Even though it was withered from the Abyss’s corruption, in Verafia’s eyes, it was still the only definitively existing thing in this world, maintaining the stability of this space.
“That is where Goddess Siluselis resides.”
Fua’s small hand tightly grasped the Light of Life she held, turning her small face. “Vera-nee, let’s go quickly.”
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They did not pause at all. Even Fua, whose heart was filled with grief, tried her best to suppress her emotions and put on a strong expression.
The gate of the World Tree had already opened. Sylvia could not stop the High Priest of the Dark Night for too long. As for legendary powerhouses like Zorgoa, time could not bind them even slightly, nor could it slow down their traces.
“A very peculiar world. Collapsing and chaotic laws, and world rules not bound by concepts at all, just like you said, Ig, it’s completely like an ocean of chaos.”
Verafia’s delicate body landed amidst the chaotic laws. The traces of laws collided with each other, conflicting and twisting, and even subtle annihilation fluctuations caused her golden eyes to shimmer slightly. She turned her head to look at Ig:
“Everything is chaos and unknown, like the initial era before the world’s creation. If one were to cultivate here, it would certainly be easier to come into contact with the origin of the world.”
“However, this is a world of destruction,” Ig said.
“Destruction and birth, at least, for this world, is there a significant difference?”
The girl pouted her delicate lips, her golden eyes sweeping across the blackness within the chaos. It was not the silent gloom from before, but a color that represented the origin of everything.
She tilted her small head, “And, if, as Ig just said, chaos is bound by ordered rules, thereby shaping a stable world; and if it collapses again due to the decay of order, destruction will destroy the stability that was once shaped.”
“In our eyes, creation and destruction are opposite things, but for chaos, they are merely different forms of the same thing, between differentiation and unification.”
The subtle glow in the girl’s pupils was more gorgeous than her beautiful golden eyes, surprising Ig somewhat.
However, on second thought, his girl had once been the strongest swordsman, and now she was the embodiment of a goddess who had once represented rules. Even with his True Sight Eye, Ig could not compare to her understanding of the essence of the world.
Thinking of this, Ig smiled and said, “But, whether it’s birth or destruction, the conflict of laws at this level, even powerful individuals in the Sacred Domain, would find it hard to endure, wouldn’t they?”
He could clearly feel the waves surging beside him, potent enough to easily tear him to shreds. The reason Ig remained unharmed until now was that they were following behind Fua.
The young girl with green hair tightly held the Light of Life in her tender small hands. Like a crystal clear lamp lit in the darkness, its jade-like soft glow seemed thin yet gently pushed away the terrifying law fluctuations in the chaotic space, pacifying them.
The Light of Life was an embodiment of the authority of the Goddess of Life, Siluselis.
Before the World Gate, Sylvia had said that only Fua could find Siluselis’s location… Even when they arrived in this world, they had seen the withered giant tree, but Ig knew that without Fua and the Light of Life in her hands, they would not have been able to advance even an inch in the collapsing space.
“Ig-niichan…”
The young loli gently raised her small head. Her smooth green hair cascaded down, and her large eyes were like clear jewels.
“Just now, you were telling Veer-nee that this world is a manifestation of the World Tree being corrupted and withered by the Abyss. At that time, Ig-niichan also encountered a Demonic Dragon called Midirna?”