Chapter 203: With the Fiery Spear, Pierce the Deepest Part of Hell (Two-in-one)
“Sacrifice?”
Within the spiritual world, the majestic phantom image of the Elf King paused slightly.
It was not that he couldn’t understand the word.
Or rather, in his past, in his rise from a trivial being in the Chaotic Era to the very peak, the word “sacrifice” had always been a stepping stone.
Servants and retainers sacrificing for their master.
Chess pieces sacrificing for the chess player.
The weak sacrificing for the strong, becoming food for their growth.
Throughout his journey, he had ascended to the supreme Throne of Heaven, treading on countless corpses.
However, such a process had always been a matter of devotion from the weak to the strong, from the lower to the higher.
But at this moment, Shaya’s actions were the complete opposite of what he understood.
Therefore, for an extremely short moment, his thoughts became momentarily stunned.
This pause was so brief, it almost seemed insignificant.
Yet, for Shaya at this moment, this fraction of a second was enough.
In this instant, he had briefly escaped the erosion of the lofty will from the opposite side within the spiritual world.
Then.
Shaya gathered all his concentration—
Abandoning self-protection, and also abandoning vigilance against the intruder in his spiritual world.
He poured all his remaining mental energy into the Holy Spear suspended in the sky.
Whoosh—
Receiving Shaya’s instruction.
That radiant, pure silver Holy Spear slowly turned its tip.
Then.
It directly locked onto Shaya’s own body.
Boom—
Almost instantly, Shaya felt a crushing pressure, as if a mountain had toppled.
This was the storm anchor of the Holy Spear Rungoniumad, carrying a mystery as immense as an entire world.
Facing the fully unsealed Holy Spear was equivalent to opposing the weight of an entire world.
The sharp spear intent sliced through his clothes, and blood gushed out, staining his originally plain white attire a deep red.
“Are you insane?”
“Let alone with your current human body, which is not strong, even with the physique of an Ancient Dragon King in its prime, surviving a blow from the Holy Spear would only result in annihilated flesh and blood, with no other outcome.”
“Are you trying to take me down with you?”
A furious roar echoed within Shaya’s spiritual world.
At this moment, the ancient Sun God finally understood what Shaya was about to do.
A lunatic.
This was a complete and utter lunatic.
At this moment, he clearly understood this fact.
He lacked the caution expected of his current status, and no sense of superiority.
Even though he had reached a high position, he was still willing to overturn the board for illusionary things, just like when he was weak.
Not only the phantom image of the ancient Sun God in his spiritual world.
The moment the sharp and piercing spear intent, capable of slicing through the world, locked onto him.
Shaya keenly sensed the opposition and resistance from within his soul, transmitted through the temporary contract with the Holy Spear.
The Holy Spear at the zenith of the sky emitted clear hums, its tip constantly trembling.
It was continuously trying to shift its aim away from Shaya.
“This is really troublesome.”
Shaya sighed softly, understanding the reason for the Holy Spear’s anomaly.
Shaya’s current control over the Holy Spear was derived from the temporary contract.
And this contract was bestowed by Aerora.
In essence, the Holy Spear’s owner was still Aerora; Shaya was merely borrowing it temporarily.
As the first person in several eras to achieve one hundred percent soul resonance and perfect compatibility with the Holy Spear, Aerora’s will influenced the Holy Spear’s decisions.
She was willing to be the sharpest sword in Shaya’s hand, cleaving enemies for him.
Whether facing an Evil God or the supreme Creator, even if it meant the Holy Spear’s destruction, Aerora was fearless.
However, she was unwilling—
To point the Holy Spear’s tip at Shaya.
This was something Aerora resisted with all her heart.
As the manifestation of Aerora’s subconscious, the radiance of the magnificent silver Holy Spear intensified, and the surrounding mystery became even more chaotic and violent.
In Shaya’s perception, it was trying to self-destruct.
To avoid facing Shaya and piercing him, it would rather perish.
However, in the next moment, the Holy Spear’s trembling slowly stopped.
“So, Little Ai—”
Shaya sighed softly, and within the falling void, he reached out towards the silver spear in the sky, as if wanting to caress it.
“You can have a little more faith in your husband.”
“Do I look like the kind of person who would casually throw away his life and self-destruct with someone?”
He glanced disdainfully at the phantom image of the Elf King in his spiritual world.
“Trading one-for-one with this scumbag, even if he’s willing, I’m not willing to lose you all from the Fourth Era.”
“So, please rest assured…”
“What I seek is a perfect ending where everyone can meet a happy end.”
“If, at the end of the story, the heroine survives, but the hero dies… leaving the heroine alone, waiting for someone’s return under the cherry blossoms—”
“Even if such an ending sounds full of literary emotion, it can’t be called a Happy End.”
Shaya gently extended his hand and spoke to the trembling Holy Spear at the zenith.
“So, believe in me, Little Ai.”
“From beginning to end, have I ever disappointed you once?”
Hearing Shaya’s words, the Holy Spear’s trembling immediately ceased.
Deep within his soul, the resistance from the Holy Spear’s contract also vanished.
Then—
A thousandth of a breath later.
The Holy Spear descended.
…
This was a scene remarkably similar to when Shaya faced Vortigern’s monster army in the Valley of Termination at the end of the Third Era, in Escarnia.
However—
This time.
The Holy Spear was not pointing at Vortigern and his monster army.
Instead, it was pointing at Shaya himself.
Boom—
The Holy Spear tore through the atmosphere, stirring up a storm in the silent eternal night.
It pierced through the plane of World Tree Fragments, and also the entirety of the Lost Island.
Then, laden with the entire Lost Island, it plunged deeper into the shattered space.
*Puff*—
Flesh was pierced.
The Holy Spear Rungoniumad possessed the power to anchor an entire world.
And at this moment, the ruins of the World Tree plane, along with the Lost Island, were all locked onto by the Holy Spear’s tip, along with Shaya.
An earth-shattering pain emanated from Shaya’s chest—
Shaya’s face turned deathly pale, devoid of any blood.
Just as the ancient Sun God had said.
Even a pure-blooded Ancient Dragon would be pierced by the Holy Spear, let alone a human, a race not known for physical strength.
But at this moment, Shaya was still smiling.
He was smiling brilliantly.
Because this was his objective.
As long as this ancient Sun God on the Lost Island existed in the Prime Material Plane for one more moment, Heiser would not escape her inevitable demise.
Therefore, he had to trap it within his own body.
But even so, it was not foolproof.
Because even though Shaya had the upper hand in the struggle within the spiritual world, the ancient will could retreat at any moment if it sensed the situation turning against it.
As long as the other party harbored any thought of revenge, Heiser would not be truly safe.
Therefore, this was Shaya’s choice.
The only choice.
To exile himself, along with the ancient Sun God’s will—
From the entire world.
From the Western Continent, banished from the Prime Material Plane.
…
Boom—
Boom—
Boom—
Not just the plane of World Tree Fragments, nor just the Lost Island.
Even though people on the Western Continent, tens of thousands of miles away from the Lost Island on the Endless Ocean, could hear the thunderous roars of space shattering and the sky collapsing.
The Silent Forest, the ruins of the Giant King’s Royal Court, the Golden Plains, the far northern Snowfield…
At this instant, countless Mythical Creatures sensed the thunderous roars of the collapsing sky, and looked up in astonishment towards the Endless Ocean.
At the end of the distant sky, the Holy Spear’s fiery radiance shone.
And from the overflow of mystery that surged like giant waves across the entire Western Continent, these divine beings sensed more.
A familiar aura, long gone, that they recognized deeply.
“The Holy Spear, and the Lost Island?”
“That ancient Elf Royal Court?”
“The demigod of the Sun God?”
The madness and lack of control in the eyes of some demigods momentarily subsided, revealing a thoughtful expression.
But no matter what their thoughts, or how shocked they were—
They could no longer change the fate of the Lost Island, and the Elf Royal Court, at the end of the Endless Ocean.
…
The sea was parted.
This was not an exaggeration, but a stark reality.
The ocean, thousands of meters deep, was pierced through in an instant by the descending Holy Spear.
The searing radiance vaporized the seawater, evaporating countless marine creatures within.
These ranged from the most insignificant plankton to apex predators like Demon Whales, but without exception, they were all erased before the Holy Spear that pierced heaven and earth.
The Holy Spear reached the seabed but did not stop.
As long as it was in the Western Continent, it made no difference to the Sun God whether it pierced the seabed or the ice fields; with a mere thought, he could escape.
Shaya was always one to act decisively.
Since he had decided to save Shī Jiang, he decided to be even more ruthless.
The Holy Spear pierced the seabed, and all the rocks and sand sublimated into scorching embers.
Then, it continued downwards.
*Crack*—
*Crack*—
Crisp cracking sounds echoed between the vast heaven and earth.
Every plane and world had what was known as a world barrier.
Lesser dimensions, elemental planes, and other small worlds had weak world barriers, which Legendary Experts could easily breach to enter.
This was what Legendary Experts referred to as planar travel.
And planes also had distinctions of strength.
Compared to those weak, lesser planes, the Prime Material Plane where the Western Continent was located was a prime example of immense strength.
The laws of the world were stable, and the world barrier was unbreakable.
Even to leave the Prime Material Plane, Legendary Experts had to travel through the Astral Realm to reach the “Outside the World.”
That is, the so-called “Outside the World.”
But at this moment.
The rule that had been unbreakable for ages began to waver.
The Holy Spear anchoring the world, the storm anchor connecting the inner and outer sides of the world, the Tower of the World’s End.
When the anchor was pulled, even the laws of the planes themselves could be breached.
*Crack*—
*Crack*.
Within the crystal wall of space, the crystalline cracks became more apparent.
Then, at a certain moment, they completely shattered.
Transforming into—a vortex that devoured everything.
The vortex was endlessly pitch-black, infinitely deep.
Like a black hole, it swallowed light, seemingly connecting to another deep and mysterious alien dimension.
This was the opposite of the “Outside the World” that connected the Prime Material Plane and the Astral Realm; it was a dimension beneath the foundation of the Prime Material Plane.
If it were to be named, “Inside the World” might be a more fitting description.
This was a territory that, from the ancient first era’s establishment and the chaos era—
Had never been recorded, nor explored by any intelligent life on the Western Continent.
Existing only in the speculations and deductions of Mythical Creatures.
At this moment, it appeared in the mortal world for the first time.
And Shaya, with his chest pierced by the Holy Spear, quietly watched the dark and gloomy vortex before him.
“Inside the World, or perhaps what those mythological races call—’the Inner Sea of Stars’?”
“However, compared to these names, I prefer its other name—”
“The Abyss.”
Shaya couldn’t help but smile.
He had been curious before why the Abyss, renowned after the Second Era, had no presence in the First Era, and why Shaya couldn’t find any trace of it even after searching exhaustively.
Now, it seemed like a boomerang.
Because, on the Western Continent, he himself was the one who opened the gates to the Abyss.
“You want my body, don’t you?”
“If you want it, you can have it all.”
“If you believe your capacity and your will are stronger than mine.”
“The winner takes all, and the loser loses everything.”
“From this moment on, this is a fair game, a just gamble.”
He whispered softly to the colossal phantom image of the Elf King in his spiritual world.
“But before that, before this game and gamble, which has staked everything, is decided—”
“Please, together with me—”
“Be pierced by the fiery spear—”
“In the deepest part of the Abyss and Hell.”
The Holy Spear flashed again.
It plunged straight into the crystalline crack, and then into the black hole-like vortex.
Stripping the wreckage of the World Tree Fragment plane, along with the entire Lost Island and the Elf Royal Court on the Lost Island, from the Prime Material Plane with Shaya.
Then, it pierced beneath the world barrier below, into a darker, more profound realm.
Boom—
The Holy Spear fell, piercing straight into a stretch of ice-blue, silent earth.
This was the inner side of the world, without the sparks of civilization, nor the constraints of order.
Only the most ancient mysteries from the world’s creation permeated this realm.
This place was called “The Abyss.”
The radiance of the Holy Spear dissipated.
Within the Abyss, a magnificent spectacle was revealed.
A colossal Holy Spear, reaching from earth to sky, was seen piercing an entire island that could be described as a royal court into the ground.
And at the tip of the Holy Spear, at the center of the island and the royal court.
The black-haired, black-eyed youth was impaled on the massive metal wall by the Holy Spear.
Like the saint in myth, pierced on the cross by the Spear of Longinus.
Shaya looked at the majestic phantom image in his spiritual world and said softly.
“Then—”
“The game has begun.”
