Chapter 1283
Three Heavenly Envoys
As the scale of the three forces outside the city gradually expanded, anomalies began to appear between heaven and earth.
The sound of hooves clattering, the clash of armor, accompanied by the melodious holy song sung by a maiden, grew closer from afar.
The pervasive gray mist gradually obscured the sun and moon, casting a somber and dim light upon the sky.
In the distance, five-colored patterns of red, blue, green, yellow, and white appeared in the sky, interweaving into a profound and mysterious magic circle filled with geometric beauty, difficult to comprehend.
Is this… the divine light of Heavenly Envoys descending?
“What is going on?”
Eivass was momentarily shocked.
A Heavenly Envoy had already descended upon Holy Spring City; how could three more descend in succession?
The clattering of hooves was undoubtedly the Knight Heavenly Envoy, Lancelot, and Guinevere.
And the colorful geometric grid that spanned the sky was the remnant of the Geometric Heavenly Envoy.
But this gray mist that obscured the sky and sun…
…Could it be the Envoy of Mist? That’s impossible, though. The Blood Heavenly Envoy has already descended, and the breakthrough on the Path of Love is complete.
Now descending are the Fallen Heavenly Envoy, Blood Heavenly Envoy, Flame Heavenly Envoy, Shang Tian Si, Abyss Heavenly Envoy, Geometric Heavenly Envoy, Knight Heavenly Envoy… it seems only the Path of Beauty and Path Adaptation remain.
“So… is this the Grey Heavenly Envoy?”
Eivass was also somewhat astonished.
The Grey Heavenly Envoy is truly not dead?
Then, as the vessel for these three Heavenly Envoys…
In an instant, Eivass guessed the basis for the descent of the Geometric Heavenly Envoy and the Knight Heavenly Envoy.
“…Haina.”
Eivass, the giant whale, sighed, yet he also offered a blessing for her choice.
She must have had some resolve to do this. Then let us meet again in the Dream Realm.
What Eivass found puzzling, however, was who was the vessel for the Grey Heavenly Envoy’s descent?
It couldn’t be… Lily, could it?
In terms of abilities, it actually makes sense—after all, Lily once served as a rebirth vessel for the Grey Heavenly Envoy, and she could indeed be a good vessel for the Grey Heavenly Envoy’s descent.
But from a motive perspective, Eivass found it hard to understand.
Unlike Haina, who was truly empty, Lily had no need to search for the meaning of existence with her life. Moreover, with Lily’s abilities, no one could capture her if she wanted to escape.
What is going on…
But Eivass, after all, was a distinguished Ritualist.
Although he was stunned for a moment at first, he quickly understood why three Heavenly Envoys had descended here…
—This was to replicate the past Battle of Punishing Heaven!
Now, he was in the ritualistic layer, mirroring the Supreme Heaven of the past.
And the Grey Heavenly Envoy at this moment symbolized not himself, who was killed by the Supreme Heaven in the Battle of Punishing Heaven… but the Lord of Scales and Feathers of the Path of Adaptation.
The Geometric Heavenly Envoy foreshadowed the Great Philosopher of the Path of Wisdom.
The Knight Heavenly Envoy, symbolizing Arthur, was the newly born Silver Crown Dragon.
—This wasn’t even entirely the Battle of Punishing Heaven that occurred in history, but a reenactment of the event in Eivass’s Ascension Ritual where he “completely killed the Supreme Heaven played by the Bear Heavenly Envoy”!
He had also already guessed who their target was.
It was definitely not himself, but the newly ascended Pillar God, Calamity Red!
Each Pillar God had been demoted to a Heavenly Envoy corresponding to a Path, but Calamity Red itself possessed Heavenly Envoy-level power. This perfectly matched the scene of the Supreme Heaven being besieged and killed in the past—
—Then what about himself?
In a flash of realization, Eivass immediately guessed the role he was playing.
So I was Amber!
Even the Hourglass fit perfectly!
The Ouroboros Ring ritual was, in itself, a ritual to break and reassemble the Curtain of Balance. Every time the Ouroboros Ring ritual was completed, the Hourglass would announce it immediately. In fact, the Power of the Hourglass had always been at play within it.
At this moment, Eivass’s consciousness gradually felt an icy, slippery foreign object. The colossal entity on the conscious plane gradually filled this body, which was lit up bit by bit.
—The exiled Abyss Heavenly Envoy’s consciousness had finally returned!
That consciousness was now weary and incomplete… apparently having been severely dealt with by the Xi Tian Si.
The power of the Abyss Heavenly Envoy lay in its body—after all, it was a Heavenly Envoy formed from the body of a dead Pillar God. And as a consciousness born from a corpse, its own consciousness could be considered “undead,” making it extremely difficult to resist the purification of the Xi Tian Si in the pure realm of consciousness.
The Abyss Heavenly Envoy had exerted all its strength just to return alive, but even its body could no longer be fully controlled.
“…So that’s how it is, Xi Tian Si is playing the Candlemaster.”
Eivass murmured, calmly retracting his consciousness to a corner of the body, returning ownership of the Abyss Heavenly Envoy’s body.
The Abyss Heavenly Envoy did not realize that there was an extra consciousness within its body… or rather, this incomplete and deranged undead did not consider Eivass’s consciousness to be “other,” and therefore did not attempt to expel him or engage him in a fight.
It did not even pay attention to the petrified and preserved city—instead, its gaze immediately turned to the three Heavenly Envoys who had just descended in the distance.
The giant whale’s scarlet pupils opened, its immense mouth widened, and it let out a roaring bellow.
—Unsurprisingly, the Abyss Heavenly Envoy viewed the descent of the three Heavenly Envoys as a challenge to its authority.
It surged forward with monstrous waves—
This was not a description, but a true, monstrous wave.
Its tentacle-like tail split open like a sea anemone, and endless ocean waves surged forth.
This was a sea thousands and tens of thousands of meters high!
If one could look down upon Holy Spring City from directly above, they would see Holy Spring City, like a “hot pot,” instantly submerged, followed by the once towering but now collapsed pillar in the center gradually being submerged by the sea. Soon, not even a shadow could be seen beneath the water.
Mountains were leveled, and valleys were filled. Oases were swallowed, and endless sand seas turned into murky mud, yet even they could not withstand the impact of the waves.
The roaring sandstorm was torn apart from the middle, and even the clouds were driven away and swallowed by the sea.
The sea that swallowed everything returned all things to nothingness.
—That was precisely the authority of world-ending.
Compared to Eivass, who was somewhat constrained, the Abyss Heavenly Envoy was more adept at using its power.
The giant whale rode the crest of the waves, like a general commanding thousands of troops.
No fancy abilities or conceptual powers were needed. With an irresistible, ultra-high priority, and its almost infinite “strength” and “quantity,” it was enough to destroy any existence that dared to resist.
Just like the Supreme Heaven of the past.
The sunlight and geometric patterns in the sky were completely covered by the waves, which interpreted what “the end of the world” meant.
Perhaps this was the authority born from Ai Shiping’s impression of “doomsday” and “disaster.”
If this power were released without restraint, the entire world, this planet, would eventually be completely swallowed by it, transformed into an oceanic planet, and the fire of civilization would be extinguished.
That undoubtedly also meant the death of the world.
—Even though the Twilight Seed known as “Whisper of the Void” would not gain new sustenance from this, this world might give birth to a brand new Twilight Seed.
In that possibility… perhaps the Twilight Seed named “Abyss,” Abyssal, was about to be born.
And on the cliff over there, three figures stood.
