The Era of Gods

Chapter 543: Chapter 543 Capturing the Incarnation of the Nightmare Sovereign’s Consciousness

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In the eleventh year after his return, driven by Lin Xiao, countless human players began their sixth grand assembly, launching a new round of decisive battles against the Nightmare World’s Expeditionary Army Fortress in the Outland.

This kind of decisive battle happened almost every year, and although they never managed to breach the well-defended Expeditionary Army Fortress guarded by numerous Nightmare players, each battle weakened the Nightmare players bit by bit. After the previous five battles, the average level gap between Nightmare players and human players now spanned seven or eight levels.

Now, all human players could see their advantage; they were very eager with each sortie. On the world channel, a group of pro-war advocates shouted daily about attacking the Nightmare Fortress and entering the Nightmare Main World.

In such a feverish atmosphere, the players could unleash their full potential, at least in terms of morale, they clearly outdid the Nightmare players.

This state of affairs was exactly what Lin Xiao had hoped for. He had no other thoughts now, only waiting to break through the Expeditionary Army Fortress and enter the inner Nightmare Main World; he wanted to do nothing else.

A few years ago, his future father-in-law had already come to an agreement with the Human Overlord. He had shared the secrets he had mastered with the Human Overlord, who was greatly startled by the information.

What they did afterward, Lin Xiao did not know. He only knew that a few years later, the Human Overlord personally sought out his Dark Titan Incarnation, promising that as long as he pushed the human camp to invade the Nightmare Main World, he could return with a portion of Innate Origin.

His girlfriend’s share was naturally personally retrieved by her father, something he did not need to worry about.

With his current power, he couldn’t preserve such a thing; it would merge with his True Body as soon as he returned with his incarnation.

So, he was only waiting for the war to end before he could return. He didn’t want to bother with what came after nor was he able to. Once they entered the Nightmare Main World, the struggle between the two Dominators would enter its final stage. By then, both Dominators would reveal their True Bodies, and at the moment of their decisive battle, it was possible that many hidden, metamorphosing Ancient gods and the terrifying beings behind them would appear.

The Human Overlord now knew these secrets, and by then things were certainly going to be chaotic. If he rashly involved himself, he might not even know how he would die.

By that time, his Dark Titan Incarnation would merely be a little brother amongst them.

Lin Xiao didn’t believe that possessing the Creation Rubik’s Cube would change anything. After all, his True Body was too weak. If his True Body were an entity of great divine power, no, even just a powerful divine power, he would have the courage to seek the position of Lord of the Star Soul Crystal Wall System.

Unfortunately, that was not the case, so he had no such aspirations.

Experience proved that as long as one doesn’t dwell on those heavy issues or harbor overly difficult desires, they would find life very relaxing.

At this moment, Lin Xiao was just like that, in a state of having no desires, calmly waiting for the players to advance steadily without the need for excessive concern.

Soon, the sixth battle commenced. Lin Xiao projected himself onto the battlefield and from high above saw countless players pressing the Nightmare players into a retreat, swarming like army ants across hundreds of square kilometers—all players.

Some ten kilometers in front of him, there stood a massive fortress. At the center of the fortress, a colossal red light beam shot into the sky; that was the Nightmare Expeditionary Army Fortress and the portal to the Nightmare Main World.

However, his gaze was not fixed there but on the other side of the fortress, where five figures with auras stronger than his projection loomed.

These five formidable beings had arrived over the years, with the first meant to resist him, while the others were there to intercept the strong individuals within the human camp.

With the players so powerfully advancing toward the Nightmare Expeditionary Army Fortress, the heroes of the human camp were certainly not going to show any weakness. They not only deployed a formidable army of NPCs but also several super heroes who were now in command inside the camp.

The super heroes had somewhat similar powers, so it was difficult to determine the victor. Even if there were some differences in strength, defeating opponents was easy, killing them was almost impossible.

Therefore, their main purpose was to stand guard, rarely taking direct action. There was no point, anyway.

With his arms crossed, Lin Xiao watched the battle unfold. Suddenly, he tilted his head towards the Vault of Heaven with a slight smile, flew down from the sky and landed in the camp where his girlfriend came up to him, took his hand, and whispered:

“The Dragon Emperor seeks an audience with you.”

He patted his girlfriend’s hand and nodded:

“I know!”

He had received a message from Wu Zhonglin.

Upon locating the worried-looking Wu Zhonglin in the camp, this Dragon Emperor had surpassed level eighty-five and was the strongest in the human camp after him.

Although the human camp had many super elites of Legendary Satellites, there were few who could compare to the dragon race.

Upon seeing Lin Xiao, Wu Zhonglin said:

“I suddenly feel extremely oppressed, as if my heart is palpitating. It’s as if some terrifying existence has descended. Have you noticed anything?”

He frowned, occasionally glancing around. Lin Xiao pursed his lips, wanting to laugh.

But thinking about it, his perceptiveness was indeed quite sharp to have noticed this.

After clearing his throat, he said:

“Your feeling is not wrong. Indeed, a dreadful being has arrived. But you don’t need to worry. The comer is not a foe.”

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He paused to organize his thoughts before speaking to Wu Zhonglin:

“There are some things you may not know and it’s not good to tell you, but if I were you, I’d be preparing to gather all my subordinates and friends right now. As soon as the opportunity arises, enter the Nightmare Main World at top speed. As the first Human player to break into the Nightmare Main World, that is a great achievement. Even if you die right after, it’s worth it.”

Wu Zhonglin still seemed puzzled and asked:

“What about you?”

“I don’t need to!”

After saying that, he waved his hand, turned around, took his girlfriend’s hand, and left.

Then he instructed his girlfriend to gather the players of the Moon Soar Guild and some allies to get ready. After bidding goodbye to his girlfriend, he shot into the sky, transforming into a black meteor heading towards the Expeditionary Army Fortress.

A few Nightmare Super Heroes on the Nightmare Fortress were getting anxious. Upon seeing the approaching black meteor, one of them shot up into the air, and from afar, a red lightning bolt struck the black meteor. A ring of dark light shattered into a sky full of black dots that scattered, and as the black meteor exploded and disappeared, it reappeared above the Nightmare Fortress.

The fortress’s defense system activated immediately, and one by one, tall towers fired massive chains that firmly anchored him at the center of the fortress.

The other Nightmare Heroes, seeing this, became enraged and tried to intercept.

Lin Xiao didn’t dodge and let the chains bind him, not even looking at the pursuing Super Heroes. Instead, he bared his white teeth in a grin and laughed heartily:

“Black Hole!”

His entire body swiftly contracted inwards into a point, and a terrifying force of attraction spread out, causing everything around him to collapse into him, including the thick chains of light, instantly broken down and absorbed. Layers of space started to collapse, quickly reaching the fortress.

Just then, the Vault of Heaven above the fortress darkened abruptly. The space twisted, and a pupil outline so large it nearly covered the floating land the Nightmare Fortress was on slowly emerged. An indifferent and merciless gaze looked towards the black hole that Lin Xiao had become. Within a thousand kilometers in every direction, everything froze: the multitude of players, the skills they had released, and even the terrifying black hole that Lin Xiao had become, along with its gravitational force. A great and majestic voice resonated in everyone’s ears, thunder-like:

“You’re courting death!”

“The Nightmare Sovereign!”

As soon as the huge pupil appeared, not just Lin Xiao, but everyone who saw it instinctively knew what this merciless pupil signified. Many couldn’t understand why Lin Xiao was choosing such a path to death.

Only Lin Xiao knew, for this was exactly what he had hoped for!

A face slowly appeared on the frozen black hole—a face that was Lin Xiao’s. He gave a slight bow and said solemnly:Nôv(el)B\\jnn

“Oh Great Dominator, you are omnipotent. Then, do you know where my true body is?”

The huge pupil hesitated for a moment, and then the void shook slightly, ripples spreading out, and the pupil became transparent.

“Too late!”

The next second, all the players witnessed a scene that left them collectively stunned.

A colossal hand, surrounded by infinite earth, fire, wind, and water, descended from the sky, breaking through layer upon layer of space as though the heavens were crumbling. Amid the shock of the players, it grabbed onto the immense pupil in the Vault of Heaven and pulled it into reality from the void, dragging it into the Vault of Heaven by force.

“How dare you!”

An invisible wave swept through, and countless players fell like wheat to the scythe, dying without understanding why.

But this was the last echo of the giant pupil. No matter how it struggled, it couldn’t break free from the grasp of the colossal hand.

No one knows how much time passed before the Lonely City came to its senses. The first thing it saw was the world channel that had been flooding for who knows how long with—WTFs and question marks.

Words can hardly express the shock and WTFs of the players. At that moment, Lin Xiao withdrew his hand from the broken world that was not as large as his Titan Ancient God form, opening his palm to reveal a violently pulsing black light, the immense pupil that was a fragment of the Nightmare Sovereign’s consciousness.

After such a long time, his incarnation as a Titan Ancient God had finally returned to the Outerworld.

As he had guessed before, the Outerworld was a shattered planet. In the ancient battle, the Star Soul was devoured by Ancient gods who, having transformed, emerged from the broken planet. But the shattered planet was not completely destroyed; it was held in this state by a strange force.

However, this force would dissipate over time. In his eyes, the distances between these fragments were increasing, and he estimated that in a few tens of thousands of years, the planet would completely collapse.

But this was not his concern. What was most important to him now was to deal with this fragment of the Nightmare Sovereign’s consciousness…

The Dark Titan, standing a hundred thousand kilometers high like a primordial deity, slowly lifted his head. He sensed that the battle between two terrifying existences at the center of the universe had already begun.

This fragment of the Nightmare Sovereign’s consciousness he had captured was critical to both the Nightmare Sovereign and the Human Overlord. If the Human Overlord were to refine it, it would not only weaken the Nightmare Sovereign but also allow for a further analysis of the enemy’s controlled rules and powers, securing a significant advantage in the final battle.

Under normal circumstances, neither the Human Overlord nor the Nightmare Sovereign could capture the other’s consciousness left in their respective birth main worlds. Their true bodies restrained each other, and their consciousness incarnations within their own main worlds were strong enough that only Titan-level beings could capture them. But in this world, aside from them, there were no newborn Titans—except for Lin Xiao, the exception.

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