In the howling wind mixed with various entities, Don entered the Euclidean space amidst the system's frantic error notifications and chaotic alarms, using this to avoid danger.
"I have to say, activating the Euclidean space in advance was undoubtedly the most correct choice."
Otherwise, just that series of explosions alone would have been enough to drink a pot of trouble, let alone dealing with a demon backed by the Dark Side of the Universe with dangerous intuition.
In the extremely deep crater blasted by countless explosions, a long crack tore open the fissure, and the earth wound downward, with the crack unfathomably deep, as if it had no end.
Even within the Euclidean space, Don couldn't observe this limit.
"To be precise, this crack is no longer in the real world, but in the mystical world. And being in mysticism, this crack can be as deep as it wants to be—it wouldn't be impossible for it to connect directly to the astral world."
Within the Euclidean space, both real cracks and mystical cracks could be manifested, but both had limits.
The end of this crack was probably the Abyss.
What exactly the Abyss was had yet to be determined in current mystical knowledge. Don speculated it was similar to the spirit world, or perhaps it was simply the divine kingdom of the Dark Side of the Universe.
For this reason, Don had long since put on his mosaic glasses, ready at any time to prevent seeing things he shouldn't see or hearing sounds he shouldn't hear, which would cause him to lose control.
After the Dark Side of the Universe's divine descender self-detonated and the Abyss opened, Don first heard gurgling sounds from the underground crack in the howling wind, as if something was breathing violently, followed by seeing fine black dust flying out from the Abyss crack.
How small was this dust? If this space didn't have an automatic magnification function, these black particles would easily mix with natural dust, completely failing to attract anyone's attention.
But when this black dust settled, a thin black film appeared on the ground that had been contaminated by the black sunlight.
That film could be torn open with a gentle pull, but the soil inside had already undergone changes.
It kept jumping, like human muscle tissue, jumping rhythmically and regularly.
The soil had 'come alive,' like human tissue, it had come to life.
Seeing this scene in the Euclidean space, Don couldn't help but feel his hair stand on end.
"Although I was already prepared, just a small piece of contamination overflowing from the Abyss caused lifeless matter to possess the characteristic of being 'alive.' This is more treacherous and harder to guard against than the Sun Scepter's contamination methods."
At least the Sun Scepter's black sunlight appeared in the form of light—who would normally pay attention to this kind of dust? Moreover, this dust probably also possessed anti-divination and anti-prophecy abilities. Even Beyonders skilled in divination who could predict danger would be silently contaminated by this stuff without preparation.
"I can't let this continue. It seems I can only use that final plan."
Before whatever was inside came out, he had to do something.
Don looked up at the sky.
In the Never-Ending Theater, the monster that had assimilated with numerous mental contaminations, its body twisted beyond what any language of this world could describe, was already completely dead.
Its corpse had fused with various monsters born from mental contamination, even more of a patchwork than the theater's former stitched marionette, more of a heretic mage than heretic mages themselves. Its Beyonder characteristics had fused with this patchwork monster, forming an indescribable and extremely treacherous Sealed Artifact.
In fact, according to the curtain's own arrangements, with the Night pathway's concealment and mad knowledge as backup, the theater's core could indeed try to contain that drop of blood that had condensed numerous contaminations from the Dark Side of the Universe's divine descender and opened the Abyss doorway, preventing it from flowing to the outside world.
But that was probably the core of the Dark Side of the Universe's divine descent, a drop of divine blood from the Dark Side of the Universe. This would extremely affect the theater core itself. Forcibly containing it might even change the internal balance of the theater, causing contamination to explode, the theater core to suffer contamination, or attract the attention of the Abyss and the starry sky.
Humans are valuable for having self-awareness, and the most taboo thing is greed. That person did well, letting it throw out the contamination that would affect itself and only keeping the rest that was equally contaminated but that it could handle... Oh, if only he had been this smart in Tingen, knowing his limits and not messing with it so much, that would have been even better.
Then it would be such a happy Sealed Artifact~ The past is too painful to recall, sad and miserable jpg.
Forget it, let's get back to work. The world is broken and battered, and it still needs to patch things up...
Oh right, it needs to swap the marionette back first.
Speaking of which, why does its marionette listen so obediently to an outsider?
This isn't scientific—ah no, this isn't mystical!
From the Abyss crack, the range of dust overflowing outward grew larger and larger, and at the same time, the earth's trembling didn't stop.
From within the Abyss came rustling sounds—those were demons that only had eyes, with the rest being black tentacles, having roughly the same appearance as the demons created by the previous Dark Side of the Universe divine descender, but equally nauseating.
They crawled out from the Abyss, and every step they took was contamination, was the expansion of the Abyss.
The blackness was spreading outward from the crack, whether it was earth or air, without exception.
Don held his breath and concentrated, not bothering with these advance troops.
He was watching the depths of the Abyss, taking out the 'Astronomical Telescope for Stargazing' to increase his observation range.
"According to the 'future' given by the previous astrolabe, the Dark Side of the Universe will send out one of its extremely contaminated arms."
Sure enough, after Don used another Yesterday's Replay charm to borrow spirituality, he observed it.
Ah, of course, with the blessing of the mosaic glasses, he couldn't see clearly what was in the deep layers of the Abyss at all.
However, distinguishing the blackest mass among a large pile of mosaics could also be considered his skill.
That thing seemed to be pulled by something else, slowly moving out from the Abyss bit by bit.
The tiny dust in the air had already begun to show a trend of spreading outward, carried by the wind toward distant places.
The earth was trembling, and all things around began to be eroded by the Abyss, giving birth to one treacherous and terrifying creature after another.
This spreading speed was extremely fast. The deep pit had already become a kingdom of monsters, with indescribable things everywhere, each one refreshing Don's worldview and knowledge.
Don stood among this group of demons and monsters, calmly putting down the mosaic glasses in his hand. With the Abyss doorway truly opening, he was no longer as anxious as before, becoming unusually calm.
"System buddy, let's watch some fireworks."
[Okay, okay!]
He was waiting for the stars. What was the Abyss waiting for?
"When I got the astrolabe before, I mentioned something about summoning meteors to silence someone. Look, isn't this an opportunity?"
Above the Abyss, mid-air, a War Bishop wearing ancient silver armor held an astrolabe with four floating stars in one hand and the Sun Scepter in the other, looking up at the crimson moon overhead.
Stars dotted the sky, and the unpolluted sky was like the most peaceful and gentle black curtain, decorated with countless stars of various sizes.
In the next moment, something streaked across the sky, carrying an extremely beautiful and spectacular tail, falling from the sky.
That star grew larger and larger, faster and faster, friction with the atmosphere forming flames, falling at extreme speed.
[Astronomical Telescope for Stargazing.]
[Quality: System Exclusive.]
[Even extinguished stars want to leave their traces in the astrolabe! This is their final mark!]
[You can summon an extinguished star by injecting certain spirituality!]
[Note: This Beyonder ability can only be used once in a short period. If used too much, the astrolabe will have to retain the fate trajectory of extinguished stars~ And where do extinguished stars get their fate from?]
The 'Astronomical Telescope for Stargazing' was currently the only item in the star observation set that possessed an active skill.
And this item's ability...
Your star has arrived!
The beautiful star struck vertically toward the War Bishop, toward the direction of the Abyss, exceptionally dazzling in the night sky.
In the next moment, the War Bishop raised his hand and consumed the last use of the Sun Scepter's black sunlight.
[Warning, the sun is about to rise~]
The system's broadcast was full of gloating, nothing like the panic it had broadcast when first encountering the Sun Scepter.
Oh, probably because it knew it wouldn't be the unlucky one.
The War Bishop raised his hand and directly used brute force to throw the Sun Scepter like a javelin, then his figure disappeared, recalled into the warehouse by the system.
The Sun Scepter struck precisely below that comet without a sound, and the comet, along with the Sun Scepter, crashed hard toward this big pit.
Foul contamination like petroleum overflowed from the Sun Scepter, and that twisted sun symbol became even more distorted. Even the seemingly endless mad knowledge carved on the scepter's body became twisted, extremely mad.
During the descent, the contamination overflowing from the Sun Scepter completely turned this comet that had come excitedly to 'kiss' the earth into a 'big oil rat.'
The earth was trembling, the starry sky was distorting, and even the crimson moon overhead became particularly hazy, looking extraordinarily large.
Then this 'big black rat' plunged headfirst into the deep pit that had been blasted open by countless metallic hydrogen and completely polluted by the Abyss.
This explosion was even more intense than the previous one. The earth rumbled, like a super-strong earthquake, as if the entire world was trembling.
Having adjusted his distance to overlook the big pit, Don's vision immediately blurred. The sound and shock waves didn't affect him, but seeing this scene of a comet hitting the earth at close range was truly a once-in-a-lifetime sight.
'Host, host, why does every meteor accurately hit the meteorite crater?'
"You should ask the Dark Side of the Universe what it's thinking about that. Maybe it's willing."
Making a hellish joke, Don zoomed in on the scene and saw that the passage representing the Abyss in the deep pit had collapsed inward.
That meteor had disappeared.
At the center of the Abyss crack, there was now a sunken pit, and that size was somewhat similar to the meteor just now.
It had disappeared...
Don's face revealed a somewhat twisted smile.
What's the point of playing this instead of something else? Making me play evil cult sacrifices, and even instructing my dad to play evil cult sacrifices with you here. You're one person eating full while the whole family goes hungry. I finally managed to run my family steadily, and even the Goddess of Night hasn't come knocking on my door, but you're the one talking too much, making us play family elimination games with you? Why don't you go to heaven, Dark Side of the Universe?!
Eat it, don't all Ancient Gods like collecting power corresponding to their authority? How is the fall of the Chaos Sea not a fall? Eat it, you big glutton, eat one without making a sound.
[Host... you could actually curse out loud...]
"This probably has to do with my family upbringing."
How boring is cursing? Isn't treating Him to a good meal more reflective of the host's hospitality?
Sinisterly jpg.
Holding a grudge jpg.
System: ...
Cowering jpg.
Don raised the astronomical telescope and put it down again. He could no longer observe what was happening inside the Abyss—everywhere inside was mosaics, and he couldn't see anything clearly.
After the star disappeared, the earth's trembling didn't stop. The ground still transmitted huge shock sensations, as if something was struggling desperately, making its final death cry.
This strike had hit everything that should and shouldn't have been hit.
Ah, how delightful.
And in the deep pit, near the Abyss doorway.
The monsters there that had been born from Abyss contamination had all turned into foul 'petroleum,' even more filthy, yet seemed to have been neutralized by the Abyss's power. Although still contaminated, it was much lighter than the Abyss.
This was just the residual contamination from the Sun Scepter's overflow. As long as there was a demigod skilled in clearing contamination, cleaning up this contamination wouldn't be difficult.
In addition, the vast majority of monsters in the deep pit had been instantly eliminated by the high temperature and terrifying contamination explosion brought by the comet impact. The Abyss's contamination and the residual contamination overflowing from the Chaos Sea seemed to maintain balance under some power's interference, directly neutralizing each other and leaving nothing behind.
None of this caught Don's attention.
He looked straight at the Abyss crack and saw what was constantly bubbling out of the crack.
Those weren't mosaics, didn't have too much contamination, and could be supported by the system's divinity alone.
"The Abyss doorway directly swallowed the entire comet. The contamination connected through the Sun Scepter probably exploded completely in the Abyss."
The earth was still shaking, each tremor more violent than the last, and then this crack began spewing out black water.
Just like being overstuffed and vomiting it out.
Associating with this thought, Don took a disgusted step backward. "System, how much longer until the sun rises?"
The only problem with this step of smashing the Abyss with a comet was how to recover the Sun Scepter.
He didn't want to lose three portions of Sequence 4 Beyonder characteristics from this one strike.
However, the system guaranteed that as long as the sun's rising ended, it could directly summon the Sun Scepter back through the runes related to 'Savant' on the Sun Scepter.
Oh, understood. The Knowledge Moor bound these two together.
Maybe it used some enhanced version of the Law of Beyonder Characteristics Convergence to forcibly pull the Sun Scepter back using the maddening knowledge belonging to the Knowledge Moor on the Sun Scepter.
[It's almost over. I told you, host, it's not as dangerous as the first time, right?]
Yes, the danger wasn't on him.
Don smiled.
(End of Chapter)