Chapter 10: The Sky Covers Half the World, the Source of Chaos Erupts! 1
With these words, Tartarus's devouring clone soared into the boundless darkness, imperceptible to sight and sense.
In the Chaos world, the gods are immortal. Even the weakest gods cannot be killed at this time. At most, they will be severely injured and fall into a deep sleep, or trapped. 2
Tartarus's true form is the Abyss, and his devouring body is merely a clone of him. Sealing him would have no effect on the Abyss.
Besides, he wondered if devouring divine energy could also devour darkness.
However, the three gods now have a good relationship.
Tartarus has shouldered the source of chaos for Erebus, the God of Darkness, and Nyx, the Goddess of Night, for hundreds of years, allowing them to rapidly grow.
"Prosperity? Turbulence? Is the new god called Sky?" Nyx muttered to herself, anticipation in her eyes.
She moved swiftly, her divine power energizing. After Tartarus's devouring clone flew into the night, a dark mist enveloped it, causing it to surge to its limit, swiftly moving upward.
With a single thought, Nyx and Erebus could instantly appear on Earth.
For above Earth lay endless darkness and night.
Just as Tartarus could instantly travel between various regions and directions within the Abyssal Lands.
However, Nyx could not help Tartarus transcend space and instantly appear in the Earth's night.
For she was the night, controlling the night, not space; she was not the god of space.
Moving a god's movement was different from moving oneself.
When darkness and night approached overlap, a god could approach.
Where night lay, darkness naturally existed. If Erebus, the god of darkness, intervened, Nyx would not be able to allow Tartarus to swiftly travel through the night. 1
Now that the three gods were united in purpose, Erebus would intervene. He also controlled the darkness, enveloping Tartarus and accelerating his movement. 2
The earth was incredibly thick and controlled by Gaia. Unless she permitted passage or pierced through it with brute force, Tartarus could not penetrate it and reach the surface.
However, the earth was surrounded by endless night, before reaching the true end of the world.
Tartarus traversed the night, quickly passing through the earth's very edge, the night at the end of the world, and soared onto the earth, nearing its center.
This was the first time Tartarus had truly arrived on the earth since his birth.
"The earth is different now!" Nyx exclaimed in surprise upon his emergence.
Tartarus had never seen what the earth looked like before.
But over the past hundred years, Nyx had occasionally sought him out for conversation. She had described the earth above her and the barrier at the end of the world for him.
In the past, the earth was flat, without bumps or ridges, devoid of any life. Above it lay darkness and night, until the highest point, the World Barrier, where nothing else existed.
At the same time, they could no longer see beyond the World Barrier.
The three gods stood upon the earth's surface, sensing its changes, its world's changes.
At this moment, from the center of the earth, a thick pillar of light shot up, reaching all the way to the world's edge.
This pillar of light possessed all the colors of the world.
It was brilliant and dazzling.
Nyx intentionally controlled it, flying close to the pillar of light before stopping.
When they were close, Tartarus released his divine consciousness, covering the pillar of light.
He perceived the pillar of light's diameter as nearly one-fifth the area of the Abyss.
The Abyss was vast, and now the continent was immense.
Ascending to the earth, Tartarus realized this. Over millennia of growth, the Abyss has grown immensely, but the less Chaos, the faster the Earth grows, the greater its size.
Night enveloped everything. He had heard Nyx say that the Earth's area was now hundreds of times the size of the Abyss.
Now, Tartarus sensed that the rising pillar of light was the Earth's divine power and life force flowing upward.
"I feel some of my divine power being robbed," frowned Erebus, the God of Darkness.
"My divine power has been robbed as well. I hate the new gods; they've weakened my power. If this continues, my strength might regress to the level of my birth," complained Nyx, the Goddess of Darkness.
Following the pillar of light, from bottom to top, he gazed upward.
Tartarus said, "This soon-to-be-born god has absorbed not only the power of darkness and night, but also, most significantly, the power of the earth."
"Because he was conceived by Sister Gaia, the goddess of the earth, he is Gaia's child. Furthermore, the Chaos world has bestowed upon him divine power and new divine authority. This is a gift from the world. I'm so envious!"
"A new god conceived by Sister Gaia!" Nyx was slightly surprised, and then her beautiful brows furrowed slightly. "So this is gestation, but I don't like this kind of gestation."
"Every time I conceive, a large amount of divine power and essence is lost to the child, rapidly weakening it. This is extremely damaging to us gods."
"If I want to conceive a new god in the future, I will definitely not expend so much divine power and essence. I don't want to become weak."
"It's indeed a huge loss," Tartarus muttered to himself.
Sensing the immense divine power within the beam of light, he thought to himself, "In Greek mythology, among Nyx's children, only her two with the God of Darkness, Daylight and Space, are slightly stronger."
"And while the children she conceived alone may seem to possess terrifying divine power, they're actually quite weak. Perhaps she's intentionally controlling this!"
"In Greek mythology, Gaia, the goddess of earth, began at her peak strength, but with each child she gave birth, she grew weaker and weaker. By the time of Zeus, Gaia had weakened to the point of slumber, forced to return to her original form."
"On the other hand, Nyx's line, because of the power of the Goddess of Night, was feared by even Zeus."
At this moment, Erebus, the God of Darkness, spoke: "I sense the world barrier above the earth disappearing."
Nyx said: "I sense it too. This new god called the sky, his body, is about to replace the world barrier. He may cover the earth and the darkness and night above it, enveloping half of the world of Chaos!"
"With such a large body, he will surpass the earth itself. His divine power may surpass that of Sister Gaia, the goddess of earth, and even surpass that of the other four of us."
"Terrifying divine power!" At this moment, Eros, the god of love and lust, also appeared beside the three gods of Tartarus. His beautiful eyes looked upward, filled with wonder.
Tartarus paid no attention to Eros. He was the matchmaker of the world of Chaos, a non-combatant deity.
At this moment, an extremely dangerous aura emanated from the earth.
The body of Erebus, the God of Darkness, naturally vanished into the darkness.
The body of Nyx, the goddess of night, also became hazy, entering a state of alert.
Eros, the god of love and lust, vanished in an instant.
Tartarus, on the other hand, felt a surge of excitement.
Because he sensed it.
A massive surge of Chaos Source!
The Chaos Source within the earth erupted!