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In addition, the black viscous liquid that accompanied Arrodes' appearance - oil - indicated that it came from the Chaos Sea, which indirectly proved that the Chaos Sea was behind the bronze gate.

Hey, since Arrodes is in Lilith's hands, why not just ask?

"Lilith, lend me Arrodes for a minute."

"oh."

She took out the silver mirror and asked, "What do you want to ask?"

"Just ask him directly whether the bronze gate below leads to the Chaos Sea."

Lilith stroked the silver mirror for a few times and asked, "You heard Edward's question, so answer it."

"As you command, the greatest, loveliest, most beautiful lady in the world, Miss Lilith."

Arrodes started to act like a sucker as soon as he spoke. "Actually, I'm not sure if that's the Chaos Sea. I can only be sure that it's related to where I was born, but I don't know the details. It was only after I came to the ground and turned into a mirror that I gained real consciousness. I don't have any memory of what happened before that."

"Ok, that's enough."

Edward nodded. "Lilith, I'll try to go there and come back as quickly as possible. Promise me that you won't follow me, okay?"

She pouted: "Oh."

"If we were simply fighting the enemy, I would naturally not resist your help, but that is the pollution of the Chaos Sea, not a question of strength. Do you understand?"

"Okay, okay, I got it."

"Let's go!"

Edward took a step forward and came to the dark underground of the castle. He waved his hand lightly and transformed dozens of lanterns into bright lights throughout the underground. Then he looked at a pair of bronze doors standing quietly not far away.

The surface of the gate is engraved with densely packed symbolic symbols and strange patterns, giving people an intuitive sense of mystery and heaviness, as if it is sealing or blocking something.

Almost in an instant, Edward felt the same feeling again, as if it was a call from ancient times, coming from behind the door and knocking on his heart.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

At the same time, a heavy clapping sound came from behind the bronze door, echoing in the empty underground, as if it came from an extremely distant ancient time.

Edward tossed a gold coin: "Behind the bronze gate is the Chaos Sea."

Not surprisingly, the gold coin rolled out of his hand, and then rolled on the flat stone floor all the way towards the bronze gate.

It didn't stop until it rolled more than ten meters away and hit the bottom of the gate, with a "ding" sound, and stood there straight.

"Well, no matter what, since we're here, let's just take this trip."

He walked to the front of the bronze gate, and stretched out his hand towards the gate, suppressing the clapping sound that gradually resonated with his heart and caused his entire spiritual body to tremble.

There was no need for deconstruction or fantasy. His palm easily penetrated the ancient door. Then he moved his feet and passed through the door, arriving at an extremely dim place.

Chapter 636 Three Sources

Everything I saw before my eyes seemed to be shrouded behind a contemptible curtain. The sky and the ground were reflected with an indescribable color. It seemed that I saw something, but also seemed to see nothing.

Chaos, turbidity, indescribable.

So, in this environment, where should I go?

Just as he thought of this, the sound of rushing water came faintly from the distance. The sound seemed particularly real, and even a surging river emerged in Edward's mind.

Huh?

Isn't the Chaos Sea a sea?

How did it become a river?

We won't find out that this is the River of Eternal Darkness only after we get to the front, right?

It was just a joke, but when the thought came to Edward, he was stunned: It's not impossible! Otherwise, why would the goddess of night urge me to come here?

Thinking of this, he opened a door leading to the sound of running water, and then passed through the door and reached his destination, coming to a high protruding stone, but he did not see the rushing river as he imagined:

Looking down, the endless black sea as sticky as mud came into view. Countless corpses were floating in the sea. Most of them were demons of various appearances, and there were also a few humans and animals.

Layer upon layer, everywhere.

This is neither a sea nor a river, but a sea of ​​corpses!

No!

Edward's pupils trembled: This is the abyss!

Not the edge of the abyss where I went last time in the depths of the foggy sea, but inside the abyss!

Indeed, in the original novel, when Klein first saw the bronze gate under the vampire castle, he had guessed that it led to the abyss, but both Adros's answer in the original novel and the answer just now overturned this conclusion.

"roar!!"

An angry roar came from afar, and the sticky and silent sea water was instantly stirred and rolled, accompanied by a suffocating malice.

Edward's figure immediately transformed continuously, leaving behind a series of illusory doors, while he hid at the back, ready to retreat at any time - he was not too afraid of death now, but that didn't mean he wanted to die meaninglessly and without value.

Soon, a gigantic demon with branches all over its body, two huge horns on its forehead, and dozens of meters tall came running over. He seemed to be even more violent and irrational than the last time they met.

As soon as he saw Edward, he uttered deadly demonic language, carrying the breath of death and desire, and shattered all the illusory doors he encountered along the way.

The ancient gears in Edward's eyes turned, and the huge demon that was approaching rapidly retreated as if rewinding. At the same time, his sequence was also pried open, and there was a tendency for him to fall, but he finally stabilized.

However, based on this, Edward could conclude that this giant demon was at most Sequence 1, and not a true god of Sequence 0.

This way you can fight!

The last time I met him, I thought he was the ancient god Fabuti hiding in the abyss, and he slipped away without even saying a word.

At this time, the degradation ended, and the huge demon rushed over angrily again. His whole body quickly condensed into flames emitting a strong smell of sulfur, sweeping towards Edward like an overwhelming force.

Edward suddenly disappeared and appeared behind the huge demon. He stretched out his hand and grabbed lightly: steal.

While successfully stealing His Devil's Language ability, He was also caused to fall into a brief state of unconsciousness, and then [False Reality] unfolded under the blessing of the power of fantasy.

As soon as the giant demon regained consciousness, he saw a man wearing a black robe with a silver cross hanging on his chest. The roots of his hair were light yellow and golden, and his eyes were pure gold. He looked down at him condescendingly - behind him was a huge light and shadow that seemed to support the world.

The violent and demented demon's eyes suddenly became much clearer at this moment. He shouted in disbelief: "Ancient Sun God!!!"

A golden cross of light fell from the sky and struck the demon on the head. However, He just looked at it in horror, without any intention of resisting or even dodging. He just shouted in fear: "No! You can't kill me!!!"

boom!

The next second, the huge demon was swallowed by the light emitted by the golden cross, and his body was shattered in an instant and disappeared.

certainly,

All this is an illusion of a huge demon.

If Edward were given enough time to gather his imagination, he would be able to [Imagine] the Ancient Sun God. However, he had not had a chance to gather his imagination since he was promoted to Sequence 2. Therefore, the [Imagination] he used at this time was still his own spirituality - blessing the [False Reality].

This giant demon was originally in a state of madness with a very bad mental state, so it was not difficult to deceive his five senses - but the most surprising thing was that when the figure of the ancient sun god appeared, this giant demon immediately believed it deeply, without even a trace of resistance.

It can be imagined that in the distant ancient times, the ancient sun god really beat those ancient gods and left them with psychological trauma.

Edward took advantage of the huge demon falling into the illusion of death and reached out to Him again, easily stealing His fate of "living" - as he upgraded to the Sequence 2 level of [Steal], he was able to steal conceptual things such as the target's fate, cognition, identity, etc.

Although it would be difficult to be effective against enemies of higher sequences or the same level without the uniqueness bonus of errors, it was easy to defeat a Sequence 1 that had completely lost its ability to resist.

In just a moment, the huge demon's body quickly became decayed and withered, heading towards death.

At this moment, a heavy voice came: "Hey, sorry, He can't die now."

Edward immediately looked warily at a man covered in a black robe who suddenly appeared on the shoulder of the giant demon. He gently tapped the demon's horns, and the demon's breath quickly recovered, returning to normal from its corrupt state.

But he still couldn't wake up from the illusion of being killed by the ancient sun god, and still stood there stupidly.

"I still have to rely on Him to help me share the pollution of the Mother Tree of Desire."

The man in black robe sighed, "Once He dies, I will be the one who is polluted."

Edward's heart moved, "You are..."

He said calmly, "Call me Napoleon Disri."

Huh?

He thought that the one coming was the ancient god, the demon king Fabuti.

"How did you get here?"

The black-robed man named Napolidisli looked at Edward and asked, "This is the deepest part of the abyss. Even if you find the entrance to the Misty Sea, you can't get here."

Edward thought for a moment and said, "Adam sent me here."

"oh?"

"oh."

"So that's how it is."

Napolidisli's tone of voice changed slightly. "Adam, that's no wonder. It seems that He already knows the secret of the abyss."

"…"

What is the secret of the abyss?

I don't know whether Adam knows it or not, but I don't know.

"Hmm? You don't seem to know?" He was a little surprised. "How dare you run here? Even if you are a planeswalker who can come and go freely, the shadow world is ahead, and the deepest part of the shadow world is the River of Everlasting Darkness and the Sea of ​​Chaos. These three source substances are now entangled together. Even I dare not approach them easily. Even the Mother Tree of Desire can only watch them anxiously."

"!!!"

Is it really the River of Eternal Darkness?!

But,

Why is the Chaos Sea entangled with the Shadow World and the River of Eternal Darkness?

Why is the Chaos Sea hidden in the abyss?

What is going on?

Napolidisli, who was dressed in a black robe, turned slightly and said, "Since Adam asked you to come, there must be a special meaning behind it. Please do as you please."

"I hope you can end everything as soon as possible and give me my freedom."

After saying this, he gently patted the giant demon's horn, and the demon's dazed eyes regained consciousness. He first roared angrily at Edward, and then reluctantly retreated into the darkness.

Edward watched them disappear, but he was hesitant: he originally thought that he was just fulfilling his promise to the Goddess of Night, and by the way, he came to the Chaos Sea to find out the "truth", but the truth seemed to be more complicated than he imagined.

The Chaos Sea is hidden in the abyss, and is also related to the Shadow World and the River of Eternal Darkness.

This involves three source elements at once.

Thinking of this, Edward couldn't help but admire in his heart: Great, great, no wonder the Goddess of Night and Adam himself were unwilling to come. Even if one of them is a god and the other is the king of angels, they dare not easily face three source substances at the same time.

If I had known it would be so troublesome, I should have asked for more benefits from them!

Although he thought so in his heart, Edward quickly made a decision: to keep moving forward.

As we moved forward along this rotten, muddy, dark ocean, we no longer encountered any living creatures. The deeper we went into the ocean, the more corpses we found, and the more obvious signs of contamination from the Mother Tree of Desire these corpses showed.

No wonder there have been no demons from the abyss in the outside world in tens of millions of years. Maybe it's not that they don't want to or can't get out, but they are simply all dead.

I didn't know how far I had walked, but suddenly there was a break in the ocean ahead that looked like a cliff, and below it was a dark and bottomless "abyss". The sea water with countless corpses of demons floating on it flowed backwards from the "abyss" and was carried into the sea, as if gravity had lost its effect here.

Suspended above the "abyss", below is a hazy black shadow, layer upon layer, as if unreal.

With the ability of [Deconstruction], Edward's gaze pierced through the endless darkness and looked towards the bottom of the "abyss". The first thing that caught his eye was the branches growing from the corpses of demons. Most of them had faces, with expressions of fear and pain. They were intertwined with each other, blocking the way to the deepest part.

This was obviously the work of the Mother Tree of Desire, but Edward was not afraid of such a small amount of polluting power. After finding a passage leading to the other side, he directly opened a door and easily passed through the blockade and came to the shadowy depths.

Chapter 637 A Book

As soon as he landed, Edward felt a series of tingling sensations all over his skin, and his heart suddenly broke: he had experienced this feeling of "breaking defense" before - this further confirmed that [stupidity] might really have its limits.

Fortunately, just like before, there was no further reaction except the stinging pain. He then raised his head and carefully observed the world.

There were overlapping phantoms in all directions. The light source projected from nowhere left Edward with seven or eight dark reflections on the ground. Each reflection seemed to be slowly brewing life and ready to come alive at any time.

Edward immediately used several [Steal] spells in succession, stealing the vitality of the reflections and causing them to fall into deathly silence again. He then turned around on the spot and threw his cane.

Not surprisingly, the divination staff technique lost its effect here, but Edward could still faintly hear the sound of the rushing river and felt the "calling" that he had felt in the God-forsaken Land.

He calmed down and carefully determined the direction, then opened another door leading directly to the destination and stepped through.

This time,

As he wished, he saw a dark river that meandered through nine bends and stretched out across the land in front of him. At the end of the river was a turbid and sticky black ocean.

In just a moment, Edward was sure.

The river and the sea before our eyes are none other than the River of Eternal Darkness and the Sea of ​​Chaos, two of the nine source substances. They were hidden in the deepest part of the abyss along with the shadow world by some powerful means. Even gods as powerful as them cannot reach them.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The slapping sound rang out again, causing Edward's heart to beat at the same frequency, and the "call" from the Chaos Sea became stronger and stronger.

It was so strong that... Edward took a step out to the estuary at the end of the river, and faced the endless "ocean" before he realized what he had done.

What I see before me is not so much an ocean as it is an upside-down whirlpool with no distinction between inside and outside. Everything I see is in chaos.

The starting point and end point of the vortex are both a light source emitting golden light, and the "calling" that Edward truly felt came from that light source.

"That thing... is it what the 'that person' mentioned by the ancient sun god left behind?"

What exactly is this thing that the Goddess of Night, Adam, and even the true creator who possesses the remaining consciousness of the ancient sun god care about?

Could it be like in those novels I've read before, a treasure that makes one invincible when they get it? Axe of Creation? Chaos Bell? Jade Disc of Creation? Hongmeng Purple Qi?

With excitement and some trepidation, Edward carefully approached the golden light source. An intense burning sensation immediately hit him, and even the body of Sequence 2 showed signs of carbonization in a short period of time.

The beating spirit told him that if he continued forward, he would have to die early and wait for resurrection.

As a last resort, Edward had to hide behind dozens of illusory doors, and then used [Deconstruct] on the light source.

Chi.

The moment the golden beam came into his eyes, his pupils had already been vaporized, leaving two bleeding holes in his eye sockets. However, star worms covered with black and gray mist immediately crawled into his eye sockets and condensed into pupils again.

Then, it was vaporized again.

But Edward did not stop, and kept letting the star worms replace his pupils to maintain the continuous [deconstruction].

Burning, pain, weakness brought by the continuous death of star worms, and the stinging pain brought by the rapid consumption of spiritual power, Edward remained calm throughout, his eyes gradually penetrated the golden light and looked at the wrapped core.

Bang!

Edward's body exploded with a loud bang, turning into a muffled mass of black-gray smoke and star worms. The golden light in his sight slowly went out, and a square object gradually became clearer from blurry.

Is that... a book?

It's just a book?

At this moment, Edward was extremely shocked. The "thing" that the Goddess of Night and Adam cared so much about was actually just a book?

He immediately took a deep breath, and squeezed out all his remaining spiritual energy, trying to see more clearly.

But something unexpected happened.

His sight penetrated the book again, and after a dizzy moment, he saw another huge world - in the distance, Edward saw a rushing river, the illusory and transparent figures on the river, the endless sea, and the buildings with pointed roofs:

That's... the spire of Hogwarts Castle!

Just like what he saw during his previous promotions.

In an instant, Edward felt as if a basin of ice water was poured over him, and his whole body was cold.

He thought of something, but he was unwilling to admit it.

After a moment, he had an idea and opened an illusory door leading to him. After some hesitation, he regained his human form and took a step forward.

However, his right foot suddenly stopped in mid-air, and he couldn't step into the door at all. Edward gritted his teeth and tried to break through the obstruction.

"Huh?"

Suddenly, a surprised voice came to my ear: "I was wondering how someone broke in. It turns out that they used the power of the uniqueness of the door. Hmm, but even as a conceptualization and authority of the door, it is impossible... Oh, so that's how it is."

"I see. Well, it turns out that the uniqueness of the door can be used in this way."

"Thanks for your creative ideas."

The voice became lively and joyful, "Ah! Come to think of it, we are complementing each other."

Edward said in a deep voice: "What...are you talking about? Who are you? What is going on?"

"Hehe, I know you are curious, but don't be curious yet. Because... I won't tell you anything."

The voice said with a smile, "Don't get me wrong, it's not that I deliberately acted as a riddle man. I don't like riddle men just like you do, but... I want to prevent you from knowing something in advance and ruining my plan."

"I will tell you the truth when the time is right in the future."

"After all... you don't want to mess up everything and let the First One wake up, right?"

Edward took a deep breath and said, "You...are the person the ancient sun god mentioned?"

It turns out that the person that Adam and the Goddess of Night were looking for had been hiding in the "thing" he left behind?

"It's me. Oh, I'm so unlucky. I came to this world inexplicably, and the Origin awakened in me inexplicably. If I had known this, I wouldn't have copied the book in the first place."

"What?"

He sighed, "Alright, no more talking. I'm going to continue sleeping to prepare for my initial awakening. If there's a chance... I'll explain it to you in person."

"Goodbye."

Edward shouted loudly: "Wait..."

Unfortunately, the next second, Edward felt a strong repulsive force on his body, and he flew backwards uncontrollably. The Hogwarts castle, the sea and the river quickly disappeared into the distance. He only vaguely saw a figure above the sea waving at him.

After his consciousness was pulled away from the other world, his body also retreated at an extremely fast speed. Everything around him became blurred at the high speed and turned into lines of light.

The only thing Edward could do was to take one more look at the book at the last moment. It was a thick hardcover book with a colorful cover that was hard to see clearly, except for the four Chinese characters:

"Harry Potter".

boom!

With a roar, Edward retreated away from the Sea of ​​Chaos, the River of Eternal Darkness, and the World of Shadow. In just a trance, he returned to the abyss.

He was floating above the bottomless ravine covered with branches and twigs. Everything he had just seen was buried deep in the deepest part of the abyss.

"I haven't finished asking yet!"

Edward calmed his restless spirit and tried again to go through the bronze door and return to the abyss, but it didn't work this time. He then tried to directly open a door leading to the Chaos Sea, but the illusory door shattered before it even took shape.

He refused to give up and tried to open it again, but this time he couldn't even maintain the illusory door.

After trying for a while,

Edward had to accept the fact that he would not be able to go to the Chaos Sea again, at least in the short term.

He stared silently into the dark, bottomless abyss, his heart in turmoil.

Until today, Edward always thought that he had traveled through time twice, the first time to the world of Harry Potter, and the second time to the world of the Lord of Mysteries.

The bridge that connects the two worlds is the uniqueness of the door path.

So for a long time, Edward was still curious about how the uniqueness of the door could connect the two worlds - you know, even the theoretically strongest one in the mysterious world is only the "beginning" of a single universe.

And since it involves multiple worlds, it should at least be a multiverse-level existence.

But today, he finally understood the reason: it turned out that he had been in the mysterious world from the beginning to the end. It turned out that the so-called Harry Potter world was just like "Groselle's Travels", just a world in a book - so, before "traveling" to the mysterious world, the people and things he encountered were actually just fake?

What about me?

Am I real or fake?

At this moment, Edward felt for the first time the confusion and despair that Russell and Klein felt when they learned that this world was the future of the Earth.

It was a kind of denial of what I had experienced and of myself. It felt like everything I had done and pursued seemed to have lost any meaning at this moment.

No wonder Russell changed so much afterwards. Klein also needed Audrey's help with psychological treatment for a long time.

This feeling of knowing the truth is really... suffocating.

"Crunch, crunch, crunch."

Suddenly, a series of tiny sounds came from the "abyss" below, and the branches that were originally densely packed and blocking the way down seemed to come to life, growing wildly and quickly upwards - towards Edward.

The trunks that originated from the Mother Tree of Desire grew larger and thicker, and human-shaped faces and bodies grew on the dry bark. Then they split in the middle, revealing brown-green tumors that looked like tree knots. Some of them had cracked and turned into flower-like organs.

In just a moment, Edward felt that a part of his emotions - the desire, the desire to mate to be precise - was greatly amplified.