noffsinger Chapter 582: Round 1 of the Battle with Azathoth
Chapter 582: Round 1 of the Battle with Azathoth
In an utterly desolate and barren world, streaks of breathtaking aurora borealis hang in the dark sky.
"Night... Goddess, where... is this place?"
The fragments of the Key to the Gate traveled through the air. Jiang Er looked at the completely unfamiliar environment before her and looked at Nyx with worry in her eyes.
Nyx stopped to check on Lin Qiye, who had fallen into a deep sleep, frowned, and slowly raised his head.
She then noticed that the fragments of the Key to the Gate had forced the three of them out of the dream's dead end.
The bright and beautiful aurora under the dark sky in front of me is completely abnormal.
On Earth, such auroras can only be seen at the poles.
Here, there is no frozen landscape and the geographical location is quite ordinary, yet blue aurora inexplicably appeared in the sky.
A look of confusion appeared in Nyx's eyes, which were as bright as the night sky.
With a wave of the hand, the deep red night sky enveloped the underdeveloped town area under the blue aurora.
Unlike modern high-rise buildings, the houses in the town are all made of stone with gray tiles on the roof.
It looks like human civilization has regressed by several decades.
As the crimson night deepened, Nyx's expression began to change.
In their perception, the town is not only inhabited by humans, but also by strange and terrifying creatures.
She didn't know what it was called until she sensed two people in matching uniforms, who called themselves 'law enforcers,' chasing down those special creatures.
Nyx then learned that those special creatures were called 'Calamity'!
But this did not stop Nyx from observing; it was not surprising that countless worlds were born in this vast universe.
What she was looking for was a way to escape this world.
Unfortunately, even after searching the entire town, the barrier between worlds remained elusive.
"This is a bit of a problem. This world seems to be merging with something, and I can't find my way back to where I was in the original world."
Nyx slowly withdrew the crimson night sky, speaking in a slightly solemn tone.
A hint of disappointment flashed across Jiang Er's face, but she quickly changed the subject: "Qing Yu said we would go to a new world, could it be here?"
Nix shook his head. "I don't understand An Qingyu's deeper meaning, but the new world should be created by Lin Qiye or... that child."
She looked up at the blue aurora, her eyes seemingly reflecting Jiang Ye's image.
"That child..." Jiang Er was puzzled and wanted to ask who it was when a splash of red entered her field of vision.
Ok?
Jiang Er paused, her gaze falling on a very tall rooftop in the town not far away.
There, a young man, clad in a crimson theatrical robe, seemed to stand atop civilization.
The opera costumes swayed in the wind, the movements were light and graceful, and the voices sometimes laughed and sometimes cried.
"Is that... a traditional opera performance?"
Jiang Er stretched out his hand and pointed at the boy wearing theatrical robes.
Nyx, with his powerful senses, naturally noticed it as well, but his expression didn't change much.
In her eyes, that young opera singer was pitifully weak, having not even attained godhood...
"My strength could uproot mountains, my spirit could cover the world, but the times are against me, and my steed will not go..."
The young actor uttered a sharp and bright theatrical voice.
Buzz!
Just then, an invisible hand tore open a huge spatial rift in the sky.
Nix and Jiang Er quickly looked up and saw a heart shimmering with a pale white light beating as it fell downwards from the deep crack.
"It's Lin Qiye's heart!"
Nyx immediately recognized who the heart belonged to, gathered a divine power in his palm, and flicked it out, gently pulling the heart slowly.
"How could the captain's heart be here?" Jiang Er was a little confused and turned to look at Lin Qiye, who was lying in the void with his eyes closed.
"It must be... that actor."
Nyx clearly felt resistance while pulling on Lin Qiye's heart.
The source of the resistance was the young actor who stood high up, sometimes laughing and sometimes crying.
He wanted to steal Lin Qiye's heart!
"The 'calamity' within my body has some power, but compared to the Supreme God, it's like mud in the clouds."
Nyx snorted coldly, his hands conjuring a deep red night sky that flickered in an instant.
The night enveloped his heart, which in an instant broke free from the young actor's restraints and crashed into Lin Qiye's chest.
puff!
The actor standing high up spat out a mouthful of blood, staining his blood-red costume, making him look even more eerie.
Nyx ignored him and instead looked at Lin Qiye with surprise after the heart fused.
The instant they merged, a spatial wormhole appeared in the void, pulling Lin Qiye inside.
“Let’s go, that child will guide us again,” Nyx said, stepping into the spatial wormhole.
Jiang Er was stunned for a moment, then followed him into the wormhole.
hum!
After the three entered, the spatial wormhole turned into countless points of light and disappeared.
"Shut up! All of you shut up!"
The actor standing high up was kneeling, his hands covering his head, his face contorted in a grotesque expression.
"You're lying to me! That heart couldn't save Ayan at all! You're lying to me!!!"
The young actor roared to the sky.
But three lines of text slowly appeared before his eyes.
Current audience anticipation level: 19%
【warn!warn! 】
[The audience begins to intervene in the performance...]
……
Inside the seventh ward of the Gods Mental Hospital.
To be precise, this can no longer be considered a hospital ward.
There were no hospital beds, chairs, monitoring equipment... even the white walls had disappeared, and everything was plunged into darkness.
In the center of the ward, a man in a white coat sat on one side of a huge chessboard, calmly placing one piece after another.
bang bang bang...
The crisp sound of chess pieces colliding with the chessboard echoed in the dark space.
Current treatment progress: 4%
"Azathoth, you have lost the first round."
Jiang Ye watched the patient's treatment progress increase on the panel, his voice laced with mockery.
Opposite him, a huge eye opened from the darkness, its pupils darting rapidly.
It seems to be expressing anger.
He knew that he no longer had any strength to fight against Jiang Ye.
The original intention was to seize Lin Qiye's heart, preventing him from reincarnating in the new world, thereby affecting Jiang Ye's mentality.
Unexpectedly, the traitor "Key to the Gate" actually teleported the Supreme God Nyx there, causing his first step in the plan to end in failure.
Azathoth stared intently at Jiang Ye across the chessboard with his enormous eyes.
He knew perfectly well.
Although Jiang Ye can't do anything to him now, as long as this hospital still exists, he can gradually assimilate him and eventually become an unstoppable ruler of the higher-dimensional world.
That should have belonged to me!
"Jiang Ye, I helped you come into this world when you were at your most desperate."
"Don't you have even a shred of gratitude? Why do you have to be so ruthless?!"
Azathoth's whispers echoed in Jiang Ye's ears.
He slowly raised his head, a slight smile playing on his lips. "I'm nothing more than a pawn you can discard at will. Do you think there's any sense of loyalty or obligation between a pawn and its player?"
“Azathoth, stop deceiving yourself. Now I am your opponent. There are only victors and losers, no such thing as peaceful coexistence.”
After saying that, Jiang Ye picked up a black chess piece and placed it heavily on the chessboard.
The giant eye opposite was covered in bloodshot veins and emitted a muffled whisper.
"Heh, even if I'm destined to lose... I won't let you win so easily!"
pat!
The white piece landed, taking an unconventional approach and no longer solely focusing on defense.
Jiang Ye raised an eyebrow as he looked at the white chess piece that had fallen.
"You want the Gray Realm to invade that world and merge with my dream world?"
"It's just a dying struggle."
Jiang Ye ignored him and continued to expand his advantage.
At this point, the patient panel changed again.
[Patient: Jiang Ye]
Current treatment progress: 6%