Chapter 1044 - 19: Beginnings and Origins_2

Chapter 1044: Chapter 19: Beginnings and Origins_2

The dripping divine blood traverses the vast distance of light years.

The roots and branches of the World Tree are also tainted.

The dripping divine blood is constantly burning and glowing, as if corroding reality, spreading on the timeline, giving rise to countless possibilities. Each moment, new worlds sprout to life within the blood, while at the same time, different worlds dissolve and vanish within it.

—It’s coming.

—It happens now.

An invisible, ghost-like entity just silently watches, already knowing the outcome of everything, just like it has witnessed countless times before.

The next instant, this nine-day and nine-night ritual finally reaches its climax.

Almost drenched in divine blood for nine days and nights, the entire tree starts to glow. The Great God hanging upside down on the tree, in his daze, notices this and begins to shout excitedly.

He struggles to look downward towards the enormous World Tree, finally seeing the ultimate wisdom he has been pursuing.

The divine blood on the roots and branches is glowing, mingled with the leaves and buds.

Along with the World Tree, which traverses the Nine Realms and supports countless spacetime and stars, it seems to slowly become twisted, abstract—

The infinite hidden within, the entire phenomena of the universes, both tangible and intangible, undergo inexplicable disturbances. Those numerical secrets, constants, concepts, and even the void’s logical conclusions, things that cannot be described by any rhetoric and can only be expressed obscurely through hints like abnormal laws...

At this moment, they are manifested in a highly intuitive way.

Or rather, as a great collective, they are materialized.

The measure that defines everything, the power that delineates everything, sustaining all beneath Taiyi...they are burning and glowing, transforming into abstract and twisted enigmatic symbols...that is truly the origin of the Runes, exhausting the secrets of the universe, nearly omnipotent.

The Great God hanging upside down on the tree is so excited, shouting ecstatically...

Shouting...

Then, suddenly, stopped without warning.

The Great God’s single eye abruptly looks into the empty void, seemingly gazing at the ghost that shouldn’t exist, as if seeing the incomprehensible aspects behind the ghost, endless aspects that ghosts cannot entirely represent, not revealing the full picture of the vast, invisible entity it stands for.

The single-eyed God King seems perplexed, then displays some astonishment and disbelief, as if witnessing highly incredulous things, and after bewilderment, falls into prolonged silence.

For a long time...

For a long time...

In a length almost despairingly silent, only the howling wind is heard between heaven and earth.

"So this is how it is...is this also fate..."

In a trance, it seems they finally become vaguely aware of something. The God King starts to laugh silently, the laughter grows louder, accompanied by the trembling of the perfect and powerful body full of divine blood, the whole figure nearing madness.

In the almost frenzied laughter, the God King painfully closes his one-eyed eye, squeezing out his trembling and angry words from his throat—

"Regaluk..."

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"Nordic mythology indeed has a large portion, occupying at least one-third alone..."

"The remaining parts are shared among various different sects and mythologies, collectively holding the other two-thirds..."

Browsing the old yellowing book in her hands, she occasionally turns her head, quickly sliding her slender, fair fingertips across a data terminal, investigating with the combination of paper-based materials and electronic records. The blonde Monster Maiden gently furrows her brows.

"No matter how much you search, even though other religions and mythology systems aren’t absent, it’s clear they are derived and dispersed around the World Tree as the core..."

"Can this reveal anything?"

Alice is contemplative, furrowing her brows, vaguely realizing something, yet unable to confirm so only looks out the library’s window.

It’s like any ordinary city, with visible skyline high-rises, steel and concrete forests, bustling crowds, endless streams of vehicles. They are in the city center’s library, sunlight pouring in from outside.

Visible is the sky, clouds, but only the horizon isn’t visible as it’s raised like a ring, forming a distinct arc.

Despite all the materials clearly pointing out this is an interstellar era’s Ring World—

A massive ring structure revolving around a star, the New World is built on one side of the inner ring, with vast lands and spaces, the surface area much larger than the old Earth’s era, more than a million times. All the old world convenes here, the fragmented planetary canvases are re-unfolded here...

The place where they are now is merely an insignificant small section of it.

"Of course, it is meaningful. The world’s background can reveal many information, even if it’s fictional, the founder’s subconscious activities are necessarily embedded in it, which is the clue shown to us..."

The Boundary Demon seriously expressed.

"That guy is clearly sleeping too deeply, there’s no way to wake him directly, bring him out from the realm of dreams, he himself has no such awareness, so we can only find clues from these bits of information. He specifically summoned us, surely intending as much..."

"Mm..."

Alice gently nods, offering no opinion on this.

"This world truly is very interesting, about myths’ new insights, stories with the same origin, widely spread after altering the details, eventually being pointed out by everybody...or perhaps due to long years passing, grandeur cultural imports and migration causing this phenomenon..."

The Boundary Demon appears as a scholar, full of bookishness, studying earnestly.

"But if seen from a higher macro level, similar phenomena are present in different worlds, right? The history transitions in the Human World affect the Divine Spirit World, faith and culture change, causing mythology to change accordingly, this point alone is worth scrutinizing, mutual observation is possible too..."

"In known mythology, essentially the Bible replaces Nordic Mythology, so their relationship is quite intriguing..."

"For instance, the Bible’s creation begins from face of the abyss darkness, the earth is void and chaos, God’s spirit is moving..."

"And in Nordic Mythology, tracing back to the earliest of the earliest, before the world was born, it was also a great abyss, named Ginnungagap, only endless void and chaos, while Orlog existed since long ago..."

"Hmm, why do they feel exactly the same..."