Chapter 1486 578: This Is the Real Plan_2

The Holy Mother looked at him, suddenly smiled and shook her head, and said, "No, that was done by you yourself. I only provided a possibility, because I brought him back."

"But I can't control him, and he has no desire at all to meet me, his 'sister'. A revelation is just a revelation, nothing more."

"You defeated him by relying on your own power and obtained the Treasure that was already potentially suited to you."

Hearing this, Alka couldn't help but ask, "Then what about that stranger who was my friend?"

He was naturally referring to that unknown man who had brought Them the possible way to repair the world.

"Him? I didn't see his revelation, because I can't see it—after all, he exists on the same level as I do.

Just like I said before, he truly came to seek you of his own accord, at a time I hadn't foreseen in the slightest. That too is an opportunity and possibility you brought forth, isn't it?"

Although what the Holy Mother said was vague and mystifying, Alka could more or less understand.

After all, revelations, prophecies—things like that are roughly of this kind.

The foreknowledge his eyes could see regarding the future was also only a glimpse of such possibilities.

Something akin to making predictive judgments through invisible traces and information.

You can use them as reference, but you cannot treat them as iron law.

"And once you gathered the Treasures, your possibility turned into a terminal outcome that can actually be achieved.

The Abyss rift, that greatest wound upon the Mother's body, is not something so easily resolved.

Various external constraints also prevent us from intervening from within to personally repair that wound.

But you can. You now possess sufficient power."

At this moment, the Wise One said in a calm, slightly aged voice, "So we based on your abilities and the present situation, constructed a complete foreknowledge, and also derived a possibility grounded in what can truly be accomplished.

By perfecting it in this way, by secretly gathering, we obtained a plan."

"Although it can't permanently and once-for-all repair the world, it can mend the World Scar that torments the Mother, allowing her to regain her own awareness.

At the very least, it can lessen the self-destructive tendency within her consciousness, and the current situation, as well as such a long span of time and effort, have also led her to make certain changes.

After the Mother regains consciousness, perfecting the repair of the world will no longer be so difficult."

The Holy Mother also spoke from the side, "In this opportunity I have seen countless revelations, and the probability of success is very high. But I cannot see what lies in the deeper revelations.

Yet this is without doubt a rare, genuine opportunity. We can only assist from the sidelines.

And you are the primary executor."

Hearing this, Alka more or less understood.

Obviously, they wanted him to take the lead in accomplishing a task that the gods could not complete—a task for which the gods would provide full external support. And this task was very likely to grant Them a tremendous advantage, even to the point of awakening the world's consciousness from Deep Sleep.

Because this task, quite clearly, could mend that largest and widest wound.

This wound had always been the most painful and the hardest to erode away.

Moreover, that damned devouring mouth had blasted it even wider, deepening the wound, and even tainting it with viruses and rotten flesh.

If not for that thing, perhaps a thousand years ago the world's consciousness might already have had the possibility of awakening again.

And it is hard to say there was no push from the gods behind all this.

After all, why was it that at that most critical juncture in the past, that Demon—already dead, with only a remnant soul—awoke again?

Awakened with such coincidence, at such a precise location.

And this Demon had once been struck down by the gods They had betrayed, those who burned the bridge after crossing the river.

The Four Gods suspect it was still the handiwork of those despicable scoundrels under the God of War.

"This mission must be exceptionally secret. You cannot tell anyone."

"Not even Chadite and the others?" Alka asked.

The Holy Mother shook her head.

"Some things, once spoken, are bound to be known."

"So we can give Them a piece of information, let Them guess, let Them harbor hope and not fall into utter despair—but not let Them obtain a definite answer."

The Holy Mother nodded; that was precisely what she meant.

"Then, what is the plan?"

After that, the Four Gods began explaining to Alka the plan he needed to execute.

The earliest first version of the plan was for Alka to act in some concealed form.

In a state bordering on death, using his authority combined with the permissions over the world that the Holy Mother and the others had allocated to him, to carry out a grand act of theft upon the entire World Scar.

The Four Gods are not eternally only guarding the skies against the outer realms—they had long been devoted to studying the world's permissions, the world's repair, and those damned Demons.

Simply put, it was to, through a sort of sacrificial, gradual arrangement, in one instant steal away all the Chaos of the World Scar.

Then, seizing this opportunity, the Four Gods would lead their Church forces in a counterattack, pushing the Demons back.

At such a time, even if there are many Demons, their strength would be nearly cut in half, and even that would be considered lucky for them.

This was the strategy originally decided upon back then.

It focused primarily on Alka himself, as well as the already collected Tower of Trial.

But as Alka grew ever more adept at his own powers, and later with his research into the World Scar, plus those research records the Four Gods provided him regarding the World Scar, permissions, and Demons, he seemed to discover more possibilities grounded in his own abilities.

After all, he was the one who held the Divinity of theft; with the Four Gods plus Alka's own hidden permissions, it became exceedingly difficult for others to know to what extent Alka's powers could actually go.