Glorious God Throne

[Successfully cleared the Nightmare Fragment [Immortal Soul]]

[Instance Level

[Completion Rating: S]

[Points Earned: 1000]

[Achievement Unlocked: [Immortal Soul]]

[Note: You possess a terrifying will to survive, rejection of death, and desire for life. Through countless restarts, your soul has been forged to the extreme.]

[Sole Survivor]

[Note: You are the only survivor beneath the Return to the Void.]

[Incarnation of Calamity] [Source of World Destruction]

[Note: Your actions brought disaster and destruction to countless lives. Your terrifying legend remained unforgettable in people’s hearts until the very end. In many people’s minds, you were the source of world destruction, the incarnation of calamity itself.]

[Bearing the World’s Hatred, Carrying the Final Hope]

[Note: You were the most evil wizard in history, surviving at the cost of destroying the world and countless lives. You were hated, despised, and cursed by countless people, bearing the hatred of the entire world.]

[Yet you were also this world’s only survivor, symbolizing its last hope, carrying the blessings of three Truth Great Wizards. You were their only choice to resist the fate of the End and break through the Return to the Void.]

In the familiar completion screen, besides the normal completion rating and continuously updating achievement section, the most striking was the 1000 game points – a number so high it might make one suspect the nightmare game system had a bug.

But Bai Yi, who already understood the nature of game points, knew this was because he had stripped all the root power from that world at once. And “game points,” or rather hope fragments, undoubtedly came from the world’s root. Having stripped all the root power from the world, getting 1000 points wasn’t surprising.

In fact, this number was less than Bai Yi had expected.

If it had been a real existing world in its prime, the root power of an entire world would probably have many more zeros after it, right?Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Unfortunately, the world remnants that had fallen into the depths of nightmares were merely corpses after the destruction of the real world. The root power within them was comparable to the last bits of life energy that could be captured from a human body right after death as it gradually cooled – utterly different from its prime state.

But even so, compared to his gains from clearing previous nightmare instances, this was already a great harvest.

In mid-air, the system’s completion settlement continued. As Bai Yi expected, nightmare crystals were also a great harvest, and even the rarest Fragment of the Principle of All Things dropped one piece-

[Beginning special reward draw.]

[You obtained special drops: Nightmare Crystal (Purple) ×1000, Fragment of the Principle of All Things ×1.]

[You obtained special character card [Calamity Truth

The radiance of the Fragment of the Principle of All Things was like countless transparent light rays penetrating all rules of this world. Within it seemed to be countless magical formulas flowing, and each formula was composed of even more basic runes – this was yet another entirely new path.

…Well well, after the paths for athletes, martial artists, liberal arts students, and art students, was this a path specifically for science students?

“No, this is a path specifically for academic geniuses,” Bai Yi couldn’t help but joke after experiencing the difficulty of learning magic in the wizard world during the instance. “Poor students would mostly fail to learn it, fail completely~”

“Meow~!”

Bai Xiaoxi suddenly appeared from somewhere and chimed in, jumping onto Bai Yi’s shoulder in a few bounds and tilting its head to look at him.

Bai Yi’s train of thought was immediately interrupted.

Gurgle~

Bai Yi stroked its gurgling belly. “Hungry? You seem to get hungry quite quickly nowadays…” He dragged out his words thoughtfully, then grabbed Bai Xiaoxi as it tried to escape, pinching here and there before clapping his hands and concluding, “Looks like this is heading toward evolution!”

Speaking of this, he got excited. He immediately picked up Bai Xiaoxi and swung it back and forth in the air, his mouth spreading into an excited smile.

“Hey! You’ve already become much smarter than before, eaten so much improved food, and now learned to absorb spiritual energy. If you keep evolving, won’t you become a cat spirit? Am I about to raise the world’s first youkai?”

The cat nodded. “Meow!”

“Wait, what’s the biggest difference between youkai and normal animals? Youkai can speak human language! Just meowing all the time won’t do.”

The cat looked puzzled. “Meow?”

“It’s decided then, from now on teaching you to read and write will be on the agenda. Let’s aim to be a cultured youkai~”

The cat looked terrified. “…Meow???”

“Why does Bai Xiaoxi seem so listless today? Could it be that even little cats can understand the doomsday news on the news?”

During this time, Bai Yi had been “playing games” at home. Rarely seeing him appear downstairs sunbathing, Xia Jiajia looked questioningly at the dejected cat in his arms.

The doomsday news she mentioned wasn’t officially announced, but came from media coverage on the internet nowadays.

Ever since the Heavenly Master of Divine Calculation suddenly prophesied natural disasters everywhere some time ago, doomsday theories had been emerging constantly. After Bai Yi brought in the first batch of nightmare world trial participants, with the promotion of interested parties in various countries, similar theories spread even wider.

On some well-known media outlets, there had been similar programs recently where experts commented on doomsday theories. Most discussed what to do if doomsday really came.

This also planted related consciousness in many people’s minds.

Along with the frequent civil defense projects activated by the nation, disaster relief drills, and the actual disaster relief carried out in various places just recently, topics about doomsday remained high on popular topic lists in various countries.

How doomsday might arrive, how to respond when doomsday comes, where humanity’s future lies, what kind of situation the world’s economy and various aspects will face if doomsday really comes… countless discussions derived from doomsday were being carried out vigorously on networks across various countries.

Behind this, of course, were pushers at the national level.

Xia Jiajia had discussed these views with many people online. Being not at all stupid, she could certainly sense the undercurrents flowing behind this world now. She took every risk-avoidance drill particularly seriously and had stockpiled quite a bit of food at home. In fact, quite a few people had similar practices.

–Even snakes, insects, rats and ants in the animal kingdom knew to avoid disasters before they came, so how could more intelligent humans have no reaction, especially after the Heavenly Master of Divine Calculation had clearly prophesied once?

Now they just didn’t know what form the disaster would take. Various countries could only consider all aspects and prepare for all possibilities.

Meanwhile, Bai Yi hadn’t been idle during this period either.

Besides clearing nightmare instances himself, he was constantly pulling new trial participants into the nightmare world every day.

As outstanding individuals among billions of humans, these trial participants all had qualities that ordinary people didn’t. Except for a small batch who couldn’t bear the pressure and collapsed and those who wavered in their beliefs and willingly fell, most trial participants, after gaining more information and more accurate inside stories from the nightmare world than others, didn’t disappoint Bai Yi’s expectations.

They made their own responses immediately – those within the system tried their best to mobilize state machinery’s power, those outside the system consolidated available civilian forces, whether in the form of extraordinary organizations, sects, or corporate groups. In short, they made every effort to make all possible preparations.

The most action-oriented imperial princess had united with other selected trial participants in the imperial high levels in a very short time, either overthrowing, marginalizing, or physically eliminating all opposition, making the Chenxing Empire’s power unprecedentedly concentrated, with state machinery operating efficiency even faster than usual by more than double.

Meanwhile, order was turbulent across the world. Some small countries’ governments had lost the ability to maintain order, relying entirely on trial participants and civilian organizations taking spontaneous action.

In such an atmosphere, various doomsday theories were most prevalent, with all kinds of large and small sects popping up, nothing more than the “believe in our lord for salvation” routine.

Compared to other churches without real divine miracles, the Candlelight Society that truly believed in the Flower Speaker as an extraordinary existence developed and grew at an unprecedented speed. Under the leadership of Pope Samuel, the Candlelight Society’s doctrines were spread worldwide in an extremely short time.

The Flower Speaker’s extraordinary power was real and solid. Faced with possibly approaching doomsday disasters, those large and small churches all easily changed their tune. Even if they were unwilling to join the Candlelight Society, they one by one declared their belief in the Flower Speaker as the only living god.

Oh, saying the “Flower Speaker” was the only living god wasn’t quite accurate. In fact, the “White King” equally qualified as a living god.

However, compared to the “Flower Speaker” whose fame spread worldwide and whose believers were worldwide, the low-profile “White King,” whose name was only known to trial participants pulled into the nightmare world, still couldn’t be found anywhere in the world, with only some information leaked by trial participants online.

But every trial participant who was told the truth about the world believed this existence who took maintaining world order as his standard must certainly be divine, and they unanimously became his believers.

With such unintentional results, these two personas – one with many widespread believers, one with few but elite believers – roughly speaking, hadn’t they conquered the world’s upper, middle and lower levels?

In the past, believers and such were irrelevant to Bai Yi, as he himself wasn’t walking the path of faith-based ascension to godhood.

But now that he had mastered the Principle of All Things that could forge falsehood into truth, then every bit of legend degree provided by each person believing in him as a deity was, for Bai Yi, energy that could forge falsehood into truth. Accumulated bit by bit, it was not only quite considerable but also endless, counting as “side income” beyond root power.

This gave him one more reason to save the world.

The more people who survived, the more legend degree they could provide him. If everyone died, what legend degree could there be?

“…By the way, Bai Yi, did you see today’s news? Our Yuanyang City completed another shelter. Has it been a month from construction until now? That speed is really amazing.”

Xia Jiajia’s words brought Bai Yi back to his senses.

He collected himself and heard Xia Jiajia complain. “Now shelters and air raid shelters are being built everywhere at home and abroad, underground ones, ones on plateaus, I heard some countries’ nobles are secretly building spaceships. You can tell they’ve considered everything from earthquakes to floods to tsunamis, obviously something big is coming. The internet isn’t even really controlled and lets everyone guess freely. Things are so obvious, why won’t any country just officially announce it? Making us all anxious, might as well just say it outright – if it’s doomsday then it’s doomsday, we’ll face it together!”

“Soon, soon.” Bai Yi, who understood the movements of various countries’ high levels better than anyone, said, “I think it’s about time.”

…Hmm, even if those people were still hesitating and couldn’t reach consensus, he would give them a push from behind

He gazed at the distant sky, points of illusory light gathering at his fingertips, transforming into two overlapping cards.

The state machinery that had begun urgently operating without showing it, doomsday rumors spreading worldwide, social order that could collapse at any time yet was desperately maintaining itself, people’s hearts troubled, restlessness, anxiety, worry, tension with nowhere to vent… the masses extremely eager for truth amid all kinds of rumors…

Everything had fermented to the extreme, the stage was set.

Just waiting for him to appear at the right moment, to dispel all doubts, all anxieties, all speculations, all hesitations with one strike, to lay out their clear and unambiguous fate before them.

Let this world, let everyone, walk toward the direction he had predetermined.

–It was time!

In the depths of the youth’s smiling gaze were reflected the slowly dissipating radiance in mid-air, and two cards floating within the radiance.

On the first card, a black-robed wizard held a staff, with death and disaster following him like shadows. Countless lost souls wove together to form his pitch-black robe, his snake-like twisted black hair flowing out from the wizard robe, his lips carrying an unfathomable smile, his purple-gray eyes like nebular vortexes gazing over.

Behind the card were neat rows of text–

[Calamity Truth]

[Incarnation of Calamity, One Who Takes Truth as Name]

[Source of Destruction That Bestows Despair Upon All Living Things]

[Obtaining New Life Amid the Withering of All Things]

His finger flipped, revealing the other card.

On the front of the card, there seemed to be two figures standing back to back.

The figure facing the youth wore snow-white robes and a snow-white mask, with warm holy light radiating from her whole body; behind Her was an existence like a twisted shadow. Ominous corruption spread on Her indistinguishably black robe, terrifying black energy streams dispersed outward with Her as the center, like a black sun that could explode at any time.

On the back of the card were similarly neat rows of text–

[Child of the Sun · Black Day]

[World Destroyer Who Extinguishes Hope’s Last Light]

[Savior Who Transforms Fantasy Into Reality]

[Idealist on the Path of “Chasing the Sun”]