Chapter 1639: Chapter 1231: Eve of the War’s End
"You know I’m here," Long Yi removed the bothersome helmet and asked with a frown.
"Yes, I know you’re here. Although at first I did not know you had disguised yourself as that Apostle, I felt the connection between you and the fake Long Yi. Through this, I discovered you," said the High-level Apostle.
The High-level Apostle had absorbed the power of every Apostle, and as one of the mightiest gods within the Divine Realm, its power was actually above that of Long Yi! In their clash, Long Yi couldn’t gain any advantage, and with no other choice, Long Yi exerted all his power and drained all his stored Divine Power, barely managing to blast a hole in the opponent’s breastplate.
At this point, both the Apostle and Long Yi’s Divine Power were nearly exhausted. The frantic Worm Apostle decided to immediately activate the device, its intent not necessarily to kill all The Forgotten Ones, but to forcibly brainwash nearly hundreds of millions of The Forgotten Ones. By feeding on their faith, the Apostle sought to regain its Divine Power, and naturally, Long Yi could not stand idly by. At that moment, Long Yi found vulnerabilities in the thought process of the Worm Apostle, whose Divine Power was drained!
Therefore, despite his severe injuries, he rushed nearby and forcefully intervened in the Apostle’s train of thoughts, twisting its mind back to before the battle had started. Long Yi then re-envisioned the entire battle process in his own way, instilling despair within the Worm Apostle, and ’killed’ it within its own mind. If the mind believes it is dead, then it is as good as dead. The Worm Apostle was no longer a worm at that point, but just an ordinary one of The Forgotten Ones, possessing Divine Status and Divine Power. Their thoughts are extremely fragile, which is precisely why Long Yi found an opportunity to take advantage.
Prior to this, Belle had been studying the device on the outskirts, trying to stop it. When the device activated, she could only keep interfering with the device using Divine Power drawn from Long Yi, ensuring the device wouldn’t fully startup.
Regardless, we finally won.
Winning was good after all, and the device ultimately did not activate. Long Yi turned on the outer radar to full power, to ensure not a single Worm slipped through the net. The results were good; not a single Worm slipped through. The device itself came from Giant technology, but it was also mixed with many other things. While it appeared quite complicated, upon closer examination, Long Yi discovered that the device was fundamentally unable to activate completely.
Worms will be worms, despite having learned some Giant technology, they were unable to integrate and comprehend it fully. Simply put, this technology was useful against a small-scale, limited number of targets. But once upgraded to such a large-scale operation, the device was bound to explode the instant it was activated.
In other words, we didn’t need to bother with it; nothing would have happened anyway.
Of course, this was all hindsight for Long Yi; at the time, he had no inkling of such an outcome.
The problem of the Worm Apostle had been completely resolved, but the issue with The Forgotten Ones still existed. Originally, the entire race of The Forgotten Ones had been mobilized for an assault! And they didn’t even know who exactly they were attacking this time.
"Simu, it’s your turn now." As soon as Long Yi left The Forgotten Ones’ Plane, he went to find Simu first, because the problem with The Forgotten Ones was really Simu’s own issue. She had gone mad from the parasitic Worms, created Crystal Poison, and because of tests with the Crystal Poison, she ended up creating The Forgotten Ones. Whenever she thought of the race of The Forgotten Ones, Simu would always feel overwhelmed by guilt.
She had been avoiding it for a long time, but now it was something she had to face.
"Even telling a small lie would be fine, to comfort those guys," said Long Yi to Simu.
"No," Simu shook her head.
"I will tell them everything, I can’t run away any longer."
Long Yi didn’t know exactly how Simu would go about comforting The Forgotten Ones, as there were only a dozen or so days left by Simu’s estimation. During these dozen days, the atmosphere throughout the Plane was extremely tense. Every planet issued evacuation warnings, requiring everyone to stay alert for information released by the Celestial Clan after a dozen days, the tension in the Plane was almost unbearable!
By this time, the Dragon Knights had already completed all theoretical learning, and their daily routine was combat training, and more combat training. Through the intense, life-threatening practice every day, they worked to continuously improve their strength and fully integrate what they had been taught. The future Long Yi, initially eager to join the combat training, was soon sidelined by the instructors. The reason was simple: Long Yi’s strength was too formidable, and as a Silver Dragon, he was even more so. If Long Yi joined the fight, it would only result in one thing—severely discouraging the Dragon Knights. So with no choice, after mixing in for a few days, Long Yi could only watch from the sidelines obediently.
As time progressed, the appointed day drew nearer. The training grew more urgent, and suddenly, with three days left, all training was suspended.
"Rest, take a break, relax your minds — and then give me everything you’ve got in the fight!"
This was a direct order from Long Yi. Excessive tension could lead to various problems. The atmosphere in the training camp had been too oppressive lately, with these warriors having been assembled here for intense training for more than two months without any real rest. They were like a spring that had been compressed to its limit; once they surpassed that limit, it would mean the spring’s own destruction.
