Chapter 1056: Chapter 562: The Pantheon Finale: Ring of the Nibelung (3)
The duration will also change based on the strength of the leverage, the positions of both parties, and the power comparison.
And once the other party recovers, you must bear the consequences yourself.
"This last clause has the highest limit, and it can even counterattack while escaping, but the strength of the effect is hard to grasp.
Moreover, the style doesn’t quite fit with a righteous character like me."
However, when Byron saw that the influence level of Hidden History had exceeded 30, he was able to draw that one-time Holy Relic, and he immediately made a decision.
This time, in order to drive the Mother of Monsters back to a state of chaos, the clauses are just supplementary; the Sacred Relics are the key.
Still, now that Byron had gained confidence, he was in no rush to escape.
Realizing that he could indeed communicate with [Mother of Monsters] now, he wanted to take the opportunity to gather more intelligence.
One must know the relationship between most Old Gods themselves, Old Gods and the Sea of Origin Matter, their attitudes towards the Material World and humanity, and so on, remains a mystery.
This is the first-hand intelligence that even the Kin would not have the chance to access, which determines Byron’s and the entire Material World’s future strategic response to them.
Thus, Byron feigned interest in the gift from the Mother of Monsters, grabbing onto her hand, which was still wandering.
He knelt down slightly, stared into her eyes, and tentatively asked the question he was most concerned about:
"Great Mother of Monsters, Your Majesty, I am immensely grateful for your gift.
However, I have a concern.
Why do you wish to return to the Material World early? Are you not worried that after climbing ashore too soon, you’ll be swept back by the Great Flood?
Perhaps you possess [Noah’s Ark] and do not fear the flood, but the other Old Gods also seem actively plotting to return; are they not afraid either?
I mean no offense, I’m just worried about when the Great Flood comes, you... ahem, what should our children do?"
The Mother of Monsters was very pleased with Byron’s attitude as [Father of Monsters].
Staying within memories from fifteen hundred years ago, it instinctively made her feel as though it were natural that no one dared defy her.
A burst of shrill laughter, still frenzied, came from her mouth, yet she generously answered his query.
"We have already embraced the Deep Sea; why do we need to hide... heh, parcel out [creator] that despicable wretch... reclaim everything we lost..."
Byron had to exert effort to sort out the useful information from the other’s mad ramblings.
He also understood the current state and possibly the future state the other might present.
His face changed repeatedly:
"Although the Old Gods were drowned by the Great Flood back then, they were always seeking to resurrect and return to the Material World, but those ’come alive’ beings are not the deities they once were.
During the Mythological Era, it was difficult to label a deity with good or evil; for one’s own clan, the chief gods of one’s divine system were certainly mostly good.
But the current Old Gods are, even if they return, already all turned into crazed beings with a penchant for consuming humans, without exception!"
Compared to Byron himself, walking the path of divinity, beastliness, human nature; the Ladder of Glory, forbidden knowledge, Mind Realm; the balance of spirit, body, and mind.
The drowned Old Gods have already, upon death, thoroughly embraced the chaotic Sea of Origin Matter, yielding to the instinct of beastliness.
In the "Human Theory," God said to humans:
"We placed you at the center of the world, where you can more easily observe all things in the world.
We made you neither belong to heaven nor earth, neither mortal nor immortal.
Therefore, you can use your freedom of choice and glory to shape yourself into any form you like, as if you are your own creator and molder.
You can transform into barbarism or be reborn as sacred..."
It articulates the transcendent essence of this world, [Anchor], [Sail], [Rudder] are all indispensable.
The drowned Old Gods not only have their [Anchor] connecting them to the Material World severed, but the key is that the control of [Rudder] is no longer in their own hands, where it sails they do not get to say.
The [Rudder] for the Kin belongs to the Old Gods, and the [Rudder] for the Old Gods belongs to the Deep Sea, the base color is no longer anchored in the self’s human nature but anchored in the Deep Sea’s beastliness and madness!
They can no longer achieve pre-death balance between divinity and beastliness; they can only eternally serve as the World-devouring claws of the Sea of Origin Matter.
Just like humans after death, even if transformed into undead creatures capable of running, jumping, and speaking, they will no longer be acknowledged by the Law Net and the world itself.
Even if some sanity is restored in the future and they successfully return, they will be nothing but a group of half-crazed madmen, even if outwardly normal, they will only be deeply hidden madmen.
If careless, they will be driven back into madness, into a state of chaos, constantly needing to consume humans to stabilize their current state.
Especially one adage from the Deep Sea made Byron feel deafening:
"In the spontaneous process, concentration tends to diffuse, structure tends to disappear, order tends to disorder, chaos is the ultimate of the universe!"
So Byron immediately realized that in the next flood, which is especially devastating and destined to engulf everything in the Luanyan Epoch, these Old Gods simply do not need to run anymore.
It is only they, preserving human nature as normal "humans," who will die.
There is no possibility of compromise between humans seeking freedom and these Deep Sea claws.
Especially since Byron’s obsession of being a "man as free as the wind" is far more stubborn than Margaret’s belief in the Church, he absolutely refuses to become anyone’s dog!
