When the plot-skips players into the game world

When the Amber Egg was fully activated, Aiwass could hardly look directly at it.

Just by staring at it, countless fragmented hallucinations involuntarily appeared in Aiwass's mind.

Laughter, tears, singing...

It was just like dreaming—even as in a dream, after an incredibly real moment, he would completely forget them.

Aiwass couldn't even be sure if this was his own illusion.

Was it the murmur of the Void? Or was it the remnants of memories from lifetimes ago? Or perhaps... the past "solidified" and "etched" by the Amber?

And just as Aiwass was stunned by the chaotic thoughts in his mind, Adil had already inserted the writhing Amber Egg into his hollow chest.

——Thump thump!

In the next instant after it was inserted into the chest cavity, everyone heard an alien, urgent heartbeat simultaneously.

It was a gigantic heartbeat mixed with the sound of metal friction and a kind of wet and sticky squelch.

It didn't sound human... more like some kind of giant monster about to awaken.

"This monster seems a bit premature."

Aiwass subconsciously remarked.

Before his voice even fell, countless golden threads, like parasitic worms, suddenly emerged from the Amber Heart, penetrating Adil's entire body in an instant.

And these golden threads, after leaving the body, immediately turned back to tightly wrap around Adil... just like extremely thin chains.

It was as if something was being desperately bound and sealed—

And then, Adil suddenly let out a painful howl:

"Uh uh uh ah ah ah ah ah ah——"

He abruptly collapsed to his knees, clutching his chest tightly.

Previously, Adil seemed nonchalant even when his heart was pierced, but at this moment, countless writhing veins bulged on his forehead.

No... those were not veins; those were worms wriggling beneath the skin!

His muscles began to mutate, and his whole body grew massive and menacing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Two meters, two and a half meters... in the blink of an eye, his body swelled to over three meters, only then slowing down a bit.

His skin turned from white to a distinctly alien deep blue, and the previously clear saliva, along with the bright red blood, all turned deep purple. The muscles swelled, becoming a transparent texture like blisters, with a worm inside spinning and moving like a fish.

But at this moment, countless whispers began to rustle in the void—

"Adil is the Savior."

"Adil is the Savior."

"Adil is the Savior..."

The voices of men, women, young and old, were there—at least hundreds of thousands, even millions of echoes!

——These were the Holy Words that Adil had previously repeatedly asked people to recite.

He was doing it to maintain his humanity at this moment and offset the negative impact of the Power of Nihility on his personality!

Under the catalysis of these voices, Adil's mutation was immediately brought under effective control.

Nearly turning into a deep blue mass of flesh, Adil's swollen transparent muscles instantly deflated, and he quickly transformed from a monstrous form back into a human appearance—even the color of his skin shifted from blue-purple to a corpse-like pale, making him look like a white giant.

Adil stood up, slowly looking towards the sky.

His eyes were a shifting gray, becoming progressively paler towards the center, while his pupils were a solidified yolk-like dull yellow.

The middle of his forehead suddenly split open, revealing a hole like an eye, like an abyss.

In the next moment, a dull yellow radiance suddenly shot out from Adil's "third eye"!

And then there was a faint, distant "ding~"

As if to freeze everything, the dull yellow rapidly spread, dyeing everything around in the color of an old photograph.

The fireball in the sky suddenly froze in mid-air, dragging a long tail, and those fleeing people were also paused.

Aiwass could even clearly see their faces twisted with fear.

The entire world suddenly became incomparably silent.

Even Adil, who had initiated this move, was frozen by that power!

In the world where time had stopped, Aiwass was the only one who could move freely!

Only at this moment... did the sealed memories finally get unlocked.

Aiwass finally remembered that he had not never seen this move before, had not never been here before.

In the previous ascension ceremony, he had seen this amber that solidified everything in the world during the Wild Hunt transformation ritual...

At that time, he witnessed it all, staying in that time-stopped space for a long time... until his mind became incomparably peaceful, like an ancient well undisturbed.

And if he remembered correctly...

Aiwass raised his head, looking at the flame vortex that was similarly frozen in time, turned into amber yellow.

The flames, resembling a sculpture full of life force, were frozen in mid-air.

And behind that flame vortex was The Sun at noon.

In an instant, the flame vortex was inexplicably torn apart, disintegrated.

Following that were the other fireballs, the protective barrier over the city, the flames already burning on the streets... and the giant tentacle monster behind Adil.

It was not due to some immense power... but as if it had instantly crossed countless times, reaching its own end, its 'death time'. Just like that, it passed away peacefully.

And as it dispersed, Aiwass finally saw something...

The original Sun, in this frozen time, entirely changed its form.

It was a giant, golden eye resembling a massive wheel.

It seemed like an eye, also like a door, and like an egg... or some kind of gemstone.

This is the Pillar God Amber.

And looking at it, Aiwass's heart swelled with emotion again.

He opened his mouth, wanting to call out her name. But he couldn't remember what it was.

——He couldn't remember anything.

Couldn't recall her voice, couldn't remember her appearance, couldn't remember her name... all memories were wiped clean, as if this person had never existed in the world.

Or perhaps, she truly never existed in this world.

Because at this moment, she was still just an unhatched, already tainted egg.

Undoubtedly, those features that seemingly had connections with the ocean certainly had nothing to do with the Earth Attribute Amber that belonged to the Winged Ones. Instead, there was some inexplicable link to the Abyssal Celestial Envoy.

The Amber Egg shouldn't be in such a tentacle-like flesh form - Adil's mutation seemed enough to prove that those 'tentacles' were some kind of worm larvae. And Aiwass had already seen similar transparent tentacles... which were the power Adil gained from sacrificing to the Abyssal Celestial Envoy using spells.

——Perhaps this is the reason why seawater can calm it.

The reason the Amber Egg hasn't hatched is that its power is continuously being devoured by some kind of abyssal worms related to the Abyssal Celestial Envoy. If seawater supplies them with strength, they can obliterate the life of the Amber Egg; and once the seawater is cut off and the worms die, the life force of the Amber Egg will immediately expand.

"Teacher..."

A tender, sleepy voice murmured softly.

This was the first time Aiwass heard the voice of Amber.

Indeed, he had never heard a similar voice before.

It was not even speaking, but more like a song. It sounded quite pleasant, with a lazy, slightly husky tone... as if a child was very sleepy or had just woken up.

The next moment, a slight crack appeared in the 'Eye of Amber' in the sky.

That's when Aiwass realized... the 'Eye of Amber' wasn't open, but had always been closed!

Behind that giant golden wheel was the true Eye of Amber!

As the crescent-like crack slightly fractured, the whole world began to tremble violently—

Amber's power continued to elevate, and Adil's body, like the previously dissipated invisible flames, could not withstand this power and abruptly shattered and dissipated.

It did not turn into a corpse, nor did it scatter into chunks of flesh - the power spilling from the 'third eye' directly broke his body apart, and the transparent worms hidden under his skin fell to the ground squeaking, soon being crushed.

Only a ball of pure white light, stripped of its unclean outer shell, was left floating in the air.

It appeared even smaller than a ping pong ball, emitting gentle, dandelion-like soft light.

That was the true form of the Amber Egg!

It circled around Aiwass for a lap, then instantly dashed into Aiwass's right eye!

Before Aiwass's eyes suddenly appeared a code:

[Amber Mother (Golden): Amber had hatched from the egg, born after breaking through its belly.]

And immediately, many garbled symbols and text began to appear on it, breaking and reorganizing continuously.

In the sky, Amber's eye was half-open... evidently about to wake up.

Just like the moment of waking, faintly hearing outside sounds and having a simple conversation with others.

Amber said in a slightly awake voice, 'Teacher... bring 'me' to life again.'"