Chapter 105: Confrontation on the Thread of Destiny
Endless Dimension.
The immense white bone altar was as large as a mountain. Beside the altar, a colossal figure, even more majestic than the altar itself, continuously placed strange offerings onto the altar.
A deep incantation echoed from the colossal figure, its words archaic and enigmatic, as if piercing through time from an ancient era.
Countless mysterious forces converged within the chant, eventually transforming into a hand.
A hand powerful enough to stir destiny.
"Has it come to this already?"
The Curse Crown stood before the altar, his face beneath the hood extremely somber.
The speed at which the Dominator of Mayfly was arriving was somewhat beyond his expectations.
He waved his Magic Wand slightly, and the hand formed by the Power of Mystery fell onto Richard's Thread of Destiny.
At this moment, Richard's Thread of Destiny had become as frail as a strand of hair.
Under the suppression of five Threads of Destiny from the Dominator of Mayfly, even with the protection of a Previous Civilization, Richard's Thread of Destiny, who had yet to become a Dominator, had reached an extremely critical point.
Bang!
A faint explosive sound echoed.
Soon after, the mysterious force hand, condensed by the Curse Crown, transformed into countless smaller hands.
These smaller hands entered the Destiny Dimension, quietly manipulating those Threads of Destiny connected to the Curse Crown's own Thread of Destiny.
All these Threads of Destiny belonged to wizards of the Curse School. In the past, they shared the destiny fluctuations for the Curse Crown, but now, their role had been reversed.
Now they served as weapons for the Curse Crown's attack.
With the manipulation of the Threads of Destiny, countless waves converged, transforming into a violent destiny shock.
Under the influence of the mysterious force, this wave followed Richard's Thread of Destiny, striking a Dominion's Thread of Destiny away to the side.
Compared to the techniques of the Civilization Devourer, the Curse Crown's methods appeared quite clumsy.
But as the Crown of the Wizard Civilization, the destiny resources he could mobilize surpassed that of the Civilization Devourer.
At the same time as the Thread of Destiny was struck away, a Dominator of Mayfly, who was originally about to head to the Ashen Day World, suddenly paused.
An unexpected Dimension Storm forced him to temporarily halt.
"Success, one."
The Curse Crown spat out a crow from his mouth. As soon as the crow appeared, it seemed to defy the rules, instantly crossing space to a location unknown light-years away from the Curse Crown.
There, a Star Realm Master resembling a balance was confronting the Civilization Devourer in a destiny clash.
"Success, one."
The crow uttered the Curse Crown's voice. Hearing this news, one side of the balance of the Star Realm Master suddenly tilted.
"Finally succeeded in one."
Over the past few months, he and the other Dominators of several civilizations had fought the Civilization Devourer with earth-shattering intensity.
Amid the destiny shock, all Prediction Techniques in the World Community had failed.
The only successful Prediction Techniques were preconditions of a certain event's occurrence.
Which means a result of human interference.
The success of the Galaxy Mayfly's predictions wasn't due to good fortune, but because the Destiny Devourer preserved the interaction between the Heart Image Dominator and Richard's Thread of Destiny.
Allowing the event to proceed smoothly.
The crow didn't stay. After delivering the Curse Crown's message, it tore through space once again, heading to a new location.
It was tasked with passing this message to all Dominators participating in this battle.
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Ashen Day World.
Richard, without knowing why, suddenly felt a lightness, as if he had shed some heavy burden.
But upon careful sensing, he realized his physical state was the same as before.
As though that feeling was merely an illusion.
"Could it be that this guy used mental techniques on me to confuse my perception?"
Richard pondered in his mind while continuing to swing his hammer to block the Energy Gathering Light Spear of the Heart Image Dominator.
Beside him, the Heart Image Dominator, controlling the body of the Quasi-Emperor Flowing Light, was flashing continuously in the air.
Every flash brought an Energy Gathering Light Spear with an Energy Level exceeding ten million, flying towards Richard at the speed of light.
Although the Quasi-Emperor Flowing Light was a Physique Evolution creature, the Heart Image Dominator himself pursued Spiritual Evolution.
He preferred to capture Richard using his superior Energy Techniques rather than engaging in close combat.
Yes, capture.
During the battle, the Heart Image Dominator had covertly discovered through Mind Invasion that the Miracle Furnace resided within Richard's soul.
To prevent the Miracle Furnace from falling into the hands of other races, capturing Richard and then extracting the soul-embedded Miracle Furnace was the safest plan.
This was why Richard was still alive... at least, that's what the Heart Image Dominator believed.
Buzz!
Another Light Spear shot towards Richard.
Richard instinctively swung his hammer to block, but this time, his energy circulation suddenly faltered for a moment, failing to stop the Energy Gathering Light Spear.
In an instant, Richard's chest exploded.
Under the scattering flesh, a deep wound down to the bone appeared, looking horrifying.
A trace of horror flashed through Richard's heart.
"Why did my movements slow for a moment? What did he do to me?"
Endless Dimension.
The Destiny Devourer retracted the half-disappeared tentacle due to guiding a destiny ripple.
Countless tentacles on him delve into the void, entering a world even deeper than the Endless Dimension — a dimension belonging solely to destiny.
His tentacles pluck the Threads Of Destiny like strumming harp strings, and even though he's still in a weakened state, and even if he has to face several Dominators who, within their own civilizations, could shake them by merely stomping, he shows not the slightest sign of panic.
Or rather, he lacks the capacity for panic altogether.
He is the shadow of war, the Swallower of the defeated, the destroyer of civilizations.
His existence is difficult to summarize with the simple word 'life', he is rather like a dimension, a civilization, a fusion of countless lives or even a prison.
Such an existence could hardly possess emotions, these evolutionary errors of living beings.
Hum!
A ripple of destiny struck.
Although many Dominators cannot find him, they can attack the Civilization Devourer through the connections of the Threads of Destiny.
Under the destiny ripple, the Destiny Net woven by the Destiny Devourer surged like ocean waves, and countless tentacles vanished into thin air, as if they had never existed.
Under this wave of destiny, Richard's Thread Of Destiny subtly wavered.
The Dominators' Threads of Destiny, connected to his, also showed minor "deviations."
In the Material World, several Dominators of Mayfly faced minor mishaps, either accidentally bumping into the Illusionary Dimension Dominator or encountering a minor time-space storm.
In short, their steps were stalled.
But soon, the Destiny Devourer launched a counterattack of his own.
Countless Threads Of Destiny were disturbed, and a massive destiny ripple, capable of causing significant deviations even in Dominators' Threads of Destiny, followed Richard's Thread Of Destiny to attack several Threads Of Destiny belonging to Truth Wizards.
The Heart Image Dominator had already interacted with Richard, and even if none of the other Dominators of Mayfly came, as long as they could obstruct the arrival of a Truth Wizard, Richard would still die.
Under this wave of destiny, several Truth Wizards headed for the Ashen Day World also faced various unexpected events.
In the Endless Dimension, the Shaping Energy Crown and Alchemy Crown almost simultaneously looked towards the void. Although they couldn't see the confrontation in the Destiny Dimension, they knew the unexpected situations they encountered must be related to the clash between the Curse Crown and the Civilization Devourer.
"Is he really that troublesome."
The Shaping Energy Crown's expression was calm; he was well aware of the scale of planning by the Curse Crown this time.
Five Eighth Level Star Realm Masters, all adept in destiny.
This setup basically gathered all the Dominators adept in destiny from the entire World Community.
To put it bluntly, these Dominators working together, even someone like him, a Breaking Limit Sovereign, would be trapped in the Endless Dimension, never to return to the Material World.
Given time, if they teamed up, cursing a civilization to death wouldn't be an exaggeration.
And yet, such an assembly couldn't stop the Civilization Devourer's actions.
What kind of monster indeed is the Civilization Devourer.
"Shaping, did you encounter any accidents?"
The voice of the Alchemy Crown rang in the Shaping Energy Crown's ears.
"I did, encountered some unfortunate being."
The Shaping Energy Crown looked at the jellyfish before him, the size of a continent, and said lightly.
"Seems like the curse's plan isn't that foolproof after all." Alchemy Crown's voice carried a hint of mockery.
"What did you encounter?" Shaping Energy Crown asked.
Alchemy Crown looked at the complex construct composed of countless gears and levers before him, even though the aura on the construct had reached the Eighth Level, he nonchalantly said:
"Just a minor issue. The little thing I exiled into the Endless Dimension years ago has grown and returned."
"Then hurry up and resolve it. The Curse said, destiny isn't immutable. As long as we don't slack off, destiny will help us return to our original track."
Even among the Star Realm, Star Realm Masters are among the strongest beings.
The Threads Of Destiny of these beings are no longer existences that can be easily manipulated. Even if a destiny ripple can cause deviations in their Threads Of Destiny, as long as they realize the drift in destiny and change their stance, the deviated Threads Of Destiny can return to the right path.
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Ashen Day World.
Richard wielded the Titan's Hammer, continuously shattering the Energy Gathering Light Spears coming from all directions.
The occasional sluggishness in his internal operations turned the battle which should have been evenly matched into an exceedingly difficult one.
Richard was now certain that he must have been cursed or something similar.
The stagnation in energy operation, something that only existed as a probability, was frequently occurring in him.
This was too suspicious.
Bam!
Another instance of operational delay.
More than 30 million Energy Gathering Light Spears instantly tore open Richard's abdomen, leaving a huge void.
Even though the void healed completely in a moment, Richard's aura was significantly weakened.
"Firebrand, won't you surrender yet? If you do, maybe you might at least die a bit easier later."
The body of the Heart Image Dominator flickered continuously in the air, and the taunting insect-like hum came from all directions, seeming like a demonic echo.
"Destiny isn't on your side."