Beating Instances through Words Left by the Dead

Chapter 731: Chapter 328: Dream of the Stars_3

At this moment, the structure of the vessel for the Great Saint Mother was simple and crude, no longer requiring intricacy, as if her objective was merely to have mobility.

She wasn’t wrong before; her current body really is just a puppet.

Wu Chang recalled the vision he saw in Professor Ebert’s resentment, ever since Erin’s artificial god project failed, the Ogre National Church had shifted to another route based on Erin’s experimental data.

From the Great Saint Mother’s body that showed signs of collapse with just a slight exertion, and the current simple and crude puppet, it seems the Ogre National Church’s route was to give up cultivating a perfect artificial god.

No longer pursuing perfect compatibility or the semblance of a god’s true presence, the goal was now set as a consumable that could temporarily house a god’s projection.

No wonder when he first saw the Great Saint Mother, he felt she was like a poor imitation of Erin, with a false sense of perfection, it seems it wasn’t his illusion.

Faced with the broken Great Saint Mother, Wu Chang still showed concern and asked:

”Your Eminence, Great Saint Mother, are you alright?”

The Great Saint Mother struggled to get up from the ground and said coldly, ”This body won’t collapse for the time being.”

Upon hearing this, Wu Chang felt relieved, as long as nothing’s wrong, just don’t damage Erin’s Pure Battle Armor.

He turned his head towards the direction of the Divine Temple and asked, ”What do you think of the Master of the Deep Sea?”

Having been slapped by the Master of the Deep Sea, the Great Saint Mother should have a good understanding of his power.

The Great Saint Mother staggered to stabilize her body and said, ”Very strong, his Divine Kingdom is more complete than I imagined.”

As she spoke, the doors of the Divine Hall had completely opened, and a writhing shadow slowly crawled out from inside.

Just like the Evil God Remains Wu Chang saw on the Silent Route, the presence within the Divine Hall was also a massive octopus, whose appearance was more like the mythical Kraken than any other.

The only difference was the pair of giant bat wings behind it, larger than the Kraken’s.

As it hadn’t suffered sealing or major injuries, its size was even more massive than the one in the Silent Route Dungeon, towering over five hundred meters as it crawled on the ground, like a writhing mountain.

It seemed as if it had become one with the entire Lost Continent, and the oppressive sensation from such a gigantic creature was heart-stopping.

As Wu Chang was observing the Master of the Deep Sea, his eyes suddenly lit up, pointing at a tentacle, he said:

”Your Eminence, is that your Sacred Fire?”

At the tip of the tentacle that swatted the Great Saint Mother, a white flame burned, small upon the Master of the Deep Sea’s form, yet burning very stubbornly, refusing to be extinguished.

Before Wu Chang could encourage the Great Saint Mother, boosting her confidence to not back down at the last moment.

The Master of the Deep Sea spat out a mouthful of black water, snuffing out the white flame at the tentacle’s tip.

Wu Chang: ...

Immediately afterwards, the Master of the Deep Sea let out a low growl, and sound waves spread around in the form of shock waves, passing overhead, extinguishing the white Sacred Fire atop the Great Saint Mother’s head.

In the Lost Continent, plunged into absolute darkness.

Except for a faint red glow.

As the soundwaves passed over the True Self outside the lost city, perhaps the energy from the Master of the Deep Sea had lessened upon reaching here, or perhaps the aged flame was exceptionally resilient.

The sound waves merely caused the flame on the wick to flicker rapidly, unable to extinguish it.

The True Self clicked his tongue, amazed at how a single shout could plunge the world into darkness, such great might.

He spoke to the All-Knowing Crystal in his hand:

”You saw what’s happening on the other side, right? The power the Master of the Deep Sea displays, even if Joy’s main body came, it would not compare at all. How can he possess such power in the Desolate Realm?”

”Is there any way to report him, he absolutely opened a cheat.”

Seeing no response from the All-Knowing Crystal, Wu Chang shrugged his shoulders, it seems the game administrators were slacking off, not even setting up an in-game reporting mailbox.

If reporting isn’t an option, then there’s no choice but to find another way.

”Can you discern his weakness, think of a way for me to take him down.”

In his Divine Kingdom, the Master of the Deep Sea’s attributes far surpassed his, to defeat him, he could only rely on the mechanism.

「Item Effect: Weakness Perception」

「Skill Description: Lock onto an enemy target, after observing the target in battle for 30 seconds, discern one key weakness of the target, cooldown time: one hour.」

He still remembered Schultz easily crushing Mercury and the others by seeing through their flaws through the All-Knowing Crystal, now was its time to see through weaknesses.

This time the All-Knowing Crystal didn’t remain silent, transmitting a piece of information into Wu Chang’s mind.

According to the All-Knowing Crystal, the Divine Kingdom of the Master of the Deep Sea was far from as powerful as it currently appeared. The power he was exhibiting was not his true power, but rather a clever manipulation of special celestial phenomena.

He possessed the ability to resonate with the stars, using the celestial alignment as an event to borrow the power of the stars, allowing his Divine Kingdom to temporarily integrate into the plane, plunging the world into a dream he had crafted.

The truth behind the Master of the Deep Sea appearing to bypass the restrictions of the Desolate Realm to set up a complete Divine Kingdom was that he hadn’t bypassed those restrictions.

His seemingly omnipotent strength at this moment stemmed from the fact that all of this was a dream; everyone entering the Lost Continent, stepping into his Divine Kingdom, had been noiselessly dragged into the dream under the influence of the stars.

This included both Wu Chang and the Great Saint Mother donning the Pure Battle Armor, all unawares.

This is the power of the stars.

To defeat the Master of the Deep Sea, the dream Divine Kingdom must be broken; to break the dream Divine Kingdom, first, the celestial alignment and the borrowed power of the stars that the Master of the Deep Sea uses must be shattered.

After explaining the weakness of the Master of the Deep Sea, the All-Knowing Crystal immediately provided a way to conquer him.

Meanwhile, facing the approaching mountain-like Master of the Deep Sea, the look of panic appeared on the Great Saint Mother’s face for the first time.

That panic was akin to when she saw Erin with the Pillar of the Divine Kingdom.

Her voice was hoarse and dry, she smiled bitterly:

”The completion of the Master of the Deep Sea’s Divine Kingdom surpassed my imagination, not to mention in the Desolate Realm, even in the Realm of Reason, few constructed Divine Kingdoms could compare to this.”

In the eyes of the Great Saint Mother, under absolute power, they did not even have the privilege to flee.

Wu Chang suddenly asked, ”Do you feel shocked now?”

The Great Saint Mother was stunned for a moment, not immediately understanding what Wu Chang was talking about.

After some thought, she recalled that when the Lost Continent had just risen from the seabed, Wu Chang exclaimed at the sight, which she had mocked as being a frog at the bottom of the well, amazed by a mere ordinary Divine Kingdom.

Thinking about what had transpired, even the Great Saint Mother couldn’t help but roll her eyes.

The body she had here was merely a projection, it would indeed be a shame to lose it, but it wasn’t much – this mortal, on the other hand, if he died here, he would truly die.

Why is this damned mortal so resentful, even on the verge of death, he’s still vexed about these trivial matters.

The Great Saint Mother cast a sympathetic glance at Wu Chang, as if giving final care, she said:

”I retract my previous statement, the Master of the Deep Sea’s Divine Kingdom in the Desolate Realm does indeed shock me now.”

Perhaps now when he dies, he can at least die at ease.

Having received the Great Saint Mother’s acknowledgment, Wu Chang grinned and said:

”Heh, next, let me show you something even more amazing, so that you may grasp the heavens’ height more fully, even if for a frog at the bottom of the well isn’t necessarily lower than you standing above.”

After saying so, Wu Chang took out a wooden carving from his hand.

「Wooden Carving of Martial Star Monarch」.