Chapter 510 - 511: This Is Hope!
The figure of the woman in black suddenly halted.
She slowly turned around, her pure black eyes looking towards the suddenly appeared figure in white.
Her face, under the blurred halo, seemed to show no fluctuation, but the surroundings became even colder.
"You won."
"Did you come here just to mock me? I didn’t expect you to have such a taste for cruelty."
The woman in white was enveloped in a hazy sacred glow, her aura entirely different from the woman in black.
She didn’t respond to the taunt of the woman in black, only said softly and calmly:
"I am not here to mock."
"I’m here to put an end to this entanglement that has spanned countless eras."
"An end?"
The woman in black let out a very light scoff on her impassive face:
"Our agreement was the struggle for this world."
"Whoever loses, leaves."
"But this person you brought..."
Her pure black eyes glanced at Aster Grant to the side, her tone laced with undisguised indifference and a hint of mockery.
"...is not a being of this world."
"This victory or defeat doesn’t count from the start."
"I have not struck him; I have abided by the agreement."
"The result of this era, nullified! Next era, we decide the victor again."
Her intention was clear.
From the beginning, their agreement was to choose a race in this world to contend.
But...
Aster Grant’s soul, logically, did not meet the initial qualifications.
Thus, the woman in black simply invalidated this battle.
However, the woman in white slowly shook her head.
The halo around her swayed gently, as if with a sigh.
"You are too stubborn, Sable."
For the first time, she called out the other’s name.
"Even if you eventually become the singular one, completely dominate this world, so what?"
"Your birth, your path, from the start, was to push everything towards predetermined Silence."
"Have you never realized that you and I are fundamentally two sides of this world, jointly maintaining the cycle of Life and Destruction?"
"You represent the end, and I represent the beginning; we inherently cannot exist independently."
"What are you trying to say?"
The darkness around Sable began to ripple slightly, showing her inner unrest.
She naturally knew all of this!
But who decrees that she cannot control this world?
Even if under her control, the world heads toward destruction, that is her own choice!
"Now you say this, are you trying to fight me?!"
"I do not mind!"
"Only, these fragile, embryonic worlds probably can’t withstand the Power between you and me!"
She wanted to become the ultimate one, but she didn’t want to command a heap of worlds turned to ruins!
She said these not as a threat, but as a fact.
Precisely because the level of their Power was too high, a move could mean annihilation of worlds.
Thus, they set an agreement to decide the winner through the races influenced by each other.
Chu shook her head again, her gaze passed Sable, and fell on Aster Grant.
Her eyes carried a kind of gentle entrustment.
"I would naturally not fight you."
"Summoning him here, I have foreseen this moment, and have... accepted this result."
She slightly raised her hand, pointing at Aster Grant.
"I believe, Aster Grant... will be the best Guardian and leader of these worlds in the new era."
"What?!"
Sable’s pure black eyes suddenly narrowed, revealing genuine astonishment for the first time.
She quickly perceived her surroundings.
Only then did she realize something was wrong!
At this moment, all the worlds controlled by Chu were actually linked with this human.
Angel World, Alternate Space, Azurea, Dragon World, Chyterra, Ghost World...
All the worlds under Chu’s control, under her Power...
Countless originally formless and intangible World Law threads, at this moment, seemed to gain Life and direction, rushing towards, entwining, and linking with Aster Grant!
Each established link meant that everything in that world began to bind deeply with Aster Grant!
If the Divine Position only binds him with the world, then this Power makes all worlds recognize Aster Grant as their master!
At this moment, Aster Grant’s body was frantically absorbing Power from each world.
His aura was climbing and transforming at an unimaginable Speed.
Even beginning to faintly emit an aura similar to Chu’s!
"You... actually transferred all your authority to this human?!"
Sable’s voice carried disbelief, the darkness around her roiled like a stormy sea.
This was no longer a simple racial struggle!
It was Chu peeling away everything from herself and transferring it to Aster Grant using the many worlds as a medium!
Once completed, this human would no longer be a pawn.
He would become the new, common living Origin of these worlds!
And Chu herself might completely dissipate as a result.
Even returning to a most primitive, unconscious state.
"I am only... choosing a better future for them, and for myself."
The halo around her began to turn transparent, her figure increasingly blurred, like it might completely dissipate at any moment.
"Sable, longing to be the one and only."
"But have you ever thought, there is not only one form of end?"
"One can also be... an all-encompassing source that nurtures infinite possibilities."
"Aster Grant is not an original soul of this world; that, precisely, is his advantage."
"He is not bound by the predetermined fate and Reincarnation of you and me, his path is opened by himself, and his future is full of variables even we cannot foresee."
"He, with a mortal body, has been tempered by time, won the recognition of the many worlds, gathered multiple Divine Positions around him..."
"Isn’t all this exactly what I pursue, the perfect embodiment of breaking the stalemate, opening a brand-new era?"
With her words, the threads of World Law linking Aster Grant with the numerous worlds became denser and more solid.
Aster Grant’s aura had already surpassed Divine Level, steadily advancing towards the Realm of Sable and Chu.
Sable’s pure black eyes were fixated on the figure at the center of that light.
Then she looked at Chu, whose aura kept weakening, yet with a peaceful smile.
She realized that when Chu chose to end in this way, everything had become irreversible.
Forcibly interrupting would not only destroy all worlds.
It would also cause Chu’s authority to spiral out of control, making everything return to absolute nothingness.
"Madwoman... you’re a total madwoman!"
"For a mere possibility, staking everything, even the existing world’s stability..."
"This isn’t gambling, Sable."
Chu’s figure was almost invisible, only her gentle voice was clearly audible.
"This is... hope."
As these words fell, Chu’s last halo completely dispersed like the dawn.
Turning into billions of the purest points of light, they gently sprinkled onto several worlds and onto Aster Grant himself.
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