WTYTIAAN Chapter 287

Chapter 287

The battlefield seemed to be paused.

Even the skeletal undead constantly emerging from the corrupted soil paused for a moment, their magical power supply cut off.

Keen stared intently at the suddenly appearing person, then sneered after a long while, “I thought you had abandoned them again.”

Keen’s voice was somewhat hoarse, his eyes hidden beneath the hood flickering with subtle malice, and an indescribable complex emotion.

Sylph let out a sigh of relief the moment he saw the newcomer, but upon hearing Keen’s words, he inexplicably sensed a hint of unwillingness in Keen’s tone.

Unwilling about what?

Was it unwillingness because his plan was disrupted? But it was clear that they were at a disadvantage now.

On Blue Star, people who were watching the Hua Nation’s official live broadcast day and night, originally thought that the end was coming, and had despairingly closed their eyes, but the sudden change left everyone in a daze.

The comment section seemed to be cleared for a moment, then erupted like a surging tide.

[Heavens, who is this??]

[Why did that necromancer stop moving as soon as he came out? Is this person strong?]

[It’s over, another powerful enemy has appeared, Blue Star is doomed]

[But he blocked an attack for the players? Looks like he’s on our side]

[God, save us!]

The scene in the live broadcast continued.

Theodore wanted to approach the person he yearned for day and night, but was stopped by a look from Yan Yunqing.

His gaze fell on Yan Yunqing’s robes, and he sensed that familiar authority, and suddenly understood.

So… he’s back.

Yan Yunqing’s gaze swept over Theodore, then over the opposing Keen and the Goddess of Light, one by one. After the return of his Godhood, he could see at a glance that the power of the three… actually originated from the same source.

The God of Light, Baldr.

The Archangel Theodore was a creation of the God of Light, and the power he possessed naturally originated from the God of Light.

And the power of the Goddess of Light also originated from the God of Light. She was like a doll copied from the God of Light, inherently possessing the characteristics of the God of Light. Yan Yunqing could sense a trace of the God of Light’s brand on her, or rather, a fragment of his divine soul.

Most likely, during the God-Devil War thousands of years ago, when the God of Light fell, the believers of the Church of Light secretly preserved a wisp of his divine soul fragment.

Later, in cooperation with the Eternal God Sect, they shaped this wisp of divine soul fragment into a new god.

A god created through extraordinary means. The Goddess of Light was a god in name, but she was like a puppet, without her own ability to think. She was just an empty shell.

But she had a chaotic ‘Godhood’ that did not belong to the God of Light.

It was those stripped ‘talents’.

“So that’s how you created a god,” Yan Yunqing finally looked Keen in the eye. Clearly, his previous disregard had infuriated Keen, as the black gas surrounding him constantly jumped, like a vicious ghost just crawled out from hell.

“So you really regained your memories,” Keen laughed in anger, the black gas around him jumping even more violently. “Yes, you finally discovered it.”

“Stripping the ‘talents’ of living beings and fusing them into a ‘Godhood’.”

Keen seemed proud and satisfied that he had hidden this from Yan Yunqing for so long. “That’s right, I create large numbers of undead to collect – ‘Godhood’.”

“How is it? Do you feel angry that the ants you have always ignored have turned the tables on you?”

The records of gods on the Ermann Continent were limited to those gods who were active in wars during the Age of Gods. People only knew that above the many gods, there were six gods who were born the earliest, and were also the most powerful gods. They were the God of Light, the God of Darkness, the God of Earth, the Goddess of Life, the Goddess of Wisdom, and the God of War.

Among them, the God of Light and the God of Darkness were twin brothers, and their strength was also the strongest among the six major gods.

Gods seemed to have existed since the beginning of the world, born with the world consciousness. No one knew that above the six major gods, there was also a God who created the heavens and the earth, and divided mountains, rivers, seas, and land.

The Creator God, who was called the Father God by the six major gods.

The ‘God’ in ‘Godhood’ actually refers to the God of the Creator God.

The initial six gods did not have so-called Godhood.

After the Creator God created different life forms, He observed the creatures on the ground from the Eternal Temple in the void, watching them slowly multiply, grow stronger, and gradually walk out of the areas He had planned. Even though there were so many unknown fears, they still chose the distance.

He was curious about this, but did not understand the thoughts of those creatures, so He decided to fall into a deep sleep and personally take a walk on the ground.

Before falling asleep, He transformed His body into seven Godhoods, six of which He gave to His children. The last and largest one was divided into countless large and small Godhoods, scattered on every piece of land on the Ermann Continent.

Thus, all things grew. Some Godhoods gave birth to new gods, while some Godhoods merged into the bodies of living beings, becoming ‘talents’.

This was also why no new gods were born after the God-Devil War.

Because the Godhoods of all the gods were taken back, condensed, and returned to their original owner, and were unwilling to be divided again, so no new gods were born in the world.

Keen stripped countless ‘talents’ and condensed them into a Godhood sufficient to form a new god. Then, he used a wisp of the God of Light’s divine soul fragment as a container, and placed this condensed Godhood into it, and the puppet-like Goddess of Light was born.

Yan Yunqing had only figured all of this out after receiving the memories that came with the Godhood.

Why Keen wanted to create undead on a large scale, strip ‘talents’, and what he ultimately did with those ‘talents’ all became clear.

Similarly, Yan Yunqing realized that Keen’s power also came from the God of Light.

After all, the God of Light was the first child he created, and the familiarity with the God of Light in the memories that came with the ‘Godhood’ even surpassed his familiarity with Theodore.

Yes, Yan Yunqing… was actually the Creator God with a strong curiosity…

In the Eternal Temple, Yan Yunqing was startled when the Earth God Flora called him Father God, and before he could react, he was overwhelmed by the ‘Godhood’.

The ‘Godhood’ was like a puppy abandoned by its owner, and it plunged into his body, not giving him any time to react, and just transmitted its memories to him.

It made him dizzy for a long time, and he was still a little dizzy even after all the memories were loaded.

It felt unreal.

Two sets of cognitions were constantly fighting. Before the memories were loaded, Yan Yunqing always believed that he was a native of Blue Star, who was tricked to this world by the ‘Godhood’ and forced to embark on the path of the savior.

And after the memories were loaded, the memories as the [Creator God] began to fight with the memories of [Yan Yunqing]. Yan Yunqing himself was a little confused, and it took him a long time to sort them out.

When he finally sorted out the mixed memories, he found that there was a mess down below, so he rushed over without stopping, fortunately, things had not reached the worst point.

…Of course, they were not good either.

To be honest, Yan Yunqing’s left and right brains were currently fighting each other.

One was [Yan Yunqing], who did not want the two worlds to merge, because Blue Star was also his hometown. He certainly did not want to choose between his hometown and the Ermann Continent. Choosing either one would make him sad.

The other was [Creator God], who as the Creator God, did not care much whether the worlds merged or not, because Blue Star did not have, or rather, once had a world consciousness, but now it was long gone. If the two worlds merged, He, as the ‘world consciousness’ of the Ermann Continent, could completely take over Blue Star – even the vastness of Blue Star was more than a little bit bigger than the Ermann Continent. The fusion would be beneficial to Him.

But whether it was [Yan Yunqing] or [Creator God], one thing was the same.

Whether the worlds would merge or not, Keen could not be left alive, or rather, the existence behind Keen…

“Are you angry? A little bit,” Yan Yunqing sighed. He was helpless with his left and right brains fighting each other. “So what should I call you?”

“Necromancer Keen? Or the God of Light Baldr…?”

Everyone on Yan Yunqing’s side looked at Yan Yunqing in astonishment, especially Merlin, the astonishment on his face could not be hidden. His gaze seemed to jump back and forth between the black-robed Keen and Yan Yunqing.

Keen was the God of Light?

Impossible, right?

How could Keen be the God of Light?

From beginning to end, he had been using necromantic magic. The elements of light and necromancy were natural enemies. He could understand if Keen was the God of Darkness, but to say that Keen was the God of Light?

Absolutely impossible!

Especially since the God of Light was killed by the Demon King himself, and at that time Keen was still causing trouble all over the continent!

How could they be the same person?

When Yan Yunqing mentioned the God of Light Baldr, Keen suddenly raised his head, his hood falling off, revealing a pale, vampire-like face. It was a face that Yan Yunqing had never seen before, extremely mediocre, and even somewhat ugly.

Because there was a hideous scar on his face that ran from the corner of his forehead above his right eye all the way across to his left cheek.

It was not Demetrius’ face.

It seemed that Keen did not use Demetrius’ body to appear here. Then was this body his real body?

After the hood slipped off, his face was extremely ugly, as if he had heard the words he least wanted to hear.

“I am Baldr?” Keen twitched the corners of his lips, seemingly trying to force out a mocking smile, but only squeezed out a ferocious and terrifying expression. “Are you crazy?”

“Isn’t it clear to you?” Yan Yunqing was not annoyed by Keen’s words. He just coldly looked at the ugly man in front of him, who was almost going crazy.

Was Keen Baldr?

It could be said yes, and it could be said no.

Because Keen was actually the greed, evil thoughts, jealousy, etc… all the negative emotions that the God of Light had stripped from himself, and transformed into a ‘creature’.

The black gas that always surrounded him was the embodiment of these negative emotions.

The God of Light ah…

Yan Yunqing’s mood was complicated, even more complicated than when he was playing the base-building strategy game and discovered that his familiars had all inexplicably fallen in love with him.

In the memories of the [Creator God], the God of Light Baldr had always been a very well-behaved child. Every time he saw Him, he would look at Him with an affectionate gaze, pitiful and lovable.

But precisely this all – whether it was the God-Devil War, or Keen who stirred up a bloody storm throughout the Ermann Continent – was related to him.

“I am not him!” Keen gritted his teeth, his expression fierce, staring intently in Yan Yunqing’s direction. It seemed that if Yan Yunqing said another word, this guy could rush up and bite him.

It really hit a nerve…

“Is that so?” Yan Yunqing remained noncommittal.

Yes, although Keen’s initial birth was from the negative emotions stripped from the God of Light, later, in the process of creating undead and collecting ‘talents’, he had also absorbed a lot of negative emotions from those tortured to death creatures.

Strictly speaking, the current Keen could not be considered a part of the God of Light.

“But I am very curious, what exactly is the purpose of you doing all this?”

As Yan Yunqing spoke, he pulled out the highest-level staff from his backpack, and pointed it in Keen’s direction from afar, “Before we officially start fighting, would you be willing to answer this question for me?”

Becoming a god?

Or revenge?

If it was to become a god, since Keen could create the Goddess of Light, then it was not difficult for him to become a god himself. It just required a longer time. Sooner or later he could shape himself into a god.

But why did he want to merge the two worlds?

Even though Yan Yunqing had obtained the memories in the ‘Godhood’, he was still confused by this point.

Blue Star was a world without magic. If the two worlds merged, who knew what the remaining world rules would be? If it was the world rules of Blue Star without magic, then sooner or later Keen would lose all his magical power.

His idea of becoming a god would be like drawing water with a bamboo basket – all in vain.

But revenge… on him? Or on the God of Light?

Keen seemed to hate him very much, but Yan Yunqing believed that as the [Creator God], he had no intersection with Keen. And as the [Demon King]… oh well, as the Demon King, he had indeed offended Keen severely.

After all, the Demon King had killed Keen once.

So was it revenge?

Yan Yunqing stared at Keen’s direction.

Under Yan Yunqing’s gaze, Keen suddenly laughed again. The laughter was too crazy. He was twitching while laughing. People who didn’t know him might have thought he had epilepsy.

Yan Yunqing’s left and right brains, which were fighting each other, were quiet for a moment, and a thought appeared in unison: Was this guy sick?

[Tsk, creatures made of negative emotions are just so neurotic.]

[Looks a bit like the classic villain laugh that appeared when I was watching anime before. It would be even more like it if it was accompanied by a “Jie” subtitle.]

[…? You are still thinking about those cartoons at this time?]

[That’s not a cartoon! That’s anime! Anime! You low-life!]

Okay, his brain started fighting each other again.

Yan Yunqing pressed his forehead. He forcibly broke away from the fused state to save the world, which caused this situation that looked a bit like multiple personality disorder. To get rid of this state where the left and right brains were fighting each other, he had to enter a long-term fused state.

When he completely merged with the stripped ‘Godhood’, this dual-personality state would disappear. He would completely become Him, and the strength of the Creator God would be completely restored.

But Yan Yunqing lacked the most right now was time.

“Want to know the answer? Then defeat me first,” Keen slowly stopped his spasmodic laughter, and said maliciously, “But can you really kill me now? Before the world completely merges -?”

Yan Yunqing frowned.

Indeed, there were only four hours left before the official launch, which was when the world would completely merge.

The memories brought by the ‘Godhood’ had allowed Yan Yunqing to find the key to preventing the two worlds from overlapping – it was still on Keen.

If the players were the loaded anchor points, then Keen was the control switch for all the anchor points. At this moment, the threads connecting the two worlds were constantly shrinking, and Keen was continuously providing energy for the connection points between the two worlds.

So to prevent the worlds from overlapping, the most direct method was to kill Keen.

No other complicated prerequisite conditions were needed. As long as Keen was killed, the gate would be closed, and the switch would be destroyed, then the overlapping of the two worlds would stop as well.

Of course, the Creator God, who possessed complete ‘Godhood’ and authority, could also directly stop the overlapping of the two worlds. However, what Yan Yunqing lacked the most right now was time?

Moreover, the ‘Godhood’ on the Earth God, as well as the fragmented ‘Godhood’ distributed in the bodies of other creatures, could not be taken back. In a strict sense, He would never be able to take back the complete ‘Godhood’ and authority.

What a pain.

“Then let’s fight,” Yan Yunqing raised his staff.

*

This battle was extremely anxious.

The staff in Yan Yunqing’s hand swayed gently, and countless golden chains emerged from the void, like ferocious giant pythons pouncing on Keen in mid-air.

Keen did not dodge or avoid, allowing the golden chains to firmly entangle him. However, in the next second, a thick black mist emanated from his body, turning into sharp blades that rushed towards the barrier formed by these golden chains – the golden barrier shattered into powder. A black shadow darted out from the specks of light, rushing straight towards Yan Yunqing’s direction.

Yan Yunqing also Go up.

In mid-air, two rays of light, one black and one white, collided from time to time. The collision of the two produced a violent energy impact, and even the space was constantly collapsing due to this terrifying energy impact, tearing out countless black vortexes.

Different from the cracks actively torn open by Keen before, these black vortexes were obviously just space gaps generated by the energy collision. However, if one passed through, they would likely experience a bone-crushing torment.

Merlin saw these space cracks and immediately told everyone to retreat, while trying to use magic to pull back the soldiers who were still fighting in front.

It was a joke. These space cracks were indiscriminate attacks. If a low-level person went in for a walk, they would basically not come out alive.

However, Isabel was seriously injured before this, and even Merlin could not exert his full strength.

It was not until this time that Merlin realized why this kind of binding was a curse.

“Get out of here!” Someone on the battlefield had already realized that something was wrong and shouted to evacuate.

As the space cracks became more and more numerous and larger, countless demons and skeletal undead were sucked into them and crushed into blood foam in an instant upon entering.

With demons and skeletal undead as demonstrations, no one dared to approach these space cracks and tried to evacuate.

Theodore looked at the two rays of light in the entanglement, wanting to step forward but was pulled by Sylph.

“Let go of me.”

“You are already at the end of your rope,” Sylph said unceremoniously, “You will only add trouble to the King if you go up – you can’t even break free from me.”

Theodore looked unwillingly at the sky, but was forcibly pulled away by Sylph.

“Don’t be the King’s burden.”

Zhai Yingyi watched from afar. He knew that the backup plan in the Dawn Project on Blue Star had been activated, ready for an instant nuclear strike on this place after the two worlds overlapped.

Because of Keen’s strength, their original plan had been modified. Originally, they were going to evacuate everyone in the overlapping area within twenty-four hours, and then carry out a full-scale nuclear strike.

However, Keen was extraordinarily powerful, and his weird tricks were too threatening to them. Once he had a chance to leave, the entire Blue Star would be reduced to hell.

So the backup plan was modified – no evacuation, just a full-scale nuclear strike.

When the worlds overlapped, they, the players who logged in through the game, would most likely appear in the last place they stayed – that is to say, they would be within the range of the full-scale nuclear strike.

They would not leave.

If the worlds overlapped, they were the most accurate positioning device – ensuring that everything here would be hit by a nuclear bomb as soon as the worlds overlapped.

And they would sacrifice themselves for this.

All the soldiers standing here were voluntarily left behind to become ‘locators of human destiny’.

Zhai Yingyi was also one of them.

He silently watched the two rays of light.

If possible, no one wanted to die.

Zhai Yingyi sincerely hoped that – that person could successfully prevent all of this.

Among the two rays of light that were constantly entangled.

Yan Yunqing’s expression became more and more solemn. He had already dropped the remote staff and switched to using a heavy sword. Although he had inherited the memories of the ‘Godhood’, he had not completely merged after all. For him, the heavy sword was more in line with his combat habits.

However, the weapons in his backpack did limited damage to Keen.

Keen had indeed possessed the strength to become a god – or rather, he had indeed become a god, even if he did not have a so-called ‘Godhood’, but he possessed the authority of a god.

‘Immortality’

The heavy sword in Yan Yunqing’s hand once again showed a dark red light. He slashed fiercely towards Keen’s direction. The sword shadows were heavy, and the blow with extremely strong deterrent force landed on Keen’s body. Keen still did not dodge or avoid. When the sword light was about to land on him, his figure instantly turned into a pitch-black mist. The sword light passed through the mist and landed heavily on the void, tearing another space crack.

Keen, however, was not hurt in the slightest – no, it should be said that only the black robe on Keen’s body was broken into a hole.

The black robe on Keen’s body had become a piece of rags, loosely hanging on Keen’s body, revealing the bones and dry branches intertwined inside, and the ‘heart’ that was exposed on his chest, which was extremely conspicuous.

Yan Yunqing recognized it at a glance.

It was the ‘heart’ rooted in the center of the monster’s nest.

He had seen that ‘heart’ in Theodore’s memory dream. It was the source of creating low-level creatures like monsters, and it was also what was recognized in the memories transmitted to him by the ‘Godhood’ – the origin of everything.

A seed of the devil from outside the world.

Or, call it the demon god of another world?

The Creator God decided to fall asleep, His divine soul entered the lower realm, and was reincarnated as a living being on the ground, using this perspective to experience the world – just as He finished dividing the Godhood and completely fell asleep, the world barrier of His world was broken by an foreign devil’s seed.

A crack appeared in the world barrier. The Creator God, who should have been reincarnated as a cute cat beastman, accidentally floated to the neighboring Blue Star along the world crack and was reincarnated as a Hua Nation baby, and was named Yan Yunqing by his loving parents.

And the devil’s seed that broke through the world barrier discovered that the owner of this world had fallen into a deep sleep, and the world that was left became its best hotbed –

It decided to devour this world and become the master of this world.

The devil’s seed hid in the world, stealing the power of the world’s origin little by little to nourish itself, accumulating power, waiting for the best opportunity.

And at this moment, the well-behaved God of Light in the eyes of the Creator God, could not endure that His Father God did not only favor him alone, but equally divided the Godhood and gave it to other brothers and sisters, especially since there was a twin brother he was jealous of, Hoder.

The God of Light instigated the God of Darkness to launch a God-Devil War, using the hand of the God of Darkness to plan to take back all the Godhood of the Father God.

At the same time, He was worried that His plan would be discovered by the reincarnated Father God, so He stripped all His negative emotions and turned them into the human Keen, while looking for the reincarnation of the Father God in the lower realm, while collecting the ‘Godhood’ that was transformed into ‘talent’.

The opportunity that the devil’s seed had been waiting for all along came silently.