MTLNOVEL Chapter 453: God!
"What is that?"
"What in Heaven can stop Hell?"
"In the realm of gods, shouldn't Heaven and Hell belong to the same being?"
"That is…"
"That's something even filthier and more twisted than evil itself. Something more terrifying than Hell, something that even the gods fear. The source of all evil across several epochs—Shenbo!"
"The poison of the gods. The very evil Heaven uses to control the divine realm!"
Some gods gasped in shock. None of them had expected that the Source could actually stop Hell. Even more unbelievable was the fact that the Source would push Hell toward Heaven.
What shocked them the most was that, theoretically, Hell and Heaven belonged to the same entity in the divine realm—order and chaos, unity and division. Yet when they collided, there was an energy capable of keeping them apart.
And that energy was the infamous Shenbo, long labeled as the greatest cancer and poison across several eras.
Boom!!
The Well of Divine Waves erupted from the depths of Heaven. The formless and invisible divine wave struck the underside of Hell. Ripples of divine energy surged through the void, continuously impacting Bardi. The divine waves reshaped their surroundings, violating the foundational structure of the divine realm.
"Ahhh!!"
Some gods came into contact with Shenbo and screamed in agony.
This time, Shenbo seemed… different.
In the past, Shenbo was like the oxygen of the divine realm. Gods could choose to breathe it or not.
To breathe it meant enlightenment, constant revelation, rapid ascension.
But very few gods willingly chose the path of the Source. Because Shenbo was poisonous. It would corrupt their uniqueness. Therefore, the only gods who walked that path were those closely tied to Heaven or harboring other motives.
Still, Shenbo had always offered freedom of choice.
But now, this surge of divine waves pounding against Hell felt entirely different.
A god made contact with the wave and let out a bone-chilling scream. Shenbo passed straight through his body. The god trembled, his face pale, his eyes refusing to meet Bardi's.
"Save… save… save me…"
He reached out to Bardi, desperate for salvation. But before Bardi could respond, the god's eyes glowed white, his divinity vanished, and his uniqueness was locked within his body.
Without hesitation, the god turned around and leapt into the Well of Divine Waves.
It looked noble and radiant, like a righteous act of sacrifice.
"What are you doing?!"
A nearby god shouted in horror. It was too unnatural. A deity who had just escaped imprisonment was now throwing himself back into what they all knew to be the gods' poison.
This couldn't be voluntary.
He didn't believe it.
They had been trapped on the Wall of Origin for countless ages, longing for freedom. How could someone willingly throw themselves into the Well of Divine Waves?
"Ahhhhh…"
"Poison… it's poison…"
"Run!"
"Don't touch the divine wave…"
"Run!!!"
The divine wave spread rapidly. Gods on the front lines, once mercilessly slaughtering angels, now screamed as the wave washed over them. Their eyes began to glow white. Without hesitation, they hurled themselves into the Well of Divine Waves and vanished.
The gods behind them recoiled in terror, retreating frantically to Bardi's side, eyes wide in disbelief at the nightmare unfolding before them.
"It's the Lord!"
"It's our Father doing this!"
"Father is showing pity to His children!"
"The Lord is helping us!"
"Devote yourself to the Father, and make Heaven whole again!"
"This once-glorious, sacred paradise has now fallen to corruption."
"Father has come to save us!"
The angels, overwhelmed with emotion, fell to their knees and cried. Their faith had not been forgotten after all.
Most of the angels were swept up by Shenbo. Filled with fervor and devotion, they surged toward the Well of Divine Waves, leaping in like pouring beans.
Bardi and the gods around him watched in stunned silence, their scalps tingling.
Something was deeply wrong with Heaven.
"No!!"
An archangel screamed.
It was Michael.
He tried to absorb the new Shenbo wave to fend off attacks from five gods of equal rank.
But after only a moment of absorption, his brave and fearless face twisted in terror. His usually radiant expression contorted.
"Father!!!"
"I've never betrayed You. I've conquered countless trials for You over the years. I've earned endless merit. Why are You doing this to me?"
"No!! Father!!"
"I'm not guilty!"
Gripping his cross-shaped sword, Michael cried in despair. His divine body radiated waves of divine energy.
Then, his screaming suddenly stopped. He turned, spread his golden wings, and hurled himself into the Well of Divine Waves, disappearing.
It was horrifying.
"What's happening?!"
"Lord, have we been wrong?"
"No, I refuse to believe it!"
"I don't believe it!"
Gabriel was terrified. He fled the range of the Poison. The remaining archangels tried to test the wave themselves, unwilling to believe the Lord had abandoned them.
In the end, Gabriel watched in disbelief as his fellow archangels one by one dove into the Well of Divine Waves.
The battlefield fell silent. Only the divine wave remained, pounding against Hell, echoing through the void like shattering glass.
The poison had spread through all of Heaven. Over 90% of the angels and gods were drawn into the Well like pouring beans, infected by the divine wave.
Gabriel and a handful of angels, seeing the truth, escaped from Heaven, bearing witness to this catastrophe, this destruction of the angels.
"Impossible… it's impossible…"
Gabriel and the remaining angels still refused to accept the truth.
Even if they died in battle, they would never retreat.
But why was it the Lord's divine wave?
Why was this happening?
They were not just confused. They were terrified.
Bardi watched silently as all of this unfolded.
Then suddenly, he stretched out his massive hand. The entire sky of the divine realm seemed to be covered by Bardi's palm.
Boom…
All of Heaven's structures, no matter how firm the pillars, how grand the palaces, how towering the sacred mountains, were instantly crushed into quarks. All was reduced to chaotic dust.
Only after the dust began to settle did Bardi slowly withdraw his hand.
As the chaos dissipated, the truth of the Well of Divine Waves was revealed.
They saw something unbelievable.
The dust cleared, and it became obvious that the Well of Divine Waves was a mouth—constantly inhaling and exhaling. The divine waves were merely its breath. A massive face began to emerge.
All beings seemed to exist within that face. It was enormous, vague, and in a deep sleep.
"God!"
(To be continued.)