Chapter 108: Dormant Recovery
In the dark Star Realm, flashes akin to supernova eruptions appeared from time to time.
The aftermath of the battle between the two Transcendent Dominators was enough to cause ripples on the World Barrier.
The Dominator of Mayfly was ultimately a step too late; the Heart Image Dominator had already plunged into the trap prepared by the Curse Crown before he arrived.
This was the first Dominator to fall since the beginning of this battle.
Inside the Ashen Day World.
Richard was tidying up the remnants of the battlefield with the reinforcements sent by the army.
Although due to the war's impact, the Shaping Energy Crown no longer provided Power of Dimension to the Alchemy Mecha, relying on Richard's own share of Power of Dimension, the Alchemy Mecha could still exert considerable combat power.
With this combat power, Richard slew the Quasi-Emperor Flow and then destroyed all the wormholes of the Galaxy Mayfly in this world.
The remaining Galaxy Mayflies committed suicide without hesitation, but their souls were swiftly intercepted by Richard using the Netherworld Rules.
Those slower to commit suicide were sealed up by Richard and the Great Wizard who came to support.
As for the Kings of Mayfly... the instant the Shaping Energy Crown entered this world, they were absorbed into the dimension by it.
The war in the Ashen Day World, theoretically speaking, had already reached its conclusion.
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"Our means are truly flashy, huh."
Richard stood at the center of a fortress, the Miracle Secret Book in his hands intertwined with various Powers of Mystery.
Beside him, the Curse Plague Great Wizard wielded his Magic Wand, and a swarm of dark flies surged from its tip, engulfing the entire room like a tide.
"Since there's no need to handle consequences, we're making it as disgusting as possible."
The voice of the Curse Plague Great Wizard had a hint of helplessness as he was currently clearing up the curse memes left in this world by the wizards.
Due to the astonishing efficiency of the command headquarters, at the moment when the Heart Image Dominator tore open a rift, all the methods left by the wizards in this world were activated.
The Day of the End, Curse Memes, Abyssal Contamination Bombs... any means that could cause trouble for the Galaxy Mayflies were basically fully activated.
Even though many of these methods weren't fully operational due to the interference of the Heart Image Dominator's actions, the portion that was activated was nevertheless enough to be headache-inducing.
"Hahaha, now the boomerang has come back; let's slowly clean up."
Richard laughed while flipping through the pages, under the guidance of a medium, the curse creatures within the fortress gathered towards the book and were subsequently sealed in its blank pages by Richard with Miracle Witchcraft.
Even though this battle had drained Richard's Power of Faith reservoir, as a Divine possessing two small worlds' worth of believers, regardless of the reservoir being emptied, the newly originated Power of Faith from the believers would still be continuously channeled into the reservoir.
This amount of Power of Faith, although insufficient for Richard to perform advanced Miracle Witchcraft, was enough for casting some simple Miracle Wizardry.
The Curse Plague Great Wizard looked at the Miracle Secret Book in Richard's hands, a trace of envy flickered in his eyes.
As a Great Wizard of the Curse School, he naturally could see that the Miracle Secret Book in Richard's grasp was of the same tier as his teacher's Curse Principle.
Although he did not know how Richard managed it, he could easily deduce that it was surely related to the contents of Curse Principle.
However, the Curse Plague Great Wizard did not harbor any jealousy for this.
He was aware of his own capabilities, and even if he perused the Curse Principle, he still wouldn't be able to perform like Richard.
He had great confidence in his teacher's discernment.
As a Curse Wizard, he knew he must restrain his curiosity and absolutely avoid looking at things he shouldn't.
"Alas, the disparity between people is daunting."
The Curse Plague Great Wizard sighed inwardly.
After clearing out the fortress, the air outside, laden with Abyss Spores, invigorated Richard.
Though Abyss Demons could adapt to various environments, they felt most at home in the Abyss.
"The pollution of this world has become irreversible now."
The Curse Plague Great Wizard, gazing at the sky with its already slightly darkened red ash-day, remarked sentimentally.
As he bent down and scooped up a handful of concrete from the ground, it was believed that any form of parasitic organism would be utterly incapable of thriving in this perfectly wizard-crafted concrete.
Yet small patches of dark red mold were growing.
The Curse Plague Great Wizard looked at these Abyssal Molds in astonishment and said, "I never imagined there would be such miraculous things in this world. Such minute entities, capable of altering the entire world's environment."
Although he wasn't a wizard from the Alchemy School, his basic knowledge as a Great Wizard informed him that this tiny organism harbored vast mysteries.
"This is the ultimate creation of the Predecessor Civilization Alliance, so it's normal for it to be formidable." Richard chuckled.
The Curse Plague Great Wizard sighed, "It's truly an awe-inspiring creation, the more one explores, the more one realizes one's own pitiful ignorance."
Richard patted his shoulder, gazing at the Ashen Day being eroded, and said in a relaxed tone:
"But it's because of this that we have the motivation to explore deeper mysteries, otherwise what else would we do with such lingering lifespans?"
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Cleaning the world took the wizards half a year.
During this process, the abyss's pollution had completely engulfed the Ashen Day World, turning it into a full Abyss World.
Of course, normal erosion wouldn't be this fast.
Even if pollution exceeds fifty percent, at natural contamination speeds, a world transitioning into an Abyss World generally takes at least a decade.
For larger worlds, it's not unimaginable to require several decades, or even hundreds of years.
The Ashen Day World was able to be fully eroded so swiftly was naturally due to Richard's continuous expansion of the pollution.
And he did it for the purpose of enhancing his strength.
On the vast plains, Richard, breathing the air filled with Power of Abyss, felt his cells becoming increasingly vibrant.
In the battle with the Heart Image Dominator, Richard's Bloodline integration progressed rapidly.
From the arrival of the Heart Image Dominator in the world to the descent of the Shaping Energy Crown, within just a few dozen seconds, Richard's Bloodline integration surged by forty percent.
As the sole descendant of the Abyss Titan, under the pressure of life and death, his cells displayed a strong desire for survival.
But such rapid integration inevitably comes at a cost.
The quick integration caused significant issues in the expression of Richard's Life Core; although his body became stronger than before, the internal conflicts between his organs and systems forced him to pause integration and enter a recovery period.
As a branch of the Shepherd Star Titan, the Abyss Titan also inherited part of its talents.
Among these, leveraging world recovery is one of the talents inherited by the Abyss Titan.
The Shepherd Star Titan can grow and recover by burying itself underground and absorbing the strength of the Earth Veins.
And as the Sixth Level King of Titans, Richard can even directly connect the Earth Veins to his body.
But as everyone knows, the Abyss is seen as a deadly virus by the world.
Before the world transforms into the Abyss World, if Richard dares to enter the Earth Veins, the world dares to use the energy from the Earth Veins to crush Richard until nothing is left.
"After transforming into the Abyss World, it feels like the World Origin has become friendly."
Stretching his body slightly, Richard took out his Crown Crystal Ball from his pocket and uploaded the curated directory of the Predecessor Civilization Library into the Wizard Dimension.
Then he unfolded his True Body and lay down on the plain.
This plain was a large Earth Vein Node; in the past, this node was the stronghold of the Galaxy Mayflies in the Ashen Day World.
Under the influence of his Talent Ability, the soil and rocks underground began to swap positions with Richard's body.
Richard's body began to continuously descend until it sank into the Earth Vein Node.
Under the energy infusion mixed with the Power of Abyss in the Earth Vein Node, Richard's consciousness began to blur.
"Speaking of which, I haven't slept in a long time, have I?"
Before falling into slumber, this thought suddenly flashed through Richard's mind.
After becoming the World Master, his body hardly felt fatigued under ordinary conditions, even when his spiritual power was exhausted, he would recover through meditation.
"I should take a good sleep."
"Perhaps after waking up, there won't be so many troublesome matters."
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With another major victory in the Ashen Day World, the war between the Wizards and the Galaxy Mayflies finally saw a reversal.
After their failure in the Ashen Day World, the Galaxy Mayflies no longer had the capability to launch an attack.
And the Wizards, due to the appearance of Subhuman Wizards, not only did not face a reduction in troops due to the End of Magic Era but instead became well-staffed because the attacks by the Mayflies had ceased.
Countless Subhuman Wizards, educated under the Wizard Academy, became part of the Wizard Army and were dispatched to various worlds.
Even the Edge World could be supplemented by the Wizard Army.
Moreover, with the growing number of worlds nurturing Subhuman Wizards, more and more Subhuman Wizards joined the army.
The Wizards, who had once fallen into a disadvantage due to numbers, finally stood strong on their biggest shortcoming.
"Asu, cover!"
On the bloody battlefield, Gawain, wearing Alchemy Power Armor, cleaved the Hunter Mayfly in front of him in two. But at the same time, a Witch Hunter Mayfly was already swinging its appendage toward his head.
"Coming! Boss!"
With a roar, Asu appeared instantly in front of the Witch Hunter Mayfly, withstanding it with an Alchemy Shield.
The appendage made an irritating Cutting sound against the Alchemy Shield. Taking advantage of this brief pause, Gawain stepped forward, and with his right hand's improved Instant Death Sword swung fiercely. The dark blade sliced through the appendage of the Witch Hunter Mayfly like butter.
Asu smoothly pushed aside the shield, and the old model Instant Death Sword in his hand suddenly overloaded, stabbing into the torso of the Witch Hunter Mayfly.
With the erosion of highly concentrated Death Energy, the Witch Hunter Mayfly instantly became motionless.
Without speaking, the two finished processing and immediately headed to the nearest target.
Having been comrades-in-arms for centuries, their mutual understanding was already intimate.
As the setting sun fell westward, the last Witch Hunter Mayfly on the battlefield was slain by the Wizards.
Gawain, holding a Metal ingot, walked over to Asu and casually slapped it onto the crack in Asu's armor.
Although the situation for the Wizards is no longer as dire as before, old Wizards like Gawain still favor simple and quick solutions like this.
Asu glanced at the crack and suddenly smiled.
"Hey, boss, doesn't this crack look familiar?"
"Familiar?"
Gawain looked at the crack on the armor, and a distant memory suddenly flashed in his mind.
It was a memory from three hundred years ago, from when he was just a rookie.
"It's the crack from the Ashen Day Triumph, isn't it?" Gawain's face showed a hint of nostalgia, "That battle was really perilous, almost got killed there."
Asu nodded, a trace of fear crossing his face.
"Indeed, it was perilous, if I hadn't been quick-witted, I might have died in that illusion."
Gawain nodded, as a grand figure suddenly flashed in his mind.
"Speaking of which, ever since the Ashen Day Triumph, news about the Miracle Crown has been scarce."
"Miracle Crown? I heard this esteemed one was gravely injured during the Ashen Day Triumph, and should be recuperating now."
After speaking, Asu rubbed his chin, counted the time, and spoke again: "But it's been three hundred years now, the Crown Throne should awaken by now."