Chapter 669 - 425: The Final Outcome of the Secret Sea

Chapter 669: Chapter 425: The Final Outcome of the Secret Sea

In the battle that destroyed everything, Lu Cang’s Core was destroyed countless times.

And it was reborn countless times.

Fortunately, these attacks weren’t aimed at Lu Cang and hadn’t deliberately targeted his Core. Thus, after being destroyed, it had ample time to be reborn.

Though the Core was the entirety of his being, it wasn’t entirely him, either.

Lu Cang could alter the Core to a certain extent, making it better suited to survive in its environment.

As for the Core beneath the Abyss of the Sea...

Lu Cang was observing that one as well.

He could see Demons emerging from rifts within the Abyss of the Sea—the rifts of a Dungeon.

’Perhaps, it should be more accurately called a Nest.’

The Demons emerged from the Nest. However, they were completely different from any Demons he knew. The ones appearing from the Abyss of the Sea didn’t have towering bodies or complex forms.

They were almost indistinguishable from ordinary people, looking as if they were merely humans who had manifested some Demonic features.

As he watched,

Lu Cang felt his Talent activate.

’Deepest Truth’ had activated.

As a "female" Demon with vacant eyes walked out of the Nest, Lu Cang felt his consciousness momentarily slip into an illusion.

But in the next instant,

his Talent completely dispelled the illusion.

As the illusion faded, Lu Cang understood what was happening...

Wherever it went, an illusory Space formed. Anyone within its Range would see hallucinations.

This, was a Tier Nine Demon.

’Could this be the legendary Master of the Nest?’

Nests had their masters.

According to popular speculation, the most powerful Demon within a legendary Nest was the Tier Nine Master of the Nest.

As for any concrete records...

Ha. No such thing existed.

Even the very concept of a "Nest" was considered folklore.

Most people knew very little about Dungeons. Commoners weren’t even aware of the existence of Nests. They only knew that Dungeons were habitats for Demons—maps where Adventurers could slay them for bounties.

And if a Dungeon wasn’t dealt with, the Demons inside would escape and wreak havoc.

What was a Nest? They had no idea.

Entering a Nest was not the same as entering a Dungeon.

Dungeons were typically enclosed Spaces with clear boundaries, limiting exploration. Entering a Dungeon through normal means, one could never see the entirety of the Nest-caverns within.

The only known method for entering the Nest-caverns was to Sacrifice one’s soul to the Dungeon.

Additionally, entrances to the Nest-caverns also existed in certain Special locations.

It was said that a complete Nest consisted of countless interconnected Nest-caverns. When linked together, they formed a complete Demon Nest, no smaller than any of the world’s oceans.

Some White Tower Scholars even speculated that a complete Nest might be larger than the entire world itself.

And now, this Tier Nine Demon that had appeared before his eyes...

’Perhaps it’s a true Master of the Nest.’

Lu Cang sat in the restaurant, the corner of his mouth twitching slightly.

He was beginning to worry more and more whether ’Unsolvable Mystery’ would actually work properly.

SWOOSH—

The Demons emerging from the Nest didn’t seem to notice his presence.

Thanks to his Wan Ge Transformation, Lu Cang’s Core was indistinguishable from any other rock on the planet...

And because of ’Unsolvable Mystery,’ it drew no attention whatsoever.

One by one, the Demons vanished from Lu Cang’s sight.

Some of the Demons dove into the deeper parts of the Abyss of the Sea.

The others rose toward the surface.

...

Lu Cang also saw the Red Legion deploy a magnificent Grand Array. A surge of bloody Qi and overwhelming Battle Intent pressed down on the Original Sea!

One day...

Two days...

Three days...

All anyone knew was that the Secret Sea was in turmoil.

Even as far as the Moon Sea, slight tremors could be felt...

A tsunami had formed in the once-calm Moon Sea.

Giant Waves, hundreds of meters high, rolled from the coastline toward the inland of Miselux. A Giant Wave of this magnitude would be an Earth-destroying catastrophe.

But here...

a Giant Wave hundreds of meters high was not really considered a major event.

The Giant Wave pushed inland for several thousand kilometers before gradually subsiding.

The towns in its path had mostly managed to mitigate the disaster.

The property damage may have been severe, but no one was truly harmed.

The only tragedy befell some of the weaker villages along the coast. A pity for those commoners.

「Ten days passed...」

The Moon Sea’s waves surged and churned, and the colors of the sky shifted bizarrely.

But in the end, it was merely that the waves were a little larger and Demon incursions a little more frequent.

This kind of extreme weather wasn’t even unheard of. For the residents of the Moon Sea, it was nothing to be surprised about.

They would never have guessed that the current strange phenomena in the Moon Sea were actually the aftershocks of the upheaval in the Secret Sea.

In those ten days,

The Secret Sea had completely transformed.

The war had gradually died down.

He had originally thought the Original Sea, or perhaps Sophia, would be the one to claim the fruits of victory.

But the final victor was someone Lu Cang had not expected at all.

On the fifth day, numerous rifts suddenly tore open the sky. Darkness flowed from them, and an Insect Swarm emerged from within.

He watched as the darkness stained the ocean.

It gradually dyed the ocean pitch-black. At the same time, the Demonic Insect Swarm began to charge the Red Legion.

They clashed with the legion.

The endless Insect Swarm clashed with the well-trained army, whose will was so unified they moved as a single entity...

In the long and terrifying battle,

the darkness permeated the legion.

Before he knew it, the Original Sea had fallen silent... Kumironi had fainted, completely losing consciousness.

Although the Red Legion hadn’t suffered major losses, it had already begun to retreat.

By the time he could take stock of the situation again,

The Secret Sea had become a sea of pure darkness. Countless rifts opened above it, and innumerable insect eggs were laid upon its surface, hatching in an extremely short amount of time.

The Secret Sea had become a paradise for insectoid Demons.

The Angel had vanished, the legion had withdrawn, the Lord of the Sea was no longer stirring, and the Original Sea had fallen calm.

Lu Cang could still see their Dates of Death.

Neither the Original Sea nor the Lord of the Sea were dead, but they were no longer showing any signs of activity.

Everything... had fallen silent.

The final victor, surprisingly, was none of the entities he had witnessed on the first day.

It seemed the darkness had won.

And the Insect Swarm had come with the darkness.

He had clearly heard that the Insect Swarm’s Nest was at war with the Dark Church, that there was bad blood between them, a long-standing feud.

He had even seen with his own eyes many of the Dark Church’s armies fighting within an Insect Nest...

And yet, now he saw the darkness accompanying the Insect Nest.

It had transformed the Secret Sea into a black sea, a place where the Insect Swarm could now live, thrive, and reproduce.

「Thirteen days...」

After the darkness completely swallowed the Secret Sea, the still-unconscious Kumironi was taken away by a black-haired woman.

There were no further changes. The Red Legion had vanished completely.

Now, the Secret Sea was filled with swarms of disgusting insects that blotted out the sky.

This place... could now be called an Insect Nest.

’It seems there won’t be any more changes. The final winner in the Secret Sea... has been decided.’

"So this is the fate that awaits the Secret Sea if I don’t summon Bai."

"Looks like it isn’t much better."

Although the ’previews’ of the last few days had hinted at this outcome, he could only be truly certain after witnessing it unfold himself.

After all, it wasn’t the first or second time that the ’previews’ had differed from reality.