Chapter 1241: 228. Wrath (XIV)

Heaven and earth were reversed with one another.

From the perspective of the pitch-black sun, He had originally hung high in the sky, overlooking all things, but now, because of this reversal, He had arrived beneath the earth.

And aside from the positions of heaven and earth being exchanged, none of the rules governing all other things had changed in the slightest.

Thus, that earth hanging high above followed the natural laws that still existed and suddenly fell toward that pitch-black sun!

This weight, as though it were an entire planet, was a heavenly might that even the pitch-black sun could not withstand. After devouring the Crimson Flame, He had likewise become extremely enormous, previously almost covering a small half of the sky.

But compared to the falling earth, He now appeared so insignificant.

Insignificant......

A dignified god could actually be insignificant as well?

Boom!

The blurry existence within the Black Sun had long since risen from the divine throne. He raised His head and looked up at the falling earth. Although He was silent, unimaginable wrath had already transformed into monstrous black flames that surged upward in reverse!

The solar disk ground forward, and countless black flames surged into a sea. This was a terrifying strike sufficient to easily erase cities, evaporate lakes, and devour mountains. Even though He was still only a newly born “infant,” He could still erupt with a terrifying might capable of shaking heaven and earth!

But......even black flames of such vast scale could not devour all the falling earth in a single instant.

The entire earth smashed down violently, like an enormous stone crashing into a fragile little egg.

First, the pure white corona twisted and deformed to a degree visible to the naked eye. Then came the pitch-black solar disk within it......although it was clearly closer to the materialization of a concept, at this moment it seemed to possess a physical body. Beneath the crushing force of the earth, ferocious wounds resembling torn flesh continuously appeared across the pitch-black solar disk.

Even the phantom of that Divine Kingdom began to sway on the verge of collapse.

It was like a star falling. The shattered black flames flowed helplessly toward the ground, melting enormous craters into it. Faced with this new unclean thing, the mist trembled even more violently. The entire Shattered Sea shook, raising raging waves a thousand meters high!

And within that surging rain of blood, the Love God had long been waiting eagerly!

“【Become a part of Me!】”

The enormous monster lunged toward the pitch-black sun. Those tentacles stretched outward like starving diners who had waited for a long time and could finally extend their knives and forks toward the delicacy upon the table!

Crunch......crunch......

The pitch-black sun ground forward, frantically devouring external things in an attempt to replenish Himself and repair the ferocious wounds upon the solar disk. But that heaven-falling strike had already shaken His very foundation. It was simply not something that could be restored within a short period of time. Moreover, how could the Love God possibly give Him that opportunity?

That sacred pure white corona was instantly torn apart completely. The thick tentacles finally pierced into the solar disk itself. While being burned by the black flames, they were also growing even more rapidly, gradually reaching toward the very core......

Dong!

Suddenly, an ancient bell rang!

The monster’s movements abruptly froze. Its tentacles stopped stiffly in midair where there was nothing at all, maintaining that greedy devouring posture and looking somewhat confused.

It discovered that the scene before its eyes had changed in an incomparably strange manner. The Black Sun that should have temporarily lost the power to resist and appeared before Him like a young woman stripped bare was now hanging in the sky completely unharmed.

And even the traces of burning upon its own body had completely disappeared.

Everything seemed as though it had never happened. The pitch-black sun still hung high in the sky, while the phantom within it sat high upon the divine throne and coldly looked down upon this unclean filth.

“【Hm?】”

At the center of the monster, countless eyes suddenly became ferocious:

“【Time reversal?】”

Compared to the mindless monster, the Love God immediately understood the current situation and then became even more frenzied and enraged.

Time Authority!

That fellow’s Time Authority!

Damn it!

If this newly born Evil God “infant” had already grasped Time Authority, then everything was different.

Putting aside whether He could break through such a troublesome Authority, He did not have the spare strength to continue tangling with this fellow like this......after all, fighting someone who could continuously restart time within His own Divine Kingdom was simply far too foolish.

After becoming enraged, the Love God instinctively immediately began calculating again......perhaps He should simply run away......

Hm?

Wait.

The Love God suddenly sensed something. The frenzied rage within His ferocious eye rapidly faded, transforming instead into uncontrollable ecstasy.

“【Thy Time Authority is still incomplete. Otherwise, thou shouldst have directly reversed time to an even earlier past, rather than this moment!】”

The monster’s body was unimaginably enormous. A single tentacle hanging down resembled a mountain ridge stretched across the land. But in reality, this monster formed from accumulated filthy matter itself could cause almost no trouble at all for the pitch-black sun in the sky.

Even with the enhancement of abundance preventing it from being burned and devoured one-sidedly, how could a mere thing of flesh and blood shake a god?

The one who could truly threaten Him was that old man whom the Love God had temporarily “awakened” through the Demon God’s blood.

That old man from a thousand years ago, whose strength was incomparably terrifying!

And at this very moment, upon the monster’s body, at the highest point of the countless corpses, that old man who looked as though he had merely fallen quietly asleep had already opened his eyes!

That was right, he was already in an awakened state with his eyes open.

If the pitch-black sun had reversed time just a few more seconds, only those few seconds, reversing it to before this old man opened his eyes and making some preparations in advance, the situation would definitely have tilted toward His side. After all, when the Love God had previously used the powers of the Mother of Abundance and the Silent Moon, He had clearly caught Him completely off guard.

But He had not.

That meant......

“【In the end, thou art still lacking by just a little......】”

Although He did not know why He was lacking by this little, logically speaking, in His current state, it should not have been because of some ridiculous reason such as “excessive consumption” that prevented His Authority from fully taking effect.

But lacking......was still lacking. A miss by a hair would lead to a difference of a thousand miles!

“【Muen Campbell, no matter how much trouble thou hast caused Me before, now......thou shouldst die!】” the Love God roared excitedly. After realizing that this was an excellent opportunity, He no longer had any reservations.

This nearly perfect Black Sun, even including that Time Authority, would ultimately become His spoils of war.

After resolving everything here, He could even continue plucking the fruit He had not finished plucking before.

Victory!

A tremendous victory!

He had simply won beyond belief!

Thinking of this, the Demon God’s blood surged frantically, and under the Love God’s control, the old man once again opened his mouth!

“Anchor.”

“Heaven and Earth Overturn!”

......

......

“Oh my, oh my, how miserable.”

Outside the anchored boundary.

Within the boundless mist, a certain white-haired, red-eyed loli girl was floating lazily, watching this heaven-shaking, earth-shattering “battle between two gods.”

She wore cute pajamas covered in strawberries. Within this pure white mist, she should have been extremely conspicuous, but neither the Love God excitedly trying to eat the Black Sun on one side nor the Black Sun angrily trying to eat the Love God on the other noticed any trace of her at all.

Perhaps it was because she was currently only a projection without any power and could not attract any attention at all. Of course, perhaps They were simply too focused and would never care about a harmless, beautiful young girl who was seventeen years old plus a few months.

“Miserable, truly miserable.”

Mela held her small hands behind her back, but her attention did not first fall upon the two gods slaughtering one another......after all, at the level of divine warfare she understood, these two were still merely pecking at each other like weak little chickens, so there was nothing worth watching.

Her crimson amber eyes flickered slightly, but what they reflected was the old face of that corpse: “I never expected that even after an old thing like you had been dead for so many years, you would still be dragged back up to cause trouble. If you had foreseen this ending back then, would you have done fewer bad things?”

He had at least been a famous Origin-Rank Grand Sorcerer from a thousand years ago, someone who had nearly completely changed this world. With how proud he had once been, he definitely would not have accepted that after death, he would actually become a tool in the hands of something like that.

Unfortunately, no matter how extraordinary he had been while alive, he was now only a dead man.

The dead had no right to complain.

“However......I will not pity you.”

Mela noisily sucked on her lollipop. Her little canine tooth appeared from time to time, while a trace of melancholy surfaced upon her baby-fat face.

Extremely distant memories once again appeared within her mind. She remembered that from a very, very long time ago, she had greatly disliked this old thing, disliked his methods, and disliked the path he had chosen.

And now that a full thousand years had passed......she disliked him even more. She even wanted to go up and kick his corpse viciously twice right now.

There were some things that even time had no way to erase.

......And speaking of time.

Mela’s gaze silently shifted to the other side, toward that pitch-black sun that was gradually falling into a disadvantage because it could not fully use the power of time.

The melancholy expression gradually transformed into pity:

“My adorable disciple, although you are also very miserable right now, you absolutely must not think that your very, very, very, very best teacher was heartless and deliberately made you endure this trial. I originally only wanted you to become a warm and considerate man and, during the journey, conveniently counsel that stinking dragon a little. Who could have known you would directly play things this big?”

“Seeing you become like this makes your teacher’s heart ache as well......it really hurts!”

After mourning silently for a moment and fully expressing the most sincere grief she felt for her dearest disciple, Mela sighed and spread open her palm.

Within her small palm, an ethereal phantom of a clock was slowly floating, and it appeared increasingly dim, as though it might completely disappear from here at any moment.

Correspondingly, the pitch-black sun in the distance found it increasingly difficult to restart time even within His own Divine Kingdom.

It was obvious that the Black Sun’s inability to smoothly use Time Authority was entirely Mela’s doing......if He knew the truth at this moment, He might even abandon His slaughter with the Love God and, filled with endless resentment, directly charge toward Mela.

You treacherous old loli!!

“Do not misunderstand. This time, I did not take the initiative to trick you......although I really did trick you a tiny bit, I am not taking the blame for your current state.”

Mela shrugged. Although she clearly knew the other party could not hear her, she still explained a little.

After all, suddenly going berserk and transforming into an Evil God......to be honest, this truly exceeded her expectations somewhat.

At first, she genuinely had not expected this brat to make such a choice.

And when faced with this situation, the first thing she naturally did was seal Eternal Clock. Otherwise, that damned thing was already troublesome enough by itself. If it could also grasp complete Time Authority......even she would become utterly helpless before how troublesome that would be.

“So, my dear disciple, should I praise you for your commendable courage and unconventional approach, or should I curse you for being unbearably foolish?”

Mela sighed once again.

If he had gone berserk because of some special reason, that would have been one thing. But to willingly release something like that himself, completely disregarding the possibility that he might never return......to do something this foolish, even when searching through a thousand years of history, he was probably the only one.

“However......”

Mela’s gaze shifted. Her eyes fell upon the final location, looking at the dragon who was still sleeping, and the corners of her lips curved into a meaningful arc:

“That stubborn fellow who likes to trap herself in dead ends, likes to hurt herself, likes to be alone, yet is more afraid of loneliness than anything else......perhaps only such a ruthless method could truly pull her back.”