pertwk Chapter 4237 The Ultimate Mission
Chapter 4237 The Ultimate Mission
Chapter 4237 The Ultimate Mission
Angell and Gray Porcelain exchanged a glance, then nodded to each other.
"I'll go first."
Angell stepped onto the winding strip of light that stretched out in front of him. It felt as if he were walking on glass, with a strong sense of being lifted up, without any feeling of floating.
Gray Porcelain followed, clearly somewhat timid, and only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that it was firmly planted on solid ground.
"Let's go. If nothing unexpected happens, the Prison of All Knowledge is at the end of this road."
Angel had thought it would take some time to walk along this band of light, since, visually speaking, the distance between the starting point of the band of light and the vicinity of the light pillar was still quite far.
In reality, they didn't walk for very long.
The light band beneath their feet seemed to have a built-in teleportation mechanism. With each step Angor and Gray Porcelain took forward, the surrounding scenery was like a rapidly rewinding picture, instantly left behind by them.
In just two steps, he traversed two paths of flying books.
A few seconds later, they crossed half a void layer and arrived at the pillar of light.
When they arrived near the pillar of light, they discovered blurry figures on the other two light bands. This blurriness lasted only a moment, and the next second the blurry figures became clear.
It was Gabriel and the bunny girl.
"Is this how we cross space?" Gray Porcelain murmured, first blurring in appearance, then solidifying.
A single step covers a thousand meters; the initial impression is followed by the realization of reality.
"I just got here and I heard you muttering something. What are you muttering about?" Gabriel's voice came from the other side of the light strip.
"I'm about to face the ultimate demon king, I don't want to argue right now..." Gray Porcelain snorted.
"Who wants to argue with you?" Gabriel sneered, manipulating the illusion puppet, and looked ahead. Angor and the rabbit girl had already stepped onto the light strip at the end.
When the three light bands reach their end, they will converge into a thicker light band that extends into the pillar of light.
"Did you see anything?" the rabbit girl asked in a low voice as she approached Angel.
Angell knew what she wanted to ask.
He has a God's-eye view, so he might be able to see what's happening at the end of the band of light.
“The pillar of light is a special passage, and it connects to…” Before Angel could finish his answer, he heard footsteps behind him.
Gray Porcelain and Gabriel have caught up.
Angell stopped speaking.
At this point, whether it's told or not, whether it's seen or not, is no longer important.
As long as you keep moving forward, the answer will naturally appear.
"Commander, Mr. Angell..." Gray Porcelain hesitated, gazing at the enormous gilded pillar of light at the end of the band of light. A sense of danger lingered in its heart.
This danger is far more terrifying than all the book demons we've encountered before combined.
If nothing unexpected happens, the danger sensor should be targeting...that being.
Only He could evoke such an intense and extreme sense of fear in gray porcelain.
The gray porcelain wanted to say something to back down, but it knew it had come this far and there was no turning back. After a moment's hesitation, it simply whispered:
"I feel it's dangerous up ahead, maybe... maybe we should rest here for a bit?"
Gray Porcelain was speaking to the commander and Angel, but before they could respond, Gabriel said first, "Let's not rest anymore. I feel like your emotions are a bit off right now."
"While we still have the willpower, let's go in one go."
Gabriel worried that the more Gray Porcelain rested, the more his spirit would be suppressed by his timidity. And then, it would be difficult to muster that spirit again.
Of course, gray porcelain understands it too.
It kept its mouth shut and didn't respond, but its eyelashes kept trembling, clearly still having an internal struggle.
But just a moment later, it suddenly opened its eyes, took a deep breath, and said in a slightly strained but decisive voice: "No more rest! Let's go straight in!"
Then, amidst the astonished gazes of the crowd, he disregarded everything and strode forward.
In just one step, it traversed dozens of meters and arrived in front of the pillar of light.
It stubbornly took another step forward, and then disappeared into the pillar of light...
The others in the rabbit hole who witnessed this scene were all speechless.
Gabriel scratched the illusion doll's head with his tentacles: "Is it really that fragile?"
It didn't provoke me much, so why did the gray porcelain suddenly come out?
Angell glanced at Gabriel and said softly, "You've actually misunderstood something. While it's true that the spirit of the Gray Porcelain is prone to decline and eventually exhaustion, it's also easier for it to generate new spirit than for others."
When gray porcelain is extremely timid, just add a little bit of "self-esteem" and it will regain a bit of spirit.
This kind of ambition isn't true ambition; it's just recklessness.
Although "reckless" is often a derogatory term, it is quite fitting to describe Gray Porcelain Head. As a special talent, recklessness will not bring it too much danger; on the contrary, it can help it break through the encirclement.
Like Normefenes' labyrinth.
Once Gray Porcelain entered the maze, it lost its ability to think and blindly followed its innate senses, ignoring everything else.
Then, it cleared the level.
Gabriel nodded thoughtfully.
"It's time for us to go."
“This checkpoint is probably the longest we’ve ever faced. People outside are probably past noon by now.” Angell: “Don’t waste any more time. The sooner we clear it, the easier it will be.”
Angel took two steps forward, and with a flash of his phantom, he entered the pillar of light.
Not to be outdone, the rabbit girl and Gabriel followed.
……
The moment Gray Porcelain stepped into the pillar of light, she actually regretted it a little.
But often, the impulsiveness that comes with recklessness leads to consequences that are hard to regret.
For example, right now, as it enters the beam of light, it feels as if it has stepped into empty air and begins to fall continuously.
There was absolutely no room for maneuver; it plummeted at an incredibly high speed for tens of meters... hundreds of meters...
Surrounded by shimmering gold light, it had no idea how long it had been falling; it only felt as if it were weightless inside a circular tube.
The wind was still howling in her ears, and the tinnitus hadn't stopped, but Gray Porcelain suddenly sensed something was wrong... The force of the fall suddenly lessened, as if something was supporting it, and the speed suddenly slowed down.
In a short while, the feeling of weightlessness completely disappeared, and it floated down slowly like a feather.
Just then, the space below finally became clear.
It was a huge circular hall with a floor polished from lapis lazuli, gleaming with a cold, eerie light, and piled high with books of all sizes and colors.
Some were laid out, others were stacked. From a height, they should have looked chaotic, but in the instant the eye swept over them, one could vaguely sense that the arrangement of those books contained some indescribable pattern, like a deliberately laid-out design.
But the books on the ground aren't the point; the ones in mid-air are.
In the very center of the hall, suspended in mid-air, was an oval-shaped cocoon of light wrapped in countless books.
The pages of the book were still trembling slightly, and a faint silver glow seeped out from the cocoon of light, within which one could see tiny shadows of the book moving about.
But before Gray Porcelain could take a further look, it was abruptly cut off by a sharp pang of heart palpitation.
Its danger-sensing talent was alarming in its mind like crazy, the buzzing sound drowning out the tinnitus, even its fingertips were numb, and it didn't even dare to look at the cocoon of light again.
It fell straight down slowly to the floor of the hall.
After the gray porcelain hit the ground, its first instinct was to run outside.
But this circular hall is enclosed, with only the ceiling open, connecting to the endless gilded pillars of light above... and it's impossible for it to run away from overhead.
They could only subconsciously move closer to the edge of the hall, away from the center.
Fortunately, even after it landed, the light cocoon at the center did not move. Moreover, it looked up and saw three beams of light falling from the top, and it could see familiar figures in the beams.
Obviously, his teammates came down as well.
This reassured it a little.
"Is this the Prison of All Knowledge?" Soon after, the rabbit girl's voice rang out from nearby, followed by the sound of footsteps.
Gray Porcelain looked up and saw that Angel and the others had landed and come to its side.
"It should be; the information in the text box mentions it," Angell's voice came through.
"Huh? There's a new notification in the text box?" Gabriel exclaimed in surprise. "Let me see."
Perhaps the arrival of its teammates lessened Gray Porcelain's fear, and it suppressed its dread of the luminous cocoon, opening the text window—
"You have discovered the ultimate area: the Prison of Omniscience."
"The Hall of Omniscience was originally a special area created by the Book Fairy to avoid the perception of the Cruel Scholar. Now, however, it has transformed from a place that isolates the perception of the Demon God into a forbidden zone that seals the Demon God's divine thoughts."
This was the first piece of information, informing them of their current location.
Immediately afterwards, new notifications kept popping up in the text box.
The team "Rabbit Hole" is about to embark on its ultimate challenge: Sealing ■■■■
The notification appeared briefly and then suddenly flashed.
The few words that were previously hidden by black codes slowly began to appear.
The team "Rabbit Hole" is about to embark on its ultimate mission: to seal away a wisp of divine consciousness from the "Cruel Scholar."
"Mission Overview: The existence of the rift was originally a window through which the cruel scholar's divine sense observed the outside world, and also His eyes for 'reading'—it was through the rift that His thirst for knowledge was temporarily confined, forming the 'Rift Sealing Ritual'. Now that the rift has been closed by you, the divine sense, having lost its 'eyes,' has been severely damaged and is urgently repairing itself; when the repair is complete, He will break the sealing ritual and reveal His full form."
"Mission Objective: Deploy and activate the new sealing array before the Cruel Scholar finishes repairing it."
"Hidden objective: Confront the cruel scholar head-on and, with perfect skill, completely seal away His divine will."
"Repair countdown: 01:55:59"
"Repair countdown: 01:55:58"
"Repair countdown..."
Gray Porcelain stared at the ticking countdown and the densely packed task information, his mind still reeling.
Meanwhile, Angell, who had used his power to read all the hidden information, had probably figured out what had happened.
Simply put, once the Celestial Realm's powers captured the Demon God's thoughts, they knew they would have a difficult time dealing with them.
So, somehow he got a copy of the Echo Library and set up a "Rift Sealing Device" there.
This is also a ritual, specifically used to seal the thoughts of demons and gods.
The method of sealing is... to open a window for the cruel scholar, replacing his eyes with a rift, so that he can see the books in the Library of Echoes.
As a god who pursues knowledge, he was naturally confined within the Rift Sealing Instrument.
However, such restrictions cannot last.
When the cruel scholar has finished reading the books in the library, or has grown weary of the knowledge, He will surely break the seal of the rift.
Therefore, a challenger is needed to further seal Him.
The seal here was prepared by the celestial realm's authority; it is the "sealing array" left in the Hall of Myriad Knowledge, which can effectively seal the cruel scholar's divine thoughts.
This also corresponds to the "mission objective" of the level.
But just as the book fairy said, if there is even the slightest flaw in this seal, it could attract the attention of the true body.
It's not a foolproof solution.
The most perfect seal requires sealing the body, mind, and will together. However, the method of sealing the "will" is beyond the capabilities of the celestial realm, hence the existence of the "hidden target".
For the powers of the fairy realm, achieving any goal is considered fulfilling the objective.
But for Angor, only a perfect seal could guarantee that the Dream Crystal Plains would not be spied on by the Demon God.
Therefore, he must complete the "hidden objective".
“I originally thought the rift was some kind of special mechanism that could weaken the demon god’s divine will.” Gabriel was full of surprise: “I didn’t expect the rift to be a kind of seal?”
By destroying the rift, they are breaking the seal.
Breaking the seal will accelerate the breakthrough of the demon god's divine sense; but because the seal was broken, the demon god's divine sense suffered a backlash, giving them two hours to set up and activate a new seal.
This is a general overview of the mission.
"Only 1 hour and 55 minutes left? Five minutes have already passed? It seems the count started when we closed the rift."
“Luckily we came over immediately after closing the rift. If we had been delayed any longer…” Gabriel glanced at Gray Porcelain: “Or, as Gray Porcelain suggested, we could have rested outside for a while. This countdown would probably have been shorter.”
Gray Porcelain glared at it irritably, but didn't say anything. With the sword of Damocles, the countdown, hanging over its head, arguing about this now was pointless.
The rabbit girl then spoke up, "Enough of the small talk, we should focus more on what was mentioned in the mission objective: to set up and activate the new seal."
They had previously learned from the Book Fairy that the Myriad Knowledge Prison Palace had a sealing array.
But unexpectedly, they had to set up the sealing array themselves.
but……
How should it be arranged?
The rabbit girl subconsciously looked around, searching for clues about the so-called sealing array.
When she saw the cocoon of light in mid-air, her gaze instinctively skipped over it. — And it wasn't just her; everyone else did the same.
They all guessed that the divine thoughts of that demon god must be inside the cocoon of light.
Even without the danger sense of the gray porcelain, they felt a suffocating sense of danger when they saw the cocoon of light.
To avoid being affected, skipping the cocoon is the best approach.
A moment later, the rabbit girl's gaze settled on the area beneath the cocoon of light.
There was a floating, glowing sheet of paper.
It is also the only piece of paper floating in mid-air in the entire space.
Although there were many books outside the light cocoon in mid-air, these books were actually stuck to the light cocoon and did not truly float. Only this piece of paper truly floated.