The Anubis Dog also pricked up his ears, anticipation burning in his eyes.
Wood, however—
After thinking it over several times, he decided, "Tonight is a party held for pleasure; doing this will make everyone unhappy."
Alright.
Master nodded in agreement and returned to the venue with Wood.
Jormungand Cat and Anubis Dog tried to follow, but were sealed in the room by Master's power.
You two! Stay here and behave!
Why?
Jormungand Cat looked at Master with extreme displeasure.
[Because your true form is the Chaos Serpent, the source of all life!]
That's right!
Master replied coldly.
Anubis flicked his ears, but in the end, he said nothing.
..
..
As the party progressed into the late night, most of the Guests grew weary, leaning against sofas in small groups or hiding behind curtains, engaging in brief moments of intimacy with the Skeleton Masked Waiters who were only interested in making quick money tonight.
Wood also felt weary. Standing on the balcony with Master, he gazed at the exceptionally silent sea under the moonlight, his eyes filled with confusion and sadness. "Boss, I.."
What?
Even now, I still find it unbelievable.. that the real me is actually, so is the Boss.. All this time, I always felt that time, fate, dimensions.. were things very, very far away from me. Even after recovering some of Loki's memories, I still felt like those events only happened in a dream, had nothing to do with my real self..
However, those memories are indeed your memories..
Yeah, they are my memories..
Wood lowered his head and buried it in the other's arms.
“But I still feel a sense of strangeness toward them, especially when I think that you and I once.. such a painful fate ten thousand years ago. I really don't want to confirm it again.. Perhaps it was because these memories were too painful that I chose to forget.. pretending to be Loki, making a vow under the World Tree with Odin to become best brothers, only to end up, even now..”
Wood grew more and more depressed as he spoke, his voice barely audible.
But it is not your fault. Compared to Odin, who originates from the unstable Collective Imagination of current humans, our species—created by the Human Civilization of the Previous Era with Spiritual Power as its core—possesses a much more stable core. Even if the civilization that created us has long since perished, we can easily survive for thousands or tens of thousands of years through powerful spiritual energy; if we can obtain new energy support during that time, it would not be surprising to live for hundreds of thousands of years.
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Of course, even if our lifespans reach trillions or quadrillions of years, we will still face Death, or rather—all life, including the universe itself, will eventually age, collapse, perish—but the Odin of the Collective Imagination, originating from the Norse ancestors who had an average lifespan of less than fifty years and possessed intense material desires and violent instincts, would clearly never think of such things. They can only see that you possess a more stable core, stronger creativity, the unusual gentleness, silence, endurance you are forced to show before them due to your amnesia, unhealed injuries, the restrictions of the laws.
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Wood said instinctively, "If I could have recovered sooner, or if my core were more stable, perhaps Ragnarok would have.."
It's no use. The moment Odin first showed his bottomless greed toward you, the Ragnarok that symbolizes the end of this current civilization began its countdown.
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Fortunately, although humans in the Current Era have generally been contaminated by the power of Cthulhu and the Outer Gods, an incredible Miracle has been born in East Asia—there is a group of people who, relying on their own spirituality and humanity, have gradually eliminated the contamination left by Cthulhu and the Outer Gods over five thousand years. They have led their civilization and surrounding groups toward a new direction that possesses both the noble spirit of the humans of the Previous Era and the material drive of the humans of the Current Era—if they can achieve dominance in the civilization of the Current Era, the countdown to Ragnarok, the symbol of Destruction, might temporarily stop, leading civilization toward a higher and more distant level.
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That is not something we need to worry about.
Master lowered his head and kissed Wood's forehead and the tip of his nose: "We only need to do joyful things when we are happy, enjoying the resonance created by the intertwining of the pleasure surging from deep within our bodies and the joy from the deepest depths of our spirits, immersing ourselves in an ecstasy that feels like a complete fusion with the entire universe.."
Can we really reach such a state?
Wood asked with both worry and anticipation.
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Master's hand rested over his heart: "Life inherently possesses an impulse to break through the physical limits and become one with a more essential spiritual essence. As the final miracle created by the spiritual power of the humans of the Previous Era, we naturally and intensely long for one another, wanting to devour, wanting to merge, wanting to undergo a complete union with the other, yet fearing that total fusion will erase the meaning of our own existence—my essence originates from the chaos at the beginning of creation, as mindless and unperceiving as the Chaos Serpent Ouroboros, while your origin is the briefest of flames—a fleeting spark that triggered the unperceiving chaos, thus the world began to turn, nurturing the first life.."
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Anything that exists cannot transcend existence itself, because existence means being firmly anchored by some form of fate, with no possibility of escape. But it is this very anchoring that defines the supreme significance of all things in this world—
I'm a bit lost.
Wood spoke the truth.
Every word the Boss spoke at this moment was as dreamy as a riddle, half-understood, half-illusory.
It's alright if you don't understand; you can feel it through the fusion of your physical body and spirit..
“Mm.”
Wood answered in a low voice, spreading his body to receive the baptism of energy and love from a higher realm.
..
All senses sank into darkness, as time and space converged, the spirit became the only light, much like the Sun.
Soul floated high in the atmosphere, watching the earth surge like ocean waves, where countless lives gathered, coiling and entangling with restless energy, driving history forward with a thunderous roar..
Mountains of corpses and seas of blood stretched endlessly under the myriad stars, dark resentment hissed as it was exposed to the light; the scene was chilling, yet it gave rise to endless..
At this very moment, some are heading toward Bliss together in love, while others face death alone in misery; some are immersed in the joy of a bountiful harvest, while others kneel in wailing grief; some are dancing wildly at a festive banquet, while others tremble in cold trenches..
All people, all time, all places, all thoughts all converge into the body at this very moment, like fleeting shadows and reflections, desiring nothing and seeking nothing, merely existing purely—just like the birth and death of stars brewing beyond those billions of constellations, they are existences that are both distant and strange, requiring no understanding..
Existence itself.. ah..
He murmured in a low voice, his spiritual form igniting with a blazing golden halo that merged into the dark and profound world before him—the darkness trembled instantly, gradually blooming into a crimson as red as blood.
“Universe.. World.. All Things.. Life and Fate.. All Living Beings caught between life and death, I am here, I feel you, I.. I have already felt.. Love..”
With these words, consciousness sank into Darkness once more, immersed in the Bliss of merging with the vast Universe..
..
..
On the other side of the beach—
Several Black Shadows, unable to move any closer due to an irresistible force and forced to watch helplessly as the very thing they least wanted to happen unfolded, were whispering among themselves.
We seem to have arrived a step too late.
It's not just 'seems,' it's certain that.. That thing has successfully completed the fusion, next—
What will happen next?
“..”
The shadows in the Darkness fell into a collective silence, after a long time—
A majestic voice rang out.
We are indeed one step late, but this does not mean the arrival of Ragnarok; on the contrary, this is the beginning of the Turning Point of Fate.
“Turning Point of Fate?”
That's right!
That majestic Voice spoke thus.
The light of dawn slowly spread across the sea level as the Sun rose, illuminating his single eye and the massive Raven perched upon his shoulder.
I understand Loki—of course, his current name is Wood—but whether his name is Loki or Wood, his soul will not change; he is still the same one who made a promise to me under the World Tree back then. He loves this world even more deeply than we do, cannot bear to see the world face Destruction..
Then we—
Go! Go find Him, tell Him of our predicament, ask Him to fulfill His former promise.
At this point, Odin paused meaningfully. "He will grant our request, because even if He breaks ties with me, He ultimately cannot abandon His children, Fenrir—is still in our hands!"
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Chapter 81 Odin and the World Tree (3)
After the Sun had fully risen, Wood, facing a new day, finally made up his mind to read the classified documents he had obtained from Jason.
Taking a deep breath, he took the files from the Boss.
I..
Don't worry.
Mm.
After receiving encouragement from the Boss, Wood began reading the documents—every line of text was incredibly shocking, at the same time, it perfectly aligned with the dark side of the Current Era of Human Civilization that the Boss had informed him about.
“So.. this country has been.. since its founding.. that's why.. Vampires and Ogres keep appearing, the traditional Angels, Demons, various other faiths that came here.. most have undergone mutations.. leaving only a small minority of those with steadfast hearts who still uphold the bottom line of humanity.."
Human Civilization barely managed to survive the Earth Cataclysm of the Previous Era, only to be invaded by the Dark Pollution from an Alien Planet. To fight the invasion and protect their home, they paid a devastating price, nearly facing total annihilation, before finally driving all invading forces from Earth or sealing them within Secret Realms—even so, the Survivors who were fortunate enough to endure and were responsible for lighting the flame of civilization for the New Era were, to varying degrees, affected by Cthulhu Contamination, to the point that they..
Although they are descendants of the Previous Era, they generally lack the powerful Spiritual Power that the individual members of the Previous Era possessed, nor do they possess the elegance and nobility of the individuals of the Previous Era; instead, they are filled with beastly cruelty and greed.
Master calmly spoke the part of the content that Wood had thought of but did not want to say aloud.
“That is precisely why Human Civilization has experienced a long period of savagery and Darkness that has lasted until now, has yet to fully end. Even in this present age of abundant food, a strong cannibalistic urge still surges from the depths of many people's hearts—because their genes have been severely contaminated by Cthulhu, they do not consider themselves, as eaters, to be the same species as others who are degraded to the status of food. In America, the number of such groups of beings, existing somewhere between humans and Cthulhu Kin, is particularly massive.”
“They..”
Wood swallowed hard instinctively. "Why is it like this? Why has this land suffered such intense contamination, far exceeding any other region on Earth?"
Because this was originally a land of exile—do you remember the South American Jungle Pyramid and that thing sealed within the Pyramid?
You mean—
Yes, that is indeed the case.
Master nodded approvingly: "The Americas were one of the main battlefields of that great war over ten thousand years ago, thus suffered Cthulhu Contamination and destruction far exceeding that of Eurasia. The nascent indigenous civilizations stagnated for a long time, just as they finally began to get back on track, they encountered European colonial invasions—multiple overlapping factors ultimately caused North America, especially America, to become the land on Earth most attractive to groups with Cthulhu Contamination genes—while South America is relatively less severe due to the remnants of ancient civilizations and the expansion and spread of religious and revolutionary movements like the Liberation Sect."
In other words.. the country of America is gradually falling into the hands of mutated humanoid monsters with Cthulhu Contamination, Jason and the others are powerless against this.. they might even be killed by those mutated humanoid monsters at any time..
Yes.