Chapter 1 The Threat Is Lifted

The threat of Lokmardon to this world was finally lifted.

But for Hao Ren, a lot of work was just beginning.

His experience in the Koro World was the most unique of his "jobs." The mysteries he unraveled here, the clues he found, and the relics he encountered were more than in any previous adventure, and the importance of each clue far exceeded those of the past. As the Lokmardon affair settled, he had to face a large number of follow-up tasks—the reconstruction of the Koro World was only an insignificant part of it.

"Due to the massive damage caused by this special tide of chaos and the weakened national power of the various kingdoms of order, the reconstruction of the continents of Koro must be completed through concerted efforts, and not through fighting each other as in the past. The Sanctuary preserves the most complete cultural classics and technical data, so the reconstruction will be coordinated by the Sanctuary, and the specific parts will be led by Karasuth I…"

"The chaotic storm that shrouded the sky over the Canaan Secret Realm Continent has dissipated. The Sanctuary will form a joint investigation team with the kingdoms to explore. The ancient continent is the common legacy left by the ancestors of all intelligent races, and no single kingdom may preemptively seize it."

"Because Lokmardon has completely died, the ancient seal of the Koro World will be opened, and the various restrictions left by the Goddess of Creation will also be lifted. At that time, there will be huge changes in the starry sky. Spellcasters and observers related to astrology do not need to panic. We will send the changed star charts and star phenomenon comparison tables to your hands…"

"Because the Goddess of Creation has temporarily left, Koro is now under the protection of the Outer God Raven 12345. Karasuth I has mentioned this before. I want to explain a few words—there will be no conflict of faith between True Gods and True Gods, nor 'personal contradictions' like humans. Therefore, the followers in this world do not need to worry about this. No one will be forced to change their faith, no one will be blamed for their faith, and no one needs to launch so-called actions to maintain their faith in any name. The Goddess of Creation is still the supreme deity of Koro, and this will not change."

"We will build a series of monitoring stations and control towers on the continents of Koro. The purpose of these facilities is…"

In order to prevent chaos and panic after the removal of the divine barrier, and to ensure the smooth progress of many follow-up projects, some things must be announced in advance in this way. As for how the rulers of those secular kingdoms interpret and announce these notices to the world after receiving them, that is not Hao Ren's concern. He has handed over the specific matters to Karasuth, believing that this tenacious and capable new Pope will handle everything well.

In a crystal hall on Mount AsuMan, everyone was waiting for An to complete the system self-check. Hao Ren glanced at the crystal curtain above, which was constantly refreshing with a large amount of data, and sighed softly, "This ship has also completed its historical mission..."

"All the god-made creations of Koro have completed their historical mission," said Loken, King of Kings, who was also on the scene with Gorton, King of Mountains. The former nodded after hearing Hao Ren's words. "The meaning of our existence is to guard Lokmardon. Before today, I never thought that anyone could really completely kill that monster… From today onwards, our mission will also end, and the next era should belong to mortals."

Hao Ren nodded and looked at the King of Mountains: "Gorton, how are you guys' injuries?"

By "you guys," he meant the ten wardens, including the King of Mountains, who had fought against Lokmardon with the others. They had suffered some backlash from forcibly using Raven 12345's divine power.

"We are fine," Gorton rumbled. "The Outer God's divine power had no intention of attacking us, so most of our internal injuries were caused by forcibly carrying too much divinity. After the divinity was stripped away, it slowly healed."

Hao Ren nodded and said nothing more.

The entire previous plan then floated in his mind again.

Since contacting the Tablet of Truth, he had understood part of the truth about Lokmardon. Although he could not fully interpret the stone tablet, perhaps Lokmardon was indeed the most memorable thing for the Goddess of Creation. The information in this regard was so strong that it could be sensed without deliberate interpretation. From the Tablet of Truth, he knew that Lokmardon had a core protected by divinity, and this core was personally bestowed by the Goddess of Creation, and even contained part of the True God's power. Under the effect of this core, Lokmardon had almost no possibility of falling, especially in the Dream Realm.

Because the Goddess of Creation left a sentence:

Nothing in the world can kill my child.

The power of this divine truth had been distorted, strengthened, and expanded by the passage of time and Lokmardon's own will, resulting in Lokmardon becoming an invincible existence within the Dream Realm. You could weaken it, attack it, and dismantle it as much as you like, but as long as it was within the Dream Realm and using weapons created in the Dream Realm, you could never truly kill it.

This was an unsolvable problem for mortals and even demigods in the Dream Realm, but Hao Ren could exploit a loophole—"fool" Lokmardon into another universe, and then use the power of other True Gods to kill it, wouldn't that be enough?

So from the beginning, the trap he set for Lokmardon was a series of interlocking traps.

The battle on Spiral Hill was the first trap, and also the most difficult. He had to use the limited power of the Sanctuary Expeditionary Force and his own party to make Lokmardon feel a sense of crisis, but the conventional damage effect was limited. The only thing that could really make Lokmardon panic and escape was the Goddess of Creation.

Although Lokmardon had betrayed the Goddess, and it was very likely that it had caused the Goddess's ultimate fall, Hao Ren was absolutely certain that as long as the real Goddess's power appeared, Lokmardon would definitely panic—because this was a fear rooted in its bones.

So he gave the items with Raven 12345's divine power to the ten wardens, and asked them to forcibly activate these items with the Goddess of Creation's power they carried, in order to create the illusion that the Goddess of Creation's true form was about to awaken.

The plan proved to be very successful, and Lokmardon was forced to the external universe—which happened to be the second trap.

As early as when the Sanctuary Expeditionary Force set off from the City of God's Grace, Hao Ren had arranged for the Data Terminal to set up this trap. At that time, he opened the access permissions of his portable space to the Terminal, so that the Terminal could carry the "Door-Opening Crystal" back to the external universe, to open the "Cosmic Gate" connecting the Dream Realm and the Surface World. Because they had partially cracked the divine power shield surrounding Koro, even in the "Nightmare World," it was easy for such a small "item" as the Data Terminal to travel back and forth.

Hao Ren was fully confident that Lokmardon would definitely escape to that Cosmic Gate after being focused on by space fire, instead of escaping into the depths of the Dream Realm's space.

Because the entire Dream Realm was permeated with the residual information of the Goddess of Creation!

Even if the True God fell, the influence of His every word and deed would not easily dissipate. The same was true for the Goddess of Creation. Although the Goddess's divine power remaining in the Dream Realm was now minimal, it still existed. The priests of Holletta could continue to perform divine arts through prayer, which was proof. In this way, when the entire universe was full of the Goddess's aura, but suddenly a door without any aura appeared, it was clear where Lokmardon would run—because the Cosmic Gate had to cross the Wall of Reality, Raven 12345 had already set it up, and the gate itself did not carry any divine aura!

And the other "arrangement" he had the Data Terminal do on the city wall at that time was to post a highlighted thread in the information link dedicated to the Inspectors:

Bomb Ren is going to blow up a demigod from another world! Live broadcast in the Rift Nebula!

As soon as the post was sent, the crowd was excited, and all the demigods in the universe came. In fact, even Raven 12345 replied with a 666 under the post…

Then Lokmardon was beaten up by dozens of demigods, and gg was typed out in laughter.

The most difficult part of this plan was the first step, but the riskiest part was the last step, which was that Lokmardon had to be completely killed within the Rift Nebula, and must not be allowed to escape the radiation range of the "Cosmic Gate" alive!

Because Lokmardon was a demigod from the Dream Realm, it had a huge and terrifying amount of information. Once such a huge information entanglement body crossed the Wall of Reality, it could directly lead to the collapse of the Wall of Reality, and that was not something that could be fooled by writing a review.

The Cosmic Gate was actually similar to the space rift that Hao Ren and the others had found in Siberia at the beginning. The former was equivalent to an extremely enlarged and artificially controlled version of the latter. Things from the Dream Realm and the Surface World could not be directly exchanged, but this kind of rift could minimize the impact on the Wall of Reality. Moreover, in the vicinity of this kind of rift, space and time would present a state of simultaneously possessing the information characteristics of two universes. Raven 12345 called this state a superposition state. Because the scale of the Cosmic Gate was huge, its radiation range was far from being comparable to the small rift in Siberia. Under its influence, the entire Rift Nebula was actually equivalent to being in this superposition state—Hao Ren had heard about this from Goddess Sister long ago.

In the Rift Nebula, it was equivalent to being in the Dream Realm, and also equivalent to being in the Surface World.

Therefore, letting Lokmardon pass through the Gate of the World and stay in the Rift Nebula was still safe, but it must not be allowed to continue running outside alive—because Lokmardon's amount of information was too large, even if there was a "safe door" as a buffer, it could not be allowed to enter the Surface World.

However, although there were risks, Hao Ren was not worried. If all the demigods in the entire universe of the Surface World could not catch a Lokmardon, then he and his colleagues would have nothing to say even if Raven 12345 whipped them all to death with a loving whip...