Chapter 1 When the Creator Goddess Recalled the Original Purpose of the Rakhreign Dream, a Terrifying Existence Descended

Of course, it wasn't the Mad Lord – because the Mad Lord's main body was still trapped in the deepest part of the Dream Plane, waiting to break free. But the existence that descended here wasn't much simpler than the Mad Lord.

Hao Ren felt the entire dark domain tremble. It was the result of the very foundation of all things being shaken by some powerful disturbance, but he also knew that his feeling wasn't accurate: what was actually shaking was only the wreckage of the First Born Star, because that power was entrenched within that area. However, the impact of its appearance was so powerful that everyone's senses went awry for a moment.

Countless booming sounds came from all directions. The continents and islands that had been floating peacefully in the air for tens of thousands of years began to spin wildly like out-of-control gyroscopes. Large and small pieces of land collided with each other in the chaotic spinning, creating deafening noises. The ancient temple ruins between the land fragments were also caught in the chaos. They were squeezed and ground between the floating lands, and the remaining energy burst out, forming countless radioactive webs of lightning in the air.

Only the continent beneath Hao Ren's group remained stable. At the moment the chaos erupted, the Creator Goddess reacted. She stomped her foot to suppress the restlessness of the entire continent and generated a small area of order around it. However, this small area of order was so insignificant in the entire wreckage of the First Born Star, like an isolated island in a storm, in constant danger of being overturned.

Nangong Wuyue wrapped her tail tightly around Nangong Sanba, who was closest to her, and her voice was sharp: "Ahhh, what's happening?! What's happening?!"

"Someone's been released!" Hao Ren had quickly armed himself, while ordering Nolan to bring all weapon systems online and enter an overloaded state. "Didn't we say before that the Divine Kingdom was destroyed because the Goddess's power and the power of madness clashed? So since the Goddess is still alive—"

"The other power is also alive!" The second half of the sentence was continued by the Creator Goddess herself. She had now completely recovered from that slumber—not only had she regained consciousness, but also her memory of all the details. "Damn it, I remember why I created that dream in the first place. There's another me here. I dragged her with me to face destruction, but like me, she wasn't completely annihilated. To prevent that guy from escaping, I created a real dream to bind her... As for the dream evolving into Rakhreign, that was later..."

"That dark version of you, so it unfolded like this," Hao Ren looked at the tense Goddess with a pained expression. "If I'm not mistaken, you're using the method of cutting off your own memories again to strengthen the seal on her, right? A dream plus cutting off memories, it looks incredibly stable, but why are you so confident in yourself! My God, this isn't the first time you've had trouble with this!!"

The silver-haired, blood-eyed Goddess seemed to want to say something, but a terrifying pressure suddenly descended, interrupting the conversation.

In the dark, chaotic void, the energy streams that had been scattered from all parts of the Divine Kingdom's ruins suddenly seemed to have a focal point and began to converge in the same direction. Nolan subconsciously fired the main cannon at that point, but the powerful arcane energy bombardment was intercepted by a huge arc of electricity that erupted, and then both annihilated each other. Clearly, the converging energy was something of the same level as arcane energy bombardment.

After this brief delay, the converging energy streams had completed compression and reshaping, and the blinding light quickly faded, revealing something that looked like a cocoon, black with crimson patterns.

"Attacking is useless!" the Creator Goddess said hastily at this time. "The energy outside will negate all damage. Her main body hasn't even come out yet. We have to wait for that cocoon to break..."

Hao Ren wanted to say that the so-called negation of all damage was a joke in the face of absolute power, but after thinking about it, he probably didn't have enough power to take down a true god at the moment, so he turned to ask, "After that cocoon breaks, can we kill her?"

The Creator Goddess tilted her head up: "No, after that we'll be killed by her."

Hao Ren almost choked: "What?! Aren't you evenly matched? And with us, wouldn't that be..."

The Creator Goddess frowned as she observed the enemy: "We were evenly matched before we fell asleep, but after observing just now, her sleep quality should have been better than mine..."

Hao Ren finally confirmed that the Goddess's erratic behavior earlier was not an illusion, but he didn't have time to complain about such trivial details, because the surface of the "cocoon" in mid-air was rapidly covered with cracks.

The cocoon broke very quickly, not like in movies, TV shows, or games where it takes half an hour to brew and release all kinds of special effects—if that were the case, Hao Ren was confident that he could deploy at least four-digit turrets and space mines in the vicinity before it exploded. However, it only took two seconds to complete this breaking process. The black shell broke silently, and a figure that looked very petite appeared in mid-air.

It was a woman who looked almost identical to the Creator Goddess, but with significant differences: she had almost no color.

It was as if it were an uncolored painting. The woman who emerged from the cocoon was frighteningly pale all over, whether it was her clothes or hair, her skin or eyes, all the same pale color. If it weren't for the outline of her eyebrows, Hao Ren would have thought it was just a pure white figure.

"Heh, I thought a blackened goddess would be black, but I didn't expect her to be so white."

Hao Ren tried to tell a joke in a dry voice, but no one could laugh.

When encountering the Goddess of Annihilation, the theoretically biggest insurance policy was the Creator Goddess—but the old woman said that she didn't rest well before sleeping and couldn't beat the boss now, what could you say?!

But in any case, you have to fight when you encounter an enemy. Before things were completely hopeless, Hao Ren felt that he still had to try his luck, at least to buy everyone some time to retreat, so he clenched the two shards of the universe and stepped forward while ordering Nolan to broadcast the beacon in his mind.

The dream is over now, so the broadcast beacon shouldn't have any problems, right?

The Goddess of Annihilation, who had hatched from the cocoon in mid-air, had already seen his movements. The pale evil god lowered her head, her eyes showing no emotion, and a dry voice came from her mouth: "I recognize the two swords in your hand."

"Oh, can you communicate?" Hao Ren was stunned for a moment, and said subconsciously.

"Huh?" The Goddess of Annihilation frowned strangely. "Hearing my voice doesn't affect you at all? What kind of creature are you?"

"What, I have to die when I hear your voice?" Hao Ren grinned. "I'm also a demigod, more or less."

"A demigod? When did a demigod like you appear in the world..." The Goddess of Annihilation tilted her head, then waved her hand indifferently. "It doesn't matter, just kill him."

As she spoke, a semi-transparent ripple that was almost invisible to the naked eye was waved out from her hand and flew towards Hao Ren at a seemingly slow speed.

Where the ripple passed, the space showed obvious fractures and distortions.

In an instant, Hao Ren felt the hairs all over his body stand on end, and an unprecedented sense of crisis spread throughout his body. This sense of crisis was even stronger than when he was wielding a broadsword and fighting Locke Marton. He quickly realized that the seemingly inconspicuous ripple was actually extremely deadly: it did not destroy or damage the spatial structure along the way, but deleted everything along the way!

However, it was impossible to dodge. Although the ripple seemed slow, Hao Ren immediately realized that the so-called "slow" was just an illusion caused by the devouring of time. He was destined to be hit, and there was no way to avoid it.

He could only hope that Crow 12345 was reliable.

Silently chanting the name of Crow 12345 in his heart, the ripple had already touched his body. At the moment of contact, a thin layer of "holy light" spread over the rigid shield. This layer of power of blessing from Crow 12345 came into contact with the Goddess of Annihilation's attack, and the impact produced in an instant...

Well, there was no loud explosion, nor a burst of strong light, only a seemingly harmless scattering of chaotic lines skewed and scattered from in front of Hao Ren, but at the points where those lines landed, whether it was rock or soil, or the ancient temples in mid-air, they all disappeared instantly.

Hao Ren broke out in a cold sweat—but in any case, Crow 12345's blessing could actually block this thing, which made him almost want to believe in his unreliable God.

On the other side, the Goddess of Annihilation, who discovered that her attack had failed, tilted her head curiously. Perhaps she had never thought that such a thing would happen. A seemingly unremarkable "mortal" actually blocked her attack with a shield: "Hmm? You... are a bit interesting..."

Hao Ren found that he could block the ordinary attacks of the half-baked + revived and weakened goddess in front of him with his divine shield, which greatly increased his confidence. Of course, he didn't expect to be her opponent, but he knew very well that he wasn't alone.

As long as it wasn't a crushing situation, it seemed that something could still be done.

"A bit interesting, huh," Hao Ren took a breath, letting the mental power that had been shaken by driving the divine shield calm down slightly, then raised his hand and pointed to the surrounding chaotic space, "Even more interesting things are just beginning!"

The pale evil god looked at his movements with slight curiosity, seemingly unable to understand what tricks this not-so-strong guy could use. Of course, she also saw a group of teammates around Hao Ren who were ready to fight, and another herself not far away, but she could clearly feel that the strength of these people, although a bit troublesome, was not a big threat, and as for the other herself...

The other party was obviously still in a very weak state.

So she thought Hao Ren was just bluffing.

Until countless spatial rifts suddenly opened in the chaotic void, and two huge legions passed through the rifts and entered this space.