This was—memory reading!

The only difference was that they used to bare their memories to Wang in the Sovereign's Seat, but now Hexode was actively infusing his memories into its consciousness!

The Disaster of Silence broke the consciousness link after a long while.

Memories were difficult to fake and far more accurate than words, but they also had undeniable shortcomings—it was easy to see fragments outside of the "events" themselves. The opened memory was like an undefended city, and it hadn't expected that the Lord of the Celestial Dome would choose such a way to convey information to it.

"You..."

"There's no need for superfluous words," Hexode's voice was very low, obviously exhausted by this action. "If I hadn't done this, would you have believed what I experienced?"

The answer was undoubtedly no.

A small island not far from the Black Stone Domain was actually the reality of the Source of Magic. Even after reading the memory, it still felt deeply unreal.

"You can create your own realm of consciousness?" Silence changed the subject.

Hexode looked at it with suspicion. "I thought you'd be more concerned about Valkyris's whereabouts. But you guessed right... If not, I wouldn't have been able to convey my memories to you. The moment I saw the Pillar of Light Tree, I suddenly had a deeper understanding of the Realm of Consciousness—if it hadn't been interrupted by the World of the Heavenly Seas, I might have gone further. Of course... My domain is much smaller than Wang's Sovereign's Seat."

"I see." Silence sat back by the pool, its back to the Lord of the Celestial Dome. From this angle, it could just make out its smooth back and a strand of blue hair falling into the pool. "I really want to know the Nightmare Overlord's whereabouts. I even wanted to go to the Human Kingdom to find it immediately when I 'saw' that note—but reason tells me I must reject your request."

"Reject... what?" Hexode turned around. From this perspective, it could just make out its smooth back and a strand of blue hair falling into the pool.

"I rarely speak, but that doesn't mean I don't think," Silence said slowly. "You came back to me first instead of reporting this to Wang, and your purpose is self-evident. You want to stop the Divine Will War, or wait until the truth comes to light before making a decision—which undoubtedly violates Wang's will, and is essentially no different from betrayal. Once Wang finds out, it will definitely not spare you, and you are alone and weak, needing someone to help you. I am the helper you chose to seek."

"No, I am absolutely loyal to Wang!" Hexode retorted in a low voice. "Since we know the Divine Will War is a scam, why should we throw ourselves into it, waiting helplessly for a doomed ending? Do you think Wang will act wilfully? As long as I can find a way to contact Valkyris, Wang will inevitably understand what the right choice is, so..."

It trailed off.

"Damn, you saw everything?"

"Yes," Silence said frankly. "I didn't mean to, but memories can't be filtered or omitted like words. From the moment you left the Bottomless Land, you knew Wang wouldn't agree with your approach."

The Divine Will War was a scam, and the Realm of Consciousness hid deeper secrets, which didn't conflict with eliminating humanity and the World of the Heavenly Seas. Even if the information on the note was true, as long as the Inheritance Fragments weren't combined, the "Ascension" wouldn't begin. They had plenty of time to crack this secret. In any case, everything about the Divine Will should be in their own hands, and it was extremely dangerous to leave competitors around.

Indeed, eliminating humanity might cause the Nightmare to disappear completely in the Realm of Consciousness, but compared to the entire race, an Overlord was insignificant, even if it was Valkyris. Wang wouldn't let emotions affect its judgment, and its only principle of action was cold logic.

Once the war stopped, the speed of human development might cause the race's advantage to disappear, which was what Ersiluke had repeatedly emphasized, and Wang would never take this risk—Hexode must have been well aware of this.

"If it were any other time, I would have whittled you down to the point where you couldn't escape, and then handed you over to Wang for judgment," Silence sighed softly. "But seeing as this is all because you wanted to rescue Valkyris, I can pretend I don't know."

"Since you understand, shouldn't you take action! Or—" Hexode glanced at the Nightmare's body on the other side of the Ephemeral Pool, "Is your respect for Valkyris all an act? Do you prefer to see an empty..."

Bang!

Silence punched the Ephemeral Pool, causing a few cracks to appear in the stone base, and also causing the Lord of the Celestial Dome to shut up in time.

"First of all, all your inferences are based on a note from an unknown source, which is certainly Valkyris's handwriting, but that's all it is."

"But it foreshadowed the existence of the Bottomless Land."

"It also said that the God-Made God is not safe, but humans can't stop our advance." Silence said coldly, "For such a note, you want me to openly disobey Wang's will? In fact, I'm already taking a risk by being willing to pretend I never heard it. If it were you, you probably wouldn't even be able to do that."

"That's not what I meant. We can slow down our offensive and investigate secretly, as long as we hide it from Mask..."

"That's the second point I wanted to make. You came back too late." Silence interrupted him directly. "Wang has already sent new orders. Mask is in charge of the Western Front, executing Plan Two. You are no longer in charge of the Western Front, or rather, there will be no Western Front."

"How could this be..." Hexode stood up from the Ephemeral Pool with a whoosh, then clutched his chest in pain.

"You should feel it, right? The ripples in the Realm of Consciousness." Silence said expressionlessly, "In fact, it's much more serious than that. Not only did the Heart of Hatred die in battle, but the Black Stone Domain's defense line also collapsed. In this extremely critical situation, Wang merged with the Core, making the Royal City the new God-Made God. Now, the entire race will be moved to this last remaining place. Your idea is simply impossible. To buy time, you must defy its orders, which is no different from openly opposing Wang. So I can't agree to you."

Hexode found that the situation was completely out of its control. The fall of an Overlord was rare, but anything could happen on the battlefield. It just never expected that the situation would suddenly deteriorate to this point.

Could it be that the mutations of those Blades... were not special phenomena?

It naturally knew what Plan Two was—

When Mask was studying the God-Made God, he mentioned a crazy method of combat. By squeezing the Core and Godstone veins to their limits regardless of the cost, the floating land could be raised to an astonishing height. At this time, the enormous weight would be enough to turn it into a deadly weapon.

When the God-Made God fell to the ground from the sky, only divine punishment could compare to it. Although Hexode wasn't sure how terrible it was, according to Mask, the earth would collapse, the dust raised would blot out the sky, and could even spread thousands of miles away. Magma would erupt from the cracks, turning the entire land into a living hell.

Consuming a precious God-Made God with one attack, Hexode originally thought that this plan would never be implemented, but it never expected Wang to agree to it.

In this case, its idea had indeed become empty talk.

It alone stood up to defy Wang? The race's future might be uncertain, but its fate was definitely sealed—there would be no other possibility than being hunted down by other Overlords.

"Maybe you're right..." Hexode slowly sat back in the pool. "I was indeed too inconsiderate and almost made a big mistake. Now that we've switched to Plan Two, I should return to the Celestial Dome City and arrange for the follow-up..."

Bang!

Another crack appeared on the pool wall.

The Lord of the Celestial Dome was stunned in surprise.

"Are you planning to give up on Valkyris?" The latter finally turned around, its eyes looking down as cold as ice, as if it would make it bleed on the spot as soon as it said "yes."

"I..." Hexode didn't know what to say.

Saving it was not okay, not saving it was not okay, where was the fairness?

It suddenly understood Mask's feelings a little.

"I reject your request, but that doesn't mean I want to give up on saving it."

"Then the method is..."

"I don't know. Precisely because I don't know, you need to think of it." Silence's tone was unquestionable, "But in any case, don't expect to be able to back out now."

Then it slightly restrained the coldness in its words and said in a low voice with its eyes closed, "...especially after you gave me hope."