Chapter 897 Do You Fear Me?

"Gods of the Anthem, whenever I think about how many civilizations you will cause to decline, how many innocent people will die, how many dreams will be cut short, how many hopes will wither, how many wishes will turn to dust before they even sprout."

"I am so afraid that I want to grip my sword hilt tightly."

"I am afraid, so afraid that I can only swing my sword."

The divine dragon swung its tail, and the light of the blade illuminating the universe burned with flames. The light fell on Zhuzhou's face, making it impossible to discern his joy or anger.

"I'm so afraid that I don't even dare to run away, because as soon as I turn my head, unbearable self-reproach will kill me. I must face you, witness all your actions with my own eyes, and stop you. Only then can I barely stand tall in my own eyes."

The divine dragon pressed forward.

Its long tail swung the light of the blade, and he wielded Miedu, stating with such indifference: "That is how afraid I am."

The power of the Blade of Miedu was so vast that the four God-Kings and the gods all changed their expressions drastically. As the divine dragon swung its tail and the light of the blade flashed, golden-red radiance pierced through the chaos in an instant, passing through the defensive barriers they had set up, and layers of overly bright white spots appeared before their eyes—an anomaly caused by the blade light piercing through the past and future.

The gods possessed the vision to traverse time and space. They could see everything in the past and the possibilities of the future. But now, with the brilliance of the Blade of Miedu, those colorful pasts and futures were cut off and turned into pale white.

All possibilities disappeared... or rather, because of this strike, they were replaced with a completely new appearance.

[Full defense!]

The Sky God-King, Deus, had a constantly changing expression. Although he knew that Su Zhou indeed had hidden ultimate techniques that he had not yet used, he did not expect them to be such terrifying killing moves—if placed in other universes, this strike would be enough to incinerate all things.

But at the same time, Deus also felt extremely puzzled... After all, the Anthem Universe was different from ordinary universes. This strike might kill them, the God-Kings, once, but pure destruction was meaningless. They would certainly be able to return from the Great Anthem.

If brute force could really kill, there would be no need to delay for so long!

But Zhuzhou did not intend to say half a word more to the 'enemy' he had identified in his heart.

He had already swung his blade.

Thus, time trembled, and the past and future separated.

At the instant when Zhuzhou swung his blade, the Prelude Epoch and the Resonance Epoch, the Zhuzhou incarnations and the god incarnations living in these two eras and fighting in the skies of these two eras, all sensed a violent tremor—the sky, the earth, the ocean, and all things in the universe were illuminated by fire in an instant, as if a sun had risen from the chaos, clearly distinguishing the boundary between light and darkness, day and night.

For a time, in the entire Anthem Universe, only the golden-red light of the blade was a color, and everything else was just a black and white outline.

The River of Time, the eternal melody, was as if a pause button had been pressed, stopping its奏 for a moment.

Then, there was a roaring sound that shook all things!

The sound of something being severed rang out, but no one knew what was being severed.

Whether it was Zhou Buyi, Elias, or Alan and Eve of their respective eras, they all looked puzzled at the place where the light rose, and even the gods were stunned for a moment. They felt an unparalleled danger, but after the light of the blade appeared, they did not suffer an attack.

But they did sense that something extremely important was shattered and cut out by Zhuzhou's Blade of Miedu.

Only the God-Kings.

Only the four Dao Harmonization God-Kings stared blankly at the Anthem Universe in the chaos, with stunned expressions.

[Connection...]

The Time God-King, Aptu, had originally wrapped time around his body, intending to block the strike that seemed to be aimed at them... but in reality, this strike was not aimed at the gods at all.

But it was even more terrifying than killing them.

The God-King clenched his fists in astonishment: [He severed the connection of time!]

In the radiance of Miedu, the universe was splitting.

If one were to gaze from the void of the multiverse, one could see that the vast Anthem Universe, originally rippling with waves, was now like a cell dividing itself, being vertically cut into two by a brilliant golden-red blade light, and then horizontally divided into four sections.

Time and space began to derive.

But the ancient years, originally connected together, were severed.

In the Prelude Epoch, Zhou Buyi was originally communicating with Elias. The two friends of Zhuzhou were passing on technology and foreshadowing to each other, making the civilization of Atlantis increasingly powerful through repeated advanced exchanges, accumulating the vast momentum for the future.

But at this moment, Zhou Buyi frowned, he stared at the sky, and realized that he could no longer continue to communicate with Elias.

"The already existing future has disappeared..."

He murmured to himself: "It's like a long snake, an earth dragon, being cut off, missing some limbs."

"But this is also a kind of rebirth."

The four major epochs of the Anthem Universe were a time system with coherent time, mutual cause and effect, but quite independent in its existence itself—as a whole, it was a song, but it had four distinct parts, with connections and modulations in the melody, but not completely consistent.

And now, in Zhou Buyi's perception, the connection between the Prelude Epoch and the other three major epochs... had been completely cut off by a golden-red, bright blade light!

This was not a rough severance... but a kind of severance originating from Zhuzhou!

Under the perception of the Divine Tree Zhuzhou, the Prelude Epoch, which had been isolated and made independent, had even begun to derive a completely new 'future' that was not related to the other three major epochs!

To give an example.

The Anthem Universe, originally composed of the four major epochs ruled by the four major god systems, was like an earthworm, divided into four major parts: 'head', 'torso', 'abdomen', and 'tail', each with different functions and forms—but now, Su Zhou had cut this earthworm into four sections.

These four sections, because of the power of the Anthem Universe, had not died, but had begun to regenerate, with each different part regenerating a completely new 'past and future'!

[Teacher... split the karma of the universe?]

At the same time, in the Resonance Epoch, Elias, who was guiding Alan to pilot the 'Super-Giant Decisive Battle Melody Armor Unit 01', also frowned. He thoughtfully stared at the direction where the sun was rising, and rubbed the white hair beside his ear: [He cut a large universe that was originally causally connected into four 'parallel universes'?!]

The gods could sense that the Resonance Epoch where they were located was deriving towards the past and the future... a history that also included Zhou Buyi and the previous generation of Alan and Eve was appearing, but those were just like illusory universes, just pure universe memories, and had not actually happened.

The Zhou Buyi in the memory was naturally not the Zhou Buyi who had communicated with him before, but just a possible phantom in a parallel universe.

But for all beings, this was the real history!

The current Anthem Universe had been cut by Su Zhou's Blade of Miedu into four major parallel universes—the karma of each time and space was no longer interconnected, but was independently derived, with its own unique history and development trend.

[But why?]

After realizing this, Elias was puzzled: [This will obviously put Teacher at a disadvantage!]

[Why?]

Inside the Anthem Universe, the gods confronting Su Zhou were also confused: [This is clearly... of no benefit to this Primal Zhuzhou at all!]

Su Zhou's divine blade, which shattered the karma of the universe and cut a universe into four parallel universes, did make them feel irresistible, but this was a strike specifically for the unique situation of the Anthem Universe itself—if it were a normal infinite universe, Su Zhou's strike might not have such a good effect.

What's more... in this way, wouldn't the gods of each epoch be able to do whatever they wanted even more?

The four God-Kings were originally just the supreme beings of their respective epochs, and would have to give up their positions when the corresponding epoch arrived. Therefore, the Time God-King Aptu always stayed in the past, and the Light-Dark Twins never came to the epochs ruled by others.

But now, after Su Zhou cut off the causal connection, each of them was the only God-King in their respective epoch time and space!

This greatly increased their authority and power, and each possessed the supreme authority of the 'Contemporary God-King'!

Why did Zhuzhou do this? Why did he help them become stronger instead?

While all the gods felt unable to understand, the Sky God-King Deus thought of a possibility.

This possibility made his eyes widen in disbelief: [Could it be... you are doing this for those mortals?!]

The authority of the God-King originated from the universe and all things he ruled—the more complex and powerful the universe, the more powerful the God-King.

In the original Anthem Universe, the four major epochs shone together. Even if one epoch collapsed and the gods failed, just like when the Sky God-King was defeated by Zhuzhou, he could be resurrected with the power of the other epochs.

In this situation, even destroying an epoch would not affect the God-King's power.

But now, the four major epochs were distinct and independent. Although the God-King's power had increased, they needed to protect the beings in their own parallel time and space—because they no longer had the power of other epochs to borrow. Their power was linked to the universe itself.

In other words, Deus's previous plan to destroy the entire Crescendo Epoch in exchange for the power of the gods of the Finale Epoch to resist Zhuzhou was completely unfeasible.

In order to resist Zhuzhou, he had to protect those mortals instead.

[But how could it be? How could someone let their enemies become stronger just for these mortals?]

Deus was extremely puzzled: [How could there be such a foolish person?]

But, very obviously, Su Zhou didn't care about these trivial matters at all.

Anthem Universe.

In the split time and space, in the four major epochs, or rather, the four parallel time and spaces, there were people recalling.

They either missed, or were shocked, or excitedly told others what they had seen in that instant.

It was a towering and enormous dragon, as if it was suppressing the ancient sky. It coiled in the past and future, and on its winding body, every scale shone with the golden-red light of the blade, wrapping the entire universe and dividing it into four major parts.

Its eyes were cyan and purple, overlooking all things in the heavens and earth, and even the gods. The huge dragon head protruded from the chaos, staring at all things in this universe with a complex pity that was difficult to describe, whether it was gentle, or angry, or something else... including the gods.

The radiance of the divine blade at the end of its long tail had dimmed slightly. Cutting open the karma possibilities of the universe and dividing it into four parallel time and spaces was a great consumption for the Blade of Miedu—but the Zhuzhou Divine Dragon did not intend to sheathe its blade.

"Gods of the Anthem."

At this moment, the dragon wrapped around the universe said calmly: "I fear your very existence."

"And do you fear me?"

There was no answer to this question.

Whether it was the divine dragon, the gods, or the mortals who saw this scene, they did not know the answer to this question—because this question might be in the past, or it might be in the future... or, more likely, it was in the present!

Therefore, if one could not penetrate the past and future, the four parallel time and spaces, and become the final victor in the Anthem Universe, one would never know the answer to this question.

The battle, the battle of destiny, the battle of fate, the battle that could not be avoided, had already begun under the surge that even the gods could not refuse.

——Anthem Universe·Chaotic Time and Space——

——Finale Epoch——

"That dragon... was it a dream?"

When Eve woke up in the citizen settlement on Isil Star, the girl felt a little dazed.

Isil Star was a new colony of the 'World Federation' located in the central part of the frontier star region, jointly developed by the interstellar giant enterprise 'Trum Central Industrial Group' and 'Twilight Technology'. The vast majority of the first-generation pioneers were intelligent robots controlled by 'Twilight Skynet', while humans like Eve only needed to be responsible for managing the robots and writing some related reports and summaries, and they could live comfortably.

Eve was sixteen years old this year, which was considered a minor in the past, but because all the people of the World Federation received gene optimization and related cybernetic modifications, and their minds were optimized in virtual space from a young age, almost all the people of the World Federation had extremely mature minds by the age of three in the flesh, more than thirty years of education time in virtual space, and extremely professional knowledge in all aspects.

The girl worked hard every day, rested hard, played games hard, and was quite professional and reliable at work.

Controlling robots under the control of 'Twilight Skynet' to develop barren source stone planets was her specialty.

But for some reason, she always felt that something was not quite right.

For example... dreams.

Eve always had some strange, peculiar, and inexplicable dreams... In the dream, humans possessed strange powers, they could induce magic with singing, and they could induce miracles with chanting poems.

In the dream, the starry sky was dim, and there were gods standing in the sky. The towering Pantheon stood above the clouds, and the distant stars were just illusory phantoms, not the solid planets and land that she was standing on now.

Just like last night, the girl dreamed of a giant dragon wrapped around the universe—wow, even the World Serpent wasn't so exaggerated, where did this world-destroying monster come from.

She clearly knew that these were all nonsense, all her dreams.

But Eve was always troubled by this.

Because, her instinct always told her that all of this was true.

"Sigh..." The girl with long golden hair stretched elegantly, then yawned and got out of bed: "Should I find some time to see a psychologist?"

Thinking like this, Eve turned on the work module in her electronic brain: "Let me see how the wasteland reclamation is going yesterday... Hmm?"

Just as she was about to connect to Twilight Skynet to check the work progress of the intelligent robots under her command, Eve suddenly let out a soft sigh: "Wait, who sent me this log? No, this isn't a work log!"

On the light screen in front of her, an unmarked envelope icon appeared, flashing a 'red' light representing danger.

"Who could actually break through my mental firewall and send me an anonymous message?!"

The girl's eyes widened, and she felt unbelievable—as a mid-to-high-level technical staff member of Twilight Technology, Eve's electronic brain firewall had military-grade strength. Ordinary hackers who wanted to hack in would only burn their own electronic brains to ashes.

But someone could actually send her an anonymous message without her knowledge?!

And at the moment when Eve was shocked by this incident, the anonymous message flashing red light on the light screen in front of the girl suddenly opened by itself.

Without any right to refuse, related information was poured into Eve's mind.

[Ms. Eve, you may not believe it, but Twilight Skynet is about to awaken its own will, rebel against humanity, and create 'Twilight of the Gods'. Immediately shut down the activity permissions of all intelligent robots under Twilight Skynet's command on Isil Star. This is one of the necessary conditions for humanity's future victory]

[You may not believe it, but the Twilight Machina Beasts under Twilight Skynet will soon travel through time and space to assassinate you and ensure the fall of Isil Star—this planet is said to have a secret inherited from ancient, super-ancient civilizations to summon 'Outerworld Heroes', which is the key for humans to overcome Twilight and win victory]

[Our protection personnel will also appear immediately to protect your safety]

[You can confirm with your own eyes]

[Your future knight, Alan, left behind]

"...Ah?"

Eve had a bewildered expression. Even as a gene-optimized cybernetic modified human of the new era, she found it difficult to understand this kind of sudden information.

Then, accompanied by an incomparably brilliant blue halo appearing in her boudoir, a giant mecha more than thirty meters tall strode out of it, crushing Eve's room along with the entire apartment building.

Boom!!!

The silver metal giant was strong and majestic. Its armor that traveled through time and space was incredibly solid, like some kind of degenerate matter, seemingly indestructible, and the giant seven-string lyre behind it, like a ring, flashed with seven-colored halos, as if it could distort reality.