I Save The World In A Doomsday Text Game

Chapter 375-1: The Nature of the Apocalypse, the True Source of the Apocalypse (1)

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[Teleportation successful!]

[The powerful wandering soul awakens in the Library…]

Lin Xun let out a long breath. The nerves he had kept taut all this time finally relaxed.

The final battle was over. Flanda had sacrificed herself, and Firefly had also fallen one after another, but he had not betrayed their expectations and had finally slain the Wet Nurse and saved the world.

“Only, did we really save the world this time?”

If not for those last lines of text that appeared in the final event, he could have been certain that he had finally accomplished an unprecedented feat of salvation and would definitely earn the highest rating.

The high-end forces under the Wet Nurse had basically all been recalled to the Sacred Nest Ninth Layer, injected with factor of malice and merged into the Sea of Cultivation, becoming the source of malice power.

And on Firefly’s side, there had to still be a group of surviving demigods and gods.

With both main gods dead, and after all the malice had been completely absorbed by him, the aberrated side would definitely be able to defeat the Ascended, allowing this world to return to the peaceful scene it had known before the Wet Nurse’s invasion.But those last lines of text in the final event added a layer of uncertainty to the original ending.

The mutual gaze with the Extreme Delusion Fruit had allowed that true evil god to lock onto the location of the Firefly world.

Would it be able to cross the endless starry sky, arrive at the Firefly world, and continue spreading malice, corrupting everything within its sight and knowledge?

If the answer was yes, then all of Lin Xun’s efforts had only delayed the pace of the world’s destruction, and the Firefly world was destined to walk the path toward annihilation.

Unless he could, before the Extreme Delusion Fruit reached the Firefly world, kill it.

“What a delusional fantasy…”

“Even killing the Wet Nurse was only possible because Firefly sacrificed himself and self-detonated, weakening the Wet Nurse to a certain level, and only at the end did I borrow power derived from the Extreme Delusion Fruit to kill her.”

“And now I am actually overestimating myself enough to want to take on the Extreme Delusion Fruit’s true body, guess I have really gotten cocky…”

Lin Xun suddenly felt a wave of fatigue. It was not physical exhaustion, but a weariness of the mind.

He subconsciously wanted to stretch lazily, yet discovered that his limbs and body could not move in the slightest.

The sensation was like sleep paralysis. His awareness was clear, but he could not control his body.

His pupils shrank sharply. Even his eyeballs could not move. He could only maintain his original posture, staring at the game text display.

“Could it be a side effect left over from the chapter instance just now?”

“That shouldn’t be it. The Library is an absolute safe zone. At the end in the evil god world of the last chapter, I fell into Extreme Evil, but once I returned to the Library, it was able to isolate the spread of the Extreme Evil power…”

“It has to be the Librarian’s true body.”

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[The walls of the Library’s vast main hall are all lined with tall, orderly bookshelves, packed full of countless splendid copies of The Book of Salvation.]

[In the very center of the hall floats an enormous Book of Salvation. The figure beneath the book has already left the rocking chair and is now standing, looking at you with a complicated expression…]

Lin Xun’s thoughts spun rapidly as he considered how to handle the situation that was about to unfold.

If the Librarian’s intention was not to save worlds, but to break the rules and fight against the game, then Lin Xun had undoubtedly already done that.

Because the Extreme Delusion Fruit had indeed learned of the Firefly world’s coordinates due to his existence, even though this was not his intention and not something he could control.

[The Librarian looks at you with a complicated expression and slowly says, Apostle, there is no need to panic. Once he clears away the impurities in your soul, you will be able to return to normal.]

[He murmurs a long string of complex incantations. A faint white light appears and repeatedly washes over your soul.]

[Visible to the naked eye, black vapors drift out from your wandering soul. The black vapors gather and seem to want to form a monstrous face…]

[Yet before the black vapors can fully take shape, they evaporate and vanish without a trace under the washing of the white light.]

[The Librarian explains to you that these impurities were left in your soul by the Extreme Delusion Fruit. If they are not removed, they will cause a disaster of unimaginable magnitude.]

[He knows you surely have many questions in your heart. Do not rush. He will tell you everything you are qualified to know.]

The ‘impurities’ in his soul completely vanished.

In reality, Lin Xun finally regained control of his physical body.

[The Librarian continues, Demigod power is a power capable of prying at a portion of the rules, a budding seed that can grow toward pseudo god, true god, and even main god.]

[Every Apostle who comes into contact with demigod power for the first time receives a single chance, a chance to gain his assistance and to learn the source and the nature of the apocalypse.]

[Such an opportunity is absolutely unique, because his help includes authority that can overstep some of the game rules.]

[Yet even with help that can overstep part of the rules, among all the Apostles who came into contact with demigod power, not one has ever been able to turn this chance to learn the nature of the calamity into an opportunity to save the world. You alone…]

[Although you still failed in the end, the fact that you could save the world even temporarily is already an invigorating miracle.]

“A chance to learn the source and the nature of the apocalypse?”

So the Librarian had not been trying to fight against the game rules. Instead, the aid he offered already included authority that could circumvent the rules.

An Apostle newly exposed to demigod power might look strong, but compared to the true source of the apocalypse, they were still far too weak. Without the Librarian’s help, it was extremely difficult to perceive the nature of the apocalypse, let alone talk about saving the world.

By a twist of fate, Lin Xun had taken the chance to understand the source of the apocalypse as the only chance to save the world, and he actually managed to kill the Wet Nurse.

The Librarian had guided him toward Asad, allowing him to obtain the Core of Extreme Evil, skipping an entire series of processes. The final result looked like he had saved the world, but in reality, it had allowed the Extreme Delusion Fruit to lock onto the Firefly world’s coordinates.

If everything the Librarian had done was for him to learn the true nature of the apocalypse…

Then with the Firefly world now at peace and free of apocalypse for the time being, the only thing that could plunge the Firefly world once again into an apocalyptic crisis was the Extreme Delusion Fruit.

“I get it now!”

Connecting his attempt to contact the Librarian with the information he had obtained in each chapter, he finally understood the source and nature of the apocalypse.

He remembered Flanda once saying that the Wet Nurse’s original homeland came from somewhere else, a world where they modified the flesh.

That world had been destroyed because it could not be redeemed, which had forced the Wet Nurse to flee to the Firefly world.

If every world was destroyed because it could not be redeemed, did that mean that the worlds that still existed would be destroyed by these ‘evil gods’ that did not belong to their worlds once they arrived?

In the World of Omniscience, the radiant stars were outsiders.

In the Extreme Evil world, the Extreme Delusion Fruit was an outsider.

In the Firefly world, the Desire Wet Nurse was an outsider.

In the Blood Sun world, the Golden Blazing Sun had suddenly fallen without warning and turned into the Corrupting Blood Sun. Was that also related to an outside evil god?

At the moment, the Wet Nurse had already fallen. The most powerful ‘outside evil god’ in the Firefly world had been removed, yet a new and even stronger ‘outside evil god’ had set its eyes on the Firefly world.

This also fit the pattern that Lin Xun had derived.

He even thought that if the final ending of the Firefly chapters was the Wet Nurse’s victory, she would be able to use the Outsider to obtain information and coordinates of the next world, and after the Firefly world was destroyed, continue on to the next world as the ‘Source of the Apocalypse.’

That too would fit the pattern of outside evil gods serving as the source of the apocalypse.

Lin Xun suddenly recalled the Librarian wiping away the impurities in his soul just now.

The Librarian had said that ‘if the impurities the Extreme Delusion Fruit left in his soul were not removed, they would cause a disaster of unimaginable magnitude.’

What was this disaster? What kind of disaster was so serious that it required his soul to be restrained within the Library, unable to return to his body and control his real-world self?

If these outside evil gods were the source and nature of the apocalypse, then what exactly was the ‘Library,’ and could it be locked onto and invaded by the outside evil gods?

This was why the Librarian had wiped away the ‘impurities’ containing coordinate information in his soul so that the Extreme Delusion Fruit would be unable to locate the Library.

Lin Xun even gave birth to an extremely terrifying thought.

If he took the idea a step further, could the real world itself be one of the chapters of The Book of Salvation, and what people were experiencing now was nothing more than a zero-difficulty beginner chapter?

Once evil gods, wandering everywhere due to the destruction of numerous worlds, descended, the salvation journey that belonged to the real world would truly step into the main story?

The Librarian was preventing him from bringing these impurities back to reality, to avoid the Extreme Delusion Fruit invading the real world.

[The Librarian seems to know what you are thinking. He gives a strained smile, nods, and confirms…]

[The Book of Salvation was created to resist these outside Sources of the Apocalypse and to save worlds.]

[What Apostles must do is exactly what the game’s name says, save the world…]

“Fuck!”

“No wonder there is an organization like New World. So the apocalypse really will descend upon the real world!”

Just imagining what the real world would be like if a terrifying existence such as the Extreme Delusion Fruit descended was enough.

The mere thought stirred despair and made his whole body tremble.