novelraw Chapter 375-2: The Nature of the Apocalypse, the True Source of the Apocalypse (2)
Chapter 375-2: The Nature of the Apocalypse, the True Source of the Apocalypse (2)
Lin Xun felt as if an invisible hand had wrapped itself tight around his throat, making even breathing difficult.
Who could resist these indescribably powerful evil gods? The noob Apostles in the real world?
If the official organizations were the salvation faction that struggled to save the world in spite of knowing they had no chance, then New World was undoubtedly the faction that knew it could not win and had taken the initiative to raise the banner of welcoming the descent.
They strove to grow stronger not to save the world, but to become running dogs at the feet of evil gods, in hopes of preserving themselves.
After the real world was destroyed, they would just follow the evil god across the endless starry sky, reaching the next ‘new world,’ like the Wet Nurse’s offspring.
Whether the real world was destroyed, they did not care in the slightest.
Even Lin Xun could not help but feel the urge to give up after learning the truth, feeling there was no way to resist.
How much courage, how much strength would be needed to face the descent of evil gods and raise a sword in resistance?
He did not know how many people in the real world could learn the truth, but he knew that those who could maintain a determination to save the world even after learning the truth of the apocalypse were the ones with true great courage, the true saviors.
He remained silent for a long time before finally calming down.[You ask the Librarian when the apocalypse will descend upon reality.]
[He shakes his head and does not give you an answer.]
[You then ask whether the ending you experienced in the previous chapter is real. Will the Firefly world of the last chapter continue to develop according to the ending you cleared, until it is completely corrupted by the Extreme Delusion Fruit?]
[The Librarian is taken aback. His expression grows hard to read, then he nods in confirmation and says…]
[Your actions have met the conditions for a salvation judgment. Whether you saved the world temporarily or permanently, the game will determine that you successfully saved Volume 7632495.]
[All chapters of this volume, whether they are prerequisite chapters or subsequent chapters, will no longer appear in The Book of Salvation… and you will receive the highest-level chapter interpretation rating.]
Hearing this, Lin Xun felt a small stir of joy, but soon he frowned.
“Is the game’s judgment really that rigid?”
He was not complaining about his reward being generous. It was just hard to accept that the Firefly world would be allowed to be destroyed like that.
Lin Xun had been thinking that if there was a chance to enter the Firefly world again in the future, perhaps there might be a possibility to resurrect Flanda.
But with the game judging the salvation as successful and ensuring that all chapters of the Firefly world would no longer appear in The Book of Salvation, there would be no opportunity at all.
“I may no longer be able to enter the Firefly world chapters, but I can anchor into the subsequent chapters of the evil god world.”
“If I can kill the Extreme Delusion Fruit, then that means the Firefly world has truly been saved.”
“And now, the evil god world and the Firefly world are already connected.”
“Maybe it is somewhat possible to resurrect Flanda via the evil god world, though the odds are so slim they can be practically ignored.”
Lin Xun did not plan to use the Anchor Bookmark to enter the evil god chapters right now.
He already knew that the Vermilion Empire storyline was at the eighth difficulty. That would be the most critical time node.
He was still too weak at present. Even if he anchored into the seventh chapter of the evil god world, he would not be able to change anything.
There were still many questions in Lin Xun’s heart, so he simply took this chance to seek answers from the Librarian.
One question he had always failed to understand was the significance of Special Attributes.
In the Firefly chapters, if he had not had the blessing of the Calamitous Fallen attribute, there was no way he could have absorbed malice and gained an almost endless power of malice.
Lin Xun had a vague suspicion. If it was true, his strength might be able to grow rapidly.
However, the answer the Librarian gave him completely exceeded his expectations.
[The Librarian seems unwilling to answer this question, but due to the constraints of the rules, he has no choice but to respond…]
[In essence, Special Attributes are power seeds that originate from main gods.]
[Special Attributes are not limited to Hell Difficulty. Every apocalyptic chapter has its own Special Attribute belonging to its respective deities, including Ordinary difficulty and Nightmare Difficulty.]
[It is just that in Ordinary and Nightmare difficulties, the main gods of the related oath factions have not yet reached a certain level of strength. The Special Attributes they grant to oath-bearing Apostles are too weak, so weak as to be negligible, and thus cannot be displayed on the panel.]
[Some main gods who sense that an Apostle is an outsider will insert some impurities into the Special Attributes, such as coordinate sensing, or some kind of unknown secret connection.]
[For example, your malice attribute contains the coordinate sensing power left by the Extreme Delusion Fruit…]
[Seeing this, you immediately ask again why the Librarian did not wipe away the impurities for you previously but waited until after the Firefly chapters to erase them.]
[The Librarian answers expressionlessly that there is a blessing over the real world. Before a Special Attribute has fully grown, it cannot be used via its impurities to sense the real world’s coordinates.]
[In the previous chapter, the amount of malice you absorbed was too great, causing that Special Attribute to grow explosively to the point that it no longer even appeared on the panel.]
[The power that blesses the real world can no longer isolate the influence of the impurities, so he had to cleanse your soul to prevent the Extreme Delusion Fruit from locking onto the real world.]
The more Lin Xun learned, the more questions he had.
Who had placed the blessing in reality? Who had created The Book of Salvation?
He asked the Librarian again, but this time the Librarian just shook his head and refused to answer.
Lin Xun’s eyes rolled, and he immediately rephrased his question.
[You ask again, since the apocalyptic chapters and various gods in the game are real, do the other apocalyptic chapter worlds have similar blessings or something similar to The Book of Salvation?]
[The Librarian gives you a deep look and answers briefly, No.]
[After speaking, he murmurs an incantation and disappears from the Library…]
“It was just a few questions.”
“How did I already manage to make you mad… wait, shit, that’s not it!”
Lin Xun’s eyes widened.
He suddenly realized that there was some unknown power blessing the real world, preventing the various evil gods from sensing its coordinates through Special Attributes.
After their original worlds were destroyed, perhaps the evil gods could only wander aimlessly through the endless starry sky like the Wet Nurse had done, only finding a world like the Firefly world if they were lucky.
Only in this way could the real world possibly be invaded by evil gods, which was why the Librarian did not even know when outside evil gods would descend.
But the other game chapter worlds had no such blessing.
Apostles carried all kinds of Special Attributes into many different game chapters. Because the Special Attributes were relatively weak, their impurities could only provide the evil gods with rather blurry coordinate positions.
After the evil gods’ original worlds were destroyed, they would definitely follow the blur of those coordinates to seek new worlds.
“So The Book of Salvation does not really exist to save all those other worlds at all. The game exists solely to save the real world.”
“It is even willing to sell out the coordinates of the other surviving worlds in exchange for the safety of reality.”
“Because only when the evil gods have a clear target will they not search randomly, only then will they not just happen to run into my real world in the endless starry sky.”