Chapter 166: The World Tree’s Wish

There were many, many aftereffects of the Fobole turmoil. First was the Holy Council. This historically significant and deeply rooted Giant Dominator organization actually had its headquarters destroyed by Demons!

People would not question the authority of the Deities, but they could not help but ask whether the Holy Council could represent the authority of the Deities in the secular world, or rather, whether it used to be able to represent them, but had now lost the favor of the Deities!

A storm blew up in the Main Plane of the Andromeda Galaxy. The center of the storm was those Mages who possessed free thought and controlled a vast amount of social resources.

Every Mage might seem like an ordinary member within the Holy Council or the City of Saints. But it must be clear that in the Main Plane, not everyone with the talent to become a Mage could achieve this superior status.

A good mentor was essential. If one did not have that, then a large amount of money could be used to make up for it to some extent. In fact, the background of almost every Mage was basically the secular nobility.

Just like Lord Kagal whom Lin Lei had assassinated back in the day. Even if he wasn’t one before, after becoming a Mage, the secular royal power would confer a noble title upon him.

Or take Mage Loga, a commoner. After losing his mentor, in order to advance further, he had to lose his dignity to seize money.

The entire Mage class controlled 99% of the resources of the Main Plane; there was no doubt about that. Whether in terms of power or ideology, they were the true mainstream of society!

The questioning from the entire Mage class was a fatal blow to the Holy Council. Overnight, this organization, which had lost all its Immortals, withered, collapsed, and disintegrated.

Nearly fifty percent of the Mages announced that they had become Free Mages, either joining the City of Saints, or becoming retainers for the secular royal power, and so on. Mages never lacked a way to survive.

Those with truly firm faith formed a new organization to serve the Deities: the Holy City.

Interestingly, the leader of the new Holy City was none other than the Immortal, Veren!

This Immortal beautified his previous withdrawal from the Holy Council as a noble act of seeing through the darkness within the Council and refusing to wallow in the mire with them. Coupled with his strength, naturally, he became the leader of the Holy City.

There was one matter in this that interested Lin Lei greatly, which was that when Veren declared he was favored by the Deities, he had displayed the Divine Artifact “Origin Law”.

This Divine Artifact had disappeared after that Monster was born. Lin Lei was in a hurry to escape at the time and didn’t go looking for it, but he never expected it to benefit this old guy.

However, Lin Lei did not take it to heart. What this Divine Artifact could bring to the Holy City was not just power, but also a great hidden disaster buried tens of thousands of years later!

Of course, there was another aftereffect of the great turmoil in Fobole that was unknown to the world. That was the Monster whose strength was comparable to a Pan-dimensional Creature; according to the terms of the Main Plane, it was a Deity.

This Monster was born from the collection of the wills of the 33 Immortals of the Holy Council. Each Immortal’s thoughts had their unique aspects, but they also had common ground.

The dissimilar thoughts of each Immortal definitely caused incomparable chaos in the Monster’s will. Under these circumstances, the common ground of their wills—that is, the various desires of intelligent beings—became prominent within this Monster’s will.

Undoubtedly, a Monster controlled by various desires was a true Demon. This could be seen just by looking at the concrete form it created from the Void.

The Monster’s will was very chaotic, and for this, the Main Plane should be thankful. If this guy were to go mad while conscious, destroying one Life Planet after another, the more than 80,000 planets really wouldn’t be enough for him to stuff between his teeth.

But there was also its misfortune. That was, the Monster’s will was a collection of the Immortals. These Immortals were always incredibly knowledgeable about the location of every Life Planet in the Main Plane.

This led to this Monster seemingly destroying planets at random, but the destruction rate of Life Planets was surprisingly high. To date, he had already destroyed three planets.

Three planets—what kind of concept was that! A Star System had just over 80,000 Life Planets in total, while there were trillions of dead planets. In comparison, this bias had already reached an unacceptable level.

This Monster had to be eliminated, otherwise the Main Plane would sooner or later be completely destroyed by it!

But what drove people crazy was that this plan was no different from slaughtering a god! The gap in strength between Mages and the Monster was even greater than the gap between ordinary people and Immortals!

The superposition of the wills of thirty-three Immortals had already undergone a qualitative change under the wondrous effect of the “Origin Law”. Now, even an Immortal, in the eyes of the Monster, was just a slightly larger ant that could be crushed at will.

Ants might be able to bite an elephant to death, but the tragedy was that the Main Plane did not have enough ants.

In a word, the current Main Plane had no way to stop this Monster from committing its atrocities; it could only await destruction.

At the same time, Lin Lei was also seeking a solution to this Monster from Lenna.

In Lin Lei’s view, to oppose this pure emissary of destruction, only a Pan-dimensional Creature had the strength to do so.

But Lenna directly rejected Lin Lei’s method: “Lin Lei, the existence of this Monster does not interfere with the interests of any Pan-dimensional Creature, and the Monster’s combat power is truly too strong. Even if a Pan-dimensional Creature could defeat him, they would have to pay a heavy price! No Pan-dimensional Creature would do such a foolish thing, because this Monster’s lifespan might be very long, but it will eventually perish in the river of time, and Pan-dimensional Creatures can totally afford to wait!”

Well, that path was cut off just like that. The Monster was created by the Main Plane itself, and others indeed had no responsibility to help eliminate it.

That method wouldn’t work, so Lin Lei had to propose his second suggestion. This suggestion was a bit harmful to others, which was to lure this Monster to the Galaxy and let the Watcher Civilization deal with him.

The technology of the Watcher Civilization was no joke. Back in the day, the Fortress Main Gun of the Allen Civilization had wiped out more than a dozen Pan-dimensional Creatures in one shot. Existences of such a heaven-defying level should find dealing with this Monster a piece of cake.

But the Galaxy was, after all, Lin Lei’s home Star System. Luring this kind of fierce beast there felt somewhat wrong.

Lenna, however, did not have such concerns. She smiled and praised: “Lin Lei, this is the only effective solution. The technological power of the Galaxy surpasses any individual creature. I think as soon as this Monster arrives, it will be mercilessly annihilated.”

Lin Lei frowned. The method was good, but who should do it? The Monster was right there in the Andromeda Galaxy, and its massive will had been emitting fluctuations like a supernova. Every slightly sensitive intelligent being could feel that destructive and oppressive intent. Finding him was simple enough.

But even if an Immortal ran up to it, they would definitely be crushed to death like a bug, with nowhere to escape.

Even though Lin Lei’s current strength far surpassed that of an ordinary Immortal, he knew in his heart that in this Monster’s hands, he would just be a slightly stronger bug, and the outcome would be no different.

But looking across the Andromeda Galaxy, it seemed that besides him, no one knew the location of the Galaxy, let alone how to lure it there.

Lin Lei thought it over and realized that he, who had proposed this suggestion, was the sole implementer of this plan.

…Did this mean he was seeking his own death? Lin Lei muttered secretly in his heart.

Lenna saw Lin Lei’s hesitation. In fact, Lin Lei wasn’t obligated to do this either, but as the World Tree, she didn’t want to see the Life Planets of such a vast Star System destroyed like this.

“Lin Lei, I might have a method that can minimize the risk.”

“Maybe? Lenna, regarding this so-called lowering of risk, to what extent can it be lowered?” Even Lenna, who was a Pan-dimensional Creature, used such uncertain words, which made Lin Lei feel the Monster’s power even more deeply.

Lenna still used an uncertain tone as she said: “I am not clear about this Monster’s behavioral patterns. This method can only be an attempt. If it succeeds, you won’t need to take risks. If it fails, we will have to ask for help from myself from five thousand years ago.”

Lin Lei said in disbelief: “Lenna, you just said Pan-dimensional Creatures wouldn’t interfere, so why are you getting involved yourself?”

“Because, I am the World Tree. I prefer creation over destruction! In my Forbidden Domain, the existence of a few destructive elements is only for better creation. I do not want to see all the Life Planets here destroyed.”

Every Life Planet had its consciousness; this was true for the Galaxy, and also for the Andromeda Galaxy. Destroying Fobole was just an occasional occurrence, but large-scale destruction was something Lenna certainly could not accept.

Lin Lei was speechless. He should have understood this long ago. Back then, to prevent her Forbidden Domain from being destroyed, Lenna was even willing to be blackmailed by the Dark Saint, let alone now.

“Alright, you speak, and I will do it.” This Monster was originally caused by him, so he had to solve it himself.