Time ticked by.
It would not stop.
Nor would it slow down for Zao Wu.
Otherwise, how much he wanted to smooth her messy long hair, wipe away the crystal tears from the corner of her eyes, and call her name willfully again...
But in the end, all of this turned into the most silent love, floating in the young man's most gentle eyes.
Until the long and deep darkness swallowed him.
The young man, like a thin morning mist, would no longer exist when the sunlight shone down.
The pseudo black hole had long been out of the control of Welt and the Star of Eden, and had turned into a real black hole that nurtured the authority of destruction.
Without devouring enough energy to let the positive and negative matter in it annihilate each other, it would continue to expand until it had destroyed both the Herta Space Station and the Azure Star.
This could not be entirely blamed on Welt. If it weren't for him, the Herta Space Station would have crashed due to the huge impact the moment the Doomsday Beast's core exploded.
It was just that he hadn't expected that the pseudo black hole of the Star of Eden would become out of his control after absorbing the destructive foreign matter, and its energy would also rise exponentially.
And the appearance of the destructive foreign matter was undoubtedly inseparable from Zao Wu's acceptance of Nanook's power blessing and his promotion to the eighth Lord Ravager in the universe.
Zao Wu also knew this.
And he understood even more that at that time, he seemed to have no other way to save Kafka from Xingxiao's hands except to accept the power of the Destruction Aeon Nanook.
However, he was not completely desperate.
The young man, with his incomparably keen observation, had boldly looked directly at the face and figure of the Destruction Aeon in the short process of having an audience with the god, and had guessed the essence of the ferocious wound on Nanook's chest.
That might be a defect that He had not been able to make up for in the concept of destruction.
Or a symbol of being attacked by an existence of the same level, or even a higher level, to the point where the great dao had collapsed.
(The official setting says that the wound on Nanook's chest was left by Aha. The author is more inclined to believe that Aha did something or said something that broke the Destruction Aeon's dao heart a little, but not completely, so the huge wound on his chest will always exist)
No matter which answer it was, it did not prevent Zao Wu from seeing it as a loophole in the Path of Destruction.
As his only loophole to be able to briefly break free from the Path of Destruction after being promoted to an Emanator of Destruction! And thus use it!
This was a method that Sister Silver Wolf had taught him.
It had a simple and easy-to-understand name.
—Glitching!
Zao Wu's chips were very few, very few.
But when he had to come to the gambling table of fate, he had the courage to go all in, to face death with equanimity, and to ALL IN everything!
Nanook thought he had won.
Because Zao Wu had accepted His power and had become a Lord Ravager, his soul would be transformed from the inside out, and would accept a reversal.
He just needed to be thrown into the "war furnace" again, to accept continuous tempering, and to be supplemented with antimatter for its defects, and he would become his best masterpiece.
—The Holy Son of Destruction.
With his weak human soul, it was impossible to resist the reshaping of that will of destruction.
In other words, at that time, Zao Wu's self-awareness, because he had become a Lord Ravager, was about to be completely swallowed by the monster nurtured in his heart!
But even Nanook hadn't expected that the young man would once again fool Him with his own will.
And this time, it was even more thorough!
He had used the defect that had been created by that nameless fool's destruction of the Path of Destruction.
To be born from death!
And thus to find a moment of himself.
That also meant that Zao Wu, who had regained his self-will, could also at the same time control the power of a Lord Ravager that the Destruction Aeon Nanook had bestowed on him!
He wanted both!
Greedy, yet selfless!
Even Nanook had a trace of emotional fluctuation for a long time because of this.
How many eons has it been since it was like this?
This child clearly looks so well-behaved, so honest.
How can there be a streak of madness in his bones, more cunning than a Foxian of the Xianzhou!
But it was precisely because of this that he was...
...far superior to Xingxiao, wasn't he?
Later, with the brief return of his true self, Zao Wu had instantly killed a clone of Xingxiao and saved Kafka.
He knew that this state of his would not last long, or rather, it would only last for a moment.
The next moment, his self would fall again, and his body would be occupied by the monster in his heart.
At that time, he would become the enemy of all life, the burier of civilization.
Therefore, even without the existence of the out-of-control black hole, Zao Wu would have ended himself.
That would have been even more cruel.
It was a scene he absolutely did not want his mother Kafka to see.
In comparison, to let the black hole swallow this body of his, which had not yet been tempered and forged by the "war furnace" to the point of being indestructible, and at the same time, to fill the emptiness of the black hole with the power of a Lord Ravager, and to perish with it, was a kind of gentle metaphor.
A person who has thrown himself into a black hole.
Who can observe his life or death?
But the eighth Lord Ravager, who should have shaken the entire universe, was probably indeed fallen today.
...
When the out-of-control black hole had swallowed enough energy and returned to its origin, it instantly turned into an endless, distorted daylight, illuminating the entire magnificent and desolate starry sky.
Endless light feathers fell, like snowflakes, scattering on the broken Herta Space Station.
Floating towards the distant Azure Star, it made the hemisphere that was in the night briefly fall into a polar day.
Countless people of the Azure Star, who had collapsed in despair because of the appearance of the Destruction Aeon's phantom, and were kneeling on the ground praying that Lady Herta could save them again, were granted a great amnesty at this moment, their eyes full of tears!
In their view, this endless light feather was naturally proof that the world had been reborn from the brink of destruction!
And to be able to do this, with their limited knowledge, all they could think of was the Herta Space Station, which was controlled by the legendary Ms. Herta and her student Asta!
Ms. Herta had saved the Azure Star from the crisis of destruction nineteen times! And had even visited an Aeon twice!
Adding this time, that would be the twentieth time.
In the distant near-earth orbit, outside the secret laboratory of the Simulated Universe, Herta received a message from the Azure Star.
The first major religion on the Azure Star, the Church of Herta, had designated today as the "Twentieth Time Herta Saved the World Day," and would hold a grand parade and celebration.
If it were in the past, Herta would have just chosen to ignore it and glance over it.
All living beings are creatures that need all kinds of meaning to exist.
Unlike her, who had long since been enlightened and was walking on the path of creating meaning, and no longer questioned meaning.
So in most cases, she would let the people's foolish actions be, and only give guidance at necessary moments.
Herta had never cared for laurels, for honor, for many, many things.
But this time, she rarely had an emotion called injustice.
Unwilling to let everything that young man had done be forgotten!
And so, the Herta puppet that was left on the throne of the god of the Church of Herta on the Azure Star suddenly connected to all the screens in the world!
She, on behalf of Herta's main body, spoke in a firm and solemn tone.
"Today, I will broadcast to the whole world this recording of hope born from despair..."
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