HPxLOTM: A Wizard's Path to Divinity-Chapter 722: Ascension to Sequence 0

She smoothed her long hair that danced in the wind and continued, "When you have completely finished replacing the Oldest One, I will regain my freedom as well. At that time, we will merge once again and become the one and only Li Li."

"..."

Lilith fell silent for a moment, then asked, "But Edward’s appearance ruined all of your plans, didn’t it?"

"No—that doesn’t seem right. If that’s the case, why didn’t you strip everything out of Edward’s body and place it into mine instead?"

Li Li let out a soft sigh. "That’s why I said that the fact you became an independent individual like this may have been the Oldest One stirring things up. Have you ever thought about why you approached Edward in the first place?"

"But later, the connection between you and me was suddenly severed. You lost all your memories, even your wisdom, and became nothing more than an ordinary little cat. After that, you followed Edward into the world of mysteries, and only then did you regain your intelligence by relying on potions."

"It wasn’t until the last time you returned here that the memories I sealed away finally began to loosen a little. Heh—wasn’t I right, Lilith? Back then, some vague fragments of memory must have surfaced in your mind, didn’t they?"

Lilith pondered for a moment before saying, "Oh, so the reason the Slytherin soul reacted that way last time was actually because it saw me?"

"More precisely, it didn’t ’see’ you with its eyes—it sensed on you the same aura as mine."

"Then here’s the question." Lilith’s gaze sharpened. "Why did you conceal him at that time and stop him from saying anything? What would have happened if he had spoken the ’truth’ back then?"

She answered her own question almost immediately. "Perhaps we would have realised that that ’Creator’ was connected to me. Perhaps that would have caused my lost memories to awaken even further. And then? Then how would that have been unfavourable to you?"

Li Li asked calmly, "Why do you assume it would be unfavourable to me? Why couldn’t it have been unfavourable to resisting the Oldest One’s consciousness?"

"Isn’t that obvious?"

Li Li looked at Lilith quietly. "Lilith, you and I are, in essence, the same person. There’s no need to view me with malicious suspicion. Neither of us has ever been a schemer."

"The Ancient Sun God could turn into a fanatic like Adam and a madman like the True Creator. Though Amon’s avatars are, in essence, all fraudsters and prankster gods, there can still be enormous differences between them...So what’s so strange about you and me having vastly different personalities?"

Lilith shook her head and stopped dwelling on the matter. She asked directly, "Alright, back to the point. You asked me to come see you—what exactly do you want to do?"

"I simply felt that it was time for you to know the truth of everything."

"And then?" Lilith spread her hands. "There has to be an ’after that,’ right?"

Li Li straightened up, his expression becoming much more solemn. "Everything I told Edward was true. As for resisting the Oldest One—he will seize the Oldest One’s power and authority, while I suppress the Oldest One’s will."

"But I’ve realised that I can no longer continue suppressing the Oldest One. More accurately, my consciousness seems to have been unknowingly influenced and eroded by the Oldest One over the years. If this continues, it won’t be me suppressing It anymore—it will be It assimilating me."

"Once Edward advances to Sequence 0 and, under the effect of [Dimensional Ascension], gains control of the Oldest One’s authority, that will also be the moment when the Oldest One’s will is at its strongest. At that point, I will likely be unable to suppress It any longer and will inevitably be assimilated—and the next one after me will be Edward."

"And then, the Oldest One will complete its final resurrection!"

At this point, Li Li looked at Lilith seriously and extended a hand toward her. "So I need your help. I need you to help me suppress the Oldest One’s will together with me—until Edward completely replaces the Oldest One and comes back to save us."

"..."

Even though she had long prepared herself mentally, Lilith still fell into a prolonged silence. A pain like sharp needles pierced her heart—a pain born of her reluctance to part with the world, with Edward, with everything she held dear.

"Save us?"

After a long while, Lilith spoke softly. "By then...there probably won’t be a ’me’ anymore, will there?"

Li Li shook his head. "I don’t want to lie to you, so I can only tell you this: I don’t know what the outcome will be. Perhaps we will become a single individual, fused together with both our personalities and memories. Perhaps, in the future, with Edward’s help, we might separate again...But this truly is the only way to resist the Original’s will."

"You must understand—regardless of whether the Oldest One will once again, as it did in the past, lose control under the instinct of convergence and gather everything together to reset the world, you, I, and Edward will all be unable to escape."

"This was destined from the very beginning."

Lilith remained silent for a long time.

Hiss—

At that moment, the train slowly came to a stop before a sea of golden light.

Lilith lifted her head and saw that the carriage in front of her had vanished. The golden radiance originated from an amber that emitted a brilliant glow. Within the amber slept a girl identical to Li Li—serene, tranquil, and beautiful.

Suddenly, the girl inside the amber opened her eyes and looked straight at Lilith. She extended a fair, delicate arm toward her.

"Come, Lilith."

———

As the Harry Potter world completed its dimensional ascension, the Outer Deities that possessed the status of the Great Old Ones were no longer able to collapse it. They continued to drift in the void, wrapped and isolated by the barrier.

Edward raised his hand and slapped toward the Outer Deities. In an instant, He flattened Them into planes, gathered them together, turned them into a picture album, bound it shut, and tossed it into the depths of the cosmos.

The dimensional ascension of the Harry Potter world had been brought about by Them, and it would still require Them to continue providing residual influence. Therefore, They needed to remain alive for the time being.

Edward then took a single step forward and returned to the Astral World of the world of mysteries. At this moment, the sky—the barrier—that Adam had split apart was already impossible to repair. The Mother Goddess of Depravity, who had originally planned to invade through another rift torn open from Cheek’s side, had returned here instead, with half of Her body already forcing its way into the Astral World.

Pollution at the level of a Pillar instantly caused everything in the Astral World to collapse and distort, carrying with it a doomsday-like sense of impending ruin. Once the Astral World collapsed, the influence of the Mother Goddess of Depravity would directly radiate into the real world, resulting in the destruction of the entire world!

Because of this, Adam, the Evernight Goddess, and the other five gods were still making their final stand by relying on the Sefirot.

Edward lifted his head and looked at the moon covered in flesh and veins—the very manifestation of the Mother Goddess with whom He had clashed countless times before. With a single thought, boundless imagination surged forth, slowly stitching the barrier together once more.

Of course, faced with a barrier that had been completely torn open, this was ultimately futile—but at the very least, it could buy a little time.

He then arrived at the place where the Chaos Sea and the River of Eternal Darkness intertwined. Extending both hands, two streams of liquid as clear as water appeared in His palms. After violently surging as if boiling, they transformed into a mist-like substance.

Edward gently inhaled, drawing the two streams of mist into His mouth. At the moment they slid down His throat, they dispersed throughout His entire body. He then waved a hand toward the golden radiance enveloped by the Chaos Sea, and that dazzling, resplendent light surged into Him like page after page of a book, line after line, point after point.

At the same time, ancient gears and abstruse characters emerged behind Edward, all of them pouring into those pages, lines, and points, together [Constructing] the Uniqueness required for advancement to Sequence 0.

And it was precisely at this instant—when Edward simultaneously accommodated the three portions of Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristics and the Uniqueness—that He formally took the final half-step forward, advancing to Sequence 0: "Dimension."

In that split second, Edward felt as though He had entered a quantum state. Time, space, physics, laws, rules—everything—lost all meaning to Him.

It was as if He were gazing down from a higher dimension upon everything in lower dimensions, like a reader or an audience member watching a book or a film. No matter how powerful the abilities within it, no matter how strict its rules and order, none of it held any meaning to the reader.

Edward understood that this was the authority of the High-Dimensional Overseer, one of the Great Old Ones, as well as the status He had obtained when, as a reader of Lord of the Mysteries, He transmigrated into this world.

Noisy whispers rang incessantly in Edward’s ears—voices of countless living beings He observed from above. They spoke different languages, came from different cultures, and lived lives that were brilliant, mundane, tragic, or dull.

Yet in Edward’s eyes, there was no difference between them at all. He was merely an observer. A thought within His mind repeated endlessly, urging Him to stop interfering with the development of the world and to forever become a detached watcher, existing outside all dimensions.

However, He quickly broke free from these hypnotic mutterings and decisively cast off the idea of "lying flat and doing nothing but observing."

If after doing all of this, I can only stand on the sidelines and watch without acting, then all of my previous efforts would have been nothing but a joke!

Remember, Edward!

You came to the world of mysteries with the status of a High-Dimensional Overseer—but you are not It. You are "Dimension." You are the Master of Dimension!

Remember your three-part honorific name: The Eternal Sovereign Above Dimensions, The Deconstructor of Endless Stories, The Transcender of Past and Future—not some Outer Deity who does nothing but lie upon the timeline of dimensions and observe!

Edward repeated this to Himself again and again, resisting the assimilation of the High-Dimensional Overseer. At that moment, the countless lives and imaginations accumulated over thousands upon tens of thousands of years in the Harry Potter world surged forth once more, gradually overwhelming the noisy whispers and rendering Edward’s consciousness ever clearer.

At last, the muttering voices completely faded away. Reason and will returned to His mind, and Edward emerged from the quantum state, restoring Himself to normal.

At this moment, He had finally completed the long stairway to godhood and become a true Sequence 0 god—

"Dimension."

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