Text Game: It All Began when a Cat-eared Girl Took Me In-Chapter 830 - 414: Female Ghosts are Meant to be Disciplined, Grey Dream Falls, Moonflow Reverses (4k)

Chapter 830: Chapter 414: Female Ghosts are Meant to be Disciplined, Grey Dream Falls, Moonflow Reverses (4k)

The hooded man’s figure vanished like a ghost, and when he reappeared, he was already near the fragment.

From beneath the Eternal World Tree above, a dense network of roots had ensnared the fragment, making it utterly impenetrable. Ephemeral silver specks occasionally drifted from the fragment, absorbed by the roots.

"Long time no see."

He tipped his hat to the fragment, bowing slightly as if greeting an old friend. His black and purple pupils shone with extreme delight.

Tens of thousands of years!

Ever since that damned deity captured him within Its world, causing his ship to crash and the most crucial part, the Void Engine, to shatter and scatter across various parts of the world—it had been tens of thousands of years!

The Shadow Merchants, this organization, had been trading and walking across various continents for tens of thousands of years with the true intention of collecting those scattered engine fragments.

Some larger pieces, which were difficult to collect, were restricted by them in various ways, left to be collected later.

Like this largest core fragment, for example.

After discovering it had fallen to the reverse side of the world, the Abyss, they tried every means to retrieve it.

But by then, the heavily injured Seven Knights no longer had the capacity to retrieve it.

So they used the last of the engine’s energy to construct a gate, fixing the fragment within the second tier of the Abyss, to serve as an anchor point for future retrieval.

Over the long years, the function of that gate gradually shifted, eventually passing into the lineage of a family with Shadow Clan blood, entrusting them with the guardianship responsibilities. This is the present-day Hakmedea Family.

They themselves had their bodies cryogenically frozen using the technique of ice-bound sleep, only awakening at crucial moments. Apart from collecting fragments, they steered the world towards its doom.

The destruction of the first Eternal World Tree—"Deep Glow"—twenty-five thousand years ago, was orchestrated by them in secret, and they had a hand in the demise of the subsequent Eternal World Trees as well.

Even now, of the originally seven vast continents of the world, only Pan Continent and two others remained.

The shattering of the world barriers fifteen thousand years ago, and the summoning of the Lord of Truth, were also facilitated by them using the beacons on their warships. Only, that time, the invasion of the Evil God was repelled by the mortals of that world.

Looking back, he still believed that era was the most brilliant period of that world.

Vampires, humanity, elves, fishmen, insectfolk, dwarves, female ghosts... many mortal races lived together with Origin Beasts, intimately and without barriers, freely exchanging and borrowing each other’s strength, unlike the divides of the present.

Thereafter, they changed their strategy, remaining hidden in the shadows and infiltrating the upper echelons of various nations.

Thirty thousand years ago, the epic war to resist the second invasion of the Lord of Truth nearly wiped out the older generation of powerhouses. They finally revealed their fangs, working behind the scenes, tampering with true history, and turning the ’Blood Takers’, the Mutated Transcenders, into today’s lowly ’Variants’.

Until this very day.

Between the different races, even between nations of the same race, unity was no longer present.

The world was already on the verge of collapse.

Their ’contributions’ were undeniable.

Luweiya might have been right in saying their actions would lead to the death of their kin who had taken root in that world, but to him, everything they had done was merely to return home.

As for those beings living in that world, and the descendants of their kin who had spread out in that world, what did they have to do with them?

"Divine Eternity, requesting log-in," he whispered softly, placing his hand on the fragment.

The colossal silver fragment capable of rooting the Grey Dream vibrated slightly.

—[The leader of the Seven Knights, Divine Eternity, logging in···]

"Requesting retrieval."

Divine Eternity took out a fist-sized black sphere and placed it on top.

—[Request accepted, detecting external entity absorbing void particles, forced disengagement initiated···insufficient Yuan Zhi reserves, failure, detecting absorbable Yuan Zhi, absorption in progress···]

This was the Void Engine created by the Shadow Clan to transcend the world, whose dynamic properties could break through world barriers, navigating the infinite Void, voyaging to various worlds, albeit requiring the Energy provided by the power of an outsider Evil God. After tens of thousands of years of seeking traces of the Evil God, they finally amassed a sufficient quantity of Yuan Zhi.

Today was indeed coming too late.

As the pioneers of the Shadow Clan’s Detachment, they should have had the most expansive and powerful lives.

But all of that was ruined by that deity. Who could have imagined that, less than a year after Detachment, they would fall back into the mortal realm?

Their actions were also a form of revenge!

Boom!

As the Yuan Zhi was replenished, a dazzling stream of light burst from the tail end of the engine fragment, illuminating the dark and silent Abyssal world and generating a tremendous propelling force. Even though it was only a large shard, the immense thrust caused the Grey Dream’s branches that clutched it to crumble inch by inch.

As the Grey Dream was already on the brink of instability and withering, it no longer had the strength to lock the fragment in place. Before long, the fragment broke free from the bottom of its root system.