Duality of Shadows-Chapter 998: Pure Creatures

Everyone landed in that place but immediately felt a cold gaze coming from behind and turned around. A slim and simple-looking male elf appeared there. He wasn’t a Wisp — they all felt his pure bloodline and Divinity.

His plain appearance hid a terrifying power. His eyes were locked on a single target. As he stared at the whale, he took a defensive stance, ready to fight at any moment.

"Why can’t I sense any divinity from you? It’s impossible for you to be here!" he roared.

The whale observed him — a simple but striking man for an elf. However, his hair was white, and his skin had an unhealthy gray tone. Overall, he looked somewhat sickly.

"I’m not here with bad intentions... you’re someone I owe a little to, so I came to see you; but I don’t have much time. You’re the God of Formation, right?"

The elf narrowed his eyes. "Who are you?"

Alm and Bruno focused on Anizu and Ciceya, who didn’t recognize him, indicating he had probably been in that place for a long time, long before the queen started the war. He might not even know about the missionaries.

But given his aggressiveness and considering the queen had been in this world twice, they began to deduce the situation.

"I have no connection to that woman. In fact, I’m a Heaven’s Will envoy sent to defeat her. I received your complete Dao, and my wife made great use of it. Anyway, I don’t have time to waste. Why did you create this place?"

The figure snorted. Those intruders were already standing in front of him before he even noticed. As for that round figure, it had to be monstrously powerful — more than enough to kill him.

Only someone on that woman’s level could pull off what the whale did, so he was naturally suspicious. The traps outside were designed to defeat divinities, making it impossible for those eight to have arrived there alone.

But... when he looked the whale in the eyes, his instincts warned him that he wasn’t lying.

"So my Dao was useful to someone... good to know. I never had a disciple and thought I’d die here without purpose," he said, sighing. "I heard long ago from someone about the war that woman started and that the Heaven’s Will created missionaries. Do you know what she did in this place before?"

The whale shook his head, and the elf explained briefly. In the last connection between this place and the outside world, the queen brought an army of divinities as soldiers.

At that time, she initiated what became a massive genocide against the Wisps. In thirty days, she captured millions of them from nine different islands.

She tried to take them to the outside world, but on the last day, she discovered it was impossible. The celestial laws channeled all the energy of this place to kill the Wisps and prevent them from leaving.

Every few thousand years, a group of Wisps was taken by the laws. That time, they simply did the same to a much larger group. Because of her, they died unnecessarily — before their time.

Even using all her power, the queen couldn’t stop it. Furious, she destroyed everything and returned to the outside world.

She had already come once before, bringing terror to a Wisp island and killing many of them. Then she returned and did something a hundred times worse.

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"These beings aren’t as pure and innocent as they seem. The second time she came, several divinities living here rebelled and tried to defeat her. But she simply killed them all with a single move," he said painfully. "So I spent the next fifty million years creating this place so they could live. She can’t waste time searching the ocean for artificial islands, especially with my Dao concealing everything..."

Alm and Bruno understood. If the queen really searched for it, she could find them with enough effort, but it would take days or even months. She only had thirty days in this place and needed to return, so his plan was pretty effective. They, on the other hand, only found the place easily because of the Heaven’s Will mandate.

This place was created using the God of Formation’s power to its fullest, manipulating the energies of this world. He had been living there for far longer than he had in the outside world. According to him, he was currently the oldest divinity here. The previous one had died at the queen’s hands.

"So all the divinities who entered here are trapped in this world alongside the Wisps... forever," Ciceya murmured, surprised. It had always been a mystery what happened after entering this place. In reality, it wasn’t as dangerous as people thought.

He confirmed with a nod. Indeed, if a divinity survived the sea and reached one of the islands, life there would be peaceful and without danger.

"In the past, life here was always completely calm and focused on study. Each of the 777 energies here is a thousand times more complex than the laws of the outside world. With every new discovery, each person’s Divine Dao is refined and becomes more complete. Even I, despite being the oldest, haven’t studied even half of these energies," he said, sounding slightly excited.

"So living here is never boring. Everyone feels like they’re progressing again, different from the stagnant life we had in the outside world. Each new energy we comprehend feels like reaching a new cultivation realm. It makes our old hearts beat faster... but in the last hundred million years, that woman destroyed our peace."

"Why did you decide to create this place?" the whale asked, curious.

"That woman definitely realized, at the last moment, that there’s actually a way to prevent the laws from killing the Wisps. By using the pure power of a law that created the heavenly laws…"

"Birth-Law," the whale confirmed, and the elf nodded, surprised that he knew the name.

Alm and Bruno grew excited. If she needed to use that law, then she wouldn’t be moving between the islands and wouldn’t stop them from doing what they intended.

She would definitely go to the ninth island, the center of the Primordial Pillars, and stay there accumulating power. In that place, it would be easier to manipulate the Birth-Law.

"So she’ll send her soldiers to the islands to capture the Wisps, while she heads to the central island. On the last day, she’ll make her move and take them away. You’re trying to preserve as many of them as possible here, right?"

The whale asked, and the elf nodded. "But it’s not just here. Other divinities have also created methods with their Daos to hide them. We didn’t put all our eggs in one basket. We’ve lived here for a long time and can’t leave. These pure creatures are our companions. After spending so much time with them, it’s impossible not to care for them. They’re like sponges that absorb everything we say and are never malicious. No one can accept what that woman does so mercilessly."

"Great. Do you have contact with all of them? How many divinities are here?" the whale asked quickly.

He nodded. "The last time she came, nearly half were killed. Now there are about a thousand left. Yes, I left a rune with each one, and we can communicate in emergencies."

Alm and Bruno immediately gave dark smiles. A new opportunity had presented itself: there was a large number of allies there. Before, fighting the queen directly was unthinkable, let alone facing her army of thousands of divinities.

They wouldn’t die if they engaged in direct combat against the divinities, but the enemies were so numerous that they could buy enough time for the queen to arrive. But now…

"Summon everyone. We’re attacking head-on. A fiery show is about to begin."