Awakening：The Infinite Evolution of My Talent as a Low-Level Awakener - Chapter 592

Chapter 592: Chapter 592: Speculation on the Huge Secret! The Battle Escalates!
“Is it because of the golden code?”

Sterl instantly made the connection to the golden code he had obtained from the Frost Giant. The golden code, just like the silver code in Gloria’s hands, was a [Transcendence] system bug and a special authority. Now that the golden code had merged with him, it was as if he had permanently gained access to a portion of the [Transcendence] system’s authority.

“Is it because of the authority granted by the code that I’m able to hear these alerts?”

If that were the case, then if he hadn’t obtained the golden code, who were these alerts actually meant for?

Clearly, just like before, the [Transcendence] system was hiding some enormous secret, a secret that could not be exposed. If it were, it could potentially cause an irreversible collapse of the entire order.

After the [Transcendence] system’s notifications ended, an invisible force suddenly enveloped the entire world. In that instant, the rapidly expanding white light screen froze in place.

Even Sterl’s body felt as though it had been sealed, his entire strength was restrained, rendering him completely immobile.

It wasn’t just him. Even the God of Runes, an upper deity, was also confined. However, unlike the God of Runes, Sterl noticed that although his body was sealed, his mind and soul were unaffected!

In his perception, the entire world seemed as though it had been paused, even the particles of air had stopped moving.

This strange sensation felt very much like something he had experienced in a single-player online game. With a simple pause, everything in the game would come to a standstill!

As for the characters in the game, they probably would never know that they were just a program, NPCs with no true significance or complete life form.

Sterl’s heart felt numb. He wasn’t sure whether it was due to the golden code or because his soul level was so powerful, but his thoughts weren’t affected by this mysterious force. Still, the shock this scene caused him almost overturned his entire worldview!

[Anomaly being cleansed…]

The voice echoed, and the Thunder Light Orb that had been gathering in the sky rapidly descended, precisely enveloping the entire Black Hole Vortex.

As the creator of the Black Hole Vortex, Sterl immediately sensed that, in the blink of an eye, the Black Hole Vortex had disappeared completely.

Then, the Thunder Light Orb began to spread, erasing the terrifying force released by the Black Hole Explosion little by little wherever it passed.

Everything happened in an instant: from the world coming to a standstill, to the Thunder Light Orb descending and erasing the Black Hole, and finally smoothing out all the residual waves. It was all completed in one seamless motion, without any disruptions or complications, as if… it were the formatting of some kind of device!

[Anomaly impact recovery in progress…]

Then came another system notification. In Sterl’s incredulous perception, the material destroyed by the Black Hole Explosion was rapidly restoring itself at a visible speed. The earth that had been devoured was being refilled, shattered mountains and vanished vegetation were returning, and even time itself, which had been distorted, was quickly returning to normal. Everything was rapidly being repaired.

But to Sterl’s senses, this felt eerily strange—almost as if some corrupted data was being repaired!

[Repair complete]

Soon after, as the [Transcendence] system’s voice rang out, the shattered Alpha 8 world was restored to its state before the Black Hole Vortex had appeared.

The suspended world resumed its normal flow, and Sterl’s body, which had been sealed, regained its vitality.

Without hesitation, he quickly activated the Temporal-Spatial Law, using the abilities of the Boots of the Void to enter the dimensional space.

He vanished just before the God of Runes woke up, as if he had already been devoured and erased by the Black Hole.

“That seemed like… the aura of the Space Law?”

After recovering, the God of Runes looked at the spot where Sterl had disappeared and frowned, speaking aloud.

“Probably just the residual power left behind when that strange vortex was wiped out,” the God of Runes mused. The apocalyptic scene from moments ago was still vivid in his mind. Looking at the broken flag in his hand, a bitter smile appeared on his face.

He had thought the battle was nearly won, but he hadn’t expected such a drastic change. If the World’s Will hadn’t descended, the royal city would have been torn apart by this force, and the Kingdom of Orichalcum would have fallen into an endless abyss of darkness.

“It’s over… Victory is still ours.”

He sighed, glancing at the other gods around him. The vast Kingdom of Orichalcum now had only these thirty or so gods remaining.

But for them, gods were the most important. In their eyes, mortals were like weeds; even if one batch was gone, another would quickly grow in its place.

However, the cost of this victory had been heavy. They had nearly exhausted all their trump cards, and now the royal city had no remaining defenses. Even an ordinary god could have a huge impact on it, possibly even severing the connection to the world itself.

But to survive the immense power of what was akin to an endless Black Hole, the God of Runes was already satisfied. After all, compared to the Ashen Temple’s fate, the loss here was far less severe. In the Ashen Temple, all divine-level warriors had perished, and even the fodder legions and legendary armies had been wiped out, leaving no remnants behind.

Moreover, one of their high-ranking gods had fallen. Such a loss, he thought, had not been suffered in a very long time.

At this point, the Kingdom of Orichalcum had no more rivals in this world. Once the royal city had fully integrated, they would sweep through the entire world and become the sole ruler. At that time, with control over the resources of an entire world, the vitality of the Kingdom of Orichalcum would rapidly recover.

“Hades…”

After the crisis had been averted, the God of Runes once again thought about that powerful, domineering, and insane figure. He had once regarded Hades as the eternal hero of the Kingdom of Orichalcum, but now, his feelings were far more complicated.

It was because of Hades that the Kingdom of Orichalcum had repeatedly escaped the various schemes of the Ashen Temple. And it was also because of Hades that the Kingdom of Orichalcum had come so close to being erased from history, nearly vanishing from this world entirely.

But now, the definition of Hades no longer mattered. Trapped at the core of such a terrifying vortex, he must have been pulled in immediately, torn to pieces.

For such a domineering and powerful being, dying at the hands of his enemies would have been a bitter fate. At least, he had died in such a way that spared him from that dishonor.

Death is like the extinguishing of a lamp. Since Hades had fallen, there was no need to dwell on it further. History is written by the victors, and the one who led the Kingdom of Orichalcum to survival was him. As for Hades, vanishing into history was perhaps for the best, so that no future madman would rise to disturb the peace again.

However, what the God of Runes did not know was that, from the far-off layers of space, Hades was silently watching him.

Sterl, observing the world that had returned to its state before the arrival of the Black Hole Vortex, found that his emotions were still in turmoil.

“Could it be that the [Transcendence] system is really just a game? A program? And that I’m merely a piece of data in this game?”

He muttered to himself, the thought lingering in his mind.

But he quickly dismissed the idea, because although the effects of the Black Hole Vortex had been fully restored, the beings that had perished because of it had not come back to life.

“No! That’s not it! More accurately, it’s the beings whose souls I devoured using the Soul Devourer Sphere that haven’t returned. As for the other ordinary mortal beings, they’ve all returned to their previous states…”

“So, it means that the [Tanscendence] world is indeed real, at least the beings within it are truly existent. However, the [Tanscendence] system has the ability to arbitrarily modify or restore the world?” Sterl thought to himself, his mind turning. It was just like those instance dungeons, where, after a certain period of time, they would self-repair. Now, however, the object of this self-repair was no longer just an instance but the entire world.

He shook his head. He had thought too much all at once, and now he felt a dull pressure in his temples.

He wasn’t fond of learning things that were beyond his control. Rather than dwelling on it, he figured it would be better to wait until he became stronger. Perhaps then, the seemingly cryptic questions would turn out to be just that—nothing more than they appeared to be.

His gaze turned once more to the direction of the Kingdom of Orichalcum’s royal city. At the moment, it seemed that the ultimate victor would be Orichalcum.

However, he couldn’t shake the feeling that things weren’t so simple. While it seemed that the Ashen Temple had been completely wiped out, as long as the power of the upper realms still existed, there would always be a chance for them to revive. Moreover, Sterl vaguely sensed that after the Black Hole Vortex had swept through, the barrier between the upper realms and the lower realm had weakened significantly. The fusion of the two had accelerated considerably!

As a result, the difficulty for the gods of the upper realms to descend into the lower realm would now be much lower.

“Could they really be coming back?”

The thought surfaced in his mind, and it felt almost as if saying it aloud would make it happen. Just as the sky, which had only just recovered, darkened again, a massive space rift appeared with lightning speed, and the unmistakable aura of an upper-tier deity surged forth.

“They’re really coming!”

Sterl was dumbfounded. He watched as a new upper-tier god slowly descended, followed by an orderly and imposing military force. Every soldier emanated the aura of a high-tier legend. It was, in fact, a new legendary army!

At the same time, violent fluctuations spread through the air above the Kingdom of Orichalcum, and a terrifying presence surged from within. A massive, pitch-black dragon, with enormous, savage eyes, began to emerge from the space rift. Its dragon wings, which blotted out the sun, cast a shadow of death over the legendary army below, as it hungrily eyed the newly arrived upper-tier god of the Ashen Temple.