The Demonic Wolf's crisis instincts surged wildly, threatening to overwhelm its last shred of sanity. Facing the onslaught of multiple ancient gods, it descended into complete madness.
It unleashed something it had long suppressed within.
It bore at least the "Fool" uniqueness and a "Attendant of Mystery" characteristic.
A powerful will began to rise, and above the unobservable Spirit World, a dense gray mist churned!
In that moment, all ancient gods, the Ancient Sun God, Sasrir, Amanises, Truman, and other subordinate gods and angels sensed the anomaly in the Spirit World.
Even beyond the world's barrier, a riot of endless starlight erupted, the terrifying entities unable to remain calm.
An indescribable aura made every creature and monster in the Spirit World tremble, too afraid to look up.
The physical world shook with an earthquake—not severe, but unmistakable.
In the Astral World, starlight flickered and dimmed. Even the Ancient Sun God's expression darkened.
"That's the Sefirah Castle…" Amanises felt a tremor but couldn't probe further.
"The Second Epoch, when the Celestial Worthy's Will is at its peak," Truman whispered, sensing an unimaginable will awakening. The Book of Dreams sparked with flecks of phosphorescent light.
Suddenly, Truman felt a dizzying pull, as if slipping into eternal slumber.
This slumber came without reason, catching Truman unprepared!
"The Sefirah Castle?! Or the Celestial Worthy?!" Truman realized, recalling the sensation from when he probed the Chaos Sea.
Sefirah Castle and Celestial Worthy? The distinction seemed minor, as the Celestial Worthy's' revival inevitably brought the Sefirah Castle's descent.
And the Sefirah Castle descent heralded the Celestial Worthy's revival.
Truman clung to clarity with his divine badge, but knowing he couldn't linger, he wandered back to the Ancient Sun God's divine kingdom.
Here, "Eternal Day" was strongest, and the Sefirah Castle influence weakest.
Truman's "battlefield desertion" caused no stir. Sasrir glanced at him, but the other angels fixated on the historical mist manifesting above the Spirit World.
Some angels had heard of it; others learned of its existence now, their reactions varied.
But the ancient gods and Ancient Sun God reacted instantly.
Regardless of faction or pathway, no ancient god would allow an unknown entity to revive!
Yet the will's awakening seemed irreversible, growing stronger, making the Sefirah Castle above the Spirit World ever clearer.
Even without full revival, without complete Fool pathway characteristics, and despite impurities in the Demonic Wolf, that entity could still command the Sefirah Castle, wielding its authority and power!
The historical mist grew denser, interacting with the awakening will. The Demonic Wolf's Darkness authority was repelled, destabilizing it further.
The will sought to expel the Darkness pathway characteristics, aiming to revive purely as the Fool pathway and seize the "Sefirah Castle."
The Demonic Wolf risked falling from ancient god status, yet its aura grew eerily potent.
"This revival of the Celestial Worthy failed due to various reasons." A new prophecy emerged in the Ancient Sun God's sea of secrets.
As the words formed, the Dragon of Imagination soothed the Demonic Wolf's consciousness, creating a tug-of-war with the awakening will.
The Phoenix's scales brought a drop of deep river water, piercing countless spaces to land on the Demonic Wolf's head, silently seeping in, lulling the awakening will into eternal slumber.
Twilight, lightning, and other fierce attacks struck the Demonic Wolf, but their target shifted to the suppressed reviving will, not the Demonic Wolf itself.
The Ancient Sun God's prophecy came true again.
The Celestial Worthy, not yet fully revived, couldn't counter the Chaos Sea's prophecy.
The attacks precisely struck the reviving will, suppressing it.
This world's essence was mad and chaotic; the will could never be eradicated, only restrained.
Simultaneously, the Darkness authority within the Demonic Wolf interfered, fiercely resisting the will's revival.
These "impurities," which the will sought to expel, were incompatible but instinctively repelled the will.
The Celestial Worthy's revival aura was fully suppressed, and the "soothed" Demonic Wolf regained control.
It seemed to succeed—surviving the ancient gods' onslaught, even requiring their aid to stabilize.
For such an entity, fate was whimsical. One moment trapped in a siege, the next, all ancient gods helped stabilize it.
The Demonic Wolf was mad but not foolish. It seized a lifeline through this gamble.
But which ancient god was a fool?
In the next instant, the attacks resumed. The ancient gods, in tacit agreement, aimed to carve up the Demonic Wolf again.
It had barely suppressed the reviving will, restoring its pre-war state, but the enemies were too formidable.
In a flash, "soothing" turned to "mental frenzy," "eternal slumber" to "eternal silence." The Demonic Wolf's state plummeted, worse than before.
It fooled time, history, space, and rules, shifting its location and reverting its state to moments prior, but its incomplete authority faltered under such overwhelming force.
It tried fooling its foes, inducing errors like delayed attacks or strikes against temporary allies, but with too many gods, it couldn't fool them all at once.
The Demonic Wolf desperately used its Darkness authority to evade, but in this scenario, it was suppressed, barely effective.
Unlike a true "Fool," the Demonic Wolf couldn't fully revive in the historical mist. It dared not die.
Otherwise, only Fool pathway characteristics would return from the mist, and its Darkness authority would be lost, claimed by other ancient gods.
It would become a mere Sequence 1 King of Angels of a single pathway—suicide in this battlefield.
This time, it truly reached a dead end. After the last ordeal, it lacked even the chance to reawaken that will.
(End of Chapter)
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Translator's note: There are lot of inconsistencies in the character names in the original text that made this translation difficult. Hope me Well .