The Blood Emperor slowly stood up, as respectful as possible, before he tidied himself after his look was clean and neat, he lowered his head in a polite manner, giving his respect toward the figures of the legend.
The Great Emperors slowly moved to the side, all lowered their head to show respect to the moving figure that walked steadily from afar.
The figure was covered in black shadow, concealing all of their appearances, leaving behind only blackness, the moment the shadowy figure came to stop, the mysterious sound rang again, causing everything to resumed their original flow.
The first prince, the second princess, the Grand Archmage and the flow of time had awakened again, without anyone but the Blood Emperor knowing that the time had just stopped.
Everyone was stunned by the fact that things magically move without any sound or any warning, however, after a while, all the shocked turned into curiosity, about the shadowy figure that had appeared before everyone.
The figure turned its head slowly, scanning over everyone presented, then stopped its gaze at the old mage.
"Grand Archmage, barely passable, has our humanity fallen to this pitiful degree?"
The question was directed at the Blood Emperor.
The figure swiped its gaze around everyone, including the fragment of souls, waiting for an explanation, causing everyone to lower their head in shame.
"I beseech Lord to help your descendants escaped the calamity."
The four spoke in unison.
The figure nodded its head, then extended its hand, directly grabbed the empty space and broke it apart, the almighty hand pulled something out of the void, it was a book, the Book of Learning.
The figure continued to flip through the page, after a short amount of time frame, it closed the book lightly, and the book dissolved into nothingness.
The mage instantly broke a cold sweat, he immediately checked his Storage Ring for the Book of Learning, after he found that the book was not damaged in any way, he sighed and kept the book back in.
The figure shook its head silently, feeling disappointed at the present humanity, it gestured its hand, indicating that the emperor must follow it, it turned around and walked toward the distant, the Blood Emperor and the rest obeyed its command and quietly walked behind the figure.
Throughout the hallway, one could see the fragment of the Great Emperors' soul stood on the side completely still, lowering their head to show respect whenever they saw the shadowy figure, which caused great amusement toward the four.
As they approached the end of the hallway, lesser and lesser fragment of souls could be seen, but their aura of rulers was much purer and grand than the ones they previously saw, however, all was pale in comparison with the shadowy figure.
At the end of the hallway, there was no more fragment of souls, only the four and the mysterious figure remained, and a golden gate.
"The room before you is the Calamity Throne, where all hope lied, I could only accomplish you this far, may the humanity survive."
The figure dissolved into the speck of light before fading away.
Without any hesitation, the Blood Emperor quickly advanced the gate of hope, he gently pushed the gate open, the symbols on the gate shone faintly, the gate automatically opened on its own.
Before they were the throne of the immortal, decorated by brilliance crystals and colourful minerals, the air was filled with the thin scent of magical fragrant, many mystical symbols floated aimlessly, each forming their own story, expressing varies emotions.
Five individuals were seated on the five thrones, looking down upon the world of the mortal, they must be the everlasting god beyond the sky, viewing mortal as their creation, spectating the world from the firmament.
"The Morning Star Era, the fifty-seventh emperor, the Blood Emperor, what is your reason for you to come here?"
The Gods' voice was monotonous, no sign of emotion was found in the voice.
The voice seeped into everyone's soul, it became the unstoppable force that piercing through the emperor's mind, unravel all thought of his.
"To try to find a way to save humanity."
The Emperor blent out unconsciously, under the influence of the voice, he couldn't control himself.
"What about the others?"
The voice resounded again.
"To impress my father."
"To protect the emperor."
"To help my old friend."
Said the three, they were all absented-mind, not aware of what they were doing.
After a moment, their clouded mind regained its former state, they were now able to command their action.
The princess quickly placed her hand over her mouth, shocked at what she said, she quickly kneeled toward the emperor, hoping for his forgiveness
The other two, however, did not do anything strange, they stayed true to themselves and embraced their own thought, there was nothing wrong in their thought.
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The emperor didn't mind his daughter too, it wasn't that he didn't know how obsessed his daughter was, he simply just didn't care, as long as she was qualified enough to lead the humanity, a little bit of strange hobby is acceptable.
The heavenly Gods didn't pay any special attention to her.
"No ill intention against the humanity, you all are permitted to use the key."
The light illuminated the four mortals, transporting them to where they must be, leaving the five entities alone again.
Right after the four disappeared, another figure emerged from the manifested light, the Scholar Emperor, dressed in the greyish robe, he stood silently, gazing toward the five Gods sitting on the throne.
"I won't stop you from your plan, as long as it will not cross the line, the survival of the Humanity is the priority."
The five figures spoke in unison.
"I will only test him, if he could resist the temptation, he would gain my legacy, but if he couldn't, he would rot away, not worthy of my knowledge."
The imposing aura of Gods couldn't invade the Sage Emperor's soul, it was too weak, he just needed to lift his finger, and the aura would be extinguished, forever shattered and scattered within this isolated dimension.
"He will be back again."
"Yes, the myth will relive itself."
Everyone within the room agreed to the statement, the Scholar Emperor once again fade into nothingness, the Gods, however, slowly concealed their aura, turning into the imposing statues, resting in this world.
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The Blood Emperor and the rest arrived at the gate, he turned toward the other, but to his surprise, nobody was talking about what just happened, it was like only he saw that legendary scene.
After he verified that his thought was corrected, he vowed to himself that he would never tell anyone about this secret, or else he would be doubted even by a madman.
He recollected his mind, chasing away the useless thoughts, he called for everyone's attention, after everyone was ready to hear what he have in mind before he spoke up, the first prince suddenly spoke first.
"Are we really going to use it?"
The princess also nodded in agreement, but the mage didn't display anything readable from his body language.
The emperor didn't get irritated, he explained his inexperienced children with patience.
"There is no need to regret today's decision, as long as the empire survived, there will always be one day that we will rebuild the peak of our history."
Yes, as long as their legacy passed on, unlimited possibilities awaited their future.
So, they must do their best to lay a solid foundation for the later generations.
After the simple and straightforward explanation, the prince and the princess had their doubt disputed, they would open the gate without worry and regret.
The Blood Emperor pulled out Despair, seeing that everyone else nodded to him, he calmly walked toward the Gate of Hope, pushing the gate lightly, the gate processed to open on its own.
The next Wonder was like a ruin, numerous overgrown plants could be seen coming out of the cracked walls, various shattered crystal fragments floating around the ruin, illuminated the prehistoric remain in many colours, coupled with the alluring scent of the lovely flowers, this ruin was just like the paradise of comfort.
After closer inspection, one would find that the broken walls had strange symbols engraved in an unknowable pattern, causing the onlooker to feel memorised by the magical force that it emitted.
At the middle of the ruin stood a shine, covered in multi-colours crystals, the shine was unbelievably cleaned, not a single flaw or dust could be seen, in front of the shine was a stone pillar, with the hole resembled the shape of the key, the Despair.
"Are you ready?"
The Grand Archmage tapped the emperor's shoulder lightly.
The emperor inhaled deeply one more time, before he walked toward the shine, after a moment of hesitation, he bowed toward the gigantic crystals covering the shine to show respect before gently placed the Despair into the hole on the pillar.
The engraved symbols shone bright everchanging shades, engulfing everything in the ruin at once, the magical density within the air raised rapidly, nearly suffocated the princess.
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At the Demi-human Kingdom, the deepest part of their kingdom, an old elf who was sitting carelessly on the rock suddenly opened his eyes, he gazed toward the direction of the Memorial Graveyard, the only intact building before the Ancient Era.
While he wasn't focused, the plants around him abruptly grew to the impossible extent, causing uproars in all direction, the overgrown plants created chaos and destruction toward everything around them, the nearby constructions collapsed by the weight of the imposing trees.
But none of these mortals' life mattered to him, his mind only focused on the source of the magical force outbreak, wandering about the darkest secret beyond the untraceable era.
Before long, a handsome elf, dressing in royalty uniform with a magnificent scarlet crown on his head, could be seen rushing toward the old man, his face was full of panic and worry.
"Oh, Great Ancestor, this unworthy one beseeched you, please help your descendants from the calamity."
The Great King of the demi-human bowed down toward the absented-mind old geezer, and he smiled in response.
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"Your Majesty, there are an unusually high amount of violent shocks from the underground, both our armies and the Undying are speculated to be obliterated."
The three horns succubus spoke with her soul-gripping voice, but her tone was not that of the arrogant demon, it was the tone of the respectful servant, serving their creator.
"Your Majesty, the dying plants and seedlings show an impossible rate of growth, causing disorder and havoc around your capital."
The four wings Skinless Demon sent forth its information wave toward its superior.
"Your Majesty, the magical force has been continually pouring out of the Forsaken Tomb, many of our weak and injured people lost control of their magical force, collapsing and dying."
The gigantic two wings eyeball's distorted sound echoed throughout the hall.
"We require your command, your majesty."
All of them communicated at once.
The figure sitting on the throne slowly stood up and walked toward the Forsaken Tomb, the feeling of excitement could be felt by every commander within the throne room.
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While the majority of the land of death was trembling, the Floating Citadel was unaffected, as one of the survivors of the Ancient Era, it was to be expected.
"We beg your pardon, please issue your next command."
The intangible banshee spoke reverentially, the Council of Damned was not to be taken lightly.
They did not talk about the casualty of the Undying, only weaklings would perish under this circumstance, they only needed the strong, weakling will always be created and crushed endlessly, to produce the strong.
"Send the Bone Dragons to suppress the fool, show them that we are laws."
The seven figures who seated on the throne of blood and bone passed their decree to their servants, this bothersome work did not require their attention.
"Although We benefit from this catastrophe greatly, we also lose many of our upper-class personnel, in the short future, we will focus on expanding the land of death and researching the new plague."
After rounds of discussion, this was their conclusion.
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