C65 - ‘Endlessness’ and ‘Inevitability’

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[Info] Quest-Requirements added: Eliminate all meddlers.

Destroy the Ancient Woodwork Sky Maze and Forcefully eliminate all meddlers in this event within the original timelimit of the race. All eliminated meddlers will drop partial knowledge of a concept that they own.

The gate to the finish line will only open once all meddlers have been eliminated.

Additional Reward: ???

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Levi watched Hel, smiling in as he finally received the notification he was waiting for. For all the system can get limited when it comes to high level beings, Levi had always labeled the system as ‘Fair’.

Everyone was equal under the grace of the system. Those who intervene would have to pay a large fine in order to appease the System just as everyone else. Creating opportunities for the person being challenged as if to appease the intervention done by the interlopers.

It didn’t mean that the System was going to hand over additional rewards on a silver platter. The tribulation that happened during the trial of champions is proof of that. Had it not for the advantage Levi had stacked up from the lucky encounters he had, he would have had a harder time passing the tribulation to Godhood.

Which came too easy in his opinion, but he guessed it was more of an inevitable outcome due to his class being a Creator which practically generates worshipers and fanatics alike.

And now he had been tasked to cleanup the ‘Entities’ that kept meddling on the Temporal Domains created by the System. Levi was curious to see what reward awaited him after this ordeal.

For now…

Levi’s eyes focused back on the hordes of goblins rushing towards Hel. He have had to admit. He himself was impressed of how Hel had kept going throughout the Maze with little to no intervention. Unfortunately, the endless horde of overbuffed Woodwork Goblins proved little care for the mana regeneration and additional stats that came from my own.

The Partial and Full version of Creator’s Descent, really is broken in Levi’s opinion. It allowed him to fully control the creation he descended on, and cast skills using either his or the creation’s mana. The 10% bonus stats transferred from Levi during the full version is also beyond useful when it comes to wars.

While testing earlier, he had later on realized that the control lock of Creator’s Descent is not fully intrusive. Partial to even full control can be given back to the Creation’s body, while still maintaining the same level of connection active. This allowed Levi to only intervene during critical times, while conserving his mental capacity to pay attention to other details.

As Levi’s play style specially during Wars, revolve around controlling and saving multiple bodies at once, while maintaining command over the whole scenario. Every bit of mental stamina saved, will later on be the defining line between the life and death of his creations.

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Commanding Hel to stand her ground, Levi summoned the now dark painted gigantic weapons in the air letting it fall down throughout possible points.

The Deities along with the two Timeless beings aware of Levi’s quests, reacted instantly. The World tree manipulating the stage itself, bending the wooden platforms into cages, the woodwork goblins moving faster amplified by a higher form of enhancement from the Eternal Sovereign, somehow turning wood into rotten flesh allowing the goblins to increase in size, to move stronger and faster.

With the gigantic armaments not being enough, Levi opened several portals from his kingdom. The crowd Roaring as Crea materialized on the shoulder of Hel and sprouting gigantic tendrils off bone. Painting the chaotic scene.

Crea was only the first, as towering Undead vanguard materialized slamming onto the goblins as they escorted Hel towards the finish line. Other Skeletals also materialized screaming their battle cry as they fearlessly charged to aid the escort.

Shifting between and to multiple consciousness, Levi fought tooth and nail to keep the Woodwork Goblins from being resummoned. Realizing his concept of creation was far inferior compared to the Reanimation of the Eternal Sovereign, he fought with speed instead. Creating skeletals from different areas of the battlefield.

During the whole moment, Levi had not stop controlling the Gigantic Armaments, he kept unsummoning them before they fell below the arena, Controlling the armaments to be used as emergency platforms for offense or escape making the crowd roar as Hel continued to approach the end goal.

Levi this time was glad that he had focused the majority of his stats into Mana. All of the Mana Efficiency and Regeneration related talents he picked up proving that his choice was right all along.

> Mana: 126

>>1st Threshold: [+3 Percent Max Mana Regenerated Per Second]

>>2nd Threshold: [Mana Cohesion/Anti-Dispersal Properties]

>>3rd Threshold: [Ambient Mana Drain]

The problem was that the 800 plus Skeletals included in Levi’s Kingdom were slowly running out of HP and Stamina, however efficient they are with managing themselves sooner or later he will have to unsummon everyone of them. Resource management had been a crucial part of winning wars.

And for all he knew Levi had done the precautions as well as managed everything to the last digit. He even had Crea help him with some of the Gigantic Bone Armaments as she’s proficient in [Bone Telekinesis] but nothing seems to be working.

With adrenaline pumping, Levi struggled but he eventually managed to separate a portion of himself apart from everything.

Silence ensued as a foreign feeling crept towards Levi. Was he being outdone by these old monsters, who can’t even move fully? They weren’t even doing anything but dumping resources to further amass the army.

‘No, that’s Impossible.’

‘The system had long stopped further investments from the meddlers, ever since the additional requirements of the quest started.’

‘Even with their numbers, why does Hel keep running into larger packs of mobs, even while I kept guiding her using the Mini Map from Creator’s Descent?’

Again, Levi cleared this portion of his mind.

‘What was it? And Why?’

Splitting his mind into four more pieces, he watched everything ensue.

From how the woodwork goblins continue to replicate… To how Hel seems to always crash into desperate situations, even with a literal army supporting her and Levi guiding her.

‘Why?’

Again he split himself into more pieces.

Watching. Inspecting.

Rewatching.

Replaying sequences over and over again as his mind forcefully evolved and adapted, driving his brain into a state of cold-overdrive.

Then it clicked to him, as cold shivers ran down his spine.

Gears turned in his brain as his mind and soul tried to comprehend what he just glimpsed upon.

It was beautiful. He had no way to describe it.

The meaning of no end. Beyond what’s possible. ‘It’ that doesn’t truly exist yet is never exhausted.

Side by side with another.

It. that is bound to occur, whatever we do to avoid it. The chains that tie us down. The lock that keeps us beyond possibilities. The monster that disguises as ‘Fate’ but is far more sinister and overbearing.

Complex and interweaving. ‘Endlessness’ and ‘Inevitability’.

Levi gnashed his teeth as he felt his mind start to break.

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To be continued.