Mythology: Ragnarok

Chapter 375 Departure

The Dean of the Magic Academy explained, "The Shabak Maze Lock Array is a brand-new maze lock magic created by His Majesty after inventing the Maze Lock Overlay Magic. Planets shrouded by this array will be controlled and enslaved by it. At that time, the environment on the planet can be maintained in an ideal stable state according to the array's settings. Thanks to its incredible practicality, the Shabak Maze Lock Array is applied to all planets ruled by the myriad races. However, we do not use it to modify the planetary environment, but only to provide protection for the planet and prevent natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis from occurring. In other words, the value of the Shabak Maze Lock Array lies in resisting external erosion and nipping all natural disasters in the bud."

According to our calculations, the Shabak Maze Array can protect a planet from all damage from 12th-tier destruction magic and below. In other words, even if a nearby star is destroyed, it will not have any impact on the planet protected by the Maze Array. At that time, it will simply be another star to continue to exploit their energy.

Furthermore, the Shabak Maze Array absorbs all nearby light energy, making the planet of the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Races undetectable by conventional means from an optical perspective. The Shabak Maze Array also controls the planet's day-night cycle and seasonal changes, channeling excess energy into energy crystals for cultivation. It can be said that His Majesty's invention directly solved a series of problems, including energy issues and planetary security. As His Majesty once said, "We must let magic and technology subtly enter life, change life, and ultimately become life." This statement later became the motto of all magical researchers, influencing generations of scholars. It can even be said that the current prosperity of the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Races is forged by His Majesty's advanced thinking.

Xuanyuan Muze then asked, "But this kind of magic array also needs maintenance and charging, right? How do you usually repair it?"

"His Majesty has naturally considered these issues, so each planet has a super-level mage stationed there to inspect and recharge the magic array. Even if something goes wrong, we, with our space teleportation technology, can go to those planets to help immediately. That's why the planets of the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Races have never had any accidents over the years."

Looking at the magic array before him, Xuanyuan Muze couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "What a terrifying invention! I hadn't even realized it existed."

Afterwards, the Dean took Xuanyuan Muze back to Musurida. In the days that followed, he continued to act as a guide, showing Xuanyuan Muze around Musurida. Time passed day by day, and soon the day arrived when the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Races was going on an expedition into the void.

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Near a planet three light-years away from Musurida

At this moment, Xuanyuan Muze was on the same shuttle as the Dean of the Magic Academy, 'Sifbell Ellie', and the expeditionary army, waiting for Agred's arrival in front of that planet, which was larger than a star.

Xuanyuan Muze looked at the planet in front of him with a bit of boredom and said, "When is Agreed coming? Speaking of which, I'm quite curious about what his true form looks like. Since he calls himself the Dragon God, his body should be a majestic and domineering dragon, right?"

Sifbell nodded in agreement, "That's true, and His Majesty has already arrived."

Xuan Yuan Mu Ze, puzzled, said, "We've arrived..."

Before Xuan Yuan Muze could ask any more questions, the enormous planet before him suddenly began to change dramatically. The planet slowly unfurled a pair of wings that blotted out the sky, and at the same time, two crimson eyes, even larger than the planet itself, appeared in the darkness before the army. Then, as the darkness gradually became visible, a ferocious and terrifying black dragon appeared before Xuan Yuan Muze from an optical perspective. Its enormous size made the universe seem narrow. Xuan Yuan Muze's innate fear of colossal creatures caused him to tremble and collapse to the ground the moment he saw it.

Seeing this, Sifubel quickly came over, helped him up, and comforted him, saying, "You don't need to panic. What's in front of you is the true form of His Majesty the Dragon God. Because he is so enormous and even a slight movement would cause irreversible damage to the universe, His Majesty has always curled up his body into a planet and sealed it in a corner of the universe. And you don't need to be afraid that his enormous size will have any effect on us. His Majesty is protecting us with his divine power. We will not be harmed by his existence."

Xuanyuan Muze pointed at the giant dragon in front of him and asked tremblingly, "Just how strong is he?!"

Faced with this question, Sifbell could only shake his head and say, "I don't know, and I can't answer this question. As I've said before, in the eyes of an ant, a mammoth and the universe are infinitely large. With my narrow perspective and low level of understanding, I really can't describe Your Majesty's power to you. However, I can tell you how I felt when I saw Your Majesty. In my eyes, the universe was infinitely powerful until one day I saw that world-destroying dragon, and then I realized that the universe could also be so small."

Before he finished speaking, Agred telepathically ordered all the expeditionary forces: "March!"

Then, Agreed extended a finger and gently drew a huge portal leading directly to the void, which immediately appeared. Immediately afterwards, the expeditionary fleet of the Kingdom of Myriad Races followed Agreed and entered the portal to launch a war of annihilation against the last gods in the void.

Meanwhile, around Azathoth, since Shubniglas, one of the three original pillar gods, was killed by Agreed a thousand years ago, the other two pillar gods immediately felt a sense of crisis and led their evil god subordinates to Azathoth's sleeping place for protection. In recent years, Agreed has also been wary of the terrifying power of the primordial core 'Azathoth' and has not taken action against the other two pillar gods, but has only had his troops continuously eliminate other evil gods in the void.

Therefore, only Azathoth and the two remaining pillar gods and their few evil gods remain in the entire void. Now that Agred has grown strong enough, he no longer needs to develop further but instead takes the initiative to attack, determined to wipe out all the gods in the void in one fell swoop in order to obtain the power to destroy the World Tree.

Argreed, wielding his enormous wings, charged ahead towards the location of the Primal Core. Upon seeing Argreed, the two Pillar Gods made way for him and instead led their children and subordinates to attack the expeditionary force behind them.

To explain, besides Shub-Niggurath, the other two main pillar gods are Nyarlathotep, known as the "Crawling Chaos, the Thousand-Faced God, the Spokesperson of Azathoth, and the Walking Chaos," and Yog-Sothoth, also known as the "Key to the Gate, the One Who Unifies All Things, and the Ruler of Time and Space." These three pillar gods are the children of Azathoth. At the beginning of the Void, Azathoth created the Nameless Mist and the Darkness. Later, the Nameless Mist evolved into Yog-Sothoth over time, and the Darkness became Shub-Niggurath. After that, Azathoth created his strongest offspring, Nyarlathotep, to spread his ideas of destruction. This is the origin of the three pillar gods. All the evil gods in the Void also originated from the creation and evolution of the three pillar gods. Therefore, it can be said that all the gods in the Void originated from Azathoth.