"You... you knew I was an imposter?" Morai said blankly.
"If you are referring to your identity as Ruiya, then of course I have known for a long time," King Weis smiled. "Ruiya is my daughter. How could I not recognize her?"
Morai was speechless.
She suddenly felt that her long-term disguise had been as ridiculous as a joke.
"Then why didn't you expose me?" Morai lowered her head and whispered.
King Weis's clouded eyes cleared for a moment as he smiled. "Even though you are not Ruiya, I know that you and Ruiya are the same. You... are both my daughters."
"If I am not mistaken, you must be a second personality born from within Ruiya's body, right?"
King Weis's voice was like a heavy hammer, ruthlessly striking Morai's soul.
"How did you... guess that?"
"I am your father because I love you."
King Weis's voice was not loud, but every word struck Morai's heart, leaving her frozen in place as tears streamed down her face like a string of pearls.
It was the first time she had ever heard someone say they loved her.
She realized the power of love could be so warm.
She sobbed softly, reaching out to wipe away her tears.
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry..."
She didn't know what to say, only repeating her apology over and over.
Weis watched her quietly. "I can see that you haven't been happy. You must have suffered a lot, child."
"I hope that in the future, you can truly live for yourself. You shouldn't always listen to others. You can make your own decisions, do what you want to do, and become the person you want to be."
"As long as you and Ruiya can grow up happily and safely, I have nothing more to ask for in this life."
"I'm sorry... Father." Morai stopped wiping her tears. She felt something strange in her body and stared blankly at her own arm.
The flesh beneath her skin was undergoing a bizarre, twisted movement. That familiar power was undoubtedly coming from Moen.
Moen had been hidden inside her body all along...
She had never truly escaped Moen's control.
Morai sobbed until she was nearly choking, her entire body filled with guilt and shame.
"I'm sorry, Father. But..."
"I can't turn back anymore."
...
Before her was a pitch-black void.
Twisted, disgusting abyssal matter squirmed in the vacuum.
It was deathly silent and cold. Everything here was so still it was as if it didn't exist.
"Where is this?" Gexi rubbed her head and climbed up from the ground.
When she was dragged in just now, her consciousness had dimmed and she had lost her senses, only waking up now in a daze.
However, the terrifying scene before her made Gexi's heart sink abruptly.
She thought of a very ancient term.
The Abyss!
Legend had it that this was the place where the God of Order had sealed the God of Chaos. It was filled with nothing but endless chaos and void, where everything lost its meaning.
Including life!
At this moment, Gexi was incredibly grateful that she was still alive. In a place where life had no meaning, being alive was a miracle in itself.
However, she soon realized that the reason she was still alive wasn't because of good luck, but because of the girl standing next to her, Grinya.
But Grinya seemed a bit strange right now. Her movements were jerky, like gears that had been worn down after years of work and were constantly stuttering.
"Grinya, what's wrong?" Gexi asked with concern.
"I... I'm... I'm fine..."
Not only her movements, but even Grinya's speech was very stuttery.
"I'm just... just a bit... a bit laggy..."
"Maybe... the map... hasn't finished loading..."
Grinya was saying things she couldn't understand again, but Gexi felt that this might not be Grinya's problem, but hers.
The words Grinya used that she didn't understand might be related to preventing the revival of a god. Generally speaking, very few people had heard of such taboo vocabulary.
So it was normal for her not to understand.
On Grinya's side, after Lu Xun sacrificed some image quality and frame rate, the lag finally improved a bit.
"Finally fixed," Grinya said, quickly scanning the surroundings with a scrutinizing gaze.
It was pitch black here. Except for the solid ground beneath their feet, she could see almost nothing further away.
"It's a bit dark."
Lu Xun frowned.
The distance he could see was only a few meters. Anything further was invisible, making it very inconvenient to move.
It seemed he had to adjust the gamma value.
He had wanted to adjust the gamma value last time, but he had forgotten about it because he found it troublesome.
Grinya suddenly found that the world before her had become bright. The void of darkness was merely an illusion to her. She saw the true essence of the abyss—it was a pair of deep, ancient, massive eyes. The purple pupils contained the oldest of powers.
Grinya's eyes widened involuntarily.
Those eyes were exactly the same as the ones she had seen back on Wuxin Island!
Only the pair she saw here was larger, deeper, and more terrifying.
"Xun, this time the home field finally belongs to me. You shall sink forever into my abyss!"
Syllables unique to a god rang out. To Gexi and the other, it was a meaningless, agonizing sound, but when it reached Lu Xun's ears, it sounded quite normal.
As the God of Chaos finished speaking, a notification for a system quest popped up.
【Hidden Quest: The One Who Gazes into the Abyss.】
【This seems to be a game without an end. Before you find a way to break the deadlock, please survive as long as possible!】
Lu Xun's expression tightened. This quest seemed a bit different.
It was common knowledge that the simpler the clear conditions looked, the more complex they actually were.
Lu Xun felt a faint sense of unease. This dungeon was too different from the previous ones. Not only did it require a gold-tier item to lower the difficulty, but there was no specific way to clear it. The only requirement was to survive as long as possible.
But the quest had made it clear: survival was not the way to clear it. He just had to find a way to survive while looking for a way to clear the stage.
However, Lu Xun soon stopped thinking.
This was because, in front of him, that thick, twisted abyssal matter condensed into pitch-black monsters, with eye-catching bright red health bars over their heads.
"Whatever, I'll just clear the mobs first."
Lu Xun didn't bother thinking so much and directly controlled the Peerless Fencer to fly out.
Regardless of anything else, enjoying the battle came first.
Rate on N.U.
