"Initiate the temporary ceremony, Chris."

Huo Jia was panting heavily, leaning against the flowerbed, covered in blood with severe injuries, almost on the brink of death. Fortunately, he had a unique life-saving ability; as long as the electric light continued, no matter how severe the wounds, he wouldn’t die easily.

But even so, he was not far from death, as his injuries were too severe to heal. Once the electric light ceased, his life would come to an end.

Despite this, he showed no panic, remaining calm as the space in front of him gradually dissolved into two parallel mirror spaces.

Chris walked out of the dark corridor, somewhat puzzled, "A temporary initiation? Wouldn’t that be inappropriate since we haven’t brought the items over?"

Huo Jia shook his head and said, "That person is too strong, I’m no match. Initiate the ceremony quickly. Though it won’t be perfect, the impact shouldn’t be significant."

Standing behind Huo Jia, Chris revealed a gentle smile, clasped his hands before his chest, and said, "Understood, Sir Knight, I’ll initiate the ceremony now."

"You..."

Before Huo Jia could finish, a milky white and sacred light pierced through his already incomplete head, instantly snuffing out any sign of life. He slumped over onto the flowerbed, his eyes still open, gazing emptily at the night sky.

"Even you cannot escape appearing foolish. Only power is real... I care not for justice or truth. Farewell, Blue Moon Knight."

He glanced at Huo Jia’s corpse and muttered to himself,

"Who would have thought that the Blue Moon Knight, who fought against eight elite war troops of the Ejia Kingdom single-handedly thirty years ago, would die here, unknown, as the Duke’s steward."

Chris’s pupils appeared more profound as he glanced skyward at the numerous ghostly apparitions, knowing who was behind them, that killer maniac, "Bloody hand Butcher."

With a single wave of his hand, a large amount of silvery white light swirled and hovered in mid-air, illuminating the pitch-black night, the brick-red ground, and the pristine white walls.

Under the white brilliance, the ghostly apparitions quickly dissolved, as if encountering their nemesis, dissipating in masses.

At that moment, Su Changxing stood on the eaves, observing Huo Jia’s corpse on the flowerbed and Chris standing by.

Clearly, Chris had taken down Huo Jia, but why would he do such a thing?

"Why are you here? So, you’re also the Duke’s lackey?" Chris looked at the Joker in front of him, a mocking smile on his face.

"The Duke’s lackey?"

Su Changxing chuckled lightly, "To be honest, I don’t know any Duke, but that’s not important. What’s important is, what are you trying to do?"

Chris’s actions carried significant implications, seemingly aiding the ceremony while eliminating the castle’s attendant and Huo Jia.

Was he trying to claim the benefits all for himself?

"Of course, it’s power!"

As soon as Chris finished speaking, the silvery white light in the sky transformed into a pitch-black shadow, resembling the huge, twisted shadow above.

"Haha, if your goal aligns with mine, then you’re too late!"

His expression was frenzied, eyes as black as gaping voids, devoid of any human emotion, growing indifferent.

For a moment, Su Changxing felt a hint of fear, as if his personality was disintegrating, feeling that everything was unreal.

They were merely characters in a story, and he was merely an observer.

"You’re courting death!"

He sensed something was amiss and swiftly retreated. A large amount of golden light refracted in the space, expanding his perception range.

The castle was empty except for him and Chris, with a pair of gigantic eyes overhead staring at them.

The sense of unreality grew abruptly.

Su Changxing fired at Chris’s face, the bullet tracing a silver line through the darkness, piercing Chris’s body but leaving no mark on him, as if everything earlier had been an illusion.

Terror.

A surge of terror.

He couldn’t comprehend what it was, but felt a tremor from his core, thinking of the monster that once appeared in West Bridge City, sensing a faintly familiar aura.

They were similar in some aspects.

In the next moment, he activated the ability he had stolen from Huo Jia, transforming into an electric light and flying into the distance, acutely sensing the space behind him vanishing, or rather, transforming into a form he couldn’t comprehend.

Several attendants on the streets were swallowed by the void, becoming a tangle of chaotic lines interwoven within the space—as if erasing their existence rather than their life ending.

This void was unrelated to the size of power but was a difference in dimension.

It was a dimensional strike of high-dimensional power.

They couldn’t even begin to fathom what this thing was or what kind of existence it embodied.

"Are all these people mad? Summoning such an entity."

Su Changxing’s scalp tingled with fear, the surrounding electric lights became even more dazzling as he flew with greater speed outward.

Yet his speed was still not fast enough, at least not enough to reach the edge of the manor, and even if he escaped, it seemed meaningless.

This was an enclosed space!

An old hunchbacked man stood on the street, quietly looking this way, dressed in a dark loose-fitting robe and wearing a top hat.

He saw the fleeing Su Changxing, waved with a smile as if greeting an old friend, unfazed by the situation, even appearing calm.

Henry?

Su Changxing showed a look of astonishment, his mind felt as if it had been struck heavily by a hammer, and the missing, important piece of the puzzle was found.

"You managed to survive, which is unexpected to me, very impressive."

A familiar voice came.

Old Henry raised his left hand high, with his index finger pointing to the sky, feather-like black light appeared around him, a powerful pressure crushed the surrounding space, creating ripple after ripple.

At least a Tier Five Extraordinary!

This was something Su Changxing had not noticed before, he only thought Henry to be an ordinary Extraordinary, but did not expect him to be so strong, unbelievably strong.

A gigantic wall formed of countless black feathers blocked the spreading void.

For a moment, everything seemed to stand still.

The skin on Henry’s face was no longer parched, but had become rosy and appeared more youthful, yet that sense of agedness could not be concealed.

"You are the Grand Duke, Charlotte Rollin."

Su Changxing stood behind him, calmly said, having thought of everything, but still somewhat uncertain, as things were too absurd, defying logic.

"You are very smart! Klein, you thought of it so quickly."

Henry smiled and praised, his tone just the same, as if chatting leisurely with Su Changxing in a restaurant: "I deceived you, I’m sorry."

Su Changxing still had many questions in his mind, he asked: "Why? Why did you do this? Duke, you have everything in this kingdom, as long as you want it."

Henry looked at those lines of void, smiled slightly: "If I say I was bored to death and looking for trouble, would you believe it?"

Su Changxing thought of Lina’s lively and beautiful eyes, found it very ridiculous, and said sternly: "You not only killed your own son, but also your own daughter. How is this different from a madman?"

He suddenly realized Lina and Po Lai were very similar, both had brown hair and blue eyes, both wore a ruby pendant, and even held similar positions.

Henry shook his head and said: "Part of this world is fake, my son had already died a long time ago, and I do not know when, the only proof, he wasn’t born with heterochromia."

"Same with Lina, they are people, and yet they’re not, they are pseudo-existences... I don’t know if you can understand, but I can feel you are a real existence."

This might be a game world, so what Henry said might be true, with the deceased NPCs being replaced by new ones.

But this also seemed like a real world, with inconsistencies that were too contradictory.

"And for this reason? What if they are not dead, just resurrected?" Su Changxing said lightly.

"Of course not."

"Klein, some things, once done, will fail, people will die, and you will be cursed by thousands, but no matter what, you must do them..."

Contours of varying depths were drawn by the lines on Henry’s face, black light cast on his profile, he was determined.

"You are half my apprentice, after all, I must teach you a little something, otherwise it wouldn’t be acceptable."

He walked step by step toward the void, one hand conjuring a black light long halberd, with glossy feathers appearing and disappearing around it.

"Young one, I’ll only teach you once, watch how I cut away the void of this world!"

A pair of enormous black feathers appeared behind him, his figure growing larger as he advanced, the black halberd in his hand also enlarging, ten meters, a hundred meters, a thousand meters.

The gray-white void formed by countless lines was pierced by the black long halberd in mid-air, tearing open something like a layer of tinfoil, revealing strands of chains connecting heaven and earth, formed by streams of light.

At the top of the chains, a pair of starry pupils emerged, forming the shadow of a dragon’s head.

The ceremonial hall of the castle floated in the void, Chris stood at the door, his body turned into black lines, leaving only a head, seeing Henry, he laughed mockingly:

"Noble Duke, the situation seems somewhat out of your expectation, what now."

At this moment, he seemed to possess endless power, unimaginable strength.

Only power!

Henry looked down at him, sighed: "Sorry, I also deceived you, but you will come to rest with me... Chris, you should have been a good child."

As soon as he finished speaking, Henry’s massive body turned into countless black feathers rushing toward this void world, like blades continuously impacting those chains formed by streams of light.

Chris showed a look of terror on his face, cursed: "Old man, are you crazy, you will die too... so this is what you were planning! This madman! Madman!"

"The meaning of an Extraordinary is to transcend oneself, transcend this life, and transcend the unattainable."

Henry glanced back at Su Changxing, revealing a relieved smile, swung the black halberd sideways, chain after chain breaking, his body also completely disintegrating in the void, disappearing until nothing was left.

A large amount of blood energy visible to the naked eye dispersed, but was assimilated by the void.

This void could let energy converge on its own, accumulate, forming a spontaneous process of entropy reduction.