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Chapter 649: 648. Good Number_1
“Splendid Realm? Is this the Splendid Realm?”
Lu Ban carefully recalled this familiar term, and soon rembered that Feng Yu had ntioned it to him before.
There once was a powerful Foreign Domain that led the fight against Pollution, boasting a bright and splendid civilization, from which many Extraordinary Items originated.
But like other Domains polluted, the Splendid Realm was rely using one type of Pollution to combat another, and its end was inevitable: decay.
Moreover, their ability to resist the Pollution from the Ancient Overlords implied that they might also possess an extraordinary Pollution of their own.
However, everything had turned to dust, returning to the earth.
As the final glimrs of civilization’s sunset faded, the remnants of the imnse satellite stretched across the night sky, creating a profound sense of oppression—an eerie tableau akin to the moon magnified several tis, making it impossible to sleep peacefully.
Lu Ban felt a cool breeze.
He wondered why there was still air on this planet and couldn’t help but wave his hand through it.
“Yes.”
The woman nodded, waved her hand casually, and the remains of the roasted lamb Lu Ban had eaten disappeared, leaving only the flickering fire to illuminate her face.
“You may call
Charlotte, just a moniker.”
The self-proclaid Charlotte said.
Lu Ban felt that the na sounded familiar, but couldn’t recall where he had heard it.
“I always thought that the Ancient Overlords were supposed to be creatures mired in eternal madness, devoid of any Sanity.”
Lu Ban said, curious.
“Soone kind like you, who even fed
roasted lamb, doesn’t quite seem like an Ancient Overlord.”
The woman couldn’t help but burst into laughter upon hearing the words “kind” from Lu Ban.
“? Kind?”
Charlotte seed to find the idea incredibly amusing. Her brows and eyes beca even more seductive when she smiled. If on ordinary days she was like the rising sun, then the smiling woman before him was like the first light of dawn—genuinely moving.
“The Ancient Overlords I’ve encountered before were either blindly foolish, sealed and Unmoving, or those who would sing and ring bells upon seeing others, driving them insane. Then there are so others about whom I am not too clear, always speaking indecipherable words. But looking at you, you don’t seem to show any of that.”
Lu Ban added.
“That’s because I’m in disguise; what you see is not the real .”
Charlotte turned her gaze toward the fire.
“In reality, even I do not know what my true form looks like.”
Her expression was aloof, yet under the flickering firelight, she seed sowhat frail, inspiring a protective impulse.
“I once ntioned that there was so aspect of
on you. Let
think, The Black Pharaoh? The Invisible God? No, the fact that you have seen and survived suggests it’s probably The Dark One.”
Charlotte ntioned several nas unreservedly.
Common words, yet they made Lu Ban feel an itch in his heart, his mind muddled as if he was intoxicated. He shook his head, finally clearing the haze.
“Oh, sorry, I forgot that you are just a Mortal.”
Charlotte smiled and then looked Lu Ban over from head to toe.
“Strange. I was prepared for your body to collapse after hearing these nas, ready to personally reshape you, but you’re fine.”
There was no surprise in her tone, only a tinge of regret.
This person was doing it on purpose, wasn’t she?
Lu Ban couldn’t help but think, he then said,
“What I saw was a dark-skinned, lean man.”
“Ah, The Dark One.”
Charlotte nodded her head, her expression was like finally recalling the na of an insignificant classmate from elentary school.
“He is the most enthusiastic about dealing with mortals among us.”
“Among you?”
Lu Ban thought for a mont and ca up with a guess.
“When you ntion a certain ‘you,’ does this an that they are all your avatars?”
“Wrong.”
Charlotte stood up, her fan in hand waving lightly and vanishing into thin air.
“More accurately, we are all his avatars.”
It was the first ti she used a word that denoted divinity, even when describing The Dark One, Charlotte had not used such an appellation.
“He?”
Lu Ban had a vague feeling that he should not continue asking, but since he had already co this far, he decided to ask thoroughly.
“You wouldn’t want to know His na, nor would I ntion it here. You only need to know that He is one of the oldest beings in this world, a ruler above the Ancient Overlords, an Outer God, whose re na is enough to destroy a Foreign Domain.”
Charlotte spoke with an icy tone.
“Unlike other Ancient Overlords, He seldom has a clan, but more avatars. He has created a countless number of avatars, many of which don’t even know of each other’s existence. These avatars might have their own clans, scattered across Foreign Domains; so are sealed, so still walk the earth, and so even engage in conflict and warfare with each other.”
“Why does He do this?”
Lu Ban didn’t quite understand. From Charlotte’s description, this Ancient Overlord seed more rational than the blind and foolish existences, which was rather extraordinary in a world where pollution determined power.
“For no reason, just purely for amusent,”
Charlotte chuckled lightly, an almost helpless sigh.
“Amusent?”
Lu Ban confird the word.
“What is sanity, but logic and order, restraint and control? And the Ancient Overlords are the existences farthest from sanity. Why would you use mortal logic to infer the motives of a being that towers above the Ancient Overlords?”
Charlotte seed to be mocking Lu Ban, but quickly added,
“In fact, madness encompasses sanity, just as disorder encompasses order. The true essence of a Foreign Domain is chaos, and He is Lurking Chaos, the God of a Thousand Faces. He divided a portion of His own madness and created these avatars of ours. At the sa ti, we also possess the sanity He has divided. But there is one thing you must rember.”
“What is it?”
Lu Ban looked at Charlotte, and the woman smiled charmingly.
“I am not the most sane among these avatars.”
Lu Ban saw that Charlotte’s eyes exhibited a crimson glow.
Within that crimson, it seed as if massive, thick tentacles swept by, a sense of swelling bursting forth from those eyes, involuntarily arousing a sense of fear; rely witnessing this scene could make one tremble, verging on a breakdown of sanity.
But that light was rely a fleeting flash. She blinked her eyes and then turned her head to look toward that grand and imposing building.
“Co here, I need your help.”
Charlotte said, striding towards that building.
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