Chapter 856: Chapter 34: Gate of Truth

“Damn! Damn boy, what did you do! What exactly did you do!”

Erodion’s enraged inquiry echoed in the chaotic underground space, filled with disbelief and panic at the shake of his foundation of faith.

Facing his irrational roar, Lynch merely shrugged casually, his tone calm to the point of cruelty, as if stating a fact as simple as could be: “Nothing much. Just… stole your faith.”

From the inception of the plan to assault the Holy City, Lynch foresaw a potential deadlock with Erodion, or even facing the risk of a drawn-out war or ultimate ritual relying on his massive power of faith. Hence, he left the most crucial move—

Messiah.

Messiah and Erodion, though differing in sources of power, both relied essentially on the powerful and idealistic force called “faith.”

Lynch keenly grasped this point, keeping Messiah outside not just for purification or confrontation, but for the imperative task of decoding and analyzing the structure and flow of the unique Faith System modified by Erodion within the Freemasonry Church!

Messiah, as an aggregate of Light faith, possessed a beyond ordinary understanding of “faith.”

She was like a supreme codebreaker, silently waging a more perilous and essential war while the coalition and Holy City defenders clashed, infiltrating and analyzing Erodion’s faith network!

And at this moment, the results manifested! Lynch’s speculation was perfectly verified!

Once Messiah completed the decoding of the Freemasonry Church’s Faith System, her own homogenous yet heterogeneous divine Light seemed to gain the highest privileged key, forcing intervention and even taking over the power of faith initially directed to Erodion! This was not mere energy seizure, but rather systemic “coverage” and “requisition”!

“Steal… my faith…?” Erodion repeated Lynch’s words, first confused, then his restored human-like face contorted with ultimate rage and a sense of being utterly mocked!

“You… how dare you?! That’s mine! It’s the result of centuries of effort! The cornerstone to my path to Truth!!”

The rapid loss of power of faith was like tearing an irreparable enormous wound to the core of his power. He could clearly feel his power receding like a tide, the peak state just restored by burning faith vanished rapidly like an illusion, even weaker than before the injury! The feeling of falling from the clouds nearly drove him insane!

“Damn boy! I will tear you to pieces! Burn your soul forever!”

Erodion fell completely into madness, no longer caring for defense or technique, like a gambler who lost all his chips, recklessly bursting out all remaining power! Pale flames of faith blended with rampaging soul energy, transforming into a destructive shock wave striking indiscriminately around!

However, such madness seemed more like a desperate last struggle.

Without stable and massive faith supply, Erodion’s power was like water without a source, wood without roots. His attacks, though still fierce, lost the previous heavy and enduring force that could contend against the entire Plane, becoming powerless.

In contrast, Lynch’s side rode high in momentum!

Lynch’s eyes were sharp, catching the moment of Erodion’s power decline and disorder, using Time Rule, Decaying Domain, and Space Techniques to the fullest! Each slash with the Flame Demon Greatsword precisely fell on the nodes of Erodion’s power operation, accelerating his collapse.

Space’s form was more elusive, Void Short Sword like the kiss of Death God, with each flash adding new wounds on Erodion, specifically disrupting the structures trying to reconnect energy conduits.

Vanilla’s Flame Fighting Spirit was like a festering sore, tightly entwining Erodion, continuously burning and consuming his already scarce power, preventing him from focusing against Lynch’s fatal attacks.

In this exchange of rise and fall, the battle presented a one-sided scenario!

“Bang!” Lynch slashed through Erodion’s hastily gathered Holy Light Barrier, the residual sword force carving a deep bone-visible charred scar on his chest.

“Sizzle!” Space’s shortsword silently pierced into his shoulder blade, Void Power instantly destroying the surrounding energy circuit.

“Boom!” Vanilla’s Fiery Flame Heavy Slash staggered him backward, his robe torn, breath further weakening.

Erodion sprayed blood crazily, retreating step by step, body full of scars, the recently restored human form becoming extremely haggard, eyes filled with bloodshot defiance and madness. His proudly sacred nation of faith internally collapsed, his path to Truth forcibly cut off!

The scales of victory seemed thoroughly tipped.

Yet, just as Lynch’s Flame Demon Greatsword was about to descend again, delivering a decisive blow to Erodion—

“Buzz——!!!!!!!”

A sound far deeper and grander than any previous energy wave, seemingly originating from the world’s essence itself, suddenly erupted from the enormous dark purple Crystal above everyone’s heads!

The Crystal, previously dimmed by theft of faith, now seemed something internally ignited! It ceased pulsating, instead steadily emitting an intensely pure, soul-trembling dark glow! Not darkness, but a “nothingness” light that devoured all, containing endless possibilities!

Simultaneously, the ground, walls, ceiling of the entire underground space… all engraved with twisted, blasphemous runes, lit up one after another! They no longer emitted purple-black radiance, instead flowing out bizarre energy, all flashing with countless subtle lights of knowledge like mercury!

These energies rapidly flowed along preset paths and converged at the center ground, right beneath Erodion’s broken stone seat, outlining, filling, and constructing a vast, complex, precisely exceeding mortal comprehension giant Magic Array!

Every symbol in the Magic Array seemed to autonomously move, articulating some cosmic truth; every line contained infinite variations, connecting unknown dimensions. Merely witnessing the formation of the Array induced headaches, like infinite knowledge and information were forcibly infused!

Erodion’s previously despairing, frenzied face first stunned, then revealed a near-mad, twisted smile, abandoning all defense, arms wide and laughing hysterically:

“Haha… hahaha! Success! Finally… finally completed! Charging… finished!”

“Too late! Lynch! You’re too late!”

“Ritual—Final Phase, Activate!”

As his hoarse and fervent declaration fell, that enormous Magic Array seemingly composed of liquid knowledge and rules burst into dazzling brilliance! All energies, runes, lines, crazily converged, compressed, condensed towards the central point of the Array in an instant!

Light so piercing it reached extreme, then abruptly withdrew inward!

After a deathly silent pause, a “door” quietly emerged at the center of the Array.

It was not made of material, more like manifesting from “concept” itself. Huge, ancient, edges vague and undefined, seeming to teeter between existence and non-existence. No superfluous decorations adorned the door, only countless subtle light shadows resembling stars’ birth and extinction, rule weavings, truth whispers continuously flowing and changing.

It stood silently there, yet seemed to become the universe’s center. An inexplicable attraction emitted from it, drawing all knowledge, energy, souls… as if behind the door lay the answers to everything, the ultimate end.

Erodion gazed at this door, eyes filled with endless desire and greed, murmuring with trembling voice:

“Gate of Truth…”

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