An ancient copper mirror that looked plain and even somewhat worn instantly captured all of his attention.
On the mirror's frame were carved countless twisted and eerie runes that seemed to be formed from nightmares and fears.
The mirror's surface was not smooth; instead, it displayed a deep, abyss-like blackness akin to a Chaos Vortex!
With just one glance, it seemed as if it would completely absorb one's soul!
What kind of being was the Ancestor Dragon of Zeus? He instantly sensed the extraordinariness and danger of this mirror!
However, due to absolute confidence in his power and the deep-seated desire from the depths of the "Dragon Clan" bloodline for "unknown treasures."
He still... as if driven by some unknown force, reached out his hand to touch that mysterious mirror.
Buzz——!!!
At the instant his fingertip touched the cold surface of that mirror!
The entire mirror surface seemed to come alive instantly as an eerie black light exploded fiercely, capable of swallowing all light and twisting all reason!
The black light, like a tide, immediately devoured the entire Ancestor Dragon of Zeus and, subsequently, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, and all the Olympian Main Gods who came to accompany them!
The next moment, when they opened their eyes again, they were horrified to find themselves in a mysterious illusion realm full of endless "fear" and "despair"...
This illusion realm seemed to be a materialization of all their "negative emotions" deep within!
Here, they saw the things they were most afraid of and least willing to face!
The Sea God Poseidon saw the vast ocean he cherished completely dry up, wilt, and turn into a desolate desert!
Hades saw the order of the Netherworld he ruled completely collapse, and countless evil spirits and souls climbed out from the depths of Hell, tearing him, the "Hades," to pieces!
Hera saw her most cherished "marriage and family" ruthlessly betrayed and trampled, ultimately turning into a laughingstock in the Divine Realm!
As the fear and despair in the hearts of the Olympus Gods over the potential failure of the "Titan War" and loss of newly acquired power and honor kept magnifying and being drawn out by this illusion realm.
They saw the sky above the illusion realm suddenly change dramatically!
The previously void, pitch-black sky started boiling and writhing violently like boiling tar!
One after another, mysterious Titans with enormous bodies, terrifying auras, emerged slowly from the roiling darkness!
Their forms were identical to those Titan Giant Gods sharpening their blades in the real world, ready for the ultimate showdown with the Olympus Gods!
Atlas, who carries the entire sky on his shoulders, with muscles knotted and filled with the sense of boundless strength!
Cronus's fear projection, brandishing a giant sickle with eyes that twinkle with the flow of time, capable of harvesting all life!
Hephaestus, surrounded by blazing Sun God Fire, radiant, seemingly ready to incinerate the entire world into nothingness!
Koios, whose wisdom is as vast as the sea, with deep eyes, seeming to perceive all plots and schemes!
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However, unlike the real Titan Giant Gods, these mysterious Titans formed from fear and despair emit not the dignified aura of "Order" and "Law" belonging to the Innate Divine Beings.
But rather, an aura filled with "distortion," "madness," "chaos," and... pure "malevolence"...
Their eyes, instead of glowing with divine luminescence, are two bottomless voids, continuously leaking thick black liquid...
Their mouths, pulled upwards by invisible strings into a grotesquely exaggerated curve, revealed an... eternal, mocking... eerie smile!
Upon their bodies, some indescribable nightmare and whisper-formed tendrils and tumors constantly grew...
"Hehehe... hehe..."
"Are you... afraid of us?"
"Are you... worried... about being defeated by us?"
A series of eerie laughs and whispers, filled with echoes and overlapping sounds, capable of burrowing into the depths of souls and evoking all negative emotions, slowly issued from these "mysterious Titans."
"Come... join us..."
"Give up that pointless resistance, embrace the deepest... fear within your hearts!"
"Failure... is your ultimate and only... fate!"
With these enticing whispers, those mysterious Titans born of fear hesitated no more!
They stepped forward with heavy steps that could shatter the earth, swinging their giant arms capable of tearing the sky, bringing a world-destroying force towards the Olympus Gods whose minds were already seized by fear, igniting... an attack!
And as the "originator" of all this, the Ancestor Dragon of Zeus is also facing the most terrifying trial of his inner demons in his life!
In this mysterious illusion realm, he found his proud "Ancestor Dragon" power suppressed to the extreme!
All his forcibly repressed "human" weaknesses belonging to the identity of "Zeus"—greed, lustfulness, selfishness, and fear of "failure"—were infinitely magnified at this moment!
He saw himself, due to greed, attempting to devour the entire Universe, only to be ultimately backlashed by its will, turning into ash!
He saw himself, due to lust, being jointly betrayed by numerous "illegitimate children" birthed because of him, and ultimately nailed to the throne of the Divine King!
He saw himself, due to selfishness, being fully deserted by all, ultimately being pushed down from the divine altar by those "ants" he once despised!
And what he feared and dreaded the most in his heart was being utterly, without suspense, overthrown and replaced by a "divine" being as perfect as "light," "selflessness," "benevolence," and "holy virtue," flawless in every aspect!
"No——!!!!"
The Zeus Ancestor Dragon let out an anger-filled roar brimming with reluctance and fear!
At this moment, his Ancestor Dragon aspect was suppressed, while the divine status of Zeus was dazzling.
"Ah, this is more like it!"
Outer Heaven Void, the Wisdom Demon God sighed in relief.
He absolutely would not allow the god-king position he had painstakingly seized to be overthrown by such a false, non-existent "illusion"!
Yet, the most terrifying aspect of this mysterious illusion realm lies in—it can transform the "fear" deepest in your heart into "reality"!
Just as the Ancestor Dragon of Zeus reached the peak of his "fear"!
The sky of the mysterious illusion realm was suddenly torn apart!
A divine light filled with supreme brilliance, endless majesty, and the will of public selflessness and love for all living beings, as resplendent as the first light of creation, poured down from the crack!
In the divine light, a Supreme Divine Emperor clad in a mysterious Emperor's Robe and donning a Pingtian Crown, though his countenance remained ambiguous, the aura of "light and greatness, and holy virtue" radiating from him was enough to purify and subjugate the whole illusion realm, slowly descended with hands behind his back!
His arrival was so abrupt, yet so foreordained!
It was as if he was naturally meant to be the Sovereign of this Universe!
He was precisely the ultimate embodiment of the "perfect divine" that the Zeus Ancestor Dragon feared the most deep within!
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