Chapter 4188: You May Begin

They met Dofrei later, and from the happy look on his face, it seemed like his conversation with his disciples had gone quite well. "Did your favorites decide to go with you?" Default asked.

Dofrei shook his head in response. "I have disciples who hold higher positions based on experience and cultivation. However, I do not have favorites. Anyway, they all decided they wanted to come with me, including those who aren’t Celestials yet. They were pretty adamant about it, too. Hehe!"

Well, for someone like Dofrei, that was indeed something that would make him happy, to see them all willing to follow him to the end.

"Alright, enough of that," Nyxara was already tired of waiting. "Can we go now? My mark is outside the Werdlem Empire, but we still have a long way to A1 after that."

The Primordial Beasts gathered, and so did the twins’ group. "We are ready. Let’s leave the Divine Realm first and enter the void so you can use your skill."

The group quickly shot to the skies, leaving the Congral Region behind. Once in the Void, Nyxara used her innate ability, and the void answered her call. Soon, they were all gone from the Werdlem Universe.

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A few months later...

"How is it going?" Soza asked, his expression calm. At the moment, he was in a hidden location in the Werdlem Universe, which only a handful of experts knew about. No information about it could be found in the Werdlem Network. In fact, no records of this place’s existence could be found anywhere in the Werdlem Empire at all, only inside this place. Its location only existed in Soza’s mind and in the minds of those related to it.

After they failed to capture Kentucky in the Abyssal Beasts’ Home, all they could do was to capture the few remaining Abyssal Beasts. There were also the Abyssal Beasts that were not in that home at that moment. Nonetheless, there were only a few tens of them in the Werdlem Empire’s hands. The rest was gone.

To make things worse, all the Abyssal Paths collapsed, making the Great Void Shifter Formations completely useless. Experts at Soza’s level could still travel through the Universe or to other Universes pretty fast, but the rest of the Empire couldn’t do the same.

What bothered Soza the most was that he didn’t know the Abyssal Beasts could do such a thing. Sure, he knew they could destroy specific Abyssal Paths by staying close to them. However, a method capable of making them all collapse was not known.

Even now, Soza didn’t know how the Abyssal Beasts did that, and the Abyssal Beasts left behind seemed to be unaware of it, too. They couldn’t be blamed. Only the elders of the Abyssal Beasts Race knew about the Abyssal Key. The rest were only aware of the escape plan.

Rafina noticed another thing with the Abyssal Paths’ collapse. They couldn’t return to Default straight away. Nonetheless, they quickly used their own Spatial Gates to go back to BH1. Well, lo and behold! Once they got there, the room inside BH1 was gone! Default, and his prison, were simply nowhere to be found!

Soza’s group was lost. BH1 was truly heavily protected. How did the twins’ group enter it? Worse yet, how did they free Default? The prison holding Default was supposed to be impenetrable. Obviously, it wasn’t.

Now, they didn’t have much to do other than use the Abyssal Beasts that remained behind. They were given tons of Divine Stones and were tasked with the creation of new Abyssal Paths for the existing Great Void Shifter Formations.

His subordinate, whom Soza was talking to through the CD, spoke to him. He didn’t know where Soza was and was only following orders. "We still have 34 Abyssal Beasts. Each one of them is being watched closely. The Abyssal Paths to travel through the Werdlem Universe aren’t that big of a problem. Those ones can be finished in a few months."

He continued. "The problem is the Abyssal Paths connected to the other Universes. Our Starway is pretty much useless at the moment. All the Abyssal Paths in there are gone. We have 20 of the Abyssal Beasts recreating the Abyssal Paths to the Rank A and a few Rank B Universes. Unfortunately, as everyone is aware, Abyssal Paths to other Universes take a very long time to be made. The fastest one will only be completed after six hundred years at the very least. As for the rest, we are looking into thousands, if not tens of thousands, of years."

Soza nodded slightly, already expecting as much. "There is no helping that. Make the Abyssal Beasts work nonstop. However, we can’t afford to lose a single one of them anymore. If there is any risk to their lives, make sure to do everything you can to help them."

His subordinate nodded. "Yes, Senior Soza." Then, he entered the next topic. "Now, what about the punishments? These remaining beasts would still have fled if they had the chance, and their elders were the ones who somehow destroyed the Abyssal Paths, after all."

Soza shook his head in response. "Those who remained are all small fries. Punishing them now will actually only delay the recreation of the Abyssal Paths."

"Senior Soza..." His subordinate seemed to have difficulty talking about the next topic.

However, Soza already knew what he wanted to say. "Yes, we still don’t know how the Abyssal Paths were destroyed. Trying to recreate them might be a useless effort if our enemies still have the power to do the same thing again. Nonetheless, it at least serves the purpose to test it out. If they collapse again, we will know the enemy can do it as many times as they want."

His subordinate sighed in relief. He didn’t want to say it, but it seemed like Soza understood the issues. "Understood, Senior Soza."

Soza ended his call, putting his CD away. Then, he walked out of the room. He was now in another room, similar to the bridge of the spaceships. At the very front, an enormous transparent window allowed the experts in the room to see what was outside.

Rafina and Latifi joined him at the window, the trio looking at the same thing.

"Is it really okay to do it now?" Latifi asked, his expression not particularly confident.

Rafina shrugged. "We thought it was impossible for Default to escape. Yet, he did. We have to consider that all the Primordial Beasts are free now, even if still inside our Empire’s Bubble. Since Default found a way to escape BH1, we have to assume they have some way of escaping the Werdlem Empire as well. If they do, it will be too late to regret."

Soza nodded, still looking at the same thing outside. "The orders came from above, so we have no other choice. I would have preferred to wait another five cycles at least, but we don’t have that time anymore. We have to do it before the Primordial Beasts can get away. Without their essence to stabilize the Primordial Laws, we will lose the connection entirely."

Outside, suspended in the vast emptiness of the void, stretched something that looked like a colossal fracture sealed by force.

It did not glow or shimmer like a natural phenomenon. Instead, it appeared dense, almost solid, as though a massive layer of space itself had been compressed and fused together. The surrounding void was visibly distorted around it, bending into shallow angles that made distant starfields look uneven and misaligned. If it didn’t have the shape of a big tear in space, one might have mistook it for a black hole.

The fracture extended for an immeasurable distance in both directions, its surface marked by countless jagged ridges, like scars. From time to time, faint pulses ran across those ridges, tightening the sealed region slightly and producing a deep, silent vibration felt throughout the body rather than heard.

Soza closed his eyes for a moment, then turned back to address the other experts present in that control room, who were in front of hundreds of terminals. "You may begin."

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