HBWnovel Book 2: Chapter 538
Book 2: Chapter 538
Lukas has two fundamental doubts about the existence known as the Void King.The most fundamental question is, what exactly is the Void King? And there are countless derivative questions.
What role does a king in the Void World have? Why did the Four Knights swear loyalty to him? What does the palace in the middle of the desert signify? If I were to become the Void King, what responsibilities would I need to shoulder afterward?
…As of now, Lukas had grasped none of these.
And secondly.
At the current moment, is the position of the Void King truly vacant?
Ssshhh-
The light faded. The ripples gradually ceased.
And suddenly the water's surface began to darken ominously.
“……!”
It was a phenomenon he had never experienced before, and Lukas almost instinctively retracted his hand.
[Stop.]
Had Residue not intervened, he probably would have. The spreading darkness eventually engulfed even the palm of Lukas’s hand.
Ominous.
It was not a deep spring, merely dipping his palm slightly, and now he could not see his hand. While most living beings have an instinctual fear of darkness, Lukas could control even his own instincts. If this was merely darkness, there was little reason to feel uncomfortable.
“…What in the world.”
He realized belatedly.
It wasn’t that the spring had been darkened or contaminated in reality.
The darkness before him was merely a scene viewed through the ‘Spring of Wisdom'. Naturally, there would be as much difference as between a tiger and a paper tiger compared to actually witnessing it. Indeed, he couldn’t fully feel the oppressive aura of the Red Knight or the avatar of the Sun God through it.
But this darkness… was different. Even filtered through, it was enough to make one’s body tremble.
His mind began to cloud.
Fearful, terrifying, his body shuddered.
─I want to run away.
Gritting his teeth,
Lukas clenched his jaw.
He must not.
He must not be devoured by this darkness.
He strained his eyes as wide as possible, pulling up his concentration to its utmost.
‘Is this all there is to the darkness?’
Was the identity of the Void King truly such an opaque, ominous darkness, and was this the scene the Spring of Wisdom wanted to show me?
‘It can’t be just this……!’
His breath became ragged. Now he even felt severe headaches. Blood vessels burst in Lukas’s eyes, and blood ran from his nose.
In that state, he forcibly maintained consciousness.
In his blurry vision, he desperately
“With just three teeth, you can't guarantee victory even against one of the Twelve Void Lords.”
[That's right. But what's important here is that the dragon's original purpose was merely reconnaissance. It voluntarily stepped into that world to find clues to overcome the Apocalypse… It was fully aware of the risks and had even secured a means to extract itself if necessary.]
“However, for some reason, the dragon didn’t extract itself. Instead, it committed the bizarre act of scattering its remaining teeth all over the Void World.”
[Yes. …Looks like there’s one more thing to do, Lukas.]
Lukas nodded.
Teeth scattered somewhere in the Void World,
If he could get his hands on them, he might be able to glimpse the memories of the ‘Seven Fanged Dragon God.'
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