Chapter 1660: Dimensional Reduction

"No..."

"How could this happen!!!"

Heart 10 was on the verge of tears. Her red hair had already lost its luster in the Gray Realm, and her young face was filled with disbelief and anxiety...

She had received the Red King's order to come to the Cangyun Domain, but because she was quite far away, and because that dog Spade 10 had been suffering from severe diarrhea after eating the corpse of some unknown Calamity along the way, they had dragged their feet and only just arrived at the Cangyun Domain now.

But she never imagined that she would witness from afar the Cangyun Domain being bombarded by meteors from beyond the sky, only to be annihilated into nothingness bit by bit... By now, not even a scrap of the entire Cangyun Domain remained.

"Damn it!!!"

Heart 10 gritted her teeth and charged directly into the shattered land.

"Hey!"

"Hey!!"

"Is anyone still here?!"

"Lord Red King!!?"

"Heart 9! Club 8! Diamond 10!! Grandma Spade!!"

"The coolest and strongest Lord Bai Ye of the Thief God Path!!!"

"You dead beggar!! Answer me!"

“……”

Heart 10's voice, laced with sobs, echoed across the empty land. But at this moment, Cangyun was as flat as a plain, and as far as the eye could see, there wasn't a single living person to be found.

Heart 10 ran forward for a long time while calling out, yet she still didn't see even half a shadow. Only the sound of the dead, wailing wind remained in her ears.

Heart 10's eyes were already red. She turned her head and gave Spade 10's backside a vicious kick.

"Why are you just standing there like a fool?!"

"Isn't your nose the sharpest?! Go find people for me!!"

The large black dog stumbled from Heart 10's kick, but it didn't move... Its deep eyes were lowered, as if it had already given its answer.

There wasn't even a trace of a living person's scent left here.

Seeing Spade 10's reaction, Heart 10 completely broke down. Her legs went weak, and she knelt directly onto the shattered earth, looking as if she had lost everything, her expression one of pain and confusion...

The Twilight Society... is gone?

Then what were their past efforts for? What was their determination to restart the world for? If even the Twilight Society is gone... then where should she go from here?

Just as Heart 10 couldn't help but break down in tears,

on the dust-churning ground in front of her, flat, graffiti-like figures began to outline themselves.

They were figures wearing suits, as if they had been compressed from three dimensions to two by some power, turning from real people into light and shadow on a television screen. They were chattering about something, yet not a single sound came out, and there was no scent to be found...

Until one figure draped in theatrical robes stepped out. His body seemed to instantly cross the barrier of dimensions, appearing out of thin air in the real world.

Heart 10, heartbroken to the extreme, didn't notice this at all, only covering her eyes and sobbing.

"Wuwuwu... you bunch of idiots... wuwuwu..."

"There are so many of you, how could you just disappear like that... You left me all alone, what... what am I supposed to do... wuwuwu..."

"I'm only at the Sixth Stage, I can't beat Lord Lingxu either... I can't avenge you..."

"(Sobbing)"

"But it doesn't matter... I won't give up on restarting the world."

"I'm younger than Lord Lingxu, he'll grow old one day... I can slowly outlive him... and then recover his corpse to complete the Twilight Society's mission!"

"Don't worry... I will definitely fulfill my duties as the new Red King... reverse the era, and restart the world..."

"Wuwuwuwu..."

When she said the last sentence, the girl was clearly crying very sadly, but the corners of her mouth couldn't stop curling upward... Seeing this, the flat figures on the ground widened their eyes, chattering as if they were scolding something again.

Just then, a hand gently patted her shoulder.

"...You want to be the Red King?"

Heart 10 was stunned. She slowly raised her red-rimmed eyes, and upon seeing Chen Ling's smiling face, she let out a scream and sat down on the ground with a thud.

"Red... Lord Red King?!! You, you, you, you..."

"Don't worry, we aren't that easy to kill... You're still a bit too green to be the Red King." Chen Ling smiled.

Almost simultaneously, flashes of light flickered as more and more figures stepped out from the flat plane, their expressions toward Heart 10 incredibly subtle.

"Well, well, Heart 10!! Why do you call him 'the coolest and strongest Lord Bai Ye of the Thief God Path,' but call me a dead beggar?!" Heart 7 was heartbroken.

"Heart 10, I understand you!" Heart J, covered in gold ornaments, patted the girl's shoulder. "A Twilight Society member who doesn't want to be the Red King isn't a good member..."

"Hey, hey, hey, come to think of it, this is the first time we've seen Heart 10 cry, right?"

"She's actually kind of cute..."

"I'm reporting this: just now, when Lord Red King came out, Spade 10 had already smelled his scent, but it didn't warn you... It wanted to see you make a fool of yourself too!"

"Ahhhhhhh!!!!"

Heart 10 slammed her hands over her face, letting out a sharp shriek, wishing she could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

Just as everyone couldn't help but tease Heart 10, the smile on Chen Ling's face gradually faded... He slowly turned his head to look in the direction of the Lingxu Domain.

"This Lord Lingxu, he strikes hard." Sun Bumian narrowed his eyes slightly. "We were almost wiped out."

"If Spade were here, he'd be furious right now." Jiang Xiaohua muttered.

Chen Ling let out a cold snort, his gaze icy and bone-chilling.

He naturally knew what Lord Lingxu was thinking. Now that he had taken action to destroy the world, it was clear he intended to reverse the era and restart the world... With Lord Cangyun and Lord Nanhai dead, Lord Lingxu would certainly not let him, an unstable factor, leave, so he simply decided to let the entire Twilight Society be buried with the Cangyun Domain.

Although Chen Ling didn't know what had made Lord Lingxu completely abandon his humanity, or even want to strangle the possibility of restarting the world, there was no doubt that... Lord Lingxu's move represented a declaration of war!

If there had been a sliver of room for negotiation during the initial Lingxu talks, from this moment on, it would be a fight to the death!

Chen Ling took a step forward, his thoughts instantly crossing a thousand miles to appear before that silent ancient temple!

At this moment, Lord Lingxu was standing at the edge of the sea of clouds, squinting as he gazed toward the Cangyun Domain... The path of light propagation seemed to have been modified; he had long since seen the current situation of the Cangyun Domain as clearly as if he had clairvoyance.

At the same time, he seemed to sense something and turned his head to look behind him...

"I thought there was still a possibility for us to cooperate." The black and red theatrical robes danced in the wind like a violently burning flame. Those ruby-like eyes stared coldly at Lord Lingxu.

"But now it seems you have become completely possessed... No matter what you want to do, I will stop you, and then reverse the era and restart the world."

Lord Lingxu, his eyes bloodshot, stared at Chen Ling. A moment later, a strange smile curled at the corner of his mouth:

"Oh?"

"Then... give it a try."