2280 Deterioration I

<...Must I show you that I can cause you to return to the same position below these mountains with a flick of my hand?>

...!

The voice was booming as it covered every portion of space, the situation heating up to an extremely volatile moment as all eyes were ready for a show!

On the second mountain with thrones that were blessed with the figures of a dazzling array of women.

<Empress Ophelia...are we keeping our stance as is? When Vulcan makes a move...> A woman with fiery red hair spoke while gazing towards Empress Ophelia who was currently gazing at everything with a pondering expression.

Her brownish skin that released waves of radiance paired with her brown eyes that released tendrils of Light made her look extremely ethereal, her beauty putting all the other women below her to shame as her lips parted in a reply soon after.

<Mm...the first of the Words of Wisdom has appeared before me. Do you want to know what it says?>

Her pondering expression held a hint of a smile as her voice cascaded down to cover her whole mountain, making her intentions clear to all her people as dozens of Boundary Expansion Realm women with exceptional beauty gazed up towards her expectantly.

Many of them were beings that Empress Ophelia had saved in many suffering situations, their trust in her being something higher than even that they would have had with their parents as they trusted her with their lives!

And what they trusted the most...were the Words of Wisdom that stemmed from her Boundary.

Words that never led Empress Ophelia wrong so long as she followed them!

Seeing the many gazes coming towards her and the blooming volatile situation outside, she smiled lightly as her gorgeous eyes blinked to reveal a set of golden words forming into a single sentence that now became clear to all.

[It is inadvisable to make the True Emperor of Quintessence your enemy.]

...!

The beautiful faces of a myriad of women atop the mountains formed O's with their lips in utter shock while reading such Words of Wisdom.

When putting the power of Empress Ophelia in the picture...what did it mean for her to be advised not to make this being before them an enemy?!

Many dazzling eyes blinked while turning back towards the being floating high in space, their Souls even more expectant to see what would happen next!

At the same time, Empress Ophelia continued to receive more and more words of Wisdom that caused her to constantly shift her expression from pondering, to a smile, and then to a troubled expression.

One thing was clear amidst all this confusion though.

Something unpredictable was about to occur, with a dense cluster of chaos being brought into the picture by none other than the Last True Emperor to come out of the Barren Lands!

As a shocking confrontation bloomed in the Abecedarian Sacrarium, a critical situation also unfolded in a faraway location within the Aeonic Haven of Dissolution.

In this region, glacial tendrils of NULLITY covered endless stretches of space- with each one being capable of cutting apart any weak Boundary Expansion Realm existences who even touched a tendril by mistake.

Within the depths of these glacial tendrils of NULLITY, across many dangerous cavernous paths...the figures of dozens of truly powerful Ancestral Lernaeans could be seen.

The visage of the Emperor who reigned over the Sacrarium of the Sword could be seen as his figure that was as sharp as a sword could currently be seen trembling, his voice coming out in shocked whispers as he looked at the scene before him!

It was Ancestor Rodwig- the Father of Theseus!

His lips trembled as even a being like him couldn't help it, because among the many parties of Ancestral Lernaeans and NOBLESSE who sent their Aeonic Soul Clones to search the Endless Abyssal Thalassic Caverns of Nullity, their party had actually come across something unbelievable!

Hidden across many channels and caverns of dreadful environments, with glacial seas all around them...they actually saw a thin film of light forming a cylindrical shape all around. And within this film of light...pulsing obsidian white Aeonic Treasures of Extremity could be seen.

And it wasn't just one or two as most beings would come across when wading across the dangerous areas of the Havens of Extremity.

It was a cluster of them as looking at their potent light...

<Haha, this is enough for multiple beings to be brought up to the 8th or even possibly the 9th Boundary Layer! We could very likely be capable of producing another Apex Aeonic Lifeform!>

Beside the Aeonic Soul Clone of Emperor Rodwig, an Ancestral Lernaean released waves of power exceeding the 7th Boundary Layer spoke out as the dozens of beings here all gulped while looking at the wonder before them.

<Yes, let's move carefully and...> Rodwig had just begun to urge his Boundaries to see if any negatives or danger lay ahead when his will caught the sight of the hand of one of the Ancestral Lernaeans who seemed to be entranced by the radiant obsidian white light within the thin film of light...reach outward.

<No!> He released a furious light at such an action as a foreboding feeling instantly overcame him, the hand of the Ancestral Lernaean being pulled back an instant later as the Will of this being was roused, but...it was much too late.

CRACK!

The thalassic glacial caverns around them began to crack.

The cluster of truly fantastical Aeonic Treasures of Extremity before them seemed to have gained sentience as they were instantly pulled downwards, the glacial Lands around them beginning to crack as they saw everything fall down towards an endless pit!

A pit of endless darkness that suddenly began to expand as Rodwig had a maddened expression while he and all the others began to pull back, watching as everything deteriorated rapidly right before their eyes!