Gates of the Myriad Realms Chapter 680
byChapter 663: The Ultimate Victory!
A white light cluster hovered in Hera’s palm.
Something strange happened.
She tried to grasp it firmly, but the light cluster couldn’t meld into her hand.
“What’s wrong?”
Shen Ye asked.
“I don’t know,” Hera said, her voice laced with urgency as she cradled the white light cluster in both hands. “I don’t seem to be able to obtain it.”
Shen Ye was somewhat surprised.
Should I try?
No.
He had made a deal with Hera, and Hera had formed a team with him.
At this moment, for him to jump in and try to obtain the future keyword—
It felt out of place.
Shen Ye crossed his arms, pondering:
“Try to eat it.”
“Eat?”
Hera opened her mouth and tried to bite the white light cluster.
The white light cluster was immediately swallowed by her.
Boom—
An infinite, blazing white flame erupted from her body.
“It worked!”
Hera exclaimed joyfully.
Shen Ye looked up at the top of her head.
Two small white characters appeared above her head.
“Ultimate Victory.”
What does “ultimate victory” mean?
I don’t know!
—Is this a future keyword?
“How do you feel?”
Shen Ye asked.
“Better than ever before, this keyword is truly filled with the power of the future!” Hera said.
Shen Ye smiled.
The effect of the keyword was naturally a secret, and he couldn’t very well ask about it.
But.
He was happy that Hera had obtained this power.
After all, they were comrades.
The next second.
Hera gently tapped the void with her hand.
Two lines of prompts immediately appeared in front of Shen Ye:
“Hera has exited the Killing Squad.”
“Hera’s karma with you has ended.”
Shen Ye looked at the girl.
Hera smiled slightly, her figure hovering, and she said:
“As agreed, you received the reward for forming a team, and your blade techniques have greatly improved; I, on the other hand, obtained the future keyword.”
“Your karma and mine have ended.”
Shen Ye was somewhat silent.
—Although it wasn’t quite what he had imagined.
But the agreement between him and Hera seemed to be exactly like this.
“I thought you would continue to fight alongside me.”
Shen Ye said.
Hera patiently replied, “The future keyword is the most powerful, do you understand? From now on, I don’t need any team—”
“I have already become an S-rank existence in one leap.”
“A team would only be a burden to me.”
“That’s not wrong to say.” Shen Ye admitted.
“My ability is karma—when you entered the Age of Entropy, I helped you, which was a good cause—we both ultimately achieved our desired outcomes, which is a good result.”
“Karma is complete.”
“It’s time to say goodbye, Shen Ye.”
Shen Ye listened quietly, pondered for a few breaths, and said nothing more.
The rabbit jumped from Hera’s shoulder and bumped into the void—
The void immediately opened a large hole.
“It was a pleasure working with you, but it’s time to say goodbye, Gatekeeper Shen Ye.”
Hera said.
“Alright, goodbye.” Shen Ye seemed to have understood, and said readily.
“Mm.”
Hera was very satisfied with his final attitude, turned around, and without looking back at him, swept into the void hole and disappeared.
On the top floor.
Only Shen Ye remained, standing in place.
He shook his head, opened the door, and walked in, arriving in Xu Xingke’s room.
“She left?”
Xu Xingke asked.
“Yes.” Shen Ye said.
“Why didn’t you stop her?” Xu Xingke asked.
“Her ability is karma. From the very beginning, she had calculated what ’cause’ was needed to achieve the ‘effect’ of obtaining the future keyword.”
“From the entire process, she did fulfill her promise of cooperation.”
“So, forget it.”
Shen Ye said.
Xu Xingke said, “God left a message for you.”
“What?” Shen Ye asked.
“You have one minute to kill her. At this moment, she’s still unfamiliar with the future keyword; you still have a chance.”
“But why?”
“She knows some things about you, and it might cause trouble later—killing her is the safest option.”
“Teacher, do you think I should kill her?” Shen Ye asked.
Xu Xingke’s expression was blank as he said indifferently, “This decision can only be yours, because you and she accomplished all of this together.”
“Understood.” Shen Ye said.
“Then what’s your decision?” Xu Xingke asked.
Shen Ye walked over and sat beside Xu Xingke, took out a lighter, and lit a cigarette for his teacher.
After Xu Xingke started smoking, he used his blade to cut the chains on the other man.
“The mission is complete, teacher, go back and rest.”
“What about you?”
“I’m going back to the Other Shore to rest for a bit.”
“—So you’re not going to kill her.” Xu Xingke said.
Shen Ye thought about it and said:
“I arrived at the Other Shore, and she explained the past and future to me; I killed, and she helped me retrieve my blade; I confronted the Twisted Sanctuary, and she helped me find karma—”
“In fact, we worked very well together.”
Xu Xingke thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.
Shen Ye continued:
“Until this moment, her karma and mine have indeed ended—”
“I’m not a gangster who pre-emptively kills someone just to prevent them from doing something in the future.”
A flicker of emotion finally appeared in Xu Xingke’s blank eyes.
He exhaled a smoke ring and said indifferently:
“Yes, that’s it.”
“We kill people, exterminate clans, and erect Jingguan, but we know we do it for justice.”
“We will never kill innocent people.”
“—At least she is innocent at this moment, so we won’t touch her.”
“Who knows what the future holds?”
“You’re good, worthy of being my student.”
Shen Ye’s mood improved, and he chuckled:
“Teacher, don’t praise me. In fact, I’m quite melancholic right now because my team is down to one member.”
“What are the requirements for joining the team?” Xu Xingke asked.
“To find new companions on the Other Shore.”
“Then I can’t help you.”
“Sigh.” Shen Ye sighed.
Xu Xingke stood up, waved to him, and then said:
“Open a door for me, the target is ‘Eden’.”
“Okay.”
Shen Ye opened the door directly.
The time for parting had come.
Shen Ye opened his mouth, intending to advise his teacher to kill less, but then felt it would be useless to do so.
In the end, he decided against it.
Xu Xingke walked to the door, stepped through it, and was about to leave.
“Oh, one more thing.”
“What?”
“Now that time has passed, and you truly didn’t kill her, it’s time to talk about that matter.”
“—God left two messages for you.”
“Huh? Why didn’t you say so earlier?” Shen Ye was astonished.
“That future keyword is S-rank, imbued with the power of ‘Entropy Annihilation’, surpassing everything of past eras—”
“So God couldn’t judge everything about it either.”
“Only when you make a choice will the future become clear, and then those two messages from God can be spoken.”
“The first message is this:”
“You didn’t go to kill her, but respected each other’s karma. This has been noted by the future keyword, which has its own judgment.”
“The second message is this:”
“You have the opportunity to possess an even stronger future keyword.”
After Xu Xingke finished speaking, he gave Shen Ye a meaningful look and then stepped through the door, disappearing.
In the room.
Only Shen Ye remained.
He stood frozen in place, like a puppet, as if devoid of life.
Suddenly.
He jumped up, exclaiming loudly:
“I understand!”
—What was the way to obtain keywords?
Fame!
How was fame obtained?
By doing something unprecedented and earth-shattering, naturally, a keyword would form!
Since that future keyword had its own judgment—
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It was actually a good thing that he didn’t kill Hera!
As for “the opportunity to possess an even stronger future keyword,” that implied something else.
He was the gatekeeper of the historical fragments of the “Gods and Ghosts Guild”!
As long as he found the right opportunity to return to the historical fragments of the “Gods and Ghosts Guild” and shatter them—
A new future keyword would be born!
It would belong to him alone!
Since he had already destroyed one historical fragment and accumulated “fame,” destroying a second historical fragment would certainly grant him an even stronger future keyword!
Tsk, tsk, tsk!
God must have meant that.
Shen Ye suddenly became excited.
—Should he go to the “Gods and Ghosts Guild”?
Yes.
But he would have to wait until the “Lord of Distortion” left that historical fragment.
As for now—
“There’s still some time left; let’s finish things up.”
Shen Ye opened the door, stepped through it, and arrived in the stone chamber on the bottom floor of the fake holy tower.
A headless corpse lay here.
—The guardian, Sabi.
Shen Ye removed the deer head, placed it on the headless corpse, and performed “resurrection.”
The real Sabi opened his eyes and crawled up from the ground.
“You kept your word.”
Sabi said.
“That’s nothing, next we’re going to rescue your kin.” Shen Ye said.
“How?” Sabi asked.
“They will all be killed later, but I will eliminate the enemies, and you must seize the opportunity to collect the corpses of your kin.”
“After it’s over, I’ll revive them.”
Sabi retreated a few steps, solemnly raised his hooves, performed a complex ritual, and respectfully said:
“We will forever remember your kindness.”
As his voice fell.
With a “clang,” a new keyword appeared above Shen Ye’s head:
“Great Sabi.”
“Honorary keyword, can be advanced.”
“Description: Your deed of saving the nature guardian clan will forever be remembered by them.”
“—’Great’ is a form of nature worship, not easily bestowed, but you have obtained this extremely rare honorific.”
“—Great, you can speak loudly!”
Shen Ye’s face twitched for a moment, but he ultimately said nothing.
They weren’t malicious after all.
There was nothing he could do.
“Let’s act together.”
Shen Ye said.
The words had barely left his lips.
Shen Ye’s entire body began to vibrate.
He twisted his body, his hands moved like lightning, and he instantly pulled out eighty-one phones.
Wifi connected automatically.
—It was the familiar wireless local area network again.
And it started deducting his gold.
None of that mattered.
The crucial thing was that a line of small characters appeared on each phone:
“She sold you out.”
Shen Ye was stunned for a moment, finding it hard to believe.
“That’s not right… she’s someone who deals with cause and effect, how could she start sowing evil causes?”
A new line of small characters appeared on all eighty-one phones simultaneously:
“She assessed the situation, firmly believing that having obtained the keyword, she had reached S-rank and was immensely powerful, and that you could no longer stir up trouble. Therefore, for her own benefit, she sold you out.”
Shen Ye put away his phones.
“We act separately.”
He patted Sabi’s shoulder, stepped through a door, and left the stone chamber.
Top floor.
Shen Ye appeared silently.
—She sold me out.
Frankly.
Such things were all too common in the workplace.
But he hadn’t expected to encounter such a thing even after the world was destroyed.
What would happen?
Why didn’t God tell him everything from the beginning?
What was God’s consideration?
Suddenly—
Shen Ye unconsciously looked up.
A white light appeared above his head, slowly unfurling.
It was one word.
“Ultimate.” (最)
—Future keyword!
Lines of glimmering small characters refreshed wildly:
“You successfully completed the feat of destroying the historical fragment of the Holy Tower as a team, therefore the future keyword should have been obtained by your team.”
“Given your team’s internal agreement, Hera obtained the future keyword alone.”
“At the crossroads of fate, you chose to respect each other’s choices, while Hera chose to betray her former teammate after going her separate ways.”
“Your actions were observed by the keyword.”
“The keyword decided to split into two.”
“Congratulations.”
“You obtained the ‘Ultimate’ that you should have obtained, and Hera kept the ‘Victory’.”
“Your future keyword ‘Ultimate’ is highly compatible with ‘Saint Chant Diva’; they are currently interacting.”
“Please make sure they unite!”
Shen Ye slowly raised a hand and rubbed his forehead.
He had misunderstood.
So this was what God meant—
God must have believed that the keyword formed by the fusion of “Ultimate” and “Saint Chant Diva” would definitely be stronger than Hera’s solitary “Victory”!
Then the question was—
Should he let them unite?
Yes!
(End of chapter)
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