”Here it is…” Maximus muttered, looking at the depth of the sea.
The forbidden forest constitutes up to 90 percent of the landmass of the Curse Continent.
A forbidden land even for the Holy Emperors of the past dared not to explore.
In the event of war, this landmass always sank into the sea, disappearing from the world’s sight.
It would only reappear after the holy emperor died and the unification of the Curse Continent was disbanded.
“Valoros, the battle sage…”
“I didn’t expect you to participate in the war you initiated.”
That’s right, Khan, whom he had fought earlier, was somewhat related to Valoros.
After all, who would have a much deeper mastery in the Amalgamation of Will other than the creator?
“Come out! I have something to tell you!” Maximus yelled domineeringly.
Although he didn’t want to fight with a peak apex sovereign, it didn’t mean he was scared.
He had nothing but money, with a myriad world mall; all kinds of tier 10 items were at his fingertips.
To dare to harm his family, one should be ready to face the consequences.
Even if he was a close confidant of Malgron, there was no escaping due punishment.
Soon, the sea boiled, as 90 percent of the continent slowly emerged from the sea.
“What power,” Maximus marveled in amazement.
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To control it with just raw power, Maximus could only say it’s worthy of a peak apex sovereign.
“You called me?” A sound echoed in the sea as colossal pressure descended upon him.
“What a good dog! You came out quickly!” Maximus taunted, resisting the pressure descending upon him.
He had already learned his lesson and didn’t foolishly use the Amalgamation of Will against its creator.
Burning his power of law, he was like a stubborn fire against the sea.
“What a daring young lad,” Valoros finally appeared, looking at Maximus with interest.
To be able to defeat his clone, it could be said that Maximus was already close to his first test subject.
“You! It seems that you are not from this dimension!” Maximus suddenly said in shock.
After scanning Valoros, he noticed elements that shouldn’t exist in the Etherium realm.
Practicing the ‘Origin,’ he was quite sensitive to different energy.
No matter how Valoros had hidden it, it was like a light bulb in the dark.
This discovery also made his body tense, ready to use all he could.
Valoros was also a little shocked, hearing Maximus discovered him.
More importantly, his intuition was eagerly warning him of impending danger.
“Wait, young man, don’t be impulsive!” Valoros hurriedly said.
He didn’t expect an Aborigine from a tier 9 dimension to make him feel danger to this degree.
Although he already knew Maximus possessed some connection with some dimensional merchant, he was still shocked.
Looking at his clone’s memories, it seemed he was killed by a tier 10 poison, preventing any energy beyond the Origin of Law from having any effect.
But Maximus owned one of those hateful transdimensional system.
Thinking of this, everything suddenly made sense.
Maximus’s riseand the Moonlight Empire’s outrageous capabilities—all these illogical events suddenly came together.
Before he could think anything, Maximus’s cold voice, full of killing intent, reached him.
“What happened to the previous Valoros?” Maximus asked, ready to end the man in front of him at any second.
As for the question he asked, it was all a guise to distract him.
He was not interested in whomever; after he killed him, he could find out everything later.
“Relax, I and Valoros are one.”
“I was born and raised in this dimension, and more importantly, I mean no harm.”
“Then die,” Maximus coldly said, seeing Valoros relax.
Releasing a tier 10 sealing treasure, Valoros was shocked and angry.
He had already told Maximus to relax and not be impulsive; he didn’t expect him to still attack him.
As he dodged the sealing treasure, he didn’t notice an attack coming from behind.
Prick~
Suddenly, a pricking sensation hit him in the back.
As he was about to feel angry, his energy suddenly stagnated.
“What did you—”
Before he finished speaking, two needle-like items came flying to him.
Urging his energy, he activated the treasure left by his other body.
Clang!
The two collided, slowly cracking after blocking the attack.
Seeing that he can no longer talk sense to Maximus, he attacked.
“A mare test subject dared to attack me. Die!”
Resisting his numbing sensation, he urged his Origin of Law to attack Maximus.
However, before he could release the attack, another needle-like item came flying at him.
This time, it’s not one or two, but a dozen of them.
With a clear picture, Valoros finally remembered what the needle-like item was.
“A tier 10 divine sealing needle?!” Valoros nearly cursed his mother.
What the heck? What hatred did this brat have with him?
Just one of these needles can only knock out those tier-10 creatures.
Yet Maximus fired a dozen of them?
Under such an attack, his tier 10 barrier disintegrated like paper.
It didn’t even last before he could cast his attack.
It was too fast that a tier 9 body reaction couldn’t keep up.
“Damn!” Valoros cursed in despair as he slowly lost control of his body.
“You could still speak?” Maximus muttered and threw another dozen tier 10 divine sealing needles.
Prick~
Seeing another dozen divine sealing needles felt into him, Valoros already gave up.
His vision, hearing, and all of his senses were blocked.
Even the Origin of Law he was brewing, ready to use, stagnated.
Soon, even his thoughts stopped, as if he was brain dead.
“Tsk, what a waste. This thing is a defective product!” Maximus said in distress.
These divine sealing needles were the most expensive of his trump cards.
Furthermore, they were one-time-use consumables.
He only had a hundred of these; now, only forty remain.
However, seeing Valoros out cold, Maximus smiled in relief.
“This black sheep is finally gone.”
“Let’s see what secrets you are hiding!”
Putting his hand on Valoros’s head, he activated his system.
The Family and Power System is a tier 11 treasure that can search and scan everything.
Digging some memories of some apex sovereign should be no problem.
After a few seconds of his system digging deep into Valoros’s memories, Valoros suddenly exploded.
Maximus felt Valoros’s cause and effect in the Etherium realm suddenly disappear.
Valoros’s battle will, which could be used to resurrect him, dissipated.
Everything about the Valoros seemed to be gone.
“A defense mechanism?” Maximus guessed, seeing the phenomenon.
Fortunately, his system was quite capable and still absorbed a vast amount of memory.
Millions of epochs’ worth of memory should be enough for him to know the origin of Valoros.
“Let’s see,” Maximus urged his system, infusing the memory into his mind.
Soon, huge surges of memory quickly descend, making his head hurt.
Not wanting to die, he hurriedly stopped his system.
“It seemed I still underestimated a powerhouse of memories.”
A memory isn’t just a picture of videos in play.
It combines emotions, insights, everything one senses during memory.
As a tier 9 being, their sense of the world is in a whole other dimension.
Absorbing such raw information is nothing but suicide.
He would probably explode by now if not for his quickness and a little toughness.
“Sort and transfer all key memories,” Maximus ordered.
He only wanted to know Valoros’s main ideas and origin.
As for the rest, he would slowly study it in the future.
This time, the memory infusion was more gentle and precise.
…
A few days later, Maximus slowly opened his eyes, digesting the massive memories.
“Huh~” Maximus breathed, wiping his nonexistent sweat.
He was nearly assimilated by the memories infused into his mind.
If not for the system and being used to accepting massive infusions of different knowledge, he didn’t know if he would still be himself.
“However, this is quite interesting. A clone of a higher being?”
That’s right, even Valoros was just a clone.
This higher being’s goal seemed to be studying, or should he say experimenting.
Valoros’s origin was much more grand than expected.
The Etherium realm, a dimension made up of four massive continents, wasn’t previously like this.
The Arcane Continent, the Nexus Continent, The Divine Continent, and the Beast Continentwere in their own tier 9 dimension, which merged to form the now-known Etherium realm.
This should be the reason for the illogical diversity of the Etherium realm.
There are gods, beasts, magicians, and warriors.
Each has its dimension and culture before merging with each other.
This is also why each continent could accommodate over a thousand apex sovereigns, despite the Etherium Realm’s only 1118 laws.
He had read from the book he bought in the myriad world mall that each law could only be occupied by an apex sovereign.
There could only be one apex sovereign responsible for each law.
However, the Etherium broke this rule, as each continent could have one controlling a law.
The one responsible for merging the four dimensions is Valoros, or should he say another clone of the higher being?
Using a power beyond his imagination, he fused the four dimensions like playdough.
As for the goal, Maximus had no idea.
Valoros died too quickly before he could dig up some more information.
“What a pity.”
Digging up a memory of such a powerhouse was like digging for a gold mountain.
It had all kinds of novel knowledge that he didn’t think of.