Beating Instances through Words Left by the Dead

Chapter 745 - 333: Extraordinary Is the Abyss?

Yesterday, when a foreign merchant ship docked to request supplies, the captain claimed to have just returned from the Capital of the Ogre Kingdom.

According to him, the Ogre Kingdom is now in chaos because a few evenings ago, all the statues of the Great Saint Mother in the Divine Halls collectively shattered, and since then, no matter how hard they pray, the Great Saint Mother no longer responds to her followers.

This plunged the entire Ogre Kingdom into despair, as they believe they have been abandoned by God, and the Ogre Kingdom has become a godforsaken land.

The anger of the followers was directed at the Church and the Kingdom, suspecting that it was their offense to God that brought about this disaster.

Under the instigation of certain individuals, the Capital of the Ogre Kingdom almost erupted into a riot.

Had it not been for the Pope receiving a response from the Saintess during his prayer, who then performed a miracle to calm the followers’ anger, things would have become unmanageable.

Calculating from the time mentioned by the captain, the collapse of the Great Saint Mother’s statues coincided exactly with her departure.

The moment he received the news, Wu Chang knew he and Erin should take a trip to the Capital of the Ogre Kingdom.

The legacy left by the Great Saint Mother for Erin not only included the seeds of two abilities but also seemed to contain other valuable things.

For instance, the entire Ogre National Church.

Wu Chang and Erin first arrived at the port next to Briff, and took a ship to the Capital of the Ogre Kingdom.

The ship sailed for ten days, during which Wu Chang gained a basic understanding of the World Dungeon Plane through conversations with passengers and the kingdom’s newspapers received at each docking for supplies.

In the Abyss Fourth Layer, determining which layer of the Abyss a plane is on, and whether it meets the criteria for Plane Ascension, the most crucial factor is the spread of Extraordinary Abilities within the plane.

Individual high combat strength alone will not lead to a plane’s ascension.

For instance, the Peaceful Town Dungeon, whether it be Count Jermaine or Gelman, the Archbishop whose dual magic in the Bright Space has reached Master Level, or the Great Saint Mother with her secretly brought-down Holy Mark.

If allowed to exert their strengths, they all possess the power of an A-Level Dungeon, but this does not affect the Peaceful Town Dungeon being merely a C-Level Dungeon, far from achieving Plane Ascension.

The reason lies in the lack of widespread Extraordinary Abilities.

In the Ogre Kingdom, whether it is Mysticism, Alchemy, or Magic, they are all controlled by the top layer of nobility, and most common people, in their everyday lives, have no access to Magic.

The Peaceful Town managed to become a C-Level Dungeon only because Count Jermaine inflicted most of the townspeople with the fishman curse, increasing the spread of Mysticism.

If this area was centered in the Capital of the Ogre Kingdom, the spread of Extraordinary Abilities there wouldn’t even support an E-Level Dungeon.

But the awakening of the Master of the Deep Sea broke the Peaceful Town plane’s pattern.

The return of the Master of the Deep Sea with the Lost Continent and the Deep Sea Race caused the plane to directly begin Ascension, and after the Master’s death, the Ascension was interrupted, but it did not revert to the original state. Instead, it maintained the Pillar of the Present World status.

In the Pillar of the Present World status, the Ogre Kingdom’s research into Mysticism surged dramatically, and during the ten-day sea journey, at almost every docking, there were significant breakthroughs in the Ogre Kingdom’s Mysticism.

Clearly, this is not a coincidence. It seems more like the Master of the Deep Sea raised the plane’s upper limit, prompting the plane to match the rank of the Pillar of the Present World by accelerating the spread of the Extraordinary.

In a daze, Wu Chang suddenly understood why it is called the Abyss.

Once a plane begins to undergo an Extraordinary Transformation, the extraordinary will only expand, not contract. Even if all the elements that triggered the Ascension disappear, the plane will still find a way to restore itself to the state of ascension to fill the void.

Isn’t the process of Extraordinary Transformation akin to the process of falling into the Abyss? Once fallen, you can only fall deeper, unable to ascend.

Even the records in the Management Bureau mentioned that planes only ascend from the Desolate Realm to the Realm of Reason, and they’ve never heard of a plane in the Realm of Reason devolving back to the Desolate Realm.

Does the extraordinary truly signify evolution?

When he connected the plane’s extraordinary transformation with falling into the Abyss, his heart suddenly skipped a beat.

He recalled that as the World Dungeon drew near, the number of Wild Transcendents in reality was gradually increasing, and the control over public opinion by the Four Major Organizations had decreased, even beginning to let go.

Many people had already started to know about and spread information about Transcendents.

Isn’t this the Extraordinary Transformation of the plane?

If this continues, will reality sink into the Abyss, or do the countless planes in the Abyssal Game contain planes that were once chosen by the Abyssal Game?

Could the previous blockade of the existence of the Extraordinary by the Four Major Organizations have been to prevent this situation from happening?

Wu Chang shivered, feeling that if he dug deeper, he would touch on some secrets he was still unable to reach.

He shook his head, casting aside his chaotic thoughts, and walked out of the cabin to the deck to catch the wind and calm his chaotic mind.

He looked into the distance, where a faint black line at the sea’s horizon could already be seen.

That was their destination, the Ogre Royal Port.

As the ship docked, Wu Chang and Erin blended into the crowd and entered the Royal City of Ogre.

The two of them didn’t need to worry about living in the Royal City. While in other planes, it was Wu Chang leading Erin around, in Ogre, Erin was genuinely a native of the old Royal City.

Starting from the time when the Man-Made God Plan failed and she was instead enshrined as the Saintess, she began preaching throughout the streets and alleys of the Royal City.

According to Erin, Wu Chang could randomly mark a point on the map, and she could lead him there with her eyes closed.