Urged on by his little sister, Bai Jiacao, Meng Chao woke up.
Through the sulfur-scented air and the leaden clouds that blotted out the sky, baring their fangs and claws as though ten thousand volcanoes had erupted at once, he realized he had returned to the Ancient Battlefield.
The scene before him was almost identical to the dying memories of Mother Body 01 that he had read in the Monster Civilization Ultimate Nest within the Mist Hidden Forbidden Zone, through "memory cell interfacing."
It seemed this was what Mother Body 02—Original Mother, the second Chaos Egg—was trying to force into him.
Only, his perspective had been split in two.
The first perspective still came from the Mother Body's point of view, looking up from the ground and charging at the sky.
The second perspective, however, seemed to belong to the "ancients"—ancients high above the atmosphere, within synchronous orbital space stations—looking down from on high upon the land, upon this planet Earthlings called the Otherworld.
This perspective was grander, more magnificent, and far more abstract.
It also brought Meng Chao an astronomical amount of entirely new information.
Meng Chao observed quietly and pondered in silence.
It seemed that, at the final moment, Original Mother had exhausted all her life essence in an attempt to launch an unprecedented soul assault upon his and the Wolf King's brain domains, turning both of them completely into her puppets.
However, he had already injected massive quantities of neural Inhibitory Agent into her body, and at the very end, had injected even the last third of "Hope" into her as well.
Moreover, the depths of his and the Wolf King's souls contained an inexplicable, profoundly mysterious power like the Flames of Doomsday.
Thus, Original Mother's desperate gamble had failed.
She had been unable to completely subdue