080: A Gift for Grina (Part 2)

"Los Angeles. It sounds like some backwater mountain village, but it was territory the demons seized from the Secret, after all. It's worth a visit."

Grina made up her mind. "How about this? Once I'm back from my visit to the Void, we'll go to Earth."

"No need, dear. I'm heading to the Abyss of Cycles soon too."

"You? Have you lost your mind? The war between Purgatory and the Void only settled down thirty years ago. If you march openly into the Abyss of Cycles now, won't those fanatical nihilists tear you apart alive?"

"Don't worry. The Void has its own troubles to deal with—did you know that not long ago, they lost a Void Overlord?"

"An Overlord?" Grina raised a brow. "That's truly rare... Anyone who reaches the level of Overlord is exceptional talent."

"They start cultivating them from childhood, selecting one child in tens of millions—the ones with the greatest sensitivity and aptitude for philosophy—then sending them to the Grammar Seminary to become Void Acolytes."

"An acolyte must devote at least twenty years to ascetic study of nihilism. Then senior philosophers arrange for them to endure hardship and taste every kind of suffering. Only then can they advance into Void Observers."

"The Twilight Calendar Society takes in Void Observers. Guided and assisted by the Void's tendrils, they personally nurture a civilization, then watch helplessly as it gradually marches toward its end once external intervention is removed—when a civilization declines and dies, its memories and years merge into that observer's Path."

"Only at that point can a qualified Overlord be considered complete. To be honest, after reaching that stage, an ordinary Overlord has already attained a state where the Void's domain cannot be broken and they themselves cannot perish. It is precisely that overwhelmingly powerful immortality that makes