All Signs Point to a Monumental Screw-Up...

Chapter 48: All Signs Point to a Suicidal Move

The sudden mention of the River Styx Blood Oath caused everyone's expressions to change.

If the oath were broken, their souls would be eternally drowned in the River Styx, losing the chance for reincarnation.

Thus, the River Styx Blood Oath was already considered a very solemn vow.

But seeing Li Wei's equally flustered and unsightly expression, they knew that the thing that had appeared before them was terrifying beyond measure. If it were exposed, they would likely be silenced.

Concerned for their lives, Tiger and Fischer exchanged glances. Naturally, they dared not be careless and immediately sent out waves of the River Styx Blood Oath.

However, this still did not ease Li Wei's mind in the slightest. It wasn't that he couldn't trust his subordinates, but rather that even the River Styx Blood Oath had loopholes.

Li Wei knew that Yeg, the ancient god who originally ruled the River Styx, had, three thousand years ago, grown tired of his unchanging duties. He had playfully divided his divine position among three ambitious individuals and then disappeared to some corner of the Multiverse to enjoy his retirement.

It was also after that that the divine authority of death was split into three, and at the same time, three powerful deities were born from Coriel:

The God of Strife: Bane.

The God of the Dead: Milko.

The God of Murder: Baal.

Bane couldn't interfere with the Underworld, but Milko was in charge of the divine authority of death, and the God of Murder was known as the ferryman who sent living beings into the River Styx.

Although these three fellows were basically just holding their positions without doing any real work, and usually spent all their energy causing trouble in the Material Plane, completely uninterested in monitoring the tens of thousands of River Styx oaths every day, one still had to be cautious.

As for why he didn't ask Landis, the Scales of Justice, who governed balance and justice, to be a witness?

Wasn't that like an old man with a long life trying to hang himself? Although this old dragon's witnessing mechanism was more like a public system for court litigation, with Li Wei's pure Silver Dragon lineage, who knew if this old fellow would take a peek during his leisure time? Oh, then it would be game over.

He was trying to keep a secret, only for it to be discovered by a dragon. Although this Dragon, after igniting his divine fire, was no longer as concerned with mortal things other than treasure, if he suddenly saw the item in front of Li Wei, even if he, being lawful neutral, wouldn't have murderous intent, he would likely report it to Bahamut, the Platinum Dragon God, to maintain his duties. The result would still be a BAD END.

Choosing the lesser of two evils, the River Styx Blood Oath was actually a more moderate and stable choice because there was no god overseeing the oath, only its operational mechanism.

But this still couldn't prevent one situation from occurring: if they were traced back through time by powerful spellcasters or even deities using divination, they could still find the truth.

'No, I'll have to find a professional later to add a Mind Lock to their consciousness or erase it directly. Otherwise, it's hard to guarantee there won't be problems in the future.'

Some people might wonder why Li Wei was so nervous.

Could he not be nervous?

The reason he was so nervous and determined to secure this place was that he was already in a precarious situation. Once any deity learned of this, he would be silenced without a doubt.

He even vaguely regretted why he had let these guys dig so deep while mining.

If that thing was truly the kind of existence mentioned in the trash heap of his Soul Space, then it would be a huge problem.

Because according to the records, this thing's presence has appeared in many universes, such as:

In the Warhammer Universe, it is called a Star God.

Star Gods are creatures found by the Necrons to deal with the Old Ones. They are perhaps the oldest creatures in the galaxy, and some later speculated they were a BUG program the Creator forgot to delete after creating the universe.

They exist in a non-corporeal state, feeding on stellar energy, and can easily manipulate and alter universal laws. The Necrons call them Star Gods and, in exchange for shaping physical bodies for the Star Gods and eternal obedience, received the power granted by the Star Gods—immortality.

The result is the Necrons that later humans see. This is an eternal and painful curse, both for the Necrons themselves and for other beings in the universe!

After being modified by the Star Gods, the Necrons became tireless, emotionless machines. Under the command of the Star Gods, they launched an attack against the Old Ones, which is the War in Heaven later recounted by the Eldar.

A super war that swept the galaxy erupted between the Old Ones and the Star Gods. However, the Old Ones were repeatedly defeated. To salvage the situation, they created the Eldar and the Orks.

Due to the Old Ones' excessive use of Warp energy and the countless sacrifices in the War in Heaven, the Warp experienced immense fluctuations, giving birth to the Chaos Gods.

This brutal war led to the demise of the Old Ones. However, afterward, the Star Gods, provoked by the Deceiver, fell into internal conflict. They devoured each other, and in the end, only four survived:

Nightbringer, Deceiver, C'tan, and Void Dragon.

Even with only four remaining, they were still incredibly powerful beings.

The most direct example is Nightbringer, the leader of the Star Gods. For some unknown malicious whim, he directly imposed the emotional DEBUFF of fear on all beings in the universe, making the entire tone of the Warhammer Universe dark and despairing.

The weakest among them, the Void Dragon, was later shattered by a design by the Necrons.

One fragment directly destroyed a Necron dynasty and over a dozen planets.

Another fragment may have visited Earth, which only had a backward civilization at the time, and was heavily wounded by the Emperor of Mankind. It hid in the "Labyrinth of Night" beneath Mars, and is highly likely to be the machine god worshipped by later Adeptus Mechanicus.

Coincidentally, in Li Wei's previous life, Blue Star also seemed to have records of similar existences.

That would be the Celestials in the Marvel World.

Yes, those beings that can arbitrarily modify any setting, logic, or concept. They visited Earth four times, created humans, and during their third visit, they soundly defeated the Norse gods, the Olympian gods, and countless other chaotic deities, making the gods dare not show themselves and interfere in human affairs again.

Even more coincidentally, Li Wei found similar existences in his Dragon inheritance knowledge.

That was in the primitive, ancient era, a colonial system sent by an alien civilization called Saurtha to the Coriel World—the Ancient Evil, the Saurtha God-Soldier!

For some reason, this colonial system sent by an alien civilization seemed to feel that the Coriel World was not suitable for activation upon its arrival. Thus, they entered a long standby state—standing by for tens of thousands of years.

Legend has it that the Saurtha God-Soldier requires a specific type of energy input to activate.

Once activated, the God-Soldiers will immediately begin to "purify" the world.

However, the one rumored to have been unearthed has already been sealed by the combined efforts of the gods, and all its followers have been exterminated.

And finally, in the Soul Space, Li Wei, who was almost tearing his hair out, found another possible record related to them:

In a universe with the serial number 1010176175, there existed beings called the Spirit of the Starry Sky.

The moment these entities appeared in the sight of humans in that world, they completely overturned humanity's worldview. They were beings akin to true deities.

But what also overturned the worldview of all races in the universe was that humans, through some unknown means, had actually captured the Spirit of the Starry Sky!

Furthermore, to restrain their ability to arbitrarily change constants and the underlying logical rules of the universe, humans affixed armor-like restraints onto them. This allowed humans to control them to a certain extent, even when they were dormant, enabling them to alter the entire world according to human will and slaughter their enemies.

From then on, their existence became renowned, and they were named---War Apostles!

No one knew how they achieved this. It was as absurd and ridiculous as the natives of Mount Olympus in the stories of League of Legends, who threatened the Star Forging Dragon King Thor with the stars by offering him a malevolent crown, and actually succeeded in forcing his compromise.

But reality is often more absurd than stories.

Legend has it that to deal with the chaotic invasion born from the origin of the universe, humans in that world drove thirteen War Apostles to herd the stars. They directly forged the Shilong Great Wall, spanning 1.37 billion light-years, using entire star systems to encircle the inner regions of the universe that had already been eroded by chaos. This was also the final defense line for humanity and the star races against the chaotic invasion.

If viewed solely from a three-dimensional perspective, it would merely be a large galaxy cluster. But if elevated to a higher-dimensional viewpoint, the Shilong Great Wall would be a smooth and rounded eggshell.

Just like what Aio shaped---

[Kingdom of the Heavens]!

After reading up to this point in his Soul Space, Li Wei was drenched in cold sweat. If Gnolls had sweat glands...

He was certain that if he continued to read, he would discover more similar existences. But the more he read, the more the thing before him seemed to resemble what was described in this data.

With so many precedents before him, Li Wei dared not be careless, yet his head ached.

This thing was truly a hot potato. You couldn't just throw it away, you could only carefully bury it and wait until you had the ability to explore it cautiously in the future.

To mess with it now? That would be suicide!

If one were to describe it in a way that was easy to understand, this thing was an EVA with a GM-level dog key!

And if it truly was such an existence, then the concept of death simply wouldn't apply!

If any will remained, the mental pollution it would release upon waking could instantly spread across the entire Coriel Continent!

In its presence, the so-called nuclear deterrence was a joke!

Li Wei suddenly seemed to recall something and called out to Tiger, who was about to take his leave.

"Where are the three Orcs who discovered this thing? Didn't you say their mental state seemed to be problematic? Bring them here! Immediately!"