"You're afraid of the Supreme Key—no, it's the 'Will' that fears it." Chen Rui's anger and despair suddenly vanished, replaced by an unprecedented calm. "From the very beginning of the battle, once you determined that you couldn't kill me directly, you were guiding me toward using this trump card. Did you want me to use it 'ahead of time'? Or is there... some special means here to restrain it?"
Quiliana's blood-red pupils contracted slightly, while Chen Rui's voice grew ever calmer. "If I'm not mistaken, those 'corpses' had actually already 'awakened' before I arrived, not when the Book of Creation and the Book of Destruction rose into the sky! But their powers had yet to revive. Just as you said before, sacrificing all life in the main plane to create some so-called 'new order'—that was the price required for their revival. The Book of Creation and the Book of Destruction must also be a crucial part of it. That's why, in the battle at the White Sea, you would rather suffer severe injuries than give up taking them away."
Looking at Quiliana, whose eyes were now brimming with violent fury, Chen Rui knew that even if he had not guessed everything correctly, he could not be far off. "During the battle in which the Demon Realm sealed the gate of two worlds, the reason you never appeared wasn't because you hadn't recovered from your injuries, but because it had something to do with the recovery of the 'Will.' That was why the Surface World had been transformed into this state. Of course, in your eyes, we had already lost the Book of Destruction and the Book of Creation then. Soth** and Dillosro alone would have been enough to destroy everything. Just now, you released the Book of Creation and the