The Truth!

"How is this possible?"

"The Thread of Destiny is invisible and intangible; how can it be severed?"

To be honest, Meng Qing was really shocked. He hadn't expected the God-Slaying Spear to be able to do this.

However, it was pretty much as Meng Qing had predicted: 009's strength lay not in him personally, but solely in that God-Slaying Spear.

In other words, no matter who it is, as long as they have that gun, they can be as unstoppable as 009.

However, severing the Thread of Destiny doesn't seem to be entirely due to the God-Slaying Spear; the real key lies in Arthur's Absolute Trait.

Whoosh!

Just then, the God-Slaying Spear suddenly burst out of the black mist and headed straight for Meng Qing!

Meng Qing suddenly turned his head to the side, and the God-Slaying Spear brushed past him.

009 emerged from the black mist, then with a wave of his hand, the God-Slaying Spear immediately spun back into his hand.

"Just now, I suddenly remembered something. Seth, I know who you are!"

"The only member of the Right Hand Unit who went missing back then!"

"I might not remember other people's names, but I know yours. Can you guess how I know?"

"Qin Leng really thinks highly of you."

"In the Nine-Tailed Fox base, I found a document detailing the entire process of the battle to seal the Sea King. It was the original record, with no names covered up and no secrecy maintained."

"The manuscript was in the second drawer of Qin Leng's office, along with... a suicide note."

"Qin Leng has actually already written a will for himself. I can't help but praise him. He really knows his own limitations."

"But that's not important, Seth. Why don't you guess what was written in that suicide note?"

"Meng Qing, can the future of the Nine-Tailed Fox be entrusted to you?"

"Haha, I did make a point of looking for someone named Meng Qing afterwards."

"At the time, your comrades who betrayed you all said they didn't know where you went; you disappeared during the collective retreat."

"At that time, I thought you were dead, so I stopped looking for you."

"Looking back now, it turns out you joined the Hand of the Serpent."

"Yes, I should have thought of that sooner. You are the only one in the Hand of the Serpent who knows magic. Nairasojin also said that you might be the right hand member who went missing back then."

"Poor Qin Leng also thought you were dead. You were supposed to be the next leader of the Nine-Tailed Fox, but you became the leader of the Nine-Tailed Fox's enemy. How interesting!"

For some reason, after hearing 009's words, Meng Qing was unusually calm, even eerily calm.

He raised his right hand, grabbed the mask on his face, and slowly removed it, revealing the face of the young man behind the mask.

"Living... is so difficult."

"I have never thought that this world is so wonderful, nor do I think that being born into this world is an honor."

"For me, who had just come into this world, simply surviving had already taken all my strength."

"I dare not hope for too much; just being alive is already a great honor."

"I am terrified of this world, terrified of everything here, and even after becoming a sequence, this chilling fear has not lessened in the slightest."

"I put on this mask to escape."

"Even though I have reached this level, I am still afraid. I am afraid that one day I will be killed by someone stronger than me."

"I'm afraid of being forgotten, and even more afraid of being erased one day."

Even now, I dare not relax my guard in the slightest.

"I fight, I scheme, I plot, and everything I do is for one thing: to live."

"This world is cruel. Life can end in the blink of an eye. The deaths of tens of millions or hundreds of millions of people have become a number that is easily dismissed."

"Perhaps one day, you and I will be among these numbers."

"I know that from the moment this string of numbers appeared, life and death lost their meaning, so in order to survive, there's nothing shameful about taking as many lives as possible, right?"

"That's what I tell myself."

"But when I actually made up my mind to do it, I hesitated."

"What they see are just descriptions, but what I see are living, breathing people. Life is not just two words; it is something that cannot be fully described in a thousand words."

"I have two voices in my mind, one holding fast to my conscience, and the other only thinking about survival."

"In the end, the desire to survive overwhelmed everything. I used your plan to kill Bai Ye, helped Li Yuan corrupt the entire world, and even made the Nine-Tailed Fox his tool."

"I don't care whether it's right or wrong, I just chose the path I believe is right."

"No, perhaps there is a problem with what I said. When it comes to survival, there is no right or wrong from the very beginning."

"There is nothing wrong with wanting to live, and there is nothing wrong with wanting to die. The desire to live and the desire to survive need no reason, and this time is no different."

"As long as I can survive, I don't care who I kill or how many I kill."

009 sneered, "You're quite fond of talking to yourself, aren't you? Say things like that after you beat me!"

Meng Qing laughed, then put his mask back on. "These kinds of things should indeed be said after we've won, but what if I said you have absolutely no chance of winning?"

After collaborating with Starry Sky Principal, Meng Qing accomplished a terrifying feat that no one has ever achieved before.

He used the Magic Web to create mages capable of using fifth-order magic.

Currently, it seems that only Mystra can deploy fifth-tier attacks on the battlefield, because she is the only one at the sixth tier.

Then, to everyone's astonishment, a huge portal appeared in the sky above the battlefield, and a white-robed mage slowly walked out of the portal.

He is currently the only mage who can borrow fifth-tier power from the Magic Web.

The white-robed mage raised his right hand, and the heavens and earth suddenly began to tremble. An extremely terrifying aura emanated from the sky!

A pure and thick blue energy beam descended from heaven to earth, seemingly about to destroy everything on the ground!

This scene was incredibly shocking; everything on the ground became dim and lifeless!

That was a magical attack that surpassed the peak of the fourth rank; apart from certain sequences, almost no one could withstand it!

009 also lost his temper upon seeing this.

If this attack lands, the entire battlefield below will be wiped out!

He should rush forward immediately and use the God-Slaying Spear and Absolute Sever to cut through that attack!

But, is it too late?

Will Arthur's body be instantly destroyed by that energy?

Even if it doesn't annihilate, if the split energy merely blasts towards the ground in two streams, it won't solve anything. Arthur, Centaur, and the others will all die...

009 gritted its teeth and burst out of Arthur's body, then merged into Adolf's body, facing the energy directly!

He didn't want to think anymore!

"Being timid and hesitant is not my style, I don't care what rank he is!!"

Just as 009 charged toward the magical pillar of light with the God-Slaying Spear, a loud bang suddenly came from the sky!

Boom!

What happened in that instant, 009 doesn't know.

But Meng Qing could see it clearly: purple light covered the heavens and the earth, and countless cracks filled the entire sky.

However, the fifth-tier attack did not occur, not because 009 blocked it, nor for any other reason.

Instead, the Magic Web collapsed.

Purple light instantly covered the entire sky above the planet!

The sky looked like glass had cracked, with cracks spreading from the sky to the ground and even to every corner of the world!

The Magic Web collapsed, and everything supported by Magic Web crumbled in an instant!

One after another, the mages flying in the sky fell to the ground, and even the huge sky fortresses fell one after another.

"What... happened?"