The Final Day (Which Number Was It Again?)

Lin Tong covered his mouth and vomited for a while, then stubbornly forced himself back to his feet.

"I wonder if I count as the last human," Lin Tong said with a self-mocking laugh. The drumming and fluting in his ears left him more confused than ever before.

In the end, he found the information Yang Li had left behind and discovered humanity's contingency plan: a copy of the Necronomicon. This copy was exceptionally complete. On the Final Day, it could be used to travel through the Necronomicon to the Land of the End—the palace at the center of Azathoth's universe.

At that moment, Gresta had also absorbed the ashes left behind by the Man of Light and Shadow and finally understood everything.

At the very beginning, a god created this multiverse. Yet the multiverse was riddled with flaws. Dissatisfied with it, the god attempted several repairs before ultimately leaving the multiverse behind, leaving behind the shell It had inhabited so that this world could continue operating on its own.

That divine shell possessed all of the god's authority within this world. Gradually, it evolved into Azathoth, the Lord of All Things. Since the god had already departed, Azathoth was a god that functioned entirely by instinct. At first, Azathoth had not awakened, instead sleeping endlessly within the palace at the center of the universe.

The multiverse gradually spawned all manner of life. Yet it was, after all, a multiverse with countless flaws. As life flourished, defects in the structure of time and space erupted. The multitude of parallel worlds filled the multiverse with contradictions and gaps, leading to the first collapse of the multiverse.

The beings who held partial authority over the universe at the time joined together and carried out a multiverse reconstruction plan. They established the current