It must have been related to how she fell in the first place.
Marvin remembered that Ivan had a fragment of Truth. If that Truth fragment had been used in the 3rd era, then someone would have successfully ascended to Godhood and replaced the Ancient Goddess of Truth.
And the actual Goddess of Truth might have continued reincarnating with that curse.
Paladin Griffin would have kept following her, and unless a special opportunity showed itself, the two would have continued that endless cycle until the end of the Universe.
But the Wilderness God’s resurrection broke that curse.
When she left the Crimson Wasteland, she said she would be looking for an “old friend”. Marvin understood what she meant.
She would definitely be looking for the culprit who had set her up.
‘Did she find that “old friend” in the end?’
…
Marvin thought of many things in those few seconds.
But deep inside, he was feeling very grateful for the Truth Goddess’ aid.
Her appearance there, helping Marvin to kill Glynos, was like a protective charm.
The Truth Goddess had an extremely special position in the Astral Sea. If she wanted to protect Marvin, there might not be a single entity in the Astral Sea that would dare to move against him openly.
If they did try something, they would have to do it covertly.
This would be very helpful for Marvin’s development.
The Truth Goddess didn’t come here just to pass judgement on Glynos. Her very resurrection was a deviation from the game’s timeline.
Her appearance might change the entire state of Feinan and the Universe.
As Marvin stood there watching the Truth Scale swallow Glynos’ Divine Source, he felt a bit of regret.
If he could absorb all of that Divine Source, the advanced False Divine Vessel might have upgraded again!
But he knew that now wasn’t the time to be greedy. If the Truth Goddess hadn’t come to help him, he could have ended up in a very difficult situation.
Moreover, he would have had to be wary of Glynos’ designs against him.
Marvin understood the Shadow Prince’s nature the most: he was sneaky, ruthless, and patient. This was the reason that he could become one of the most frightening Assassins of the 3rd Era.
By killing the Shadow Prince, he eliminated a threat and received a lot of Comprehension. This was already very worthwhile.
As for the Divine Source, Marvin put it out of his mind.
…
The radiance of the Truth Scale gradually dimmed.
Sure enough, after the Truth Goddess punished Glynos, she didn’t leave immediately. Instead, she drew closer to Marvin.
“Respected Truth Goddess…”
Marvin felt a bit awkward, not knowing how to address her.
“Like I said before, calling me Molly is fine.”
After the golden light dissipated, the Truth Goddess didn’t seem as awe-inspiring as before, looking like an ordinary little girl.
Griffin followed behind her and nodded toward Marvin with a smile.
“Okay, Molly…” Marvin wouldn’t argue with her on that.
After all, his relationship with the Goddess of Truth when she had been in her mortal body could be considered to rather good. He also wasn’t one to put Gods onto a pedestal, so calling her by her name suited him just fine.
“I have some matters to discuss with you.”
“You might be interested.”
Molly took back her Truth Scale and gave Marvin a serious look. “Interested in coming to my God Realm?”
She didn’t restrain her voice while uttering this sentence.
In the entire Universe, all those who were aware of the fight that just took place were able to hear this.
Despite them being on the side of the Universe and being in an intense fight, the Gods still shuddered internally upon hearing that invitation.
Marvin froze.
The Truth Goddess invited him to her God Realm?
How could he refuse such a good thing?
This was the best time to intimidate others with powerful back-up.
If the Truth Goddess wanted to get rid of him, Marvin definitely wouldn’t be able to escape. Her actions showed that there was something very important she wanted to ask him.
Marvin nodded in agreement.
Molly immediately opened a dazzling golden door, and the three of them went in.
…
The Truth Goddess’ God Realm was very simple. Because it had been abandoned for so many years, it didn’t have any inhabitants, just her and Griffin.
She entered a gorgeous palace and hinted Marvin to follow.
“After reviving this time, I sought out many people and found out that the world is now very different from its state before my fall.”
She softly told Marvin, “I personally went to Feinan.”
Marvin immediately opened his eyes wide.
The Truth Goddess went to Feinan!?
How?
She didn’t mention sending an avatar… How could she go in person with the Universe Magic Pool’s restriction? Could she have gone after it shattered? That also seemed wrong. For now, the Gods were still unable to enter Feinan.
Marvin was puzzled.
Molly gave him a warm smile. “I took a trip to Thousand Leaves Forest and borrowed something from the Elven King.”
After saying that, her wrist flickered and a familiar fragment appeared in his hands.
The Truth Fragment!
Marvin immediately understood that the Elven King she referred to should be Ivan.
That Truth Fragment in her hands showed that she had indeed been to Feinan.
“Someone caused that situation in the past and didn’t wish for my resurrection, resulting in that Truth Fragment.”
Molly looked closely at Marvin and asked, “You are the one he chose, so I hope you can explain something to me.”
“Why does Lance want me dead?”
In an instant, Marvin only felt coldness.
The eyes of the Goddess of Truth were filled with a divine might!
Chapter 636: Terrifying Game (1)
Chapter 636: Terrifying Game (1)
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The Truth Goddess’ question frightened Marvin.
Even though the hermit in the Underdark had hinted at something unspeakable when Marvin went to borrow the Demon Subduing Sword, Marvin hadn’t felt too concerned about it at the time.
He felt that whatever the case, he only needed to become strong enough in order to be able to solve any problems thrown at him.
But with the Truth Goddess herself standing in front of him and telling him that Lance had schemed against her, how could he not be shocked?
“To be honest… I have no idea.”
Marvin felt like his brain was going to explode!
He instinctively drew on the Wisdom power.
When Marvin encountered difficult situations or doubts, this ability would be activated on its own. But even this ability had its limits.
Whenever the name “Lance” appeared in Marvin’s mind, the ability from his Wisdom power would suddenly stop working.
He suddenly paled!
Clearly, the Wisdom ability wasn’t omnipotent. It was like a Wizard using Divination to find traces of Gods, it might bite him back!
Lance was Feinan’s God of Creation, after all!
…
“Looks like you really don’t know.”
Molly was silent for a moment as she looked at Marvin with a strange expression. “You are really someone from another world?”
Marvin remained silent.
He didn’t know how he should answer that question.
Admit it? Or deny it?
Something like transmigration might be hard to accept even for Gods. But it seemed that the most powerful ones already knew about the matter of Lance choosin
g him.
Fortunately, the Goddess of Truth didn’t linger on this question. She thought for a while before slowly saying, “My resurrection might disrupt some people’s plans, but you are the one he chose, truly interesting.”
“Although telling you the truth now might be a bit cruel and too early, you aren’t strong enough yet, and I think you have the right to know.”
“The most important thing is, which side do you want to stand on?”
‘Which side?’
Marvin felt baffled.
He only wanted to keep on living, protecting what he held dear, making up for his previous life’s regrets, and becoming a true hero.
So he was always tirelessly running, leaving his mark in important events all over Feinan.
He didn’t even have time to think about the deeper meaning of his transmigration.
But being ignorant of the facts wouldn’t let him escape them.
The chance encounter with Lance in his dreams should already have made him suspicious.
He thought and took a deep breath before asking, “What are you trying to tell me?”
The Goddess of Truth sighed and gave Marvin a look of pity before saying, “If I say that this world’s God of Creation, Lance, wants to destroy it, would you believe it?”
Marvin opened his mouth wide open.
…
In the God Realm of Truth, time was frozen.
Marvin had ample time to digest the information that the Truth Goddess had just given him.
After hearing the story, his mood was extremely grave.
He finally understood why she had insisted on inviting him to her God Realm before speaking of this.
The crux of the matter was too terrifying.
Wizard God Lance!
The man revered as the Supreme God in all of Feinan… actually wanted to destroy this world?
If someone else said that, Marvin would definitely think they were crazy.
But it was the Truth Goddess…
Marvin sank into a long silence.
He thought back over the story recounted by the Truth Goddess:
“After resurrecting, I immediately went looking for some old friends.”
“But sadly, I discovered that except for Faniya, the Ancient Gods of my generation had all disappeared. I couldn’t find them. And Lance’s disappearance was the most thorough. It was as if all of this happened at the same time!”
“I kept searching and gathered some clues, eventually managing to discover the root of the matter.”
“The core of that issue lay in the 3rd Era and the three Fate Tablets.”
…
Fate Tablets.
They had played a critical role in Feinan’s history.
According to the Truth Goddess, the Fate Tablets, like the Universe Magic Pool, were created by the God of Creation, Lance!
They had no actual relation to the Plane Will!
It was actually the Wizard God who, by relying on his own understanding of all kinds of Domains in this world, created the tablets, giving ordinary lifeforms the chance to ascend to Godhood.
From that point of view, the 3rd Era’s New Gods were all man-made!
These Gods were all supported by Lance.
The difference between New Gods and Ancient Gods was pretty simple: The Ancient Gods all originated from the Plane Will or through gathering enough blessings in the ancient era.
And the New Gods were a group of Gods created by Lance.
The Truth Goddess believed that Lance was supporting the New Gods in order to replace the Ancient Gods’ positions.
The Astral Sea’s authority was now in the hands of the three Great Gods.
Perhaps they didn’t know, but the New Gods were definitely Lance’s chess pieces.
This was just one step.
The second step was to guide the desires of the lifeforms of this Universe.
The Ancient Gods didn’t have too many desires. They had a natural feeling of belonging to Feinan because they themselves had resulted from the Plane Will.
But the New Gods were different. They were Humans, or other lifeforms, who evolved into something greater. They were full of great worldly desires.
They wanted to break through, they wanted to reach a higher level of strength, they wanted to escape from this cage.
Thus, they were destroying the current order.
This was something that Lance had wanted.
Because in all of Feinan, the one who wanted to see the collapse of the Universe the most was actually the Wizard God Lance himself!
…
“But… how does Lance benefit from the destruction of this Universe?”
Marvin already felt that what he had heard up to now was the truth.
But he still put forward his own doubts.
The Goddess of Truth calmly explained, “He had been wanting to escape this prison for a long time.”
“You feel like this is a very beautiful world, but to him, it is actually a web of shackles. He is Feinan’s God of Creation, thus, his body has Feinan’s unerasable mark. That mark makes him omnipotent in this Universe, but it’s also a rope tying him here.”
“He yearns for something greater. He might have already seen the edge of the world, and if he could, he would have left… I believe that long ago, he already sent his friends to that world. He is the only one remaining now, and he has always been itching to leave.”
“And the only way to leave is to destroy this world.”
Marvin gave his head a quick shake as he asked a follow-up question. “He is the God of Creation, so shouldn’t it be easy for him to destroy this world?”
The Truth Goddess shook her head. “It’s not that easy;”
“This involves a game between Lance and Feinan’s Plane Will.”
Chapter 637: Terrifying Game (2)
Chapter 637: Terrifying Game (2)
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A game?
Marvin would never have thought that Feinan’s God of Creation and Feinan’s Plane Will were having some sort of hidden battle.
The Truth Goddess’ words undoubtedly opened a new door for him, opening his eyes to let him glance at the battle at the top.
That’s right, this was a game.
Based the Truth Goddess’ deduction, the missing Lance actually hadn’t left this world.
He should still be hiding somewhere, observing all the changes and events that took place, and secretly giving a little nudge when he felt it necessary.
The Great Calamity had been pushed ahead by Lance himself. The Lance in Marvin’s dream seemed to have admitted to it.
This information made Marvin’s reverence for the God of Creation drop by quite a bit.
So in order to get away from this world, he was willing to cause the deaths of all of those living in Feinan?
That kind of God… even if he once created this world, even if he once carried great reverence and respect, was he still worthy of Feinan’s respect and reverence now?
Marvin didn’t doubt the words of the Truth Goddess.
As the wielder of Truth, she couldn’t and also didn’t need to lie about such things.
And what kinds of benefits would she gain from lying to Marvin?
Anyways, that game should have been ongoing for a very long time.
The Ancient Gods had fallen due to Lance slowly moving his plans forward, and the 3rd Era was the most important node.
The Truth Goddess inferred from a Divination that Lance’s closest partner, Eternal Time Dragon Bacon, disappeared in the 3rd Era.
She keenly noticed that there were many anomalies in that time period.
Although these anomalies were seamlessly connected, to a God of her level, they were very obvious.
In other words, time had been tampered with many times starting from the 3rd Era.
In the entire Universe, only Lance could do this with the help of Bacon!
“What do you me
an, it happened countless times after that era?”
Marvin was dumbstruck. Somehow, he did not want to believe the conclusions drawn by the Truth Goddess, despite instinctively feeling that they were correct.
“I wouldn’t go so far as to say countless, but this definitely wasn’t the first time the Universe Magic Pool shattered.”
The Truth Goddess looked at back at Marvin and muttered, “Although this is only my deduction, my intuition tells me that I’m not wrong.”
Marvin remained silent.
He felt like his head was about to explode.
The Truth Goddess’ words completely toppled his worldview. She was telling him that the source of all this disaster, this world’s bringer of chaos, the final Boss behind the scenes… it was all actually the one who led him to this world, the one who gave him hope and rebirth, Lance!
At this moment, it seemed to him that he had been manipulated like a chess piece.
He didn’t like this feeling at all.
He thought for a bit, before finally nodding. “Your deduction isn’t wrong. I already witnessed one shattering of the Universe Magic Pool.”
Marvin’s words naturally referred to the game, Feinan Continent, from back on Earth!
The game in his previous life had seemed so real, how could it be just a game?
In the game, the players entered Feinan half a year after the Great Calamity. The Gods entered Feinan and fought over its territories, while the players fought for the freedom of mankind.
It could be assumed that the anomalies were due to Lance’s attempt to destroy the world.
Although the Universe Magic Pool was shattered, Lance must have failed.
No, he definitely failed, or else Marvin wouldn’t have transmigrated!
“As expected.”
The Truth Goddess shook her head silently, looking at Marvin with an extremely complicated expression. “In fact, I should kill you.”
Marvin was startled.
Even if there was no killing intent in the Truth Goddess’ voice, that sentence seemed completely natural coming out of her mouth.
However, he soon relaxed.
“But I won’t do that.” Molly massaged her temples as she continued, “You are the one Lance chose, but you aren’t Lance. It would be meaningless for you to be punished on his behalf. On the contrary, your actions seem very different from Lance’s expectations.”
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