"Aha is of course… Oh, wait, THEY are coming!"
Aha suddenly clapped THEIR hands cheerfully, their tone extremely excited as THEY looked toward a certain direction.
Who is coming?
Not only Stelle, but several geniuses also had various guesses flash through their minds.
"Let us first make way for the great THEM — applaud and salute!"
No one knew what Aha meant.
However, a grand procession suddenly began!
Amid the noise and clamor, Stelle discovered that she was being teased by a warm current, being gently watched by tens of thousands of eyes at the same time.
It seemed like an invitation was being issued.
A majestic figure with three aspects descended.
THEIR fingertips stirred up rainbow-colored water ripples. Stelle's emotions were soothed as she wandered among puzzle fragments, multiple faces of modernity, and doctrines.
Stelle suddenly realized that THEY seemed to be embracing her.
She had the feeling of becoming a child of gathered will, longing to obtain more of THEM and embrace THEM…
"Xipe!!"
In Stelle's mind, Herta's shocked voice rang out.
Xipe's two aspects issued different titles.
"Akivili/Trailblaze, is that you? We thought you had died/disappeared."
"Thousands upon thousands of destinies/histories have shaped the universe's growth/trend."
"We almost believed/judged that you had become its nourishment/footnote."
Stelle subconsciously spoke.
"Xipe…! You really do have multiple faces."
The moment the words left her mouth, she regretted saying the wrong thing.
Who doesn't have multiple faces?
Aha opened THEIR voice and began to chatter, but the tone made Stelle feel uncomfortable all over.
"Oh! Mother of the Swarm of Stars!"
"What you want to do is fun enough, even if it's a relay baton game!"
"The situation changes in an instant. Last time we were still negotiating, next time Ena has become you!"
"Pity… my old friend! But Ena makes you look 'better'…"
???
After roughly digesting what she heard here, Stelle felt chills all over after coming back to her senses.
What does it mean that Ena became Xipe?
"Okay, stop!"
Herta intervened, pausing the Simulated Universe and spreading her hands.
"Order being assimilated or rather devoured by Harmony, I'm not surprised about that."
"I just don't know when it happened. The time in the Simulated Universe has never been controlled by the results of dice rolls."
"I can only guess that the disappearance of Order is related to that War of the Gods back then?"
"Sigh, the Family never mentions a word about it. I really wanted to see Ena once, even if THEY are a bit rigid…"
"Oh right, Stelle, if I were to retell this gossip, I would say this:"
"Xipe, Aha, and you got tangled together because of Tayzzyronth!"
Stelle: "Correction: It's not me, it's Akivili."
She pondered Aha's attitude toward Akivili and couldn't help feeling suspicious.
"Why do I feel… from Aha's performance, that Akivili also has a bit of Elation flavor…"
"No way?! The Trailblaze Aeon and the Elation Aeon getting together, just thinking about it is so abstract."
Herta said with great interest: "The possibility isn't zero. Next time I'll ask Himeko what kind of Aeon Akivili was."
Screwllum: "Analysis: Aha claimed everything was to help Ena and invited Akivili to join the game."
"And Ena wanted to eliminate the disaster brought to the universe by Oroboros and Tayzzyronth, already pulling Qlipoth into the game."
"We do not know whether Ena had invited Aha. If not, whether THEY tacitly approved Aha's voluntary help."
Herta pondered: "Akivili most likely accepted the invitation. The insect disaster was raging and Oroboros kept opening THEIR giant maw, which would indeed block the path of Trailblaze."
"The biggest doubt lies in Ena being assimilated by Xipe…"
"We don't know the details of what happened during that period. Although the two Paths overlap, logically speaking, as one of the oldest Aeons, Ena shouldn't be like this unless the Order path became unstable."
"From a broader perspective, the concepts of Order and Preservation also overlap somewhat. How strange."
Stelle remained silent.
What she wanted to know still had no result.
Could it be that she was played by that damn Aha?
So infuriating!
"Herta, I want to continue testing!"
Even if the dice couldn't roll to the timeline she wanted to reach, as long as she could meet Aha again and scold THEM, it would be worth it.
Herta had no idea about Stelle's little thoughts.
Hearing her being so diligent, she had to satisfy her.
"Mm, go ahead."
Stelle returned to the Simulated Universe.
The dice were rolled—
All, or nothing at all!
But Stelle's expression gradually froze.
The dice turned into a ball… constantly rotating repeatedly, as if its momentum would never dissipate.
Or perhaps describing it as a spinning top would be more suitable?
"Herta, what's going on?"
"Herta?"
"You smug woman, answer if you hear me!"
"???"
"Mr. Screwllum?"
"..."
There was no response at all.
Outside, Herta and Screwllum discovered that the connection between the Simulated Universe and their consciousness had been severed without any warning.
No matter how they tried to re-establish the connection or restart the related programs, it was useless.
In addition, operations such as pausing the simulation and closing the simulation all failed one after another.
If the Simulated Universe wasn't still in a running state, they would have to worry whether Stelle's consciousness could return.
Stelle did not know that people outside were anxious and confused.
She was even more confused than the geniuses.
A dizzy feeling suddenly hit her, and her vision went dark—
When she could see clearly again, her heartbeat suddenly stopped for several beats.
Two extremely unfamiliar Aeons were fighting!
Both had pairs of wings on their backs. The difference was one white and one black, as if they were naturally opposed.
When half of their wings spread out, they seemed to cover the starry sky for tens of thousands of light-years, emitting an ancient and heavy aura.
Stelle had an illusion.
That kind of ancientness seemed even more profound and purer than Qlipoth and Ena.
Stelle swore that the kind of fight that novels mentioned, where they fought until the Great Dao was destroyed, really existed.
Those two deities were truly fighting to that extent.
The concepts of the Paths were distorted and became unstable.
When it seemed that even fighting to this degree could not determine a winner, the black-winged Aeon began to retreat, unwilling to continue this life-and-death bloody battle that was destined to bring no benefits.
However, the white-winged Aeon suddenly pulled out an unknown sequence—
The moment the sequence appeared, the black-winged Aeon instantly turned into black light spots and merged into that sequence.
Hiss—
This… it ended just like that?
Something that could easily kill an Aeon?
How is this possible?
Stelle suspected that the Simulated Universe had a major problem.
Aeons stand above all beings in the universe and are the highest existences.
According to Kafka's words, for THEM to die, only an existence of the same level could make it possible.
But the scene she saw now gave her the feeling of an immortal cultivator using a divine artifact to instantly kill an opponent of the same level.
Then the question arose—
How could such a thing exist in the universe? If it did, why had no Aeon become the supreme one?
A scene that shocked Stelle beyond words appeared!
Above the palm of the white-winged Aeon, a human figure appeared.
THEY pressed the sequence that had absorbed the black-winged Aeon into that human figure's body!
That person was—
Leon!