The World Conquest: Giving Birth To Become A God

The second follow-up plan was to isolate the fragmentation points of the dark beasts.

If the pseudo-tier 13 array weren't enough to isolate them, they would build another one.

Unfortunately, it was a far-fetched idea.

Just building the pseudo-tier 13 array had taken them trillions of epochs to prepare, let alone constructing another one.

The only viable solution was to isolate a separate space—the Dark Void Domain.

This would act as a bubble to protect the Aeon Plane.

The cost? Overdrawing the Aeon Plane's potential.

Creating this semi-plane stunted the Aeon Plane's growth.

Unless they could end the dark beast invasion, the Aeon Plane would never recover.

Stuck as a tier 12 plane, it could never hope to advance.

Still, it was better than being destroyed.

Now that their preparations had come to fruition, they now entered the testing stage.

Treating the top talents of the Aeon Plane as executioners, they tested whether the dark void domain could be cleared before it became saturated with dark beasts.

Watching the tier 12 dark beasts charging toward them, the six Overlords beat it down until it could no longer move and stuffed it into the scattering array.

"Huh~ This is a lot of work~"

After stuffing hundreds of tier 12 beasts in just a few decades, they felt the strain.

"The dark energy is getting thicker and thicker. What are those little chicks doing?!" Elvian complained.

With the increasingly dense dark energy, more and more dark beasts were being attracted to the Aeon Plane.

If the issue wasn't resolved quickly, a tier 13 dark beast could breach the Aeon Plane.

"Don't worry, I've already ordered the Absolutes of the Dimensional Alliance to come and help," Ascelon said.

"Not too early. The Aeon Plane is still far from its limit."

The Aeon Plane had a self-protection mechanism.

As long as there wasn't enough dark energy, it could hold back tier 13 dark beasts.

"Huh, I'm too tired. Nyx, Sira, you need to move more! What are you doing slacking off?" Elvian complained in dissatisfaction.

The two were blatantly idle, always seeming dazed and offering little help.

"You should first convince that guy," Nyx said, pointing at the Overlord of Beasts, Lazo.

"What?! Damn fat beast! What are you doing? You're still sleeping at a time like this?" Elvian exploded, noticing that Lazo was still sleeping comfortably.

"Huh? Who called me fat?! Come here and die!"

Hearing the insult, the sleeping Lazo went berserk, causing destruction and chaos.

The invading tier 11 dark beasts suffered greatly under his rampage.

As the strongest Overlord, Lazo's power was not something to scoff at.

"Huh? What am I doing?" Venting his anger, Lazo suddenly became dazed again.

"Whatever. Sleep…"

Watching the fiasco, the five Overlords were left speechless.

"How about we throw this fatty outside? I'm sure he'd come out just fine," Elvian jokingly suggested.

If Lazo weren't so lazy, they wouldn't need to work so hard.

"Forget it. Lazo is still useful at critical moments," Ascelon replied.

"Tsk, what a pity…"

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Hundreds of years later

As the Skjǫldrún stronghold continued to hunt dark beast wave after wave, a hidden danger arose.

"Dark Energy?" Looking at the patient's body, Maximus couldn't help but frown.

Recently, there had been a major fight, causing the first death in the stronghold.

Feeling something weird, Liam hurriedly held down the perpetrator, taking it to his father to examine.

"Yes! It must be something that controlled me; I promise I'm innocent!" Bent shouted defensively.

"Shut up! You killed three individuals and injured hundreds. How can you still quibble?"

"Leader, just kill this bastard. He must be threatening others for points again."

"That's right. He was usually a bully. He even scammed me of 2 points last time!"

Shouting in anger, they began to accuse the prisoner to death as their eyes, filled with rage, seemed devoid of logic.

"Huh? The others too?" Maximus scanned the crowd.

"What do you mean? What about us?"

Suddenly, like a clap of thunder, they noticed their strange state.

They were prodigies, confident in their strength and intellect. How could they fail to notice something wrong with Bent?

Especially with themselves—they seemed to be filled with thoughts of destruction and killing.

"Sir, can you please tell us what's happening?!"

Hundreds of years had passed, and the weakest among them already had thousands of points.

With everything going great, they seemed to have forgotten they were fighting the notorious dark beasts.

"It's dark energy. You were infected."

"Infected? What infected?!"

Although they didn't know the full matter, thinking of the destructive tendencies of the dark beasts and what was happening to them, they began to piece the matter together.

Shaking in fear, they quickly employed various purification skills, treasures, and medicines, yet nothing worked.

"Try using strands of causality," Maximus advised.

Taking his words to heart, they quickly used strands of causality.

Watching it flow through their bodies, then through their cores of origin, the thing that infected them finally reacted.

A black, gooey energy clinging to their cores of origin like an aggregate, reacted like it got hit by an acid.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

"What is this?!"

"Is this what sir called Dark Energy?!"

"What kind of energy is this?! It can only react with strands of causality?!"

Although strands of causality could ward off the dark energy, it wasn't very effective. Even after using thousands, it didn't even leave a dent in the black aggregate.

At this rate, it would take them millions to billions of strands, depending on the severity of the infection.

"No, a path of law should also be effective. Although I couldn't erase the dark aggregate, it could affect it."

Hearing this, they tried using their path of law, testing to see how the dark aggregate would react.

Unfortunately, even those masters of the ocean of law couldn't effectively remove the black aggregate.

"No need to test. Only the Absolute of Law could erase them," Maximus shook his head.

"Absolute of Law? How could we have that?"

"What about ultimate purification treasures? Or a purification array? Can it be used?!"

Recognizing Maximus was the most knowledgeable about what was happening, they turned toward him with eyes pleading with hope.

"It is… but—"