Chapter 1948 - 1947: Struggle with the Holy Master

The earth trembles with storms, the sky rolling with thunder.

The grey light hidden deep within the Holy Master’s body violently moved under He Ao’s guidance.

The Holy Master’s entire body trembled slightly, causing the Dreamer’s power to weaken a bit.

Indeed, by removing the vessel of the Holy Master Incarnation, his power can be effectively weakened.

"Do you want to use my array to attack me?" The Holy Master looked at He Ao, snorted coldly, and suddenly raised his hand.

The array densely spread across the sky began to tremble, then broke one by one, scattering rapidly into a sky full of brilliance.

The Holy Master had not fully activated his fallback before, because there was little time left, and when He Ao reconstructed the array, he retained much of the original structure. Now, the Holy Master found these structures and naturally destroyed the entire array.

Meanwhile, the storm on the ground seemed to stabilize rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

An invisible force is swiftly supplementing this world, stabilizing its state.

The universe’s ’positional order’ seems to change at this moment.

This timeline’s world appears to be quickly replacing the original Main World and acquiring the blessings only the original Main World could obtain.

No time is left.

He Ao’s expression turned somber, he raised his hand, and again grasped the grey light within the Holy Master.

Brilliant light converged in his hand, and invisible arrays linked between heaven and earth.

In this instant, He Ao seized that grey light.

The Holy Master’s expression slightly changed, looking at the light around He Ao’s hand, "Interesting, I didn’t see you construct the array step by step."

The light interlocked and overlapped, and if looked at closely, it could be seen that the light was indistinguishable from the light in the Holy Master’s hand.

That was exactly the magic the Holy Master used to extract He Ao’s Dreamer Talent Accumulation.

"Dreamer?" The Holy Master looked at the light beside He Ao with a hint of feeling, saying, "You are indeed a bit too clever."

These arrays were not directly constructed by He Ao, but were imagined directly using the Dreamer’s Talent Sequence.

On the basis of such imagination, those exceeding the position that could not be directly imagined were directly constructed using the Dreamer’s power.

This allowed He Ao to instantly replicate the Holy Master’s array and magic.

At the moment, He Ao also had no mind to listen to the Holy Master’s praise; he forcefully exerted his hand, quickly extracting the grey light from the Holy Master’s body.

With his motion, the power in the Holy Master’s hand was also rapidly weakening.

At this moment, a brilliance suddenly lit from beside He Ao’s hand, instantly breaking through his magic.

Almost in the next instant of the brilliance lighting up, the same brilliance lit up beside the Holy Master’s hand, breaking through his magic.

The purple light in the Holy Master’s hand almost fell back simultaneously with the grey light in He Ao’s hand.

The magic He Ao used to extract the grey light was identical to the Holy Master’s magic, and the flaws the Holy Master found also existed in his magic.

He Ao did not understand the principle of these magics, but he could imitate the Holy Master’s actions and poke at the corresponding position to destroy the magic.

The Holy Master seemed somewhat surprised; he originally thought He Ao could not completely replicate his magic.

In an instant, surging brilliance lit up again in His hand, grasping the falling Dreamer Talent Sequence.

In the next instant, the same brilliance lit up in He Ao’s hand, seizing the falling grey light.

The Holy Master’s gaze flashed a hint of astonishment as he looked at He Ao.

He Ao’s replication actually relied on two things: Super Memory’s memory and Secret Wizard’s comprehension.

The Holy Master only knew He Ao’s talent sequence was ’Memory Inheritor,’ but did not know He Ao also had ’Super Memory.’

Actually, He Ao had already realized that ’Memory Inheritor’ and ’Super Memory’ are different; Memory Inheritor’s ability mainly lies in manipulating memory and interfering with fate, while Super Memory’s ability, besides manipulating memory, also amplifies one’s soul and memory.

In fact, He Ao’s strong learning ability in mysticism aside from the astonishing wisdom granted by Secret Wizard, Super Memory’s indiscriminate memory is also a key factor.

And in this extremely short time, the Holy Master Incarnation’s actions also froze.

Because he realized a problem, if He Ao can replicate all his operations, then he almost cannot disrupt He Ao’s grasp of the Talent Sequence within him.

As long as the Holy Master activates his fallback and disrupts He Ao’s magic, He Ao will immediately find this flaw and break his magic of grasping the Dreamer Talent Sequence.

The Holy Master seemed never to have thought that He Ao could come up with such a tactic.

Thus, the situation is stuck here.

The Holy Master is still attempting to extract the Dreamer Talent Sequence from within He Ao, while He Ao is forcefully pulling out the grey light.

The storm at the world’s core grows fiercer, but the world’s operation has become increasingly stable, signaling the God of Machinery is about to complete the final timeline exchange.

No time is left for either the Holy Master or He Ao.

The Holy Master seems to abandon preventing He Ao from grasping the grey light, focusing instead on quickly extracting the Dreamer’s talent sequence from He Ao’s body.

And He Ao is also focusing all his energy, trying hard to extract the grey light from the Holy Master’s body.

Overall, the Holy Master’s actions are much faster than his, but He Ao never intended to pull out the grey light from the Holy Master entirely before him.

Accompanying He Ao’s extraction of the grey light, the Holy Master’s power is rapidly declining, and I am losing power in the Dreamer Talent Sequence.

So even though he is faster than He Ao, he is slower than he originally was, and this speed is rapidly slowing down.

But the God of Machinery waits for no one.

Finally, the Holy Master Incarnation lifted his head to glance at the storm overhead, seemed to feel the trembling of the entire world’s foundation, then he lowered his head to look at He Ao, "Young man, you indeed pinned me to the wall."

He glanced at the void where grey light and Dreamer Talent Sequence were located; at this moment, the Dreamer Talent Sequence had been mostly extracted from He Ao’s body, and He Ao was clearly struggling.

He lowered his head to gaze at He Ao, continuing, "The power between us holds a fundamental difference, and I know you can feel it too. If this continues, your talent sequence will inevitably be taken by me, and you won’t be able to get ’Prophet’ from my hand either."

’Prophet’?

Does the subsequent Talent Sequence for Secret Wizard really include ’Prophet’?

He Ao’s expression paused, but his hand didn’t stop.

"The name of this Talent Sequence is my ’kindness’," the Holy Master looked at He Ao’s face and said naturally, "I know you need it, and I need the Dreamer, so we can make a ’transaction’."

"Doesn’t really sound like ’kindness’," He Ao said casually, "If this Talent Sequence is really called Prophet, then you should have foreseen this situation."

"How do you know I haven’t foreseen this situation?" The Holy Master lowered his eyes, glancing at He Ao.

"Really?" He Ao’s heart skipped a beat, but his expression remained undisturbed, naturally saying, "You’re quite masochistic, enjoying being pushed to this extent by me."

"History is fixed," the Holy Master gazed at He Ao, smiling as he shook his head, "But the future is infinite, and even a ’Prophet’ can only see several of the most probable futures."

He raised his eyes, gazing at He Ao, "And the more it involves Divine Beings and oneself, the more obscure the future a ’Prophet’ can see. If the ’Prophet’ was truly omniscient, he wouldn’t be an ’Usurper God’. Even a Divine Being cannot guarantee a certain future will definitely happen."

He looked at He Ao and laughed, "I believe you know this the most."

"Sounds like this Talent Sequence isn’t that impressive." He Ao said casually, but increased the strength in his hands, taking advantage of the Holy Master’s distraction to pull a bit more from the Prophet Talent Sequence.

The core function of the Prophecy Stone Tablet is prophecy, especially involving Divine Beings, so the core of that tablet is likely imbued with prophetic power, and the shard in He Ao’s hand is probably the core of the tablet.

This thought led him to conclude that Noctis’s abilities were also ’prophecy’.

The Holy Master estimated that his initial preparation was using the power of the Prophet to transform Noctis’s body, allowing it to bear the Prophet Talent Sequence, thereby allowing the Holy Master’s powerful Incarnation to directly descend upon the Main World.

It turns out everything has a trace.

After knowing the ’name’ of this Talent Sequence, He Ao wasn’t that surprised by the appearance of the ’Prophet’ here anymore.

He Ao’s first contact with the ’Prophet’ pathway Talent Sequence was a mad Magic Apprentice, affiliated with Daybreak.

Latterly, he encountered the ’Magician’ Talent Sequence in the Copy World.

And this, to some extent, influenced his final choice of the Magician Talent Sequence, leading him all the way to the level of Secret Wizard.

This might be due to the influence of ultra-high level Talent Sequence powers on the surrounding environment and people, where those affected would unconsciously lean towards the related Talent Sequence.

The current situation was predestined when the Holy Master infused the power of the Prophet into Noctis’s body.

Fate at this moment showed a wonderful sense of convergence.

With the emergence of this realization, He Ao felt his consciousness gradually pulling tight, combining more closely with the Super Memory Talent Sequence.

This surprised him since he had already fully grasped the power related to the ’Memory Inheritor’, reaching the threshold for promotion, and didn’t expect this combination to become tighter.

Perhaps this is related to his attempt to combine Dreamer, while pondering, he utilized the connection between Super Memory and Dreamer, once again pulling hard at the Dreamer Talent Sequence, slowing the Holy Master down.

And the Holy Master clearly felt He Ao’s change, he glanced at He Ao, lowered his gaze, and hoarsely said, "We can’t drag on, the machinery is about to break free from control."

The roar between Heaven and Earth gradually stabilized.

The Holy Master’s hoarse voice echoed in He Ao’s ear and resonated within He Ao’s soul, "Give me the Dreamer Talent Sequence, I’ll give you the Prophet Talent Sequence. Holding the Prophet Talent Sequence, you can try to stop the machinery, and by obtaining the Dreamer Talent Sequence, I’ll achieve my goal, and naturally can leave."

"No," He Ao looked at the Holy Master, "I don’t trust you."

The Holy Master glanced at the gradually calming earth, lowered his gaze slightly, and quickly said, "Just state your conditions directly."

"First, you have to help me block the God of Machinery," He Ao quickly said.

"Okay." The Holy Master nodded without hesitation.

"Second, push the Prophet Talent Sequence out to the same level as Dreamer, and we release simultaneously." He Ao continued, looking at the Holy Master.

After a brief thought, the Holy Master nodded as well, "Okay."

"Then release the Prophet Talent Sequence first." He Ao looked at the Holy Master and quickly said.

"I’ve already released it." The Holy Master said slowly.

He Ao turned to look at the ball of gray radiance and found that the radiance encountered no obstruction, he exerted a little force and pulled the radiance out directly.

He Ao slightly surprisedly glanced at the Holy Master and quickly applied force to pull the gray radiance out.

"Don’t look at me like that," the Holy Master looked at He Ao, "To exist long-term in the universe, besides betrayal, trust is also necessary. This is something every elderly in the universe knows."

Crack——

When He Ao pulled out the gray radiance considerably, he suddenly felt intense resistance; the entire gray radiance got stuck there.

He Ao roughly scanned it, and this progress was about the same as the progress of Dreamer being pulled out.

And at this moment, the entire world trembled slightly, roaring Thunder echoed through the Firmament, but the originally howling earth stabilized rapidly before one’s eyes, and surging power arose from the depths of the world.

"Alright, you should let go now," the Holy Master glanced at He Ao, smiling, "I can sense the God of Machinery is about to complete the final step. If you hesitate any longer, the God of Machinery will finish the last exchange, and the world you cherish will probably be utterly destroyed."

"Together," He Ao looked at the Holy Master, gripping the two Talent Sequences firmly, hoarsely asking, "You and the God of Machinery covet this world, what does this world have?"

"That’s not something you should know," The Holy Master glanced at He Ao, "I’ll count to three, and we release together."

He quickly said, "One, two, three!"

The two rays of light in the sky didn’t budge, neither of them released.

"Looks like you’re not very trustworthy." The Holy Master gazed at He Ao, hoarsely said.

"Your trust isn’t even reliable enough to rent a bike, it’s hard for me to believe you either," He Ao looked at him, "You release first, then I’ll release."

The Holy Master paused for a moment, looked at He Ao, "Alright, I’ll count one, two, three!"

Boom——

At the moment the ’three’ fell, a splendid, booming Thunder suddenly cut across the Firmament.

At this moment, both felt their hands lighten.

The trembled earth was flattened by immense power at this instant, terrifying and boundless gazes descended from the interminable time and space beyond.

He Ao and the Holy Master both raised their heads and looked toward the sky.