The Collection of The End

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In the boundless gray fog, a huge bolt of lightning that was far more blazing than those of its kind in the past suddenly struck down.

It didn't hit anything. After all, those objects with weird shapes and chaotic colors that still existed before had been driven away by the large number of things that were swarming earlier and were too small to distinguish their specific shapes.

But it can also be said that it hit something. After the red lightning flashed through the gray fog, its trajectory immediately burst into flames.

This line of fire spread aimlessly to both ends, slowly and hesitantly, like a fish falling into unfamiliar waters, until one end of it touched some kind of huge obstacle.

The next moment, all the flames suddenly adhered to the obstacle, spreading and expanding at an unimaginably high speed, and soon traced the outline of the "obstacle" by themselves.

It was an extremely huge tree with extremely lush branches and roots. It did not react at all as these strange flames spread and spread all over its body.

On this huge "flame tree", there are nine huge fruits growing in an orderly manner on the crown, branches, trunk and root system.

These fruits are in a perfect round shape as a whole, but the flames on the surface that spread from the giant trees and wrap them up and down, twist and shake, as if the "fruits" resolutely refuse to be engulfed by the flames without resistance like the giant trees. .

In fact, this is indeed the case.

After being enveloped in flames for a moment, the "shells" of seven of the fruits burst silently in all directions, revealing the crystal-clear "pulp" inside, or in other words, azure blue "water balls."

After the "flame shells" of the "water balloons" exploded, the flames entrenched on the giant flame tree began to tentatively approach, trying to "evaporate" the water, but several attempts were fruitless except for causing their own extinguishment.

Although the goal was never achieved, the instinct to expand could not be stopped, so the flames began to accumulate more and more around the water ball. Perhaps they were planning to accumulate enough flames to throw them all together, or they were planning to reorganize a layer in the air at a distance that could not be extinguished. The "flame shell" makes the "fruit" seem to have been engulfed in appearance.

In contrast, the two "fruits" located at the crown and in the middle of the trunk appear very distinctive.

After the outer shell of the former exploded, what was revealed was a bright golden core. The core had also been ignited, but its spread was very slow. The flames that had completely ignited the giant tree in an instant seemed to be stuck in a quagmire, struggling to move forward.

The latter is a not-so-pure "water ball" mixed with some soil. Its special feature is that it is surrounded by a bright golden halo. When the flames spread, they will inexplicably follow the halo. The edge slides open to reach the other side, and the same result occurs when the flames on the other side burn over. If the flames swirling around it at this time can think, they may twist themselves into the shape of a question mark and flash repeatedly. .

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In the corner of the gray fog, there is a small hole where the black mud and strange mirrors are located.

At this point, the two concepts once used to identify it have completely disappeared.

When the flames ignited the giant tree, the black mud here also burned and turned into fly ash in a short period of time, blending into the surrounding fog and disappearing.

And those mirrors of different shapes disappeared without a trace after different weirdos dressed as bats fell out of them.

Oh, there is one exception. The mirror that once split in half and appeared in the form of a blue phantom has now transformed into a bat-weird figure roughly depicted with bright blue lines and light spots.

The bat monsters were sitting or standing, with numb expressions and silence. Only the monster wearing a gray armor, a spiked eye patch on his face, and a particularly wide grin was still very active.

"[Why are you so serious?]" He walked around the other weirdos: "[This is all within my plan.]"

"Your initial plan was to seize the identities of those contestants, and we would be wiped out in the subspace."

"Your next plan is to disguise yourself as an 'ancient evil demon' and inflict fatal injuries on the players to inspire protective measures for your own use. However, it failed due to the interference of off-site support."

"Your third plan was to extract the 'ancient malice' from the World Tree to isolate off-site factors while greatly strengthening our power. The 'Lord of Dimension' cheated and failed again."

"The fourth plan was to amplify this cheating behavior to attract the power of other 'Lords of Dimensions' to bring the competition to the real dimension, but was stopped by the 'Mechanical Demon God' who suddenly ascended."

"The fifth plan was to replace Odin with one prepared by us when he initiated the 'Twilight of the Gods', and perform a similar 'ritual' to make it come true, and then be extinguished by the 'Lord of the Ocean Dimension'."

The bat monsters summarized everything that happened before, and finally said:

"Now that we are 'dead' but have disappeared inexplicably, we have attracted the attention of high-ranking beings. At least a dozen dimension lords and universe demons are staring at us. If we appear, we will be taken away. There is nothing we can do, but you say you still have it. plan?"

"[Of course,]" the spiked-eyepatch weirdo raised his lips: "[It's my purpose to attract the attention of 'high-ranking beings', otherwise why do you think the 'Goddess of Creation' would cast its gaze on you wastes? ]"

"you……"

"[Furthermore,]" before other weirdos could retort, the spiked eyepatch quickly added: "[Have you noticed that the status of those who stop us is getting higher and higher? And until now, we are just a group of people. It’s just an ‘ancient evil demon’ from within the World Tree.]”

"Let me trust you one more time."

"My ears are ringing with these words."

"Don't worry, we won't be able to come back if we fail this time. Let him play by himself from now on."

"[I think you should remember the 'pillar' theory of our original multiverse. Each universe is supported by a specific 'pillar'. Once it is destroyed, the universe will be destroyed,]" The spiked eyepatch ignored the ridicule of his companions: "[ The 'Almighty Universe' has many 'pillars', and at least half of them must be destroyed to affect the stability of the universe. And now, there happen to be a large number of 'pillar' level characters gathered in the arena. Although I don't know if they have half of the total, but that It doesn’t matter.]”

"Let me remind you that 'Twilight of the Gods' has just been cracked." A weirdo pointed out.

"[Allow me to remind you that the 'Twilight of the Gods' that is spreading now was caused by Odin. If the fake 'Twilight of the Gods' we imitate is completed, it will protect the seven kingdoms.]" The spiked eye patch was taken from the cloak. He took out his dark little mirror and raised his mouth a little higher: "[At least now, as part of the 'Seven Kingdoms', we are also 'protected objects'."