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Chapter 686 The Post-Blood Moon Era

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What is the world like now that we are awake?

The blood moon never faded.

Beneath the crimson sky and the ever-changing, obscure illusions lay a utterly fallen earth.

The ancients each occupied their own territory, and nearly 80% of the surviving humans became worshippers of the Blood Moon, manipulated by the voice of the celestial bodies and corrupted by the Blood Moon's radiation. To put it in a somewhat fanatical way—"They are the Moon's enlighteners."

As the former heart of the battlefield, the soil of Nanwei City has become rotten and decaying. The decaying flesh and blood of the past need a long enough period of time to wear away, and the pollution has turned this place into a barren land, where the stench of decay and blood cannot be dispelled for years.

The survivors were scattered in various remote mountainous areas, but that did not mean they were absolutely safe.

In the world of clarity, several years have passed since the day of the old chaos, and a new order has begun to take shape, which is called chaos.

This is the world that C mentioned to Milo in front of the Crimson Mountains in the Tombstone Dream.

Even within the fallen University of Michigan, there remained a group of people who, like C, had resisted the Blood Moon's allure. In the academy that was the first to receive the celestial voice, they reorganized and made contact with the forces in the surrounding cities.

Continue to fight against those ancient beings who roam every corner of the world, and continue this research.

The old Miyun University no longer exists, and the new Miyun University is not large enough.

Thus, a new organization was established—the Wilmas Foundation.

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In order to help more survivors live in this hellish era, they studied the Crimson Cult, the Ghoul Lair, and various areas that were previously considered taboo.

That's why C at the foot of the Crimson Mountains could tell the origin of the Pilgrim Butterfly so clearly.

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With the KEIM domain operating at supersonic speeds, returning to the waking world from the Aldebaran star cluster does not take too long.

The Beyak group circled at high altitude and slowly descended.

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"Has it really been that long?"

Gazing at this desolate and lonely land, Milo felt as if he had only lingered in bed for a while in that familiar room; who could have imagined...

"Do you see that tombstone?"

Emma asked Milo.

Following her gaze, in the center of the battlefield ruins stood a magnificent stone monument.

“That’s my own grave, isn’t it?” Milo said.

“No, that’s the bridge pier of the broken bridge. Your tombstone is over there.” Emma pointed to a very inconspicuous protrusion next to the tombstone.

Rather than a tombstone, it was just a raised stone on a flat surface, and it looked like it had been stained with something resembling blood, giving it a dark, murky color.

"I became that thing after I died, is that what you mean?" Milo muttered.

Without hesitation, Emma revealed the truth: "The Old Ones devoured your body, mainly the giant rat Vibul. It was what it excreted after digestion..."

"It's also the entrance to the Tombstone Dream," added old Theon, who was sitting cross-legged on Byakki's neck smoking.

"Are you trying to tell me that the gods of dreams are now trapped inside a pile of rat dung?" Milo laughed out loud in a very blasphemous way.

“That’s certainly one way to understand it, from a certain perspective,” Emma said.

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Therefore, all along, in the battlefield of Tombstone Dream, Milo could only see those pillars of light from the distant horizon.

It didn't actually come from a dream world.

It comes from the world of consciousness.

It came from outside that pile of filthy excrement.

The gods of that time stood in the conscious world, studying the excrement-covered tombstone...

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From the moment Milo and Azati's will resonated, the key to the Blood Moon Era shifted to him.

His life or death became the decisive factor in this catastrophe. From the perspective of the gods, only by completely killing Milo, along with the part of the tombstone dream, could the dream that originated from Azati be ended.

You should know that this is a dream that has the potential to replace the waking world and become reality.

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So when the gods realized that none of their methods could kill Milo, they had no choice but to descend upon him personally.

There is an even more important factor at play: Azati's dream itself was extremely tempting to the gods. As for what each god was thinking, only they themselves knew. Perhaps they had other plans, or perhaps they were afraid that other temples would get there first.

In any case, the gods mobilized their entire forces for the "trivial" matter of killing Milo.

Then I was trapped in the dream of the tombstone.

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This is what old Theon meant by "one-way ticket".

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"So Scarlet was actually the first to react."

Milo was in no hurry to approach that corrupt land.

He saw the same scarlet mountains that emerged from the bottom of the canal in the sober world, along with their huge, fractured gaps, and the mummified corpses of pilgrimage butterflies covering the hillsides.

In the world of lucidity, the gods used the Scarlet Witch's curse to make Milo die easily on the old battlefield.

But the crimson will was not willing to be extinguished.

So, the moment the tombstone dream was formed, Scarlet rushed in.

Do you remember those pilgrimage butterflies that killed the Blood Saintess and C at the beginning? The insectoid that was crippled by Milo in the Fog Wall Domain actually came from the Awake World.

The reason they were so impatient when trying to persuade him to convert to the Crimson Sect was because they had already missed their first opportunity.

Furthermore, they knew that Milo in the dream had a part of his soul severed, and eager to deceive him into his "unconscious" state, they silenced those who had tipped him off...

Investigator C and the Blood Saintess are people from the world of the waking up.

That's how they both died.

He didn't even die at the hands of the gods.

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“Every side in this war had its own agenda, but what they didn’t expect, you ended up outmaneuvering them all,” old Theon said in a deep voice.

"No, it wasn't fully accounted for."

Milo shook his head.

Old Theon returned both parts of his soul to him, and now Milo remembers everything that happened in the correct timeline.

He knew that his audacious plan was not entirely kept secret.

In the dream of the tombstone, too many things happened that were beyond my expectations.

"Those four horsemen of unknown origin, they have never appeared in the conscious world before."

Milo pondered all his previous experiences, his brows furrowing slightly.

The appearance of the Four Horsemen clearly had a disruptive element to it.

This proves that beyond, and even above, the gods of dreams, there exists an even more profound gaze watching all of this.

He understood Milo's plan and even knew the principles behind the tombstone dream.

However, Milo was unaware of the other party's true purpose.

Perhaps if Milo hadn't set up such a daring plan, he wouldn't have even been able to alert the other side to intervene...

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Millions of benefactors.

Whose favor is she enjoying?

(End of this chapter)