Knight Lords: Infinite Simulation and the Path of Light

Chapter 103 Supreme Meeting

The top floor of the Astrologers' Guild in Sarithos, the capital of Blackrock.

A blue-purple portal quickly formed. As the light grew increasingly dazzling, Alpha emerged from the solidified portal. After leaving the capital, he received a telepathic message from Angella and realized that this matter was somewhat unusual, so he immediately set off for Greta Island.

When Alpha arrived above Greta Island following the map's directions, the massive island that had once stood there had indeed vanished, as if it had never existed at all.

Alpha circled in the sky for a long time without any success, so it had no choice but to return to the Astrologer Headquarters, since the time it had agreed to meet with the others was almost up.

Alpha walked out of the legendary gate, carrying his staff, and looked around. His disciple, Wezelt, was already waiting in the same spot.

"Have they arrived yet, Diane?"

Wearing the same navy blue star-patterned robe, Wezelt stepped forward and took the staff from Alpha's hand.

"Yes, teacher, all the lords have returned and are resting in your study. Lord Osa has also come this time."

Hearing his disciple's words, Alpha paused for a moment and asked in return:
"Huh, so that's why I didn't see that old guy in the capital. Turns out he's here. Can the Adventurers' Headquarters manage without him here?"

But it was clear that Wezelt couldn't answer his question. Of course, Alpha didn't expect to get an answer from his disciple, since he had only asked casually.

"Angela, did you really see that guy Markucht this time? Is he really still alive?"

Angela, the 'Natural Breather,' sat quietly at one corner of the round table, seemingly lost in thought. When someone asked her a question, she slowly looked up.

"Ah~ Mefaraya, yes, that guy is indeed still alive, and he's doing very well. He's also much stronger than the last time we saw him. However, Nais and I didn't even have a chance to fight him before he left."

Mefaraya was clearly very concerned about the news that Makucht was still alive. After all, as fellow nature mages, he and Angella did not like Makucht's practice of indiscriminately slaughtering lives.

"What's going on with the Black Horse Express report? You didn't fight, so how did the island disappear?"

Upon hearing this question, the old druid fell silent again and lowered his head. Mefaraya looked at Angela without speaking, then turned to look at Nais, who was sitting to the side.

Nais didn't remain silent. Recalling what had happened on the island, he immediately began to curse and swear:
"Damn it, it's not like there wasn't a fight at all. That guy Markucht somehow found a divine abomination."

"A divine abomination? A living divine abomination? How is that possible!"

Upon hearing the explosive news from Nais, the top experts of the continent sitting around the round table were all shocked, and even some legendary figures who had been resting with their eyes closed opened their eyes and looked over.

"Nais~"
Are you telling the truth? Shouldn't things like divine abominations have been completely eradicated in the divine wars thousands of years ago? The Church of Light was almost entirely wiped out in the process of eliminating them.

Sitting opposite Nais, a middle-aged man with silver hair, wearing a suit of armor covered in ornate magic patterns, asked in bewilderment. Clearly, this middle-aged man with silver hair was very knowledgeable about this part of the history of the Divine Abomination.

Just as Nais was about to recount what had happened in Greta, the wooden door to the study opened, and Alpha, who had just returned, walked in, along with Wezart, who was there to greet him.

Alpha entered and looked around, finding that there were far more people this time than last time, the number had doubled.

"Everyone, it's a pleasure to see you all. I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."

The bigwigs and legends of various top forces sitting around the round table also returned the greeting to Alpha, which was both a sign of respect for Alpha's personal character and his powerful legendary strength.

"What were you talking about? Did I miss something?"

Alpha took off the mage's hood from his head and placed it on the table, then looked at Naias, who had just been about to speak.

“Ah~ Alpha, we were just talking about Greta Island. We ran into Makucht there. That guy found a divine abomination somewhere. I was just about to tell Vagrov what happened on the island.”

"Hmm~ That's perfect. After receiving your message, I went directly from the capital to Greta. Just as you and Angela said, I even went underwater but didn't find anything. Tell me more about it. I didn't say much in the message."

Under everyone's watchful eyes, Nais began to slowly recount what had happened in Greta.

The situation was like this: Angella and I followed the intelligence provided by the Astra Empire Mage Association and chased after them all the way, but every time we arrived at the place we were investigating, the Makucht family was already gone.

And so, we followed the trail left behind by that guy and chased him all the way to Greta Island. There, as soon as we landed on the island, we felt a clear magical repulsion, but we didn’t notice it at the time. Later, Angela quickly discovered Markucht’s whereabouts by communicating with the plants on the island.

Feedback from the island's plants indicated that the Markucht fellow was conducting experiments on the ancient tree of life at the foot of the mountain in the middle of the island.

After confirming the news, Angela and I decided to stop that guy on the spot. However, on our way to the Tree of Life, something unknown affected our judgment, causing us to wander around in the forest for a long time.

"Hmm??? Naias, I remember that one of your awakened abilities was the ability to calmly dispel illusions. Can you also be deceived?"

Upon hearing Quinn's question, Nais blushed and awkwardly replied:
"The portals were used quite frequently during the pursuit, and the island was very strange; magic regeneration was very slow, so I couldn't activate my abilities after landing on the island."

“I have a question, Nais.”

Alpha, who had been listening quietly, seemed to have noticed something strange.

"Huh? Alpha? What's the problem?"

Why didn't you choose to fly directly to the center of the island, but instead chose to travel through the woods?

Alpha's sudden question caught everyone off guard, and they all realized what was going on. Although their flying speed might vary, flying itself wasn't difficult for these legendary figures. Even the simplest magical lift allowed them to fly at a relatively fast speed for a whole day, let alone Greta Island, where they could probably fly across the entire island in just half an hour. "This... I realized later that our thinking was probably affected. This must be the power of the gods, influencing us from the moment we set foot on the island."

Angela, who had been sitting quietly, suddenly spoke up, answering Alpha's question and dropping an even more explosive piece of news, causing everyone at the round table to gasp in surprise.

"Gods? Aren't they supposed to be unable to manifest directly in the mortal world? How are you so sure, Angela?"

Faced with Mefaraya's question, Angela remained silent for a moment, then reached into the pocket at her waist, took out a small glass bottle, and placed it on the table. Inside the bottle were constantly wriggling black tentacles.

"These are things that sprang from the earth after the final anomaly on Greta Island. I collected some, and I detected a small amount of divine matter in them."

As Angella pushed the vial to the center of the table, the legends sitting around the round table picked it up and began to examine it. As they passed it around, Angella continued speaking, picking up where Nais left off.

It was only later that I realized something was wrong. At the time, I thought it was because Markucht was experimenting on the Tree of Life that we were being ostracized by this forest. So I asked Nais to protect me, and I prepared to cast an awakening spell to help the Tree of Life.

But when I made contact with the Tree of Life, it told me that Markucht had not conducted any evil magical experiments on him. Instead, it had used its immense life force to cast a summoning spell. This spell was strange and powerful, and the Tree of Life's own magical resistance was useless. It could only watch as its life force was continuously drained away.

While I was communicating with the Tree of Life, Na'ais also fought against the Divine Abomination. However, it wasn't the Divine Abomination at first, but a Kirami that was a hundred meters tall. After Na'ais summoned a fire elemental giant to defeat and burn it, the Divine Abomination emerged from the Kirami's enormous body.

At this moment, recalling the scene, Nais couldn't help but feel a lingering sense of unease.

"The abomination is truly a formidable creature. The fire giants are utterly powerless against it. Even after I transformed into a fire elemental body, to be honest, I still couldn't kill it. It's not that it's strong, but rather that it's bizarre. Its robust physique, outstanding combat instincts, and the abomination's innate attack methods make it truly worthy of being one of the reasons for the destruction of the Church of Light."

Those who are sitting here all possess legendary combat power. If a real fight breaks out, no one can defeat the other in a short time. As a legendary fire elemental mage, Nais has always been among the strongest in terms of attack power. Even he said so, which inevitably made the others feel a bit wistful.

Later on~
Seeing that Angela didn't continue, Nais took over and continued the story.

I had transformed into a fire elemental body, intending to take advantage of the rebirth of the Divine Abomination to see if I could severely injure or destroy him. But Markucht walked out of nowhere from the portal. That guy, that damned guy, he's become even stronger. I can feel it. He's only a hair's breadth away from becoming a legend.

After that guy appeared, he said a few nonsense words and then took the abomination away. I originally wanted to give chase, but unexpectedly, something strange happened on Greta Island at this time. The mountain in the center of the island exploded, and several giant tentacles stretched out from the broken mountain. After saying that, he pointed to the small glass bottle in Quinn's hand.

It's that thing in the bottle in your hand, but it's much bigger than the little thing in the bottle. By the time I got back to Angela, his magic was all used up. While I was waiting for Angela to recover his magic, the entire island was covered with tentacles of all sizes.

Later, Angella and I took a flying carpet to the place where the Tree of Life was located. I can only say that Markucht was as evil as ever. The area around the Tree of Life was piled with all kinds of human and magical beast remains. As for the leaves on the outer edge of the Tree of Life, they had all turned black. At this point, Nais reached out and nudged Angella's arm.

"Old man, you should tell everyone what the Tree of Life told you."

Angorra, who had been sitting to the side in a daze, was brought back to her senses by Nais's reminder. Seeing that everyone was looking at her, a bitter expression appeared on her face. As a druid, the departure of each ancient tree of life was a heavy blow to the natural way that she was supposed to uphold, not to mention the ancient tree of life on Greta Island that had simply vanished right in front of her. This was something that Angorra could never forgive herself for.

"Before the Ancient Tree disappeared, it said that this was not a sudden event. Markucht could only say that this was a recurrence of the same thing. Two thousand years ago, the same thing happened in the Eternal Night Forest. The Ancient Tree told us to go to the Eternal Night Forest to find the World Tree, and it would tell us what happened."

As for Greta Island, it became completely corrupted after the Ancient Tree vanished, and Nais and I witnessed the entire process from high above.

As she spoke, Angela seemed to be lost in a terrible memory.

At that time, after the ancient tree gave me her seed, it disappeared. Immediately afterwards, the entire island trembled violently. It felt as if life had suddenly come to life.

Then, the entire island transformed into an unknown creature, somewhat like a beholder from hell, but not at all; at least a beholder couldn't be as big as the entire island.

Just as Nais and I were considering how to deal with this thing, an indescribable power suddenly appeared, as if the whole world had been put on pause.

I don't know how much time passed, but Nais and I regained our senses. By then, the mutated island below had disappeared, as if it had never existed.

Unable to believe what we were seeing, Nais and I also dived into the sea. The spot where Greta had been was now completely filled with seawater, and there was no marine life in that area—no fish, no shrimp, not even seaweed.

That area seemed to have been taken away out of thin air. After we came out of the sea, we sensed that there was still a trace of an unknown rule in the space.

That feeling was indeed the feeling of a deity, but it wasn't the rule of the deities we knew; it was a rule we had never seen before, and it was very powerful.

Everyone listened quietly as Angela and Nais took turns adding their details. The entire study was quiet, and everyone's expression became extremely solemn. The appearance of an unknown deity was simply too shocking for them.

There is a huge difference between a god descending to earth through divine possession and a god descending directly in his physical form. This means that this unknown god can disregard the rules established after the war of the gods.

On the worst-case scenario, if this deity is of the evil faction, then it will be another catastrophe that destroys the world.

"There's no clear progress on this matter yet, Osa. Have the Adventurers' Guild set this as a long-term intelligence bounty mission."

After Alpha finished speaking, he paused and thought for a moment.

“Nais, we’ll have to trouble you to go there again. We need to set up an observation post there. Go and communicate with the magic guild of the Astra Empire.”

Is there anything else to add?

The various important figures sitting around the round table looked at each other, but no one spoke.

After waiting a moment, Mefaraja raised his hand in a gesture.

"Since no one has anything to add, I'll talk about Ulster, and it's not good news..."

(End of this chapter)