The familiar dizziness hit him again, and this time it lasted a lot shorter than when he was in the illusion. Hao Ren only felt his vision go black for a moment, and when his feet touched the ground, he noticed that he was back on the silver platform.
The huge Gilded Disc was still floating in front of him, and Rheia was standing on his left, Lemendusa was not far away, and Vivian was on his right, and she was looking at him curiously with her eyes wide open.
Hao Ren's sudden opening of his eyes startled Vivian. "Whoa!"
She then waved her hand. "I saw all three discs go dark, but you two have not woken up yet, so I came to check on you."
Hao Ren held his head as he snapped out of it. "Ugh … I stayed in the illusion for a while longer."
"Dizziness …" Rheia woke up at the same time as Hao Ren, and as she had used her divine powers to activate the illusion, even a true god like her felt the same dizziness as Hao Ren, and it was obvious that she was not used to it. "I won't do this next time …"
Hearing Rheia's voice, Hao Ren turned to look at the goddess of creation, and she had also turned to look at him. The two looked at each other, and the atmosphere was very awkward.
Thinking back to what he saw in the illusion, he felt that it was inappropriate to say anything now … Should he ask the goddess if she was still upset?
Hao Ren thought about it, and decided that it was better not to get himself killed.
"You two …" Vivian looked curiously at Hao Ren, then at Rheia, and immediately felt that something was wrong. "What happened? You two entered the 'illusion' together? What did you see in the illusion? "
Just as Hao Ren was about to speak, he saw Lemendusa, who was also looking at him curiously, and he immediately coughed. "Ahem, it's pretty much the same as the last time. I'll tell you in detail later."
Rheia nodded with a straight face. "Yeah, we're still seeing the same scene that Hao Ren saw before. It's no big deal."
The two of them were not lying. What they saw was exactly what Hao Ren saw when he first entered the illusion. It was just that this time, they were looking at it from a first-person perspective …
Although she felt that something was not right, Vivian still followed Hao Ren's lead and changed the topic. "Oh … so what's the situation with the Gilded Disc?"
Upon hearing that, both Hao Ren and Rheia breathed a sigh of relief. They had indeed checked the cause of the malfunction of the Gilded Disc before they left the illusion, so Rheia nodded. "It should work now."
Lemendusa stepped forward, bowed and asked: "Mother, the previous malfunction was because …"
"The memory of the goddess has disrupted the disc's original programming." Rheia spread her hands. "A part of my consciousness has attached itself to the disc, and while the amount of it is very small, not even a thought, but due to its high level, it still interferes with the normal programming. Now that I've recovered and cleaned up the fragments, the disc should work normally. "
Lemendusa looked relieved. "That's good. With that, the final assembly of the Creation's Engine can be completed. "
"Let's do it now." Rheia pondered for a moment before ordering, "I'm here anyway, and it's good to see it done."
"Yes." Lemendusa accepted the order and immediately started arranging for the reinstallation of the three Gilded Discs as well as the rebooting of the Heart of God and the Creation's Engine.
The white platform moved closer to the surface of the Creation's Engine so that Rheia could observe the engine rebooting process up close, and the three Gilded Discs floated towards the huge opening at the back of the engine. With the help of a series of construction machinery, a large number of cables and light streams were pulled out from the engine and connected to the ports at the edge of the Gilded Discs, as well as the Heart of God that was floating near the opening.
The entire connection process was still carried out outside the Creation's Engine, and while Rheia was sure that she had solved the "malfunction" of the Gilded Discs, such a large scale project required extreme caution, and to avoid any unexpected situations, Lemendusa did not plan to insert the Heart of God into the engine before the entire connection process was completed.
The tense wait also alleviated Hao Ren's awkwardness after learning the truth, and as he looked at the machinery assembling in the distant space, he felt like a maintenance worker looking at the server room before leaving his post. He really did not want anything to happen to this thing …
Under the pressure, he even called out Raven 12345's name and prayed. "Please don't let anything happen, I'm willing to trade Raven 12345 exploding three times on the spot for this project to come to a successful end …"
Vivian, who was standing by the side, was stunned. "As a pope, how can you pray like that?"
"It's written in the Bible, a sincere prayer is effective, and the point is not to say nice things, but to say it from the bottom of your heart," Hao Ren explained with a straight face. "And most importantly, she can't hear me anyway …"
Vivian was speechless.
On the other hand, the connection between the Heart of God and the Creation's Engine had reached its most crucial moment.
All the connecting equipment had been prepared a long time ago, and the whole system was only missing the Gilded Disc. Now everything had arrived at their respective positions. With Lemendusa's order, the last energy pipeline was connected to the energy core of the Creation's Engine.
"Physical connection ready, energy core ready, all components connected confirmed, final inspection of all monitoring points …"
On the white platform, the blunt voice of the foundry's AI rang out, and as the reports came in, Lemendusa looked towards Rheia's direction.
The little goddess of creation was calm like never before, and she nodded lightly. "Ignite."
"Command has been issued, ignite the Creation's Engine!"
It was a majestic and beautiful scene.
The golden shell of the Creation's Engine seemed to turn blurry like a mist, and then it solidified again, and streaks of blue and white light flowed through the cracks of the alloy ground, and the entire artificial planet lit up like a heart that was pumping blood, and as the light flashed, the lifeless thing gave off the illusion that it was "alive".
Following that, an endless light shone from the surface of the Creation's Engine, and the light overshadowed all the stars in the universe, but it was not blinding at all, and Hao Ren felt an unparalleled power washing over him, and if this power was unleashed, not only would it be enough to turn him into dust, it could even kill a true god!
But this power was controlled, and as the ignition process proceeded smoothly, the endless light quickly receded, and Hao Ren saw the seemingly solid light return to the shell of the Creation's Engine in the blink of an eye, and as the light receded, he suddenly saw a phantom-like scene in the dark space behind the Creation's Engine.
The space there trembled, and an indeterminate object appeared, and a dark red planet appeared in space. The planet was covered with a large amount of twisted keratin and flesh, and in the cracks of the crust, there were many complex machinery operating continuously. Its size was almost the same as the Creation's Engine, but it emitted a life force that was the complete opposite of the Creation's Engine, filled with a strong aura of destruction and decay.
Then the ominous celestial body faded away, and a pale figure appeared there, and she looked almost identical to Rheia, but there was no emotion or warmth on her face. She looked coldly at the Creation's Engine and the direction of Hao Ren and the rest, and a voice echoed in the latter's mind, "… Meaningless."
All the images finally disappeared, and the trembling space returned to normal. Lemendusa, who was about to sound the alarm, looked at the scene in shock, and asked blankly, "Mother, this is …"
"Just resonance, as I expected," Rheia said softly, "The goddess of annihilation's engine has indeed been completed … and our engine is of the same origin, so it's inevitable that some phenomena will occur when we start up."
"Whoa, that's quite the attitude." The MDT's voice suddenly came from the side, "She doesn't even understand the principle that the more reckless you are, the faster you die. Does she really think she's invincible after fusing with the Mad Lord? I was born at the wrong time, if I had been the mainframe of the Eternal-class battleship when I first came off the production line, I would have blasted her face with a galaxy so that even her mother wouldn't be able to recognize her …"
The sudden appearance of the MDT gave Hao Ren a fright. "F * ck … when did you get here?!"
"Just when you were mumbling about blowing up the boss." The MDT shook its body, "Bloody hell, you guys just opened the portal and left, and I wanted to chase after you guys, but I was a step too slow and fell into your daughter's hands, and even my shell was almost pried open by that fish …"
"… You didn't record that, did you?" Hao Ren asked.
"What's there to be nervous about? You're not the only pope in the entire universe mumbling about sacrificing our god," the MDT said nonchalantly, "By the way, this Creation's Engine thing … is it a success?"
The few of them then turned to look at space.
The pale gold man-made celestial body was quietly floating in the dark space, filled with surging energy, and its surface was covered in a layer of glow.
It was once designed to erase all divine powers in the universe, but now, after Rheia's reprogramming, it had become a weapon that could break through the Mad Lord's defenses and attack the Dark Abyss.
"This trump card is in our hands," Rheia said softly, "Soon … the real show will begin."
"We need to go back to the surface world first," Hao Ren said to the MDT, "There's something I need Raven 12345's help with."
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