Chapter 73: The Twilight of the Gods

“Mentor.”

“The injustices you once suffered, I will return them one by one.”

The magical world.

Above the vast, boundless ocean.

Layer upon layer of waves, surging forward and backward, forming massive swells, crashing and sweeping, trying to engulf the small, fragile figure.

But she simply grasped her magic staff, and everything calmed down.

Even.

The power of the raging sea was instead controlled by her.

“So-called deities, nothing more,” Cressa slightly raised her head, her eyes seemingly filled with a rotating starry sea, dazzling and mysterious, taking in the disgraceful state of the gods high above.

She still maintained her 17-year-old appearance, time unable to affect her in the slightest.

Her silver-gray long hair flowed smoothly like a waterfall.

Her delicate features were cold and indifferent.

The world bowed to her, all things submitted to her.

The sky became her eyes, the earth protected her body, the ocean carried her feet, further highlighting her miraculous status that surpassed the gods.

“Then, let’s begin.”

Cressa whispered.

Her calm tone as if she was merely talking about a trivial matter.

But as she waved her magic staff, the endless sea behind her began to roar and rage, carrying the witch higher and higher, leaping towards the infinitely distant sky.

“Whoosh——!!!”

A biting cold wind blew.

Water froze, ice took shape, the waves beneath the witch’s feet turned into a four-legged ice dragon, flapping its sky-covering wings, instantly crossing the infinitely distant space, soaring into the sky.

Carrying the endless sea and waves.

Forcefully charging into the heavenly realm.

“Outrageous, that is my authority!” The Sea God’s eyes were wide with rage, he was the most arrogant among the gods, immediately charging towards the witch.

“Let’s go together, we have no way back!”

Led by the God of Light, the gods of the heavenly realm all activated their own laws, launching a combined attack that shook the heavens and the earth.

That was light enough to evaporate the world.

That was darkness enough to engulf the world.

The authority of the gods materialized at this moment, condensed into the essence of matter, surpassing magic, surpassing forbidden spells, forming the great divine power.

But before the witch, these were equally weak.

“Die.”

The witch said, let the gods die.

And so, the gods fell.

The distant sky began to fall, the roaring sea began to overturn, the thick earth began to collapse.

The four elements of earth, water, wind, and fire, entangled and mixed in an indescribable form, a single strand of which could burst the membrane of the heavenly realm, exposing the gods to the terrifying apocalypse.

The Sea God died first.

Followed by the Fire God, the God of Blacksmiths, the Goddess of Harvest.

Then the Earth Mother Goddess, the God of Wind and Snow, the God of Death.

The gods fell like rice crops in the harvest season, all at once, killed by the endless earth, water, wind, and fire, even the gods who originally controlled these elements were no exception.

Under Cressa’s control.

In the balance of chaos and order.

Earth, water, wind, and fire, along with other elements mixed in, were no longer just simple attributes of the world.

But further, symbolizing the origin of all things, and the end of the world, a destination that both mortals and gods would inevitably reach.

“I refuse!!!”

The dragon’s roar echoed across the sky.

It was the Dragon God, the deity worshipped by all dragon species, ascended from a Golden Holy Dragon.

With its powerful body, it briefly resisted the erosion of earth, water, wind, and fire, its fierce light exposed, pouncing towards the thin figure of the witch.

Just get close.

Just get close to that monster!

Victory is certain!

The Dragon God thought with such fervor, but as soon as it reached the witch, the long-handled magic staff also just happened to extend to its forehead.

On it condensed the Law of Earth, the Law of Thunder, the Law of Light, the Law of Darkness, the Law of Death, the Law of Fire.

A light tap.

“Boom——”, the Dragon God fell.

Ignoring the heavily fallen corpse of the Dragon God beneath her feet, Cressa’s gaze turned coldly towards the most powerful, and also the most fiercely resisting, God of Light.

The mentor said, never let your guard down in the face of enemies.

Cressa always remembered.

Thus, her eyes glowed coldly, the power of chaos and order once again activated, extracting the authority of all the dead gods present, all converging into herself.

The God of Light’s face visibly turned to despair.

Very decisive.

He immediately abandoned all attacks and defenses, turning his divine power into pure light, trying with all his might to escape the heavenly realm.

“Whoosh——”

In the sound of a light whistle, a gray chaotic light beam swept across the entire heavenly realm.

“No!!!”

“I have not transcended, I have not become a main god, I cannot die, I must not die!”

The God of Light roared, his former sanctity gone, replaced only by wretchedness and fury, he used all his means, but still his divine body was pierced.

Along with his authority, status, the concept of his existence.

All were torn apart and destroyed.

Thus, the heavenly realm fell, the gods perished.

Even the most powerful, the God of Light who held the most faith in the world, perished at the hands of the witch.

“Mentor, the justice you were suppressed by the gods, I have retrieved it for you.”

In the empty void sky.

Cressa stood steadily, softly speaking to the already departed “sun”.

Although a bit late, although a bit rushed, this was the only thing Cressa could think of to do for Xu Xi.

Suddenly.

There was a flow of light around her.

The vast and profound power of the world, sweeping up the remnants of the fallen gods, crushing them, grinding them, finally converging into a bright and dazzling crown.

Invisibly, a voice appeared in Cressa’s ear.

It was the instinct of the world.

It was the intimacy of heaven and earth.

The gods who once held authority and managed the world were gone.

The world needed a new manager, so the world chose the witch, wanting the witch to wear the crown, to become the true master of the world.

However, the witch refused.

“Such a thing… I don’t need it.”

She said so, her fingers gently pinching the sacred crown before her, with a slight force, the overlapping power of chaos and order completely shattered it.

Why?

The world’s consciousness conveyed such confusion.

It was the instinct of the magical world, mechanically recording all things, knowing the witch’s past.

It did not understand, after avenging Xu Xi, why the witch did not wish to embrace power and authority like others.

The witch’s answer was simple.

She would wait for Xu Xi, until they meet again.

In the world’s confusion, Cressa, holding her magic staff, gently stepped forward, crossing time and space, stepping out of the world.

Before her appeared the boundless and dazzling sea of worlds.

They intersected with each other, floating in the chaos without the concept of time and space, shimmering with different lights.

The witch decided to start searching for traces of Xu Xi, and in the process, continuously eliminate the ugly gods.

“That direction… seems to have many gods?”

Cressa tilted her head in a daze.

Setting sail in the chaos.

The crown gifted by the world, after shattering, did not completely dissipate, but still hung behind her, shimmering with a miraculous glow.