After the Lord of the Abyss Awakens - Chapter 105.1

“Meow!”

Vassago opened his eyes, suddenly stretching his paws toward the ceiling, clawing at the air, then preparing to get up.

However, when He tried to support His waist, He found this movement became unusually difficult.

Get up, get, get up? He kept trying, but still failed!

What’s going on?

Vassago was dumbfounded. Looking down, He discovered He couldn’t move because His body weight was too enormous!

How did He become so heavy? He felt as if His body was carrying the weight of a star. Although His paws could still move flexibly, His body seemed nailed in place, completely unable to rise.

What was happening? Vassago seemed to encounter an unprecedented difficulty, but He never gave up easily!

He was now a powerful demon who had awakened His essential settings.

Come on, Mind Image Power!

Vassago mobilized His inner power, breaking free from gravity’s constraints, and stood up again.

A corpulent feline slowly rose from the cat bed, floating in the air. Due to being so overweight, His figure appeared somewhat clumsy, with fat jiggling with each movement, creating waves – truly a spectacular sight.

He gradually noticed something wasn’t right, so He moved to the mirror, finally seeing His current body.

That enormous figure, thick layers of fat – everything reminded Him: what happened, how did He become so fat!

His worldview shattered in that instant.

Vassago’s pupils shook violently, the whole demon about to split apart, His heart crying out: “Ah ah ah, which Father would like such a fat child!”

He was deeply affected, instantly activating His demon power to reduce His body fat. He absolutely couldn’t let Father see Him in this state, though Father probably had already seen it – how tragic!

The large fat cat’s body gradually shrank, His limbs also changing. When He finally landed on the ground, He miraculously transformed into a different species – becoming a gray and white lynx covered in wildcat patterns!

Witnessing this transformation, Vassago’s pupils suddenly contracted. He then hurriedly went to the mirror, looking left and right, His face revealing undisguised joy.

This lynx form was majestic and imposing, filled with a fierce aura. Those little cats would surely flee in terror when they saw Him!

This was the proper figure and presence befitting His third-ranked position!

Father would surely like this too!

Vassago felt very satisfied with this, and after recognizing His form, He gradually turned His thoughts to important matters.

Yes, after His power awakened, He had unsurprisingly entered the ultimate realm, stepping into the universe’s first echelon.

In the past, when He heard the term “first echelon,” His heart hadn’t stirred much, thinking it was just a vague and casual concept, lacking specific description and definition, unable to feel anything concrete.

However, when He truly entered this level, He deeply experienced that indescribable sense of reality.

The beings of the first echelon could sense each other.

He could release His perception without reservation, reaching every corner of the universe, sensing almost all beings of the same level.

At this moment, He tried to release His perception, slowly feeling this elevated power, as well as His naturally activated abilities.

His mind seemed filled with information about the entire universe. Whatever He wanted to know, as long as it wasn’t too far away, He could know immediately. With just a slight thought, He could change the direction of rivers from afar, even cause mountains to crumble and seas to overturn, destroying entire ecosystems.

At the edge of the universe, He unexpectedly caught His big brother’s aura.

It seemed His big brother had also noticed His transformation, and amid the battle with the God of the Universe, turned His gaze toward the continent where He was.

In the past, His understanding of His big brother’s power had only stayed at the level of hearsay and imagination – knowing He was powerful but not knowing exactly how powerful. But now, after entering the first echelon, He had a more tangible understanding of His big brother’s strength.

Even among the first echelon, where gods and demons gathered, His big brother was that incomparable, terrifying existence that made gods and demons tremble!

Vassago’s heart tightened, and He quickly turned His attention away, not daring to attract His big brother’s notice anymore.

Afterward, Vassago’s gaze penetrated into the depths of dreams, keenly catching His second brother’s aura.

Despite searching for a long time in the past without finding any trace of His second brother, when Vassago’s power climbed to that level, He naturally sensed it without deliberately searching.

His second brother was within the dream, specifically in its deepest part.

There, Second Brother slept quietly, His unfathomable demon power controlling endless dreams, completely isolating the outside world – nothing could approach or interfere.

He really was like the sleeping beauty demon.

Vassago looked toward the edge of the continent and sensed Marbas’s aura.

Marbas hadn’t noticed His observation, probably because Marbas’s power was still one step short.

But it didn’t matter, just a final step’s difference.

Vassago continued gazing forward and indeed saw Samikina’s figure.

Samikina seemed to have foreseen that He would look over, so He turned His head at the right moment, directly meeting Vassago’s gaze.

“Awake now?”

Samikina’s voice was calm and steady, as if welcoming Vassago into this brand new domain.

Vassago’s emotions stirred slightly. He nodded and sighed. “So this is what being in the first echelon feels like.”

It wasn’t just a metaphor, but a real existing gradient of difference.

Any attempt to look up from below couldn’t fully glimpse the complete picture of this position. Only by truly standing in this position could one genuinely appreciate the view here.

With a mere gesture, one could slay gods; with a single thought, destroy entire planets.

When your power reaches such a level, it becomes difficult to maintain normal interactions with ordinary beings like before.

Samikina nodded, saying coolly, “This is just that kind of place. When I arrived here before, I thought Third Brother had already arrived, but unexpectedly, Third Brother wasn’t here.”

Vassago coughed once, “I don’t pursue power that much.”

Samikina said calmly, “Mm, I think that’s quite good. Power isn’t everything.” His words easily led demons to make associations.

Vassago thought of Big Brother.

Samikina said, “It’s different. Big Brother’s pursuit of power, besides instinct and interest, stems more from the trauma of losing Father due to insufficient power back then.”

Vassago paused, His pupils trembling slightly.

Samikina continued narrating, “During those years in the abyss, to protect our more than twenty younger siblings, Big Brother endured too much. The injuries He suffered, the pressure He bore, are beyond what we can imagine.”

“And only by being powerful can one have the strength to protect what one cherishes.”

Yes, no one could deny this point.

Power might indeed not be everything, but without power, everything you have can be very easily taken away.

Losing power means losing everything.

Vassago was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly noticed what was behind Samikina, “You… you’re solving Lelagin’s cube?”

“Yes, it’s a bit difficult, but I can solve it eventually.”

Samikina admitted, raising His eyes toward the cube.

Each face of the cube showed scenes from Lelagin’s memories.

Vassago observed. “For Second Brother, it would probably be just a matter of a single thought, right?”

“Yes, Second Brother is an existence that breaks the rules, even surpassing the God of Wisdom by a level.”

Samikina reminded. “Some things happened while you were asleep, they updated it in the group, you should go check.”

Vassago nodded, just about to turn His gaze away when He suddenly asked, “Speaking of which, Sami, aren’t you going to help Amon?”

Solving the cube wasn’t an urgent matter; in fact, if He wanted to temporarily leave, it wouldn’t be difficult.

Samikina answered. “I think He can handle it.”

Vassago raised an eyebrow, “It’s also part of education, isn’t it?”

Samikina nodded unsurprisingly.

Such a typical demon. Vassago was also helpless with Samikina.

Vassago asked. “By the way, in your view, what’s Second Brother’s situation?”

“Second Brother is asleep, dreaming of Father.”

Samikina seemed to know the exact situation and explained. “Father is both Second Brother’s dream and a real existence. Second Brother used His dream to forcibly connect with Father, but the magic hasn’t completely succeeded yet.”

That was a miracle only achievable through universe-level magic, a miracle only their Second Brother could achieve. If it were merely about reviving a departed life, it wouldn’t require such elaborate measures.

Vassago’s eyes showed astonishment, “Are you sure?”

Samikina nodded, “I asked Him, He said yes.”

Vassago was even more astonished, eyes widening as He said, “Agares actually spoke?”

Samikina was playing with a Rubik’s cube while chatting with Vassago.

“Hmm, even though it was just a projection.”

Vassago sighed with emotion. “It had been a long time since I heard His voice.”

At this point, Samikina seemed to hesitate for a moment, and only said after a few seconds. “Agares cannot say too much, and even more so, cannot think too much.”

“What?”

Vassago was shocked.

Samikina said, “Agares’s thoughts can change the world and alter reality. He’s worried about influencing Father, so He has to sleep and stop Himself.”

Perhaps even Agares had moments when He couldn’t control His thoughts, especially the longing for important people.

“I understand.”

Vassago asked again. “Did Agares tell you anything about the mastermind behind this?”

Samikina shook his head. “I wanted to ask, but He fell asleep again.”

Really, He was both reliable and unreliable.

Vassago grumbled internally, and just as he was about to end the conversation, he suddenly realized that wasn’t this also Agares’s way of monopolizing Father?

No matter what, He was now the closest to Father, right?

The methods of the Demon of Wisdom were truly unfathomable.

“Take it slowly.”

Samikina reminded, “Take good care of Father at home, and when those children don’t behave, you should say more to them. Don’t be like before, loving to be their leader, being even more childish than them.”

Vassago choked a bit, thinking when was he ever their leader?

But no matter how you looked at it, Samikina was a more mature demon than him, hitting every point accurately, and quite brutally too!

Vassago couldn’t refute, so he could only agree.

“I will watch over them, and Father will be protected by me.”

****

Oedipus Empire, around four o’clock.

Xiu Si was tinkering with things in his study, creating many models with additional scenes. Then he continuously extracted experience from failures, and finally caught a spark of inspiration, successfully creating a small ecosystem in his palm.

Its structure was very simple, mainly consisting of land, streams, ocean, and atmospheric circulation.

It looked like a large ecological bottle, but its internal complexity far exceeded ordinary micro-ecosystems. Magic power circulated endlessly within it, making the vegetation lush and full of vitality, emanating an extremely vigorous life force.

The life force manifested as dense green magical power, filling the study with green light, and tinting Xiu Si’s black pupils with some green, showing a jade-like dark green.

Really beautiful. He gazed at this small ecosystem, becoming more and more satisfied the longer he looked, quite reluctant to let it go.

These days, he had been focusing on design and practice, discarding countless drafts before finally succeeding in completing it.

“It’s just a pity that it doesn’t seem stable enough. If I let go now, I estimate it would collapse immediately.”

Haha, at least achieving the first step wasn’t bad.

Xiu Si was in high spirits as he transformed it into a sphere, suspending it near the window of his desk.

As he let go, it indeed dimmed as expected, the greenness greatly reduced, as if half its vitality was gone.

“It still can’t circulate magical power on its own, it needs my guidance.”

Actually, his circulation design theory had no problems, but in reality, it couldn’t automatically circulate continuously like a perpetual motion machine.

This was easy to understand, like when you push a ball, it rolls and rolls, but will eventually stop.

Why? According to Newton’s First Law, when a ball is not acted upon by external forces, it will maintain its state of rest or uniform linear motion.

When he applies a pushing force to the ball, it begins to move, then during the rotation process, the ball is subject to various resistances, including air resistance, ground friction, etc.

These resistances act opposite to the ball’s direction of motion, gradually slowing its speed, causing the ball to lose kinetic energy, which is converted into other forms of energy, such as heat.

Finally, when the ball’s kinetic energy decreases to a certain level and can no longer overcome resistance to continue rotating, it stops.

And his ecosystem followed the same principle.

When the magical power he provided was depleted, it could no longer maintain its ecological balance and stability, stopping circulation and losing vitality.

Following this line of thought, it seemed he only needed to eliminate “resistance” to achieve his ecological circulation.

But with so many organisms in the ecosystem, how could there be no resistance?

Energy consumption must exist, right?

At present, Xiu Si hadn’t thought of an effective automation method.

Coming back to it, it was only after personally designing and implementing it that he truly understood the greatness and complexity of the “planet” system.

Creating a planet-level ecosystem – how much dedication would it require, how much deep contemplation, how much profound wisdom would need to be concentrated? For the current Xiu Si, this was undoubtedly an unreachable grand domain.

However, if he really decided to realize this idea, what conditions would he need to possess?

Xiu Si thought for a while and listed the relevant conditions.

First, he would need enormous magical power sufficient to support the operation of an entire planet – this was the foundation for the ecosystem’s existence.

Second, he would need powerful computing power capable of handling countless large and small systems simultaneously, to ensure precise control of every detail in the ecosystem.

Then, he would also need incredibly powerful spiritual strength to support the output and utilization of magical power, as well as the unlimited consumption of computing power.

Was this difficult?

The answer was, it was too difficult.

It completely exceeded mortal understanding, already belonging to the divine realm.

Even for those gods, this wasn’t something that could be easily achieved.

The Continental Gods were called Continental Gods precisely because They were born from planets.

In other words, planets existed before Them – planets were the mother goddess that gave birth to Them.

There were many gods who could destroy a planet with one strike, but gods who could create planets had never been heard of.

Had the gods never thought about creating one themselves? They surely had. However, they could only modify, not create.

This showed the difficulty of creating planets.

Wait, was he now thinking about doing something that even the gods couldn’t do?