Chapter 580
by fanqienovelChapter 580: The Builders of a New System Are More Despicable Than Usurpers!
“Damn it—!”
“Buzz—!”
With the First Demon God’s curses, furious pressure once again swept through his domain.
The massive round table overturned as surrounding candlesticks, desks, and hanging portraits were dragged into the vortex of divine might, shredded to splinters.
Barbatos was furious!
His assault using the "etheric storm" to drive chaos root systems had been effortlessly neutralized.
Per the temporary etheric serpent’s observations, the rampant roots had nearly all been strangled and pulverized by roots appearing from nowhere. Every target he’d sought to crush escaped unscathed.
His surefire plan had failed yet again.
The Attendants of the God scrambled away in disarray, eyes wide with terror.
Fortunately, their experience allowed preset escape routes. By the time Barbatos’s fury unleashed torrents of divine might, they’d reached relatively safe distances.
At least their Souls wouldn’t be torn apart!
Yet this time, they miscalculated.
A stronger, more explosive "divine might storm" swept through, flattening the wailing Attendants of the God.
In boundless fear, they curled into tight balls, desperate to shield their Souls.
“Ugh…”
“Agh…”
“Spare us!”
They howled and shrieked.
To no avail.
Barbatos paid no heed to these underlings!
His rage was terrifying!
Though…
Mere failure wouldn’t normally enrage him so.
He’d faced countless defeats before.
What truly shattered his composure was his "opponent’s" method—those inexplicable roots!
“What… were those!?”
“They look like… the Fantasy Tree’s root systems…”
“But completely different!”
“Never… have I witnessed such things in the Chaos Swamp Realm!”
“And their aura…”
This time, the temporary etheric serpent clearly perceived that presence and pressure—scorching, greedy, radiating arrogant hunger to devour all existence.
Without a doubt, in the Chaos Swamp Realm…
No, within the Endless Ether, the Primal Wilderness, the Chaos Swamp, and even the vast void, only one Terrifying Deity could be matched.
“Giant God!”
He roared, shouting this deity’s title.
He tried to drown out another emotion welling inside—fear—with roars and fury.
“The Giant God… harbors immense plans!”
“He spreads roots of his own…”
“This means…”
“He cultivates a ‘new domain’ utterly unlike the Fantasy Tree of Subspace or ‘chaos’!”
The so-called “chaos” denotes the “collective” of all Fantasy Trees of Subspace; these trees aren’t literal “trees.”
Rooted in the primordial, stems rising through ether, branches stretching into the void, they link three wholly distinct primal substances. Within their law substance outer skin lies a vast, folded space.
Each “Fantasy Tree leaf” is a flattened expanse where Fire Domain energy boils and reacts, generating massive power that births countless demons.
Countless shards of divine rank emerge there too!
When these vast spaces connect via the Fantasy Tree’s roots, a colossal new domain—nearly as immense as the Chaos Swamp itself—is born!
The Fantasy Tree of Subspace is this new domain, grown from the “Chaos Swamp.”
Deities, demons, and mortals sometimes call it “chaos.”
To Barbatos, this “chaos domain” of interlinked Fantasy Trees formed the bedrock of his control over the Chaos Swamp Realm—the very “system” underpinning his supreme authority!
But now…
Another being was constructing a new system entirely separate from the “chaos domain”!
“What does the Giant God intend!?”
The answer seemed obvious…
At least to the First Demon God.
“That being…”
“…seeks to supplant the entire ‘chaos’ with a ‘new domain’!”
“He…”
“He aims to replace me this way!?”
For a moment, Barbatos felt panic and confusion.
He didn’t even know how to emotionally confront this development.
Though many arrogant fools had previously sought to overthrow him as First Demon God, all were challengers within the “Fantasy Tree of Subspace system.”
The Giant God was unprecedented—attempting to dethrone Barbatos by starting from scratch.
Such effort brought no reward; it seemed pure folly.
Like someone coveting the role of “building manager” who, failing to win it, avoids elections and schemes. Instead, he constructs a new tower nearby, waiting to demolish the old one and force its occupants into his own building…
Let me give another popular example—an emperor created a new Subspace to deal with the four vendors of Subspace. He moved all human emotions into this new space, starving those vendors…
It seemed roundabout and utterly foolish.
Yet once executed, it became terrifyingly effective!
Because this was a brute force ploy to shatter intricate schemes!
At this thought, Barbatos suddenly gained clarity.
Many previously inexplicable matters now made sense.
Like…
Why he’d been so obsessed with the Giant God…
And why his extreme targeting of the Giant God led him to do things other deities saw as humiliating surrender—such as "inviting the deity of the Primal Wilderness" and "inviting the deity of the Endless Ether."
These acts had severely damaged the entire Fantasy Tree of Subspace, yet the Will of Chaos remained unconcerned and still backed Barbatos.
"That creature is an immensely terrifying opponent!"
"He’s using the most dreadful method to cast me, the First Demon God… no, to plunge the entire chaos into eternal ruin!"
If another Chaos Demon God usurped him, Barbatos would merely face exile upon defeat.
Like those fallen demon gods.
Perhaps after millennia, he might reclaim his honor.
But should the Giant God triumph…
Neither chaos nor the First Demon God would remain.
He’d shatter the Chaos Throne itself and impose his own order!
Then Barbatos would truly fall forever.
This logic applied equally to the Fantasy Tree of Subspace.
Allowing deities of the Primal Wilderness and Endless Ether to meddle might cripple the Fantasy Tree. Yet if the Giant God succeeded…
The Fantasy Tree of Subspace would cease to exist!
…
"Hah… hah… hah…"
After a thrilling mental struggle, Barbatos gasped for air.
Cold sweat drenched his brow.
Learning the Giant God’s true purpose brought the First Demon God no relief—only dread. Facing an upheaval unseen since the realm’s birth, Barbatos wrestled with unknown fear.
Against system-born foes, he had experience.
But against an outsider, he confronted pure uncertainty.
Then, fresh turmoil erupted.
"Voom—!"
Powerful pressure swept through the entire Fantasy Tree of Subspace…
A deep voice used a single-syllable “mysterious” language that Barbatos had never heard before. It firmly and powerfully stated a “fact” that seemed destined to happen.
“Po—pen—wa—jiu—mie—jue—!”
These few syllables poured a huge amount of information into Barbatos’s Soul.
They showed him the future that filled him with fear!
In the Chaos Swamp, including the Primal Wilderness now full of ether, there were all kinds of “Fantasy Trees” and “Holy Trees” everywhere. Some were tall, some short, some thin, some thick.
If other deities or “outsiders” saw this, they would see a beautiful scene of “all creatures fighting for freedom in the frost.”
But for Barbatos, this was a messy, chaotic world with no order or respect.
He found it even harder to accept that the “Fantasy Tree of Subspace” was no longer the only one. It wasn’t even the main “Fantasy Tree” anymore. It was lost in a sea of “vibrancy.”
It was just a small part of it all.
The chaos system had completely fallen apart!
“No—!”
The First Demon God roared wildly.
This time, his angry shout carried not just his own will as a deity, but also the furious roar of the Fantasy Tree of Subspace!
Once someone had been an absolute ruler, they would never willingly give up that power!
Losing the top spot and ruling rights was something Barbatos and the Will of Chaos could not stand.
“Since you, Giant God, showed your forces and wanted to fight a total war against me!”
“Then I, Barbatos, the First Demon God of the Chaos Council, with the Will of Chaos backing me, would fight you to the end!”
“I had the whole Chaos Council and countless deities, big and small!”
“I had help from eleven strong core councilors!”
“Whether they liked it or not, they had to stand with me and fight for me!”
“I also had full support from the Fantasy Tree of Subspace!”
“That was the great form of the ‘Will of Chaos,’ with roots spreading all over the Chaos Swamp!”
“The deities of the Primal Wilderness would stand by my side for their own gains too!”
“What did you have?”
“Just yourself!”
“Your spawn only included those pitiful mortal spawns and strange things that were half-deity, half-not!”
“Your allies were just the Star-Eater Plutonium Dragons, who did nothing but chew on Fantasy Trees and had strong defenses!”
“With such a weak setup…”
“How could you fight me!?”
“It was time to give you, this arrogant fool, a taste of your own medicine!”
After weighing the pros and cons, Barbatos finally cheered up.
“You wanted total war!”
“Then I gave you total war!”
“Just watch as I crushed you!”
What the First Demon God called “total war” was better understood by Trilobite as “general warfare.”
Both sides would use all their power to fight until one gave up.
“The first step was to handle those roots you had grown so carefully!”
“That was where the ‘little people’ came in!”