Chapter 458: Chapter 460: The Web in Consciousness, The Usurper! Chapter 458: Chapter 460: The Web in Consciousness, The Usurper! Chen Mo was comparing various data, and as a leader, he naturally had to take part in the battle. Food was critical, and this was why he and Duke Baishuang took turns, rotating duties. Otherwise, such overwork would eventually be fatal, unlike Qin Muye, who wasn’t human.
While observing the progress, Chen Mo suddenly felt the world was very quiet.
This instantly woke him up because, with the existence of the Mind Network, such silence was absolutely impossible.
“Child, sleep… danger will stay away from you.”
The abrupt voice echoed in his mind, clearer this time, and not as vague as before, which alarmed him completely.
Just when he stood up to call out for someone, he felt his consciousness keep dropping, and everything before him turned dark, as if he had fallen off a cliff.
By the time he regained his senses, he realized that the surroundings had gone through a massive change.
He carefully observed his surroundings: all was dark, yet a faint light glowed beneath his feet, not from the ground but from a series of white luminescent lines spreading out like a spiderweb.
However, he couldn’t see what was at the center of the web, only a mass of darkness dispersing continuously.
“Where exactly am I?” Chen Mo tried to move, but found he couldn’t, as if he was just a node on this spiderweb.
“Of course, you are in your mind.” A cold and resentful voice suddenly emerged from behind him.
“Who?!” He spun around, but he saw nothing, only the spiderweb emitting a faint glow.
“Heh, are you looking for me?”
As the voice spoke, Chen Mo suddenly felt something moving behind him, pulling his body to move involuntarily.
A pain struck the back of his head, and then he realized he seemed to be connected to something, much like conjoined twins.
He naturally knew about conjoined twins; the inherited Knowledge had it that, generally, as long as they did not share organs, the Gendaya Civilization could easily separate them.
But clearly, his condition was not that of conjoined twins, but something far more complex.
Soon, he saw a head extending from his neck, a face he was very familiar with–it was his own.
“Your Mother Goddess has been really kind to you, stealing my identity to make you a Lord, but alas… your so-called Mother Goddess underestimated ‘Lord Era.’ The title was given to you, but you can only watch, not use. Frustrated, are you?” The face said with deep hatred as it gazed at the third eye on the other’s forehead.
He was the real Lord*Chen Mo, not Three-eyed Clan*Chen Mo.
“Are you me? No, who is the Mother Goddess?” Three-eyed Clan*Chen Mo instantly reacted, understanding why he didn’t have the corresponding authority.
“Heh, guess.” Lord*Chen Mo scoffed and then remained silent.
But Three-eyed Clan*Chen Mo was no fool. In the Gendaya Civilization, there was only one known as the Mother Goddess: Survival and Reproduction.
His eyes were drawn to the shapeless darkness at the center of the web.
“She must be there, then. So this web must be the Mind Network, right?” Three-eyed Tribe*Chen Mo was much calmer than Lord*Chen Mo, as he had grown rapidly and, due to his experiences, was naturally more composed.
“Perhaps, but you all are doomed,” said Lord*Chen Mo bitterly.
Although he was suppressed at the lowest level, he still knew about the recent happenings, since this body’s true owner was him, not Three-eyed Clan*Chen Mo.
So whether it was the disappearance of the sun or the madness of the Divine, he knew it all. He could even manipulate his territory here, but he hadn’t done anything to avoid being discovered.
But with the development of the Mind Network and the arrival of the Gendaya Mother Goddess, he no longer had any chance unless Qin Muye intervened to save him; otherwise, he was surely destined to die.
He was aware of that much.
“Does the Mother Goddess want to see me or let me take over you?” Three-eyed Tribe*Chen Mo also figured out where his missing memories had gone–they were with Lord*Chen Mo.
So, theoretically, his birth was not entirely complete.
“Don’t leave the cradle, beware of the Abyss, beware of the Abyss~”
“I will eliminate all dangers for you~”
The ethereal voice kept echoing in this dark space, and Three-eyed Clan*Chen Mo’s expression changed as he decisively asked, “The Abyss, what is the Abyss?”
However, the Gendaya Mother God did not respond, seemingly only instinctively reminding.
On the contrary, Lord*Chen Mo burst into laughter, a manic kind of laughter.
“What do you know? Speak up! Tell the truth, and I’ll let you off!” Three-eyed Clan*Chen Mo could only turn his weapon and aim it at the Lord*Chen Mo who was connected with him.
“Do you know about the other Lord?” Lord*Chen Mo, having laughed enough, spoke with schadenfreude.
“I know, you traded a great deal to revive your bloodline awakening, I…”
“Understand one thing, I don’t actually have the bloodline of the Three-eyed Clan, this bloodline was a reward from a mission, and you don’t even know the opponent, you just heard some things from priest Blyke, didn’t you?” Lord*Chen Mo interrupted him.
“Do you think you know everything? Do you know what ‘Lord Era’ is? Do you know what troop types and Hero units are? You don’t know. You are just an impostor; that’s why you have no rights. Now, your so-called Mother Goddess wants to make you a true Lord.”
“Unfortunately, ‘Lord Era’ was underestimated!”
Listening to Lord*Chen Mo’s words, Three-eyed Clan*Chen Mo felt increasingly uneasy.
“Do you mean the Abyss is related to that Lord?” Three-eyed Clan*Chen Mo calmed his mind, then quickly asked.
“Do you think I would tell you that? I prefer to watch you die without knowing anything, because if prepared, you might just turn the tables,” Lord*Chen Mo said mockingly.
Fortunately, Three-eyed Clan*Chen Mo knew that this was not the time to get angry; thank goodness this was all in the mind, for if it were the real world, his blood pressure might have soared.
“Mother Goddess, how should I merge with him?” Three-eyed Clan*Chen Mo knew that it was impossible to make the other party speak, so he might as well pull the rug from under him by merging directly, and then, when the memories returned, everything would be clear.
But the Gendaya Mother God didn’t respond because She has no self-awareness, only rules and logic, an issue well outside Her responsibilities, so naturally, She could not answer.
The warning was already beyond the norm, and even his arrival was because of Lord*Chen Mo.
She might not respond but that doesn’t mean She couldn’t take action; the entire Mind Network vibrated, as if a giant spider at the center of a cobweb was moving towards them.
Each vibration caused the linked duo to experience pain.
Lord*Chen Mo’s body was constantly pulled into Three-eyed Clan*Chen Mo’s body.
This was a merging, albeit dominated by Three-eyed Clan*Chen Mo for the Gendaya Mother Goddess was the deity of the Three-eyed Tribe, naturally favoring the Three-eyed Clan over the Lord*Chen Mo.
Once the merging was successfully completed, Chen Mo would fully become a Three-eyed Tribe member, no longer the former Lord.
“You won’t die well, you won’t die well!!!” Lord*Chen Mo cursed madly, full of impotent rage, which was indeed the case, for he had no power to resist.
As the vibrations intensified, Lord*Chen Mo’s voice grew fainter until only his head was left hanging on Three-eyed Clan*Chen Mo’s neck.
When the head was finally dragged in, everything settled into silence.
A flood of memories surged out, turning Three-eyed Clan*Chen Mo into the true Chen Mo.
As he looked up, he saw a tall humanoid figure standing in the darkness. Though the specifics were unclear, the outline suggested a female form, and the most distinguishing feature was the eye on Her forehead.
“Mother Goddess?” As soon as Chen Mo spoke, he felt a moment of dizziness; when he regained his senses, he had returned to the real world. If not for the memories and the Lord’s authority he had gained, he might suspect it had all been an illusion.
From this moment on, the situation would no longer be as passive as before, for he had now obtained a complete Lord identity.