ATPnovel #168 - Chapter 168 The Battle of Two Wills
#168 - Chapter 168 The Battle of Two Wills
Just as the Endless Abyss was about to use its power to drag Tess Flowerwhisper's soul into its depths, Tess, in her despair, began to pray to the Mother of Nature, whom she served.
"Mother of Nature..."
"Save me!"
Tess cried out in the depths of despair.
This was the last thing she could do before she and her soul were swallowed by the Abyss.
And a miracle truly happened!
The instant Tess finished speaking, a collective consciousness, as ancient as the Endless Abyss, noticed everything happening in this corner of the world.
In an instant, the tentacles of the Endless Abyss, which were dragging Tess and her soul, were met with a counterattack from the Mother of Nature!
"!"
"!"
Although these two enormous consciousnesses could not speak, it did not mean they had no 'thoughts'.
The moment they discovered each other, they immediately began to fight!
However, the purpose and meaning of their struggle were slightly different.
The Endless Abyss, as a vast consciousness, was fighting for ownership of its 'prey'.
It was like a giant, multi-clawed beast, angrily snatching what it considered its prey from the other's grasp.
The Mother of Nature was somewhat different.
Because the so-called prey in the eyes of the Endless Abyss was, in the truest sense, her 'child'!
[Nature Spirits], especially high-level Nature Spirits, were completely different beings to the Mother of Nature compared to ordinary beings close to nature!
If ordinary beings close to the Mother of Nature were like adopted children whom she neither particularly liked nor disliked, then high-level Nature Spirits were like her own beloved children!
Their roles and treatment were completely different!
So, the instant the Mother of Nature sensed someone vying for ownership of Tess Flowerwhisper's soul, she felt not anger, but rage!
Boom!
In an instant, the consciousnesses of these two behemoths collided within the small room.
Everything in the room was wildly distorted by the collision of these two forces.
At times, under the influence of the Endless Abyss, they transformed into grotesque and disgusting living creatures.
At others, they reverted to their original forms as pure natural energy swept through.
Some of the original natural creations even became more valuable due to the excessive natural energy.
However, as the struggle intensified, these items could no longer maintain their forms.
They gradually transformed into existences that defied accurate description due to the collision of the two energies.
Amidst all this, the runes that had 'come alive' due to the abyssal aura were directly transformed into calm, natural runes by the powerful aura of the Mother of Nature.
Instead of helping the Endless Abyss to seize Tess's soul, they helped the Mother of Nature to protect Tess and her avatar's soul.
A verdant passage appeared within the spatial rift, connecting Tess and her avatar.
At that moment, Tess Flowerwhisper, who had been suffocating under the Abyss's constraints, suddenly realized she was free!
Even if it was just for now, she was still free.
So, upon realizing this, she immediately began to save herself, doing everything possible to escape the clutches of the Endless Abyss.
As a result, the Endless Abyss found it increasingly difficult to control her.
Such was the power of the Mother of Nature!
Even in the face of the terrifying Endless Abyss, her majesty remained...
Unfortunately, there was no time to utter words praising the Mother of Nature.
Because the Endless Abyss, upon realizing its prey was slipping further away, also shifted from anger to rage.
This vast consciousness did not adopt the same attack method as the Mother of Nature.
It did not seem to have the powerful manipulation ability to directly establish a passage between two different worlds.
So, it adopted the most clumsy, primitive, but equally effective method of attacking.
It condensed the darkness within the Endless Abyss and injected it into the Mother of Nature, attempting to destroy her resistance and will!
The instant the Endless Abyss did this, terrifying mutations occurred simultaneously in all the planes within the Natural Children Alliance.
"Ahhh!"
"I, I'm in so much pain!"
"Oh god, monsters, monsters are about to descend!"
"Hahaha, the destruction has begun, we are all going to die!"
In countless territories, the natural beings with the weakest wills and the strongest connections to the Mother of Nature suddenly went collectively insane.
Before the astonished eyes of countless lords, these originally normal natural beings transformed into complete lunatics.
They shouted about the impending doom and the arrival of demons, futilely venting their pain.
Some lords even observed that some natural beings were tearing the skin off their bodies alive due to the extreme pain!
However, compared to these less important natural beings, the lords paid more attention to another matter.
A major event that truly affected the entire Natural Children Alliance.
That was, the golden World Tree planted by the Natural Children Alliance shed its first withered leaf at the moment these natural beings went mad.
"What..."
"...happened?"
All the high-ranking members of the Natural Children Alliance were pondering this question.
Meanwhile, the struggle between the Mother of Nature and the Endless Abyss had also come to an end.
Their battle had a victor.
And the victor among them was.....