I Ascend to the Divine Throne through Arcane Means

"This..."

Lis suddenly remembered Demogorgon's identity and had a faint suspicion in his heart.

"Could those Elf Legends really have been taken to the Endless Abyss?"

Although Legendary Strongmen are very powerful, even capable of countering the avatars of gods, this condition is predicated on being within Gaia World.

Beyond that, neither a Different Plane nor a small world has enough strength to restrict the descent of a god's might.

As for the Endless Abyss, there is even less need to mention, for it is the most chaotic, evil, and disordered place, with no restriction on the power of All Gods.

Even if an entire layer of the Abyss Plane was completely destroyed, the will of the Abyss wouldn't care but would instead tempt gods to accept the baptism of Abyss Power, guiding them to fall into the Chaotic Camp.

"What a hassle!"

Lis's expression turned serious as he prepared to head to the Elf Royal Court.

The reason for informing the Elf Gods about what had happened at the Elf Royal Court was to restrain Demogorgon's actions as much as possible.

Logically, it was impossible for Demogorgon to withstand an attack from the Elf Gods simultaneously, even with the greatly weakened power of gods in the Gaia World, and that Demon Prince could certainly not manage such a feat.

Yet for some reason, Lis always felt that Demogorgon's schemes would not be so simple.

Even if in the early stages he somehow managed to conceal his moves from both the Elf Kingdom and the Elf Gods, with his extremely meticulous mind, he would surely have backups ready to deal with the possible intervention of the Elf Gods.

The good news, however, was that Lis's goal was not to defeat Demogorgon; he simply wanted to rescue Cecil as quickly as possible.

Having the Elf Gods restrain Demogorgon was indeed the best option.

"Follow me, Angela!"

Lis's body turned into a shadowy figure, swiftly heading in the direction of the Elf Royal Court.

Angela, now in the form of Little Bat, responded and closely followed behind Lis.

Being by Lis's side, Angela couldn't even bother to think why she was doing this.

Whoever Lis said they were going to fight, that was enough; with Lord Burns around, there was really no worry about running into any trouble!

...

Above the world of Gaia, in the Divine Realm Avando,

The Divine Realm Avando was a great divine realm caressed by eternal verdure and dazzling radiance, a place where the souls of elves rest eternally.

More importantly, it was the divine realm of Correlon Larysian, the Elf Main God.

Here, there was a boundless emerald forest with trees soaring high into the clouds and dense foliage intertwining to form natural palaces of green. Sunlight filtered through the dense canopy, casting mottled patterns of light and shadow reminiscent of the elves' nimble dances, leaping and spinning upon the earth. The air was permeated with the fragrance of flowers and the freshness of herbs; each breath seemed to cleanse the soul's dust.

Here, time seemed to flow more leisurely, each beam of light brimming with the secrets of life, each bird song weaving a hymn to nature.

Countless elven Prayer approached silently throughout the divine realm, offering their most sincere faith to the Main God Correlon.

As the ruler of the Elf God System, Avando was surrounded at its core by other elf divine realms, shining like the brightest star among them.

"Correlon!"

From a divine realm enveloped in silvery moonlight, the consciousness of Goddess Fenrir swiftly spread.

In just a few moments, the whole Divine Realm Avando instantly brightened, a golden radiance enveloping all the elf divine realms in the area.

The powerful consciousness, along with the golden light, rapidly descended towards the vast Gaia World below, accompanied by several beings of Medium Divine Power, such as the Winged Elf Goddess Shahani, Wild Elf and God of Forest Rilifen, the God of Mischief and Wanderers Eriven, and the Moon and Guardian Goddess Fenrir.

Beyond that, the gaze of the Elf Gods was directed toward the location of the Elf Royal Court in the Gaia World.

Such actions by the Elf God System naturally did not escape the notice of other gods residing above Gaia World.

They were all curious what matter had provoked such a large portion of the Elf God System during such a sensitive and unpredictable time in the future of Gaia World.

Especially the Elf Main God Correlon, who, although becoming increasingly irritable over the past thousand years, leading to numerous conflicts with other gods,

made many divine beings speculate that Correlon was beginning to shift from the Order Camp to the Chaotic Camp, although this didn't mean that his considerable divine strength was affected.

Moreover, many among the Elf Gods belong to the Chaotic Camp, and such changes, like that seen in Correlon, are not uncommon.

...

In the Gaia World, outside the Elf Royal Court,

Lis and Cecil were rushing towards the Elf Royal Court; Lis was racing against time, trying to increase the chances of safely rescuing Cecil, even by just a fraction.

By now, Lis could already see the location of the Elf Royal Court from afar.

Just like when he had first arrived at the Elf Royal Court, the place appeared peaceful and tranquil through Lis's eyes, seemingly unchanged from before.

Logically speaking, the interior of the Elf Royal Court should have been completely destroyed and turned into a sea of blood, with a very dense Abyss Breath filling the city. Even from this distance, Lis should have been able to perceive something.

However, Lis hadn't noticed anything unusual at the moment.

And that eerie yet real illusion, it seemed like the entire Elf Royal Court was hidden by an extremely powerful force.

What power could achieve this?

Lis, while hurrying, began rapidly pondering in his mind.

He had previously had direct contact with an incarnation and had not managed to pass through the periphery of the Elf Royal Court, so he wasn't very familiar with the situation there.

Lis was certain that, in addition to the Abyss Blood Tree, there must be other setups there.

Although the Elf Gods might have tied down Demogorgon, Lis would still need to confront the remaining challenges.

What kind of transcendent power could realize such a phenomenon?

Lis searched through his knowledge of magic, quickly looking for any possibly related power.

Soon, a name appeared in Lis's mind.

Mystery Lock!

Yes, it was very likely the Mystery Lock!

Lis's spirits lifted; the special power enveloping the Elf Royal Court could very well be the Mystery Lock, and even the real illusion before might have been constructed relying on the same Mystery Lock of the Elf Royal Court.

The Mystery Lock is created by Legendary Magic, encompassing all permanent Magic Barriers or Domains. It is the pinnacle achievement in Magic Arrays.

Lis was not unfamiliar with this, as he had previously come across a Mystery Lock.

It was in his domain, on the Azela Floating City, where a Mystery Lock had been arranged by the Legendary Arcanist of the Nasery Magic Empire.

That Mystery Lock exhibited more of a capability to hide traces, allowing the Azela Floating City to go undetected for long years until Lis's great-grandfather found it by accident.

Of course, the Mystery Lock on the Azela Floating City might not have been fully activated, and whether it possesses other abilities was also unclear to Lis.

However, Lis had obtained knowledge about the Mystery Lock from an Advanced Magic Book in the Azela Great Library, which mentioned that the creators of this high-level magic technology were the ancient elves, a masterpiece among Elf High Magic Skills.

Mystery Lock Dialis and Wunor were the initial Mystery Lock areas created by the elves.

Although that magic book didn't specifically mention whether the Elf Royal Court Zhonuo City had a Mystery Lock Barrier, considering such an important area, the Elf Kingdom definitely would have set up the most powerful protective forces there.

It wouldn't be surprising if there were a Mystery Lock.

The Mystery Lock Barrier is quite special, in some sense as long as there is sufficient magical power, the rules inside the barrier can be drastically altered.

Forming the kind of illusion Lis experienced is not impossible; Mystery Lock Iska is a similar type of illusion Mystery Lock.

If that's the case, then undoubtedly the Mystery Lock of the Elf Royal Court had been fully activated, and attempting to enter from the outside might be quite difficult.

The only question was what unique rules the Mystery Lock of the Elf Royal Court might have after being altered by Demogorgon, and he hoped they wouldn't be too troublesome!

It was at this moment that Lis suddenly noticed the sky above the Elf Royal Court shattering like glass, as a Longsword burning with blazing golden flames descended towards the Elf Royal Court with an unstoppable momentum.

"Demogorgon!!!"

With a surge of extreme rage and hatred, a voice that shook the entire world rang out beside Lis's ears.