Degrade from Nobility to a Humble Slave

One's body was the carrier of the soul, while the soul was the carrier of the consciousness. If one's body was destroyed, his or her fragile soul would then be exposed to enemy attacks, leading to his or her immediate annihilation. As the soul vanished, so would the consciousness contained in it.

Even if one reached the Holy Soul Realm, the Eternal Realm, or even if they became creatures of the higher-grade worlds, this rule would still apply.

Throughout the entire world, Clarence and Mastema were the only ones who escaped this restriction. Even if their bodies and souls were damaged, their consciousness remained intact. However, right now, Zen and the Evil God had also reached their status and became their equals.

All of them were now at the point of origin, where the concept of space and time did not exist.

Everything had been compressed into an infinitely small point. The pressure was crushing, and no living beings could possibly survive under such harsh circumstances. However, the downgrader was surprised as he discovered that his consciousness still remained.

"Ha-ha!

I did it! I survived it all!

Now, I am the ultimate winner and the only ruler of this world!"

For a while, the downgrader thought that he was the only one who survived.

He was ecstatic as he assumed that he had finally achieved his ultimate goal. He had downgraded the entire world to the World of Nothingness but his consciousness carried on.

With that, he thought that the world was now his belonging, including all substances and energy within it.

At this infinitesimal point, everything felt so crowded, including his own consciousness. He tried to sense his surrounding environment, although technically, the concept of "surroundings" did not exist at the point of origin because everything had been integrated into a single point.

But the moment he sensed his surroundings, he immediately realized that there was a familiar aura near him. In fact, it was attached to him.

"Clarence!

Why are you still alive?"

The downgrader was extremely shocked as he recognized that he wasn't alone.

"Why are you so surprised?" Clarence asked calmly as if he already knew all along.

"What?"

The downgrader couldn't be more astonished at this turn of events. All this time, he thought that he was the only existence at this narrow point of origin, but it turned out that Clarence had also survived along with him. Moreover, it was as if the two of them had become a part of a whole.

Furthermore, as the downgrader was still recovering from the shock of finding out that he was actually with Clarence, he suddenly discovered that there were two more auras around them. After carefully sensing where these auras belonged to, he was even more flabbergasted.

the hell?! How could this be? Why

God didn't respond as the downgrader addressed

of them had clearly sensed each other's

that the four of them co-existed in this cramped point — the downgrader, Clarence, the Evil

was actually a rather abnormal and extremely dangerous situation. All of them, except the downgrader, had partially realized their co-existence much earlier, but they didn't

was because he began to merge with the downgrader. To be exact, he began to devour

Mastema. However, now that the Source Light had dissipated since everything was reduced to the point

his move earlier, Zen and the Evil God also

other since the beginning. At this infinitesimal point of origin, nobody had any room for retreat. They had no other option but to merge and devour each other in order to prevail.

Swoosh!

moment Zen started merging with the Evil God's consciousness, a broad world of memories unfolded in

Shera, his involvement with

consciousness. All of Zen's past experiences were displayed before the Evil God's eyes. The entirety of his long journey from the Eastern Region to

consciousness and absorb him, I have to take in all of his memories!' the Evil God thought as he began

taking in all

I would be replaced

within the Evil God's consciousness,

God's memories as his own, as fast as he could. But when he continued to do so, he was briefly stopped by a surprising

found out that he already possessed most of the memories from the earlier life of

Evil God exploring the Source World after leaving his inner world. This was because he had once subdued the Evil God after he rebelled against him.

was a creature from his inner world,

the Evil God's earlier life so that he would be able to deal with him. Therefore, since he already saw the majority of the Evil God's memories,

to take in Zen's memories, he fell behind quickly because he had never pried into Zen's memories before. Besides, even when they shared the broken Source World as the primitive land, the omniscient

gap just grew larger

God took in about half of Zen's memories, Zen had almost completely absorbed all of the Evil God's memories.

sense of loss in his mind. It was as if he began losing his memories. Slowly but steadily,

This can't be! I won't be defeated!

the Evil God began to completely lose

had been

of acquiring memories right from the beginning. No matter how intelligent he was,

Anger, resentment, and agony…

his remaining emotions as his consciousness fleeted little

just suddenly ended as if

time, what emerged in place of it was