CHAPTER 480: CHAPTER 234: ENNIE: STUDENT SHIAYAR, I HEARD YOU BECAME A DAD? (DOUBLE LENGTH)

Abyss, Garden of Eden.

In the distance, there is a lake and a grassland, further away is a forest, and at the end of the forest are the faintly visible snow-capped mountains.

By the lake stands a simple yet elegant lakeside manor.

Beside the lake, the sea of pure white flowers sways with the breeze, bringing waves of fragrance.

Because Shiayar often goes out roaming, sometimes for decades or even centuries at a time.

So, upon returning to the Empire Capital, Shiayar transferred the highest management authority of the Garden of Eden to Enola herself, while he went out and about alone.

And after deciding to head to the First Era with Shiayar, Enola also gathered the Garden of Eden into the Sacred Spear, taking it along to the First Era.

For this reason, even at the bottom of the abyss, Shiayar and the others can still enjoy life in the Garden of Eden anytime.

According to Shiayar, since he had already been locked away in the cold and lonely abyss for five hundred years, if he didn’t enjoy himself a little, he feared he might really succumb to a condition of despair.

Shiayar faced the pure white sea of flowers, lazily leaning on a deck chair.

A small white ferret was also curled up on his abdomen, like a fluffy snow-white furball.

Click, click.

The white wooden rocking chair under the eaves made a cheerful sound.

The soft late autumn sunlight filtered through the treetops, and the breeze crossed the distant lake, blowing gently upon him.

Golden, tranquil time quietly slipped away just like that.

Just like the countless serene afternoons Shiayar and Silver had spent in the Garden of Eden.

Until a certain moment, Shiayar slowly opened his eyes.

And on his abdomen, the small white ferret also opened its beastly eyes which were like red rubies.

Shiayar petted the ferret, using Silver as a warm cushion on his belly.

He once again lazily sank into the white wooden rocking chair, swaying back and forth, click, click.

And within Shiayar’s spirit ocean.

At this moment, layer upon layer of tides were ceaselessly surging.

Laden with immense thoughts and calculations, helping Shiayar summarize and analyze the gains and losses of recent plans.

The first plan executed after entering the First Era, from layout to execution and wrap-up, took Shiayar a full five years to complete.

One could only say that with the rise in rank of Shiayar and those around him, the things they came in contact with and the level of adversaries have increased, making the concept of time itself somewhat blurry.

A little planning and preparation could span several years or even decades, and achieving objectives in ten days to half a month like in the weaker days no longer seemed realistic.

However—

All in all.

These five years were not wasted for Shiayar.

The infiltration plan he conceived was quite successful, with all the original targets smoothly achieved.

Using the trait that "deities become powerful through faith, but are also constrained by faith itself."

He gradually changed the perception of deities among those unremarkable God Worshipping Nations’ believers.

Thus, allowing his own will to penetrate into the divine souls of some deities.

Then, using more precise spiritual power operations, aided by Silver’s illusion techniques, he completed the transformation of their divine core.

In the process of using his spiritual power to corrode the divine core, tainting the once pure divinity with Shiayar’s colors, he also gained further understanding of fabled creatures, or rather, this form of deities.

In the past, although Shiayar had dealings with deities, those interactions were in the Third Era and Fourth Epoch, when the Age of Gods had long waned, and humans dominated the land.

And those Evil Gods Shiayar opposed were either like the Ancient God of Twilight in the Ancient Dukedom Azure Garden, merely a half-descended entity sealed for ages, or in a war-damaged half-crippled state, like the Crimson Red Moon in the Echo of History of Escarnia, scarcely a complete entity.

Shiayar had never truly opposed or engaged with deities in their peak times, walking the earth in full flourish.

Even though Shiayar is confident in his current strength, as the saying goes, "Know yourself and know your enemy and you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat," if the divine war is inevitable afterward, all he can do is to make all necessary preparations before the battle, fully master all information about the opponent.

Then, push the win rate to the highest.

And what method of intelligence gathering could be more efficient than having a deity willingly open all defenses and resistance, showing Shiayar their divine core and weaknesses, actively explaining the structure and flaws of deities?

It can be said that in the "know your enemy" aspect of "know yourself and know your enemy," Shiayar has done it to the extreme, while the vast majority of deities know nothing about him.

Most fabled creatures’ impressions of Shiayar remain from the accounts of the Golden Elf, and even now, they are uncertain if he still lives...

And a very few deities, like Abundance, who have some insights into the Glorious Era, the Lost Island, and the enigmatic changes of the abyss, merely speculate that Shiayar might be related to the Lost Island and is currently still lurking in the abyss.

No one could foresee that he has already awakened.

Moreover—he had long extended his reach into the Main Material Plane.

The above is only Shiayar’s first plan objective achieved thus far.