Wizard: Stronger through Marriage Chapter 1170 - 540: Twin Choices (Part 2)

Everything we have done.

In the end, whose road are we paving?"

Cynthia nodded.

"This hidden clause means that.

When an individual or a collective attains a certain state of ’Divinity unification’ that transcends the shackles of spacetime.

They do not simply gain freedom.

Instead, they are brought by the system under a High Tier civilization’s ruling framework.

The ’civilization takeover’ is automatically executed by the Observer system."

The air suddenly turned heavy and oppressive.

As if a thousand weights were pressing down from above.

The ghostly blue radiance in David’s eyes gradually deepened.

On his face, thought and worry intertwined.

"This doesn’t seem to be the ultimate liberation we imagined.

It’s a higher-tier, more complex new shackle." he murmured.

"But...

The gene entropy value in my body.

Happens to coincide with this number, 7.2."

When he said this.

His fingers clasped tightly around the Rune on the Seven-Ring Mage coronet at his chest.

The Rune gave off a subtle tremor.

As if responding to the ripple of information deep within his heart.

Fine beads of sweat seeped from his forehead.

It was not mere exhaustion.

But the Soul’s repeated violent convulsions in the face of the truth of fate.

Reina noticed something was wrong with him.

She reached out and gripped his shoulder.

Her voice was soft yet unyielding:

"No matter how cold and cruel the rules are.

We have to stay alive.

We must break free of the shackles.

And seize our own destiny."

Cynthia adjusted the frequency of the mental link.

While at the same time planning the next countermeasure:

"If this hidden program is triggered.

We will face the risk of being fully integrated, alienated into data nodes, even losing our subjectivity.

But since your gene entropy value matches 7.2.

Perhaps you are the one chosen who can trigger or intervene in this critical node of ’civilization handover’."

The space suddenly fell into an abnormal silence.

Only the sound of their breathing and the faint creaking from the trembling branches of the Chaos Ancient Tree in the distance could be heard.

Time seemed frozen.

Every second was like a sharp blade slicing through the softest part of the Soul.

In this moment.

The inner world of each of them was undergoing a once-in-an-era, brutally merciless trial—

Can they withstand that judgment of truth which touches the very essence of existence?

After a long silence.

David withdrew his gaze.

His eyes swept over the two of them with firm resolve:

"Since fate has pushed me to this node.

I will not sit here waiting to die.

No matter what the outcome.

I will break through this hidden rule.

And open a new path for all the awakened!"

Light shimmered in the tears at the corners of Reina’s eyes.

Yet she couldn’t help but smile:

"This is my choice.

And it is our vow.

We will never abandon one another.

We will reach the far shore together!"

Cynthia nodded.

Using steady coolness to cover the surge within.

"Get ready.

No matter how unpredictable the future may be.

We must first seize the initiative.

From this moment on.

Every step is critical!"

At this moment.

They stood back-to-back at the center of the throne hall.

The towering Information Ancient Tree loomed over the surrounding space like a guardian tower.

The intelligent Flame scattered among its leaves cast a red glow over their faces.

And also lit up their will—tenacious and blazing like stars burning—unbowed Souls.

Just then.

The holographic screen suddenly displayed a new burst of data jumps—

It was a strange and complex sequence of data.

Rolling and shifting at an unimaginable speed.

Every number and symbol seemed alive.

Stirring concentric ripples in their minds.

This stream of information faintly formed a kind of quantum wavefunction diffraction pattern.

And at its center it actually pointed toward...

"My quantum state..." David muttered to himself.

His voice carried incredulity and caution.

"It’s reaching the critical threshold...

This state might become the key either to breaking through the blockade or to completely losing myself..."

His fist clenched tight.

The pressure rising from within made his body tremble slightly.

Yet his face was inscribed with only two words—no retreat, only advance.

He turned and looked toward the information network spreading out from the roots of the Void Great Tree.

Endless branches stretched like tendrils.

Enfolding them within.

This was at once a shelter and a seal.

And even more, a web of riddles awaiting unraveling.

"We are about to enter the true endgame phase." Cynthia analyzed calmly.

"The environment is riddled with uncertainty.

But only by understanding and harnessing these mechanisms

do we have any chance of reversing the situation

and achieving true self-sovereignty!"

Time flowed by, slow and silent.

Yet for the three of them,

every second was the hottest furnace in which will was forged.

Against the vast backdrop of the Cosmos’ cognitive structure about to be reshuffled,

they had become the crucial fulcrum bearing the balance between hope and destruction.

This burden nearly tore all softness apart,

but it also forged bodies of peerless tenacity and courage...

Outside the throne hall,

endless Star Domains were shrouded in a treacherous Mist.

Forces visible and invisible were beginning to stir.

And here,

was the one place where, on the eve of the final clash between old and new order, dreams and faith could still burn without restraint...

Obsidian chains coiled around the crown,

working in tandem with the ghostly blue Flame.

They radiated a dazzling, brilliant glow in the night.

The Chaos Ancient Tree towered into the sky,

its roots plunging into the edge of the infinite void.

The new life it had nurtured had long since scattered,

transformed into tens of thousands of sparks of wisdom flying outward...

Inside the throne hall,

the air seemed to have solidified into the Crystal of time.

The roots of the Chaos Ancient Tree writhed slowly in the void.

The ghostly blue Flame between its branches gradually shifted in hue,

like the veins of life coursing through a hidden undertow.

David stood at the center.

Each of his breaths seemed to pulse in sync with the Energy Waves of this vast space.

His heartbeat was as fierce as a star erupting.

Reina and Cynthia stayed close by his side.

They knew all too well

that this moment

was when all cycles and struggles converged into a crossroads of fate.

Suddenly,

the Chaos Ancient Tree began to tremble violently.

The boundless phosphorescent data-light that had suffused it gathered swiftly toward the center of the trunk.

A fissure spread along the branches,

like a scar tearing open the void.

That scar gradually revealed two utterly different colors—

on one side, a pure, dazzling platinum radiance

that carried a solemn, sacred aura;

on the other, a deep, shadowy darkness, rippling with uncanny violet patterns.

"This is..." Reina’s eyes changed abruptly.

She reached out and gently touched the place where platinum and dark purple intertwined and fused,

only to feel a strange and subtle instability at her fingertips.

Her breathing quickened.

"The Chaos Ancient Tree has split itself into a twin-born form.

These two forces, mutually contradictory yet inseparable...

they are concretizing the struggle within our hearts."

David fixed his gaze on that twin-born form in the torn space.

His brows knit tightly,

a trace of pain and resolve crossing his face in tangled layers.

He slowly closed his eyes,

drawing all Perception down into the depths of his heart.

The ghostly blue Flame within him burned even fiercer,

like a falling star incinerating every shackle of destiny.

"I have to make a choice."

His voice was low yet firm.

"To seize control of this vast, intricate, cold and merciless yet near-perfect Observer system,

to bring the entire Multiverse under ordered governance;

or to cast aside the old rules,

to forge an entirely new order,

so that true free will can be born and endure."

The air seemed to tremble with his exhalation.

Every word carried an inescapable weight.

He opened his eyes.

The vortex-like ghostly blue light shining there reflected a Soul that refused to yield in the darkest moment before dawn.

And at that very instant, a subtle change stirred around Reina—

her entire body was shrouded by the Absolute Zero Domain.

This was the extreme-cold Domain Law she had tempered through years of arduous cultivation.

Yet now,

this Domain actually showed signs of melting—

the once crystal-clear, bone-chilling power began to reveal a fragmented fluctuation,

as fragile and unstable as thin ice beginning to thaw.

She clenched her jaw,

forcing herself to stabilize the Law’s Energy,

yet still could not suppress the faint, spreading unease.

"This is pressure,

a new power attempting to erode our foundations."

She spoke in a low voice to Cynthia and David.

"We must be even more cautious.

If it slips out of control,

it won’t just be me—

the entire system will plunge into catastrophe."

Cynthia frowned,

quickly adjusting the mental-link interface

and feeding the latest data back to the two of them.

"According to the monitoring,

this phenomenon stems from a resonance-frequency clash in the information generated by the Chaos Ancient Tree’s split.

It tests not only our adaptability to physical Laws,

but is also a challenge to the very Limit of our cognition."

David stepped forward toward that expanding, iridescent Energy Field.