Grace's eyes were covered with pure white cloth.

Although her vision was obscured, she clearly sensed Louis' presence, looked up at him, and said:

"Do not be surprised, Mr. Caesar, our reunion here is not due to genuine emotion."

After a brief pause, she softly added, "At least not on both sides. Our meeting here is merely because there is a deeper connection between us."

"Even in a dream, I dislike riddlers," Louis said, looking down at Grace. "Regardless of your reason for being here, you surely have your own reason, so..."

He lifted the saintess's pure chin with his hand, calmly asking:

"So, Grace, what do you want to tell me?"

"Beware the dark side of the Love God, but do not fear Him, for He has His fate."

"I said I dislike riddlers, right."

"Mr. Caesar, I also want to tell you that, but now is really not the time."

"Then... it is time to wake up from the dream."

"Yes, take care, Mr. Caesar, wherever you are, whatever you may face, please stay safe."

In an instant, everything in front of him turned upside down.

In the blink of an eye, all before him turned to ash.

Louis felt a moment of disorientation.

Upon waking again, he only felt more drowsy.

The night had passed.

The bright morning sunlight spilled onto the bed.

After a moment, he felt a slight discomfort in his body, carefully checked, and finally looked at his pants in silence, feeling a bit embarrassed and annoyed.

Young indeed, filled with fiery energy.

No, why did such an embarrassing thing happen?

And clearly it was plain, why did he wake up feeling like it was wild?

It was difficult to understand, he could only quietly clean himself up.

Fortunately, he still had magic.

After a thorough cleaning, he placed the dried clothes into a storage bag.

When he stepped outside again, there was no abnormality on his face.

Yet doubts still rose in his heart.

As someone who rarely dreams, each time he fell asleep it often came with a "warning."

He had to be on guard!

Especially since in less than a week's time, he fell into dreams twice, and both were related to the dark side of the Love God, heightening his sense of foreboding.

What did Grace mean in the dream by warning against the dark side of the Love God, yet not fearing it?

Remembering this made him rather helpless.

A very real truth, even though he was comparable to a demigod, if the dark side of the Love God truly emerged and took form from belief, it would undoubtedly be a divine life, a divine realm entity even.

Otherwise, it could not explain why it combined with the Mad King to become one of the seven calamities.

How powerful a divine realm entity could be, others might not know, but he did!

Even a relatively weaker entity like the Desolate Bone Monarch could oppress him using a divine incarnation, forcing him to use all his means and allies to slay it.

How terrifying might those stronger ones be?

Think of the terrifying aura sensed during the Shadow Country battle.

If not for the Shadow Abomination being decapitated by the Emperor, he dared not imagine what might have unfolded on the scene.

The divine-forged incarnation controlled by the Shadow Abomination struck fear in titled adventurers, preventing them from showing up.

Show up and get annihilated!

No, even without showing up, they'd perish!

Only through uniting with some legions and the combined devouring by the Black Swan could the divine-forged incarnation be shattered.

And the stronger ones?

Think of the Black Sun in the Fallen Shadow Nether Realm.

Think of the Cosmic Serpent. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Think of the will of the abyss that can whisper interference into thoughts from the Golden Land without even an entity entering the Star Continent.

It can only be said, living long enough allows one to witness the vastness of the world.

What right does he have to underestimate a divine realm existence like the dark side of the Love God?!

Fortunately, he would not have to dwell on it much longer.

Not because he figured it out, but because the multinational allied forces had begun to act.

Today their task was to observe the Cosmic Serpent residing in the Eye of Fear.

The members going directly to inspect the skies above the border were divided into two groups.

These two groups were selected skilled individuals, divided into the infiltration group and the strategy group.

The infiltration group consisted of Wanderers at least at the legendary pinnacle.

With their ability to traverse shadows, they were natural scouts.

Wanderers below the legendary pinnacle did not even qualify for this team.

This team mainly followed the rising sun, diving deeper into the shadows.

Upon detecting any movement from the Cosmic Serpent, they would without hesitation slip into the shadow plane, avoiding direct confrontation.

The strategy group was composed of Legendary and demigod-level spellcasters.

They needed to sweep through the scenes within the Eye of Fear with vast spiritual power, at noon observe the Cosmic Serpent as the sun climbed and showered the valley, and devise feasible battle plans.

Louis was part of both the infiltration and strategy groups.

He naturally stationed himself within the relatively safer strategy group, as a top-tier expert observing the Cosmic Serpent.

Meanwhile, he dispatched a considerable number of Curse Binding Legion members into the darkness.

As residents of the shadow plane, having been resurrected by Louis, none were more adept at maneuvering within the shadows.

Not to mention... the immortal members of the Curse Binding Legion were top-notch scouts by nature.

What could be better adapted for spies than the Curse Binding Legion, with their resurrection capability and formidable fighting prowess?

However, as time passed, a shadow darkened Louis's expression.

He knew the depth of the Eye of Fear exceeded his expectations, but he hadn't thought that the Curse Binding Legion would take over half an hour without reaching the boundary between light and shadow.

Knowing the speed of the Curse Binding Legion's descent along the stone wall into the earth was no slower than free fall.

Half an hour without hitting the ground.

In a previous life, if someone leapt from the Eye of Fear, they wouldn't need to hit the ground to perish, they'd incinerate mid-air due to air friction.

Louis even entertained an anti-human thought.

Could it be that for years, neither the East nor West Monet Kingdoms have been able to fully eradicate domestic influences because of the Eye of Fear?

—After all, with its depth, it could very well be the world's top "disposal site."

Killing someone and dropping them from the top, before they hit the ground, the body would burn to charcoal from air friction.

Strong as they might be, few could delve into the endless darkness unscathed.

Who could guarantee such strong individuals would plunge into the abyss for others' sake?

More fearsome was, going down was easy, coming back up wasn't as simple.

Though not a pure Mage, inheriting the Jade Phoenix Mage's class, he was certainly a spellcaster.

With his spiritual power extraordinarily active, he distinctly sensed that this Eye of Fear was not merely a "pit" in the physical sense.

As his spiritual power kept stretching up and down, his perception of direction steadily weakened, and strange whispers began to enter his awareness.

Not the abyssal will's whispers, but a call from unknown creatures beyond the world.

In his moments of daze, he finally understood what it was.

It was the call from those nameless beings beyond the Star Continent.

Not to imply they were overpowering, but dwelling in the astral plane, their form of life greatly differed from all Star Continent races.

The vast astral plane stripped the astral beings of most self-awareness, endless void coupled with silent terror from a lack of sense of time, constituted a natural attrition for creatures.

Long exposure would drive even the normal ones mad.

The whispers came from the Lost Stars tribe.

Any senior Mage with some experience in mental defense could resist such murmurs.

But this wasn't what made Louis's skin crawl.

With his senses stretched deep into the Eye of Fear, he finally understood what it was.

The end of the Eye of Fear led to the domain of those cosmic entities.

Clearly, the end of the Eye of Fear is the abode of the Cosmic Serpent.

Its terrifying presence had always been persistent, disturbing his thoughts with its whispers, without even needing a physical form to descend upon the Star Continent.

It can only be said that the longer one lives, the more one inevitably witnesses the vastness of the world.

What right does he have, given his own limitations, to underestimate such a divine realm as the dark side of the Love God?!