He did not know whether, after obtaining the essence, he would be able to put this thing into the Inventory.

If he could, then the several Mighty Mage shells in the Shell Slots would never have to worry about mana bars again.

[Knowledge Sea Magic Formation Main Controller (Special Item): … While holding this main controller, you can fully control the Knowledge Sea Magic Formation located in the Direct Vision Branch Association, operating the magic formation to issue commands such as Defense, Attack, and Imprison.]

[Current Knowledge Sea Magic Formation remaining energy: 0/1000. It must be refilled before the magic formation can be operated normally.]

This item was the key reason Lin Xun absolutely had to return to the Branch Association first.

If matters developed toward the worst possible outcome, then the best place for the battlefield against the Multivision School would be the Direct Vision Branch Association.

With the support of the Knowledge Sea Magic Formation, it would be equivalent to having home field advantage. Even if it was one against many, he would not have to be afraid.

“There must be materials in the Branch Association that can be used to recharge the magic formation’s energy reserves. Once I get back, I need to thoroughly loot the entire Branch Association!”

With the identity of President Great Sage, Lin Xun was the highest leader in the Branch Association. Never mind transferring supplies; even if he dragged Peggy out to have a public open-air tryst on the playground, no one would dare say a single word of objection.

[Petrification Beast Jargorgon’s Eyeball (mythic+ grade item): Jargorgon is an extremely powerful, cunning, and vicious mythic monster. No one knows exactly where this mythic monster exists. Some say it lives underground, some say it resides in the deep sea, and some say it soars through the starry sky…]

[From mythic legends, people only know this terrifying creature habitually keeps its eyes closed, but once it opens them, any creature that meets its gaze will turn into cold and fragile stone…]

[This item must be used with an empty eye socket. Upon use, you will have a certain chance to obtain the special skill Petrification Curse.]

[Petrification Curse (mythic+ grade skill): When you have taken a certain amount of damage (including damage absorbed by shields and various defensive spells), you can release this skill at no cost.]

[Using this skill will place the enemy under the curse status of Petrification and trigger a strength check.] 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

[If the enemy’s strength is lower than yours, Petrification will transform into Sure-Death Petrification. While in Sure-Death Petrification status, any attack suffered by the enemy will immediately kill them. This skill is a rule-type instant death skill and can ignore a series of temporary survival states such as Persistence, Invincibility, Feign Death, etc.]

[If the enemy’s strength is greater than yours, Petrification will transform into Imprisoning Petrification. While in Imprisoning Petrification status, the enemy will suffer a forced imprisonment state lasting at least 1 second and at most 30 seconds, during which all charging/channeling skills are interrupted, and they cannot move or attack. All damage they receive will be increased by 20 percent.]

“Damn, this eyeball is downright broken!”

Lin Xun could not help but feel a chill in his heart as he read the skill description for Petrification Curse.

If he had not possessed the vengeance items, whose passive effect just happened to be immunity to curse and weakening type skills…

If he had not had the vengeance items, then facing a Great Sage with Petrification Curse, he would not be able to win even if he were given a hundred chances at a one-on-one duel.

Lin Xun made up his mind that once he got back to the Branch Association, he would have the Valkyrie transplant Petrification Beast Eyeball for him.

He then looked at the final piece of loot, which was also the only Document item.

[Direct Vision Great Prophet’s Book of Prophecy (Document)]

[The so-called prophetic words are only a thin scrap of paper on which just a few lines of text are written.]

[…]

[A stranger from a foreign land leaves his homeland, crosses the starry sky, worlds, and dimensions, and arrives here, becoming the Envoy of a great existence.]

[The defeated heretics hiding in the starry sky will stage a comeback because of his arrival.]

[The ancient existence that fell beneath the earth will, because of his coming, revive and be reborn.]

[He is not a savior. He is the source of the world’s destruction!]

[He comes here bearing the sacred mission of saving the world, yet when he leaves, he will leave behind nothing but a scarred and devastated wasteland.]

[He will attempt to awaken the great existence that has long slept, but will instead allow evil to spread, bringing the entire world into the apocalypse.]

[He is not the True God’s Envoy. He is the most evil, most terrifying evil god!]

[…]

[The text recorded in the Book of Prophecy consists only of these short few sentences…]

Lin Xun attempted to interpret the words in the prophecy.

The first sentence was easy to understand. All Apostles were strangers from distant lands as far as the apocalyptic chapter was concerned.

A powerful main god could sense visitors from beyond the world. Its most powerful and devout believer learning this secret and then writing a prophecy about it was easy enough to explain.

The following three sentences were the first half of the prophecy.

‘The defeated heretics hiding in the starry sky will stage a comeback because of his arrival.’

Lin Xun snorted. “What a load of crap. I have already reported several evil star gods. How could I possibly let those skulking scrub-tier evil gods turn the tables?”

If he really had to say the prophecy was accurate somewhere, then when he previously fought in the Branch Association and summoned the projection of an evil star god, that could barely count as helping the evil star god make a comeback?

The second sentence: ‘The ancient existence that fell beneath the earth will, because of his coming, revive and be reborn.’

Lin Xun frowned as he read this sentence.

His plan was to go to the Multivision Association first, and the next stop after that was the underground Abyss.

The Ramsey Abyss Cave Route Map and Abyss Horn he had obtained previously, along with the information he had learned through the Polar Star Society, all showed that there was some hidden storyline in the underground abyss.

If he could unite with Multivision scholars, that would be best. With a few Great Sages, or even calling in Prophet level scholars from the distant Imperial Capital to explore the Abyss with him, would it not be a matter of minutes to flatten the Abyss?

“This is a bit strange. How did the Great Prophet know my next stop would be the Abyss?”

“Could it be that this prophecy was not written by the Great Prophet, but by the Servant of Knowledge?”

“Is the Servant of Knowledge using the Great Sage’s mouth to tell me the follow-up walkthrough?”

The more Lin Xun thought, the more his imagination ran wild. His initial attitude of sneering at the prophecy gradually became more serious.

Then came the latter half of the prophecy: ‘He comes here bearing the sacred mission of saving the world, yet when he leaves, he will leave behind nothing but a scarred and devastated wasteland. He will attempt to awaken the great existence that has long slept, but will instead allow evil to spread, bringing the entire world into the apocalypse.’

This part foretold the final outcome of his current journey to save the world… that he would fail to save it and instead become the fuse that made him the very source of the world’s destruction.

“Evil spreading… what is the evil referred to here? Does it mean Disorder?”

He sank into thought and looked at the final line of the prophecy.

“He is not the True God’s Envoy. He is the most evil, most terrifying evil god!”

Lin Xun’s face was expressionless.

The world had not yet reached the apocalypse, but when Apostles carrying the special attributes of main evil gods from other worlds, that is, Apostles bearing secret marks, arrived in this world, would they secretly guide other evil gods to descend?

If the answer was yes, then as far as each chapter world was concerned, Apostles were indeed the most terrifying and most evil of evil gods.