The Deathly Ark is easy to recognize; Ash hasn’t even seen its body yet, but from afar, he sees The Forgotten legion and the dazzling sound waves from their bombardment. Even kilometers away, Ash must open the Holy Domain to isolate the shock ripples from the Divine battle.

The air is filled with twisted electromagnetic radiation and noise and light pollution; sometimes, space seams even appear. Ordinary creatures can’t survive a second here, and even Legendary Holy Domain can barely cling to life at the edges. What’s more terrifying is that the closer you get to the Deathly Ark, the more violent the elemental chaos in the air becomes, like a closed space filled with flour and gasoline, a spark can cause an explosion.

This is just a tip of the iceberg of the Divine War: to achieve better casting effects, Demigods often change the environment while fighting. Not only do the terrain and celestial phenomena change, but the air is also filled with high concentrations of elements. This is the casting aid and battle ripples of Demigods, but for mortals, it’s a curse storm worse than toxic radiation.

When the distance is only one kilometer, Ash can clearly see the Deathly Ark—it’s more a fortress on water than an ark.

The Deathly Ark is shrouded in a gentle veil, even if besieged by thousands of The Forgotten, it remains serene and tranquil, like a graveyard illuminated by moonlight, while The Forgotten resemble noisy vultures circling on withered vines and old trees.

"What an impressive Defense Wonder." Ash hides in the shadows, looking at the unbreakable veil, his thoughts wandering: "If I could acquire this wonder—"

"Impossible, this is the Deathly Ark’s only wonder, ’Death Veil.’" Death Mad said, "You’re not the first to covet the Death Veil. Before you, all Divine Lords who came to Hell have tried, even we have been tempted, but not only has no one managed to replicate this wonder, no one has been able to take it away."

"Why?"

"Because the ’Death Veil’ is the body of the Deathly Ark itself, and the Deathly Ark is closely related to the Black Descent Hell. You can understand that the Deathly Ark is already a part of the Black Descent Hell, but the Black Descent Hell is part of Level Six of Hell, so..." Death Mad flicked ash, calmly saying: "To monopolize the ’Death Veil,’ you’d have to fit Level Six of Hell into your realm. But if you could already dominate Level Six Hell, would you still need the ’Death Veil’ for protection?"

Quite like the dark humor of "The way to earn 500 million is by having a billion in fixed deposit..." Ash asked: "How do we board the Deathly Ark then?"

"It’s not ’we,’ it’s ’you.’" Death Mad said, biting the cigarette: "If you charge straight ahead, The Forgotten will definitely shift their target to prioritize eliminating you. You could only withstand one round of concentrated fire, if the Deathly Ark refuses to open the door for you..."

"Then I’ll have to give you a quarter." Ash smiled.

Death Mad immediately shut his mouth, glancing at Ash with cold eyes and a gloomy expression, as if a volcano about to erupt, making Ash’s spine tense.

He quickly said: "I’ll first try to get in touch with the people inside, see if they’re willing to open the door."

"How will you put it?" Death Mad asked, "The Black Descent Council has the list of all Demigods; you can’t impersonate anyone."

"I’ll say I’m a lone wolf who recently arrived in Black Descent Hell, hiding for a long time until I couldn’t anymore, and hope they’ll open a gap to let me in to avoid the flood." Ash pulled up his hood and raised his collar to cover his nose and mouth. "After all, I only need to stay for a few minutes, as long as they don’t recognize me as Ash Heath... can’t you really let me leave Hell directly?"

"It’s not us who brought you in," Death Mad said. "You collected Igula and Harvey’s ’Secret Poison.’ We helped you locate Uroboros’s stomach, and then the secret poison automatically transported you to Level Six of Hell.

"You can’t leave Hell before the secret poison is exhausted." She lowered her eyelashes, calmly saying: "If you hadn’t found Igula’s secret poison in the first place, couldn’t enter Hell, hadn’t met us, and obediently enjoyed the last moments with your girls, it might have been easier..."

"That won’t do." Ash’s fingertips flashed with a trace of sword light, "Our biggest advantage as mages is insatiable greed. Just spending a happy time with them is enough? No, far from enough! I want to be with them forever!"

"You are more likely to fight to the end with them." Death Mad replied, half angry, half amused.

The sword light flew almost silently close to the Golden River, swiftly passing under The Forgotten legion. Arriving at the edge of the Death Veil, the sword light rose and flew past the veil, narrowly avoiding wonder storms time and again, finally finding an Elf Demigod who appeared to be a Commander at the ship’s bow. The sword light instantly transformed into a line of text, claiming it was a Demigod of the Third Layer Prison Wings who recently entered Black Descent Hell, requesting the Deathly Ark to open the door.

Ash waited for a while; when he could faintly hear the flood catching up behind him, the Elf Demigod at the ship’s bow finally nodded. Time was of the essence, Ash immediately exhausted all Source Power of the Third Layer Prison Wings, and added twenty-four layers of Refraction Protection to himself, crushed six Source Crystals to replenish Source Power, and silently stealth three hundred meters in the shadows. Until a Forgotten suddenly turned their head to look over, Ash immediately unfurled the Void Wings, stepping on clouds edge, crossing the final stretch at supersonic speed!