Chapter 017: The Gap Is Too Wide

The earth-shattering explosion Wang Bo had heard back then was the sound of the clash between Manwë, the God of the Atmosphere, and Saruman.

Manwë was beaten back step by step, and the terrible fell energy nearly corrupted him.

But at that moment, Gandalf met the creator god of this world, Eru Ilúvatar!

After hearing about this from Gandalf, Ilúvatar realized the horror of the fell energy. If he did not intervene, the world he had created might well be destroyed by the other side.

So Ilúvatar had no choice but to act personally.

When Saruman saw Ilúvatar act, the terrible fell energy surged out of his body, forming a giant ten thousand meters tall, trying to contend with Ilúvatar.

But it was utterly useless.

That terrible fell-energy giant was eventually pinched to death by Ilúvatar with two fingers, the whole process like crushing an ant.

That was the scene Wang Bo had witnessed.

Hearing the whole story from Gandalf, Wang Bo finally understood what had happened.

Clearly, that fell-energy giant was a transmigrator.

And it was likely a transmigrator without a physical body—perhaps a soul or something else. Anyway, after entering this world, the transmigrator had been constantly seeking powerful hosts.

At first, it might have found the Balrog.

Then it was discovered by Gandalf. Later, when Gandalf invited him to seek the Balrog, the transmigrator might have realized the Balrog's strength was mediocre and abandoned it.

So by the time Wang Bo found the Balrog, it had already returned to normal.

Later, the fleeing transmigrator chose Saruman, lodged inside his body, and took control of him.

Because in all of Middle-earth, the most powerful being should be Sauron the Dark Lord.

But Sauron had no physical form.

So the transmigrator lodged in Saruman. At least, aside from Sauron, the most powerful person in Middle-earth was Saruman, since Gandalf at that time was still inferior to Saruman.

Even Galadriel the Elf fell just a little short.

Let alone others.

That was why, when Gandalf said he had discovered the fell energy, Saruman mocked and taunted him, aiming to keep the fell energy from being exposed.

It was only later, when Gandalf said he would go to Aman to seek help from the gods, that the transmigrator had no choice but to kill Gandalf and everyone in the White Council.

Thus covering up its own existence.

But the transmigrator didn't know much about the Maiar. It thought killing Gandalf would ensure peace, but it never expected Gandalf's soul to return to Aman and find Manwë.

Which then led to Ilúvatar's intervention.

And in the end, it was pinched to death.

This incident taught Wang Bo a profound lesson: one must never be too cocky, unless one is a big shot.

Of course, sometimes even big shots can't get away with it.

After all, no one knows whether there are true big shots or super big shots in this world.

To be honest, if Wang Bo hadn't seen the movies and read the novels, and known of Ilúvatar's existence, he might have been a bit cocky. After all, in Middle-earth, most humans were really not that impressive.

Even Gandalf or Sauron were no match for him. And if he put on his divine armor and took up Gungnir, he wouldn't even fear Manwë the god.

But who the hell would have thought that above Manwë the god, there was still an Ilúvatar?

Even less could anyone imagine that even a god like Manwë was created by a single thought of Ilúvatar.

Yes, the novel clearly points this out: Ilúvatar is called the 'One God' and the 'Father of All.' He is an omnipotent and omniscient creator. He has existed in the Halls of Timeless Time since the beginning of time, and in his soul burns the Flame Imperishable, which can create all things from nothing.

This omnipotent and omniscient God first created the Ainur, who were the product of his thought.

He made them embody their thoughts in the form of music, guiding them and teaching them to understand his mind. Eventually, he gathered them together and had them sing his theme in chorus, and from that song a new universe was born. This was the Music of the Ainur.

Even more impressive, the number of these created Ainur was astonishingly vast.

Manwë was merely one of the fourteen most powerful Ainur among them, who called themselves the Valar.

The weaker Ainur, countless in number, called themselves Maiar, servants of the Valar.

From this, one can see how terrifying Ilúvatar is.

So Wang Bo held this creator god in great awe and reverence. No matter how formidable Manwë was, defeating him meant nothing; after all, even this god was merely created by a single thought of Ilúvatar.

For this reason, Wang Bo kept a very low profile in Middle-earth, never acting cocky.

But that transmigrator filled with fell energy didn't know this, so it was cocky, and then it got pinched to death.

Wang Bo once suspected that this transmigrator might be Sargeras, the Dark Titan from the Warcraft universe!

Only he wielded such terrible fell energy. This titan's strength was astonishing; splitting a planet or cutting through a dimension with a single slash was nothing to him.

But even so, he was still far inferior to Ilúvatar.

Creating gods with a single thought was too exaggerated.

This kind of power reminded Wang Bo of Franklin.

Not the one printed on the hundred-dollar bill, but Franklin Richards, the son of Mister Fantastic Reed Richards and the Invisible Woman Susan Storm of the Fantastic Four in the Marvel multiverse.

He is an Omega-level mutant with immense reality-warping and psychic abilities, including matter and energy manipulation, energy projection, mind control, telepathy, astral projection, precognition, time and space travel, immortality, and creating pocket universes.

He can easily annihilate the five cosmic entities, destroy parallel universes, and the pocket universes he creates can even replicate cosmic beings like Galactus, Eternity, and Infinity.

In a sense, this guy is absolutely not inferior to Ilúvatar.

Someone who stands at the pinnacle of the universe from birth is enough to make countless people envious, jealous, and hateful.

Sometimes Wang Bo couldn't even muster jealousy.

After all, the gap was just too wide.

On the other hand, after understanding the whole story, Wang Bo casually asked Gandalf whether he had mentioned him in front of Ilúvatar.

And what Ilúvatar's attitude toward him was.

Gandalf shook his head and said, "The situation was too urgent at the time; I did not mention you to Eru. But I believe he knows of your existence."