Chapter 69: Victor's Misjudgment
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"Root Agent!"
Evan said the man's name.
He is neither male nor female, neither god nor king, and His face seems to be forever in an invisible fog that not even the eyes of Vientiane can see His true face. If you really want to see what he looks like, you can only see the god of death for the first time, and all you see is the appearance that you think you have in your heart.
He is a collection of rules, a monster sacrificed by the gods to fight the king, a scavenger of the multiverse, dedicated to cleaning up cancer cells that don't follow the rules.
He and the King of the Root are true undying mortal enemies, but it is not necessarily true that he is intimate with the God who summoned Him. His actions cannot be justly explained, but they are like firewalls in a computer, just carrying out His mission with absolute faithfulness and absolute sanity.
Charlotte had glimpsed the Faceless One in Lu Sien's dream memories, but when she saw His true body at this moment, she could experience a completely different mood from the perception in the dream memory.
Fear, trembling, and panic spread in the body like a virus, and the microcurrent rushed up the coccygeal spine, cold sweat seeped out of the skin, pupils constricted, and the defense mechanism of the whole body was passively carried out...... Like an animal encountering a predator, every cell in her body is ordering Charlotte to flee.
On the other hand, the auxiliary brain constructed by the memory processing is still doing rational calculations, telling Charlotte that running away is useless, and at the same time starting to compare the memory of the faceless person with the root agent in front of him.
The results of the comparison and analysis have given rise to new doubts, although the faceless person in the memory is also unable to see the face clearly and has the same extraordinary power, but it is more vibrant than the root agent in front of him.
What's going on?
Doubts flicker through her mind, and the brain's defense mechanisms force Charlotte to give up thinking and focus all her attention on the present.
The Root Walker chased the figure in front of him into Erru, and he quickly noticed Emmanuel unleashing his kingship. The terrifying being paused slightly, seemingly hesitating between chasing the figure ahead or dealing with Emmanuel first. But soon, as if sensing something, he turned his gaze to Charlotte again.
No, to be precise, they looked at the three Clayderman siblings in turn. The only thing that could not be glimpsed was the double pupils reflecting the golden flames, and the two pupils roamed between Charlotte, Aven, and Fei Wen Leigh in turn, and finally, the golden flame light locked on Fei Wen Leigh.
He seemed to be judging the threat of those present, and the criterion of threat was clearly not strength, but something deeper.
The figure he began to chase was none other than Victor Clayderman, Charlotte's astral body that was out of control. The current astral body has constructed a new physical body for itself, although it still has some deep connection with Charlotte, but it has been freed from its dependence on the subject.
An irrepressible joy flashed across Victor's face when he saw the Root Walker pour his attention on Charlotte, but soon, his face changed, and his joy turned to nervousness and confusion.
Charlotte didn't dare to look carefully at Victor, who was out of control, and could only constrict her pupils to lock on to the natural enemy in front of her, but the faint connection in the depths of her soul allowed him to confirm Victor's identity. In such a stressful situation, the vice-brain is still working faithfully. So, he quickly guessed Victor's plan.
Victor knows all his secrets, including the power to reset death. As a result, Victor understands that he can't kill himself in any conventional way, and since he can't kill Charlotte, he will never be able to replace Charlotte as a truly free being.
But outside of the conventional way, there is another possibility. That is to use the terrifying rule power of the Root Agent to block Charlotte's power, and therefore, he will lure the awakened Root Agent to Erru. Not only that, but he also seems to understand, or rather rather gamble, the mechanism by which the agent judges the threat.
Because if the Root Agent has a hint of emotion, it is very likely that he will continue to hunt down his original primary target, Victor, so that his plan to replace Charlotte will naturally come to an end.
But now, there is a new deviation in the plan. Although the Root Agent shifted the target as Victor wished, the target was not Charlotte as Victor thought, but Vivien Leigh!
Then, Viktor realized that he had made a huge mistake. He had always considered playing with time and space to be the most unforgivable crime of the Root Agent's criteria for judging threats, but he had never thought that Vivien Leigh's existence was even more unforgivable.
Because her existence is even worse, she directly deceives the roots, and reinvigorates the king's soul that should have returned to the roots into pure essence in a new way.
Time seemed to stand still in this moment, Charlotte, Aven, Vivien Leigh, Victor, Claire, Emmanuel...... Even all the gods and the old rulers looked at the being, which seemed to be made up of countless rules, and waited with trepidation for His action.
Then He set out to do as everyone wished. Stretching out a finger to Vivien Leigh, she pronounced the sentence in a cold, emotionless tone.
"Y-damn you!"
The invisible spirit spread towards Vivien Leigh, and when she had a premonition, her body had already thought and acted before she thought and acted, and Charlotte, Evan and Claire beside Vivien Leigh approached Vivien Leigh almost at the same time.
The same was true of Victor, who barely hesitated to use his flashing spell to get in front of Vivien Leigh from a distance. Because of his instinctive action of abandoning thinking, his way of acting was different from that of the other three, and the nature of the flashing technique allowed him to block Vivien Leigh more quickly.
Almost instantly, the spirit of death entangled Victor, and the man first expressed surprise at his actions, and then showed a wry smile that seemed to be relieved and helpless.
He looked behind him and saw Charlotte look of surprise right behind him, and that helpless smile turned into mockery.
"What the hell am I thinking, I'm only one step away from success......"
His voice was weak and weak, his face had become decayed, and his pupils had dilated and lost their luster. Eventually, he fell backwards, and the cold corpse fell into Charlotte's arms.
The connection in the dark made his consciousness after death condense into countless bands of light and merge into Charlotte's mind, and in an instant, Charlotte's depleted sea of consciousness merged into a new energy, which not only did not surprise Charlotte, but was afraid.
If you are really stripped of your power by the Root Agent, after death, your consciousness and power will all become Victor's nourishment.
He had mixed feelings about the cold corpse lying in his arms, and it was like seeing another self die in front of his eyes. But such emotional ups and downs were quickly suppressed by the debrain, and Charlotte raised her head to look at the natural enemy in the sky whose face was not clear.
The unexpected did not shake the Root Agent, and his eyes that shone with golden flame showed neither disappointment nor frustration. The golden flame is a color that represents warmth and intensity, but in His eyes, there is only complete calmness and reason.
He continued to strike, but a weak, but majestic, proud voice rang out through Erru.
"You can't help but look down on people, Root Agent!"
The voice came from Emmanuel, the king's eyes sparkling with a diamond-like determination as he straightened his collar in the midst of the crowd. At this moment, what burst from him was an irresistible majesty!
It's like announcing that I am the strongest being in this world!