With her white palms resting on her chin, Mephistopheles leaned back in her high-backed chair, yawning boredly. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the desk in front of him was a spread book, some of the pages on the edge of the book vividly showed its real age, and the dim pages also revealed the heaviness of its inside.

Mephistopheles, however, had no interest in the tome, and placed it there just to hide it. This is the history of the Morte family, and is not allowed to be viewed by non-contemporary families or direct descendants.

Mephistopheles was not restricted, and at the end of the ceremony more than a decade ago, Lady Eru had already confirmed his status as heir, and voluntarily renounced the title of earl, choosing to temporarily take the throne as an old lady.

The external statement is that she doesn't want Lady Hina (the eldest sister of the Iga knight, the "lady of the family") to be beautiful, but Mephistopheles herself understands that Lady Eru just wants her adopted son to identify with her.

After all, for the sake of so-called rights, biological fathers and sons may turn against each other, let alone between adoptive mothers and adoptive sons?

Mephistopheles was a little touched by Lady Ellu's actions, so he also sincerely treated the other party as an elder. Of course, Mephistopheles didn't feel guilty about being the culprit for Lady Elou in such a situation.

He respects Lady Eru only because the other party treats his incarnation like a parent, and as for the so-called cause and effect, that is something that humans should consider, and Mephistopheles, as a devil, does not care.

Mephistopheles may be hard to understand in the eyes of others, but he understands what he needs.

In fact, if you want power and soul, there are ways for Mephistopheles to get it now. He could have provoked the deepest desires of Lady Ellu or the rest of the souls, and then used the acquisition of their souls to improve himself.

But then what?

Then he will become a devil, and not a devil called Mephistopheles.

The optimistic and cheerful orphan in the previous life was Mephistopheles, the ambitious ghost back then was Mephistopheles, the lonely and desperate soul earlier was Mephistopheles, and now the devil who plays with people's hearts is also Mephistopheles.

Therefore, Mephistopheles knows very well that the future survival of the devil race is not something he must consider, he should be "Mephistopheles" first, and then the devil ancestor.

He is on the path of "desire", and what he wants to do is to control his desires, not to be controlled or seduced by them.

As long as this step is completed, even if there is only one devil in the material world, what can he do? At that time, there was only one god in the astral realm, Lord Io, but the material plane still did not fall into the hands of the abyss demon.

For Io, who has mastered the rules of fate, the gods and demons are just humble pawns on the chessboard, and it doesn't make a difference if there is one more or less, as long as it doesn't affect his mood.

It is precisely because of this goal that Mephistopheles is not willing to be reduced to a tool of the rules of desire, and he hopes to gain a status and power equal to that of the god (Io, the king of the gods). Wouldn't it be better if it was just for the sake of power, and wouldn't it be better if he was choosing the path to be a plane consciousness that would directly choose to become hell?

Having been claustrophobic in the statue for countless years, Mephistopheles could not have imagined the tenacity of his will, otherwise, even with the protection of the "Book of Desire", he would not have been so conscious under the impact of the torrent of desire.

However, this also had its drawbacks, as earlier he was more like a statue than a living being.

Fortunately, he has a good talent for self-amusement, and members of the Morte family in the outside world "voluntarily" send his soul to him from time to time, with the help of this means, he can save the little spiritual fire in his life, otherwise he would have been silent in the closed statue and lost himself.

Ordinary beings always hope for eternal life, because they always have a way of pleasure to dispel their boredom and loneliness.

If it is a captive immortality, it may not last for a few years, and the fragile life will be turned into an immortal stone statue.

God?

Their interpretation and harvest of rules is the best way to help them get through life, and mortals obviously don't have this ability.

Even if you don't take the gods as an example, those long-lived races also have their own way of consuming their lives, such as dragons, who basically spend two-thirds or more of their time sleeping, as long as no one disturbs them.

If you want to make the most of every minute and every second of your life and not waste it on other boring things, then this creature should have human desires and a paramecium-like lifespan.

Therefore, choosing to start another life as Chenno is also a kind of adjustment to his own soul, and this will not only not delay the cultivation of the ontology, but also provide him with better help.

In such an identity, he prefers to live according to his preferences.

He didn't have to destroy the current Lady Ellu's desire for a happy family, it didn't mean anything to him.

He is a devil, but he does not need to do things according to any "devil's way", he is the only devil in the entire material continent, and his way of doing things is the devil's way of doing things.

As for the so-called weakness of the mind, he didn't care, for him to control his desires, some weakness was a good thing, at least it could help him distinguish the difference between enjoyment and sinking.

After all, the long claustrophobic life had made him too strong.

Moreover, treating Lady Elu as a mother is not the same thing as treating Lady Elu as a mother.

Playing with people's hearts is a way to master desires, and being a son of man and a lord is also a way to master desires.

"Huh-"

Mephistopheles took a long breath, and a rainbow of smoke appeared out of thin air, being inhaled through his mouth and nose.

These are the fragments of desires produced by the inhabitants of the territory in the process of life, and for others, they have no effect in the slightest, and even unless the essence of the gods comes, others will not be able to discover the existence of these "haze", just as others cannot see the brilliance of faith.

However, for Mephistopheles, these things play a pivotal role, because these desires are relatively bland and weak, which can better help him analyze the nature and laws of desire.

Moreover, compared to those fanatical desires, they did not cause the slightest ripple in Mephistopheles's consciousness.

Therefore, Mephistopheles will cultivate steadily, instead of going out to deceive the soul. Unless he goes further, the fallen soul is only a one-time consumable for him, and it doesn't have much practical effect.

If you absorb the fanatical desires of these souls, then even Mephistopheles's will will not be comfortable, and the real harvest may not be as good as it is now.

Therefore, of course, Mephistopheles will not choose that way to improve himself, and he still understands the truth of "void is not supplemented".

Today, Mephistopheles' research on desire is directed towards seven manifestations of desire, such as "greed", which are not complete, but they are indeed the limit of Mephistopheles' tolerance.

Desire is not right or wrong: the violence of evil beasts against young girls is a kind of desire, so is the desire of strong parents to give up their lives for the survival of their children, the desire of the gods of the astral plane for rules is a kind of desire, and the yearning of the demons of the abyss for chaos is also a kind of desire.

Through Mephistopheles's analysis, desire can be divided into three aspects: greed, desire, and faith.

Of course, he can't choose three directions to specialize in together, unless he is tired of being alive. Even Io, back then, he took "reason" as the starting point, and only after touching the bypass did he fully grasp the law of fate.

Mephistopheles chose greed, but that doesn't mean he can fully absorb the backlash of studying "greed".

Everyone knows that the rules of the upper level are far better than those of the lower level, but without the foundation of the lower level, directly studying the rules of the upper level is tantamount to taking the way to death.

I've never heard of a god who has condensed a powerful priesthood such as "light" or "nature" as a weak god, and such jokes have appeared in some people's unrealistic fantasies.

To use an analogy, the upper rule is a giant steak that cannot be swallowed in one bite by a normal human mouth and esophagus, and the result of forcing this is to choke to death.

And if you want to eat it, the only way to do it is to divide it into pieces and eat them separately.

Among them, these "small pieces" are subordinate to the lower derivative rules of the upper level, just like the relationship between the seven forms of desire and "greed" that Mephistopheles now studied.

Of course, splitting into seven parts is just Mephistopheles' choice.

In fact, it wasn't difficult to divide into thirteen or even more as long as he wanted to.

But this not only did not do him the slightest benefit, but also did great harm. You know, rules and rules are not unconnected, and the lower the rules, the closer they are to each other.

In other words, if Mephistopheles were to study it in thirteen aspects, it would definitely be much more influenced by the other rules than seven, and it would not be difficult to go astray unconsciously.

For example, the near-lowest rule of "stability", which can be saturated by the rules of space, equilibrium, and equivalent exchange, seems to be a matter of course for granted.

Therefore, seven is already the minimum standard that Mephistopheles can afford and will not affect its future progress to higher rules.

"Well, it's like walking on thin ice. ”

Mephistopheles lamented that he had to strike a balance at all times, even though it had become almost instinctive for him.

This kind of thing happens because Mephistopheles is tricky, according to the laws of inter-race, Mephistopheles should be born as a low-level devil, and then gradually impact to a higher level.

That way, it doesn't need to be vigilant, it just needs to gain as much power as possible.

But would Mephistopheles choose this way?

Of course not, this way does not reach the level of Io, this is the difference caused by the difference between the factions.

When did the abyss ever exist to that extent? The three demon monarchs, although they were much stronger than the average gods with powerful divine powers, were not qualified to compare with the kings of the gods.

Besides, no one knows what a low-level devil looks like, but as long as you look at the performance of a low-level demon, you can imagine that whether such a guy can live to become a monarch-level devil is very doubtful.

What's more, Mephistopheles believed that if he chose this way of birth, then the moment he became a low-level devil would be the moment when his self-consciousness died.

The low-level devil actually wants to have himself, and really regards himself as the ancestor of the devil?

Just as Mephistopheles was combing through her plans for her future in her mind, a soft doorbell rang......

PS: There are a lot of explanatory things in this chapter, so I wrote a little more, and I will introduce it thoroughly, and drag it to the next chapter.

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