"No one has to be sacrificed?"

Hearing Russell's words, he was originally promoted attentively, but he laughed: "There is no need to draw cakes with us, right...... Russell.

"We're all adults. Before such an extremely difficult and sufficiently dangerous catastrophe, there is an impossible triangle between the likelihood of the plan's success, the consequences of its failure, and the price that must be paid.

"The big convergence plan that I'm proposing is that if the success rate is enough and the risk is low enough, the cost can't be low – so I think that price has to be paid.

"And if you want to reduce the cost, then there will be problems elsewhere. If you want to minimize the consequences of failure and try to ensure safety, then the success of the plan may not be high; In the same way, if you want to reduce the cost while also trying to increase the probability of success by all means...... Then when it fails, the consequences are absolutely unacceptable.

"So you might as well get straight, Russell—which side of your plan is it?" "Probably the last one, I think."

Russell replied without hesitation.

The old man raised his eyebrows with interest, "I see, you're this type."

"That's right. Although the cost of its failure is completely unbearable, as one wrong step will lose the whole game...... But as long as the success rate is high enough, then there is no need to worry about the possibility of failure."

In front of the Pope, Russell slowly spoke out his plan.

It sounds very simple, but it is extremely difficult to execute – the first step is to give everyone in the world the same long-lasting, heartfelt, positive "wish".

It is almost impossible to unite people in the face of the disruption of dreams. So it's better to think differently...... Let everyone have hope for something from the heart. In this way, as a projection area of the human subconscious, there will be 100% relevant areas in the dream world.

For ordinary mages, this is probably simply "the dream world has changed", and new spells have appeared. Considering the popularity of this wish, the strength of this spell should also be high.

But that's about it. It's just one person, after all.

Even if it's like a deer's head statue, monopolizing the entire area... I can't give full play to my ability. Not to mention, the entire dream world is a remnant of the "First Psionic Network", which itself is an extension of the power of the dream.

Russell, however, has a distinctive characteristic.

One by one, Russell was able to dive directly into the sea of the subconscious of the group and influence the subconscious of others.

And the monkey-faced eagle has the ability to fuse, and when Russell obtains the ability of the monkey-faced eagle, he can merge himself with everyone's subconscious one by one in the sea of group subconscious.

In the process, Russell could turn into a dusk at any time.

Because he has devoured the monkey-faced eagle, it has been replenished in the sense of the twilight egg. He only needs to "replenish the nutrients" next, and the dusk seed will hatch.

But because of that "common desire" one by one, it transforms dreams into some kind of power. So Russell was able to expand his scale and convert all the power he gained into this spell. Because this is the person's wish, it does not damage the person's original personality...... It's as if this person himself is "a mage with only this spell."

To put it simply, this "great wish" is an agreement to share computing power. And after downloading and passing this agreement, Russell can hijack other people's subconscious... But Russell will not control the other party for a long time, but hang the other party in the cloud, start auxiliary computing through this protocol, and then directly release the control.

"My psionic energy is the vessel of the gods, and the psionic energy of the monkey-faced eagle is the god of the group. And I merged with everyone's subconscious...... Am I now the perfect god?"

Russell's expression was solemn: "At that time, I will be 'God,' Born from the sea of the subconscious of the group, the god who controls the subconscious of all people...... And it is a complete body dusk that has absorbed all the nutrients and can break out of the shell at any time.

"That way, I'll have a way to fight the dream. After the seal on the dream realm is lifted, all I need to do is release the god that has hatched from my body, replace the original dream, and lock it inside my body...... It's like I swallowed the dream completely. In other words, I exchanged the identity of the god that was hatched in everyone's subconscious, and the power of dusk that I originally had, for the ability and identity of the dream.

"That kind of dream is 'Dream in a Cage,' He will no longer be a conceptual twilight without consciousness and irrationality, acting only instinctively...... It's a twilight species with a personality. Since you have a personality, you can also be controlled. "Although I have lost my identity as a god, I also have the power of God.

Naturally, I wouldn't hurt myself myself... And without the threat of the imminent dream, then we naturally don't need to rush around and escape from this planet.

"At that point, we can stay on this planet for tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of years. Once the Grey Bend is lifted, we can explore the universe; And the Tower of the End, when it is lifted, we can build more dragon engines to extract energy from parallel worlds and try to enter other parallel worlds.

"If both the sealed dream and my initial size are 1, then my size will definitely increase after completely devouring the dream. Even if there are twilight species in other worlds, I may not be able to fight against them. It's going to be an absolute victory, the best ending."

Russell unreservedly stated his entire plan: "And the 'big wish' in my plan is to let everyone know that the resources are running out,... Even if you tell me now that this might be a lie, I'm going to promote it like this.

"Then, I'll talk about how many possibilities there are in the outside world. I'm going to attack the dragon as the warden who imprisons us on this planet, and as an enemy...... Although this is indeed the case.

"When people think that leaving the planet can solve all problems and defeat the dragon's rule and achieve happiness, I only need to defeat the dragon in front of everyone, then people's desire to explore the sea of stars will be higher than ever. And I just need to get that done before people cool down...... It just doesn't take any risks.

"So, join us... Ascension."

Russell held out his hand sincerely.

But looking at Russell's outstretched hand, the Pope fell into a long period of thought and silence.

"I'm sorry one by one. Although after listening to your plan... But now, I'm not going to help you."

Slowly, word for word, the Pope said: "The future you have sketched is really full of hope...... Your plan is indeed executable.

"But I can't trust you.

"Contrary to what you say, your plan is full of risks...

"After merging the subconscious minds of all people, do not move evil hearts to act recklessly; After ascending into a god, the twilight that does not degenerate into a complete body swallows up the planet; When devouring the dream, it is not infected by him in turn...... And most importantly, after becoming a more powerful Caged Dream, if we don't have any problems in the middle, we will be doomed. Because we don't have the slightest countermeasure against you, you only need to move an evil thought, and you can easily erase anyone.

"How can I put the future of the whole world on the scales and bet on your character and morality? How can I believe that in the long future, you will not change, you will not fall, you will not succumb to the instincts of the twilight seed?

"—how do you make me trust you?"