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"You're just leaving?"

Merlin's footsteps suddenly stopped. He wanted to ignore the voice in his ear, but he found that he couldn't.

He even kindly wanted to hear what the voice was saying.

"Didn't you hear Alger?" Merlin replied, "He said that the 'Fools' should save these believers, and besides, the influence comes from the subconscious ocean, and it is not for them to be hypnotized, and I don't want to pursue anything." ”

God's actions are useless to hold mortals accountable.

What's more, the followers of the sea god are either the natives of the colonies who live in poverty and have a low status, or the maritime merchants and pirates who focus on participating in the faith, and most of them are the former. …… If you want to go to God's side, maybe it will end well for them as well.

"Are you going to let the people here go?" The voice in my ears seemed to be a little incredible, "They betrayed you, not only do you not punish or hold them accountable, but you also want them to go freely to your opposite, what do you think?" ”

Merlin could not tell what the position of the Lord of Mysteries was, so he did not say anything and waited for the following. Sure enough, after a few seconds, the mysterious words came again:

"You see, they were all your anchors."

Merlin was silent for a while, he also remembered how surprised and unexpected he was when he first got the "Poseidon Scepter", this Sequence 3 seal allowed him to initially come into contact with the high-level world when he was only in Sequence 6, allowing him to understand the duties of the gods in advance, and assumed the duties of the "Sea God", which also made the identity of the "Fool" more real...... But a long time has passed since then, and the identity of the "sea god" has gradually shifted to Alger, and he has long since become less serious about the prayers of the believers as he was at the beginning.

Although the Archipelago was the first Xinyang region he owned, his focus was no longer on the Rorsted Islands, but on Silver City and Moon City.

Because he decided early on to separate the "sea gods", the "fools" were the main ones who spread the faith.

Later, Alger showed a strong desire for promotion, and the "Poseidon Scepter" corresponded to only Sequence 3. Hit it off, and he happily decided to make Alger the "god of the sea", to become his subordinate god, just like the "world".

"They were originally your anchors, believers you valued."

"Although the anchor can no longer be used to stabilize your mental state, but even so, you care about them, right? As a result, they are now polluted by God, and you have to push them away and walk away. ”

Merlin couldn't help but feel a little irritated by these words, especially the sentence "The anchor can no longer be used to stabilize your mental state". It was a coincidence that he had obtained the identity of the god of the sea, and it was a sense of duty to protect the people, but this sentence made him feel as if he had sheltered the believers of the god of the sea just to gain the faith of these poor and poor people, and now, these people have lost even this only role.

But with that said, is the attitude of the Lord of Mysteries to let himself abandon these people, or to find a way to save them?

"They believe in you, and they pray to the god of the sea so devoutly, will you just watch them be so devout to God?"

"What the hell do you want?"

"You should have thought of it just now." "They are hopeless, and have betrayed you, what do you think you should do?" Think about it, if you take a batch of your believers away and you give them away, what else can you keep. ”

"Hehe, it looks like you don't want to think that way."

"Then let me remind you, their faith is not completely biased towards God, and you have already decided to disown them, so if God wants to take something from you, you only need to pollute them."

"Impossible." Merlin decisively retorted, "If He does anything to Silver City and Moon City......"

If God wants to take back the faith of the Eastern Continent, then he will have to fight with the other party no matter what, and use the breath of the Source Fort to overpower it!

The laughter of the Lord of Mystery interrupted Him:

"But can you guarantee that you will keep an eye on them all the time? Yes, you don't have much affection for the followers of the sea god, which is why you ask your dependents to abandon them. You have feelings for the people of the Eastern Continent, so you don't want to hear these words. Your humanity has not been completely lost, and now you have already sent out the believers you don't value, and when you become a god, maybe even the people of the Eastern Continent won't care. After all, those are the data souls and lives that emerged from the Demon of Knowledge, you have already lost them once, and it doesn't hurt to lose them again. ”

Merlin's expression became a little ugly, and the words of the Lord of Mystery stabbed him like a knife into his scabbed wound, and most of his heart and soul, which were covered by divinity, felt pain, but he still managed to maintain his composure:

"You're trying to throw my emotions off balance again and create opportunities for yourself."

However, the Lord of Mysteries shrugged off the anger of his little vessel, and he couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Humans may be more restrained and wary in the face of the anger of others, but humans are not frightened by the threat of a small animal that can be restrained by its own lifeblood at any time. Klein still needs to borrow the power of the Source Castle, and he still has to survive under his own hands, he has so many important people and things in his heart that he can't let go, as well as the promise and belief that he has given him, such a person is really easy to handle.

"Admit it, Crane, or that little ghost surnamed Zhou, you are not as fair and caring for believers as you think."

The Lord of Mystery mocked Him cruelly:

"You're just one step away from being a god, but you're still— still haven't learned how to be a god."

"As I said, your horizons are not broad enough, you are too young and small. No matter how much power you gain in the human world, your spirit will always be full of human weakness and cannot escape the limitations of short-lived species. At this point, the same souls I have chosen, Amanises and Roselle, are far better than you, and their strength and power easily keep them out of humanity. ”

"If the majesty of a god is challenged, He will never give up His followers directly, especially us."

"Like you, you're only going to lose more and more."

His words silenced Merlin.

Probably because the latter also thought of his mistake this time, or perhaps the tone of the Lord of Mystery was too real, after a brief silence, Merlin asked softly, tentatively:

"What would you do?"

"If you don't want God to realize that it is easy to take things away from you, you have to take them in your hands, even if they are destroyed, and not give them to God." The Lord of Mystery is tempting, even though he knows that he is the highest deceitr in the universe, but still has to admit that there seems to be some truth in his words, "You know what you should do, move your fingers, go and get them all in your hands." ”

"What do you mean......"

Merlin hesitated, but he still couldn't break through the shackles he had set for himself in his heart.

He didn't want to do that, and that was a no-brainer for his own believers, and the forced faith was not something they could choose. They are innocent, and they are going to do it to turn these innocent people into secret couples.

"The first time you do it, you have to be cruel." The Lord of Mysteries continued to say to Him, "It only needs this once, besides, they have believed in you, and if God lets believers die and believers don't want to, it is that their faith is not religious...... Oh, you probably don't like to hear that, so after turning them all into secret couples, why don't you go and spoil God's coloring game dreams? ”

And then you'll never forget this one action...... If you still want to maintain your humanity, you have to carry their lives on your back all the time, but there will be no more such things in the future, and there will always be a day when they will be completely crushed.

Under the words of the Lord of Mysteries, at some point, the option of letting these believers go to Eden quietly disappeared and became a mistake.

“…… Is this all I have to do? Merlin asked in a muttering voice.

"Maybe there's another way, but you can't think of it right now, can you?" He skillfully changed his concept, and slipped a slope, sighing in mock regret, "Of course, you can always maintain this selfless appearance, and let your things be taken away one by one...... If you convert to God, let them go, and that's the choice you give them...... One day, when the believers in the Eastern Continent that you value the most will leave, and your tarot will also leave you, you should not forget the decision you made. ”

With a little smile, he finally said the most important words in Merlin's ear:

"You can fight or grab until one day you are completely alone and unaccompanied by your eyes."

"When God takes everything away and the whole world forgets you, is there still a need for you to continue to be Klein Moretti and Zhou Mingrui?"

The Lord of Mystery easily binds two unrelated things together with his words, and infinitely magnifies the worst-case outcome, making it appear that if he does not act according to his ideas, there will be miraculous and terrifying consequences. He deliberately mentioned the Tarot Society, he deliberately mentioned the Eastern Continent, and he knew better than anyone how to stab the already scarred heart of Crane Moretti.

The price of giving others freedom is that I keep losing?

Merlin is confused by this unexplained conclusion, but under the mysterious narrative, it seems to be the case. He looked again at the believers who were praying to the Creator, and without mind reading or visualization, they looked very religious, as if they had believed in themselves. Alger went back and forth, trying to persuade some people to leave with him, and even using the power of the "Priest of Calamity" to create some simpler miracles, but with little success.

Even the few people who had obtained and used items and oracles contaminated with the breath of the Source Castle, so they had not been brainwashed by God for the time being, were embarrassed by Alger's solicitation at the moment, and euphemistically expressed their reluctance to leave their hometown.

Yes, if they wanted to go, they could have followed the people of the Eastern Continent in the first place.

They were reluctant to go to Fursack, where they had sheltered, and the consequence of their stay here was a growing fondness for God.

He was destined to not get too many believers, if Alger would one day feel that God's side was better...... Maybe I really should do something, as the mystery says, blindly giving others freedom and choice, and in the end it seems that it will only make them leave them.

Merlin slowly clenched his fists.

In an instant, he grabbed the spirit thread of hundreds of people, and grasped all the spirit threads of all the Poseidon believers praying to God in front of him.

A second later, they became secret couples, and instead of praying to God, they stood up and began to clean up the mutated plants around them.

Suddenly, so many people began to clean up the plants neatly, and Alger immediately noticed, but before he could ask if they needed help, he saw the sky suddenly turn to dusk!

In the interval between breaths, almost as the sky turned dusk, a burst of light erupted in front of Alger's eyes.

The angel dressed as a magician vanished, and Alger's ears were buzzing, and there was still a large number of snowflakes in his vision. At that moment, he heard a loud rumbling sound in his ears, and he saw that several successive peaks in the distance of the island were cut diagonally, like the blades of a heated knife cutting through butter, and the top of the mountain fell smoothly, and the whole piece collapsed, and it took several seconds for the loud sound to reach his ears.

He stayed where he was, not knowing what was going on.

……

The giant sword revealed its blade from a "door", and just the tip of the sword was already tens of meters long, like a wall.

The surface of this long sword was covered with orange light, exuding the aura of dusk approaching and the decay of all things.

This is the symbol of the "Twilight Giant", the legacy of the deity of this path after his death—his spiritual imprint, all the extraordinary properties he possesses, all sealed in the uniqueness of the greatsword form, as if the god was still alive and exuding terrifying power.

Each of them was hidden in a hidden space created by Bethel Abraham himself, and it was only at this moment that it came to light.

He has been watching the battle, and he is preparing for this moment!

But Bethel remembered that the gods could not fight in the real world, and after forcibly dragging Merlin into the spirit world with the power of the "door", he did not hesitate to launch the most powerful blow "assassination"!

The sword swung down with such force that it could almost be called a slash. In the shrill sound of the void cracking and the air being torn apart along the way, the long sword covering the twilight light could easily cut through the spirit threads that he still held in his hand before the long sword covering the twilight reached Merlin's body, causing the newly transformed puppets to lose control and fall to the ground.

Immediately after, it struck Merlin Hermes, whose limbs were sealed by different "doors", and could not move for a second.

Part of the will of the "Lord of Mystery" died rapidly, and even this body decayed and collapsed with an irrepressible tendency. Merlin's body was directly shattered by the wide and sharp blade, turning into countless spirit insects, his limbs and body parts exploded one after another, and the uniqueness of the "Fool" on his face and the extraordinary characteristics of Sequence 9 to two Sequence 1 in his body also collapsed, wriggling and trying to coalesce.

The fog of history spreads in the air, and the four resurrections possessed by the "Miracle Master" will be reset and renewed after being promoted to the "Mystic Attendant", and at this moment, although his body is destroyed, he immediately enters the process of resurrection.

They frantically absorbed the fog of history around them, turning into a dark and deep liquid with no fixed body.

The mass of liquid stretched and shifted, and the face was taken over by a white mask that had no face.

His body gradually took on the outline, not Merlin or Crane or any one person, but as if it were about to form a translucent strange cloak with a hood, or a man whose entrails and flesh had been hollowed out.

Suddenly, a large square silhouette appeared on the four sides of this abstract thing, encapsulating it right in the center.

The square seemed to be about to become a seal, and the abstract cloaked man was just about to leave before the seal could be formed, when a "door" suddenly appeared in front of him that was exactly the same as the one behind him!

Countless spaces suddenly appeared between the two doors, and the distance was stretched extremely far away, as if two mirrors were standing opposite each other!

TBC

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A figure appeared in front of the abstract cloaked man, watching him pass through the layers of "mirror" space, but remained in place.

"You're still going to do it, turning a large number of living people into your secret puppets for a lame reason." Bethel Abraham's face was extremely calm, and the Evening Greatsword flashed at his side, "The way you are now is very strange to me. ”

"Klein."

(End of chapter)