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"You're a stranger to what you look like now. Klein. ”

Bethel was not completely suspended in the air, and when he looked closely, he seemed to be stepping on something unseen, standing steadily. He walked step by step around the great seal trap he had set up. It seems to be just a small step, but in fact, it is hiding its trajectory with the help of the characteristics of the spirit world, which does not go up and down, left and right, and slowly and vigilantly changing its position.

"Mr. Bethel, I have found that many people, including me, have made a mistake."

The voice of Klein, who he was familiar with, came from the floating humanoid cloak, and there was no madness or pain at all, it could even be called calm, and there was emotion in his words, as if his humanity was also well maintained.

The Dusk Greatsword seemed to slowly stretch out from the space a little more, this wide straight sword faintly exuded a terrifying aura, it was completely unpolluted, all the characteristics and divine aura were preserved to the maximum, it was the strongest and safest weapon at the moment. And at this moment, it is held in the hands of a true god, and even a simple charged blow has the decisive power to turn the tide of battle in an instant.

However, Bethel Abraham, who was holding the murder weapon, seemed to be out of the way, he walked neither fast nor slow, without the slightest nervousness in his movements that he should have when fighting someone to the death, as leisurely as if he was walking in his own garden.

However, the spiritual realm can indeed be called the backyard of the "door."

"What's the matter?"

As if to stabilize Klein's mood, Bethel's answer was relatively soft, not as aggressive as when he first spoke, as if he was talking casually and cordially with an old friend he hadn't seen for a long time.

"Mr. Bethel, did you feel like you had grown stronger when you gained strength, capable of doing things you couldn't do before?"

Bethel didn't find traps and yin and yang in this sentence, so he replied directly:

"Of course."

Probably realizing that the space shuttled inside the door could never be pulled out, the transparent cloak figure stopped its useless advance and began to retract towards the middle. The mask that covered the face with nothing gradually appeared with facial features, which looked a bit like Klein, a bit like Merlin, and even small identities such as Gelman and Sherlock that had been used.

Klein's voice continued:

"So when you want to get something, do you also think that you can get it by giving the corresponding price?"

If you want to buy something, you have to give money, and after you give money, you have to give it to yourself...... Isn't that the most normal thing to touch? As a great nobleman of the Quaternary Age, and a person of certain status before becoming a great nobleman, Bethel has never encountered a malicious default on the payment of goods, and usually only he throws money at other people's hands to buy what he wants.

Although he did not understand the meaning of Klein's two questions, Bethel keenly felt that some of Klein's current predicament might be related to "trading" or "giving".

"Sometimes there are exceptions."

Bethel replied cautiously, and tried to analyze Klein's intellectual dilemma: "But of course. ”

"That's what I thought I did, but just now, I realized I was wrong."

With a face on the mask, but the body was still a floating cloak that seemed to have been hollowed out of flesh and guts, like a "Spirit Sucker", Crane didn't seem to care much about his appearance, and his voice reached Bethel's ears with a sigh.

"I also thought I could get something for what I gave."

"I've known for a long time that my abilities are limited, and I never wanted to help everyone, but I just wanted to help people I knew so well that they weren't in danger. It's only now that I understand that you don't get it if you give it...... Sorry, I seem to be talking nonsense. Maybe you don't understand what I mean, I mean, I always thought that what I gave would make the future better, but I was wrong. ”

"I couldn't have been more wrong."

"I'm the King of Angels now, but I need to think about who I really am. I've given my humanity, been forced to leave my loved ones twice, and even started to lose myself, but I still haven't made the world a better place. ”

Crane looked up at Bethel beyond the seal.

This action made Bethel's eyes narrow, because he knew how tight the seal he had designed, and the person who was locked between the two doors was in the countless spaces he had created, and he could hear his own voice, but it was impossible to see the outside world!

He folded his arms and quietly pinched a page of paper from his fingertips, which were blocked by his arms.

"I only recently returned to Earth, and I have no right to judge what you have been doing, nor to compare you now with the past." Bethel said the truth as usual, "You didn't make things worse, so what's the point of being yourself?" ”

"It didn't get any worse......"

"Yes." Bethel told the truth, "You've been doing what you're supposed to do, whether it's promoting or responding to believers, and you've not done as badly as you think." When you feel that you are not good enough, you should think about how many years before the end of the world, and then think about the righteous gods, is it six...... Isn't the performance of the Seven Gods enough to make you feel confident in yourself? ”

Klein smiled, "I didn't know you were so comforting. ”

"But that's not what I'm worried about."

"I thought that potions and powers would never betray me, so I worked hard to get promoted, and before I became an angel, it was really positive...... When I was still in Sequence 3, I dared to rely on the spirit of mystery to escape from God's siege. By this time, the potions had given me positive feedback, and even though I had died again and again, life and hard work had always paid for success and promotion, so I felt that I might be able to use His power and spirit to go one step further and protect the people I valued. ”

Now that I think about it, the mysterious spirit at the beginning of Sequence 3 and Sequence 2 is like a trap for itself. Even though Klein knew that the spirit of essentia was terrifying and indelible, the indulgence at that time made him unable to correctly judge how terrible this thing really was, and despite being wary, he was now dragged into the trap of the Lord of Secrets step by step, and even a little apprehensive about his existence.

Bethel was silent for a moment.

"I don't know what you've been through, but at the moment, it seems that becoming a complete mythical creature is a huge blow to you and a bad starting point."

"I suddenly want to say something right now."

Bethel looked at Him.

He was still moving, and Crane's eyes were following His trajectory with less than a second of delay.

I saw that Crane's expression became serious, as if he was imitating someone to become somewhat sacred, and then he said in a calm voice, "The mystery has awakened in my body. ”

After a full five seconds, Bethel's voice without any emotion came: "...... It's boring. ”

He wanted to say it was a boring joke, but given Klein's current state, he couldn't get the word out of his mind.

Bethel didn't think he was laughing funny, but Crane burst out laughing, laughing heartily.

After laughing for a while, Klein breathed a long sigh of relief and said:

"He has been awakened in me for a long time, and I have been on guard against Him at every turn, not listening, not believing, not doing, and in the end it seems that nothing has been prevented. So now I'm finally realizing that it's not that I want to do things well, things get better, and what I get depends on what they want to give me. And what I have to give, I can never decide. ”

"And I also realized that I was selfish, I don't know if it was a secret influence, and it was hard for me to tolerate the departure of the people I valued."

"I have a friend who chose God. I knew that her choice was not wrong, that her ideas were good, but I was so sad that for a moment I wished that God would die, and she saw that there was no hope for the Garden of Eden to be established and returned to my command. ”

Klein lowered his head slightly, looking at the back of his hand that was gradually becoming clearer: "Probably he was able to make God accept and love human beings not because he could, but because God allowed it." ”

Bethel fell silent again.

The mystery did not revive in himself, and he was not tricked by the mystery to do things against his will.

He didn't have any friends, or friends who would live that long, and even if he did, it wasn't strange that he parted ways with those people or even stabbed them in the back, Zarathu, Antigonus, and Amon were all his esteemed rivals and friends, but that didn't stop him from killing them, and vice versa. Since he returned to the earth, he has not only successfully become a god, but also obtained the powerful and reassuring seal of the Dusk Greatsword, and his daily life is to live a simple and easy life and forget the pain and torture in the starry sky, and by the way, bring the younger generations to strive for the revival of the Abraham family.

Not in any camp, not funded by anyone with contradictions, the demon of knowledge is also very lenient with him, and now he has his own affairs to take care of him, he seems to be the most relaxed and free god.

So whatever He says on this topic will appear to be standing and speaking without backache and excessive accusation.

So the veteran aristocrats of the Quaternary Age, who were well versed in the way of communication, chose to change their perspective:

"Do you regret it? If you regret it, give me these contradictions, your pain, and your extraordinary qualities. ”

"Whether you want to die, or you want to retain some of your power to continue to protect your followers, even if you still have a mysterious will in your body, you will be suppressed by me for a period of time after being downgraded to Sequence 2 or lower. I can't guarantee that I will last for hundreds of years, but at least let your family live their lives in peace and happiness without any problems. ”

After all, he still left an option for Klein to save his life, but in the face of Bethel's proposal, Crane had a serious expression, thought seriously for a moment, and finally said:

"Mr. Bethel, you should be ready, whether I refuse or oppose, immediately tear the space between these two 'doors', and at the same time attack me with the Dusk Greatsword in your hand, in addition, you also hold an extraordinary skill in your hand that you have recorded, which seems to be related to 'disease' and 'tranquility', because you know that my resurrection is difficult to entangle, and the Dusk Greatsword can only slow down, so you are trying to directly put most of the spirit worms in my body into an inactive state, right?"

"You've got a good tactical plan." Bethel said, "Divination told you? ”

"Yes." Klein replied calmly, "I divined the cause of death in a minute under the condition that I did nothing. ”

"The power of the Destiny Marker? Because we're all involved with Fort Source in a sense, you're able to get such detailed information? After Bethel finished speaking, the twilight greatsword on his side slowly retracted into the space he had created, and the door closed, and all the breath was immediately blocked into another dimension, not only disappeared from the perspective of divination, but its next movement trajectory also became strange.

Klein tried to divination, but this time he didn't get an accurate result.

"Judging from your answer, you should not be ready to hand over your power to me, or okay, then I will not have any hand on you, you are being eroded much faster than I thought, I thought that you could continue to maintain yourself for at least a hundred years."

Klein smiled bitterly: "I think it will be a success if I can survive the end." ”

"Give me a reason." Bethel said, "Give me a reason why you're in so much pain that you still don't want to die." ”

"In the message that the Demon of Knowledge gave me, you were an ordinary person two years ago, and it was normal for you to become a god in more than a year, and it was normal to be uncomfortable and miserable, but you have reached such a bad point now, you really shouldn't go any further, Crane."

"It's because it's so painful, that's why I don't want you to come."

Crane shook his head and uttered something that surprised Bethel and sent a chill in his back: "Mystery once said to me that I would gradually become apathetic and begin to ignore everything that was once valued. I thought I could jump through the world without a memory, but I didn't expect that I would gradually become selfish, extreme, and cruel, and I even wanted to kill my followers in order to prevent them from leaving. ”

But can I really warn God by doing this? I think that's unlikely. ”

"I've gradually become like this, which I couldn't have imagined in the past. Mr. Bethel, you have family members that you really value, who are suitable for your younger generations who are connected by blood, and even after thousands of years, you will not hesitate to return to them first...... Mystery is obsessed with destroying what is dear to all, and the Child of Chaos is the Emperor, and He destroys His dignity and pride. If He awakens in you, then you, who truly have someone you value, will lose more than I do. ”

TBC

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"I don't dare ask you to understand my thoughts, but, please forgive me."

"Please leave me alone with this pain until I am utterly defeated."

Before the words fell, the countless layers of space between the two "doors" were torn apart at the same time, and the figure in it was nowhere to be found.

As if by magic, the Dusk Greatsword appeared and slashed at Bethel's side and back, but the figure that had been there disappeared again, and the tip of the sword pinned a simple paper figure into the air and sliced it into pieces. Only a few sounds were heard, and several tarot cards were flicked away by the giant sword, turning into spiritual power and disappearing.

"Your choice makes me feel like I'm hurting you, is this a trick that the secret taught you?" "I forgive you, and I understand you," Bethel said, "but — I am a man who has been promoted for the sake of strength, and I love them, and I love the opportunity to go to the highest." ”

(End of chapter)