(Some high-order promotion ceremonies have not yet been announced, so I can only make up one first for the needs of the plot, forgive me.) ）

Tristan remembered everything.

He should have remembered, but it had happened so crazy and bizarre that it was far beyond his comprehension, so much so that the brain's self-protection mechanisms erased everything.

He wanted to question, he wanted to shout.

Why do such a thing? Why do you not even hesitate to put your own brothers, sons, nephews, nieces, granddaughters...... Those who get along day and night, those who are still talking happily in the last second, are burned to ashes? To the point where it goes...... What are you drawing?!

In the real world, his body trembled violently like an electric shock, his skin cracked open and the flesh inside solidified into black and white eyes, and the extraordinary power stirred in his weakest and most broken moments, desperately eager to tear his human body apart.

He heard a sigh, and then his finger was pierced by something sharp, and a sleepiness swept over his brain, and all restlessness died down, and those extra eyes narrowed as if they were sleepy, and gradually closed until the gaps in his skin disappeared as well.

Before falling into a deep slumber, he heard a familiar voice.

"I'm sorry."

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Thoth put away the spindle that had once caused the princess to fall into eternal sleep, and let out a long breath of turbidity.

"Now we know that there is a shadow of Lady Stiano behind this fire." Adam said calmly, "She herself is not dead, but missing."

"But there is a ...... on that death list Wait."

Halfway through his words, Thoth immediately realized that something was wrong. That list was based on the extraordinary traits left on the scene, and the extraordinary traits really couldn't fool people, but what if Lady Stiano had taken an extra copy of the Sequence 3 trait and managed to separate it and put it in that mechanical doll?

And judging from Tristan's memory, which puppet can speak, laugh, eat and drink, have a natural posture, and even have many details that look like a real person - this is beyond the level of a sequence 3.

He concluded, "During your absence, Lady Stiano was promoted to Sequence 2, and for a completely mythical creature, the golden cicada is nothing to do."

At the beginning of the Glorious Age, the Hidden Sage borrowed a desecrated tablet from the ancient Sun God, and kept an eye out for the Perfectionist when he wrote down all the potion recipes and promotion rituals of the Hermit path.

Thoth remembers that Sequence 2 of the "Perfect" path is called "Master of Mysteries", which requires the design and construction of a building with occult functions and a certain landmark—no small project that can be done on the sly.

His men had also checked the construction orders received by the Stiano family, and they all knew which bricks and stones and which sand were used in which province and county...... Could it be that the baroness can still turn a building out of thin air?!

How long have I been gone? Thoth was a little skeptical and estimated the time, less than two days, right? Can you finish such a big project in two days?

No, wait. Two possibilities came to Thoth's mind. 1. Lady Stiano found an alternative to this ritual; Second, some people who were able to build a building in two days helped her.

Guy who can build a building in two days...... The guy who can make Lady Stiano leave the mansion without knowing it and put on a puppet double......

Will it be Zarathu?

More than a decade ago, when an earthquake struck the south and killed many people, Zarathu was ordered to go to the rescue, and after accumulating enough prayers, it took a moment to replant the collapsed houses.

No...... For a less reason, he was one of the Black Emperor's favorites, and it was said that his family had assisted Solomon's family before the cataclysm, in other words, many of the things he did had Solomon's intentions behind them, but the fire shook a lot of anchors, which was obviously not what Solomon wanted to see.

And what about the other secret attendant?

Antigonus, son of Fregra

, a mythical creature born by nature, the founder of the "Night Nation", and the brother of the "Mother of Heaven".

Although the empire had several high-ranking people in Antigonus's neighboring paths and even the same path, under the pressure of Amanisses, he still chose to be loyal to Solomon......

Wait a minute.

Thoth remembered something a long time ago.

On the battlefield at the end of the Age of Chaos, he stabbed a demon's head with the "Eternal Spear", and when the spear was about to collapse, Amanisis took it and chose a new target for it, the Mother of Heaven, but both wolves survived due to Antigonus's sacrifice.

In return for using this artifact, Amanises also revealed to Thoth a great deal of occult knowledge about the soothsayer, such as secret puppets, historical projections, and the resurrection of the "miracle master", all of which he had accumulated over the years he had spent with Fregela.

"By the spiritual instincts of the soothsayers, Antigonus may have sensed some connection between me and Amanisis." Thoth thought to himself, "Coupled with the fact that Zarathu was one of the founding fathers of the country, and his family was deeply rooted in the empire, how could Antigonus not swallow him under Solomon's nose, and maybe he would be the one to be swallowed by accident—it makes sense for him to support other allies for insurance."

"Looks like you've got a guess."

Adam caught the glint in His eye.

Thoth laughed self-deprecatingly, "It's just an afterthought."

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The true Creator awoke from his slumber and opened his scarlet one-eye—he was in a much better state than the state of the occasional moaning and crumbling into a puddle of flesh mixed with shadows at every turn, but the old madness could not be resolved in a moment, and it still needed to be reconciled by slumber.

He saw Thoth kneeling before him, his hands folded and his eyes down, like a devout believer—but "piety" was a far cry from Him.

"What are you doing here?"

"Isn't that the posture of confession?" Thoth wanted to shrug his shoulders, but his clasped hands limited his play, "But you know, I'm going to spit out some knowledge that will drive the priest crazy, so I'll have to look for you."

"Okay then." The True Creator could not help but laugh, but quickly reverted to a solemn demeanor: "Lost Lamb, what do you seek forgiveness for?

"For the fire that claimed countless lives."

"What do you mean by that? Could it be that you lit the flame with your mind?"

"This fire was unexpected by me, but it was expected by Lady Stiano."

"Why do you seek forgiveness when you should seek forgiveness, who deserves to go to hell, who deserves to be condemned?"

"Because I drove her to this point."

"What should I say?"

"In order to limit the high-level development of the Stiano family, I revealed their ritual of promotion to demigods, and deliberately exaggerated the damage to the interests of all nobles in the link of "extracting the entire life force of a certain area", so as to promote the birth of the Land Protection Act."

"When their entire family was ostracized by the nobles, and was disheartened by this, I made a suggestion to pick a craftsman to go to the north to build fortifications, and the matter was very high, so I quickly got the edict of the Black Emperor - it is obvious that they will never let the children of their own family, who are the most cohesive and have been cultivated as the backbone, go to them, so they can only let the children of the divided family fill in the gaps, and the old people and adults have to keep the family running, so it is the young people who go - often the least likable and least favored among the many children."

"A digression." Thoth smiled self-deprecatingly, "Because I often wear a set of clothes over and over for important occasions, many nobles think that I am in financial crisis, and they also subconsciously think that the north is a bitter cold place—naturally they are not willing to let the most precious children suffer."

"Of course, if that dress looks real

It's too old, so I'll let Amon trick the refractive index of the light so that it's no different from the new one...... Well, it's me."

The True Creator laughed out loud, "Thrift is a virtue."

"Then again, this is exactly what I want—those children who can understand that they are suffering from their more delicate peers in the future, and who don't say anything, are somewhat disheartened."

"When they came to the north, I met their needs according to Maslow's theory, they were afraid of the cold, I prepared warm shelters and fat meals, and when they felt lonely, I organized all kinds of activities, and they were not valued at home, and I made every contribution they made into a meritorious achievement worthy of praise - after they felt at home, I threw an olive branch called "power" to them."

"When I was watching the desecration of the tablet, in addition to the 'Hermit' path where I was, I also wrote down the various recipes and rituals of the 'Perfect' path. For those children who were simply brought in to fill up and drank the Artisan's potion before leaving, I don't mind giving an astronomer's potion as a token of condolence for their labor."

Thoth smiled slightly, "Or a bribe."

"There is a general law in the empire, whether it is a large family or a small family, when it comes to sequence 5, that is, when it comes to the stage of the ceremony, the promotion of family members is very strict - the difference between the family and the division is also reflected in this place, the family can master the recipe and ritual of the entire divine path, and the division family knows the formula of sequence 6 at most, and if you want to climb up, you must submit an application, pass various audits, and accumulate a certain amount of merit - this kind of appeal is the bond that maintains a whole big clan."

"The first step in breaking this bond is to let the splitter know that he has more than one choice."

The True Creator listened quietly and could not help but breathe a sigh of relief - in this extraordinary world based on madness, it is unrealistic to expect a blank slates of goodness, and He does not resent it because he hides and plays tricks, on the contrary, it is precisely because he knows how to manipulate the mind, understands the operation of power, and knows how to make certain policies work for himself, that he is at ease.

"That's right." He said with some relief, "But you have to make them understand that they are the better choice."

"So I revealed a few things that they weren't qualified to know, such as the name and recipe of the potion for the promotion of the "craftsman" to the demigod, and the promotion ceremony that was a waste of land resources and violated the laws of the empire, and incidentally revealed the promotion ceremony of the "occultist" - a drop of blood is enough, which is a very simple choice."

"The fact that they know more than anyone else can give them the feeling that they have seized an opportunity, and for children who are undervalued, opportunity is everything."

"Then, I deliberately brought a child who was willing to submit and talented to Sequence 3, and he told the elders about it through letters, and it didn't take long for the side branch to convert to me."

Thoth shrugged, "A few more times like this, and Lady Stiano will become the Commander of the Light Pole...... Well, that's where I'm going to repent."

He said, "I thought she was defeated, I thought that as long as I kept watch, she would never be able to make waves again......

"I also thought about whether or not to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, but when I thought that she still had sons, grandchildren, granddaughters, relatives who could walk around each other during the New Year, and so many things that I would never have again, I thought, forget it, Sequence 3 doesn't have a long lifespan, I can wait until the day she closes her eyes on the bed."

"But I was wrong, she refused to die—she rejected death that was so common for all living beings, she longed for eternal life, she longed for immortality, she longed for power."

"My sin is to underestimate the madness of the world and underestimate her desire for high position."

"If I had to do it all over again, I'd make a deal with Amon so that the fate of the woman he stole would be on me, just as you and Amani did to Eumibella in the first place—though the role-playing was a bit more cumbersome, but it also saved the sacrifice that came with the Convergence War."

Thoth's tone was calm, calm to the point of indifference, but the true Creator felt an unspoken anger.

(PS: Tomorrow Collect Inspiration&a;a;a; Clean up the wisdom, most likely not more)