In the face of Klein's inquiry, Russell chuckled, and his words were full of confidence:

"You don't have to worry about this, although I have been dead for hundreds of years, it does not mean that I have no successor."

"Huh?"

Klein frowned, the Intis Empire had been restructured into the Republic of Intis more than a hundred years ago, the order left by Russell had long since ceased to exist, and the belief in the 'Black Emperor' had long ceased to exist under the encirclement and suppression of the 'Steam Church' and the Eternal Sun Sect, and the current Intis had no soil for the followers of the 'Black Emperor' to survive!

Ember asked thoughtfully:

"Painting the world?"

Russell nodded calmly:

"Yes."

Crane's expression moved slightly, and there was a slight look of understanding in his eyes.

The corners of Russell's mouth were slightly hooked, and he said in a slightly melancholy voice:

"During the Intis Empire, at my urging, the Church of the Eternal Sun also made a deal with the Church of Steam, giving them their own painting world to the Church of Steam. I also secretly spread faith in it, but I don't know how much will be left after more than a hundred years. ”

After a pause, Russell continued:

"But that's okay, because before I became the 'Black Emperor', I also stole a painting world from the Church of the Storm. The world of the painting should now be in Bernardette's hands. ”

The Steam Church may betray him and snuff out the faith he secretly spread. But as a father's little padded jacket, Bernadette will never do the same, right?

Klein reminded:

"This kind of thing, it's best to find myself to confirm."

Russell nodded, but shook his head again:

"Wait a minute."

Klein's expression moved slightly, knowing that Russell still had something to tell them, and it was inconvenient for Bernadette to know.

Russell looked at Klein under the high platform and asked:

"Which path are you taking?"

"Soothsayer."

Klein told the truth, smiled and said:

"Speaking of which, it's thanks to you, it was your diary that made me decide to go the way of a soothsayer."

Russell sighed, and his tone was a little emotional:

"A soothsayer."

"Sure enough, only by choosing the 'Fortune Teller', 'Apprentice', or 'Thief' path can the 'Traverser' enter the 'Source Castle'. By the time I guessed this factor, it was too late. ”

"By the way, you're Sequence 0 now?"

Klein shook his head:

"Not yet, fooling still needs to be accumulated."

Russell raised his eyebrows and looked at him with a little playfulness:

"In that case, I might be able to get ahead of you."

Klein looked at him with some tears and laughter:

"That's all you want to say?"

Your daughter is still waiting outside, and you said so much just to compare?

"Of course not."

Russell flatly denied it, turned his gaze to the embers, and seamlessly shifted the subject:

"The biggest problem in the first half of my life was that I was too confident, I always had the feeling that I could read the file again at any time, and I didn't scrutinize many details enough."

"When Grimm was polluted by the strange power of this island, he returned here after his death and was reborn, isn't this the influence of the 'primordial moon'? After I did all the tests and purified them accordingly, I felt that I had no problem. But in fact, I had already been polluted by the 'primordial moon' back then, but the pollution was too hidden for me to notice. ”

"This led me to 'chance' meet Mr. 'Gate' later, and he guided me to the moon step by step!"

"I can't blame Mr. 'Gate', he may be in a worse state than I am now."

Ember kindly reminded:

"Mr. 'Door' is back."

"Huh?" Russell's expression became a little suspicious.

Klein interjected:

"Ember helped him solve the pollution of the 'Fallen Mother Goddess', by the way, the 'Primordial Moon' you just mentioned is the embodiment of the 'Fallen Mother Goddess'."

"Hmmm?!!"

Russell pointed at the two with trembling fingers, and said sadly:

"In other words, you chose to save him first instead of saving me first, knowing that both me and Mr. 'Gate' were tainted?"

Klein was a little speechless:

"Is there a possibility, we don't know where your grave is, but Mr. 'Gate' can be summoned at any time. And the diary of your grave is in Bernadette's hand, and if she hadn't given it to us for translation, we probably wouldn't have been able to find this island in our lifetime. ”

Russell's expression froze slightly, as if this was the case.

But the question is, he can't be blamed for that, right?

He didn't build the tomb to be hidden, what if someone dug it up?

Russell, who knew that he was at a loss, soon stopped worrying about who to save first, but corrected with a serious face:

"It's called a mausoleum!"

Klein was a little funny, and Russell changed the subject again:

"Continuing with the moon, I couldn't help but yearn for the moon at that time. This is not only due to the guiding factor of Mr. 'Gate', but also related to the hidden pollution of the primitive ...... 'Fallen Mother Goddess'. ”

Speaking of this, Russell sighed and said:

"It's so weird above the moon, I obviously feel the horror, but I don't think about whether I will be polluted at all, and then, more and more extreme, more and more extreme."

After a pause, Russell continued:

"Off topic, I'm not going to talk about this, the focus is on the moon itself!"

Russell glanced at Klein and asked:

"You should know this is Earth, right?"

"Hmm." Klein replied calmly.

When Russell heard this, he said in a deep voice:

"The Earth is still the same Earth, just with some changes in the terrain. And the moon is still the same moon, but because it was polluted by the 'Fallen Mother Goddess', it was the 'Crimson Moon'. ”

"And the problem is, I saw the second moon!"

Klein's eyes twinkled, but he wasn't surprised, for he had seen two moons too.

Russell didn't know what Klein was thinking, and said with a solemn expression:

"It was a dark blue moon, somewhat similar to the original moon, but a little darker, or bluer." The Dark Moon has always been hidden in the shadow side of the Crimson Moon, so we will never see it on Earth. ”

"But there is no doubt that the moon is also the embodiment of an old day, and an old day on the same level as the fallen mother goddess!"

"There is no doubt about this, the closer you are to Earth, the better you can be in the event of a future invasion. And the fact that the Fallen Mother Goddess was able to overpower many of the old days to occupy the moon is a testament to her strength. And that Dark Moon can not only be juxtaposed with it, but it can even pollute me when the Fallen Mother Goddess polluted me. ”

"Since being polluted by the Fallen Mother Goddess on the moon, I have rarely been awake." Have you seen "Get Out"? At that time, it was as if I had fallen into a 'dark pit', and I could only watch through a small window as another 'self' controlled my body. ”

"That kind of despair is a nightmare that I can't escape even now."

Russell laughed to himself, he even had the idea of dying.

Klein frowned and asked:

"And how did you get out of that state? I've read the diary you wrote, and you should have gained a certain amount of sobriety. ”

Russell took a deep breath and said in a deep voice:

This is what I am saying, that angels and true gods need to rely on the pollution of faith to fight the pollution of divinity in order to maintain their humanity. At that time, the only thing that could help me fight against the pollution of the fallen mother goddess was another old pollution, that is, the 'dark moon'. ”

"It is only in the confrontation between the two sides that I can occasionally gain a brief moment of sobriety!"

"The Fallen Mother Goddess wants to manipulate me through pollution in order to gain a head start in the following 'apocalypse'. As for Darkmoon, to be honest, I don't know what He wants to do even now. ”

"During that time, the Fallen Mother Goddess manipulated me into doing a lot of things, the most important of which was the Blasphemy Card. You must have collected a few of them, right? ”

Klein bowed slightly:

"I've collected a few of them."

Russell's expression moved slightly, and he asked:

"Is there a 'mother', a 'witch', and a 'moon'?"

"Nope." Crane shook his head.

"It's good if you don't have it."

Russell suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, met Klein's inquiring gaze, and said in a deep voice:

"These twenty-two blasphemous cards are themselves a conspiracy of the 'Fallen Mother Goddess'!"

"When I made these blasphemous cards, I was only in Sequence 1 and didn't have the promotion to 'Black Emperor'. Have you ever wondered how the blasphemous card I made in Sequence 1 could be so that the gods couldn't find it? ”

Klein was faintly tingling, but Russell suddenly changed his words:

"Of course, the Fallen Mother Goddess has made me do a lot of decorations, and the Blasphemy Card is just one of them. As long as no one is fooled, these arrangements are actually harmless. Now that I'm back to normal, it's totally okay to fix these issues slowly. ”

"At the time, it seemed to me that the Dark Moon was simply adding to the Fallen Mother Goddess and hindering His plans, and my sobriety was also an obstacle to it. And the reason why I chose to switch to the Black Emperor path is also because of the reminder of the 'Dark Moon'. ”

"He told me that out of all the twenty-two paths, only the 'Black Emperor' path has any hope of helping me get rid of pollution."

"As long as I can be truly killed after becoming the 'Black Emperor' of Sequence 0 and being half-insane, then I will have a chance to be resurrected in the mausoleum or in the astral plane, and at that time, what will return to me will be pure 'uniqueness' and the extraordinary characteristics of Triple Sequence 1, no longer the slightest pollution, no longer contain uncontrollable madness."

Russell smiled bitterly and said:

"Of course, it turns out that the horrors of the old days are beyond my imagination, and with my resurrection comes the pollution of a new life."

Klein frowned, and said in a deep voice:

"Only the Old Days can fight the Old Days, and the Dark Moon has known this for a long time, and he did it on purpose?"

"Yes."

Russell nodded, and continued:

"When I came back to life, I realized that pollution was still around. I had no choice but to suspend the resurrection process and live in the last mausoleum in my current state, preventing the 'Fallen Mother Goddess' from being born in the real world through my body, which would bring devastating disasters. ”

"Obviously, Darkmoon's plan is not viable, and I have not been able to escape the pollution of the Fallen Mother Goddess. But the problem is that although I have not been able to get rid of the pollution of the 'Fallen Mother Goddess', the pollution of the 'Dark Moon' has disappeared completely. ”

"It wasn't until later that I realized that this was the plan of the 'Dark Moon'!" The resurrection of the Black Emperor can't solve the pollution of the 'Fallen Mother Goddess', and of course it is impossible to solve the pollution of the 'Dark Moon', which is another existence from the same old days after all. ”

"There is only one explanation for this, and that is that the pollution of the 'Dark Moon' actively left my body."

"He deliberately led me down the path of the Black Emperor, making me think that I could be resurrected from the death of the 'Black Emperor' and get rid of pollution. But in fact, it's just a chance for the pollution of the 'Dark Moon' to get rid of me! ”

"The resurrected me wanted to get rid of the pollution, but the 'fallen mother goddess' still wanted to control me, which is why we have been entangled in this mausoleum for hundreds of years. And the 'Dark Moon' did not intend to compete with the 'Fallen Mother Goddess' for my body, so in the process of my 'resurrection', He also took the opportunity to go out on his own. ”

Russell's expression was extremely serious, and he said solemnly:

"In other words, there is an old man who can be active in this world without restrictions, and this time is as long as a hundred years!"

Klein suddenly felt a little numb in his scalp, if what Russell the Great said was true, God knows how much this old man had planned in the past hundred years? And these schemes will not only give him a far head start in the last days, but they may also make the end come early!

But the question is, didn't this Dark Moon still ask Mr. 'Gate' to send a message to Ember?

Crane asked thoughtfully:

"Could that 'Dark Moon' be someone from the Dark Souls?"

"Huh?"

Russell was a little puzzled, why are you asking me this question? Aren't the embers standing right in front of you? You ask him!

Ember saw the inquiry in the eyes of the two of them, and slowly spoke:

"It's not."

Receiving Ember's affirmative answer, Crane couldn't help but take a deep breath.

He had asked Ember this question before, but Ember didn't give an answer that time, saying that there was a little speculation, but not much.

And now is undoubtedly the worst-case scenario, because since 'Dark Moon' is not a character in the Black Soul, it is not so closely related to Ember, and it is likely to be their enemy!

But if you think about it, it's actually nothing, anyway, it's not one or two old days that covet this world, and now it's just one more, and there's no difference - they can't be beaten anyway, is there a big difference between one old day and two old days?

Klein looked at Russell and admonished:

"Then you might want to be careful."

Russell was a little surprised:

"Why?"

Klein's expression was a little subtle, and he reminded in a low voice:

"Because for the past hundred years, this 'Dark Moon' has most likely been by your daughter's side."

"Bernadette?!"

Russell was so furious that he almost exploded on the spot.

He should have thought of it a long time ago!

Darkmoon's rivalry with the Fallen Mother Goddess has been around for so long, and he already knows everything about his relationships. The 'Fallen Mother Goddess' was unwilling to give up his 'host', which is why she continued to haunt him after his resurrection.

And since Darkmoon will choose to give up, it is of course because he has found a better 'host'!

And who else could this 'host' be besides his daughter Bernadette?

The anxious old father shouted:

"Quick, get Bernadette back!"

(End of chapter)