Secret: The years I served as a foreign aid for the Aurora Club

Chapter 479 I Was Once a Human
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"……Dream?"

Colin muttered.

Although Colin Iliad and Lovia did not quite understand the meaning of the words of the "Dark Angel" Sasriel, they were still affected by the gloom, fear, and creepiness in the words, and had the illusion of being chilling and trembling physically and mentally.

He still didn’t dare to look up and gaze directly into the golden eyes of the God of Gods like Klein did. He looked at his toes and repeated in a daze:

"Just... a dream?"

The magnificent history in just a few chapters in the general education textbooks, the eternally bright heaven on earth before the darkness fell, the epic surrounded by countless angels and eight angel kings, is it just a dream of the God in front of us while he was sleeping?
So what are we?
Your dream is over, but what are we, your followers who have struggled in the darkness for more than a thousand years and killed one relative after another to continue? A byproduct of the dream, a relic of the old era that you don't want to admit?

Colin couldn't find the answer for a moment. He felt that this situation seemed to have the same despair as "the Lord is dead", but it was more complicated and restless than the former. But if he had to choose one, he would rather choose the Lord's death than the Lord waking up and not recognizing them as believers - even though they were indeed insignificant to the gods, as small as sand and as insignificant as dust.

"How could it be a dream?"

Lovia scratched her face with both hands. She had already used up most of her strength and dignity to not bow down before the Supreme of this path, but now she succumbed under the huge blow. She knelt in her own shadow in a purple dress and scratched the bloody flesh from her face with her fingers.

"Merciful Lord, the Lord behind the veil of shadows, your holy words have guided me in the direction of progress. You have responded to me more than once, and to your tiny and pathetic believers! How can true mercy and tolerance be just a dream?"

"You are real, you are the true creator, how can you be an illusion? Lord! Lord——!"

Her low and hoarse voice echoed in front of the god, and the shadow surrounding her gradually showed signs of collapse. But God just looked quietly at the devout shepherd and the silver knight who once believed in the sun god, and his expression did not change much.

"…Why do you think it was a dream?"

Klein was inexplicably angry at God's attitude. He pulled the corners of his mouth and laughed twice. There was no trace of sadness or joy in his voice:

"If you acknowledge His existence, why do you use dreams to refer to Him? If you don't acknowledge that He is a part of you, why do you treat me and them with the attitude in dreams?"

The brass eyes on the shadow curtain were silent for a few seconds, and then a disembodied voice said:

“I did not deny Him…”

"It's just that He insisted in his dream that he was a human being. I cannot accept this wrong idea."

"This is the basis for maintaining the dream, and it is also a blasphemy against the Lord God."

Just because of this reason?
Klein was surprised for a moment, then he covered his mouth and laughed uncontrollably, his shoulders shaking slightly.

Yes, why couldn't that be the reason?
If humans forget who they are, become addicted to the power gained from the potion, forget their original weakness, and think that they are naturally powerful mythical creatures, then they are out of control and crazy. In this case, it is reasonable to understand that naturally powerful gods, the gods of gods, the omnipotent Lord, the great God, how could they think that they are weak and fallible mortals?
This is the greatest blasphemy against the Almighty.

But this blasphemy came from himself - his memory betrayed him, causing him to fall into the human form in those brief few thousand years.

This was the only trace of him left on His soul.

Looks pretty great, doesn't it?
It is so exciting that human beings, who are even less than ants and stones to the Creator, have left such a blasphemous paradox in the self and consciousness of the eternal and omnipotent God. But his life, his beliefs, his thoughts, everything that was once noble and great when he was born as a human being, everything that led an era to glory when he was a god, now all of this is thrown into the blender and crushed into pieces, and in the end it is just a light stroke on the body of the Almighty Lord.

He got Him to agree to choose humans as a new family;

He gave Him a tiny liking for the world.

Is it worth it?
Is it worth it?

Klein felt that all this was so absurd that he was speechless, and he didn't even want to laugh. The meaning and value of life were once again trampled underfoot by the world itself. Even though he knew rationally that this was the limit of an ant, he still couldn't accept it emotionally.

German Sparrow's question and God's answer made Colin Iliad and Lovia a little confused, but they still understood the general meaning and couldn't help feeling sad and confused.

The shadow curtain covering the walls, stone pillars, and floor tiles swayed. The brass eyes stared at Klein and said:

"The Sun God is only my original name, and so is the original creator. You should now call me the Lord who created everything, the omniscient and omnipotent God, or, honor me as 'God'."

"...I can see that you are something beyond my understanding."

Klein finally laughed out loud, and then felt scared because he was mocking the Vice-King of Heaven, one of the most powerful gods. Most importantly, this guy's way of thinking was completely different from that of humans. Even he, who was mentally ill, felt that he could not talk to him.

In order not to give the other party time to get angry, he quickly asked a question:
"So, why did you betray yourself and establish the Rose of Redemption with the 'Goddess of Night' to assassinate yourself?"

Those brass eyes fell silent once again, and the shadows covering everywhere like a curtain swayed gently without stopping.

After several seconds, the ethereal voice slowly said:
"…Because I woke up before that."

After hearing this answer, Klein's pupils suddenly widened, and he inexplicably felt his hair stand on end and his spine go cold.

This was very close to one of his guesses, but even more terrifying.

At this moment, the shadows on all sides became much thicker, more eerie and gloomy, as if they were pregnant with some terrible, unknown and irresistible danger.

God took the trouble to explain again:

“Because He considers Himself to be a human being, which is contrary to My existence;

"So, when He awakened, He chose to use death to delay the awakening of His true self."

These words echoed over and over again for a long time.

Klein blinked: "...What about now?"

"Well, you don't need to answer. I guess you will say 'He finally realized his mistake and chose to wake up from his dream.'"

God looked at him calmly and did not deny the answer.

After a while, Klein asked:
"Okay, okay, I kind of know what you are."

"By the way, I just heard you call yourself 'Original'?"

"'Original' means the one who created this world and became everything?"

As he spoke, Klein took a few steps back, removed the historical projection of the "Poseidon Scepter", and retreated to the bottom of the stairs.

Frankly speaking, Klein subconsciously wanted to ask if it was the "Original Witch", but he immediately ruled out this answer. First, the "Original Witch" did not have the status to make the ancient sun god and the creator of the City of Silver so afraid. Even the "Goddess of Night" could not do it. Second, this evil god was born in the Fourth Epoch after the "Dark Angel" fell asleep and was affected by the second "blasphemous stone tablet". It is unlikely that God is familiar with Him. Even if He knows something about Him through His "omniscience", He will not specifically mention Sequence 0 who did not participate in the history of the Third Epoch.

Behind the increasingly dense and eerie shadows, the brass eyes flickered at the same time, and God's tone sounded as if he was talking about the weather:
"universe."

What does that mean? Hearing that disembodied voice, Klein was confused for a moment, thinking that the other party was answering a question that was irrelevant.

But soon, he roughly understood what the other party meant:
The "Original Creator", God, did not create this world, but the entire universe!

The space between heaven and earth is called "Yu", and the endless time is called "Zhou". Philosophy refers to the universe, which is the collective name of all space, time, matter, etc. and all things produced by them. Philosophy also calls it "world". But why did He answer like this?

Are this universe and this world two different concepts?

He also included "time and space" in His creations, so why is "Lord of Time and Space" included in the title of the Lord of Mysteries?
...So, "Original" doesn't actually refer to the original Creator...but God himself? If we put the authority of the Lord of Mysteries and God together, the one who can truly create the universe is the original Creator? If they can merge with each other, then this is also an adjacent path? But the five paths of omniscience and omnipotence and the three paths of mystery are not adjacent at all...

Klein turned his body and glanced at Colin Iliad, Medici, and Lovia. He found that the two demigods had doubts and confusion on their faces and were frowning as they thought about the conversation just now.

From the moment they saw God, everything that happened challenged their existing ideas.

Medici in the corner seemed to have stopped listening to God's words a long time ago. He leaned against the wall with his arms folded, dozing off loudly.

Klein suspected that He knew the answer, but didn't tell him.

In the history of the City of Silver, the Ancient Sun God, the Creator, was equated with the Original Creator. He was the supreme being who, after creating the world, awoke from his long sleep and took back the authority of the Ancient God.

After he seized the "Sun", the True Creator also used this statement in his missionary work in Intis. He immediately labeled other gods as either traitors or inferior gods. In any case, except for the Creator, everyone else was an inferior god.

Of course, this is not wrong in a sense, but the way the Creator "awoke" in the beginning is not quite what the residents of Silver City imagined. The universe... Klein thought for a moment and said:

"Because He has mastered the 'Sea of ​​Chaos', you have awakened?"

God's answer was very detailed. Although there were some inscrutable and riddle-like words common among gods, Klein basically understood it all. This was different from his own speculation. He had always believed that the awakening of ancient consciousness was as slow as the erosion of divinity. It would gradually correct you over a long period of time, covering you with the will of another person, and making you a new carrier of the ancient existence.

But people are not able to live for a "long time".

As a Beyonder whose basic concept is still that of an ordinary person, Klein feels that his concept twenty years ago is different from his current self. He even planned to be an ordinary person yesterday, but decided to inherit the will and pursue power today. So isn't it normal that his current self is completely different from his current self a thousand years later?
During these thousand years, if he used the honorific name of "Lord of Mysteries" and the power of "Lord of Mysteries", then he would indeed become the Lord of Mysteries, and it would not be surprising that his personality and style were getting closer and closer.

So he felt that this answer was acceptable.

However, according to God, it seemed that He suddenly woke up in the body of the sun god?
As for me, who has a certain degree of control over Sefirah Castle, when will the "Lord of Mysteries" suddenly awaken in my body?

Those brass eyes stared at Klein for several seconds before saying:
"Not only that, the higher the sequence, the closer to the origin. And you are one of the beings closest to Him."

As expected... So, the original Creator may have awakened in the bodies of the Angel Kings and Sequence 0s of each path? Klein's nerves tensed up when he heard this, and his heart sank.

He immediately thought of another thing:
The higher the sequence, the easier it is to be contaminated by things underground!

Combined with the fact that the "Chaos Sea" is located underground, can we conclude that the higher the sequence, the easier it is to be affected by the "Chaos Sea", causing the original creator to awaken in the body? What the "Imagination Dragon" Angerwede feared, sealed in "Groselle's Travels" and sealed in the "City of Miracles" Levisideri, was not the underground pollution that he encountered, but the awakening of the original will? Of course, this is the most powerful and terrifying pollution... And the root of all this is that the source of all or most of the extraordinary characteristics is the original creator, a part of his body? Klein thought of one possibility after another and made one guess after another.

So that's how it is. All of this comes from the original Creator, so "God" and "mystery" can also be adjacent paths!

Omniscience, omnipotence, authority over time and space, and gods of other paths, all belong to the original one!
At this moment, Klein deeply understood this sentence from another perspective.

Huh... He secretly exhaled and sighed in his heart:
"Extraordinary characteristics are both a gift and a curse..."

Collecting his thoughts, he smiled and said:

“Can these things be tainted by just knowing about them?”

"No." The brass eyes looked at Colin Iliad and the others and said, "It just means that the possibility of awakening the 'Origin' in your body is higher."

"But you shouldn't worry about this."

Klein suddenly became curious:
"What am I now in your eyes?"

"A Beyonder tainted with the aura of Sefirah Castle? A group of humanoid bugs? A walking Beyonder? Or some other ant or dust?"

God probably smiled:
"An enemy still sleeping in the body of a human."

Klein was shocked when he heard this. The temperature in the entire hall seemed to drop by ten degrees suddenly. The cold light fell on him and others. The brightness at noon created the chill of a late winter night.

"so what?"

Klein unexpectedly found that he didn't feel much fear at the moment. Thanks to his out-of-control emotions, as long as he spoke fast enough, he wouldn't even feel "scared". He looked at his own shadow at God's feet and smiled exaggeratedly:
"An elder I know was once an angel. He lost his memory for an era after being glared at by the true god. And a powerful god like you doesn't even need a glance to kill me now. Why did you talk to me for so long and tell me so many things?"

Somehow, Klein suddenly wanted to pick up a monocle and put it on his right eye. He was itching to do it, but he resisted and held his hand down. Klein felt that he couldn't be so stupid and couldn't let this action be the last one in his life.

But I couldn't hold back my mouth so well:

"Should I thank you for your generosity, or should I feel——"

"Does it make you happy to torture a weakling who is not yet your enemy, noble God?"

The corners of God's mouth seemed to rise slightly again. He probably liked the drama of this little life struggling hard, saying all kinds of words, and doing all kinds of actions to attract His attention.

And when this tiny intelligent being is the holder of a mysterious destiny, it becomes a comedy rarely seen in millions of years.

God felt that he had won too much, so he was more tolerant towards Klein and the three life forms at his feet who once believed in him:
"You brought me a lot of surprises."

Klein shook his head a few times, restraining his clown instincts and not giving God an impromptu farewell to liven up the atmosphere.

"Eastern Continent is my parish, and they were all my believers."

"I can let them return to heaven and recreate the human paradise in mythology, the most perfect Eden imaginable."

God's gaze swept across Colin Iliad and Lovia, and finally came to Medici, who stiffened his neck and refused to look at Him.

"But the price is that you must stay and spread my glory in my heaven, and go to the human world to sing praises to the ordinary joys that you love; and the war angel must also stay, heaven is where you belong. All great power belongs to me, and the war of justice will always be led by me."

His Word cannot be questioned.

Ordinary joy?
Klein was stunned, and immediately thought of the "perfect world" and "God's sheepfold" that Edward Vaughn had shown him. It is undeniable that the material wealth there has long reached an unimaginable level of abundance under the blessing of extraordinary power. Humans do not need to work, but only need to worship and fear the gods, and then they can live their lives freely and easily according to their own preferences.

It is peaceful and calm there. Everyone praises God. Everyone loves the Lord and loves others as much as they love the Lord. There is no terror and no sadness.

God has one voice, and all things must bow down.

No one, no, probably only very few people can resist such a world, which is the embodiment of the imagination of heaven by intelligent life forms.

He knows that I care about ordinary people, so he lets me see the happiness of ordinary people?
Klein thought about it and gave up on discussing the topic of "happiness" with God. He raised the corner of his mouth and asked:

"Then the people of Silver City and Moon City cannot leave here, and the North Continent, East Continent, and West Continent will all believe in you in the end."

God replied: “It must be.”

"This is a world without choice... Yes, if you invest in your world, you can get everything except yourself. But in this world, who can keep their self? How many copper pennies can they exchange for their self? Can they exchange a meal for the people in the East District and the East Continent to fill their stomachs?"

Klein shook his head, his tone exaggerated.

He looked at Colin and Lovia, then turned his head away without waiting for them to express their opinions.

"Praise you, God."

Klein couldn't help but make a gesture of farewell:

"As a human being who has suffered all kinds of hardships in life, I would like to thank you for creating a paradise for humans that is beyond the limits of imagination."

Boom!

Silver-white electric snakes leaped out, carrying a strong aura of destruction, and densely slashed towards the first "blasphemous slab".

This is the "Lightning Storm" from the "Scepter of Poseidon"!
"But I will be the Serpent of Eden!"

In the blazing white lightning storm, Klein suddenly flashed to the other side of the hall with a crazy smile on his face. He aimed at the "blasphemous slab" hidden behind the seat of God. The lightning jungle, which had never been so grand, trapped him and his fleeing shadow inside, and it seemed that he would die together if he didn't take you back!

"I will constantly and constantly tempt the humans in Eden, tempting them with freedom, pain, an unknown tomorrow, and good and evil beyond your definition, tempting them to leave Eden and take the path of 'self' that is full of suffering but also hides happiness and freedom."

At this point, Klein's voice suddenly became weak and was drowned out by the rumbling thunder.

The moment the lightning struck him and his shadow at the same time, his expression suddenly became calm.

"I can't give them much, only myself! But I want them to have freedom, the freedom to make their own choices."

"Even if their choice is to return to Eden."

TBC
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Congratulations on finishing the college entrance examination!
(End of this chapter)