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

Chapter 539 Arrival
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"Speaking of which, your...future events are so confusing. I want to knit a sweater out of them."

Before Klein could react to what he had just said, the Lord of Withering changed the subject again. It seemed that his thoughts were always so erratic and nonsensical, making it impossible to guess what he was thinking.

"Look what you guys are doing here."

His tone matched the action of eating popcorn in a very harmonious way, and it didn't look like he was going to add fuel to the fire later:
"The Thunder God, out of instinct and personal vendetta, has regarded you all as his enemies. In comparison, the Demon of Knowledge is not that important. His primary goal seems to be to break through the Demon of Knowledge's blockade and kill all three of you."

Klein chewed on a word: "Instinct? Do you mean that God's will has begun to awaken in His body?"

"But I see that He is very proactive now, and has a clear idea of ​​His goal. He has not gone to the East Continent to contact the Chaos Sea. Besides, God has already appeared, so there is no need to wake up in advance. Even so, can't it delay God's awakening?"

In Klein's opinion, if the Lord of Mysteries and God's will do not actively erode the gods, and the gods do not actively contact the source, then the revival of the old will should be a very small event.

If he had not come into contact with Sefirah Castle early on, he would not have been chosen by the True Creator as a candidate for the Lord of Mysteries at Sequence 6, nor would he have been caught by God in the God-forsaken Land at Sequence , nor would he have had a cordial exchange with the Lord of Mysteries at Sequence and made a verbal agreement full of loopholes - for a mortal who had just obtained divinity, this was simply a shocking horror and honor.

Klein’s poor imagination was no longer enough to imagine what would happen next.

Or there is nothing to imagine... It's just that he becomes a god, and then disappears one day when the Lord of Mysteries is resurrected?
In the future, He may be anxious and seek self-help in the long divinity and the inevitable death one day, but ultimately He cannot escape the influence of His original will. It is like He has been sentenced to a very long prison sentence, which is much longer than countless human reincarnations.

After hearing these words, the Outer God showed a somewhat surprised expression, then he understood something and laughed.

"Haha... I understand your idea, but some things will not stop just because you think they have no impact - by the way, isn't there a logical problem with this sentence? Sorry, I haven't used such a controversial description for a while."

Although he said that he was not familiar with the use of human language, in fact, in Klein's eyes, this Outer God who was not human at all was more human than all the mythical creatures he had seen before. Even his half, Edward Vaughn, would occasionally reveal his nature under the human shell, but his expression, movements, and tone were very natural, even lifelike.

The Lord of Decay didn't care about Klein's scrutiny and fear of him. He continued:

"You might as well change your way of thinking and regard you and the Secret, the God of Thunder and God as the abnormal development of an individual."

Hearing this word, Klein was momentarily glad that he had not completely returned all the biology knowledge he had learned in school to his teacher.

"Why do you have to think of you and us as opposites? You can think of yourself as a caterpillar, and the Secret and God as the transformed butterflies." The Lord of Decay showed some of his mentor's characteristics and gave Klein a simple lesson. "When you were still a caterpillar, it would take endless time and effort to get from one tree to another. You might even die on the way or be killed by other creatures at any time. But when you become a butterfly, you can cross a distance by just flapping your wings and taking off."

"As a caterpillar, your memories and your life will melt into the chrysalis and become part of the butterfly. After achieving this qualitative change, even humans will not think of you as a species."

"In other words, if you humans don't eat and sleep, you won't grow?"

...How can this be the same? Humans will not become another species as they grow up, nor will they suddenly change into another personality at a certain time, causing their original self to completely disappear and produce a brand new individual that is completely different in both species and personality. How can they still regard "him" as their future self? Klein was somewhat surprised by the theory he heard. He thought that perhaps the other party really thought so, but for a species like himself that would not develop abnormally, this was completely incomprehensible.

Klein decided to change the question.

"The power of the 'Lord of Mysteries' is beyond my imagination... How could such an Old One who can be called the pillar of the universe fall silently?"

The Lord of Decay seemed amused by this question again. He seemed to be in a good mood:
"No sound? How is that possible!

"When they fight, the sun and moon are darkened, the sky is pitch black, and everything around them suffers, including my essence. Otherwise, why would I stay in this corner of the universe for thousands or tens of thousands of years? I don't like it here."

"Anyway, after this, the remains of 'God' formed the first 'blasphemous slab' in the 'Sea of ​​Chaos'. Next to the slab was the uniqueness of the 'thief's' path."

In other words, in the middle of the First Epoch, the "Lord of Mysteries" and the "God" had an extremely fierce but quiet battle, and both of them died in the end? This can explain why the ancient sun god possessed or herded the uniqueness of the "thief" path when he walked out of the "Sea of ​​Chaos". It was torn from the "Lord of Mysteries" by the "God" in ancient times... Klein asked with a little confusion as his thoughts were in a mess:
"Why do they want to kill each other? As both are pillars and belong to different paths, there shouldn't be any conflict that cannot be resolved by a life-and-death struggle."

The Lord of Decay asked back, "You shouldn't be asking this question until now. You want to keep advancing and pursuing power. We also want to complete ourselves, return to the beginning, or even become the beginning - even if this will lead to the collapse of the universe."

"The 'Lord of Mysteries' and the 'God' of ancient times both have the instinct to irresistibly reunite and become the embodiment of the entire universe, that is, the original creator."

The stronger, the crazier? Besides being cunning, powerful, terrifying, and full of wisdom, the characteristics of "Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun" are really terrifying... Recalling the repeated deceptions he had suffered before, Klein thought for a moment and said:

"The 'Lord of Mysteries' and the 'God' of ancient times, in essence, should be different aspects of the original Creator?"

"It might be more accurate to use the metaphor of different personalities of the same being."

The Outer God said calmly:

"It is the same for us, and it will be the same for you in the future. The original creator is the creator and the end of the universe, the day and the night, the divine light and the abyss of depravity, and the aggregation of all contradictory concepts and symbols."

“Therefore, He naturally has an uncontrollable tendency to split, and once split, He will have a strong tendency to gather.

“In history older than your time, the sleeping Prime Creator had already naturally split into multiple personalities. They were also in a sleeping state, but began to use the authority and extraordinary characteristics they controlled to indirectly influence the world, making a lot of preparations for the real split after the Prime Creator awakened.

"Among them, the most powerful and active ones are 'God' and 'Lord of Mysteries'. The latter has another honorific name in the Western Continent.

“In the early to middle period of the First Age, they must have mastered additional, multiple essences through different methods, which made their instinct to gather even stronger, to the point where they could not control themselves and took actions against each other.

"According to the research of 'Ancient Sun God', the pillar is the highest level at which the state can be stable. If the Old Ones exceed this limit, even if they only contain one more source substance, they will inevitably be controlled by the instinct of aggregation and cannot be reversed.

"No one knows the details of that battle, not even the Seven Lights of the Spirit Realm. We only know that after that, the two Old Ones who could be called pillars completely disappeared, and the rest of the source material outside of the Chaos Sea and Sefirah Castle was sealed by the power of Sefirah Castle to the Western Continent - the area once ruled by the Lord of Mysteries.

"This arrangement leads to a problem. Before the Lord of Mysteries and God reappear and lift and break the seal of the Western Continent, no Sequence 0 in this world can become an Old One and fight against the Outer Gods.

"As the end of the world draws closer, this problem forces all true gods to cultivate a 'Lord of Mysteries' or 'God', and the previous 'Lord of Mysteries' and 'God' are very likely to awaken in their bodies." This... So, the sealing of the remaining source essences was done intentionally by the "Heavenly Lord" to prevent the future Sequence 0 True Gods from deliberately avoiding the path they are in and strangling the birth of a new "Lord of Mysteries"? And as long as a new "Lord of Mysteries" is born, there is a high probability that He will be resurrected and fully awakened... Isn't this too insidious and too much? To a certain extent, such an arrangement is not afraid of being known by others. The more people know about it, the more inclined they will be to support a "Lord of Mysteries" as soon as possible, so as to avoid having only a few years left to control their corresponding source essences and not becoming the old days... The more Klein thought about it, the more he felt that the "Fusheng Xuanhuang Heavenly Lord" was extremely terrifying.

This made him sigh in his heart:
"As expected of a pillar-level Old One..."

Klein then asked:
"They should have trained the Lord of Mysteries earlier."

But he actually already knew the answer to this question.

Because as time goes by, the will of "Tianzun" and "God", as different personalities of the original creator, is also constantly declining. The closer to the end of the world, the weaker the corresponding will, and the more likely the later ones will resist and suppress it, so as not to lose themselves directly.

"At that time, Amon and Bethel were unwilling to do so. They both hoped to make all kinds of preparations and try again when the end of the world was near."

"Finally Antigonus tried it, and he went mad."

"Salinger intended to indirectly use the 'River of Eternal Darkness' to integrate the uniqueness of the 'Red Priest' and create a new path of the Old Days. Then, he went crazy and could no longer restrain his desire to combine the 'Dusk' and 'Darkness' paths."

The God of Death was also forced to do nothing. On the one hand, there were only a thousand years left before the end of the world. On the other hand, the River of Eternal Darkness was sealed by the pillar of the Supreme Heaven, and he could not try to control it... Too insidious, too much! Klein couldn't help but criticize the Supreme Heaven again in his heart.

"And after that... as time passed, the seal of the Western Continent gradually weakened. Those source substances either instinctively or consciously used the uniqueness and high-sequence Beyonder characteristics within their own symbolic range to indirectly erode them and affect the outside world.

"The first to seep out power was the 'Eternal Darkness River', which formed a tributary in the outside world through Gray Carrie in the Second Epoch. Later, in the Fourth Epoch, more source substances began to appear in the North and South Continents and the Five Seas Islands.

"This is an important factor behind many anomalies in the Quaternary Period."

Forget it. It feels like there’s no point in discussing this kind of thing with an Outer God. I might as well ask something else… Just as Klein was about to speak, he discovered that the other party had suddenly disappeared from his sight—without any process, he just disappeared so suddenly.

No, maybe He was still standing here, but Klein was once again "unable to find Him".

Then, Klein understood why the other party disappeared.

The voice of the Lord of Mysteries came again, with a hint of teasing.

"You've got an interesting favor."

"But this is not enough to change anything. If He really had the power to fight against me, He would not help you in this way..."

Klein smiled and did not answer this question, but he felt a lot more relaxed.

"Any help is invaluable to me."

“Even if my ego survives for just a moment, it’s worth it and worth the effort.”

"So you don't need to sow discord. As you said, I am a human being who is born and dies in a day. Compared to your hundreds of millions of years of life, my life is just a moment. But just for this moment of life, I have tried my best. Finally, I accept your conditions."

The Lord of Mysteries' laughter rang in Klein's ears. He was quite satisfied with Klein's words and attitude. Klein had obviously realized how insignificant his human life was, and he was humble enough, thus revealing a trace of stingy tolerance:

"Then, from now on."

"Become me, accept me, and coexist with my will until the end of the universe - you will be the future 'Lord of Mysteries'."

……

"The savior of Silver City and Moon City..."

Benson took a sip of water to moisten his dry throat, and recited the honorable name again.

His mood had changed from being nervous and fearful at the beginning to having no emotions at all. He felt that no one would respond to this honorable name. That was true. If Klein was really still alive and really cared about them, how could he have remained silent until now? If Klein didn't care about them at all, how could he respond to their words?
No response is a good thing, let this farce end completely...

"Miracle Master Klein Moretti..."

But at this moment, when Benson read out the name, the candlelight on the wall of the room suddenly dimmed.

A strange laugh suddenly appeared in his ears, and at that moment, Benson broke out in cold sweat all over his body.

"Are you looking for me?"

Klein's voice - the voice of his dead brother appeared in his ears, carrying with it a contempt and arrogance that Klein Moretti would never possess, floating down from a height, as if an invisible person was blowing into his ear.

"Are you looking for me?"

"Benson, my brother?"

TBC
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It was as if I wasn't thinking when I spoke yesterday. I have to get an IV drip this afternoon so how could I possibly update?!

(End of this chapter)