They all call me an Outer God.

[Gods are nothing special. Cutting off the path to godhood is a sign of cowardice. Their despicable behavior is best exemplified by their betrayal of others.]

Even beings as powerful as they are fearful of being annihilated by the inferior beings they once despised during their slumber.

The path to godhood through slaying gods is laid bare before you; are you truly willing to give it up?

"Am I willing to give up?"

The tentacles beside Ria curled up.

He looked up ahead, seemingly peering through the mist at something. Finally, at a certain moment, Ria slowly stood up and waved his hand to disperse some of the mist.

A figure appeared ahead. The person was thinner than he was now, and looked to be about twelve or thirteen years old. He had a typical East Asian face.

With black hair and black eyes, her still-developing appearance wasn't particularly stunning, but one could already glimpse her extraordinary future.

The child was holding a book, and with his other hand he was holding his mother's hand, whose face was blurred by the mist, and he was happily rocking her.

"Mom! When I grow up, I'm going to buy you lots of delicious food and let you live in the best house in the world!"

"As expected of my son, he's already making grand promises to his mother at such a young age!"

"I didn't make any empty promises; I never lie."

Young Li Ya was a little unhappy. He continued walking forward with his mother, whose figure was gradually swallowed up by the mist. After a while, Li Ya suddenly turned his head and found that the person holding his hand had turned into a monster wearing a black robe and covered with tentacles.

As his face grew paler, the "monster" smiled at him and uttered words he couldn't understand.

"We meet again. I wonder if this will be the last time we see each other..."

"Let me ask you, if each of the fifteen memes represents a god, what would happen if all the memes were merged together?"

"I'll go crazy, or I'll die." Li Ya didn't understand what he was saying, but he still said it when asked by the person next to him.

"Yes, that's the tragedy of the extraordinary."

Ria chuckled to herself, then crouched down to look at her human side, and couldn't help but touch the other's head with her tentacles, messing up its hair: "Let's share the information we have so far."

"In your opinion, who are the symbolic deities of each meme?"

Li Ya blinked and looked up at the black-robed man before him: "We currently know very little about them, but the memes I've analyzed so far represent the following deities:

Crows—lurking in chaos.

The Witch – The Black Goat of the Forest.

Tactician - Door.

I don't know about the rest.

Ria: "Why does the raven meme represent crouching chaos? Obviously, idiots are more suitable for them."

"No, the Hephaestus only appear to be idiots, but in reality they are cunning and cruel, and disliked by people. Therefore, I think their representative meme is the raven... As for idiots, I guess there is someone else." From meme nine to meme zero, the difficulty of meme derivation increases exponentially, while the number gradually decreases.

"We also have to start thinking about the preparations for Meme One from now on... You will be performing fifteen memes at the same time, including [Idiot]. Black marketeers and idiots are not compatible. Those conspirators never intended for us to become gods from the beginning."

"I suspect your role in all of this is merely to absorb various authorities for that divine essence. Even if we succeed in our performance, when the meme reaches zero, the you who awakens from that body... will it really be you?"

Li Ya blinked, his gaze seemingly piercing through the mist to see something extraordinary: "Considering these things now is useless. We'll eventually wait until the gods awaken and then know everything. The fifteen memes are governed by various deities—"

We also need to know one thing: you are not the representative of the "black market" meme.

"Many years ago, they jointly created these seemingly playful memes. If we want to become gods, we must confront the deity corresponding to the main meme and drag him down from the position of meme."

He seemed to see a lot. Although Li Ya still didn't understand what he was saying, he would still subconsciously answer the questions posed by the man in black robes.

When transcendent beings reach meme one through meme zero, they must face the meme's administrator, which is another hurdle. Different master memes have different paths to godhood and different targets and opponents. The transformation of transcendent beings can be described as facing a hellish situation even more severe than a thousand troops crossing a single-plank bridge.

Li Ya reached out and poked the eyes on those tentacles, almost cruelly crushing them, watching them split open and release more golden light.

"It is impossible for one person to simultaneously portray fifteen different identities."

As he was talking, he seemed to have thought of something interesting.

"If you're going to perform all the memes at once, doesn't that include the witch? Are you really going to wear a long dress to do that?"

Ria paused for a moment, then said, "I don't really care."

"But things are far from as simple as you and I imagine. Rather than performing as an individual, I might use some clones. By using the performances of these clones, I can integrate their achievements into myself. This might be considered another kind of 'unity of all things'."

Li Ya smiled brightly: "That's a great idea. Now you'd better tame your clone properly. If the clone is too powerful or has a personality that is completely different from your own, it will cause a lot of problems."

Just like Nyarlathotep's countless clones, each clone, as powerful as He is, possesses its own thoughts, but those clones are also constantly trying to erase or even replace the original body.

"Perhaps we should ask Fuxing Chaos how to manage his clones."

“Is there any way to offer sacrifices to Him? Forget it… that’s really not a good idea. Rather than offering sacrifices to the Chaos, it’s better to ask the Gate directly.”

"Although the mentor is very knowledgeable, he is not good at things related to clones. Now we can only ask the omniscient and omnipotent one for help."

Seeing that Liya was deep in thought, Liya suddenly spoke up: "A bug gave me this before, it might be of some help to you."

As he spoke, he took out a page and handed it to Ria, who did not make any move at first, but simply used her tentacles to roll it up to her eyes.

Then, his breathing became slightly erratic.

This page is from the sixth book of the Book of Revelation, which records a local cult associated with the Black Goat and a mysterious object called the "Moon Lens." However, according to the history of Enderus, that cult was expelled and dispersed long ago, and those who still believe in the Black Goat are mostly witches.

"The Moon Mirror Watcher is one of the incarnations of the Black Goat of the Forest. When He descends to Earth in the form of the Moon Mirror Watcher, He will shower countless blessings upon humanity and sow tens of thousands of seeds..."

"We just encountered a fallen witch, and then we received the sixth volume of the Book of Revelation. Could this be a coincidence?" (End of Chapter)