They all call me an Outer God.

“You are my mentor, my mentor… Ivand Charles.”

The tentacles ceased all their wriggling motions, seemingly settling down for one person, a rare occurrence.

However, the silence was just an illusion. The moment Ivand got closer, they suddenly raged, clearly intending to kill the person in front of them by surprise. Everything they had done before was just to buy time.

"I didn't expect you to still have a bit of uncontrollable intelligence left, although this little bit of cleverness is not very useful."

Ivand slowly curved the corners of his mouth. He had known all along that Ria would do this, and without any resistance, he let the tentacles pierce his body without even blinking.

He slowly took a recorder out of his pocket.

"But this stolen flute might be useful to you. Come here, my good boy, a little closer."

The mentor casually toyed with the bone flute in his hand, beckoned to the creature in front of him, and then retreated to lure it forward. Afterward, he brought the flute hole to his lips and suddenly blew.

"Bah!!!!"

The flute's music was not pleasant; in fact, it was jarring and noisy. Yet, to the indescribable creature, it seemed to be the most beautiful music in the world, causing it to stop all its movements.

Lia's sealed consciousness also heard the sound of the flute. He was silent for a moment, feeling that the flute music was very familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere before.

By the way, Hephaestus also played the same tune, but he didn't feel anything special when they played it then. Now that it's played by the angelic mentor, the effect is quite different.

"I need to find a way to come to my senses."

Ria felt something warm on her face, and when she touched it, she realized it was tears.

Koria herself did not feel sad, and the source of her tears was not herself.

He looked up and saw a huge creature's head covered in thick black feathers above him. Upon closer inspection, he realized that the creature was none other than Swarth, who was in the same consciousness space as him.

Schwarz still maintains its appearance, which is quite similar to that of an owl, except that it is now several times larger. It is more than a person tall when it is crouching, and if its feathers swell up, its so-called size can be even larger.

"Swald, what's wrong?"

Ria reached out and touched its head, only to find that there were several marks on its body where it had been pierced by silk threads. The threads were still connected to its body. So Ria could no longer care about anything else and got up to reach out and try to help it break the threads.

Even as the string is being pulled, Ria can still sense everything happening in the outside world.

He couldn't help but give a wry smile: "I've really made something of myself... You want me to hit my advisor? Seriously?"

He didn't think he could beat Ivand. In fact, even when the relationship between the original owner and his mentor was at its worst, he never thought of fighting against his mentor on his own.

This person is too unpredictable. He became a legendary investigator of the Order Association in human form, and then, without even performing memes, he was directly taken in by Yog-Sothoth and promoted to archangel, becoming feared by all sides.

No one knows how powerful a mentor is. Many people spend their entire lives trying to reach Rome, while others are born in Rome.

If Ivand were to return to his full strength, he too could single-handedly confront and even kill the two mythical creatures from not long ago.

However, such a state requires the complete fusion of the two separated personalities, which is more painful than killing them for the two personalities that have been independent for so long.

"Crack!"

Ria reached out and grabbed the silk thread, intending to break it, but the moment he touched it, he saw an extremely perplexing scene.

On an unnamed planet amidst the stars of the endless abyss, a white-haired woman is impaled on a rusty red cross, nails piercing her head, limbs, and even her skull and heart. Crimson blood flows from her body, trickling down her skin and hair like miniature rivers onto the ground.

Lia stood in front of her, looking at the woman with a slightly confused expression. At that moment, the woman opened her scarlet eyes and her mouth trembled as if she were speaking in an ancient, hoarse language.

【A... Trak...】

【Feel sorry……】

Ria couldn't hear very clearly, and just as he was about to lean closer to listen, the person on the rusty red cross suddenly looked up and stared at him.

Those were extremely red eyes, from which no other color could be seen. At the same time, Ria noticed that the woman's body was melting like wax.

The scalding hot wax dripped onto the ground, and after cooling, it turned into worms that tried to crawl towards this side, but were hindered by the seal of the long nails and returned to their original position.

Is there something you want to say to me?

Ria did not sense any malice from the other party, probably because He was too weak at the moment, so weak that He posed no threat to Ria in the slightest, yet He was also unable to die.

The god who holds the power of "death" cannot die. He has countless opportunities to die. However, this power is being slowly and ruthlessly stripped away. Once the power of death is truly lost, even a divine being will be banished, exiled, or even eternally sealed away.

Meanwhile, another ruler who has seized power will gain eternal life.

My name is... Messiah Egotsian.

Its true form is the Moon Worm Queen, who lives in a nest on the dark side of the moon. Due to her excessive gluttony, she killed all her kind and became the only living creature on the moon.

He was trying to communicate with Ria, and with the only living creature in this silent place.

Ria sensed that He was somewhat delirious, but still immediately recognized Him after hearing the other party reveal His identity.

It's a red moon.

But now it has turned out like this.

“Why are you telling me all this?” Ria asked.

If you see me, you will die immediately.

"I won't die."

Nothing is absolutely permanent.

“I will not die.” Ria repeated again. After staring at the crimson eyes for a moment, he crouched down and groped around in his shadow for a while. Then, a black tentacle wrapped around a pure white scarf was handed to him.

"Do you remember me? I have offered sacrifices to you many times... but I always survived. I have no intention of taking advantage of you. I never had the chance to offer this to you in the past, but seeing this scene now, I think it would be better to hand it over to you voluntarily."

"After all, this is probably what my old friend would have wanted."

As he spoke, he walked over and placed the scarf, which was entirely woven from spider silk, on the ground in front of Messiah.

(End of this chapter)