Chapter 141 The Seed of Paradise Lost

Dante was still fighting Lovecraft at the port until just now.

Well, at least that location was once a port, that's true. Dante's "Divine Comedy" can destroy Lovecraft's body countless times. But the problem is that for Lovecraft, let alone burning his arms, even if he were completely burned to ashes, he could quickly regenerate from the ashes.

There is no way to defeat Lovecraft from the outside, or physically. The only effective way to attack Lovecraft is to attack his internal organs and stun him as much as possible.

As long as the fundamental particles that make up Lovecraft's body are still there, he can reassemble himself again and again, and restore himself to his original state once more.

This is an immortality even more exaggerated than that of a "divine child," an existence that cannot be killed within the current scientific framework.

Although some people considered him a superpowered individual and gave him the ability name "The Old Ruler," it was definitely not something as ordinary as a superpower.

He is simply the Great Old One, nothing more.

Dante's "Divine Comedy" expands ever larger, with all the ignited embers gathered within two opposing, rotating nine-tiered towers, growing ever larger.

However, Lovecraft is still fine :)

These two are incredibly stubborn. Even though one can't beat the other and the other can't kill him, they just keep holding on in the same spot.

As a result, neither Lovecraft nor Dante were harmed, and the increasingly arrogant Dante destroyed the port of Yokohama.

What was once a port has now become a huge, perfectly circular crater, and the area of ​​this circle is expanding at a visible rate, with even seawater being burned to ashes upon contact.

Lovecraft then maintained his body, which was now only about half its original size, at a rate that was just about equal to the rate at which it was destroyed, and relentlessly tried to attack Dante within the range of Dante's "Divine Comedy".

—In the end, if Goethe and Fitzgerald hadn't received Christie's communications and discussed reaching a reconciliation on behalf of the UN and the union, those two might have carved a trench into the waters near Yokohama.

But Dante and Lovecraft, who had reverted to their original forms, acted as if nothing had happened. Just moments ago they had fought like mortal enemies, but now they calmly said goodbye to each other before turning around and walking in different directions.

Goethe and Fitzgerald, looking at the port where even the terrain had changed, simply said, "..."

Perhaps this is the world of the strong.

Then Dante followed the direction of the loudest noise to the battlefield, while Goethe confirmed with Fitzgerald that their two guild members were trapped in another dimension before leaving.

His contract with Christie was to help block the group; he wouldn't do anything more without extra pay.

Anyway, with Dante there, and Balzac, Zhou Shuren and Romain Rolland over there, and a whole bunch of high-end combatants in Yokohama, nothing too serious is going to happen.

With that thought in mind, Goethe happily ran off, and while returning to the Chamber of Commerce to write a report and order people to rescue Stoke and Barber, he also happily wrote out payment slips for the two of them.

Let's leave that aside for now and talk about Dante.

Dante's addition is definitely a shot in the arm for the group that is currently fighting against the Divine Child.

Putting everything else aside, at least they finally have a way to get rid of those divine children.

Dante had just fought Lovecraft, and the embers around him were readily available. Dante was unusually energetic, and even wanted to transform into another god.

However, considering that Yokohama's port had become part of the coastline (Goethe's message was relayed to Roland through Christie), Dante ultimately abandoned the idea despite everyone's efforts to dissuade him.

The three of them were already enough to suppress Shelley, the divine child on the field, but they were just struggling to completely eliminate them. Now that Dante has arrived, it will be even easier.

Thus, Dante created a ring of embers around himself, while the others grabbed the children of the gods and threw them toward Dante or waited for him to come over so that the children of the gods would also be burned to ashes.

Dante's Divine Comedy is utterly destructive when it burns. Even the divine children's restorative abilities are useless against it.

They could only be burned to ashes by Dante, utterly destroyed, without any power to resist.

Finally, seeing only Shelley himself remaining, everyone on the field (except Dante) became truly tense.

The harmonious atmosphere we had just enjoyed was entirely due to our shared hardships. We were able to coexist peacefully only with the great threat of the divine child Shelley in front of us. Now that all the divine children have been eliminated, only Shelley remains.

Moreover, there were no corpses within several hundred meters of the fighting, so there was no need to worry about infection, and the atmosphere instantly became delicate.

Balzac silently observed the distance between Shelley and Dante, calculating something, while the writing on Zhou Shuren showed no signs of fading.

Romain Rolland, on the other hand, neither made contact with nor imitated the "Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends," but subtly surrounded the area with his numerical advantage.

Dante was the calmest of them all, but even he shifted slightly as he gathered the embers around him, no longer standing in a straight line with Shelley.

From Balzac's and Zhou Shuren's perspectives, they definitely wanted to take the opportunity to eliminate Shelley. After all, keeping a weapon like Eden in an organization like the UN was simply not reassuring.

Romain Rolland and Dante, on the other hand, were determined to protect Shelley, which was the root of the conflict.

The silent standoff lasted for several minutes, the immense pressure seemingly materializing and pressing down on the space, suppressing even the wind and preventing the air from moving.

Then suddenly, Zhou Shuren broke free of his "madman" state, and the words flowing through his body transformed back into a diary in his hand. Zhou Shuren then put the diary back into his pocket.

Romain Rolland raised an eyebrow beneath the mask, also dispelling his impersonation of Wu Cheng'en: "Are you just letting us go like this?"

“Because the damage is already too great.” Zhou Shuren appeared very calm. “Although there is a certain possibility of killing the Divine Child here, if we fail, it will be a disaster if you completely release Eden. Moreover, the only way to deal with the Divine Child right now is on your side.”

"On the contrary, even if you could kill the Divine Child, you wouldn't just end things so easily, would you?"

Based on his understanding of the UN, these people think completely differently from ordinary people. If they were wiped out in one fell swoop, that would be fine, but if only one member was eliminated, the remaining members would definitely not let it go.

Dante, Christie, Romain Rolland, Jules Verne, Pu Songling—each of these men possessed the ability to take an entire city as their enemy.

Without proper planning, killing someone would be a losing proposition, especially since this is a gathering place for a bunch of lunatics.

A normal person wouldn't want to gamble on whether a madman might be thinking about knowing when to stop.

Romain Rolland raised an eyebrow, but in the end said nothing, and began to take out his communicator to contact Christie and Verne.

Dante and Balzac gradually toned down their aggressive stances, and the atmosphere shifted from confrontation to simple silence.

The Nautilus appeared quickly and then sailed up to Romain Rolland and Dante. Romain Rolland glanced at Zhou Shuren and Balzac one last time before returning to the Nautilus with Shelley, who was being controlled by Dante.

Shelley, now a god-like being, cannot be killed by simply having "no one survive." "Lolita" must first be used to suppress Shelley's vitality. Then, Stevenson must perform brain surgery to further deactivate her, thus completely suppressing the Son of God, Adam.

They don't have much time to waste now.

Watching the Nautilus disappear from sight, Balzac turned to Zhou Shuren and asked, "So what's the reason?"

"This is the result we obtained from the *I Ching* before coming here," Zhou Shuren said, squinting as he looked up at the sky. "Combined with the information we got from Roman, I've made a guess."

“It is not Shelley who is constantly spitting out Eden, but rather that the Son of God, Adam, is entirely composed of Eden.”

The news about Eden is true, and the fact that Shelley, the Divine Child, is the core figure is also true. However, some aspects may not have been clearly explained.

Consider this: the fact that one only possesses the ability to think when connected to the divine child Shelley suggests that Shelley is the universal brain of Eden.

But no one has said that Eden would lose its life when it is not connected with the divine child Shelley, right?

Without thought, what would Eden become... well, that's hard to say.

This is the correct line of thinking, because if God's Son Adam is not completely killed but his life is genuinely threatened, then His self-preservation mechanism will be triggered. He will explode and spread all the Eden that makes up his body. This Eden will then parasitize all the plants and animals it comes into contact with and grow again.

And without Shelley as the "brain" to provide thought, Eden would reveal its most primitive form without the constraints of Shelley's thoughts.

It grows unrestrainedly, drawing nourishment from the planet and from life, devouring everything else, forming a paradise where only Eden survives and for itself.

This is the real reason why Eden was abandoned.

Eden was not a catalyst for human evolution.

Instead, it devours the entirety of "civilization," creating a lost paradise where only "life" exists.

After hearing Zhou Shuren's explanation, Balzac showed little emotion: "Is it alright to just let them go like this?"

"Anyway, that's what the *I Ching* says, and the UN does indeed have a way to control Adam," Zhou Shuren shrugged. "Besides, it's not just the Seed of Paradise Lost; the UN also has the Angel of Death, the Breadfruit Tree, and the Divine Lament. It's best to avoid touching any of these chain reactions."

"Although I'm unwilling, this is the only way."