A long time ago, Egbert wondered where Lord Sully came from and where he was going.

Does his appearance have any special meaning? Is his existence equivalent to the delusion that only exists in his imagination...

In Egbert's opinion, the role of savior is perfect for Sully.

However, suitability does not necessarily mean acceptance.

When he was Suli's age, he was in the Holy See of Light, enjoying the resources of an entire power organization and being admired by countless people. All he thought about every day was how to make himself stronger so as to protect those believers who believed in the God of Light.

Compared to himself, everything Lord Suli did seemed less pure.

But this impurity does not come from Lord Suli himself.

It's because of this world.

Because this world is so terrible, Lord Suli can no longer be as pure as he was in the past.

Because of his intelligence and wisdom, that young man always walks ahead of the collective consciousness of mankind.

Egbert has always felt this way.

As a pursuer, he should make himself worthy enough to follow Lord Sully.

"World consciousness." Egbert sat at the end of the long table, repeating the word that Sully had mentioned casually before and then casually put aside.

"A unique existence that exists above monsters." When not with Sully, Egbert, with a serious expression, always has the aura of a superior that is enough to suppress others.

"We have never known before that there are higher-level things." Egbert tapped the table with his right hand. "This means that what we need to face is equivalent to the unknown, and the unknown is destined to be full of dangerous and terrible situations."

"Lord Suli and the dragon are exploring for information together. This is something I have never imagined."

"Since monsters cannot be completely defined as companions, Lord Suli would choose to unite with monsters only because humans are too weak at present."

"We are so weak that we are unable to provide effective assistance to Lord Suli."

"When facing monsters, humans can still rely on their numbers to crush them, but if they face higher beings than monsters, humans simply won't have the possibility of gaining an advantage."

“I think everyone here understands this.”

"Understanding is one thing, but solving it in a targeted way is another." Julius, who was sitting on the other side, said quietly, "We can only watch Suli and the monsters, which are synonymous with danger, explore those more dangerous existences together. In my opinion, this is terrible."

"But the reality is that I just can't refuse."

"King versus king, general versus general, a survivor from another system that exists above the monsters. His appearance gave me the feeling that, apart from Suli's unexpected discovery, it was also a proactive declaration by the other party."

"Then the question arises again, what is the purpose of the other party announcing its existence to other beings?"

Since arriving in the monster society, humans have rarely had any group activities, and these meetings are unique to humans.

Those monsters are in a delicate and strange position where they can be trusted but not completely trusted. No one can guarantee that they will not be backstabbed 100% in the process of trusting each other.

This makes it impossible for humans and monsters to unite and fight against higher life forms.

But judging from the current situation, the dark cloud seemed to be directly declaring that if they did not unite, then not only would they not be able to participate in the battle, but not dragging down Sully would be the limit of what they could achieve with all their efforts.

"I believe everyone has guessed the answer to this question." Dean Asa turned to look at his old friend.

The Dark Pope naturally took over the topic: "Possibility one, the other party's survival can no longer be based on the monster civilization system. And there is a great possibility that its own survival is based on humans and human civilization."

"Possibility two: announce its existence and attempt to kill all intelligent life."

Seeing everyone's shocked expressions, the old guy raised his eyebrows and said naturally, "Compared to the first, I am more inclined to the second possibility."

"Why? It's easy to understand. It's because the other party can no longer survive."

"The reason why monsters choose to allow humans to exist for a long time is that they have a need for humans, which means they need to exploit humans."

"But a higher being obviously does not need humans to continue civilization. The fact that it can survive and has never revealed its existence has already proven that it does not need humans.

Whether it is the monster civilization or the human race, the value of the two is not enough to expose the other's identity."

"The other person lives just to live, not to achieve a specific goal."

"In other words, if the other party feels the need to expose themselves, it basically means that they can no longer maintain the characteristic of "living in secret". At this point, exposure is equivalent to the other party's inability to continue living."

After making sure that everyone understood, the Dark Pope turned his attention to Dean Asa.

The kind-looking old man added: "We don't know why the other party believes that he can no longer survive. But we can look at the current situation from another perspective."

"That is, how to prepare for a correct and qualified response when faced with a higher being that wants to slaughter and destroy the remaining monster civilization and human civilization."

"What do you mean?" Ophelia felt that the two old men just said a lot of nonsense. "If you just mean that we need to unite with monsters to increase our own strength to a higher level, then I think both the mermaids and the feather queen will choose to strengthen the bodies of humans and raise the strength of humans to another level in a short period of time."

"All the above nonsense will only be meaningless."

"No." Mavis shook her head. "Our Pope did say that we need to unite with the monsters to strengthen the overall strength of humanity. As for the other part of his hidden message..."

"Hasn't the dean already told you?"

"Correct and qualified response preparations do not only refer to the improvement of strength. What we need to do more is to let the monsters understand that this incident is no longer just a matter of fighting against the enemy related to Suli personally."

"You mean to say that we should let those monsters believe in the young master together?" Roy looked at Mavis uncertainly.

"The blessing of faith at the human level is enough to kill the tiger. If we add the blessing of faith from the monsters in another civilization system, it will be enough for Suli to have the power to confront the opponent head-on." said the Dark Pope.

This old man is keen to let Suli replace the belief in the God of Darkness... and the God of Light, and hopes that he can become a new belief so that they can walk in front of both humans and monsters.

Just like what the boy said, to a certain extent, humans are nothing more than "monsters" who cannot transform into animal form and are relatively weaker in strength.

Unless they want to study Suli.

But this is impossible. No one would be willing to see the boy, have his blood drawn, and have his biopsies taken for research.

Therefore, there is nothing more appropriate than to make the boy independent in this world.

"But this is just your imagination." Ophelia still questioned.

"You have no way to prove that if the monsters really believe in Suli, Suli will have even greater power."

"Although I shouldn't say this, I sincerely feel that it is a blessing in disguise that the guy was not directly executed by Euphia after the kidnapping incident of Caster," the Dark Pope said with a smile.

"——The research results of [Spirit] are already there."

After these words came out, everyone on both sides of the long table fell silent.

It is a collection of human consciousness, even though there were some unidentifiable conspiracies at its inception.

But that kind of thing... is it really something that can be studied at will?

At that time, the door of the conference room was also pushed open by Caster, the mermaid, the unicorn, and Matilda.

The three monsters other than humans looked at each other. Regardless of whether their expressions were provocative or cautious, the three of them said in unison: "We agree to implement the [Servant God] plan."

Heaven.

Suli is confronting those "Suli".

Their sudden stop was not because the boy lying on the dragon's back woke up, but because at the same time the boy woke up, another figure appeared behind the countless "Sully".

If we say that each "Sully" is a replica of Sully's current image, but both his eyes and consciousness are just as stiff as a mechanical puppet...

So, the "Sully" that suddenly appears now is the same in the true sense.

He spoke.

"Using the body He created, enduring the pain of His disapproval, humans self-centeredly believe they can save this world."

"You... are indeed a foolish person from another world."

"Who are you?" Elvi stared at the figure who looked exactly like Sully with resistance.

"Who am I?" The "Sully" asked back, and then answered, "I am Sully, but not Sully. If you must call me by a name, you can call me Ji Xing."

He smiled, and his smile was vague, like the most seductive smile that could be achieved after systematic training.

But this only made Elvy's hair stand on end.

Beneath that ambiguous smile, was revealed the predator's undisguised ferocious and devouring intent.

"I was created by Him, or more precisely, He created me based on Suli."

"I have only one goal, to take these 'Ji Xing' and kill all monsters and humans."

"It is normal for the consciousness from the world to hate the tiny life that lives on its body and try to cleanse its own body."

"Though it is regrettable that the result of this self-cleansing will cause Him to fall into eternal sleep."

Ji Xing looks like a stage actor, constantly revealing various information from himself subjectively.

"But if there is no way to continue to live with my own self, then it would be better for all the lives born because of Him to die with Him."

"What a shame, Sully. Your world doesn't have another Him, otherwise things wouldn't be going the way they are and I wouldn't be here."

"I should thank you. Without you, there would be no me. But with you, He also realized that He would never be able to grow up."

"I feel sorry for Him." An ambiguous smile still floated on Ji Xing's face, and this attitude completely separated him from Suli, who had the same face.

"Come to think of it, do you know that the collective human consciousness you mentioned is actually another you?"

Ji Xing meant that [spirit] also means being pulled from another world.

These words made Suli's pupils shrink suddenly.

Ji Xing noticed it and sneered.

"It's a pity that the other person's soul is incomplete, so there is no way for him to use his soul to peek into another world. A failure that looks successful but actually failed certainly has value that can be recycled."

"If we add the concept of collective human consciousness to that poor child, we can use the souls of another world to peek into the growth path of higher life in another world, and thus judge whether the path we are taking is correct..."

“This is a lovely experiment.”

"Unfortunately, before you could give Him an answer, He successfully brought you to this world. A complete soul from another world, who could be devoured by Him through you to explore another world and help Him grow...

Your existence is a miracle to the people around you and to the world as a whole—"

It's just a pity that the boy who should have symbolized miracles brought only despair to the "world".

Devouring is hopeless because the other world has no world consciousness at all.

Growth is impossible, and world-consciousness remains only world-consciousness, restricted until death.

The future does not exist. He is like the future of mankind imprisoned by monsters. Thousands and millions of years later, the current state will remain.

No growth.

The curve of Ji Xing's mouth became sweeter and sweeter.

"You're so disgusting."

"What will it get you to try to influence Suli with your endless words?" Elvy sincerely thought Ji Xing was sick.

"At first, I thought you were going to kill both of us right there, but I didn't expect you to spout such long-winded nonsense before you did it."

"Or do you think you don't have the power to keep the two of us here, so you choose to vent your excessive desire for performance on your own?"

The dragon didn't even give Suli a chance to speak and immediately started verbally attacking Ji Xing.

Ji Xing's face suddenly turned ugly.

That kind of gloom never appeared on Sully's face.

Elvi sneered: "I thought you had no ability to get angry."

"What is this, that you are so self-absorbed and so dismissive of the miracles you speak of? A pitiful conceit?"

"But it's obvious that the guy who created you wanted to destroy humans and monsters because of Sully. As for you, you are just a ridiculous thing that was born because of an influence that Sully himself didn't even pay attention to."

Ji Xing was almost going crazy.

Sully was also somewhat amazed at Elvy's ability to talk nonsense.

But the surprise did not last long, Ji Xing chose to attack them.

It is still that disgusting power system that mixes five elements.

Elvi, who had already sensed the viciousness of that attack method from many "Ji Xings", dodged it very cautiously.

A mixed attack of five elements, pure wind element has no defense at all.

Elvi could only choose to dodge hastily while having difficulty fighting back.

Until Suli, who was on her back, suddenly used the elements to build a defense for Elvi.

This made the dragon stunned for a moment, and it stared at Ji Xing's swung fist, which was shocked and swollen by the recoil force of the defensive element barrier.

"Are we going to break out or continue to kidnap you? No, should I say kidnap 'Ji Xing'?

...You'd better not let that kind of thing easily affect your mentality. If the dead Clemens and the so-called "spirit" knew that you might be affected by such garbage, I'm afraid they would cry. "

Suli didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

For no reason, a sense of relief rose from him, and Elvi sensed it, and the sense of hardship gradually disappeared.

Then the dragon heard Sully's voice echoing on its back.

"Don't worry about those 'Ji Xing' anymore, we just need to go back."

"Compared to what you think, I may be affected by my mentality, but you are the one who ignores the purpose of our coming to heaven."

"I am a monster." Elvi disagreed with that statement.

"To put it bluntly, what we know now is just that Ji Xing exists to destroy monsters and humans according to the so-called "Him"'s instructions, right?"

"His strength, His appearance, His abilities, and even if humans and monsters resist those Jixing, isn't He still behind them?"

Ji Xing's eyes were dark: "It seems like you don't even take me seriously."

Suli, who was on the dragon's back, wrapped himself in wind element out of habit, even though he knew it was useless. The dragon used it for defense, which indirectly blocked his hearing.

Suli didn't hear that at all and just replied, "I already know what to do with Him."

After Elvi dodged Ji Xing's attack again, he swept away a large number of "Ji Xing" with his tail and replied with frowned eyebrows: "Is it because of your sudden coma before?"

"It's because he didn't realize what growth and the future actually mean," Sully said. "He didn't even understand the meaning of living for the sake of living."

"I don't think I can beat a 'kid' in my field."

As if declaring, Suli looked at Ji Xing in front of him, whose mouth opened and closed but he could not hear any sound, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He said word by word: "We will win."

Elvy started laughing as he listened.

The boy's voice continued: "Now, trust me, release all the wind elements in your body, give up flying, and let your body fall freely."

Elvi didn't reply, but just did what Sully said.

This kind of trust that shouldn't exist in a dragon made Suli stunned.

Only after the two of them fell out of the clouds quickly did Elvi say, "I worried more than once whether my body would be struck by lightning in the clouds as it fell."

"Then don't worry about it now." Suli wiped it and covered his face, soaking him directly, and the rain continued to flow down his cheeks.

The boy said expressionlessly: "Now you should worry about how you are going to explain to others that I am like this now."

Elvi turned the faucet, and the boy behind him had hair blown on both sides of his cheeks, with raindrops dripping from the ends of his hair. His clothes were soaked by the rain, and because of rapid growth, the joints on his shoulder blades were distinct, and the protruding joints were vaguely visible through the wet clothes.

Very wolfish, but also very beautiful.

Elvi turned his head and said in a steady voice: "No, I think you should worry about whether those humans will treat you as a poor little thing again."

"You weren't like this before."

"How can a human being be qualified to define a dragon?"

"I really don't know what a red dragon is like. But the most beautiful moment of the crystal dragon is enough for me to remember until I die."

The conversation suddenly fell silent.

After the dragon brought Suli to the ground, as mud and water splashed everywhere, Suli only saw Elvy turn his head in the rain and say word by word: "It's better to be as you said."

They both knew it.

Sully is asking if Elvy has recovered his feelings.

After Clemens' death.

Elvi's answer also told Suli the same answer:

yes.

A dragon or a human?

Is he a transformed monster or an heir to a noble family?

None of this matters.

Elvi recalled the time he spent with Naan in the Monster Forest.

When Elvi met the Crystal Pterosaur, the former could no longer trust humans, while the latter was a young dragon who dreamed of combining with another Crystal Pterosaur and reproducing offspring.

Elvi asked her: "The reproduction of crystal dragons is too extreme. In this case, why do you still want to combine with another crystal dragon and have children?"

Naan was lying in the cave at that time, and not far away was the wolf-like humanoid Elvi sitting on a dead tree trunk. Her clothes were tattered, and her arms, calves, and face were all scratched by various sharp plants.

Nanan said: "Because I don't want to accept that the Crystal Wing Dragon species will completely disappear in my generation. So I can only selfishly choose to give birth to offspring with my bloodline. Then, such a heavy burden will be placed on their hands."

"I'm very selfish." The crystal dragon's tail gently patted the depths of the cave, and the dust behind it lightly covered its body that was glittering like a gem.

Elvi just thought it was ridiculous: "How is this selfish?"

The price a crystal pterosaur pays for hatching its offspring is its own life.

"But if it's not selfish, then what is it? Great?"

"I don't think it's great to use your life to reproduce. It's stupid."

"But in my opinion, this is my selfishness."

In the dim light, the scales of the crystal pterosaur glowed faintly.

Elvi heard her say: "Compared to other monsters, or other lives' evaluation of me, what I care most about is my own evaluation of myself."

"Whether it's good or bad, the process of recognizing oneself..."

"It will always be more joyful than any other recognition of life."

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