The purple spider web in the night sky burned out, and the resulting updrafts condensed the water vapor into cumulonimbus clouds. The raindrops hit the windows, making shattering sounds when they collided with the glass.
It is raining all over the gospel now, and this is not only rain, but also a ritual, symbolizing the spider web falling from the sky and spreading to all corners of the gospel kingdom.
When I succeed the First Gospel, this ritual will come into play and become an extension of my will, allowing my orders to walk on the land of Gospel like destiny.
The moment he noticed that it was raining outside, information popped into Ash's mind that he shouldn't have known.
It was a very strange feeling, like there was an iceberg in his mind. When he saw anything, the corresponding part of the iceberg would melt, allowing him to instantly understand all the causes and consequences.
He had no doubt that when the iceberg melted completely, he would be extremely close to omniscience and omnipotence. But the huge waves set off by the melting of the iceberg would surely drown all his self-will.
However, he had no means to stop the iceberg from melting. The god that imitated his face was now prying his skull apart bit by bit, stirring his brain, tearing open his chest, kneading his heart; eventually it would put on Ash's skin and step into the future called 'Ayin'.
This final transitional time was both cruel and merciful. The cruelty was that he could only watch himself being crushed and assimilated by a greater will, like a death row inmate being executed by slow slicing; the mercy was that he did not have to disappear in a daze, but could clearly understand that all this was not accidental or bad luck, but the inevitability of fate, and his death was justified - perhaps this was another kind of cruelty.
The source of all this is the secret incarnation.
The so-called first gospel is actually to select a mortal who is most suitable to hold the gods, but the soul of a mortal cannot perfectly accommodate the gods, just like a wooden barrel cannot withstand acid corrosion. Therefore, the gospel can only try to find a "more suitable hard wooden barrel" to extend the service life of the wooden barrel as much as possible.
The most suitable barrel is the "purest, most innocent, kindest, and most beautiful girl". Of course, such a person is not suitable for all gods, but can resist the corruption of the gospel gods to the greatest extent. Each god has different requirements for qualified people.
The reason why the Yisu royal family has been able to continue for seven hundred years and every princess has been able to become the first gospel is because in addition to being able to cultivate princesses who meet all the conditions, the Yisu royal family also knows some hidden conditions, so the paper score plus the additional points can naturally crush all candidates and firmly hold the seat of the first gospel.
If everything goes well, the first gospel of this session should be in the pocket of the Issu royal family, but after Ash obtained the secret incarnation, the gospel suddenly had new ideas.
It found a better fit.
In the Mermaid Palace, they knew that it was not a coincidence that Harvey would be able to control the gods in the future, but because Harvey would be able to obtain conceptual incarnations related to the undead in the future. With the buffer of the conceptual incarnation, he could barely resist the erosion of the gods (but Harvey had missed the initial opportunity).
The concept incarnation is like a film covering a barrel, which can greatly reduce the damage to the soul by the gods of the same faction, thus extending the life of the barrel. For example, Harvey later became a legendary necromancer. In addition to possessing the power of the four wings, he should also have the miracle of strengthening the soul, so he can perfectly accommodate the gods with the concept incarnation.
This also shows that no matter how strong the wooden barrel is, it is not as good as the wooden barrel with a protective film. Moreover, the spirit does not remain still all the time. When it is activated, it will cause severe damage to the soul, so the power of the spirit can only be limited to a certain extent, otherwise it will exhaust the host's service life in advance.
A soul protected by a conceptual incarnation not only means a longer lifespan, but also means that the deity can exert greater power.
If you were a god and you were about to move, you would have two choices: ① A wooden house like the previous one, which you can only live in for fifty years at most, and the poor material will easily rot, and you might accidentally step through the stairs; ② A well-decorated small house, which will have a longer service life and will not be damaged during normal use, and it can withstand your occasional sports, barbecues, and fireworks in it.
Therefore, from the moment Ash received the secret incarnation, he could not escape from Gospel's clutches. No matter how pure, innocent and kind Princess Yisu was, she could not compare to Ashin who came with her own dowry. Gospel was too realistic and materialistic.
The Secret Avatar is a concept dropped by the Spider Tower Commander. The Spider Tower is the power of the All-Knowing Weaver. The Secret Avatar and the Gospel Spirit are of course highly compatible. If Ash had known that the Gospel List would choose a divine host, if he had returned the Secret Avatar to the Queen Commander earlier, if...
Ash suddenly remembered something. At this moment, the 'Good News Ash' in his mind extinguished his spiritual body again. He trembled and sat down along the wall. 'Liz' came over and held his hand tightly, looking at him worriedly, "Are you scared?"
"No, I'm not afraid at all." Ash answered as lightly as possible, reaching out to hug 'Lis', stroking her back gently, trying to convey his relaxed mood to her.
At the same time, he found the "necromancy" spirit in his soul that looked like a triangular bipyramid hexahedron, wrapped it tightly with magic power, and then brought down his will - to destroy it!
That’s right, since the gods favor him because he has a secret incarnation, why not just destroy the secret incarnation?
Although the secret incarnation is very precious, it is nothing compared to his own life. Moreover, Ash has already sneaked into the Far Away Space, and the importance of the secret incarnation and the necromancy spirit has greatly decreased. Losing them has no substantial impact on Ash at all!
Once the secret incarnation is lost, Ash's exquisite little house will become a doghouse-level unfinished building. After all, he does not meet any of the conditions of "the purest, most innocent, kindest, and most beautiful girl". No matter how the gods consider it, they will not be wronged to live in Ash's doghouse, but will settle for the second best and live in Princess Yisu's cabin. Then Ash will naturally be saved!
As for the consequences of destroying the concept, Ash no longer cared about it. Anyway, he didn't have any magic spirit related to the "secret". However, this would completely ruin Annan's plan. He would accept being punished by Annan when he returned. It was just a pity that the Lord God's wish was ruined...
Ash waited for a moment expectantly, and found that the necromancy spirit was still swimming freely in his soul.
He discovered that when his magic power tried to harm the necromancer, it would suddenly stop working, just like...
As if bound by a contract.
impossible!
Ash's pupils shrank suddenly. Although the contract between the Queen and him did prevent him from destroying the necromancer on his own, he had now entered the third level of the Void Realm and met the conditions for the automatic termination of the contract. How could this contract still be in effect? !
But there is no other explanation for this situation. Could it be that the Queen had planted a trap in the contract that he was completely unaware of?
As soon as he thought about it, the original text of the contract appeared clearly in Ash's mind, and he immediately saw the crux of the problem - the first sentence of the contract.
"If the Bull of the Sky Chariot enters the Spider Tower area, Party B must stay in the Spider Tower area for more than three hours."
"When the Bull of the Sky Chariot enters the Spider Tower area" is the highest priority judgment condition of the entire contract. All subsequent contract clauses can only be executed after this judgment condition takes effect.
In other words, although Ash has already stepped into the Faraway Space, the contract is still in effect. He must wait for the Skycar Bull to step into the Spider Tower area before the contract will be automatically terminated.
So when will the Bull of the Sky Car step into the Spider Tower area?
Other magicians might not know, but Ash has the virtual map for comparison, so he can clearly calculate that the next time the Sky Cart Bull will step into the Spider Tower area is... tomorrow morning.
Dadadada——
The rain outside was getting heavier, and Ash's heart was growing colder.
Compared to the straightforward "death sentence", the joke of "just a little bit away from survival" made him feel like he was falling into the abyss.
That was the God showing off his skills, that was fate mocking him.
Yes, he stole the secret incarnation of the Spider Tower, and he was in the Gospel Kingdom, how could he escape? In the virtual world, he was hunted by the Spider Tower, and in reality, he was plotted against by the Gospel. No matter what, the secret incarnation would still be used by the Omniscient Weaver, but for different purposes.
Even the all-knowing Lord Weaver in the sky might not be watching him, but the Gospel and the Spider Tower could accurately and cruelly strangle all his hopes. He was like a bug stuck in a spider web, with no hope of escape.
The iceberg was still melting, and his soul seemed to be dying. At this moment, a warm little cutie was rubbing against his chest and pinching his face.
"Ash, let's run away." 'Liz' looked at him and said seriously, "Leave Nabisteen, even leave Gospel. As long as you run far enough, you won't be caught and become a witch, Ayin."
Run away.
This option had never appeared in Ash's mind from the beginning. After all, this was the palace of Nabisteen, and the gods had directly drilled into his mind and bit him. Where could he escape to? It was just a futile and ugly death struggle.
But... Ash looked at the eager Liz, smiled and nodded: "Okay, let's escape, I won't be the first gospel!"
Ash didn't even take the stairs. He jumped out of the window and used the 'Run to' miracle to teleport to the outside of Yalan Lake. He then took out the 'Panji Space Card' and pulled out the Yafeikong motorcycle. The plan to assassinate the princess certainly included an escape step. Everyone had a motorcycle in their space card. Once the plan succeeded or failed, they would ride the motorcycle to escape from the palace as soon as possible, or even escape from Nabisteen.
Boom! The mechanical monster made a roaring sound of fire. Ash looked at the dense rain curtain world in front of him and felt as if he had returned to the time continent. The noise in his mind seemed to become less harsh.
He took out his dark red windbreaker from the card and put it on Liz, who was almost soaked. Liz sat behind him and hugged his waist tightly with her small hands, "I'm not cold, you can wear it."
"It's raining too hard." Ash laughed, "It's useless for me to wear it."
Buzz! Ya Feikong's motorcycle accelerated in a second, speeding along the stone road of the palace, passing through several large gates, and escaping from the palace with ease!
Suddenly, the Gospel appeared in front of them again, and the purple bookmark was still so dazzling in the rain. Because one third of Ash had already become Yayin, the moment it was updated, Ash already knew its updated content.
'Liz' turned to the bookmarked page and saw two extra chapters of Knitting.
The protagonist of the first extra-story is named "Annan Dolan".
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In the underground hall, everyone in the funeral procession was looking at the contents of the Gospel. Panji was silent, Iguala sighed, Harvey was ecstatic, and Annan himself was very calm.
"Annan Dolan"
"Aliases: Anti-Gospel, Purple Witch, Disaster Lady"
"Relationship with Yayin: Slavery Contract"
"Story: Annan successfully stole the Lord's wish with the help of the slavery contract, and made a wish that the gospel would not take effect in reality. From then on, the gospel disappeared, the list was destroyed, and the world could no longer hear the gospel, which led to a 30-year regression in technological development and the outbreak of civil war. Later, it was invaded by foreign lands. Yayin spent his entire life repairing the disaster caused by Annan Dulan, and even died once in the middle of it."
"Disposition: Kill."
“Although I have wondered if the Blood Moon Kingdom would be better off without the Blood Saints or the Moon Shadows,” Igula said, “but I didn’t expect you to actually dare to do this, and your target is the cornerstone of your civilization—the Gospel.”
"I'm a little confused myself," An Nan said. "I should have wished for the Gospel to disappear immediately, but why did it change to 'The Gospel cannot take effect in reality'..."
"Even magic spirits have their own will, let alone gods?" Harvey laughed and said, "Besides, would the All-Knowing Weaver kill his own gods because of your request? He is willing to try his best to fulfill your wish. I don't know if he is keeping his promise or if he doesn't care about the survival of the Gospel Kingdom at all."
"Because the spirit did not disappear, but continued to reside in Ash, Ash was eventually 'armored' by the spirit and stepped into the future called 'Ayin'." The trickster sighed: "Now that you know the future development, will you still make that wish?"
"Yes." An Nan answered firmly.
"I won't ask you why you don't care about Ash's bullshit - what belief supports your determination?"
"The Gospel hates Dolan." An Nan looked at the divine light on the throne: "As long as the Gospel is not dead, every generation of Dolan will not live past thirty, and so will I. In order to survive, the Gospel must die."
"Besides, I hate the gospel."
Even Harvey was a little curious now: "Aren't you a parasite on the gospel? Isn't your firm based on exploiting loopholes in the gospel for a living?"
"It would be great if you were the first gospel chosen by the gospel." An Nan glanced at the necromancer and said, "It is precisely because I understand the core of the gospel that I hate it so much."
"The Gospel does not give anyone freedom. No." Purple Moth glanced at the legendary magicians around the throne: "Information, emotions, relationships, education, everything that people can touch is under the control of the Gospel. As a nearly perfect system, it imprisons everyone in their own exclusive cocoon. Cities led by different families represent different hatching strategies. Spiders, ants, bees...but they cannot live as a human being."
Iguerra reminded: "Human freedom is subject to the constraints of the environment."
"But what if you don't even have freedom of thought?" Annan said, "The gospel can control everything in the environment. All the choices you make are the paths arranged for you by the gospel, and you don't even realize this... Only those who can choose are human beings, and those who blindly follow are just insects."
The trickster was silent for a moment, looking at the contents of the gospel, and muttered: "What will Ash choose..."
"He has no choice." Harvey took out Alice's coffin from the space card: "The same goes for us."
The reason why they stayed in the underground hall instead of running away was because they had already heard the noise on the ground.
The servants around all hid against the walls on both sides, because the secret guards who had just left came back, and brought a lot of people with them.
Among these people, An Nan and his friends knew a few of them, and they were the captains of the Holy Land Guards they met along the way.
"Annan Dolan, you have been identified as the noise that interferes with Yayin." The secret guard asked in a hoarse voice: "Are you willing to kill yourself?"
"If you let Yaxiu come over and say this to me, I will agree." An Nan replied.
"Any contact between Noise and Yayin will be regarded as a serious interference behavior that will cause trouble in the future." The secret guard said, "Start now, clear the noise."
The Ice Curse Double Guns, Alice, the second lady Donna... When all the weapons were ready and the battle was about to break out, An Nan suddenly felt a little sorry for Ash.
I'm sorry, Ash.
Although I'm sorry for many things, but when I think that even if I knew these things in advance, I would not change, and would just take you to hell as always, I am too lazy to apologize. At worst, you will be on top and I will be at the bottom when we go to hell.
But there is one thing that I really feel sorry for you about, because it was completely avoidable.
If you hadn't met.
Then you don't need to feel heartbroken any more.
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"Liz"
「Alias: Daughter of Asia」
"Relationship with Yayin: Slavery Contract"
"Deeds: There is an eternal slavery contract between Liz and Yayin, so Liz can seriously interfere with Yayin's will. As long as Liz is alive, there is a possibility of blaspheming Yayin."
"Disposition: Kill"
Liz closed the Gospel and saw twenty figures appearing on the city road ahead. They were so abrupt that they formed independent areas in the rain curtain that were impervious to rain and wind. Walking in the wind and rain, they were as relaxed as if they were taking a walk.
Sanctuary magician.
"Liz."
Unlike the pain and confusion that he couldn't suppress just now, Ash's voice was firm and steady, as clear as rain hitting the ground: "Are you afraid?"
"No."
'Liz' lay on Ash's back, her voice clearly audible in the rain: "Liz is not afraid at all."
"If you're not afraid of the rain, Ash, then Liz won't be afraid of it either."
"Hold me tight, don't let go." Ash pulled out the sword from his mouth, rode the Crow Non-Sky motorcycle, and rushed towards the Sanctuary magicians.
"I won't let you get wet in the rain."