"The great end-watcher, Ash Hiss! The good follow you, the evil admire you! The light longs for you, the darkness also hopes for you! You are an existence beyond everything, the color that God has plated on all things!"

"The great end-watcher, Ash Hiss..."

Ash sat on the cold stone seat, looking at a large group of strange people in black robes kneeling on the ground and praying for him. Under his sleepy expression, a huge question mark was slowly forming.

(⊙_⊙)?

He saw a pair of thighs nearby and slapped them directly.

"Um?"

Ash looked up and found that the person standing next to him was not Igula or Harvey, but a girl he didn't know. She had waist-length hair as deep blue as the starry sky, eyes as clear and blue as Qinghai Lake, red lips and white teeth, skin as white as snow, and she was looking at him curiously.

"Why did you hit me?"

I thought you were a trickster or a necromancer… Ash asked, “Does it hurt?”

Girl: “It hurts.”

"Then I'm not dreaming." Ash held his forehead with his hand, looking incredulous: "I'm... reloading the save?"

"You sound a little strange." She said calmly, "Just now you were mumbling about Ruby Mountain, Four Wings, Legend, Heaven, Void Realm, all these messed up terms. You made me worried about you. If you're okay, please hold on, the event is almost over."

Ash looked up at the ceiling, wondering if Gerard was about to jump down and chop someone up.

His thoughts gradually became clear - he had clearly used the Small Four-Pillar Gate to lead Igula and Harvey into Ruby Mountain, so how could they suddenly jump here?

Is the small four-pillar door a trap?

No way, this is an item drawn from "Aurora's Sorcerer's Manual". If even this has a trap, then Ash won't dare to use the "Virtual Realm Exploration" mechanism to form a team in the future. God knows if he and the Sword Lady and the Witch will be locked up in a small dark room.

And if it really was a trap set by the Four Pillar Gods or other great beings, why couldn't they just cut their kidneys directly? Why did they let them fall into the illusion of rebirth?

Or was he already dead when he activated the Small Four Pillars Gate, so he just started over? It turns out that he didn't just travel through another world, but was infinitely reincarnated and read the file stream?

At this moment, all the lights in the basement came on, and the praises of the believers stopped abruptly. They stood up respectfully, facing Ash and exited the basement one by one. After everyone left, the ceiling was not smashed, which made Ash feel a little disappointed.

Only Ash and the blue girl were left in the basement. He had already realized that this was not a rebirth, but another situation that he could not understand. Although he should be careful to gather intelligence, Ash sensed the soul inside and found that the magic power could run normally and the magic spirit could be driven, which meant...

He is still a legendary magician.

In this case, there is no need to be cautious.

Ash asked directly: "Who are you? Who am I? What is our relationship? What year, month and day is it now?"

"I'm Rose Reina, and you're Ash Hiss. We grew up together as childhood sweethearts. I'm also your assistant now. It's October 18, 1668." The dark blue girl Rose stared at Ash with curiosity on her face. "These questions of yours... seem to be asked only by people who traveled from a parallel world. Is this your new personality?"

Ash pointed to the basement, "What's going on with this sect? And I'm the leader of a cult?"

"It depends on how you define a cult," Rose said. "If you say that worshipping a specific person infinitely, regarding him as a spiritual idol, practicing his ideas, and spreading his theories is a cult, then it is indeed a cult."

"But if it is defined from a social perspective, no, they are just members of your fan club. We have already reported this activity to the nearby police station, and the club is also a public welfare organization widely recognized by the society."

Ash opened his eyes wide, with a look of disbelief: "Club? But why are club activities about worshipping me, praising me, and being in awe of me?"

"The full name is 'End Viewer Study Group'." Rose said, "As for why the activity is like this, it has something to do with your performance in 'Blood Moon Judgment'. Because your role as the leader is so outstanding, every time you have a fan meeting, many fans will spontaneously give you the cult salute, and many even want to be scolded by you."

"In a public fan vote, the 'Sect Worship' overwhelmingly became a permanent club event."

Ash pointed at himself, "I'm... an actor?"

"Not only that." Rose pulled up her sleeves to reveal her watch and looked at it. "It's about time. Let's go have lunch."

Rose walked out of the basement, and Ash followed her out, only to discover that the basement was underneath a villa, and although the furniture in the villa was very different, the basic structure looked very familiar to him.

"Isn't this Felix's villa?" Ash murmured.

"This is my villa." Rose said, "I will lend it to you as a venue for club activities."

Suddenly, Rose felt her shoulders being grabbed fiercely, and Ash was almost close to her face, his dark eyes staring straight into her sapphire pupils.

"Do you know Felix, Iguera and Xavi?" he asked.

Rose thought about it very seriously and shook her head: "I haven't heard of it."

Ash looked at her for a long moment before letting go of her hand: "Sorry."

"Nice names." Rose rubbed her shoulders and said calmly, "Are they the characters in your next work?"

"You're weird." Ash frowned. "I should be completely different from the childhood sweetheart you know. Why aren't you afraid of me?"

If a friend is possessed by an unknown soul, a normal person's reaction would be disbelief or fear, and it is impossible to accept it calmly, let alone communicate with Ash calmly. Ash was ready for violent interrogation, but he didn't expect Rose to have no doubt or resistance at all, and answered all his questions very obediently.

"You really have to explain it every time... You said that you are completely different from my childhood sweetheart, but that's actually not true." Rose said, "After all, you used to be like this all the time."

"Is this often the case?"

"Sometimes you suddenly wake up with a mind full of amazing ideas, and then lock yourself in your room for a few days to create excellent works that will definitely sell well. You said before that you are usually asleep, and your soul goes to the world called 'Blood Moon' to study and collect materials. Only when you come back occasionally is you awake."

"But every time you go to the 'blood moon', you forget that you have ever been to this world. So this is not the first time you have asked me who you are, what year, month and day it is, and it is not the first time you have asked me 'why are you not afraid of me'."

Rose shrugged. "I don't know why you like this kind of role-playing so much, but as your assistant I can only play with you."

"You told me last time that there was no need to go to Blood Moon anymore and that you would stay here forever next time. But you slept for half a year before coming back."

"Speaking of which." Rose took out a notebook, flipped through a few pages and said, "The only project you had a cooperation intention for before you left last time was the romantic comedy "The Magician 100%". Although you only wrote half of it, the partner was very satisfied. Now that you've 'woke up', when do you plan to submit the manuscript?"