Void.
A candle flame flickered in the empty and boundless darkness, sometimes bright and sometimes dimmed, as if it would be swallowed by nothingness at any time.
But even if it was shaky, that ray of light never went out. It was like a glowing nail, firmly nailed into the void, silently waiting, until...
A pair of eyes opened above His head, and greeted Him with raised corners of the eyes.
“Hee~
O rare guest, why do you seek to see me instead of going to your cold-blooded benefactor?
There is neither change nor hope here, and I cannot give you what you want."
The candle flame gradually took shape in the darkness, transforming into a candlelight figure once again. He raised his head, gazing at the eyes before him with a blazing flame, and smiled self-deprecatingly:
"I don't want anything, I just want an answer.
Just as you throw your followers before me for an answer, I also come to ask for an answer."
The eyes turned and said happily:
"Then you're probably asking the wrong god.
I am the appearance of [nothingness], the master of falsehood in the universe, and there is no answer from my mouth.
Even if there is, it is fake.
If you want an answer, you should ask the [Truth]...oh no, it should be [Stupidity].
He knows a lot, and even if he doesn’t know something, he can pretend to know and make one up for you.”
"Okay, then let me see [Foolish]." The tone of the Fire of Hope was neither happy nor sad.
"?"
[Fraud]'s eyes froze for a moment, then he turned slightly and said, "Interesting, you are the servant of [Nothingness], the messenger of my silly sister, and a change independent of [Fate]. How can I even talk about letting go?
You are free to go wherever you want.
No need to ask for my opinion.”
"Really?" The Candlelight Man raised his head, his eyes complex and dark as he asked, "Then can I also meet with [Yuanchu]?"
“…”
[Fraud] was silent.
The next second, a strange divine power spread out from his body, freezing all the void around him, and no one could peek here again.
The stars in his eyes flickered and swirled, the joking tone disappeared, and his eyes became serious.
He looked at the Flame of Hope, his tone so complex that it was hard to tell how many emotions were mixed in.
“What do you want to see Him for?
Do you think that He has not brought enough despair to this world?"
The candlelight man's body flickered with flames, and he shook his head and said:
"Is the despair of this world really brought about by [Origin]?"
"What else?"
“How did He bring it?”
"Why play dumb? Didn't some clown tell you everything?
Our Creator is far from being as simple as you and I think.
To put it nicely, we're just variables in an experiment. To put it bluntly... gods, authority? Oh, they're just insignificant things in this vast, real universe.
When the will you have upheld for countless years becomes sand scattered at random by others, aren't you afraid? "
"Of course I'm afraid," the Flame of Hope replied firmly. He looked into the pair of eyes before him, which occasionally flashed through a rainbow of colors, and said with determination yet confusion, "But what I fear even more is... who am I?"
[Fraud]'s pupils shrank, and he soon burst into laughter:
"Who are you?
You are naturally the servant of the void, the messenger of fate, the fire of hope condensed from the changes rejected by him.
You told me this identity when we first met, so why are you asking me about it again now?"
“Yes, my memory tells me that I am the flame of hope.
But I don’t want to believe in my memory now. Memory is your mortal enemy. Am I right not to trust it?
So I come for an answer, a new answer.
If you can't tell me, then I'll ask [Fate] myself!
I think He will tell me who I really am.”
[Fraud] sneered:
"laugh--
[Destiny] has always been indifferent. Since He has abandoned you, how could He possibly see you again?
Everyone says that fate is cruel, but few people know that it is even more cruel to themselves.
Forget it, even if you were once a part of Him, He would never acknowledge your identity, and there is never any hope in His eyes. "
[Fraud]'s tone was a mixture of gnashing teeth and sighs when he said this. The Fire of Hope could hear that the other party's emotions were very complicated at the moment, but He did not believe a word of it.
Because He knew that the one in front of him was the benefactor of all the scammers in the universe, the most deceptive god under the starry sky. He had seen this kind of scene countless times, and he would not be fooled again this time.
Then He said with a firm look:
“Whether you recognize Him or not, whether you see Him or not, that is all His business.
All I can decide is whether to go or not and whether to ask or not.
Now that I am free, I go."
The Candle Man's entire body was ablaze with flames, and he was about to move. However, the next second, [Fraud] suppressed all the emotions in his eyes. With a slight blink of his eyes, he stirred up countless nihilistic gusts of wind in the void, blowing out all the light of the Fire of Hope and making it completely merge with the surrounding darkness.
After finishing all this, those eyes looked at everything in front of them, and said word by word:
"I disagree."
...
Void, [Chaos God Level].
Facing the confused Hu Wei and the irritable Dayi in front of him, Cheng Shi fell into deep thought.
He hadn't expected the impact of War's fall to reach the players so quickly. After his authority was lost in the real universe, War's followers could continue their trials under the protection of the Covenant, but his creations...
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