Chapter 1123 Seeing the truth, remaining silent
...[My power]?
Why did she say that this spell was her power? Isn't the spell the power of the source of truth?
Sherlock was stunned for a moment, his thoughts were like a tangled mess, causing his brain to fall into a brief confusion.
At this time, Yasen finally recognized her identity.
He was shocked, almost horrified: "You are... Hawkeye's 'Dancing Skirt'?"
Yasen left the Hawkeye organization too early, and he was not in the same circle within the organization, so he was not very familiar with dance skirts.
Although Yasen had not adapted to the level of the Tao, he did not know her Tao level...
But they are now active in the same city after all. He even saw the unsociable and somewhat lost woman at a meeting a few days ago.
Assassins who weren't zealously motivated by the destruction of Moonchild were few and far between, and that's why Yassen had a stronger impression of her. Furthermore, it was Little Deer who had informed Aiwass of the Blood Sky's hiding place—he and Dancing Skirt were from the same school, forming a somewhat unrelated partnership.
But Arsen never expected that the dance skirt would appear here.
——Was she controlled by Xue Tiansi during her in-depth investigation?
When Sherlock heard what Yassen said, it suddenly became clear to him.
Countless fragments of past memories appeared before my eyes like a kaleidoscope.
Like a flame spreading rapidly along a greased rope—countless clues, countless pieces of evidence, seemed to connect together in an instant:
Aiwass had told him that the culprit behind the world's destruction was the "Tenth Path," the Void. Because there were only nine source rivers, the Void Path actually had no source river. Instead, it was an "imaginary source river" formed by combining two source rivers whose sacred numbers added up to ten.
When the power of the two paths reaches a perfect balance and the sum equals eleven, it reaches the number of "hope" or "miracle"; that is, the two paths complement each other and thus leap to a higher level.
Nothingness is the opposite - it does not require a balanced path, and it is also because it uses one to eliminate the meaning of another.
For example, devotion and authority can mutually dissolve each other—when the authoritarian rules and manipulates the devoted, both authority and devotion effectively lose their meaning, and society as a whole tends to stagnate. The same is true of the love of creation and the twilight of error, the beauty of difference and the easier transcendence...
If a practitioner of the path of wisdom seeks the secret of survival, he will realize that the truth he pursues is meaningless for the purpose of "staying alive" and is just "useless knowledge"; similarly, anyone who tries his best to survive and is accustomed to avoiding danger by escaping, if he tries to seek the illusory meaning of life and the ultimate truth... will often fall into the trap of nihilism.
——The core of the path of nothingness is "meaninglessness", "no change" and "self-dissolution".
Anyone who comes into contact with the Path of Nothingness risks being controlled by the Destroyer. Through words, songs, thoughts, and other means, they can pass on their infected thoughts to others.
As long as he understood the composition of the elements of nothingness, this would be a simple deduction that Sherlock could complete in an instant.
From this extension, Sherlock immediately understood why this person appeared here——
Hawkeye's enemies are the Moonchildren. They're a group of scoundrels, united by a noble cause they can't accomplish. Their structure is fragile, like a group of Avengers whose sole purpose is revenge. Without their shared, powerful enemy, they'll crumble from within.
According to Yassen... Hawkeye has now reached this point. As a Hawkeye assassin, she sacrificed her youth, her body, and killed countless innocent people... She would do anything to eliminate the Son of the Moon.
——Now, the Moon Child is about to be completely destroyed. But this has nothing to do with their Hawkeye organization.
Everything she did [lost its meaning].
She finally realized that the Hawkeye Organization was nothing more than a group of unscrupulous killers who united to fight against a greater villain. Hawkeye had killed no fewer people than Moonson...
When an adapter suddenly realizes one day what she has done to "adapt" and how far she has deviated from her original intention, she can no longer bear it.
Everything she did was meaningless. The overwhelming sense of guilt overwhelmed her conscience, and her adaptive path of "praying for survival" was tainted and dissolved by the path of wisdom...
Sherlock still remembered that among the students of the assassin master known as Honey Badger, there were two named Fawn and Dance Skirt. Coincidentally, the assassin reporting to them today was codenamed Fawn, and Yasin happened to call her "Dance Skirt." Plus, her clothes weren't dusty at all... indicating she'd just been there.
She got there before Aiwas arrived and headed to the Xue Tiansi's hiding place... What did she want to do?
As an assassin, she couldn't be unaware of the importance of alerting the enemy. Without sufficient supernatural power, she wouldn't be of any help in the battle, and might even alert the Blood Sky Master, which would only be counterproductive to the crusade. However, as a student of the Master Assassin, she undoubtedly harbored a deep-seated hatred for the Moon Child and couldn't possibly hope for the Blood Sky Master's survival.
So there is only one answer.
——That is, she wanted to die at the hands of Xue Tiansi.
She couldn't face the blood of those she had killed, the innocent people she had shed, but she couldn't let go of her hatred for the Moon Child. So she wanted to die at the hands of the Blood Sky Master, ending her meaningless life... In this way, at least her life journey would be complete.
"In the pursuit of meaning, have we lost meaning?"
Sherlock murmured.
He had just heard these words not long ago.
That was when they were fighting against the Swan King who was on the verge of becoming a Void Celestial Being.
"Daotu" is the path people take in the world. It is the path under our feet, the path we have walked, and the direction we will take.
But when the path falls into the hole of nothingness, life loses its meaning.
The overwhelming nothingness will infect the mind and directly destroy a person's personality...
——It’s [Nothingness] again.
But if magic is the power of nothingness...
At that moment, Sherlock remembered another thing——
That is the story of Aiwass and Sherlock fighting against the Giant Prince.
At that time, Aiwass prayed for the power of Wei Zhe and started the Trial of Odin.
That was a ritual designed by Wei Zhe himself. With his entire life and soul as a sacrifice, the recipient was sacrificed to his future self; the present self was sacrificed to the next self... This sacrifice, powered by the power of the Huan Tian Si, would repeat endlessly until all the mysteries of the world, all knowledge and secrets, were recorded within the mind.
In this way, Aiwass tried to make the soul of the giant prince Wolfram unable to withstand the power of "truth" and completely shattered, so that he would not become an apostle of Xiong Tiansi.
Sherlock still remembered that after the giant prince endured the "truth" transmitted through thunder, he could not bear it after a very short time.
His body turned into an ugly, swollen mass of flesh, which then collapsed and shrank...
Just like that, it turned into nothingness.
"...a god who sees the truth and remains silent..."
Sherlock murmured, his pupils trembling.
He suddenly realized...what kind of truth Wei Zhe saw after opening the door of truth.
Why did He suddenly turn around and destroy the Tower of Babel?
Why didn't He allow a Tower of Babel wizard to ascend to the dream world.
Because the root of all runes, the source of all spells—
Magic is knowledge from another world, which is why it can unleash mysterious power with just strange runes and spells! It's also why it seems to be "different" from all other powers in this world!
It is precisely because the knowledge brought by the "Whispers of the Void" is polluted and will be passed on to others through words that Wei Zhe remains silent!
Aside from Wei Zhe, no other apostles of the Path of Wisdom had this problem. From this, it can be seen that Wei Zhe single-handedly bore the cost of all the mages' spellcasting... That's why he was called "Wei Zhe" by the ancient mages!
The former Winged Celestial Master split into Supreme Heaven and Great Master. Strength and wisdom complement each other, and their sum equals eleven. His split into two Pillar Gods must have been due to a failed fusion... Perhaps the reason for this failure lies in a flaw in the path of wisdom itself!
That's the question.
Sherlock remembered that before Wei Zhe became Wei Zhe, he was already the world's number one wizard.
——Then before he incurred the cost of casting the spell, who brought in the alien knowledge of the spell?
As Sherlock's eyes flickered fiercely, "Dancing Skirt" seemed to understand Sherlock's heart.
She smiled appreciatively: "Thinking long leads to knowledge, and knowing too much leads to thirst for thought... It's a good thing to like thinking, as it brings you one step closer to the truth..."
As she spoke, Sherlock's body stiffened instantly.
Countless knowledge flowed into his heart, and his pupils, which shone with azure electric light, were instantly stained by a rich darkness, turning into a disturbing deep blue like the depths of the ocean.
——And all this happened in just a moment.
After Sherlock's lightning chain was bounced back, "Dancing Skirt" looked back at him and said something...that's it.
After just one encounter, Aiwass and Sherlock lost their ability to fight.
Isabel immediately realized that she couldn't delay any longer.
She immediately threw the cards in her hand, shouting, "Don Quixote!"
And at that moment.
The first thing that lit up was not Don Quixote's pure white holy light.
——But a flash of blood.
As the "dance skirt" moved, the heart in the air suddenly shattered, and the broken flesh mixed with blood condensed into an extremely huge sharp blade out of thin air, sweeping over in an instant!
The awe-inspiring power of the Heavenly Master can make people feel their muscles trembling just at the moment of activation.
But the one it attacked... was not Aiwass, nor Isabel, nor Don Quixote.
——But it’s the “dance skirt” that faces away from the heart!
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